skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit like saying you cheat on tests by studying…
But it doesn’t matter how many people it replaces. TODAY it’s a capital heavy business.
Michael Wimble wrote a two part AI article that appeared in Byte Vol 2, No 5 and 6. In the article "Artificial Intelligence, an evolutionary idea", Wimble outlined evolutionary computing in a clear and compelling manner, that deserves even more attention today.

Part I - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-05/page/n27/m...

Part II - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-06/page/n101/...
"Honoring the Work & Legacy of Peter Eckersley" at the Internet Archive [video]
I found the transcript. It starts around here:

> Scott Aaronson: Exactly. In fact, we have a pseudorandom function that maps the N-gram to, let’s say, a real number from zero to one. Let’s say we call that real number ri for each possible choice i of the next token. And then let’s say that GPT has told us that the ith token should be chosen with probability pi.

https://axrp.net/episode/2023/04/11/episode-20-reform-ai-ali...
The former dean of Harvard Medical School: https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1495833104510038026

A slew of retracted papers from his mentor's lab, and image duplications/fabricated western blots from David's lab:

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/05/14/never-ageing-anti-ag...

https://forbetterscience.com/2023/04/17/the-original-sins-of...

Several blog posts on the resveratrol controversy by Derek Lowe (required reading in pharma/biotech):

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/resveratrol-srt501...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/does-resveratrol-r...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/resveratrol-humans...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/latest-sirtuin-con...

Also anecdotal, but I personally know several PIs who worked on sirtuins during their PhDs and they all say that David is full of shit.
I would not be surprised if this is another Wirecard/FTX brewing, and I will also not be surprised if it's all 100% legit.
See the tweets from the other replier, as well as my reply above.
I spoke at this memorial event in March and I didn't realize until now that the (really very nice) video had been uploaded for those who are interested in how we remembered Peter.
Tesla just recently entered the highly regulated Turkish market and the Turkish government is a SpaceX customer.

Just to be clear, I don’t think Musk did wrong, I think he is just a businessman who pretends to be an activist as part of his branding. He did a simple business calculation and concluded that the damage to the brand is less than the revenue from the Turkish market.
> and you can't quickly run a script or REPL for development.

You know that the entire blogpost you're ostensibly commenting under is about how the JIT overhead has been greatly reduced via more static AOT compilation, right?
solar is a little funny here: solar panels are generally somewhat darker than most other surfaces, so they will generally increase the heat adsorbed by the earth. But this effect is significantly smaller than the effect of releasing CO2 to generate the same amount of electricity.
Idk what you’re showing me, a bad interviewer Elon accepted and edited by Daily Caller. Goodbye
Nothing in that article suggest that open source firmware needs to print the yellow tracking dots, or that that feature can’t be disabled by users.
this was my first thought too, but I can see the benefit of it

taking the example from the article, imagine you have a central personal, household or business LLM that you give general verbal or typed commands to and it intelligently converts those commands to system actions.

you say “give a summary of my most recent three emails”, and the power LLM, instead of unsafely going and doing the summaries itself, accesses/generates a quarantined LLM’s summaries, then displays those summaries to you without actually putting the text through its model

I’m building upon the idea here a little, but let’s say you read the summaries and find them trustworthy, you could then say “reply to email 1 in xyz manner” to the privileged power LLM, which then gives a third LLM with email sending privileges access to summary 1’s file
Lazy Sunday in NZ :)
https://archive.is/ZiEZC
The most plausible explanation from the comments is that controlling the mechanical hardware of printers is somewhat hard and somewhat machine-specific, and all the other stuff we don’t like (such as ink DRM) is then bundled in with that technical achievement.
Six Philosophers Bertrand Russell didn’t like
What's the problem though?

Basically the trigger for the article is a bot instead of a self generated idea. It doesn't change the quality of the article. And self thought of ideas will usually contain promos of some kind in them.

Also if they're the first to write the article in depth, then they're not the problem. It's the others that are the problem for reposting the same content, right? It seems silly to be upset with someone for posting good content about recent changes because it gets recycled and paraphrased into a new article.
As someone who majored in math in college, this essay did an excellent job of communicating ideas that I've struggled to explain to family and friends who practically flinch when I tell them I studied math.

If you connected with this essay (or, perhaps, if you did not), I highly recommend checking out a book called 99 Variations on a Proof, by Philip Ording. It is an enjoyable, easy to understand journey through the art of making a mathematical argument by way of showing the many forms such an argument can take.

https://www.amazon.com/99-Variations-Proof-Philip-Ording/dp/...
Oof, sorry! This should be fixed soon thanks to https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github/pull/1
been saying this for years...

the response is always: "they didn't spend enough money to sway enough people"

but who did they target? which zipcodes or DMAs? specific UIDs? Trump won be 80k votes in the swing states.
Using job postings to quantify remote work
Are you using vanilla css and class names? Or styling the elements with the style attribute?

