skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> RWNs in Europe also tend to be pro-Russia. Possibly because Russia is paying them, possibly sheer contrarianism.

Both, but mainly it's because of a common enemy - the liberal-democratic west. Russia has very little in common with conservatives in the west when it comes to lifestyle (divorces, suicides, drugs, hiv, alcoholism, abortion are at record levels there - much higher than in most western countries) - but it promises "conservative values", hates liberals and delivers anti-LGBT legislation and that's enough for far right.

It's not unlike the nazi alliance with communism before WW2. Both wanted "liberal global order" gone.
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In reality they will use the LLM to add the prose to the data and we will use another LLM to delete it.
As an engineer you really have a finite amount of good working years, and accepting startup salary vs big tech compensation is a bigger risk than founders are willing to generally admit.
@Dang the thread linked seems to be wrongly [Flagged]?
As someone who has worked for one of these multinational, I could have never imagined the stigma I would have when I said where I worked. On a wedding for example the discussion literally went silent when I said I worked for such a company. What nobody knew is that worked in GIS maps to warn farmers not to apply these pesticides near waterways.
So I became more careful about clickbait titles and the hate against these companies and what is really having an effect in these ecology.

Of course we spent millions on marketing and selling more was the target of our sales teams. The problem is more that the whole field faces immense pressure, stigma and lack if alternatives - making it unsexy for funding or to even talk about it. I would welcome more innovation in that space and a constructive discussion instead of feeding the stigma..
ps: I don’t work there anymore…
I guess Big Pharma was better at using lobbying dollars than Big Mask.
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My apartment has old radiators with manual temperature control, so my goal is to automate that with some temperature sensors + Zigbee radiator controllers. And liberating my Hue lights as they keep nagging that I'll soon need a cloud account to control my lights at home.
Doesn't necessarily work that way (shareholders can sell their shares still)...

... but it's how it's marketed to people so they believe it and follow Friedman's doctrine like gospel.
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> Enterprises skip at least one version

This is no more the case with Win10.
Your damn wrong that I wouldn't. I'd quit. I didn't go to university to go to court.
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To add to this, LLMs write pretty trite poetry, for example. If we think of code from the creative side, it’s hard to imagine that we’d want to simply hand all coding over to these systems. Even if we got working solutions (which is a major undertaking for large systems), it seems we’d be sacrificing elegance, novelty, and I’d argue more interesting explorations.
> What is your basis for saying it will be an utter catastrophe?

Any of the other times when efforts were made to extend credit to people with bad credit scores, and it ends up with indebted people being in worse debt.

> Not so sure why you're down on doing good

a do-gooder is someone who has a naive conviction of their own moral superiority and agency

I'm saying there's people who, by never doubting their own agency & fallibility, force the unfortunate people they're trying to help into even worse misfortune.
>> So I'm not seeing what's wrong with this deal with the only caveat that the engineer has the experience not to overwork/burn out.

The startup can go bankrupt any moment, thats a big deal. You get crappy perks, often poor benefits.
That’s because the U.S. population was strongly against masks. In the beginning the US public was strongly in favor of the vaccines. In fact the complaints were around the delay in vaccine availability and the way the rich and powerful could access them earlier.

It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.
They did have that program:

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1483831305448173578

I personally received free masks. However, it was too late.

It was mostly early COVID when the masks were most needed and not available. Even the strategic stockpile essentially ran out after distributing them to vital areas. By the time they had enough to give them away, everyone had multiple masks of various qualities.
It would, but forcing the people to do anything shouldn't.
If you are talking about a fiduciary duty to "maximise profits", no that doesn't exist.
All the empirical examples you mentioned pertain to the extracellullar space. So is this stochastic modelling also true in the intracellular space, which is like 100x times denser structurally, biochemically and bioelectrically (given that all biochemistry is effectively a type of electrical process involving very refined transfer/manipulations of charge densities), and allows to explain how do hundreds or thousands of biochemical reaction inside cells happen as required without interfering with each other?

Evolution also "tries" to save energy anywhere possible, so spending energy on the synthesis of endogenous ligands, which eventually will be discarded, seems a bit redundant. There is also a theorem in evolutionary game theory, that probability that natural selection will allow an organism to see reality as it is (=the truth) is exactly zero, as it's enough to make it just "good enough". I was arguing about that with Gemini, and it agreed with me. My point is that "evolution" is just a tool (like ChatGPT) with it's own instrumentally limited pool of empirical data (80% of which was also obtained from macroscopic enough observations rather than reverse engineering or experimentation) to build upon.

