skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Download and read the manual before buying a product. I avoided buying an air filter recently because the manual made it clear that there was no auto mode, which I would have expected at the price.

Downloading the manual may have helped Jeff dodge this product.

Web search has become a nightmare for consumer purchase research - it's all affiliate driven. Even the old traditional trusted names are just phoning it in with affiliate content churn.
TFA made it pretty clear that rinse cycle, delayed start, and eco mode require the app.
One possibility. Certain countries will always be able to produce open models cheaper than others. USA and Europe probably won't be able. However, due to national security and wanting to promote their models overseas instead of letting their competitors promote theirs, the governments of USA and Europe will subsidize models which will lead their competitors to (further?) subsidies. There is a promotional aspect as well, just like Hollywood governments will use their open source models to promote their ideology.
Section 230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech
Honestly, after being a gentleman farmer for 15 years or so now, I've come to realize that farmers were the original hackers. In this sense, there's almost a coming-home aspect to software developers wanting to do farm work.

I've never been so proud as when I figured out how to rig up the water nipple in a way that the pigs wouldn't rip it off the wall for the umpteenth time. And my solution probably wouldn't work for most other farmers. It's a design of circumstance and an appreciation of material and the brutal-ness of animals. Livestock are 10x worse on your designs than your average web site user.
These are files that he took, said he returned, refused to return, denied the existence of, then claimed that he declassified telepathically, in that order
Where on the finger? From personal experience, the finger tips can be excruciating. Anybody that’s gotten stitches knows that nothing compares to the initial administration of localized anesthesia.

If a level ten is passing out, that one would win via Price Is Right rules.
Please add the ability to import midi into the songs section. I would prefer to use this app to learn new music than my current solution. Great app!
Of course Europeans can hold different opinions, and this is part of what makes them impossible to satisfy. But I notice that their method of registering their opinion is always to complain about the US. Instead of saying "Good riddance", you could say "I'm glad we have a shared vision for Europe", since you and I are in alignment.

Furthermore, my strong suspicion is that there is actually a great deal of overlap between the Europeans who used to say "America is exploiting Europe through its presence there", and the Europeans who now say "America is exploiting Europe by pulling out". There seems to be a surprising amount of continuity behind Europe's anti-American thinking, even when it points in diametrically opposite directions. The "de Gaulle was right" Europeans never actually argue with the Europeans who say "the US needs to stay", even though they would appear to be taking opposite sides of the issue. Somehow, anti-Americanism is a far more powerful force than the major underlying policy difference between these two camps.

Anyway, I appreciate your comment. I'll try and link to it elsewhere to explain why we're leaving. Hopefully it will help clarify for some people.
You're making an emotional argument by bringing other unrelated social issues. How possibly incriminating yourself by talking to police, especially as a vulnerable minority, is going to help?
I’m at the point where shopping for any equipment from toaster to car/home, this is the primary thing I’m looking for first before purchasing is I need to know exactly how it works/operates. Everything is Wi-Fi enabled and smart but I need to be sold that I can operate it without connecting it. And if I can’t use the core features, the way dumb equipment would have worked, then it’s an immediate no go. I don’t care about most of the extra smart features I never had before on most things.

There are a few exceptions of course. Where remote access is a major value add. Home security systems, garage doors, deadbolts, etc fall into that cohort but that’s about it so far.
My understanding is that in multimodal models, both text and image vectors align to the same semantic space, this alignment seems to be the main difference from text-only models."
And it still can't answer this:

Q: "9.11 and 9.9, which one is larger?"

A: "To determine which number is larger between 9.11 and 9.9, let's compare them step by step. Both numbers have the same whole number part: 9. 9.11 has a 1 in the tenths place. 9.9 has a 9 in the tenths place. Since 9 (from 9.9) is greater than 1 (from 9.11), we can conclude that 9.9 is larger than 9.11."

"Final Answer: 9.9"

I don't think anything else needs to be said here.
it is a cult following at this point, not really a political party any longer. the only good thing that always comes out in america is that GOP side simply does not know how to govern. the pillage for a while and then 83 million people rise up to vote for senile granpa from delaware. but this cultism isn’t good for america long-term… those that know history (not most americans :) ) know that all empires fall
Ok, have they actually happened or are you spending irreplaceable moments of your life on HN getting upset about hypothetical scenarios?

There are infinite problems that could happen, best to focus on the real ones.
Thanks!

>I'm an Australian software developer in the midst of changing careers into primary school teaching at the moment. I still check Hacker News every day out of habit. Perhaps the overlap is stronger than you think!

That's fantastic I hope the study is going well and you're enjoying the change. The classroom is so different to office work - hectic, but very rewarding too. I've done a decent amount of primary teaching too and enjoyed it a lot.

