skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. You want me to delete the prev comment?

I think I have a real comment in there somewhere, but yeah, it came out pretty snarky.

I think the point I might have been getting at was this might be the result of unfulfilled FSD/robotaxi hype. Tesla started as a cool car company, but definitely a "car" company, competing with Ford, GM, Stellantis, etc.

Over time, more of the story about the company and its products was the robotaxi narrarive. By the end of 2020, the stock price had rocketed up partially for macro reasons, but largely for expectations of sales of FSD/robotaxi capabilities. Or at least that's my perception. Tesla fans I talked to all repeated the robotaxi story... "any day now, FSD is going to let me rent out my car as a taxi while I work. I'll actually make money from owning my Tesla!" It's 2024 and the last I heard was the robotaxi demo is again delayed and while FSD is running over fewer people than in the past, it still may be a ways away. From that perspective, robotaxi in 2020 was hype.

In other words, TLSA's stock price was inflated by hype in 2020, not completely unlike tech securities in the late 90s.

A 45% hit in per-share profit is not surprising given the vaporware nature of the cybertruck in the early 2020s and robotaxi/FSD capabilities.

But my main point is it is disappointing to see a once-innovative firm resorting to what feels like DotCom era hype.
> if you see it as 'their' data (legally true)

Is that actually true? Reddit may indeed have a license to use that data (derived from their ToS), but I very much doubt they actually own the copyright to it. If I write a comment on Reddit, then copy-paste it somewhere else, can Reddit sue me for copyright infringement?
What you’re describing is simply multi-factor authentication.

What I’m focused on is the repeated authentication on multiple layers of the network stack. It just isn’t necessary. Either your authentication mechanisms work at the lowest level, or they’re broken across the entire stack.
Please let this be true. Hilarious
This reminds me of something that happened at a former employer. After I had been employed there for a couple of years, someone in HR or Legal noticed that the programmers had never signed any "our code belongs to the company" agreement. So they asked us to sign a paper to that effect, and gave us each a check for $20. My thought was that I always assumed the company owned this code, but if they were going to pay for it, then $20 was waaaay too little. Anyway I took the $20, signed the paper, and got back to work. But it always gave me a chuckle.
Note, however, that much larger hydrothermal explosions have occurred than the one that just happened. There are some large craters in Yellowstone Lake from hydrothermal explosions. These would certainly kill people who were nearby if they happened again.
Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice
I think it's the other way around, in that people don't like to hear how Reddit has become important due to the death of independent forums and the degree to which information has become concentrated on the site.
I believe Cursor allows for prompting over the entire codebase too: https://docs.cursor.com/chat/codebase
I'm always confused as to why people want to be able to do arithmetic with infinity. Infinity isn't a number.

> countably infinite

Countably infinite means you can count to any particular element of a set in finite time, even though there is no end to the pattern of elements in the set.

You cannot count to infinity plus one in finite time.
Thank you very much :)

Scalability: This is more of a cost/resource issue than a technical one. Right now, ForumScout checks every hour for new posts. This isn't ideal, but it allows me to offer the product for much cheaper than if we were to check, say, every 5-10 minutes. Scalability is much more manageable with an hourly check, but the goal eventually is to get as close to real time as possible. I plan on offering a higher pricing tier for real-time checks to account for the extra resources.

Filtering: By default, the searches are performed via exact match. From testing, there are no false positives; there's some code that double-checks that each post contains an exact match of the keyword(s). Users can manually turn off exact match if they want broader searches. Sentiment searching is a VERY good idea. I will add it to my list!

Integrations: This is a great point, and something I had not yet considered. Right now, the feed can be exported via CSV, but direct integrations would be much better for UX.

Technical: Honestly, it wasn't too difficult - every hour, the automation will make a call to all the different APIs and search using the parameters provided by the user at setup. Then we format and combine all the results, remove duplicates, perform some more filtering (depending on what settings the user has chosen), and add the results to the user's feed. If emails are turned on, we send an email with the new results. As mentioned, making this real-time will be more difficult, but it would really just mean doing this every few minutes, requiring more resources. I did build a custom scraping function for Reddit comments, because the native Reddit API doesn't allow direct searching of comments like you can on their website/app, but everything else is third-party.
The state has proven it can't be trusted with this power.
Definitely not some phishing attempt?
10$ you can almost afford mcdonalds meal lol
Spun-off PayPal is worth more than eBay
I don't know why you would expect the healthcare system to do all of that stuff. If you want to know your VO2 Max you can just go to the local running track and execute a Cooper Test for free. But the results aren't really actionable. Regardless of the quantitative result, unless you're already an elite athlete the prescription will always be the same: exercise more.
And enables oodles of other nonsense.

