skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes that drives me crazy too. Everything is a micro battle to win.

I had this issue with some junior colleagues. I had to point out that it's disrupting and actually quite tiring being interrupted all the time with minor corrections, often wrong or so unbelievably minor. One thought he could demand sources for everything I said no matter the stakes. They ignored context, nuance, caveats etc and just listened to the part they could attempt to easily refute. God I'm exhausted just recounting it

Am I an old fart ..
So businesses would pay taxes on money they have spent?
But it does not matter: the «overwhelming scientific consensus» will be the reason why it will be the chosen reply by the machine, but to specify in the reply "According to Patterson, followers and overwhelming scientific consensus" would be a redundancy.

The appearance that it could be «one opinion among possibly many others equally valid» is all in your head: it is an unduly feeling from a bad mental framework.

The advanced framework (that I advanced) is that of the foundational theory of knowledge: a notion has a source - you computed or reasoned, or somebody else. You do not allow your consultant to believe, so you demand that knowledge is tracked.

You will not accept an oracle.

The paradox is that you are seeing the demand of the source as a support to "belief", while it is the radical opposite: the only thing it will be """believed""" (and not really "believed" - just the end of the chain) is the protocols, that "in the training sources I read statement S".
Does this extend to restraunts that now sneakily adding service charge onto a bill by default in order to prey on customers feelings of awkwardness? I always find that one stings and really irks me
My understanding is that they have a base model checkpoint for Behemoth from pre-training.

This base model is not instruction-tuned so you can't use it like a normal instruction-tuned model for chatbots.

However, the base model can be distilled, and then the distilled model is post-trained to be instruction tuned, which can be released as a model for chatbots.
Completely agree with you on Argos. Even better, you can go there when it's open and often you can collect straight away.
Why does JSON have commas?
> You have to now look at the distribution of reviews rather than the overall average since fake ones at 4 and 5 star swamp all else.

An unfortunate recent change for anyone using Amazon as a general review resource is they login-gated links to everything except the summary page. So without an account or logging in one can't view lower starred reviews.
Fakespot helps for this kind of thing https://www.fakespot.com/product/yish-usb-c-to-usb-c-charger...
More on the accessibility problem, even a request from a Meta engineer was rejected. Is that normal?

See https://huggingface.co/spaces/meta-llama/README/discussions/...
Source Please?
Not sure I agree; it sounds like the vector tiles are generated in advance of testing the servers. This description is from the linked GitHub:

> six open-source vector tiles servers (BBOX, Ldproxy, Martin, pg_tileserv, Tegola, and TiPg) are set up and configured using Docker in a public cloud. Vector tiles are created for each server from the vector data of the PostGIS database. Various test scenarios with Apache JMeter are used to determine which server can deliver the vector tiles the fastest.
I mean, it's more that I agree with Eliezer... but like, I've used them since GPT-2. I really do think that "this is it", the tech will just keep scaling.
In other words, prepare for maximum surprise? As a defensive posture in a hostile or random environment, that makes sense.

But as a design approach, most designs go for the “principle of least surprise.”

And that’s how I read the original comment: a well designed system wouldn’t do this. Joke is on them, though, because nobody designed this.
And she didn't engage in hypocrisy. It has a meaning.
They've been doing that for a good 20 years at least. Might be more common but it's nothing new. I only say that not to correct you but just to say it's pretty common knowledge. It also has to be written on the menu.

They do seem to be getting more reluctant and even sometimes angry when removing it though.
> Some extreme examples of commercial advertising that was or is highly sought after by its target audience include eBay listings, Craigslist posts, the Yellow Pages, classified ads, the Sears catalog, job offer postings, the McMaster–Carr catalog,

Listings that consumers actively seek are quite different from messages and content that companies try to place in front of people who haven’t asked for them.

It would seem both easy and reasonable to craft a law that bans advertising without banning listings of products and companies, product search engines, etc.

> How do you prohibit that kind of advertising in an enforceable way?

This seems similar to suggesting we shouldn’t ban e.g. price fixing or insider trading because they can be hard to detect and enforce.

That’s a fallacy. Most companies do not want to break the rules and risk enforcement (especially if the penalties are high), and a significant reduction and increase in subtlety of advertising would still be valuable.
Sometimes the best ideal solution is not the one that can win in practice!

The web was and still is a very bad hypertext system (no bidirectional links, no versioning, no integrated index, no transclusion, etc.) and we are still paying this debt! But this was also the an incredible hypertext system, permission-less, decentralized, and that made it a success.

