skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This goes to the heart of what's interesting about LLMs.

Many people see what LLMs do and are happily convinced that there is some sort of intelligence in there and extrapolate to AGI. But LLMs aren't proof of any sort of machine intelligence, let alone AGI. Human evaluation of LLMs as a basis for determining intelligence is unscientific to say the least (Turing was way off in this respect).

What is interesting about LLMs is that such extraordinary performance emerges just based on scale. Give it more and you suddenly get a much, much better predictive function from the data.

What's really missing from current AI research (from what I can tell) is design of, or even speculation about, higher order architectures. Our brains are clearly higher order: we think about thinking and its correctness, we're constantly examining ourselves and examining our examinations, and so on. Various parts of our brains manage other parts our brain. Generative adversarial networks seem like just the tip of the iceberg of higher-order possibilities for AI.
True it's also working for me
These 1 percent of edge cases take so much effort to test and handle though.
There are probably more MAGA's on Facebook platforms than TFG's Truth Social. Either way it's going to start a few conspiracy theories.
> Therefore likelihood functions can never be p-hacked by any possible clever setup without you outright lying, because you can't have any possible procedure that a Bayesian knows in advance will make them update in a predictable net direction.

(emphasis from the original)

This is overselling it a bit, or perhaps using an unusually narrow definition of p-hacking.

As used colloquially, p-hacking includes things like fitting models to various subsets of the available predictors to find a combination that makes a particular coefficient you're interested in have a large estimated effect size. Bayesian methods and likelihood functions are about as vulnerable to this as frequentist methods are.
I was in a bootcamp in 2014 and this was still a problem, albeit not with AI, but with the lack of useful material. We were learning very high level concepts about the "flavor of the month framework" rather than any coding fundamentals. I really wouldn't use coding bootcamps as the bar for education pipelines.
My first thought was that I'd been hacked as well...

I have gotten 4-6 "here's your facebook reset" type emails over the last month. All unrequested. I've always assumed they're casual attacks (mostly interested in seeing if my password can be stuffed into another, more valuable account)
Negligible. It would have gone after Twitter first.
That’s just cheating in school. Not an integral part of the software engineering toolset as the article claims.
I take it your AC controls aren't behind a touchscreen then?

I'm mostly arguing having AC controls on a screen aren't that big of a deal, because chances are if they're on a touchscreen they're auto, and if they're auto you really shouldn't need to ever really mess with them while moving. The only real exception to this would be defrosters, but I do agree there should be a least a physical defrost toggle button.
GenAI is pretty much interactive search, cheating with some sort of library/info-system always happens. GenAI is a convenience for this info. You can use Yahoo! answers to get your homework solved, or any socially-networked site...
Facebook, Instagram Down? Users Report Problems, Being Logged Out
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/think-of-the-poorest-pe...

> If nothing else, bear in mind that an image generator that has its thumb so heavily on the scale is less useful for users of all races. (A Black kid who wants an image of a typical Scandinavian Viking for a history paper is not helped here.) ... But… what racism does it actually fight? Which Black person’s life is improved by pretending that there were Black Vikings? And this points to far broader and more important questions. We live in a world where fighting racism has gone from fighting for an economy where all Black families can put food on the table to white people acknowledging the land rights of dead Native Americans before they give conference panels about how to maximize synergy in corporate workflow. In a world of affinity groups, diversity pledges, and an obsession with language that tests the boundaries of the possible, we have to ask ourselves hard questions about what any of it actually accomplishes. Who is all of this shit for?
How does a source available repo get 8k stars? Are lots of people illegally self-hosting this?
Integration tests are a thing.
Sri Lankans cannot live without FB and its the afternoon here.
I test drove a 2024 Tesla Model 3. It was a perfect car except for one thing: No turn signal stalk. That's basically a no-go for me.
Yeah, I've almost never used ChatGPT to generate something for me - neither text nor code - but I find it very useful for answering questions and helping me understand concepts when it would be hard to google my query

And that's extremely valuable. One of the reasons people still go for in-person formal education, despite the wealth of free resources for many topics online, is the ability to ask questions back and get fast, personalized responses. We're now finally getting that by computer. It's also good for those "I could work this out myself, but it would take 20m of research, or bugging someone else to get a quick answer" situations - no need to feel guilty about bugging a computer
Coming from healthcare, it's a long slog with few rewards. Can't really recommend any of those sectors tbh
I mean... yeah, you obviously have to trust someone to vouch for the authenticity of an identity. In the case of Github, that's the platform owner. In the case of a digital signature, that's the root certificate authority.

