skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re making two big mistakes in that comparison. The obvious one is simply magnitude: people are losing funding for entire labs and research projects years in the making, which details careers and destroys capacity which will have to be rebuilt when America resumes funding research.

The second error is conflating the impact on research: losing a grant _prevents_ science from happening but those DEI changes were very minor additions to an existing research program. Doing outreach doesn’t harm science, and often helps the researcher improve their ability to communicate their work to non-specialists. Considering a wider range of students or employees similarly doesn’t hurt research: you still didn’t have to hire someone unqualified, but maybe you gave a chance to someone from a less-prestigious university. In some cases, it even made for better science: for example, medical and safety research being careful to include women in their experiment planning benefits half of the population.
Have fun with “the small disputed territory that produces chips” - actually spoken by Dario A in a talk this week
Gave it a quick try, overall works fine, always good to be ad-free :)

Some minor feedback: The design (on desktop monitor) is a bit busy, there is a lot of stuff all over the place, and it's all in a sort of vertical layout which seems mobile optimized to me. And please make the "after round" timeout configurable, 20 seconds is way too long for me to either ponder what went wrong in life, or celebrate my victory. I even put the each round time limit to be 10 seconds, yet the after-round timeout was still 20 long seconds.
The Time Cube meme is still very much alive and well.

https://timecube.ai
PERHAPS, and bear with me here, I know it's gonna be a stretch...

Perhaps those scientists you think ought to have been protesting "DEI" had zero problems with it? Perhaps they actually supported it? Perhaps that "statistic they dredged up" was actually meaningful to them and their community? Nah, can't be that. Must be them simply hungry for cash. Not a desire to do research, just basic human greed. That's really all they're capable of, right?
I am not questioning it's effectiveness. I have written Go code that is chugging along without issues in Production. My point is ergonomics and effectiveness are not mutually exclusive - hence the example of Rust's ? operator - effective and ergonomic (Rust also has issues with difficult to read lifetime+trait annotations).

The sad part is that people have been talking about this for years but Go team stubbornly refuses to make error handling more ergonomic.
It is worth mentioning that China is heavily investing in biotechnology and they are getting genuinely good at the more commodified parts of the industry. This blog post [1] is long and aimed at a biotech expert audience, but one summary line that stands out is that "the drug industry is having its own DeepSeek Moment" [2].

To that end, I believe that this is the time to invest in the US biotechnology ecosystem so that we remain competitive with China. The ongoing crisis at the NIH is antithetical to this goal, as Derek Lowe's blog posts describe.

[1] https://centuryofbio.com/p/commoditization
[2] https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/the-drug-industry-is-havin...
If the latest change is bad, how do you go back in your sandbox? How do you go back three steps? If you make a change outside the sandbox, how do you copy it in? How do you copy them out? How do you deinterleave the changes then?

In order for this sandbox to actually be useful, you're going to end up implementing a source control mechanism. If you're going to do that, might as well just use git, even if just on the backend and commit to a branch behind the scenes that the user never sees, or by using worktree, or any other pieces of it.

Take a good long think about how this sandbox will actually work in practice. Switch to the sandbox, LLM some code, save it, handwrite some code, then switch to the sandbox again, LLM some code, switch out. Try and go backwards half the LLM change. Wish you'd committed the LLM changes while you were working on the.

By the time you've got a handle on it, rembering to switch git branch is the least of your troubles.
That's too generous to Toyota IMO. Their cars are insufferable.
I would be interested in knowing to what extent the HN back history shows evidence of webscraping, and to what extent there is evidence this social network (because it is one) is feeding the same information space that US Customs and Immigration use to determine who to pull out of the line.
> And even when they do save, we are currently looking at a market downturn. The last 5 years have been pretty rough in terms of the stock market with returns being much lower than you might count on.

VFIAX S&P500 tracking mutual fund closed at $212.65 five years ago, and closed at $519.60 today. By my math that comes out to an annualized yield of 19.56%, a rate so incredible I'm worried I somehow did the math wrong.

