skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I can figure from how some people react to being asked to type out their requests or otherwise interact over messaging rather than turning everything into a voice conversation, is that some folks, for whatever reason, find writing and maybe also reading extremely unpleasant. Poor typists? Just kinda bad at reading and writing so it requires a lot of effort rather than feeling as natural and easy as talking? Something else? Not sure.
Scientology - study of science
We’ve had our share of Dell lemons, too. Bad batches and problematic models happen, that’s life. If we have to go back 10 years to find an example of widespread problem, it’s not that bad.
It's denialism. It's just a form of denialism called Luke warm climate denial.

Current climate change is slow by human experience, but rapid by geologic terms. There is almost no precedent in the geological record for climate change happening at the current rate outside of mass extinction events.

When you are dealing with risk management for something that can affect billions of lives and manny trillions of dollars in assets the tolerance for risk must be very low. Policy makers are currently exposing us to far too much risk for very little upside. There has been a lot of collaboration between climate scientists and economists to map this out the last decade or so.

Really what is happening now is an unplanned, out of control experiment with the thermal and chemical properties of our atmosphere and oceans. The burden of proof lies with those who wish to continue the mad scientist experiment that is greenhouse gas emissions to prove it's safe. Not on the rest of us to prove it's unsafe. Despite the fact that it has been pretty well proven to be unsafe.
I think, the key word here is "mostly". If it doesn't do better, the transformation is really that we have managed to engineer reliability and repeatability out of machines, which have been their defining characteristic in the past.

So, will they do better? I personally think that knowledge is about implications. Notably, things that are similar do not necessarily have identical implications. And I can't see LLM tackling this issue anytime soon. (I even doubt that LLMs provide a suitable approach to this, at all.) So we'll probably end up with "we managed to get rid of reliability", which may be just the opposite of the role, the computer plays in Star Trek scripts.

*) To provide a bit of context to reliability and repeatability: These are really externalization of the major generalizations of Husserl's life-world (Lebenswelt), as in "and so on" and "I can do this again". We are generally fine with machines, because they embody these principles in confined parameters. However, there's also a certain danger in this, as we tend to generalize and idealize along these lines, as this is essential to how we construct and navigate the world, we live in. We'll also apply this to things that are just "mostly", and are apt to be fooled by this, as may be the case with LLMs. (And in the past, machines were a great way out of this trap, as long – and as soon – as we were able to verify the parameters and boundaries.)
> You can have savings and still be underwater.

You wouldn't have savings in the house, but it is possible you have savings elsewhere, sure. However, if you are not underwater (or breaking even), you do have savings in the house, which is what the context speaks to specifically.

> Yes, money saved into a home is an asset that you are building over time. However it's a non liquid asset

There is nothing about savings that implies they must be liquid. If you are saving for a near-term purchase then savings for all practical purposes need be liquid, sure, but if you are young and saving for retirement liquidity is not of terrible importance. You have many decades in front of you to convert it into something else.

> Savings are typically held in checking accounts, savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts.

Okay, but then we're again back to people not having savings because the returns have generally been poor, even basically non-existent in many cases, for a long, long time. Why would most people have savings in that kind of environment? The market has greatly incentivized surpluses to look elsewhere – especially towards real estate, where returns have been tremendous.

> It's important to decouple the concepts of net worth (or even just worth) from the concept of "savings"

That's for the earlier commenter to decide. It is not on us to prescribe their usage of a term. However, insofar as our discussion goes, it there is no such importance as we have already looked at both angles. No matter which direction you choose to go, the math doesn't add up with the presentation.
I suggest playing around with gemini's 1 or 2 million context window. You'd be surprised how much you can get from an LLM when you can drop a few textbooks on the topic into the context window before asking it anything.

Mind you, this is also all early gen stuff.
I love that France uses the same strategy for Nuclear power as I did with SimCity back as a 12 year old. Look at where the Chooz power station is for example. If their reactors had a melt down it wouldn't be France (for the most part) that suffered.
A country with weak security
It imposes an enormous amount of operational overhead involved and destroys organization stability. All you need is a single manager in a single year who doesn't understand the benefit of something for its budget to get gutted with ZBB, and once that happens it can take years to rebuild. ZBB starts from the premise that employees are fungible and can either be freely replaced or freely reassigned, which is not very realistic.
> If the evidence is solid, this definitely seems like a "name and shame" scenario. (At the least!)

