skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No my argument is that trying at a broad systemic level to make specific outcomes happen is susceptible to the information problem.

This is exactly what I said you would say:

> I suppose the argument you are making is that any attempt to interfere with the present system of resource allocation will constitute a centralization that would be less effective than free market capitalism

Further:

> Trying like the op suggested to automate away work is utopian and improbable at best.

We are a long way off from the self-replicating systems that could feasibly make work effectively optional, but you haven't made a convincing argument as to why it is improbable that automation could reach that point.

> And yes I’m aware of Japanese strawberry picking robots.

You clearly were not aware of them or you would have picked better examples. Your original comment consisted solely of the statement: "It's the same thing." and now you're continuing with that flippant attitude by pretending that I'm misunderstanding your argument when I anticipated it in its entirety.
They could still recover and catch the booster precisely because they had that redundancy.

For Starship, the spinning out of control was caused by four (!) out of 6 engines shutting off prematurely, from which they clearly could not recover.
Nowadays "indexable locations" mean "crawled by big tech to feed your likeness to their AI". It's hard to advocate for now.
I've got a couple more related snowclones..

Sufficiently humourous sneering is indistinguishable from progress

Sufficiently high social status is indistinguishable from wisdom
(Some) people are also happy to pay to have someone piss on them, too. Do you think Microsoft should offer a Golden Shower tier of Copilot, complete with Trickle Down?
Some of the oldest neutron stars may have already cooled to ordinary temperatures of just a few hundred Kelvin.

It's not certain what their surface would be like, physics just isn't developed enough to provide a definite answer.

The trivial case of an isolated cold neutron star is: completely black, other than a very slight far infrared glow of whatever their remaining thermal radiation is.

An educated guess is that an externally illuminated cold neutron star would look extremely smooth and "dark grey". Most current models propose that young and hot neutron stars have an atmosphere of metal plasma. Presumably this would freeze out into a thin surface layer as the stars cool.

A complication is that their surface gravity is so high that inbound "white" light would be shifted well into the UV range, which would interact with the surface very differently to visible light. Reflected light would be redshifted back out to the original white, but any light that's absorbed and re-emitted would likely take on interesting colours.

Here's a chart of metal surface reflectivity by wavelength: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Spectral-reflectivity-of...

As you can see, most metals don't reflect much in the UV range, but there are peaks and troughs.

Depending on the exact surface composition, you might see different colours than what you'd normally expect for metals.

You'd also have to take the rotation rate into account. If there's any inconsistency in the surface albedo, you'd see "horizontal stripes" for fast-spinning stars, or flickering for slower spinning ones.
> Humans did more than fall into the trap. They loved the technology, truly believing it made them safer, and provided Skynet with a global surveillance system that allowed it to know the whereabouts of every human being at any moment in time.

Safer works on some. Happier or nostalgic works on others. Anyone else noticed these three creepiest genres of Reddit posts on steady drip-feed?

- My [neighbor/ex/inlaw/coworker] is dumb and so goddamn crazy and threatened to do [something anyone would consider unreasonable]!! AITA? UPDATE, two weeks later: I followed the advice from my first thread and got security cameras and they came back to do crimes to me and my cameras saved me!!!

- So cute: my [pet/child] did [unexpected/impressive/adorable thing]!! Faith in humanity restored!!! <video angle shows it's recorded by security camera covering living room / bedroom, no mention of such but is visually obvious>

