skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/rqDub
Trying to control misinformation about an unfolding pandemic is not the same as this: https://pen.org/banned-words-list/

Public health is primarily a responsibility, not a culture war.
You must be confused. This research is about reinforcement learning, not about large language models.
Cutting inflows to own the libs
Yes, it's image to 3D.
Oh interesting! This seems like it would be a good fit ;)

Especially for really old setups that had RGB color wheels and multiple exposures, exactly like a multispectral astro image might. Phase one also has a multispectral capture system for cultural heritage, which just shoots individual IIQs to my knowledge… It would work great too for multiple pixel shift shots.

Possibly, the engineers just didn’t know about it when they were asked to write the firmware? It’s funny, I think most RAW formats are just weird TIFFs to some degree, so why not use this instead.
Yeah the link title is overclaiming a bit, the actual post title doesn't make such a general claim, and the post itself examines several specific models and compares their understanding.
Cascadeur 2025.1 released: AI-assisted 3D animation tool
There is 0% of the exam which is trivially answerable.

The entire point of USAMO problems is that they demand novel insight and rigorous, original proofs. They are intentionally designed not to be variations of things you can just look up. You have to reason your way through, step by logical step.

Getting 25% (~11 points) is exceptionally difficult. That often means fully solving one problem and maybe getting solid partial credit on another. The median score is often in the single digits.
Now might be a historically good time to do it… or historically bad. But it’s definitely historical.
Switch 2: the tech specs that Nintendo and Nvidia are not sharing
Trump Threatens to Slap an Additional 50% Tariff on China
personal opinion, I like general's and regularly use some (especially the cedar pointe #1, and they also have some solid art pencils), but japanese pencils like uni mitsubishi and tombow are simply the best in the world
"I’ve seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, [...] with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done."

I will bet this CEO $1 billion that one of his employees using AI for 3 days will not be able to out-produce me working for a year.
I had the same problem, learned from a roblox mining game where mining a block required clicking it a bunch of times.
Is there a global provider for "cloud functions" (like Lambda) that isn't based in the US or CN?
Lunar polar regions could have microbes, modeling study suggests
Full PhysX source code now available under the BSD-3 license
I think you're conflating job satisfaction and the difficulty of doing it.

Software engineering can bring immense joy, but it is often a hard job to do. While it may not be physically demanding like some trades, it is often intellectually demanding and stressful, especially with tight deadlines and evolving technologies.

You know that intellectual tasks, such as those found in software engineering, can require significant mental effort and may burn more calories than some physical jobs due to constant cognitive engagement and stress?
Many people don't think we have any good evidence that our brains aren't essentially the same thing: a stochastic statistical model that produces outputs based on inputs.
Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
Regardless of their dumb nonsensical rejection of public domain, you did the opposite of what was asked. I was asking for examples of open-source software that is not free in the Free Software sense, and you gave an example of something that is too free for the OSI.
>> imagine a world without advertising

> I can't because a world with magic and world peace is more realistic and believable.

I don't know, in my country advertising tobacco products is forbidden since at least 20 years, how did they pull this magic trick?? go figure
There is no “team responsible for designing the mice.” There is one design team and they design everything.
I tried last year. Although the installation instructions were simplified, I couldn't get it to do anything but crash.
Ah, I think I might remember a couple RCE they had... [0]

So for Windows use I then started to recommend a fork called NanaZip [1] that enabled some Windows security features (CFG, CET, Package Integrity Check...) and added support for additional formats that other forks already had [2] [3].

---

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip#Security
1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
2: https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
3: https://github.com/myfreeer/7z-build-nsis
I am trying to learn Danish. I cannot agree with this enough.

Consider "halvtreds," the Danish word for 50. A reasonable person might expect it to mean "half-three" based on pattern recognition and the fact that tre is three. But no! It's actually a compressed version of "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20).

This continues with "tres" (60), "halvfjerds" (70), and "firs" (80)—all using a vigesimal system that, if you studied French, seems reasonable.

Except, well, the Danes don't properly sanitize their inputs. "femoghalvfjerds" (75) translates to "five-and-half-fourth-times-twenty," combining decimal and vigesimal systems with zero regard for foreigners...
3.7 is like a wild horse. you really must ground it with clear instructions. it sucks that it doesn't automatically know that but it's tameable.
RL is useful for action selection and planning. Actually determining the mechanics of the game can be achieved with explicit instruction and definition of an action set.

I suppose whether you find this result intriguing or not depends on if you’re looking to build result-building planning agents over an indeterminate (and sizable!) time horizon, in which case this is a SOTA improvement and moderately cool, or if you’re looking for a god in the machine, which this is not.
Regardless of how intuitive you think it is, that’s not what it means, and not what anybody has been using it to mean since the 90s at least.
Reinforcement learning is very good with games.

