skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - out of the box, a LLM will write an extremely poor essay. But that is not how to use the LLM. WHat you do, is give the topic to the LLM, and say, "with this topic, what are 20 titles that I could have for essays." Then, you pick the best title, and you then say, "I am writing an essay with the title <insert title>, what should the central argument for the essay be?" You then ask for a list of bullet points for the central theme of each paragraph to elaborate on that argument, then you ask it to write each paragraph individually, then you put the pieces together, and ask it to proof read it's own work and finally you add in some references of your own. Within 1/2 an hour, you have a passable essay. And if you then iterate on it with the LLM you can fairly soon have a half decent one, especially if it is a well trodden area (presumably with lots of training data that the LLM draws on).

I tried to get students to critique things, but even then you can put in the text to critique to a LLM with a long enough context, and the LLM will kick off with a passable critique, if you iterate with it enough.

So, even though they'll never get a top mark, they will still be able to get through the assessment. So I don't set essays any more.
I'm messing around with a project now to featurize game states at arbitrary points and predict the winner with the idea of creating some sort of "eval bar" like in chess. Supply is a pretty good indicator but it's not always helpful. Definitely not in broodwar.

If it's quite good it could be useful as a tool for people trying to get better (although various tooling and custom maps have been around for these types of purposes since the game came out and most people even pros seem to just grind ladder for practice).

I was also hoping it could be used to analyze a replay and indicate how "back and forth" the game was, or if it was more one-sided, etc. Or if the top 100 pros were part of the featurization, then you could potentially determine how the odds change given a certain game state depending on who the pro is.
Probably stupid question, but what versions of curl does this affect?
For the inevitable discussion about open source alternatives: "How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

Link: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
I think this is the least of their concerns considering the rest of their activities. I guess they've got a sort of pirate's privilege in that they can openly brag about this stuff since they're already starting from the point of openly flaunting the law.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if there simply are no lawyers working at, for or with Anna's Archive.
Wow. You think a city is going to PUNISH a business for bringing people back into its decimated downtown to spend money on lunches and coffees, thereby increasing tax revenue? Not to mention supporting the public transportation system?

Really?
I know I'm a Nix elitist but I really don't understand why people don't just use Nix for all their package management.
Oh man, I haven't been paying attention to the sunspot cycle. I got my license at a low and committed to being depressed about it forever, but ... time fixes everything I guess!
> Never dropped lost one to water damage. Never cracked a screen or otherwise broke one physically.

Same here, but I don't pretend that my experience is typical.

Even if it is, and, say, only 20% of people end up dropping a phone in a toilet or cracking the screen, it seems worth it to build in water and crack resistance.
Store SSH keys inside the TPM: SSH-tpm-agent
It scales by having more, smaller classes, with more teachers.
Both scientists in the article mention having children; I don't think they can face the realities themselves.
Have you considered that the housewife today doesn't have to tolerate getting abused by her alcoholic husband, and can simply leave to become financially self-sufficient?
I don't think anyone is (legally) going to prop up a business or non-profit using data that was admittedly taken from them using their security holes.
If someone wants to tell me the username, I'd be happy to look into what happened. Without the username, I don't know of any way to check this particular case—all I can say is what changed during those few days, and what changed is that we blocked more IPs that were making logged-out requests; logged-in requests would not have been affected.

Since that link refers to opening HN in an incognito window—and all those requests would be logged-out—most probably it was that activity that triggered the block. As I think I said elsewhere, it's hard to distinguish between a legit user accessing a bunch of HN links in various tabs, and a distributed botnet making similar handfuls of requests from a million different IP addresses.

What I can tell you for sure, though, is that the claim that we were targeting any individual user is quite false. Isn't that the main point?
If the field is unimportant you'd represent it as such. `Option` or `Maybe` or whatever the equivalent wrapper is in your language of choice.
You may be interested in "Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers": https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11174
If the tooling is a pain to use, slow, and owned by a crappy corporation, and I'm not going to use the types anyway, then I have even less of a reason to use it...
I agree with wilg. For example, what you are describing seems similar to my own subjective experience and yet, I've always thought of myself as having an inner monologue. To me, an inner monologue is just about reasoning in my head with the help of language. You are capable of formulating sentences in your head? Solving riddles? You can articulate how you reached a certain conclusion? etc. Surely not every word that comes out of your mouth comes as a surprise? I don't think having an internal monologue necessarily means having a constant conversation with yourself.
Yeah, but in the end they are those who fuel the waste machine. They start it, and they are the reason why there are new phones every year. For no sane reason.