So I'm curious, have I done the math wrong? Or are you saying making 20% per year in an index fund is a rough stock market?
Yeah you don’t get to use the claim of “virtue signaling” to shut down conversation any more, we all understand that is a manipulative play to make someone feel a chump for having standards. Your claims on immigrants don’t match stats, they are less violent than the American population at large. And your example wasn’t that, it was about trans rights. Why would you be singularly opposed to recognizing someone’s basic rights to be who they are?
> It helps that the country we're in recognizes defacto relationships

Which country? I have only heard about this happening in Brazil
Wait, we're not totalitarian because we're about the same as the other scumbags?!
Sorry, I replied the wrong comment, wanted to reply to a comment mentioning "defacto relationships"
I think I was pretty clear. You setup your pebble watch via openid connect/oauth like any other API client. No nag popups, manual Bluetooth pairing, etc.
Wealthier people moving to an area is an increase in demand which will make prices increase. The market has then done exactly what it is supposed to.
Yeah, but isn't still the expected outcome to end up with actual 3D objects, not point clouds? Or did people start integrating point clouds into their 3D workflows already? Besides for stuff like volumes and alike, I think most of us are still stuck working with polygons for 3D.
Related Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising (52 points, 2 months ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834634
Yes, civil disobedience. Get into ‘Good trouble’
I don't watch American films. Requiring everyone to be in a union results in a homogeneous where there is the same garbage and degeneracy being produced that is not for me.
Well then live like someone would before the industrial revolution. The hypocrisy of saying shit like this on "The Internet" is always funny to me.
> this reductivism is not exactly insightful.

I really agree with this. I think it has been bad for a lot of people's understanding when they have trivialized ML to "just matrix multiplications" (or GMMs). This does not help differentiate AI/ML from... well.. really any data processing algorithm. Matrices are fairly general structures in mathematics and you can formulate almost anything as one. In fact, this is a very common way to parallelize or speed up programs (e.g. numpy vectorization).

We wouldn't call least squares, even a bunch of them, ML nor would we call rasterization or ray tracing. Fundamentally all these things are "just GMMs". It also does not make apparent any differentiation from important distinctions like Linear Networks, CNNs, or Transformers. It brushes off a key element, the activation function, which is necessary for neural nets to do non-linear transformations! And what about the residual units? These are one of the most important factors in enabling Deep Learning. They're "just" addition. So we say it's all just matrix addition since we can convert multiplication to addition?

There is such a thing as oversimplification and I worry that we have hyper-optimized (over-optimized) for this. So I agree, saying they just "boil down to matrix multiplications" is fundamentally misleading. It provides no insight and only serves to mislead people.
SoftBank Seals $6.5B Deal for Chip Designer Ampere
Okay, so what's your answer? Why's it getting flagged? I just tried to answer guy's question.
I would think that before long, the UK will be re-admitted as well as the German aim of permitting near-neighbour economies (schengen zone? nordic countries?) into the room. France doesn't want that right now, but if you think about it, the materiel industry is pretty trans-national and the UK has a lot of it in Ferranti, Marconi, GEC, BAE. Everyone does JV back to before Brexit, they didn't just fly apart because Nigel Farage got a win.
With Marx the literature is basically religious in nature so reading his successors without reading Marx would be like reading religious commentaries on the bible without reading the original bible stories. There could be reasons to do that (e.g. modern text is easier to read), but you'd be missing a lot.

There are other writers who were writing before or at the same time as Marx on similar topics who were clearer in their thinking and their work is often surprisingly relevant even today.
I'm not all the way through the paper, but two questions I have from the jump:

The core finding of the paper is that income growth predicts housing price growth reliable regardless of how elastic each local housing market is (say, Austin vs. SFBA). It also uses the "work-from-home" shock during the pandemic as an example of the same kind of measurement.

I don't understand the mechanism the authors are suggesting. The WFH shock occurred over a span of 1-2 dozen months. Housing starts are measured over years and years. Regardless of relative differences in elasticity between markets, all housing markets have bounded elasticity as a result of how long it takes to site and construct houses. In a desirable landlocked community, it can take forever just to find current residents willing to sell and thus open up land for denser development (not something this report appears to study).

I'm also confused at how they're looking at permitting. It appears like they're using it as a metric of housing growth between regions. But permitting rates also define much of the supply constraint within a region. Highly elastic housing markets issue lots of permits. If everyone's issuing comparable numbers of permits, aren't the just observing that (for whatever reason) different regions are just converging on similar constraints and elasticity?
> It's only a leadership problem if you split the responsibility for the thing so you have A: a team that builds and maintains it and B: someone else who has to wake up at night and fix it.

A couple points come to mind here.

First, there is no reason for any employee to have to "wake up at night and fix it" if the organization staffs SRE's with a "follow the sun" model. Three complementary time zones are ideal, but two can suffice if one is first-shift and the other second shift.

Second and more importantly, splitting responsibility between a "dev team" and an "ops team" is problematic when the two teams do not communicate, coordinate, and assist each other in improving the system. Hence this situation qualifying as a leadership problem.

> If A and B are the same people, very little leadership is needed as they are innately motivated, and have direct experience.

A and B are different jobs, with different responsibilities, with different skills, and different success objectives. Combining the two is a recipe for burnout and/or failure.

