skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction "B is A". This is the Reversal Curse.

This is not a tokenization artefact. And furthermore it's a problem for human brains as well.

Let's say you get a name, idk, Tom Cruise. You immediately know what his face looks like. Now let's say you get a random face. How quickly would you be able to tell me what that person is named? Likely a lot of "uhhs" and "ermms" will follow. It's super hard for us to generalize this reversal automatically in lots of cases. Associations tend to be one directional.
It does mean that maybe throwing people in prison for possession is not the brightest idea given how likely it is to be just some random guy who really didn't do anything that everybody else wasn't doing.
> they worry that an incoming attack would destroy the land-based ICBMs

We are used to mentally think of the Earth as seen in a sideways 2D projection. But if you look down from above the North Pole, you can appreciate how different an ICBM trajectory that goes from North Korea to Washington is from one that goes to Wyoming, Montana or North Dakota. There is no way to mistake one for the other, and the author does not even claim that this happened in her scenario; the incoming ICBM was fairly quickly identified as targeting something on the East Coast.

Which brings us to another thing. Geography is very funny, but it happens that an ICBM from NK to Washington overflies thousands of miles of Russian territory. An ICBM from Wyoming to NK overflies mabye a fifth as much, because it flies over a lot over the Bering Sea and the Sea of Ohotsk. Why are the Russians not worried when the NK ICBM overflies their country, but they are willing to commit suicide when the US counter overflies does the same, but over a much shorter distance? Well, they should not be worried in either case, because a missile can't just drop down in midflight, but an author that thinks satellites can fall from the sky can also think that a missile in suborbital flight can take 90 degree turns.
I've heard of some experimental attempts to apply permethrin to the necks of deer using bait stations where the deer have to put their head+shoulders into a narrow treated area to get to the food. Doesn't seem to have seen commercialization.
> instead of asking why do we need to do taxes when the government knows everything about us that they could do it for us

They cannot do everyone's taxes since what they know about many individuals is incomplete.

> should we really have that little privacy?

Put that way, the answer is no. On the other hand, virtually everyone demands services from their government and very few people want those services to be transactional (e.g. most people demand roads, few people want to pay based upon their usage of those roads). That means the government needs some form of revenue. For various reasons, it has been decided that a person's income should be a portion of those revenues. In order to ensure that people are paying their dues, the government needs to collect some information. Are there other ways the government could get revenues? Sure, but all of them are going to be problematic in some form or other.

> Of course, those ideas, liberty and privacy, small government, etc., isn't really fashionable with the latest generations and most people would gladly give up their freedom and privacy to save having to fill out some paperwork.

One has to be careful about generalizations. Even though a desire for liberty and privacy may be universally appealing, we would find that people's views on what those terms mean varies from generation to generation and from individual to individual. Note that I said the meaning changes, not a person's desire for it. As for the desire for small government, well, some people want small government and other people don't. It is a far less universal ideal.
I remember when Dell shitcanned a project to do something like this about 15 years ago because they realized it would lead to information hiding. Tech support loves easy to fix problems.
> I think you’re underestimating the number of people who fly into an airport and their destination is 1-4 hours away by car afterwards.

I probably am, because I don't think that's super common. Airports are everywhere.

Even for my extreme rural hometown, there's a commercial airport 45 minutes away (Though, granted, we'd go to the airport 2 hours away because it's bigger and we'd have to fly there anyways to get to the 45 minute airport).

The full flights and large planes I've been on haven't been to Pocatello Idaho. Which is what gives me the impression that people aren't typically flying to rural destinations. On the other hand, a flight to Atlanta, Ronald Reagan, or Dallas are always filled to the brim.
Agreed, just was too lazy for research and the OP EV praise was eye-roll inducing, so I just quickly offered an alternative perspective. Thanks for the actual numbers!
Great idea. Would it be possible to add links? That way people creating the timestamps could link to YouTube clips that contain the scene with the t= property. Perhaps link multiple.
I have an ESP8266 with motor controller opening and closing my chicken coop door at sunup and sundown. Also has a button to manually open or close.

It also monitors the temperature with a DS18B sensor, and uploads it via REST to a receiver that logs it to a database.

And it emaila me when the door opens or closes.
No. RAG is about finding relevant documents/paragraphs (via KNN lookups of their embeddings) and then inserting those documents/paragraphs into the input context, as sequences of input tokens. What I'm talking about is different: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08913
You’re in the US, presumably? Is it really that common there for people to overdraw their account to the extent that direct debit in the $10 range would fail? That would be a very rare occurrence here. And you wouldn’t immediately lose your domain just because the payment failed once. It would be a much longer process.