Somewhere along the way, you pass a threshold where it's uncool to have a certain version of phone and judging from what you hear about the waste problem with phones, it's above the reasonable moment to get rid of it because it's broken or not usable.

I mean, sure it's a nice lie you can tell to yourself, but in the end, it's not good.
> No, I never stated that [financial] fraud was/is the business model for Germany.

Please read more carefully.

> The scam site has been up for many years.

And likely will continue to be so until someone successfully brings a case to the Estonian courts. And that will require that party to go by the book, it will likely be costly (as it always is when bringing suit in a country not your own) and will take a long time.

> What you are proving is that they are in fact working on this problem.

But what I meant was: the fact that the numbers are going down is proof positive that something is being done, but probably just not fast enough. Otoh governments tends to be ridiculously ineffective in thse things.

FWIW Estonia has ~1.3 million people living there, the vast majority of them earn their living in legal ways and silly generalizations are not going to help you gain much sympathy. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (and a number of other EU states) all have underpowered financial, legal and enforcement branches in large part because they are simply not the wealthiest countries and this situation attracts scammers and other criminals like flies. This is a real problem. Solutions are neither going to be quick nor easy.
what's going on with your Source Code link on the plugin page pointing to a decidedly not source code URL: https://www.unlogged.io/terms-of-service ?

Or, I guess put another way, since it's cited as GPLv3 to which address should one send a request for the source code?
I don’t think the paradigm is particularly mismatched, right? If you translate C to Go, it would be pretty much best case for Go (neither language likes lots of small allocations). But Go lacks a lot of optimizations that most C compilers support, like return value optimization, aggressive inlining, etc. C also has lighter-weight function calls and so on that you pay for in Go.

Maybe this is what you mean by paradigm mismatch, but usually I would think of something like translating an allocation-heavy Java app into Go as paradigm mismatch.
I field that question but I don't like it. In a word, it's lazy. The interviewers has my CV, why not say, "Tell me about Proj X you mentioned..."

I've had two interviews in the last week and I'm not sure why they bothered. Both came off as disengaged. Both probably didn't prep for the conversion. Both asked that question.

Yawn.
The ACTUAL writeup: https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunab...
I have the Moto G4, which is on its last legs after 8 years.

It barely had any non-android, non-Google apps. If there were any, I uninstalled them all except one from the Apps list without having to root my phone or anything. The last one is called Moto, which is disabled (can't be uninstalled).
I recently bought a Pixel 7 after my Huawei P30 pro broke.

The older Huawei model is so much better than the newer Pixel that it makes you think why they don't allow them to access the Play store anymore.
I thought reflective sails accelerated faster than absorptive ones?
People in nearby villages in sub-saharan Africa are likely more diverse than people on different continents outside. People outside Africa are remarkably inbred (the bottleneck is measured in a few thousands at most).
> As a result, they're less likely to land the job.

And you are less likely to hire someone that is a good fit for your role but couldn't put an insane amount of time to apply to your job post and a 100 more.
Any plans to make this extension available for Safari users?
I actually misread fig. 14 from the article which was the set of top market participants.
So it has a 90% share of the ecommerce of those top 5, not the whole market.
Honestly feel the article intended that misreading
Jesus. As a visually impaired person who needs to scroll almost line by line, this is horrible.
The main difference between jsonnet and JavaScript/typescript is that it's lazily evaluated.

Evaluation is driven "from the output"; by which I mean that only the code that has an effect on the output is evaluated. When an object is rendered (manifested) all it's non-hidfen fields are evaluated and every expression they contain produces a value which is then manifested and recursively only the fields that are manifested have their expressions evaluated.

This ia particularly important when combined the key operation that jsonnet provides: object overlay/merges. When you overlay an object on another object it may shadow a field of the "super" object causing the expression of the super object to not be evaluated.
> racially-targeted bioweapon

Possible with relatively low specificity and sensitivity (high false positives, high false negatives, respectively). But society's concept of "race" is nearly exclusively limited to physical appearance and has no basis in any part of the genotype which doesn't affect visual phenotype. Therefore to achieve high specificity and sensitivity you'd need a bioweapon which targets individuals based on complex combinations of genes which together govern physical appearance, often in relatively subtle ways.

This is relatively impossible because overall physical appearance isn't a vector for infections. Even if you did this relatively impossible thing, you'd get a lot of false positives and negatives for most populations due to intermixing -- Latin America for example has very, very few groups of indigenous populations which aren't significantly mixed with the European colonizers' genes.

