skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many forums are notorious for having awful search

But google/bing/etc index (basically) all of them. Forum search is great for finding exact title matches, and sometimes useful for exact content matches. Google with site: is better for finding conceptual matches. And, if you don’t know what forum you’re looking for, adding “forum” to your search engine term searches all of them.

Discord is not (and likely will never be) indexed by any search engine. The level of discoverability is almost as low as it can possibly be; you can’t find the community by searching general terms, you have to know the community exists, join it (agreeing to both discord’s and the community’s rules), and then search, only with discord’s search itself.
"You Europeans don't need to worry. We will not abandon you in case Russia shows up in NATO territory because we have too long of a history together and strong commercial relations."

This history has been wiped out in a month's time. Trump has threatened to annex EU territory, plays with economic destruction on the daily, constantly lies about Europe and mocks and humiliates us.

America is now a threat and an enemy. "Don't worry" will not cut it.

Your mind must be truly warped when you think supporting a sovereign country that is ruthlessly destroyed by Russia is "disrespecting Russia".

We do not have shared values. Yesterday Trump decided to cut sharing intelligence so that Russian missiles and drones can go through without Ukraine being able to prepare for them. Trading human lives for a better mineral deal, like picking a corpse.

Demonic "values".
Testing for echo? Impedance calibration?
Last time I tried X1 Carbon, it got hot enough when actively using it for longer than 10 minutes to become physically uncomfortable to hold on my lap.

OTOH Macbook Air not only runs cool even when you build stuff on it, but somehow manages to do so without any fans.
protobuf sure, but streaming libraries for json (and xml, as in the parent) are extremely common. not harder (maybe even easier) than non-streaming to write, tho more cumbersome to use, so something you'd reach for only if you specifically need it ('cuz of memory constraints)

e.g. standard go json library https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#example-Decoder.Decode-Stre...
1) There is no one that knows about it. There is no government agency that specializes in cost saving. Congress is the sole source of austerity, and they have every incentive to increase spending if it helps their district.

2) They have 4 years. Of course they're gonna speed run. They know they'll lose after people feel the pain they voted to feel.
IPv6 is retrocomputing. I don't know much about Warewulf.
>it’s bad that someone can retweet some random tweet in the middle of your thread without context - but what if that’s actually… good?

Depends on your lens. If you're reading on twitter it's a nightmare (and is why I never really got into twitter). If you are just focused on engagement it probably doesn't matter. I only accepted how twitter works in my head when I realized it's just like its namesake: a bunch of birds all cheeping in a cacophony. Not necessarily to each other, just in a way to become known and try to stand out.

>Same reason every long YouTube video starts with a flash-forward “coming up” clip now

Not really a fan of those either. If it's <10 minutes, I'm going to see it soon, if it's more than like, 30 minutes, then the en media RES better strongly resonate with the thesis, otherwise it's just a strange proprechy I'll forget long before it comes true.

>People can rant all they want about the way information is presented these days, but we’ve come to do things this way because it works.

We do it this way because coporate billionaires shoved ads down everyone's throats to pretend it works. I've never heard anyone say Twitter is efficient, not even in its heyday. Twitter wasn't meant to be this facade of a forum/community center, it was meant to emulate a tickerboard you see on the side.

But as I've seen from 3 decades of Javascript, people will in fact hammer a square peg into a circle hole rather than migrate to the actual square hole. As is, we do things this way because we're selfish and all want to be noticed. And Twitter has a lot of eyeballs.
I call a duck a duck. I had my criticisms of republicans and democrats in the past, but they generally respected the institutions and took their turns. The current regime is trying to scrap all that and make the President a King (or dictator?), that's why people are fighting back and calling what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, "why that's a duck, tater!"
I believe I've seen such behavior in the documentary film "Hundreds of Beavers".
Wow, the grotesque-sized nose ghost can use Google translate...

A creep to women of all backgrounds, eh? At least Japanese women don't feel singled out.
Why can you not rewrite the initial file into something partitioned by sensor+time? Would the one time job really be that much more additional cost vs the additional complexity of multiple sensors per file?

Do you ever go back and reaggregate older data into bigger, sorted files? That is, maybe you originally partitioned by hour, but stale data is so infrequently accessed, you could roll up into partitions per week/month/whatever. Depending on the specifics, you might save some space from less file overhead and better compression statistics.
The Hacking of Organizational Systems (2024)
Permitting processes need reverse pressure: 'must reply or issue in ___ days' or it's granted by default.
While money is just one form of influence, it’s the most flexible. Those other forms of influence can be bought, just as everything can be bought.

We may instate rules to prevent such buying. No problem, undo the rules because undoing rules can be bought because everything can be bought.