People also have a mobile phone number with a plan they have to pay for. I don’t see why a domain should be any different, and it isn’t actually that different in my country.
Probably the most famous Brutalist public art in Texas, the Fort Worth Water Gardens, was indeed used in filming of Logan's Run.

I've generally found the Brutalist buildings in Texas rather ugly on the exterior at least, but did find a sense of comfort in occupying them; perhaps there's something cave-like and solid about their atmosphere. I did enjoy visiting the Water Gardens; I think it's a good expression of the style.

However, many of the churches pictured here are on another level. Something about the austere concrete juxtaposed to the wooden pews (and speaking as someone raised Catholic, it's hard to imagine a pew brutal enough to satisfy god) works quite well for me. I'm really impressed by some of these.
At the beginning of that Fall term one of my classmates pulled up next to me while I was working on a NeXT box in our lab. He had me pull up an app he'd had a hand in working on over his summer in Switzerland. "Check it out — this is going to be great. So much better than Gopher," he said. After following a few links I replied, "It's nice, but doesn't provide much more than Gopher right now." "No — but it will." It was fun to be able to see things in the earliest days of the web, & to see how it grew. Never would have guessed at the time that the browser would become the centerpiece of most people's computer use.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap#Individual_cont...

"The maximum player salary is based on the number of years that player has played and the total of the salary cap. The maximum salary of a player with 6 or fewer years of experience is either $25,500,000 or 25% of the total salary cap (projected for 2017–18), whichever is greater. For a player with 7–9 years of experience, the maximum is $30,600,000 or 30% of the cap, and for a player with 10+ years of experience, the maximum is $35,700,000 or 35% of the cap.[19][33] There is an exception to this rule: a player is able to sign a contract for 105% of his previous contract, even if the new contract is higher than the league limit.[34]"
I turned a light-up Pac Ghost into an indicator lamp for my Uptime Kumar instances.

https://github.com/psitem/uptime-kuma-pacman-ghost-light

I've been working on a replacement controller for the Omlet automatic chicken coop door. They've recently released their own connected controller but given the shortcomings of the original I'm not sure I trust it to be reliable enough to leave my feathered friends unsupervised for days at a time.

Next in the queue is replacing my ATHOM garage door controller with my own that will add a second reed switch to detect that the door is fully open.

And I'm mulling over ways I could monitor the feed level in my chicken feeders. And maybe close them off at night to keep other critters out. But it's tricky because I don't want to replace what I have with a design that might be easier to automate, as they've held up well against the rain and I'm lazy.
I wasn’t referring to you. I meant RFK, the subject of the story. He has undermined his own credibility by believing in all sorts of conspiratorial things that are pretty vile. The bar for trusting or relying on anything has to say should be very very high.
Thailand is a great case study of legalization being haphazardly rolled out without a framework.

Germany is still proceeding with legalization and Canada's legalization has largely been a success.
Microsoft, #1 source of classified Pentagon documents leaks :)

But you gotta save your portfolio, so, let's defend them, yet again, go $MSFT!
so will they have more plans that businesses will be able to pay for in ms365 and azure that will be security related? /s
Quickest way to destroy a man's spirit is to make him retire before he's ready.
Why would we raise taxes when Trumps tax cuts actually ended up bringing in more revenue because of economy boost it brought. Why is it these people want to repeat history knowing that it doesn't work like they hope it will?
> Show me one that someone has kept past 200,000 miles. Meanwhile, you can find Toyotas and Hondas well past that benchmark all day on Marketplace.

Even among gas cars, those who buy new rarely keep cars that long. The average is about 8 years. I've owned several Hondas and Toyotas, and I've never hit 100k on one. (even though I have no doubt any of them would still be on the road) (My current car is a Kia EV6)
It's hard to imagine all advanced semiconductor manufacturing wiped out, worldwide.

But: it's even harder to imagine existing high-tech equipment destroyed, worldwide. A significant % would likely survive. Remember there's like 100B+ cpu's in the world out there.

Starting from there, it would be more like a logistics bottleneck. Like when Covid pandemic hit, or that ship got stuck in the Suez canal. Possibly worse. But manageable.

In short: an event catastrophic enough to nuke that 'installed base', would be extinction-level where "will any humans survive?" would be more relevant than "can we make new cpu's?".
It has to be more than 5 cuts, even.
This is hilarious. Wish more companies did things like this.
Show HN: Made the biggest AI tool directory on Earth happy to list your project
They’re pretty common in the Bay Area but, anecdotally while they’re becoming more common in the Boston suburbs they’re still a fairly unusual sighting other than at a charging station next to a supermarket I shop—which typically has 1-2 cars at it.
You meant nine fives, I guess?
From a "system engineering"(not to be confused with software engineering) perspective they seem quite similar, in my view even something like a watchdog timer(which just about every CPU/core has these days) is just a hardware version of similar philosophies. This[1] is one of my favorite overviews on Erlang and what drives some of those design decisions. You can absolutely apply the same systematic thinking to other domains/places without having to bring OTP or even Erlang into the conversation.

