skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you live in a more modern workspace than I do. I just picked an open source project that (A) I know we use at work, and (B) I know is written in Java. I picked a random source file that sounded like it would have some mutable state, and the very first functions below the constructor were a trivial getter and setter around a private ivar.

https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/solr/core/src/java/...

I'm a little surprised it was in literally the first place I looked, but I'm not surprised that it was easy to find. "Use private ivars and write getters and setters to encapsulate your state" was probably the second thing that a generation of CompSci students learned in their first programming class, right after "an object is an instance of a class."
My fresh-off-the-lot 2024 Toyota GR Corolla got nearly its entire side mangled by a red light runner on day 8 of ownership. Mind you this is a brand-new model, first released in 2023. Once my insurance finished dragging their heels on doing their assessment -- as they didn't yet have any of the parts for it in their internal database -- it took another week to get on the schedule with one of the ~20 auto body shops in a 15-mile radius of where I live. An entire door and two windows needed replacing, along with a fender, trim, and so forth. The shop apologized that some of the parts were delayed by a whole week, and in the end it took 5 weeks to restore the vehicle to its original state.

And this sort of thing is precisely why I chose to go with an established automaker with a strong reputation for reliability and serviceability. This has become so much more important to me than almost any other feature in a motor vehicle.
I've gotten to where I sometimes have questioned whether code has come from an LLM or was actually written by a human on some OSS stuff.

I'm not really -good- at it but the explanation for false positives has typically been 'someone not up to a task' where it gets to the point I call it as an LLM.
What has this to do with Hacker News?
A real loss. I've watched and enjoyed so many of his movies over the years. RIP good man.
I was quite worried about this when I crashed my car earlier this year from reading comments like this one; but it was in and out of the (Tesla-approved third party) repair shop in around three weeks. It wasn't the worst crash in the world, but some body panels and other parts had to be replaced. Obviously, this is just my own anecdote, but I think it's worth noting that not everyone has the same experience.
A related NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/shipwreck-bronze-...
Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as control for viral aerosol shedding
You captured some of the ideas that have been swimming around in my brain for a little while and really crystallized them. Couldn't agree more.
Thanks.

You reminded me hat Ioannidis made very specific predictions that turned out to be false (about the number of deaths we could expect). And that, while measures were adopted that he claimed were useless. I agree Fauci saved lives - and last time I saw him in the news he was being attacked by Republican trolls, I don't have any other word for those people.
> Parents usually teach their children a lot about language. They give them visual cues, speak at varying rates, change their own tone in some situations, and so on.

They do, but this training is not necessary for a child to acquire language. Idioglossia (private languages between two people) is an extreme example, but also the process of a pidgin becoming a creole, where the younger generation of a pidgin speaking population fills in the missing details to create a more complete language, even without ever being exposed to such a language.
Do you have a source for this? Because it doesn't sound credible.
I agree that you can't know what is "real" without looking at our universe from outside it, but that, in and of itself, doesn't imply that every model must be flawed, in the sense that its predictions must not be 100% consistent with observation. We could stumble across the "real" model, or something equivalent to it (in the sense of identical predictions) - we'd have no way of knowing whether the model is "real", but it could still be right.
we had a guy on our team who was using ChatGPT aggressively in his awful code, to the point of putting his prompts in as comments

he did not last long...

this is the kind of developer you have to explain (repeatedly) why things need to run on servers & service accounts rather than his laptop as his personal ID
Sierra AI agent evaluation benchmarking
Cheers, I read the wikipedia article. It mentions Duesberg's claims without going into details about why it is wrong, or right.
1k students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus
Because they're merely mathematical models of what we experience. They're no more "real" than man-bear pig, although they do have predictive capabilities.

Until they don't.

Ultimately what is real is a philosophical question. Why isn't man-bear pig real? The Imagination Land story arc really delved into this question.
Sure, and then hire someone to handle all the reports from people who don't understand the rule, while real reports are inhibited by warehouse owner propaganda such as "your reports won't be confidential" or "a 20% cut of this fine won't cover your lost career" and the more basic fact that almost nobody will know your law exists unless you launch a publicity campaign.

Fiddling economic knobs to try to indirectly get the invisible hand to do what you can do is a terrible enforcement strategy.
Condoms are less effective at HIV prevention, but also they’re unpleasant and don’t prevent most STIs because of oral sex. Nobody’s giving or getting head with a condom. People who stay on top of preventative measures tend to not bother with condoms since PrEP became prevalent.

