skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Last December, we launched QVQ-72B-Preview as an exploratory model, but it had many issues.

That's an earlier version released some months ago. They even acknowledge it.

The version they present in the blog post and you can run in their chat platform is not open or available to download.
This would work in an ideal setting, however, in my experience it is not compatible with the general expectations we have for agentic systems.

For instance, what about a simple user query like "Can you install this library?". In that case a useful agent, must go, check out the libraries README/documentation and install according to the instructions provided there.

In many ways, the whole point of an agent system, is to react to unpredictable new circumstances encountered in the environment, and overcoming them. This requires data to flow from the environment to the agent, which in turn must understand some of that data as instruction to react correctly.
I would argue that if Tesla lies to buyers, then those act on the lie because they trust Tesla, then absolutely Tesla is responsible.
> have no hope of doing better

Yeah, this is really the main use case. Its a relatively simple solution when you can't do any better.

I think that's particularly helpful when you're invoking code you don't control, like calling into a some arbitrary C library.
So the Guardian getting access to internal White House deliberations and a FORENSIC INVESTIGATION, is not cause for concern but everything that people you don’t like , is, apparently.

This is precisely why the political divide is impossible to bridge. Everything I said indicates seriousness about classified information or even simply unauthorized access to information in such a cavalier manner that it’s published in the Guardian. Somehow, calling it out is more problematic than achieving a political end.
The hope would be to get an intro like “This is parish, a normal 1x coder that makes a normal amount of money so please be forgiving when he doesn’t understand something”.
> you can work on your problem, or you can customize the language to fit your problem better

There’s a thing I’m whispering to myself constantly as I work on software: “if I had something that would make this easy, what would it look like?”

I do this continuously, whether I’m working in C++ or Python. Although the author was talking about Lisp here, the approach should be applied to any language. Split the problem up into an abstraction that makes it look easy. Then dive in and make that abstraction, and ask yourself again what you’d need to make this level easy, and repeat.

Sometimes it takes a lot of work to make some of those parts look and be easy.

In the end, the whole thing looks easy, and your reward is someone auditing the code and saying that you work on a code base of moderate complexity and they’re not sure if you’re capable enough to do anything that isn’t simple. But that’s the way it is sometimes.
Tesla's valuation is based on the heady tales that Musk spins. It's not based on the fact that reality falls far short of them.
Control is important. Apple has never had to fight with Torvalds or IBM or Microsoft over getting something added to the kernel. Just look at the fiasco when Microsoft wanted to add a driver for their virtualization system to the kernel.

Also, one thing you'll notice about big companies - they know that not only is time valuable, worst-case time is important too. If someone in an open-source ecosystem CAN delay your project, that's almost as bad as if they regularly DO delay your project. This is why big companies like Google tend to invent everything themselves, I.E. Google may have "invented Kubernetes" (really, an engineer at Google uninvolved with the progenitor of K8s - Borg - invented it based on Borg), but they still use Borg, which everyone Xoogler here likes to say is "not as good as k8s". Yet they still use it. Because it gives them full control, and no possibility of outsiders slowing them down.
ooo tempted to reprint faulkner as part of a small press, thanks for the idea
What if advertising were 100% truthful and straightforward. Like in that movie "The Invention of Lying" with the scene that shows a close up of the side of a bus with "Pepsi" on it, then as it pulls away the full advert reads "Pepsi... For when then don't have Coke".
The National Security Advisor and Vice President shouldn't know when and how an attack is happening? That's ridiculous. They were literally debatng whether to do it, of course they need to know. Beyond that, the people in the White House need to prepare messaging, position the president.
>If we want to collectively punish people who voted for (or whose election resulted in the rule of) a bunch of fucking morons, well... I have some bad news for US citizens...

I've seen comments unironically arguing for collective punishments when it came to the US, and they're at least popular enough that they don't show up as gray/[flagged].
Customers frequently want two conflicting things: change and stability.

In enterprise software sales, a lot of time and energy get wasted arguing about features the customer will never use. Post deployment, those same people will scream bloody murder about how unstable the products are and how the vendors just can’t do anything right.

Similarly, I think if car makers set out to incrementally improve their product a few percent a year, nobody would buy it. It would be boring. Outdated.

People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change.
If anyone wants a super approachable lecture on Neutron stars, this was released just a couple of weeks ago - https://youtu.be/I12SQ7YOebY
Libraries typically don't even accept print books or CDs/DVDs. If there's a donation bin outside it probably isn't even theirs. And if stuff actually winds up with them, it just gets sold off so they can purchase material via vetted channels.

