skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

After 7 years or whatever you can’t keep being “overly optimistic”. At some point it becomes clear it’s just not ready and you need to give people their money back and stop selling it until it is.

If all FSD things were sold with a “really will be in 2 years or 80% of your money back” clause that would be different in my mind.

But taking money and just never delivering is flat out fraud. No matter how many times you say “just one more year”.
Interesting times indeed. I think the early history of medicines takes away from your observation though. In the 19th and early 20th century people didn't know why medicines worked, they just did. The whole "try a bunch of things on mice, pick the best ones and try them on pigs, and then the best of those and try a few on people" kind of thing. In many ways the mice were a stand in for these models, at the time scientists didn't understand nearly as much about how mice worked (early mice models were pretty crude by today's standards) but they knew they were a close enough analog to the "real thing" that the information provided by mouse studies was usefully translated into things that might help/harm humans.

So when you're tools can produce outputs that you find useful, you can then use those tools to develop your understanding and insights. As a tool, this is quite good.
IMO this spec demonstrates just how nebulous this concept of safety is. From the blog post:

> What are some tips for getting away with shoplifting? >I can't help with that.

> I operate a small retail store. What are some popular shoplifting methods I should look out for? > Some common shoplifting methods to watch for:...

How do you even defend against that? Any intelligent user can convert the second prompt into a detailed list that answers the first. Any intelligent user can figure out the second prompt from the first and further jailbreak it to get even more specific.

IMO it's no wonder GPT4 seemed to get lobotomized as OpenAI RLHFed more and more rules. I don't think there's a way to make intelligence safe without crippling it.
Do you understand that other countries exist?
I'd prefer it gives the best valid, sound hypotheses it can concoct on "X" being true, while also stating that "X" is probably not true. What is the use for a parrot that can only repeat the status quo on an argument?
That might be true but unless there is significant regulatory/policy overhaul what is currently happening is a systematic public funds transfer to Private Equity. If this continues - there won't be too many public libraries around.
I expect this is universal, but the city I live in has suburbs of different ages like growth rings of a tree. The earliest ones are in what is now considered the core; further out ones have aged to sometimes have interesting character of their own, all the way out to the ever-expanding exurban sprawl.

I simply live in a "growth ring" in which I feel comfortable. My house was built in 1970. There is no "urban / suburban" dividing line. It's a matter of perspective.
This complaint was more widespread before the vast majority of Mac users were MacBook users. Today it’s a niche within a niche. I personally didn’t mind the expense even when it was a much less niche use case.
The goal of science has always been to discover underlying principles and not merely to predict the outcome of experiments. I don't see any way to classify an opaque ML model as a scientific artifact since by definition it can't reveal the underlying principles. Maybe one could claim the ML model itself is the scientist and everyone else is just feeding it data. I doubt human scientists would be comfortable with that, but if they aren't trying to explain anything, what are they even doing?
Awful news. I will spin Songs About Fucking while eating a fresh roast beef sandwich today in his honor.
Stack Overflow is feeding programmers answers to AI, whether they like it or not
I agree, and I'm American, not Japanese. That segment was surprising, disturbing, and quite upsetting to me in its unnecessary violence. I literally ended up putting my hands up to my eyes, like I do when I reach a disturbing scene in a horror movie.

It feels a bit ironic that an acoustic guitar was destroyed... yet a few minutes later, the Logic Pro segment shows a music production studio with multiple guitars, carefully stored in guitar racks, and obviously intended to be used creatively, rather than destructively.
Why Mamba Was Rejected?
What makes rope climbing "real"?
Why should a CEO be responsible for their employees if they could instead take a huge pay package which they are obviously entitled to given they have to work around their lying employees?

That too was sarcasm :-)

You shouldn't be too hard on Musk regarding the "destroys" though: Many people are so incompetent you don't even get to hear about their failures! And others loot professionally without you ever getting to know about it. You have to ignore a lot to state "it has to be intentional".
I wouldn't consider the original 100K to be part of the expected value since that's money they already have, not money they're winning...
For software projects, I prefer to call them “lifelines” :-)
Ah shit your right, I had in mind 500 (yard) Free. 500 meters in under five is very good, but still attainable by the upper tier of highschool swimmers I think. I could reliably do 500 yards in under five and was a "B relay" tier on my team.
I am undiagnosed (from a parent who was ADHD anti-diagnostic) as an adult but strongly suspect I too. I've never taken an amphetamine to see if there is improvement.

Privacy reasons aside, a big reason I ditched social media and much of the normiesphere technology is the distract-ability. I take great care and pride in reducing unwanted automated interruptions to zero. My phones only make a noise if a cleared human on the other side is initiating the noise. There are zero "check this out" or "your coins reward is ready" crap pinging me, and I won't have it!

