skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could just have nationalized pharma and direct research and production rationally at lower prices. The scientists and research directions are managed for the most part by the state and organic energy already, pharma just does marketing and purchasing trials. Anyone with money (i.e. the state) could do that, probably for less.
It looks great. Any plans to allow for filtering number of stops in the chat?
>Is this some new usage of the word "chrome" that I'm not familiar with, or does it use chrome libraries?

Neither.
My guess though is that it's all just a show. I really doubt that other companies are incapable of producing devices like that. They just don't launch them because they're probably not viable one way or another (quality control, demand, ROI, etc).

And yeah they're definitely stealing. Huawei has been caught pretty blatantly doing so.
Have you tried using more 4000x more samples?

https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50-sota-on-ar...
Thanks! If someone can start, I'll contribute. I can manage only 1 at a time.
This is exactly right!

Oh, how I wish there was a book on the history of science and math. Like how they went from the Four Humours or Phlogiston and Spontaneous Generation and Luminferous Ether theories to what they had later. Like how scientists all thought the earth was 100 million years old for a couple centuries until the discovery of radioactivity.

I want a book that would speak about how people made fun of Ignaz Semmelweis for washing hands in hospitals, until Pasteur in France and John Snow in England showed evidence for the germ theory of disease. How people used leeches and bloodletting, and when / why they stopped. (And maybe anecdotes like How Washington Roebling building the Brooklyn Bridge died from a gangrene because he thought pouring water over his wound was enough, and his son finished it)

I want a book that would explain the experiments that led to the theories, like Michelson-Morley that challenged the Lumeniferous Ether model. Or how people first discovered X-rays and didn’t know what to make of them.

How, indeed, did people prove to others that atoms existed? I don’t mean Democritus’ theories 2500 years ago, I mean what made people convinced the world was made from atoms?

And then the experiments that led to the standard model, how was it developed? The word Quark, where it came from, the reactions of scientists to Quantum theory etc.

Our science comes shrinkwrapped, showing only the end result, not the history of thought and the places where (eg Andalusia in the 1100s or China in 20 AD). To me it is very interesting when people weren’t sure yet but got the right result based on circumstantial reasoning, didn’t have high-powered electron microscopes and still somehow realized about atoms and molecules (Gregor Mendel etc). Or how Darwin and Mendeleev developed theories genetics, why they so thoroughly discounted Lamarckian evolution and were they correct etc.

I want a book that discusses the history including the ERRONEOUS theories, the time frames, the experiments that challenged prevailing theories, the controversies, and what made people find the correct theories.

And maybe the people (eg Newton avoided women, and studied Hebrew to reconstruct Biblical history, Michael Faraday was a devout Christian etc.)

Is there such a book? Can you guys recommend ??
...partially due to the fact that nobody else can be bothered to fund it. Which is the problem with public capital markets; unless someone forces them to research, say, seatbelts and airbags, those things become an ignored liability.
"doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)"

This is how you end up with super STD's
Don’t forget incentive structures that award developers for “org wide impact”. Often the way to do that is to roll your own crap instead of use off the shelf stuff. This is how you wind up with developers creating their own key-value databases or billing systems… it sounds much better to write these from scratch.
yes, i believe it is like $25 at walmart. even the older synthetics are similarly priced if you don't have a prescription
> They will get cheaper with time as the techniques become commodities.

Except the cost of many drugs continues to go up, even as they're commercially available and R&D has been recouped (I also realize that R&D may be a bucket across multiple drugs, not just a 1:1 correlation, but nonetheless).

> We should also invest in lowering the costs of drug design & trialing so we can lower the risk premium and startup cost.

We already lower the costs of a lot of drug design by doing (some of) it at public universities.
They are still going to have to cut the edges off of round waffers to make them square.

The process of drawing the ingots leads to inherently round waffers. This is something that is not done by the foundary, but by a vendor.
The US regarded China as a friend since the mid-70s, and it led to prosperity for both countries. The problem is direct US military aggression, and in "maintaining hegemony" which is the neocon idea that regards Chinese prosperity as a threat in and of itself.

It would be wonderful for the US to stop threatening China. China is not threatening the US.
One year later, the USAF fared an even worse against a runaway drone. It took two days to put out all of the fires caused by the rockets that missed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale
interesting how all languages evolve a „record“ construct.
That’s a perception and the problem isn’t the AI it’s human nature: 1. every time AI is able to do a thing we move the goalposts and say, yeah, but it can’t do that other thing over there; 2. We are impatient, so our ability to get bored tends to outpace the rate of change.
> The current usual approach is "one shot", you've got one shot at the prompt, then return your output, no seconds thoughts allowed, no recursion at all.

We've had the models for a while and still no one has shown this mythical lab where this regurgitation machine reasons about things and makes no mistakes.

