skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, how sure are we this intelligence doesn't experience pain?

I'd say pretty damn sure. LLMs have no mechanism for anything close to conscious experience, let alone pain.
A few observations, and then the main point:

6. There will always be more Xs and more Ys. Selling software to enterprises is an art and the main artform is learning how to call the bluff on feature "requirements". So I would encourage the other CEO to reconsider if he should truly be pinning his entire fundraising strategy on this feature objection.

7. What the fuck do VCs know about technical risk? Their purpose is to invest in the founders, team, and business model, not to act as an armchair CTO. I'd be very surprised if there aren't other rejection reasons (maybe they don't like the 2 years it'll take?) and this one just sounds easiest to say. I think they should find better VCs.

9. (this is the main point) If you're only going to have one customer for "Y" and they'll pay you more than all your other customers combined (seems plausible here) then you'll end up working exclusively for that one customer. If you are trying to run your own business at the same time, that will get very complicated over the long term. As you say, it'll become a big distraction. If you like this other CEO and want to work with him, you could consider an acquisition. The VCs would probably like that too.
Which isn't going to be of much use to anyone given that feature is still invite-only (my email is in my profile, wink wink).
That actually doesn't at all justify disagreeing with the phrase. Having a problem with a 4chan troll campaign is a different issue (and one I suspect most people have little to no knowledge of). This can very easily be likened to BLM. It's ok to not fully agree with the organization/movement but to disagree with the phrase "black lives matter" is simply wrong.
I got the impression they were joking about those trying to change the cocktail in some misguided hipster effort.
One of the people involved works for the MPI as a crypto researcher, however the project itself was funded by NLnet
TBH Stripe sounds like an insufferable place to work.
Nope, they are the shoulders of a giant on which researchers and programmers are building the next AI tools and products.

See the open-source code repo of Meta Research. https://github.com/facebookresearch
> It's also a terribly inaccurate term

Similar to the terms white and black then? So why does the government use those?
You’ll have to enter those search terms into Google Scholar—I haven’t maintained my references in a good decade, and there is certainly lots of newer science out there.
If I drew that line I would have approximately zero people communicating with me.
Why isn't a "when in Rome" attitude more common? Personally I'd feel obligated to copy the existing style, if it's not my project.
I think we can all agree we want fair taxes. What that looks like varies by perspective. It would be interesting to see a system or tool that makes everyone think it's fair.
haha, I thought along the same lines, but more like it was a "Walmart" (used a colloquial term) for digitally scanned assets that can be used in AR projects
Biden Administration Asks Congress to Reauthorize Warrantless Surveillance Law
I'll admit here that I was biased by the apparently dismissive tone of your initial comment. This is a fair point that I agree with.
I just started playing with CRUL recently to try to map out different media download links on various websites, in an effort to avoid clicking around looking for hidden content. The language is very robust, but just the `filter` command alone is crazy powerful for just exploring things quickly and intuitively.
Engineer Patents Vehicle Anti-Theft Device That Spikes Tires if Code Not Entered Before Moving
Apple's hardware (unless you want a hackable Thinkpad that weights 5x as much and sounds like a jet engine in exchange for being slower) is so much better than basically any alternative it's not even funny anymore.

There's probably a laptop out there that's as nice as a piece of art than a MacBook but the internals are probably crap in comparison.
I think the first half of the paper ("the problem") is much stronger than the latter half ("the solution").
There is a measurable difference in that Ministers who had been found to be lying or "misleading the house" would previously resign; or otherwise if they had proven misconduct; or sometimes even if the appearance of misconduct had occurred. Now they do not. The last vestiges of an (admittedly outdated) honor culture have gone and been replaced by a much more shameless approach to lying.
Is there any chance you can answer in simple terms whether the "Hopf coherence" method would be any faster way to do a back propagation than current methods (gradient descent)? My math skills are bit rusty now so I can't tell from looking at your paper alone.
If your letter can be a cookie-cutter template for other such letters, and you are willing to publish it, that would lower the barrier of "doing something".
I can’t insist that you’re wrong, but note that it is a very normal thing in business for the leader in any space to devote large amounts of investment cash to covering moves that might turn out to be disruptive.

IBM famously did this with the IBM PC. They didn’t end up holding the lead in computing, but they certainly stayed relevant for another decade while their mainframe and minicomputer competitors struggled to get into personal computing but were late to the party.

In the pop-business book “Bottom-Up Marketing,” this is given as one of the key strategies to being the leader: Play Defence.

