skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a smart RSS reader YOShInOn which uses BERT + a probability calibrated SVM as its main model, I want to make a general purpose model trainer for text classification that is able to do harder problems.

People who hold court on ML forums will tell you fine-tuned BERT is the way to go but BERT fine-tuning doesn't seem to be compatible with early stopping with anything like the training recipes I see in the literature. Compared to old days these networks soak up knowledge like a sponge, my hunch is that with N=10,000 samples or so you don't benefit from running more than one epoch because the the network doesn't have the capacity to learn from that many samples.

I find it depressing to find arXiv papers where people copy a training recipe from other papers for BERT and compare it 5-15 different text classification problems with maybe N=500 samples. My BERT experiments take about 30 minutes so it's no small thing to do parametric scans on them, particularly when the epoch count is one of the parameters. With "smart stopping" I'm not afraid of undertraining models so I could run trainings all night and believe I'm seeing representative performance as I vary parameters.

My plan is to couple ModernBERT to a LSTM or Bi-LSTM model as the literature seems to show that this frequently ties or beats fine-tuned BERT and my experience so far as I can build reliable trainers for LSTM whereas team fined tuned BERT is indifferent to the very idea of "reliable".

Another pet peeve is all the papers with N=500 samples where I regularly get N=10,000+ in systems that I use everyday and on a rainy weekend I can lay in bed with my iPad and switch to an Android tablet when the battery runs out and get N=5000 samples. [1] When I wrote my first text classification paper we found we needed N=10,000 to get really good models, sure the world knowledge in BERT helps models learn fast and that's great (a problem I worried about in 2005 and still worry about because I think the average person wants good results at N<10!) but I need calibrated usable accuracy and look at AUC-ROC as my metric, not "accuracy", F1 or anything like that.

Then there's the effort people waste with things that can't possibly work like Word2Vec, seems like people can read a lot of papers and not see it in front of them that Word2Vec is useless! I want to write a meta-analysis but instead I'm writing a diatribe and I'm not going to be happy until I repeat the paradigm with methods that are... repeatable, not for the science but for the engineering.

[1] with hallucinations as a side effect if it is a visual task but so what
The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions
I have no idea. And that's kind of the point. I'm assuming somebody can fill in some of the blanks for me.
I got slight Studio Ghibli vibes from a recent pharmaceutical commercial: https://youtu.be/XGtta5JACsA?si=NWkpvFKaqHuLGcDl

Clearly not the same art style, but still anime and similar visual subjects.
> ICE seems to be respecting the order.

Only after defying the order to keep her in Mass. and illegally transporting her to a detention facility in Louisiana.

ICE and the Trump admin are operating under "Ask for forgiveness" with their actions. If they think a Judge will stop them, they try to act before the order is disseminated to claim "woopiedoodle".

As for everything about how she's not a perfect victim. I just don't care. Even if she's a serial killer, she shouldn't be treated like this. We have laws and procedures for how we treat people. At a bare minimum even the worst person on earth deserves not to be disappeared.

I also don't really care that "well turkey is worse". Why does that matter? North Korea is worse, does that mean an asylum seeker from there has no rights to express any opinion against the US government?

A foundational part of the US government is that political speech is and should be protected.

I also don't think you actually read the op ed. It did not criticize the US government.

The entire op ed can be summed up as "The student senate voted that you should divest from Israel. You should follow what the students have told you to do". That's it. It gave reasons for divestment and historical comparisons to the divestment of south africa. It did not actually mention US policy of funding israel in any way.
Innovative financial designs utilizing HE and MPC (2021) [pdf]
What Caused the Devastating Earthquake in Myanmar?
You can sell your house to a family member for $1. (There might be tax implications if you sell a $100,000 property for $1 to avoid gift tax limits or whatever, but that’s a separate issue.) I sold my car to my sister in law for $1.

Self dealing is also permissible with companies. Corporate officers and directors must still meet their fiduciary duties to shareholders. And the potential for conflict of interest changes how courts will evaluate the transaction if a shareholder complains about a breach of fiduciary duties. Ordinarily, in Delaware, operate transactions are protected by the “business judgment rule” that gives wide latitude to corporate officers and directors. https://plusblog.org/2023/11/28/the-business-judgement-rule-.... But if there is self dealing, courts will scrutinize the actual fairness of the transaction. But self dealing isn’t per se impermissible.
Many systems that pay hourly for task-based work like this deal with this problem by instituting a minimum number of hours of pay per-instance, which is usually higher than the expected time it takes to complete a typical quick task.

That way, by taking longer on any but the hardest issues, you are instead removing your ability to make more money on other, faster issues.

If you call out a master electrician to flip a circuit breaker, they are going to charge you a lot more money than for the half second it took to flip the switch.

