skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...and that's why so many people are confused about what's going on with LLMs: sloppy, ambiguous use of language.

There is a difference between explanation by metaphor and lack of precision. If you think someone is implying something literal when they might be using a metaphor you can always ask for clarification. I know plenty of people that are utterly precise in their use in their language which leads them to being widely misunderstood because they think a weak precise signal is received as clearly as a strong imprecise signal. They usually think the failure in communication is in the recipient but in reality they are just accurately using the wrong protocol.

>Do you understand the distinction I'm making here?
I believe I do, and it is precisely this distinction that the researches showed. By teaching a model to say "I don't know" for some information that they knew the model did not know the answer to, the model learned to respond "I don't know" for things that it did not know that it was not explicitly taught to respond with "I don't know". For it to acquire that ability to generalise to new cases the model has to have already had an internal representation of "That information is not available"

I'm not sure where you think a model converting its internal representation of not knowing something into words is distinct from a human converting its internal representation of not knowing into words.

When fine tuning directs a model to profess lack of knowledge, usually they will not give the same specific "I don't know" text as a way to express that it does not not know because they want the want to bind the concept "lack of knowledge" to the concept of "communicate that I do not know" rather than any particular word phrase. Giving it many ways to say "I don't know" builds that binding rather than the crude "if X then emit Y" that you imagine it to be.
Thanks, I did search around a bit and didn't hit this
How did you lose it? That sounds super frustrating
Wouldn't that require a working judiciary system?
Hmm I don't know that making a new volume from a snap should fundamentally be faster than what a P4 sync could do. You're still paying for a full copy.

You could have possibly had existing volumes with mostly up to date workspaces. Then you're just paying for the attach time and the sync delta.
The shame you feel is yours, it's not inherent to the sizing.
Yes. Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
> dismissing an emerging technology as useless baby stuff?

But that's not Apple. Apple is the company that watches everyone screw up and then comes out with something brilliantly simple that just works. Not only is Apple Intelligence a mess, a lot of it is vaporware [1].

Siri used to be useful enough that I could ask her to send short texts and place calls. But now, when I ask it to message someone I am regularly in touch with, it spouts out a message to someone with a similar-sounding name I haven't spoken to in years.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...
Uhm. What?

Why not state why something is done a certain way instead .

Mail order is cheap and efficient. Building a pharmacy in Sparks, Nevada or Tokio, Texas just to fix a "pharma desert" is expensive and inefficient.

My junior developers analyze why things are done a certain way and don't blindly advocate or prefer "new" methods.
> Making money is not incompatible with Open Source nor Free Software. Making lots and lots of money is not incompatible with it either.

Well not at a philosophical level, but there appear to be some practical difficulties.
I understand your comments just fine. Rather it seems that you have a comprehension problem. Your link may state that the Supreme Court has declared that non-citizens [etc]. Pointing out that you're holding up this declaration as if it's some unassailable logical conclusion rather than an arguable policy decree is the crux of my comment.
An argument that modern body armor has largely negated the incentive does not imply that the ethical concerns don't exist. They are entirely separate points of discussion.

> You can argue that any GSW that isn't immediately lethal inflicts suffering, I'm not sure how an expanding head changes that.

It's a matter of intent and degree. If we collectively threw up our hands every time we encountered a grey area we'd never be able to agree on anything.

The point is that in the event that a weapon fails to kill the target, there are ethical concerns if it does more damage, particularly long term damage, than absolutely necessary. There's no need to make warfare even worse than it already is.
It’s a cadmium isotope. Super cool technique, I think perturbed angular correlation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbed_angular_correlatio...

I haven’t used it for my research, but it’s an incredible local probe of electric and magnetic fields in materials. There’s no other technique that I’m aware of that smuggles information about the chemical structure of a single coordination sphere into such clean, distinct emissions. The brief excited state of the isotope after the first emission event and before the second is sensitive to practically everything. It all shows up in the deconvoluted spectra.

Shame nearly all the isotopes that work for this are not ones that are super interesting for modern quantum materials. Perhaps that will change out of necessity.
Fair enough, but my bet is that even trivially recontextualizing an interview question is enough to wreck an LLM's performance.

If you change the "find a word in a grid of letters" question to a "find a Collatz sequence in a grid of numbers" question, does it still work? As an interviewer, I would expect a qualified candidate to spend maybe an extra 5-10 minutes asking clarifying questions and understanding the difference between the two.
Basically housing & pensions ?
Don't they pay for the pensions from their own money, something like Social Security?

