skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My HMO pays almost 100% of in-network care with a referral (there is a nominal per-visit co-pay), so that at least wouldn't be an issue there, as long as I don't run into silly things like "The facility you visited was in-network, but Person X who did some of your care was an out-of-network contractor" which has bit me for emergency care before.
After COVID my food allergies have been insane. I can't prove they're related and my doctor has no idea but pretty much overnight in early 2021 I became extremely sensitive to a bunch of ingredients including corn. Subsequently I had to cut out 99% of junk food and snacks sold in stores.

The upshot, I feel great and eliminating corn syrup and whatever else those foods and drinks had has reduced my cravings for sweets by something like 99.5%.
If attention shifts a bit to other languages (Nim? Zig? D? Clojure? Kotlin?), or if the answer is already in the multitude of answered questions, the activity will drop too. Or a multitude of not directly obvious other reasons.
True, but the parent comment was not an example of that.
I feel like many, myself included, have moved away from using GitHub after they turned the good will of opensource into copilot. Trampling licenses and reselling open solutions to companies just doesn't sit right with many people. I will not feed the beast.
Microsoft is probably the one case where this sticks out the most, at least for me anyways. Noticeably more bugs in updates since they dropped their QA team, in Windows as well as cloud products.
Do you discuss anywhere what you use for static analysis? I skimmed through your blog but didn't see any details. Also -- did you detect and publish this BEFORE it became public knowledge? It's unclear.
This article touches on the more critical and flip side of a significant problem, which I think will hurt many of the incumbents, while whoever figures out how to resolve it will gain a lot of credit.

Facebook doesn’t explain how their ad targeting works at the individual level, but they thought about it and tried—barely. It was perceived as an obstacle to black-box ML, even when there were clear opportunities to show customers (and partners): here’s how the algebra works, here are key dimensions that we have identified explicitly and that the advertisers wanted us to target (age, gender), here are more dimensions and the feedback from showing that ads to other tells us (people who like board games respond more to the ad, and we think you do).

That training, in clear, accessible language that anyone would understand exists: it’s part of onboarding.

The result of not having it is a large chunk of ads are shown to people who literally don’t speak that language (something Antonio GM mentions in his book and that was identified, corrected, broken, and re-identified at least three separate times since). But even benefits would be enormous: it would free what looks like 60% of my ad inventory by not showing gambling ads.

But they went the other way, treating users asking questions that their own employees ask on their first days with suspicion—assuming they knew better than the people they are talking about.

OpenAI is less adversarial, but they must explain how training and testing work with user-relevant examples: “Here’s a conversation you had last week. Here’s the feedback you gave. Here’s how we detected it was relevant to refinement. Here are examples of questions whose answers were changed by your contribution.”

Having a full-text search on their training set might be difficult, but something along those lines could be implemented and reviewed by a neutral third party. Those conversations would lead to insights about where to find more relevant data.

As Simon W. writes, this matters, and you want to respect privacy because it’s an inherent good, but you also want to preserve trust because it’s commercially essential (even though people are quick to forget if they get free stuff). I think you should do it because security by obscurity, or at least the ML equivalent of that, isn’t working.

https://xkcd.com/1838/ is funny, but the truth is that we can offer some tools for exploration and feature breakdown. Every time I did, we learned so much from those.
Why this startup is creating edible oil from sawdust
I would have added "/s" but clearly it didn't do any good to OP.
It would be interesting to see how Mozilla approaches implementing Gecko on iOS, with how the engine stripped support for embedding years ago (prior to which they could’ve used an approach similar to that seen in Camino[0]).

I guess they could take the approach of drawing the whole screen themselves but that’s going to make Gecko-based Firefox for iOS feel noticeably worse than the current WebKit/UIKit version in terms of responsiveness and such and might require some legwork to properly support VRR on 120hz iPhones (which is critical for battery life on those models).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_(web_browser)
> Being "casually predictive" does not mean you have provided all the variables of your prediction in the data.

Not sure where I claimed this.

> Protein creation is not just _poof_ new proteins.

Not sure where I claimed this either.

> There are steps and interactions and you don't need to train on all of that.

I agree with this statement as well. Have you read what I wrote? Proteins in chains can indeed be used to predict other proteins in chains, even though you never trained the model on the biological processes of protein generation. Just like words in sentences can be used to predict other words in sentences, even though you never trained the model on the neurological processes of human speech. I'm not disputing any of that. What I'm disputing is that it will eventually become an AGI.

> You're going to have to define AGI first.

