skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahmad al-Dahle, who leads "Gen AI" at Meta, wrote this on Twitter:

... We're also hearing some reports of mixed quality across different services ...

We've also heard claims that we trained on test sets -- that's simply not true and we would never do that. Our best understanding is that the variable quality people are seeing is due to needing to stabilize implementations.

We believe the Llama 4 models are a significant advancement and we're looking forward to working with the community to unlock their value.

https://x.com/Ahmad_Al_Dahle/status/1909302532306092107 / https://archive.vn/JzONp
It say a ton about the democracy , when a 2/3 majore can not oust the sumoners and the circle.
I have only come across SEPA as a means of making transfers between bank accounts. Can it be used for payments too (e.g. instead of a credit card)?

It is also single currency - Euro only, right? Swift is global.

Dealing with many currencies and laws (e.g. countries with capital controls) is very complex.
This is actually a great idea, thanks!
Most of the professionals in this industry actively despise this technology.
This looks like a spiral cable which supports USB4 40Gbps:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AWADUO-Charging-Extension-Compatibl...
Every time I'm in japan I walk far more than I do while in the US. I also end up going up stairs a lot more than I ever need to in the US. Good public transportation makes a huge difference.
Forget about the entire iPhone. The USA cannot manufacture radios. I'm not joking. All fundamental communication technology (for consumers) is not made here.
And that's how they get to the millions of monthly deportations per month that they were fantasizing about in Project 2025.....
It helps to prevent scams because you know who the money is going to (not foolproof, of course).
CPF in Brazil is not as fragile or sensitive as the SSN in the US. You can't easily wreck someone's life just because you know their name and CPF. CPF numbers are shared pretty much everywhere since it's a unique identification code for a single person. All businesses ask for it when they're generating invoices/receipts etc. You basically use your CPF everywhere and there's virtually no risk in sharing it.
That's not to say that identity theft is not a thing in Brazil. It definitely is, however the damage is usually not as bad as the stories you hear in the US and the blame is usually put on the banks / service providers for not doing the proper KYC to verify the documents. It'll be a headache for the person, but usually something that is quickly fixed.
Makes sense except for the fact that they leaked the llama weights by accident and needed to reverse engineer that explanation.
This article is an example of why the gender-neutral use of pronouns makes things a pain to read. If you're already changing the interviewees' names then IDK why you couldn't just pick an arbitrary he/she pronoun to stick to for one character.

> Francis says their understanding of the AI-pusher’s outlook is that they see the entire game-making process as a problem, one that AI tech companies alone think they can solve. This is a sentiment they do not agree with.
This has been a pattern since the first release of Unreal Engine. It's how we managed to smoosh it onto PS2 and Xbox.
Hackers Spied on 100 US Bank Regulators' Emails for over a Year
Also, Trump plans to fine migrants $998 per day for staying in the US.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-fine-migrants-9...
I bet it would be outrageously expensive to replace. Escalators aren't cheap to begin with and this one is no doubt built to its own standard so anything you replace it with would have to be heavily customized to fit.
>The issue is lying about your experiences

Side note, as far as a job requirements goes the bigger issue is asking for impossibly diverse experience and asking for things that can be easily learnt. This promotes lying because the liars are the ones that are rewarded with an initial interview. I was talking to a fresh graduate with some volunteer experience who was having difficulty getting a job, and all I could hesitatingly recommenced was to tell him lie on his resume so that his resume could get past the screening.
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It's too stupidly done to be protectionism.
Easy, vastly improved inference performance on machines with larger RAM but lower bandwidth/compute. These are becoming more popular such as Apple's M series chips, AMD's strix halo series, and the upcoming DGX Spark from Nvidia.
We only need to throw into the arena the mighty power of executive orders, and great wall of Europe.
I still can hardly believe that Lutnick thing was so real. Just bizarrely, nakedly corrupt.
> everyone who trains hard for a marathon

> Does everyone who does an event suffer heart damage?

These do not mean the same thing. Everyone who trains hard for a marathon is not everyone who does a marathon.
It's the white balance of the camera. Ambient light is making it overcompensate the screen and make it more blue.
To be fair, everybody who takes a thermodynamics course owes 90% of it to the 'steam science' pioneers. Understanding what determines and limits the efficiency of heat engines was as big a deal in its day as the WWW is in ours, but unlike our own era, a lot of brand-new science and math had to be discovered by those engineers.

Steam tech is much, much more interesting than it appears at first.
Wow, that’s quite surprising!

In Europe, it’s quite common to see machines like these in buildings: https://www.seeberger-professional.de/wp-content/uploads/202... (left to right: hot drink, snack, and cold drink machines).