>> In Minecraft, the team used a protocol that gave Dreamer a ‘plus one’ reward every time it completed one of 12 progressive steps involved in diamond collection — including creating planks and a furnace, mining iron and forging an iron pickaxe.

And that is why it is never going to work in the real world: games have clear objectives with obvious rewards. The real world, not so much.
> This would never happen in Europe. It's simply less friendly to diversity.

In Germany, six minority languages are protected:

* Dänisch (Danish)

* Nordfriesisch (North Frisian)

* Saterfriesisch (Saterland Frisian)

* Romanes (Romany)

* Niedersorbisch (Lower Sorbian)

* Obersorbisch (Upper Sorbian)

Source: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/heimat-integration/gesells...

This means in the respective German regions you can also speak to the administrative agencies in these minority languages.
That's why there are decacorns, because of unicorn-flation.
OSH Park is pretty great for prototyping. $5-20 / square inch depending on the board type. I remember running into some constraint limits years ago but they may have improved since then.

https://oshpark.com/
Smalltalk-style tooling is mostly used in small businesses selling to either small or niche businesses. Things like custom ERP in manufacturing, custom CRM in insurance. Some military projects have also been done.

The Pharo folks insist on trying to adapt to industry, and that's also the focus of a lot of their published material, though there's still an academic legacy in there.

For me the tricky thing is to find enough time to study the API:s, the programming language is easy to learn the basics of and then one has to figure out the flow in creating a package and adding code to it, but then it's a slog searching and reading the code for hundreds of classes to figure out where the thing one wants resides. On the other hand, when things break it's usually a breeze, the inspection and debugging is great, unless one does the mistake of redefining some core class and corrupts the entire image.
There’s no reason to believe scientific research as a whole is a net-negative. This anti-science populist message is tired. The reality is that a lot of this research has saved innumerable lives.

The solution is never, and I do literally mean never, burn it all down. This is a populist message because it’s easy and appeals to the lowest common denominator of human. It’s intellectually lazy, and supremely evil in its simplicity.

Yes, the institution is flawed. Because all institutions are flawed. It should be improved, not set on fire. These are solvable issues. But proclaiming the best solution is no solution is the worst kind of anti-solution. Everyone loses. Everyone. There are no winners in this mentality, only losers and slightly less losers.
Thanks a lot! Sure, currently got a few empty seats that I'd love to fill!
Well, yes and no. For many people in our profession, anything related to computers is thought to have started in the late 70s when computers became things that worked outside of elaborate data centers. It is somewhat amusing that the collective memory now is that the mouse and GUI were invented by Xerox, virtualization is thought to be a thing from the late 90s, and touch screens are from the 2000s, even though all that technology was around since the 60s. We must have driven the old-timers nuts with all the widespread mainstream bragging about our “inventions”.
What is their proprietary secret sauce that makes it the lowest cost?

(OK no one can answer that, but I can wonder aloud.)

More interestingly, how do the high volume battery manufacturers disclose their internal total cost per kWh? Who do they share that with, and how often do they release that information to the public?
Or maybe having a social safety net has the opposite effect you think it does, in that anyone starting a business without one is going to try that much harder to make sure their business doesn't fail, as otherwise their life is ruined. Someone with a safety net might be happy to give up after some minimum of effort because they know they'll be fine. Necessity is an incredibly strong motivator for people.

Not necessarily saying that relying on the specter of ruination would be the right choice (if the above was true), but I don't think you can reduce it to such simplistic levers.
It could be 100x better than human drivers and still rear end motorcycles occasionally. Without better statistical information this article tells you almost nothing.
My 8-year child will be excited to know their lemonade stand is a "startup".

I'll have to put that on their college application form as an achievement.
NYC is New York.

Also NYC doesn’t have a “dead” season. It’s crowded versus overcrowded.
Off the top of my head, playing Devil's advocate it could be to encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport. The jailing of Germans with green cards for a fortnight is an unintended side-effect of cranking up the overall hostility level.
What if we are the only ants in the ocean?
> Like the sibling comment, I don't understand the analogy.

Ubiquitous (distribution) versus relatively limited (distribution).
"The computer did that auto-layoff thing to everybody"
https://archive.today/dyRVe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_North

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636020/
Seems a bit crazy by the UK. They want access to all backups and nobody to know
Yup, the technical details are described in this paper from early 2023. Seems like Nature takes its time. That used to be a good thing :)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04104
> Take, for example, the story of a 9-month old baby girl whose choice to avoid preventable childhood illnesses was taken away from her by someone who made the choice to skip out on a routine vaccine.

The "choice" was not taken away from her, because at that age she is unable to make choices on her own, whether for better or for worse.

> Until this point in her life, the infant had not had so much as a cough or sniffly nose.

