skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes. I read a good book about stories like this:

The Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.
AI is already killing innocent people in war. All it takes is for AI to launch the wrong missile once.
Nothing is more permanent than death and taxes, now joined by the option to Direct File.
Diversity of thought should have always been the goal. That's really hard to do though, especially when you can instead focus on easily noticed external traits and claim that's diversity.

Throwing away the well-to-do fratbro hiring funnel would actually be a mistake though, wouldn't it? We should be adding more, different hiring funnels to try to better capture diversity of thought and background. Throwing out one funnel entirely and replacing it with another would still have a blindspot, it's just the opposite blindspot that they had before.
Any application (or library, or framework) that can dynamically load files that lead to causal executable behavior meets your description above in substantial part.
Understanding DNS in Kubernetes
I agree up to a point. Credit card fees are pretty low, overall, so a business deciding to charge me a few percent more if I pay with AmEx vs Visa feels like they're just being petty. But with the App Store, it's a significant chunk of the purchase price -- a business wanting to pass on a 30% increase in their costs seems reasonable.
I agree, I think it's victim blaming or a diversion tactic or something.

I think the real problem isn't so much the skillsets of the researcher involved as much as is what is implied about the environments and the vagaries thereof.

The argument this piece is referring to and the way it is responding to it seem to deflect attention from the real problems, or rather, recasts it in the wrong way. My focusing on whether or not Karikó is "too weird" or whether it's time to abandon "weirdness", it deflects attention from all the problems that people are dealing with in academics. For every person who is "weird", there are many others who are not and still get screwed, or still others who are not but also not particularly bright and still "milk" the system or are in the right place at the right time.

This whole debate strike me a bit like climate change debates, specifically the criticism that berating people for not recycling or using plastic straws or whatever is just blaming the victim, or is hiding the real offenders behind the curtain. In the same way it strikes me as kind of besides the point whether Karikó is weird or not, or how weird is too weird, or whatever. The bottom like is academics is no longer really about science in many fields, and not even really about how socially skilled you are, it's about politics and random dynamics of fate.

My impression of academics is that it blew way past "social skill" long ago and is now in a very different realm altogether. I've seen too much fraud and manipulation to blame anyone who has good ideas for "not being socially skilled enough."

I didn't read the original tweets but the idea that Karikó should be shamed for complaining because "that's just the way it is" seems like condoning the problems and then blaming her for calling them out. The next step is complaining about people calling out fraud because "that's just what everyone does".
You can trust well trained machines and well trained humans.
Makes sense. Now we just need to figure out how to identify 'well trained' easily.
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Who's Afraid of Mickey Mouse?
I am all for it. More stuff in medicine needs to be commoditized and get cheaper. Why pay tons of money to a system that marks up everything by 10x, makes you wait for weeks and months and then you get maybe 5 minutes of attention from the doctor? I want the freedom to make my own decisions based on as much data as I can get. I am sure some people will make bad decisions but that's not worse than the current situation where people do nothing because they can't afford it.
Also Studio Trigger.
It's not - anyone with nonstandard deductions or a 1099 form (read: gig workers) was not eligible and the data shows it. 141,000 households from states with 150 millions total population, what a rousing success! In the upcoming years the week-kneed government is going to work with more states and gradually expand the complexity of returns. It's not useful at the moment, and looking over the press release won't be for a few more years.

And then there's the state return, which is not free. The federal government gets a few brownie points, but the tax preparation industry still gets its pound of flesh. It's really unimpressive, it's politics that no one is better off with.
how do I migrate my .ooo domain?
FreeBSD has moved to Git as its primary VCS, see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-Dec...
Edit: A sibling post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40602632) points to a Mastodon thread that says it runs postmarketOS, a Linux distro for phones: https://postmarketos.org/

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(Original post)
Not the website owner, but isn't an (Android) phone just a small Linux computer? There are a bunch of web server apps (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=web%20server&c=apps) or you can root it and run whatever software you want on it?

In my mind it's not so different than running a web server off a Raspberry Pi or similar.
Yup. Humans are ironically (alazṓn-ically?) very binary when it comes to classification of things.
Why Triplebyte Failed
Verified Code Transpilation with LLMs
>It's the reason a FreeBSD derivative

A reason. Licensing also plays a role. Some may say the most important one.

>Case in point

Not really. This is an advantage, yes, but was inherent to BSD development style. Not an addition they did. Assume GP refers to other presentations, talking about the optimizations needed to get the performance Netflix needs from FreeBSD.

