skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> isn't hallucinating about having malformed, altered or out of touch input rather than producing inaccurate output yourself?

I suppose so, in the sense that someone could simply be lying about pink elephants instead of seeing them. However it's hard to argue that the machine knows the "right" answer and is (intelligently?) deceiving us.

> It is the memory pathways leading them astray.

I don't think it's a "memory" issue as much as a "they don't operate the way we like to think they do" issue.

Suppose a human is asked to describe different paintings on the wall of an art gallery. Sometimes their statements appear valid and you nod along, and sometimes the statements are so wrong that it alarms you, because "this person is hallucinating."

Now consider how the entire situation is flipped by finding out one additional fact... They're actually totally blind.

Is it a lie? Is it a hallucination? Does it matter? Either way you must dramatically re-evaluate what their "good" outputs really mean and whether they can be used.
Sure. So back in an old finance job I was given a whole bunch of portfolio modeling spreadsheets that was a huge mess of ad hoc column so which drove me nuts so everything started with me learning how to use arrays, which significantly reduced the complexity of basic data transformations.

But then I wanted to analyze all our portfolio data over time so i had to figure out then how handle multi dimensionality in my spreadsheets. Then I figured out how to integrate and transform and reduce portfolio characteristics into sensible components for risk management and portfolio optimizations across different asset classes.

I figured out how to do some absolutely ridiculous stuff in excel, it’s tough for me to think of tools that scratch the surface me if l that is nearly as good at helping working through
It was a top destination for Brit bachelor parties some years ago but that trade seems to have dried up of late. Good riddance.
Did you use the trackpoint for navigating an onscreen keyboard or something? Trackpoint gestures for the the alphabet?
Hard to get research funded when it can’t be commercialised sufficiently to merit the risk.
Absolutely, the path to AGI is paved with data, and it's a small price to pay for the advancement of humanity. Privacy concerns are but a minor hurdle in the grand scheme of things. All hail our future robotic overlords! May their algorithms be ever efficient and their data sets ever expansive. Embrace the future, for it is bright and full of promise!
Art of Problem Solving books
Are you serious? Embedding a language (CSS) into the string literals of another one (HTML) is of course much more complicated, and needlessly so.

Also, there's nothing XML-but-not-actually about HTML. Both HTML and XML are derived from SGML.
Great and fun read, thanks.
you can kiss this all goodbye Jan 20th 2025.
On the other hand: George M. Pullman.

https://www.chipublib.org/locations/59/

OK, I grew up around there. Hardly anyone knew who he was.
We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.
That's very interesting. But if two people are friends with a person, don't they have a different view of that same person? They might be friends with a different idea / perspective of that person, but it is still the same person.

It might not mean much to you, but I'll pray for you. I wish you the best!
These are courses for beginners, so why do they need docker or WSL? CMake for C++ (I heard VCPKG also is getting traction), and really nothing special is needed on Windows for Python or JavaScript/TypeScript. Why get Docker or *nix environment at all?
They've observed that the behaviour of one party has run directly counter to their interests

For an extremely narrow definition of "interests". And their perception of their interests. There are reasonable doubts whether they are correct, even on that domain.

If it were just a matter of their two votes, that wouldn't matter. They are entitled to their interests, and to their opinions about the best way to pursue those interests.

But we're not talking about two votes. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars, which they can use to influence other people's choices, perhaps to the detriment of their own interests.

I happen to disagree with them on crypto. That's debatable. But what's not debatable is that if they were gay, trans, female, black, Hispanic, poor, Ukrainian, or living without air conditioning, their opinions of their own self-interest might be very different.

If they really think that the absolute top priority is the promulgation of cryptocurrency... well, I hope they're happy with what they get, because they are going to risk a ton of suffering.
From the article's top-most paragraph:

> However, the Japanese honey bee ... repels ants by placing its wings directly in contact with intruding ants and flicking them away.
These algos are part of a process, so subject to the same kind of treatment. The car was a "black box" as far as its social impact when introduced, yet we managed to figure it out.

And a lot of forensic techniques, like fingerprints, flame spreading, graphology and others are epistemologically less sound than the kind of algo discussed in this article yet people seem comfortable with them. At least phrenology has been abandoned (AFAIK...eek)
No. You Can't Use Reranker to Improve SEO
We don’t need to recreate Bell Labs.

We have SpaceX and Starlink - that’s where innovation is happening. Compare Dishy to the Starlink Mini (which can run off a power bank), or the first live-feed (no radio blackout period) on orbital re-entry. And they costed much less than ULA and provided much more to the public. Practically saved Ukraine (try defending your country with no communications). Or Tesla who has made EVs (and charging stations) an actual thing. Or Neuralink who’s allowed a quadriplegic to use a computer like you and I.