Preventative:

1. Gardasil 9 (vaccine against 9 strains of HPV, prevents genital warts and cancers caused by HPV)

2. Monkeypox vaccine

3. Meningitis ACYW vax

4. Meningitis B vax (35% effective against gonorrhea)

5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)

6. PrEP (prevents HIV infections)

7. and the usual suite of vaccines against the rest like hepatitis A/B, mumps etc

Treatment of the bacterial ones (which transmit through oral too):

1. syphilis - butt shot of penicillin
2. chlamydia - 1 pill of an antibiotic
3. gonorrhea - a week of doxycycline pills or one butt shot of ceftriaxone

Remaining: HSV. Half of the population has it, so no big deal. Condoms dont prevent it either.

As for hepatitis: even though it requires blood contact and as such is not necessarily considered an STI, hepatitis c is curable these days thanks to DAAs taken over the course of 8-12 weeks. a/b have vaccines.
From what i remember Ubiquiti was really hacked and customer information was breached, but it was done by an employee that already had the keys to the kingdom anyway..

The hacker was also the employee assigned to investigate the hack internally..

And here is were Brian comes in, this same person, the hacker\internal investigator, was also Brian source about the event and he was feeding bad information to Brian to make things look way worst for Ubiquiti then they really were..

When this came to light Brian did not immediately retracted the posts, he just made a new post indicating that the hacker was a former employee, that the hacker was being indicted for the it, and that the hacker had contacted the media and leaked fake info about the hack.

But he never made it clear that the hacker was also his own source for all the earlier posts that likely contained wrong information.

So Ubiquiti sued him, they settled out of court, Brian retracted all posts on the hack and issued an apology to Ubiquiti.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/final-thoughts-on-ubiqui...
If you think LLMs are overhyped, you likely expect a bubble burst when the "Emperor has no clothes!" moment happens - so it's rational to avoid the risk of being stuck holding the bag when that happens.
> most car rental contracts via insurance will only cover up to 30 days, so you end up being on the hook for the car rental

That’s if your insurance is covering it right? My Volvo C30 got rear-ended a few years back and it took about 6 weeks to get all the parts in and get the repair done. The insurer of the at-fault driver covered my rental car the entire time.
Lame.

No anonymous rate limited endpoint.
> in sex work, "not using a condom" is an "extra" that clients will pay quite a bit for

To me, that is such a weird thing.

People literally paying money for something that can damage them for life and may even kill them.

Though the same can be said of addictive things (smoking comes to mind), is this some form of that maybe?
Oh I see (tiktoken). That's my mistake. I naively assumed the only good reason to pull in a 3rd party lib like that is if it actually did a reasonable amount of work.

> curious about the 30%+ error thing

I'm mildly curious. I have no doubt that small strings will often have high relative errors. I'd be surprised though if sum(estimated)/sum(actual) were very large if you copied in either a large piece of text or many small pieces of text, outside of specialized domains out of the normal scope of that tokenizer (e.g., throwing latex code into something trained just on wikipedia).

That's more for entropic reasons than anything else. The only way that's true is if (1) some of these tokenizers are much less naive than the normal LLM literature and actually approach entropic bounds, or (2) the baseline implementations are especially bad so that there's a lot of headroom for improvements.

What happens when you throw in something like a medium-sized plain-text wikipedia article (say, the first half as input and the second as output)?

> messaging -- tokenization for 400 LLMs

Alright, I'm sold. I'm still partial to Hanlon's razor for these sort of things, but that ought to be patched.
> Because they're merely mathematical models of what we experience.

Particles aren't?
I would assume that would all go away if they get banned, which brings you back to hard to sue them?
It isn't meta's fault the system is set up to incentivize this behavior, and it isn't wrong of them to do what is in their best interest.

Now that we've discovered the loophole just legislate it closed.

1. make the loser pay court fees or arbitration fines

2a. the court fees grow by some percentage with each loss over the last year. lose 1, pay 1x; lose 100 pay 10x etc

2b. the court fees are proportional to the losers net worth or capital

I like proportional fines the best since things like speeding or parking tickets can be ruinous to one car while the next won't even spare a thought for the cost of it. We should all feel the weight of the law equally.
ZIRP stands for Zero Interest Rate Policy.

BTW it's also the only sensible monetary policy in an economy that issues its own currency on a floating exchange rate. Paying interest on reserves or bonds is solely a policy choice and acts as a transfer payment (ie. welfare) for the rich.
Chomsky describes why the word identification method described in the article can’t work in English (though a more elaborate method is one of the few successes he knows in applying statistical methods to language): https://youtu.be/92GOS1VIGxY

The arguments against universal grammar are no good either: For example even though children may hear lots of examples it isn’t nearly enough to derive a hierarchical grammar. It also doesn’t explain why language is hierarchical (just like it doesn’t explain why we can’t speak and hear like a modem)
> It's not a sex scene; it is fully and completely a love scene.

The love was expressed sexually. In a sex scene.

