skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not abuse of children per se, but most obese parents have obese children, so the self-caused sickness is passed down. I see it very often in such cases.

It boils down the lifestyle, 2 generations ago their grandparents were most probably skinny due to simple food they ate and physical labor they went through every day. If kids see lazy tired parents, chances of them being athletic and eating healthily are very low, and its a baggage that gets heavier to shed off with each passing year.
False. They are not living in "absolute misery". The highest germany court has established this in the past. German welfare is among the highest in the world. I also know this personally, I have lived on the past (even more strict) alternative to "Bürgergeld" for the first 18 years of my life.

German welfare guarantees you food, an apartment for you and your children, public schooling, funding for school projects and even includes money for social gatherings.

To portray this as "absolute misery" is false to the point of being dishonest and you're being unfair to billions of people living in pitiful states of poverty.
We collected some data [1] on the viability of only CRLs as the future (phasing out OCSP) - motivated by Let's Encrypt's announcement today [2].

Data is on CRL availability, number of entries, expiry & refresh times, etc. from various x509 leaf server SSL certificates.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058138
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41046956
Woman who went on the lam with untreated TB is now cured
Could a motivated scraper not buy IPs/proxies that aren’t in those ranges, i.e. to blend in with general users?
You seem to not know anyone who was an unwanted child born because of some secondary motivation, and how deeply it traumatized them for life.
Of the 3 times you saw it maybe you should have clicked it once
Yeah because aren't the numbers associated with the types related to cardinality?
Well the goal is to replace the traditional file structure of just having tons and tons of nested folders, and eventually support more file types.

Imagine putting every photo you have into this, then being able to quickly sort them into categories, and even by visual similarities. Then you can do the same thing with text files, video files, audio files, games - you name it.
In the old days, Science Weekly[1] used to print 4-5 paragraph summaries of published research in a three-column layout. The magazine was dense with information across a huge number of topics.

And in the very old days, newspapers used to publish in tabular form local election results and sports games.

I feel that Nature could dedicate one to two pages of one paragraph summaries of null results with links to the published papers.

It's amazingly easy to skim such pages to find interesting interesting things!

[1] I think that was the name; I canceled my subscription when they changed to a Scientific American wannabe. I was looking for breadth not depth! I could always get the original paper if I wanted more information.
Nobody who wants to be successful obeys robots.txt. And I do mean nobody.
I'm really glad these guys exist
>You could, but it would be rather silly as machinist is clearly a subset of engineer

That is ridiculous. Engineering is distinguished by being an academic career.

Obviously there is value in distinguishing academics and tradesmen.
My Family and Other Nazis
That's what Google is paying them for :)
> Nat has countably many inhabitants. And one more than countably infinite is countably infinite!

Two sets having the same cardinality (number of inhabitants) is insufficient to prove that two sets are equal. There is an additional condition that they all share the same elements.

I read 1 + Nat as: map each element in the Naturals to its successor (i.e. Nat - {0}). 0 is in Nat, but 0 does not exist in "1 + Nat" since it got mapped to 1.

This would be true if the set we were working with were the Integers instead of the Naturals.
For my family it works out fine.

And it already improved since I was young. People would smoke in cafees and parties. The non-smokers just had to live with all the crap. I'm happy my kids can go out now without the terrible smell in their hair, clothes and passive smoke in their lungs. It's getting prohibitted in more and more places, so I'm on the winning side :D.
>I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad

I think the problem is that you were raised to think that a "good and just" world is one where there is no risk, no variability, and limited self-reliance. This is a fiction and has never existed.

The default state is for none of these services and protections to exist whatsoever. Everything beyond nothing is an imperfect and unstable solution held together with duct-tape.
Hi there! One of the OP's here. Jay and I are around to answer any questions you might have, and you might want to check out my retelling of events here [1] which are less formal :)

[1] https://skerritt.blog/anki-0day/
Yeah I work in an FFRDC, pushing the frontier of our exploration of space. I'm quite passionate both about the employer and (most of the time) my work. If I didn't care about my employer at that level I woulda been out the door after two years. I think to myself sometimes about the other side of that though, like if I didn't care for them but the money was good.

My home hobbies resemble work within my area, but not my current job function, but I'm keenly aware my employer may try to take advantage of my other talents and do I guess the only thing that saves having an alternative hobby is that I'm so diversified that whatever my work task is I can work on an orthogonal hobby at home. It's kinda nice, I've got both really.

