skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the El Salvadorian gov't is corrupt enough to run an international pay-based prison, couldn't they also accept a payment, from anyone, for releasing an international prisoner?

That's the problem with mercenaries: how much do you trust them?

There's a certain balancing act in going with the highest bidder: if no one trusts you to stay 'on side' once you're paid, why would they pay you in the first place?
Thanks for the additional information!
This dunderhead was also tapped by CBS to weigh in on the Hunter Biden kerfuffle:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-data-analys...
Very curious how this compares to JAX [1].

JAX lets you write Python code that executes on Nvidia, but also GPUs of other brands (support varies). It similarly has drop-in replacements for NumPy functions.

This only supports Nvidia. But can it do things JAX can't? It is easier to use? Is it less fixed-size-array-oriented? Is it worth locking yourself into one brand of GPU?

[1] https://github.com/jax-ml/jax
> The idea of role-playing as different characters is novel.

It is not. I remember Karpathy being really excited about the "1 million gpt personas" dataset and highlighted it as a way to avoid reward hacking in RLAIF. That was 3-6 months ago I believe.

Of course paper / code / weights beats idea, and it's exciting to see how far this can go.
I would not put any more money into this. The cute factor lasts 30 seconds.
Thanks to you also. I hope we see your open source government thing happen.

I'm not sure how you're going to derive consensus about which experts are trusted in which topics, or how you're going to prove to the people that this commit, and not that one, is their chosen one. Not without using crypto in some way.

I don't think you can do something as important as that behind closed doors on AWS and have the people take you at your word that somebody with root access didn't have their finger on the scale--they're going to want to see proofs, to verify the outcomes on their own hardware--but I'd love to live in a world that actually is that trusting.
I don't see anything about them halting it there.
I agree with your point about the validation bottleneck becoming dominant over raw compute and simple model scaling. However, I wonder if we're underestimating the potential headroom for sheer efficiency breakthroughs at our levels of intelligence.

Von Neumann for example was incredibly brilliant, yet his brain presumably ran on roughly the same power budget as anyone else's. I mean, did he have to eat mountains of food to fuel those thoughts? ;)

So it looks like massive gains in intelligence or capability might not require proportionally massive increases in fundamental inputs at least at the highest levels of intelligence a human can reach, and if that's true for the human brain why not for other architecture of intelligence.

P.S. It's funny, I was talking about something along the lines of what you said with a friend just a few minutes before reading your comment so when I saw it I felt that I had to comment :)
People get offended about these all the time, it’s called cultural appropriation[1]. It’s not just whites who have culture they dislike being an appropriated though whites do get offended by this as well, like any people with a rich cultural tapestry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation
They are with time.
That’s pretty funny. It goes into my drawer with jokes like: I’m a biologist, and biologists never generalize!
> Germany considers protests against anything Israel does in Gaza to be support for Hamas

This is patently untrue.

I live in Berlin and constantly see protests. Far from being too strict, the police are way to lax in enforcing applicable laws.

The Jewish community in Berlin is scared, because they feel completely left alone by the authorities. We have people running around freely in effin Berlin, right next to the Holocaust memorial calling of the extermination of the Jewish state and all Jews. And virtually nothing is being done about it.

It's perverse.
> To the layman all it means is that the source is open (accessible to the public).

I disagree. To the layman I think "open source" means "I can use it for free". Which in this case may not be true depending on your employer and whether this is a good revenue year or not.

I think OSI's definition is well thought out, widely understood, and regularly referenced. We should continue using it.
As far as I can tell, the original tab isn't notified when its lock is stolen. So again, how would the original tab be notified?
After having read a number of school board “audits”, and read about Enron etc, and looked beyond that to other instances, it’s clear that audits are generally worthless as a rule. The auditors are shown what they are shown and not allowed to color outside the lines.

Find a discrepancy and every damn time the auditors will say “oh, that information was not provided to us”.

It’s like if you hired a judge for your own prosecution. What judge is going to find you guilty?

See also ratings agencies in 2008.
The ideal outcome is a fantasy. The US doesn't have factories because every large US company currently offshores their factory labor. The tariffs at this point in time just increase costs for consumers while, ideally, US companies build factories on US soil over the next 5+ years. That is not a good outcome for Americans, even considering the support of future American manufacturing.
To add to this:

Most good founders (regardless of market fit) should be figuring out sales engines themselves. Especially the first version.