Housing is a problem in every country and I totally agree about that. I myself, really like the georgist philosophy of economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

I doubt if this system really is broken. Catering to the old people's pensions so that they can live and unlike america's social security system which was recently cut by doge, which impacts every old person. I think it's decent? What suggestions do you think could help with the pensions scheme
What It Would Take for the U.S. Dollar to Collapse
The analogies are all over the place lol.

Is social media pure evil like tobacco OR is it a necessity like a utility?

How can it be both?

EU pretends it is both while getting backdoor access.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2024/6/20/orwellian-eu...
Based on this thread, I'm not sure you would want to use this over keyspace notifications, but I will also say that there comes a point in the maturity of a system when keyspace notifications become a complicated, unreliable, resource-heavy nightmare. They work fine is your needs and scale are limited, but it's definitely not what you want if handling lots of frequent chances across craploads of keys, with complicated logic for who needs them and how they get routed to them, and where it matters if the notification is successfully received.

But certainly you could build something to handle these and most other needs in this realm with mostly just redis, using streams for what needs to be more robust, in tandem with pub/sub, keyspace notifs, etc. in the areas they are suited to.
>Fantastic design. Normally pages with funky scrolling behavior and boxes whizzing all over the place and all that are annoying but it really works here. Not to mention the adorable visuals.

On my phone, there are several pictures that erratically resize themselves whole scrolling past, and that card stack section completely flips out when scrolling back up. Aside from being very visually noisy, I'd say it just doesn't work.
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He's testing emergency breaking.
It's not some pay-to-receive service surely? It should be always on, regardless of Autopilot or FSD.

It has come as a default feature with many new vehicles in the modern age.

Are you trying to say that Tesla's FSD emergency breaking and AutoPilot emergency breaking are different?
It's emergency breaking. None of that should matter.

And if it does matter, we are dealing with the possibility that Tesla is selling a deliberately worse product at a lower price point, in exchange for risking the lives of drivers and passengers.

There really is no meaningful difference here, because the result SHOULD be the same, regardless of what feature was enabled or disabled.
If he doesn't like companies making money when he helps commoditize things that complement what they provide, CC does have a non-commercial variant.
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You still don't seem to understand the meaning of the metaphor. The analogous thing for people wouldn't be "wind"
Absolutely this! If I have to use a search box to find docs and not the navigation pane you know you're doing something wrong with your docs.
Founder isn't a designer, but he built a $150k MRR design service anyway
This is essentially what all in-memory data stores have always been

Kinda refreshing to see someone own it and run with it
Is anyone knowledgeable what would be the best way to block the sound waves?

a) Earplugs?
b) destructive interference?
I think it's pretty much a useless protest if everyone leaves the moment it become "a bit rowdy". Not to mention that if you meditate for long enough of time ( which is like the most peaceful kind of protest ) the Police will Spray / LDAR you anyway.
So no walled gardens outside the castles, essentially?
The example here is trivially safe but more general SIMD safety is going to be extremely difficult to analyze for safety, possibly intractable.

For example, it is perfectly legal to dereference a vector pointer that references illegal memory if you mask the illegal addresses. This is a useful trick and common in e.g. idiomatic AVX-512 code. The mask registers are almost always computed at runtime so it would be effectively impossible to determine if a potentially illegal dereference is actually illegal at compile-time.

I suspect we’ll be hand-rolling unsafe SIMD for a long time. The different ISAs are too different, inconsistent, and weird. A compiler that could make this clean and safe is like fusion power, it has always been 10 years away my entire career.
You know, if Mexico is a place where 'no sane person' should go... then shouldn't we be more understanding when people want to leave?
Would be surprised if it was not a union of the above schools and {GTech, UT, UCLA, UIUC}.
I don't think what something was written in should count. Baring bugs it should still be memory safe.
But I believe JVM has ffi and as soon as you use ffi you risk messing up that memory safety.
According to modern QFT, there are no particles except as an approximation. There are no fields except as mathematical formalisms. There's no locality. There is instead some kind of interaction of graph nodes, representing quantum interactions, via "entanglement" and "decoherence".

In this model, there are no "split particle" paradoxes, because there are no entities that resemble the behavior of macroscopic bodies, with our intuitions about them.

