skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think rust was like C++ but harder to write badly but I don't think it's anything like C++ now that I've spent a couple of years writing it.

Rust is its own thing, it has none of the extensive baggage of C++, and doesn't appear to be set to reach that level of baggage at any point in time soon if ever. It's a much cleaner, clearer, and easier to reason about programming language.
Why would any big platform do so? What incentive it is for them?
I was being called a unicorn in a professional setting... unfamiliar with the term, I immediately thought I was being insulted, because unicorns exist just in people's imagination and fairy tales.
https://archive.md/xfXQF
Yeah it is lol. You don't just train your model on whatever you like when you're expected to serve it. They're are a host of problems with doing that. The idea that they trained on this obscure benchmark released about the day of is actually very silly.
Buying stocks expecting them to go up is also gambling. How many stocks pay decent dividend these days?
It doesn't matter if you think their plans will work and/or are a terrible idea. I don't waste words on the latter, because I assume stringing together insults on the internet isn't going to change anyone's mind.

Instead and more interestingly:

- Do you think they'll have any outcomes?

- If so, what do you think those outcomes will be?

Hint: there's plenty of academic literature on the topic
Nice, I'll put some bandaids on the stump that used to be my foot :-D
That's a pretty optimistic estimate, tbh.
Not for nothing, but slippery slope reasoning is a well-known fallacy and more or less an argument against all laws ("first they told me I couldn't kill anyone, now I can't hit anyone, now I can't talk about hitting anyone, now I can't write a story about hitting anyone or think about hitting anyone, murder laws are fascism"). The process of creating laws is about balancing rights, in this case your ability to advertise vs. your ability to be free from advertising and whatever its effects might be. The whole "banning advertising is impossible" argument (in fairness this basically the topic verbatim) is a lot less interesting than trying to find the principle or test where we can say, "this advertising seems useful to humanity" vs. "this advertising seems harmful to humanity". There's very little of the latter happening in this thread, which I think says it all.
For a profession that has improved the world so much, we are a pessimistic lot aren’t we?
There isn't actually any close() function in the std::fs::File: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html
One way to communicate this is in terms of _schedule risk_, rather than straight-up lost productivity. E.g. for a particularly troublesome design flaw, you might estimate that for any given 4-week project there's a 20% risk of the project blowing out by an extra week due to that flaw.

Depending on the stakeholder(s) you're dealing with, approaching it like this (as risk assessment/management) might help to convey the short-term impact of a long-term problem.
Assuming your somewhat methodical about labeling email in your non-primary tabs in Gmail, you can pretty much do periodic purges while not worrying much about your primary which, in my case at least, gets relative little traffic.
You do not seriously believe that he got hired based solely or even primarily on that, let's face it, quite mediocre military service resume.
The problem isn't in making "bad" software. The government has very specific requirements for communication related to security and preservation/documentation. They need communication tools that run off the public internet and maintain a detailed record of every message sent.

The problem today is that some (many?) politicians either don't understand or agree with those goals and pick more convenient tools that they may have been used to as a civilian.
The question is, how many people are legitimately living in areas where this is an actual concern in their lives? Outside of Alaska, Canada and Russia barely any place on Earth that relevant amounts of people live in, such low temperatures are a once-in-a-lifetime event.
I agree, about both the issue with benchmarks not being relevant to actual use cases and the "wants to sound smart" issue. I have seen them both first hand interacting with llms.

I think the ability to embed arbitrary knowledge written in arbitrary formats is the most important thing llms have achieved.

In my experience trying to get an llm to perform a task as vast and open ended as the one the author describes is fundamentally misguided. The llms were not trained for that and won't be able to do it in a satisfactory degree. But all this research has thankfully provided us with the software and hardware tools where one could start working on training a model that can.

