skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Always zero out your graphs

Great way to end up with useless graphs where you have a tiny line at the top that's been compressed to the point where you can't see any changes...

The "rule" about ensuring axes are zeroed is for bar charts not line graphs.
I think it was from Sean Caroll's book The Big Picture.

The statement is a category error, but that criticism distracts from the very valuable insight he does provide regarding entropy, life and complexity.

He did a series on minutephysics explaining it quite well, worth a watch. He does explain why complexity increases as entropy increases (with some additional qualification).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoaVOjvkzQtyZF-2VpJrx...
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I tried something like that some time ago. The problem with that strategy is the lack of backtracking.

Let's say I prompt my LLM to exclusively use the letters 'aefghilmnoprst' and the LLM generates "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for man-"[1]. Since the next token with the highest probability ("-kind") isn't allowed, it may very well be that the next appropriate word is something really generic or, if your grammar is really restrictive, straight up nonsense because nothing fits. And then there's pathological stuff like "... one giant leap for man, one small step for a man, one giant leap for man- ...".

[1] Toy example - I'm sure these specific rules are not super restrictive and "management" is right there.
LLMs are doing what you train them to do. See for example " The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions " by Eric Wallace et al.
Thanks to Javascript, I know void.

Thanks to Go, I know iota.
I keep seeing this pop up everywhere. I’m sure he’s a great guy, but the level of attention he’s getting is massively disproportionate. A lot of great people have been laid off recently!
I'm confident the first games trying to have an AI as game master are being built, if not demonstrated already.

And I'm also confident that they will not make for good games because the players will find and exploit loopholes. I think LLMs in (video) games are here and here to stay, but they will only be actually beneficial to a game if they are tightly restricted and limited in scope. (no having your ingame partner write your code for you)
> Philanthropy is absolutely an expectation, though I agree the noblesse oblige8 has decayed.

Arguably nobless oblige has been embedded in the legal system. The expectation is there and expressed in the tax code. The philosophical process was the elites sat down, codified their obligations and called it "our taxes".

Ironically, big chunks of beloch's post is pointing out that billionaires have a huge amount of social responsibility under the modern system. They are expected to provide welfare and build stadiums. Just not administer the process.
> Having launched a couple of dead startups that started with several months of writing code first, this way definitely sounds better.

This is basically what startup 101 tells you. This is what every successful entrepreneur will tell you. This is what every coach tells you. This is what every entrepreneurial book or blog will tell you.

But, this is also what every tech entrepreneur will ignore anyway.

This is one of those things that you have to experience a few times before you look back and think 'oh... they were right'. But coding is comfortable and cold calling is very scary. It's also against our nature to ask anyone what they think of your idea, because it might shatter your dream.

YC Startup school nailed this in one of their talks, the presenter opened the talk with something like "this is important advice that you will all ignore, and that's okay, my goal is to make you recognise the situation after you'll inevitably make one of these mistakes".

I'm not being a snob here. Trust me, I made this very same mistake. I ignored all the advice and poured years into building products that nobody wanted.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

If I had to bet money on it, I would say it's right, especially in light of things like this: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ai-image-recognition-universe....
Impressive to see this level of cross-org coordination on something that appears to be maturing at pace (compared to other consortium-style specs/protocol I've seen attempted)

Congrats to everyone.
You just show how antisemitic you are for all to see.
No one said anything about anything being broken, just about the ability to remotely heat up the car before starting to drive. Having a heating and having a remote controlled heating that works with the car switched off are two separate things.
You don't need the awkward "does". I'd go with:

It is a tool to suck up dust and dirt from rugs, wood or even tile.
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I've read many of his books and I could certainly recommend all of them.

He was an extraordinary writer.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/338157180?hl=en...
You don't need to go all the way to LLMs when a simpler approach may do.

Here's a "What if?" on a very similar issue that uses Markov chains: https://what-if.xkcd.com/75/
> "The debug mode sounds interesting at first thought"

I don't think so. I just added typia's is* checks to places where I am digesting a json input, it was rather trivial, and now I can actually trust for the first time that the object I am holding actually matches the declared type.

