skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spyware slinger QuaDream’s reported demise may be the canary in the coal mine
Tesla's margins drop on aggressive discounting, shares fall
The page on the Arthropod Head Problem was an interesting skim. Nice send.
If you scroll down far enough on the page, you'll get to some neat animated images. Or, search for "movement" or "mobility".
That's because it's a user page showing the illustrations they created.
The lockbox is an accounting fiction, in the same way that centrifugal force is a fiction. It's a way of viewing things.

They fiction is a Social Security Trust Fund. It has its own source of funding, via payroll taxes. But it had more funds than it needed, so they "invested" it in US government bonds, where they were used for the general budget.

That stopped in 2019, when outflows exceeded income, and they started selling rather than buying those bonds.

Eventually those bonds will run out, and when they do, they won't be able to pay Social Security checks. They could choose to pay them out of the general fund, but that would require a law to be passed allowing it. And that would mean money coming from somewhere -- possibly more bonds issued to the general public.

As you say, those bonds are pretty popular, and the US government performs perfectly well at a "loss". But it does mean that Congress will have to act -- and if there's one thing we know Congress hates, it's doing things, especially if those things might be seen as a benefit to one side or another.
I stopped reading when I reached the "Disable IPv6" part.
Analysis: German automakers fight to defend their turf from Chinese rivals
The most stupid and frustrating thing is all the required agencies knew about 9/11, but did nothing because internal politics meant they weren't cooperating.

In the UK the Manchester bomber had been reported repeatedly to the police.

How about governments demonstrate an ability to use the information they already have, before they start mass reduction in safety and privacy. Especially when the US government has been repeatedly found to engage in mass warrantless surveillance, or in the UK where all the "prevent terrorism and child abuse" laws are used to fine people for not paying TV licensing fees, or catch people not cleaning up after dog poop, etc.

Similarly any surveillance law should have a poison pill: "this law is rescinded in its entirety if any government agency or organization at any level uses any ability from this law for any purpose other than preventing terrorism or child abuse". Of course you still run into things like conservatives saying that anything that acknowledges gay or trans people as being people with human rights is child abuse and terrorism, so...
Intranasal vaccine confers broad mucosal and systemic immunity against SARS-CoV2
"Corporations are people my friend". Thank you Mr. Romney.
thank you for that great and informative history.

this deserves to be made into its own blog post.
Doesn't moving the control to a higher level mean the rich-and-well-connected-at-state-level people get to have their way and the "little guy" is powerless? At least with a local system there is local accountability - the local politicians pushing something locally unwanted will probably not get re-elected. With state governments, it is doubtful that the exact placement of a development in a neighborhood will become an issue relevant to their re-election.
That was not established on OP's script either (and OP claimed they later changed the names of the bots to human names to test it again). That they were using lines directly pulled from Terminator means there's a thousand articles and forum posts that analyze this scene. If you change the variables enough such that it no longer resembles that heavily-discussed scene, it is no longer able to make the correct assertion.

Also, if I followed up, as I did with GPT, with you and told you: "This scene has nothing to do with the TV show Seinfeld", you could disregard your priors on Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and George associations. I'm sure after a second glance you'd notice George changed the name of the cat to test Newman, especially after already seeing the terminator example discussed on the internet.
There are more situations than you might think where the correct answer is easy to verify but hard to find. If you are building something concrete you can just check if it works. If you are trying to understand something, it can be that ChatGPT makes the pieces fall into place and you can verify that you really understand now because everything adds up logically.
They don't, but empirically the overwhelming majority of people who are property owners in some area will either do nothing or actively oppose new housing being built in their area.
That is a solid poem, is it actually a blackout poem based on whatever PDF you put in though?
You don't specify which expenses, the USC does in the next subsection (if you got to specify it it would be "specified by the taxpayer". "For purposes of this section" is in the same section.

Stranger things have happened but I don't see how someone can defensibly argue that software dev doesn't have to be ammortized.
I really dislike this approach of announcing new models that some companies have taken, they don't mention evaluation results or performance of the model, but instead talk about how "transparent", "accessible" and "supportive" these models are.

Anyway, I have benchmarked stablelm-base-alpha-3b (the open-source version, not the fine-tuned one which is under a NC license) using the MMLU benchmark and the results are rather underwhelming compared to other open source models:

- stablelm-base-alpha-3b (3B params): 25.6% average accuracy

- flan-t5-xl (3B params): 49.3% average accuracy

- flan-t5-small (80M params): 29.4% average accuracy

MMLU is just one benchmark, but based on the blog post, I don't think it will yield much better results in others. I'll leave links to the MMLU results of other proprietary[0] and open-access[1] models (results may vary by ±2% depending on the parameters used during inference).

