skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how are the jurors chosen? I'd expect this would be too small a sampling of people to be really representative, and I think it's often easy to confuse jurors who are (by definition) not experts.

Not that I think they system as it is is great, but I'm not sure this helps / doesn't have its own significant failure modes.
> how come US can make mass market commodity tooth brushes and plastic coffee makers locally considering the high wages but we pretend it's not possible?

America’s advantages are deep, risk-taking capital markets and cheap energy. Our hurdles are high labour costs and stricter-than-China environmental rules.

Our advantage against China is in energy and scale-intensive production that can be automated and done cleanly. This applies to most extrusion methods, which make cheap goods. It also applies to heavy machinery, which is why we make lots of big engines and electric motors.
Please stop using intentionally falsified statistics by the manufacturer to push product. NHTSA has already stated that Tesla numbers do not even make basic attempts to make the numbers comparable.

Tesla only counts crashes with pyrotechnic deployments. NHTSA has stated this only accounts for ~18% of crashes on average [1] which can be derived from publicly available datasets. No competent statistician or scientist would miss a literal 5x underestimation that is frequently mentioned by laypeople as a source of uncompensated bias and that is easily derivable from well-known public datasets. They make no attempt to account for other less easily computable or subtle forms of bias before blasting it at the top of their lungs to convince customers to risk their lives.

That is intentional falsification meant to push product and has no place in civil society.

[1] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INCR-EA22002-14496.pdf
ChatGPT passes unpublished geometric test
I don’t think that being a CEO of another company is nearly as indicative of the nature of the character and priorities of a person as other kinds of life or professional experience.

Being a career military person that ends up as a head of a three letter agency requires a very specific kind of professional focus, worldview, and set of priorities.

A better example might be if a former member of the grateful dead joined the board of OAI. That would also be an indication of an intentional incorporation of a worldview into the guiding intellect of a company.
There are several approved: Xofigo, Pluvicto, Lutathera
Python Concurrency [video]
I mentioned this point on a HN post a few months ago and someone said that the Voyager was launched at a very beneficial time, leveraging some gravitational pull of some celestial body, so it’s unlikely we can just make a faster ship and catch up/surpass it.
I am also working on something similar. I have written a grammar system for controlling the llm that is not context free.

One of the main challenges is to have a database of what is reality, id -> object, and then have the llm return ids for objects referenced by the user. I am doing a system where something that has no id has not been created yet.

I use story templates with labeled segments to create characters, items, location as well as events. Example: "Once upon a time there was a <role>cowardly knight</role> named <name>Billy Bonkers</name>. The named qualities become the data structure associated with the id of the new character. It can be hilarious to prompt the llm to do nerdy space humor!

I seems to be very possible to create a "narrator driven" game happening in a "real" world.

I plan on using a multimodal llm and all the stuff that is created will have an image. That combined with id-less objects existing but not having a detailed description will make qualities and objects visible in the created images also part of the world.
It couldn’t have been a more well designed grift. At least when you mine bitcoin you get something you can sell. I’d be interested to see what profit, if any, any even large corporation has seen from burning compute on LLMs. Notice I’m explicitly leaving out use cases like ads ranking which almost certainly do not use LLMs even if they do run on GPUs.
Hoping for that. I mostly hang around NYU kids and everything there is very internship-based. Maybe I should've met more people at Stanford haha
I get that radiation is generally biocidal, but so are a lot of things.

Following the reasoning of the parent comment,

> It's seems to me, as a layman, that the hard part would be designing the "targeting" end of the drug

It fits nicely with this statement:

> An individual tumor often comprises of many subclonal cancer cell populations, all of which could have unique resistance mechanisms

If the unique features of a tumor cell are the lock, then your search space has a relatively small number of keys, compared to a larger toolkit of known biocides. The key needs to fit a specific cancer cell, while the biocide merely needs to avoid the cancer cell’s needle-in-a-haystack resistance mechanisms, which are tailored for surviving in the human body rather than against laboratory chemicals. The harder problem seems to be finding the one or more keys needed to target a diverse population of cancer cells.
VCS is something that is interacted with multiple times a day in any codebase. It is a basic tool, not too far apart from being able to traverse a file system. The next step after viewing files, is being able to commit to and view the history of those files.