With that being said, your example feels pretty far off the mark. You might be able to phish using a similar looking identity, but that's completely unrelated to the trustworthiness of the platform. It's not as though you'll manage to somehow phish Github into showing someone else's trustworthy work history on a spoofed identity.
Me too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load.

HN never fails us when a big website is down.

I was also almost ready to reset my password.
> It's because the implications suck - our consciousness is nothing more than a physical phenomenon; we are the meat in our heads. Once that meat dies, we're gone forever. It's not an easy thing to deal with.

I've heard both theists and atheists express similar feelings about the implications of physicalism (I think that's the term, but I'm not a philosopher), but I've never understood why in anything other than an abstract sense. I can understand why someone would be concerned by things ending so finally, but it's not like you'll be around afterward to feel bad about it. If anything I find it very comforting.

I can understand wanting to be around for other people, but afaik there are plenty of religions where people aren't able to intervene after death and I don't hear the same concerns about those.
Why shouldn’t there be bidding wars to determine the value of an exploit? These large software companies have zero issue with exploiting capitalism when it benefits their bottom line, and yet it’s suddenly unethical for a researcher to demand to be paid market value for their work? Look at Google, a 1.6 trillion dollar company. They have virtually limitless resources when it comes to paying for secure software, and yet they offer less than half the $ for an Android zero click when compared to Zerodium. Pay people the fair market value for their work and all of this becomes a non-issue. They can afford to do it.
and in the UK
Can anybody tell me why we need to land upright? Either make it wider so the base is stable, or just put the landing gear on the side.

If I throw a pencil 1000 times and 999 times it lands on its side, I would use that feature instead of hopen this is the 1/1000 chance..
I just read an interview with an esports pro transitioning to a normal job, he said the exact same thing. That the game environment is very "coddled" - you are always on a track, getting pulled towards the next milestone. Real life is more open-ended and less instantly gratifying.
I assume it's because there are some very complex relationships and patterns that cannot be captured by decision trees. Tree models work better on simpler data at least that is my gut feeling based on previous experiments with similar data.
No. We open source a lot of stuff (most recently Pingora: https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-open-source) but the models used for protection services are not open.
me too, also Instagram, could be that Facebook got hacked ?
Why touch screens should be an absolute no-go for anything safety adjacent: gloves. The overwhelming majority of touch screens just do _not_ work with the user wearing gloves.

If I get into a car and it's -20F out, last thing I want to be doing is removing my gloves to operate a fucking touch screen to turn on heater/defroster/defogger/wipers, etc. And I absolutely, definitely, without a doubt, do not want to have to be removing/putting gloves back on while actually driving to adjust anything.
Ask HN: How do you find the energy to work on hobbies/projects after work?
After a day's work I am often fried. I want nothing more than to plop on the couch and melt and watch dumb tv because my brain is too fried to do anything else.

This is a bummer because I have multiple app/script ideas I'd love to work on which have been sitting in the back of my brain for months at this point.

I could have a second cup of coffee to keep me going, but at a certain point I'm just wired and fried vs fried and not wired, and my sleep can be affected when I do this.

I sleep well, I run in the mornings, sometimes lift weights later in the day, eat well, and have a decent enough social life. I'm not depressed by any measure, just exhausted from the work day.

How do I summon the mental clarity and energy to pursue my hobbies after a long day of work?
I wrote this article! I’d be happy to get some feedback, particularly on my examples I used. Some people on Reddit say I should’ve included more concrete code snippets; is that a general consensus or do people have different opinions?
Estonia: all down
At this point I wish every junior DS could read this paper and not come in to every problem with the new bright idea that they’re going to beat XGBoost with their DL architecture. Free promotion if they never say the words “latent subspace”
Not relevant to the primary election in any way, but this has been more than annoying to me already.

We have a small livestock operation, and won an online auction late last night for a pig about four hours away. Facebook was the only listed means of contacting the person, and we were planning on driving to pick it up this morning.

Now I get to re-arrange my day today to deal with that, and will probably have to take a PTO day from work to drive there later in the week.

Real businesses are in fact impacted by Facebook being down - including those not based around Facebook and that you might never expect.
A much better UX would be clear error messaging informing users that the service is down and there is no problem with their individual account.