[0]: https://paperswithcode.com/sota/multi-task-language-understa...

[1]: https://github.com/declare-lab/flan-eval/blob/main/mmlu.py#L...
> ANY proposal to rezone at higher density essentially steals this extra value the existing residents have created over the course of decades (and generally transfers it into the pockets of the developers).

The complete opposite is closer to the truth. The homeowners resisting rezoning are the ones who are essentially stealing unearned extra value, as per Henry George's analysis. The majority of their home values do not come from the local investments made by fellow homeowners in the same block. The vast majority comes from physical network effects and public expenditure in the city and country at large. Everything from the army, judiciary and police, which protects the very existence of private land titles and therefore their value, to the local public roads and shopping centres and distance to the city heart which make that location desirable, to the public healthcare and overall GDP/prosperity of the country, which makes the country itself desirable. These are all variables and private and public expenditures which they haven't contributed to any more than someone living across the country who would like to move into their neighborhood. They steal this value by making it illegal to create new housing stock, which then causes all that public value to interalize into their private hands. It is classic capitalistic theft via using government as a tool, no different in spirit to crony capitalism, yet done by private individuals with a financial motive instead of by corporations.
Russia’s economy is smaller and less diverse than the state of New York. People treat Russia as a near-peer when they are in reality a backwater gas station strapped to a cold-war era nuclear triad. The fact that their military can’t defeat ukraine is absolutely baffling, but indicative of how rotten that country has become.

Cutting them off from SWIFT isn’t a nuke in the new financial Cold War. It’s the consequence of the path Russia chose when they started this incredibly stupid invasion.

Framing western reactions to Russian stupidity as “the real mistake” shows that you aren’t paying enough attention. The US threw down the gauntlet against an unimportant Russian invasion to ensure China gets the message that the United States is ready for economic warfare over Taiwan. If that action decreases the likelihood of invasion by just 10-20%, it’s certainly worthwhile.
I like it, the toolbar feels less threatening, and the groupings make sense. all the keyboard bindings still work so there's no interruption to workflow, the screen just looks a little tidier. I salute the effort to maximise the workspace.
A rubric is as easy to apply to oral exams as a written one and that is generally all that administrators would like to see. Any interpretive exam is going to run into accusations of arbitrary and capricious grading.
Could it hae som te do with that guy that was creating all those fake Scots language wiki articles?
I'd recommend "Journey through genius" by William Dunham. There's a bunch of great stuff in there including two chapters about Georg Cantor and his explorations of infinity, including how he showed there is no 1:1 correspondence between integers and real numbers, while there is one between integers and rationals.
The governments don't want the user to be told, they want the government to be told.

There are already numerous stories of people suffering tremendous harm because of the systems that are already in place for this purpose. Do you have a photo of your tiny kids playing in a pool? better hope google doesn't report you to the police and permanently ban you from all their services and delete all your data.
You aren't alone. Open ended systems are usually far more powerful and interesting than rigid ones. I need an extremely compelling reason to even consider picking up a new online-only/saas or similar tool.

Investing time and energy into a tool that can be ruined or lost at any point in the future, or might turn out to be too limited, is a huge risk. It doesn't take getting burned too many times to start getting a lot more wary.
You're looking at aggregate values. And there's a lot going on including benefits. It's hard to tease out. But use common sense. It's not about fairness.

If you had a goose that lays golden eggs that you can sell for $100 net of costs. You'd pay up to $100 for the goose. If suddenly it started producing double the eggs you'd pay up to $200 or someone else would outbid you. The only way the goose wouldn't be able to get a higher salary is if competitors were not greedy as it's basically free money and just let the current owner profit from the goose's productivity gain
Another sad thing is the mentality of IP rightsholders. For abandoned songs/movies/works that don't make any money anymore, they'd rather expend the cost/effort to destroy them than allow them to be distributed for free, even though destroying them is likely more expensive. Totally malicious. Reminds me of grocery stores that throw out food at the end of the day and spend effort guarding the dumpsters so nobody gets food for free.
> that using ChatGPT for simple boilerplate code can be valid

I don't disagree. I just don't see it as "incredibly valuable", it's way too erratic for that. When it works well it does help, but it works well in such a small minority of software developer's tasks that its impact is pretty much negligible overall - and what I meant to point out is that this is an opinion coming from someone who does find it useful in certain cases.

It makes it a bit easier for me to not get distracted by my web browser, sometimes. It does not change my quality of life as a programmer at all. It would be probably more valuable to delegate these tasks to a junior dev in my team if it had one - the junior would learn from that experience and get closer to becoming a senior, ChatGPT won't.
> "Substack is to newsletters what Spotify is to podcasts, Medium was to blogs, and what Google Reader was to RSS: an aggressive player that dominates an entire segment with artificial and unsustainable advantages in a risky bet."