Also, if the reason they have to come flip that switch is that they screwed up the job they did earlier that week, you don't get charged at all.

This thread is full of people acting like highly experienced trade workers are idiots who have never thought of how hourly work might be gamed for more money. All of this has been long since solved by the industries that actually operate this way.
> I can’t sell my family member my house for $1 for example

In most countries you absolutely can. The difference between market value and the sale price might be considered and taxed as a gift, but such a deal is generally not prohibited.
Where can I learn more about this Kicad git workflow? I’ve heard a lot about it but I’d like to see it for myself.
A diagram of C23 basic types
It's in line with OpenAI (157B) and Anthropic (61B)
Easily-replaceable with the correctly shaped welfare-state, never fear!
The story of Swift on server is for Apple shops doing iDevices development, which server backends, remember Apple no longer sells OS X servers.

Additionally Apple isn't Google, Swift has more chances to survive as proprietary language on Apple ecosystem, than Dart as FOSS if Google ever gets bored as usual.
They are both private companies. Neither has a true market value because they are not on a market.
NCBI still emits XML from their most prominent databases (e.g., PubMed). I'm looking forward to adopting this library into some of my production code that interfaces with PubMed!
I think he, like many, overemphasizes the phenomenology of creativity. But he's right about the predictability of the pastiche. And after all, isn't it precisely pastiche that gen AIs are built for?

Yes, directed pastiche, sometimes even useful.

Does insight or critical thought ever come from context-based prediction?
100% agree. Let's hope they maintain compatibility so stuff developed for Plain works with Django.
I think that whole section of the post was "For example, in Kotlin," presumably these are true in that language.
Delete the workforce: Musk's Twitter takeover
https://archive.ph/2025.03.26-133448/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Just because it's in the title, doesn't mean the paper supports it.

I just skimmed the summary, but didn't notice any proof of "engineering". How do we know that chimpanzees weren't just selecting materials that had a good outcome in the past via trial and error? Or know that "more flexible=more food"? I would say that true engineering requires an inate understanding of the concepts going into the design, and I didn't notice anything in the summary to support that claim.
If you were an investor in X and put up some of that $27 billion dollars you now own shares in xAI, so it's not not gone.
Obviously you can sell house for $1 to a family member, this will not help to avoid taxes though, as tax office for taxing purposes evaluates value of the house independently.
Wouldn't that be considered an API?
Accelerate our work towards achieving AGH
I immediately thought of routing and switching.
No. One is paint on canvas, and the other is part of a causal chain that makes LEDs light up in a certain way. Neither the painting nor the computer have thoughts about a tiger in the way we do. It is the human mind that makes the link between picture and real tiger (whether on canvas or on a screen).
Perhaps people want to only see this problem as having a single facet: housing supply. Maybe others don't see a problem with growing inequality (that's not an uncommon opinion among the well-off).

Housing supply is a major part of it, but the reason it is so resistant to a solution is because it is multifactorial with the factors all influencing each other.

It's a wealth inequality problem created by the economic system favoring capital over labor, unreasonable local zoning restrictions, and also historical housing discrimination (redlining) which then feeds back into wealth inequality.
Oh the irony of not able to download the entire paper in one compact PDF format referred in the article, while apparently all the reference citations have PDF of the cited article to be downloaded and accessible from the provided online links [1].

Come on Anthropic, you can do much better than this unconventional and bizarre approach to publication.

[1] On the Biology of a Large Language Model:

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...
Absolutely. https://ublockorigin.com/
understandable, it's a very useful way to trick yourself into getting shit done but it's also very possible to turn "making the perfect work tracker-timer-app" into a giant rabbit hole instead of just getting a cheap, goofy-looking kitchen timer and keeping some notes on paper.
It’s a sad time to be American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F
America is the leading economy in the world today not because it has the most number of people, but because it has the best and the brightest. We have the smartest people not because the smartest people of the world were all born here, but because smart people born elsewhere have been immigrating to the United States.

Most immigrated on student visas. Harassing immigrant students in universities will lead to the US no longer being a seen as a great destination for the brightest minds.

But forget being a leading economy, this type of attack on students — for the crime of writing an essay in a student newspaper — is morally outrageous as well. It is unamerican.
Is that legal? This would be a clear GDPR violation in Europe.