Not sure. If the enemy are unaware that they have been uncovered, then surely too useful for cracking networks, feeding misinformation etc.
Canada is a small country that foreign powers have a variety of interests in. How do you fight foreign influence when those other governments have 10x or 100x the resources and budget to spend on meddling? When they are not shy to threaten the families of ex-pats here? Who brazenly operate "police stations" and monitor their students who come here to study? Or, who hire gangsters to assassinate dissidents who've escaped to here?
yeah we'll see... the historical evidence is entirely contrary to this
Kaspersky's founder is known to openly work for KGB.

> At the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School,[14][15] which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB.[6][7] He graduated in 1987[14] with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology.[3][7] After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Soviet military intelligence service [5] as a software engineer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky#:~:text=At%20....
I disagree on the premise that computers are able to simulate many different things; it would be just as easy to say that the universe cannot have curiosity; that the universe is just things playing out according to some preset rules.

But of course, people exist within the universe, and while our brains do function according to those rules; likely all rules that can be expressed with math and statistics; we do have curiosity. You can look at the level of abstraction of the universe, and you will not find subjective experience or choice, yet the “platform” of the universe demonstrably allows for that.

When I see arguments like yours and the parent’s, I cannot help but think the arguments would seem to apply just as well to an accurate simulation of the universe, which shows the argument must be flawed. You are a file in the universe, loaded into memory and being run in parallel with my file. If you believe physics can be expressed through math and humans have subjective experienced, then the right kind of simulation can also have these things. Of course any simulation can be represented digitally and saved to disk.
How would ad blocking work in this world? A browser without ad blocking is useless.
What are they bisecting with? FreeBSD uses CVS and Perforce.

These items in the slide don't add up:

> Things had worked accidentally for years, due to linkerset alphabetical ordering

In other words, the real bug is many years old. Yet, on the last slide:

> Since we found the bug within a week or so of it hitting the tree, the developer responsible was incredibly responsive. All the details were fresh in his memory.

What? Wasn't what hit the tree the ordering change which exposed the bug? It doesn't seem like that being fresh in anyone's mind is of much help.
LeBlanc is in the Liberal Party. I think you meant if the names were Conservative Party.

And let's be real, there's probably mud all around, but probably somewhat concentrated in the Liberal Party. That's how you'd run such a campaign (as a foreign nation). Especially when you consider that both China and India are involved. There are redacted sections of the report that both talk about Chinese and Indian interference with Conservative Party leadership race.
Oklahoma has a similar system where you can register your vehicle or renew (not acquire) your license at a "tag agent", except they stopped calling them that a few years ago. I think the benefit of this arrangement is separation of concerns between normal citizens and the dregs of society. You see, in a state where you do all things at the state DMV office, normal functional people have to intermingle with alcoholics and ex-felons and other dysfunctional residents who are massively overrepresented. In Oklahoma only people in good standing are found at the tag agency, while felons and people trying to resolve their 37th DUI arrest are found only at the DMV. That makes it feel like a more efficient system, for the normal people.
And are you sure people ask the chatbot arena the same caliber of questions they ask a single model? Wouldn't you tend to ask more difficult questions to find where one fails but the other doesn't? I'm not convinced that the average query will get a significantly better result from GPT 4. I only know that is true for more difficult queries.
I can't recommend that maths history site enough, I've read through basically all of it multiple times and sent in many corrections over the years :)
I thought for coding you only needed to know how to add 1 to something
There's a few alternatives. Zenoh [1] is an up-and-coming distributed middleware. ROS2 is actually adding it as an alternative to DDS [2].

LCM [3] is another middleware that has been around for a while.

[1]: https://zenoh.io/

[2]: https://newsroom.eclipse.org/eclipse-newsletter/2023/october...

[3]: https://lcm-proj.github.io/lcm/
Fun! And fast!

I didn't realize it reset for every word, so I was worried I was done on 8 words, but by getting that one at the wire, I was able to limp to 17.

At least for today's words, it was a reasonable difficulty ramp, and a pretty easy experience! If I had one note it's that clicking the text of a letter doesn't remove that letter from the word (while clicking the background of a letter DOES remove it).

Anyway, thanks for making/publishing this!
That info about flouroquinolone is interesting. I've discovered that I was treated years ago using antibiotics that would definitely not be prescribed today. I will keep an eye on the drugs like Pirenzepine.
I've also seen it go the other way, with leads trusting more junior engineers way more than they probably should have. I wasn't too surprised when most (all?) of the concerns that senior engineers raised and were overruled on came back to bite them 6 months later.

In that instance it seemed like leadership was focusing too hard on making sure the more junior members had their voices heard and, I think, expected that the team would be able to just figure out how to handle the concerns raised later. Pros and cons to everything, but at least in that one instance it was really odd to see senior engineers' proposals and reasoning be thrown out with a focus almost entirely on protecting team dynamics or something similar.
Each additional of unit of time you work in a given period of time is one less unit of time for something else.

