skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The instant pot in the most basic pot serves as all of

(1) An electric pot that can be used like a regular stovetop pot,

(2) A pressure cooker, and

(3) A slow cooker (and a few other things that are typically specialized single-use devices but are really slight variations on those 3 things)

More advanced models are also:

(4) immersion circulator (“sous vide" cooker), and

(5) air fryer.

In many of these roles it is often seen as sonewhat less good than a dedicated device, though even people who feel that way may see it as useful as a multitasker and because it can more conveniently do dishes that require more than one function without changing pots.
People forget Ruby is also massively popular in Japan to this day
A drug that’s intoxicating doesn’t necessarily have those traits.

I would argue the opposite, in many cases
It's weird seeing comments like this that argue simultaneously:
1) LLMs aren't stochastic parrots anymore!
2) You can't prove humans aren't stochastic parrots!

It pretty clear the whole point is minimize the difference between us and AI, but it does feel like you are undermining you argument by trying to work it from both sides. It reminds me some accused of crime who say both "I didn't do it!" and "If did it, it wasn't wrong!".

Humans aren't stochastic parrots. You can't "prove" this because it's not mathematical fact, but there is plenty evidence from study how to brain works to show this. Hell, it's even readily apparent from introspection if you'd bother to check. LLMs on the hand basically are stochastic parrots because they just autoregressive token predictors. They might become less so due to architectural changes made by the companies working on them, but it isn't going to just creep up on us like some goddamn emergence boogeyman.
Illinois high school offers racially segregated math classes
A kid with a replica samurai sword can do a lot of damage his betters would have more discretion about.
The first step to defeating a tiger is to realize that it cannot hurt you, for it is only made of simple atoms.
Air-gap malware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-gap_malware

Some Blue LEDs contain sapphire, which is apparently macrostate entangleable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
In classic LessWrong fashion this post entirely ignores everything human about society while simultaneously making a complete mockery of rationality.

Consider the Folk Theorem. It's not a theorem. It's an arbitrary definition pretending to rationality. The author is simply asserting something without bothering to explain what any of the preconditions actually mean. The "Folk Theorem" uses four (undefined, lol) terms. None of these terms reasonably describe human behavior. Even worse, none of these terms describe human behavior that would necessarily result in a better world. So the assumptions are neither descriptive NOR prescriptive!

1. Rationality.

Humans aren't always rational. And when they are rational they aren't always good; humans will rationalize even horrific evils such as racialized eugenics. So "rational" isn't a good model of all human behavior and it's also not a model of necessarily good human behavior!

2. "Self-modifying agent"

Humans are bad modifying human behavior. Just ask anyone who is overweight why they don't simply work out more and eat healthier, or a smoker why they don't stop, or an abuser why they aren't nicer. And when humans are able to modify human behavior the results are not always good (eg, adtech and propaganda). So "self-modifying agent" is not a good model of all human behavior and it's also not a model of necessarily good human behavior!

3. "the marginal benefit of investing" is a nonsensical way to think about the effect human effort, both because humans are not robots and also because predicting the impact of one's labor is not always straight-forward. I suppose if "employee"/"robot"/"non-rich-western human"/"$$$" are interchangeable in your brain and you've got MBA-level brain damage about the measurability and predictability of knowledge work then this makes sense...

4. "resources" is undefined and prone to various types of "lump of ___" fallacies.

My general impression is that this entire genre functions as an excuse for the upper and upper-middle class to never have to look income inequality in the eyes and feel the human impact of the social structures their lifestyles depend upon. Maybe if the wealthy spend more time in homeless shelters the shape of society would slowly shift toward distributions that result in fewer homeless shelters, and the downtrodden wouldn't need to depend upon acts of blogpost-inspired generosity.

In any case, I firmly believe that writing an article like this one is almost certainly less useful to society than helping out in a soup kitchen.
PSA: Still a horrible book, though the intro is pretty good. Read Vernor Vinge instead if you are done with Stephenson, Gibson, etc.
Yeah. See e.g.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03341

> Our findings suggest that LLMs may have an internal representation of the likelihood of something being true, even as they produce falsehoods on the surface.

The problem here is that there is currently no reliable way to extract information from this hypothetical world model. Language models do not always say what they "believe", they might instead say what is politically correct, what sounds good etc. Researchers try to optimize (fine-tune) language models to be helpful, honest, and harmless, but honesty ("truthfulness") can't be easily optimized for.
Would be funny if they retaliated by bringing back Google+
Chromebooks for students in 2023: Expert tested and reviewed
AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 7000 Series Laptop and Desktop CPUs
> but they are in fact the largest aggregators of data which feeds into the system.

Feeds into what "system".

Do you really think Google/Amazon/Apple/etc are handing over your Name+Phone number to say Spokeo [1]? I just don't think you get it. Your phone company is the one that is selling your data to anybody not FAANG.