>doesn't exist for Linux

But can be done by putting kernel and userland in same repo as modules.
> Christiano has

No, he hasn’t. He started a non-profit. I can’t find his pay.

Also, the Wikipedia seems wrong. The Alignment Research Center is not a 501(c)(3) charity [1], they simply accept donations through one [2]. They directly claim their evaluations team, METR, is a 501(c)(3) [3], but due to the name being so close to “metro,” I’m having trouble verifying that. (They also launder at least smaller donations through the middleman charity [4].)

The closest Cristiano has come to public service is his role at the NIST, an appointment which prompted a revolt amongst staffers given his ties to effective altruism [[5].

All a bit ironic for a pair of nonprofits preaching transparency.

[1] https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/

[2] https://www.every.org/alignment?donateTo=alignment#/donate/c...

[3] https://www.alignment.org/donate/

[4] https://metr.org/donate

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20240607060738/https://venturebe... having trouble loading the original Venture Beat article

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643951
I mean Microsoft is pretty damn hierarchical, with monstrously thick layers of middle management, and they've been going strong for decades. And by all accounts, Netflix and Amazon are stressful to work for, at least partially because these employees are having to manage themselves in addition to performing their individual work.

I actually agree with most of your points, but if you think of the market as an ecosystem and companies as lifeforms, you'll find many species employing completely different (successful) growth strategies.

I've been on teams that were undermanaged, I've been on teams that were over-managed, organizations with incredibly effective management, and organizations where management was comprised of politicians and fools who actively harmed the effectiveness of the teams they were supposed to lead.

It's relatively easy to hire great ICs. You ask them some questions to make sure their resume isn't bullshit, try to gage their enthusiasm, attitude, and friendliness, then pay them what they want.

It's really, really hard to hire great managers, because even if they've succeeded in past positions, it has little bearing on whether they'll succeed in this particular position, working with these particular people. And it's even harder to build an organizational culture whereby the right people get promoted internally to management. Almost every company screws this up, and the big companies that get this less-wrong are much less stressful to work for and more effective than their peers.
Hope everyone enjoys it until the next administration.
Yes! This is so true and requires much of the same skill set.
>Is this really a “public option” for everyone to file their taxes?

No; this is really an MVP. It doesn't work for people with certain types of income (including gig workers), for higher incomes, for cases where you need to itemize deductions etc etc
Gainax was bought in 2019 by Studio Khara, Studio Trigger, Kadokawa Group and Studio Gaina (a former subsidiary) after the previous CEO got arrested for inappropriate behaviour around teenage VAs.

Khara and Trigger are the successor studios to Gainax as in that those are the studios made by their biggest creatives, and it's to my understanding that all relevant IPs from the creatives behind Khara and Trigger during their time at Gainax were transferred to them after the buyout. The only Gainax IP that's not owned by the creative behind it is FLCL, since Gainax sold the rights for it to Production I.G. in the late 2000s.

Another, more indirect, successor studio to Gainax is Studio Cloverworks at A1 Productions, although that one was mostly general staff.

That said, it's not like Gainax did much in the ~5 years between the formation of Studio Trigger and the buyout; they released exactly one anime and one OVA. There was pretty much nobody creative left at the company to make anything, specifically because the CEO got cold feet on approving creative projects.
Another big gotcha I've run into is that the federal return is free... but then you have to pay $$ to file your state return. Which you only find out after you've done 100% of your federal return.

Which is just infuriating, because obviously (nearly) everyone has to file both.

It's like a restaurant telling you all their soda is free, but then it turns out they charge $3 for the paper cup it comes in, and you're required to use their paper cups.
Using LLMs for Agent Pathfinding
Your use of the term "compiler" to mean "something which transforms an input into a (different kind of) output" seems a little broad here.

We do not typically call TeX a "compiler". We don't consider XSLT engines to be "compilers". dot(1) is not normally considered to be a "compiler". And so on.
Mostly Trigger. They are currently working on Delicious in Dungeon, which starts off slow but evolves into an amazing story.
Hell yeah!

I have a GPD P2 MAX (tiny little laptop, 8") and have long thought that the thing would be a menace if it had an ARM CPU.

The largest issue with the laptop is its fan noise which is grating, hopefully the ARM renaissance does away with the notion that "if the CPU is not 99C then there's performance on the table and we should throw more power into it!".