> a self-study on how to leverage my software background to improve teaching outcomes for Australian teachers.

Excellent! There are so many ways in which teachers can be supported with software, I think you'll find this rewarding to explore.

>I would love to reach out to you in the future and discuss your approaches and/or possible ways to collaborate.

Of course! I'd love to chat. You can reach me at eli AT slidehero DOT ai
> pinging back to Google and then working

I still have a bricked Android phone from nonsense like that. If you:

1. Factory reset the phone while not logged in to the last Google account on the phone

2. Have the Google account invalidated (e.g., using an identity verification app on a temp noogler account, ...)

You'll never be able to access the phone again. The "factory reset" maintains some internal state despite a scary message on the screen promising everything is deleted and asking if that's really what you want, and it'll require the last working password.

Alright ... annoying, buggy (the fact that there are two factory resets and one doesn't reset the device is a problem; either fix or delete the broken one, or make the scary message scarier), but fine in my case.

It checks that password against Google's servers though instead of the local hash, and it doesn't even matter if you know the password; the fact that the account is inactive prevents you from accessing the phone.
You mean the long range stealth bombers that are parked in enclosed hangars when not in operation?
Because they offer extremely powerful models at pretty modest prices.

The hardware for a local model would cost years and years of a $20/mo subscription, would output lower quality work, and would be much slower.

3.7 Thinking is an insane programming model. Maybe it cannot do an SWE's job, but it sure as hell can write functional narrow-scope programs with a GUI.
Santos Dumont was 5'4", which althogh small, not out of the real of "normal" I don't think. Jules Verne was one inch taller. He was fairly skinny too, so the weight could have been a factor. I did find a video of it, fun to see as the Demoiselle is my favorite early flyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWPpKEZzxg
Sorry, I don't quite see what is wrong here.
Answer is correct no?
They are transparent! They give the info directly to the press before anyone else! /s
The house GOP guys that dragged Hillary through all those committees are going to be _so mad_ when they find out about this
I wish there were more beautiful government data aggregators like this one — most people don't even know how much stuff the gov makes publicly accessible (voluntarily or by means of FOIA), probably because it's all buried in 20-year-old Java applets.

What similar resources are out there? Any favorites?
Yes, I agree the US should service those contracts. But Europeans shouldn't feel obligated to buy from the US over any other vendor.
Can SAR penetrate steel hangar roofs now?
Agreed! But you're glossing over the Zanzibar point of view on this topic, which falls back to dual-writes. That approach has a lot of downsides: "Unfortunately, when making writes to multiple systems, there are no easy answers."[0]

Having spoken with the actual creators of Zanzibar, they lament the massive challenge this design presents and the heroics they undertook over 7+ years at Google to overcome them.

By contrast, we're seeing lots of the best tech companies opt for approaches that let them leave the data in their source database wherever and as much as possible [1]

[0] https://authzed.com/blog/the-dual-write-problem

[1] https://www.osohq.com/post/local-authorization

I'm founder of Oso btw.
Sydney VC firm calls in forensic experts, police at startup StrongRoom AI
Are you saying he only took meaningless stuff? Lol.
I like it and it looks as elegant as can be :)

This is the kind of thing people really need, complete P2P.

Does seem to basically work, however I think having a GUID serving as an overly-long streamname is nonideal, well it could just be the dashes in the streamname that some devices have trouble with.

A possible showstopper could also be having a streamname without a file extension, when video streams of any kind are usually digested better if they have a well-known extension that accurately triggers the appropriate codec in mainstream players.
9.9-9.11 =0.79

Might want to check your math? Seems right to me
But the answer is correct? 9.9 is larger than 9.11
A Brief and Amazing History of Our Search for Life in the Clouds
Shoot, didn’t know downloading Llama and running it locally was helping China because I’m not paying Sam Altman money.

Can I send him my bank account info directly? I need to help the cause.
>Less than 8h later: “it’s just an oopsie right? No harm no foul- nothing to see here folks” https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/24/congress/mi...

Oh, much worse than that. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1904309995019411933

Despite the fact that the NSC already said it appears to be legitimate, Hegseth is going into full attack mode against the "discredited, so-called journalist".
https://archive.is/FtuoO

"called in legal and forensic accounting experts" ... "investors include Artesian Capital, InterValley Ventures and London-based Kalytix Ventures" ... "EVP had escalated the matter to the police"
No problem! Even if I understand that, in a way, everything I wrote is just nonsense if kept as a jumble of words and not put into practice, I wrote it in such a way that perhaps someone like past me could see relatively easily that there are still solutions out there within reach, even for someone like them. :)
I've had this problem with a few older games that came out in the 2010s. The easy thing to do is to run it with a tool like crossover, or run the game through Apple's Game Porting Toolkit. I recommend just using crossover's 2 week free trial if this is the only game you're having trouble with

Crossover - https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover?gad_source=1&gbraid=0A...
I like to put myself in the shoes of others when I think about how I should feel about something. If I had to experience what many students at Columbia are experiencing, I would be very upset.
I agree with you. It has to follow the rules.