I dont know if that answers "who cares", but a mechanic that does not know how to do something they need to do multiple times every day - there is a skill gap. While CS is about theory, I would expect a CS grad to have used all of the basic programming tools and more.
I remember giving that a go many years ago. Not 100% successful, but when it worked, it was fantastic. It would be incredibly handy nowadays, especially for troubleshooting use cases. OS installation, memtest, clonezilla, portable Windows installation, and you'll always have them with you since you're already carrying your phone!
I’ve never had to consider transport level failures with this granularity. What work is one doing where this info becomes useful?
Edible robots and robotic food
> And sometimes there can be file times in the future

Like emails with a future date I hope that's rare and caused by mistakes.
The future of fintech banking is direct
It's hyperbole, and not mathematically accurate, but not entirely wrong. That white supremacists flocked to Trumpism like a moth to a flame is a well documented phenomenon, and the preference of Trump supporters to prefer to blame the messenger is telling.
VC/Big tech company is stealing data until it damage their PR and sometimes they never stops, sadly nothing new in current tech world.
If we won’t, they will.
And then we will, but for them.
I’ll believe it when the lock-picking lawyer signs off :)
Sounds like NRA 2.0.
Not a bad idea. I'm bootstrapped so that makes it a little harder considering those places are mostly interested in equity but a couple introductions wouldn't hurt
> To what extent do you know this to be true? Can you describe the mechanism that is used?

Like, for example, a developer working on a project, will iterate many times, some codes generated by AI might generate errors, they will discuss that with the model to fix the code. This way the model gets not just one round interactions, but multi-round with feedback.

> I read it and note various incorrect things and then walk away.

I think the general pattern will be people sticking with the task longer when it fails, trying to solve it with persistence. This is all aggregated over a huge number of sessions and millions of users.

In order to protect privacy we could only train preference models from this feedback data, and then fine-tune the base model without using the sensitive interaction logs directly. The model would learn a preference for how to act in specific contexts, but not remember the specifics.
I do feel (and I think feelings are about all that we (I?) can have given our (my?) lack of understanding of what intelligence actually is) that there is a tendency to de-anthropomorphize a potential synthetic intelligence. It would after all, in theory at least, be created by humans who may or may not try to impart some values into it.

But it could be truly alien as well; it seems truly unknown.

I think the people trying to create these AIs are doing it for much the same reasons that one might have children - to impart some new being into the world, but that means that their reasons for doing so are about as varied and inscrutable (to me at least; I’ve never desired children) for those who would create new human intelligences.

Basically, I miss when discussing computers was a more deterministic, engineering-adjacent domain rather than a philosophical one.
I don’t think we should lump together “AI company scraping a website to train their base model” and “AI tool retrieving a web page because I asked it to”. At least, those should be two different user agents so you have the option to block one and not the other.
I’m into term limit reform, though I think complexity for the sake of complexity just allows more dark corners for corruption to fester.

But how do term limits solve the misinformation and cult of personality that is currently plaguing contemporary American democracy?

The interesting part, for me, of the introduction of juries in bill voting is having to plead the case to the jury rather than their ephemeral status.

This would immediately remove all of the “carve out diplomacy” that is currently used to get bills passed.

Politicians lie by a matter of course, courts have consequences and checks and balances for lies; imperfect, but at least they are there.
The syntax looks very similar to Go
Read the letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to William Smith about Shay's rebellion, where we get the prosaic notion of watering the Tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

He thought the rebellion was an act of ignorance and failure of society to properly educate and inform the populace, but also felt that regular rebellion itself was necessary for any democracy, and shouldn't even be a crime. Essentially, he wanted to normalize the French Revolution as a regular facet of civil society.

Obviously that point of view didn't make it into the framework of the state (apart from, arguably, the Second Amendment) and the same government that created the Second Amendment put Shay's rebellion down, but the ideal has become a foundational part of American culture and beliefs about the nature of liberty and government as inherently hostile to liberty.
Our bot traffic is up 10-fold since LLM Cambrian explosion.
Quote from end: With a direct relationship, both banks and fintechs have aligned long-term incentives to grow the entire program in a safe and effective manner. Middleware providers still enable a majority of the industry today, but are likely to evolve into overhead solutions to enable direct relationships. As BAAS banks take on a growing roster of clients, more responsibility and accountability, regulators will become increasingly comfortable with the new breed of fintech companies.
Great idea probably not feasable. The military even with their effectivly unlimited budget recently ended their rail gun programs. One of the main reasons being they require too much maintenance/unreliable. I doubt the moon will be a place that can have effective repair trips.
I hope there are also repercussion for whoever named this tech "full self driving"
Same way they already are for trial.

I welcome court and jury selection reform.

I am just also advocating for extending where those powers are used.
I think the critics (myself included) perfectly understood that point.

> What they really mean is that good programmers should think ahead and craft their code with an eye minimizing future modifications.

The critique is exactly that this can not happen in real world projects because you can only speculate what requirements for the code base is down the road.

To counter this I usually apply two princinples:

1. Occam's razor - implement the simplest solution

2. Write code that is readable and understandable, so it is easier to change the code with the requirements.

The last being completely opposite to what the author of the article thinks.

The worst thing I can think of is somebody needlessly DRYing up a code base prematurely - this is in my opinion a junior behavior.
Read this article if you want to know Perplexity’s idea of taking other people’s content and thinking they can get away with it,

https://stackdiary.com/perplexity-has-a-plagiarism-problem/

The CEO said that they have some “rough edges” to figure out, but their entire product is built on stealing people’s content. And apparently[0] they want to start paying big publishers to make all that noise go away.

[0]: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/12/2024/perplexity-was-pl...
This is not how legal systems work.

It is probably a "rare freak accident" to be shot by a baboon but nonetheless it is illegal to to create dangerous situations like giving a loaded weapon to animals at the zoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour is very much illegal around the world, yo.
The only way out seems to be using obscene captcha.
>It is not the number of base stations that is important, it is the ability to use 5G to create new goods and services (or be more efficient in the use of existing goods and services) that is important, and this is best measured by the monetization of new 5G enabled services and products and their revenue.

In other words, profit is the only thing that matters.

This is a practical definition of insanity.
Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang
Correlation is always interesting, and until you study it, you can’t even prove that it’s “correlation alone” and nothing else. Yes correlation is not always causation. But, correlation often opens up an entry point for new research. Most of modern medicine is heavily dependent on correlation.
Why are you focused on idle time? You don't think a LLM can try to answer other questions?

Do you think Microsoft will prevent their paying customers (the companies) from querying, "What is the strongest legal reason to fire <person> based on the past three years of activity on this computer?"

Their sales team would be absolute fools not to point out how much easier it makes it for a manager to see historically whether someone is performing tasks as they are specified in some formal handbook.

The difference between doing that for reasonable reasons and doing that for post-hoc justification of targeted reprisals is in the mind of the manager and nowhere else. Maybe unspoken, but incredibly obvious.

"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him."
No, Darwin never learned about Mendel's work, even though Mendel sent him a copy (which was well after Darwin had published the Origin). The copy in Darwin's library has its pages uncut -- meaning that Darwin never got around to even opening it. Darwin instead believed in blending inheritance rather than discrete units.

As for Mukherjee, while his Emperor of All Maladies about cancer was brilliant, The Gene (and Mukherjee's New Yorker article that he expanded to make his book) has a lot of issues as many geneticists and molecular biologists such as Walter Gilbert and Tom Maniatis pointed out at the time.
I do feel like there’s a “X will be the year of Linux on the desktop!” quality to this stuff. 2024 will be the year of Swift on the server/embedded systems/anywhere that isn’t iOS/macOS!

I really enjoy programming in Swift. But I’m not convinced it’ll ever escape the confines of iOS development because there isn’t that persuasive a case for it. It’s nice. But “nice” isn’t enough motivation to create an entire ecosystem. You’re not going to be able to reuse most iOS-oriented swift code in an embedded system so you’ll be starting from scratch.
How about a trap URL in the Robots.txt file that triggers a 24 hour IP ban if you access it.

If you don't want anyone innocent caught in the crossfire, you could make the triggering URL customized to their IP address.
> A better question might be who cares.

I assuming James Lewis of Strategic Technologies Program should:

>The digital economy depends on cloud computing, next generation networks (like 5G and 6G), and software (like AI products) and these are technologies where the United States has a strong if not dominant position.

Focuses on counter-productive digital economy i.e. tutoring, that PRC deliberately crushed to redirect effort at synergizing digital economy with real economy, i.e. ai to boost industrial output and now we are seeing intelligent gigafactory efforts accross multiple strategic sectors. Sure no one proxy indicator matters, but multiple proxy indicators across value chain and S&T do, and we're not talking about shoes, which no one thinks is a "crucial" industry. Like if article was titled US is losing the, ship building, renewable energy, ev, hypersonics, shoe race, readers would go, that's a few fairly important sectors to lag on, also whytf is shoes in there.

>China is good at manufacturing what others have invented but no longer so good at innovation itself. This is the result of political change. China was becoming a leading innovator when it was politically open, before 2012. ... Under different political leadership, China would be a much more formidable competitor, but China made a political decision that values continued party control over innovation and its ability to innovate is at risk.

It's telling he thinks PRC pre 2012 (aka pre Xi) was more innovative. Going to chalk it up to another blob shibboleth to not fall out of favour with Washington Overton masters from how often I see this repeated all of a sudden. Reality seems to be PRC innovation has enhanced by leap and bounds while retaining massive second mover advantage. They can afford to be a year or two behind on LLM craze and watch US spend trillions to find what's worth replicating/monetizing in the digital space. Meanwhile, US going to have to figure out how to reindustrialize and mass manufacture things it innovates, without all the training data on manufacturing locked in minds of specialists on Chinese manufacturing floors. What's gotten US into current mess is precisely PRC has been exceptionally good at innovating on manufacturing (process) and can out make US using second mover advantage in more and more strategic sectors it choose to catch up on. Yesterday it shoes, tomorrow it's MRIs.
Cambrian explosion implies that there’s a huge variety of different creatures out there, but I suspect those bots are all just wrappers around OpenAI/anthropic models.