For example, regardless of taxes, working 8 hours can mean you have dinner with your family. Working 12 hours means more money, but missing dinner with family so the additional 4 hours would need to be compensated more than the first 8.

Taxes would be similar. If setup the tax rate so high, say 90% for the amount of income one would earn for the average wage beyond 8 hours, then there wouldn’t be much reason to give up your leisure time.

Kind of related to this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
Counting the cost of fashion's carbon footprint
Google has the worst customer service. If you have to use big vendors, find something else. I will use any services where I don't need to have an account with them. I have lost 15 years old gmail account, all digital services associated with it.
That was super fun, works great with keyboard. Fingers crossed for a seven-figure NYT acquisition :)
I suspect that a lot of employers, like far too many job applicants, don't realize that an employment interview goes both ways. The applicant is (or should be) interviewing the company and assessing the suitability of the position just as much as the interviewer is.

As a job-seeker, it's a showstopper if that's not possible for me to do.
>CORS works differently in every browser and every website.

Do you have some examples of this?
Those two things are not related at all though
It's very American to have government services so bad that there's a sapsucking layer of private companies profiteering from being confused with the government.
We've designed the system for corruption. It costs far more to get the job than the job pays. We have to expect that money to come from somewhere.
You absolutely will eat the extra charges, the question is will you bear the brunt directly with a behavior targetted at you uniquely or will the company just raise the cost of the product for everyone and have everybody pay more even if they get a fat pay day when they don't end up paying the platform overhead tax.
What year was this? I never encountered such a noise in my stock boy days, but I bet they were a lot earlier than yours (early to mid 1970s).
That is probably right. But it also doesn't matter much to me. I don't want to convince people to change what they call things. I want to make things which are reliable and useful for them, and I don't quite mind if they will call them robots or not. I know that they are robots and that is enough for me. ;)

> missiles pretty much move on a straight line

Only the boring ones! Have you seen long exposure photos of the Iron Dome in action for example? [1]

They fly all those swoopy trajectories to be at the right place at the right time. Also it is speculated that when they decide to go for intercept they launch multiple interceptors against every target. One aimed earlier in the trajectory one aimed later. And when the system has a high confidence that the target has been eliminated they re-target the second interceptor against some other one.

It is a beautiful and very complex robot. Sadness all around that it is needed of course.

1: https://www.defensenews.com/resizer/CVsuWQwzlBDG_yhJUr6sI16P...
It’s just not that hard. Problem domains are hard. If you asked me to work in computer vision that’d be hard for me. Same for high frequency trading. Asking me to write this device driver in rust versus nasty old C, whatever man, bits is bits. I lie about my experience in different stacks solving the same old troubles all the time.

Languages are boring. Problem domains can be a lot of fun.
> Of course, few will talk about buying NVIDIA stock at $33.00 in November 2021

Isn't that because the price of NVDA was not $33 in November 2021?

$33 is the split adjusted price. NVDA was $300+ at that time.
A plane, are you crazy? It's just a metal tube with sheets on both sides, a TUBE! Claiming it can fly like a bird is just anthropomorphizing.
Yes, but those anecdotes don't prove much, do they? I prefer to take my scientific input from peer reviewed papers, not Twitter or YouTube.

One random counterexample for your claim:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36584702/
> what's realistically cool about LLMs

This morning I met an newspaper article: "What will be the results of the European elections? Let us ask ChatGPT".
What the hell are you talking about about? It's not complicated you dork, you put in clothes, select a wash size, pick the right temp (hot for whites, med for lights, cold for darks/special care) put in soap (and oxyclean if you're feeling fancy) and push the button. It's takes like 45 minutes and you throw the shit into the dryer.

The hardest part is folding the goddamn fitted sheets and matching up the socks at the end. If this is too complicated for you I recommend taking a technology fast for a week. Freaking bugmen.
Many kinds of hands-on volunteering would do this. The “high impact” part would be the people helped giving direct appreciation.
This weekend I caught up with some old friends. One of them works as a Registered Nurse (RN) and the other has been working in marketing for a small local clothing company for over a decade.

The RN was describing a new AI service that her practice is using. It is a plugin to their tele-medicine software that listens to an ongoing call and uses speech-to-text plus whatever AI magic sauce the product has to fill out a "call sheet". I don't know precisely what a call sheet is, but the RN said it was the worst part of her job and she was very happy that it would automate the paper-work that takes up a large part of her day.

