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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation

news.ycombinator.com Blair Lorenzo 2025-07-20 06:33:47

The New York State Legislature has just passed a bill (S4091/A04873) that would lock New York City’s transit system in the past. This bill, which would require a conductor to be on board every train operated by New York City Transit, is the technological equivalent of requiring every elevator in the city to still be staffed by an elevator operator. If you take other transit systems both across the country and around the world, you'll quickly realize that two-person train operation (TPTO) is an o

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Best Chest Strap Heart-Rate Monitors for Your 2025 Workouts, Fitness Expert-Approved

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 06:08:00

Why we like it: The Polar H10 is ideal for outdoor activities. You'll need to download the Polar Beat app to get the most out of it. The app is available for both iOS and Android and uses Bluetooth and ANT Plus connectivity to pair with different devices. The Polar H10 can connect to two Bluetooth devices at once, so you can connect it to both your smartwatch and a compatible piece of fitness equipment, like some treadmills or exercise bikes. The heart-rate monitor is easy to clip on and adjust

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China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Breached the US National Guard for Nearly a Year

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-07-20 06:30:00

After reporting last week that the “raw” Jeffrey Epstein prison video posted by the FBI was likely modified in at least some ways (though there is no evidence that the footage was deceptively manipulated), WIRED reported on Tuesday that metadata analysis of the video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The United States Department of Homeland Security is facing controversy over DNA samples taken from approximately 133,000 migrant ch

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Delaunay Mesh Generation (2012)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 23:01:26

Delaunay Mesh Generation Our book is a thorough guide to Delaunay refinement algorithms that are mathematically guaranteed to generate meshes with high quality, including triangular meshes in the plane, tetrahedral volume meshes, and triangular surface meshes embedded in three dimensions. It is also the most complete guide available to Delaunay triangulations and algorithms for constructing them. We have designed the book for two audiences: researchers, especially graduate students, and engin

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Is HR ready for AI?

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-07-24 20:16:13

sefa ozel/Getty Images A report from technology analyst firm Valoir has found that most companies are either already leveraging AI for HR activities, such as recruiting, learning, and talent management, or they plan to do so within the next 24 months. However, there's a significant gap in terms of policies, practices, and training for safe and effective AI adoption. Only 34% of organizations have a policy on generative AI (gen AI), and even fewer offer effective training. Also: 5 entry-level

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Hackers Can Tamper With Train Brakes Using Just a Radio, Feds Warn

gizmodo.com Rhett Jones 2025-07-28 06:10:56

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory last week warning that a key train system could be hacked using nothing but a radio and a little know-how. The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train and Head-of-Train. A Flashing Rear End Device (FRED), also known as an End-of-Train (EOT) device, is attached to the back of a train and sends data via radio signals to a corresponding device in the locomotive called the Head-o

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Watch ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Light a Bunch of Things on Fire in This Exclusive BTS Clip

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-07-28 22:00:42

Here’s an exclusive, fun look behind the scenes of Dean DeBlois’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon, showcasing the stuntwork and visual artistry that went into bringing a beloved animated franchise into the real world. io9 presents a clip from How to Train Your Dragon‘s home release that takes us to Viking training camp. Watch as stars including Mason Thames (The Black Phone) and Nico Parker (The Last of Us) get the hang of dragon riding on their mechanical bull-like dragon stand-ins. There’

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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Hits Digital Tomorrow With Tons of Extras

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-07-30 02:00:06

If you missed How to Train Your Dragon on the big screen—or more likely, saw it and want to watch it again, based on its box-office haul—tomorrow’s your lucky day. The hit live-action adaptation of the hit animated film arrives on digital July 15, with a physical version coming August 12. Best of all for fans, the home release is jam-packed with over 75 minutes of extras, including deleted scenes and multiple making-of featurettes, as well as a look at the film’s new theme park experience. Here

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Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-07-31 22:00:40

Last year, Pepper, a pet cat who roams the backyards of Gainesville, Florida, helped a scientist discover a new viral strain. Now, the furry feline is back at it again. In a new study, scientists have once again discovered an exotic virus infecting a dead rodent that had been caught by Pepper. This time around, Pepper’s furry hunting trophy helped researchers pinpoint an unidentified strain of orthoreovirus, a type of virus that infects humans and other mammals. The findings, and the virus’s co

