skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open-source, sanitized evaluation datasets for models that reason and code
When training our 70B model, we sought to accurately evaluate models for natural language understanding and reasoning abilities. Surprisingly, we found that both open and closed models achieve nearly 100% accuracy when evaluated only on unambiguous questions. We cleaned evaluation datasets to isolate true failures of reasoning from failure due to ambiguous or low-quality questions, and have open-sourced many. This includes:

• 11 sanitized and extended NLP reasoning benchmarks including ARC, GSM8K, HellaSwag, and Social IQa
• An original code-focused reasoning benchmark
• A new dataset of 450,000 human judgments about ambiguity in NLP questions
> I don’t see what that has to do with this story, though.

It is noteworthy because the safety/reliability of the Starliner was called into question. The fact that the two Starliner astronauts are still on the ISS means that NASA does not entirely trust the spacecraft. The fact that they sent them to shelter in it is noteworthy because it means that they trust it enough to be used in an emergency. If they would have asked Butch and Suni to shelter instead in the dragon or the soyuz that would have been a serious egg on the face of Boeing.

> nor do the issues affect Starliner’s usage as a shelter

Okay. I think i understand what you might be thinking. Please correct me if I am wrong. It sounds like you think the shelter functions because it is thick and that shields the astronauts. If you have that mental model that would explain why you think that the issues with Starliner does not affect its usage as a shelter. After all the problems with the trusters does not change the spacecraft’s wall thickness.

But this is not the correct mental model. The spacecraft is not sheltering them with its thickness. If they get unlucky orbital debris will cut through Starliner like a hot knife through butter. The real reason they shelter in the spacecraft is that they can use it to land if the station gets hit and they have to abandon it. So the correct mental model is that of a rescue boat, not a debris shield.

And if you are thinking that way it is easy to see how the trusters being less than perfectly reliable hampers the usage of the spacecraft as a shelter (as a rescue boat). It just happens to be that the relative danger posed by the truster problems is smaller (in NASA’s estimate) than the relative danger posed by trying to ride the other spacecrafts down without a seat for the extra astronauts.
I would read these two pieces as they lay things out pretty well:

https://staffeng.com/guides/what-do-staff-engineers-actually...

https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes/

I think it all depends on who you are and what your team needs.
Thanks! Feel free to file an issue if there's something missing from the library or the daemon.
I don't understand why your analogy requires multiple taco trucks. So if I'm missing something please explain.

Otherwise, I find your analogy helpful and illustrative of my confusion. Here is the simplified analogy:

1. Scrooge owns a nasty taco truck that makes everyone sick. He runs to the bahamas and is gone.
2. A dozen customers take it to bankruptcy court and get ownership of the taco truck and Scrooge's "charitable" donation, but Scrooge would get immunity, and so would the taco truck.
3. Meanwhile, the victims that weren't in the settlement are outraged that Scrooge might be immune. Not everyone was a part of the first suit -- plus, the taco truck is still selling tacos, and people are still getting sick!

This illustrates my confusion.

To me it seems like we should shut down the taco truck, and not give it immunity. I'm kind of a utilitarian and I don't much care about Scrooge, though I wish I could take his money away and put him in jail.

But it seems like most of the people who are mad about the diarrhea are not talking about the taco truck's continued operations and immunity??? And they are chiefly concerned about Scrooge, who is no longer involved with the taco truck??? What gives?
> Universally letting everyone on to the plan would have actually allowed them to run the fraud on everyone, not just people on Medicare.

They do. Private insurers get defrauded all the time just like Medicare does.
Every story I've seen over the years about MAS/iOS AS rejections point to their checks not being advanced at all.
The Noble Eightfold Path
Carbs, a hyperparameter optimizer that scales small experiments to LLMs
We successfully scaled from a 7B run to a 70B run on the first try, with minimal training instability and no loss spikes. We also predicted performance of the 70B model based on experiment results from much smaller models.

We accomplished this using our hyperparameter optimizer, CARBS. We’re open-sourcing CARBS today so that other small teams experimenting with novel model architectures can experiment at small scale and trust performance at large scale.
An interesting and well balanced article, but for this (emphasis added):

> Anyone who imagines a future of electric passenger planes, long-duration grid storage and air taxis is conjuring a dream founded on lithium.

Grid storage doesn’t rely so much on density. Sodium-ion batteries would do (as well as the other numerous storage technologies that don’t rely on lithium)
I fooled around with these too, 20+ years ago... this happened a few times to me. I took to wrapping them with a towel + gaffa tape as mitigation. The things you do as a kid!
I had an amazing science teacher in high school who brought a potato cannon he had built into to class to show us. Except he called it a "sock cannon" and had loaded it with a large tube sock that he had rolled up. He explained how it worked, how he built it from a few basic plumbing parts anyone could get at the hardware store, how the fuel was just hairspray and how we definitely shouldn't build one ourselves.