I'm using the definition provided verbatim in the linked article: "We believe superintelligence—AI vastly smarter than humans—could be developed within the next ten years."
> Adoption of mass transportation like trams, trains and buses is better for pedestrians and cyclists.

Buses are terrible to bike around: obstruct visibility, hard to pass, block traffic when they stop, and are louder and more polluting than electric cars.

Trains don't yield to pedestrians and only serve a very limited number of locations.
But Microsoft fired their entire qa department, and their software is rock solid. Right! Right?
> The officers claimed it was consensual and the courts agreed.

That's pretty nutty. I don't know the backstory, but even if it's "consensual" it's still statutory rape to have sex with a minor.

> I do not believe they even faced disciplinary action.

Not even that administrative process? How come the courts had anything to say about it, then? ...I guess that must have been the minor's court appearance, not the cops. Under the circumstances, I guess that minor might have been disinclined to give defence evidence that the arresting cops had raped her.
Modern arcade controllers are pretty standardized. The 8 buttons on the right are your four face buttons and four shoulder buttons. That plus your 8-directional dpad means they work for just about any 2D game or 3D game that doesn't need analog sticks or a mouse.

The left half of the 8 buttons is where the four face buttons go, in their standard positions more or less, but rotated slightly. Top two are the west and north buttons, bottom two are south and east buttons. This means PlayStation Cross and Xbox A are the same button, but in Nintendo layout that button would be the B button (gets even more confusing when you consider that PS3 can use Cross or Circle for confirm depending on the region).

For the other four you have your triggers on the bottom and bumpers on the top, but right is before left. You may think that's backwards and confusing, but I think of it as putting the more important action first / on the stronger finger. You see the same with standard pad controllers vs the mouse. Left click on a mouse and right trigger on a controller both tend to be your primary fire. With that in mind you'd probably just treat it like a standard xinput controller for the bindings.

I've pretty much just gotten into arcade controllers this year thanks to the new leverless (4 buttons replace the 4-switch stick) arcade controller trend + accompanying DIY scene. They're fun for fighting games, platformers, puzzle games, shmups, whatever they can work for pretty much. With the modern firmware options you can even emulate an analog stick if required for a game. I've been using them for as many games as I can lately. They even make arcade controllers with extra buttons now to play Smash Bros and other platform fighters (e.g. Rivals of Aether).
I think you'd find the people who don't trust AI companies also harbor similar feelings about companies in many different industries, or non profits, or even government agencies, depending on who specifically you ask. It seems to me that there is a much bigger trust issue well beyond the scope of AI based companies, so trying to have that specific field fight this distrust against them that really comes from all fronts, seems like an impossible task well out of the scope of these businesses. I'm not sure what the answer to this issue is, or if it even is a real issue, or what we might be marching toward should this pervasive cynicism spread to all things and all people. Perhaps we are simply cursed to live in interesting times.
It's always the one you don't expect that gets you.
> In those cases improving productivity or reducing errors is the result we're targeting, and cleaning the code is the activity we do to achieve the result.

Right, but please read the first sentence of my post. It’s the “key results” part that’s hard. Because you need to quantify all the benefits you’re targeting, giving them a number, so that you can show whether you completed your goal or not. If you say “productivity will go up”, you have to put a number on the current productivity, then give regular reports on what happens to that number after the refactoring. What do you pick? Number of PR’s merged per day? That’s probably going to go down, because most of the PR’s today are small tactical band-aid fixes. So do you say the number of PR’s merged should go down after the refactoring? That could just as easily be because the refactoring made things worse and everything’s so broken that nobody can make changes. So PR’s merged is a shitty metric. What else? Bugs filed? In a product where you’re growing users you’d probably expect them to go up due to increased usage, so any benefit to refactoring is likely going to be lost in the noise. Line of code count? Please.

More often than not people just pull whatever metric they want out of their ass to make the case for what they’re trying to accomplish, and cherry pick things so that it looks better after the effort. But it’s against the spirit of OKR’s to do this, which is why OKR’s are bad for anything “fuzzy” like refactoring. You have to shoe-horn work that everyone agrees is worth doing, into a framework that isn’t designed for refactoring work, to make the case.
This should almost be pinned. I thought this was common knowledge. I don't understand if people are ignorant of this or are completely ignoring it for some reason.
He talks a lot about the singularity but the biggest singularity I can see is in his ratio of "talks about AI" divided by "actual AI contributions".
A cautionary tale, noted in the WSJ's own comments section - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#History
Another part is that there is barely any training for QA people. Even your average CS course will only graze the top of the topic, most usually some prof droning on about Java unit tests on some really old version of Java and a testing framework just as old.

