skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what is important is what sort of exercises are being used. From the paper, the types are

1. 3D visual training combined with ciliary muscle exercise training

2. Massage (point, eye muscle, head and neck, facial massage roller, automated eye massager)

3. Dazhui vibration (looks like acupuncture)

4. Auricular plaster therapy (some sort of acupuncture using magnetic seeds applied to ear)

5. Badminton training

6. Yoga eye therapy

7. Eyesight gymnastics with physical exercise for health maintenance

First of all, it would be reasonable to concentrate on the interventions where there is a plausible causal model. Should 1 and 7, and maybe 6 (depending on what exercises are being done) be looked at more carefully?

Be being a mere physicist cannot read the forest plots in Fig 2, to determine which of the studies had some positive effect. Can someone else do that?
Fine, reality is a shared hallucination. I still want to know what fraction of the time it shares our hallucination.
The Road to Accessible Drag and Drop (Part 1)
Airbus Beluga: strangest-looking plane gets its own airline
Did you even read it? It clearly says they're ineffective. Your doctor was correct to dismiss it as nonsense.
Interesting, in what profession is this acceptable?
Then they disrespect IP laws on even bigger scale and use all of your code/text/images to train generative tools they sell for money. Can't stick it to them...
That's roughly the range of nonsensical or incorrect answers I've gotten from various human lawyers, accountants, financial advisors, and other professionals over the years. I've come to expect about a fifth to a quarter of their advice to have problems with it.

Being wrong a third of the time would be a notable improvement for the human medical professionals I've dealt with. It's basically a coin-flip when it comes to the correctness and quality of what they claim.
Your journaling must not be as insane as mine..?
Expectation: Me doing art and being creative while robots do the dishes and cook dinner.

Reality: Me doing dishes and cooking dinner while robots do art.
This is the important bit that's always missing in discussions about LLM/AI applications to existing industries - what is the rate of mistakes for a human worker?
We think of truthfulness as boolean — whether in humans or AI models — but it may be more useful to think of it as a skill. You can become more truthful by aligning your inner model with reality and then also by checking it with ground truth. A challenging and intrinsically imperfect process either way!
Mysterious sea urchin plague spreading through oceans
Which, indeed, we do. The current understanding of perception is that sense inputs serve to correct the brain's existing model of the world - you do not look at something and then perceive it, you generate an image of it and then use your vision to correct it.
damn dude you got his ass good
I thought you were eluding to an idea from Macroeconomics where two countries can both benefit from trade even when one country is more efficient that the other. But you have now entered into a nonsensical realm so I'm starting to consider that maybe I misunderstood.

So I will address your most recent comment directly; that's not the worst-case scenario - we produce the things we already produce but our customers would still prefer to buy from China instead and we are now no longer able to sell our same goods to the same people.

Let's say I'm a cobbler and I make shoes. New efficiency gains in China mean that the exact same shoes from China can be bought by my former customers for below the cost of my production. Who would continue to buy shoes from me at my necessarily higher prices? I can't sell them to China. I can't sell them anywhere as China sells the same shoes everywhere. I already have more shoes than I need and I can't use the shoes for other things. Even if I could, it would be cheaper to buy the shoes from China than to make them myself.

There is no option to keep things same, we can't stop China from becoming higher quality and or cheaper, the best we could do to try is to increase tariffs, but that would apply to local customers we would still lose the international ones. Sure we could try to race them in efficiency gains we should have been doing that anyway and whatever we're currently doing is not working as we are losing ground.
I got an ad for an AI legal consultant and it made me upset. Someone is trying to make a cheap buck by outsourcing legal advice to an unreliable source. Now I'm more prepared to explain how it's a bad idea, instead of just why.

I like that the article explains a few different ways hallucinations creep in, besides the obvious. Maybe what's most needed is a better retrieval/search system? If the AI can't fetch high quality data, then it's doomed before it tries.
My response in these places has always been "Sorry, I don't have a smartphone". It's amazing how the terribly efficient act of writing down my order on a piece of paper suddenly becomes possible again when I say that.
They also don’t pay into social security. For someone of my age (early 40s), this is a plus because it’s unlikely I’ll ever be able to receive payments from the system (and certainly not at the levels that people currently pull out, due to means-based limitations that will need to be put in place). I’d much rather be paying into a separate system.
When you consider that the people who develop this stuff consider that a good way to write a song might be to get an AI to generate a complete generic, formulaic song and then have a musician fix it, it's not so hard to understand why they think it might work for the law.

Because that isn't how you write good songs any more than it's likely how you write good legal filings.
The Daughter of Time was voted best crime novel of all time, and I enjoyed it.

