skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This isn't true. For one more common sentences are probably structurally simpler and structurally simpler sentences are faster to process.

Common sentences are not necessarily structurally simpler and those still get processed faster so yes it's pretty true.

>You also get in bizarre territory when you can predict what someone is going to say before they say it: Obviously no "parsing" has occurred there so the fact that you predicted it cannot be evidence that parsing is probabilistic.

Of course parsing has occurred. Your history with this person (and people in general) and what you know he likes to say, his mood and body language. Still probabilistic.

>Furthermore, you can obviously parse sentences and word sequences you have never seen before (and sentences can be arbitrarily complex/nested, at least up to your limits on memory). You can also parse sentences with invented terms.

So? LLMs can do this. I'm not even sure why you would think probabilistic predictors couldn't.

>Most importantly it's not clear how sentences are produced in the mind in this model. Is the claim that you somehow start with a word and produce some random most-likely next word? Do you not believe in syntax parse trees?

That's one way to do it yeah. Why would I 'believe in it' ? Computers that rely on it don't work anywhere near as well as those that don't. What evidence is there to it being anything more than a nice simplification ?

>Finally, (as Chomsky points out in the video I linked) this model doesn't account for structure dependence. For example why is the question form of the sentence "The man who is tall is happy" "Is the man who is tall happy?" and not "is the man who tall is happy?". Why not move the first "is" that you come across?

Why does a LLM that encounters a novel form of that sentence generate the question form correctly ?

You are giving examples that probalistic approaches are clearly handling as if they are examples that probalistic approaches cannot explain. It's bizarre

>Correct. You seem to imply that is somehow unreasonable. Computer parsers work this way.

I'm not implying it's unreasonable. I'm telling you the brain clearly does not process language this way because even structurally simple but uncommon syntax is processed slower.

>Again, I have no idea what the point of describing universal grammar as fiction is if you say the term applies to all other great scientific theories

What's the point of describing Newton's model as fiction if I still teach it in high schools and Universities? Because erroneous models can still be useful.

>Again, there are two orthogonal concepts: Do I know what you are going to say next or how you are going to finish your sentence (and possibly something like strain or slowed processing when faced with an unusual concept) and what process do I use to interpret the thing you actually said.

The brain does not comprehend a sentence without trying to predict its meaning. They aren't orthogonal. They're intrinsically linked
They're distilling a reasoning model, using a llama model as a base. But they're using RL instead of SFT:

Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training: In the final stage, an RL-based approach is applied to update the LLM, guiding the model to produce outputs closely aligned with high-scoring responses identified in the previous step. Through this adaptive learning process, the model refines its predictions to enhance quality.

I'm curious:

1. How do they determine 'closely aligned'?

2. How does the performance of this RL approach compare with SFT using the same base model and same dataset?
>I don't understand why the industry forced a move to wireless before the technology was up to it.

The industry lives on selling units. A technology that "is not up to it" and can have several iterations re-sold as improved versions is the very thing the industry prays to God for.
That’s why we just email the sheets around like it’s 1999 :)
I suggest not wiring with tissue paper if this is a serious issue for you.

Anyway, you can simply not run into stuff with a wire. There's nothing you can do about bluetooth glitching out randomly for five seconds. Not to mention playing the "what device is playing into my headphones" game. Wireless is for people who don't care.
Any time you have a character with a special meaning you have to handle that character turning up in the data you're encoding. It's inevitable. No matter what obscure character you choose, you'll have to deal with it
24% of the country is malnourished and 4% of children die before their 5th birthday. This feels like misaligned priorities...

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/botswana.html
20 ms on top of other latencies (buffers) is not good for e.g. live monitoring.
Outlawing tiny samples of specific elements is so ridiculous. Whats he gunna do with it, nuke a small ant hill with it? Make a neat spectrograph of it?
Is it clear they had any better choice after shipping 1.0 without generics?
Excel dropping leading zeros (as in ZIP codes) was a crazy design decision that has certainly cost many lifetimes of person-hours.
context: a future I'd want re:coding experience is receiving pull requests for the issues I have in my code repo

...based on code generated from an agent that understands it.

...I think cursor editor gets closer to this experience but for a single task
Fork and build!
did not know this thank you!
This is very cool but definitely has the XKCD standards vibe [0]. If the industry is standardizing on MCP but then we decide it's not good enough, we just end up back where we started. I hope there's enough willpower (and low enough ego) to get to a really tight, single great implementation.