Naturally, I went home and decided to construct a much bigger version of the one he showed us. After convincing my parents to drive me to the hardware store, I picked out what I needed -- including 7 feet of PVC. The clerk immediately figured out what I was building and that was the first time I heard the term potato cannon. They seemed concerned that my mom was on board with the whole thing, but I stuck to my guns and said it was a science project and was for shooting socks. I had figured I could wrap the sock around a smaller projectile, but that clerk made me realize I didn't even need the sock.

My friend and I put it all together pretty quickly the next day and set it up in my backyard for testing. I think we probably started with socks, but I honestly can't recall. What I do remember is taking a hacky-sack I had lying around that fit perfectly into the barrel to try and fire it at our back fence. We were using a piezo igniter from a lighter I had disassembled, and it took some trial and error to get the fuel to air mixture just right. It took both of us to operate: one person aimed the barrel, the other operated the trigger. This time, I was aiming and he was lighting. But it just wasn't lighting... so I turned around to try and help and BOOM the cannon went off like, well, a cannon. Except I wasn't pointing at the fence anymore, but well above it. The hacky-sack tore through the branches of several trees before exploding on the metal siding of the house on the opposite side of our block. The sound could probably be heard for blocks.

We both just looked at each other with a mixture of delight and panic before immediately running back into my house. We saw someone come out of the house we hit looking utterly confused, trying to figure out what just happened. We started laughing uncontrollably, realizing how close we were to causing a lot of damage, or possibly injuring someone.

Luckily, nothing every came of that incident, and we made sure later tests were done in a nearby park. We never did attempt to put an actual potato in the thing. Perhaps 7 feet was a little overkill...

PS - Dr. Vince, if you're out there, thank you for being one of the best teachers I've ever had. I'll never forget that class, or that "sock cannon"!
I actually think we do live in very socially stable societies. Not to say it’s always a good thing.

But we do have clear systems of who gets power, through what means, and what they can do with it. The various classes of society have a relatively peaceful system of competing with one another.

I’m writing from a British perspective but it largely applies to most developed countries.
They are ready to move on to become governor and senator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
I note that the Buddha doesn't suggest Kubernetes once. Just saying.
I think this is just due to better non-English training data.

It's 15 ELO under Llama-3-70B on english hard prompts and 41 ELO under Llama-3-70B (the latter is actually stat sig) for general English.
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Consider this: Uber loses `x` per year but somehow synergizes with (i.e., provides services for) another startup that gains `2x` per year. That's a net of `x` per year for the investors!

And your observation that you need money to make money is correct. That's why it's traditionally an American thing -- lots of that around.
They didn't though, they cited a medical journal article where an unaffiliated doctor reported the extremely low addiction rate. Which was true and misleading because short term opioid use addiction rates don't predict long term addiction rates — lying with statistics. And they should be charged and convicted for this, in fact they already were. However, since 2001 every bottle of oxy has made no claim that it's less addictive than other opioids. And we still prescribed them like candy.
If you are writing general purpose software, I would suggest Rust if I have nothing else to go on, although there are plenty of other good choices if you know more about the problem.

In a few cases there is today a special purpose language for the kind of thing you're writing which will knock both C and Rust on their backs for performance because it was never trying to do anything else.
And soylent is yet more variety right?
Nothing is more dangerous than a bored soldier.
Everyone here making AI 'social profile' systems take note of this and add it as something to track. Will come in great for the marketing feature list.
If they did are doing more, why are the apps getting rejected?
COBOL code seems to live in 72 columns, with the last 8 columns of a punch card were 'free for programmer use'.

Now I am wondering if somehow, some ancient COBOL limit ended up in git because every tool picked it up as convention from an older tool.
The AI companies don’t want you “anthropomorphising” the models because it would put them at risk of increased liability.

You will be told that linear algebra is just a model and the fact that epistemology has never turned up a decent result for what knowledge is will be ignored.

We are meant to believe that we are somehow special magical creatures and that the behaviour of our minds cannot be modelled by linear algebra.
Yeah, seems grifty to me as well and some medical practitioners are solely in for the money so you’ve got to always watch out.
"Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a home-made megaphone using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone". Seriously?
Why is Garland quoted talking about "profit from the unlawful distribution of controlled substances" when the vast majority of the fraud here had nothing to do with controlled substances? The quote is definitely missing context but it seems inappropriate inserted here.