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20131111

> Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (a character who also appears in five other novels by the same author) is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III.
I presume not well, then [since you're again asking]?
I had to switch back to X11 because both nVidia and nouveau would produce around 5 fps on my A2000 RTX on multiple distros. This is just for basic usage, not even painting-related.
I don't know about those states, but in the US a graduate degree is not typically required to start teaching. There may be a requirement to earn a graduate degree within a certain period, but often not a hard requirement, more a soft "get this if you want a promotion" requirement. Instead they have to get (and maintain) certifications to keep their job. They can be hired without the certifications on a provisional basis.

https://www.gadoe.org/Finance-and-Business-Operations/Budget...

Going with the state whose schools I'm most familiar with. In GA those are the base salaries. Districts can increase the pay if they have the funding. Sometimes for specific fields only, math teachers in one county were getting paid almost 50% extra for a while due to a severe shortage a decade or so back.

If you don't get a graduate degree most teachers will cap out at T-4 or T-5, which this year maxes at $58k and $66k with 21+ years of experience. If you earn through an EdD [0] you'll be at the T-7 level which is $81k. $23k or 15k difference

[0] Doctorate of education, often a non-dissertation degree with a large practicum component, tedious to earn more than hard to earn.
My guess (and this is only a guess) is that LLMs hallucinate on legal questions because they expect things to make sense, but the law does not make sense. Lawyers have a vested interest in keeping the law an indecipherable and self-contradicting mess so that people have to pay them to get answers and help. This is the same reason (corrupt) judges treat attorneys better than people who represent themselves and refuse to point out what the law says in court.
When they don’t know who did something, they say Russia.

I suppose it makes sense to say that I live in the UK. Depending on where you are in the world, you may be hearing blame on Russia passed a lot less.

But in the UK, it is constant. It is tiresome.

Regarding how active Russian hackers are, I bet they are not any more active than GCHQ, NSA etc. they are all at it. God, even Israel will sell their Pegasus to any dictator who will pay them the money.
Thanks buddy. I’ve already got them all digitized thankfully. That was a whole thing in and of itself.

Unfortunately the half-dozen or so OCRs I’ve tried fail miserably on even my clearest pages.

Lots of good ideas in this thread, though.

Thank you!
I totally agree with you. I don't mind paying for creative devs to build awesome software. I do mind cash grabs. Mobile gaming is the most frustrating category. It's sad that pay-once-no-ads games like Crashlands and 80 Days are the exception. Enterprise software is a close second, but I'm not paying those bills out of my own pocket.
sigh this is a baby step but

- Many if not most software engineers in California earn more than the $200K household limitation for using Direct File

- From my understanding there is no way auto-generate my state tax return from Direct File so I would have to do all the work twice even if I can use it

- Complicating my tax situation (legally) allows me to save more money, I would save far more than the price of TurboTax by using TurboTax instead of Direct File, as much as I hate it
Something similar happened at a previous employer. Contractor was hired to do a big data PoC, and they managed to cajole access to a prod data dump for a more impactful demo.

They then managed to load all this PII data into an ElasticSearch instance that was open to the internet and was discovered by threat actors.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that something similar happened here, where an unscrubbed prod dataset was shared for a better demo.
Is donor fatigue myth or fact?
One of these you can safely do while watching TV or at a ball game.

I highly recommend picking it up if you ever have down time like that!

Learning to weld has actually augmented how I conceive system designs.
17-33% is a whole lot less minimal than the person guiding a row of supermarket checkouts. In a busy supermarket they probably intervene less than 5%.

But then the supermarket checkout risk is a bounded one -- there's only so much that can be stolen using a supermarket handbasket.

Legal cases? Why does anyone think this approach can work?
So why not ask ChatGPT who to marry and follow that advice instead of your gut, its just random afterall!

No, people really care about reducing error rates, it doesn't matter that some things has higher error rates, if you can reduce the chance of a bad marriage or a bad contract people really want to do that.
The input to the algorithm is literally three numbers: total words, total sentences, total syllables. If this counts as AI, then your thermostat or film camera feels pretty AI too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
Economics is not divorced from ethics. Fairness matters. If people think the system is rigged they won't participate, or they will try to find their own way to exploit the system.
"I would argue that having to file taxes through a 3rd party accountant or service is not only forced commerce but also broken glass economics"

Where are people being forced to use a 3rd party? My understanding is that direct file is optional, hiring someone is optional, and using tax software is optional. Isn't it still possible to file with paper on your own?
Further, I now get emails from legal that regularly seem drafted by ChatGPT.
Only the megacap ones.

For the other smaller but still public companies you need to be staff+ to hit that, and even then no guarantees
Everyone’s giving you grief when you’re clearly merely making the Kantian assertion that all experience must have both immediate and mediated elements, namely “our subjective perceptions” and “the unknowable ineffable objectively-undifferentiable Real World”. The best we can do is construct our little hallucinations and hope (and try to empirically ensure!) that they match whatever Reality might be, knowing that we’ll never have a true fundamental link to it.