Imagine a Fortran program, with some neat index-based FOR loops, and some per-element computations on a bunch of big arrays. When you look at its compiled form, you notice that the neat loops are now something weird, produced by automatic vectorization. If you try to find out how it runs, you notice that the CPU not only has several cores that run parts of the loop in parallel, but the very instructions in one core run out of order, while still preserving the data dependency invariants.

"But did the computation of X(I) run before or after the computation of X(I+1)?!", you ask in desperation. You cannot tell. It depends. The result is correct though, your program has no bugs and computes what it should. It's counter-intuitive, but the underlying hardware reality is counter-intuitive. It's not illogical or paradoxical though.
A commit which does nothing more than change permissions of a file would probably beat that, from an information theory perspective.

You might say, "nay! the octal triple of a file's unix permissions requires 3+3+3 bits, which is 9, which is greater than the 8 bits of a single ascii character!"

But, actually, Git does not support any file permissions other than 644 and 755. So a change from one to the other could theoretically be represented in just one bit of information.
> What Tim Berners Lee doesn’t know or understand

He knows, he uses, he understands more than you think.
Why does it keep re-enabling after each OS update?
You forgot to add “Long TSLA”
"Straight from my previous project named Fiew I added a massive image library viewer. It really could quickly and easily scroll through massive amounts of pictures."

Which is now infuriatingly lacking in the entire domain of image editors. Thumbnail browsers used to be an expected feature of image editors, even shareware ones. Now? Fat chance. Good luck even finding a stand-alone one.

Recently one called FlowVision surfaced for Mac, and it's pretty much the lightweight browser that many of us have been looking for for years. It has some rough spots, but the developer is responsive to issues. https://github.com/netdcy/FlowVision
Is your argument that the use of force should be acceptable as long as you know its asymmetric?
That's a potential outcome of any increase in training efficiency.

Which we should expect, even from prior experience with any other AI breakthrough, where first we learn to do it and then we learn to do it efficiently.

E.g. Deep Blue in 1997 was IBM showing off a supercomputer, more than it was any kind of reasonably efficient algorithm, but those came over the next 20-30 years.
Yes, unfortunately, though Tk wasn't quite as bad as the dystopian Brutalist Soviet horror of Motif.
Snapshot functionality is WIP, which can be utilised to persist and replay data between reboots.
For now Golang SDK is only one, more SDKs are to be added soon.
That should also be entirely irrelevant.

It's emergency breaking. There shouldn't be differing results on whether you paid an extra $8000 usd or not.

FSD does not advertise better emergency breaking as a feature. (Last I checked anyway.)
> single-writer lock-free algorithm

I understand the need for correct lock-free impls: Given OP's description, simply avoiding read mutexes can't be the way to go about it?
> Perhaps the CC people have not thought about this, but it is precisely why GPL exists, and later AGPL.

Considering the next sentence is "This is why Open Source ends up massively benefitting corporations who don't give much back.", I think this is more along the lines of the usual complaints about for example cloud providers not hiring the upstream devs for oss projects they sell "as-a-service" versions of.
It's just a different protocol for how to send the data. It doesn't affect requirements on the data itself.
> Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them.

While the article touches on it here, Microsoft was able to avoid venture capital because it was highly profitable from its very early days. They turned their first profit in 1975, the same year they were founded.

It seems like more companies spend longer amounts of time being unprofitable and growing. How much of that is a zero interest rate phenomenon or the new normal?
I think the author is confused because he doesn't realize that hackers and muggles are fundamentally different.

Hackers come into foss because they get fed up about how shitty proprietaryware is. Shitty because it gets in the way of their hacking. Muggles don't care about hacking, so to them it's not shitty.

The author thinks that 10x people = 10x better so we have to bring the muggles on board. But actually it doesn't matter, non-hacker users don't contribute much to foss. They don't send pull requests, and don't submit useful bugs. Most they'll ever do is nag you into making the thing less hackable.
From the link:

RDAP offers several advantages over WHOIS including [...] the ability to provide differentiated access to registration data.
This is just not true, and hasn't been for decades. Many, if not most applications create subdirectories and store stuff in the Library/Application Support directories. Trashing the app bundle leaves all that stuff behind.
Yeah, there's a cynical paradox.