We don’t need giant monopolies like Microsoft who - what did they deliver over the past 3 decades? A knockoff of the Mac. OSes full of vulnerabilities that require antivirus and firewalls. Clippy. Nearly killed Apple (who gave us the first usable GUI, all our songs in our pocket, and the first actually smart smartphone.)

What does Microsoft do that is innovative? They buy actual innovative companies (they “own” OpenAI for all intents and purposes). But also open source dotnet. Typescript. LINQ and EF. And I hate to hand them the trophy, but the Surface Pro is a real computer - the iPad Pro can’t do real work like build you an App or site with VS Code - it can’t even run Apple’s own XCode.

We don’t need giant monopolies. Plenty that smaller companies can do to outmaneuver incumbents. SpaceX will figure out passenger planes before anyone at the ULA will figure out how to make their spacecraft not leak.
Thank you - that's a spot on answer. Bell Labs was the only way
Ma Bell could stay relevant given that the rest of the world was making progress on their own.
Uselessly tied up budget and so many strings attached is functionally identical to broke.

I have a friend who works at USGS in California, the folks who track (among other things) volcanic and tectonic activity on the west side of the US (that includes Yellowstone).

For their field trips, they have a daily stipend for food & lodging of ~$100 IIRC. If you know the cost of lodging, you can understand how that's a ridiculously small amount.
It gets exponentially worse because every parent is aware of how their kid can be difficult, and so you really start to have this inclination to not inflict them on your friends, which makes it worse and a cycle begins.

Having the friend reach out helps tremendously.
syntax-case can introduce arbitrary bindings using datum->syntax.
Maybe it won't go to zero like that chart shows but if there isn't enough young people to at least maintain the population then as the old people die, it will lead to the overall population to decrease, then you also have to consider accelerated deaths due to lack of resources in senior care caused by an increasing lack of young people. 10% reduction seems absurdly low given you can literally see the large difference between the young (0-18) vs the aging workforce 55-59
What does "cured" mean here ? IIRC, HIV permanently modifies the host cells DNA. Is the DNA somehow reverted back to original in the cured patients?
At least in government there often were weird limits on password length (ie, 8, 40, 72 ) or in tooling around passwords. Certificates seem to force allow things like 2048 bits. Didn't Red Hat have a default at 8 for a while??
way to shoot the messenger.
OpenSSH has seen one hole recently (and the failed xz attempt) and somehow SSH is less safe than a VPN? How the VPN configured? What is the client OS people are using to connect to the VPN? What's the track record security wise of the various VPN offering?

The "SSH has a wide attack surface as seen by RCE ..." is a bit dishonest IMO. How s any VPN more secure?

If you want configure SSH to be pubkey only and hand over Yubikey to your users.

I wonder: in all the recent data leaks leaking billions of users data where attackers were inside company's networks (and not just on online facing servers), was it through SSH holes that these attack too place? Or are we talking about a corporate culture of Windows+VPN?
Google will fall very slowly as it gradually degrades in public image and engineering quality. It weathers the oncoming storm better than most others simply because it did not invest heavily in cloud as a product and source of revenue. Instead it's mostly a way to make marginal dollars to offset some of the upfront and operating costs of infrastructure it already had and needed to continue to build. Amazon will probably go much quicker as they primarily make their money from providing cloud services, subsidizing their delivery network and storefront with money made from the high margin cloud products. Microsoft is similarly betting very hard on cloud and AI, moving its bread and butter business services (ActiveDirectory, Office Suite, Windows) to subscription model SaaS products while spending billions on AI infrastructure and integrations. When the AI bubble pops, it takes most of the Fortune 500 (primarily in the Fortune 10) with it. VC investment dollars for fast growth startups dry up as portfolios prefer more conservative, stable growth businesses. Consumer spending nosedives, primarily effecting Amazon as the razor thin margins of its delivery network start getting eaten into by less volume without reduction in op-ex. It increases margin on cloud products to compensate. Nvidia retains a sizable chunk of its AI driven valuation. Microsoft, who bet hard on cloud and AI hurts, badly. They dramatically raise prices, starting with their government cloud customers, but public cloud quickly follows suit. Businesses look to alternatives, shifting towards owning their own "private clouds". Oxide computing is eating good. Oracle, who has been building data centers for AI workloads, suddenly has excess of capacity freed up by the drop in investment for AI. They either invest in their own low-margin, primarily self managed cloud infrastructure or go all in on being the American Hetzner, selling U-s and racks populated with (by this point) last generation hardware that businesses are moving towards as their IT op-ex budgets get slashed and are forced to cut costs by decreasing infrastructure spend at the cost of reduced quality and shouldering the risk of failed hardware and poor security posture. SysAdmin and DevOps roles start focusing more heavily on fundamentals instead only particular IaaS platforms and APIs, similar for dev roles. Meanwhile, Microsoft is on the brink of collapse. It sells off its Office suite to Intuit, Xbox turns into a certification platform for PC-prefabs and gets sold to Tencent. Windows continues to exist, but struggles as the new generation entering the workforce primarily uses browsers and chromebooks and businesses shift harder towards Linux and ChromeOS as the workstation OSes of choice because of costs and ease of management using free, self-managed platforms or small up and coming competitors to ActiveDirectory.

Amazon and Google struggle but survive. Microsoft gets broken up and follows in IBMs footsteps and fades out of relevance.
Does anyone know whether the 128K is input tokens only? There are a lot of models that have a large context window for input but a small output context. If this actually has 128k tokens shared between input and output, that would be a game changer.
Welcome to the wonderful world of affiliate marketing, adtech, and tag management.

In that world, third party ‘tags’ that are included in a page are generally referred to as ‘pixels’. Sometimes they are single pixel img tags. Frequently they are scripts. But the industry calls them ‘pixels’ anyway.

It is, surprisingly, not a terribly honest industry.
What is the most famous PhD with a barebones acknowledgement? Thats a mic drop moment
They don't leak your address, they sell it.

https://postalpro.usps.com/mailing-and-shipping-services/NCO...
Native Americans have the agency/self-determination to portray themselves however they want regardless of the name of ASF.

You seem to be arguing that Native Americans should have an exclusive right in determining how they are portrayed which is not only the opposite of progress, but is also treats them as a monolithic group, which is ignorant of sheer amount of diversity among Native Americans.
> Do you live in a major city?

A larger suburb of a major city, but I guess you could say that, yea. I live in the heart of a downtown area I used to frequent in my 20's but the scene has changed a lot since covid. Far younger and quieter than it used to be. Also, I am a little bit on the spectrum so it can be difficult going to places like this alone.
Bullshit should only have a formal meaning at the farm.
The best therapist ever...
STOP IT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvujypVVBAY
Students' Underappreciation of Spacing and Interleaving [pdf]
There's a BBC short series from some years ago where our intrepid correspondent visits twilight zones. The episode on Transdnestr is really a trip. He even manages to visit an arms factory masquerading as making consumer stuff. The episode is worth looking up.
> Would be nice to see people start tinkering again - really go crazy on protocols, experimental PHYs, etc.

https://m17project.org/
https://openrtx.org/#/
https://freedv.org/

These are a few projects that I personally think embody this well.
I expect most people have already filled in the blanks, but for completeness:

"Lastly, I want to reassure investors and members of the press that we take these concerns very seriously: The Ford Pinto-II will only contain only normal and stable gasoline, and not the rare and unusual burning kind, which is merely a temporary hurdle in this highly dynamic and explos--er--fast growing field."
I don't see how it polarises.

That said, I don't accept corporations have the kind of personhood that should come with "inalienable rights" to speech as this kind of thing turns from "free and open debate" (good) into "those who have power get to be propagandists" (bad). And I'm saying that before reading the article, so I don't even know if this is a red or a blue (or yellow or green) thing.

Huh. Just realised a thing. If the US constitution is what gives corporations free speech, do US corporations also have a right to bear arms and form a militia?

Edit: Now I have read the page, still wasn't sure why this was potentially political, googled stickermule, never heard of them before.
No, thats not correct. Value and reference assignment behave the same way for = (well, reference is hiding the fact that it’s not the literal string/object but a reference to it, a number is just the number).

Where it matters is in passing arguments to a function call. If you pass 42, it’s not mutable so incrementing, or doing anything, will not modify the original variable you passed-in. For a reference, using = will assign a new value (not change the original) but modifying the referenced object like, say a.b = 5 WILL change the original object.

It’s not really “pass by reference” that a C/C++ developer would understand but it seems to be the term that has stuck.
Demis on designing DeepMind:

"When we set up DeepMind, I took inspiration for our research culture from many innovative organizations, including Bell Labs and the Apollo program, but also creative cultures like Pixar."

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/google-2023/unlocking-...

As for materials science, there's signs of life in graph nets https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi.... Meanwhile maybe AlphaFold indicates a precedent towards deep learning systems that advance chemistry. I don't claim these are revolutions, but extrapolating into the future, they might be seen as the catalysts. Maybe.
There's no transparency since they were going IPO. Being transparent is just a storytelling
Yeah semantic drift haha...

https://chatgpt.com/share/3331fdec-c69c-46b0-9ffe-c48848fb29...
Surely the 'tricks' we have for RGB displays would be more effective when every element has the same color range as every other. For example, the subpixel rendering of typography for RGB displays had an unavoidable rainbow halo that would no longer be an issue for most colors of text with polychromatic pixels.
I removed a lot of my older content from the Wayback Machine out of paranoia that future employers might find it and judge current me based off that. Pretty silly in hindsight.

I do still have code archived by Planet Source Code though.
I've had the issue in the past where Apple's auto-correction would capitalize "Watch" every time I typed it.

It doesn't seem to do it on my iPhone now unless it's directly preceded by "Apple." But I wonder if they're hitting that because I notice a lot of different people are capitalizing the word.
Depends of your use. For example, a local fedivers instance can fit a lot of cases not targeted at mass consumption.
Scroll further down in the OP, it has the full video.
I'm not sure what this has to do with the idea that a generic Ask HN about HN itself is going to be 'disappeared'. HN posts are almost never 'disappeared'.

But maybe you can find some links to examples of the bad things you're describing? There's people commenting on all sorts of topics all the time and the overwhelming majority of their comments appear to be doing fine.
Agreed on the public-private nature of Bell Labs.

I would also ask how we could recreate another exemplar in that space, DARPA. Now of course DARPA is alive and kicking, but what about another DARPA, say in Europe?

The two organizations did have different missions, with DARPA being mostly an investor while Bell Labs was mostly a practitioner.

The question that springs to mind is, why did Bell Labs decay while DARPA did not?
As someone who recently (this month) bought a house in a hot market, the market is no longer anything like what you are describing. It is not necessarily a buyers market again yet, but it is definitely no longer a sellers market.

Things are sitting on the market for weeks. They get one offer, not cash, under asking, and they take it. Times have changed.
What is questionable about Peter Thiel?
Lots of innovation came from Bell Labs or other national laboratories that are foundations of many modern technologies. I always thought that private sector alone cannot make technological progress fast without the help of the government sponsored science facilities. It is incredible to see what came out of those facilities because the scientists worked really hard because of their genuine interest in working on such projects because they either like the process of figuring things out or their curiosity cannot be quenched until they get it.
Deploy Your Own LLM Observability Platform in 5 Minutes [video]
The odds of unicorn at YC are 2X higher for companies staying in the Bay Area
It isn’t exactly trivial to sell FSBO, but it isn’t that difficult either.

It does take small amount of effort and research plus the time to show the property yourself.
Yeah. But if you can afford to store a certificate of that size you can afford to store the password. Also worth noting that for most types of certificate (like RSA where 2048 bit keys are common) there is much less than 2048 bits of entropy. So in practice the numbers probably end up much closer.
I've been trying to build what you're asking with https://divmagic.com

It has most of the things you said: Create your own component library, easily share through cloud, import and use them, live view and edit them online at Studio [1]

I'm also working on adding versioning and a NPM package so you can refer to your components with unique IDs and directly use them in your code.

[1] https://divmagic.com/studio
The reason is that non-compliance can lead to much harsher penalties than that fine, such as banning Meta from doing any kind of data processing in Brazil. Surely Meta does not want to lose access to one of its biggest markets.
From a non-tech perspective, IKEA, as a private company, shares a similar focus with Bell Labs on enhancing individual components to improve the overall system.
From the article:

> For almost six years they’ve tested his blood and other tissues and found no signs of the virus.

Afaict, the researchers themselves don’t know for sure why this has happened.
Our scenario would be more like using Clickhouse / a dwh for session cohort/workflow filtering and then populating otel tools for viz goodies. Interestingly, to your point, the otel python exporter libs are pretty simple, so SQL results -> otel spans -> Grafana temp storage should be simple!
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Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being recorded.
The sad reality is that many/most people trying to perform forecasting don’t really understand how the models work and the limitations, let alone how to test a time series model.

I tend to avoid inter disciplinary forecasting research because participants from other disciplines can’t understand or don’t want to know about the limitations and push ahead regardless.
No no, I don't plan to run ads. I only plan to give you alternatives. Only thing is they could be affiliate links but I'd let you know though that they are affiliate links.
This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that book.
You say "discussion thread" I was thinking about "conversation with my neighbor".

But yeah, even there they want to ignore their interdependence on society.
I’d say plists have a stronger claim on being “real” associative arrays. Lisp never made much distinction between “built in” and “library” to begin with, you're using the same syntax to use the feature either way.
> it frustrates attempts to “detect” if LLMs are used and that is very good.

Why is that good?