- Realized my dead [grandparent/parent/sibling/child/pet] was caught by the Google Street View car [at least a decade ago] doing [their favorite activity] at [nostalgic location] and I can't stop crying with joy!!! <implication: little surveillance then makes big happy now, so big surveillance now makes ??? happiness in future, so what's happening now is Good Actually!>
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It is simple, short and obviously correct. You don't have to record every single line of reasoning in a proof or argument, when the intermediate steps are obvious. Same applies here. It isn't necessary to document this because it is obvious from a glance that it is correct. You can derive its correctness with a moment's thought. So it is fine not to assert it - that would be clutter.
Mozilla’s list is built to reflect the needs of Firefox users, which are not the same as the needs of most non-browser programs. The availability/compatibility vs security tradeoff is not the same.
They're learning features, not the exact image (that's why it's so good at self healing). It should be invariant to shifts.
I think my point is about an underlying quality of the toaster, the ability to make toast, which is independent of its cost in different places. The price of a product is complicated by many factors which are irrelevant to that underlying quality.
Spreadsheet software don't have bad UX? I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
ArchiveTeam has some docs about this:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Finding_subdomains
Isn't the real hack to offer $30 to anyone who can do the task for you?
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I have an actually hard OCR exercise for an AI model: I take this image of Chinese text on one of the memorial stones on the Washington Monument https://www.nps.gov/articles/american-mission-ningpo-china-2... and ask the model to do OCR. Not a single model I've seen can OCR this correctly. Mistral is especially bad here: it gets stuck in an endless loop of nonsensical hallucinated text. Insofar as Mistral is design for "preserving historical and cultural heritage" it couldn't do that very well yet.

A good model can recognize that the text is written top to bottom and then right to left and perform OCR in that direction. Apple's Live Text can do that, though it makes plenty of mistakes otherwise. Mistral is far from that.
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It would probably shine like a blackbody based on whatever temperature it is.

The surface of a neutron star is covered with a thin shell of protons and electrons in essentially random configurations, so it would absorb and emit light in all sort of random frequencies.
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They're All Bad at Citing News
They also can be pests and a nuisance.

We have some beavers that dam up parts of our property every few years which stops water from flowing to certain areas we need water in. We just throw smoke in them to make sure they abandon it and then stick some Tannerite in their dams and blow em up. Honestly, it's a pretty fun way to deal with it.
Discussion (39 points, 3 hours ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286040

Related Flights halted at some Florida airports over SpaceX debris (9 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286884
I think it’s better to write primary information on a blog and share the link on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to retain ownership of the content instead of giving it to them.
Is this purely a network-first idea, or can someone test it on a small scale first?
Nothing loads after 10sec. It's not my internet.

ping diagrams.cc
Pinging diagrams.cc [76.76.21.21] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 76.76.21.21: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=248
Reply from 76.76.21.21: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=248

I would also suggest adding a 'Show' to the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The best I've found is using asdf and venv for each of these python ML projects. Install the python version they assume, create and source a virtual env, install their dependencies, then activate the venv's when you boot up a terminal to run them again.

That still doesn't solve the other half of the issues that Python has with dependency management, but this method at least keeps me sane about it.

edit: and also not sure how I'd even start incorporating this into Invoke/Comfy... I've been using the latter but I'm not that comfy with it.
Why would I want to add tokio as a dependency if I don't use it?
I feel similarly with the occasional Wikipedia articles that get posted here with no context. Okay, yes, what about it?

Someone posts "Tomasulo's algorithm" or "Newton's method" and then the comments are all just random anecdotes about a time someone encountered the topic. It is like playing a word association game.
Comparing the present to the past depends entirely on where you set the point to compare against though.

Go back further and we didn't really have corporations and most people worked for themselves and individuals that were much more independent. That was for both good and bad, like everything else.

To compare where we are today only against a point in the past where we had massive corporations and little to no workers' rights feels like cherry picking. We have more options than massive government or massive, unregulated corporations.
Discussion (126 points, 4 months ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41903192
The opposite linguistic construction to an indention.
Once the problem gets narrow enough, do you risk training a model that reinvents a straightforward classic algorithm at far higher cost?
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For other's reference, the F-35 program is expected to cost $2 trillion dollars [0], and each jet costs roughly $100 million [1]. We have about 1,100 of them [2].

Conclusion, money isn't preventing us from sending people to the moon.

[0]https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/15/f-35s-to-cost-2-t...

