skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies on the Politico front. They indeed bear no resemblance to mainstream GOP stuff, have no patience for works like Don't Say Gay. I'm a little surprised to see how left accepted they are, according to https://www.allsides.com/news-source/politico-media-bias but I seem to be in the wrong here.

As for confidential computing & secure enclaves, yeah, I am somewhat aware of the field. My complaint is more that this money was stealth redirected, and it seems unlikely to me to help the broader industry. This feels like a bit of a slush fund for the area for Intel. Which like, back in ARPA days was a winning ticket: find alpha geeks, give them money, & let them cook. But those geeks were also sharing & collaborating & expanding the envelope for everyone, where-as here it feels like we're probably only helping Intel or whomever else on their own efforts.
If you haven't taken a plunge into Standard ML or OCaml and are interested, I can't suggest this playlist enough https://youtu.be/MUcka_SvhLw?si=rc4ele_0WcjwLFR3

It's such a lovely introduction to Ocaml and programming in general and has a free online textbook. It's a lot of videos but each one is 5-10 minutes so it's very easy to hop in and out.
It funny I actually read that article earlier this month. I don't have articles to rebutt, but there are people in military circles who think diametrically to the that article (including me).

> It's an open secret in military circles that aircraft carriers are useless against a peer adversary like Russia or China, which both have the ability to sink carriers and shoot down planes easily.

This is not true. How else do you expect to fight an adversary in their home turf without a platform for air superiority? If anything, aircraft carriers would have more survivability (they move) than our supporting airbases in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines (which will almost immediately be hit with ballistic missiles at the start of a conflict). Carriers have layered missile defense. Our arguably biggest weakness in our navy is our lack of ability to underway replenish vertical launch missile cells (used for both offense and defense at sea), but there is a huge push to solve this at the moment.

I'd also challenge you to show examples of China actually shooting down a fighter jet. There's also the fact that China just doesn't have the military experience. Half of war fighting is experience (rehearsing isn't the same as active conflict), and logistics.

> Carriers are only good against unsophisticated terrorists.

This is laughably untrue.

> But it is pointless to talk about a war with Russia, which would very quickly turn into nuclear Armageddon.

This is Russia's single schtick.
Not Just Another Coding Bot
> All GenAI is good for at best is prototyping to show what COULD be done if you invested the time to do it without GenAI.

That is the argument used against mechanical freezers replacing natural ice and power looms replacing artisnal weavers and coffe shops replacing real human baristas with identikit machines.
This is just plain wrong. A WAF rule meant to prevent credit card numbers from being output would not block the server from accepting credit card numbers. Or social security numbers, or any other kind of sensitive data. That would be wild.

Blocking responses based on the content returned is pretty silly in the first place, but the whole point is to prevent the data from leaving, not from coming in. In fact the whole reason the rules exist is to prevent the case where your database starts burping up data you don't want it to. But if you were blocking the data from being accepted in the first place you wouldn't have that data in your database to begin with.
Not Russians, Russia. The people will never revolt against the government. Their military is corrupted and disorganized, but can be supplied with practically unlimited amounts of dumb weapons and soldiers. The only question is how far is their government willing to go.

And also, Putin should be considered as a moderate part of the government.

In other words, it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care about human lives.

Russia running out of missiles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rissia+running+out+of+missil...
If the local spray pilots aren't filing their paperwork and presumably not getting in trouble, isn't it reasonable that no one would care if you did the same?

It sounds like no one is enforcing those rules/laws.
Facetious.
twitter: https://x.com/EloiAlonso1/status/1793916382779982120
For example, in the past Amiga computers had a 'GPU' (although much less powerful than todays GPUs) with a stable interface. It was a first class citizen in its OS. It also was incredibly easy to target in Assembly language.
I'm currently delivering a couple of new appsec test tools into the business, and it's the Devs who are most vocal about shifting left and wanting early access to the tools.

I'm all in favour, particularly if people don't see it as an imposition!
Those in-the-know use private group chats as social media. No "useful" recommendations that tend towards selling you stuff. No trolls swooping in to derail conversations. No capricious design changes. Just simple human-scale interaction.
Yep, the binaries are all arm64e.
First author of the paper here. That's it indeed! One thing is that this is entirely CMOS-compatible. You could also do something similar with optics or other platforms, but we chose electronic circuits for this reason specifically.
If that's a thing, does it become a thing learning how to write a "poisoned" statement that misleads an LLM but is still factual?
To spy on who? Why would the FSB use ICQ? Isn't it basically a completely dead platform?
Haven't touched it in over 20 years, and kind of surprised ICQ was even still around, but so many memories from the '90s. Good night, sweet prince.

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Can't have technical debt if you throw it all away every couple years and start over.