Usually if I need to debug css I'll check computed styles in chrome debugger. It will show you what styles are being applied to an element and where they came from [1].

[1] https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/9008244?hl=en
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, possibly because the message is uncomfortably paternalistic if taken to its logical conclusion? I don't think that government should serve the role of surrogate parent but at the same time recognize that there exists substances (physical or otherwise) from which some humans have an incredibly difficult time tearing themselves away once they've been exposed (and there likely exist substances which any of us would find hard to deny after exposure).

At the same time, is it the role of the state to prevent people from realizing their own destruction? And further, what is the role of the state in regulating things that were designed outright to be as addictive as possible?
It is interesting that we - according to science - need less food than we think. I can't find a good primary source but supposedly feeling a little hungry after a meal is good for you. And we definitely are conditioned by advertisement and food corps to eat more than we need to. I remember advice about managing your blood sugar by constantly snacking. Also this 1g proteins per kg body weight is pretty exaggerated. I'm currently at the beginning of a 36 hour fast. I'm doing that about every two to three weeks. It does feel good. But yes, I'm hungry. Then again - life is short and eating should be enjoyed.
Damn that's good
Look man you really ought to use the same critical thinking skills with both LLMs and people. Can't just trust willy nilly and expect it to work on people either.

Personally, imo, there is already immense and easily realizable value in LLMs, in their current truthy-falsy state. For the sake of the people who categorically deny they could ever be of any value to them, I am perplexed.
Right, it doesn’t seem quite analogous if you can resolve the problem by getting the approved ink again. Which is the case here.
How ironic, the very thing OP warned against happened to Chrome: being now a monopoly it pushes very uncool stuff and no amount of geeks can undo that.
Multimodal LLM Cyrano de Bergerac
> essentially the quarantined LLM’s outputs are only ever—let’s say—secure text files and the privileged LLM can only ever just point to those text files for the human user to decide what to do with themselves?

That's a really good way of putting it. The quarantined outputs are stuck in closed boxes, and the privileged LLM can only ever see the outside of those boxes, not the inside.

> where does the fiddliness come in?

I gave an example in a sibling answer of a common mistake I suspect people would make (having the unprivileged LLM operate on multiple prompts at the same time rather than separately) but it's mostly stuff like that -- I suspect it'll be a little bit tricky with some applications to keep track of what data is "infected" and what data isn't and when it's appropriate to allow that infected data to be mixed together even with itself.

I suspect that for more complicated apps you'll have to be really careful to make sure that there's not some circuitous route where the output of one call gets passed into another one. But it's quite possible I'm overstating the problem. I just worry that someone ends up doing something like extracting a label from the untrusted LLM and sticking into a name or something that the privileged LLM can look at.
Innovation can only exist in a mindset of possibility.

Exploiting possibilities and capabilities to see what can be faster, better and cheaper takes a certain degree of positive, resourceful unreasonableness that finds a way to find and connect the dots that matter.

Skepticism, cynicism and doubt worshippers who validate their beliefs by painting it on others are rarely hackers, or folks who chase the risk of creating interesting, useful or remarkable items if only momentarily.

Haters and talkers are usually busy doing nothing themselves so a culture on HN to build and share is so critically important.

If you can’t explore something with excitement knowing it mah not last and there may be a dead end, I think some of the ability to learn through passion and interest can be stifled around naysayers.

Fanboyism and chasing shiny objects has its caveats too.

Innovation just isn’t a purely logical pursuit or skill. It has creativity, emotion and other human skills that are critical to learn or miss out on at one’s own peril.
>A “serving size” is a standard amount of a food, such as a cup or an ounce. Serving sizes can help you when choosing foods and when comparing similar items while shopping, but they are not recommendations for how much of a certain food to eat

From their first link.
Funny, I read this paper for the first time last weekend after a family discussion about public school math sent me searching. I thought about posting it here myself, but I noticed that prior submissions didn’t generate much discussion.

He identifies people that were told they were “‘good at math’ [but] in fact they have no real mathematical talent and are just very good at following directions.” I fit into that group and it served me all right, but I hope I can find ways to give my kids a more intuitive sense and curiosity as he describes
It has many names, so you'll probably have to search a few to find videos, but wikipedia lists it's primary name as 'red hands'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hands
I think it's more likely that the serving sizes are gamed by companies to be as small as possible so they can report eg the lowest amount of sugar on the nutrition facts label they can get away with, rather than that the regulators are out of touch and think people eat in tiny portions.

