skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So as long as we have proof of something being good, and no proof of it being bad - we should mandate it for all citizens? (it, referring to whatever you want)
Would kill for a $450k house. Here a 1970s condo needing complete renovation goes for 750k.
I can buy non-iodized salt (in fact its hard not to at WF), and non-fortified milk or bread very easily. At an insignificant price difference.

It is impossible to buy non-fluorinated drinking water that is not orders of magnitude more expensive than tap.

Then again, I don't consider tap water to be potable in the US so I guess its a wash.
Another comment mentioned it, but Austria, specifically Vienna.
Procedural Face Generator
So it is irrelevant?
>> Because this paper introduces their alternative method which simply runs the same query multiple times on the same LLM, without any context shared across queries. And then they run a similarity algorithm on the answers and pick the most common answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_system

Years ago weather simulations started tweaking input params and running their models over and over. Discarding outliers, taking averages. It works pretty well.

Because LLM's mostly have random seeds (aka temperature) feeding them the same input and averaging the output is going to get you a better guess.

Lorenz also gives some clues (if not an outright explanation) as to why the "hallucination" problem is likely unsolvable.

If you buy into this line of thinking then it quickly becomes apparent that LLM's are more or less a dead end when it comes to AGI. Simulating isnt emulating... an LLM is as likely to become intelligent as a forecast is to control the weather.
the difference being that it is very hard to avoid something added to the water supply, while it is usually possible to avoid the fortified varieties of food
Fine-Tuning LLMs with ORPO: Odds Ratio Preference Optimization
Fluoride may be good for teeth, but bad for quite a few other things - here's just one of many studies related to that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/

Many countries across the world refuse to add fluoride. It's mainly a US and Australia thing. The fact that NPR is on board without even reporting the other side of the coin is just pure state propaganda.
Yes. Imagine if they put lithium in the water based on the evidence that microdosing it calms the population and reduces violence and overall mental health issues. That atomic number is a lot more controversial!
Optuna provides a batch API which lets you test a bunch of parameters in parallel. TPE and NSGAII can be used for solving different blackbox optimization problems. They have a pretty dashboard and something to look at when optimizer is running. Overall great library.

If you are in C++ world, I suggest giving nlopt a try. Note that ESCH and ISRES depend on nlopt::srand.
Fluoride is a chronic toxin so the dose is the accumulated exposure.
> Katie Mather, who lives in Richmond, a town of about 4,100 in northwestern Vermont, said at a water commission meeting this week that her dentist recently found her two kids' first cavities. She acknowledged they eat a lot of sugar, but noted that her dentist recommended against supplemental fluoride because the town's water should be doing the trick.

People can get conspiracy about this as much as they like, but at the end of the day, it's money. Diet is one of the largest factors in dental health and the average American diet is high in sugar. People can barely afford going to the hospital let alone a dentist. This is quite measurably the cheapest way of preventing millions of people becoming a burden to the healthcare system.
Yes, but picking the most similar output from a bunch of queries with a higher temperature is not the same thing as the output from a single low temperature query.
Does it hinder or help our understanding of AI by referring to everything an AI does with human verbs, such as "read"? Animals don't read, yet they have eyes. Why do we say that an AI does?
While I agree professionals pick up codebases left behind by several iterations of developers, I think picking up a large PHP/Jquery PM tool written by a first time self taught via YouTube and stack overflow developer might be many peoples idea of a bad time.

It doesn't really solve a problem. Not really atleast. It's a little better than using 6 Excel sheets via a google drive honestly. The reason it got sold is because in theory it sounds a lot better than Google docs. But it's only a little better. And it has its own host of difficulties (can't modify anything for example.. don't even ask me to add a column or rearrange a table for you).

I know it's not great because if I get a company using it, but don't hand hold onboarding to an extreme level, they never even really get going with it.

When selling it, if I don't really lay it on thick and do a spectacular job, they don't buy.

The reason they don't quit once on it isn't that it solves a great problem or is much better than their previous solution (almost always just Excel sheets), but because switching back to their abandoned system is harder than the $300 a month is worth. So they just keep paying.

Also, I've contacted and pitched wayyy more than 34 companies. Many companies are/were smart enough to pass on it.

I'm not writing for a sob story or to talk up MY salesmanship for whatever reason, but I wanted to share my main takeaway from this project.

When doing lean startup and trying to get your first customers, don't think youve struck gold just because you had a great person schmooze a few people into using your MVP. It can be a false start just based on their persuasion. At this point I'd rather tone down salesmanship a lot and see if I can find a product that really strikes a cord with them instead. Less false starts that way IMO. I'd much rather have gotten 1-2 costumers only, not 34, and realized this isn't worth pursuing.
Why so ? Preservation is not free for private for profit companies, why do we expect it to be ?