Someone would argue that this point was proof that your choice not to vaccinate her was the right one.
The rise of 'Frankenstein' laptops in New Delhi's repair markets
TripoSF – 1024³ 3D VAE Using SparseFlex for Arbitrary Topology
The VAE component of TripoSF, a new model by Tripo (https://www.tripo3d.ai) for high-resolution 3D shape modeling.
The core idea is SparseFlex, a sparse voxel representation based on Flexicubes. Instead of dense grids, it only uses voxels near the surface. This massively reduces memory, enabling reconstruction up to 1024³ resolution directly supervised by differentiable rendering (avoids detail loss from watertight preprocessing).

Key features enabled by SparseFlex + the training approach:
- High Resolution: Up to 1024³ output.
- Arbitrary Topology: Naturally handles open surfaces (like cloth, plants) and complex internal structures without needing watertight meshes.
- Interior Reconstruction: The "Frustum-Aware Sectional Voxel Training" allows reconstructing internal details using only rendering loss by rendering from inside the object during training.
It doesn't fail to meet the OSI's definition of open source. As you elsewhere conceded, the "blessing" in the SQLite source doesn't have legal weight and doesn't violate the OSD. Public domain software has always been considered open source. For instance, the Debian project, famous for their exacting standards for free software, accepts public domain software:

https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Public_Domain

As they mention here, it is theoretically possible that code dedicated to the public domain might still be encumbered in a way that makes it not open source: "we are unaware of a case where a jurisdiction has upheld a copyright claim to a work which has been dedicated to the public domain everywhere".
> so if you're aiming for a $10M outcome, they won't be interested

VCs won't be interested if you're aiming for a $100M outcome because what you aim for is generally loftier than what you hit. If you're aiming for $100M you might sell for $25M or $50M, which is generally uninteresting to VCs.
I guess I have a different view on this... I feel like you left out that the past 20 years has also seen enormous success in this industry, even to a historically unprecedented degree.

You listed a number of things that have been super hyped flashes in the pan that never really panned out (or in the case of self driving cars, have taken way longer to pan out than people expected), but you didn't list the things that were super hyped and then became big successful sectors.

I remember when I thought "web 2.0" was overhyped, but now it's just the water we all swim in. I remember when that went from blogs to being social media, and I thought that was way overhyped too, but it turns out it was a big deal. The cloud was overhyped, "big data" was overhyped, SaaS was overhyped.

And it's true that all of these were overhyped! But they also turned into real business sectors.

It's certainly difficult to predict which hype-y things are going to mature into sustainably large markets, and which are going to fade into obscurity, but a model of "things that are hyped are doomed" is not predictive.

My own prediction is that AI tools are both overhyped and also very promising. I have no illusions that this prediction could be totally wrong. And even if it's right, I'm even more uncertain what the successful business models are going to be after the dust settles. We'll see!
> whether or not it was better to design around the fact that there could be the absence of “something” coming into existence when it should have been initialized

So this is actually why "no null, but optional types" is such a nice spot in the programming language design space. Because by default, you are making sure it "should have been initialized," that is, in Rust:

struct Point {
x: i32,
y: i32,
}

You know that x and y can never be null. You can't construct a Point without those numbers existing.

By contrast, here's a point where they could be:

struct Point {
x: Option<i32>,
y: Option<i32>,
}

You know by looking at the type if it's ever possible for something to be missing or not.

> Are there any pitfalls in Rust when Optional does not return anything?

So, Rust will require you to handle both cases. For example:

let x: Option<i32> = Some(5); // adding the type for clarity

dbg!(x + 7); // try to debug print the result

This will give you a compile-time error:

error[E0369]: cannot add `{integer}` to `Option<i32>`
--> src/main.rs:4:12
|
4 | dbg!(x + 7); // try to debug print the result
| - ^ - {integer}
| |
| Option<i32>
|
note: the foreign item type `Option<i32>` doesn't implement `Add<{integer}>`

It's not so much "pitfalls" exactly, but you can choose to do the same thing you'd get in a language with null: you can choose not to handle that case:

let x: Option<i32> = Some(5); // adding the type for clarity

let result = match x {
Some(num) => num + 7,
None => panic!("we don't have a number"),
};

dbg!(result); // try to debug print the result

This will successfully print, but if we change `x` to `None`, we'll get a panic, and our current thread dies.

Because this pattern is useful, there's a method on Option called `unwrap()` that does this:

let result = x.unwrap();

And so, you can argue that Rust doesn't truly force you to do something different here. It forces you to make an active choice, to handle it or not to handle it, and in what way. Another option, for example, is to return a default value. Here it is written out, and then with the convenience method:

let result = match x {
Some(num) => num + 7,
None => 0,
};

let result = x.unwrap_or(0);

And you have other choices, too. These are just two examples.

--------------

But to go back to the type thing for a bit, knowing statically you don't have any nulls allows you to do what some dynamic language fans call "confident coding," that is, you don't always need to be checking if something is null: you already know it isn't! This makes code more clear, and more robust.