I feel that the iPhone keyboard was the same, it had to appears (including in screenshots) innocuous and "without quality" to win over users.
In this particular case cloudinit presence in the story is incidental, delivery mechanism of said config file could have been different.

It's useful for initializing state that could not have been initialized before booting in the target environment. Canonical example, I guess, being ssh server and client keys management, but the list of modules it implements is long.
One of the benefits of the increase in fast food prices is that local burger places have become the better option.
> While there’s no research to prove its effectiveness [..]

> Originally published in 1996, this article was republished on February 20th, 2025.
> Or is Behemoth just going through post-training that takes longer than post-training the distilled versions?

This is the likely main explanation. RL fine-tuning repeatedly switches between inference to generate and score responses, and training on those responses. In inference mode they can parallelize across responses, but each response is still generated one token at a time. Likely 5+ minutes per iteration if they're aiming for 10k+ CoTs like other reasoning models.

There's also likely an element of strategy involved. We've already seen OpenAI hold back releases to time them to undermine competitors' releases (see o3-mini's release date & pricing vs R1's). Meta probably wants to keep that option open.
It's like how when you buy something now you need to take a photo and email it to your local police station to prove you weren't buying drugs or something.
Rather than ban ads in an absolutist sense, why not think about ads as “bads” (rather than “goods” in economic terms) and then tax them?

Let’s define a “good” as something with positive utility and value, and define a “bad” as something that imposes harm or negative externalities. If we treat advertising as a “bad” — not uniformly, but in terms of impact (manipulation, misinformation, psychological harm) — then we can apply Pigovian logic: tax it to reflect its societal cost. This wouldn’t require a blanket ban, just a rebalancing of incentives. Less intrusive or more transparent ads might be taxed less, while high-volume, misleading, or attention-hijacking ones could face heavier levies.

This shares the spirit of the original argument but trades prohibition for systemic correction — more like how we treat pollution or cigarettes. The advantage is that it avoids the free speech trap, acknowledges that not all advertising is equally harmful, and allows markets to adjust.

You don’t need a moral consensus to act — just an agreement to price the harm.

I have thought a lot about this basic idea of “incentivise goods / tax bads” over the years, and even how to do it a way that is revenue neutral to the government (via “feebates”) and advertising is one of the first places I’d try this.

Likelihood of success in the current climate: zero.
This is really good! Thanks!
I mean ngrok doesn't handle all your networking pains. It is kind of a quick tool to get a public URL to localhost. But yes, it is painful to find good candidates with some computer networks / OS knowledge. We run a similar service https://pinggy.io
Mach was never based on BSD, it replaced it.
Mach is the descendant of the Accent and Aleph kernels.
BSD came into the frame for the userland tools.

"Mach was developed as a replacement for the kernel in the BSD version of Unix,"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel))

Interestingly, MkLinux was the same type of project but for Linux instead of BSD (i.e. Linux userland with Mach kernel).
Pretty standard in jurisdictions where tipping isn’t common, esp for larger groups. Usually noted on the menu but you can always decline if the hardworking minimum wage staff did not meet your satisfaction or if you can’t afford it.
Yes. I got fired from that place for being too negative and now work somewhere much more sane.

The CEO to his credit went on a campaign to improve the culture, but middle management obstinately refused to change a single thing. I recently heard he got fired by the board too, go figure.
Does this give us any indication on when Apple will be ditching x86 support?
Fantastic article, I particularly like the point about humanity being more or less ad-free for much of it existence. I was just thinking about absurdity of advertising yesterday. As a life-long football fan (not soccer ;)), I was always bothered by the slow creep-in of those silly, mindless pre- and post-game interviews they do with players and managers nowadays. In the two decades since this has been happening it never occurred to me why these were a thing, until yesterday. In a lead up to a minor game, of course there was an interview with one of the players. In front of one of those panels with repetitive ads for various businesses. As it happens to be the case every time for the last 20ish years. Of course! The interviewees are just providing the mindless content, while my mind absorbs the background ads! So obvious, but it never occurred to me even once. Ad industry is really a cancer on society.
+1 on Argos. They will do same day delivery too.
wow you have a much better memory than I do, I don't even remember anything about the event (tbf for several years I used to attend a WordCamp somewhere practically every other week!)
So far ... It's alleged one of the demands in the current US/UK trade negotiations is removal on all these "restrictions" on US internet companies.