I wouldn’t say that a company playing defence by throwing cash at every fad that comes along necessarily means they are dying or dead. It just means they know they have to have a finger in every pie, “just in case.” It’s insurance.
How so? Pandas is one of the most popular tools among folks doing data.

I admit that the API has issues (if/else? being the most glaring to me), notwithstanding Pandas has mass adoption because the benefits outweigh the warts.

(I happen to wish that 2.0 deprecated some of the API, but Python 3 burned a deep scar that many don't wish to relive.)
No mention in that document how to:

1. Search link text only.
2. Search link URL only.
3. Search headings only.
4. Search under the current heading only.
lol there's no stopping apple at this point
The predation load on the insect population from all entomologists worldwide is infinitesimal. Capturing and mounting an insect will almost surely not change the course of that species' survival.
Meta wants teens’ nudes to stop them from spreading online. Again
I wonder if the push over the last few years to heavily censor the web had something to do with giving AI a biased set of (leftist) fundamental assumptions.

I don't work on AI, but my employer is a major player in the field. One of our top organizational goals is that AI is ensured to follow proper DEI protocols.

Perhaps now that they've been released and a core text body has been established they can ease up on the censorship some, e.g. Twitter. In fact given that the AI now knows what is proper one of its first big jobs can be automated censorship.
Derek Lowe is a national treasure.
Important context - that quote is attributed thus: "Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education and an English professor".

Harvard's admission standards are seldom criticized for being too low. Though one might ask whether the struggling students were ones admitted on the basis of academic merit, vs. family connections...
The most surprising part is that the order is communicated to the store over telephone. Surely that can't be the case?
Maybe it is different in the UK, but in the USA, writing a representative is pointless. A letter from a voter or even a huge pile of letters is not going to change that representative's vote. We basically elect automations who are 100% going to vote a certain way on each issue. A representative is basically an immutable associative array of issue->vote that we add to the legislative algorithm on election day. The time to affect legislation you don't want is on election day. Once your district's particular array is in the algorithm, it is pretty much const until the next election.
> Yes, there should be channels and delegation. But PM is also answerable to people and should appear to take questions from press. Giving a statement is not same as answering open questions from press.

People have voted and they are okay with his decisions. He got more votes than his previous elections

> United States also have different official channels and they all do their thing on their level. But that does not mean that PM/President gets a free run.

Who decides that? Only elections can. Let's see what happens in the next general elections

> "With great power comes great responsibility"

Yes, CBI had to take some unpopular decisions. But they did
Haha, that could be it. I guess it is a mixed drink anyway so you could do whatever, but coke has a pretty overpowering taste, so if you want to taste the rum, you’d have to go pretty strong I guess.
I took a seven month sabbatical in 2001. Was totally burned out and it was the only way to take a break while nominally being employed (unpaid, but I was still on insurance among other minor benefits). I did not take any income, in theory if I’d gone to work for a non–profit it may have been possible.

Positive benefits: cleared my head about what I wanted to work on, what I wanted to avoid, and set up multiple long term relationships (friendships, spouse, etc). Took accelerate mandarin Chinese which was interesting but utterly futile when it came to use in my career.

Negative: my previous role evaporated at the end of 2000. I did absolutely nothing to set up my next job, because as a “highly valued employee” obviously it wouldn't be a problem (I was wrong). I didn't structure the time much at all, did not write the grand book I kept telling everyone I was going to write on the down time. Although my employer touted how wonderful its sabbatical/leave of absence program was, in practice I found it ended up being a negative mark against my employment history.

Regrets? I wish I'd planned it out a bit, and planned it for a full calendar year (at least through 2001). I should have lined up a role to return to before going on leave. The economy cratered while I was out and without a lock on a role I ended up in sort of a last-resorts role that I hated. I returned to work in a really bad month for my home city and dealt poorly with that trauma while diving into the world of a traveling consultant. I ended up leaving my employer after only three months back (for a startup, which was its own disaster).

I don't regret doing it? It's taken me some time to recognize how bad a spot I was in mentally at the end of 2000 and it was pure luck that I had the option to go on leave. I did not appreciate that the combination of returning from a foreign assignment in 2000 with a sabbatical in 2001 would leave me with a really weak internal network to find a new role.

