skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love seeing when an LLM encounters a failure mode that feel akin to "cognitive dissonance". You can almost see them sweat as they try to explain why they just directly contradicted themselves as they spiral into a state of deeper confusion. I wonder if their response is modeled after human behavior when encountering cognitive dissonance. I'm curious how they'd behave if they had no model of human defensiveness in their training set.

Anyways I also don't enjoy anthropomorphizing language models, but hey, you went there first :)
Spot Ether ETFs receive official approval from the SEC
SvelteKit does this by default for in-app links, but it's still just preload, not actual activation. Actual navigation happens on release.
It's hard to abuse for aircraft - you can't just strap a bunch of lead to a plane because then it won't fly.
Ignoring size, you can often distinguish between Corvus corax (common raven) and Covus brachyrhynchos (American crow) by the tail feathers; ravens tails in flight have a wider angled cone shape, crows tails have a narrower fan shape.

Crows and ravens, taxonomicaly speaking, are of the same genus, whereas frogs and toads are in different families--not exactly the same area perhaps.

> Ravens are crows, crows are ravens.

I would argue they are distinct.
> I loved SQ but it frustrated me so much. As a kid I could NOT get anywhere with it without one of those hint books with the red garbled text or calling the Sierra Hint Line (on my parents bill...).

Interesting! When I played SQ II, it was a pirated copy and I had no hint book. Also, no access to the Sierra Hint Line from my country. And no Internet websites to google the answer, either. So I beat them all by myself. All of those games were pirated, and the hardest was SQ 4 which would randomly crash to desktop, and I wasn't sure if this was supposed to happen, or some badly cracked copy-protection thing, and to this day I still don't know.

Spanish is my native language, so the inspiration to try things like this was pretty cool: "mooom, how do you say "rub" in English? I think I'm supposed to rub these berries on the dude!"

> I forgot how slow you walk.. ugh.

Oh, yes. Those early adventures didn't let you teleport to the next screen either, you had to very slowly walk all the way. I used to use savegames for fast teleporting: "ok, this didn't work, I want to go back to that other screen but it's so far, let's restore my savegame".
I don’t think so. Firstly, there’s this: https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cwgljj/regarding_the_...

Secondly, there’s the iOS changelog that mentions corrupted files re-appearing.

Finally, if you have iCloud Photos turned off (as many do), nothing is getting saved to the cloud, and there’s no benefit to Apple keeping it on device.

You’re suggesting that no picture in the photos app is ever truly deleted, and implying that Apple uses this for some nefarious purpose. But there’s no evidence for that.
The Macbook Air M1 will probably go down in history and live a long life:

- perfect size for portability (the last actual "Air" design instead of Macbook Pro Lite)

- good UI (display / keyboard / best trackpad)

- no notch

- excellent speakers (for the size)

- USB-C (TB3/USB4)

- Wifi6 & BT5

Who knows about the future but this has to last at least as long as the 2012 Macboook Pro, which is still good.

Big question is: how long Apple will have software support for Apple Silicon machines? Here's hoping "indefinitely" as their environmental promise might actually hold them to it. And if not, Asahi Linux has been kicking ass since 2020
>it's lack of trust in the corporations who operate the AI services

Then don't use the feature?
How can a poor peasant start using Bing APIs? They seem to cost a ton. Do I have to raise money before I even attempt a metasearch engine.
That works for email, but less-so in Slack or IM in general.

I did once play with a hacked-on delay-send setting, but any delay must be long enough to allow you to register making a mistake first, e.g. 3 seconds) but when it's that long it ruins spontaneity and the rapid back-and-forth experience when chatting away - in that situation I definitely prefer send-on-button-up, not send-on-button-down.
“Why don’t people trust the government with vaccines???”