Similar arguments are used all the time about wasting resources, it's really tiring.
This feels like something Asianometry could make a video about.
Does your curvy monitor support touch?
I was thinking about this when reading an article on HN a couple weeks ago, "LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore" [1] (HN discussion [2]).

The thesis was that it won't matter if LLMs exhaust the available corpus of text that humanity has generated thus far, because it will always be easy to pay humans to create an inexhaustible supply of more text.

The article suggested that it was all going to be PhDs, lawyers, and poets creating this training data, but that all sounded like hand-wavy BS to me. I assume that, if more text is needed to train LLMs in the future, the vast majority of it is going to be pennies-on-the-page, mechanical turk-type workers. And the LLMs are going to reflect that kind of input.

1. https://allenpike.com/2024/llms-trained-on-internet

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40549021
I moved from one of those ripoff tax sites (TaxACT) to FreeTaxUSA last year, way too late. Looking back at my records, I paid TaxACT $9.95 to file my taxes in 2007, and that number has been steadily rising ever since:

2011: $17.95

2016: $49.98

2018: $66.95

2019: $97.90

2022: $124.90

2023: $133.95

I mean, yes, my taxes got a little more complicated over the years, but not 13X more complicated. I don't see how these guys justify this price trajectory.
Do you view the world and other people this way?
Because I always only see reviews of the Tuxedo laptops where the reviewer only has been using it for a couple of hours and I have experience from about 6 years ago when i bought the InfinityBook from Tuxedo back then and used it for only one year until I had to replace it.

When mine arrived everything was looking good and working without problems. After one month or so the Bluetooth stopped working. I even installed windows on it to check that it's really not a software bug and indeed even with windows the bluetooth didn't work. I sent the laptop in and it took about 3 weeks for it to be fixed and sent back to me.

They replaced the BT chip and it was working again. But about one month later both the BT stopped working again and the microphone if I remember correctly, there was always a static sound on all recordings (even when I installed Windows to test). I again sent it in and again after 3 weeks it came back fixed.

Then the plastic bezel around the screen started coming off so I just lived with it because I didn't want to send it back again, but I couldn't fix it myself. Then where the palms rest I started getting discoloring, couldn't remove it either.

Also the palm rests started getting yellow after some months, it looked very weird as if the laptop was dirty.

I don't remember what the trigger was, but after one year I stopped using this laptop for which I spent about 1000 EUR and bought a used ThinkPad instead.

And I'm not the only one, a friend of mine who introduced me to Tuxedo had similar problems and also had to send in his InfinityBook several times so they would fix it.

It was like 6 or 7 years ago, so hopefully they were able to fix some of the shortcomings.
Do we really want to push everyone to the brink and see who is and isn't willing to use nukes though?

Russia has mobile ICBMs and, if I'm not mistaken, their deadman switch system is still in use.

NATO wouldn't be able to take out Russia's entire nuclear capability before Russia responds. Even if we technically could, that's absolutely not a world I would want to live in anyway.
True, but that's about having a goal of changing a company's behavior. Which is a fine goal, but not necessary in order to claw back a good amount of privacy.

I avoid doing business with companies that abuse their customers because I want to avoid being abused, not so much to get them to become less abusive (but if it encourages them to do that, then gravy).

We can have a meaningful amount of privacy right now. We just can't have it without giving up a some optional conveniences.
No, but when I'm in a car crash I hope I don't have to schedule my ambulance or doctor a week in advance.
The FTC finally called out Intuit on misleading advertising. Ads now state only 37% of Turbotax customers can e-file for free.
I'm sure they will, the nature of stocks being that it doesn't matter WHY things go up, just that they reliably will. Then when it all comes crashing down at some remove from the hype, and the smart moneymakers already divested, it's just the average bag holder left wondering what happened to their 'sure thing'.
It stings a little, but most of the Good People have gotten around to other studios anyways. As I understand it gainax was really just an IP holding company for the most part in recent time
Clickhouse has an updated dataset: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUICogRlJPT...
They want to talk with me about my adblocker but I don’t have one. Orion is a zero telemetry browser.

dear Slate. I swear that I closed the tab and did not read anything behind your weneedtotalkaboutyouradblocker popup, scout’s honor. And I am not going to read the comments either
That's how we still do (simulation of) ray tracing (Whitted).
"Gainax Bounce" and "Gainaxing" just had a flow to them, though. The world just won't be the same if we have to rename them... "Trigger Bounce" and "Triggering" draw up very different images.
> imaginings of what it MIGHT become, but shows no signs of becoming