A previous comment I wrote about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27238018
When I graduated university, it was very clear to me that my peers couldn't communicate adequately at that time. A lot of essays are effectively cheated on and the students are taught mostly to pad as opposed to have serious consideration and thought on the literature. None of this contributes to mastering structure or craft in any way. There's a lot of pressure to graduate students by parents/the board/local government, especially in highschool, especially when English is continually marginalized as a field of study. Where do you, an English teacher at highschool, get off failing a rising star athlete, young mathematician, engineering passionate, or any number of categories that is "worth more" than the capacity to read and write intelligently?
To be fair, I found that an extremely tedious book, probably my least favorite required high school reading.
Very easy to hit the first case in Windows Explorer (sidebar is rendered using HTML), you will find many more as you keep looking. Still, the capability to customise the color theme completely disappeared from mainstream desktop OS's, and even today's dark mode is still full of corner cases (usually at the platform boundaries: the web, Electron, foreign toolkits, etc).
I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Android games, and hosting a Plex server (although I now use Jellyfin hosted on a raspberry pi). If Nvidia would open source their Linux driver (or at least drastically improve support), I'd be a huge fan. I highly recommend, despite the fact that I'm mad at them for the pain they cause me on Linux. Buy AMD cards if you run Linux).
Rosenpass author here; I myself am independent, thus funding by NLNet. We have some project participants who are Freelancers; two of my co-authors are employed at research institutes. One of my co authors is employed at MPI-SP.

The cookie thing is a defense against WireGuard CVE-2021-46873; the attack is in my view not bad enough to get rid of the WireGuard protocol. WG is still the standard for pre-quantum VPN implementations. Rosenpass also needs to use post-quantum crypto-primitives that need a lot of cpu and memory resources.

Rosenpass and WireGuard work together; Rosenpass runs in userspace and gives keys to WireGuard so we do not plan to replace it any time.

It would be possible to apply the biscuit mechanism to classical WireGuard; unfortunately that would cause a protocol incompatibility. I am not sure if they are going to take that path.
> we don't even have 130 edible spices/plants growing naturally in France!

I counted 44 here*, but that’s only because I stopped just before the letter B. There are loads of edible and medicinal plants in France, as in much of the world.

* https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_plantes_médicinales...
Even 20 years ago, I had a class that was struggling to get through the introduction of a book. We spent a few weeks on it. I became frustrated and just checked the book out of the library and read it entirely one afternoon.

It took me awhile to realize that what most of the class were struggling with was not a grasp of the English language per-se, but the overwhelmingly majority of people in the class were dyslexic. And because of that, they were in an art and design college.
I meant to ask about the other way, Polars to Pandas, but this is also useful to know.
Standards can also act as a gatekeeper, discriminating against the underprivileged. So i'm glad that everyone gets the same chance, if rich or poor.
Have you actually watched the talk, or are you just giving us yet another ad for Rust? cfront helps C++ developers switch from less-strict C++ to a much safer, much improved syntax known as cpp2, which may in the future become part of the C++ standard.

I like Rust well enough, but I'm simply not interested in abandoning C++ and all of the incredible stuff written in it just for the sake of theoretical purity and safety.
Their financing makes money on the differential between the rate they pay on demand notes and the rate they lend to car buyers. Anyone (well, US Persons at least) can buy the demand notes [1], which are currently paying 4.75%. So as long as they are lending at an average rate above 4.75% after defaults and other problems I guess they are in a good position. But they can also move money around internally, I suppose, to make lower rates possible.

[1] https://www.ford.com/finance/investor-center/ford-interest-a...
> That's a lazy counterargument

I'm not even counterarguing anything. Your comment in reply to mine wasn't even relevant. I never said it's not offensive, in fact my comment calls simply points out that it's less offensive than the word with the Hard R that shall not be spoken. Which clearly is accurate is it not?

So the real question is, what made you make your initial comment in response to mine? Did you misread it?
It's not about popularity. It's just I had a pain point (webpack gets slow on complex projects), and I discovered bun and it felt like it solved it, but it was very early days. Then, I discovered Vite which solves the pain point I had. Now I'm not looking for a solution because I am not in pain.
If just being a normal human being who can read and understand normal stuff makes you immediately a "good communicator" then I also agree that being a "good communicator" is important for any job really. I personally think of someone as being a good communicator as somethign more than just normal basic humans skills and abilities to function around other people. I mean by that measure we are all good athletes if you can run 10 metres or kick a ball down the hill.
It's open-source, about 10K lines of good quality self-contained JS code with no obfuscation so it's not that hard to go through it yourself. It moves fairly slowly these days so once you have done this once it's easy to stay on top of the changes.
I also approve of capping the max clock speed on the E-cores because they don't get much more work done when boosting, yes.
Study on ADHD by University of Central Florida
It's also unfortunate that majors that teach people how to write and think critically are panned. Those are very useful skills and give people a better ability in normal life. I understand college is so expensive that people feel a need for it to prepare you for a job, but I still hold onto the ideal that college should be a place that allows people to grow as a person and learn to communicate and think.
Nope. Boom bust cycles are a symptom of poor fiscal and monetary management. We are getting better as humans at both things, and we should expect boom bust cycles to get less bad overtime.