Smaller ones are also common: https://www.observantonline.nl/Portals/0/OpenContent/Files/1... (there you can also see the disposable cups that the hot drinks are dispensed in).

Is that why Starbucks is popular in America - no hot drink machines?
I think the last point is the easiest to address for me for now:

Yes, the allegations of genocide against the Uyghur were fabricated. Pure CIA fiction. After all, neither Muslim nations nor the UN are denouncing or investigating Chinese anti terrorist policies as genocidal, unlike a certain totalitarian dictatorship that likes to portray itself as the Hebrew state and who happens to livecam and brag about its demonic acts on TV.
I've seen stuff that echoes this sentiment before, and I have to say I don't understand this desire at all. Why would I need a computer to show me what something in a book looks like? I already have an imagination for that!

Books are fundamentally a collaborative artform between the author and the reader. The author provides the blueprint, but it's up to the reader to construct the scene in their own head. And every reader is going to have slightly different interpretations based on how they imagine the events of a book. This act of imagination and re-interpertation is one of the things I love about reading books.

Having a computer do the visualization for you completely destroys what makes books engaging and interesting. If you don't want to visualize the book yourself, I have to wonder why the hell you're reading a book in the first place.

If you need that visual component, just watch a movie or read a comic book or something. This isn't a slight against movies or comics! They're fantastic mediums and are able to utilize their visual element to communicate ideas in ways that books can struggle with. And these visuals will form a much more cohesive artistic vision then whatever an AI outputs, since they're an integrated and intentional part of the work.
It is always a good reminder...
But I just want the software I use to not be bad.

I don't want to start a company, find funding money, hire developers, develop a go-to-market strategy, A/B test, pivot, pivot again, and eventually maybe release a product or maybe just get bought out.

I just want to be able to right-click and/or highlight some text in my child's school's communications app.
Not your keys, not your coins. It is never a sound idea to leave a large amount of cryptocurrency on an exchange. I don't think this will fundamentally change from Mt. Gox
I guess I don't understand what you mean when you say companies reselling said copyrighted artwork face no penalty. Why wouldn't they? If I was to make a copy of a Studio Ghibli movie and sell it, I would absolutely face a penalty if I was caught.
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Tailscale is a great. I think of it as a swiss army knife for easier routing and connectivity.

I use it in projects to stream internet / connectivity from my phone to the NVIDIA Jetson line, making my robotics projects easily accessible / debuggable:

https://github.com/burningion/bicyclist-defense-jetson?tab=r...
look at the right hand edge of the photo to put his comment in perspective.
They definitely called for arresting protesters. People don’t forget that easily lol.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4637548-democrats-split-...
I appreciate the link, but Australia is an almost entirely tropical/subtropical country, with Sidney being as far from the equator as Northern Africa. I don't believe that analysis can tell you anything about Northern Europe.

This means that solar power output is much more seasonal, and most critically, power consumption in Northern Europe is highest during the winter months. I expect this is not the case for Australia.
Oh absolutely, I think its a totally fair strategy overall and I appreciate their honesty but that one statement kind of felt unfair.
This is amazing. I wonder if 3270 and 5150 terminals can be set to an ASCII/VT100 mode - they are much more common on eBay than serial ones.
All the stable diffusion software I've used names the files after some form of the prompt, and probably because SD weights the first tokens higher than the last tokens, probably as a side effect of the way the CLIP/BLIP works.

I doubt any of these companies have rolled their own interface to stable diffusion / transformers. It's copy and paste from huggingface all the way down.

I'm still waiting for a confirmed Diffusion Language Model to be released as gguf that works with llama.cpp
OK, but is Youtube Kids limited to the official "approved-for-kids" channels (so mainly Peppa Pig and co)? Or can I also allow arbitrary channels for older kids that are only available on Youtube proper?
Interesting. I never used much IBM hardware, and always assumed that their terminals used EBCDIC and not ASCII.

The HP 2648A terminal also had a "block mode", and the RTE screen editor used it. It was one of the first screen editors I ever used (in 1984). (I had used WordStar on CP/M as early as 1979.)

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

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/HP_2648A

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000/RTE-A/92077-90039_RTE-A...
Not everything that grows quickly is exponential. What evidence specifically do you have that the growth is proportional to the already existing capacity? Or even that it will continue to accelerate?

A counterpoint: the recent quick growth has been fueled by panels getting cheaper. They used to be the majority of the cost. But that's not true anymore. The cost will soon be mainly installation (i.e. labor) and space. Neither are amenable to drastic further decreases.

Fortunately we've already reached the point where it's the cheapest option, so that it will continue to replace other power sources even if it does get much cheaper anymore.
Creative labor is not entitled to the work parent comment is describing. We employ labor because it is beneficial to us, not merely because it exists as an option. Creative labor’s responsibility is to adapt to a changing world and find roles where their labor is not simply produced / exceeded by a computer system.