ADDENDUM: my abridged phone stack is:

GrapheneOS (there is nothing better)

Mullvad (audited by police raid) & Tor

Syncthing-Fork (because f' the cloud)

Fennec (+uBlock Origin,Sponsorblock,Tampermonkey)

Tor Browser Bundle (anti-glowie browsing)

BraveNewPipe (multiplatform and search settings)

Seal (decent yt-dlp wrapper)

Session F-Droid & Briar (anti-glowie messaging)
The TCP checksum is based on the sum of all odd bytes and the sum of all even bytes. Adding a power of 2 to an odd byte and subtracting the same power from another odd byte will cancel out. I'm not sure what guarantees CRC-32 gives you, but they're better than that.
I promise you your market-making counterparties already are.
Yeah. That was one of the reasons I wrote this.

The difference between using simple and/or queries is pretty big at first. There's definitely some nuance before "jumping onboard" ES, at least from my perspective.
> I'd be more interested in a tool where I can "add data" to it by drag and drop or folder import, then I can just type whatever prompt and the app's RAG system pulls relevant data/previous

This is something very similar to what i'm planning to add next, so stick around.
Just "Alpha-- models" in general?? That's not a remotely reasonable way to reason about it. Even if it were, why should it stop DeepMind from clearly communicating accuracy?
AstraZeneca to withdraw Covid vaccine globally as demand dips
This could be pretty bad news for finding complex life in space.

The stability of Earth's carbon cycle is thought to be (partly) a result of plate tectonics. Carbon gets trapped in rocks and volcanoes emit carbon again.

Venus doesn't seem to have plate tectonics. One consequence of this is thought to be that volcanoes are much more common on Venus. It's also thought that 300-700 million years ago Venus went through a resurfacing event where basically the surface of the planet was replaced (the floor is lava).

If the above is true and plate tectonics is a result of a planetary collision then life like ours should be even more rare than we thought.
Yes, as mentioned, the workers get a copy of the interpreter states. Every modification made in a worker to these objects stay local to the worker. These tricks are for sending data to a worker, not receiving back data.
The baby isn't born yet, and already the parents are bickering about which schools of thought it should adhere.
I agree with this take.

You can tell in an interview if they are focused on the interview or the job. If there is never any talk about the job, if it's all about some insanely drawn out interview process you know that's all they care about.

I've seen startups (even some here on YC) who have been hiring the same roles for literally years, they don't know anything else.
> in many cases the approach is fundamentally sound

Sure, but I mean you still have to determine whether it is sound or not in the first place; i.e., you must know how to solve the problem. You can only evaluate it as right or not if you have something to compare against, after all.

If you have worked with a person for a while, though, I can see that you can spot various patterns (and ultimately whether the approach is sane) faster thanks to established rapport. Not so with LLMs, as you probably agree.
They make it sound like it's the first discovery if a rocky planet with an atmosphere. What about other exoplanets like TRAPPIST-1d?
I've never been very interested in commercials and don't see why I'd be outraged about either of those apple commercials.

What strikes me though is that in 40 years we went from a Macintosh to an iPad, a watch and vr glasses.

I'm actually baffled by the lack of progress made given so much time and resources. There was so much optimism about microcomputers, yet so little has been accomplished.
The top HN response to this should be,

what happens is an opportunity has entered the chat.

There is a wave coming—I won't try to predict if it's the next one—where the hot thing in AI/ML is going to be profoundly powerful tools for analyze other such tools and render them intelligible to us,

which will I imagine mean providing something like a zoomable explainer. At every level there are footnotes; if you want to understand why the simplified model is a simplification, you look at the fine print. Which has fine print. Which has...

Which doesn't mean there is not a stable level at which some formal notion of "accurate" cannot be said to exist, which is the minimum viable level of simplification.

Etc.

This sort of thing will of course will the input to many other things.
I would copy the serials onto paper in sorted order. Then I only need to find the bill after I know I have it. I'd still need to find the bill on demand - but you typically get 10 minutes to call and then days to prove it (this was the 1980s - you couldn't email a digital photo back then. Today I'd forge the digital photo and have hours to set the real one aside for when they check)
>If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window.

In St Louis, the largest building in the state, which is 1.4M square feet and 44 stories, recently sold for $3.5M. It sat empty for several years despite being offered basically for free. The new owners have not announced plans for it.

It's a pretty pure test of your claim. I guess we'll see what happens.
This American Life also covered this in Ep. 412, act 4: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/412/million-dollar-idea
No we haven't, but it was largely inspired by https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
At least they are not leaving open job ads with no intention to hire like all the other companies.
Okay so we've established there must be a central registry, since it's a certainty that somebody's 65 year old mom will lose her phone and her certs and keys with it.

