skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Analyze Politicians' Tweets
Source code here: https://github.com/pablojosecodes/CandidlyVoting

Functionality demonstrated here: https://go.votecandidly.com/

Hey HN! I've been wondering for a while how we
might be able to make the process of evaluating the politicians we vote for more transparent. In the most recent SF election- for example- I only really had a few promotional websites and some loose policy statements to go off of.
This seems quite inefficient, especially considering how much signal- social media posts, policy decisions, interviews- exists on the internet for each politician.

So, I put together Candidly (https://votecandidly.com/) as an experiment (for now, it only has information on the candidates for SF's upcoming state senate election.)

*The Core Idea*: Candidly indexes each politician's most recent tweets, interviews, and policy decisions- and lets you interface in a conversational manner with each politician's stated and demonstrated opinions.

Repost of my previous "Show HN" because I accidentally posted the wrong repo which curtailed engagement. Believe this is in line with the HN rules.

Let me know what you think!
Something like "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
This appears to be a State Compromise Extension Attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator_attack) which is something that PRNGs that are not CSPRNGs can be subject to.

At this point it feels like having PRNGs be defaults is just not that safe of a thing to offer in libraries. Like defaulting to allow TLSv1.0 or blowfish in 2024.
If a higher voltage were implemented, most/all of the switchgear and power lines would be retrofitted per engineering specifications.

Design values change, but not as much as you think. 1 cm for every 10 kV is reasonable between parallel plates. The dielectric strength of air is roughly 3 kV/mm.
Right because the very little I've heard out of Sam Altman this year hinting at future updates suggests that there's something coming before we turn our calendars to 2025. So equaling or mildly exceeding GPT-4 will certainly be welcome, but could amount to a temporary stint as king of the mountain.
I can't believe they didn't say anything about your solution! How did it work?
Tried a few queries and was surprised how fast it responded vs how slow chatgpt can be. Responses seemed just as good too.
FTA: Instead, it's much more efficient to sling asteroids down to Earth first, and mine them on the ground.

Until now, all asteroid analysis has focused on keeping asteroids away from Earth.

Redirecting asteroids •to• Earth won’t ignite a Black Hole Sun…what could possibly go wrong…

/s
> If I build a train, put it into service, and say to the passengers “this has 99.9% of the required parts from the design”, would you ride on that train?

Well if the missing piece is a cup holder on the train, yes absolutely! It would absolutely be as good as the binary "contains a cup holder" train design.

So the point stands. For almost everyone, these almost open source licenses are good enough for their usecase and the limitations apply to almost noone.

And you have chosen a wonderful example that exactly proves my point. In your example, the incorrect people are claiming that "99.9%" of a train is dangerous to ride in, while ignoring the fact that the missing .1% is the cup holders.

> You can imagine a big legacy bank

Fortunately, most people aren't running a big legacy bank. So the point stands, once again.

> It’s a giant barrier to their adoption

Only if you are at a big legacy bank, in your example, or similar. If you aren't in that very small percentage of the market, you are fine.
The subtitle is "why you can't build Apple with venture capital."

But... Apple was built with venture capital.
Thirteen Cool Things About the Most Complicated Watch Ever Made
I could read it too.
What for? The market share of Google’s hardware is minuscule, and other Android OEMs are unable to take advantage of Google stuff since they use their own chips.
Rents Are the Fed's 'Biggest Stumbling Block' in Taming US Inflation
It's none of those. Read the sibling replies to your comment.
hey... wondering why you haven't posted this to the Godot reddit?
I went looking for this again, and thought I read it there, but didn't find it until I went to steam and looked at my wishlist, then searched for it on the web :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/
California law has established the FAIR plan [1] which is insurance of last resort for people who can't otherwise get fire insurance coverage for their home. It's a mandatory association of insurers who are operating in California.

It's my understanding that FAIR plans are very expensive compared to market-provided homeowners insurance. I presume this is because of adverse selection--if you buy FAIR insurance you're in the same risk pool as people who live in very high fire risk areas and have no other insurance options.

[1] https://www.cfpnet.com/
That was the quote describing why they originally thought that intravenous feeding was entirely impossible, which proved false, so I didn't take it as an observation regarding solution as it was later invented.

It was how the original solution was invented and tested, with resistance to mucking about likely limiting it's development significantly.

It is certainly not a game to entertain without understanding the signficant risks, but healthy people can intentionally take on extreme risks, so I see no reason to stop a patient with a coordinated plan for research into bettering theirs and others situation.
That’s not how insurances work
So whereabouts are you that a "Puritan's sexual sensibilities" holds any sway?
When I was a kid, I ran a public server with Logblock and anticheat but no other plugins, so it was basically vanilla for anyone who wanted to play nice. People loved it.
What happens when you brake hard? I imagine some bicycle caliper brakes grabbing the wheel's rim, which if the coefficient of friction between tire and road is high enough, causes the driver to just go round with the still rolling wheel.