This nonsense can be stopped with a quick legislative change, which is not something that can be said of the deeper harms that Crypto has enabled.
I wouldn't be surprised to see large or mediocre companies stupidly chasing the current thing like this. But if someplace I really wanted to work came at me with this I'd be crushed.
Yeah, but each sub to a greater or lesser degree, has its own hivemind you'll be run out of town (or possibly even banned) for challenging. And the average member of Reddit is quite willing to spout off confidently incorrect BS and downvote people into the ground who actually know what they're talking about.

Not exactly always a reliable source of info outside uncontroversial niche topics or places like /r/AskHistorians that actually moderate. And even there I've seen the occasional humdinger.
Is island-of-stability stability like 1 second stability or 1 million years stability?
No big deal. Crowdstrike is a poor company. Not much value to leverage. New company takes over and inserts their superior product. And bring value to their company.
This reminds me of the family who was awarded $4 in damages for a wrongful death suit. [0] It's almost worse than nothing.

[0] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2018/06/01/jury-awards-family-f...
Hope they were careful about what organisations and what countries this went out to because this could technically be considered a bribe.
It seems like some of the conversations in that thread went a little nuclear, no?

sorry I couldn't resist
I’m waiting for the same signal. There are essentially 2 vastly different states of the world depending on whether GPT-5 is an incremental change vs a step change compared to GPT-4.
I don't like that the return values of the tasks has to be communicated with side effects, but I'll concede that it's quite painless.

I guess I'm just still salty when someone commented (in another post a long time ago) that golang only has `go` (compared to `launch`, `async`, and `coroutineScope` in Kotlin) and is simpler.

> All the languages in question are perfectly capable of abstractions.

I don't think async functions in JS can be cancelled though.
Being around longer or being widely implemented within some market segment is not a great reason to advocate for expanding its use. I could play devil's advocate for Kerberos or NIS just as easily as you can for SAML. It's fine if you must integrate with an existing system, but it's instant tech debt if you build a new system around it today.
Well you can go ahead an make a video host that provides free bandwidth and service to people who "don't explicitly agree to show ads".

It will be extremely popular, and you will become very...broke.
I tested it with my claude prompt history, the results are as good as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, but it's 2 or 3 times slower
T1 needs insulin, some T2 are ok without it.

Insulin is cheap to make, now, it is expensive because of commercial considerations like monopolization or investment. In reality any national system worth its salt could produce enough insulin at a very low cost for all diabetics in the world. But, this won't happen because of trade rules and so on.

Some people are trying to build the infrastructure for local/homebrew insulin production, but it's proving to be challenging. See this site for more: https://openinsulin.org/2023-recap/
Or just publicly burn the cash. This retains the punitive element of seizure from actual criminals, eliminates the perverse incentives from LE treating seized funds as a revenue source, and causes actual pain to LE if/when a court determines that they owe restitution for unwarranted seizure.
True, I was mostly thinking of what I'm seeing here in France
Crowdstrike, WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT?!
UBER Eats Gift Card :(

I would what cold hard cash, plus I do not want to put a sypware app on my phone for just $10.
Independent scrapers can launder the data between Reddit and AI consumers. The only folks this hurts is users seeking info via search engines and folks willing to kowtow to rules that are potentially low impact to evade. Next steps would be (from an adversarial perspective) browser extensions that stream back data for ingestion similar to Recap for Pacer [1].

[1] https://free.law/recap/faq

(full disclosure: assisting someone pursuing regulatory action against reddit in the EU for a separate issue from scraping, it's a valuable resource, but the folks who own and control it are meh)
For this model, it seems like the point is that it uses way less parameters than at least the large Llama model while having near identical performance. Given how large these models are getting, this is an important thing to do before making performance better again.
100% agree with you. I've built a # of RAG systems and find that simple Q&A-style use cases actually do fine with traditional chunking approaches.

... and then you have situations where people ask complex questions with multiple logical steps, or knowledge gathering requirements, and using some sort of hierarchical RAG strategy works better.

I think a lot of solutions (including this post) abstract to building knowledge graphs of some sort... But knowledge graphs still require an ontology associated to the problem you're solving and will fail outside of those domains.
Fentanyl is schedule 2 (it has recognized medical uses).
If they're considering Reddit content to be free of generated material, I've got bad news for them. It's not quite the Chernobyl-grade hole that Pinterest has become, but it's hardly "low background".
Huh, so, not only clueless at security, but also clueless at customer relations. Also, their commercials are stupid, so clueless at marketing.

I find it funny that their name, CrowdStrike, sounds like an anti-personnel reaper drone. Now metaphorically fits.
Some initial observations:

• Google's CRLs from the same intermediate CA (same public key) have different URLs and different content when pulled from different hosts (google.com, youtube.com).