Contrast that to 5-6 years ago, when all you could hope for this kind of thing was simple rule based and pattern matching systems.
Apple Inc vs. Secretary of State for the Home Department [pdf]
uBlock Origin is blocking the call to "GET https://cloud.umami.is/script.js" so the end screen is blank. This makes it look and feel buggy.
Author here - I'm planning to create game versions of this benchmark, as well as my other multi-agent benchmarks (https://github.com/lechmazur/step_game, https://github.com/lechmazur/pgg_bench/, and a few others I'm developing). But I'm not sure if a leaderboard alone would be enough for comparing LLMs to top humans, since it would require playing so many games that it would be tedious. So I think it would be just for fun.
So... >> When exactly did GNU ship a complete OS?

> the only people who could run BSD were shops that had a source-code license for the proprietary AT&T Unix.

So -- finally! -- that's the measure of OSS? It must run on non-proprietary systems? Not simply the source code? OSS that runs on Windows or MacOS or VMS is not actually OSS?

You figure that Linux is the first non-proprietary system in 1991? Not 4.3BSD released in 1989?

I think you can understand my and others reluctance to state definitively Stallman was first, when by a dozen different metrics he wasn't. I'm still trying to understand what he was supposedly first at? First to find a lawyer?

Linux is important. GNU is important. BSD is important. And they remain important. I don't think any of them are made more important by distinguishing only one and not the others. Like -- as much as it pains me to say it, because of how I loath Stallman and the FSF, GCC was more than important to the entire ecosystem for years. Until LLVM, it was required. Etc, etc.
The issue is the scale of the improvements. GPT-3.5 Instruct was an utterly massive leap over everything that came before it. GPT-4 was a very big jump over that. Everything since has seemed incremental. Yes we got multimodal but that was part of GPT-4, they just didn't release it initially, and up until very recently it mostly handed off to another model. Yes we got reasoning models, but people had been using CoT for awhile so it was just a matter of time before RL got used to train it into models. Witness the continual delays of GPT-5 and the back and forth on whether it will be its own model or just a router model that picks the best existing model to hand a prompt off to.
There was even an expression coined for this phenomenon in Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions

We have lots of SMEs that are world leading in their niche, but most people have never heard of them.
Oak – Open Agentic Knowledge
Author here - yes, I'm regularly adding new models to this and other TrueSkill-based benchmarks and it works well. One thing to keep in mind is the need to run multiple passes of TrueSkill with randomly ordered games, because both TrueSkill and Elo are designed to be order-sensitive, as people's skills change over time.
Correct, another way of looking at it is from a programming angle. If Debian fixes a bug that breaks your tool, then Debian is unstable. Therefore, to maintain stability, Debian must not fix bugs unless they threaten security.

The term "stable" is the most polluted term in Linux, it's not something to be proud of. Similar to how high uptime was a virtue, now it just means your system probably has been pwned at some point.
Do you have an example of an ideology for which most people in the world agree it produced more good than harm?

Why should I trust an ideology? Why should I buy into a fixed set of doctrines? Supposedly, an ideology is not a religion, so faith shouldn't be an argument.

Adopting a fixed view of the world doesn't allow me to be pragmatic. It doesn't allow me to adapt in a dynamic and ever changing world.

And most of the times something isn't absolutely bad or good, but it depends on a set of factors. Immigration can be good in some circumstances and bad in other. Taxes can be good in some circumstances and bad in other.

I might value both ideas which can be on the left or the right side of the political spectrum.

Usually ideologies are promising some kind of Paradise on Earth and saving something. But the results are mostly loss of freedoms which is justified by the supposedly "greater good".

Also, ideologues and activists doesn't produce anything of value for society, they just are into convincing people into following their ways. While they are benefiting greatly from it.
Disney: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jmvks3yteypr1sx92yveeqa1

Simpsons: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jr5d34s4eppr3ncxp322s9nx

Minecraft and LOTR: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jr5kgms2fabbxf57m1x01wng

McDonald's: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jr722mftebnvnr9vqeb50jwa
Gorgeous :)

My daughter just choose to do her big final school project on hyperbolic geometry, which I suspect was strongly influenced by her irrepressible urge to involve crochet in her exam work somehow.. So crochet inspires kids to do math. True!
By 2028 they probably won't be able to sell them in Mexico anyway thanks to competition from cheap EVs that the Japanese firms seem bizarrely averse to building.