> "You can’t make things idiot proof"

I just did. You can't have a non-idiot-proof program running in the wild and blindly trusting the outputs of whatever API it uses.
I am missing something big here. How and why did they raise 480 million dollars in a year for a cloud security product? It doesn't sound like a capital intensive business to me. Is that all going to employees?
On latest Chrome, MBP i7 2019 and it sure is laggy as hell

https://www.unkey.com/
> The Republicans are not going to cut the debt

Well, they are also massively cutting state worker jobs. Plus the tariffs will bring in tax money as well.
I'm not sure what the net effect will be of these together with the tax cuts.
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> I don't want to work for another US company again if I can help it

You can work for a US company in the UE. They have to follow the local rules like anybody else.
I was once messing around with disassembling a digital camera, and accidentally touched the flash capacitor, which gave me a big shock, both figuratively and literally.
I've also not touched anything that spicy since.
"Believing in the mission" requires a suspension of disbelief that can reduce the impact of various factors that would otherwise decrease morale (e.g. lower cash compensation, fewer benefits, unfair working conditions, longer hours, etc).

There's a reason many startups are built on hordes of college kids and it's not that they "have more energy" or "are more willing to think outside the box". They're less experienced and thus easier to manipulate. They're also less likely to have dependents they need to take into consideration, don't understand their limits or trade-offs between short-term performance and long-term endurance (e.g. burnout), and are more likely to be naive about their place in the company and the effect/function of the company. Plus, of course, they're "less risk-averse" which is another way of saying bad at judging the odds of certain outcomes.
I'm honestly curious, but what do you think that is?
Any advantage compared to creating a single cross-platform executable in GO and support file system access?
What he meant is that the whole capitalist culture, less regulations, creates a more thriving economy which creates more jobs and hence more options to go to.
Is it just me, or is this thing really, really stupid?

I mean the whole AI personal assistant shebang from all possible angles.

Imagine, for example if booking.com built an MCP server allowing you to book a hotel room, query all offers in an area in a given time, quickly, effortlessly, with a rate limit of 100 requests/caller/second, full featured, no hiding or limiting data.

That would essentially be asking them to just offer you their internal databases, remove their ability to show you ads, remove the possibility to sell advertisers better search rankings, etc.

It would be essentially asking them to keel over and die, and voluntarily surrender all their moat.

But imagine for a second they did do that. You get the API, all the info is there.

Why do you need AI then?

Let's say you want to plan a trip to Thailand with your family. You could use the fancy AI to do it for you, or you could build a stupid frontend with minimal natural language understanding.

It would be essentially a smart search box, where you could type in 'book trip to Thailand for 4 people, 1 week, from July 5th', and then it would parse your query, call out to MCP, and display the listings directly to you, where you could book with a click.

The AI value add here is minimal, even non-existent.

This applies to every service under the sun, you're essentially creating a second Internet just for AIs, without all the BS advertising, fluff, clout chasing and time wasting.
I, as a human am dying to get access to that internet.

Edit: I'm quite sure this AI MCP future is going to be enshittified in some way.
>I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp.

Boy, this whole post sure has a lot of "I didn't think the leopards would eat my face" about it.
36% is MASSIVE for a metal treated primarily as a store of value.
I guess this also explains why the site is so fancy that I can't scroll it without my phone lagging horribly lol
Very good read.
Whether you are an avantgardist digital nomad, or a backwater-dwelling local patriot, you should read this post ;-)
Must do. I wonder if that's because of the wide access to weapons? Although I thought I'd heard that there still wasn't much gun violence in Switzerland.
Wow 10 micron is a lot smaller than I thought a handmade wood shaving would be. Th champions are even better in the single digits consistently.
This is also in turn why cars without apps or screens are even better still.
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Could this lead to better semiconductor manufacturing? Increased yields, fewer defects, larger chips, etc.?
It's basically what happened in Java. Everyone used jodatime, and they took great inspiration from that when making the new standard time api for java 8.
In genetic algorithms, any gradient found would be implied by way of the fitness function and would not be something to inherently pursue. There are no free lunches like with chain rule of calculus.

GP is essentially isomorphic with beam search where the population is the beam. It is a fancy search algorithm. It is not "training" anything.
I'm not a car person, but as an Ubuntu Touch user I have ran into issues with bike share providers who only allow renting a bike through an app which is only available for Android or iOs. I take umbrage at that and liken it to cars: imagine if you could only unlock your car with an Android phone or an iPhone. If your phone were to malfunction or got stolen or whatever you wouldn't be able to get into your car.