It's easy to say some "ad-tech" are doing X, but actually get a whiteboard out and start with say Google and list what products of theirs collect what data. Then list the process by which say the USG buys its from Google. I'm very interested in what names for the processes are going to be because I really doubt you'll find any for the ad-platforms.

[1]: https://www.spokeo.com/people-search
I'm not sure I was clear on that so thanks for pointing it out.
Radio Shack solved the "next-best-action" problem nearly 50 years ago.

http://switchandlever.com/edm/
Aristippus* how it usually goes (from the other diogenes)
I’m not too surprised. Since introducing the Instant Pot there has been a lot of competition on their main product (pressure cooker). It seems like a race to the bottom for cost and so they must have faced shrinking profit margins. Also, they were diversifying their product offering into products that seemed like they were grasping and not really aligned with their main offering.
I'll have to agree to disagree. The government certainly employs a solid amount of stupid people, as does every institution, but I would quibble with the idea that writing reports as your main job function makes you more likely to be a barely literate moron.

I appreciate the rest of your post though and I think you make a great point about AI being very effective for certain types of work
> and stay in midrange extended stay hotels

What does this cost roughly?
"Machine learning? It's just statistics bro."
Well, that’s not the “uncool” I meant, but the majority of the people who’s working in Robotics are toxic and pretentious for some weird reason, an observation by myself and my friends who all are working in this industry. I hope it was just pure nerds who’s just passionate about what they’re doing, reality is completely the opposite.
I reset my password from the app not the web service.
I also do not have my username in bitwarden only the passwords.
That characterization might be over blown, but it's functionally equivalent to reality because hostile takeovers are a thing.

Any board of directors that isn't ruthlessly maximizing profit is likely to be replaced by a temporary majority of anonymous shareholders with no attachment to the underlying company beyond whatever quick buck they can make off the stock.
The answer is probably some cross language/platform build system not written in python which is invoking python tools behind the scenes.
IIRC, in this case, backslashes are not needed.

You can just end each partial line of such long commands with a pipe sign and keep writing the rest of the overall command on subsequent lines, except for the last partial line, where you just press Enter to complete and run it.
> And there could be a separate system that verifies that citation text matches the real text for being safe.

This is what we’re doing with LLMs at my job and it works quite well. Essentially, the LLM generates a space of possible answers that are then validated with various procedural logic checks. The two strategies work well together, whereas either alone wouldn’t produce as good of results.
Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
How does this differ from Comic Code, which I use as my main code editor font?
We should be doing this kind of shit every week. Congress critters are supposed to represent us but most represent a cartoon version of their constituency or eventually just themselves.
All LLMs have some random aspects.

Training alone relies hugely on many factors (e.g. initialization of paramters, order of training data, hyper paramters, etc.).

In evaluation (afaik this applies to recent models as well) you pick the continuation based on chance and not always the "best". But evaluation is the result of the training process, so all the randomness from that factors in as well.
Yep. I feel the same pain with `debug` on npm and have almost given up on the project entirely. A few security "researchers" determined that since the code could technically be executed by an application connected to the network that thus a regular expression complexity issue must also have a network vector of attack, which immediately boosts the score up by a LOT and...

... increases their payout on bug bounty sites. :) Because of course it does.

Snyk, Huntr, and VulDB, I'm looking at you.

CVEs mean nothing to me anymore. The entire system is beyond fucked.
>I thought it was people sipping Mint Julups watching the race. Seems the race is just a minor distraction to the real action.

It's an 8 hour day with about 10 minutes of racing. Lots of different experiences to be had. The big party is in the infield. The people in the stands might sit and drink mint julips, but theres still lots going on, the biggest is usually watching the horses get ready at the paddock.

It used to be getting in the gate would get you access to the entire grounds, except the private suites. So you could pay for the infield and go sit in seats in the stands no one was using, and people with paid seats could still join the fun in the infield (there's tunnels under the track). This was the first year they blocked access between the stands and the infield (access was limited to those with seats in a corporate tent). I didn't go this year, but I imagine it changed the atmosphere quite a bit. It's also getting more expensive, just for the infield, drawing a different crowd. Things really changed after 9/11 when Chirchill Downs experimented with how much they could limit people bringing in. That didn't really have an effect on what alcohol got past security, but made it a lot harder to bring in snacks, etc. So you had to buy their food, making it for a more expensive day and discuraging some people from coming. And they've been slowly making it more and more expensive every year. Today, you can't even bring a good camera in without a special permit. It's really changed the environment from a cheap, fun day to someplace you go to spend a lot of money.
In-memory load of Swift Mach-OS ignores typical ARGC/ARGV arguments (2022)
I've used zsh for many years, and for me the biggest wins were the various globbing enhancements that all but removed the need for `find`. I know bash has caught up on a lot of these but now it's just momentum.

I do script with bash, however.
Insight Partners cuts size of $20B fund amid ‘great reset in tech’
So the randomness is not mandatory for the llm to work, it is just boring. This means that as a language model it still performs perfectly well in modeling language. We just give it some random saltyness for fun

I would guess the random step is not even mandatory: there is probably a way to replace randomness with a simplified function and still get interesting text. I can't run a simulation but there is no indication here that good randomness is needed.

Fundamentally the design of the transformer and especially its core which is attention based, does not require randomness, so to call it a stochastic model is a stretch
Orca Slicer: G-code generator for 3D printers
The word "trauma" is getting overused. The idea of someone being traumatized by reading fictional text is just silly. It's unpleasant or gross at worst unless you already have other issues.
Really disappointed that this happened.
I don't agree with that assertion at all.
> Maybe you’re spending too much time on giant subreddits

I think this is definitely the case for a lot of people who use reddit. My advice to everyone I've recommended Reddit to is:

1. Sign up for an account
2. Unsubscribe from every subreddit you're subscribed to by default
3. Join smaller communities like <list of subreddits that I think they might be interested in>

Take gaming as a topic for example; /r/gaming has over thirty million subscribers, which is insane. There's no way that space can be welcoming or foster a sense of community.

Instead, look for something more specific, like /r/NintendoSwitch, /r/PS5, /r/BaseBuildingGames, and so on. You can also look for more cross-topical subreddits, like /r/GirlGamers, /r/AccessibleGaming, /r/Gaymers or /r/LGBTgaming, and so on.

This is the distinction that so many of these Reddit clones miss; I'm not just looking to get a feed of links, I want to get to know and recognize people, learn others' perspectives, and get a real sense of what these people are like. I want to be able to bring up things like the trans and antisemitism concerns around Hogwarts Legacy without being drowned out by (or targeted for harassment by) transphobes and nazis.
SERPs have more cues about trustworthiness but yes it is a little bit like Google's knowledge graph results:

https://digitalreadymarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08...
The future is made by those that look past what is and see what might be and fail half way to achieving it. The rest are mired in their attachments and will never escape a murky prison of what today appears to be.
Saudi Arabia spends billions in bid to dominate global games industry
Yes. Musk is actually a shrewd businessman! Got it /s
So is the problem that he has a lot of money or that he is telling people about it?

If the former, it goes back to my point about good being about sacrifice and pain. I.e. me giving 10,000 is better than bezos giving 10,000.

If the latter, the charities they donate to are all talking very loudly about what they are doing. That is literally their job is to bring awareness to a cause and fundraise. They brag about their donations in that they tell you all the good that they have been able to accomplish.

I asked the question because I’m trying to understand the dissonance people feel with him that they don’t feel with what I just outlined.
It doesn't make it OK from a compliance / constitutionality perspective to access non-publicly available data on Americans without due process by buying it. That's a misreading of the report. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302666
So stop assessing severity. Rather than do a shitty job, say nothing, like: "Severity not assessed"
No, the plastic parts are sockets and the aluminum rods do not connect to each other. The rods are not stock round profiles—they have a slightly trapezoidal profile and fairly thick wall. This is the special sauce of Helinox’s parent company, and definitely can hold the weight.

I bought some of these after getting sick of cheap ones that break and have non-replaceable fabric that tears easily after enough sunlight. Great so far.
The OP used a misleading term. It’s not “breaking” encryption that’s illegal, nor is it occurring.

What is illegal is circumventing any measures at DRM that involve encryption.

> Unless Google wants to prove that running secret_youtube_sauce.js can only be ran by specific user-agents on their own website otherwise it's DMCA infringement, they can try

This is exactly the implication here. It’s not copyright infringement, it’s DRM bypassing which is a separate law. The implication is that google wouldn’t have sent you the content (encrypted or not) if the user agent (or whatever) was different. Therefore, you’re deceiving them and illegally bypassing DRM.

> If they win, you've got a bigger problem anyways, since they would win the right to only allow Chrome to access Google properties.

IIRC YouTube used to not work right on Firefox, intentionally. Also lots of Google properties are behind a Chrome-wall (eg their LLM generative search results)

IANAL, but that’s the gist of what’s happening here.
You're going to find everything from close to 0% and close to 100%. It just depends on the project.
Scientific study of consciousness comes from ignoring our subjective impressions of our own consciousnesses, which might be illusory, and going only by what can be seen by other people. So you have experiments doing things like showing subjects subliminal images trying to probe the boundaries between conscious experience and unconscious experience. You start with results like "If we show this image to subjects for 50 ms it only has a slight effect on their behavior which fades out after a second, but if we show it to them for 60 ms it has a large effect for the rest of the experiment including being able to talk about it" and then you keep going from there.
It has plenty to do with it.

People are going "well they say BTC and ETH are OK, why not this random shitcoin?"

The answer is "ETH wasn't OK when it was still like said random shitcoin".
Ask HN: What is the one advice you would have told your “21 yr old” self?
I am a 21 year old adult (I think so), I feel this is also the right platform to ask fellow developers who have scoured the internet and know the in and out working of things that are actually making difference in our society.

I wish to know from you about your advice if you could ever speak to your "21 year old" self.
They can make custom ones when a native one doesn't exist.

There's literally no reason to write your own implementation of a drop-down menu. Zero. None.

And yet, I occasionally run into a site where I need to enter my mailing address, and they have a drop-down menu to choose my state. In a native component, I can just tab to it, type "or", and Oregon (or OR if they're using the abbreviation) will be chosen, and I can just tab on to the next input field.

But every now and then, I find myself on a form where that doesn't work. It turns out, what looks like a drop-down menu is actually a fancy div, and when you click on it, another div pops up with divs for each item. Oh, but I can't even use my keyboard to choose an option! I HAVE to click!

WHY DO WEB DEVS DO THIS!? What was gained by this? Someone spent time to reimplement something for absolutely zero gain, and a LOT of loss! WHY!?

And my complaints don't even begin to address how the custom solution is probably awful for accessibility.

You don't need to make a custom button.

You don't need a custom date picker.

I'm struggling to think what custom components you think need to be made.
Will Reddit help or does it only provide a distraction from misery?
John has plenty of other wins.

A part of me still routinely wants Jon Stewart to move to Tennessee and run for the Turtle’s Congressional seat, on a platform of veteran and emergency worker welfare if nothing else.
Because a 6 month absence can be a deal breaker in a lot of circumstances where a job is on the line. Employers are going to choose the people with constant employment over the people who quit "just because."
Four-week-old AI startup raises record €105M in European push
That's a really poor argument. Now I entrust.... who exactly? How is this a sell for "6 months ephemeral data"?

Also, who is guaranteeing that? Who says it isn't going to be scraped? What's the point if not making historical data hard for the average user to find and easy for a malicious user to find?
HashiCorp Boundary launches session recording
People have been organizing the same on a favours basis for longer than money has existed. I just don't understand how money could possibly qualify as an "unit" here.
Now how much someone is willing to spend on something is obviously related to how much they care about it, but to call it the "unit of caring" seems a bit presumptuous.

Through on reflection, I'm not sure what the author is trying to say anyway. He says:

> In our society, this common currency of expected utilons is called "money". It is the measure of how much society cares about something.

But who exactly is society here, and how do you choose to interpret it's spending? It seems much too vague to really argue about.
how many solar panels can you build with that investment?
not gonna lie this is awesome and i will take it for a spin today before passing judgement.

screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/jVeZKgh.png

theme: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Whalesal...
If someone tried to do poiltical journalism like Hunter S. Thompson today, I'd bet they would probably get hauled in front of congress for a struggle session, a journalistic cashiering from party personalities, and some terrible random luck from the bureaucracy just to make an example.

I wonder what changed about the world where the tradition of writers like Thompson, Hitchens, Vidal, Hemmingway, Menken, Bierce, and others with humour and moral courage just aren't a part of mainstream discourse.
Yep - you supplied evidence that its effectively dead. A few rows per day for all modules in the module registry ? Compare that to any other PL in the top 50 and you will have pages per day. For active PL in the top 10, it would be several dozens of pages per day.

(For Javascript, it would be several hundred pages per day - buts..lets not talk about JS).

Perl is an old geezer hacking out its dying last breaths. Calling it "stable" is fine. Death is a very stable state.
There's a simple explanation: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...

From the EU Pyrex webpage, when they talk about their materials in the French factory, they say it's borosilicate:

The Pyrex® glass is unique. It is a borosilicate glass that is tempered, of superior quality and has a great thermal and mechanical shock resistance. [...] The Pyrex® glass is made of pure sand (80%), soda (4%), Alumina (2,5%) and bore (13%).

So I'd say that at least EU Pyrex is safer (when talking about thermal shock, I guess).

PD: Following the life of Pyrex, Duralex and Saint-Gobain is quite a thing...
And you could not have found out about these things any other way than through Reddit?
establish second connection to the same server without GSSAPI

As I understood the description, it's not even that: you would need to establish two connections, both with GSSAPI and using the same username, but with different credential scoping options (the text says with or without credential delegation, but GSSAPI has other options besides delegation and it's not clear to me if that's just an example). In such a case, the client has no control over which connection would actually be used.
Dang. That's really cool. I had always assumed this was the cable operator's homebrewed invention.
Switch to a constant time crypto algorithm / implementation, like ed25519 instead of RSA.
It is same argument as "Every HTML, CSS , JAVASCRIPT" development you do is written in C/C++ anyways .