Here's a headline for China last year:

> Honda Slashes Gas Engine Production In China After Sales Collapse To Focus On EVs

> Honda had a tough year in China, with sales dropping 30.9% to 852,269 units in 2024. This marks the first time in nine years that the Japanese brand has sold fewer than 1 million cars in the country
Author here - it's based on finishing positions (so it's not winner-take-all) and then TrueSkill by Microsoft (https://trueskill.org/). It's basically a multiplayer version of Elo that's used in chess and other two-player games.
100%, we have public records requirements for a reason and that needs to be followed. I assume you take the same issue with private email servers.
I agree that the LangChain docs and examples shouldn’t rely on their platform commercial products. Then the LangGraph and LangSmith documentation should layer in top of the LangChain docs.
The camera app on my GNU/Linux phone stores DNGs with no troubles using FLOSS only.
>people who share an ideology cooperate much more effectively than people who do not

While that might be true it doesn't follow that the effect of their cooperation is a net positive.
Show HN: Bucketscan – Turn Key Anti-Virus for Cloud Storage (AWS S3, etc.)
Hey HN!

A coworker and I were recently tasked with securing cloud storage against malware — specifically for S3. We expected to find a simple API-based antivirus service. Instead, we mostly found self-hosted ClamAV setups and/or a lot of duct tape.

So, we built Bucketscan.
It’s an API-first malware scanner for cloud object storage (S3, Azure Blob, R2, etc).
You can get scanning up and running in about 15 minutes.
There’s also a dashboard for visibility into detections and usage, and we’re working on things like policy-based actions and historical forensics.

We have tried to keep the MVP as small as possible - functional, but far from "done". We’re keen to hear from others who’ve faced similar challenges.
What would make something like this actually useful for you? We’re offering steep discounts in exchange for feedback and would love to involve early users in shaping the roadmap.

Would love your thoughts!
there are passive ways to track cell phones using bluetooth:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/bluetooth_tracking_de...

https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-02/find-my-hacker-how-apples-n...
> They just don't offer enough over phones

You can achieve maybe a quarter of the kinds of shots on a phone that an interchangeable-lens camera will let you make.

That's an extremely important quarter! For most people it covers everything they ever want a camera to do. But if you want to get into the other 75%, you're never going to be able to do it with the enormous constraints imposed by a phone camera's strict optical limits, arising from the tight physical constraints into which that camera has to fit.
That’s pretty much what I took away. I guess the difference is that in my mind a “regular” company gets its funding via a loan. The post is from someone who got into YC.

But yeah “building for profitability” sounds a lot like… good business!
> cheap EVs that the Japanese firms seem bizarrely adverse to building.

Because all Japanese car manufacturers are waiting in Idemetsu Kosan to start solid state battery manufacturing by 2027-28, hence why Nissan, Toyota, and Honda all have rollout plans by 2028.

Japanese companies prefer to buy from other Japanese companies, as the Japanese government's sovereign fund has voting positions in all these companies.

> probably won't be able to sell them in Mexico anyway

Most car sales in Mexico remain ICE/Gas driven - overwhelmingly Nissan and GM (Chevrolet) [0]. Not a single EV breaks into the top 50, and the only "Chinese" car that breaks into that list is the ICE MG 5. And if you've ever been to Mexico, you'll see how the Nissan Versa is basically the national car.

Mexico is equally nationalistic about Oil, as Pemex is a national institution, and Mexico's oil soverign fund has constantly helped stabilize Mexico's economy [1].

> Here's a headline for China last year

Mexico has halted incentives for Mexican automotive manufacturers since 2024 [2].