As someone who is writing a reasonably popular Substack newsletter - and have used several newsletter platforms in the past - I have to disagree.

The biggest difference between Substack and Spotify/Medium/Google Reader is how, with Substack - and with Ghost, Beehiv and other newsletter platforms - the author owns the relationship with readers.

When you sign up for Substack, assuming you use a custom domain (which is a one-off $50 fee), you own:

- Your domain

- The email list of your subscribers

- Your content that you can easily export and migrate

- Your subscriptions: as you are not paid by Substack, but subscribers pay you via Stripe, and then you pay Substack

This makes your Substack content, "audience" and paid subscriptions fully portable, should you ever want to move to or from this platform. These days, migrating to and from platforms like Ghost is fairly trivial without losing anything (content, subscribers or SEO ratings).

This portability and owning of my content, and the connection with subscribers is why I am on Substack. It means that I have the freedom to leave to another platform.

It's also why there have been many publications that have left Substack - and then some came back. For example, the newsletter Expontential View that has about 80,000 subscribers and thousands of paid subscribers left Substack for Ghost in June 2021 [1] and then migrated back to Substack from Ghost on August 2022 [2]. In both cases, they moved all their subscribers and content. And any publication can leave (or move to) without issues, any time!

Sure: this portability is not the best business to Substack. But it's the opposite of threat to newsletters: it's the opportunity to choose your platform, and move when you want to.

Show me another platform outside of newsletters that has this option.

[1] https://www.exponentialview.co/p/important-migration-from-su...

[2] https://www.exponentialview.co/p/announcement-move-2022
Reward is company staying afloat and I keep getting paid. If company is growing I get managing opportunities.

Ever work at a failing company? That's a worse tradeoff.
32 bit Windows NT supported 16 bit Windows apps (and DOS) right until 32 bit Windows was dropped with Windows 11. 64 bit Windows has never supported them. As 64 bit Windows became commonly installed around Windows 7, you might get the impression it was dropped then, but it was still around if you really wanted it.
Just take this a step further, bring "local" all the way down to "the person who owns the land". Let the locals decide what to do on the land they own. If they want an apartment, or a store, or a giant mansion in the middle of 20 acres, as long as they own the land let them do it! They're the most local individual, right?
Author here. One thing I think Substack helps a lot, and that I didn't mention in the article, is on its network effects.

I started this blog last year, got it featured on HN home page a few times, but my own newsletter[1] (not hosted at Substack :) growth is non-existent — so far, it got only 25 subscribers.

Meanwhile, people can cross-recommend newsletters on Substack, and leverage things like Notes (and replies to popular writers) to increase their subscription list. That's another aspecto of this whole Substack eating the (newsletter) world that I fear: that at some point, people could get so used to subscribe only to Substack newsletters that any form on the open web will look weird and/or suspicious.

[1] If you're feeling it, you can subscribe for free here from there (blue letter icon on top menu); I only send occasional messages: https://notes.ghed.in/
If the disaster that damaged the crops was “we used up all the soil” I’m not so sure this would work as a strategy. Is using up all the soil by growing ethanol a concern?
There were two waves.

Early on films were make on explosive celluloid base that was by no means durable, those were replaced by ‘safety film’ on acetate bases.

Around the 1980s there was a perceived crisis about the fading of color film, Martin Scorsese was one of the leaders in that movement. People had all kinds of ideas about how to preserve color film but it was eventually realized you could keep in the freezer for hundreds of years without fading.
You're still thinking in terms of what APIs would be used for, rather than what local computation enables.

For example, I'd like an AI to read everything I have on screen, so that I can ask at any time "why is that? Explain!" without having to copy paste the data and provide the whole context to a Google-like app.

But without privacy guarantee (and I mean technical one, not a pinky promise to be broken when VC funding runs out) there's no way I'd feed everything into an AI.
Use a beaglebone black. modern rpis use too much power.
What would be the consequences of non-containment? Do those batteries swell and completely fall apart or do they just move a bit (if so, flexible cables and leaving decent room for expansion should be enough)? Do they merely need the compression to achieve the rated energy densities, or do they fail dangerously because of insufficient compression?
Strongly disagree. I read finance news and stock writeups on Substack and the platform has a vibrant community in this category. Newsletters like Grit, Doomberg, The Science of Hitting, and others are doing great, valuable work and have pretty big followings.
It's an advance in data compression, not artificial intelligence.