• DigiCert has sharded according to 'assurance' class, algorithm, year and acquisition's name.

• Sectigo also has sharded according to 'assurance' class [1].

• GlobalSign has sharded by the yearly quarter presumably.

• HTTP Cache-Control maxage (or s-maxage), 'Expires' and 'Next Update' within the CRL file are not in sync.

• Some CAs other than Let's Encrypt also do not publish CRL URLs in the leaf certificates.

[1] https://www.sectigo.com/knowledge-base/detail/Sectigo-Interm...
They do offer that deal to others; a big news story was when OpenAI bought Reddit's data they were selling: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/
> standard pool for all the swimmers

That's the same as standard course for all cyclist, which happens today.

The equivalence in swimming for organizer provided bikes is providing standard swim suits to all swimmers, that has not happened.
LLMs think in tokens, not letters. It's like asking someone who is dyslexic about spelling. Not their strong suit. In practice, it doesn't matter much, does it?
Most business deals are anti-competitive in some way. What makes you think this specifically rises to the level where they'd legally have to offer similar terms to competitors?
Enough cash or enough data on hand to show the majority of traffic comes from the search monopoly
As a technologist who evaluates the evolution and viability of fundamental new tech on long time scales, the "reality gap" of most tech reporting on autonomous vehicles has been consistently terrible. Initially, expectations of near-term "full self-driving" were wildly over-optimistic. More recently, the tone has been more like "shit don't work." Yet neither extreme accurately conveys reality.

On one hand, the mythical "drive anything, anywhere, anytime" wonder-system a typical consumer would want, could use and could afford is likely still more than 10 years away. On the other hand, there are a ton of narrower use cases the tech is now finally good enough to solve at viable scale and cost - starting as early as next year. Unfortunately, we're now over-reacting into the typical 'trough of disillusionment' of the tech hype cycle just as things are finally ready to start getting really interesting.
Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth
lol

At least an Amazon gift card is near its cash value, when you account for the markup on food delivery that $10 is about 4 USD
Maybe these can be given to the lawyers who (hopefully) sue them into the ground.
It's funny in the context of Google's past motto of "don't be evil". I feel the right thing for Google here would have been to decline any deal regarding exclusivity, then Reddit wouldn't have pulled the trigger with its robots.txt update. The entire manoeuvre required both parties.
This seems extremely interesting, but I don't have the time right now to read this in depth (given I would also need to teach myself a bunch of technical concepts too).

Anyone willing to weigh in with a theoretical intuition? The one in the paper is just a little inaccessible to me right now.
That is one of my biggest emberressments getting older. I actually start to appreciate social democrats.
C-suite people developed a sort of immunity against feeling shame, remorse or regret.
The US forced their system of controlling psychoactive substances on the rest of the world through treaties primarily. Perhaps you should learn about the history of drug use and control.

You also didn't answer my question about alcohol. Why is it legal and not cannabis?
Curious who gets one. Like, a big company (airline, bank, etc) that had to hand touch 10,000+ devices across the world.

Crowdstrike is sending what? Like 15 $10 cards to the little area in IT that handles desktops/kiosks/atms/etc? Or the to the Cyber area that bought it, but mostly wasn't saddled with fixing the issue?
Claude is pretty great, but it's lacking the speech recognition and TTS, isn't it?
They're both running on fumes at this point.
It kinda is worse, it's saying, "We admit we fucked up, we admit we owe you, we just don't give a damn." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)
DO NOT REDEEM!
And this is why those corporate PR people make the big bucks /s
How come no one is talking about this?
There should be no such business as EDR software. We, as a society are worse off with that concept than would be without.
Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards
A word Clock Wristwatch
> I think GPT5 will be the signal of whether or not we have hit a plateau.

I think GPT5 will tell if OpenAI hit a plateau.

Sam Altman has been quoted as claiming "GPT-3 had the intelligence of a toddler, GPT-4 was more similar to a smart high-schooler, and that the next generation will look to have PhD-level intelligence (in certain tasks)"

Notice the high degree of upselling based on vague claims of performance, and the fact that the jump from highschooler to PhD can very well be far less impressive than the jump from toddler to high schooler.
In addition, notice the use of weasel words to frame expectations regarding "the next generation" to limit these gains to corner cases.

There's some degree of salesmanship in the way these models are presented, but even between the hyperboles you don't see claims of transformative changes.
Depends. Don't you love that answer ;-)

Typically, when your libraries don't compile on newer boards it's because the author used register-level operations and features that aren't portable across processor architectures. The more popular features don't suffer from this because they end up being ported. e.g., PWM is extremely valuable, so PWM implementations exist on all arduino architectures and the AnalogWrite() interface at the Arduino abstraction level is the same, so you never need to deal with it.

But a programmer may have written a library version that's optimized for a particular device such as a MegaAvr variant, maybe using PORT writes instead of the slower digitalWrite() & digitalRead() abstractions. Including that library on a Blackpill will cause compilation problems. I think this problem exists with some libraries that do high-speed ADC capture.

It sounds like they're saying that you don't need to worry about the core Arduino libraries, so 90% of projects are probably fine.
As far as I understand Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach - self-referential recursive structures (strange loops) are the foundation of consciousness (among other interesting things). I've been watching to see if LLM's becoming self-referential actually improves them as opposed to degrades them.
Do not redeem the card!!
> It took us so long to get though the jar

> Our first test doses

implying there were more later

I'm genuinely ... horrified, impressed, and much more.
At the highest level of cycling, what you call "negligible" is known colloquially as "marginal gains", and "marginal gains" are what win/lose races!
Only having blue functions is not the same as being colorless.
I'm waiting exactly for this, gpt4 trips up a lot with blender currently (nonsensical order of operations etc.)
Care to explain how you ignored the results of your survey where most users wanted more email or calendar features and you decided to work on an AI assistant that more than 66% of your user base didn't ask for?
We didn't have toilet paper because some people freaked out, you think there's a maintained warehouse of perishable supplies? Or just a big vault of cans somewhere?

No, nations do not have the means to feed their constituents in a nation ending disaster. It's easy to move food from Florida to California in a state sized crises, but the logistics of maintaining a just in case food supply for hundreds of millions distributed around the country? It's a safer bet to assume you'd die in the disaster than to convince people to plan for the future.
Llama 3.1 405B, Meta's AI strategy, and the new, open frontier model ecosystem
> The myopic pursuit of short term gains at the expense of the product will collapse at some point in the future,

The myopic pursuit of short-term gains is the only playbook that works. Long-term business strategy is a gamble, and today's businesses have all learned that they'd rather make hay when the sun is shining than be remembered as a good business.

Twitter tried a long-term playbook to reverse their unprofitable sinkhole of a website. That ended up with them being undervalued and sold to the highest bidder.
Yeah you're right, I'll remember that
OTOH the companies who are sharing their breakthroughs openly aren't yet making any money, so something has to give. Their research is currently being bankrolled by investors who assume there will be returns eventually, and eventually can only be kicked down the road for so long.
There is a fascinating result about types that they have a one to one correspondence with proofs. Dependent type systems leverage that to the hilt.
Could you elaborate on this? Would love to understand what leads you to this conclusion.
Note that I'm replying to myself.

"shouted down as a traitor" does not get at the crux of the problem I see. The problem is that anyone who thinks as follows cannot form an accurate opinion about the likely outcome of the war:

Anyone who argues that Russia is winning the war is probably a Russia sympathizer,
and a Russia sympathizer shouldn't be trusted and consequently we don't have to
consider his argument.
https://archive.li/GS2I0
> # Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.

Calling it "public" content in the very act of exercising their ownership over it. The balls on whoever wrote that.
This reads like an article from the Onion, bravo CrowdStrike.
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Delta Air Lines is going to have some trouble dividing that...
Except it has to be, because data has a lifecycle and a lifecycle is an algorithm.
Having built workflows myself like this, using a patchwork DAG of notebooks and cron jobs and state saving, I’m really glad someone is tackling the problem holistically!
Is this not just what the internet was before reddit? What features would "distributed reddit" have that an internet full of independent community forums be missing?
A lot of these papers are wrong. They do something wrong in their setup and then claim their conclusion shows show general truth.

Publishing in nature in ML can actually be a red flag, because they're really not well equipped to evaluate a lot of claims.

The latest llama model got a lot of its data using labels from llama2, and every frontier lab is talking about self training as the future.
Bet there is a line you sign to get it that will prevent you from suing in the future.
This has to be a prank or a joke to further make CrowdStrike look bad, probably for stock reasons.

I just don't immediately believe a publicly-traded company with this many users does something this stupid.
What is worse. The author goes to claim that "the computer doesn't care"...

The computer handles those in completely different ways. It's a user-visible error to change them, and it will fill your support with complaints from almost every user.

People should learn their craft.
This is because it's a contract oddity - if they told you to sign it but offered nothing; you could challenge it in court, and the courts have often said a "one-sided contract" is not valid (e.g., you give me copyright I give you nothing).

The $20 is "due consideration" - just like how some deals involve selling an item for a dollar.
Knowing the units is math that you get graded on. The div0 problem was one of domain and range: also math.
I wonder when we'll start to have some estimate of indirect/direct death toll. This took down several 911 type services and hospitals, some reported imaging down, some being back to paper and pen at ER.