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
>for most people a water resistant phone is worth losing the 1/8” jack

fun fact: the 1/8th jack was never an issue with making a phone water resistant. It doesn't need to expose the internals any more than USB-C does (actually, even less).
lol do you really think they will delete your data?)
Source code availability doesn't mean that backdoors wont be put in place, it just makes it relatively easier to spot and remove them. Reproducible builds mean that the people who look for backdoors, malware, etc can focus on the source code instead of the binaries.
This isn’t about wanting or not wanting Google but wanting freedom. I don’t avoid Google completely, but I don’t want to be dependent on them. I always want to have free and open alternatives to what they provide.

The AOSP works for those different companies because it’s free to modify. Huawei had to move away from Android (still using parts) because Google services were not free or available to them. That was fine because at least the core parts remained free.

If the basic functions of life like paying for things don’t work without Google, it’s a problem. That’s bad for people and too much pressure for Google to do the right thing for people who have different needs.
Reliability impacts those profits too.

I'm sure the compensation bill to airlines and all the customers due to fly that day is massive.
Ok, but don't they want my money? Why not cater to my money? The tech scam only works if people actually think the tech is better. What's so hard about offering a jack? Especially in any situation outside of phones. You could market it with "this will actually last" or "we ship headphones".

I just pray we are not stuck with current versions of bluetooth in perpetuity. What a nightmare.
It does this because "the purpose of the system is what it does"

It ain't no different than the king's men occasionally cutting down a peasant that didn't remove his hat quickly enough when the king rode by. By screwing people on a whim the system sends a "don't cross me, I hold complete power" message which acts as a force multiplier (until it doesn't but Aus isn't there yet).
"I generally agree with all of this but Google wasn't the one that stopped the vendor controlled OS. That was Apple for the most part."

I dunno, Early iphone did not have the market share to command this in the way it does now.
Android did fairly quickly, knocking off Symbian and RIM much faster and getting to higher market share much faster than apple.

Honestly, I think it was both in combination - and more particularly, that none of the up and comers (apple or android) were willing to accept control on the part of the carriers.

Back then Google was even bidding on spectrum :)

I'm unsure what would have happened if only one of android/iphone had existed.
To the best of my knowledge use of genetic data is illegal in the USA and several other countries. It has been operational banned (self-imposed) by the life insurance industries in the UK and Australia. This was a hit topic in the late 1990s. Here we are 25 years later with few if any known abuses by the life insurance industry. They have MUCH bigger fish to fry: Do you smoke? What is your income, age, and sex, and perhaps your blood pressure and blood chemistry. Each of those is worth 10X your genotype.

(I study actuarial genetics in the UM-HET3 mice and do quite a bit of human genetics related to aging. See this PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36173858/ )
I’m running GrapheneOS without it fine. Everything I need works fine.
Porting lineage to new hardware mostly includes development teams that have nothing to do with Google.. Convincing no one to leave the thin veneer of mediocre code and "free" storage is a game that is harder to play than Apple makes it look with OsX.
Average professional driver might be a better target. After all Waymos are mostly going against taxi/uber drivers.
I mean, parent does point out that we have another term that's probably less misleading (open-core), and there does have to be _some_ point at which a project can no longer call itself Open-Source and be taken seriously or in good faith. If a project Open-Sources one 20-line header file in a 6M LOC project, calling it Open-Source would be a straight up lie.

I think something like "Is it actually reasonably possible to build something usable from the parts that are Open-Source?" Is not a bad line in the sand, though it's not a very clean one.

You can quibble about it generally, or talk about case-by-case specifics, but your outrage seems a bit out of proportion, it's a reasonable position to take.
> I think I misread you and you actually agree with what I just said, so never mind.

Correct! I’m a very live and let live type of girl lol
Many people state how much they appreciate their degree. But when it comes down to it almost everyone who goes back from a second degree does so with the specific purpose of getting a credential for their career.

No one really values the intangible personal development that comes with education. If they did I'd have 5 friends who went back for a second degree to enrich themselves instead of 0.
We’ll see it in the CVEs.
>I don't understand what people see in airpods (they work sufficiently but they're bleached and molded plastic; vomit, way too expensive for any possible use-case)

"They work sufficiently" is already a high bar given experiences people had with earlier wireless headphones. They were also the very first reliable detached (split ear) headphones. And they added excellent ANC (at least in the Pro version).

As for being "bleached and molded plastic" what else would they be? Wood? Metal and genuine leather?
Which of Barisanus of Trani's Bronze Doors Came First?
Have you ever tried to play basketball in the gym or go running with a wire? AirPods are a total game changer for any athletic scenario.
degradation of society is caused primarily by rising wealth inequality, not knowledge work you donut
Android was really cool for the first couple years, but now it's optimized for brand presence and ad delivery. Every Android device I've purchased for the last 10 years there's been a common expectation of the manufacturer trying to totally capture, record, sell, and leverage my digital experience in ways you never wanted. The only escape was LineageOS, and the technical barrier was plenty hard to make it work just right.