Well, it’s either that or you were being a human elitist and portraying a difference of degree as a difference in kind. Idk if we’ve settled on terms yet but I’d probably level ones like “automatist”, “bio supremacist”, or maybe “radical humanist”…
At Cosmic, we released our latest API version without a GraphQL option in favor of a declarative REST API using `props` https://www.cosmicjs.com/docs/api/objects#get-objects.
Motherboard manufacturers don't seem to mind doing it for AMD chips
Who cares? Humans are accountable. This is about LLMs.
At least in Europe the enterprise market is hard to get in as a new player and the established companies have their expertise in Java/.Net… and would never come up with a sentence like „That looks like a great project to try Laravel on“
That’s just the auto sector. What about tech? Most of our tech companies are blocked. The airline and transport industries are blocked. Oil and other natural resource companies are blocked. The list goes on. Let’s also not forget that the CCP also requires a domestic partner and a tech transfer. That domestic partner will also inevitably become independent from the foreign company after enough IP transfer.

China was also the one who started decoupling first
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I don't remember what all the limits are but the first time you underpay beyond a certain amount the government looks the other way but the second+ time you have to pay penalties. Penalties for a situation wholly in control of the government. They wrote the withholding tables your employer is abiding by to withhold _not enough_ to avoid you having a penalty at the end of the year.

Although I suspect this only matters to FANG where the changes to withholding from the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act meant you had to modify the supplemental withholding rates so you wouldn't get penalized.
Whisper.app will do this locally on Apple Silicon, FYI.
That incident happened before ChatGPT was released and probably didn't involve AI. Anyone can write a wrong customer support script if they try.
Thanks all, I tried ChatGPT and it didn’t like my handwriting at all.

Which is understandable… :’)
Problems like auto-generating spam emails for Nigerian princes.
> However, researchers at cyber-security company Hudson Rock claim that the Santander breach and the apparent Ticketmaster one are linked to a major ongoing hack of a large cloud storage company called Snowflake. Hudson Rock says it has spoken to the perpetrators of the alleged Snowflake hack - who claim that they gained access to its internal system by stealing the login details of a member of Snowflake staff. Snowflake has not confirmed this, but said it was aware of “potentially unauthorised access” to a “limited number” of customer accounts. If Snowflake is proven to be the source of these ongoing hacks there could be many more victims.

Yeah, "limited number" means not more than 100%.
I meant complicated as in not necessarily good/bad. I agree it's not complicated in the general sense that it's an intrinsic part of supply and demand.

That said it's definitely more complicated in how to article is discussing it. The article is clearly talking about a Braess's Paradox-like situation where an individual's optimal decision incentivized by changes in the system is worse for more participants than the previous system, due to anticipatory and dynamic effects. This is inherently more complicated to measure and predict.
You may be interested in the Baseline initiative, then. (https://web.dev/baseline/2024)
I do not believe that this will come to pass, based on the trajectory of software engineering over the past decades. There just aren't enough wizard engineers to satisfy demand, and I don't see that changing. People have been trying to come up with tools and techniques to be more effective with smaller teams since the dawn of software engineering, and it just isn't happening on a wide scale.

Taking care of complexity via good tooling and pre-packaged abstractions can only go so far, and few operational realities are static and well-oiled enough to avoid regularly running into new problems.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

I'd consider re-upping that one but it seems this story (currently on the front page) is related?

Snowflake breach: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868 - May 2024 (59 comments)
Actual hallucination is quite eye-opening in part because of the realization that perception lenses all our senses _all the time_. So while I agree that it's over-broadening the definition of hallucination, I think it ironically appropriate too.
This is going to be a hot take here, but honestly I'm not that concerned about e-waste, in the grand scheme of things.

What about cars, air conditioners, dishwashers, fridges, furniture, clothing? What about when we throw all of those out?

The amount of e-waste I've gotten rid of over my life is miniscule both in terms of weight and volume in comparison to the things I've listed.

I think we confuse environmental impact with cost. Just because a phone and a fridge both cost $1,000 doesn't mean they're equivalently bad to throw out. A device like a Car Thing is nothing compared to, say, an air conditioner. Even if it was half the price.

It's like when people want to make sure Apple will take their AirPods back for recycling, but have no problem with tossing single-use AA batteries in the trash. They seem to be mistakenly measuring by purchase price rather than actual environmental impact.

