skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favourite things about internet forums is watching people re-invent Marxist theory by being mad at the current state of things.

It's been like this for a while now.

I think I even saw someone in a conservative subreddit suggest that everyone should work on a farm for a few years after college before they get real jobs. I'm still unable to determine if this was a troll or if a well-meaning conservative actually reinvented Mao's Down to the Countryside movement.
This guy must have some strong connections to get this sort of coverage out of an AI wrapper + a few gimmicky twitter posts
> If we assume those to be chaotic, in that sense any sort of algorithm is slightly more anthropomorphic: at least it works towards a human-given and therefore human-comprehensible purpose -- on the other hand, whether there is some particular "destination of history" towards which humanity is moving, is a question that can only ever be speculated upon, but not definitively perceived.

Do you not think that if you anthropomorphise things that aren't actually anthropic, that you then insert a bias towards those things? The bias will actually discriminate at the expense of people.

If that is so, the destination of history will inevitably be misanthropic.

Misplaced anthropomorphism is a genuine, present concern.
I (panic-)picked up a decent-quality but not overly professional podcaster-type mic ahead of my online Master's thesis defense, and now use it as my exclusive audio input method for Zoom and Teams calls. I have earbuds wired to its monitor output, which combines the mic with audio out from the computer, and it's just such a stable, easy, and good solution for my usecase.
My question was, has Gruber written enough non-political articles to know? Like if the number of high quality, original (many DF posts are just links to content elsewhere), about tech articles is down 90%, then of course his article performance here will be down 90%. And that's before considering that Apple itself may have become less interesting and his writing skills may have slipped (reading too much politics on social media rots the brain, Google Elon Musk to find out more).
> We have the advantage that we can take good ideas from each other, because people can travel easily and observe that certain things work well.

True, but, interestingly, we can travel thousands of miles within the United States and in so doing observe that different US states have wildly different outcomes while living under the same federal government and very similar state governments.

Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Minnesota live under the same Constitution, the same federal government, and with very similar state governments -- and yet we see that they have very different outcomes on a variety of measures.

Norway and Louisiana have very different crime rates, but so do New Hampshire and Louisiana. This tells us, at a minimum, that the form of government isn't likely to be the primary factor.
DIY telescope discussion on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351988
Revyl (YC F24) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer Intern
I mean, there's other, better 7B models than Lllama 2 at this point.
It's amused me for years that among all the songs I listen to that "can't possibly be that old", the album leadin track is self-documenting: "our brand new record // for nineteen ninety"...
Anyone who thinks that the primary culprit for this is anything other than the input data distribution (and metadata inputs or the lack thereof) lacks even the most basic understanding of AI.
Really neat, thank you for posting. I took a different angle when trying to figure this out - my goals were high spectral similarity to the sun, high brightness, adjustable warmth, and low cost. The existing lower-cost solutions people have posted about end up with high brightness, but the lights are evil.

I ended up with a photography light that's /alright/. It's not nearly as bright as I want, and I can't automate changing the warmth. When I next take a crack at this, I'll look deeper into some of what you've posted about here.
Africa is extremely diverse but due to the slave trade mostly drawing from the Gulf of Guinea (and then being, uh... artificially selected in addition to that) 'Black' -as an American demographic- is much less so.
> Also important was the use [in Go] of learning by self play to learn a value
function

I thought the self-play was the value function that made progress in Go. That is, it wasn't the case that we played through a lot of games and used that data to create a function that would assign a value to a Go board. Instead, the function to assign a value to a Go board would do some self-play on the board and assign value based on the outcome.
The question that was asked was not to confirm what GP said, it was combative to try to position GP as a bad person. Basically the equivalent of saying “so you’re saying you would be okay killing Jews if you lived in Nazi Germany.”

GP answered to clarify their position and answered the only question that should have been asked, the equivalent of, “if during my childhood I was indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth program, yes I probably would have done this horrible thing and so would you.”
As they said in The Wire, “We used to make things in this town. Now, everyone just sticks their hand in the next guy's pocket.”
The 1600 lumen bulbs are worth it - if they fit your fixtures.

Still nowhere near as bright as a window on a cloudy day though.
Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes 'throwback to OG Facebook'
This schtick is just that, a schtick thats only as strong as whoever is fighting against it...

https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto
> fully exploited by Republicans in a media system that is largely theirs

Sounds like one answer to my question about why people don't recognize it when Democratic politicians do prioritize "housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds."
More interestingly it is the same highly niche subject from two different websites in two days. HN is...different
They don’t need to use inaccurate keyword matching (“rainbow mentos”) or opaque messaging in order to comply. The problem existing doesn’t mean the solution is good.
Ah yeah flocks of people in expensive and goofy looking jackets and sunglasses - just what Boulder was missing.
$ python -m this | grep '--' -
So you might say that the future of AI is specialization into purpose-trained structures? So a speech center, a visual center, an object recognition center, a depth perception center, a speech planning center and so on?
> If Signal gets too popular then server costs will become significant. Signal needs a viable business model to survive.

