skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you stop after the first half of my sentence?
Nope, he was responding to my statement of this being done by an employee or a team without higher management order or approval.
And Trump won't do the same thing?
This initiative is designed to be community-driven, so we're looking forward to your feedback on what agent benchmarking needs exist in your domains. While starting with legal AI, we plan to expand across industries where benchmarks for AI agents evaluation are needed.
> Only the quacks say that

Not long ago the CDC itself was saying that mammals couldn't catch this strain of avian flu and we had nothing to worry about. Then they found a few milk cows believed to be infected, but they assured us it couldn't kill cows and that the infection couldn't be transmitted through milk.

Where along the way did we go from scientific knowledge that it couldn't jump to humans to only quacks believing such nonsense? More importantly, where are the controlled studies proving transmission from infected birds to humans?

Proving transmissibility of such a pathogen would require something along the lines of Koch's postulates. Unless I missed something extremely important, we haven't done this type of study yet.
This is true, but evaluate this in the context of:

* Three generations share a house or two, you don’t need to buy a house.

* Food, education and health care are affordable with a middle class salary.

* Cars are a liability at most places, so you don’t usually buy a car.
My mind is blown right now. This is so cool.
> This is precisely why vaccines are less effective for those with preexisting conditions and immune disorders - their immune system can't as easily respond to and learn from the vaccine.

You've missed a significant strength of vaccines by focusing on individuals rather than on populations.

Vaccines slow the transmission rate through a population and reduce the severity of infection.

In a population with a high vaccination rates those few with weak immune systems have less exposure to infection.

It's similar to back burning and fuel reduction in combating wildfires.
I hear they randomly seize vehicles older than 15 years and crush them even if perfectly maintained.
People are overthinking things.

The court filing says they seized his laptop and phone, and seems to suggest all this information came from examining those devices. The google searches were probably just sitting in his browser history.

Oh, and then the idiot went and bought another laptop the very next day, despite explicit military orders not to. His opsec skills seem to be lacking.
Sent a DM on clojurians
I would think the same, the cause for hesitation is that we only think this, but cannot know it without thorough testing. Right now the scope of problems where things behave reliably and as expected and scope of problems where things get whacky are unknown. The borders are known to some rather fuzzy extent at best, by people who work with these things as a full-time job. This means we are just blindly gambling on it. For important things, archiving, etc. where truth matters, I will continue using traditional OCR until we can define the reliable use-case scope of LLM based OCR better. I am extremely enthusiastic about LLM's and the things these offer, but i am also a realist. LLM's are an infant technology, and no-where near the level of maturity that companies like openAI claim.
Do you know if there's a camera-based app that translates on the fly? These all seem to use uploaded images, but I'd love to be able to flip through an actual physical book and translate via an app.
C-- can be also interesting, can work from kernel (instead of hellish C/asm) to efficient math implementations (used by a high level backend, still exploiting hardware).

Instead of a extending C, we can shrink it and bring it closer to metal.
Atkins doesn't say that, at all, and then explicitly mentioned extreme low carb diets in my comment.
No one said equity was going be easy. Sometime you have to do the hard thing now to solve the problem in the long term.

Not saying poll taxes or tests are the solution, but a much tougher standard for running for office could be, such as requiring a PhD to hold office - literally making the highest intelligence a requirement. There are also ways to eliminate corruption and other negatives in a system.

But we have to decide what we value first.
A papal conclave could be understood as a contest led by votes making it illegal.
hmm.. I've always used 'ciw'. What's the difference with 'caw'?
Best part: a go.mod with 0 dependencies!
Well said. The gp's comment was mere snobbish verbiage since the article is not about various theories of Mind, but on biological research which is making us rethink our very fundamental assumptions. It is a pretty good one.
Super excited to try it out. I've been looking for a tool like this.
The Complete Guide to AI Based Data Cleaning
>It was not impossible OP was going to launch to 4000 customers.

Having a publisher helps a lot. But 4000 copies for many indies would be a rousing success (albeit, not a financial success). It is simply that competitive.

>I could also see a wife being upset her previously highly paid husband is working on a video game, and presumably a low salary from a publisher (if any).

Very true for 99.99% of indie devs. But I figure that OP's savings and RSU's (almost a deacade's worth) would easily put them in a situation everyone else can only dream of.

>When I was working on my previous startup...