>> Punitive management policies erode morale and result in retention only of those whom have no better options. See "Price's Law"[0].

> It's not punitive management. Someone will have to work when the thing breaks.

The statement I quoted was:

Pain from a problem needs to live where the problem can be fixed.

This is a punitive management policy in and of itself and unquestionably so when combined with the assertion:

If A and B are the same people, very little leadership is
needed as they are innately motivated ...

Two additional things to contemplate is categorizing team members as "they" as well as identifying "very little leadership" as a goal to achieve.
>Ramadan wanders through the solar year, sometimes occurring in the summer, sometimes in the winter, because it is scheduled according to the lunar cycle.

To be honest, that's the difference people are talking about (at least to my understanding). Because Ramadan follows a lunar calendar, the sunrise on the first day of Ramadan in Stockholm could happen anywhere from ~3:30am to ~8:45am depending on the year.

If I were using a lunar calendar as my actual calendar, the first day of the year would also have a sunrise time that varied significantly.
If other civilizations are like ours, I have zero faith in them surviving long enough after becoming technologically advanced to communicate with each other.
There’s actually something telling about this framing which is like, it’s not about being an asshole, it’s about being so passionate everything else falls to the wayside. But it feels like that quality my is so rare in society, that we’ve sort of accepted being an asshole as second best, in many areas of leadership, but it’s not second best! It’s bad! Blinding passion may be good, being an asshole is just not.
> Fonts are passed through the OpenType Sanitizer prior to processing.

Are font formats so bad that the files need to be sanitized?

Also, note that the identified integer overflows as one of causes of vulnerabilities. It is sad that today many languages do not detect overflows, and even modern architectures like RISC-V do not include overflow traps although detecting an overflow doesn't require many logic gates. C is old, ok, but why new languages like Rust do not have overflow traps, I cannot understand. Don't Rust developers know about this thing?
This reminds me of something Alan Kay (of Xerox PARC and Apple fame) wrote when talked about how those who profited from the results of research have not “paid it forward” through funding future research:

https://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/

“As I pointed out in a previous email, Engelbart couldn't get funding from the very people who made fortunes from his inventions.

“It strikes me that many of the tech billionaires have already gotten their "upside" many times over from people like Engelbart and other researchers who were supported by ARPA, Parc, ONR, etc. Why would they insist on more upside, and that their money should be an "investment"? That isn't how the great inventions and fundamental technologies were created that eventually gave rise to the wealth that they tapped into after the fact.

“It would be really worth the while of people who do want to make money -- they think in terms of millions and billions -- to understand how the trillions -- those 3 and 4 extra zeros came about that they have tapped into. And to support that process.”
I think o1 pro runs multiple instances of o1 in parallel and selects the best answer, or something of the sort. And you do actually always pay for thinking models with all providers, OpenAI included. It's especially interesting if you remember the fact that OpenAI hides the CoT from you, so you're in fact getting billed for "thinking" that you can't even read yourself.
But... why?

Why would anyone just destroy scientific research in their own country?

What do they hope to gain from this?
Judicial branch would do well to remember Trump didn’t care about what would happen to his VP either… his own guy…
NextdNS or a similar service on the router is a big help with coralling family member risk.
Pipx Install Topgrade
I'm looking forward to having an end-to-end "docker compose up" solution for self hosted chatgpt conversational voice mode. This is probably possible today, with enough glue code, but I haven't seen a neatly wrapped solution yet on par with ollama's.
And with technology and privacy being directly relevant.
As a non-chemist, my memory is that every time this comes up (and it has done for decades) the problem is the stability of the dyes. It's like Peskovites in PV: lots of noise about significant energy improvement, not much noise about lifetime stability improving.

It's my non-scientific theory (and it is mine) that energy centric physical chemistry like this converting solar and other light sources into something tractable in another form of energy, which depends on quantum states coming in and out inevitably also depends on somewhat unstable compounds and atomic states. It's hardly surprising the "efficient" ones also tend to break down the reactants, and I would imagine even in a plant there is a process behind making Chlorophyll rich cells stable, and renew.
also https://www.adminer.org/
> When people find loopholes in the law to obtain grants, do you defend their actions because technically it didn't break the law?

I don't defend their actions as moral. I think the loophole should be closed. I also think that they didn't commit fraud, as a loophole is by definition legal.

As for all your nonsense about money being spent different than you would like: I get it, you're very upset. As I covered before: money being spend different than you would like it to be spent is not fraud, no matter how much you rant and hate.
He didn't do a Nazi sign, he waved. He didn't endorse a "far right" Nazi party unless you're saying a quarter of the German population are secretly Nazis? They're right wing but they're not "far right".