In my mind if I "sell out" (in terms of trading in for that sense of purpose in my work), and just work for the paycheck, then I would go for max. Work an HFT quant firm as a senior or principal engineer or research analyst. $$$. Or some other juicy gig. But I would hate myself if that became a slog and I had no time for my interests at home.
Artificial intelligence can help people feel heard
Off topic, but if skip your first sentence and the later mention of insulin, this reads like an acronym and jargon filled comment that could be about anything. Like you could refactor the comment to be about AI LLMs or something.
This race for the top model is getting wild. Everyone is claiming to one-up each with every version.

My experience (benchmarks aside) Claude 3.5 Sonnet absolutely blows everything away.

I'm not really sure how to even test/use Mistral or Llama for everyday use though.
> if google has exclusive deals

My comment said, show me that the Google deal with Reddit is exclusive.

You haven't done that.

And there's no reason to think it would be, because of antitrust. The DOJ doesn't have to act "immediately", the point is that obvious antitrust violations come with fines that make it unprofitable to attempt in the first place. And this would be black-and-white obvious antitrust violation, given Google's monopoly status in search. This isn't a gray area where it might be worth it for Google to roll the dice.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14394

Actual paper to save you from having to read the PR release.
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
It was already dead by then. Really, it was the various Slashdot exoduses... sites like K5 got large initial boosts, but stumbled and started to deteriorate. If the Digg exodus is what sent you to Slashdot, chances are you're the kind of user everyone else was trying to escape.

>what's the alternative to Reddit? I mean, it's certainly not Quora.

If it was deliberate I certainly can't tell, but one of the characteristics of Reddit is that it caused so many other little tiny internet forums to just wither away. Most were visually unappealing, running some ancient phpbb software or whatever, but there were so many like stars in the night sky. Now, if they're even still running, you look for the newest post, and it will say "November 2023". Hell, the only reason they are still running is that the credit card number on file paying for hosting doesn't expire until next year somehow. Reddit is a red tide algae choking out all life in the ocean, nothing else gets to exist anymore.
So then this gambit worked. It sucks and I hate it. I will continue to use DDG/Bing first but it looks like I'll be hitting up Google more often too.
def log_then_get(url, context)
puts "Requesting #{url}..."
get(url, context)
end

def get(uri, context)
response = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
puts caller(0).join("\n")
response
end

def get_http_thread(url)
Thread.new do
log_then_get(URI(url), Thread.current)
end
end

Good example of the downsides of dynamic typing:

1) get_http_thread takes a url (String) and converts it to a URI object

2) log_then_get defines its parameter as `url`, but really its expecting a URI object

3) get defines its parameter as `uri`, but we're passing it an argument called `url` from within log_then_get.

Lots of traps readily awaiting an unsuspecting programmer or newcomer to a project that contains code like this.
I love how much AI is bringing competition (and thus innovation) back to tech. Feels like things were stagnant for 5-6 years prior because of the FAANG stranglehold on the industry. Love also that some of this disruption is coming at out of France (HuggingFace and Mistral), which Americans love to typecast as incapable of this.
not that reddit has a monopoly, but that google has.

google is using their power to prevent others from competing.

the problem here is of course that if reddit would be in financial trouble (i don't know if they are but let's imagine they need this money), they'd be between a rock and a hard place.

google should not be allowed to make exclusive deals, and reddit could not survive without the deal, then what would be left? google buys reddit, or the relevant authority approves of the deal?

i thought about the same problem with firefox. let's assume firefox is forced to allow people to make a choice of the default search engine (just like microsoft was forced to allow a choice of default browser on windows) then google might stop paying mozilla, and they could end up in financial trouble.

ideally no company ever depends on a single other company that much, but that only works if we don't allow companies to grow that much in the first place.
Heh, the materials science side of particle physics is all sorts of fun: accelerate the particles to 10% of the speed of light - no big deal, but actually vaporizing them in the first place...
My rant above and your response reminded me of all those tons of MMO games out there that are ancient, with a tiny playerbase, that remain profitable nonetheless simply because if you have a product that people like using, putting it into maintenance mode and doing the bare minimum to keep it running is a perfectly valid business strategy. The companies that buy these service games and run them effectively just buy completed money printers and keep them operating. It's not going to make anyone rich probably, but it's a perfectly valid and profitable way to go about things.

The silicon valley "grow at all costs, always evolve and innovate forever" model is so detached from the reality of most businesses in my experience.
Am I reading this correctly? So the user contributing to Wikipedia now demands they control Wikipedia Foundation as well?

That is like a group of user contributing to Linux now demanding they also control the Linux Foundation.
As explosions go, especially volcanic explosions, this was pretty tiny. Also I don't know where you're getting this idea of an "expanding magma bubble" that could "burst". There's magma chamber that is not to my knowledge changing size, and it can't really erupt at all right now. There's certainly no air inside it, unless you want to count dissolved gas in the magma.
Links to chat with models that released this week:

Large 2 - https://chat.mistral.ai/chat

Llama 3.1 405b - https://www.llama2.ai/

I just tested Mistral Large 2 and Llama 3.1 405b on 5 prompts from my Claude history.