Edit: Source - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/uk-trade-dea... and another one from a campaigning group: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/...
Turn boring lecture slides into an interactive study experience
Encrypted disks saves you from an unsophisticated attacker. Also, full disk encryption enables the feature of using a power plug switch as a ”lockdown mode” button.
She didn't "feel like she needed Social Security".

In fact, she instructed her fiduciary to not apply for it on her behalf because she didn't need it, and her detractors would use her participation to smear her.

Her fiduciary convinced her to be enrolled by citing her own "restitution" argument and the fact that, as a fiduciary, she had an obligation to pursue all of her client's financial interests to the extent of her ability under the law.

That's what you just cited above. At Rand's death, her estate was estimated to be worth somewhere between $500,000 to $2 million dollars. Rand didn't feel she needed it. Her fiduciary did risk management for her.
> Obviously credit card transaction fees would be a problem,

Card transaction fees here in Norway can be extremely low if the merchant uses BankAxept, much lower than Visa, Mastercard, etc. And it even works if the network is down.

https://bankaxept.no/en/services/backup-solution
You and me same.
It sound like a good way to encourage people to buy from properly regulated UK sellers
> it said is that the underperformers overestimated their performance

True.

> but they still believed they did worse than the high performers.

Fair point, but if they can't understand their own unexcellent performance, how can they understand excellence? They never did.

They thought they were expert enough, which was simply not true.

And they had ZERO understanding of what it takes to be an excellent performer, which was precisely why they thought they were excellent.

I read the study itself. It shows "the overconfidence of fools".

Does DJT think he's a dipshit? Of course not. He believes the exact opposite, because he's a lying fool, just like the underperformers of DK. Whether a person knows they're lying or is just mistaken is not as important as the fact that they're just not capable nor do they even know what it takes to be capable. They are trapped in the fiction of their own capability.

The key takeaway is that honest, humble hard work is the way to achieve expertise, and that many people have chosen to lie to themself and the world instead.

I do concede that they didn't believe they were better than the true experts. Thanks for the correction, but the overconfident fools of the world still think they're smart, and often they think they ARE smarter than intelligent people, even though that's not in DK.
#1 was true, but I find that this is one area where LLMs shine: even when you can't trust the answers directly, they can give inspiration to find the right questions.

I'm not convinced #2 is true — all ads imply the thing advertised is the best deal (where "best" is somewhere on cheap-quality spectrum), and the same limits to cognitive bandwidth mean we can't easily guess whatever points were missing from, at best, a 30-second highlights reel.
My pessimism about changes to error handling in Go (but they'll happen)
Correct, you can't hire them or offer an award. You can ask for volunteers, relying on a smaller group of supporters built by word of mouth.
jumping spiders are very cool but god this site sucks to use on mobile. 3
times i accidentally "swiped" to a new article while trying to scroll down before i gave up trying to finish it, at which point i realised you can't swipe to go back/forwards because they've hijacked that action for the stupid article swiping thing. 0/10 worse than plain text on a white background.
100% agree.

I am happy to pay for an ad-free version of a product I want but I will never use your product if I cannot block or remove the ads.
Since Windows 8 as well, you're pretty much doing something wrong if it takes more than a few seconds to cold boot whenever you actually are going to use the PC.

Nothing saves more energy than turning it all the way off, this used to be a no-brainer. Sure makes laptop batteries last years longer.

Plus the failure to perfect partially-powered states over the decades doesn't have to have an impact.
We don't know, we just can't imagine
While I believe there might be different explanations for the outcomes we observe I also believe that default hypothesis should be that there is racism and sexism. And there are facts (women were permitted to vote in the US like 100 years ago, and entered general workforce when?), observations (I saw sexism and racism at work) and general studies (I.e people have tendency to have biases among other things) to support that attributing differences to biology or whatever should be under very high scrutiny.
What do you do about notifications from Slack/Emails/Teams messages?
up to the individual website host

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599562
I disagree, they all feature _multiple_ elements and it's only obvious what the 88x31 button is if you already know.
Logic Puzzle from the University Quest
> global population

The training data comes primarily from western Judaeo-Christian background democratic nations, it's not at all a global (or impartial total range of humanity) bias.
Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy (2012)
The parent jumped to ideas that exist outside of the right/left dichotomy. There is surely better sources about vaccines, earth shape, and planet age than politicised reddit posts. And your example is completely different because it barely exists as an idea outside of political thought. Its a tiny part of human thought.
Hm. I have a Macbook M3 and it doesn’t come up from sleep every third time or so, freezing and then force-restarting all running apps in the background. Most other times it takes up to a minute to show the login screen. No idea how to debug. Still hoping for some update to magically fix it.
How are you supposed to clean up fire retardant dropped from a plane over a large area?
You can derive morality from observation if you aren't looking for ontological "ought statements". Hume's position assumes that the religious approach to morality is the only one possible - that morality consists of these detached and universal "ought statements" that must be observable in the Universe somehow and take on the same form as Commandments from a God.