I know startups are risky, but I really don't get this attitude. It might just be lack of knowledge, but once you can get a startup off its feet, the VC money from seeds easily makes up for that downtime. And unless you're the founder or are a near-founder being paid with future equity, startups can still pay very respectably. It's the time committment that you need to worry about.
Geospatial tech is evolving fast with AI and cloud-native solutions. We’ve seen past disruptions reshaping the other fields. Are we at another turning point? Thoughts?
Unfortunately that’s very vague because there’s many notions of “dual space” within applied mathematics, even just considering the parts relevant to engineering applications.
"It's about as authoritarian as you can get"

Just you wait....
I wished Rust had developed as an ML in Pascal/Ada's clothing but as you said it would not have been ergonomic for C/C++ folks and probably not as successful as it is.
Ahh, nice. That's not too bad.
Because this isn't about silencing American citizens. It's about the US actively ceasing to be an at least neutral-to-good global neighbour in trade, tech, and foreign aid that many countries rely on, among other things.

This is something that for many is something they've not yet seen before in their lives (global allegiances shifting like this), and especially something that has not been a partisan issue at least from an outside view.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (the book title.)
It is working with both Slack and Discord already.

I was not aware of f5bot, but I got inspired by another bot called Little Birdie which doesn't exist anymore and it's basically just a re-implementation of it.
Iirc a big issue they had was the fact it's nearly impossible to service the interior once you sink it down. That would basically get an order of magnitude worse with it on the dark side of the moon.
Watching the moment to moment is pretty boring, but it might be interesting if someone puts together highlights of interesting events and moments. The screenshot where Claude asks for the game to restart is absolutely charming.
Sorry, what you have stated is not very clear. If you use cos(theta) + sin(theta)*(ai + bj + ck) representation as you mentioned, what does happen to the orientation information when sin(theta) becomes zero
His two part serious about Windows memory management was an eye opener for me.

1st part:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TrFEgHr72Yg&pp=ygUpd2luZG93cyBtZ...

Sadly seems the second part is missing.
A mechanically verified garbage collector for OCaml [pdf]
The fact that these models can only play up to a certain point seems like an interesting indication as to the inherent limitation of their capabilities.

After all, the game does not introduce any significant new mechanics beyond the first couple areas - any human player who has the reading/reasoning ability to make it to Mt Moon/Lt Surge would be able to complete the rest of the game.

So why are these models getting stuck at arbitrary points in the game?
FISA. All that Patriot Act bullshit is still around most likely, including the secret courts to get secret warrants. It was supposed to be for terrorism, but just about everyone in history warned us over and over that these things get repurposed.

Guantanamo Bay is still around. The legacy of the Bush administration is for real.
yes, almost all DSPs I know have native HW supports for FFT, since it's the bread and butter for signal processing
Intelligence is the ability of a system to make observations and adjust itself based on them (like our brain is changing while learning or our environment is changing with technological progress). It’s definitely not binary state. If we put the internal complexity of the system on one axis and external complexity (what can be observed and meaningfully processed) on another axis, there’s a circle on the plane representing what humans perceive as being intelligent. It intersects with a few other species so we do think now that they are intelligent. Everything else outside that circle is either too primitive or too complex for us, so we do not see e.g. plants as intelligent, but we also may not recognize aliens as intelligent because their existence is too complex for us to even notice it. Humans unlocked evolutionary path not based on DNA, so we evolve much quicker now through science and culture. Our circle is thus expanding and we start realizing how more primitive systems think and create new intelligent systems.
You are still ignoring opportunity costs.

If you have $x, you can buy a house and save on $y rent. But you could also buy eg bonds, and make $z return per year. If z > y, going for the bonds is better.

Free time and health don't even come into the picture here. [0]

(Of course, taxes and regulations can make this more complicated. And there are systematic and idiosyncratic risks to take into account.)

It's not automatic that buying owner-occupied property is always the best way to invest your wealth.

[0] Well, I assume renting is better for your health: I was significantly less stressed about all the water damage that we had about two years ago, because I knew it was ultimately my landlord's problem, not mine. But the overall effect is likely to be rather minor, and it can go either way, as some people get a mental health benefit out of knowing that they own their home.
Oh, DeepOpenAI
Marvelous article. I was prepared to read about an eccentric and mild recluse but Irving seems to been witness to extraordinary things.
Honestly sounds like good advice for almost anything new/creative :)
The recent political trends in Europe are also not particularly welcome by many of those same people, though.
What's the most interesting of the 3 repos? That would probably be better to post, for reasons explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174782

(you can already see from the first few comments in this thread how generic the discussion tends to get in cases like this)
This is not as true as it used to be. I don't even know how true it used to be!
This looks very readable compared to APL
Wow, what an inspiring journey!
Awesome stuff. I've read some of the probabilistic ML work from you guys and am stoked to see a competitive alternative to autoregressive decoders. Best of luck!
I thought flash storage leaked charge if it wasn't powered on and scrubbing itself regularly. Maybe stone tablets on the Moon.
Can we add filters and subqueries to query, like we do with an orm?
Setol: A SemiEmpirical of (Deep) Learning
SETOL is a theory of NN layer convergence. It argues that the individual layers of NN converge at different rates, and the 'Ideal' state of convergence can be detected simply by looking at the spectral properties of the layer weight matrices.