Now, as not a car person I don't know if there are cars like that, but seeing:

> it seems like the NissanConnect app [...] may detect when x86_64 Android is being used and then refuse to sign in.

Imagine having a ZenPhone 2, downloading an app to manage your car and it refusing to work. I'd go ape.
It is fraud to take advantage of the fact that your employees don't realise their stocks are not the same kind of stock that the VC and the founders have.
It's all managed by the car's computers, the complications are already there. You just don't get to control them how you like, for no good reason.
This is embarrassing, but I hastily misread your comment as saying something it didn’t say. So just disregard my comment altogether!
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Could this be run as a web interface? For example, getting a GCP instance with GPU and deploying it there and accessing it from the browser.

EDIT: Seems it has a client/server model and the server can be installed somewhere else: https://transformerlab.ai/docs/install/advanced-install

But I'm wondering if this is an electron based app and I could run the client on a web interface as well.
If I understand it correctly, that's a valid concern but the way structured generation library like outlines[1] work is that they can generate multiple variants of the inference (which they call beam search).

One beam could be "This is a way to solv-". With no obvious "good" next token.
Another beam could be "This way is solv-". With "ing" as the obvious next token.

It will select the best beam for the output.

[1]:https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines
In non-web contexts untrusted input is not interpolated into the executable streams so you don't worry about special characters. E.g., there is no point in "sanitizing" the name of a variable in a C compiler.

> And if you really want a template that is a separate object that is passed the values separately, you can just wrap a t-string in a function that takes the parameters as arguments.

No, you can't do that: "Template strings are evaluated eagerly from left to right, just like f-strings. This means that interpolations are evaluated immediately when the template string is processed, not deferred or wrapped in lambdas." Every function evaluation creates a new Template object, it does not reuse a precompiled one.

> and possibly faster

Possibly not, since precompilation is not supported.
3. subreddits where sane things are removed and their posters are banned, but the banning mods try very hard to make it out like it's situation 2.
> I haven't considered selling the Cybertruck because it takes a whole lot of courage to consistently grow and work and strive really hard to be successful in business and help the community. I am not one that will be bullied. I'm just not going to allow a group of people to bully me into actually trading in my vehicle.

A. It's the businesses vehicle. Not the individuals.

B. It's starting to cost the business more money AND harming employees of said business.

C. A primary intended purpose is to advertise and promote the business. It's not achieving that in a good manner now. Good business would be to dump the toxic asset.
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The new pull and the old pull both just feel like a pull, if you can only feel the pull at one spot. To see how the old pull is not like the new pull, you have to test the pull at a spot near you (but not the same spot), too. The new pull will be the same at each spot, but the old pull may not be the same (we call this the tide), and you test the sum of the new and old pull.

(This is hard.)
Not even building and exporting widebody aircraft?
Something about this free-wheeling non sequitur, if you even can call it that, is incredibly hilarious to me!
I’ve always been a “time in the market” is better than “timing the market” guy, but I find myself questioning that a ton in the current climate. When US bond yields started rising in the current market calamity, I was not surprised but definitely alarmed. As a “retirement saver” (not trader), what’s the best strategic hedge at the moment?
How well the protocol is designed doesn't matter, the most popular choice is not necessarily the best one. Sometimes "worse is better."
> It's not the road's job to make you follow the speed limit.

Good road design makes it impossible to speed.
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Look at the cost of living rankings.

https://www.mottomortgage.com/blog/ranking-each-of-the-50-st...

Notice that the 12 bottom states are all blue states?

And tax burden rankings

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state...
Probably because English is written left to right and doesn't work so well top to bottom. So vertical bits tend to not include text, which is quite limiting. I do remember older UIs that included text at 90 degrees on sidebars, but that seems to have gone completely out of fashion.

The real problem is our screens are the wrong shape. 16:9 is a stupid aspect ratio for a computer monitor if you work mostly with text. Square is probably the best. Using floating windows (like classic Mac OSX) is an option, but for some reason people like full screen windows these days. A tiling window manager is another option to effectively divide the screen up into better shaped areas. I tend to have 6 columns across 2 screens which works well.
The Kalshi market for this has had 2:1 odds against them even reducing government spending, let alone lower the annual deficit (and lessening the debt is right out).

