skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mostly going by the author's own notes on how they responded, in which they state this:

• You assumed we'd never gene sequenced the bacteria, even though I posted the sequence publicly.

I assumed you did not regularly sequence the bacteria because you did not say that you did and you did not report anything about following manufacturing regulations.

That is a very weird defense to take in my opinion, and is the crux of my problem with the author in this argument. It is not acceptable to make a negative inference and then express it publicly as fact because the other party didn't mention something. That is not responsibly journalism, and to me it explains why the CEO was struggling to see good faith initially. That's not usually the behavior you see when people are communicating in good faith.
The "fullest truth" includes your desired outcome and knowledge that they are a human. If you just want to dump facts at them and get them to shut up, go ahead and speak unfiltered. Twitter may be an example of the outcome of that strategy.

Consider a situation where you are teaching a child. She tries her best and makes a mistake on her math homework. Saying that her attempt was terrible because an adult could do better may be the "fullest truth" in the most eye-rolling banal way possible, and discourages her from trying in the future which is ultimately unproductive.

This "fullest truth" argument fails to take into account desire and motivation, and thus is a bad model of the truth.
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm highly confident that GP is mocking Apple's implementation. HID has been a standard for a long time and is already widely available on every platform.
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, https://www.bialikbreakdown.com/episodes, is a lot more interesting than you'd think. She is so intelligent and witty, it provides for a more entertaining chat with someone. I always learn something and feel like I used my time wisely.
huge. the activation scan, which looks for which nodes change the most when prompted with the words "Golden Gate Bridge" and later an image of the same bridge, is eerily reminiscent of a brain scan under similar prompts...
We have more than enough food to feed the world and still people starve.

Seems like Musk doesn't grok humans and economy.
The Personal Challenge of Mountaineering (2012)
The Next Decade of the Web
nih-syndrome is a real thing. I'm not saying they don't make cool stuff but the engineering culture that prioritizes creating a new database over using something that already exists, then promoting the people who develop the (70th) new DB over the people who were focused on actually delivering value for the customer, it's not my choice in working environment.

The architecture where all the magic lives in the database layer and the services treat the DB like this magical thing that synchronizes across multiple DCs for you, and takes care of every complicated part of engineering a distributed system is a "now you have two problems" situation. It's a massive complicated system that will fail in novel ways, and you don't have a large community of other users that you can fall back on for expertise.
>If I go to Google Scholar and search for things like "nano micro plastics", "cytotoxicity", "oxidative stress", "immunotoxicity", "inflammation response", etc., I get back an enormous amount of (very) recent studies with conclusions I personally find concerning.

How many of them were in-vitro (ie. done in a petri dish) studies, were using absurd dosages, or cohort studies (ie. "microplastics are associated with poor health outcomes but we're not sure whether that's because microplastics are causing the poor health outcomes or people with poor outcomes also consume lots of microplastics)? My impression is that the studies on micprolastics is poor (mostly for the above reasons), which also explains why the EU concluded there was "little is known" about the risks.
Latency? Takes time to make photons from electrons and vice versa. Folks try to step around this with light-driven gates. Lots to learn! Plenty out there!
There are also people that are terminally online that learn exactly how to take down content. Features like flag and report are not used by normal users but by people often trying to push an agenda and silence opposing viewpoints.
The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.

All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok ("Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!"). It's still a threat, I'm not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.
Whoa how do we know about this?
What Is the Focal Length of the Human Eye for Cinematography? Perhaps 42mm
Low density UIs were a scourge before mobile. There has always been a kind of designer who privileges "negative space" over everything else and can't imagine any greater luxury than having a 27" screen and devoting 26" of it to whitespace.
Distributing Randomness
Transformer / attention block is missing
In the sense that they both contain the word "AI?" Otherwise, I'm not really seeing the connection to the article. I.e.,

> One constant in most of these stories appear to be that most educators have no interest in educating themselves about AI.

This article does not discuss or show this.
Ask HN: How to Deal with Juniors and GPTs
A junior software engineer joined my team (replacing a senior, cost related) and I've been tasked with taking her under my wing. She's done a development bootcamp which to my understanding awarded college levels credits. Either way, a junior is a junior so expectations are relatively low. Intelligence matters but genuine interest/curiousity and work ethic is more important.

I'm not a stranger to chatgpt / llms and I've also used them to do basic stuff it seems like this junior is heavily relying on it. At first I really held her hand and talked her through implementing a feature just to get to know the application and after let her loose (I'm available for questions).