SETOL derives the weightwatcher HTSR layer quality metrics (alpha, alpha-hat) from first principles using techniques from statistical mechanics and quantum chemistry.

SETOL also shows that when an NN layer is 'Ideal', it satisfies the so-called Wilson Exact Renormalization Group condition (called the TraceLog condition)

In other words, SETOL provides empirical layer quality metrics that can be used to determine how well a model is trained or fine-tuned. It can help AI engineers get their AI models to the best state possible.

And while this work uses techniques from theoretical physics and chemistry, you don't need know any mathematical physics to read the paper; it is fully self-contained.

Most importantly, all of the experiments are 100% reproducible, and you can test the theory yourself on your own AI models using the open-source weightwatcher tool.
He just needed big balls on his side.
I understand the argument for herd immunity, I've just never seen a study proving it out. The idea is compelling and modelling studies seem to show that its possible, but that is still different from a controlled study showing it happening.

Early on in the Covid pandemic response claims of herd immunity were being thrown around and Fauci was claiming a threshold of 60-65% vaccine rate for it to work. As time went on that number kept going up, eventually he admitted that they used a low number to start with only because they didn't think people would comply if the required vaccine rate seemed unrealistically high.

Herd immunity is almost certainly a thing at a certain immunity rate, the question that goes unanswered is what that rate actually is. For there to even be a case for vaccine mandates, of even just the arguments that people ought to get vaccinated due to herd immunity, we have to know the % of immunized population and the risk of vaccine side effects.

My understanding is that we don't have a solid understanding of the exact tipping point for herd immunity, and that at least during the covid pandemic response we didn't have a solid understanding of the true risks of adverse side effects to the vaccines either.
I'm not sure I'm seeing the relevance here. Incremental advances in battery tech (or even futuristic step-change prospects like lithium-air batteries) won't solve intercontinental shipping.
MAFIAGO sounds great, though.
There's a serious lack of terraforming here on Earth.

Oh, we're overpopulated? Buy some single-family homes, buy out the government, and upzone it into apartments. You're still cheaper than space flight and with a shorter commute to work than Rapture
My father always joked about the statements they made when they opened the first fission power plants, "Energy that's too cheap to meter!"
You mentioned that 2024 was one of the hardest years of your life. What kept you going during the toughest moments? Were there times you felt like giving up?
Python as a second language empathy (2018)
Free trade, except for different views!
"port sed to java with all options and capabilities"

Still is very underwhelming. I like this because it isn't a difficult problem, it should be up the alley of a "language model" to translate computer languages, but it is a fairly complex problem with lots of options and parse annoyances. Addresses can be pretty complex with regex in line selections/subsetting. Scripts are supported. Probably turing complete considering the pattern space as storage and looping/jump constructs.

In an experience reminescent of "can I have L2 support please" most AIs give a kind of milquetoast slightly above average IQ responses to various questions. I wonder if there should be standard "please give me more complicated/erudite/involved explanations/documents/code from the get-go to not bother with the boring prompts.
I don't think it's the tool that's the issue, I think it's the book itself?

If you search the ISBN on the web, you'll get "Zero to One Hundred" with the cover of "Built to Grow" and vice versa.

There's also "Experiment, Build, Scale" which is the book that the visualisation shows, also with the same ISBN attributed to the previous two.

Experiment, Build, Scale seems to be the only book of Stephanie's that is in Google Books while Worldcat has "Zero to One Hundred" with the cover art for "Built to Grow".

Most of the online bookstore pages have this mess so I wouldn't blame the tool for what seems like an upstream data quality issue.
Joshua Davis https://joshuadavis.com/
Somebody could clears throat get offended.
The battlefields in Ukraine is how we know the real cost of those drones - they managed to push it down to around $300/unit for FPV ones, which are the primary armor killers.
I feel like visualizations of large datasets which are viewer-directed (i.e. they want you to "explore" the data instead of trying to tell you something specific about it or communicate a narrative) are often "pretty" but never particularly enlightening. I feel like that holds true for these in particular.
Yeah, I mean is he in favor of breakups of monopolies, in particular his (former kinda) company? That's what free markets need to function.....
Finally, the killer app for QUIC's network-switching feature
What a genius.
I always wonder, how do you prove your proof is correct? is it turtles all the way down?