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How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-07-28 18:47:34

TLDR: Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next training technique for building frontier-level AI models. To make it better, we need to train on more data. The current approach of scaling many environments simultaneously is messy and complicated. Instead, I propose we find a way to do next-token prediction on the Web using RL. This way, we learn to reason from general web data, instead of just math and code. I’ve spent a good part of the past year in denial. I was in denial because when OpenAI r

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China Working On Levitating Train That Could Get You From New York to Chicago in Two Hours

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 15:45:41

As the United States struggles to keep its major cities connected by even the most barebones rail systems, China is screaming into the future with the development of a levitating bullet train. Called "maglev," short for "magnetic levitation," the train system is designed to levitate via magnets as opposed to wheels. Maglev systems can reach higher speeds much more efficiently than their wheeled counterparts, though the infrastructure needed to run them is incredibly expensive. While there are

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New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 18:00:38

Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence. These complex algorithms, which cleave millions of datapoints together into seconds-long gobs of video, are notoriously trained on proprietary material, leading to widespread ethical and legal concerns. (That's before we even mention how much energy it takes to synthesize an AI video.) Tech billionaires tend to argue that this is simply the way things need to be — if you want AI, we need to feed it

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 00:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 09:45:10

Earlier this week in Geneva, around 50 leading global initiatives and organisations dedicated to open-source LLMs and trustworthy AI convened at the International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit. Hosted by the AI centres of EPFL and ETH Zurich, the event marked a significant step in building a vibrant and collaborative international ecosystem for open foundation models. Open LLMs are increasingly viewed as credible alternatives to commercial systems, most of which are developed behind closed doo

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AWS doubles down on infrastructure as strategy in the AI race with SageMaker upgrades

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-03 10:37:51

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management. However, AWS continues to face competition from Google and Microsoft, which also offer many featur

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LLM-Ready Training Dataset for Apple's Foundation Models (iOS 26)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-08 13:52:28

The only comprehensive training dataset for Apple's Foundation Models Framework (iOS 26) What You Get Three technical specification files for training LLMs on Apple's Foundation Models framework: 1. Core Framework Guide SystemLanguageModel availability, LanguageModelSession management, response generation, and context handling. 2. Advanced Implementation Guide @Generable/@Guide macros, constrained decoding, Tool protocol, and performance optimization. 3. Strategic Features Guide Adapter

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Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-08 12:13:40

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner Published July 8, 2025 Update on GitHub Base model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base Instruct and reasoning model: https://hf.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B Small language models are becoming increasingly important as users seek capable models that can be deployed efficiently. The community has produced a fascinating range of capable small models, each pushing the boundaries of what's possible at this scale. With SmolLM3, we're excit

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How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing)

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-10 00:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Back in the day (and by "in the day," I mean late 2022, before AI chatbots exploded on the scene), tools like Google and Wolfram Alpha interacted with users via a single-line text entry field and provided text results. Google returned search results -- a list of web pages and articles that would (hopefully) provide information related to the search queries. Wolfram Alpha generally provided answers that were mathematical and data analysis-related. ChatGPT, by contra

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Garmin Is Going Nuts for Prime Day, Forerunner 255 GPS Smartwatch Is Now Almost Free

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-10 02:40:11

Garmin doesn’t actually have a direct competitor out there with a wide range of models that cater to professionals and amateurs. For Prime Day Amazon is offering a whopping 43% discount on the Forerunner 255, bringing its price down to just $199 from its regular price of $349. This is the company’s best-selling product, and it has a 4.7 out of 5 rating and it can be purchased as a limited time offer that does not require a Prime membership. See at Amazon Quality and Tracking Its slender prof

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Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Solar Is 40% Off, Amazon’s Giving Up Its Entire Margin for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-12 03:27:57

Garmin is the gold standard for smartwatches for athletes and the fēnix series is firmly at the top of their line. If you don’t have to spend over $1,000 on the latest version, the Garmin fēnix 7X Pro Sapphire Solar is an amazing second choice and it’s a team favorite in our editorial staff’s athlete corps. For Prime Day early, Amazon is losing all its margin and pricing this watch at 40% off, and brings the cost down to a mere $599 from its usual $999. This is the all-time low for this model,

