skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "PMC"? I am only aware of that three-letter-acronym (TLA) being used for "private military contractors", and didn't see any definition of it in the parent comment.

On a broader level, could we all just define our acronyms the first time we use them in a thread? Acronyms save very little time, and add a lot of confusion.

edit: I thought about this more, and am now guessing you mean 'private management consultants"; is this correct?
What would have actually happened is once the first programmer realised you could get a speed bump by putting all your objects inside a single segment, we'd have been back to where we are now. Which is roughly what happened to the 286 which borrowed some of the 432 concepts -- every practical OS ignored the call gates, segments, and all but two of the rings.
It recommended Monzo. I visited the site

"These cookies help us keep our website safe, give you a better experience and show more relevant ads"

Sorry but I want a bank, not something that advertises at me.
Including donating $5 to a charity, where the credit union pays the $5 on your behalf: https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/membership#faqs
Curious what news organization you can think of that doesn't have a single miss. Bloomberg had "The Big Hack", the New York Post had the Hunter Biden emails, the New York Times basically invented a crime wave, etc.
Large language models’ ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason
You can also ask Okta. They should be able to list tangible benefits. If they struggle to answer the question, you still get your answer anyway.
Anyone can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize.
> The whole "Buzzfeed News is actually good" was pushed

That most certainly wasn’t when that push started.

e.g. Here’s a piece from Reuters in 2015, prior to Trump, “FEATURE-Beyond cute cats: How BuzzFeed is reinventing itself”: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-media-buzzfeed-idUSL2N0L...
Furthermore, Jeff is not a great (or even good...) manager/director/leader.
There were a lot of internal and external dramas because of his leadership, that he failed to address.
How often you hear about dramas about other Chef Scientists at other, comparably sized, companies?

He should stay a Fellow, in a "brilliant consultant" role.
5 kt lifting off into orbit is pretty darn impressive - well done to those that worked on it! In my view this was a total success, far from failure. Imagine laughing at this while the best you can do is deploy some lame JS to a server, while these people built this awesome machine.
Until investors continue to buy up properties for cash, never know if the actual inflated value of property will come down. There definitely will be some reduction as loans become difficult to get.
Instead of 'guessing' and then taking the guess towards an incorrect over-generalization while bashing students along the way, you could have done two minutes of research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

You must not use 2fa a lot if you didn't know that exists.
The difference between OpenAI and Google is that the latter's ethical concerns with AI are more deeply held. Google gave us the Stochastic Parrots paper[0] - effectively a very long argument as to why they shouldn't build their own ChatGPT. OpenAI uses ethics as a handwave to justify becoming a for-profit business selling access to proprietary models through an API, citing the ability to implement user-hostile antifeatures as a deliberate prosocial benefit.

To be clear, Google does use AI. They use it so heavily that they've designed four generations of training accelerators. All the fancy knowledge graph features used to keep you from clicking anything on the SERP are powered by large language models. The only thing they didn't do is turn Google Search into a chatbot, at least not until Microsoft and OpenAI one-upped them and Google felt competitive pressure to build what they thought was garbage.

And yes, Google's customers share that belief. Remember that when Google Bard gets a fact about exoplanets wrong, it's a scandal. When Bing tries to gaslight its users into thinking that time stopped at the same time GPT-4's training did, it's funny. Bing can afford to make mistakes that Google can't, because nobody uses Bing if they want good search results. They use Bing if they can't be arsed to change the defaults[1].

[0] Or at least they did, then they fired the woman who wrote it

[1] And yes that is why Microsoft really pushes Bing and Edge hard in Windows.
What else are people using then?
This is a genuine question and its going to sound silly and offensive but how much "news" do we actually need?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/

- Help, The World Is On Fire And I Feel Like My Life Is Over At 24

- Multiple Women Are Reportedly Cooperating With The Criminal Investigation Into Jonathan Majors, And His Attorney Again Said He’s Innocent

- Two Former New Mexico State Basketball Players Accused Their Teammates Of Sexual Assault And Blamed The University For Doing Nothing To Stop It In A New Lawsuit

- A 34-Year-Old Man Who’d Recently Been Released From Prison Is Accused Of Killing His Parents, Two Of Their Friends, And Injuring Three Others In A Shooting Rampage

These are "featured" articles right now. I know interest is subjective but it just seems like none of that really matters for your day to day life. I stopped watching national news around 7 years ago and I have felt _immensely_ better since doing so and I don't at all feel like I've missed out on a thing. My life has seemed to slow down (in a good way).

The only news I pay any attention to is HN and my local news but even that is really only a few minutes a day.

Who is the target demographic for this news? All those stories could have been randomly generated and it wouldn't make a difference for the majority of visitors to that site.