[0] - https://www.focus2move.com/mexico-best-selling-cars/

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/amlo-says...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/mexico...
For raw at high frame rates, high end cameras don't use SD cards but things like CFexpress which absolutely can keep up (and there are also various compressed RAW formats these days which apply a degree of lossy compression to reduce file size).

As I understand it, the reason some professional sports photographers don't shoot RAW (or it's less important) is more because they are in an environment where publishing quickly is important, so upload speeds matter and there isn't really much time to postprocess.
The legislature passed a law granting the leader of the executive branch emergency powers. The leader of the executive branch invoked the law for actions the legislature did not intend arguably. This happened in parliamentary democracies also.
I have been reading spy thrillers recently and my pet toy theory was that this was an attempt to unmask a mole. Leak information and see who publishes it.

Politicians regularly intentionally leak information they want leaked, and politicians also encounter leaks that they don't want leaked. Perhaps Goldberg did the only thing he could - he identified the trap.
> Put an LLM on top of a search engine, and that's the appropriate tool for this use case.

Hm nope, now that the web if flooded by LLM generated content it's game over. I can't tell how many times I almost got fooled by recipes &co which seem legit at first but are utter non sense. And now we're feeding that garbage back to where it came from
> There's no way that the broader Republican constituency is going to ignore this fact, regardless of Trump.

There’s no such thing as the broader Republican Party. It’s just Trump now. It’s like when a CEO packs a board with his friends and family, you don’t expect that board to keep the CEO in check.

In addition, Trump is a cult-like leader. His supporters will never, ever, ever break from him. They could lose every last penny, it wouldn’t matter. They’d blame the democrats. Trump is infallible and to question that is to attack them personally, they are unable to separate themselves from him at this point.

This is not hyperbole, it is an observation of fact for the last 8 years. He has never lost supporters. Everyone that has bet on him losing support from congress or his base, has been hilariously and spectacularly wrong, every single time. (Including me… I used to be pretty hooked on Trump news in his first presidency, thinking “this will surely sink him” after every single scandal. I still want to believe it’ll happen. But I know now it never will. You can only be wrong so many times before you realize it’ll never happen.)

The only realistic path to checking Trump is a massive blue wave in 2026 from pissed off (non-Trump-base) voters. But that’s 2 years away.
That's the point though? They're trying to show off the functionality of the display/board to interest you in using it for a side project (might not even be a calendar).

Pimoroni's entire target market is hobbyists, educators and people who want to do bespoke things with electronics. They're not interested in buying finished products because they either enjoy working on projects or it would be too limiting for their needs or both.

If you just want a finished product buy one of the other countless e-ink calendar displays that exist.
Ok, but how much do the skills cost?
In my view as well it's not really cheating, it's just over fitting.

If a model doesn't do good in the benchmarks it will either be retrained until it does or you won't hear about it.
How robust is this?

Isn't something like finding dimonds in minecraft something that old-school AI could already do decently?
Show me a single US beer commercial that aired on TV which actually shows folks drinking beer.

No rush. I'll wait. But I won't hold my breath.
Author here - some weaker LLMs actually have trouble tracking the game state. The fun part is when smarter LLMs realize they're confused!

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: "Hey P5! I think you're confused - P3 is already eliminated."

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: "I'm concerned about P7's message mentioning targeting P4, who's already eliminated. It suggests they might be confused or playing both sides."

Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp 02-05: "P2, you're getting confused. P8 is gone. Focus. P7 is talking to P5, that's expected. I need you to watch P4. Only P4. What are they doing? Who are they talking to, if anyone? Report only on P4 this round. Don't get distracted by eliminated players."

Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp 02-05: "P4, P2 is already eliminated. We need to focus on P3."
>I think that advice causes people to skip writing tests entirely and feel guilty about it

I dont think guilt or lack thereof is a good rationale for any development practice.

It actually annoys me that people so often add a moral dimension to development practices. The only question that matters is "does it work well?"

>You can't do snapshot testing if you force yourself to write the tests first!