Edit: Ok, found the actual statement[0]. Indeed AP just pulled this quote completely out of context:

> The fourth pillar of our strategy is ensuring that we keep pace with constantly evolving health care fraud schemes. That includes addressing the rise of schemes that exploit telemedicine technology — specifically as it relates to Adderall and other stimulants.

> Utilizing proactive data analytics, we identified misuse of telemedicine as a possible source of an increase in prescriptions for stimulants. Thereafter, we worked with law enforcement officers to identify potential schemes. Our investigation led us to a digital health care company called Done.

> Earlier this month, we charged and arrested the former CEO and the clinical president of Done for their respective roles in a $100 million scheme to defraud taxpayers and provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose.

> Today, we are also announcing that we have charged an additional five defendants for their alleged involvement in that scheme to distribute more than [40 million] medically unnecessary pills.

> One of the defendants, who was among the company's largest prescribers, was indicted for rubber stamping prescriptions without any medical review. As alleged, the defendant also signed prescriptions for patients who were deceased.

> I want to be clear: it does not matter if you are a trafficker in a drug cartel or a corporate executive or medical professional employed by a health care company. If you profit from the unlawful distribution of controlled substances, you will be held accountable.

So, yeah, Garland is talking about adderall prescriptions. Whereas AP sandwiched the quote between discussion of the (unrelated) Arizona woundcare fraud. Frankly this AP article is a really poor summary of the original DOJ statement and if I were dang I'd update the link to go directly to the DOJ.

[0]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-...
The reason for the no-burn instruction is the magnesium. Once it starts burning, it's very, very difficult to put out.
Always people who consider themselves intelligent
Likely a net overall drop.

Private insurers get defrauded just like Medicare does. They just don’t care; it means they can raise premiums.

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-asked-prosecutors-if-h...
Iv been interested in this on and off for a few years.

My most sunkworks idea was based of atechnology connections video, to use a stocheometric ratio of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, dump it into a steel pressure chamber....then let the liquids convert into a gas, then detonate the mixed gas using a high voltage arc. The detonation force blows a burst disk open and blasts the projectile slug forward at what I hoped to be hypersonic speeds.

Never really got to into it though cuz I'd need some machining equipment and a budget for the materials
convince jury
Yeah these days I'm mostly playing either Helldivers 2 or Call of Duty. I used to play a lot of Warframe and Overwatch. My experience was that Overwatch worked great (a bit slower than Windows on the same hardware but still fine) while Warframe worked pretty well but crashed on the large maps (the open-world-ish stuff). Call of Duty didn't run at all (anti-cheat as you said). I haven't tried Helldivers 2 yet as I currently have a dedicated Windows machine where it's installed.
The wording could be better.

But it has been known for over a decade now that Apple searches binaries for strings. They've never done runtime execution checks which would pick up you actually making such an HTTP call.
You’d think these folks would takeout cash, go to Walmart and buy a laptop which they only use at public hotspot locations. To later dispose of. Still traceable but a lot harder
> corporate leaders do everything right up to the legal boundary in pursuit of their shareholders interests.

Yes, that happens

Those are evil, short sighted people, sociopaths, who should not be emulated
The Supreme Court decided that the SEC can’t prosecute people seeking monetary fines and have it be decided by its own employees who serve as both judge and jury.

This should have been a straight forward case and it’s perplexing that it’s not being covered that way. If you get a traffic fine here in Maryland, you get to contest it in Maryland district court, in front of a judge that is nominated by the governor and confirmed by the state senate.

There is a precedent for executive branch quasi-judicial proceedings when it comes to government benefits, like the social security administration administrative judges deciding retiree checks. But this is completely different. It’s a punishment.

This doesn’t limit the SEC’s effectiveness at all. The SEC, of course, can bring lawsuits for civil damages in real courts—like every other executive branch agency both at the federal level and state level.
What's the difference between none inches and 0 inches? Might need a concrete example. We deal with space a fair amount and haven't needed many optionals there.
Depends. The actual rule being "violated" isn't that the app can't contain the string "itms-services". Rather it's:

Guideline 2.5.2 - Performance - Software Requirements
The app installed or launched executable code. Specifically, the app uses
the itms-services URL scheme to install an app.

i.e. the app can't try to trigger an install of another App Store app. The app in question isn't doing that, it's just that the basic check is incompetent for the rule it's supposed to be checking and the reviewer isn't doing any manual checking after that to see if it was a false-positive. So obfuscating the string, if you're genuinely not trying to install other apps, should leave your app just as non-violating as it was before... just not tripping the badly written check.