I actually want to apply one EE concept, which has some experimental basis. The reason why I am digging this, is that I am searching for some possible explanations of a couple of dozens of experimental studies in bioelectrics/magnetics I found. (though won't discuss in depth on a public forum)
I too worry about enshittification, but let's step back here. When you're talking about a price difference that can be made up in a few hours of work, the extra cost can be easily justified, because of the Raspberry Pi's secret sauce.

The secret sauce allowed me to search the web for guides on what I wanted to do and have a template to work from. Not having to spend potentially hours or days of my free time figuring out some obscure Linux issue or driver support problem made up for the extra cost of the board.

The secret sauce was always the documentation and software support, and if the cheap clones can master that, then the boys in England have a real problem, but that remains to be seen. A lot of that comes not from cost savings inherent to microcomputer technology, but because of the dedication of people who know how to communicate to software engineers and hobbyists.

My hope is that most of the price increases apply more to their industrial computing products than their hobbyist ones.
What does that have to do with creepiness?
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Yeah, interoperability basically dictates 96-bit nonces. I'd say GCM is hard to use correctly for any situation where you have an indefinite amount of data to encrypt and you can't do deterministic nonce generation and you can't rekey easily.
Reminds this current slightly comedic (IMO) situation in my office: a few months ago developers were given access to GitHub's "Copilot Enterprise". Then, a month or so later, organisation also adopted another "AI" product checking pull requests for risks associated with "use of generative AI". And needless to say it does occasionally fail code written without any "generative AI"..
> But the truth is, there’s really no evidence that a centralized power is trying to control your brain through electromagnetic waves entering your brain stem.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence-is-a...

> But the truth is...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/

Relevant:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/psychology-normative-cogn...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/
This is related to the advice I give all the young programmer-curious people I know: I tell them that they should go ahead and follow their interests in becoming an expert on computers and programming and data analysis, but that they should try to do those things secondarily to a domain they are learning about or working in.

The solution to the problem of "the domain expert doesn't understand the data and the data expert doesn't understand the domain" is to have them be the same person.
The people who weren't convinced of "a good mask reduces spread of a respiratory illness" 3-4 years ago won't be convinced by this either.

It's like when Bill Nye debated creationist Ken Ham; when asked what would convince them they're wrong, Nye said "evidence" and Ham said "nothing".
> then it is only the selfish segment of society that is being protected

But wouldn't that also protect the unselfish?
Seems non-intuitive to have to select "Share".
50/50 is the simplest thing that might work. Approximately all the value creation is in the future, and if you resent your cofounder getting as rich as you, that's a problem for the relationship. 50% of a big pie is more than 100% of nothing. Good luck.
I don't get this, my writing is a lot better +AI than it ever was without it (not a native speaker). So, what's the problem? As long as there are no lies right? And the writers do take responsibility... So fire them for presenting lies, for mindlessly shipping hallucinations...

But why fire people that deliver on an assignment? Why care about how they do that?
It was 10+ years ago. I don't have the details, but the riches they were underpaid for never came true. The founder made out like a bandit.
Thanks for the licheerv nano link, this thing [1] looks awesome!

Display out, built in amp, and 1GHz riscv for $10 USD [2]. Incredible.

1. https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/lichee/RV_Nano/1_intro.h...

2. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPnKu26
Here's how the headline should read:

"The right mask, worn properly, can do a nearly perfect job of blocking COVID-19"

It's incredible to me that after all this, we still write and publish declarative headlines and articles like this.
Analogous complaints were echo'd against the RPI boards, which are also just kinda meh when viewed from an industry / hardcore perspective. Hobbiers gonna hobby, and the ecosystem will eventually build winners / losers for each niche case.

For me, the existence of a MCU/MPU with better features at better price is irrelevant if I can't get known parts on small form factor eval boards using top links on google. Yes, I'm that lazy, but we live in a world with an embarrassment of really good options compared to 20 years ago.
If the AI writing is good, you’re not going to know it’s written by AI and you’ll continue to think you "can always tell" while more and more of what you read isn’t written by humans.
You’re right… I was remembering it as a `server_default` attribute. Those were quoted in the other lines, but this wouldn’t have been.
The constant fighting between Schmidhuber and LeCunn should be well known in here. But in my opinion, both of them have been involved with fantastic papers that are both painless to read and full of useful info:

CTC loss: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/icml_2006.pdf

DeepLearning: https://hal.science/hal-04206682/document

And both of these papers are new and on more recent research, so it's not just old papers that are good. It's just that there is a flood of bad new papers drowning out a constant signal with additional noise.
What guarantee exists to make sure that the intelligence developed has an inclination towards good?
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This is logically inconsistent
> If you can, there’s absolutely no reason to force other people to mask anyway & you get the same benefit.