The last Republican president that managed to cut annual spending was Eisenhower. (Obama and Biden both pulled it off twice though.)
You think engineers never scam?
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I want to chime in. I drive Skoda Enyaq (VW Family EV, think ID.4) and have all these gimmicks. I ruled out a Model 3 because at that time it didn’t come with some of these features like notarized trunk etc.

I have my car on a schedule and it automatically heats up, turns on the seat heaters and defrosts the windshield. By the time I leave the house I have seither a snuggly warm car or pre cooled car. That is a huge time saver for me.
One annoying part on this car is the fact that the LED headlights don‘t defrost. It sounds like a real first world problem but when it’s real cold outside and the car warms up etc I need to manually scrape the ice from the headlights. I would pay some money to get this „fixed“…
> Also, I have no doubt that there are problems that can't be solved with just an LLM but would need abductive extensions.

And we're back to expert systems.
International diversification.
So akin to Erlang processes.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/338159352?hl=en...
YMMV, but null safety alone for me is a reason never to use Java when I could use Kotlin instead.
Because I‘m good in it. And my clients don‘t depend on me - they can choose to continue working with me not because I‘m the only one who knows how the language works, but because they WANT to.
I believe model and concept can be equivalent, not sure about the required formal terminology in English.

Complexity is probably most formally modeled in entroy in thermodynamics, although it behaves in the opposite direction that these ideas and oberservations suggest it should.

It still asks questions about the reason for this complexity and there is no scientific answer aside from "propably accidental complexity".

Science is curious so it probably shouldn't be dismissed by unmet formal requirements that aren't specified. "Layman" is unspecific, so what would your requirements be exactly?
I've skimmed through the comments; and seen that most people have commented on the cog in the machine thing, or on layoffs in general and how they suck.

To me, the shock from this blog post was about seeing a Chrome developer relations engineer whom I have grown to admire and who has been doing a stellar job educating web developers on new html and css features, get the sack. He was one of the best remaining speakers on web topics at the Chrome team (I am still sad about the departure of Paul Lewis and Jake Archibald); and produced a lot of top-notch educational materials (the CSS podcast; the conference talks; the demos).

What does this say about Google's attitude to web and to Chrome? What does this say about Google's commitment to developer excellence?

I understand that this is a personal tragedy for Adam; but for me personally, this is also a huge disillusionment in Google.
Like IE6?
- 90% of abstraction is dreadful. That means _your_ particular abstraction is almost certainly bad, and we don't want to learn it.

- There is a lack of respect for the history of programming. IMO it has caused the industry to be stuck in a perpetual cycle of half-baked rediscovery.

- Similarly, a type of "FAANG-syndrome" exists and allows sub-par ideas to take over mind share of the industry. Once a technology picks up enough momentum, it will snowball and we're stuck working with legacy trash almost immediately. Developers legitimately seem to believe each trend is good.

- Our industry's shared vocabulary is too weakly defined. Phrases like "The right tool for the job" are ubiquitous but essentially meaningless and used as a form of shorthand "I currently feel this is correct". If we had a real professional lexicon, the first thing juniors would learn would be to enumerate reasoning to a precise degree. IME most "senior" devs can barely do it.
The next token is obviously "goes". (Any language model that disagrees is simply wrong.)
De facto it doesn't make too much difference.

If the US deliberately print money, it will immidiately realize kn the bond market and manifest as higher interest rates.

That is literally what the article explains.
fwiw, it's not ready to replace them for coding either

i mean, the headline might as well read: "ants aren't ready to bake cookies yet"
> US laid off employees also get 3-6 months of full pay and benefits.

Some employers may decide to give a few months of pay and benefits to laid off employees (although 6 months would be unusually large) but it is definitely not required and is not always done. Mass layoffs of 100+ people need to be announced 60 days ahead (but without naming who will be laid off) but there are no requirements for any kind of severance.
There is always next time. Unless you are an oil state. And either deflation or massive over printing means that next time fewer are willing to loan money. Maybe domestic holders will. But investors and foreign surely go somewhere more stable and less inflationary.
> "correlated" or "anticorrelated" with complexity.

Also the value of entropy has different signs in thermodynamics and computer science for example. Not helpful either...