You could probably argue a legitimate interest if you're collecting face recognition data on proven hooligans, but scraping pictures of people that have not been to your venue off a website clearly isn't a legitimate interest for such privacy invasion.
"Catch and Revoke": AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Students/Visa Holders [video]
I don't see the part that allows attacks in one direction. Apparently if you designate a group of people as beneath you, rules don't apply?
Browser extensions are the equivalent of running random .exe on your computer except that you have to trust every vendor protecting their keys forever due to the autoupdate.
The result of hiring based on loyalty to the leader instead of hiring based on competence. Happens all the time in third world countries.
Discrimination much?
This article presents what it claims is the generally accepted approach, makes a viable case for why the author thinks it should be the generally accepted approach, but doesn’t actually back up why they think it really is generally accepted.

A reminder that coordinated disclosure is an option but if you’ve identified a security problem outside of contracted work, you can make your own assessment about how you proceed.
you hate the company or the product? How does someone hate a company the open sourced all of their patents which resulted in creating a ton of competition in a previously dominated market?
Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
You must not have tried FSD 13.x with AI4 hardware. I commute to work every day from the suburbs to the city with a ~25 min one-way commute with zero disengagements.

Edit: Elon mentioned in the last earnings call that if you are on AI3 hardware and bought FSD that they will have to upgrade you free of charge to AI4.

Edit 2: To clarify, FSD 13.x is only available with AI4 hardware.
https://archive.is/j0GoX
That's also how Europe does it and its even worse then the US. And China rockets aren't all that impressive.

Also, the US has little history of this and the history it does have is utterly terrible. Go look up the performance of US own weapons factories threw history, basically just a long list of failure that lead to real issues in wars.

The US does not need to own the company to be able to prevent them doing something they don't want.
Do you truly believe this will happen? I know these are crazy times but the idea of a then-82 year old man realizing a third term for himself seems a little absurd to me. Or do you mean this in a less literal sense, e.g. in the sense that he'll get a figurative "third term" by handing the reigns over to someone in his club without a fair election?
Someone dropped the word "building" in all of the excitement...

And a very simple building according to the 3D render. Indeed the article even refers it to "shack", i.e. it's just a small waiting booth on an already existing train stop.
> I have no trouble beleiving having a central bank that can buy government debt with newly created money, essentially taxing the populace via inflation without exposing representatives to voting on a tax, might be highly attractive to governments worldwide.

Then I recommend you learn some economics and how to look at past evidence.

First, it's not taxing people - pretty much zero people hold all their money in cash. Without targeted low inflation, countries run the risk of a deflationary spiral, which means massive unemployment and wealth destruction. At no point did a person pay them a tax. And any govt debt they buy is exactly the result of elected officials spending more than they take in. Don't want the Fed buying govt debt - tell your politicians to raise taxes to pay for what they use, or to cut (and note - the current DOGE idiocy looks at best to cut a fraction of a percent of the budget, while the GOP looks, once again, to add trillions to the debt under the never-once-worked belief that somehow tax cuts will pay for themselves... That is sheer idiocy of the highest form: not a single time has that done it, yet they and their ignorant followers try and try and try.... - this is where your debt comes from).

Assets other than cash inflate along with inflation, which is where most people hold assets (houses, stocks, pension funds, pretty much everything). Inflation also lowers payments for fixed loans, like mortgages, so inflation generally gives value to borrowers (they have less effective to pay back over time) at the cost to lenders. So most people at some point have a longer term loan (house, education), and inflation adds to their wealth by making them owe less.

So your argument is both ignorant and doesn't understand basic econ or reality. It's this ignorant, self-righteous and frankly incredibly stupid view nearly unique to Americans that is right now destroying trillions in wealth for Americans through equivalently stupid, ignorant, and short sighted policy. So congrats - you are the problem for America. I do not understand how the US went from an economic powerhouse with decent policy and an educated populace to support itself to the current idiot cycle of discredited ideas and such ignorant masses thinking they understand topics they clearly do not. Good luck tanking your economy. It looks like your health system is going along with it.
Show HN: (Updated) Seen, a simple note-taking app
Hello again, HN.

Meet Seen, a simple note-taking app. You can create, edit and update notes and search through them. The notes are Markdown-based, and currently there is no organization system but I plan to implement a tag system.

Thank you.
["p", "How would you represent ", ["b", ["i", "mixed content"]], " in JSON?"]
"Et tu" is indeed correct.from "Et tu, Brute" by William Shakespeare.
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A woman was left kind of unsatisfied by internet memes, don't ghiblify her pain.
Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood
But our users do.
Anthropic can now track the inner workings of a large language model
New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft sign-in even more mandatory
I am sure there are people teach data science classes who look at it in that "reductive" way.

