skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do a lot. Everything I feel confident doing and have the time for.
Also how it handles heat/polymerizes. I don't particularly think tallow is that great tasting but its great on cast iron.
I expect an LLM to be smarter than that, particularly for an audience that frequently works in the technology industry.
"there were already quite a lot of people revulsed by it...)" does not imply all of "Antique Greece" felt this way. Only that some people did.
I'm not trying to secure support, I don't give a shit about that since I'm not running for president, I'm trying to speak my mind. If people don't want to hear it it's their loss, not mine.

The only reason I was pointing it out the downvotes is that I'm baffled about the amount of ignorance and groupthink on a website of people who see themselves as free and critical thinkers, yet display the same pre-programmed NPC behavior as bots. If a comment doesn't match their world view, they downvote without giving a second thought to look deeper into the claim.
Does anyone know how making the models multimodal impacts their text capabilities? The article is claiming this achieves good performance on pure text as well, but I'm curious if there is any analysis on how much impact it usually has.

I've seen some people claim it should make the models better at text, but I find that a little difficult to believe without data.
Depends on how you characterize the War of Northern Aggression I suppose
I've been looking for a resource like that for a long time!

-edit- It's currently preeeeeeeetty sparse. Hopefully it (or something like it) catches on in the future.
Occlusion with Bells on (Use.GPU)
The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism
I'm particularly fond of the Ozaki scheme https://arxiv.org/html/2306.11975v4 and its recent refinements. Hopefully it trickles down to standard HPC libraries soon.
It was a thing back in 1996/1997: https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=bf079e19f50d64a...
To clarify: Qwen is made by Alibaba Cloud.

(It's not mentioned anywhere in the blog post.)
Sequencing costs dropped dramatically in a window that started when sequencing was done highly inefficiently. That gave folks the false impression that DNA sequencing would continue to halve in price every ~X years.

The NIH occasionally updates this chart (note: Y axis is log scale)

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/DNA-Sequen...

You can see there was a dramatic reduction in costs from 2008 to 2015, as several vendors released several substantial technology improvements, and a slow improvement from 2015 to now, but it's roughly flatlined, and there isn't much investment in developing new technologies now.

To the surprise of many, having enormous amounts of genomic data hasn't been the clear-cut improvement to human health, although there are some exceptions (especially cancer identification and personalized treatment). If we truly wanted to, we could spend capital and build out the sequencing, compute, and storage infrastructure to sequence every person on the planet at least once at 50X coverage, and store the data in perpetuity.
rofl imagine not removing the disclaimer

"It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice..."
"The Z3 was demonstrated in 1998 to be, in principle, Turing-complete. However, because it lacked conditional branching, the Z3 only meets this definition by speculatively computing all possible outcomes of a calculation."

this is the one factor that makes me question whether it should be considered first.. conditional branching is pretty significant to what we consider a computer. better informed people than myself have come up with a variety of takes on this, i read all that i see because i find Zuse fascinating but i still am not sure if its fair to call one system or the other "first".

the advent of computing podcast has some interesting well researched episodes, scroll down a little to 145 and 146: https://adventofcomputing.com/
Well it takes a bit of thinking (try it :) ) but in the year 2025 you need to structure interview such that you are not asking silly and stupid questions that voice-controlled ChatGPT can spit out. what would be the purpose of that???!

I’ll dumb it down, think of interview like when you were at the Uni and teacher said “all exams in this class will be Open Book, Open Notes” At these exams of course there won’t be questions where you can lookup up on Index page and then flip the book to that page to answer it :)
The origin the dispute is not so much arguing that Genesis must be literal but that acknowledging evolution diminishes the special uniqueness of the human soul
YouTube influencers: Gaming's best friend or worst enemy?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-a...

Fixed
> Solar panels are different from oil in that their producers cannot turn them off

Uhh they don’t last forever. So yeah. They can be controlled like oil if you are unable to make or source replacements.
HijackedAI – try and convince AI agents to send you their money
I've built HijackedAI, where you can create an agent - give it sys prompt, a money to hold, and a deadline

People can pay to try and convince it to send them the money. Failed attempts stacks in the pool till time’s up. No one broke it - you win

prompt wizards, it's time to prove it
A bunch of people who got ahead by breaking things—often the law—to prosper are just looking for new things to break so they can drink more milkshakes. And we just sit there crying, 'Don't bully us.'. What they think of us and civil society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hFTR6qyEo
I have read the quoted GitHub docs page before and also found it somewhat odd. Not because it shouldn't be allowed to post public code without a LICENSE (or with a restrictive one), but because GitHub has a "Fork" button on every repository. It's strange to me that GitHub has a one-click button that can violate the default terms of code uploaded to the site.
They extend it in some ways, but I'm not sure if they do in this way. They do sound kind of terrible, but I always assumed it was due to the microphones being way back by your ears. I'm not sure though
Major U.S. bridges at high risk of being struck by ships
"process isolation is the bedrock of all other security guarantees" means process isolation is a necessary (in practice) condition, not a sufficient condition

The attack surface of networked machines is unaffected by process isolation. It is only when you are already inside does process isolation have any use. Thus the idea that it is the bedrock is wrong.