Sorry marx and Marxists, but boom bust cycles are not your saving grace to get you the revolution.
There's plenty of affordable housing. It just might not be in the perferred location or with preferred attributes.

A system addressing population distribution to adequately balance areas with an excess and deficit of housing would be good. As would something to influence housing preferences, like size and amenities.
And that's at Harvard! Wow.

"The Scarlet Latter" was an 11th grade book for me. I remember it being a typical difficulty level as other pre-20th century literature - reading and understanding it was work, but not unusually so.
I am bemused that the approach here is to pull teams out of wherever they are closest to the products receiving these features and into their own top level. Zuckerberg enumerates what the objectives are (bots, assistants, image filters, etc.) but I would expect this change to open up gulfs in communication holding back shipping something of value.

It'd be one thing if there was a single umbrella Facebook product, but Meta is going the opposite direction.
"I'll let you know when it's financial burden out-weigh's it's cognitive benefits."

Perhaps its upbringing (for me, it likely is) but the fear in "stepping away during my earning phase of life" in pursuit of what could amount to proverbial navel gazing (i appreciate the cognitive benefits of time spent performing said navel gazing, I really do), I perceive as something untenable and even selfish (again, how I would feel about myself, not others - do note, i may gaze upon thee with greenest of eyes of course)
People advocating for a breakup[1] are mostly trying to separate advertising sales from search to prevent what seems like a manifest conflict of interest. I think preventing monopoly rather than exceptionalism is the motivation.

[1] eg the US DoJ https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/doj-files-second-antitrust-l... thinktanks https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/19/break_...! the EU (although that's old) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/european-...
I'm not sure how airport logistics work, but isn't it the airlines that lose your luggage, as opposed to the airport itself? If that's right (I'm not sure it is) then it would seem unfair to criticize the airport for implementing facial recognition for boarding your flight. They are two different things — there's the airline issues and then airport-wide issues, no? Happy to be corrected.
Rosenpass author here.

It does yes. But it is a mitigation, not a real fix.

An attacker could still just speed up time. Although not being able to produce a KillPacket for the year three thousand is a good thing :)
It's a valid point though.

There's a difference between running a research lab and a product organization. I used to work in a research lab (Nokia Research). Lots of cool research. But product divisions routinely ignored what we were doing. Not invented here, not a priority, we're busy moving deck chairs around on our Titanic, etc. Very little industrial research translates into customer/product/share holder value.

Facebook, like several other big companies, pays a lot to keep some very smart people on staff. They constantly come up with new stuff that they publish about and that also result in patents. That's not the issue.

However, from there to product features is where it goes wrong. Most of Facebook's product portfolio hasn't changed substantially for quite some time. And they haven't really launched any noteworthy new stuff either. Publishing a paper doesn't really count. It's nice and it will no doubt help other companies to succeed where Facebook is clearly struggling to succeed.
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams[1]

[1] https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L178005...
Sorry if I wasn't super clear in the post. There are still controls over visibility of data, and data access is very tightly logged and audited. This is data the team needs to do an excellent job for the customer. The difference from other companies where I've worked is that in other places the dev team would have to create their own mini-warehouse, or suffer through months-long project management flows to get on the data team's roadmap.
I can see the argument that bacteria rule humans due to our microbiome, but how do insects "rule" humans?
> Exactly (on both sides). We should help people to find and choose cars they can afford.

I'd personally much prefer to make public transit that is so good that everyone uses it.
My comment was relative to the 3 day weekend of the 4 day workweek
That's a long way of saying that you don't think of phones as a legitimate use case, but the rest of the world mostly disagrees with you.

I've got ten years of orgmode buffers and I'm actively working to transition to Obsidian because the mobile story is so much better. With plugins like tasks, dataview, and outliner, I can do pretty much anything in Obsidian I could do in Org, and I can do it on my iPad without having to SSH to my Linode instance first.

that's powerful.
> it's far better than physical occupation.

We did that too. We invaded and occupied Iraq for 20 years and just recently left. Same for Afghanistan. We're still in northern Syria, illegally. So the point stands - we have no credibility on this issue.
Thanks and this needs to be immediately banned by regulators.
> Sure, but what happens, once you want to start supporting other shapes other than basics?

Sure, but what happens, once you want to start supporting more operations on the shapes?
For me, the simplest thing would be using a serial interface instead!
I've had malort! It's definitely worse!