Until the reaction is along the lines of "we're so afraid that people shouldn't be allowed to protect themselves": https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections...
It's not the sort of membrane that only works when air is flowing in one direction. It won't protect you from getting goober in your eyes, but when it comes to inhalation, N95 material is great.

It also helps that N95 masks tend to have better nosewires for fit, and specify real head straps, which makes them practically more dependable than some masks like most KF94s.
That's not true at all. I could tell it to write like an unhinged maniac, someone who never uses contractions, or George Washington with a lisp.
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... and they didn't leak the 200 ways in which S1 was better than iPhone.

By the way, where is Apple's flip-phone?
NIST calls it an IV (or at least did when it came out).
> so could feasibly move

Asking someone to move is usually quite unreasonable, unless there's legit problems where the person lives. A lot of people, especially people in their 50s, have roots that they just can't walk away from.

Furthermore, software gigs tend to be much shorter than how often people stay in a location; and remote work in software is super-common today.
FWIW, now that N95 masks aren't hard to get, I bought some a few months ago and holy crap they're so much better than the KN95s I had to use during COVID. I basically went maskless at times because the KN95 mask just leaked so much that I couldn't wear them. No matter how well I adjusted the metal nose bar, air leaked up when I breathed and it "tickled" my eyes so much I just stopped wearing them. I have since stockpiled a few hundred 3M N95s just in case.
The article addresses fit.

> Even without giving participants fit tests or training on how to wear masks correctly, all masks significantly reduced the amount of virus escaping into the air.

Including interesting results around cloth masks fitting better than surgical/KN95 masks:

> Cloth masks also outperformed both KN95 and surgical masks. Milton theorizes that cloth masks with greater coverage, wrap around the face and give a better seal than either KN95 or surgical masks. With cloth mask filters, flow resistance is also lower, allowing breath to pass through the filter and not leak out the sides of the mask.
Things seem "obvious" until the best available evidence doesn't support them.

As a physician, I had a hard time understanding the ferocity with which some of my colleagues defended the "science" of masking when the Cochrane review(s) -- largely held to be the pinnacle of evidence-based-medicine -- were so underwhelming. I never had a problem with people arguing for them based on face validity (hehe), personal preference, that they "might" help, were "better than nothing," or any number of softer reasons.

Don't get me wrong -- as a physician I wore an N95 every shift, because I believe that the odds that they might help were much greater than the odds that they might harm. (And because my hospital's N95s are much more comfortable for me than our surgical masks, and other trivial reasons.)

But I had a hard time finding other physicians who were both steadfastly convinced of the incredible benefits of masking and also had taken any time to try to find or read the available literature on the topic.

https://www.cochrane.org/news/featured-review-physical-inter...

> Medical or surgical masks
>
> Seven studies took place in the community, and two studies in healthcare workers. Compared with wearing no mask, wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness (9 studies; 3507 people); and probably makes no difference in how many people have flu confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 3005 people). Unwanted effects were rarely reported, but included discomfort.
>
> N95/P2 respirators
>
> Four studies were in healthcare workers, and one small study was in the community. Compared with wearing medical or surgical masks, wearing N95/P2 respirators probably makes little to no difference in how many people have confirmed flu (5 studies; 8407 people); and may make little to no difference in how many people catch a flu-like illness (5 studies; 8407 people) or respiratory illness (3 studies; 7799 people). Unwanted effects were not well reported; discomfort was mentioned.
It’s truly insane that vaccine deniers are now voting for Trump, when he was the one to take credit for them in the first place (and perhaps with some small justification!)
Yeah, this one lives up to headline!
Yes it is like those tools that make digital documents look like they were scanned.
> Hoping the official integration doesn't come too late...

Too late for what?
LLMs don't average, they learn the distribution, from which you then sample (or the UI does it for you). Because of that, they don't write in a single style that's a blend of many human styles - they can write in any and all of the human styles they saw in training, as well as blend them to create styles entirely "out of distribution". And it's up to your prompt (and sampling parameters) which style will be used.
> Investors and founders both tend to think that if employees knew founders were getting liquidity that that would negatively impact employee morale (it wouldn’t)

It would. Knowing that founders are cashing out and I’m not able to would be a very good reason to walk away, in my rather old, maybe slightly cynical opinion.