If you take this strategy to its logical end, you arrive at "parse, don't validate," which uses Haskell examples but applies here too: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
I'm just impressed nobody peeled away the perforations on this printout:

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542...
Installing LIDAR isn't an "easily implemented solution", assuming that's what you mean. Otherwise why not mandate that all cars have LIDAR, self-driving or not?
Trump threatens extra 50% tariff on China unless it drops retaliatory levy
Realistically, do you not think most of these things are largely solvable by a few, intentional changes to your daily routine?

30 minute walk before work, gym after work, outdoor/physical hobbies, intentional healthy eating, etc...

These, to me, aren't difficult and end up providing a net benefit on your life far outweighing the effort required to implement them.
Recent smol thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575088
:waves:

Reading through the thread and saw your comment. Just wanted to say hi, I'm glad you had a good experience, and say thanks for the kind words. Hope you are doing well!
The author works at Github, so yes not so much a "resource constrained" environment. It matches my experience at a high growth company, Canva, where in places it was easy to see the connection to profit and in other places quite hard. There were people that didn't care about their connection to profit, and there were expensive employees doing "good work" done merely because it was good to do. Canva could do that because its margins are 80+% and it made almost $1B in revenue at the time.
Yep, if I could pick one positive thing to say about this administration, it's that they were totally transparent about their plans and intentions. They are doing exactly what they said (and wrote) that they would do in 2025. Hell, they even titled it "Project 2025."

Anyone saying, "Wait a minute, I didn't vote for this!" is either lying or stupid. They quite literally, in the actual, literal definition of "literally," spelled out every single thing they are currently doing, prior to the election. Zero people should be surprised by anything they are doing.
Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if it doesn't remove retaliatory duties
Fair enough and sounds like a good career. I'm up to my elbow in microservices.
Any number of species?

Maybe in theory, but propping up an entire ecosystem in collapse is well beyond Colossal's reach and incentives. This money and research would be better spent preventing the ecosystems from collapsing in the first place.

If we fix climate change, I could see an argument for investing in restoring the ecosystems that were destroyed. But 'de-extincting' a species without addressing the root causes of that extinction is idiocy.

Realizing this, these types will give up on re-introducing the original organism and instead create a bioengineered version that can survive in the changed world. I fear this path will not end well for us.
Nice to see Monte Davidoff's name included at line 69. Already the hierarchy tho'.

I picture he and Paul discussing the code he had just written when Bill walks in and asks "Are you done yet?"
Sounds like generational wealth to me, to whom the "success sequence" sounds like what I would promote if I were a Capitalist. There are alternatives, or at least a messy, diverse mix of ways of existing.
This is really cool to hear—thanks for sharing! Cheers!
Taya runs browser-based workflows with AI while you sleep
Treating people as fungible objects: is this not a clear sign of some serious anti-social mental problems?
> in your system you rely too much on file metadata your need more engineering

Except sometimes it's a 3rd party's app whose data you have to restore, and you don't have control over their engineers.
This post actually mostly uses the subset of Python where nullability is checked. The point is not to introduce new LLM capabilities, but to understand more about how existing LLMs are reasoning about code.
Automation has been buoying it. We are producing as much as we have in the past but at 10% of the workforce.
That's it. Piloting isn't easy, and you do have to study a lot, but it is rote memorization for the most part.

That is a completely different kind of thing than the kind of thinking that we do in programming. One isn't better or easier than the other, just different.
Which claims do you think are exaggerated?
Maybe this can be made into a mcp agent that was able to create tools that can be called by llm clients...
Intermidiate Navigation in Vim
> games have clear objectives with obvious rewards. The real world, not so much.

Tell that to the people here who are trying to turn their startup ideas into money.
nobody?
Tesla has a huge fan base.
> these guys' plan of using signal to avoid record keeping was foolish and stupid, more than just because of their silly fear that Democrats would release their records (that would require Democrats growing a spine).

s/was/is. As in -- they're going to keep using Signal.

And yeah it is all for naught because as you say, there is no sign the dems as a group will grow a spine.
Comodo was great until I've discovered it is using file system's altstreams to hash the files which resulted in sync programs constantly re-syncing all files. Naturally, when I start a backup/sync program, I expect only the last added/changed 1% to be transferred. With Comodo firewall installed, this wasn't the case. After digging for a way to disable that, I had to uninstall it.

Fort is my current number one, for sure.
It's true. It even made them more valuable not the opposite.
I think they are writing this to have a basis to exclude AfD members from the club. But I also wonder: Would Trump supporter be allowed to be a member?
Zip codes I sleep.

You don't want to know how many phone numbers in various databases show up in exponential notation. Not gonna talk about it.
Thank you. Saw your blog too. Nice