When I say it's "possible with relatively low specificity and sensitivity" I mean that you could find other genes that are somewhat loosely correlated with our current definitions of "race", such as how some Africans are somewhat more likely to have sickle-cell disease (SCD) and that provides about a 75% protection against HIV, and heterogenous carriers of the gene (SCT - Sickle Cell Trait) have about 40% lower incidence rate of HIV. But even in the most concentrated areas of Africa, only 3% of some populations have SCD.

And that dismal math will repeat for any "race-based" infection system -- you might be able to get slightly higher rates of infection in another target "race" but it won't be dramatically different enough from the effects on your constituent population to make it useful.
Yep, PM2.5 turns your blood into sludge.
So you're claiming that if I draw a Mickey Mouse myself, I can do whatever I want with it. Disney's copyright doesn't apply?

You really need to look up what copyright is. It has the word "copy" in the name, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.
The whole current AML scene is very sad. Sanctions against Russia don't harm any of the Putin's friends who can figure out another way to get money across the border. Sanctions against Russia only harm ordinary Russians.
Put the airplane on a long treadmill, Mythbusters style?
SML is good enough for theorem proving. That's what it was written for. Though you probably want convenience libraries on top, maybe the one called HOL.
It's better than Apple's notch.
Not sure where you have worked, but that's not most people's experience. You can have all the ambition in the world and with the wrong environment or culture you will slam into a brick wall very quickly. And sure, you can change jobs if your skillset is in demand, but guess what-- most other orgs function exactly the same. In fact, the people who are willing to compromise themselves most are often the ones who get ahead. That might be what some consider "ambition."
Yeah, sorry I wasn't super clear. I'm not a part of OP's company, nor any Y Combinator startup. I'm just an unimportant HN member and saw a target of opportunity to ask you about where some of these rules are defined.

Specifically I was wondering where the rules are for things like Tell HN, Ask HN, or Launch HN (which I think is reserved for Y Combinator companies right?).

However in reviewing the guidelines again which you've kindly pulled out of the footer for me, I'm now noticing I should explicitly not be asking you questions here and should instead be asking through the email address. My apologies.
Your summary:

> "the cost of renewables is continuously going up"

Their actual report, first key takeaway, page 2 of 5:

> "costs have fallen sharply"
Which still for example radically simplifies supply chains enabling us to receive life-saving medicine when we need it.
I don't think there's any place to attach rockets to an A320. Probably they'll just lighten the aircraft as much as possible by stripping out all unnecessary equipment, and do some construction work on the field to turn it into something vaguely resembling a runway.
The squatter isn't a tourist.
Ubiquiti do -- and it's very nice to be able to punch holes in it when I do want to let HTTPS traffic in to specific addresses, rather than need to try to shoehorn everything onto a single IPv4 address.

IPv6 support is sufficiently widespread that pretty much the only place I can't access IPv6-only services from is the office :P.
Not sure if this is true, but Microsoft(or Cutler) allegedly stole MICA source code and used it NT, which was part of that lawsuit.

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_...
> The U.S has a lot of things in its constitution

You know... I'm a Brazilian. Our constitution has something around 200 pages. The reactions of US people about their government working is really surprising and hard to understand to me.

Anyway, I'm sure that e.g. your postal service does not discriminate between legal business, because there's a rule forbidding it (that one I know that exists). Why do you think such a rule won't work for financial transfers?
You can still do that. And it'll still only run on one operating system, just like it used to.
I watched a video recently that had another author describe issues in a way that I found very intuitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdCJxdR7L_I
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The issue is people are paid to do what they're told.

It's incredible how infantile a lot of the reactions are here. This guy took an on-site job and is now whining that he has to go back TWO out of the FIVE days he EXPECTED to be there.
I called them and explained my problem, hoping to get help via phone. But the employee told me they are on lunch break and please send a fax
> The agreement often has a stipulation that the same product can never be cheaper elsewhere which is sometimes easy as WalMart gets specific SKUs

Yep, this is anti-consumer and anti-competitive -- it should be illegal. Here's where it gets interesting though...

In wal-mart's case they're trying to win on price competition alone. They're hoping with their volume, operations and efficiency, nobody else can sell with a lower margin. But Amazon is doing the opposite.

I looked into selling on Amazon recently and the fees were over 30%! Amazon requiring that sellers can't offer a lower price elsewhere drives the prices up on Amazon and off Amazon. Primarily, they're trying to prevent sellers from directing buyers to their own website where they can offer the product at a lower price because there are no 30%+ fees.
> Also I'm curious -- you seem to accept the planet is warming

I accept that climate has been changing since day one 4 billion years ago. It undoubtedly happens today, happened yesterday, will happen tomorrow.