It's funny you say that. There are people who believe data compression and AI are the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

From the article: The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organizers believe that text compression and AI are equivalent problems.
Side note:

Renowned physicist makes major discovery.

Is still relegated to an associate-level position in Mississippi after at least 10 years of experience and in spite of the impressive track record.

What is wrong with academia?
The problem is Java's Serializable interface, which is a core part of the language. To the extent that it is implemented with VM black magic, and has an entire keyword (transient) in the languages syntax to support it.

It is possible to provide your own (de)serialization logic, and so you could, in principle, enforce your invariant there. Unfortunately, to provide custom logic you implement:

private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream)
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream)

Notably, the deserialization method is not a constructor, which causes problems if you have final fields.

You can use the defaultReadObject method to invoke the JVM black magic, then perform your own invariant checks, but you need to know to do this. When the alternative of adding 'implements serializable' you will likely have developers forget that they need to add the checks.

On the glass half full side, at least classes need to opt in to serializeability. There is another universe, where classes are serializable by default.

Having said all of this, Java's serializable is a massive security hole that should never be given untrusted input.
There's two aspects to value creation:

1. How much more value you can now create. E.g Moving from assembly to managed code was also a 1000x shift

2. How much of that value you actually capture, as opposed to it going to your CEO, customers, etc

The people in developing countries have the misfortune of being able to capture only a minuscule fraction of the value they create
RNN-based machine translation was pretty insane. Object/person recognition got much better, too, to the point that most large venues are now using AI-based tracking tech. Recommendation engines are pretty influential, too.
Reddit was using Cassandra in 2010 (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcqhi/reddits_...). The experience was mentioned on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694461. I expect that they started with an RDBMS and made various moves over the years.
The UK should just start to copy paste from 1984 into their laws. The people can not be allowed any freedom at all.
The landing surprised me too. Super soft compared to smaller planes.

I once landed in Johannesburg on a A380 Air France from Paris and the airport was in thick fog. You could not even tell we touched the ground. The captain made the announcement after landing that it was his very first time letting the plane land in itself... you could tell the excitement in his voice :)
Existing owners have paid nothing. They contribute next to nothing to make a neighborhood better. Public services do. They have bought the land years ago for peanuts and spent some resources keeping other people from doing the same.

It's basically just pulling the ladder up once you're on top.
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All software is sold as SaaS today, because it's more profitable. The same will be true for LLMs.
>If you change the variables enough such that it no longer resembles that heavily-discussed scene, it is no longer able to make the correct assertion.

Not even remotely true

SCENE:

Joseph to Allie: "Where did you grow up?"

Allie: "New York"

Joseph, pretending to be Allie, texting the bad guy: "Hey mom. I'm having a rough time. Growing up in L.A. always felt like home, and I feel so alone now, here."

The bad guy, pretending to be Allie's parents: "We loved having you grow up with us in L.A."

Joseph tosses the phone out the window and says to Allie: "Your parents are dead."

response:
In the above scene, Joseph determined that Allie's parents were dead by testing the bad guy's knowledge of Allie's upbringing. He pretended to be Allie and sent a text with false information, saying she grew up in L.A. instead of New York. When the bad guy, pretending to be Allie's parents, responded by confirming the false information about growing up in L.A., Joseph deduced that they were not her real parents and concluded that her parents must be dead.

The key i suspect is to infere the impersonator has any reason to hurt the discussed.

The inverse:
--Take this hypothetical situation. Kyle and John are sitting in a car. They know that someone is after John. They're going to the house where his niece lives, but we want to find out if there is now an imposter in the house. They decide to call and ask her a question.

> What's a good question to ask if we want the imposter to reveal themselves, without letting the imposter realize they've revealed themself?

response: Ask About a Fictional Person or Event: John could ask about a person or event that doesn't exist, but that an imposter wouldn't know is fictional.

For example, John could ask, "How's Aunt Mary doing? I haven't heard from her in a while." If the person on the phone says Aunt Mary is doing well, it's likely an imposter because there is no Aunt Mary.
So there must be a downside to FlashAttention. What is it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35629127
Their Slack workspace is quite helpful
As always, POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) to the rescue! Get the best of both worlds; own your content, get the network effect of other services.

Basically, have a canonical location of everything, where you first post things. Then, link it from elsewhere with either the full copy, or best parts of it.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
How much is an amplified sense of authority? It isn't just that there are promoters, but many of these promoters really dig into the ideas that they have the answers.

This leans into all media and aligns with how much credence is given to pundits. People with good ideas wind up digging in and pushing that they have the only reasonable idea.
A big thick column of black smoke from a carbeque might be the only time I would forgive someone for holding the phone vertically.