The marketing manager laughed and said she used GPT multiple times a day. As in, she doesn't even send emails now without running the text through GPT. She then relayed an anecdote about how she had taken a picture of her fridge and asked GPT to identify the food available in there and to make a weekly meal plan for her family.

These anecdotes were just brought up spontaneously. That is, the RN was just excited and musing about a new huge time-saver that was making her work-life better. And the marketing manager, who has already completely integrated GPT into her work, was showing how she was now integrating GPT into her family life.

Even though I understand the "facts based reasoning" that is advocated in this video - my personal experience is seeing excitement not at hype, but excitement by non-tech people in the current uses of the technology. The trend I see in the people I am talking to is that AI, even the weak LLM version we are seeing now, is being integrated into work-life and personal-life at an astonishing pace.
This should be the case. Politicians should be tasked as fiduciaries of their constituents, with penalties for actions that do not comport with their constituents’ best interests. Their finances and daily schedules should be open to everyone, and all income/gifts above $100 should be turned over to the state, as they are vessels for citizens, and not eligible for outside compensation while in office.

It’ll never happen, but it absolutely should.
Is there any technology you can't say that about?
Okay so you’re advocating for increased government regulation to combat this?
If there is a VGG-native browser then accessibility is not so hard to implement. The awkward problem is that current VeryGoodGraphics is just a canvas node in HTML (using WebAssembly + WebGL). So adding accessibility support will be a nightmare technically.
Excellent! Got stumped on 10 but brain wasn’t in gear. Tomorrow will be better!
> Methinks that if the names were for Liberals

(As an american with no real knowledge/skin in the game)

AFAIK: At least one is, and was been shared previously by at least one reporter.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9570437/liberal-mp-han-dong-secre...
> genetic predispositions for long covid do seem to appear most frequently in the more intelligent

I am not surprised, since many of them were easily manipulated into a pretty bad risk trade off that even a plumber would not take. Regret is bound to be high for that kind of people.

Historically speaking many of the brief episodes of strange psycho-somatic “illness” with vague descriptions were found among the equivalent of the laptop class and suburban wine moms.
Is that insider perhaps employed to do marketing?
That took a while. In the rise of OS X, and popularity, people thought we were past the days of little website buttons with "This site best viewed in IE/Navigator", etc.

Along came a slew of Apple faithful, who had spent the last years vehemently complaining about how this was an anathema to the principles of the web, gleefully repeating the same things, this time it was just an unspoken or less spoken "Works on Safari on my Mac, ship it".

37signals was definitely one of those. So it's not a new thing.
What's the benefit of this approach?
Is Character AI Down?
Ahh yeah of course forgot about the split - $330.00 to $120.00 then.
This is maybe a nit, but a unicameral parliamentary system has much more power concentrated in parliament than the US system has in any branch. Parliament combines the powers of the house, senate and executive branches, but with a composition of structure that mirrors the House of Representatives. This scandal is much worse than a representative taking bribes since MPs have substantially more power than US representatives.
Is there a key to clear a word automatically? Seems the space bar would work well.
Lacework to Be Acquired by Fortinet
I will say that LLM reasoning is good because it’s using information that has already been reasoned. Whether that reasoned information is fact or fiction is another case all together, so since LLMs are good at regurgitating information then they are good at regurgitating reasoned information as well. I would expect reasoned regurgitation to inform me at best; I wouldn’t expect something regurgitating to be able to necessarily be able to reason information it can’t regurgitate already.
In Canada, it is.

Canadian politicians are not really allowed to have investments (outside of some prescribed mutual funds), and all bank accounts, assets, loans etc. are disclosed on a public registry.

All communications between lobbyists and government officials are logged in a public registry every 30 days.

Also, there are no corporate donations, and no individual is allowed to donate more than 1500 (Canadian) dollars to any politician. If you donate to them, you cant lobby them.
Show HN: OceanChat – personality-based omegle clone using big-5
War between Russia and NATO would look so much different than the Ukraine war though.

For one thing, Russia almost certainly wouldn't be as restrained with what targets its going after or the tactics they use. The Kremlin has to be aware that they can win a war of attrition here, especially if they can lean in to erode western support for Ukraine.

With both the wars in Ukraine and Gaza it seems like many observers have forgotten just how bad wars can get. We're counting deaths in Gaza by the thousands, and though military deaths in Ukraine have been estimated into the hundreds of thousands for both sides, civilian casualties are almost nonexistent.
> "Don't you see the deeper hidden artistic structure!?"

This comes across as very snarky. The word used was "mathematical", not "artistic". Mathematics has proved invaluable in many domains of business.
Wouldn't VPN's want to be ipv6 so they could constantly use unique IP's?