[1] https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
You don't think so, but who are you to argue against the democratic social consensus? In Russia they believe that being LGBT is a choice and that it is a choice that is socially harmful. Just like you believe the same wrt drugs.

Putting that aside, if you believe that democracy is more important than individual rights, then you are in no position to claim that democracy and totalitarianism are incompatible. One can certainly have a totalitarian society in which the majority consents to it being so.

The moral justification for a different approach is that unchecked majority rule is merely "might is right" dressed up in a way that makes it a bit more palatable for the masses.
Maybe, but that's what she told me. She was wearing treated clothes and footwear. Maybe she was gardening or something and had her head closer to the ground.
The flash of unstyled SVG can be fixed by setting explicit view box (the "viewBox" attribute) and viewport (the "width" and "height" attributes): https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-style-inheritance-and-...
I remember having an O'Reilly book titled "The Whole Internet". Hilarious concept. Gopher was pretty cool at the time.
"Can afford" and "expensive" are distractions - orgs don't buy things just because they have the money to so they find the most expensive option to burn it on. The product has to justify the cost vs other options, not just be feasible to purchase.
The vast majority of people worldwide have no ability to move away from the society to which they are born, no matter how oppressive. I did immigrate away from my country of origin, and I am much better for it, but I was insanely privileged to have this opportunity, and many people whom I know from back there are not so lucky.
Publishing Is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers
If the IRS takes responsibility for filing everyone’s tax forms, then it could potentially shift liability to them if they were to make a mistake. Whereas if people are filing their own forms, the blame can be put on the taxpayer for any errors.
I'm not entirely sure Google is trying to "make it right" so much so as funnel users to its own products (i.e. Android devices and Google Authenticator).
Dietary brain health in behavioral, neuroimaging, biochemical and other analyses
In other sectors of OSS I 100% agree with your point.

But for a social network that lives or dies by the network effect, the outlook isn’t good for a Mastodon that gets forked.
Party affiliation, which is mandatory in some U.S. states for voters (e.g. Oregon) is available to anyone who wants to access the registration dataset from the Secretary of State.
Thanks for highlighting that! Here’s the GitHub link: https://github.com/truefoundry/cognita
This is not a serious argument. Are you suggesting the distinction between heroin and salt is arbitrary, on the scale of good-vs-bad for humans and society?
Because RCS has reached the point where it should be taken seriously.

The bulk of apples iPhone business is on US carriers. Who, on a good day, are in the Stone Age.
Why is rust not good at low-level memory management? Can you give an example?
Where do you live? In the US federal taxes are capped if you’re below the standard deduction. You still have to pay social security and medicare taxes but those are about 6%. Some states have an income tax but most do not. Do you live somewhere where there is an income tax?
I wish I could have that kind of faith, but I always get stuck on "how do I pick which lie"?
Other studies already proved those effects with creatine with a normal dose schedule, what they were testing is if a single high dose would have a beneficial effect too, which it did.

A normal schedule is 3-5g per day with an optional loading phase of 10-20g per day during 7 days.

In the study they used a single dose of 0.35g/kg which means 20-40g per dose. How do they not get diarrhea?
The loading phase is usually split into several doses to avoid diarrhea and I can personally attest to that being a good idea.
> The problem stems from nefarious groups getting a hold of email addresses and running distributed dictionary attacks.

I use [REDACTED] as a provider and I create an email address/account (if possible) per company/domain I interact with (e.g.: personal_github@domain.tld or amazon_personal@domain.tld). This produces two results:

1. No shared credentials across any space.

2. Any junk emails to these addresses immediately tells me who's sold it (or been hacked) and I delete the account[s] and relevant email aliases and get on with my day.

Some services, like Firefox, are starting to offer a form of "hide my email address" but this doesn't solve the problem of using <fistnamelastname@somepopularhostingservice.tld> as the same login id across a lot of services. If that was dumped somewhere, it is probably a strong bet someone has used that as their login, elsewhere.

I don't know if there's another viable solution - but this reduction of possible login ids to one unique id per site is the only way I know how to (possibly) prevent myself from being an easy dictionary attack target.

Edit: formatting
It was actually China.
That seems cheap for gas. 15h driving ~6l/100km 90l of gas. That would be over $200 in gas for me.
Around 500 million people living in the EU have that privilege. It’s pretty common for people to exercise it and in no way makes you part of the jet set.
Not in my experience. In the Admin console I said do not use Passkey and it still created it as a Passkey :( This was about a month ago, so maybe they fixed it. Turning off FIDO2 made things work.
This seems like a case of two classic mistakes to me… #1 starting with a solution, and then applying it to problems (imperfectly); #2 solving the problem at the wrong level (related to problem #1) - in this case at too low a level, which can work, but is a lot more work than a solution at the right level.