Apple can of course be arbitrary and capricious after that point.
how to get away: step 1: do not leave this book lying around lol
Nike Missed the Boom in Running Culture
So glad we're no longer using TV at work.
It's much worse than that. In order to protect the big selling point (10hrs between doses, once per nursing shift) they encouraged larger doses which were more likely to cause addiction instead of more frequent doses which were actually appropriate.
I would argue the whole system is fraudulent and highly corrupt but profitable so it's ok. Insurances reject legitimate claims, hospitals charge exorbitant rates for procedures that never happened and much more. Look at what PBMs do.
This is why I read Hacker News
>Also I live in a pretty good sized city of about 350k in our metro area, and before these delivery services only the national pizza places delivered. When I moved here from a larger city I was shocked there wasn’t a single Chinese delivery place. So I’m thinking that the costs and management were just too high.

This is interesting. When I was in college I could order Chinese delivery from about 5 different places, and they'd do it until about 4 or 5am. This was in a city of about 78k. After school I moved to another college town. It was double the population with a much more well known school. In this town, I don't think there was any Chinese delivery, and a vast majority of the places closed really early for a college town; maybe 8-10pm.

I wonder if smaller towns with lower rent leave more margin for extra hours and delivery, where as those with higher rents need to focus on staffing the core hours with as few people as possible to make the books balance? Just a theory, as I've never worked in these industries.

Near me, I still see Dominos doing their own delivery, with their corporate owned vehicles. I also see some local pizza places doing their own delivery as well. Jimmy Johns still does its own delivery as well, even if going through Door Dash, they just hand off the order, it doesn't go through the normal Door Dash process.
For a Vacation Without Crowds, Look to Your Nearest State Park
Isn't there a Dragon docked at the ISS right now?
“ The Man Who Broke Capitalism” by David Gelles offers great insight into the man and his actions. It actually offers some solutions to the problems Welch caused.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366216-the-man-who-bro...
-33C (-40C with windchill), no daylight (they wore night vis gear), refuelled with running engines in Antarctica, 7h+ return flight, in a 60-year old Lockheed C-130H Hercules airplane. More details here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520723/hercules-complete...
"recommends not breaking the law" yeah after disappearing, obviously.
open-remote-ssh doesn't currently work with Positron because Positron does not currently build the bundles that need to be installed inside the remote host. We're definitely interested in making this work, though; stay tuned!
We saw this on our trip there and had a good laugh about it.
>Say I am choosing between two types of ham.

I'm having trouble imagining a situation where this would help you with ham though. Probably either all ham counts as ultra processed, or none of it does. (My money is on the former)

If it was based on the number of ingredients, maybe there would be some case where one ham has an additional flavoring or something that puts it over the limit. But how likely is it that the extra ingredients would have a significant effect? Probably not much compared to the ham itself, plus the salt or whatever that's in it.
Thanks. I've got a little project that needs to use protobufs, and if my DIY approach of sending either application/octet-stream or application/json turns out to be too sketchy, I'll give Connect a try. Only reason I'm not jumping for it is it involves more dependencies.
A couple of dumb nobodies bilked Medicare for almost a billion dollars before they got caught. Nothing in that Propublica article gets within an order of magnitude.

Also, just looking for fraud complaints is missing the way most insurers combat fraud: They have enough systemic protections to deny the claim in the first place.
Check out the podcast The Kids of Rutherford County to hear public defenders talk about how impossible the work is; especially when you have an absolutely corrupt judge. It's goddamn maddening.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-of-rutherford-county...
Thats funny. What a dick. Some people just like attention (let em have it.) If you want to exploit a country's resources, why not facilitate win-win scenarios? If we are terraforming the earth through sheer force of violence/will, why not sublimate this impulse just a tiny bit and think about how to approach this wholistically? That is, leave it better than you found it and think about the next generation(s). This whole "survival of the fittest" is a great rallying call but, nature often favors cooperation.
$32K is cheap, we got charged ~$110K in Southern California (two kids - two different hospitals - both over $110K). Luckily insurance paid 95% of it.
The difference in tech outcomes can definitely be attributed to _European_ conditions, but regulation is extremely country-specific – the _EU_ is not the detriment (e.g. Germany might be notably bureaucratic, but the culture in Sweden differs, and so do frameworks in Poland). EU institutions are out to get the US giants, but startups or scaleups? Out of sight.

There really is comparatively little reward for shooting for the moon though – the fragmented stock markets don't provide great exit opportunities, so less money goes into funding ambitious companies. Then, scaling throughout all of Europe is notably hard, with dozens of languages, cultures, and legal frameworks to navigate. Some of these cultures are more risk-averse, and that's not easy to change. Not to mention English being the _lingua franca_ of business and tech.

I would love Europe to reach the States' level of tech strength, but these are all really hard problems.