Meanwhile. The government.
They're fine with that, but there's no room for the port on the top end of the mouse and they won't alter the design in order to fit a port there, and don't want the cable sticking out of the side, so they just screw the user and hurt the function.
> Note that the Johansson issue is playing out only in the court of public opinion

It takes a while to get a lawsuit going. According to the article, Waits learned about the ad on October 3, 1988, filed a suit in November 1988, and the case was tried before a jury in April and May 1990.
The point here is about compliance. I agree it’d be stupid to pipe the output of an LLM to a terminal’s command line. But people are saying they can’t use iterm2 now because compliance says no AI and having an mdm-secure way to disable the functionality is not enough because _there could be a bug_ or something. Yet they’re checking commits, in presumably the same compliance regime, into other software with AI features.
And Nutanix is working incredibly great (although that is not a big surprise considering it is "just" KVM with heavy modifications), I recently finished a small consulting gig at a SMB making the jump from VMWare to Nutanix.

It would not surprise me that soon Broadcom will realize they purchased a dead company, because according to my contacts at Nutanix the OP is not an edge case and small and large companies are migrating from VMWare to Nutanix and/or other solutions such as OpenStack in droves.
Sure, the "yet" seemed to imply that one governor has taken over. There's no further information regarding the number of governors, and I refrained from speculation. All I could deduce was that the 1882 governor is dead, the current one is alive, and there is a nonnegative whole number of intervening governors (zero or more).
To the >100% recovery for creditors!
Safe to say the guy advocating authoritarian rule can be completely dismissed.
With the propeller in the front you can cut everything down what's in Your way.. take my money
I have a Samsung phone because it is the only brand with a stylus in its flagships, but I, too, would like to end my collaboration with them.
It's not subsidized. In fact, cheap nuclear electricity is used to subsidize other industries.

The entire nuclear industry (construction, operation, support) cost France € 228 billion and produce 11000 TWh (by 2012). That's 2,07 cents/kWh. Not too shabby.
Our cheapest food is largely in the realm of poison, and we have no idea what drug companies' lust for infinite profit is doing to us long-term. Of course cancer is getting worse.
Discussion [0] (196 points, 3 days ago, 107 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40420968
Is the source available? Is it locked, or can we use our own firmware?
Thanks! It's pretty general purpose. It has a retrieval API for RAG use cases. It can be used for building agents too, which might only care about data from certain data sources and get invoked on any changes. Some of our users use it for just data extraction from PDFs.

The patterns for embedding, structured extraction for different data types doesn't change much for each use-cases, if the underlying API and storage subsystem is flexible.
I have no problem with unprofitable, severly mismanaged companies going out of business. I do have a problem when a company is liquidated to give an exit to shareholders when it is still profitable, as described in the article.
Unless, I'm mistaken, this was at Pruitt-Igoe, the first US housing project, torn down in the 70s. The testing was long thought to be some kind of "conspiracy theory," which is a wonderful way to dismiss any claims of official abuse.

The first link DDG gave me:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-experimented-victims-s...
Their conclusion also links to a plausible theory that it is from images that were also stored in Files due to a variety of factors. This analysis proves the images were imported after incorrectly doing a full filesystem scan for images. Hanlon’s razor may apply.
It’s reflective LCD (RLCD).
The elephant in the room to answer the 'why' is that fossil fuels were already working and it took vision to see beyond them and the massive subsidies they get. When vision was available (Jimmy Carter and solar panels on the White House comes to mind) the people without vision, or people that understood how to make a buck today at the expense of tomorrow, put up roadblocks (Regan tearing them down...). The technology, because it is massively better, eventually caught up and passed fossil fuels (yes I am talking in the past tense) which has finally made it easy to see even without vision and finally made it able for people to make a buck today. Nothing has structurally changed that would have allowed us to make different choices in the 70s. We are only, finally, now seeing the solar wave because the same forces are at play now as then. This means we haven't learned anything and will do (are doing?) this again with other technologies and issues.