> Are you denying that CO2 from fossil fuels is the principal cause,

This seems irrelevant to me. I would indulge in the speculation if we lived in a world where that already hadn't been politicized. Now I can't help but worry that doing so would be used to propagandize to destroy the economy.

> but just think it's pointless to do anything about it?

It does seem to me that it's pointless for the people most worried about it. I have children, I want and will have grandchildren someday, and they in turn will have their own too. So, the future's more important for me than it is for many.

The "let's adopt a baby from Africa because it's selfish to have your own biological children" crowd, they seem a little weird for caring if you ask me.

> Or are you denying warming and/or the increase in atmospheric CO2 entirely?

The first doesn't seem implausible. The latter can be objectively measured with devices that are cheap enough and available enough that I could confirm it myself if I had any suspicions.

I am clearly less alarmed by those measurements than most.
The halting problem simply doesn't apply to biological neurons, they don't side step them, unless your context is humans writing down an Algorithm.

The rules of a human writing down an algorithm is the same thing as a Turing machine running an algorithm.

The halting problem applies for any system of computation that is at least as powerful as a TM, including any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined, AKA deterministic.

Cortical neuron firing is non-deterministic and more closely is modeled as probabilistic but still stochastic.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.03.518978v1

Machine learning is constrained by the halting problem.

HALT is the conical example for what is decidable, but other problems exist and sometimes PAC learnability hits practical limits far before the finite time limits of RE.

As an example not invoking HALT:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10255

There are absolutely constraints on BNNs, but as BNNs aren't deterministic Turing machines, it doesn't apply.

The real question is why do people resort to elementary oversimplified models of biological brains?

If you are in the field of studying the brain you will look for deterministic models that fit your needs to make computation more likely to be tractable.

But the false equivalency of ANNs to BNNs is problematic as a distraction from finding tractable solutions for computation.
Ten billion mouths to feed by 2050
How is data secured and protected?

Is the company collecting all my prompts and responses?

I don’t see a privacy policy or anything like that linked on the main page.
Anyone able to share the definitive history of the polar bears that visited the office?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Polar_Be...
Bug?

Shoulda won back my 5.

https://i.imgur.com/iZavzr6.jpeg
An inner monologue is something specific, and refers to thoughts in the form of language:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrapersonal_communication
This is great news and has a much larger impact than the featured feature IMO.
Rocket Lab aquires SailGP NZ facitiles and staff
I think at some height that becomes possible, but just going up would probably beyond the maximum altitude of most helicopters. However if the helicopters were to fly horizontally, the plane would develop its own lift and it could engage the engines and continue.
Seems like this would be susceptible to an Inference Attack.
"And there seems to be something to it, as almost all new passanger cars have those today."

That's seems to be a pretty weak argument. You're also forgetting the factor that they can charge extra for more automatic features, or that marketing determined that a significant segment may want it. So it could have little to do with better performance and more to do with positioning and money.

Again, what is they interdependence you speak of? The vast majority of cars have the brake systems completely separate - hydraulic with disc/caliper for regular brakes and a cable with shoes/drum for the parking brake. There's really no reason for interdependence, and you really don't see it in the vast majority of new cars.
People often confuse society as a whole with individual choices.

An individual can independently choose to brush, floss, engage in less risky behaviors, have a good diet, maintain a health weight, etc. It's not hard.

But when talking about society as a whole, that breaks down. Society is going to have a percentage of people who don't brush and floss. Who aren't managing their diet and weight. Who are taking risks beyond what you find acceptable.

When talking about society as a whole, it's a dead end to just say, "well people should just be better". It doesn't work that way, and it certainly doesn't fix anything. Society will always have people who have a lot of sex. Making it safer is better. Society will always have people who have teeth issues. Not having them die or be in massive pain is better. Society will always have people who can't maintain a healthy weight. Making it easier is better.
For any decently structured argument, analogies are illustrative, not load-bearing. If you find that is not the case, usually the argument is not particularly sound.
Thanks for calling this out. Didn't realize they rolled back the rollback of forcing ID.me usage. Despicable and the astroturfing even more so.
A student a year ahead of me had atrocious handwriting. They allowed him to type up his AP tests after the answer period and included the typewritten sheets along with his handwritten booklet (so the graders could confirm he hadn’t altered his answers).