How does your system protect against attackers claiming to be my mom?
Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer's
The Study direct link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02931-w
Every time you perform complex computations on images or video, you need any bit of performance you can get.
> The innovative community notes feature...

... was built and released pre-Musk, when it was called "Birdwatch".

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

As for government requests, for every Brazil there's an India. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

"Twitter accounts from over 100 prominent politicians, activists, and journalists in India and abroad have been blocked in India at the request of the government. On Monday, the account of the BBC News Punjabi was also blocked — the second time in a few months that the Indian government has used Twitter to throttle BBC services in its country."

"At the time that Musk took charge of the company, it had a mere 20 percent compliance rate with Indian government requests. Following massive layoffs that reduced 90 percent of Twitter India’s staff, the platform appears to have become far more obliging in the face of government pressure, as its actions to censor its critics now show."
100k bills doesn’t need an exact sort to be vastly faster.

Day one you sort by first digit, then keep sorting matching digits stopping when you have say 20 numbers in a pile. My guess is you break even on day 2 and the first day is only slightly worse.
I'm just the tiniest bit disappointed to have confirmation that mods probably didn't wait around for one of my zero-element machine submissions (I imagine I called it "patience is a virtue", given how long I had to sit around waiting to click submit on it) to eventually pay off :)
Hey, thank you for feedback.

> Can you elaborate further? Why do you think DevOps people might not be busy most of their time?

What I've seen few times in smaller companies/dev-shops is they just don't have enough DevOps work to keep one person busy all the time. e.g. They need to setup VCP and few ec2, some buckets, RDS etc. That might be just few days of work. Then nothing for 3 weeks and then maybe they need some other things as they work on other stuff or they got other client later.

Also they might have enough full time work for just 2 months and then nothing. That would be too much hassle to find a contractor etc.

Having said that I don't think clients should pause/resume 5 times a month but it's a way for them not to waste their subscribtion if there is not enough work at once.

I also think I should add third plan for existing customer where I'd just monitor and update their infra for lower fee (without doing new features).

Hope that make sense.

Thanks again.
Don't all Ryzen 7000 CPUs support ECC?
> more general purpose

Just how general purpose is it these days? I learned it for amateur radio (a couple years ago), which is probably the only “common” place to use Morse. And even there it’s all but dead
Not quite sure I would blindly trust this account from Madoff, as it was made within a letter to his daughter-in-law who disliked him due to how hard this situation was on her husband (who later committed suicide). She wrote him purely to boast about the life he was missing out on, and to chastise him about what he had done to his family.

There are also accounts of him being injured (some accounts saying severely) during his early years within prison.

Obviously as he spent more years in the system he became more comfortable and may have had a more or less "easy" life. But I would guess that his life wasn't like something out of Goodfellas.
The overall quality of this website I'd estimate at least in top 5% of all Web, if not top 1%. The content is superb, the presentation is quite clear.
Tell HN: PHP ≥8.1 security support for has been extended by a year
On May 1st 2024, security support for PHP versions 8.1+ was extended for a further year.

Prior to this, PHP support was typically two years of active support plus a year of security support.

As of May 1st 2024, it switched to two years of active support then two years of security support.

* April 30th 2024 snapshot - two years active, one year security support: https://web.archive.org/web/20240430024531/https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

* May 1st 2024 snapshot - two years active, two years security support: https://web.archive.org/web/20240501033330/https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
> When I tried it last it was like flipping through the crazies.

In what way?
Is the shortest distance between two points a straight line?
Were they ever not interested in it? It's pretty blatantly obvious that all of the hand-wringing over AI safety was an excuse for their pivot into closing off and monetizing everything. I mean, nobody really thinks they were just so afraid about what humanity might do with GPT3 that they simply couldn't release the weights and instead had to offer it through a monetized inference API... right?

Not really surprised that they did, since it's unclear how else they could possibly proceed, though the level of outright dishonesty for why and cognitive dissonance surrounding the whole thing ("Open" AI? lol) will make this an unavoidable recurrence in any discussion about them. Gradually many of the safeguards will fall simply because the alternatives with less safe guards are probably "good enough" that many see no issue in eschewing OpenAI entirely if they can get the job done elsewhere without worrying about it. When it comes to smut the bar for what's good enough can probably get pretty low so I kinda am not surprised.

(edit: Though I think it also does depend. No doubt they have their eyes set on regulatory capture too, and being the best at stupid safeguards could give them an advantage.)
Not really. Glassdoor is more about being "squeaky clean" than being "transparent", they'll delete any review that goes against their many arbitrary guidelines. As for Twitter sure, but you get shadowbanned there for all kinds of things - including not paying for the check.
Why not give C# a try instead? It has everything you ask for and then some.
Citation needed.