The feature delivered contained a bug, which is OK, it happens and I quickly spotted it. Instead of guiding her through it I created a ticket which described exactly how to debug the feature (like the exact call which would make the bug happen) and let her have at it. I don't think debugging was taught, which is a bummer but with a bit of curiosity can be learned (stepping into/through methods and examining the data). Pointed out the exact number where the bug happened but no dice. It was a really simple thing where just reading or knowing the standard library or examining the result would've said it all.

Anyways what prompted (heh) me to write this ask hn was that I was guiding her through an issue and at some point she said wait I have an idea, pulled up chatgpt and asked how to implement what we were working on. Then started examining the code and asking me about it. I was baffled. I realize gpt's are here to stay but this isn't normal or good right? I said that I think she relies on chatgpt too much and we should look into the docs for Object X. This als explains the previous code where the fault was so silly and easily found it you actually tried to reason.

How do I deal with this? Should / can I forbid the usage of chatgpt? I'd rather quit than review half baked generated code and don't really feel like helping anymore. Is this the future? I don't think she's learning much of anything trying to cram some generated code into a bigger context instead of taking the time (which as a junior is available) and using a senior mentor to actually learn to program.
I read a lot of history, but many of the books are quite dry. A rare exception were the books by Dan Jones I recently read, on medieval England (The Plantagenets, The Wars Of Roses). I learned a bunch and sincerely enjoyed the process. His Powers and Thrones book is next up.

Incidentally, I found out that Shakespeare covered similar timelines (especially the wars of the roses) in his 8 history plays, which I've been going through. Never read any Shakespeare before, and liking it enough that I already made a top ten list of his works to get into next.
Adding a little gif showing how to connect nodes right now
I might be a complete brainlet so excuse my take, but when animals think and do things, the weights in the brain are constantly being adjusted, old connections pruned out and new ones made right? But once LLM is trained, that's kind of it? Nothing there changes when we discuss with it. As far as I understand from what I read, even our memories are just somehow in the connections between the neurons
It's the latter. It sounds like they got suspended because they told their users (i.e students) to give them their canvas API tokens so that they could fetch course materials on their behalf.

Previously, students had to download the PDFs and manually upload them. If students gave eightball their API tokens, eightball could fetch their course materials on their behalf.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but that's how it reads to me.
Poor baby getting $540k after tax instead of $580k On your $1M windfall. How will you sleep at night?

(Edit: and that’s aggressively acting as if the marginal income tax rates were applied to the whole thing)
Exactly. Thank you. Apple please fix this. I buy 300$ headphones and >2000$ laptop and can’t listen to music.
So, to summarize:

>Used "dictionary learning"

>Found abstract features

>Found similar/close features using distance

>Tried amplifying and suppressing features

Not trying to be snary, but sounds mundane in the ML/LLM world. Then again, significant advances have come from simple concepts. Would love to hear from someone who has been able to try this out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jedlix.ich... says "This item isn't available in your country (USA)" so I hope there are enough folks in whatever country you're targeting to make your shameless self-promotion work out for you
>Design for the median user or the least common denominator.

Design for the least, compare against average, and don't cap the best, use those agents as immediate beta-user -> quality/dev feedbook loop, dog-fooding user requirements as a fundamental base, and don't let perfection impede progress.
On my todo list to add this as another level.
Yes, especially without eSNI (which is probably not that widely used, though I can't find good data one way or another), you can generally figure out that an IP address correlates with a specific website, but that's it. You don't know what they did on that website, you can't break their pseudonymity, etc.
PiHole resolves it to 127.0.0.1

I spend way too much time on this website
This looks great too...
I'm not a fan of apple products in general, but I admire their ability to control so much of the tech stack that they can optimize latency so much.
Much more interesting would be "heavenbanning":

https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561
> In each of these instances, it is becoming clear that schools do not know what the rules about AI should be and that they are often being made up on the fly.

This seems a little uncharitable to me considering society has no idea what the rules around AI should be and is therefore making them on the fly too. Why do we expected school administrators to be so far in front of everyone else on these issues?
I wonder how much of the municipal broadband costs include fighting these lobby groups’ members in court.
No, I don't think you're understanding correctly. The students first pitched an idea explicitly based on users uploading "specific assignments, exercises, and even the actual tests" to their tool, and the institution approved this idea and gave them $10,000 to build it.

The change that prompted the suspension seems to be about the technical details of how users upload those files - using the Canvas API instead of manually downloading and uploading. Either way, there is no dishonesty alleged by anyone, even the school Honor Council.