"Tell me how process isolation prevents SQL injection." is a non-sequitur because that is only coherent if they claimed process isolation is a sufficient condition.

It is a counter example that shows that process isolation is not the bedrock that it was claimed to be. Id sequitur.

To disagree with their position, you need to demonstrate a system where there is no process isolation and where maliciously crafted inputs intended to cause SQL injection can not result in undesired database access. So, one process gets to arbitrarily modify the contents of the SQL server process including changing the code and you need to prevent it from wrecking your database.

Non sequitur applies here. The protection against SQL injection and process isolation have no link whatsoever. The fact that there is no link was my entire point. The example did not need to be SQL injection either. Telling me that I need to prove a link that is the opposite of what I was saying does not follow at all.

As I previously said, I could have cited just about any common vulnerability and process isolation would have done nothing about it. For example:

https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

I only cited SQL injection because I could not think of any claim more absurd than the claim that process isolation is bedrock of guarantees against SQL injection, but if process isolation were the bedrock of all other security guarantees, then it would some relationship to protection against sql injection.
Agent Engineering
The syntax looks better than some languages and frameworks.
Fungus labeled 'urgent threat' by CDC is spreading rapidly, hospital study finds
Pretty soon I won't be using any American models. It'll be a 100% Chinese open source stack.

The foundation model companies are screwed. Only shovel makers (Nvidia, infra companies) and product companies are going to win.
The author provided a source showing they had a factory where they paid workers with disabilities ten cents a frame, the "likely" is that they can't prove how many frames the people could make in an hour. They assume less than fourteen.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe...
I also want this tool, can I have it please?
I like to frame it as a disability. I fought it for ages and wanted to believe I was normal.

This is like trying to climb a tree with one arm. It won’t work. You need to take a step back, look at the problem, and develop systems which accommodate the missing arm.

ADHD only works well for us when we involve ourselves in activities which benefit from having one, extremely well-practiced arm. That’s usually our happy place. The world typically asks for all limbs in tact, though. We inevitably hit those walls.

If we pretend we won’t hit those walls and we don’t prepare ourselves, life is disproportionately hard.

We also need to ensure we accept the disability such that when we do our best to be prepared, but we fail to be, we recognize that it’s a fact of life and we do our best with what we’ve got.

I’m not a fan of the super power framing. I’m a fan of looking at it as a disability with positive, optimistic framing. When we get it right, life can work really well for us. We will always be at a disadvantage in some ways, but the skills and experiences we get because of that can be invaluable.
Got through C and K&R with no runtime errors, on four platforms, but the first platform... Someone asked the teacher why a struct would not work on Lattice C. The instructor looked at the code, sat down at the students computer, typed in a small program compiled it, and camly put the disks in the box with the manual and threw it in the garbage. "We will have a new compiler next week." We switched to Manx C, which is what we had on the Amiga. Structs worked on MS C, which I thought was the lettuce compiler. ( Apparently a different fork of the portable C compiler, but later they admitted that it was still bigendian years later )

Best programming joke. Teacher said when your code becomes "recalcitrent", we had no idea what he meant. This was in the bottom floor of the library, so on break, we went upstairs and used the dictionary. Recalcitrant means not obeying authority. We laughed out loud, and then went silent. Opps.

The instructor was a commentator on the cryptic-C challenges, and would often say... "That will not do what you think it will do" and then go on and explain why. Wow. We learned a lot about the pre-processor, and more about how to write clean and useful code.
I was an early adopter of Docker (because Python) and I immediately hit the "now how do I run it in prod?" question. K8s quickly jumped in to fill that space. But I like to imagine a saner world where Quadlet came first and became the standard.
Christians do seem to revel in how the early believers were persecuted for their faith…

Of course, they too shared that experience with others in the times of the Charlemagne and that of the Inquisition.
Since we are on HN here, I can highly recommend open-webui with some OpenAI-compatible provider. I'm running with Deep Infra for more than a year now and am very happy. New models are usually available within one or two days after release. Also have some friends who use the service almost daily.
Big question I have is: should I invest in DeltaLake/Iceberg based solution, or something like this?
Sloppy teamblue shilling. An ISP is an ISP is an ISP. Can’t really trust any of them. That’s why we jammed TLS down everybody’s throats ages ago.

The chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Having a gold-plated network for the last mile makes no difference on “The Internet.”
What is the recommended model to process a RAG of PDF text documents? I've seen some recommendations for Mistral:7b. Looking to run on a consumer pedestrian home PC (ollama) with a Nvidia 4060ti and Ryzen 5700x.
Unlike you I have never done this before. I’m bootstrapping. It’s been a year and I’m sort of finding my direction now.

I have runway for a couple years after which if I can’t make it work I’ll go back to working full time.

It’s tough and I’m 33. Immigrant so nobody in my family supports me because they have always either worked for govt or someone else.
Echoing my other comment on patents elsewhere in the thread, Edison's innovations had big, direct and lasting impact on the world. For example, his work is responsible for creating Hollywood as a place and symbol of US film industry - specifically because he owned most of the patents critical for movie production, and was so litigious that the filmmakers decided to all literally move to the other side of the continent to be able to infringe on those patents without consequences.
You keep dancing around the question of it being a memory corruption despite confidently asserting it as a clear, indisputable fact. Please support your claim by identifying the specific memory safety property that was violated and how it was violated.
Now, how do you explain to that executive that they will not get that feature in 3 months but rather in 5 years

I have no idea, but I don't worry about it because I haven't been persuaded that will happen.

You have turned 20 teams working on 20 different focuses into 1 team. The focuses are interconnected but 90% independent.

I would explain that what was originally presented to me as a monolith was later explained to me to be something else:
a family of interrelated services. Then I would say that's a different problem, invoke Conway's Law, and say that they can stay as 20 different teams. I would also say that doesn't necessarily mean 20 different network servers and 40 different tiers, which in my experience is how "micro-services" are typically envisioned.

these patterns evolved because there was a need

I'm also not persuaded there was a [single] need rather than a network of interrelated needs, just as I'm not persuaded anyone here (including me) has a complete understanding of what all those needs were.
There is a general rule: very few non-blockchain things benefit from being on blockchain, and most people who propose blockchain-based solution to real world problems are either scammers or have not thought about subject matter much.

"key facts are extracted and linked back to their source" is where all the complexity is. Who/what is going to be extracting the facts? How are they linked to the source? What is a "source" anyway? Is that sentence "key fact" or not? What if there is an accidental mistake and the wrong source is linked? What if there is an intentional misdirection from paper's authors to avoid linking to dubious study? What is there is an intentional misdirection from third-party who wants to declare paper "invalid" by incorrectly linking it to flawed study?

To solve those, you will need some sort of trusted team to set policies, a community to work on those, and a few supporting tools (like website, forum and maybe in-person/virtual conferences). A public (or semi-public) log of changes might be involved to increase trust, but which technology it uses does not really matter.
No attempt to control for any other factors before producing an article with a causal claim right there in the title? Geographically, do deregulated states happen to be located in areas of the country with significantly more solar potential? Who knows! I read the whole article and don't even know which states are "deregulated" and which are "partly deregulated".
CR had some good vetting of stuff about 20 years ago, but has really missed the mark over and over recently and I would tend to just ignore them now. Sad, because their premise is very good.
Yeah, no gameification or breaking down can make doing the dishes or writing documentation more interesting than whatever my interest of the month is, unfortunately. I'd be beyond cooked without medication
It's kind of ingenuous to take RFK's views on drug rehabilitation options and re-state them as if people are being sent to re-education/concentration camps.

That said, I do find the US border incidents to be super scary. I don't blame people for not wanting to come.
Honestly sounds like a kinda fun game. Could also be decently education for people writing chatbots to understand how not to make them give the user fake deals, i.e. on car websites and the like.
I’m using constraint programming in my platform.

Any experts want to help me?
Magic Keyboard works for me. Better than Mx Keys.

Mechanical works even better... until there is some pain then I revert to low profile. Tested a Nuphy for a few days and sold, now miss it again.

Point is: don't start on this. Stick to your Macbook keyboard.
256KB ROM/128KB RAM isn't very small.

That is larger than the average computer through about 1990 ...

(I know people will say I'm being pedantic. However, RAM and Flash define most of the price of a microcontroller. So, a factor of two--especially in RAM--means a significantly smaller and cheaper chip.)
For a long time, basically since the passage of NAFTA there was a general sentiment that mfg. should go away.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/10/17/163074704/manu...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-...

Democrats just recently changed their stance based on Trump's win, which is great if it helps the avg. worker.