I would not invest in a company where the founder is trying to offload sales. Precisely because, as mentioned, sales, market fit and product are so deeply interlinked.
Man I miss Chef. It was wildly good for its time with a vibrant community. Habitat was cool but tried to carve into some niches that were too ambitious. And InSpec was an incredible tool but failed to build the critical community to drive it forward. I haven't experienced anything like the Chef Community since. (AI has some of these vibes in small pockets but it's very disjointed)

Now we're stuck with what I call the "DevOps ball of mud". I gotta learn 15 different yaml formats alongside the nuances of every hyperscaler and micro cloud. Like seriously it's 2025 and we still gotta deal with stateful bullshit and a bunch of unoptimized docker containers flung all over the place. It feels like nobody has solved the application runtime stateful egg and we're all just dancing to the dark gods of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm in hopes that our blood sacrifices make the engines go for another month.

Full Disclosure: I worked at Chef for 5 years
Some previous discussion:

Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41819481
I saw and enjoyed bag piece at the recent Tate retrospective- pretty much as she describes it the contrast between the experience of the people inside the bag (giggling, wriggling) and the people standing round watching int the gallery was interesting & memorable. And as for cut piece - obviously related to the later Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramovic - unless you think there’s no possible value in performance art, this seems to me like pretty remarkable work.
I do wonder who controls the Fed, ultimately.

There was a congressman somewhere around 20 years ago who investigated military waste and was on youtube a lot. When he turned to a reporter and said he was going after the Fed next, he resigned in about 10 days citing his family's best interests.

Trump wanted to force the Fed to cut rates during his first term and he wants to now, but he can't "for some reason". I think the continued independence of the Fed speaks to an invisible hand. I don't know how it works, only that this hand controls a quadrillion dollar economies and doesn't care about POTUS whims.

Yes it's conspiracy-theory land, but this is something I consider when contextualizing world events.
The purple you saw in those onions is literally a neurological glitch. Your brain inventing a color that doesn’t exist in the spectrum. When red (long) and blue (short) wavelengths hit without green (mid), your visual cortex makes up purple as a placeholder. Your avoidance wasn’t caused by the color itself (a mental construct), but by the brain using this imaginary hue as a proxy for past onion trauma.

This mirrors how we treat UI error messages. A "404" doesn’t cause missing data, it’s just the system’s way of flagging underlying issues. The real causal chain was anthocyanins → wavelength reflection → neural pattern-matching → memory recall. Purple was the middleware, not the root process.

Fun twist. Those fried onions’ brown does have causal ties to flavor. Maillard reaction products directly interact with taste receptors. The universe trolls us with color semantics, but chemistry always wins.
There is generally something about the Gemini models which feels a bit different than Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral.

I always have the feeling that I'm chatting with a model oriented towards engineering tasks. The seriousness, lack of interest of being humorous or cool.

I don't know if this is because I interact with Gemini only through AI Studio, and it may have different system instructions (apart from those one can add oneself, which I never do) than the one at gemini.google.com.

I never use gemini.google.com because of the lack of a simple export feature. And it's not even possible to save one chat to disk (well, neither do the others), I just wish it did.

AI Studio saving to Google Drive is really useful. I lets you download the chat, strip it of verbose things like the thinking process, and reuse it in a new chat.

I wish gemini.google.com had a "Save as Markdown" per answer and for the complete chat (with a toggle to include/exclude the thinking process). Then it would be a no brainer for me.

It's the same as if Google Docs would not have an "Download.." menu entry but you could only "save" the documents via Takeout.
You're absolutely correct.

Hyperinflation can also be caused by massive fiscal mismanagement. Venezuela and Argentina are currently undergoing this. It doesn't have to be violent, though violence is certainly a risk.
Here is the repo: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python
> Ownership of "content" is a legal fiction invented to give states more control over creativity.

1. I hate the argument of "legal fiction" because the whole concept of law itself is a "fiction" invented that gives states more control. But I imagine you wouldn't want to live in a "lawless" society, would you?

2. Can you please explain how ownership of content gives states more control over creativity? There are so many way better methods of control a state can do (state-approved media, just banning books, propaganda) that this sounds like a stretch.

3. Alot of mainstream media is underdog rebels beating an Empire, and ownership of content definitely stops the spread of that idea.
Exactly this, purple ≠ violet. They don't even look the same.

You won't see violet on a computer screen because it's a higher frequency than what blue LEDs produce. You won't see it on the output of consumer-grade printers for similar reasons regarding the color of the ink.

The easiest way to see actual true violet is to pass sunlight through a prism onto a white surface.

Purple on the other hand is a mixture of red and blue frequencies that stimulate both kinds of receptors in your eyes. It looks like a reddish blue that can't be produced by any one frequency of light.

True violet looks like a deep, deep blue without any red tint.
It’s relatively trivial (but more expensive than getting it straight from the ground) to synthesize oil from atmospheric components + energy. Some countries have done it at large scales during wartime.
Like all the other times things came to a head?
Ask HN: Share Cool Ideas
Ever think of a cool idea but you either don't have the time or the energy to build it?