I have a slight bias against journalism because I've personally been effected by a twisting of truth and being in finance (I run a trading firm) just the way investing/stocks are presented blows my mind (in a bad way)... that said, I'm never one to rejoice at people losing their jobs. I just really am curious as to why and what Buzzfeed news hoped to accomplish.
Ask HN: Why don’t you make the website Dark Mode/iOS Safari Reader friendly?
Not just "might" but explicitly "are."

"adults with obesity first lost at least 8% of their body weight and then completed at least 26 weeks on a specific diet"

Why invent problems with text you haven't even read?
People these days are spoiled and get disappointed when a rocket doesn't land, lol. Only one company makes rockets that can land.
Your judgment?
Seems they've changed it? as I'm getting a banner with "decline"
ProPublica
This demonstrates to shareholders of Alphabet that Sundar is actually not a good CEO. The focus is not on the product or quality but organising resources. The resources are already the best at Google but led by a moron.
While doing MDMA in excess is a bad idea, it's worth noting that these studies have a lot of potential confounders.

One example is that PTSD also causes "confusion, depression, anxiety, paranoia, and impairment of memory and attention processes." And it's likely that some people with PTSD are self-medicating with MDMA.
I saw this and thought it was about the pc engine games console. I believe it's called the turbo graphics in the states.
95% of those people have left Google because the ethics and safety teams prevented them from releasing any products based on their research. We have those ex-Googlers to thank for ChatGPT, Character.ai, Inceptive, ... which you'll notice are not Google products but rather competitors.
Having your other comment in mind, is your grievance with Make in general or some specific Makefiles you have to work with?
Show HN: We built a PlanetScale plugin for ChatGPT
I don't think working out increases testosterone
It's clearly a smaller model, but I'm very skeptical that it is 13B. It is much more lucid than any 13B model out in the wild. I find it much more likely that they used additional tricks to scale down hardware requirements and thereby bring the price down so much (int4 quantization, perhaps? that alone would mean 4x less hardware utilization for the same query, if they were using float16 for older models, which they probably were)
I'd be curious on data for this - if that's actually true, or just your perception.

Not wanting "BuzzFeed" to be someone's source of journalism is not the same thing as that person not wanting to consume high-quality journalism/news.

That said, I could understand the argument that if someone is generally well-read in this world, they would definitely know BuzzFeed News was, for the most part, a separate entity. I can only speak for myself - I'm fairly happy with my mix of Propublica, The Economist, USA Today, and NYT, but I've also not really analyzed that mix much since 2019, and I definitely don't read everything all the time (it's too much to consume).
Well, yes, but lack of support is the best-case scenario; the worst case is their tendency to abandon products entirely and on short warning.
Thanks for sharing!

I had high hopes for Revision3, it was really an exciting time with Web 2.0 and the like.
That's because US regulatory regime is antiquated. Deposit insurance is a pain, payments take ages and some very old cheque rules still apply to transfers.

As much as these companies would like to be something separate, they are precluded by laws and regulations.
Wow this is awesome.

I like the notes about automated linking between notes in knowledge tools.

One of my ideas is to represent software architecture and system architecture as vector embeddings and transform the architecture dynamically.

Can scale from one box to internet levels of traffic with a Markov chain prompt

Edit: To clarify, I want to be capable of transforming existing software architecture with a prompt, that perhaps describes attributes of the system or describes capabilities.
> the breadth of sites and information that came onto the web fueled by ads

Confuse correlation with causation much? The internet has certainly grown, but not just because of ads. In some ways it has shrunk because of ads. Innumerable forums and blogs and even social-media sites like MySpace were shunted aside as VC- and ad-funded walled gardens like Facebook became dominant. That's a loss (and I say that as someone who worked at Facebook for a while). As I said, the volume has increased but the creativity hasn't. I'll take ten truly creative people over a hundred YouTube or TikTok "influencer" types any day.

> if you can literally get paid to write on your website, you will write more. You will hire people to write with you. This is common sense

It makes me sad when I see people who can't even imagine a motive other than profit. Seems particularly common here, and I've learned not to engage with such. Have a nice day.
Study in monkeys and humans shows how the blood-brain barrier can be crossed
That's it! Thanks!
Rockets always blow up on the first launch :)

It's a machine that's ~95% fuel by mass. Explosion is the default outcome, not exploding is a triumph of engineering.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/06/a-big-short-investor-sees-di...
Is the distinction between generating full works via AI and using AI in a manor indistinguishable from Grammarly respected when admitting to any use of AI?
Outright dismissal without any substance says a lot too.

"The National Operations Department (Nationella operativa avdelningen) is tasked with assisting the local police regions and is in charge of international police cooperation and all national operations."[0]

So yes, this was above and beyond a few local cops.