We need to figure out how to structure our economy to benefit everyone:

>And manufacturing in particular embodies something that seems to be disappearing in today’s economy: jobs with decent pay and benefits available to workers without a college degree. The average factory worker earns more than $25 an hour before overtime; the typical retail worker makes less than $18 an hour.

It's fun to look back at these articles talking about how retail is taking off....now all the big boxes are dying, we replaced storefronts with a few warehouses.

Sure, the amount of labor going into making something has shrunk but so has the amount of labor required to sell something. Honestly, it's not just going to be just an AI driven and automated manufacturing industry. Healthcare, education and everything else seems to be falling into the same dark spiral.
I'm not talking about GPT-4o here - every benchmark I've seen has had the new models from the past ~12 months out-perform the March 2023 GPT-4 model.

To pick just the most popular one, https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard= has GPT-4-0314 ranked 83rd now.
> I won't fork thousands of dollars for a language.

Lazarus:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

FPC:

https://www.freepascal.org/

Cost: $0.
The last company I worked for did this to boost corporate visibility. It was part of their marketing campaign to position themselves as SMEs in the industry.
You are correct down to the last point.

That's not what this poll is about.

Would you do it doesn't need to think about all the possible ways it can fail.

Would you drive a car can be analyzed as a self financing life threatening suicidal act .

Most of us choose to drive for the benefit (s) anyway
Sorry, Enron was rigging brownouts to seek profit. How many people do you think these brownouts killed? That goes well beyond "pretty slimy."
I’m sort of surprised Democrats haven’t snapped yet.
Frankly, this is wrong.
The singularity is first of all, mischaracterized.
The singularity is the point in time when AI has become smarter(however you may define it) than humans. The point is, we don't know what will happen beyond that point. It does not necessarily imply "God-like powers".
It is the "not knowing" I think that is interesting.

Transhumanists simply believe in augmenting their bodies beyond their natural capabilities. The rest is just misrepresentation.

Me personally, I believe we should throw a wrench in the whole thing because the people who are in control are some of the worst people.
Unless that changes, it would be a mistake to develop this technology further.
Peano's Axioms
We should look at formal verification like everything else: in terms of statistical effectiveness. It's not really important whether or not there are _no_ bugs. What's important is how many bugs there are for each unit of "effort."

For example, if this were hypothetically the only bug that was ever found, then that would be a pretty damn good argument that formal verification is effective. Because the bug rate of other non-verified operating systems is much higher.
> taxfoundation.org

I see that it doesn't seem to be blocked at large:

https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://taxfoundation.org

so I've found the entry in an old local filter seed file made up of previously downloaded lists. That tells me it must have been blocked some time in the past, but it is not now so I've removed it locally.
This wildly misunderstands the US. The US is also like the EU. It is a union of independent states that have different dialects, different cuisines, different cultures, and different governments with different laws and different taxation rules and different resident ID cards, all under a unifying federation government that has overriding power in some areas but not others with a common currency and freedom of interstate transit.
I would run screaming in the other direction.
Show HN: Incognito Disguise
Anyone else work in an open office and hate opening incognito tabs to browse HN? Me too. So I made an extension.

Figuring I can't be the only one who dislikes prying eyes seeing an incognito background appear on my screen, I decided to publish it to the Chrome extension store.
To what end? How is this newsworthy any more? It has the President's blessing - that's all you need now.

If literally storming your government building, threating your representatives and injuring police officers isn't punishable any more what is?
What he wants is a dumb dishwasher

What he has is a "smart" dishwasher
(Technology Connections) The correcting feature of typewriters [video]
Also, I'm pretty sure U Mich had a trial to do implants in ALS patients, but not sure if it ever got beyond Phase I
Yes, I think there was some misremembering here. The nontrivial thing is to print out -n itself with echo. For example, echo doesn't treat "--" specially, so "echo -- -n" prints "-- -n".
Yes pretty much. Admittedly that's all the README needs to say. When I first wrote the project README LLMs were still relatively new for public use, it was much harder to detect back then. Thanks for the feedback.
>“Saturated fat is very dangerous,” said Dr. Martha Gulati, the director of preventive cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute in Los Angeles. As a doctor who treats patients trying to avoid heart disease, she said, she can’t get behind the “beef tallow is healthy” trend.

>Even if you look at the vitamins beef tallow contains, Ms. Yu said, they’re not present at “significant” enough levels to make a big difference in your health.

>Over many decades of research, scientists have found that people who favor sources of unsaturated fats (like vegetable oils) over saturated ones (like butter or lard) are more likely to have healthier hearts.

It's your body.
No, only one part is subject to competitive forces (generation). The other two, transmission and distribution, are agreed by any rational party to be a textbook case of a natural monopoly and are subject to strict regulation for that reason.