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/go/donate
The Philosophical Roots of Programming
No - it's based on hype and dreams. If it was solely based on fundamentals TSLA would carry an car company multiple, dropping a digit off it's share price. At that price, Elon would have a significant chunk of his TSLA holdings margin called away and be less of a threat to the world and the people on it as a whole.
TCL, Hisense, Skyworth, Xiaomi etc. Chinese Manufacture has now likely passed the 50% marketshare. There are other manufacture that may not have interest in HDMI which means we could see most TV shipping to have GPMI.

Although the Table isn't accurate as USB4 should be able to do 80 Gbit/s symmetric connections or asymmetric connections supporting 120 Gbit/s in one direction and 40 Gbit/s in the other.

But the deeper, or higher overview of things isn't the standard itself. But Western or incumbent companies which rely on HDMI royalty are being challenged not on standard spec and implementation itself, but actual end product being defined by Chinese companies. It is one way to break free of those royalty when china operate at cut throat competition. It is also another note to the world saying these companies are too slow to innovate.

I just hope HDMI and Displyport will come up with something better.
Oh, I'll check what's going on in Safari. Thanks for the report, if you could forward me if there's any error in console, I'd greatly appreciate it.

It's especially surprising if the 'audio playing' icon is there, since that should be coming from the browser itself.
See also Krugman's paper on the theory of interstellar trade https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
> Also, 30 years ago, normies were able to handle DOS (...)

"Normies" from the 80s do not represent the dissemination of personal computing we experienced in the last 10-15 years. So far we have one or two generations whose experience with personal computing is limited to downloading apps from app stores and ,at best, check webpages. That is very far from what people used DOS for.
Show HN: Is marketing possible using AI?
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It’s more like installing a VS Code plugin with access to your file system that can also download files from GitHub, and if it happens to download a file with the right content, that content will cause the plugin to read your ssh keys and send them to someone else.

Any program with access to both trusted and untrusted data needs to be very careful to ensure that the untrusted data can’t make the program do things that the user doesn’t want. If there’s an LLM involved with access to privileged tools, that becomes impossible.
this is why i'm getting into security instead of ai
Thanks for crediting us :)
We have an electoral college that essentially disenfranchises any voter that is not voting with the majority unless your state is so close that it could be called a swing state. This affects red state democratic leaning voters just as much as blue state republican leaning voters…their votes are all worthless. For example, the state with the largest number of Trump voters is California, but none of their votes helped decide the election because California as a whole chose Kamala. And let’s not forget that we have one of the largest metropolitan areas and several territories that legally can’t vote for the president or have representation of any kind in the federal government.

A lot of people try to claim the popular vote as a measure of who won over the country’s opinion, but that’s simply not possible because the incentives and structure of the electoral college make it impossible to use as a measure of that.

The best we have for measuring who won over the hearts and minds of the country are polls. Polls are full of faults, but if executed correctly, they don’t disenfranchise by structurally underrepresenting entire classes of people. And the results of polling over the last hundred years suggest that Americans generally lean to the left of how our votes play out. You can call bullshit all you want on that, and there are very fair criticisms of polling as a measure of who would vote for what, but the fact of the matter is that the Republican Party knows this. That is why they oppose any attempt to get rid of the electoral college and also why they refuse to entertain enfranchisement of DC and US Territories. They know they’ll lose.
Europeans don't tend to buy American cars because they're too big for smaller older roads and are inefficient (Europe has no domestic petroleum source, so fuel prices are much higher and volatile).

Tarrifs aren't going to change that.
Four Software Engineers
This is super cool. I finally just upgraded my desktop and one thing I’m curious to do with it is run local models. Of course the ram is late so I’ve been googling trying to get an idea of what I could expect and there’s not much out there to compare to unless you’re running state of the art stuff.

I’ll make sure to run contribute my benchmark to this once my ram comes in.
Dunno, which side has more power?
I used to be VERY into police procedurals: John Sanford, Lee Child, and William Kent Krueger. I still read them, but during lockdown I made a conscious decision to widen my horizons.

Some of my favorites over the last year:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Most of Joe Abercrombie; particularly the First Law series.

God of the Woods by Liz Moore

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
It’s a completely different system. Comparing it to the old one is like comparing apples to oranges. The original highway stack didn’t feel natural at all. It was like every move was hard-coded.

Lane changes used to feel robotic.
Speed had to be adjusted manually all the time just to feel comfortable.

The new system feels much more human. It has driving profiles and adapts based on traffic, which makes the experience way smoother.