Moreover, since it already has so much knowledge stored, why does it still hallucinate even in specific cases where the answer is known, such as the case I linked?
> But at some point, one needs to launch the thing, despite the complains.

Or: at some point, one decides to launch the thing.

You are reducing the complaints of an engineer as something inevitable and unimportant, as if it happened in every lunch, and in every lunch someone decided to went ahead, because it was what was needed.
TikTok confirms it offered US Government a 'kill switch'
Apple Introduces the iStick
I've implemented SSO in a small business context. It's insanely hard. Absolutely not worth it.

Until Apple and Microsoft find a way to a LetsEncrypt-type comprehensive mission, it's out of the question.

And, since Azure 'Entra' is a Microsoft profit center, no easy to use tool will be in their interest.
Coming back to write something more full-throated: Klu.ai is a rare thing in the LLM space, well-thought out, has the ancillary tools you need, is beautiful, and isn't a giveaway from a BigCo that is a privacy nightmare: ex. Cloudflare has some sort of halfway similar nonsense that, in all seriousness, logs all inputs/outputs.

I haven't tried it out in code, it's too late for me and I'm doing native apps, but I can tell you this is a significant step up in the space.

Even if you don't use multiple LLMs yet, and your integration is working swell right now, you will someday. These will be commodities, valuable commodities, but commodities. It's better to get ahead of it now.

Ex. If you were using GPT-4 2 months ago, you'd be disappointed by GPT-4o, and it'd be an obvious financial and quality decision to at least _try_ Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

It's a weird one. Benchmarks great. Not bad. Pretty damn good. But ex. It's now the only provider I have to worry about for RAG. Prompt says "don't add footnotes, pause at the end silently, and I will provide citations", and GPT-4o does nonsense like saying "I am now pausing silently for citations: markdown formatted divider"
I work on generative AI for circuit board design with tscircuit, IMO it's definitely going to be the dominant form of bootstrapping or combining circuit designs in the near future (<5 years)

Most people are wrong that AI won't be able to do this soon. The same way you can't expect an AI to generate a website in assembly, but you CAN expect it to generate a website with React/tailwind, you can't expect an AI to generate circuits without having strong functional blocks to work with.

Great work from the author studying existing solutions/models- I'll post some of my findings soon as well! The more you play with it, the more inevitable it feels!
Nobody has used those for years. New engineered insulins like Novolog have been going down in price for years. They can make tons of it now.
Is there a reason you choose to go to 17 but not to 21? 21 is also a LTS version.
Ok I'll consider that, thanks for the tip.
Beautiful news to see. I've often heard that cracking an HIV preventative cure would be the end-all-be-all to creating preventative cures for most viruses within the decade of its discovery; I wonder if this optimism is still there.
Full disclosure: I work at WorkOS (https://workos.com/), we provide SSO (among other things) as a service.

I glanced through the report and it comes to the normal conclusion that SSO is hard and expensive to get right. Do SMBs focus on providing value to their customers in the problem space that they are experts at or do they spend months just getting sign-in working?

Yeah I get the concern about the "SSO tax" but unfortunately SSO isn't free. Someone is paying for it somewhere, be that implementation, outsourcing to a service, and/or maintenance and customer support for the live of the product.

That said there are a lot more services and libraries out today that try to make this easier such as https://www.passportjs.org/ (which WorkOS sponsors).
Nobody has used that type of insulin for decades.
The article says this, but it then goes on to say:

>To increase yields, the natives initially cut down the island's trees to get nutrients back into the soil.

>When there were no more trees, they engaged in...

That sounds to me like the theory is correct, at least to the extent of the islanders using up their trees unsustainably. The fact that they then found other methods of surviving and their population didn't go down after using up the trees doesn't mean that they didn't permanently damage the environment.
Lmao I can't tell if this is satire or not but calling people NPCs always reminds me of this XKCD I once had up in my cubicle.
https://xkcd.com/610/
SAML and OAUTH2 are open standards, and single-point of failure generally means a single server or host- but I take the point that having a centralised service becoming unavailable would affect new logins.

However, you're rather naive if you think this is what would keep you locked in, changing authentication host (usually tied to mail, calendars, chat) is... difficult, and changing the SSO stuff is one of the easiest parts of the migration speaking from experience.

SSO is quite useful when you have onboarding and offboarding, remembering every place a person had an account with access to critical company data is horrible and trying to convince people to not share passwords between them is horrible too- a breach in one, in those cases, is a breach in all.
AI is the anti printing press. Done well, it removes the ability t read something written by someone far away, because it erodes any ability to trust that someone exists, or to find that persons ideas amongst the remixed nonideas AI churns out.

Advertising is similar, of course, and the only thing that has kept the internet working as a communications medium in spite of advertising is that it was generally labeled, constrained, enclosed, spam-filtered, etc.