Do you have a better way to summarize this other than saying "the national police"?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Police_Authority#Natio...
Losing weight might actually be a relapse for a recovering anorexic. The "relapse" from being tumor-free would indeed be a weird thing to talk about, though not strictly wrong if the cancer had previously been in remission.

> The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that perfluorinated alkylate substance (PFAS) exposures are associated with body weight increases in a dietary intervention study.

The phrase appears to be intended to mean the same thing as "body weight increases in a dietary intervention" which seems to describe a relapse, assuming that the purpose of "dietary intervention" is to lose weight.

Edit: I guess the first sentence of this comment doesn't actually answer the question it's intending to. To the point of the question, maybe it would be weird to say that a relapsed anorexic had a "weight gain relapse" but only if it would be weird to say they are on a "weight gain treatment".
> If you tell someone there are no peanuts in their meal, and they have a peanut allergy, they will eat it because of your false assurance and be harmed.

The harm here is in the act of serving peanuts to someone who is known to have an allergy, not the lie. You can say there are no peanuts and then briskly take back the food before consumption, replacing it with a peanut-free alternative. Nobody would be harmed in that scenario, even with the exact same lie told. The lie is not where the harm is found.

> If you tell someone the car dealership down the street always gives amazing deals and gives lifetime warranties for free, but they're selling lemons and fraudulent warranties, your endorsement of their lies can entice more people into getting swindled by them.

Slightly closer, but still misses the mark. You are only harming yourself by acting on the lie.

With respect to what we are actually talking about, there are four parties:

1. Someone who told a lie.

2. Someone who perpetuated a lie.

3. Someone who caused harm after encountering the lie perpetuated.

4. Someone who was harmed by the person causing harm.

If you tell me that the cars at the dealership down the street are free, all you have to do is ask for a test-drive and never come back! And if I tell someone else and if that someone else follows through: Harm will ensue from the theft. But why am I, #2 on the list, who did nothing but repeat what I heard, the one going to court on theft charges?

Even if you want to say I am an accessory and should be punished for that, why do I have to take the entire brunt of it? Why do #1 and #3 get off scot free?

We used to say ignorance is no excuse, but it seems you are saying that ignorance is a perfectly valid excuse. We used to believe that one should know not to cause harm to others even when there is lie trying to justify it. What happened?
> It's rather difficult to feel strong negative emotion while on MDMA. While under the effects, the baseline is somewhere between "happy" and "downright euphoric".

I am floored by this assertion, as it's completely contrary to my experience. My reaction to MDMA was a nightmare of disorientation, fear, and anxiety. I don't remember the dosage, but the setting was my own home, among friends and acquaintances at my own birthday party.

I don't know if my strongly negative memories of this event constitute "trauma," but they are certainly neither warm nor fuzzy.
> they need product managers who understand the underlying technology and can commercialize it.

I would say they more need engineers who care about and can make good products. In my limited experience, it takes time to turn a research-focused group into a product-oriented team. Research vs production requires different skill sets.
And also because deregulation is far enough behind us that all the companies combined and can milk the resulting limited market competition. We can see this in prices (at least if you actually compare like with like, ie add on bag fees) are coming back up to pre-deregulation prices
I’m building flingup.com, but I never thought about allowing nsfw communities. Perhaps I should rethink and welcome this type of content.
> For non hyperactive types I believe there is commonly anxiety with the ADD which is alleviated by the small dose of amphetamine. Maybe MDMA helps reduce anxiety for the medium term after a dose?

ADHD is at its core an executive function disorder, and even the symptoms of anxiety caused by ADHD are rooted in difficulties in executive function, which is unrelated to anxiety with other etiologies (such as anxiety disorders, depression, or PTSD).

It's implausible that MDMA would be useful for this purpose, because there's no theory that would connect MDMA to improved executive function after the acute effects have worn off.

> Knowing what the lack of anxiety feels like could be very powerful paired with therapy to train a body to return to lower anxiety levels.

You have a misunderstanding of how ADHD works. "Knowing what lack of anxiety feels like" won't fix the executive function disorder that prevents an individual from translating that knowledge into action.
> My point would be that while SpaceX does save lots of money, it doesn't do so by producing cheap or less reliable rockets

Indeed, if we assume that the each launch is an IID binomial coin flip (which isn’t really the right way to evaluate right-censored data), and observe (by reading Wikipedia) that SpaceX has had at least 450 successful Falcon 9 launches since the last in-flight failure, then they have at least five nines of reliability:

0.999995^450 ~= 449/450.

Which appears to be an industry-leading stat.

For context (excluding the Columbia re-entry failure), the space shuttle only had 4 nines:

0.99994^125 ~= 124/125
I mean, the whole point if failing fast is to stop failing faster. If you just keep failing fast without end you're not going to be around long...
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642772
Unfortunate, but at this point I'm starting to give up for doing routing/firewalling on low power consumer hardware anyway.

At 10G and above, it's just very hard for such CPUs to keep up, and reasonable power usage seems to require hardware acceleration.

I think part of the issue is the tiny ethernet frame size. Dealing with millions of packets per second is just hard on a low power CPU. And unfortunately due to the internet, jumbo frames are only a viable thing on the inside.

So now the equation swings towards purpose-built devices that can actually accelerate routing, bridging and firewalling in hardware.
My understanding is that one of the Starship prototypes were damaged by flying debris during a static fire. I think the available evidence points towards it being possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM61ZkUoO4U

> About 2 secs after starting engines, martyte covering concrete below shattered, sending blades of hardened rock into engine bay. One rock blade severed avionics cable, causing bad shutdown of Raptor.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1328742122107904000
Studying long COVID too much interferes with the narrative that the problem is over.

Each round of COVID does some organ damage, and that's cumulative.[1][2]
Immunity after infection or vaccination is temporary; it lasts 3-18 months. Getting COVID more than once is quite possible.[3] Mostly in people with other previous damage at this point. We don't have enough years on this yet to see the long-term pattern.

[1] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/12/covid-reinfection

[2] https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-infections-i...

[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.10.21256915v...
Since when do you feel like this? I tested Turbo-Claude a month ago and wasn't impressed
I played for quite a while and found a dozen different worlds. Hitting the outer ring at speed usually ends up trapped but one time it followed a crack to the outside.
This was a high gravity area and it could only scoot along the surface. Eventually there was a drop off and while plummeting chrome crashed. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
Wow, I really love these sites. Reminds me of years ago when things on the internet were more fun... sure a bit janky but people just went to town and built stuff they wanted.

Now everything is pretty mute and minimal (not saying its bad, I do this for my UX/UI too) so its nice to see this stuff!
And blood from babies turned out to be good for longevity. Reality is often predicted by insanity.
I'm very sorry for your lots.
Transposed digits? According to Wiki the ESB is 80 times heavier:

> According to official fact sheets, the Empire State Building weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t)

But Eiffeltower is only double the weight with 10100 tons.
I agree with all that. I don't think LLMs are proto-AGI, in the sense that simply scaling parameters/data/compute will result in a qualitative change towards AGI. But I think LLMs are a significant component of an AGI. What they lack, feedback control, addressable online memory, planning, and recurrent execution, are fairly straightforward engineering problems.

Transformers/self-attention solve the problem of scaling capabilities to the available data/compute. The big problem left is to have the right architecture such that AGI is in the solution-space.
> dirt and rocks flying around damages all the other expensive equipment at the launch site

It’s a test pad. The equipment HN’s armchair aerospace engineers are proposing be installed would have been that expensive equipment.
One of the most cited scientists, forced to renounce Saudi university contract
The 7 year old bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1278811
which was resolved as a duplicate of the more recent one.
For this first version I followed the recommended guidelines of holding stretches for 30s (and if they are different for left and right then it would should as 2 exercises but in reality it's one if that makes sense). Having said that, still working on the best formula so thanks for the feedback!
The tractor can always be driven by hand. Tractors have not literally "ground to a halt".

The systems that have failed are those using GPS with differential corrections, which achieve ~2cm accuracy for 'precision agriculture' (tractor auto-steer, making efficient use of chemicals by only spraying them precisely on the plant, etc)

The degradation is they now only have normal GPS which is accurate to within a few meters - but that's useless for precision agriculture.
Is the Taiwanese government not going to evacuate TSMC's personnel outside of the country and launch some artillery on the facilities?
the average takes 18 months does absolutely mean you look deeper if you come out above average on the coattails of unprecedented new medical and epidemiological technologies and practices
It worth a lot more than “a few dollars”

Most technology give you 20+ cm resolution[1], the one farmer are using are at ~4cm resolution .

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11277-021-08209-5
There are many random options available on Amazon for compostable or plant-based bags, like [1]. Is there a reason to trust or distrust these small companies? Is there a way to determine whether they are using biopolymers in their plant-based bags, or if its misleading marketing?

https://www.amazon.com/XupZip-Compostable-Sandwich-Bags-inch...
> I am sure he made way more $ than that in pillow sales from the free press,

Are you sure about that? From the outside it appears his company and personal life has been on a death spiral since the 2020 election.
Really?

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of
every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every
occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they
urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have
long been against the law."

C.A.R. Hoare in his 1980's Turing Award speech.

In 1988, Morris Worm takes over UNIX

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm