skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is flawed. How are is a voter supposed to be able to pick the best, with inaccurate/no information? It's impractical. Like a laws passed to protect a person by name would be impractical. It doesn't scale.

The US has suffered for the lack of information. How can this be addressed, in the next 20 years, is a much more interesting question.
Have these topics been promulgated as The Science?
So nothing specific? They were mad at him?

And Dean Phillips did run in the primary, so again, nobody stopped him. Biden defeated him.
I do have the ability to flag and vouch. I'm pretty sure if there were a Leaderboard for that, I'd be WAY down the list.
Verbal fluency is a job requirement for a president. It doesn't matter if the president is the most intelligent person, it matters that they can communicate effectively, particularly with world leaders in life-or-death situations when a miscommunication can result in a great catastrophe. Personally I would rank intelligence as less important than several other attributes.
I think it is funny to watch how people on a programming forum think "democracy" is a decent enough designed system.

It is very interesting how the manner in which people think changes when the topic changes, and also how we focus only on the flaws in intelligence of the supposedly dumbest among us.

> There are plenty of faults in the Democratic party, but “both sides” is a tired and inaccurate trope.

Only if the claim is both sides are identically bad, which is rarely the case.

It is amazing how simple memes (and boy, does our culture run on them) can inject bugs into cognition.
Very much a false equivalence to the point that it sounds like a bad faith argument. There's a massive difference between contingency planning for a hypothetical versus actively planning for something that's is intended to be agenda item #1.

The first clue to differentiating a contingency from an active plan is resource allocation. Russia moved about 80,000 troops to the Ukrainian border a full 13 months before the invasion. That's over 50% of the force that would eventually enter Ukraine in February 2022 and also about 25% to 35% of Russia's entire non-conscript military force.
Yep true, that is happening - and mostly because people are recognizing it’s what the GOP is doing and it’s working, and trying to emulate it.
Cycling without a helmet may not be statistically safer. See for example "The Ultimate Question: With or Without a Helmet?"
I had to learn this the hard way, unfortunately. After years of my worldview being spat on and openly mocked I got to the point where my mental health plummeted. What made it strange was that management really liked me due to my status as an SME and having global impact. But the daily company culture was completely at odds with me.

So I had to make the decision to leave. Turns out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made so far my in career.
I can't imagine why it would not just run of that plate after a trivial amount of movement.

It does look like it would be pretty easy to make with just some bent metal and exercise weights. Colin Furze's one worked well too, maybe this 'invention' was influenced by his. There are many of these on youtube, some years old.
> does the CC used by wikipedia allow training?

This is backwards. Absent something that prohibits it, training is allowed. The question should be this: what do you believe prohibits it in this case?
wow, just wow.
Is anything evil? Or does everything just exist, and nothing more?
Outside of tech, AI isn't making any friends. It's an unexpected threat on the horizon for the bearers of accumulated privilege, such as monopolies and nation-state autocrats. They hear echoes of the computer and internet revolutions, which were key in upending many prior "garden patches" of power. Their cronies have been stirring up resistance among workers on the front lines of disruption, such as some content creators.

The truth is that no one knows where the dust will settle. All covered wagons are venturing west of the Rockies at the same time. Content creators are not really facing a worse outlook than everyone else. They are, however, in a better position to hinder the advance.

In principle, an AI learning from a scientific textbook is no different than a human student doing the same. Neither will violate copyright law when they're done learning, except perhaps accidentally - paraphrasing and facts are not violations. Unfortunately, legal and ethical principles can differ from legal reality. We're left hoping that some altruistic legal minds will open up a Northwest Passage for us, like Thomas Penfield Jackson in US v. Microsoft.

The worst possible outcome is that we end up with an all-powerful AI cartel which negotiates massive deals with IP conglomerates, locking out competition and open and free alternatives.
yeah, we had a bunch of them crawling out git repositories in a very aggressive way, repeating the crawl within a few days, etc. etc. 403 to the lot of them, regardless of the bot's purpose.
Sure looks like it. It's not mentioned in the isssues yet on their github page : https://github.com/kagisearch/browser_extensions/issues
There were another dozen submissions of this flagged dead.
The author declares to the audience that he works in "AI" and thus becomes the symbol of their fascination, when in fact he's merely a technical writer.

He seems to relish the attention. The whole article feels pretentious and performative.
It's too late to organize that for this election.
How is what related to what?

I agree with what you wrote. The people running Biden's campaign were not told the news 10 hours in advance - nor 10 minutes in advance. I doubt those messages were sent by the same people.
> During a medical residency in 1830s Berlin

Should be dated to the year 1830 since 1901 edition is just a translation into English
I don't think it's a coincidence that the two presidents in modern history who were most effective at passing major legislation (Biden and LBJ) had spent decades in the Senate.
Nobody was voting for Biden for Biden... people were voting against Trump. I think any of the leaders Harris, Whitmer, Newsom will all do fine.

The bar is so low right now, I think most people will be impressed by basic competence, which all three have in spades.
Ask HN: LLM Subscriptions, Why?
Why would I pay a $20 per month subscription for ChatGPT or Claude when I can pay as I go just by plugging an API key into an app? I know I'm very unlikely to rack up $20 worth of tokens so I'll save money. It seems like they're just capitalising on their customers lack of technical know how and overcharging, which is just further evidence to me that the business model is not sustainable.

It's like paying a $20 per month subscription for an all you can eat buffet (not quite accurate analogy, even the subscribed customers have usage limits!) have when you know you only want to eat the $2 salad once in a blue moon.

A subscription incentivises the company to lower cost per token and move customers to cheaper models to increase margins, even if it's at the detriment of output quality.
On TikTok, maybe.
And Trump referred to running against Obama, and confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. It happens.
I helped coauthor some of the early drafts of Braid. Braid isn’t an attempt to make a local first, crdt based eventually consistent data store. It’s just a protocol.

Braid aims to make it easy for such systems, as they’re built, to be able to talk to each other.
Clowns to to hospitals to cheer up children, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work for adults.
I find that rather offensive. Implication that what, moi can't think for myself or am a sock puppet?

> "Speak ill of no man"

Aha.
It uses your system fonts, additionally you can use a cli option to point Typst to a folder to read ttf or otf font files.
Hard to take this comment seriously since you won't even give a hint of what they did to you that was so bad. All you're telling us is you decided to stop working but still continue to collect a (presumably very very high) paycheck, as some well-deserved retribution.
I don't consider myself to owe anything to the parties. They need to earn my vote. If I accept one of the two options no matter how bad I think they both are, that allows for very bad scenarios to be possible and also allows for our political duopoly to continue to dominate.

If I don't vote, and if many others also stay home, both parties would scramble to gain support and third parties that previously had no chance at least have a potential market opportunity to break the two party system.

Am I allowing my voice to go silent and accepting everyone else to pick my president? Sure, and I don't prefer that, though in a representative democracy I also recognize that my vote doesn't matter anyway if I live in a state that swings the other way. As it so happens, I generally vote Democrat and live in a very Republican state.
The minimum age requirement was intended to provide a safeguard against the election of individuals who might lack the maturity and experience needed for such a significant role.

The maximum age is a different consideration.
that can be true, but doesn't obviate what I said.

Hardly anyone thinks it's wonderful at the time. Many people look back on it with fondness ("youth is wasted on the young").

Assuming some other generation had it wonderful is silly. They had their own worries.
I think surely the implied bit is 'enough out of step', and then the whole 'draw the rest of the owl' thing is figuring out where that line is (and what constitutes 'values') and if it's been crossed?

There's so much I would do/have done differently if I had carte blanche, but it's not my startup, and no reason to think I would have done as well nevermind better, it's easy to judge from the position of not being bothered to go out on my own.

I'm certainly not going to be giving any seminars on mental health, but I don't think mine would have benefited from just abandoning anything I didn't completely agree with.

Not to suggest the actual advice you got and the way you mean it was as lacking nuance as that.
Those aggressive bot....

Crawls each and every date link on my synology dsm hosted calendar without throttling.
But you’re conflating a few different things here. The regulations don’t say “you must use a fragile kernel module that runs the risk of boot-locking” do they?

The underlying fault in this drama is Microsoft - third party code shouldn’t be able to have the impact it did, regardless of how it is loaded or what it does. Their commitment to supporting legacy interfaces has shot them in the foot here.

If HP pushed a dodgy printer driver (and if those still lived in the kernel) that nuked tens of millions of machines, would you be out here saying “regulators and security professionals need to re-consider printers”?

Microsoft will shit bricks, start to do something to isolate kernel modules, Crowdstrike will be the first shining user of this, and life will go on.
For small enough amounts, at least in the US, the credit card company will sometimes just accept it and give you a courtesy credit without going through the whole investigation.

And regardless, having too many chargebacks will often get the merchant into trouble. Just having to deal with the hassle of it is bad for their business, a good way to get back at them for poor service.
The topic is how Democrats compare to politics in other countries, why do you bring up something unrelated?