Another way to phrase it is, how do you prove your formal verification is verifying the correct thing? from one point of view a proof is a program that can verify the logic of another program. how do we know the one is any more correct than the other?
I tried this on the morning and noticed that you've already taken some of the suggestions folks make into account. Great job making it so playable on mobile!
I wonder why they don't do that? Maybe the square footage is terrifically expensive.
Apologies for my ignorance, and I’m asking this because no one in this thread has done this:

This looks basically like a slot machine
I just keep a general quotes file that's all-inclusive. Fun to scroll back through; I do recommend it.
Very similar challenges to my backburner project of putting a web server inside my body (currently on hold)
Sorry I didn't mean to make it seem like I think the tool is at fault.

I just think it's interesting that the book title shows differently on the shelf depending on whether you reach it via an ISBN search, vs. if you discover it by panning from a nearby book.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962020 - It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety (2025-02-06, 100 comments)
Apparently, this guy tried to apply to BigTech to get a job but was rejected.

> "I was looking for a job during working on this and absolutely got some disappointing rejections, and one was because of my lack of skillset on things like this in a big tech company's interview. I literally failed the technical screening. Oh well."

I mean... I don't have words...how f*cked up is the interview process ??
Maybe ComfyUI_LLMVISION[1] malicious extension then (my speculation based purely on the date of hack).

Edit: yes, probably it was ComfyUI_LLMVISION[2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1dbls5n/psa_if_you...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960666
The imac g5 that followed was such a boring and ugly design compared to the G4. There was no mistaking that LOL. I don't think anyone liked it.
Has anyone insights how the current DOGE cuts could affect the US cybersecurity posture?

It’s not hard to imagine how they accidentally cut something very crucial.
One of the ways this is very evident is when you look at entry level software dev salaries at the giant IT sweatshops (Infosys, TCS, Wipro etc).

2010: ₹325k a year (equivalent to then $7000 per year)

2025: ₹350k a year (equivalent to now $4000 per year)

Even disregarding the global earning parity, that's only a rise of 10% over 15 years when inflation has risen by 100% in the same period. This is even more egregious when you consider that these companies earn primarily in dollars have enjoyed massive profits owing to depreciation of the Rupee.

These companies were once highly regarded for their earning potential. They moved a generation of employees from the lower income to the middle income bracket. Sadly, the same cannot be said of employees joining today, who haven't even seen their comps increased since the pandemic. They seem to be getting forever stuck in the lower income trap.

Hiring has already drastically reduced since the pandemic recession and now there's the threat of AI. At the same time, record numbers of CSE students are graduating out of universities each year, who are increasingly struggling to find employment. The country's service industry which once formed the backbone for the middle class is in a very critical stage. The future doesn't look very bright honestly.
thanks for the advice. it'll let you know when you're one away, but otherwise, we thought that knowing that its an english word will help as well!
Though,

fortune | figlet | cowsay --random

Sadly runs into formatting issues.
So this is a change from the status quo where actually transmitting an interfering signal is illegal to one where having a device that might theoretically transmit an interfering signal is illegal? It sounds like ordering all pencils be made illegal because they can be used to write threats.

I can see why they might want to make this change but I can't see how it can feasibly be defined and enforced without making every LC oscillator illegal. But like most legislation I suppose the reality, and reality of enforcement, don't matter so much as having the law to point to. They'll ignore it most of the time but chose to enforce it arbitrarily if someone rocks the boat. And it's quite a bit of a performative, "We're doing something." move.

>"These devices have no legitimate purpose, apart from assisting in criminal activity...

Expecting street cops to know RF electronics deeply enough to make these judgements of a "legitimate purpose" is beyond foolhardy and the claims of generalized signal generators as having no legitimate purpose is false. They would certainly consider my amateur radio lab equipment to be illegal.
Show HN: Fast bond ISIN, CUSIP and FIGI search
Worth remembering "lottery" also derives from Genoa's "lotto", which was betting on public elections were 5 members of the Great Council were drawn out of a 90 candidates pool.
It’s hard to see the value of a wired network, but there are about a million. As other commenters have pointed out, most of the scenarios are more than one access point and thicker walls / building materials.
Apple always made things for the users. Microsoft always made things to sell to corporations. Dell always did the same, and their consumer offerings were always a shallow and shitty shell over their corporate ones (and this is STILL true! The alienware towers are generally just an ugly veneer on top of an optiflex case/motherboard LOL).
You, sir, are the devil. :)

Just kidding, or maybe not.
Finally got access to the preview just now.

Let's fire it up.

"Type /init to set up your repository"

OK, /init <enter>

"OK, I created CLAUDE.md, session cost so far is $0.1764"

QUIT QUIT QUIT QUIT QUIT

Seventeen cents just to initialize yourself, Claude. No.

I feel like I touched a live wire.

It's about 2 orders of magnitude (100x) too expensive.
no wonder nobody can find my book :-)