I get the need to hedge your bets, but employees should be able to that too.
Deeply ironic.
Considering that many unions exist… no, it's not. It's easier to start a union now than it was back when unions were invented.
>I never understood all the panic around it

I think a good chunk of it was the CDC randomly changing its recommendations with no real explanation.

At the beginning of the pandemic in the US, from January to May of 2020, there was a big campaign by the CDC to discourage people from wearing masks. I remember seeing various guest "medical experts" on the news claiming that people who wore masks were actually MORE LIKELY to contract COVID. At the same time, virtually every other country was encouraging or mandating masking.

Then June of 2020 came around, masks quickly became encouraged and then mandated. Fauci only made vague and nonsensical statements like "the science changed!" and "we're moving at the speed of science!" to explain the abrupt change in policy. As if there was ever any scientific data to suggest that COVID-19 was not capable of airborne transmission or that masks wouldn't help limit said transmission.

I get that there was a shortage of masks early on and the CDC was probably just trying to prevent panic buying (which occurred anyway, there were N95s selling on amazon for $40 per mask). The ridiculous claim that "masks make you more likely to get COVID" followed by a sudden requirement to wear said "COVID causing" masks completely destroyed public confidence and fueled all kinds of conspiracy theories.
Could this be extended to give us XOCB? I am not sure it would make much sense with the OCB size recommendations.
This all depends on your mental relationship with the LLM. As somebody else pointed out, this is an issue of delegation. If you had one or more junior programmers working for you writing code according to what you specify, would you have the same worry?

I treat LLMs as junior programmers. They can make my life easier and occasionally make it harder. With that mindset, you start out knowing that they're going to make stupid mistakes, and that builds your skill of detecting mistakes in other people's code. Also, like with biological junior programmers, nonbiological junior programmers quickly show how bad you are giving direction and force you to improve that skill.

I don't write code by hand because my hands are broken, and I can't use the keyboard long enough to write any significant amount of code. I've developed a relationship with nonbiological junior programmers such that I now tell them, via speech recognition, what to write and what information they need to create code that looks like code I used to create by hand.

Does this keep me from learning new skills? No. I'm always making new mistakes and how to correct them. One of those corrections was knowing that you don't learn something significant from writing code. Career-sustaining knowledge comes at a much higher level.
Regardless of whether AI detectors work or not, I worry we're reaching a new unfortunate era. While alarmists were worrying about alignment or evil AIs, the true downside of LLMs is turning out to be... AI spam.

I've started seeing it everywhere: Q&A sites, forums, etc. In some places it's banned, but how do you reliably detect it? And what makes people post AI spam when there's no reward or money involved? What are they trying to achieve?

I've seen it in Q&A sites (sometimes tool specific, I won't name names) where supposed "experts" are simply pasting LLM-generated crap. All the tell-tale signs are there, often including the famed "I apologize for making this mistake. You're right the solution doesn't work because [reasons]". Note it's often not an official AI-generated answer (like, say, the Quora AI bot), but someone with a random human-sounding username posting it as the answer. There are no rep points or upvotes involved, so it boggles the mind... why do they do it?

I don't know if HN has some sort of AI filter, but I bet we'll start seeing it here too. Instead of talking to other humans, you'll discuss things with a bot.

I predict the arms race between AI spam and AI detectors will only get worse, and as a result it'll make the internet worse for everyone.
OpenAI announced that they had started on an AI text detector and then gave up as the problem appears to be unsolvable. The machine creates statistically probable text from the input, applying statistics to the generated result will show nothing more than exactly that. You’re then left triggering false positives on text that is the most likely which makes the whole thing useless.
the screenshots from Samsung look like a high school project compared to the iPhone ones. Granted, Samsung is in a much better place now compared to back then.
How does this compare to Gleam (strong) typing?

https://gleam.run
Sibling commenters also need to read the section on N95s in this same systematic review:

> The use of a N95/P2 respirators compared to medical/surgical masks probably makes little or no difference for the objective and more precise outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza infection (RR 1.10, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.34; 5 trials, 8407 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence).
I interviewed with Dell during their acceleration rise around 1999. The big red flag for me was all the interviewing people were late and in a ultra hurry to get the interview over. I had a would be peer that said he "Was tired of people being hired & then leaving within 30 days because of the chaotic work load!"
This was a management/executive position.
In a similar vein, check out Federico Viticci's S-GPT shortcut for ChatGPT integration with a bunch of system features rather than text editing

https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

It handles requests like "I want a playlist with the top 15 songs by the members of boygenius" and turns it into a playlist in Music