My point is that the Democrats are very left wing on some issues when compared to the world. Sure not all democrats are as hard into those things, but they are still very into it compared to what is normal in other countries.

So cooperating with Republicans might not be problematic in an economic kind of sense, but given that Democrats are so strongly to the left on other issues its a no-go. That was the topic.
CrowdStrike insiders sold stock before the outage (thru 10b5-1 plans so it's OK)
Laying out an argument (Biden mixing up names indicates he's senile) and having it disproven doesn't prove the case.
Planned six months to a year in advance… Saved you a click.

But if you want to click: https://archive.is/3T1s3
Yeah, it certainly /can/ work. For example in New Zealand in 2017: The labor party (our big centre-left party) had an unpopular/uninspiring leader and was polling terribly. The existing leader stepped down and Jacinda Ardern took over just seven weeks before the election, and rolled to a win.

YMMV, we have very different political systems and cultures, etc. etc.
i took it as a tongue-in-cheek description of the gig at google.
I think both things are true. There's a leftist bias and what I stated in my original post.
> Its not, wanting to review before publication is done to manipulate the research,

This is not fact. There are multiple possibilities that do not include manipulation. If there was manipulation, there would be a recourse to pursue for fraud.
"most people are just trying to be polite"

Yes, that's exactly right. That's what the above is. You have to maintain polite contact with people in order to stay on the radar. It's why people used to send each other Christmas cards even though they had not spoken all year. Just touching base, letting you know you're still on my list.

None of the above imagined conversation is to be taken literally. It's just a polite ping/ack. It doesn't create any further obligation.
Why wouldn't nation state autocrats be interested in AI? Seems like a great tool for facial recognition at scale and eventually maybe even automated policing via drones and the like, thus sparing them the costs (and danger) of having to maintain a major police/military force to protect their regimes
i’ve been seeing this comment float around today, and assuming you aren’t a russian troll or bot account, here’s why it’s flawed:

there’s no _coup_ (not coop) because primary processes are not part of the constitution. candidates can step down (as biden did for the good of the country, and LBJ had done before him). there was no real choice to not pick biden, either, as the incumbent.

the party will now have an open nomination process where delegates will pledge based on how people of their state best want, and keep in mind that most americans did not want biden OR trump, so they really are doing what is best in the interest of american democracy

compare this to the RNC and GOP which has done nothing but embrace one criminal authoritarian crook for the last decade, and you’ll see why your comment doesn’t really make sense.
Maybe not even modulo but something like seniority increases monotonically for five terms but decreases monotonically for each subsequent term after the fifth term.
I wrote and maintained a tool that was sent to users when something went wrong.

Man was I always afraid and stressed that the tool meant to help users when they were already having a failure was also having a failure.
Well the first amendment begs to differ, but beyond that I absolutely get to complain about the situation. I wouldn't complain about whoever wins because I already don't like either of them. But I may very well complain that the two parties offered candidates that I so strongly felt were bad options that I couldn't vote for either one.

I'm not saying I need to agree with everything a candidate says, or even most of it. I need to at least believe that we won't be worse off as a country with the candidate I vote for. I can't sat that for Trump, couldn't say that for Biden, and wouldnt say that for Harris if she is selected.
Just think like a designer, start with story boards, use cases, mockups.

Begin with modest expectations and refined your process.
> Sadly, this has never
> happened, anywhere, ever.

Didn't this literally just happen?

If Biden hadn't suffered in the polls after the nature of his debate performance, I don't see how we'd be here today.

However indirect the mechanism by which he was ousted, it ultimately comes down to an assessment of what candidate voters would have been willing to back.
I've always loved your takes on AI. You should air them here a bit more.
That's fair enough. I may very well cast votes for local elections and should have clarified here.

When I reference not voting I mean specifically for President. Thanks for calling that out.
I mean good for the author if they find peace through this.

In practice, it looks like they went to a meditation / mindfulness kind of event, felt like their AI work is evil, were very impacted, and left.

It comes across as a bit of drama. The view that AI is evil is very common, and it's not like Google's AI efforts are particularly more leaning towards evil than any other AI effort.

I suspect the same would have been said about "tech" in general a couple of years ago and the same article could have been written.
No, the topic is US politics. I don't think it's even remotely controversial to observe that the US uses "liberal" differently than other countries with less insane politics do.