Seems unsafe.
It's trivial to comply with EU privacy regulation if you're not depending on selling customer data.

But if you say "It's because of regulations!" I hope you have a source to back that up.
The nail doesn't change, rather the skin by the end of your toe does.
I think the proper way is to start the consideration from the perspective of what the user can do, for example, from the four freedoms of FSF (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en#four-freedoms)

The starting point is the ability to run the LLM as you wish, for any purpose - so if a license prohibits some uses and you have to start any usage with thinking whether it's permitted or not, that's a fail.

Then the freedom where "source" matters is the practical freedom to change the behavior so it does your computing as you wish. And that's a bit tricky - since one interpretation would require having the training data, training code and parameters; but for current LLMs the training hardware and cost of running it is a major practical limitation, so much that one could argue that the ability to change the behavior (which is the core freedom that we'd like) is separate from the ability to recreate the model, and would be more relevant in the context of the "instruction training" which happens after the main training, is the main determiner of behavior (as opposed to capability), and so the main "source would be the data for that (instruct training data, and the model weights before that finetuning) so that you can fine-tune the model on different instructions, which requires much less resources than training it from scratch, and don't have to start with the instructions and values imposed on the LLM by someone else.
This assumes we've already achieved, or can achieve through efficiency gains that can be developed faster than generating capacity can be built, an optimal amount and cost for electricity. I'd like to see anyone argue that.

If electricity were more abundant and cheaper we could achieve some incredible things that would drastically improve everyone's lives.

If you're concerned about CO2 then cheap carbon free energy can pull it out of the air or recycle chemical compounds that can. Same for steel and concrete production which are big carbon producers, cheap electricity means no more coal burning to melt steel or produce cement. If it's cheap enough then the price of those commodities would drop making construction less expensive and stainless steel an even better replacement for many plastic products.

Concerned about agricultural pollution, land use, water use or cost of food? Cheap power means cheap glass, aluminum, lighting and heating allowing for expanded use of very large greenhouses to grow commercial crops with near zero wasted water and fertilizer while massively increasing yields by removing seasonal limits, supplementing daylight hours and drastically reducing the need for pesticides and herbicides and they could be built almost anywhere.

The largest cost of desalinization is energy, drive the cost down and anywhere with a coastline has an infinite supply of water for people, industry and agriculture.

The list goes on but even things that now would seem excessively wasteful like using embedded nichrome wire or hydronic pipes or even plain radiant heat to melt ice and snow on roads and sidewalks could have huge benefits by reducing injuries, car accidents, and just generally improving quality of life for everyone in cold climates. Similarly, AC could be even more widely employed than it is now. No one would have to risk their health due to concerns about the electricity bill.

Everything uses electricity or heat produced by fossil fuels in some way. Manufacturing obviously but also construction materials like wood which must be dried in kilns or fresh food that is transported in refrigerated trailers and stored in climate controlled warehouses and supermarket freezers. Everything would be less expensive and that would mean everyone would be richer for it both in cash and in the availability of those goods.

Life without or with too little electricity is miserable, cold, exhausting and dangerous. You might feel comfortable with what you have now but there are many people who do not have access to that comfort or even to the basics. We would all be better off with more.
there are probably early, rough around the edges versions of this already that aren't good enough to go mainstream.

A few things might need to happen before that, like shinking the resolution of Quest 3 down into form factor like regular glasses, so you could wear them in public without looking weird.

It'll be a bit like Smartphones. The first "handheld computers"/smartphones were not that great, then along came the iPhone.

I'm looking forward to seeing people "ghost type" on the train while typing out their messages to their assistant.
Gallery opened in Mar 2001, and that episode aired only in November that year ^^ - maybe the southpark episode was even inspired by this site ;)

Also love "I did a quick Alta Vista"
This seems akin to running secret-shopper research against competitors. Amazon sells a marketplace (among other things), makes sense to go see what it's like to transact with other marketplaces.
Name idea: lobotomize
I tried generating a Chinese rap song, and it did generate a pretty good rap. However, upon completion, it deleted the response, and showed
> I don’t understand Chinese yet, but I’m working on it. I will send you a message when we can talk in Chinese.

I tried some other languages and the same. It will generate non-English language, but once its done, the response is deleted and replaced with the message
Slightly off-topic, but I'd like to see a model that can fit nicely on a consumer 24GB GPU, such as a 20B model (8bit quantized, but some spare space to allow for context), or perhaps 40B so that a 4-bit quant could fit into 20GB VRAM. It's disappointing to me that Meta stopped releasing the 30B after llama 1. (I know codellama exists, but that's been finetuned to one use case).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Betts
You can make much more by selling items on 2b.