Or maybe there's no money in it. There's lots of nice solutions to problems that are very hard to monetize. For example I got pissed off playing ping-pong because some guy was either consciously or unconsciously stealing points by saying a serve was illegal when it wasn't and I jokingly said I'll film it next time so there's no more argument. Then I thought about it and wouldn't it be cool to automatically film a friendly game and automatically cut clips of each point with some ML magic? Could also auto-referee small tournaments or something.

You get the idea, share ideas you had that you think would be nice if someone else would build it.
Supposedly they retain the propulsive landing capability and could try to use it in an emergency if the chutes failed catastrophically. The thrusters needed for it have always been there because they are the same thrusters used for the launch escape system.
Python was not taken seriously as something you actually shipped to non-devs. The solution was normally "install the correct version of Python on the host system". In the Linux world, this could be handled through Docker, pyenv. For Windows users, this meant installing a several GB distro and hoping it didn't conflict with what was already on the system.
And? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Parts of the government would like to get rid of it, we are a nation of car companies after all.
She's right up there Cattelan's banana duct-taped to a wall. In other words, she's in that grey area where you're not sure whether her art is sincere or some kind of fraud.

But that's par for the course with much of modern art. It's a vast movement occupying this Poe's Law-style zone of artistic ambiguity.
Only 60%? Seems low.
I've seen x86 servers with hot-plug memory.
In all their cities they could see buildings that they did not know how to build. And before that, public services would have broken down. It would have become impossible to find people who knew how to repair your heated floor (if you were rich), etc. The city of Rome declined from 1 million people to something like 20,000. In the late 500s, Pope Gregory the Great thought that the world was ending because of all the trouble (including vicious barbarian invasions). Monks (and presumably anyone educated) had access to a lot of ancient texts, it was only some that got lost in the West. I think they would have had a distinct sense that that past was more advanced.
Universities typically only spend about 5% of their endowments per year, since it has to last forever. And much of it comes with restrictions on what it can be spent on, those come from the donors wishes. So money in the endowment that's for the theater department or to support an econ professorship can't be repurposed to support federal funds that supported cancer research.
I fully agree. But since the average Joe has no chance legally against ChatGPT, at least Disney and other megacorps could.
I asked if you would be willing to share your work and workflow.

You could say nothing.
You could just say “I can’t, it’s for my job, but my workflow looks like this…” or something.

You could say you’re not comfortable sharing.

You could share a snippet and how you reached that result… idk anything.

But instead you went for some weird statement about flying and people writing articles.

Didn’t respond to any points in Dijkstra’s essay, just some platitudes.
The DC revolution will not be centralized
Efficient Computation of LALR(1) Look-Ahead Sets (1982) [pdf]
The engines and propellant are already in the Dragon capsule, for the launch escape system. These are, at least in theory, capable of propulsive landing but that mode of operation hasn't been fully tested and certified.
I mean, there are probably only a few places on the internet with more people who believe their insights into other disciplines are profound simply because they understand how computers work than the HN comment section. So we should all be able to relate.
I think it could show up in those other places, but probably isn't fully captured?

Imagine an airbnb that's great for most guests but absolutely terrible for 1 in every 5, so bad that they quit airbnb. Maybe it's next to a music venue, so every once in a while it's very loud.

It's possible it could maintain a decent average star rating and LTV as described in the article but actually have negative (real) lifetime value for airbnb if the 1 in five that they lose would have spent a lot of money on the platform otherwise.
Out of curiosity: how come only LGB? I'm trans, and I'd be quick to complain about how bad the narratives are there. Especially in terms of people over-focusing on such a small issue when hardly any trans people are in competitive sports and there's issues 1000x more important to our daily lives and safety that need to be handled sooner than "competitive sports teams".

I'm not the only trans person like this, so it seems odd to exclude a whole group from even the possibility of agreement.
> The seriousness, lack of interest of being humorous or cool.

I love this. When ChatGPT compliments me on my great question or tries to banter it causes me great despair.
Machine Learning concepts have been around forever, they just used to call them statistics ;0
I bet you're thinking you're really clever with that context switch. I was actually talking about nazis, because posts above were complaining about left-wing cancel culture getting people fired from their jobs which is the sort of consequence that happened to quite a few extremely online nazis over the last decade.

Who taught you to argue like this? They didn't do you any favors.
Even Russel and Norvig is still applicable for the fundamentals, and with the rise of agenic efforts would be extremely helpful.

The updates to even the Bias/Variance Dilemma (Geman 1992) are minor if you look at the original paper:

https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/documents/bias-variance.pdf

They were dealing with small datasets or infinite datasets, and double decent only really works when the patterns in your test set are similar enough to those in your training set.

While you do need to be mindful about some of the the older opinions, the fundamentals are the same.

For fine tuning or RL, the same problems with small datasets or infinite datasets, where concept classes for training data may be novel, that 1992 paper still applies and will bite you if you assume it is universally invalid.