Look at something like Citizens United. Does anyone want that outcome? Not really. A few, very rich, people want that outcome. And so it is made. How we got there is unclear. What is clear, in my mind, is that the benefactors made it happen.
That's usually the problem of the bank that did not decline a check/ACH debit for insufficient balance in time, though.

In other words, "at the time we paid/did not reverse this, we thought the payer account was good for it, but as it turns out it was funded via transactions that ended up being reversed, and now the account is in the red" is not a valid reason to claw back money.

And that makes intuitive sense as well: Only the paying bank has a complete picture of all account activities (including out-of-character/potentially suspicious ones), so it makes sense to primarily hold them accountable.
Yes! I’ll send you an email.
No meaningful changes to the hyperparameters, just changed the tasks per iteration to 16 and trained on the same first 16 training tasks each iteration.

We only tested this with the 14B model. You can see the run here:

https://wandb.ai/bradhilton/rl-experiments/runs/062

Performance peaked after 21 iterations at 45% accuracy instead of the final 59%, but still a significant increase on very few samples.
``think''

In the abstract they use different characters for double quotes here.
The gamedev ecosystem appears to be split between nalgebra (for Rapier users) and glam. Where does lin-alg fit?
State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
I gave it a bunch of my wifes 18th century English scans to transcribe, mostly couldn't do it, and it's been doing this for 15 minutes now, not sure why but i find quite amusing: https://share.zight.com/L1u2jZYl
TIL playing cards were printed with a blank reverse side that people used for scrap paper, lottery tickets, business cards, birth/death announcements, etc.
Free Software Foundation Goes to Bat for AGPL in Amicus Brief Criticizing
People seem to be misinterpreting the above post. I was referring to the UK giving Apple a great marketing opportunity for their privacy stance.
Shhhhhh... seriously ... don't give the clowns ideas
> they specifically built this M3 Ultra for DeepSeek R1 4-bit.

This makes sense. They started gluing M* chips together to make Mac Studios three years ago, which must have been in anticipation of DeepSeek R1 4-bit
You are not wrong. Check the archives before the 2000s and it’s a very different magazine. A while back, the editorial direction changed. It used to be aimed at scientists who might be in a different field from the article, or amateurs/nonscientists who were at that level. Then it became more for nonscientists who are somewhat interested in the topic. The new editors seemed to wish it was Discover magazine, and now it basically is.

Bear in mind this is a magazine that published complete plans for building an argon laser in your garage. Including the glassblowing.
> DS1 (Digital Signal 1) out one end and a rack full of Zyxel modems on the other side

Why use real physical modems when you already have subscribers signals converted to convenient digital form in DS1 bundle? Wouldnt it make more sense to put a box with one fat DSP doing 24 modems all in bulk inside a box with DS1 and Ethernet sockets at the ISP location instead?
Really missing the arxiv link. The whole page reads like the arxiv link should be in the next paragraph, but it never appeared.
Just make an Air Pro, make the screen good, charge $500 more and take my money.
I think the idea is that you would never get to know the answer to those individual questions, or any questions really; you'd be producing an encrypted blob of a response that supposedly has the answer and then just pass that onward.

Unfortunately the mathematical details escape me as well. Maybe one day I'll set aside some time to look into it.
Oh definitely, he would not agree with the proposal, but the problems identified I think he would. That’s why I’m saying the general ideas are worth discussing.
No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard
People in government agencies, defence and aerospace companies write code in airgapped environments every day.

Essentials like version control, CI/CD and artifact repositories are readily available, as they always have been. Gitlab, Artifactory etc all run just fine.

The problem you'll face with LLM assistants is they require very substantial hardware. I don't know how well that's going to fit your laptop-in-the-middle-of-nowhere use case, but there are projects floating around.

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
In the last couple of years, I have had important letters get "lost" in USPS in the Dallas area including things I sent with the USPS guarantee, signature required etc. and things sent to me being lost. I didn't receive any official apology from USPS; I learned from the local news there was organized crime ring regularly opening up letters they thought contained checks. To make it short, USPS has forced me to stop send checks or anything important through the mail.
Yea, that absolutely checks out.

Being able to apply your work to something you enjoy is a discipline and motivation multiplier.
Add forum or “forum” to your search term and you’ll get results from tons of forums. Yes, you have to know to do that, but once you do, your results will actually be good.
I know this will sound sexist, but I cant help. Trump is perfect embodiment of that old stereotype of a hysterical emotional drama queen woman who can not make her mind about anything. Down to making big deal about someone elses outfit, getting offended over nothing and using the word "beautiful" in absurd contexts.

It is unbelievable he got voted in by the exact same people who pontificate about men not being traditional masculine enough.
Yeah a lot of things are going this route unfortunately. RIP to the open internet. Ill still be there when everyone decides they have had enough.
There is not a soul on this planet that attends meetings or talks regularly, and pays constant attention.
Email addresses have worked pretty well, and have the big advantage of allowing "self-custody" via using your own TLD, but don't require it.