[1]https://simpleflying.com/how-much-does-an-f-35-cost/

[2]https://www.f35.com/f35/about/fast-facts.html
Using your model, no technological development would ever occur because the fact that something had not happened yet would indicate that it could not possibly happen due to a lack of resources. This is the anecdote about two economists walking down the street and refusing to pick up a $100 because everyone knows that in an efficient market, someone would have already picked it up.

At some point the resources necessary for development are there but the technology itself has not actuated. This invalidates your original claim that: "Anything that could be automated but isn’t automated is because it isn’t cost effective to do so or there is insufficient capital to invest."
Oddly, the Chinese LLM host SiliconFlow only makes it available with 32k context, which is even smaller than their DeepSeek-R1 offering.
I clearly was aware of them. Do you think I just rattled of the bit about needing special glue to hold the fabric and only certain seam types being possible? There was a whole thing about these in the Economist last year and it was discussed on HN. While it’s technically possible you can’t deploy it. It turns out gluing an then applying solvents to fabrics doesn’t result in a product people want.

This Star Trek stuff is improbable because everything has to be coordinated somehow and waving your hand and saying magical future ai is the only proposal anyone ever has. So yeah, maybe super advanced AGI could do it, but probably not. We don’t even have good models now of how large economies work down to a granular level. People are like I said messy and respond in weird ways to their environments. The best we can do right now is working with prices as signals for the amount of effort other people are willing to put into something. And while that’s imperfect, it’s just improbable that we can do much better. Which is not to say that narrow objectives aren’t possible, only that the bigger and broader you aim the more impossible it becomes.
It doesn't look like this is the case? I'm looking at https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted/blob/master/README... where you are told to update 2 config files.
Ask them nicely.
that’s not what he meant, and you know it. he means use the OS store (the one the user has control over), instead of having each app do its own thing (where the user may or may not have control, and even if he does have it, now has to tweak settings in a dozen places instead of one). they try to pull the same mess with DNS (i.e. Mozilla’s DoH implementation)
Benchmarking is hard for markdown because of the slight formatting variations between different providers. With HTML, you can use something like TEDS (although there are issues with this, too), but with markdown, you don't have a great notion of structure, so you're left with edit distance.

I think blockwise edit distance is better than full page (find the ground truth blocks, then infer each block separately and compare), but many providers only do well on full pages, which doesn't make it fair.

There are a few different benchmark types in the marker repo:

- Heuristic (edit distance by block with an ordering score)
- LLM judging against a rubric
- LLM win rate (compare two samples from different providers)

None of these are perfect, but LLM against a rubric has matched visual inspection the best so far.

I'll continue to iterate on the benchmarks. It may be possible to do a TEDS-like metric for markdown. Training a model on the output and then benchmarking could also be interesting, but it gets away from measuring pure extraction quality (the model benchmarking better is only somewhat correlated with better parse quality). I haven't seen any great benchmarking of markdown quality, even at research labs - it's an open problem.
"please start a Kubernetes cluster for me"
Looks like their own protocol: https://developers.revolt.chat/developers/events/protocol.ht...
I wonder if FHE would ever be practical for an LLM. FHE necessitates calculating over the entire data, an extreme requirement for many workloads but routine for LLM inference.
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They can hold launches if they want, but I doubt it will come to that as long as nobody was hurt.
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Thanks for sharing! I'm training some models now that will hopefully improve this and more :)
Description of the project: https://warewulf.org/docs/main/getting-started/introduction....
Many of which (Brazil included) had direct involvement from the masterminds behind Agent Orange top (and they’re of course trying to bring them back https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/23/brazil-bolso... )
I'm sure they have, but, have there been improvements since past Show's in 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34690158) 2022 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33777876)?
> There is no gun control that leads to no school shootings. It is simply not possible.

Outside the US, it is.[1]

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...
referencing a wikipedia page won't change the reality

just wait and see what will happen next
Considering who we’re talking about using our weapons against, it’s hard to root for any military or dual-use technology in the US to do anything but fail spectacularly.
The TI 386 motherboard was in three parts, connected by ribbon cable. There were reliability problems.
Its main thing is taking a system that’s just powered on, and giving it an operating system. Said system can then run HPC jobs (or shell sessions, or web sites, or data-transfer); until it’s rebooted, and the cycle begins again.