This is not little payout, it sounds to me like one of the most significant exploits in anarchy minecraft history, possibly even more than nocom.
I did. It definitely exudes more all around personality. Unfortunately in my private test suite (mostly about coding), it did somewhat worse than turbo or phind 70b.

Since price influences my calculus, I can't say this for sure, but it seems being slightly smarter is not much of an edge, because it's still dumb by human standards. For most non-coding use the smart doesn't make much difference (like summarisation), I find that cheaper options like mistral-large do just as good as Opus.

In the last month I have used Command R+ more and more. Finally had some excuse to write some function calling stuff. I have also been highly impressed by Gemini Pro 1.5 finding technical answers from a dense 650 page pdf manual. I have enjoyed chatting with the WizardLM2 fine-tune for the past few days.

Somehow I haven't quite found a consistent use case for Opus.
> I was wondering if he was a real, individual human being because that author writes far more text in a short period of time than anybody I've ever seen.

I've wondered the same thing about Stephen King. I figured it'd be easy enough for him to put out outlines and then make edits after others he trusted to write in his style wrote most of the words.
It's true that Relativity Space Terran-R, Rocket Lab Neutron, and Blue Origin New Glenn are under development and are planning first stage re-use although none have flown. And also Stoke Space is developing a 2nd stage re-use solution which SpaceX hasn't solved yet. I think another American company could have a Falcon 9 competitor within 5 years if they really move fast. But they haven't yet reached the stage that SpaceX reached 10 years ago.
Civilization is already an unnatural situation, in the sense that we have to coexist in groups (and with other groups) bigger than Dunbar's number.
GUIs have an inherent advantage here: discoverability. If you think about it, conversational UIs, even turbo-charged by AI, are not that different from Command Line Interfaces.
You need to have an idea that you want something. You lose the serendipity inherent to visual interfaces.
We should never underestimate the power of the human visual cortex.
This is one of those proposals that seriously made me wonder if the conspiracy theorists were right that he's intentionally running it into the ground. I don't believe that but... charging new users? that's an ostentatiously dumb idea.
> and evolution favors advantages

The question was how, not why.

Your answer is like saying "how does the eye focus light" and answering "so that you can see".
This is written by someone who has never had to convince people to do what they know they should be doing.

Diet and exercise (i.e., what to do) are solved problems. The hard part is convincing people to change their behavior (i.e., how to get people to do it). The medical profession is constantly searching for better ways of doing this (e.g., motivational interviewing).

And while you work on changing their habits, the disease process is still causing them harm and if there exists a medication that can mitigate that harm that a patient is more likely to take, the risk:reward ratio often leads to a clear recommendation.
https://youtu.be/pq-L3VCSnwU?si=tJYaISHHqOJ2O-bz

This is a fun discussion which touches on how deep the matter rabbit hole goes.
Ah, that could be; I admit I never bothered to try and remove the original DE. I kinda thought you could remove the metapackage, but I wouldn't be shocked if it left some cruft. I'm pretty sure the "not install it in the first place" path is possible, though, if less obvious; I seem to recall that the minimalist setups I've seen actually started with the server ISO and then added Xorg to it. Regardless, I'm happy to agree that Ubuntu doesn't lend itself to this use as well as some alternatives.
Authorizing access to CDNs that have many edge server domains.
if only there was some way to ensure that the insurance companies pay, perhaps some kind of insurance insurance /s
Your main objective appears to be inserting McCarthist ideology in the discussion. No, you do not censor Christianity because inquisition killed in the past. Nor do you censor capitalism because capitalists did mass killings in Indonesia. You censor nazism, not exactly because it killed, like practically any other "ism", but because its core tenets are exactly about discrimination: "some ethnical groups are better than others". The same is not true for Christianism, capitalism or communism.
>But even according to their flawed analysis, they assumed there would never be a need for so many flights

This is an example of Musk's tech background in action. He knew from his career that if you sell something useful for a very low price, uses for it appear that hadn't existed before. SpaceX's hardware development method of blowing rockets up until one works is basically a edit-compile-run debug cycle.

>and re-use would just eat into their production line productivity, raising the cost of each rocket.

Arianespace specifically and infamously said that reusability would be bad because it would leave rocket assembly crews with nothing to do. I wouldn't be surprised if ULA had the same issue in mind, but at least no one there was dumb enough to publicly say so.
You can avoid this using chatfilters.
Players who spam slurs are not worth talking to anyway.