This would prevent people from panicking they've been hacked and/or unnecessarily resetting their password.
I would argue that it would be nice that everything that has a CPU and RAM is a general purpose computing device, but just because it is nice doesn't mean that it is reality or an effective use of products.

If we arbitrarily classify things based on what we desire instead of how they are brought to market, we might as well stop classifying things at all.

As for 'general-purpose computers in our pockets', they exist, and they are brought to market as such for about two decades. They did however not turn out to be useful or viable.
Google login seems to be slow just now for 2 of our websites
Pedantic, but this seems like a git alternative, not simply a GitHub alternative.
I don’t understand the example about cherry-picking data and Python scripts. If a scientist is biased and selectively reports results that lean in one direction, I’d be shocked to hear that Bayesian statistics can mitigate the problem.

Or are they trying to say that cherry-picking is still a risk, but is less catastrophic than it is with a frequentist approach?
meh, he's not wrong, but he's not right either. The author assumes that the manager above them is actually right about the impact, and therefor the priority, of the problem. In the more common case, where the manager has the ol'head-up-the-arse problem, the real solution is to know how to kiss-tushy and pick your battles carefully.
If you can't come to terms with being right, but also keeping your mouth shut at the same time, then indeed your management potential will be limited.
WhatsApp works for me
Huh, I’ve never thought to try mustard with a steak, will have to give it a go next time!
Discord loaded from scratch for me, but it took a much longer time than I usually remember for the feed to come up.
Probably not very good. They had a major outage in 2021 too. And from people I know who work at Meta I am not surprised at all.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709575/facebook-outage-...
I can't get into the US-local conspiracy-mongering, but I'm not sure how you've missed social media becoming a hot-spot for election-day information/misinformation?

Shutting down social media has gone to the top of the list for regimes either "attempting to fabricate positive election results" or "attempting to combat the spread of misinformation about elections".

More sympathetically, for better or for worse (definitely the latter) there will be people trying to look up election information ("what are my local polling hours", "who is on my ballot") on social media websites, who will now not be able to be guided to the correct information.
Saved you a click:

A phoenix is an oscillator in Conway’s Life where every cell dies in every generation. The smallest example is Phoenix 1, which oscillates with period 2 and has a constant population of 12:

All known finite phoenices have period 2, and Stephen Silver proved in 2000 that there cannot exist a finite phoenix of period 3. Alex Greason more recently proved the non-existence of any phoenix (finite or infinite) with period 3 or 5.
Your personal workflow is what you are used to, not what is inherently "more discoverable."
The textbook, "Bayesian Data Analysis" by Gelman et al, has a good discussion on this in Chapter 8. Here are some relevant bits:

"A naive student of Bayesian inference might claim that because all inference is conditional on the observed data, it makes no difference how those data were collected. This misplaced appeal to the likelihood principle would assert that given (1) a fixed model (including the prior distribution) for the underlying data and (2) fixed observed values of the data, Bayesian inference is determined regardless of the design for the collection of the data. Under this view there would be no formal role for randomization in either sample surveys or experiments."

"The notion that the method of data collection is irrelevant to Bayesian analysis can be dispelled by the simplest of examples. Suppose for instance that we, the authors, give you, the reader, a collection of the outcomes of ten rolls of a die and all are 6's. Certainly your attitude toward the nature of the die after analyzing these data would be different if we told you (i) these were the only rolls we performed, versus (ii) we rolled the die 60 times but decided to report only the 6's, versus (iii) we decided in advance that we were going to report honestly that ten 6's appeared but would conceal how many rolls it took, and we had to wait 500 rolls to attain that result."
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Same... This was literally the first time I wanted to use my Facebook account in years, so I changed my password twice before I realized that there must be an issue on their end.

I just wanted to use their oauth login to buy a jonsbo n3 case from AliExpress. Sadge
One promising approach is to encode each feature key and feature value as embedding vectors, concatenate them into "feature tokens", then feed them into a Transformer (without positional encodings). This takes advantage of column-order invariance. See:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01841
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What's the theory here, other than two things occurring on the same day? By knocking out Facebook.... Haley gets an advantage? If anything, foreign interference would be Russians helping Trump, and he doesn't seem to need help now given that the GOP voters seem firmly in his pocket.
Sorry, I didn't intend to make it personal, I was just pointing out that the very next paragraph after the chunk you quoted included the definition of "graph" that lou1306 was referring to, almost verbatim.