I don’t know how well it would work in IoT: The device needs to PXE-boot, which requires support from the DHCP server and the hardware boot environment (UEFI).
I am interested in the concept of how a small percentage of "truth" can make propaganda appear to be correct. Of course there are other factors involved also, such as proper tuning of biases in the target audience.
Neither claim is true. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1991/09/29/t...

"Eliminating CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals by switching to alternatives could cost as much as $36 billion between now and 2075, according to the Environmental Protection Agency."

"Substitutes have drawbacks compared to the industrial perfection of CFCs, however, he said. Turpines are flammable. In addition, its toxicity in high concentrations has yet to be determined, so 'we use it with caution,' he said. 'It all comes under the grand scientific principle of no free lunch.'"

For that matter, fixing LA's smog wasn't cheap either.
To be clear, this was well known at the time. It was advertised that 56k was for download only and required an ISP that supported it. For those living in rural areas, there often weren’t any local options (long distance was certainly not free in those days). But for those who could get it, it was definitely a big improvement.
True to an extent; there's the broadcast order versus the actual chronological order versus the source material order that all differ a good bit[0]. Broadcast order being the main outlier. It's an episodic series, with some that span more than one episode, along with Endless Eight. If anything, I'd say the permutations should be separated out by the first season and the endless eight it encompasses, as there's no sense in watching an endless eight episode in the midst of the rest.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JWY_VFaF_NAxlmPkYsOA...
I built a CLI script for feeding PDFs into this API - notes on that and my explorations of Mistral OCR here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/mistral-ocr/
I'm probably not describing it fully accurately. See the link for the proper explanation.
I agree the webpage is borderline unusable due to the advertisements, I wonder how much an ad blocker would help here?
Author is really burying the lede here.

> Meta's block lists aren't foolproof. In an incident that resulted in a lawsuit filed last year, Meta accidentally rehired a former employee as a contractor despite him being on a "Do Not Hire" list after he was accused of stalking and harassing a coworker for over a year.

Surely that has to have something to do with why it's so hard to get off the list.

> Despite their experience, the senior engineer told BI that they would still return to Meta if given the chance.

> "It's the worst company I've ever worked for," they said. "But they also pay the best. If I could get in there for a couple more years and make bank, I would do it."

I don't want to be too mean to people I don't know, but it seems pretty plausible that someone who would say this to a reporter could be misunderstanding whether they left on good terms.
The glam guy wanted to go all aligned so that SIMD would work, but that would break so much code that he was talked out of it.

Hint for language designers: when you design a new language, put this stuff, and multidimensional arrays, in the standard library. Multiple incompatible versions of such types is as bad for number-crunching as would be multiple incompatible string types for string manipulation. You want your standard numeric libraries to work on the standard types.

This is part of why Matlab is so successful. You don't have to worry about this stuff.
That's a political statement. The position is that one should have the right and ability to communicate with other people in a secure fashion. If you deny this right, and build structures to monitor all communication, when "bad" people take over the government, you end up in a dystopia. Then building any sort of anti-government political movement become very difficult because they can hear whatever you say.

So I am glad that software like Signal/Whatsapp exist that allow secure communication [1]. And I would take the harms causes by them being unmonitored rather than the harm of future dystopian governments. Due to how crypto works, I don't think there is much middle ground here.

[1] I would prefer open source, more community owned platforms take over than these two.
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i imagine you can't use the pcie 1x risers on inference workloads, like you can for crypto mining, as there's no data going between the card and the CPU in crypto and i guess inference is heavily bandwidth restricted. Unfortunate!
> I want to see a social network that solves the bot problem by requiring a fee to post.

I think this is doable without losing massive numbers of users. You could do it by requiring a small fee to post publicly, but you could post for free to your followers.

BlueSky kind of flirts with this model because you have to pay to get your own domain if you don't want to use theirs.
Thx for pointing these out !