skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> imbued with inaccuracies and errors

Which this one certainly was. Tape drives don't look like that nor does the arrangement make any sense.
Probably more similar than not haha
> What you are complaining about is a developer who is not willing to put in free effort for a feature you care about, but are not willing to contribute to.

How exactly is this complaining? I am merely making an observation, not even in the earshot of their devs. I had evaluated Lapis years ago, but quickly moved on when it didn't seem adequate. I didn't complain about that in their issue tracker then, and I am not going out of my way to bring this up now because I am holding a grudge like you are implying. Whether or not they add websocket today wouldn't matter to me in the least, I am simply indifferent to it.

> it is logical that the main developer who used it to build itch.io is not going to put in the effort to do something they don't care about

There are plenty of frameworks that add features well beyond what the devs need for their own products. All I am saying is it might be more logical for other people here to use those instead. Of course people can come to this conclusion on their own, but highlighting what I believe to be a key information may save that time.
What are you trying to suggest is the significance of that?
Humans and roundworms last common ancestor was 600 million years ago. There definitely isn’t a good chance.
100% agreed. Unfortunately overdoing it on complexity early on seems to lead to a loss of the faith in engineering decision making even after overengineering leadership is removed.
"Elizabeth Prophet regarded American society as existing in a state of decay, comparing it to the last days of the Roman Empire." [0]

She's definitely right about that one ^. A very slow decay, most visibly seen by its gradual fall of GDP and world influence. This is also paralleled by increasing social welfare over the years, which the church also rejected:

"Elizabeth preached against socialism in all forms, seeing it as part of the global elite conspiracy's plot to control all facets of society. She instead emphasised a philosophy of individualism. Palmer and Abravanel characterised the Church's viewpoint as a 'conservative Republican stance'."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphan...
I find this interesting… I grew up in a Latin family and learned to shower at night. I rationalized it as, not going to bed dirty, and you aren’t going to get dirtier just sleeping anyway.
What is this Lua excitement all around?
And CDC has equipment and personnel. They should provide free anonymous testing, like with STDs. I want to know I am safe, without risking my pet cows life!
You could embed the binary data in a Python string and then have the installer dump that string to a file.
There's no way a 14.4 modem would have taken a whole night to download a wav sound effect. Not even a 2400 modem would take remotely that long. You were doing something wrong.
Dr. John B. Calhoun's work with "The Beautiful Ones" may unfortunately generalize to human civilizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFveSUmh9U
What is RHEL AI? A guide to the open source way for doing AI
Wonderful!! Appreciate the interest!
But then I can't spend my money for several weeks - the feature that crypto can't implement is having the reversal window be wider than the lockout window.
Google labeled "an illegal monopolist" by US federal judge
In our experience building louie.ai for a continuous learning variant of text2query (and for popular DBs beyond SQL), getting syntax right via a symbolic lint phase is a nice speedup, but not the a correctness issue. For syntax, bigger LLMs are generally right on the first shot, and an agent loop autocorrects quickly when the DB gives a syntax error.

Much more time for us goes to things like:

* Getting the right table, column name spelling

* Disambiguating typos when users define names, and deciding whether they mean a specific name or are using a shorthand

* Disambiguating selection when there are multiple for the same thing: hint - this needs to be learned from usage, not by static schema analysis

* Guard rails, such as on perf

* Translation from non-technical user concepts to analyst concepts

* Enterprise DB schemas are generally large and often blow out the LLM context window, or make things slow, expensive, and lossy if you rely on giant context windows

* Learning and team modes so the model improves over time. User teaching interfaces are especially tricky once you expose them - learning fuzzy vs explicit modes, avoid data leakage, ... .

* A lot of power comes from being part of an agentic loop with other tools like Python and charting, which creates a 'composition' problem that requires AI optimization across any sub-AIs

We have been considering OSS this layer of louie.ai, but it hasn't been a priority for our customers, who are the analyst orgs using our UIs on top (Splunk, OpenSearch, Neo4j, Databricks, ...), and occasionally building their own internal tools in top of our API. Our focus has been building a sustainable and high quality project, and these OSS projects seem to be very different to sustain without also solving that, which is hard enough as-is..
Many moons ago I decided to rip everything to AAC, until one day I brought cd full of mp4 files to my dad’s car…and realized that none of them could be played.