Most of the foundational concepts are from the mid 20th century.

The availability of mass amounts of data and new discoveries have modified the assumptions and tooling way more than invalidating previous research. Skim that paper and you will see they simply dismissed the mass data and compute we have today as impractical at the time.

Find the book that works best for you, learn the concepts and build tacit experience.

Lots of efforts are trying to incorporate symbolic and other methods too.

IMHO Building breadth and depth is what will save time and help you find opportunities, knowledge of the fundamentals is critical for that.
Yeah, Python or Javascript should be first languages for most people.

People like flashy things, and Python and Javascript are just 10x easier to get that working. Console I/O doesn't really cut it anymore.

Later on you can deal with memory allocation, bit-twiddling, 2's complement arithmetic, lower level OS details etc.
> it reminds me a lot of the various Trotskyist or other far left sects and personalities

I think she never stopped being a child of the Russian Revolution. It was the formative event of her youth.
Concurrency and tasks supervision is orthogonal to modules/packages.
Depends on what your goal is. If you’re just curious about ML, probably none of the info will be wrong. But it’s also really not engaging with the most interesting problems engineers are tackling today, unlike an 11 year old chemistry book for example (I think). So as interview material or to break into the field it’s not going to be the most useful.
Yeah. I can agree about her 60s work.

However I think she would have stayed relatively obscure had she not become "ultimate professional widow" as the article put it.
Meta is decidedly not an "OSS company" no matter how much they put out.
> Given that the Jews were forcibly expelled from their homeland by the Romans

2000 years ago.

You're saying that events from millennia in the past mean that the Palestinians should have had to cede the land they lived on to a group of outsiders from Europe.

People can make of that what they may (I think it's ridiculous), but you at least have to admit that it completely invalidates your argument that Zionism is just like any other demand for self-determination. We're talking about a demand for other people's land, based on appeals to events from thousands of years ago.
There’s no “and.”

I’m just stating a fact. No discussion of wrong or right or whatever.

Just pointing out how there is no more rule of law in the US. Idk when exactly it disappeared, but it’s definitely not present anymore
If you’ve never seen competition lower prices you’re not paying attention.
Maybe not, depending on how much truth there's to this:

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-a...
The Prioritization Problem
Hi Friends,

Do you ever feel like you're constantly busy, but making slow progress on what matters most?

Priority Model:
- Impact (double)
- Effort (double)
- Urgency (double)

Return: Priority (double)

I'm an Engineer with a stamp, but this is my first store release as a self taught developer / entrepreneur.

Opper is a non-linear prioritization algorithm that continuously relates the inputs of impact, effort, and urgency and output a single scalar (priority).

This can do all kinds of cool stuff, but our "fastest path to revenue" was to release a mobile app built in Flutter. It's a normal reorder-able checklist, but with three sliders. Opper's algorithm automatically ranks your task and thus your most important item is always at the top of your list!

A social feature allows sharing your lists with others - with a twist. After you rank it, the other peoples rankings are also visible so you instantly know if you're aligned.

We're currently building our B2B desktop product, purpose built for desktop environments.

I'd love any feedback cheers!
I can say it isn't any better for JS/Node/Deno/Bun projects that I've seen or tried. About the only case it's been helpful (GitHub CoPilot) is in creating boilerplate .sql files for schema creation, and in that it became kind of auto-complete on overdrive. It still made basic missteps though.
Again without trying to make an overall value judgment on emotion vs. reason, one of the things that is attractive about reason is that it has built-in capacity for self-correction, i.e. we can use logic to prove that our own logic is faulty, and this is an ordinary and non-traumatic event. In contrast, self-correcting an emotional process is something an individual might spend a lifetime struggling with, if they can even identify a problem in the first place. To suggest that people are fundamentally emotional animals is to suggest that individuals cannot be expected to improve themselves.
I worked with Travis on the Electromagnetic Warfare Team at Anduril and he's one of the most phenomenal engineers I've had the pleasure of working with. Nix is already such a niche software it's absolutely baffling they'd prevent one of the few companies hiring Nix experts from advertising jobs because of a few loud individuals with anime avatars.
KITE Insta-analysis (Kiel Institute Trade Policy Evaluation) shows that US

real output -1.92%
price index +9.16%
exports -24.52%

If inflation is going to jump 9 percent, that's not time for rate cut.

The US may enter stagflation--Stagnant economic growth (or a recession) and High inflation (rising prices) and rising unemployment.
The blissful Zen of a good side project
Not true, when this study was financed.

I have nothing against the Deutschlandticket, like it too.
But I do not like bad studies.
Huh? Python variables definitely have a type. Its just determined at runtime.

The only untyped language I know, at least modern ones is assembler.

Well and C, if you make everything void*.