People should get access to older publications for free absolutely, but that is what museums, libraries and copyright law is for .

The taxpayer can better fund preservation. A modern government mandated archive like libraries do for papers of record is quite realistic and linked to copyright protection.

There is no reason for IP protection to be free , patents are not , trademarks are not , they all require filing fees there is no reason copyright can’t work the same way.
Please do explain. From the outside you appear to be questioning the value of conserving freedom(s)
The problem would solve itself if it wasn’t for local government regulations.

Zoning laws mean you can’t just build large volumes of cheap accommodation.
There is a significant number of empty houses in Ibiza because people and especially large landowners don't want to rent them because if the tenants can't pay and refuse to leave it can be hard to kick them out. Lack of renting options drives the property prices up, so there is no pressure to sell, and makes renting even more risky. It's a vicious cycle.
Investors in talks to help Elon Musk's xAI raise $3B, WSJ reports
I'm classically educated on fluids so asking me to deviate from Newtonian mechanics for viscous fluids is ... difficult.

Nothing against this tho, I just don't have the foundation for this.
Why do we assume the person building the trust is the attacker ?

Is not possible the attacker simply took over the account of some one genuinely getting involved in the community either hacked or just with $5 wrench and then committed the malicious code ?
Destroying the chip is easy, actually chiseling away the correct trapped electrons making up the PAN in the EEPROM is the challenge ;)
I have done some searches for age verifying services to plug into an adult site and not found anything that seemed reasonable (a few in Euroland and one that has contact for pricing, which means it's not affordable).

I am wondering how this can even be implemented with static html pages, I am guessing if a site was php there would be some session id kind of thing that could connect with a third party API..

If anyone wants to build some verify things I see a small side business brewing here, perhaps we should make a couple of things to implement,

even though I think these laws will be thrown out one they hit the supreme court, the tech could be used for other things like sales of age restricted things.
I don't think this subthread is about the US, but just as a sidenote on the US, Project 2025 directly calls for porn to be made illegal and for attacking Internet providers and companies like Cloudflare that enable its access (https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FOR...):

> Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender
ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot
inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual
liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its
purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product
is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should
be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed
as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that
facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

Even in a Conservative-majority court this kind of ban would likely be ruled unconstitutional very quickly, but we should be clear when talking about this kind of thing where it is that a substantial number of Conservative foundations would like to go (https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/). There is a non-trivial Conservative movement to to ban porn.
EV buyers want SUVs and sedans, not minivans or trucks, survey says
Yes, I am going to change the default theme to greyscale
Intuitively looks like models should be close enough, or sparse enough for merge to work. I wonder if MoE experts can be merged(?)
Thanks!

This would be a bit hard to render in a terminal but a terminal browser like Lynx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)) might work for this site
The blinking thin can probably cause me a seizure.

No joke
Postgraphile
This refers to the fact that systemd was planning to drop the dependency on liblzma (the conpression library installed by xz), and instead dlopen it at runtime when needed. Not for security reasons, but to avoid pulling the libs into initramfs images.

The backdoor relies on sshd being patched to depend on libsystemd to call sd_notify(), which several distros had done.

OpenSSH has since merged a new patch upstream that implements similar logic to sd_notify() in sshd itself to allow distros to drop that patch.

So the attack surface of both sshd and libsystemd has since shrunk a bit.
I’m not sure why you’re sherry picking the article, it very clearly says multiple insurance companies are doing this, and you claim this is some sort of bad thing that would stop someone from getting insurance.

Your logic is completely falling apart, that’s why you’re confused.
Yes. And then the question becomes "isn't this already settled law?". It seems weird that legislation would be needed to point out that someone's working hours are set by their employment contract. I'm nowhere near California and the article is pay-walled, but my employment contract says 40 hours/week with reasonable overtime (and I'm not sure what "reasonable" means, but it certainly doesn't mean "routinely do >40 hours/wk", because we just agreed to 40).

Do Californian employment contracts not work that way? These contracts are supposed to be about swapping employee hours for employment money. Do they not write down the hours and the money in the contract? That seems like important information.
Our economy runs on contracts. If one is able to avoid the terms of the contract by claiming one didn't read it, the whole system falls apart.

(When I bought a house, the sales contract was maybe 50 pages. I went to the escrow company to sign. The escrow agent was visibly annoyed that I leaned back in the chair and set about reading every page. One of the pages that needed to be signed said nothing but "I have read and understood this contract.")
Conservatism is about conserving the status quo. Our freedoms are enshrined in the Constitution.
With the usual caveat that in G20 countries, fluoridation is recommended at a concentration of 0.7 mg/L .. ie only added if levels are below that.