There are no "Software Quality Assurance" academic degrees, there's barely any research into testing methodologies, there's barely any commercial engagement in the space aside from test run environments (aka, selling shovels to gold diggers), and let's face truth, also in tooling. And everything but software QA is an even worse state, with "training" usually consisting of a few weeks of "learning on the job".

Basic stuff like "how does one even write a test plan", "how does one keep track of bugs", "how to determine what needs to be tested in what way (unit, integration, e2e)" is at best cargo-culted in the organization, at worst everyone is left to reinvent the wheel themselves, and you end up with 13 different "testing" jobs in a manually clicked-together Jenkins server, for one project.

> Defect Investigation: Reproduction, or “repro”, is a critical part of managing bugs. In order to expedite fixes, somebody has to do the legwork to translate “I tried to buy a movie ticket and it didn’t work” into “character encoding issues broke the purchase flow for a customer with a non-English character in their name”.

And this would normally not be the job of a QA person, that's 1st level support's job, but outsourcing to Indian body shops or outright AI chatbots is cheaper than hiring competent support staff.

That also ties in to another aspect I found lacking in the article: users are expected to be your testers for free aka you sell bananaware. No matter if it's AAA games, computer OSes, phones, even cars...
> I meant what most other people would call an inflation hedge in common parlance

In 2021, "Inflation Hedge" meant that if inflation would happen, BTC would protect you from it. Inflation then happened, and BTC failed to protect anyone. Now that its been disproven, people are changing the term "inflation hedge" to mean things that they never meant before.

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If it takes over 18-months for an "Inflation Hedge" to protect you from inflation, I think I can safely say it fails at its job. (A hedge is supposed to protect you from the event, so that you can reallocate your money from the hedge into all the assets that drop during said event).

Now if you want to argue to me that "inflation hedge" never meant anything with regards to inflation or hedging, then sure, we're both in agreement there. Its a meaningless term inside of the cryptocoin community.

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Meanwhile, the people who actually were worried about Inflation bought TIPS, and then sold TIPS during their height (making money, that they could use to purchase other assets). That's what a hedge actually looks like.
My understanding was that RAG is generally a better plan when trying to inject fresh knowledge.

Both tuning and LoRA is more about how it responds rather than what it knows
The IBM stuff is pure legacy. Of course this would all perform much better with modern tools, like Postgres.
I believe you don't, because there are none in a normal case, such as when it's as part of your legitimate job

Perhaps that's not common knowledge? It's not illegal to have pictures of nude children insofar as I know laws in various countries. What's illegal presumably everywhere is if there are sexual suggestions (or more than suggestions), which presumably would not be the case in your example

Also, police has to handle these sorts of pictures for prosecution anyway. They already have certain exemptions. Even if you had been right, that could have been extended to cover these cameras while on duty
Eh, I tend to avoid abridged versions (or self-abridging); there are enough good books out there that I am willing to encounter on the author's terms that I don't feel the need to do otherwise.
The smell must be something awful though
We've built our own minimalist static analysis engine that only supports scanning for the specific supply chain threats we care about. For that reason, it's a lot simpler and faster than a generic engine.

I'll see if we can write up a bit about how it works in a future blog post.
Just wondering... if in your describing community and culture are the valuable features of Israeli daily life, why aren't more people interested in a single state solution? Tel Aviv seems like a thriving, resilient hub. Would it be so buffetted by (admittedly major) changes to borders and civil rights across Judea?
> Portland was home to the UX designers who wanted to redesign everything to look nicer but didn't understand how customers used our products.

That means they're not UX designers, but simply illustrators without actual illustration skills
inotify doesn't tell which process writes to a file, and Klunok is all about tracking only files edited by a human. Also, monitoring entire subtrees with inotify is painful and prone to race conditions.
Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action
Wasnt Intel the biggest supporter of OpenCV? I dont know any open source heavely supported by Nvidia
> they need to be able to turn those cameras off in the case of, a nude minor

Why? It's not a mobile phone, they can't "save the video to the cloud" - it gets downloaded when they return to the station, by the charger.
These days, some game engines have done pretty well at making compute shaders easy to use (such as Bevy [1] -- disclaimer, I contribute to that engine). But telling the scientific/financial/etc. community that they need to run their code inside a game engine to get a decent experience is a hard sell. It's not a great situation compared to how easy it is on NVIDIA's stack.