After that, it’s just mp3 (and flac)
Why would there be quite a good chance of that when even results in mice, which are far more similar to humans, often don't translate?
Reddit benefits from having bad search because it increases engagement with the site. If you can’t find it by searching, people start a new post, even if it’s just rehashing something that’s been discussed 100s of times before. The new post brings new comments, and more page views. There’s also a user benefit as the information has less chance to become outdated (a new discussion might bring new information, avoiding the Stack Overflow problem).
Wind Phone
I'm a Kagi user and unfortunately they are reselling Google Search results.
As frustrating as the US visa system is, large numbers of people are still applying for visas which is funding USCIS. Until either the numbers drop, or congress changes how USCIS is funded, I unfortunately think this is not going to change.
Now on the other hand Trump has gone insane and is completely misleading the Republican party, but this a completely different matter...
Why do you have 40 Sparcstation 5s? Very curious.
I didn't look because a claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. What the parent comment claimed didn't logically follow and I was pointing that out.

Your link does seem to indicate potential benefits, so I might give it a read, but I really don't want to get tuberculosis so I probably won't drink raw milk regardless.

EDIT: before you accuse me of hypocrisy, I did post a link talking about bovine TB elsewhere in a sister thread.
Sounds like a very secure platform!
As a society, it makes more sense to figure out how to generate more clean energy (rather than to try to reduce our energy usage).

But as an individual who wants to do something, and in principle has an incentive to reduce their energy bill, reducing consumption is the main thing under their control.
TL;DR McKinsey set up shell company to collaborate with Chinese government (which relies on corporate fronts like the US to manage public agency) and is trying to claim it was that shell company they’ve since shut down, not McKinsey involved.
Shame of educational pressure might be causing this, as mentioned in the article. But why do we as society place kids under so much stress? Let kids be kids and learn by exploring.
Ah I see. That analysis works if you neglect the free body diagram of the system. I agree with your analysis if one larger terminal were analogous to two smaller ones. But it is not.

When a bolt applies clamp force it does so to every thing in between the bolt head and the anchoring threads. All of the force is transmitted along the bolt shaft from the mating threads to the head of the bolt and then back down whatever is in between the bolt head and the mating threads.

If this were not the case no fasteners would work. The only exception is when you have multiple mating threaded regions, rust, etc.

If you put one washer in between the bolt head and the threads obviously it must feel the full force of the clamping, or else some force went missing.

If you put two washers in between they're both still trapped in this identical clamp force situation.

This can be extended by induction about as far as you'd like. Certainly 2,3,5,10 washers. Even to 100. Eventually gravity and other things start to creep in at much, much larger scales. If you wanted to clamp 1 million washers this simple analysis would fall apart of course.
When Discord gets closed, let's see how the projects will manage the loss.
Miranda was better.
I disagree completely, the best are teams who are good at both. Separate teams of front and back are significantly slower and always seem to be at odds with each other. Teams should be empowered to build out a working feature without needing to coordinate with a second team's roadmap.
Putin hijacked Austria's spy service. Now he's going after its government
My favorite part of the announcement

> This decision wasn't made lightly

"We thought long and hard about the money we make and the stuff we sold our customers, and frowned when we realized we prefer the former"

> and we want to assure you that our commitment to providing a superior listening experience remains unchanged

That is: unless you are using car thing, in which case your experience will become much worse
My intake of kombucha correlates with joint pain, so I don't drink kombucha.
People aren't stupid. What we have in the world in general (not just Asia) is a crisis in hopelessness.

People are facing crippling student debt (depending on your country), one bad medical incident away from being homeless, crippling housing costs and wages that barely cover costs such that you need 1-2 "side hustles" just to make ends meet.

It's really no wonder people are checking out. It's also no wonder that people aren't having children either. They simply can't afford to.

One common counterargument to this is that consumer spending is up but that really makes my point: people are spending now instead of saving because they have no future.
The Mental Health Effects of Acne Are Very, Very Real
It's an interesting article I don't know why it had to be presented in such a cumbersome graphical style. I tried the trick of changing "www" to "lite" in the URL but it didn't work for this one. I stopped reading about halfway through.
2005 Satellite Images
Is there any way possible to get an satellite image of a house from 2005?
I don't think culture war stuff is particularly appropriate here, but to provide some more useful discussion/context about the southern border, about half of illegal migrants enter legally and simply overstay their visas. Of those who do cross the border, about 80% are caught and arrested. The southern border also stretches through some of the harshest terrain on earth and most of the bits remotely near populated areas are heavily fortified. Crossing the border is the closest thing I've seen to the DMZ outside Korea. Those who cross far outside populated areas are putting themselves at incredible personal (and financial) risk.
Google keep making these same large and embarrassing mistakes time and time again. I think it's because their devs don't eat enough rocks every day.
I think this is really a spectrum and they are focusing on some more extreme aspects of it. But it is definitely not just an Asian thing and I believe to some degree this type of social withdrawal has affected perhaps a very significant portion of our society.

I have definitely been socially isolated my entire life to some degree or another. But much more so in adulthood. Again, I suggest that this is relatively common, not something that happens to only a few million people.