From the viewpoint of engineering, scikit-learn provides the same interface to linear regression that it supplies to many other models. Huggingface provides an interface to models that is similar in a lot of ways but I think a 'regression' in that it doesn't provide the bare minimum of model selection facilities needed to reliably make calibrated models. There are many problems where you could use either linear regression or a much more complex model. When it comes to "not known without training" I'm not sure how much of that is the limit of what we know right now and how much is fundamental as in the problem of "we can't really know what a computer program with free loops with do" (Halting problem) or "we can't predict what side of the side Pluto is going to be on in 30 million years" (Deterministic chaos)

(The first industrial model trainer I built was a simultaneously over and under engineered mess like most things in this industry... I didn't appreciate scikit-learn's model selection facilities and even though the data sci's I worked with had a book understanding of them, they didn't really put them to work.)
Lower and tastier, thank you!
Netherlands if you qualify as a knowledge worker, which is super easy for anyone with a university degree. This could change since the new government isn't very enthusiastic about it, but for now it's a straight "Welcome and here is a 30% tax break for your first 5 years" as long as you meet a quite low minimum income number. And even lower if you come in on a student visum first, they recognise that a starter job is lower paid.
Ah, my favourite complaint for the community website I run. "I can't see any photos on the adverts page." Are you running an ad-blocker? "Yes." What do you think an ad-blocker does...
The CPU and network overhead are at least 1000x, but organizational costs are at least another 1000x on top of that (Unless you have a billion users or something, then the organizational costs might be a more manageable 10-100x — Building out fleets of data centers is expensive.)

The organizational costs come from communication overhead between engineers: Sync or maybe async calls within a codebase turn into an ad hoc distributed system, where a different team (and maybe different management chain) owns each network endpoint.
I think it’s from here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ijr08f/a_prompt_t...
A Swirl-Stabilized Oxy-Fuel Combustion Chamber System for Biomass
If your game is web based, toneJS may work for developing a prototype. Using basic wave forms and messing with various filters can produce piano like tones.
I think more common name for this is structured typing, so it's not confused with subtyping which is a kind of polymorphism.
An API is an abstract interface - the "I" stands for interface after all. An implementation of an API can be a microservice.
The app looks great, but what is the benefit over equivalents from Google and other more established options? E2EE would be great to have for a distinguisher.

It would also be nice if there was a landing page to see what the product is like without having to create an account.
Why do we always try to use human metrics to judge other species?
It's been near a decade of them trying and failing (or over a decade, if one'd look at windows 8 and its apps as part of some plan), that at some point this 'what if they lock everything down!!' thing just sounds like a FUD, which is kinda ironic. And the 'they're locking down installs!!' thing too, every time they make a change it gets to the front page here, and yet it still remains circumventable (just use Rufus). Years have gone by and the actual "locking down" of it still hasn't arrived.
Another review on the paper from MIT Technology Review [1].

[1] Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113916/anthropi...
When coming from telephony and high availability, you don't put neighbors in the same hardware. This is BEAMs way of overcoming shortcomings in the CPU and OS schedulers.
And you can turn it off with a simple configuration
Anybody who actually cares, you know actual professionals, looks at things beyond a very limited set of real world results in very restrictive circumstance.

That's like saying, this NBA team after a 5d journey, and no sleep played a basketball game against a local team, with the whole crowd hostile, a complete broke court and a totally different ball.

And even then they would win for 20 years straight and the other team is only annoying to deal with. Until the owner decide there is no point in it.

And from this you conclude that that NBA team is bad at basketball because 'real-world results'.
I certainly don't understand this HN's trend of hating on microservice, and the previous trend of hating monolith. I have worked in both extreme and both works fine. Sure there are things which could be implemented 20% faster with monolith or microservice architecture, but it was never in the top 5 issue that I face while doing software engineering.

As long as there is monorepo, and anything in the testing boundary could be built and edited together that is fine for me.
Oh sure, it can be represented. But now JSON is the one being noisy, ugly and verbose.
Terence Tao: A short text about when to consider using an AI for a task
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Aren't the fab models usually rough and binned? Which is why companies have modeling departments.
In my experience a lot of technical decisions are about solving an immediate urgent problem, not really about a true discussion of tradeoffs. I’ve seen monoliths broken up into micro services because teams feel they can’t iterate on their problem fast enough. I’ve seen micro services turn back to monoliths because of difficult scaling/deployment/cost properties of so many little services. And then people argue from a standpoint of we had X problem we solved with microservices. People rarely feel the Y problem they’re not currently having.

Add to that the bias for the new dev/leader to push some change to show impact - you get a regular pendulum swing between extremes.

One problem underlying it all is stable engineering leadership. This itself is a challenging balance between stability avoiding dumb architectural churn like I describe vs ensuring you have some new blood to inspire fresh ideas. Another problem is just misatribution: we see X problem in the product, some eng pushes Y big solution to X even though there’s probably a simpler path to solving X in the current stack. Often you don’t really need to do that big revamp but to show impact? devs preference? we do X anyway.