This is more like the rise of Cyanobacteria as a single early dominant lifeform
The discussion here is not whether correlation is causation, but rather correlation is interesting because it opens an opportunity for you to explore whether it is causation or not.
Once they do deploy it, I'll immediately disable it. And not even (primarily) because it's invasive and intrusive but because it'll be mostly useless to me AND it'll further clog my still-occasionally-laggy 4B cycle/sec PC with more unnecessary background tasks while sucking battery life and storage space for little benefit.

I resent that they continue to invest significant resources in buzzy new features like this (which no user asked for) to drive conceptual agendas decreed by MSFT leadership while continuing to ignore fixing the core Windows feature in this area: Search. The Windows built-in search function has always been so slow and limited it's nearly useless. It's so bad MSFT should be embarrassed. Meanwhile, the free Everything add-on shows exactly how it should be done - delivering global file search that's blisteringly fast, flexible and deeply capable. And it's written by one guy in his spare time (https://www.voidtools.com/).

Note: I assume above that MSFT will be forced to offer a way for enterprise IT departments to disable this via Policy Manager (because NSA and others with sensitive intel or IP will balk without a way to disable it).
> Doesn’t seem odd to me for the US to come in and back the current government?

It seems odd to me. The US presents itself as the “city on a hill”, a shining beacon of democracy and freedom for the world to look up to as an example. This should, ostensibly, mean supporting democratic processes even when they yield outcomes that are not necessarily optimal for American interests. It’s clear that this isn’t the case.

If your main motivator is your own personal benefit, and you’re not shy about using realpolitik, deception, and violence to achieve it, at least be open about that fact. Attempts to disguise it as a moral and ethical position are shallow and easily identified.
I still love slashem.
I believe this is where it I was a Tesla apologist, I would say you can’t really expect full self driving to fully self drive the car.

That said, given that over my lifetime, we seem to have legalized all sorts of fraud and removed as many consumer protections as possible, I can see why people get a bit confused.
Better than sacrificing both
> claim some kind of IP ownership of the feature once it shipped, then I would be sympathetic to that stance as well.

Fortunately there's legal solutions, right? If the code for Yaak was AGPL, and contributors had to sign a contributor license agreement waiving copyright and patent rights, well, there wouldn't be any issue.
I find that quote maddening. The lack of self awareness of the irony in Tim Cook’s statement is astounding and I say this as a huge fan of Apple’s products. I think it’s very disingenuous for him to claim that America lacks tooling engineers when the very reason for this is that companies just like Apple started outsourcing all manufacturing and engineering work to China a few decades ago, in pursuit of lower costs (ignoring the very obvious reasons it cost so much less, while out of the other side of their mouths, loudly patting themselves on the back for supposedly standing for human/environmental rights). This, in effect, for all intents and purposes played a huge role in crippling American manufacturing. Of course it technically still exists, but only a fraction of what it was as recently as the 1990s.

Fast forward to today, per Cook’s own words, China “stopped being the low-labor-cost-country” it once was, so in effect we’re not only back to paying higher prices, now we also no longer have the capabilities to manufacture and engineer that we once had, so it’s a massive net loss for the entire country, and yet Tim Cook is essentially calling people out of touch for suggesting the US could handle the job - when companies like his own are the very reason it no longer easily can today.

Friendly suggestion for Apple and other American corporations: please consider using some of those tens of billions in cash on hand each of your companies have, and invest in helping fix the problem you contributed to: help bring manufacturing and tooling engineering back to your home country. You can solve some of the most difficult engineering problems in the world, you can design a chip that squeezes billions of transistors into a tiny fingernail sized chip, and you can make pocket sized phones that have changed the world. You can do this too!
Is it actually retrieving the page on the fly though? How do you know this? Even if it were - it’s not supposed to be able to.
Very simple. Because those jobs were once available in mass without an extremely expensive risk of college debt, often unionized and provided good stable salaries that raised many millions of healthy families and provided pensions that have allowed for healthy retirement.
> If you want to use one of Odin or Zig but don’t know which one, then I recommend spending 1-2 weeks using each and then make up your own mind.

That's fair enough, but has anyone who has done this got any thoughts? Zig seems to have a lot of admirers on HN. Is Odin on par with Zig?
What incentive does anybody have to be honest about their user agent?