That's not how the Objectivist ethics works, at all. There are no "ought statements" because ethics, in Objectivism, is a system of judgement and reasoning. It's applied epistemology.

So, no, you won't find a mythological ethics in reality. But you can learn how to identify the nature of things and judge how they relate, positively or negatively, to human life. And that's the essence of Objectivist morality.
I don't know if you noticed, but we're at war. You do not win a war by following rules set by the enemy.
This is only for the small model. The medium model is still at 1M (like Gemini 2.5)

Even if we could get the mid models to 10M, that's still a medium-sized repo at best. Repos size growth will also accelerate as LLMs generate more code. There's no way to catch up.
Past discussions:

2019 (55 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952479

2012 (108 points, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4147544
> - Consider having some sort of overarching thing in your puzzle, so it’s not just five words on a specific topic to guess, but something more, like a hidden word across all five etc. This makes a delightful discovery moment and sometimes might work as a clue.

You've essentially described the Jumble puzzle, which appeared in daily newspapers. It's been around since 1954, but I'm not surprised to see it reinvented since few people get a daily newspaper anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble
It's 5 directions for Japanese kana, but 3 for the alphabet. Regarding usage, I find swipe input to be faster for English although flick input gives me more accuracy. In the end, nothing beats a physical keyboard though.
who allowed them to make entries in MY computer in the first place?
There was an Internet before advertising. There are still sites without advertising. Why?
I could totally believe that it would be good for our health if we could somehow eliminate the radiation background (but it's clearly not feasible).
oh interesting
Legislation usually tries to catch up with technology. In the times when people paid cash at a ticket office and they would not have had hundreds of options many of the things mentioned would not have happened - life was slower, there were fewer options, reputation was more important.

Would it have been possible for legislation to change faster? Probably, but that's politics, deciding together what is the next things to solve while having different opinions and many things to solve.

It is not bad they try to fix it, am I personally sure this was the most important? Not sure. There are many horrible things out there when some group takes advantage of another one...
It's too late now, but you have to hit enter twice to insert line breaks.

- the code in the repo (https://github.com/akavel/clawtype) is under AGPL-v3, so you're totally fine to iterate on this part, as long as you keep the license and it terms

- which means you should be able to sell it all fine, just also providing users the iterated code, so they can further iterate on their own;

- the 3d-printed parts & structure design (https://www.printables.com/model/1231156-clawtype) is CC BY-NC-SA, so you can iterate on that part as long as you keep those terms

- let me know (https://merveilles.town/@akavel/) if you want to negotiate the terms with the designer, or just reach out to him by yourself;

- in the US, some aspects of the design are covered by A PATENT by the original inventor & designer John W. McKown, as explained on the original Chordite page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220201061603/http://chordite.c... with an exception for personal use

- the patent is http://www.google.com/patents/US6429854

- though IIUC the google page seems to claim it's expired, whatever this means in the legal system, and google claim IANAL on the page too.

- or do you mean some other aspect?
That's not entirely their fault. Those programs were designed and instituted to make as many people as possible dependent on them so they would become a captured voting bloc.
To write something shorter than the sibling comment: A lot of people just don't care that much and want something predictable. To another thread that was going on in a post yesterday or so, I'm not like that with restaurants but I often am with hotel rooms (though the middle-tier business hotels are still probably a few hundred dollars a night in large cities).
They are not hidden fees buried into a contract that you've signed. The term in the article is "dripped fees": the full price is disclosed step by step.

Ultimately the full price is shown before you enter into a contract and before you pay. You have no obligation to buy.

They are more of a misleading advertising practice to get your attention and further along the sale funnel.
In London it’s gotten significantly worse in recent years (post-Covid).

Service charge used to be an exception only added to bills for large groups of diners, now they’re the rule.
I see no errors
Show HN: I made a briefing document generator based on your Questionary
I wanted an easy briefing generator—nothing from AI. Don’t get me wrong—I’m a fan of AI, but I wanted something that really fits.

I created as many Templates as I needed myself. I got a little crazy with all my Templates for the PDF versions. And did a little bit of overengineering for a questionnaire. I made it free and I hope it makes your lives just a little bit easier.