Unfortunately the society this company operates in is highly Machiavellian and can’t improve because people are too busy hating each other and also the rules it does have aren’t being enforced very well and finally, this type of lobbying is part of the culture in the US, it’s so expected it’d be weird if they didn’t do it.
Washington DC's laws are in git.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...
Was thinking I was going to see a Merkle Tree here :)
5 years after Covid, the return-to-office push is stronger than ever
Parent is thinking Semantic Versioning.
Sorry, I'm in a rush, could only afford a couple minutes looking at it, but I'm missing something:

Google: 2.385511e+39
Your chat: "Numerically, that’s about 2.3855 × 10^39"

Also curious how you think about LLM-as-calculator in relation to tool calls.
I suggest we’ve already now passed what shall be dubbed the jschoe test ;)
As preps continue, it's looking more likely NASA will fly the Artemis II mission
The first time a top lab spent millions trying to beat ARC was actually in 2021, and the effort failed.

By the time OpenAI attempted ARC in 2024, a colossal amount of resources had already been expended trying to beat the benchmark. The OpenAI run itself costs several millions in inference compute alone.

ARC was the only benchmark that highlighted o3 as having qualitatively different abilities compared to all models that came before. o3 is a case of a good approach meeting an appropriate benchmark, rather than an effort to beat ARC specifically.
How was it verified?
Because I agreed to a TOS that lets HN use my comments and reproduce them.

On Github I don't just want to give that permission to github, but to everyone who clones my repo.
I meant it from the common assumption for mass media propagation: get it out there as fast as possible and correct later if needed. On a related note, how often do consumers of news go back to read on retractions, if any?
A mere listing of ingredients or contents, or a simple set of directions, is uncopyrightable.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf

> ... aa recipe that creatively explains or depicts how or why to perform a particular activity may be copyrightable. A registration for a recipe may cover the written description or explanation of a process that appears in the work, as well as any photographs or illustrations that are owned by the applicant. However, the registration will not cover the list of ingredients that appear in each recipe, the underlying process for making the dish, or the resulting dish itself.
Do you also imply forensic evolution of the brain as an organ?
The Original 2012 AlexNet Is Open Source Now
I would also like to know. The German government actually has a decent API for accessing countless parliamentary documents, but it doesn't make the data very accessible to normal people...
"The Tree of Merkle must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
That's an anti theft feature. Intended to make the phone useless to a thief. It doesn't work very well, thieves manage to get around it somehow (not so much with Apple's version) so it ends up annoying the users more than it does deter thieves.

Apple is really really difficult about getting these unlocked. The carriers can't do it, you have to show them proof of purchase and have an enterprise support contract. With Google the carriers can just do it usually.

I managed a fleet of mobiles at work for a while, this is how I know. It often happened that colleagues returned a phone without unlocking it.
I think you probably meant to reply to somebody else. I was thinking of the minion when I said "you can sequence in your garage". I was agreeing that things like airborne detection exist. I'm not blaming anybody, except Anne, who was woefully naive about the business and the science. I did try to point out that most people who try to sequence things on their own mess things up because sequencing and sequence analysis is quite tricky. Svante Paabo, who helped establish that we can sequence ancient humans, acknowledged that his first few people were really just analyzing his own sequences, as he contaminated the samples while handling them.

The minion is really quite limited- it's a convenient tool to have in the field, but nearly everybody who is doing serious sequencing is using larger, more expensive desktop machines in a lab.
I had thought for awhile to learn Modelica, but the opportunity to use it in a project never came up. More specialized tools were always easier to use - Simulink, or SPICE for electrical circuits.
Dude there was a post about George Foreman's obituary the other day...

Like c'mon.

I'm pretty sure that your pretentiousness just invited a shitstorm of people who are going to flag your posts from now on.
I'm not saying there is. I'm saying there should be. Posting code publicly on github without a licence is entirely pointless
Also contains some "git = GitHub"
Why not put yourself in the shoes of the legions of researchers who are having their careers and life's work thrown away by hardline politicians bent on destroying higher education because it's a threat to their power? There are far more of those than there are disgruntled Columbia students.
Yeah, I get it. It really is exactly how you describe, compared to how I lived before at least - like being on top of the world all the time. No organizational tools or anything required, except maybe a couple calendar reminders for big events each month. No alarm either, now I wake up naturally each day and still get enough time to prepare for work each morning and maybe even watch a bit of TV. (To be fair, I'd probably want to schedule things more often if I had more social obligations to fulfill, but I'm relatively alright working on things by myself right now.)