[1]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/examples/shader...
PhD student tries to get Doom running on cells
Create AI virtual agents for sales calls.
People might argue about the weights of credit to the various parts. LLMs as they are by themselves are quite limited in their creative potential to do new things or generally make progress, but if you couple their capabilities (as is done here) with other tech then their powers really shine.

Likewise when that coupled "tech" is a person. LLMs don't do my job or further my projects by replacing me, but I can use it to generate examples in seconds that would take minutes or hours for me and it can provide ideas for options moving forward.
I just find it funny when engineers trivialize solutions that they themselves wouldn't employ. Like yeah, I'm sure your phpbb solution was a proper vulnerability reporting and triaging system.
I can really commiserate with how you are feeling. Something I’ve done recently is set up a “homelab” server and running a few web apps on it of various functions. Nothing novel here, but what I really love about this is how all of these apps are user centric and open source/community built. There’s no user hostile algorithms here or even ad based systems. Only software that tends to put the user first and tends to speak open protocols.

This sort of thing is very achievable if you work in IT and can run your own server. But what about everyone else?

Your idea of a personal “IT person”, like your own personal barber or tailor, is very intriguing. I wonder if its feasible to provide a service like this to people who are of a similar mindset about disconnecting from huge tech companies/algorithms and using something more personal, but don’t have the technical means to achieve this?

I’ve also been thinking about the personal data aspect of healthcare. I hate that my medical records are stored in MyChart and a dozen other proprietary systems that I have no control over. Yet, I have a super computer in my pocket. Why can’t I maintain my own copy of my records and selectively share data with my doctors when I arrive for an appointment? Why do I still need to have one doctor’s office fax something to another’s? I should be able to own my data and tap a button on my phone to do this. Only Apple’s Health app seems to come anywhere close to providing a fraction of this functionality, but there seems to be 0 adoption of this within the US. Even then, this only benefits Apple users. Something like health data should not be locked in a propriety system, even one that runs locally like Apple Health. There should be some open protocol and an ecosystem of implementations.
> I'm sorry but there's no way that Subaru EyeSight can "trounce" FSD.

I mean that's what literally all of the data shows, e.g.:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...
Maybe the AMD device will just have to announce it's (KHTML, like Gecko).
Sure, knock back 2 12oz beers back to back on an empty stomach and that’s noticeable. But, I’m at the it’s warmed to room temperature long before I’ve finished side of things.
ChatGPT GPT-4.5 update might have just leaked; here's what we know
AI may eventually help us discover if human consciousness and conscious will are determined by the physical properties of our biology, or if something else is in play. Physical determinism within the confines of our understanding is the mainstream academic view on consciousness. I find it highly questionable. We shall see.
Trump has 4 indictments amounting to a total of 91 felony charges.

I think every single American should be obsessed with ensuring that dictator wannabe never sees the insides of the Oval Office again.

I'm sick of living in a world having people like you failing to recognizing the clear and present danger Trump presents.
> And thus I do not believe that training an AI system is just like teaching a person

100%. I love the way you put this and just wanted to expand on it a little bit, to remind everyone that there have been numerous, flagrant examples of various creators of various media who have their names/handles put into these models, who have work that is ludicrously similar to theirs in style produced from the model, and despite the fact that it's technically original, it is not original in any way meaningful to the topic, or defensible by anyone debating in good faith. That you need to put things like "unreal engine" "featured on artstation" and the like proves this. You're telling the machine to aim for works you know are of a higher quality in the dataset to get a better result.

Now if you're just fine with that and content to fuck over artists like that for no other reason than you can, I can't stop you. But please spare me the righteous indignation of objecting to the characterization of such behavior. It's fucking obvious, do not insult the intelligence of your opponents by insisting otherwise.
That is true that there is still a dependency on a C compiler, but the Linux kernel has that dependency too, so that dependency is "free."

Edit: In fact, there's really a dependency on POSIX sh and various standard POSIX utilities, but Linux also requires those to build, so those are also "free."
We didn't.
it blew my mind when i logged into dropbox that sharing my data with third party "vetted" AI companies was enabled by default.

i just wrote a WTF email to their support, but most likely i will be discontinuing my account. can't imagine what they can possibly say that will make this OK
The Twiglets changed about 18 months ago. The Krackawheat a little more recently.
I mean, if it is cheap, healthy, nutritious, and doesn't taste like cardboard, then I would not mind at all. In fact, I would voluntarily use it as a staple food.
If a company is going to claim that they don't have Syphilis, then they need to guarantee that each of their "trusted partners" also doesn't have Syphilis, and each of their trusted partners needs to provide the same guarantees about their own trusted partners as well, ad infinitum.