I'm currently on iOS and as many other commenters said, I'm still waiting for a truly open and privacy-respecting OS that we can install on open hardware. It worked for Unix in the computer world.
Matrix Profiles
I was really excited when I learned of these characters, but ultimately if it’s in ASCII then it’s in-band and will eventually require escaping leading to the same problem.
It is quite widely deployed in many non-software companies of all sizes that build custom software to run their business, and really seems to dominate in small and medium businesses.

Its also popular in Game dev mostly due to Unity, but you have other good options to use C# in game dev as well. I can't think of another kind of software company that uses it a lot other than ones that integrate deeply into the microsoft stack.

As a language, it was far, far ahead of Java for many years (the long dark tea-time of Java 7).
> ... what about files metadata like creation/modification timestamps? Do they forge them?

The least difficult to solve for reproducible build but yes.

The real question is: why, in the past, was an entire ecosystem created where non-determinism was the norm and everybody thought it was somehow ok?

Instead of asking: "how one achieves reproducibility?" we may wonder "why did people got out of their way to make sure something as simple as a timestamp would screw determinism?".

For that's the anti-security mindset we have to fight. And Debian did.
I can't say I claim to have heard of ANC before, but the rest of these reasons to purchase apple headphones are true of the $20 chinese knockoffs I bought on amazon. And they come in a cute orange/salmon color rather than blanched.

The only perceptual difference is that apple special-cases airpod management to ease switching of devices. They trash their own product by making such consumer-hostile ux obvious.
The message being sent is "even if we can't prove intent we still can completely ruin your life"
Minecraft's native shaders: Vibrant Visuals
I thought I would ask, does this mean that memory restricted environments can be a better target for attack than one with a large amount of memory available? In my mind it seems like this would be the case, but I'm not sure if there is anything in place to protect these types of environments, like intentionally breaking up and segmenting memory so it's not possible to read much linearly. I admit that I haven't touched low-level code since the early 2000's, and earlier than that for anything other than a course requirement, so I apologize if you explained it in your linked article and I don't understand.
Plausible, but there really may not be a middle part longer than a few hours or days, depending on the mechanism (and I'm not even considering nuclear war here). I recall reading a first-hand account of surviving in Sarajevo during the war, and one of the things that most struck the author was how quickly -a mere couple of days- everything changed from going about the day as normal to apocalyptic survival-mode hellscape. And not because of specific battle events, but the breakdown of supply chains.

We really have no way to predict it. It is even likely to be different in different locales.
Break them up along functional lines or just break them into multiple smaller entities that are each still doing pretty much what the larger one was doing?
I have half decent equipment i.e. Schitt Lyr/Bifrost and Focal Clear.

For me it's very easy to tell the difference between regular AAC and Hi-Res lossless.

And I have been blind testing every day for years now as my streams switch quality when I go from Cellular to WiFi.
https://archive.ph/hJ4Q8
>Android is actually much much better than iOS.

- Unless you don't want Google to know your location constantly, no matter what setting you use for the GPS chip.

- Unless you want security updates past a year.
>Anyway, you can simply not run into stuff with a wire. There's nothing you can do about bluetooth glitching out randomly for five seconds.

Sure you can. Buy a quality headphone and transmitter device. Never had a BT issue with several airpod models (v1, v2, pro) and an iPhone for 7+ years. And I'm pretty sure most other brands have solved this by now too.
Apple phones have had ~120hz screens for many years now. Only on the Pro models though, not the cut down economy models, that’s how they force people with disposable income to buy the Pro.
Please share results!
Good idea, but probably a non-starter due to no keyboard keys for those characters. Even | would've been a better character to use since it almost never appears in common data.
I've been doing a bit of research on the limits of human vision today, as I was wondering if any ancient humans (say, at Newgrange) would ever have been able to discern the spiral of a galaxy with their naked eye...

According to what you're saying, I think it's just about possible. M51's spiral features are 20 arcseconds, and you can apparently resolve 15...

And turns out M51, the easiest spiral galaxy to view, would have been directly overhead Stonehenge (the best viewing position).

So... Might be somethin' for you to try, if you ever get somewhere extremely dark and perfectly clear?

M51: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22m51%22&t=ffab&atb=v340-1&iax=im...

Newgrange: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=newgrange+spirals&atb=v340-...
I don’t think it is a good standard for judging a civilization, really. But CGI, 20 years ago? A lot of it was really quite bad. CGI has always had bad and good instances because of the interplay between increasing technical skill and totally random director-determined skill at selecting shots.