One aspect that is being glossed over is the amount of socialization or let's call it "pseudo-social" activity that is happening over the internet for these people.

I'm someone who generally does not have friends, leaves the apartment literally only a handful of times per month to take the garbage out and maybe buy groceries once or twice a month if I am trying to save money versus Instacart.

For me it comes down to money. I have a health issue that makes me fatigued etc. and don't have money for health insurance. I don't have money to go to restaurants or otherwise waste going out. So I stay home.

Because I'm always in a poor health and financial state, I feel uncomfortable trying to do any "real" socialization.

But I have always been trying one way or another to get to a point where I have a "real" online business that allows me to actually thrive. Such as buying a car and a house, getting health insurance and addressing my health issues, or paying taxes.

But what I have managed so far is usually just enough to scrape by. There have been some minor successes here and there but rarely have I ever felt like I had enough to truly meet my basic needs such as the health concerns or financial stability.

Anyway, I think it's easy to get in a position with health and financial challenges, maybe just a series of low-paying contracts, where some degree of social isolation is just practical and realistic.
If their parents are not doing anything about it when it's their direct responsibility, how can anyone expect anyone else to fix it?
If the culture allows for this, the problem is with the culture.
Might just end up with greasy poop.
I thought it was a good interview. And I will certainly be interested to try Workbook, although I am not clear on what it would do for us that a wiki would not. But I could easily be missing something. Workbook will be free, so it won’t be hard to find out.

I would put the date of the interview on the page.
Just focus on making useful software to improve people’s lives. Holy fuck the last five years feel like such a waste.
We need all new definitions of what a monopoly is, instead of the ones we have in law. The current definitions let everything drag out for years in courts by setting too high a bar. Instead, we need to recognize that all companies above a certain size or even “medium” market share damage competition simply due to their size. There shouldn’t be tests like proof of consumer harm, which is often hard or impossible to prove. Companies should also not be allowed to define the type of service they are, since they use overly broad market segments to make themselves look small. Their market capitalization or revenue or profit should be enough evidence of a problem. We know that big incumbents can copy smaller players, fight expensive legal battles, loss lead, bundle products, and behave in other anti competitive ways. Their size is a problem on its own.

A healthy society needs to have fair competition and reasonably distributed power. What we have right now with trillion Dollar megacorps (by market cap) is not healthy.
> I'm not entirely clear what you are asking now

Give me an actual technically feasible and sourced attack path that cannot be remediated via existing methods.

The issue is you are giving broad stroke handwavey assertions. The proof is in the pudding. Don't imagine the pudding, show me a step by step technically feasible recipe for the pudding.

> Also, do I misunderstand you or are you really claiming that things like electrical generating stations cannot be taken over by breaking into the computers that control them even if the "agent" doing the breaking-in is as good at breaking into computers as AIs currently are at chess, i.e., much much better than people are

I am not denying that electric grids can't be hacked (hell back in HS and College I used to try and take over IP CCTVs and other IoT devices using Shodan for lulz).

What I am dismissing is the statement that existing models today can "crack" environments by innovating new attacks.

Sure they can catch misconfigurations and brute force CVEs, but models are limited by their corpora, and much of the corpora used does not include every single pattern of code in humanity.

This is why the companies testing computer generated code are using internally trained models because each code base is unique with different idiosyncrasies. And code patterns do differ based on where you studied and worked (it's been a common tool in attributing attacks to groups).

> but you seem to have a different dismissal having to do with the difficulty of subverting computer-based systems

Because I worked in this the security and ML/HPC industry for 10-15 years in every single facet - engineering, policy, product, and funding.

Broad stroke narratives are nice, but if they cannot stand a basic stress test, then they don't make sense.

I'm sure you lesswrongers can agree with that, but you guys seem to think you're smarter than the other domain experts who are actively thinking about these problems as well, and how to minimize them in their domain.
How to EMP-Proof a Building
It's hard to change another person's mind.
I made the mistake of doing that at work
Studio Musicians Are Still Waiting for Credit in the Streaming Era – WMOT
JWST sees 'birth' of 3 of the universe's earliest galaxies
Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us
In America, they'd be kicked out of home as soon as they turned 16.
In Russia, they'd be just beaten up by their dads. Probably badly and regularly.

They do it because they can. Key is to make it impossible and force them to take up productive activities. No one in adult age should be kept at home funded by their parents unless it's short term with definite plan to fix it, or they are seriously disabled.

Of course, when it's about schoolchildren, it's different. Serious psychiatric help is needed. It's again parents' fault for not providing it.
> Isn't there also a real risk of catching tuberculosis via raw milk consumption as well?

Just like there is a 'real risk' of catching parasites from eating plants. Or any foodborn illness from any food really.

> but it always seemed like the real risks of getting an infections outweighed the benefits.