Signal is an incredibly lightweight design. If all users donated $0.60/year, or 5¢/month, that would sustain operations and overhead.

Compared to most other services, that's an insanely low cost per user.

EDIT: It's actually way less than even what I remembered - they only need about $0.60/user/year in order to break even, not $3/user/month.
I like em dashes and use “Option Shift -” to summon them on macOS. However, LLMs tend to overuse them and compose absurdly long sentences. While proofreading a draft, I often instruct an LLM to “keep the original tone intact and don’t create overly complex sentences by fusing together simple ones.” That usually gets the job done.

Writers adores their em dashes. While they can sometimes clarify a concept by adding more context, overusing them can hurt readability. I prefer to read Hemingway-esque sentences that just say what they want to say and end sharply. So that’s how I write too—and sometimes the overuse of em dashes directly conflicts with that, making the content sound as if the author is confused about what they wanted to convey.
"Vast majority of the immigrants from neither Africa or Middle east didn't adopt any of the core values of their host country even after decade"

Depends. I think in their home countries, Muslim youth does not hang around drunk in the park, that is more of a european thing, erm. cultural value. So they clearly adopted.

Ok, so that was satirical. But they are the ones bothering me. I am not bothered by women wearing a Hijab and I don't see that hurting our values.
Thanks for the feedback. Everything I know about PCB design is self-taught. I'm a total beginner, so I'm sure there's a lot to improve!

There's only 2 routes per board, VCC and GND. I initially planned for SMD header pins that I didn't end up using, because soldering wire on bare pads was good enough. I also planned for 8 connection pads per PCB, but only used 2 to 4 in the final assembly. So yeah, lots of room for improvements in the PCB design! Definitely would need to spend some time on it for a higher power version 2.
Oooh, so the pre-training is token-by-token but the RL step rewards the answer based on the full text. Wow! I knew that but never really appreciated the significance of it. Thanks for pointing that out.
State of Vue.js Report 2025
>Claude speaks dozens of languages fluently—from English and French to Chinese and Tagalog. How does this multilingual ability work? Is there a separate "French Claude" and "Chinese Claude" running in parallel, responding to requests in their own language? Or is there some cross-lingual core inside?

I have an interesting test case for this.

Take a popular enough Japanese game that has been released for long enough for social media discussions to be in the training data, but not so popular to have an English release yet. Then ask it a plot question, something major enough to be discussed, but enough of a spoiler that it won't show up in marketing material. Does asking in Japanese have it return information that is lacking when asked in English, or can it answer the question in English based on the information in learned in Japanese?

I tried this recently with a JRPG that was popular enough to have a fan translation but not popular enough to have a simultaneous English release. English did not know the plot point, but I didn't have the Japanese skill to confirm if the Japanese version knew the plot point, or if discussion was too limited for the AI to be aware of it. It did know of the JRPG and did know of the marketing material around it, so it wasn't simply a case of my target being too niche.
They weren't expanding any terms in the parent comment. "Android" (AOSP) is open source, but it's not good-faith open source.
Not defending anyone here, and I don’t disagree that the commercial products are hugely expensive, but it’s better now than it was at the turn of the century. Licenses cost in the tens of thousands per seat, rendering software was similarly expensive and rarely included. To add insult to injury, artists needed high powered workstations that also cost tens of thousands! Blender has definitely had an influence on the status quo.
'Going Full Spectrum' – Isar Aerospace's First Test Flight [video]
I thought I made it clear that the phone OS is vulnerable. Like, what good is encryption when malware can steal your camera, microphone and screen? Zero. I have been a Signal fan for a long time.
Why not use Jitsi? Flawless experience every time.

The mobile app is polished and exists for both Android and iOS.

Throw it up on a budget VPS host and you have E2E video calling without any MiTM.
Fair point, though we did view it from a site called "Hacker News" so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect these are "news" stories. I think you're both right
Looks like the runtime depends on rustix, and in turn, libc. Presumably building in cygwin/msys isn't out of the question. Other dependencies peppered around but this one seems like the least mutable.
Does it take strong connections to end up in a student newspaper?
Isaac Asimov has entered the chat.
The eternal battle between “you can’t ban it until you’ve proven it’s harmful” and “you can’t allow it until you’ve proven it’s beneficial”.
> arresting someone doesn't mean that they are guilty, so why out them

Indeed, they are not guilty and the problem lies with the assumption that they must be guilty because they were arrested. It being a matter of public record that (and where/when/why) they were arrested means their loved ones can know what happened to them when they don't come home (even if that means they have to find the answer themselves, though ideally they wouldn't).