The AI of today is being applied to help advertising escape those shackles, and in doing so, harm the ability to communicate.
"If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."

Chuck Yeager
> both good and bad

Not arguing against that. The first thing is to be able to steer. And then you can steer in the right direction. So I'm glad it seems we'll finally be able to steer. Now we can figure out where exactly we want to end up.
Perhaps. And perhaps not. Many would elongate or voice ("voice" in the linguistic sense meaning activate the vocal cords) the m in ham - not just the lengthen the a - in a way that they wouldn't when saying hamster, in which they might pronounce the "m" as a glottal stop (the reason why hamster is often misspelled as "hampster") or as a voiceless bilabial consonant.

Regardless, it's a red herring, because vowel length can also refer to "long" vs "short" vowels as in Bake vs. Back. Thats a different, and in my view more common, meaning of vowel length
Waymos are fantastic, I actually look forward to riding them every time. It's a quiet, peaceful space where you can relax for a bit on the way to your destination. Haven't had any issues with them except for one time where the car was super hot on the inside for whatever reason and the AC was not working.
One of the funniest things I've read in awhile — not least, that it took two young pilots from the British Royal Navy, on temporary duty with the Aussie navy under an exchange program, to shoot down the errant aircraft after failures to do so by Aussie navy and air force. I'm sure the RN didn't gloat about that one at all; oh, no, that'd never happen .... (Their attitude would likely have been a dismissive, "Of course — what'd you expect?")
Of ducking course they are.

There’s not a strong enough incentive not to.

Companies have pulled crap like this a million times and the vast majority of the time just get a slap on the wrist.
The interesting part of failures like this is adding it to the test suites, beyond the specific Turing Prize.

As you could notice the author of this tweet knows something about computer science though.
The price is actually very competitive -- it is about 30% cheaper than the service that I use for my townhouse.

Their site is very rough around the edges. I assume this is available only in the bay area?
Climate Zones
Cf. with the posture that OpenAI is taking towards government and government regulation.

When Sam Altman went to congress, his message was that AI is dangerous, and therefore the government should regulate it. When asked how smart AI had to be before it should be regulated, he said that AI which is sufficiently advanced to be able to persuade people is dangerous--we don't want bad players and their machines influencing elections, do we?

This is beautiful. It looks like a very nice, bright line the government can use to help it decide what the regulations should be. And how very public spirited--statesmanlike, even--of Sam Altman to ask for government regulation of his own company.

But it achieves two very important goals for OpenAI:

1. Every time you use ChatGPT you want it to persuade you! If you didn't want it to change your opinions about something, you wouldn't have asked it a question. Therefore, the government regulations will apply to any OpenAI competitor.

Anybody competing with OpenAI already faces huge barriers to entry. But he just made it even harder. Competitors, by law, will have to hire a phalanx of lawyers and compliance officers, whose full time job will be to make programmers jobs harder.

2. The more we are talking about regulating dangerous AI, the LESS we are talking about the fact that OpenAI just stole the IP of virtually everybody who has ever copywritten anything!

To the point that we don't talk about it any more at all. Sam Altman has accumulated all of the IP of the information age, for free, and is now in a position to sell it back to us.

It's a paradigm example of how corporations should lobby governments. Business schools and law schools will be doing case studies of this until the end of time.
Except that the most interesting fact is that the mother of King John Lackland Plantagenet (the common ancestor), was Eleanor of Aquitaine who's arguably the most powerful woman in the world's history [1].

She's married to both King of France and King of England, and mother to three kings during her lifetime. She is well known during her time as warmongering queen that's very instrumental and the leading figure in the Second Crusade to the holy city of Jerusalem, and the civil wars against her own husband, King Henry II of England.

Infact she's the ancestor to all the Kings and Queens of both French Empire and British Empire, even the incumbent King of the latter.

If the claim that she's the ancestor to all US presidents except one is true, her descendants have been ruling the most powerful countries, empires and super powers for the past one thousand years or millenia. The only equivalent to this that I can find is the characters of Bene Gesserit in the popular Dune Sci-Fi book series [2].

This takes the meaning of the popular idiom, 'apple does not fall far from the tree' to another level, and interestingly there's currently a war in the holy city of Jerusalem.

[1] Eleanor of Aquitaine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine

[2] Bene Gesserit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit
unfortunately the source eludes me for my paragraph, but this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10810638/ is some light reading although it has been retracted. however, it mentions a bit about it (such as moving people from placebo to treatment cohort and using those people in the data for the treatment cohort.)

I never made the statement that this was their South Africa (or africa) study. It isn't difficult to find the CEO of Pfizer saying their vaccine was "100% effective" in africa on twitter (there was a video, as well). that was my first claim.