That's why Australia is being brought up: the way they use "liberal" as a conservative political demographic has as much to do with how the US uses it as European countries do. Which is to say zilch.
> I wholeheartedly disagree with this take. I owe nothing to the two parties and I don't agree that they get to control everything to the point that I can only pick between two bad options they offer me.

I don't think he's saying it's desirable, but is an outcome of the FPTP system. If you don't want to pick between only two bad options, then you'll need to eliminate the spoiler effect by switching to something like STV.
Seems like it would be easy enough to add a new checkbox for this to audits.
A question when seeking psychiatric help is "do you own a gun?". Why isn't it "do you own a car?"
Then a slower but similar simpel option could be to write your data to a json/csv/xml file and read it directly with Typst.
"Innocent until proven".

(No really, you cannot conclude anything from circumstantial states that only increase chances of some conclusion, but not determine it as true, strictly. It is also one of the basic principles evident past consideration of prejudice and racism...)
> Some companies believe they can scale the data wall by using synthetic data — that is, data that is itself generated by A.I. systems — to train their models. But many researchers doubt that today’s A.I. systems are capable of generating enough high-quality synthetic data to replace the human-created data they’re losing.

I'm thinking synthetic datasets are how it's going to go. Of course you can't get information from nothing, but they might not need nearly as much seed data to generate lots of examples that are specifically designed to train reasoning skills.

Maybe it will take a while to get over the hump, but they'll be motivated to make it work.
30 seconds would be a blessed relief. Link training takes upwards of 3 minutes for my 4x 32GiB DDR5 machine whenever I update its firmware, and then 3 minutes all over again when I load the XMP profile instead of running at the new firmware's safe stock 4000 MT/s.
$99 a month subscription, because they're FDA or whatever approved.

Is there corruption with these kind of things, or did they just hit jackpot?
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this take is bad for one simple reason: if you stay home and trump wins, we don’t have a country or democracy anymore, and you contributed directly to the destruction of social norms and systems that ensure peace, stability, and the rule of law. you can feel smug as the republican party destroys democracy and slides into fascism, but it won’t really get you anywhere.
It’s not that different
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If you already know what the optimizations are, you don't need AI to optimize them. Just write optimizations in the compiler. That's literally one of the biggest jobs of the compiler already.
I think Biden was too far down the path of cognitive decline, and I think Harris is incompetent and only fell into this opportunity as a combination of DEI and a political party completely blind to the obvious truth that Biden is dealing with health issues and allowing him to serve another four years is both dangerous for the country and borderline elder abuse in my opinion.

I won't vote for whoever the Democrats propose simply because I dislike Trump. I can't vote for anyone I think will make our country worse, and if Harris is selected I do feel that way about her as well.
I was actually thinking of the Roadster. Based on a Lotus Elise. It looked good, it was thrilling to drive. It totally broke through the lines people had drawn in their minds around the idea of what an electric car could be.
I am not criticizing the use of liberal here, I am saying that American liberals are very left wing since it isn't the right wing kind of liberal the rest of the world has.
The obvious argument on the other end of the age spectrum is the lack of personal stake. You are making policies that will not affect your own life much at all.
Seems more like a competition issue. In general if both parties weren't entrenched to this degree, they would be out competed by a group with increased transparency. "Vote for the black box behind the curtain!" vs "Vote for the person who's talking to you!" should be a pretty easy win at the poll. IMHO what we are seeing is a systemic result of the lack of competitive elections and winner-take-all and how it interacts with parties. The parties are far too comfortable. If they expected to have to compete, they wouldn't select vegetables.
If it works, then that’s not a bad price at all. ADHD attentional issues will suck orders of magnitude more money out of your life if left untreated in some people.
Christian conservatives are decidedly a minority in the Republican party, and increasingly marginalized. Much to the distress of that faction, the offical Republican platform no longer talks about gay marriage nor banning abortion except for late-term.

The Republicans have moderated a lot over the last decade. Their current platform reads like the Democrat platform from the 2000s.
I think it may have a been on the Dangerous History Podcast, but I listened to an episode of the hodtory of American Policies parties. It was fascinating to hear how often they flipped and was seems to have been the reason when parties did change or disolve.
> Im used to communicating as effectively as possible, using as few words as possible, but I understand this makes me less attractive as "management material" in a corporate world.

I can assure that whatever is happening, your problem isn't that you communicate effectively. No one is saying behind your back "wow that guy communicates effectively, we hate that".

I can't know why people think you're not management material, but if I had to guess I'd say perhaps it's related to your belief that being good at management involves talking a lot and saying nothing. Ironically the opposite is true - one element of being good at managing people is communicating effectively.