Work started off using Google talk. I am expecting something to replace google chat like they did talk and hangouts.
The Schumer Report on AI (RTFB)
> This feels like a bit of a slush fund for the area for Intel

So I've been in this space for a decadeish now after leaving the Hill, and trust me on this (or don't it's the internet. If sources wanted feel free to ask and I'll respond with Public resources) - Intel wasn't the only one.

AMD, Nvidia, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, ARM, etc all got a piece of the pie in the Secure Enclave space along with Intel.

It also isn't that secretive. If you've ever been on campus at UCB, Stanford, MIT, UIUC, CMU, UCLA, UMich, UT Austin, ASU, OSU, and UW, there's been a lot of federal funding sloshing from the Secure Enclave front.

The key difference is this started as a reaction to Supermicro a couple years ago.

> I'm a little surprised to see how left accepted they are

There are left leaning Dems, but most of us are Center Left. Most of CPC itself is more centrist than progressive.

If you lean DSA, we might not be the right party for you.
TLS Trust Expressions v3
"We don’t train LLMs on Zulip Cloud customer data, and we have no plans to do so. Should we decide that training our own LLMs is necessary for Zulip to succeed, we promise to do so in a responsible manner"

:). What a clever way to say that even though we don't do it today, we cannot guarantee that we will never do it on our cloud service. At least they are honest I guess.
Genuine response: the “wider positions on the nature of the I/P conflict” are essential to informing the situation, and cannot be divorced from the discussion.

Israel has no ethical response because there is no ethical means by which one can maintain apartheid. History did not start on Oct 7, 2023. It’s like pondering where the line is between legitimate and illegitimate responses to the Warsaw ghetto uprising, or to Haitian revolution.
An AI PC Is an Oxymoron
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461580
Not an expert, but: At this exact moment, the risk to humans appears to be very low.

Unfortunately, flu virii are notorious for their rapid mutations. And millions of infected animals means trillions (or more) of opportunities, every day, for the virus to "get lucky" and become far more dangerous to humans.
In the sense that the word turns into a self-parodying meme.
The people that believe in masks should be the ones testing if they work. The situation you are describing is a messed-up environment that puts politics above science.

The people that don't believe masks work should be busy testing something they believe in.
Dang, between this, LLMs, and our lives being increasingly digital The Onion strikes again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzoXQKumgCw
I only knew the Austrian 'version' by Georg Kreisler [0] and only now learned about Lehrer now. Thanks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Kreisler
Indeed, other solving other optimization problem is an interesting avenue. All I can say is stay tuned!
Awww, great find! I actually had found the Tiktok link from an HN comment, I think your link is even better.
'pursuing conventional global strike' AKA they don't have it, I.E. what 'I'm really missing' doesn't exist.

China is massive, but their 'strength' of mass production (what is being discussed here, converting a countries capabilities to war time production, and being claimed as uncounterable by the USA) is concentrated in the coastal areas and associated river shipping lanes. USA industry is spread throughout the country.

Again you completely ignore what I said. It wouldn't be 5 carriers of F-18s over five years, it would be our current fleet plus an additional 1500 stand off attack bombers, allowing those F-18s to focus solely on softening air defense sites, etc. China's installed robots have zero to do with any of this. They don't have automated factories 'spawning' units.

China's oil production just hit a record lows even with them putting their 'limitless resources' into it. China's western oil fields and offshore oil fields (like their billion dollar oil platform) would be scrap.

China's current MIC industry doesn't matter, it's converting domestic production to a war footing that is being discussed here. The claim is conversion of their current civilian capacity would overwhelm the USA. Again, China's civil capacity is concentrated in the coastal areas and associated waterways which make it not valuable as a war production capacity, while the USA is spread throughout the country. You don't need to take out every factory, just enough associated infra. But keep moving goal posts, change the subject to try and get a gotcha.

Edit: I have to add I hope none of this happens. I love China. My dad was a communist hippie and our house was filled all kinds of books on China from historical to modern Chinese thinking. My ex was an acupuncturist so we often talked about ancient Chinese thoughts as well. While I understand it's completely different now, 2010's Shanghai was one of my favorite cities. I'm also old enough to have been friends with a lot of students stranded in the USA after the Tiananmen Square massacre so my heart breaks for the Chinese people and I understand that their government is not them and does not care about their interests.
I think it is waaaaay easier and likely more performant to just use a subset of Box2D or (rapier), than implementing simple physic yourself.

They are quite optimized and performant libaries already and there are tons of tutorials for box2d out there (thanks to iforce).

You just add some shapes of your liking and call world.step
> I think it's likely masks reduced transmission

And your belief is based on what?
Interesting yes, we've seen demand for the optimization stuff but admittedly I am in a bubble here (close with the biohacking community).