Just consider someone very close to you is arrested but there is no public record of that arrest for you to follow up on. What do you do?
Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets
It's important to be able to read and understand both sides of an argument. Sadly most people prefer to read media that's slanted in the way they agree with.

As for the EU, the land is devoid of innovation. Whether it's a cure for cancer, AI, a rocket to Mars, or you name it, chances are the next big thing will not be developed there. You can admire them for their socialist healthcare or whatever while still realizing that if the entire world operated like Europe progress would cease and another dark age would start. You don't have to see things in black and white.
Asked the opposite way - why is this a core API type of a buildkit interface? Having API calls to various LLMs as core functionality of a build system is just straight up weird. Doesn't fit, confuses developers on my team when they try to read/contribute to our shared build libraries, worries me about the direction the project is going.

Seems strange that especially with the push for modules this was integrated as a core type. It has nothing to do with buildkit or builds.
I always use an em dash when possible when I should, and double en dash when I can't, just because I'm that kind of nerd. But it is the case that a double en dash on iOS autocorrects to an em dash, so I'm suspicious of the claim that em dashes are a tell for LLM writing.
Code at https://github.com/SusCom-Lab/ZeroMerge
This exploit is just wild. There are just so many little tricks connected together - using multiple image files with unexpected formats, aligning heap chunks to sit on easily-predicted and manipulable addresses, deserializing a huge object graph from image metadata, the usual NSExpression insanity, PAC bypass via unsigned pointers to function-pointer-containing structures, etc. etc. I thought the last exploit (where they built an entire virtual CPU out of image decompression commands: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...) was crazy, but that involved a lot fewer "tricks" than this exploit.

Many of these tricks are non-public, meaning that NSO would have had to spend a huge amount of time and effort researching every single one of these. They probably have many more tricks they know about and haven't used. And, Apple could patch every one of them in a future update and roll back all of that work.

There's a good reason why these exploits are expensive and only sent to a limited number of high-value targets. NSO this time around also worked to "protect their IP" using encryption to hide part of their exploit chain, presumably in a bid to avoid losing yet more of their precious zero-days to researchers.

What they're doing is pretty gross (particularly the whole spying-on-journalists bit), but you have to admit the level of technological sophistication and persistence here is pretty impressive.
My background is very tailored. A wall of 80s/90s themed stuff and a large pixelated "loading" bar with magnetic blocks for the progress bar. I get compliments regularly and I am sure it helps me stand out in a sea of screens.

I run an HD obsbot camera and a great mic. I am fully convinced it helps.
Signal is end-to-end encrypted.

Signal makes it very difficult to even tell what parties are talking to each other (though if you have nation-state-level internet tracking, you can probably tell.)

Signal doesn't know anything about you except your number or screenname, when you signed up, and when you were last active.

Zoom is none of those things and the grandparent commenter has no idea what they're talking about.
Can humans want things? Our reward structures sure seem aligned in a manner that encourages anthropomorphization.

Biases are symptoms of imperfect data, but that's hardly a human-specific problem.
Short term.

In long term this increases competition with European car makers (equalises tariffs) which in theory should result in better cars.
It's AI slop and it's a satire of their own position, in service of giggling at someone fearing for their long-term health. Seems rushed, ill-considered, ill-tempered, and smug in its lack of concern for anyone outside themself. So, just my $0.02, but i won't go out of my way to encourage it.
THe telegraph it's older than radio. Think about it.
Yes, UAE, China and Yemen ban books... But this article would have been far more interesting if it has shed some light on what books Amazon bans in the US and Europe. It's not like this doesn't happen.
This makes a lot of sense. Some people will think twice about writing an article like that again. (unfortunately)
>In both cases the application code needs to be modified to account for the new functionality, unless you're also using the LLM to handle the logic which will have very unpredictable results.

In the case of MCP, no application code is modified. You first ship the application and then functionality is added. Using plain APIs, it's the other way around. That's the difference.
I really want to be on this guys side, and when I read (or hear) interviews with him he comes off as thoughtful, introspective, and clear-eyed, while the reactions to him seem obviously out-sized, misguided, and frankly childish. I'm always left thinking: hell yeah dude, burn it down.

...but then I see the actual stuff he posts on X, his YouTube video, his overall "informal content", and it's blatantly antagonistic, performative, and basically edge-lord bs. I just can't help but think: this guy just needs to get bodied.