I don't have any issues with also allowing phone numbers as identifiers and most people preferring these, but I don't want to be forced to do so myself.
We will see. A degree is just the ends to justify taking math classes. My goal is to learn, if they give me a degree that’ll be a bonus!
woah, ty! I've been using the Dygma Defy [1], but I might switch to this!

[1] https://dygma.com/products/dygma-defy
A masters in CS doesn’t interest me as much as pure math. Maybe when I’m 50…
sure they're fans, but they certainly are not in any way acting like libertarians. Libertarians are live and let live, leave my property alone, personal rights, we'll settle this in court, people are equal; that's not what the MAGA movement is. These MAGAs want women's right taken away, free press jailed, LGBTQ people punished and declared insane, and on and on. It's a christofascist movement at it's core, and they only want one voice in the room, theirs.
What does value in the product have to do with audits?

It makes no sense to be happy about audits, even successfully passing them, regardless how much value you get out of whatever product they are attached to. The two things have no bearing on each other. By all means, value the product greatly.

This excusing is exactly what I was talking about. It's kind of disturbing and sick even to be so cooperative with a bully.

It's one thing to do what you gotta do and put up with what you gotta put up with, but to actually not see a problem and derive personal sense of worth from some shop owner going through your pockets to satisfy themselves that you didn't steal anything is just bizarre. You should not be happy that the shop owner said "looks like you didn't steal from me today".
I had classes with take-home tests of three impossible questions, and standard tests of disguised regurgitation. The impossible questions are the ones that will really test your understanding of the fundamentals. It's the different between "add two numbers together", and "what does adding mean"?

I found out I can't stretch my brain to truly understand the fundamentals, so I stopped after a bachelors and don't use my degree at all. I don't mind. It takes truly special people to push the limits, and a lot of not so special people to keep the world running for them.
But established people will still do those 20-tweet "articles" instead of linking to a proper blog post. It cuts both ways. You get a large audience easiest on popular platforms, and you keep them by posting on popular platform.
It's not that it's a 9-hour investment. It's that for someone looking for a new job, it's 9 hours * N jobs they're applying to. That adds up quick.
As the saying goes, most social media is stupid people pretending to be smart; 4chan is smart people pretending to be stupid.
Take the essay you linked into an LLM and discuss in this context, you'll probably find it interesting.
Wow. I was looking at hooking my water meter into home assistant, and was going to investigate just counting an optical pulse (it has a white portion on the gear that is in a certain spot every .1 gal) This is like the same meter I use, and perfect.

(It turns out my electric meter, though analog, blasts out it's reading on RF every 10 seconds unencrypted. I got that via my RTL-SDR reciever :) )
I might be this missing a point here. What is the reason to block screenshots? If we want to save space, blocking screenshots is irrelevant. If we want sender to have a guarantee that message is not preserved then we can't do that either because screen is visible.
I can only see that as a marketing trick for unsophisticated user.
The trick here is that if the election is close enough that you'd actually want/need multiple pollsters aggregated, the aggregators will indicate high uncertainty. If it's enough of a blowout for the aggregators to indicate low uncertainty, then the individual polls are going to be showing a large gap.

An aggregator saying "foo has a 65% chance of winning" may seem like it's providing more information than a single historically reliable poll (say Reuters/Ipsos) stating "foo is up by 2 points but there's a 3 point margin of error" - but isn't it just an illusion? High quality pollsters very seldom deviate very much.

And even if you grant that the aggregator is closer to being "right" than any single pollster, is that difference actually meaningful enough to impact any real world behaviors? Would you do anything differently with a 50% chance of victory versus a 70% chance?

I've honestly come to think of them as entertainment, with no real value.
Line discipline rarely has sequences of bytes without any service information (parity, delimiters, preambles etc). So I don't see it as a practical issue.
Honest truth ? Most companies/teams have some level of dysfunction, chaos, lack of documentation and/or a combination of these. So the question is: how much is too much for you ?

If you are hoping for a fair tale world where it's almost perfect, I don't think that exists. You need to think about this differently. Instead of saying "everything sucks and I want the perfect situation before I can do my best", say this "I think there is an opportunity here for me to take on, fix some of the issues and hopefully grow with the team".

In my opinion, what really matters is how good and supportive your team is. Your management. Are they at least supportive or are their expectations too much without giving you anything in return ? Focus on that. If you have a good supportive environment with people you like working with, think twice before leaving.

This is the real world again. No matter where you go, dysfunction will be there. Good luck.
>To speed up our experiments, we omitted the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence penalty, although our training recipe supports it for interested readers.