Have you tried fsd? I use it almost everyday. I’m more arguing that the article is misleading about the current version of fsd. I do not doubt that the accidents happened on the older version.
The smaller the polity, the less practical it is to produce everything. Most towns aren't going to be growing wine grapes or olives at all, so tariffs would just raise local prices and lower imports rather than shifting local production. But they could also induce people to drive to the next town over for shopping.
People used to have phone calls for this! It was on the way out even 15 years ago, but a simple telephone call can get people unblocked pretty efficiently
1. I hope you're saying your ears hurt from physically wearing headphones, not from volume.
2. Many responses in this thread self-diagnose with many disorders because of the need to wear headphones in an open office environment. Open office environments are like emergency rooms filled with crying babies -- they feel almost intended to distract. This is true of "baseline", "normal", "non-disordered", whatever the codeword of the day is for average humans.

Open offices save employers more money (they hope) in space than they lose in lowered productivity. There's no reason to think your average Joe or Jane can just carry on working in one as efficiently as in a private office.
This isn't mentioned anywhere on the page, but fork is generally not a great API for these kinds of things. In a multi-threaded application, any code between the fork and exec syscalls should be async-signal-safe. Since the memory is replicated in full at the time of the call, the current state of mutexes is also replicated and if some thread was holding them at the time, there is a risk of a deadlock. A simple print! or anything that allocates memory can lead to a freeze. There's also an issue of user-space buffers, again printing something may write to a user-space buffer that, if not flushed, will be lost after the callback completes.
> the investigation showed how extremely reckless negligent and careless Waltz was

This is just a case where there's an individual to blame. We're looking back at at least eighty years of negligence and recklessness. Basically every conflict we've been in indicates clearly we don't have the competence nor the honesty that a reasonable human would find sufficient to manage such a destructive entity.
> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety.

They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.
Don't ban advertising but also don't treat commercial advertising as pure free speech.

For instance, for false claims, make it easier to drag a corporation into court and get legal remedies commensurate with the damage or potential damage caused by their dishonesty.

Right now the bias is towards unfettered, dishonest and psychologically manipulative commercial "free speech" with no guardrails the average person can enforce.

So, saying "we think this is the best detergent ever" is fine. It's clearly an opinion. But false or generally misleading claims, especially those that cover-up the potential dangers of the product, could lead to punitive damages sufficient to be a deterrent.
Apologies if that came across as at all critical. Genuinely interested in the rationale rather than it being a how-dare-you demand for you to explain yourself!
To what degree are these Nautilus stories based off of the work of a single researcher or lab that does not have broader consensus amongst the research community?

What's a good way for a layperson to tell if this is a new scientific consensus arrived at after hundreds of researchers come to the same conclusion or a breakthrough result that has shocked the entire research community?
In no modern times did one side complete erase the other side. Hell, even 2000 years ago many regular romans were disgusted by the brutality of roman soldiers against Carthage.

Israeli violence is unprecedented in several objective metrics: in pounds of bumbs dropped, percentage of civilians death, percentage of civilian household destroyed (on par with Dresden now).
Seems like the obvious solution to this, is if you collect driving data on public highways, the data has to be made available to the public. If you collect the data on private highways you are free to keep it private. If you don't intend to use it in a product on public highways it can remain private.

Doesn't even seem that crazy when you consider the government is already licensing them to be able to use their private data anyway. Biggest issue is someone didn't set it up this way from the start.
While my DMV and TSA use some kind of green on black terminal system, I think this is still kind of optimistic for work more complex than sequential entry. Maybe something like q4os could be employed for a stable GUI. From what I’ve seen in government work, groupware and chat systems are a definite force multiplier over a locked dumb terminal
If the goal of these tags are metadata for AI consumption, and the solution to generate them is “use an AI”… what is the point?
I bet doctors have many compelling thoughts about urban planning. If they were enthusiastic, I'd curiously listen to what they have to say.

(It is the intersection between domains where wisdom and innovation shine.)
His biographer estimates his IQ is 100-110. [0]

[0] https://x.com/SethAbramson/status/1892710698683142638
Safari has 20% of the market in The US?
Interesting. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed the Human playlist, especially the High setting with those percussive sounds that were quite grating at first. I could easily see myself getting in a productive trance to that. It reminded me of why I like techno, drone, and ambient music. I'm surprised how well BPM Forest worked too. Imo it could use some variety in kicks and longer forest/rain loops.
Human vision isn't good enough, though. Otherwise why not just drive the car yourself?
The people who die in workplace accidents are only affecting them. It’s completely different if an autonomous vehicle injured someone else.