Practically speaking, the work described would most likely never have been done, rather than been done by an artist if that were the only option - it’s uncommon to employ artists to help with incidental tasks relative to side projects, etc.
It's also the perfect excuse if you get caught lying. “Oh shit, I ran it through ChatGPT one last time after proof-reading, and forgot to review the output carefully. Sorry!”
Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds
'Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study using bioenergetic modeling.'
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There's nothing painful about this to anyone who hasn't been conscripted into the culture wars.
I guess GP meant that online shops, mechanics, government bodies and schools were meant to move along?

Not exactly clear where to, though. We don't have another messaging system with quite as wide reach (a.k.a. high value, in terms of Metcalfe's law) as email.

Texts(SMS), maybe? But those are not without their own problems - see "green text bubble stigma".
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43623737
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> radicalized youth

Two of my teenage sons play sports and at times it feels like all content consumption roads eventually lead to “manfluencers”[0]. If they’re watching content on lifting techniques, sports discussions, or gaming—not uncommon topics for teenagers—the recommendations are riddled with rabbit holes into the so called manosphere.

[0] https://www.psypost.org/rejected-and-radicalized-study-links...
I was actually quite interested, even though it's more of a comment about AI than about the game.

I would note that I think the LLM had trouble because copying and pasting from the puzzle omits all the blank word underlines ("____"). I've dealt with this when copying into my own notepad for trying to work it out myself.
> These don't have anywhere to shift to.

Advertising spend is elastic, even for consumer products. Companies don't commit to a certain level of advertising regardless of cost, they carefully evaluate the ROI of each advertising buy. The primary purpose of the proposal to increase the cost of ads is to reduce the ROI of advertising and therefore reduce the amount of ads across the board.

For example, Coca-Cola has competitors that spend significantly less on advertisements, which is a major reason store brand cola often costs less. Same with Dove, I see far fewer ads for store brand soap or brands like Dr Bronners. Same with fast-food chains like McDonalds which spends about an order of magnitude more on ads than many of their competitors.

Brands that advertise heavily typically charge a premium to cover the cost of their advertisements and many customers are willing to pay more for heavily-advertised products. But consumer preference for advertised brands is not unbounded. If Dove soap costs 10x more than store brand soap to cover the increasing cost of their advertising budget then more consumers will switch to store brand soap no matter how many Dove commercials they see. Therefore, Dove must calibrate their advertising budget to balance the cost of advertisements against the expected premium they can charge over their less-advertised competitors.

(Whereas something like a tariff on raw materials would affect companies more broadly -- it's a lot easier for a car company to run half as many ads than to make a car with half as much aluminum.)

> the main effect would be to lower advertising prices, not reduce advertising space.

Edited to note that the prices charged by advertising platforms cannot go lower than the cost to deliver the ad. It costs money to run a search engine, create TV shows, or construct a billboard, so if it the price a company is willing to pay for an ad on that platform goes below a certain point then the advertisement is no longer economically viable and does in fact disappear. Possibly forcing the ad-supported service to adapt (e.g. paid video) or disappear entirely (e.g. billboards).
> There is no genetic reason or support for mandatory detrimental tradeoffs.

That isn't always true. We know in humans there are genes that depending on which variation you have, you will either be more social or have better memory. According to AI I'm thinking of BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor), but digging deeper doesn't indicate that is correct. Either way there often are trade offs in genetics.

Though of course genetics is only one factor. How your are raised/taught also makes a difference.
I don't know about Llama 4. Competition is intense in this field so you can't expect everybody to be number 1. However, I think the performance culture at Meta is counterproductive. Incentives are misaligned, I hope leadership will try to improve it.

Employees are encouraged to ship half-baked features and move to another project. Quality isn't rewarded at all. The recent layoffs have made things even worse. Skilled people were fired, slowing down teams. I assume the goal was to push remaining employees to work even more, but I doubt this is working.

I haven't worked in enough companies of this size to be able to tell if alternatives are better, but it's very clear to me that Meta doesn't get the best from their employees.
Can reinforcement learning for LLMs scale beyond math and coding tasks? Probably
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AI is the latest "overwhelmingly negative" games industry fad, affecting game developers. It's one of many. Most are because nine out of ten companies make games for the wrong reason. They don't make them as interactive art, as something the developers would like to play, or to perfect the craft. They make them to make publishers and businessmen rich.