Lots of things seem risky that to certain types of people.

> This stuff isn't meant for humans

Using that logic, humans can't consume any plants, fruits, meat, etc because they aren't 'meant for humans'. Do you only drink breast milk? And only your mother's breast milk since other female's breast milk is meant for other humans?

> I don't know why people think that you can just drink it untreated without any risks.

Me either. Don't know why people drive when it has risk. Or walk when at any moment, they can trip, hit their head on the sidewalk and die.
From my personal experience (I also went through a very dark period in my life and just recently climbed out of the hole I dug myself) I guess people are realizing that working hard won't get you anything close to what previous generations had. Once that settles in it's hard to push yourself to do basically anything.

Additionally, I also believe that feeling is compounded by social media where selection bias only shows you cherry picked moments where it seems other people are living the life you won't get.

Finally, among the younger generations there is a lot of climate change dread going around.

For me it was a combination of all these factors and to this day I can't pinpoint exactly what was the trigger, but after COVID lockdowns I simply kept social distancing.
It's a submarine article from the EA and UK+SK govt backed AI Safety Conference
I mean functions defined by power series (just like sin(x) is defined in analysis courses). For the three body problem, see http://oro.open.ac.uk/22440/2/Sundman_final.pdf (Warning, pdf!). This is what Wikipedia cites when talking about the solution to the three body problem. The document gives a lout of historical context.

For polynomial roots, see wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_function.
Trained on Twitter and Reddit. Garbage in/Garbage out, as it has always been.
did data-herald not find usecases or user problems to solve using its tech ?

are any startups applying LLMs profitable at all ? or is it just a mirage - ie, in the real world, startups are not able to solve users problems well using LLMs.
But AI will solve everything!
> I didn't look because a claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

I did look & could not find anything. I think marketing fuels a hysteria against raw milk. The reason why vendors say it's "not fit for human consumption" is to avoid action by the regulators. e.g. Having the authorities raid the farm & seize property. https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/dairy/raid-on-...

> I really don't want to get tuberculosis so I probably won't drink raw milk regardless

Nobody is asking you to. You have the freedom not to consume raw milk. But some people do want to consume raw milk. And there is scant, if any, evidence of the alleged problems. So why are Authorities making this illegal? I doubt it's to "protect public health". The public who wants to drink raw milk don't want the Authorities "protecting their health" in this way.
Wow. This is absolute madness. I can’t see how small European bands can possibly afford it.
“ us what happened with Toys “R” Us—how it went from a successful and iconic retail chain into bankruptcy [and] left employees with a $60 severance, while the private equity-anointed CEO cashed out with a $2.8 million exit package.
It’s a really fascinating story. And I think it illustrates a lot of what works and doesn’t work in private equity. [In] 2005 a coalition of three firms, KKR, Bain, and Vornado, bought up Toys “R” Us for several billion dollars. Now, here’s the trick about private equity: They invested a little bit of their own money and investor money, but most of the acquisition was paid for with debt. And it was [not debt] that the private equity firms would hold—it was debt that Toys “R” Us would be responsible for paying. And that [debt] turned out to be enormous, and enormously burdensome.
In fact, the common story around Toys “R” Us is that it was defeated by Amazon, that the wave of e-commerce made their business obsolete. That wasn’t actually true. In fact, Toys “R” Us was profitable the year before it filed for bankruptcy. The challenge that it had was [that] it was spending as much on servicing the debt as it was on actually making income. So part of the problem with the private equity acquisition was the reliance on debt.
The other [problem] was the disinvestment in the business itself. Reportedly, the private equity firms slashed investment in basic things like store upkeep to such an extent that people were complaining that so much dust gathered in the rafters that it was...falling down onto customers like snowflakes. Beyond just disinvestment, they executed various tactics that brought money from Toys “R” Us to the private equity firm—things like extracting an estimated $180 million in fees.“

https://open.substack.com/pub/adaml/p/a-conversation-with-br...
I mean, we verb nouns all the time, but this is just a homonym, can and can are different words that sound and spell the same.
> you aren’t going to get dirtier just sleeping anyway

I don’t shower to wash off dirt; I shower to wash off my own body’s excretions. Which definitely do happen while I’m sleeping (and more so, in fact, because body temperature rises during sleep.)

I can shower, dry thoroughly, get straight into bed… and still, the next morning, I’m sticky from sweat; have BO (that deodorant won’t mask); and my hair is now stuck moussed by my own overnight scalp oils into looking like Goku.
You could almost argue these results are directly human generated.

edit: And in that case, who is the arbiter of truth?
Is it the rocks or that the pizza that is served at Google doesn’t have enough glue?
The PE firms use the debt from their purchase of the business to load them up. They don’t even put their own money into it.