He didn't say Hitler did nothing or that he wasn't responsible for the Holocaust. He made the very good point that one man can't do that amount of damage alone, and it relied on the power of a centralised state with excellent record keeping. There is a reason modern European states don't even collect this data! States are dangerous.

Your view is insanely warped. I don't know why.
I'm nearly 50 and have watched politics swing back and forth all my life.

That's not what is currently happening. It's not a minor disaster. It's something we'll take generations to recover from, if ever.

We can't do much, individually. Find people in your community working on stuff you care about and get out there and pitch in. Get involved. Make sure your local school district isn't banning books or being cruel to trans kids. Make sure you have good city councilors.

A friend of mine made this in the area where I live: https://deschutesgrassroots.com/
I think it's mainly having to set it up. Which isn't that much work for basic users but still entails: making a new account (Mozilla), data migration, installation on other devices, add-on installation, syncing, configuration, etc.
How is a magstripe system $20 Million a year more expensive to operate than an NFC system? The electronics themselves cost about the same to make. Is this matter of escaping vendor lock-in?
This was my thought when browsing this list, too, and it helped crystalize one of the feelings I had when trying to with with LLMs for coding: I'm a senior developer, and I want to develop as a senior developer does, and turn in senior developer-quality code. I _don't_ want to spend the rest of my career in development simply pairing with/babysitting a junior developer who will never learn from their mistakes. It may be quicker in the short run in some cases, but the code won't be as good and I'm likely to burn out, further amplifying the quality issue.

> I expect the models will continue improving though

I try to push back on this every time I see it as an excuse for current model behaviour, because what if they don't? Like, not appreciably enough to make a real difference? What if this is just a fundamental problem that remains with this class of AI?

Sure, we've seen incredible improvements over a short period of time in model capability, but those improvements have been visibly slowing down, and models have gotten much more expensive to train. Not to mention that a lot of the problem issues mentioned in this list are problems that these models have had for several generations now, and haven't gotten appreciably better, even while other model capabilities have.

I'm saying this not to criticize you, but more to draw attention to our tendency to handwave away LLM problems with a nebulous "but they'll get better so they won't be a problem." We don't actually know that, so we should factor that uncertainly into our analysis, not dismiss it as is commonly done.
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Even if that was true, and as big a problem as you say it is, realign the incentives.

Don't rip the whole thing down and throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Put it like this: if Trump was a Russian agent attempting to destroy America, what actions would he be doing differently to achieve that? Destroying basic scientific research would definitely be step in that direction, right?
I think this report is grounded in hope and optimism. It feels like copium because I don't see a reduction in the bypassing of the market in streaming services, mainly because they are all jacking up prices, and trying to build moats around content.

Economists like to think about substitutability and price elasticity. Well, if you WANT cooking shows starring Princess Meghan, you actually don't HAVE substitutability. Sure, you can get Selena Gomez cooking, or somebody else, but you've made a major mis-assessment of what drives people to watch TV, if you think these are axiomatically sustitutable and go to price elasticity. If you want to watch Meghan fail, you either pay the tax or you go Arrrrrr.
splats augment 3D scenes, they don't replace them. i've seen them used for AR/VR, photogrammetry, and high-performance 3D. going from splats to a 3D model would be a downgrade in terms of performance.
> they are less violent than the American population at large.

I made no assertion about the criminality of the immigrants, but rather the cartels bringing them here.

Regarding "trans rights", which is quite a large umbrella of ideas, negatively impacted parties include:

1. Parents who don't want schools influencing their children's ideas about sexual identity.

2. Women who don't want to compete against biological men in athletics (this is the most bewildering failure of the left's tolerance).

3. Women who feel uncomfortable sharing previously women-only spaces with biological men.

4. Trans people who made life-altering decisions as a minor and now regret it.

These negatively impacted parties are vocal now - they aren't hard to see. You don't care about them, is all.
What blows my mind is how short sighted it is. Even the oligarchs benefit from scientific research. Even the oligarchs lose money when our industries move to other countries.
Are you suggesting that NIH isn’t valuable to society? Or that the people fired with no justification deserve it because not enough scientists protested DEI grant requirements?

Just because scientists want to be paid doesn’t mean they aren’t worth having around.
So, ah, my "full of fantasies of unlimited success and fame" was not derogatory enough for your tastes, then?
No, this isn't about oligarchs. This is about sadists some of whom happen to be oligarchs whose singular goal is to make the non-MAGA sad. It is working.
yea that is like 0.000000076% of them… be real mate
You’re not wrong — I have my own experience in padding my work with DEI drivel to get a grant — but the solution isn’t to salt the earth
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 10 – dropout