Then i said "Now pfizer did this a different time ..."

edit: the source eludes me because i originally saw it on my cellphone in a video (the paper) and the bullet points were being read by an asian female. I failed to bookmark/save the video, and i have a hard time chasing down research that is this controversial without a DOI or PMC due to the ... tens of thousands of papers containing the same keywords.

I'm not claiming it's "buried" or "being kept from us" or anything conspiratorial, but it never got any play on mainstream media and would obviously get shadowbanned on any large site with funding from pfizer (et al) because of the "fact checkers want you to know that the vaccine has been proven safe and effective!" modal.

this has the 2/3rds participants excluded https://www.fda.gov/media/159195/download

but i am done for today, i have to crack some hydrogeology textbooks so i hope this stays up so i have my own reference for the next time i mention this
Because of proxying? SSO (SAML/OAUTH2) are usually implemented with a token, like normal auth. There should be no penalty aside from login.
Intense TLP optimizations do most of the work! There's a lot of threads regarding optimization on the community forum too!

Otherwise:
- Keep all expansion cards as USB-C
- Do what powertop tells you to do (watchdogs, autosuspend)
- Run a lightweight WM/DE (Hyprland without blur and shadows in my case)
- Limit electron apps, anything but electron apps.
- Use light mode (dark mode, from my experience, causes me to increase the backlight far higher than on light mode, something unfavourable on IPS panels)
I just paid $5.3k in the US for four 350mg doses of Albendazole (antiparasitic). This medication is something like $2 or less anywhere else in the world. This is not simply a problem with new drugs, but lack of pricing regulations from the federal government enabling pharma companies to fleece patients and insurance providers.
In my experience, YouTube’s is much more influenced by the latest videos a user has watched. It’s pretty much always "more of the same".

TikTok seems to manage to more quickly identify users’ interests and surface content based on more signals, aggregated over a longer period of time, without relying as much on conscious users’ actions (ie "follow / subscribe"), producing a wider diversity of recommendations.

There’s also the odd suggestion every now and then, probably used to gauge a user’s interest in a different category.
The latest version of The Well Grounded Java Developer was released in 2022, when 17 was the latest LTS version. The high quality of that book and being able to prescribe it is one reason why someone might prefer it.

I think OpenJDK 17 might also the highest LTS installable one on Debian 12 out of the box right now, but that's a lot less certain.
> > If you present a simple chess board to an LLM or a complex board to an LLM and ask it to generate the next move, it always responds in the same amount of time.

> Is that true, especially if you ask it to think step-by-step?

That's fair -- there's a lot of room to grow in this area.

If the LLM has been trained to operate with running internal-monologue, then I believe they will operate better. I think this definitely needs to be explored more -- from what little I understand of this research, the results are sporadically promising, but getting something like ReAct (or other, similar structures) to work consistently is something I don't think I've seen yet.
It was funny seeing their front page saying "World's faster analytical and search database" has 90MB/s streaming ingest speed..
They dealt with this for third-party keyboards by barring them from connecting to the internet, they could do something similar to replacement on-device models. Even if that meant the "ask chatgpt" option wouldn't be available in the EU.

I think they're more motivated by trying to scaremonger about the DMA, in much the same way they and others did about GDPR.
Is this trollbait?

Anyone with any degree of techinical understanding realizes that chatgpt doesn't "understand" anything.
I've been known to inform people that the person that wrote the incredibly horrendous code that caused whatever problems to occur should be fired immediately knowing good and well that I was the only dev to write any of the code.
> partially due to the fact that nobody else can be bothered to fund it

I'm not even sure who the 'somebody else' even is. Public capital markets are how we direct money towards promising things that people want.
Sounds like they were caching it since they could execute it before getting the response. The difference is that they wanted to avoid the situation where they execute stale code that the server never would've served. So they can execute the stale code while waiting for the response then either toss the result or continue on with it once they determine if the server response changed.
I have heard this argument before but it's interesting to see where the money for R&D is actually spent.

It's not on these kind of diseases, this kind of work is usually done with public money, grants.

Money in big pharma is usually spent in researching weight loss and alternative drugs for common diseases. After all, the return of investment on these types of drugs is much higher.

For a big company to make a drug that costs 1 million dollars but only 1000 people in the world have it, and from those only perhaps 100 live in countries that can afford the drug might be a business opportunity but it's honestly not a huge profit which is why they will turn to public funding to research these.

Imo, if you use public money then the products should be free of intellectual property. Public money, public goods.
Yes, you can buy a months supply for 30$ at Walmart
> Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication for your website (or other product) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Azure AD, Okta, PingFederate, etc.

OK, so SSO==OAuth.

What TFA doesn't mention is that we're enabling surveillance capitalism by SSO.

"Who owns the customers" might well be an SMB consideration.