Fluoride meta studies, such as the one above, look at areas with extremely high levels of natural fluoridation, starting at least at one and half times the recommended dose and looking at areas with double, triple, and more that level.

There are issues in areas with high fluoridation levels, the fluoride and the other high metals levels in these regions in China and Mexico ...

But not basis for back propagating issues at high doses in multi metals areas to infer issues at the lower recommended dose rates.
Thanks! That is mandatory insurance.

I agree that 200k is a much better minimum. Although I would think a deposit of $200k should be just as good as a policy of $200k... But the Ontario law doesn't allow for a deposit.

I wonder if there's a speciality business available in Ontario for single customer insurance, so individuals or businesses can self-insure without risk pooling.
There are such things as chronic toxins. Lead, for example.
The abrupt change in time-of-day when commits occurred supports the theory that Jai Tan is more than one person: https://twitter.com/birchb0y/status/1773871381890924872
Agree, I spoke with some taxi drivers who were there just for the summer season and they told me that they've been doing that every year, sharing a small flat with other taxi drivers/workers to save money and to earn enough to live the rest of the year back in their towns.
Designing-data-intensive-application-notes.md
I don’t think fluoride is considered a ”chronic” toxin at the levels found in municipal US water supplies. As noted elsewhere, these levels are pretty close to (and sometimes significantly below) natural fluoride groundwater levels elsewhere in the world.

(Saying that fluoride accumulates profoundly misses the point: it is supposed to accumulate. What fluoride doesn’t do is accumulate in soft tissues, which is why acute exposures to high doses of fluoride don’t guarantee intellectual forestallment like lead frequently does.)
“Make All You Need Great Again Considered Harmful.”
Can someone explain to my house insurance is so important? I live outside USA and I never bought an insurance, a common situation in my country.
"Gary Tan, the outspoken CEO of startup accelerator Y Combinator took to X Tuesday to deride the proposal as a productivity killer and continue his long running criticism of Haney. "Legalize hard work," Tan wrote."

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4550814585281586&w=lm2y5QV...
Also consider human-horse interaction. The horse was quite useful for most of human history, despite not being perfectly reliable.
U.S., Canada put 7 year ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska
> Results

> Fourteen recent cross-sectional studies from endemic areas with naturally high fluoride concentrations in groundwater supported the previous findings of cognitive deficits in children with elevated fluoride exposures. Three recent prospective studies from Mexico and Canada with individual exposure data showed that early-life exposures were negatively associated with children’s performance on cognitive tests. Neurotoxicity appeared to be dose-dependent, and tentative benchmark dose calculations suggest that safe exposures are likely to be below currently accepted or recommended fluoride concentrations in drinking water.

Having said that, the linked paper also notes that the benifits of flouridated water do not seem to be significant (likely do to the widespread use of flouridated toothpaste).
Americans' teeth have been described as unsettlingly perfect. As unsettling as our mental health
What’s to discuss? Nothing is known about him.
The paper defines them as programs in a process calculus (which is fairly standard as far as theory for protocols is involved):

Definition 1 (Asserted protocols) Asserted protocols, or just protocols for short, are
ranged over by S and are defined as the following syntax rules:
S ::=
|p.S action prefix
| +{ l_i : Si }_i∈I branching
| µt.S fixed-point
| t recursive variable
| end end
| assert(n).S assert (produce)
| require(n).S require
| consume(n).S consume

Process calculi are "fundamental" descriptions of computation analogous to lambda calculus but oriented around communication instead of function calls. (As far as paper structure, I find that usually the important "basic" definitions in programming language research papers are usually in Section 2, since Section 1 serves as a high-level overview).

Basically, a protocol consists of a a sequence of sends/received on a particular channel, mixed with some explicit logic and loops/branches until you reach the end. There's some examples in Section 2.1 which are too complicated to reproduce here.

As a general note on reading protocols- for (good, but industry-programmer-unfriendly) technical reasons they're defined and written as "action1.action2.action3.rest_of_program" but mentally you can just rewrite this into

{
action1();
action2();
action3();
... rest_of_program ...
}

(in particular, making "the rest of the program" part of each statement makes specifying scope much easier and clearer, which is why they don't just use semicolons in the first place)
Get out of here. This is like trademarking “catsup”, which everyone also knows as ketchup.
I assume they are advocating for package managers to preferably grab signed git tags from repositories rather than download tarballs.