Also, the tool did not use OpenAI or any other third-party AI service, so whatever opinions you have about OpenAI are not relevant.
The challenges they've had are easily surmountable with time and iteration. And SpaceX has a really healthy financial runway these days.
It's a software problem, nothing we can do about it.

For leaks the hackers are always to blame, never the poor security of the companies.
I think it is pretty clear they did not have privileged access. Either because they never connected to the courseware service, or because they did so with students' credentials.

Edit: I'm not sure if I just missed it earlier or the article has been updated, but this issue is directly addressed now:

> The students were also accused of “disseminating course material” by allowing students to use their own, individualized Canvas API tokens to connect Eightball directly so they did not have to upload PDFs to the tool themselves. “The upgrade did not change what students could upload to Eightball or what learning materials Eightball could produce upon request,” the suspended students’ lawyers note in the lawsuit.
I guess this tax is under 50%, but once you cross that line, things get bad fast.

Consider building a house after the trump tax hikes in California with $1M from the top tax bracket.

After income tax, there’s $490K left.

Next come the Canadian lumber tariffs, which increased base cost per square foot from $300 to $360, which is another 20% effective tax.

Now there’s only $400K left. (Covid also increased prices. Ignore that.)

A normal time to IPO is 5-10 years, during which time people accept a depressed salary. The windfall post-tax is only $40-80K per year per million paid out, and salaries are typically at least $50-100K under market value.

On top of that, there are local “screw the rich people that can build homes” fees and regulations that nearly double the cost of construction, so that $1M ends up being $200-250K in actual purchasing power. So, assume they but instead of build, and don’t pay those fees.

$490K is something like one third of a house around here, so the person ends up borrowing to cover the tax.

Their average income was something like $240-280K (pre inflation numbers, pre-tax), which is 91th percentile California household income, and those are “jackpot” years for that person.

However, they ended up paying two years pre-tax salaries (3 years post tax) in income tax if they buy a house, and 6 years post-tax salary if they build.

Of course, the above is nuanced, so most people are all like “yeah, screw the rich” without realizing these taxes disproportionately hit the middle class.
There’s a typo here. The “if” word should be written “when”.
I actually think Apple is the reason why newer headphones are starting to support two devices. Apple makes a decision for themselves and it forces entire industries to move that direction. As someone who hates the Apple approach (please give me the Woz machine: more ports, more open, more hackable, more mine), it is painful to watch. Yes I'm still bitter about headphone jacks :-D
Famously derided in the seminal work "The visual display of quantitative information". There they give the thought experiment: weigh the ink on your page devoted to data points, compare it to the entire rest of the ink. You want the largest ratio possible.
Never understood the point of these car autopilots, or whatever the marketing speak, when you still have to pay full attention to what the car is doing and your surroundings.

What's the big advantage?
Paying attention and anticipating everything is the hardest part of (regular) driving anyway.

This is glorified cruise control but a million times harder to implement.
The Volvo VNL Autonomous
This article explains why HN (Dang) should stop using this practice. I used a "shadowbanned" account for potentially years on this site without realizing I had been banned. An email to Dang and he was gracious to reinstate me but I feel like a jackass for talking to myself for god knows how long. According to a study by Yale SOM, shadow banning can shift users’ opinions and increase polarization by selectively muting and amplifying posts in ways that appear neutral. This subtle control over collective opinions makes it difficult for users to realize they are being censored, underscoring the need for transparency and better regulation.
My Gentoo GNU/Linux system is lower maintenance than this. If I don't want an app to launch I simply remove it and it's gone forever. It's a super-basic system that only does what I want and is therefore really easy to maintain.
Fast real time fluid simulator based on MPM algorithm
Stateless CLI tool to sync calendars across different calendaring systems
Not an American. I do believe sustainability is important. However if the market failed to provide a solution, then a wee-bit of incentive is needed. Probably in 20 years those networks will be privatized so idk why they're complaining.

Additionally, US could very well force the sharing of infrastructure to get the market working better and force the market players to only discriminate its prices by region, not just where there is competition.

TL;DR: market failed, they can't cry because they didn't do the effort.
All of them inherit their syntax from the amazing Fortran array syntax.
As opposed to what?