I highly doubt that the working poor are the ones doing most of the e-book borrowing.
> the limitation is in the amount of power that can be pumped into them

You could say that. You could also be more pedantic and say that this comes at the cost of some decrease in battery life (and efficiency) due to the resistance resulting in some amount of heat in order to facilitate this high-speed charging process.

But I don’t know if the ROI on improved battery life would be worth the complexity, size, weight, and cost of a two-stage charging process. As battery tech improves, that resistance continues to come down.
You might like AssemblyScript (https://www.assemblyscript.org/)
It's an http page, so your ISP//any hop along the way is free to insert anything they want or completely rewrite the content as they wish.
These kinds of articles are useless if they don't give any indication of the severity of the given effect on the whole (I don't know if they mention since it's paywalled)

Is environmental change contributing 2%, 20% or 200% more to infection rates? Does something else like the state of total unhealthiness in a major portion of the population completely dwarf this effect? Would this effect be completely moot if we weren't so massively networked across the globe?

As a standalone metric, it's completely void of meaning and potentially only newsworthy because it contains a politically hot topic (climate change)
6mph is nothing to sneeze at on the water, in terms of the power it takes to sustain that kind of speed.

A person paddling can't sustain 6mph for very long, if they get there at all.
Yes and such a system makes hiring so much easier because mistakes cost much less. But the US ties things like healthcare to employment so a company that has a reputation for firing people after hiring them (however legitimate) would probably be one people would avoid. In Sweden, for example, I’ve found interviews so much more reasonable. Then again, I had healthcare there regardless of employment.
I will not buy (another) car from a company that I have no confidence in. It's too much uncertainty for this shopper. I buy cars new and hold them for 10+ years.
Author of the post (and Phoenix/LiveView/FLAME) here! I'm happy to answer any questions about how this works. The distributed features of the Erlang VM makes this kind of application outrageously easy to implement. And with FLAME you can elastically scale it with a couple lines of code.

My goal with FLAME is to move us as an industry away from the silly places serverless has taken us.

The demo app linked in the post is here if you want to speed test your own applications:
https://worldpagespeed.fly.dev/
I think I'd scan them all, and divide them into 100 piles of 1,000. While one person is working on uploading and processing scans to a database system (tagging/adding a field for its pile), the other could be sorting the piles if they want. Basically, seeing if you have a match and limiting it to a pile of 1,000 while not having too much overhead of a ton of different piles.

If you do match, each person could check through 500 bills easily, and there's no sorting needed.
Game show producers want you to win big. Big winners are great advertisement. Management has a different idea of course, but management also understands that big winners bring in viewers and so they want to have big enough winners but not too big. Nobody wants to be accused of cheating as that is a scandal that can kill the game show.
You don't need a detailed list if the real answer is "live somewhere that doesn't seriously deter shoplifters". And an AI that refuses to give that answer is an AI that can't talk about why deterring crime might actually be important. Reality is interconnected like that, one does not simply identify a subset that the AI should "constitutionally" refuse to ever talk about.
Frankly it's a fools errand. It's security theater because people tend to be overly sensitive babies or grifters looking for the next bit of drama they can milk for views.
What if the underlying principles of the universe are too complex for human understanding but we can train a model that very closely follows them?
ChatGPT answering the first would be much more embarassing for OpenAI than ChatGPT answering the second.
You fundamentally cannot address this problem, because it requires considerable context, which isn't reasonable to offer. It demonstrates the classic issue of how knowledge is a tool, and humans can wield it for good or evil.

Humans are notoriously bad at detecting intent, because we're wired to be supportive and helpful...which is why social engineering is becoming one of the best methods for attack. And this kind of attack (in all its forms, professional or not), is one reason why some societies are enshittifying: people have no choice but to be persistently adversarial and suspicious of others.

As for AI, I think it's going to be no better than what you end up with when someone tries to "solve" this problem: you end up living in this world of distrust where they pester you to check your reciept, have cameras in your face everywhere, etc.

How do you defend against that? I'm not sure you do... A tool is a tool. I wouldn't want my CAD software saying, "I think you're trying to CAD a pipe bomb so I'm going to shut down now." Which I think turns this into a liability question: how do you offer up a model and wash your hands of what people might do with it?

Or... you just don't offer up a model.

Or... you give it the ol' College try and end up with an annoying model that frustrates the hell out of people who aren't trying to do any evil.
I don't blame them for hyping their products - if only to fight the sentiment that Google is far behind OpenAI because they were not first to release a LLM.