I mean, I definitely think it's important to recycle e-waste. But I just don't understand when people don't seem to care when their old air conditioner gets taken away but care about old phones, when one AC probably contains more materials than all the cell phones they will ever buy in their lifetime.
Related past discussions (XL)[0](99 points, 4 years ago, 64 comments), (XL)[1](41 points, 3 years ago, 34 comments) [2](93 points, 2 years ago, 56 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804986

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782228

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29757207
Who even mentioned AI here?
In many cases, like satellite Internet access or spotty mobile service, for sure. But if you have low bandwidth but fast response times, that 2mb is murder and the big pile o requests is NBD.If you have slow response times but good throughput, the 2MB is NBD but the requests are murder.

An extreme and outdated example, but back when cable modems first became available, online FPS players were astonished to see how much better the ping times were for many dial up players. If you were downloading a floppy disk of information, the cable modem user would obviously blow them away, but their round trip time sucked!

Like if you're on a totally reliable but low throughput LTE connection, the requests are NBD but the download is terrible. If you're on spotty 5g service, it's probably the opposite. If you're on, like, a heavily deprioritized MVNO with a slower device, they both super suck.

It's not like optimization is free though, which is why it's important to have a solid UX research phase to get data on who is going to use it, and what their use case is.
JFC, this is why lawyers exist. If you trust AI LLMs to answer your legal questions accurately you are a special kind of fool.
At least Azure has UI workflows for everything that is also exposed via AZ, Powershell, ARM and bicep.

Nothing like tracking down what magic spell is needed to reveal on the CLI features not exposed on dashboards.
Yeah, we are pretty good at handling risks... as evidenced by our decision to not put steam engines in all our cars.

Engineering solutions have to exist; we can not just will them into being. See also "why our electric cars have not improved in battery density by a factor of magnitude in the past 10 years".
I read the lotus labs blog post they linked and they mentioned no analysis of the actual firmware payload that actually bricked them, is this out there or a sample?

I'd be curious to know if it was actually meant to brick or someone f'ed the image and accidentally bricked them trying to be clever.

Also if it was a nation state why would you so publically burn your capability bricking residential routers on an ISP that seems to mostly serve rural areas, if they did it for testing that'd be real dumb.
Based on those numbers it sounds like the limitation is more "Direct File can't handle the Additional Medicare Tax or overwithheld FICA yet" than a baseless exclusion of higher income taxpayers.
They almost certainly don’t have that data.

Levels.fyi is the only semi-accurate source for TC that I’ve found, at least it’s pretty accurate for the public tech company I work for.
I'll still be using 3rd party software. The main benefit is the guarantee of audit support and legal representation. For such a small fee, that's decent insurance. You'll get no such benefit working directly with the IRS.
Years ago I had a (much older) colleague who seemed to obsessively copy data onto newer media, including transcoding file formats sometimes. I'm pretty sure it was to avoid this sort of dance and avoid thinking about what they might want to keep. They had a nightmare story of recovering data off an obsolete-ish tape format, after all...
If you're dealing with those kinds of people, make demands that they begin studying category theory. I'm talking the hard stuff - categories for the working mathematician, toposes triples and theories, sketches of an elephant, McCurdy's 2012 paper on graphical methods for Tanaka reconstruction, and Roman's 2019+ work on coend calculus and diagrammatic optics.

If they do it, if they actually learn categories, then you need to shut the f** up and let them live. They now have the power to do what they want. If they refuse to learn categories then you get to laugh at them and tell them that they are cringe, and fire them.

And if you don't have the power to just fire them for not learning categories, then you very likely need to learn categories yourself! And also gain the power to fire people, lol! There is no rational point to ever complain about a programmer, when you can just fire them instead.
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I see that digits is between 10 and 19:

DIGITS=$((10 + $RANDOM % 10))

If it was always an even number, I would have expected some checksum files to be matched (16 for md5sum, 20 for sha1sum, etc).
The query that Snowflake provides to identify privileged users is wrong.

I wrote a better version here: https://gist.github.com/titan-teej/924dcb42604a98b90d6419262...

TL;DR they don't check for users who can transitively gain admin access.
> The town is now self-designing itself for them, and now the people who live here.

Town that self-designs itself for tourists attracts more tourists. Shocking.
Probably the most authoritive sites with weird strings
Even if accepted, Google-style plus addressing seems worthless in most situations, as it is trivial to simply remove the plus sign and everything after it to get your native email address.
Merged https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/pull/6923 :)
Yep, I think that’s what I’ll need to do in the end because my handwriting is just so… expressive.

In order to get that data I’ll probably need to chop up the words in my diaries for privacy, then outsource to a human-in-the-loop labeling service.
This reminds me of the time I reported a fake PayPal email saying my account had been suspended to PayPal. The woman who answered the phone for PayPal told me very emphatically that I HAD BETTER HURRY UP AND DO EVERYTHING THEY TOLD ME TO!