I understand that most sex in movies is poorly done, but that is a different discussion (and doesn't alter the plain-english meaning of the words sex or scene). No argument that sex is often a negative thing in films -- often causing the protagonist's downfall (an endless re-telling of the Garden of Evil parable). And of course, until very recently the woman was expected to be topless, though less so in the last few years since #metoo. There are exceptions, with sex-positivity and/or no female nudity.

> Persistent, infantile, somewhat misogynistic rumours.

Persistent, yes. But I'm confused why you think the rumors are infantile or misogynistic. At the time, people were shocked by the realism, and they reacted with "those two sure look like they're really fucking." How is that derogatory to Julie Christie??
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys! [video]
...and also ban the antivirus maker from distributing software updates and malware signatures to existing Stateside customers after September 29

Some percentage of customers won't bother to switch to a competing product, letting the stale signatures linger instead, and ironically that'll make them more vulnerable to hackers and state adversaries.
Doing this was part of the settlement..

He initially refused to retract the initial posts he had made..

He made a later post that said the hacker was a former employee being indicted and that he (the hacker) had contacted the media and leaked fake info about the hack.

Problem is that Brian never made it clear that the hacker was his own source for all the previous posts.
> isn't the issue that capitalism is amoral?

How can you call a system that disincentivizes collective care of one another "amoral"?

> but it means we need to augment capitalism

What a pithy phrase! You said yourself that capitalism doesn't incentivize those with to help those without. How do you augment capitalism to incentivize such behavior?

And to be clear, I'm not saying that the bourgeoisie should be helping. I'm just saying they don't. I think we should burn capitalism to the ground and build something better.
The names are made up; the structures aren't, but they are only as good as they need to be and no better.
Obviously this decision is political- it's expressly because of sanctions.

You are raising a "what about" question here. "If you do this then what-about that?" Or perhaps "before you do this perhaps worry about that."

But these issues are completely unrelated. One is political (and trivial to deal with) another is technical (and a vastly bigger, and more complicated topic).

For starters if congress set out to "prevent spyware", I'd suggest they lack the skillset to even define "spyware" much less the technical expertise to effectively ban it in some way. I certainly would not expect them to somehow ban "spyware" whole at the same time leabing all "not spyware" unaffected.
You can use a Coravin to sample all the wines while introducing minimal oxygen.
Such a model would look extraordinarily compelling to rely on all the time for all purposes, all the while remaining capable of being false in a critical and very difficult (impossible with technology of the time) to detect way.

I’d rather prefer a Unix way: a plurality of explicitly more limited but more numerous and conceptually diverse models.
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference
It's hard to really evaluate in isolation, but if I put them in sentences I slur them about the same.
> And this sort of thing is precisely why I chose to go with an established automaker with a strong reputation for reliability and serviceability. This has become so much more important to me than almost any other feature in a motor vehicle.

Jaguars are not known for reliability. Indeed, I got rid of my 2012 XJ L after its coolant system failed catastrophically one too many times (which was "two times" - first one, okay, so be it, happens again, no thank you).

However, at some point the dealer bricked the entertainment console (of course tied into everything else), and it was an all in one unit that they had to replace...

I am near Seattle. "Well crap, how long is that going to take?" (thinking the car is several years old at this point, and not a high volume of sales). "Oh, we should be able to have a new unit installed by the end of tomorrow, unless we have to get it sent from England, in which case, end of day after tomorrow".
Microsoft’s official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

WTF? This is a showcase of everything wrong with the company today.
My first thought was "what do they know about Kaspersky that makes them suddenly want to burn it to the ground?"

This article talks about some possible reasons:

https://www.wired.com/story/us-kaspersky-ban-evidence/

> Stories in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have since cited anonymous sources accusing Kaspersky of siphoning American secrets, including the files of an NSA staffer, to its own servers, where the Russian government then accessed them.

To be clear, the article doesn't consider this a smoking gun, and instead is demanding a more concrete statement of the government's reasons.

But, personally, I'm completely fine with erring on the side of not trusting a security company operating in Russia with access to my computer. Let's say Kaspersky has the most honest and best intentions in the world, and would never voluntarily cooperate with Putin's government to spy on or harm foreign computers. Does anyone think their protests would matter at all, if push came to shove? This is like the TikTok argument, but with a more obvious attack vector if the software came under direct control of a hostile government.
>one of the most reputable

That's quite the stretch.
Although I still didn't fully understand the relation between zero knowledge proofs and the post-it example, this game is just kind of fun in its own right!
Please forgive me if I'm way out but I think a liftgate is a plate that acts a bit like a fork lift on the back of a lorry. I usually know it as a tail lift.