I am very curious whether omitting the KL penalty helps on narrow domains like this, and also whether doing so results in illegible reasoning. (From the samples in the post, it looks like it doesn't make reasoning illegible?)

>the 32B model’s response lengths collapsing, especially after reaching peak performance.

I would not have predicted this. Nor that it could collapse its response length to near zero yet lose only a few percentage points of accuracy. If you do SFT to get a model of the same size to solve these puzzles with no reasoning (just output answers directly), how good can it do?
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264957
> You're comparing ancient obsolete technology to a streamlined instant messaging client.

Just because something is old, doesn’t mean it is bad.
> Why did we pick a binary blob as shareable format again?

PDF was created to solve the problem of being able to render a document the same way on different computers, and it mostly achieved that goal. Editable formats like .doc, .html, .rtf were unreliable -- different software would produce different results, and even if two computers have the exact same version of Microsoft Word, they might render differently because they have different fonts available. PDFs embed the fonts needed for the document, and specify exactly where each character goes, so they're fully self-contained.

After Acrobat Reader became free with version 2 in 1994, everybody with a computer ended up downloading it after running across a PDF they needed to view. As it became more common for people to be able to view PDFs, it became more convenient to produce PDFs when you needed everybody to be able to view your document consistently. Eventually, the ability to produce PDFs became free (with e.g. Office 2007 or Mac OS X's ability to print to PDF), which cemented PDF's popularity.

Notably, the original goals of PDF had nothing to do with being able to copy text out of them -- the goal was simply to produce a perfect reproduction of the document on screen/paper. That wasn't enough of an inconvenience to prevent PDF from becoming popular. (Some people saw the inability for people to easily copy text from them as a benefit -- basically a weak form of text DRM.)
NB: if you come across a profile whose submissions or comments are all "dead", they've likely been banned or shadowbanned.

You can use the "replies" endpoint to see if dang (or one of the other/earlier mods: sctb or pg) have replied directly to the user with a ban message, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=genezeta&by=dang

Or as a link: <https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=genezeta&by=dang>

(This will show any replies by dang to you, genezeta, not necessarily ban notices.)

I've just tried that on the first non-green HN userID for a "[dead]" submission the New queue, with nothing showing, so it's a bit hit-or-miss.

Alternatively you can look at the member's submissions under their profile page. Patterns such as constantly submitting the same set of domains, especially if self-promotional, will stand out. That userID I'd checked above ... seems to have a limited range of sites they're interested in submitting:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adib_zouiten1>

Some sites are banned due to impenetrable paywalls. 404 Media is one such (with several submission in the queue presently):

<https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co>
I couldn't quickly find it by searching your github, but what layers did you end up targeting for training? Would be interesting to see an ablation on targeting different sets of layers (train only attention layers, freeze the first 30% of the layers and train the remaining 70%, etc).
We used to have this and, well, it sucked.

Turns out people are still extremely rich but in their own little governments - what we call corporations.

This may seem like an improvement. But these people aren’t elected, so we’re back at square one minus the democracy part.

We had less regulation, less rules, less taxation. People were poor. They were sick. They died when they shouldn’t have. They were illiterate. They were easily influenced. The economy suffered. Markets crashed. People lost their jobs. People starved.

So we decided, “hm maybe that doesn’t work like we thought it did”. Pretty much everyone was on board.

The government has many faults, yes, but many powers too. Power is distributed, and even you yourself hold some power. Having 20,000 people making decisions across 300 agencies sounds awful at first - but is having 10 people making decisions behind closed doors in a boardroom better?
I don't understand this sentiment. You have no problem spending $800 billion in tax payer money on military in a country that hasn't fought a defensive war in 200 years but as soon as the same concept is applied to education or healthcare it's somehow wrong?
Trump didn't want to talk to him, by going he had a good chance to move things

I know very little of military stuff, but no one can rely on the US anymore, whether they want it or not.

Now I can't access the article where I read it, but if I'm not mistaken Europe on the whole would be the second or third military power in the world.
USA is speedrunning into the cyberpunk dystopia future
Very well said. Education, at its core, is about adapting the species to better survive the increasingly complex world it creates and inhabits. Failing to educate the whole means exposing it to fracture and exploitation from within.

It’s inoculation against exploitation, a mental vaccine that, when done right, promotes cooperation over self-interest.

Which is exactly why those who are threatened by it, seek to restrict or destroy it.
A few days ago the press secretary of the White House closed the session by commenting on a hockey game to be played that night between the US and "our soon-to-be 51st state", whilst grinning.

A declaration of war packaged as a prank.
Try ReactLynx first.
It's a reference to a joke by the comedian Groucho Marx (1890-1977) "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" (also a title of a 1978 REO Speedwagon album paying homage to Marx who had recently died). It's a pun on "tune a" and "tuna".
They're going to become commoditized unless they add value elsewhere. Good news for customers.