So while I agree with his "crusade", I also can't help but not trust a thing he says, and have to assume every justification he gives is made up after the fact. Am I off target here?
People seem to have started to use "LLM" to refer to any suite of software that includes an LLM somewhere within it; you can see them talking about LLM-generated art, for example.
I don't understand why he (or anyone) thinks it's OK to say, cheat in an algorithmic interview, but that if you were somehow able to have an LLM secretly feed you optimal answers for any other part of the interview it's "wrong".

Why is it not OK to cheat on a system design interview? Why is it not OK to completely make up a story to make you look amazing when they ask about your background?

In the article he thinks companies should review past work and ask interviewees about that instead, but what would he say if there was an app for cheating that way?
I see. Let's just assume that DeepSeek's V3/R1 budget of ~$5.5M was a lie and the Alan Turing Institute is just too poor to compete with their nine-figure sums. I guess I have no further questions.
> Here, we modified the part of Claude’s internal state that represented the "rabbit" concept. When we subtract out the "rabbit" part, and have Claude continue the line, it writes a new one ending in "habit", another sensible completion. We can also inject the concept of "green" at that point, causing Claude to write a sensible (but no-longer rhyming) line which ends in "green". This demonstrates both planning ability and adaptive flexibility—Claude can modify its approach when the intended outcome changes.

This all seems explainable via shallow next-token prediction. Why is it that subtracting the concept means the system can adapt and create a new rhyme instead of forgetting about the -bit rhyme, but overriding it with green means the system cannot adapt? Why didn't it say "green habit" or something? It seems like Anthropic is having it both ways: Claude continued to rhyme after deleting the concept, which demonstrates planning, but also Claude coherently filled in the "green" line despite it not rhyming, which...also demonstrates planning? Either that concept is "last word" or it's not! There is a tension that does not seem coherent to me, but maybe if they had n=2 instead of n=1 examples I would have a clearer idea of what they mean. As it stands it feels arbitrary and post hoc. More generally, they failed to rule out (or even consider!) that well-tuned-but-dumb next-token prediction explains this behavior.
> In the poetry case study, we had set out to show that the model didn't plan ahead, and found instead that it did.

I'm surprised their hypothesis was that it doesn't plan. I don't see how it could produce good rhymes without planning.
Infinite Bicycles for the Mind
What if it's 124 to 127? would you really type 124–127, or 124–7?
Fortuitous timing on your b-1 reference. There was at least one lancer airborne this morning EST time headed North out of Texas. Data did not reflect a refuel supply nearby yet the lancer was broadcasting its location.
> Do you own a PinePhone?

So this is why it's a cultural issue.

Let's consider a market that still works basically like it's supposed to: Desktop PCs. You have your ATX standard PC, it came with a Core i3 processor which is getting a little long in the tooth, but you can drop in a Core i7 and double the number of cores. Not only that, the parts are all modular and standard. You take your ten year old i3 6100 dual core, swap out the motherboard and CPU and now it's a 16-core Ryzen 9 5900XT from 2024, but it still supports the same memory, GPU, SSD, chassis, power supply, etc., any of which you could also have independently replaced before or after this.

So now I go and buy a PinePhone, and after a couple years the CPU seems a little anemic. No problem, it's modular, I'll just buy one of those fancy chips they put in the iPhones and put that in there. Or at least the top end things from Samsung or Qualcomm. No? That's not available?

Okay, but at least I can put whatever software I want on it. Now the way this works is, people can improve their own devices in collaboration with other people. Adding a new subsystem to your phone would be a full time job, but it could also be a dozen part time jobs. Somebody does a barebones implementation and throws it on github, then you personally only need it to do one extra thing and all you have to do is add the extra thing instead of starting from scratch, which is a tractable problem instead of a hopeless pipe dream. But when each person contributes a little part, you ultimately end up with a complete implementation. Most of the users don't even have to contribute anything, as long as there is a large enough community of people who do.

Except that 99% of people have locked down devices, so the community is suppressed and then even if you buy the device that allows you to do it, you're the only one working on that subsystem and it's too much work for you to do yourself, so you don't even make the attempt. And then what good is the device?

It's an ecosystem problem. A cultural issue. It can't be just you. You need the default attitude of the common customer to be "this despotism will not stand" and to give the finger to any company that locks you out of your own property. Regardless of whether you personally actually upgrade your own device or write your own code, you need everyone to have the ability to do it, because the alternative is a friction that erodes the community and in turn destroys a backstop against involuntary captivity.
Robert Bringhurst¹ prefers the en dash in the context of setting off phrases:

"The em dash is the nineteenth-century standard, still prescribed in many editorial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the oversized space between sentences, it belongs to the padded and corseted aesthetic of Victorian typography.

"Used as a phrase marker – thus – the en dash is set with a normal word space either side."

¹https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780881791327/page/80/mode/...
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil