skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a similar note, I can't wait for LLMs to digest _all_ the research papers readable enough for them and accessible, "take notes" in an index-suitable format/structure, and then act similar to a human who'd done that over an obviously more limited corpus: respond to questions by translating them into relevant key words, looking them up, _skimming the contents again,_ and finding relevant information. Might not be useful, and thus necessitate further visits to the index/library.

With the needed preprocessing, a LLM that can "go and do some research to adequately respond" could be extremely powerful.

We've spent the last ~10 millennia improving knowledge management technology to scale beyond the capacity/time of individual brains. Let the language model use actual research on this and pre-digest, not just Bing search.
No need for it's short term memory to remember what say piece of code did something, just tag it when reading and rely on scalable shared indexing of tags.

Though the more I think about it, the more it sounds like normal LLM pretraining with the knowledge index being the giant chunk of LLM weights.
I'm a big proponent for math education but I don't think budgeting or dealing with credit cards requires anything past basic arithmetic.
Fwiw, Plex parental controls are absurdly flexible.

I have it set up so the kids account can only watch things that have been given a particular tag. Due to how granular Plex tags are, this means you can give them a whole movie or TV show, some of a TV show, or a single episode

As it is right now, they have access to a reasonably large corpus of content, but nothing new; every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or something, my wife wants to watch it first. We basically always approve it, since we aren't that likely to object to most things you'd find in a kids show, but it's nice to have the peace of mind
Putting people out of work is one thing, that's bad enough and societies should take care to guide change and support those affected.

The danger behind AI and other manipulative technology is that it erodes trust. We already have serious issues with trust in media, and not just the obvious cases of Russian/Chinese propaganda, but also stuff like kids getting anorexia from extremely photoshopped advertising.

Add AI on top and no one can be certain about anything anymore. Say someone distributes a fake "recording" of the US President calling for glassing Moscow, or the Serbian President declaring war on Kosovo? That has the potential to actually cost lives on a massive scale.
Busting a monopoly is not an exercise in tyranny. Do you weep for Standard Oil or Bell? If anything, the US government is lenient towards monopolies. None of the 21st century behemoths have been busted.
I mean, if that were truly the case we'd see companies hovering around RTO numbers that just barely guaranteed these benefits - so far I haven't seen any stories to this effect, so it seems sorta hand-wavey to me?
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I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I found it interesting at the time I solved it (Spring 2011?): https://cameronwatters.com/writing/2017/08/01/take-the-time-...

TL;DR (of the problem): customers from a single country—and only that country—were (sometimes) unable to checkout on an e-commerce website and, after months of trying to sort out the issue, the solution turned out to be very facepalm-worthy.
I am with you on this one. What the hell is this? Why is DOJ peddling for other trillion dollar companies? Microsft CEO is concerned for _Google's shareholders_? Are you serious? I don't believe a word of this guy.

I'll just add, Bingbot has the same crawling opportunities as Googlebot. Nobody is stopping Bing from driving traffic to their website. It's also been 20+ years: Windows OS is constantly manipulating defaults and Edge is still not uninstallable.
Moats are anticompetitive, that's the entire idea behind why founders want them. Who else would a moat keep away, customers? ;)
When it comes to spending money on credit, you need an intuition for running sums. This lets you maintain an estimate in your head tracking how much you charged on the card.

People without that intuition are surprised at how fast the little charges added up to an unexpectedly large sum.

But I only spent a hundred here or there; how did it blow past $4700?
Absolutely a privacy concern
I wonder what the advantage is of a blood based test over existing saliva based hereditary cancer screens (that do genome sequencing instead of 23andme type array testing).

e.g: Color genomics https://www.color.com/cancer
You posted almost a dozen flamewar comments to this thread. That's not allowed here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are—and yes, I totally get that you have good reasons to feel the way you do.

Nonetheless, taking HN threads into hellish flamewars does nothing except make things worse, and it's not allowed here (for anybody, regardless of nation).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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> Easy enough to do! Just skip over the Apple articles on your HN front page!

I am an Apple developer, so I would like you all to stop buying Apple and I can get an honest job....
I can't really disagree with you. Although I want to believe this problem is more exacerbated with LLMs than with human-tutors.

I have no evidence other than hundreds of hours using ChatGPT.
So all the folks doing experiments on telescopes, astronomy, etc., without publicizing it during Medieval Europe were not doing science?
It's incredible how every single endorsement on the homepage just reinforces the bad vibes on this thing. Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Alexis Ohanian, David Lieb. Genuinely expected to see an unironic Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, or John Riccitiello endorsement.
Meta wants to use celebrity AI bots to “entertain” users
I still like getting surprised when a new or unorthodox narrator knocks it out of the park but I’d really enjoy a “salvage this purchase” exit hatch with a AI voice alternative. I’d even pay a buck or two on top of an existing purchase to automatically fix a bad narration.

Head over to Audible reviews, some books are widely considered to be great books as written but the audiobook is reviewed as one to be avoided because it was recorded poorly, the narrator paced it wrong, they had an annoying voice, they couldn’t do a voice of the opposite gender, whatever.

Plus it seems like a great accessibility feature. Many books are recorded for the vision impaired community by volunteers and that’s admirable, but some of the AI today does a much better job.
> If I am accused of theft in a criminal court and my arch rival is brought for testimony against me, it doesn’t sound like a fair process to me.

So, like, if you were arrested for assaulted your neighbor who you had a long-standing rivalry with, you wouldn't expect the court to hear from the neighbor? It's not like you wouldn't have your own chance to give your own testimony...
All I heard sadly was "this ain't for you, old man."
All moral judgements around suffering are only applicable to humans and things that share a common-enough ancestor with humans. It's not really for you to decide whether a hunk of silicon is "suffering". You may as well draw a frowny face on a piece of paper and recoil in horror at your creation of suffering.
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To give you a sense of what you might work on, the software teams I manage at Lemurian have three major projects in-flight for the remainder of the year. One is improving our DNN compiler, which ingests and transforms pytorch programs/graphs into our own internal formats. Another is kicking off a dynamic scheduling runtime, which ingests the output of the compiler and dispatches work to various backends. The final project is a functional simulator of the proposed hardware architecture. It serves as an ISA/compile target while we bring up the silicon, as well as a correctness and debugging device for DV & RTL. There are a number of other projects at Lemurian that touch on the topics of Numerical Analysis, Hardware Architecture, ISA design and, of course, Deep Learning.

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> It’s not the wrong direction…

You can't make that statement without looking at a specific case where someone is, where they want to go and how the transit lines run. It often is the wrong direction, which consumes time.

I was staying by Columbia in Manhattan recently and wanted to go to the upper east side (straight east). Subway doesn't go that way. Need to take one south to 42st, then east to grand central then north to my destination. Easy example of having to go away from the destination. That one is not so bad as the NYC subway is pretty quick.

Close to home if I want to visit a shopping area two miles west, I need to take a bus 6 miles south to a central terminal and then another 7 miles north. Adds about two hours to the trip. Easier to bike there.

That's always going to be the nature of mass transit because it can't possibly be point to point for everyone.

> You are not describing differences between urban & suburban

I don't know what to make of this statement, since I'm specifically describing the different pros & cons of urban vs. suburban.
yeah how do you solve this problem though?

once enough mtdna has been depleted it's irreversible
Social engineering an AI is really interesting. And come to think of it, learning how to effectively social engineer an AI is probably a really good way to learn about social engineering so you can detect it in the wild when it is attempted with you.
Oh definitely. But there wouldn’t be Google’s updates to a dead project, even if it wouldn’t stop working like Jamboards.
I get that it's hard, but clearly at some it's crossing a line, or so it seems to me? I don't think you need a dedicated team of advanced sleuths for that.

Anyway, not the biggest thing in the world; and I understand wanting to avoid drama, since you're already a (woke|Nazi|SJW|fascist) mod (or so I've been told...)
^^ C.S. Lewis, for anyone wondering.
Customers are kept in by moats.
With all due respect to Mr. Lewis, this quote is crap. I have no reason to believe that the robber baron's cruelty may sleep, nor that his cupidity might be satiated, nor that conscience enters into it for that robber baron.

A private monopoly is accountable to only the owner. May as well be feudalism. In a liberal democracy, government monopolies have accountability to the people. When that is subverted or corrupted, it sucks, but at least there's a mechanism.

There's no such mechanism with a private monopoly.
How have the different parenting approaches resulting in adult happiness and success? I’d love to hear your take.
This isn’t true except for at the most extreme examples. Plenty of people have been promoted “out of the way”.
And yet, cheap Chinese manufacturing has taken over the world. When it comes to money, pride isn't so important to most of us.
I'm not getting my hopes up but I'm glad to see OSI looking into this because IMO BUSL is actually better and more honest than AGPL but one is OSI-approved and the other is not.
Can you give me some keywords to get started with this if you are acquainted with the field? I can try to work my way to something if it's just software that needs to be written and textbooks to read.

Would be appreciative. I will try on my own as well.
It's quite possibly the worst web page presentation I've come across in a long time - aside from the fact it looks like some bug has caused my OS to leave a random trail of mouse pointers all over the screen, some of them even move around, making me doubt my sanity when I'm quite sure I'm holding the mouse still.
And the less said about the colours the better. There's no way I was going to put up with that long enough to read all the text on it.
Apple’s executives committed themselves to the lunacy of selling effectively disposable electronics housed inside an actual gold case. They knew exactly what they were doing and that decision is exemplar of their overall practice of building hardware that is impractical to maintain in the long run.
Real understanding of concepts has been replaced with step by step methods that allow you to arrive at a solution without needing to understand what you are doing.

Isn’t this how pre-undergraduate math education has been for the entire history of mass education?

How else would you describe everything from how to multiply two numbers to simplifying fractions to the chain rule?
What, specifically, are you counting in “education funding”? At least in my state, the vast majority of a given school’s money comes from a local mill levy, creating significant disparity from neighborhood to neighborhood, in day-to-day dollars. Facilities, on the other hand, receive most funding at the state level.

In neither case are we adequately paying teachers, which is generally the “funding” issue - if you want the best people to teach, you need to pay them like they have value. Currently, we pay them like 7-11 employees, make them buy their own supplies, and arm them with books chosen by lunatics in TX (if we’re not still recycling 30-year old books), and then wonder why they aren’t constantly turning children whose parents work three jobs into Rhodes Scholars.

Oh, and all of this while we yell back and forth about CRT and whether it’s ok for gay people to exist in schools and do nothing to address school violence.

No wonder people think our schools are failing - they’ve created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
so your explanation for why schools in wealthy suburbs always do well and schools in poor urban areas do poorly is simply because somehow, suburbanites are holding their schools accountable while the urbanites are somehow not?
Of course, "criminals of various levels" "covering up" their, say, stupid 19-year-old mistake drug conviction is exactly why many people favor right to be forgotten things. The idea that it would be in the social good to have easy access to everything someone did or posted for decades seems ludicrous. Privatized ubiquitous surveillance and record-keeping is not a good thing.
> Real understanding of concepts has been replaced with step by step methods that allow you to arrive at a solution without needing to understand what you are doing. That probably results in relatively equal outcomes but she has no clue how to do things that fall outside of the frameworks they established.

Do you have some examples of these frameworks that eschew understanding?
Pings don’t seem like enough info
Canada too or just US?
If you mean being trapped in a job, that's not an issue often because the pay is bad. The company training you risks your leaving too soon but they also pay you like $30k at most where a college grad would be 3x that.

In my experience, college educated IT people pretty much have the same if not harsher time to productivity, mostly because you simply can't teach very specific products and most of IT is experiential, what you learn in college is googleable, it's the rest that you can't that has value. The only advantage of a degree in IT is it makes the employee a better long term bet because it would be easier to promote them up the ladder and have them stay longer.
In my teenage years? I would've just played video games all day every day.
I am sitting here thinking exactly the same thing. The wealthier (and even middle class) kids with parents who understand will learn the material as always, and the rest of the kids without this stewardship will be even more disadvantaged than before.
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The iPhone 6 (2014) also got iOS 12.5.7 January of this year.

The iPhone 6s (2015) and iPhone 7 (2016) and iPhone 8 and 10 (2017) got its last update September of this year.

All of the iPhones released after that runs the latest operating system.

The iPads of the same generation get the same upgrades.

The 5s was the first 64 bit iPhone.
Imagine the following scenario:

A footballer strives to score a goal. During the game, the footballer collides with an opponent and hits his head. He has a concussion and won't be able to play for the rest of the game, and frustration is felt.

Is this different from the scenario you described? Is the frustration in the presence of unpleasure the same as frustration in the absence of pleasure?
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Midsomer Murders for sure.
I agree with you re: the ACA hanging around unscathed. That seems like a bad gamble. Striking it down completely seems politically unlikely, but then there's Roe v. Wade.
First stinkbugs now this. I remember first seeing them in PA a decade ago. Now they are everywhere in Ohio. People joke it is the new state bird.
Possibly your understanding of the motive is correct. But your understanding of iCloud security is not. Apple did not offer end to end encryption of photos until after. And it is not the default now.
Common Core math teaches how things work, it's just different, so people think it's wrong. But when you actually pay attention and learn it, it helps explain things better at a more fundamental level.

However, parents didn't learn this way, so it's bad.
> I think it's important for any high performer to occasionally step out of their narrow perception of the world and really grok how far ahead they are compared to everyone else.

A (pre-Putin) Russian proverb goes it’s better to be first in the village, than it is to be last in the city.
>The market judges everyone’s skills, and barring nepotism, the market will pay everyone what they are worth

That's when the the miseducated majority will find that the market is unjust. All goes according to plan.
Nobel prize recognising effort and intent, not outcome. Didn't stop infection. Didn't stop transmission. Adverse effects overlooked and long term ones unknown.
I don't get it. This country gave the world colonies and Empire, and now the Government is seen as untouchable and also a source of justified doubt?

Have we reached peak withdrawal yet!

Quibbling over whether or not the domestic populace acts with obedience, reminds me of how far we are from expansionist policy and growth.

Do something interesting UK! Nobody cares about Boris Johnson anymore.
I read framework Chromebook and got excited... it's the price of a MacBook Air?!??!
> Trying to separate gender from “biological sex” trivializes the reality of trans people.

I think this basically gets it, but I would say it somewhat misstates the case: gender is easily distinguished from biological sex (maybe not separated from it; the general correlation and the fact that behavior necessarily has a biological basis suggests that gender identity may itself be among the many dimensions of biological sex traits), but the categorization of people into two groups based on a subset of biological sex traits is not, itself, biological sex, it is ascribed gender. Biological sex is multidimensional (in the usual sense of the entire spectrum of traits that are considered within the ambit of sex) or not binary (in the narrower sense of ability to perform in one, both, or neither of two possible sexual reproductive roles.)

Sex essentialism, like race essentialism (whose arguments and methods it generally apes) defends social constructed exclusive categorization by misrepresenting social statuses ascribed based on some subset of physical traits as essential biological categories.