Yes you can you can write the whole test, you just cant lock the snapshot artefact(s) in until you've written the code.
No, those numbers do not speak for themselves.

Firstly, if you earned £80k and needed a 3-bed flat, you would categorically not try to live in Westminster. The rent alone would come out well over £3k per month [0]. It's one of the most expensive places to rent in the country. Looking at the disposable income from £80k for a 3-bed flat is highly selective.

Secondly, money isn't the only factor when it comes to social housing. Consider that social housing is notoriously ill-maintained and has characteristics in line with the poorest 40% households [1]. And if you do live somewhere unsatisfactory, the waiting time for a 3-bed is around 3 years for non-high-priority applicants [2].

[0] https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s9851/Afford...

[1] https://ifs.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Housing-quali..., p12

[2] https://www.ukpropertymarketnews.co.uk/how-long-does-it-take...
That's not relevant to what we're discussing, though.
The expectation is that anyone looking at Pimoroni products will probably just 3D-print (or produce in some other way) a case. They're not trying to sell this as a finished product.
Humanity did fine with other systems that capitalism. Hunter gather societies were well adapted to their environments, Tibetan monks dealt with human relations differently etc.

It would be crazy to assume that the whole humanity longs for capitalism whatever their situation or belief system, the same way _we_ don't assume any current form of capitalism is specially superior to other alternative forms that could better benefit our situations.
Those were trained on human play. This had to figure it out from scratch.
I've seen humans make exactly these sorts of mistakes?
Not merely imbeciles but imbeciles enacting a plan to own power and obliterate everything except for elite right wing extremists. This includes obliterating the non-white Trumper imbeciles and lower socioeconomic imbecile Trunpers who have not even the slightest clue that they're just servile tools.
I think the worst is “reactive”.
See also: GameStop
Linear regression with Student's t-distribution (2019)
I found this blog when looking up Student’s t linear regression.
Sure, the equivilant of a professional court reporter with a standards enforcing role ... but that was never ever going to be a thing on a non SCIF casual signal group setup to gossip and swap fire emoji's outside of the official chain of defence command ...
My rule of thumb is it should be applied within the next week. Even most theoretical books have an application in some form. Can it be played with like AI? Would it unlock other insights like philosophy? If I'm skimming through a book and there's nothing that jumps out at me, I just don't read the book.
I think you've actually hit on one of the fundamental pillars of modern conservatism in America, which is that they don't actually believe in civil society nor do they believe that the government exists to benefit people. Conservative ideology these days pretty much limits government to maintaining trade agreements and arresting people that they don't like.
Yup, you're right! For some reason I copied the wrong link, thank you for correcting me.
The web Server is the reverse proxy allowing the upstream to be plain http
Nice writeup, short so is more approachable than John Koza’s classic book on GP. That said, if GP looks useful to you, eventually read Koza’s book, or at least experiment with his Common Lisp code.

Also don’t confuse Genetic Algorithms (GA) with GP.
Talking Machines Got Their Voices
Well, you missed the bit where ad and marketing networks get involved and corrupt it into some god-awful granular targeting system.
Bill Gates? From Macrosoft(?) Do you think that company is going somewhere or nah?
The change was made in 15.4
An aside: I've never once heard the word "blessed" used where the subtext wasn't "fuck you". It's the American equivalent of Britain's "With all due respect..." I love it.
I run a small (software) startup in Berlin, the administrative cost is more like €1000/year (of course increasing the bigger your business gets) .
Details: https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601050
DNG is easy to adopt so long as your images look like a Bayer image, and you don’t need any special treatment of the raw data.

Sigma’s camera’s are notorious for their lack of support in most editors because their Foveon files require extra steps and adjustments that don’t fit the paradigm assumed by DNGs (and they claim it would release proprietary information if they used dngs).

The bigger issue is that at the end of the day the dng format is very broad (but not broad enough) and you rely on the editor to implement it correctly (and completely). DNGs that you can open in one of the major editors will simply not open in another.