It may turn out to be the case that more banal cases (I have a cold, what's the fastest way for me to get symptomatic treatment?

I have X symptom, what's the fastest way to be routed to the right specialist, etc.

The doctor told me XYZ, how do I remember that and what's the best way to do all the steps required to fulfill?
)

is the better play. Still doing a lot of exploration here for sure. Appreciate the insight.
Yes, yes, just a client, but for me it was the first interface to whole new world, so I will never forget it.
True or not, it doesn't invalidate GP's statement. You don't just throw a NAS in Mom's garage and call it a day.
That's often not true. Testing more, earlier, tends to surface problems whe they require less work to fix.

Easier context switching, less dealing with extra added complexity between coding the issue and fixing it etc.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462745
It's completely possible to pass the time in an enjoyable way without being paid as much as him.

Maybe he should just pass out copies of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Songs_of_the_United_Stat...
Israel’s minister of national security has explicitly said he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

https://x.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1792891809498022385
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Had it for many years then someone “hacked it” and took it. That was the end of it for me.
My brain doesn't remember much, but i remember my handle; 376930 - from those early days of whining modems and the sheer excitement of talking to people from all over the world. As a kid it opened up my entire world.
I recalling seeing a LinkedIn post by Greg Diamos at Lamini, they shared analysis of earnings calls. There are links on HuggingFace and GitHub, here they are:

- https://huggingface.co/datasets/lamini/earnings-calls-qa

- https://huggingface.co/datasets/lamini/earnings-raw

- https://github.com/lamini-ai/lamini-earnings-calls/tree/main
I don't think shaking a baby to death should be punished by death, even if it were intentional. Murder of a single individual in general in the US is not usually punished by death even in Texas right?
Gemini Is the New Google+
"signalfd is useless" is a good article: https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless

It goes into the problems with Unix signals, and then explains why Linux's attempt to solve them, signalfd, doesn't work well.
It is already been done as quants analyze company statements for the last decade at least, counting positive and negative words, etc...
I confess the criticism of randomized control trials (RCTs) in the previous paper hit me the wrong way. Anyone that tries to build a case against RCTs has a pretty heavy hill to climb. There are weaknesses, of course, but it is by far the strongest method we know of at the moment for things where you can't isolate all other factors.

That said, I also confess that I look forward to a time we aren't seeing writers seeming to just take pot shots at each other. I get that talking past each other is a common problem in life, it still sucks that it has seemed to dominate so much discourse recently.
Thanks for the constructive feedback!

To be honest I was kind of taken aback seeing this on HN because it was posted before I could do a show hn myself

I'm not a frontend dev nor a designer so it can be indeed apparent that I lack knowledge on color theory, accessibility concerns and other aspects that may seem obvious for other people. Probably hence the "artisanal" feel too.

I'll research more about the things you mentioned in the future. As for collaboration with a professional designer I'm open to receive advices, but I don't plan especially on hiring one as it's a side project. I don't think currently that professionals are the target audience for it, but I guess it'll definitely appeal more to hobbyist
They could really just present it as what it is, a _search result_ summary, not an answer summary. Its not like searching for satirical comments should go away. As its presented now it feels very flawed but it doesn't need to be.
> You mean the ex who was in a bitter custody battle at the time of the death

If her allegations are true, then being in a bitter custody dispute would be the moral and responsible position to take. Anyway, was her sister there?
Since this seems to be written partly in response to (and honestly, to take advantage of) the recent Slack AI training panic, I took a look to see how Slack have updated their materials in response to that panic.

These documents are new in the last few days:

https://slack.com/blog/news/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secu...

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/how-slack-protects-yo...

I think these updates are really good - Slack's previous messaging around this (especially the way they unclearly conflated older machine learning models with new policies for generative AI) was confusing and it wasn't surprising it caused a widespread panic.

It's now very clear what Slack were trying to communicate: they have older ML models for features like channel recommendations which work how you would expect such models to work. They have a separate "Slack AI" addon uou can buy that adds RAG features powered by a foundation model that is never further trained on user data.

I expect nobody will care. Once someone has decided that a company might "train AI" on private data you've already lost that person's trust. It's not clear to me if any company has figured out how they can overcome one of these AI training panics at this point.

I wrote a bit about this back in December when it happened to Dropbox - there is an AI trust crisis at the moment: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
> and will likely never be a part of the People's Republic of China.