The real question we should be asking ourselves is how to prevent this disastrous pattern from happening again and again. There is no point moaning that solar took so long to happen and there isn't a point to blaming 'big oil' since they will soon be replaced with ? (Big Tech? Big Solar? Big Ag? Big Space?). What are -actual- concrete changes can be made to avoid this type of mess in the future?
The aerosols being dispersed were biological and chemical weapons. If the responsible government officials underestimated the risks, it was because they had no evidence that it would be harmless to spray their experimental biological and chemical weapons on schoolchildren.

Page 30:

"Army officials lied to city leaders and residents, saying the tests were intended to see if smoke screens could protect the city from Russian bomber attacks. But recently released Army reports admit that was a "cover story" for... secret biological and chemical warfare tests (Sawyer, 1994)."
See the book "Operation Paperclip" for an in-depth writeup on the Nazi scientists who were smuggled out of Germany at the end of the war. I was not aware of, and was completely sickened by, the description of the Mittelwork factory where they worked slave laborers from nearby concentration camp to death to build V-2s.
Absolutely. "Refusals" all seem to follow a similar direction in the LLM residual stream, so preventing the model from representing this direction prevents it from refusing.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ/refusal-in...
The tone, vascilating between condescension and brow beating, of your reply is atrocious. My take is that AI is the buzzword du jour much like fuzzy logic was. In any case:

Should we remove tmux support because not everyone uses it?

tmux doesn't exfiltrate your data to third-party servers.

I’ll take “things you won’t actually do for 100”

Wow.
(Shrug) If people are willing to risk their lives trying to break out of your country, you're doing it wrong. It's as simple as that.
$6B round, $24B post, meaning Grok was valued at $18B.
I have no idea if there’s a granular object permission that could give access to the MBR of a disk. I’ve thankfully never had to dig that deep into Windows internals.

I’ve had to work with SDDL before to setup granular permissions for WMI monitoring on a whole lot of computers and my god, did it make me love the Cloud and Linux. I can’t emphasize enough how unintuitive setting these permissions is creates systemic over privileging.
Southwest has ZERO flight change fee.

That in itself is why I prefer it.

Tentative plans? Don't worry, book anyway. Plans change? Don't worry, just rebook. Life is good here.

(Unless I am flying with my family. Then I have to fight for seats during an already stressful time.)
Amber is the ex who keeps digging up the past.
The whole article on Reddit is a farce and contradicts itself, and don't insinuate things that haven't been said.
It's math time, let's look what wikipedia say about electric arc furnace:

- 1.44 gigajoules (0.4MWh) is required for 1 ton of steel. In theory.

- 300T of steel needs 132 MWh, and a "power-on time" (the time that steel is being melted with an arc) of approximately 37 minutes.

---- wikipedia end -----

From https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...: total world electricity from renewable was 10,700TWh in 2021. 11,600 TWh in 2023.

1.5 billions (metric) tons of crude steel were produced in 2023. 30% of it by electric power.

------------------------

(A) Let's assume that 20% of those 30% already come from renewable (which is not the case, anyway). 30x20% is 6%. It means 24% of the 1.5 billions tons are looking for renewable.

It means 360 millions of tons needs its green energy.

It means we need to find 360 millions x 0.4MWh = 144 TWh.

If we don't assume (A), we get 152 TWh.

It means we need to dedicate ~1.5% of renewable worldwide energy to replace 24% of crude steel "e-production". In theory...

We observed +5% of renewable energy production worldwide. If we wanted to make the steel *production* go green (1.5*3.33 = 5%), in theory it could be possible in one year...in theory.

Tbh, I expected a more crazy conclusion. I'm quite sure the number is off by more than 10% though. But even if it was off by 100%, it would mean it's possible in 2 years.

On a side note: it's useless anyway if those 5% are not coming with a decrease of 5% of coil&gas consumption. Which is not what's happening...

Feel free to redo the math, I can make a mistake!
You can press an elevator button part of the way, without triggering it.
I suspect that due to the scale of destruction, WW2 left a deep psychological scar on the psyche of soviet countries, much deeper than anywhere else. And maybe that's why Russia has had such a militaristic and aggressively paranoid posture ever since.
Engineering excellence, maybe.