I'd rank as:

1. Sonnet 3.5

2. Large 2 and Llama 405b (similar, no clear winner between the two)

If you're using Claude, stick with it.

My Claude wishlist:

1. Smarter (yes, it's the most intelligent, and yes, I wish it was far smarter still)

2. Longer context window (1M+)

3. Native audio input including tone understanding

4. Fewer refusals and less moralizing when refusing

5. Faster

6. More tokens in output
Sonnet 3.5 to me still seems far ahead. Maybe not on the benchmarks, but in everyday life I am finding it renders the other models useless. Even still, this monthly progress across all companies is exciting to watch. Its very gratifying to see useful technology advance at this pace, it makes me excited to be alive.
Silicon lottery was when you as a customer could get dies of varying degrees, some of which could be clocked higher than others. For the manufacturer it's not a lottery at all because the scales make the yields for various bins mostly predictable. Binning also means that you as a customer are much less likely to get a chip that is significantly better than specced although it still happens when chips sold as a lower bin for market segmentation purposes.
I stopped my ChatGPT subscription and subscribed instead to Claude, it's simply much better. But, it's hard to tell how much better day to day beyond my main use cases of coding. It is more that I felt ChatGPT felt degraded than Claude were much better. The hedonic treadmill runs deep.
> where real people hang out and have real conversations

I don't consider the discussions there to be "real" in any meaningful way, thanks to the extensive moderation.

From what I've seen, there typically ends up being a small handful of moderator-enforced narratives that are deemed "acceptable" for a given subreddit, and any commenters deviating from those narratives get banned, or their comments end up as "[removed]" by "[deleted]", or the comments get obscured with the "comment score below threshold" notice.

It's generally some of the most one-sided and blandest discussion around. Given that there's often no meaningful back-and-forth involving differing perspectives of any sort, I'm not even sure if it should be considered "discussion". It's more like regurgitation and repetition.

I've found the situation to be particularly bad on the Canadian locale-specific subreddits, for example, but a enough of the tech-oriented ones I've seen seem to end up like that, too.
Also German.

> I cannot even name one thing that is not broken beyond belief. The conservative government has added the debt ceiling to our Constitution requiring a 2/3 vote to change it

Good. You'd see a government without this restriction spend more money on pension benefits faster than you'd think possible.

> thereby making investments like the Inflation Reduction Act in the US utterly impossible

This is not true. Germany has a spending problem, not a tax income problem. Never before have we had as much taxes in the Governments pockets as we do now.
> If you were just galavanting through the forest and you come up seeing that without any prior knowledge or park rangers to assure you you would say “oh, hell no” and you would turn around

I think you're assuming much more individualism in the primitive dynamic than actually existed. As I said, individual humans are terrible at judging danger. There was an article posted a few days back about collapses while trenching for construction, and the difficulties of getting people to take that risk seriously until it actually happens.

So at the state you're envisioning, I'd say it's more like others in your tribe telling you to stay away from those weird holes in the ground, because some tribe members had already been killed by them. And the contemporary dynamic is more like an extreme scaling up of that, with a much more nuanced understanding of the dangerous mechanisms.
I have a NVIDIA shield which is the best Android media player despite being pricey. It has potential for games but I haven't really seen it. One problem is that the internal storage is not enough to play a "real" (say 5GB+ game) and that external storage doesn't seem to be terribly reliable despite trying a USB-attached "gaming" SSD.

And of course the games I have for it are Doom 3 (can't play because the license server won't let me), Pac Man 256, and Retroarch. I played through Record of Agarest War years ago but they took it out of the store.
I’ve stopped using anything else as a coding assistant. It’s head and shoulders above GPT-4o on reasoning about code and correcting itself.
I think metered internet and a rolling distro is never going to be a great fit. Putting packages on the installation medium only inflates the ISO download, and those packages will be out of date sooner rather than later. It's not like Ubuntu, macOS or Windows updates wouldn't hurt metered connections.
Computer scientists and similar have never liked it, so this isn’t surprising.
Agree on Claude. I also feel like ChatGPT has gotten noticeably worse over the last few months.
Boy, the LLMs have really been an apocalypse moment for the web, haven’t they? Between hoovering up and monetizing every bit of content they can without any attribution or compensation and the absolute flood of mediocre generated content, they’ve really done in the last straggling remains of the open internet.