That is: why not sandboxing rather than a rewrite?
Ask HN: Anyone else have an idiosyncratic way they type their password?
It's a bit worse than that small amount of cities... https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

I recall seeing arguments that any airport that has international flights is effectively an "international border" too for some purposes, though I'm not sure where.
I have heard this from Hock Tan's own mouth during a "Coffee Talk" with employees.
CMV: Philosophy Is Bullshit (2015)
people that have a problem with Anduril should really grow up.
LLMs can't is such an anti-pattern at this point I'm surprised that anyone still dares to stake it. The piece even has an example of a $10k bet around a can't being proven false in under a day, but somehow doesn't think maybe their own can't examples are on similarly thin ice?

In particular, the line about "what models can't do tells us what they don't know" is infuriating.

No, that's not the case at all. At least in a number of instances, what they can't do is because of what they do know.

As an example, one of thecan'ts I got from HN a year ago for GPT-4 was a variation of a classic logic puzzle. And indeed, the model can't solve it - nor can most major models since.

But it's not because the model can't solve the logic - it's because the token similarity to the standard form biases the output towards the standard solution. A hack as simple as changing the nouns to emojis can allow the model to get the correct answer and work through the logic successfully every attempt because it breaks that similarity bias.

People are way too confident around a topic where what's 'known' is more mercurial than maybe any field since 1930s particle physics.

I'd strongly recommend deleting 'never' or 'can't' from one's vocabularies on the subject unless one enjoys ending up with egg on their faces.
Imagine it's your mom being scammed.
Regarding Wordle, it should be straightforward to make a token-based version of it, and I would assume that that has been tried. It seems the obvious thing to do when one is interested in the reasoning abilities necessary for Wordle.
Could this kind of attack be used to intercept a WebEx call, say between German generals?
Regressive has a specific meaning regarding taxes. It means that the rate of the tax decreases with income. Whether a tax is regressive or not is a factual question.
It’s amusing that that section immediately precedes a section on giving users control. I have exercised that control with extreme prejudice. If you think your app should get special treatment contradicting that choice, I agree: your app will get specially deleted, with special haste, and will then retain a special place in my memory for being especially unwelcome on my device.
You can transfer some state just through dots. The dot count could mean "the first n ideas do not work, analyze the n+1 one, if that's bad, emit another dot"
K. That wasn't a part of your original post. Did you want me to start debating the economics of buying EVs?

If I were to advise someone for the best EV to buy, I'd probably suggest holding off for 5 or 10 more years. Even if I were suggesting a new EV to buy, I'd suggest holding off for 1 maybe 2 years in north america because everything is switching over to NACS.

If we are talking about someone in the EU, I'd still probably suggest waiting a couple of years if you can, but if you can't you can probably grab a Nissan leaf for roughly that 6000 euros and that mileage. If you can wait a few more years, especially in the EU, then the used market options are going to explode. I'd probably look at some of the Chinese second hand EVs as they are already pretty cheap and will likely be super cheap used in a few years. And if you are in the EU, EVs that are roughly the same prices as an ICE are going to make a lot of financial sense because of the high petrol prices.

Would I suggest someone get a Tesla today? Eh, depends. I probably will not get one for my next vehicle, but I plan on running this one into the ground (currently at 130,000 miles and I plan to keep going until something gives). In the US, I'd suggest today you take a good look at the iconiq if you are buying new. But again, in the US, I'd strongly suggest waiting for a couple of years at this moment.
Picodash: A tiny JavaScript library for connecting data sources to widgets
Very early alpha WIP, posting for discussion purposes!

This library is under 3k minified+zipped, and lets you make IoT and other dashboards with custom HTML elements.

Once you define your data source providers and any custom widgets and filters you want, you can make a dashboard in pure HTML without any code.

After the failure(due to me getting tired of maintaining it) or my FreeBoard fork, I decided to try something completely different, and remembered how we all used to have no complaints with raw HTML in the MySpace era.

This is one of the smallest tech projects I've ever built, and it definitely is refreshing to work on something small enough to prototype in an hour!
bad example? you can book hotels etc on AirBnB and everybody offers listing services which crosspost across the booking sites. There are few exclusives in the travel industry.
> Why are you demanding something of Apple

Not me. I object to you making up bullshit about me. I just stated facts - no opinions given.
And *-doc packages are not required for their main counterparts.
You don't have to do any of that. Its their job to report income and pay taxes. Withholdings are a "convenience" not a requirement. Furthermore you weren't their employer, they provided a service to you.
Fun, until I reached the dragons. Those jerks seem unbeatable!