I mean, like, Disney has been getting worse at CGI, but only because then whole company has given up. This is just normal companies shifting around, though.
That must be new.

I was an American in Austria during the first Gulf War, and people were pretty hostile to both me and my wife.

But then, Austria does tend to its own thing.
I’m not contesting there is a difference between lossless and lossy audio in specific instances. It’s small but sure, I’m sure some people could tell. My contention is with the “Hi-Res” audio (which, for Apple, means 24-bit and 192 kHz sampling rate).

Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, will be able to hear a difference, assuming there aren’t mastering differences in the tracks. If you take a 24/192k track and downsample it to 16/48k, nobody will be able to tell. Ever.
I've seen variations of this a few times, especially with Firecracker. I'm surprised there aren't ready made solutions for this use case already.
The most I've done with it so far has been asking what a nice database layout might look like for a given problem, copying the output to a markdown file, and then referencing it as I personally design the schema.

LLMs are pretty cool, but they make all sorts of unpredictable errors, and - especially when you're using them for things you're unfamiliar with - introduce all sorts of hidden costs you won't catch until later.
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Feedback welcome!
with quick and dirty bash stuff ive written the same csv parser so many times it lives in my head and i can write it from memory. no other format is like that. trying to parse json without jq or a library is much more difficult
Nineteen Eighty Four?
Beautifully put. It feels like a view we sorely need as our corporate overlords become AI enabled.
I don't think he should go to jail, and it could have been handled better, but i still think laws against purchasing/importing dangerous substances are reasonable, and a fine is reasonable in such a circumstance.
Complete with the alt text mentioning USB, which is used in the MCP website to describe it. Someone else said it and I agree, it's not a good analogy. Most of what we do in software development is connecting things. Saying "this is like USB but for X" could cover a huge chunk of what software is.

Besides, this "think of" analogies kinda irk me because I don't want you to give me a mental image you think I can digest, I want to know how it works. Abstractions in software are great and all but the fact that for some reason most explainers have decided they should be opaque is very unhelpful when you're trying to learn.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5337411/library-us-cana...
And human attention is a limited resource that just might be tapped out at this point.
Great release! But i'm wondering why they didn't just support the original Playwright APIs instead of the subset of actions.
Of course.

And every single microprocessor and their encompassing support systems and the systems they host and execute.

Every single system, even analog ones, because it's all just information flowing through switched systems, even if it's solely measured in something involving coulombs.

Also, fundamentally, living cells and the organisms that encompass them, because they all have a logically variable information flow both within them and between them, measured in molecules and energy.

They're extraordinary and beautiful.
Yes and you can run almost every npm packages:

deno run npm:@angular/cli --help
Any recommendations for CSV editors on OSX? I was just looking around for this today. The "Numbers" app is pretty awful and I couldn't find any superb substitutes, only ones that were just OK.
I read the book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch", and to some extent that also felt like LARPing, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

It also left me wanting more. It has pretty extensive references at the end, I wonder if anyone's put together a collection of all the referenced materials?
Mm, as long as the edit is clear it seems like a good way to avoid unproductive arguments.

Adam makes a statement, but the responses show the statement was unclear and/or leads into tangential arguments. An edit can clarify the initial statement for future readers without getting the original poster stuck in the back-and-forth necessary to escape whatever quagmire the unedited version created.
They mention remoting in multiple times
Why not do all of this without the data. Saves the scammer a lot of money up front. Scammers are pros at making up plausible stories. And yet here we are 15 years into 23andMe —- have you ever heard of a genetics scam? I have not.
Ask HN: What's the worst thing that could happen if I click on an unknown link
1- suppose any random link that you encounter in public internet

2- you click on the link

3- a new tab opens in your browser

4- you don't download anything but close the tab

now what is the worst thing that could happen after this moment?
>The source will still be released

Lol nice pipe dream. The source isn't even fully released today.
How to lose the internet in few hours
Indeed. Does australia not have laws against wrongful termination?
I know I'm in the vast minority here, but I honestly don't really care what is done with my DNA data as long as it's not used against me for healthcare & insurance purposes (which I believe is already illegal.) If someone wants to use it to make new drugs, research, etc, I just don't care.
> And what about the hardware on which the build runs? Is it reproducible? ;)

"Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers"

https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

If the build is reproducible inside VMs, then the build can be done on different architectures: say x86 and ARM. If we end up with the same live image, then we're talking something entirely different altogether: either both x86 and ARM are backdoored the same way or the attack is software. Or there's no backdoor (which is a possibility we have to fancy too).