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Tesla's Self-Driving Mode Causes It to Get Hit by Train

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-17 01:25:04

Tesla's so-called "self-driving" features have some serious issues with train tracks — and in a recent instance, it led to a small collision with a moving freight train. As Pennsylvania-based broadcaster WFMZ reports, a family of three was forced to exit their Tesla in the wee hours of the morning after it decided, when in an assisted driving mode, to turn left onto some train tracks. Jared Renshaw, the fire commissioner for Southeastern PA's Western Berks County, told WFMZ that the car was in

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Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2025-08-20 22:30:00

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Sure, everyone hates record labels — but the AI industry has figured out how to make them look like heroes. So that’s at least one very impressive accomplishment for AI. AI is cutting a swath across a number of creative industries — with AI-generated book covers, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an AI-generated list of books that don’t exi

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Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 05:53:42

Key Points After finalising the purchase of a home in Melbourne's northern suburbs, a Melbourne man found something unexpected. There had been no mention of the expansive model train network beneath the home's floors. Coincidentally, new owner Daniel Xu is a keen train enthusiast and engineer. As any new homeowner will know, there are always unknown things to be found in a new place. From a kitchen cupboard that never seems to close properly, a curiously painted over area or the real per

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I Let AI Agents Plan My Vacation—and It Wasn't Terrible

wired.com Victoria Turk 2025-08-23 10:00:00

The worst part of travel is the planning: the faff of finding and booking transport, accommodation, restaurant reservations—the list can feel endless. To help, the latest wave of AI agents, such as OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use claim they can take these dreary, cumbersome tasks from befuddled travelers and do it all for you. But exactly how good are they are digging out the good stuff? What better way to find out than deciding on a last-minute weekend away. I tasked Operator, w

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Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-08-23 03:30:00

In the past week, big AI companies have — in theory — chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn’t been this exciting since last month’s showdown at the Library of Congress. First, Judge William Alsup ruled it was fair use for Anthropic to train on a series of authors’ books. Then, Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed another group of authors’ complaint against Meta for training on their books. Yet far from settling the legal co

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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

news.ycombinator.com Timothy B. Lee 2025-08-20 06:29:59

It’s Agent Week at Understanding AI! This week I’m going to publish a series of articles explaining the most important AI trend of 2025: agents! Today is a deep dive into reinforcement learning, the training technique that made agentic models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3 possible. Today’s article is available for free, but some articles in the series—including tomorrow’s article on MCP and tool use—will be for paying subscribers only. I’m offering a 20 percent discount on annual subscriptions

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James Wan Offers a Mildly Discouraging Update on That ‘Train to Busan’ Remake

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-24 06:00:12

Released in 2016, Yeon Sang-ho‘s Train to Busan proved there were still plenty of fresh thrills to be mined from the zombie genre. It spawned an animated prequel and a sequel, and nobody was surprised when an American remake, to be titled The Last Train to New York, was announced. A 2023 release date made things official… almost. Obviously, The Last Train to New York—which at one point had Timo Tjahjanto (May the Devil Take You, this year’s Nobody 2) attached to direct and Gary Dauberman (It an

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Fault Tolerant Llama training – PyTorch blog

news.ycombinator.com Tristan Rice 2025-08-22 04:30:02

Collaborators: Less Wright, Howard Huang, Chien-Chin Huang, Crusoe: Martin Cala, Ethan Petersen tl;dr: we used torchft and torchtitan to train a model in a real-world environment with extreme synthetic failure rates to prove reliability and correctness of fault tolerant training Training loss across 1200 failures with no checkpoints. NOTE: Each small spike is a non-participating worker recovering which affects the metrics but not the model Introduction We want to demonstrate torchft in wo

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Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-27 14:31:43

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the platform is being spammed by AI bots, and is now in “an arms race” to detect and block these fake posts. The irony here is that the very reason Reddit is being targeted by bots is because the company sells access to user posts for AI training … Reddit lets AI bots harvest user posts Things kicked off early last year when Reddit signed a $60M deal to allow user posts to be harvested for AI training. The company involved was subsequently revealed to be

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Federal court says AI training on books is fair use, but sends Anthropic to trial over pirated copies

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-08-29 08:58:00

What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry. However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central l

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