Definitions sometimes vary, but lou1306 is correct on the merits that the most widely accepted definition of an unqualified "graph" states that "the set of edges E is a binary relation over vertices V (i.e., a subset of V x V)".
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yes it's all broken now, so I can take a short break here :)
Man the postmortem on this is gonna be fun.

“Yeah so it turns out when Facebook goes down so does Google”

I do not envy the SREs at either company.
Candor (2023)
This seems relevant for discussion:

Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software to run on other chips [1]

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592689
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Don’t that also limit innovation by making them to risk averse?
> I find it hard to believe nobody internal at Google bothered to play with Gemini to generate people for shits and giggles and saw the hilarious wrong outputs and raise the alarm.

The alarm was drowned out by the "Shit OpenAI is miles ahead in this game, we need to launch ASAP to try to close the gap" alarm.
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In an election between the two parties I think that would be a very likely narrative but in this case it's the primaries. And (as others have mentioned) neither primary has really had anything resembling a competition at this point so it's more or less irrelevant to the result (most likely).
Comically twitter seems to be working fine and is where I was able to find confirmation that it wasn’t just me.
I don't think ascribing cheating to this is the correct term.

It's a bit akin to how calculators were cheating but yet in the real world everybody is fine (and probably expects) you to do math using a calculator. I don't think Kroger would be happy if the clerks starts adding up your shopping cart by pen and paper.

Would people call VFX cheaters since they aren't hand drawing each frame?

Using a tool (AI) to do a job (Websites?) is fine. The problem of course is that the students are only learning that specific tool so the second a problem occurs that isn't easily solved with that tool they're a fish out of water. This is a weakness of the boot camp not the student per-say; although obviously somebody that can use ChatGPT + < any other skill > will be a more productive employee than somebody that can _just_ use ChatGPT.

If your boot camp could be done solely using the plus button of a calculator; people would think it's not worth it. Now if your boot camp can be solved by ChatGPT is it really worth it?
Phew, good thing I wasn't driving at the same time! /s
I don't view this as pointing out a problem with alignment, but pointing out a temporary workaround to the problem of alignment.
I'm not sure how to reword it in another way that would help you understand that Jetbrains did what is called "silent patching".

Maybe this paragraph from the article makes it clear?

>Rapid7 claims that after more than a week of radio silence from JetBrains on the coordinated disclosure matter, Rapid7 spotted fresh patches for CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 on Monday, without a published security advisory and without telling the researchers.

That makes this whole thing fall under Rapid7's silent patching policy.
Heaviest blackhole pair have been trapped in an endless duel for 3B years
You mean X right?
The ideal car control has the following: Everything that was in the car twenty years ago needs to have physical buttons. This includes the controls for the audio system that were there twenty years ago. The touch screen should be exclusively be exclusively reserved for CarPlay or Android Auto, no overlays or pop ups or anything from the car manufacturer. Ideally there is a second screen, maybe in the mirror like some BMWs hav, to be used for the backup camera. Car companies should stick to what they are strong at and what they have perfected and not mess with it while they leave the fun software stuff to SV companies.
I don't think SF not working is related to this outage, though.
"The thing I do best in the world in a professional sense is writing, so if I were to become rich, getting rich through writing seemed like the most likely way for me to do it."
And this is why kids should learn about bayesian probability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability in school. Otherwise, they will continue to make decisions based on such faulty logic
This is something I've thought about a while back. Like Facebook probably has a "maximum number of ads shown to users per post" value. So theoretically, they have a ceiling for how many ads can be bought in a specific time frame before having to increase the ceiling/find new users.

Do they share data about this?
Discord is having issues too!
https://discordstatus.com/
Yeah, exactly, so it must still be a good old human mistake, not Skynet.
Threads is down too. Given its integration with Instagram that's not exactly surprising though.
You've set up a torture loop for yourself instead of listening to your body and the existing medical device. And you are now piping medical biometric data through both Google Calendar and your Apple watch.
There was for a brief moment. I got that once
I think it is a relevant zeitgeist reaction to NVIDIA banning translation of CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware post from earlier.
Yes, silent patches are bad --but even worse is publishing details about the vulnerability so it can be used as an exploit before there is a chance to push the patch out or make it available.

So yes, vendor is not great trying to silently patch but even worse is a security vendor publishing how to exploit it before the patch is made available. Surely it would be in both of their interests to coordinate the disclosure to minimize the risk to the ultimate users. As a user a silent patch is better than there being published exploit paths.