And then the curve ends back on the ground,

with manual updates being swapped back into the same previously automated status pages,

because money.
Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?
An operating system is a layer between the hardware and the user of the PC, what exactly makes such layer perform worse every generation and why it requires more and more power?
> Coevolution. The AI and the now-famous actor are the end products of a selection process aimed at a similar audience

This might hold water if the actor weren't famous for more than a decade before the voice model existed
> To be clear, though, you don't necessarily have parity of outputs.

The cool thing is that the Excel file is both the programatic specification of the process as well as the actual output data you want as well. We can check parity of outputs by comparing the data we create with Python to the data in Excel - in practice, Pyoneer generates test cases for tables that do exactly this, even when we can't translate every formula correctly!

> applying heuristics to say "hey, this enormous column of VLOOKUPs is actually a join", and so on.

We do this deterministically currently. The only non-deterministic aspect is formula translation - where we defer to some LLM. Structurally, everything is deterministic though - and here we really do aim for readability (there's a lot more to do here though).
All those prudent Beanie Baby investments are paying off in a big way!
> The hardware you're talking about you can buy today.

Only sort of. The Greaseweazel and its ilk are sampling digital data. They're "seeing" the data after the analog front-end on the drive has processed it.

I'm talking about something that's more like reading the raw magnetic flux reversals in the analog domain, amplifying the signal, and writing it to another disk w/o ever leaving the analog domain. Exactly like a dubbing tape deck.

Edit:

I wrote this in another comment up-thread but, for completeness:

The Applesauce[0] project seems to do what I'm talking about. It samples analog signals from the drive, rather than the output of an ADC in the drive. No doubt the clever architecture of the Disk II drives is what allows for this.

[0] https://wiki.reactivemicro.com/Applesauce
This is basically the idea behind https://www.synthesis.com/tutor
> Where did I say to not do that?

You asserted that the student should “not just [be] able to produce nice sounding words”. What do you suggest output is if not words (nice sounding or not)?

> And someone who can produce a convincing essay usually has understood the topic (unless he copy pasted it).

Then, what is the difference between a convincing essay (‘nice sounding words’) produced by a human, and similar words produced by an LLM?

After all, even today, students are passing ChatGPT’s work off as their own. Does this then demonstrate understanding by the student or by ChatGPT?

> And when there are doubts, one can ask that student specific questions.

If an LLM can answer specific questions about a subject, does this demonstrate true understanding? If not, why not?
Looks amazing. Thank you. I'd like to hear your opinions on moderation, if you have the opportunity.
It looks like the speed of the video is at 1.25 or something like that. The hand/finger moves kinda un-naturally. Is it just me?

Either way, it looks great. I do watch some YT vids, but I focus on the audio (i.e. watching some urgent news on Sky News (live) - video detail is not as important when something very bad has happened).
Is there any video/comparison for the software functionality with the likes of Kindle Scribeb, ReMarkable, etc. for note taking?
You're just like the dropbox launch just use ftp guy
>If it weren't for their attempt to link the voice to SJ (i.e. with the "her" tweet), would that be OK?

Taking the recent screwup out of account... It's tough. A commercial product shouldn't try to assossiate with another brand. But if we're being realistic: "Her" is nearly uncopyrightable.

Since Her isn't a tech branch it would be hard to get in trouble based on that association alone for some future company. Kind of like how Skynet in theory could have been taken by a legitimate tech company and how the Terminator IP owner would struggle to seek reparations (to satisfy curiosity, Skynet is a US govt. Program. So that's already taken care of).

As long as you don't leave a trail, you can probably get away with copying Stewart. But if you start making Star trek references (even if you never contacted Stewart), you're stepping in hit water.
>They can’t be made in a factory

All nuclear power plants made since around 1980s or so have been made in factories. The US (and other nations) use them all the time for their submarines- defense concerns correctly override environmentalists (and the oil companies backing them financially).

The problem is a solved one. We're rich enough to afford to tilt at windmills instead- for now, anyway.
I'm wondering if this might be a cleaner way to incorporate symbolic knowledge bases into the model. In other words, with RAG we have to retrieve entire passages and ask the generator to pick out the relevant bits. Instead of doing that, if we had a knowledge base with clear-cut relationships there should be a way of "boosting" the relevant features once those features were identified in the model.
Well, Hubble [1] is most certainly dead. When I read the title I've actually imagined that maybe he had some health condition that was triggered by a northern light. That would be very romantic, even if that doesn't make sense when thinking about it more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble
How is that relevant? Yes, planned economies do no better on that front, what's your point?

And what do you mean about Native Americans having a market economy? Are you honestly comparing their economic system with ours? Or are you making a bad faith argument in favor of laissez-faire capitalism?
I’d be amused if FTX made better investments than the average VC fund.
They commented on Twitter saying they’ll use profits from the tablet towards making a phone
Sure, but this is the US and they hadn't tried it on a contained black population yet . . .
Their personal view of their authenticity is not at conflict with selling the sound track to a commercial is all. I would bet largely it's quite the opposite, they wouldn't be the authentic them if they didn't take the payout.

There are certainly some genres where the audience values this sense of authenticity of course. That and people like Waits who actively cultivate this as part of their public image. Otherwise I wouldn't expect it as a norm.

Personally, I'm still waiting to see Maynard sing Hooker With a Penis on a Coke commercial.
Agreed. If you look back at the Cold War era, you'll lose count of the number of times China and Russia embraced each other with lofty rhetoric, each proclaiming to be the other's BFF, only to end up butting heads again after a few years.
Promote a return to the use of paper and cardboard packaging. They are/were manufactured from natural fibres (cellulose) which broke down naturally in water.
Difference between plastic and paper? You could eat the latter and survive!
I've always thought his description of the principle behind the New Math was priceless: "In the new approach, as you know, the point is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer."
The Car Thing is using the same voice control that used to be in the app, it's the only way you could still use their voice control up to now.
Can you post a photo or video of a side-by-side comparison of the Remarkable 2 and the Daylight Computer?

Right now it’s hard to actually tell from your marketing materials what the screen looks like
He clearly points out that scrolling is a good enough reason t o break the rule.

>- Long pressing to delete an app, and the app opens in the meantime? Awkward UX.

I don't think he's envisioning a world where long press and act-on-press are valid on the same object. You'd have to abandon long press and double clicks.
"hacking a non-computer system" can be growth hacking?
Can YC's application question; "Please tell us about a time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." Include a growth hacking method that happened on a computer, but didn't include any code?

We found a unique way to hack growth for our product and it would help if we could mention it I think.
Thank you for helping me fix a nasty leak! :)
Data point: Bing was not down for me.
Spurious reconstruction of images from brain activity
Those factories were paid with Soviet money, but many were built by Western companies in the 20s and 30s. Because apparently communism was not such a big deal after all, as long as you could benefit from it.

Germany had already lost the war before Lend-Lease had a significant impact. The offensives of 1941 and 1942 failed before Western aid started arriving in significant quantities. The aid had much more impact on the Soviet offensive, particularly on the logistics side. It can be argued that Lend-Lease won Eastern Europe for the USSR.

As far as I understand, there are two schools of thought on what would have happened without Lend-Lease. In one, the USSR would have won anyway, but the war would have lasted until 1946 or 1947 and it would have been even bloodier and more destructive. In another, the USSR would also have lost, and there would have been an uneasy peace between them and Germany. In both cases, I'd assume the US would not see the Continental Europe worth fighting for.
I'm not sure what you mean by my point, I'll assume you're referring to the STEM reference.

I need more from an argument than "Here is a synonym for a power law function. If a power function has different parameters, it has a different output".

I would be more easily blinded if I was encountering Wright's Law - spending more on things make things insanely cheap insanely quick - without knowing what a power law is and knowing it was just arguing from that.
Hackers release corporate data stolen from London Drugs