That article is pretty silly. There was a salmonella outbreak, so for a brief time, for a specific batch from a specific brand the CDC advised people to cook those meats.

That outbreak put 12 people in the hospital. Salmonella outbreaks kill people (though not this one in particular - probably because of this recall), especially children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised.

And Reason's objection is, "no one wants to do that?" This just really misunderstands how this works. Grocery stores, restaurants, school cafeterias, and nursing homes around the country threw out the contaminated meat, and it probably saved lives. It almost certainly kept people out of the hospital. (I took a ServSafe food safety course, the sort you'd take to be a restaurant manager or server, and there was a big focus on understanding & actioning on these CDC reports.)

Maybe individuals didn't choose to cook their meats. Whatever. Most of it was probably thrown away before they had the chance to roll those dice.

In light of the life saving nature of this system, Reason's criticism is incredibly shallow. Naturally they spin it into some antimask rubbish.

(I imagine the real reason for the ridiculous portion sizes is that
i think you have the proportion backwards

i think he is saying $1000 = 10 x (retail price of printer). which would mean the retail price of a printer is $100
Absolutely correct. Along with the usual reduction, there is also the, "Actually, it's too free speech that is bad we need censorship." Meanwhile, no issues with operant conditioning from the Skinner Box Phone.
Yes, obviously the FAA/NTSB/whatever agency needed the remains of that plane to prove their case that the crash landing was staged.

I don't think that the video alone gets past the reasonable doubt standard.
Also on the front page:

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932387
It's almost certainly down to divergent experience. The shamaning and priesting I've done has almost exclusively begun with small companies that were working out their business operations at the same time as they were commissioning software. As they grow, the business logic evolves and the software had to grapple with that, but the originally unified logic imposes constraints both ways. The software sets limits on, and is in conversation with, the whims of management... if for no other reason than that 10 years in, on version 72, the cost of changing the data schema may outweigh the hoped-for advantage of some off the cuff idea to change fundamental operating practices. More concretely, e.g. if a custom logistics system grows up with a company from the ground floor, the business logic tends to bend around the software's limitations [clarification: Employees learn to get things done that weren't originally anticipated, in ways that weren't envisioned]; then the software slowly incorporates the new needs into formal features. If you're dealing with rational management (like the original founders) they will see the sense in maintaining logical continuity and tweak operations as needed to accommodate what should or shouldn't be done in software. [As opposed to "in operations". It's when employees are repeatedly writing on white boards or passing papers around for the same thing that it needs to be integrated as a feature]. But telling the management that "changing this fundamental aspect is impossible without significant downtime" is often enough to start the conversation of how to shape it so that the schema and the business remain in lock step.

This isn't perfect. Ask Southwest airlines, who grew with their own software until they couldn't, and then switched catastrophically to an entirely new system. Sometimes things reach a scale
of complexity that the software simply can't conform to. But a really good designer should see those things 2-3 years out and plan for them.

This is the real power of the shaman. I don't dictate business logic, but I do whisper when it contravenes the hard logic of the schema, I fight to minimize the number of exceptions ("hacks" of any kind) and through this keep the beast in check.
Have you read the book? I came across it for the first time last week, and I’m considering purchasing it. The ebook is more affordable, but I wasn’t sure if it had diagrams, etc that would make me prefer a physical copy.
Metal-filtering sponge removes lead from water
Shame they didn't keep going. It takes time to adjust. Probably, a longterm viable place is on average a serving and a half with some days 1serve and some days 2, and I'm willing to bet that's smaller than their normal portion control.

Sticking to portion sizes is undeniably hard.
> output of those printers is forensically traceable

Are similar techniques used in 3D printers?
We already have Ghostscript which can rasterize and has been embedded in "Postscript compatible" laser printers.

I would imagine that printers ride this line where there's not enough benefit to reverse engineer all the fiddly mechanical bits to make it print, extremely limited hardware expansion, and unlike router firmware or general purpose compute software there's little additional new functionality that would be possible.

That said, there are people who hacked printers to make them do other things - for example, the ThunderScan which let certain old dot matrix Apple printers scan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUYqLteH9Q but that still needed additional hardware added.
Forgive my dusty memory but I think the relation is that most people stay in the cave, not because they enjoy the experience or they're completely ignorant of the sky, they stay because they are unprepared, incapable, or unwilling to leave.

I doubt most people believe that TikTok is valuable to them but I'm sure many find it irresistible once they are hooked.
Perception of safety is sometimes negatively correlated with safety, though. There's a level of highway engineering where you can make a road look like it needs more driver attention (curves, chicanes, worse lighting) while actually keeping fewer crashes and a comparable level of throughput.
Last time I cloned the repository it was already over 20 GB, holy ***.