Also dangerous workplaces are carefully controlled access environments where only the people that work there are in danger.

Imagine if airplane fatalities happen even 1% as often as car fatalities? Right now the ratio is around 770:1 per passenger mile.
Research vs productization. Very different.
Right, he despises environmental regulations because he’s “trying to get us to a new home”, so who cares what happens to this one? Especially if it delays him doing so.

Someone said in an interview “Elon desperately wants the world saved. But only if by him.”
Thank you for summarizing. Many of the comments here seem to be focusing on obscure portions of the article, so it's easy for a lurker on HN to be misled.
We need a cross-cutting examination of how bad 'economics' is as a science, outside of a narrow defined set of measurable parameters
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Thank you!

Still seems a little weird to include in an article meant for a general audience, but I appreciate that geology uses these as technical terms.

Since you know the field, can you explain what the difference is between a solid flowing and a solid dripping? Thinking about it more, my mental model of dripping requires surface tension for drops to even exist. But surface tension doesn't exist for solids, right? What defines a solid "drop" as opposed to, I don't know, just a layer or pieces?

Or am I overthinking this and it was just chosen as a silly fun word to use?
> Hence why this is a non-serious, silly idea.

I don't know if I go that far. I can see arguments for both sides of the issue. And at the same time, I know it would be impossible to do, but I could see that not having advertising would fix a lot of problems in our society. And yes, advertising is a broad term. Maybe we have clear rules around what's advertising and what's propaganda.
USB served its intended purpose extremely well, being maliciously complex is a feature. The goal first and foremost was to put the PC at the center of the future digital world, to avoid a timeline where FireWire or something like FireWire linked our devices together w/o a PC as an intermediary.

I would love a protocol you outline, but could you use SPI as the physical layer and put the rest on top?
Then Tesla should pay for back up drivers until their safety record meets the bar.
Tap Tap Revenge
This is not true. The phones are government issued and the DNI has testified to Congress that Signal was pre installed on their official phones.
Statistically, as a motorcyclist you should be afraid of fatally rear-ending someone else, since that is the top cause of motorcyclist deaths in America. Of course that is within your control and if you feel like you have reduced that risk through personal practice then yeah getting rear-ended or left-hooked are the biggest dangers.
> I have often observed government officials carrying two phones and using both of them in the same meeting.

I have two phones. One for work and my personal phone. What's your point?
Illegalize advertising. Then intensely monitor every conversation everywhere always for advertizational content.
If you've ever found a big 'dead' spider in an open area of your basement, chances are high that it's actually a discarded exoskeleton and the real, even bigger, spider is still hanging around somewhere hidden.
> I find that most mainstream SF or fantasy books consist of the same foundational elements - but add fantastic concepts or spectacle to the mix

I think they also broaden the mind, because they make people imagine how other societies could function, how technology could change things, what could exist in the universe we do not know etc.

Historical fiction, and even more actual old writing, has some of the same impact, but is limited to what has happened, rather than what could happen.

> I think it's useful for young people to be exposed to what's widely regarded as some of the best-written books out there, so that they might get an idea of what a really well-written book looks like.

I agree entirely, but a list you have to complete is not the wat to do it.
Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us [pdf] (2003)
If half of the population had a lidar eye would your opinion change?
My slogan for using FOSS for govt is "citizen owned software".

At one time, I anticipated the rise of FOSS consortiums. Jurisdictions with similar needs would join together to share the cost and risks.

Canada, Mexico, USA each have 1,000s of juridictions. Surely at any one time there's a handful planning a technology refresh of some domain.

One easy example I know of is property tax administration. There's a bunch of counties of similar size all doing the same thing, but all running off in separate directions. Vendor options are complicated, expensive, and have lock-in. Surely it'd be beneficial to pool their resources and own their stack?

Another is election administration. US counties used to do all it themselves. Candidate filings, voter registration, poll books, yadda, yadda. Now it's all outsourced. Lower service for higher prices. (The "certification" process was captured, serving to protect incumbents. Natch.)

Any way.

I was a grunt for a member of a consortium FOSS project. It was awful. "The Logic of Collective Action" explained a great deal of the pathology. Also, Byran Cantrill's quote (wrt Open Solaris) about "having the freedom but not the power to fork" was spot on for our project.

Any way.

Does any one have examples or game plan or vision for realizing more FOSS in govt? I'm not quite ready to give up on the dream.
Idk, many people are just bad at driving due to impatience.

They don’t leave enough space/time to react even if they did have enough awareness