The backdoor relied on the source in the tarballs being different from the git tag, adding additional script code. This is common for projects that uses GNU autotools as build system; maintainers traditionally run autoconf so that users don't have to and ship the results in the tarballs.

I agree that this should be discouraged, and that distros should, when possible, at least verify that tarbal contents are reproducible / match git tags when importing new versions.
I think it's way more than 8 even. And it's common to have many working as supervisors, often at conflict with each other. And some act out the automatic trauma responses, as they're stuck in the past when the trauma occurred.
I still remember in high school, we only need two or three equations
to solve a free-fall problem. In another book, basically the same
question, but someone uses Hamiltonian framework to solve really
complex PDEs and couple pages with those crazy equations to basically
solve the same thing, and eventually got the same results.

I still remember that was mind-blowing. High school physics is so
simple, whereas the Hamilton is so complex. I later on notice that
Hamilton is kind of a more standard way to solve the problem. Never
mind, I'm not an expert on it, but I'm just kind of amazed by the
Hamiltonian mechanics.
News needs sensationalism.

Thanks for posting another side of this.

What you're saying makes a lot of sense.
It also won't solve itself if you have people who choose to live in cars so they can be there.
Note that the association is for levels far higher than those used in drinking water. An updated meta-review (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99688-w) also suggests an association between high fluoride intake and lower IQ, but notes that the quality of evidence is very low. It suggests that there is no evidence that low-to-moderate levels, like those used in drinking water, pose any neurotoxic effect; if there are effects, they may only be present at levels 3-10x higher than recommended fluoridation levels.
The seed version with random parameters doesn't allow you to or your users to design their own. Just random selection until you get one you like, no editing of details.
> ever increasing

I don’t think it means currently it is reasonable , just that things are continuing to worsen and we have not yet reached a bottom even if a bottom exists.
One big downside is being limited to Pixel phones, without good reason.
This trend really needs to die. If you can’t come up with an original paper name , maybe the contents aren’t that original either
As far as they are concerned you do not own a smart phone.
There's some strong baselines for CNNs here that would be great to compare to.

https://github.com/fastai/imagenette
There's been lots of speculation. It seems likely to be more than one person, likely either a ransomware group or a national intelligence agency.
It did look like a lens in interstellar. A sci-fi movie.
It should not be especially astonishing that public health programs for dental health and public immunity are substantially less controversial than putting a mood stabilizer in the water would be. Why conflate these as if one implies the other?
> s a f*ing addictive making drug. You don't have experience with that it seems and thinking it's romantic or something? The addicts suffer a lot, they can't work high but can't be not be high.

Steady on, no need to swear

I have extensive experience of addiction

Opiate addicts cab easily be useful productive members of society

It is how herion addiction was treated in England until the 1970s when the Americans threatened them into stopping

People who are at rock bottom are often drug addicts to, but in most cases it is not the drugs that get them there, and it is the police, law, and stigma that keep them there
It’s required if you have a mortgage.

Even if you don’t have a mortgage, your home is probably worth several times your annual salary. Most people can’t afford that loss if it burns down, gets hit by a tornado etc…
You should request your data from CoreLogic and see if the wrong location is in their DB, because they’re the broker for a lot of real estate underwriting data.
> Legalizing opiates is silly. It only takes a handful of times to get hooked...

Wrong
> LLM's are more or less a dead end when it comes to AGI.

I don't think many people believe that LLMs are a way to AGI (whatever that actually means). But LLMs can still have many valid uses even if their prospects are limited in scope.
But if there are ten companies offering car insurance and one is known to never pay out, the customers will migrate to the nine who do. Car insurance may be mandated in some states but no one is forced into a particular company.
I am curious about what you mean by “classically educated.” In my undergrad physics education, computing Hamiltonians was pretty much an entire semester of classical mechanics in my junior year.

We didn’t really touch fluids though. Does “classical” mean something different there?
I think there's Adam and "Nothing is obviously substantially better than Adam so why bother?"
I'm not sure how it's in Australia, but here in Canada, majority of people own their homes. It's not in their best interest to let the housing to depreciate heavily, so they'll go through anything other than letting it burst like in Japan. It also doesn't help when we're not really a manufacturing giant like them, where we could support our economy.

I also know people whose parents' entire retirement plan is just downsizing and using the extra cash to supplement their social benefits. So yeah, kicking the can down the road, hoping some bigger economies figure out a way out of this problem, so we'll just follow along.

And I'm saying this as a renter, who is just in the sidelines with no real desire to buy as of now.
I literally feel pain in my ears every time a Harley pass by. I wish I could sue for damage all of those, because I'm pretty sure that's what's happening