I did purchase a fitness monitor though, which I found an excellent investment since it provides me with ideas as to how I should spend my energy (exercising or recovery). But it doesn't really impose any "must-do" activities; it only reflects the state of your body day-to-day and leaves the rest to you. I'm already motivated enough to hit the gym for 30 minutes whenever I feel up to it, so it's just an extra thing on top to track my progress.

It's not like every single day is perfect or anything - example, today I fumbled my sleep schedule and couldn't as get much done - but even the off days I can accept with a feeling of grace knowing they're only temporary, and even times like these are necessary in reaching happier places.
>Switzerland never threatened Germany to become the 27th canton. They didn't threaten military allies with military intervention. They also do not keep permanent military bases in other countries, in practice autonomous zones where there are intermittent scandals where Swiss law protects rapists. No other counties dutifully joined any Swiss invasions in the Middle East.

>Europe did not have to shoulder orders of magnitude (look it up) more refugees from these wars than the instigator of the wars. The Swiss do not regularly use their economic power to force other countries to share passenger data for all transit, they do not force far reaching intellectual property legislation of all sorts on other countries.

Exactly. We are in violent agreement. You're doing an excellent job of explaining why the US should be more Swiss, as I've been saying.

>there is zero chance another coutry could occupy this particular nation state evolution niche.

Of course we won't do exactly what the Swiss have done, e.g. we will continue to have a major software industry. My point is we should have a more Swiss approach to foreign policy.
But it’s still surprising they haven’t. People would be motivated as hell if they launched GPUs with twice the amount of VRAM. It’s not as simple as just soldering some more in but still.
And yet here you are saying we shouldn't listen to a story about people being bombed based on political calculus.
I mostly agree with what your are saying but…

> passing them means nothing about the ability of neural net-based systems to understand language, regardless of how much their authors designed them to test language understanding.

Does this implicitly suggest that it is impossible to quantitatively assess a system’s ability to understand language? (Using the term “system” in the broadest possible sense)

Not agreeing or disagreeing or asking with skepticism. Genuinely asking what your position is here, since it seems like your comment eventually leads to the conclusion that it is unknowable whether a system external to yourself understands language, or, if it is possible, then only in a purely qualitative way, or perhaps purely in a Stewart-style-pornographic-threshold-test - you’ll know it when you see it.

I don’t have any problem if that’s your position- it might even be mine! I’m more or less of the mindset that debating whether artificial systems can have certain labels attached to them revolving around words like “understanding,” “cognition,” “sentience” etc is generally unhelpful, and it’s much more interesting to just talk about what the actual practical capabilities and functionalities of such systems are on the one hand in a very concrete, observable, hopefully quantitative sense, and how it feels to interact with them in a purely qualitative sense on the other hand. Benchmarks can be useful in the former but not the latter.

Just curious where you fall. How would you recommend we approach the desire to understand whether such systems can “understand language” or “solve problems” etc etc… or are these questions useless in your view? Or only useful in as much as they (the benchmarks/tests etc) drive the development of new methodologies/innovations/measurable capabilities, but not in assigning qualitative properties to said systems?
Sometimes a KV datastore is the right abstraction, though. Caching is an excellent example, but also for distributed session storage, configuration management, nonce enforcement, etc.
Speed Queens are great and very expensive. Many consumers will have sticker shock at their price.

But they last 25 years so they'll save you big bucks in the long run.

https://www.donsappliances.com/blog/speed-queen-washers
I didn't say it was above board or legal, I said that the executive hadn’t neutered Congress, the GOP in both rhe executive and legislative branches is working together, hand in glove, on the same totalitarian scheme against the Constitution. The parts that are being done through sole executive action are a strategy.
Valuation can depend on lots of different things, including hype. However, it ultimately comes down to an estimated discounted cash flow from the future, i.e. those who buy their shares (through private equity methods) at the current valuation believe the company will earn such and such money in the future to justify the valuation.
At what point will we grow tired of this and make open standards for control of these appliances like comma, where one can buy an established unit and modify it with a microcontroller. I know there are jokes about the quirks of open source hardware and software, but what if the alternative is almost as bad
They support their workstation cards pretty poorly though. I have a Radeon VII Pro and it's already deprecated in ROCm, it's not even 3 years old. They can really learn a lesson from Nvidia that supports old cards going back far and supports every card, not just a few hand-picked business models.
potential to be the bingocardcreator.com for teachers, if you market this right. nice job!
Unencrypted protocols basically are open access. It's easy to reverse engineer, and then you can just point the DNS address of their cloud at your server to make it work locally (or worst case hijack their IP). It's the encrypted connections that you need to be wary of.
How can we know this group chat was really comprised of government officials and not some bored teenagers? Signal allows you to set your profile name to anything you like.