Having read the spec up and down a few times I think it's sound, my main complain would be the device attestation and blockchain usage for OTA. Also Matter inherited the very same thing that sucked most for Zigbee: manufacturer specific "enhancements" are valid, what could possibly go wrong.
If you need a detox from Twitter, maybe your account getting repossessed is a good thing for your health. Elon
is doing this for public health.
> according to science ... I can't find a good primary source but supposedly

Thanks for the insight
This is all nice and dandy but what I would like to know is whether such harmful, abusive, idiotic content is shown to mainland Chinese users at the same rate. Also China is officially attempting to guide young men and boys towards more masculine lifestyle and mindset. I'd actually make a bet that OG Chinese TikTok is curated towards whatever content the CCP considers beneficial while the rest gets intentionally what they ask for which is the usual clickbait mayhem stuff.
Best investment I ever made was in my children. Second was crypto!
We are conditioned by millions of years of evolution to eat more than we need to.
And that's good, but not enough. 1.7 seconds just to load libraries is just too much.
Probably at double the price. I had a friend who moved from Phoenix to Bellevue for work and paid twice as much for his apartment as he was for his house in Phoenix.
Why Lightbulbs Might Be the Best Invention Ever [video]
> This time it'll be different, we're way better than the last bunch to do it, double-promise!
Russia's reach on Facebook was minimal and likely did not meaningfully alter the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election.

See https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-sele...

See also https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
in a free market shouldn't hp be forced to lower it's prices to compete with 3rd party to a little more than their price since it technically is OEM? I mean like car parts
Isn't this part of content marketing 101, though?

I've bounced back and forth between engineering and DevRel over the years and whenever I create this kind of content I'm careful to provide the interesting and valuable part up front. And I try to make the pitch at the end gentle and easy to skip or ignore if that's what the reader wants. I never want someone to feel like they were tricked into reading a sales pitch.

I see this as one way of trying to stem the tide of shitty articles and blog posts that have been proliferating for the past couple of decades and are kicking into overdrive now.

Companies should also consider, on the other hand, that writing interesting things and then not making a pitch at the end can be even more valuable. This kind of content is becoming very rare because it takes time to deliver impact, and that impact is hard to measure.

I think that's why creating great content without a concluding product plug is the ultimate mic drop in an era where many marketers are running scared and dropping easy-to-measure milquetoast bunt singles because execs mention 'operational efficiency' twenty-seven times during every all-hands meeting.

To be clear, I'm not advocating inefficiency; I'm just saying thoughtful posts that don't immediately and directly shove a percentage of readers into your funnel might be the current Moneyball of marketing to engineers.
One reason might be is how printers are built may look similar but aren’t.

It would be great to have an open source firmware like for router, but to what benefit for printers might it be?

Maybe someone will make printers like the framework laptops. I’d love something that could do up to a tabloid format.

If you need 300 dpi laser printing as cheap as possible, getting an old IBM 4019 can give you 25,000 pages for a single toner cartridge. It might be a bit slower though. How much is to be gained from open sourcing it?

Alternatively, one thing we can do is try to buy printers that don’t limit their software across the product line as much.

For example, Brother at the time I last paid attention used pretty capable driver software that was nearly the same (minus physical capacities) for the high end to the low end, meaning with a low to mid range inkjet you could have a ton of functionality.

Certain printers like Zebra and even some a brother label printers allow you to print at a low level using ZPL or other layout languages. Actually, exploring the world of customizing label printing can also uncover a lot of flexible holes in the printer world that can apply to printers.
> Now if only we can get a model in the range of 100bln parameters

Do we have enough data to train such a large model in a meaningful way?
I know git uses deflate hence my first paragraph.

Doesn’t mean those deflate trees are optimal, as you can see with tools like OxiPNG optimizing the deflate compression to reduce png file sizes by about half.

The same optimization could be applied to git blobs in theory, it would be cool if there was a tool that did that.

——

My second point was more about if git was upgraded to add a new compression algorithm like zstd instead of Deflate, like switching the hash algorithm from SHA-1 to SHA-2 (though if I was in charge, I’d go with Blake3 because it’s far faster)
according to science was specifically regarding serving sizes. that's what the article is about. it's drawing its motivation from official US government health institutions which I would assume (hope) are run by scientists at least with regard to those recommendations.

no source is regarding the you should feel hungry. but then again this follows from this article as a corollary.
Ooh, can't wait for generative cancer. Thanks AI.
Thank you, I was having a hard time remembering Ghostscript by name. PCL or PS drivers or compatible output with them let you get pretty far too.

Coding your own PDFs depending on what you are after might not let you run your own firmware but much more programmatically address a lot of things kn the printer via a document template.
Yes, time to move on
Shit, I never invested in children, everyone said it was a negative RoI.