What's your definition of 'likely'? That taiwan will be a part of the mainland is pretty much a certainty. It's demography, geography and economy. One has 1.5 billion people and the other is 20 million people.
Maybe, but it sounds hard if there are multiple LLMs out there that people might use to analyze such text. Tricking multiple LLMs with a certain poisonous combination of words and phrases sounds a lot like having a file that hashes to the same hash from different hashing techniques. Theoretically possible but actually practically impossible.
I know. There are basically no studies that were run to completion. This one was. Go ahead and look for yourself. However, this study proves that if the effect exists, it is pretty small, and probably placebo. Placebo effects are real. But they affect things like surveys. Actual sleep quality did not seem to change.
Being efficiently punished, as they should be, unlike how fat leonard trials going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. BTW corruption in PRC linked to getting more things built, the side effect is turbo procurement.
It would've been interesting to compare models with larger context windows, e.g. Gemini with 1m+ tokens and Claude Opus. Otherwise, the title maybe should've been Financial Statement Analysis with GPT-4.
Happened to me too.
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You're right, it isn't arbitrary. I removed that word from the post and edited it to express my opinion more clearly.
Dwave[1] does compute that way already.

[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/
It's cheap because it's rapidly reusable. That depends on rapid reusability of the launch system, which still needs weeks of repairs between launches. And it depends on every component of the rocket working and not needing testing or significant refurb between reuse, which includes all 19,000 heat shield tiles. Rapid reusability is required to make it possible to do 15 refueling flights per starship mission beyond Earth orbit. Doing no more than 15 refueling flights depends on meeting payload specs, not yet proven. This is far from a complete list of even the known unknowns and their unknown solutions that each may need multiple iterations to establish reliability. Each iteration prior to safe return costs a booster and a Starship and 39 engines.

I encounter a lot of cases where people mistake Agile for "that's how people do project management now" and try iterative development when they shouldn't. Mostly in projects related to, but not directly involved in implementing software. This could be the most expensive case of "don't mimic how the software people do it."
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Terrible, terrible news.
So many events in my life are linked to ICQ...

Do we have a chance to save it?
could you give an example? my approach is usually something like "I've come up with three options here, I think the first two are equally good, I'm mentioning the third for completeness, but I don't think we should do it because...."
Ask HN: Taking a corporation to small claims court over a refund I the USA?
Has any non-lawyer here had success if either sending a large corporation a demand letter or actually taking them to small claims court? Do I need a lawyer for this? This is in the United States.

For background, I’ve been in refund and call center hell with West Elm for 5 months now. They’re holding on to almost $2,000 and I can’t seem to get the refund to which they’ve already agreed. They tried to refund me once and when that failed they automatically put the balance on a gift card. I did not ever consent to this and have already to spoken to them, making it clear I want an actual refund. However, it apparently takes a 2nd level manager (manager of a manager) to cancel a gift card. Despite hours on the phone and promises every time, nothing ever changes.

Is it possible using some combination of Google, GPT, and persistence to craft a compelling demand letter or even represent myself in small claims court? Could I demand damages for the time invested in this?

Curious if anyone else here has done this that isn’t a lawyer? I’m currently a SWE and am curious of others experience.
Oh, did I mix it up with MSN then, or maybe early Skype? Or did this possibly happen after the OSCAR migration?

I vividly remember being amazed by offline delivery in Jabber, so at least one of ICQ or MSN must have not had it for me to even notice.
The study only captured the financial statements. I am unsure what a larger context window would buy you.
Hi!

It is operational, the link is valid.

It could take a couple of minutes for changes to be visible. My understanding is the CDN plays a role.

Did you experience any issues? I would love to improve it.
I opened this link on my phone. Only like 25% of the video is even visible. The rest is covered by UI elements and text.
Which year ?
You know what would be cool? Is if we could drag a window so far off screen that a user will never be able to grab it once they let go

- Apple, probably
Blitter was great, but those were simpler times.

The best we have nowadays is using compute shaders for the same purpose.

Just like when using a TMS34010 with its C SDK.
I don't know what regulatory approval or standups have to do with waterfall, and I'm not sure what automated tests have to do with whether or not you are agile.
My first thought upon reading this was just to wonder if my account is still somehow active.

I have fond memories of using it, but the end of ICQ doesn't hit me nearly as hard as the end of Geocities did.
Figure 3 on p.40 of the paper seems to show that their LLM based model does not statistically significantly outperform a 3 layer neural network using 59 variables from 1989.

This figure compares the prediction performance of GPT and quantitative models based on machine learning. Stepwise Logistic follows Ou and Penman (1989)’s structure with their 59 financial predictors. ANN is a three-layer artificial neural network model using the same set of variables as in Ou and Penman (1989). GPT (with CoT) provides the model with financial statement information and detailed chain-of-thought prompts. We report average accuracy (the percentage of correct predictions out of total predictions) for each method (left) and F1 score (right). We obtain bootstrapped standard errors by randomly sampling 1,000 observations 1,000 times and include 95% confidence intervals.
We've had tattoos for thousands of years.