That business model hasn't been going so well in recent years[0], and it's already been proclaimed dead in some corners of the industry[1]. Many industry legends have started their own studios (H. Kojima, J. Solomon, R. Colantonio, ...), producing games for the right reasons. When these games are inevitably mainstream hits, that will be the inflection point where the old industry will significantly decline. Or that's what I think, anwyay.

[0] https://www.matthewball.co/all/stateofvideogaming2025

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tJdLsQzfWg
Sure they do, it's just called fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Enough to fill up about 1/3 of a mechanical engineering degree, if you're really into it (most aren't).

Not that there's a lot of historical context to things as far as which people did what - most of that sort live on in names of techniques and methods (Rankine cycle, de Laval turbine, Carnot efficiency, etc.)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617207
Hmmmm... there also used to be Wired. But they've moved away from hard journalism and neutral reporting of technology to more sensationalism and opinion articles.
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Nearly every artist I've spoken to or have seen talk about this technology says it's evil, so at least among the victims of this corporate abuse of the creative community, there's wide consensus that it's bad.

> but I certainly don't think that AI without restrictions is going to lead to fewer people with art jobs.

It's great that you think that but in reality a lot of artists are saying they're getting less work these days. Maybe that's the result of a shitty economy but I find it very difficult to believe this technology isn't actively stealing work from people.
Really appreciate that, this was exactly the goal. Detection always felt like a guessing game, so we wanted to flip the model and build something verifiable from the start. We’re already starting conversations with folks close to the major LLM providers, so fingers crossed this helps move things in the right direction. Thanks again for the kind words, means a lot!
I have the Gemini app on my phone and you can interact with it with voice only and I was like oh this is really cool I can use it while I'm driving instead of listening to music.

I can never think of anything to talk to an AI about. I run LM local, as well
That's actually a valid point. I stand corrected.
I wouldn't call what Meta is doing with VR/AR an "open future", it's pretty much the exact same playbook that Google and Apple used for their platforms. The only difference is Meta gets to be the landlord this time.
> When people do know better it comes up short consistently

I disagree with that part and I don't think this opinion can be sustained by anyone using it with any regularity in good faith

People can argue whether it's 70/30 or 30/70 or what domains it's more useful in than others but you are overstating the negative.
> I really don't understand (from Australia) about this fear and hate of globalism

The person youre responding to is a victim of the US culture wars. That is clear as day with the mention of a feminist blog Jezebel, that's entirely irrelevant to the story of Quartz, a business focused website. I'm not going to speculate why a word like 'globalism' results in the clutching of pearls but i think there are some historical precedents around certain similar phrases like 'cosmopolitan', that provide a clue.
The repair culture exists because there's a market for it. People's disposable income--or lack thereof--forces them to make do with less shiny, older, products. As society gets richer, this repair culture, too, will fade and go extinct. "When I can easily afford, why should I settle?", the thinking will go.

What I'd like to see is for society to embrace repair culture because that feels the right thing to do. A culture where it should feel immoral to chuck something out when there's still life left on the product. A culture where repairing makes economic sense--i.e., the cost of repair doesn't surpass that of a new, comparable, product by a wide margin.

When deprecation is the norm and fashion, when companies are incentivized to "innovate" (read: planned obsolescence) and flood the market with cheap products, there won't be a repair culture.
This comment is giving me "I am very smart" vibes. Yes, everything you said was true, but I'm not sure it's adding that much value to the discussion and it comes across like its correcting GP, who never claimed that all birds are intelligent.

In fact, the tone of GP implicitly acknowledges that intelligence has a cost, because the post implies that intelligence isn't likely to manifest unless there's a clear advantage (presumably because intelligence has a cost which needs to be overcome by an advantage)
This about jives with my normal experience with the LLMs - a superficially valid answer that falls apart when you start interrogating how and what it actually did.
What did you find interesting?
Not right now, but I will as these evolve.

I would love an intelligent agent I can converse with via both voice and text that has access to all my information, privacy be damned.
I asked you, specifically. I'll bite anyways, but I'll expect an actual answer from you.

> Having to work weekends is the last resort when working under pressure

No, it's not. I've had to work weekends before. We had a live ops rotation that would occur roughly once every eight weeks or so for me. The times I've had to work on the weekend were due to needing to solve some prod bug that was causing relatively minor headaches but they wanted some triage and solutions in earlier as possible. This was not a 'you are fired if you fail to solve the bug issue' or a thing where management is breathing down my neck to fix it because they're all busy sleeping on the weekend while I'm tanking the call.

It's often the result of either shitty management or people that cannot log off.

> No other profession has the concept of "crunch time".

Crunch time is a vastly different kind of pressure. I would know, I've worked in professional game development. And again, it's often the result of shitty management. If a game is going to fail and management is forcing you to work long hours in order to fix it then it's time to walk away.
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