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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•3m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•4m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•9m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•9m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•12m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•16m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•18m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•19m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•21m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•21m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•27m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•29m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•29m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•31m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•32m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•32m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•35m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•35m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•36m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•37m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•39m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•39m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•40m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•41m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
2•mooreds•41m ago•0 comments
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Diffusion Beats Autoregressive in Data-Constrained Settings

https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/09/22/diffusion-beats-autoregressive-in-data-constrained-settings/
72•djoldman•4mo ago

Comments

blurbleblurble•4mo ago
I have a feeling this technique might make waves: https://openreview.net/forum?id=c05qIG1Z2B#discussion
tripplyons•4mo ago
There are definitely parallels between diffusion and reasoning models, mostly being able to spend longer to get a better solution by using a more precise ODE solver for diffusion or using more tokens for reasoning.

However, due to how diffusion models are trained, they never see their own predictions as input, so they cannot learn to store information across steps. This is the complete opposite for reasoning models.

yorwba•4mo ago
You can train a diffusion model using its own predictions as input, no problem at all.
tripplyons•4mo ago
At that point it is not following a diffusion training objective. I am aware of papers that do this, but I have not seen one that shows it as a better pretraining objective than something like v-prediction or flow matching.
mxwsn•4mo ago
Why is not the diffusion training objective? The technique is known as self-conditioning right? Is it an issue with conditional Tweedie's?
blurbleblurble•4mo ago
I'm probably not understanding your point but did you look at the paper? This explicitly does diffusion in an autoencoded latent space of the autoregressive prediction itself. The starting point is that prediction, but depending on how much noise is used, the diffusion model itself directly contributes to the prediction process to some degree or another.

It should be trivial to make an encoder that has some memory of at least part of the prompt (say the tailing part) and do a diffusion step there too.

smokel•4mo ago
I fail to understand why we would lack data. Sure, there is limited (historical) text, but if we just open up all available video, and send out interactive robots into the world, we'll drown in data. Then there is simulated data, and tons of sensors that can capture vast amounts of even more data.

Edit: from the source [1], this quote pretty much sums it all up: "Our 2022 paper predicted that high-quality text data would be fully used by 2024, whereas our new results indicate that might not happen until 2028."

[1] https://epoch.ai/blog/will-we-run-out-of-data-limits-of-llm-...

Legend2440•4mo ago
>send out interactive robots into the world

Easier said than done.

Robotics tends to be even more data-constrained than NLP. The real world only runs at 1x speed, and if your robot breaks something it costs real money. Simulators are simplistic compared to reality and take a lot of manual effort to build.

You will always need to make efficient use of the data you have.

imtringued•4mo ago
Robotics data isn't labeled and if you build a robot, there ain't anyone who has collected data for your particular robot.

There is also the problem that on-device learning is not yet practical.

robots0only•4mo ago
This paper was just too overhyped by the authors. Also, the initial evals were very limited and very strange. This blog post does a much better job at a similar observation -- goes into details and does proper evaluation (also better attribution): https://jinjieni.notion.site/Diffusion-Language-Models-are-S...
thesz•4mo ago

  > This paper addresses the challenge by asking: how can we trade off more compute for less data? 
Autoregressive models are not matched by compute and this is the major drawback.

There is evidence that training RNN models that compute several steps with same input and coefficients (but different state) lead to better performance. It was shown in a followup to [1] that performed ablation study.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06188

They fixed number of time steps instead of varying it, and got better results.

Unfortunately, I forgot the title of that ablation paper.

kevinwang•4mo ago
Not sure if you meant this because it doesn't cite the paper you mention, but it's a similar work: "An Investigation of Model-Free Planning", Guez et Al. (Deepmind) 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03559
astrange•4mo ago
Speaking of not citing, that one could go a bit further back.

https://cdn.aaai.org/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-048.pdf

imtringued•4mo ago
It has already been proven that deep equilibrium models with a single layer are equivalent to models with a finite number of layers and the converse as well. That you can get the performance of a DEQ using a finite number of layers.

The fixed point nature of DEQs means that they inherently have a concept of self assessment how close they are to the solution. If they are at the solution, they will simply stop changing it. If not, they will keep performing calculations.