I'm leaning more engineering to maybe pivot.
I don't why this comment was downvoted. You raise an important point. I also noticed that you (carefully?) made no comment about Telsa's stock price. Instead, you only focused on their earnings -- which are excellent for a car company.
Weird since Warren and Charlie specifically talk about how they don't time the market: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=secMNCDsxBc
> By the time you added a monitor and a hard drive to get the system you really wanted, it cost closer to $1,000. At that price, you could get an off-brand PC with a VGA monitor.

So I decided to check some prices in 1992 computer catalogs and I'm not sure this is really true. Looking at the Tandy catalog[0], you could get a Tandy 1000 RLX with a 10 MHz 286, 512k of RAM, VGA and a monitor for $1K, but it didn't come with a hard drive at that price. The same catalog also lists a Tandy 1000 RL with a 9.5 MHz 8086, 512k of RAM and CGA/Tandy graphics for $500 without monitor. I think the 600 actually fairs pretty well against that machine.

Looking at a Sears catalog from 1992, they have a Packard Bell 386SX with 1MB of RAM and a 40MB HD for $1100, but without a monitor. The cheapest monitor option on that page was another $290.

Obviously two random catalogs doesn't give you comprehensive pricing data, but at least from this quick look it does seem like the 600 was reasonably competitive at the $500 price point it was sold at.

Seems to me the bigger problems were higher up the product line. Not having a real response to the rise of VGA (first introduced 1987) until October 1992 was a huge miss.

[0] https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1992_rsc-23.htm...

[1] https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1992-Sea...
it was an outlier then and it’s an outlier now
Meh.
Whole Amiga concept was a glorified game console for PAL/NTSC TV standard.
Once PC market moved aboive using TV monitors, whole Amiga lineup was doomed.

As anything Commodore ever did, Amiga was far overengineered for what it did.

That being said, there are only two Amigas worth remembering:
- A500 as original one ( A1000 was overpriced crap)
- A1200 as a cheap successor. Its upgrade value was "meh", but it was cheap. And there were games, actually using those extras. And it had a cheap HDD option (used an IDE drive).
Have some Haloperidol then, for intraocular application.
It was intentionally hyperbolic tongue in cheek and understood to be as such. The reason is to fight through the discounting people (at least at the time) had that UB was just a segfault or something. Here’s a kernel exploit that was a result of UB [1]. It’s not hard to imagine that hypothetically UB in the kernel could result in “just so” corruption that would call the “format your HDD routine” even if in practice it’s extremely unlikely (& forensically it would basically be impossible to prove that it was UB that caused it).

https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
Stoked to see that ICANN reference implementations are now being written in rust!

https://github.com/icann/icann-rdap
Rust folks love compare rust to C but C folks seldom compare C to rust.
Using electricity to make steel isn't novel - if you consider electric arc furnaces (which can be powered by renewable energy). This does seem to be a fairly novel and cool approach though (eliminates coke), but it still looks quite energy intensive.
> Social media is like fentanyl or cocaine for the masses… Ive seen people unable to get out of instagram. Their fingers are constantly twitching and scrolling. This is just like drugs and controlled substances.

Flying is such a wild experience as you can always see the person in front of you constantly scrolling. One time I saw a young gal pay $20 for internet on a 3 hour flight and would scroll Facebook for a minute or two, switch to Instagram for a minute or two, then back to Facebook… for 4 straight hours (boarding + flight + landing). I was genuinely appalled.
> They are fairly similar to IBM

This feels unfair. When was the last time for example that Oracle manufactured a CPU?
It's interesting that the proposed solution to this problem is more often than not "add another layer."

The solution as far as I see it is to just go back to the zero algorithm version of social media. You follow people, you see their stuff in your feed. At best, you get recommendations of who to follow, but there's zero compulsion to follow or look at anything. No AI, no fancy algorithms, just good ol' fashioned CRUD.

Wrap the whole thing up in a nice UI/UX and, most importantly, take a 100% neutral stance on politics and other "faction building" modes of thought.

The chaos really didn't start until the algorithms (and by extension, the low-quality content they elevate) and politics came in. All of the alternatives so far have implemented some of the above ideas, but the juiciness of taking a political/ideological stance has been too attractive.
Did you mean Valkey, or has the js community now managed to shoehorn an entire high-availability database server into a javascript object proxy?
I can't imagine you haven't looked at this, but I'm curious: Do shallow clones help at all, or if not what was the problem with them? I'm willing to believe that there are usecases that actually use 1M commits of history, but I'd be interested to hear what they are.