It’s not like everyone wasn’t already pulling the same grift, but quantity really does have a quality all its own.
These companies full of brilliant engineers are throwing millions of dollars in training costs to produce SOTA models that are... "on par with GPT-4o and Claude Opus"? And then the next 2.23% bump will cost another XX million? It seems increasingly apparent that we are reaching the limits of throwing more data at more GPUs; that an ARC prize level breakthrough is needed to move the needle any farther at this point.
then it will meet my personal coding AI solving its cookie cutter coding problems.
Barely enough to pay the CEO
They claim to detect anomalous program behavior within otherwise perfectly legal use of the operating system APIs.
It would probably be worth your time to watch some tips & tricks videos on iOS. Apps are cool, but other than some iOS exclusive 3rd party apps, the apps themselves will likely be pretty similar.

What you’ll really want to spend time on is learning the system and first party apps from Apple.

For example, in the camera app there is a little carrot in the top center that reveals a bunch of more advanced features. Simply swiping up (or away from the shutter button) on the viewfinder will also quickly bring these options up. Also, instead of tapping the shutter button, sliding it one way will start a video, while sliding it the other way will take a burst of photos.

I find tips like this really help me use my phone much better and easier, and they are things most users never stumble across on their own.

Apple likes to make apps that appear simple on the surface, so it’s easy for the 80% to use, but certain apps have a good amount of depth when you know where to look.
> Engineering is distinguished by being an academic career.

I expect you mean that Professional Engineer (PE) is distinguished as being a member of a certain professional organization (or groups of organizations). Indeed, that is true. Has little to do with the topic at hand, though.

I'm not familiar with any differentiation by academic career, unless you are thinking of "Professor of Engineering", or something along those lines? But "professor" seems to be the operative word there.

What about the definition of engineer even suggests academics? It is, in my mind, decidedly pointed to practitioners. It literally states "design, build, or maintain". Those are decidedly not academic pursuits.
Have you (or anyone) swapped on Cursor with Anthropic API Key?

For coding assistant, it's on my to do list to try. Cursor needs some serious work on model selection clarity though so I keep putting off.
Up until 2016 (I think, +/- 1 year), if you could remember 3 uncommon words in a comment, you could find any reddit post instantly on Google. I'd want to follow up on a thread from weeks ago, and it was magic. Number one result. Then one day that just stopped working, and even adding site:*.reddit.com didn't fix it. At the time, I think, I didn't realize that it was mostly Google's fault, I thought maybe Reddit had changed their infrastructure so that it couldn't be crawled properly.

Google hasn't been a search engine in a long while, it's just an advertisement engine now.
SwiftKey is very helpful with replacing the terrible, terrible iOS keyboard.

The iOS keyboard was without question the hardest part of the transition from Android to the iPhone for me. (GBoard for iOS is a pale imitation of GBoard for Android.) I still think it's weird that I have so much trouble with the iOS keyboard, because I've used an iPad for years, and the iPadOS "Flick Keyboard" has always been just fine since it was introduced 5 or so years ago.
“Fatbergs” expresses some things delivered by some teams very eloquently for me!
How many PhDs and think-tanks does it take to write a paper on "good managers"? That'd be a more interesting white paper
GPT-4 was probably as good as Claude Sonnet 3.5 at its outset, but OpenAI ran it into the ground with whatever they’re doing to save on inference costs, otherwise scale, align it, or add dumb product features.
I would say that this one of the greatest casualties in the war on doping, Dr Ferrari especially has amassed a wealth of knowledge on blood and human energy systems that will never be acknowledged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Ferrari
I wish there were limited forms of true parallelism available with fibers instead of it just being another concurrency construct limited by an interpreter lock. I feel like there should be an in-language construct for stuff that's safely parallel and narrow, and not just Ractors. But I do get that it'd be a footgun for many.
> A significant effort was also devoted to enhancing the model’s reasoning capabilities. One of the key focus areas during training was to minimize the model’s tendency to “hallucinate” or generate plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or irrelevant information. This was achieved by fine-tuning the model to be more cautious and discerning in its responses, ensuring that it provides reliable and accurate outputs.

Is there a benchmark or something similar that compares this "quality" across different models?
If getting that extra data imposes a risk (eg. radiation) then the tradeoff is not so simple.
There's a time in every human's life where the rose tinted glasses wear off and the reality of human living hits you.
I'd agree data has a new element but I'd watch out for the headline because it might discourage people from applying best practices that come from software engineering, particularly for products that work on data or products that incorporate data and data extract (e.g. a model of some kind)

It may be a problem that people try to apply practices that don't really apply but it's a bigger problem that people don't go at it with any discipline at all.
There are AI models, which are free to download and run locally, that are uncensored. That is the reality today.

Then there are platforms that host models they have developed. Is it not ok for those proprietary hosting platforms to apply guardrails to what their models respond with?