Having browsed that catalogue thingie, it looks like the boot lid is formally called a liftgate by Tesla, presumably it is hydraulic. I might call that a tailgate instead of boot lid or simply the boot (trunk). I think we'll put that down to the US <<subst GB if required>> and the rest of the English speaking world ... << insert comment here >>

Corroded bolts that you can get at on a car sounds quite a serious fail. This is a Tesla S and not my first Ford Fiesta Mk 1. I'm old enough to remember when galvanization of car bodies became a thing. Nowadays, you rarely hear of anyone stepping into a car and being able to see the road through their knees. Stainless steel has also been a thing for rather a long time.

I'm (not) looking forward to finding out what fails my Chinese "MG" effort manages in the next few years. So far mechanically and electrically all good but its Android central console is rather flaky.
I am happy that the driver's console (behind the steering wheel) is just a display and not "smart" in any way.

It is important that bollocks is called out and your anecdote seems to support that. You were able to DIY and clearly Tesla will supply some parts to civilians. However, are you absolutely sure that your warranty is still valid? Have you read it, all of it? Even so, we enjoy quite a few protections as consumers in the UK, as do wider Europeans and even in the US (int al)!

Your corroded bolts anecdote had a happy ending (sorry) but it should not have happened in the first place.
Absolutely, if you value more how the product and service responds to 1/1000 event , if you value how your daily driving experience is more then Tesla beats the Toyota hands down.

I am not trying to diss you, i kind of value the same things. I own a Toyota hydrogen fuel cell car , and I bought an expensive experimental car is because it was Toyota and the support that would come with .

However every buyer has different priorities, risk minimization while common , also why most big companies would buy from IBM or SAP instead of a startup or pay license for redhat linux or oracle Java. This also means you objectively have poorer experience and are a cycle or two behind in innovation, most are not okay with that
The drug is cabotegravir and if you want to feel safer you can take the pill form of it first to test it out.
there has to be a layman's explanation. I knew the easiest way to get four colors was to put a split square inside another split square "donut", but the reason you can't force 5 colors is that word "inside". There has to be a nice, tidy "verbal proof" that no matter what, one or more colors will be "trapped" inside at most 3 other colors.
10 years from now, the last generation of senior devs will be making money fixing the mess being created right now. LLM-generated code is the new COBOL.
> occasional raccoon looking for a snack

I'm sure he'd like the enterprise snack plan.
Easiest way to make something faster, is to start with something very slow.

Working with deno using intellij's deno language server support[0] is extremely frustrating, slow and missing features, compared to it's normal TS/JS support.

Glad to hear that things are improving though, I'll have to give it another go.

[0]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14382-deno
We’re not far off the previous Revolution mentioned in the book.
There's a course from SIGGRAPH 2016 about physically based sound that's fairly good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OGeAfyDa4Y

It can serve as a starting point.
I have a physical whiteboard.

I write each task as one line on it (if I need bigger notes I keep those electronically - typically in Apple Notes).

There's something very satisfying about getting to wipe tasks off as they get done :)
> Hitler and they jointly invaded everyone in Europe between Germany and Russia

Wow, I didn't knew Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are located between Germany and Russia.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Map_used...
Interestingly, this is one of the theories for why Tesla's parts situation sucks.

While you could also argue that they make things complex for themselves by having these rolling updates rather than using a Model Year system...

Elon, as is well known, is FANATICAL about the quarterly numbers. Burn the midnight oil to pump up the deliveries, etc., etc.

The thing with that, every part that's on a shelf waiting to be sold for warranty or accident repair is a part that can't go on a new car and boost the numbers. Wall Street doesn't give a shit what your parts market numbers look like, it's "How many Teslas did you build this quarter?" so there's a lot less incentive to fully stock that market - Tesla already has the sale booked and the money in their balance book.
speaking of the LLM hype-wagon or risk being left behind conundrum, is anyone surprised that Michael Saylor hasn't sold all his BTC, and used the proceeds to buy graphics cards?
TFA is explicitly about Facebook externalising its support costs to small claims courts. If RPI was accused of the same thing, I'd feel the same way.

Anyway, as I understand it, RPI externalises support costs to retailers. I can certainly call my RPI supplier and talk to someone. Externalising commercially is totally fine, externalising to the public is up there with pollution, perhaps a kind of tragedy of the commons.
That's the American way
I have to write a lot of boilerplate at $DAYJOB (Go is like that). Copilot really helps decrease the amount of typing I have to do.
Happy to chat offline, or please feel free to apply to Brainchain AI and you can hear all about it
It still did just you being there and a small computer not tons weight.

No news so far of alien visit or time traveller … but it might be hard if they tried to avoid us … except for selling something like enterprise Vulcan did to help education fund which is more physical and hence possible.
augment is the hopeful outcome. The alternatives seems quite bad to say the least. Maybe they lead to something good, something better. but there's a whole lotta bad in between for an unclear amount of time.
There's no such thing as tables or chairs

What do you mean?
Hard Agree, Semantic Kernal, On the other hand seems to actually be a value add on top of the simple API calls. Have you guys tried it ?