But I agree that there are far better anarchy servers than 2b around.
As a former heavy user of Google search, I hardly did any Google searches in the last 6 months. Copilot for the current / day to day stuff, and GPT4 + Claude combo for technical stuff.
Drug combinations is the future, because of how cancers survives through mutations. All oncologists are aware of this, but the FDA is not open to it, and most oncologists obey the FDA.

Pembro, metformin, and others, once found reasonably safe in a patient, should be used in combination with chemo, pathway inhibitors. Immunology is different and I can see these working against each other, so caution is warranted there.
> attempting to shield them from ordinary academic pressures

oh the poor darlings
They listed the specific numeric figure for the harm from smoking, but omitted any such numbers for consuming seed oils, so how are we supposed to judge that? You saying "it's nowhere close" is not data.
One thing is for sure, if seed oil is very bad for you, it's probably got very little to with the anti seed oil armchair theorists unverifiable and therefore meaningless ideas.

I say this as an armchair theorist myself, who sticks to olive oil and butter and suspect seed oil is problematic, I'm just not very confident about it. The one nugget of wisdom this article highlights is worth repeating: stick to a variety of natural unprocessed (or minimally processed) foods as much as possible, make it the main part of your diet. For two reasons:

1. Nutrition is a very poorly understood subject, with a history of bad science, we basically know shit about nutrition as a society. For the most part, you Grandma is more likely to give you good advice about healthy eating than most government advice based on bad studies... It's getting better though, there are some decent folks out there trying to understand nutrition properly. And therefore anything we do to adulterate food is very poorly understood, but if you stick to natural foods, you have a better chance of eating healthy.

2. Capitalism's optimises food for profit, not health. This is why processed food exists, it's cheaper because it lasts longer, because cheap unpalatable ingredients can be made palatable, because throwing sugar onto everything makes it hyper palatable, which makes people over eat.

In fact that latter line of thinking made me change my mind about GM food, which I'm not fundamentally against as a concept, but the problem is the driving force behind the idea - The cost function is not human health, it's profit. This is problematic because it's possible to modify things for e.g greater yield but not necessarily for greater nutritional value, it could actually have the inverse relationship, over time this is going to work against you, it's inevitable. I also misunderstood GM to mean less need for harsh chemical pesticides, but it's all about intent again, the same people are usually trying to maximize yield so they will throw everything they can at the land.
More than just rural areas are at risk now - but it may not be correctly accounted for. Much of Southern California has canyons that can bring fires much closer to urban areas than expected - as far back as 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2007_California_wildfi...
For transmission lines, AAAC, AAC, and AACSR exist.

For residential grid hookup, aluminum has been an option for a long time.

While aluminum residential wiring has historical baggage of risky and bad practices, the problem with it is inherent fatigue failure. Copper should be required for residential structural high voltage wiring.

Locating, mining, and recycling more copper is necessary because demand is far exceeding supply. Perhaps at some point in the future, we may need to mine disused 20th-century waste dumps for metals and rare earths we just threw away and failed to recycle.
From 2022.

https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

Here's a follow-up paper from 2023:

https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
What's interesting about the minimization of combined training + (model lifetime) inference cost is that that is going to look different for different companies, depending on what their inference volume is...

Meta have a massive user base, and if they are using these models to run their own business, then that implies massive inference volume, and that it might make economic sense for them to put more money into training (to make smaller/cheaper models more powerful) than for other companies with lower inference volume.

To put it another way, it'd not be surprising - if their internal use of these models is very high - to see Meta continuing to release models that size for size beat the competition since they were incentivized to pump more tokens through them during training.
Because maintaining the organizational infrastructure to coordinate remote teams dispersed to time zones all over the world and with different communication styles, cultural assumptions, and legal requirements is a whole matter of its own?

Companies that can do that are at an advantage over those who can't right now, but pulling that off is neither trivial nor immediate nor free.
If someone is on Twitter, please ask them to consider hosting on an independent git host, like notabug.org
We're in the neurospace and discuss privacy internally, it's great to see laws proposed to protect people.

However, when I looked to find details about the legal privacy around DNA, I see lots of stuff related to DNA in research, https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/policy-issues/Privacy#..., but what about private companies protecting the DNA they are collecting?

Why is neuro more of a focus. Shouldn't we have laws that protect all bio-data? Users provide the data for their benefit. As a company, we should be able to learn from the mass of data collected on our users to continue to benefit them, but we shouldn't (we believe) be permitted to sell that data to a 3rd party which does not benefit our users.
Netflix profits surge as service adds 9.3M subscribers in latest quarter
My wife as a teenager wrote a letter to a romance novel author, sincerely asking about the fates of some characters. I thought the author was a legend, she responded she just writes the books for money and doesnt think about it at all afterwards. Lol