Just for reference, this is from nine years ago:

https://youtu.be/dbQh1I_uvjo

And this is from five years ago:

"You may not need hospitalization for respiratory problems for which there is pain or even full internal combustion. Breathing is particularly hard in the high-pitched high pitch, low pitched pitches. Air you inhale and exhale can cause a shortening in your breathing, so a ventilator is best. Doping can be administered on your own. If you fall, you must be at least 1 kilometer away from you to be considered for the testing. Your turn-of-the-seat's softerness may be a sign that something has gone wrong. Your depth should not exceed the mean of your seat height when wearing the seatbelt."
Its useful for small trivia answers, stuff you might ask google about and read a short paragraph about it as long as it the answer seems reasonable enough.

For coding I have long given up on it. I only see it useful for people that want to do small scripts in languages they are not familiar with or to write toy examples of web/mobile apps.

For art I can sort of see a workflow in adding details to textures and using existing images and 3d assets to guide the generation of images. This is all just my speculation so I could be completely wrong just like the person that knowns very little to no programming thinking they will be able to code whatever they want with it.
> it allows you to write new intrinsics

I admit that it gets very close, however I think compiler provided intrinsics can be and are optimized more than ones that are implemented with inline asm, as the compiler knows about the semantics of the instruction for such an intrinsic, and not much about an inline asm one, apart from inputs/outputs/clobbers.

Having said that I agree that inline asm is very useful for instructions that the compiler does not know about.
Tadalfil or Cialis is more popular for this from what I can tell. Last 17-36 hours. “Good for gym pumps, my bros”
I think this is a strong argument. Just as you cannot hold a computer accountable, you can't hold any piece of technology responsible. Of course some technology is created to harm or destroy as its outcome, but that isn't most technology.

If someone inside OpenAI had said something like "I predict there is a 70% chance our current corporate culture and leadership will harm or destroy humanity", that would be a much more compelling argument.

It's what you do with the technology that counts.
> I don't see how these guys justify this price trajectory.

Until now, you were paying it. "People will pay it" is all the justification needed for price hikes.
Man oh man, do I have the CRT for you!
As a parent myself, I find myself repeating a mantra learned from Star Wars:

> Let the wookie win

To Friedman, I suppose, his childhood self is simply a rational actor who is arguing from first principles - as all children of rationalists and libertarians clearly would!

The possibility that "maybe I was an irrational child (like every other child) and my parents simply gave up trying to correct me because I was a terror" doesn't appear to cross Friedman's mind, which is incredibly amusing to me.
There's too much alpha in being a doom sayer.
In a traditional sense (not like Lavander), AI is applied in combat in extremely specific situations where it is almost impossible to mess-up. Computer-vision bombs have to corroborate their target with GPS or INS information, and mostly serve to get a solid TV lock on a target; there is no LLM to jailbreak here. Cruise missiles are a dangerous asset, but that's the case with or without AI; we design these dangerous weapons specifically so they can't be overriden or controlled by third-parties, AI included.

In theory, you're right. If an LLM was given complete control over ballistic missiles, there is a nonzero chance that something could go horribly wrong. But this is where we take two steps back and realize that no rational country will give AI complete control over their weapons. It would be an extremely human-based design failure to hand over control of nuclear weapons to a statistics model designed to be wrong.
I've worked at several large companies. In our e2e tests we did not create isolated dbs per test. If the test failed because of other tests running that's a bug in the test and that person would get automatically @mentioned on slack and they would have to fix the build.
Tragic harm can take many forms. I think one likely tragic harm is the mundane one: our grandchildren live in a version of the spaceship from WALL-E, except it is their minds that are floating around in chaises longues drinking slurpees and getting fat.
This link gives a 404 for me.

Edit: the entire subdomain gives a 404 actually.
I will deeply deeply having someone so well connected to such incredibly complex contemporary digital rights issues in a place of power. Patrick Breyer's work in advocating & sharing what's going on has been such an incredibly high form of service, has illuminated such a dark & scary part of governance, and it's hard to imagine who else in the world is going to step up & be the light in Patrick's absence.

Patrick, thank you for the many years of incredible service. Your writing online about what's happening is without peer. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patrick%20breyer&sort=byDate
There's no one-size-fits all. Use your browser's Zoom feature. It will remember your settings. I find most websites have too big text, so I zoom to 66% on a lot of sites.
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