Linux barely has functioning wifi, bluetooth, audio, and video, and Windows also has countless utilities to decrapify the OS. It's not specific to Mac just a different flavor.
> cast your environmentalist critique in meaningful ways and stop diluting its punch by targeting kids and their consumptive practices

All of these can be true at the same time: Changes to individual consumption habits will not save the planet alone; these changes can still make an impact in aggregate; it can still feel nice to use a film camera while at the same time considering the environmental impact and maybe limiting their use to moments that really matter and not just a novelty thing.

And if people really (re)discover their love for film: Buy a used film camera! You'll get infinitely better results than from a disposable camera and will be able to resell it for practically no loss in value.

I've bought a couple of vinyl records of bands/records that I really like, but would feel quite bad about buying every record that I like that way, since producing them and shipping them around the world does seem like a pretty big resource expenditure for something that a file on my computer can achieve in much higher fidelity.

> guess which photos live in the cloud and which adorn our bookshelves?

You're aware that photo printing exists, right?
It really depends on the size and resolution of your screens and use case. If you're using wide, high resolution screens, I really want to be able to place multiple windows in different arrangements on one screen for app development.

I find myself constantly shuffling windows around on my setup.
It should be possible, but it will take some lines.

Maybe helpful:

https://github.com/hetima/hammerspoon-foundation_remapping/t...

https://github.com/RobotCharlie/key-remapping-hammerspoon/bl...

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/discussions/3246

About macOS in general if you use hidutil

https://hidutil-generator.netlify.app/

https://rakhesh.com/mac/using-hidutil-to-map-macos-keyboard-...
Definition of Fascism...

> A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/fascism

When the government is colluding with private industry to suppress opposing views on social media, you really have to wonder if the word "violent" is even needed in this definition anymore.
The reason why I mentioned Flappy Bird is that it originally wasn't a massive viral hit. It was on the app store for like a year with basically no-one playing it. And then it became a viral hit. So it's a good example of how a good game with no marketing doesn't get picked up (until it gets lucky and eventually does get picked up; you can imagine a timeline where that never happens).
my understanding was that once you are of age, brain pruning and malleability is relatively small
> They just assumed they had permission.

Being given money by the system's owner to do it does sound a bit like permission to me...
I find this outcome expected and not really surprising, more confirmation of previous results. Consider vision transformers and the papers that showed what each layer was focused on.
WebM is just a container format, though it's usually used with VP9 and opus, and is functionally equivalent to using any other kind of actual video.

Animated GIFs remain quite useful for non-video animations where you don't want lossy compression, and want to use other GIF features like transparency. Animated PNGs are a potential replacement, and support all of the features of GIFs along with 24-bit color, but software support remains lackluster.
Incredibly fascinating. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
> I think about it like cars on the road. Getting from A to B is the point.

That's also a reasonable requirement for power users, I don't even consider myself a Windows power user since I mostly live in the terminal, browser and IDE - and play games of course, but gamers are hardly 'power users' either).

But Windows has been on a long downward spiral both for 'regular' and 'power' users (unless one counts stupid ideas like displaying ads in a desktop OS as a useful feature).
> Records are useful for running operations and debugging issues

I don't buy that for a moment. My ISP collects a lot of low-level information, but they don't need and don't collect the sort of information we're discussing here.

The individual users have actual hard links (or very rarely, some sort of radio) to somewhere and for that I agree you want diagnostics. "Sorry Ma'am I see your fibre went dark 18 minutes and 47 seconds ago, we'll have a technician out to investigate tomorrow morning". But the IP stuff is just bits, "You use Netflix a lot" isn't "useful for running operations" it's marketable information, it's collected because you can make money.
JFC I'm ready for "AI" to end. Can we please go back to blockchain or NFT hype? At least that didn't degrade my search results, make everything fucking useless, invade my privacy, and jack up prices on everything.
The Shepherd's Crown, it's #41 in the main series.
A true AGI would learn to manipulate it's environment to achieve it's goals, but obviously we are not there yet.

An LLM has no goals - it's just a machine optimized to minimize training errors, although I suppose you could view this as an innate hard-coded goal of minimizing next word error (relative to training set), in same way we might say a machine-like insect has some "goals".

Of course RLHF provides a longer time span (entire response vs next word) error to minimize, but I doubt training volume is enough for the model to internally model a goal of manipulating the listener as opposed to just favoring surface forms of response.
quoting two people who do something doesn't make it a trend.
I love the fact that the comment with references is negative. Keep it classy HN.
It’s “windfall”, singular.

In a sibling comment, I explained what the situation looks like for that group out here in California (hint: people paying these taxes can’t necessarily afford a house).