skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no conspiracy theorist but, if it's fake, the money is still real. Redistributing billions of dollars to the elite heads of the illuminati under the cover of socalled "space exploration".
Alternatively, you include information about the user of the model as part of the context to the inference query, so that the model can uniquely optimize its answer for that user.

Imagine if you could give a model "how you think" and your knowledge, experiences, and values as context, then it's "Explain Like I'm 5" on steroids. Both exciting and terrifying at the same time.
Vladimir Putin started off as 'security staff'.
Yes, there are no degrees of safety, might as well strap yourself to a cannon bomb and ride it!
Claude Sonnet 3.5 at least works awesomely, you can just talk to it asking stuff, it will infer your knowledge level from your questions and start answering according to it, proposing a follow up path for further insigths about the subject. If you follow it up, usually it will take you to a somehow similar path as you would follow if you just happen to having been reading the wikipedia page for the subject you're asking Claude to explain about.

but if the subject isn't something that obvious as something you can find in the wikipedia, you'll be good too, Claude will take to a sort of "shortest path algorithm" of knowledge about the subject you're looking about.

if you side it with web searching, you'll see it takes some few keywords, concepts about the subject, and explains them, and you can go deeper searching them and looking other sources (blog posts, answers in reddit, etc.).

In Claude I found almost no hallucinations in the deepest explanations it answered in some research I've done with it, maybe some non-human focus on trivial details while not looking at more relevant stuff about the subject (I infer that the training data could be cramped with the less deep data, more people answering about the subject on internet from a shallow level of knowledge than a few experts answering really good explanations > you'll find these answers first when you begin web searching).
EU Web Archive
I'd prefer people still had the attention span to read the news, including the cartoons.
I believe that, but doesn't that make it much harder to read? Or are the organizational benefits worth it?

Edit: and I also don't see a way to do multiple arguments like that in a single document, unless you mean as a soft linkage.
Russia Map Shows over 130 Square Miles Now Under Ukraine's Control
Compiling Four Billion If Statements
The process was called Bahnprivatisierung.

See Wikipedia article here. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnprivatisierung

Translating that to english is train privatization. Does this lead to a privately OWNED company? I never said that.
The decision to privatize and to make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows.
SuperCool Idea. My only concern is the initiative needed by a user to attest another user. I would love this part to be automated.
For eg: An administrator can set rules, your bot automatically figures out from conversations the people who are communicating as role models based on the criteria administrator has set and start showing a weekly or monthly leaderboard.

Maybe initially, the Romo team can set the measurement criteria if that helps and make it custom in a future release.

But expecting people to highlight role models is where such apps don't get adopted easily.
Do you know if there's an impermeable barrier on the interior walls? And what foundation material behind the drywall?

It gets dicey applying internal barriers, because one needs to be thoughtful about making sure there's a place for water to go when it's actually too much (you don't want an internal barrier to be a dam holding back all the pressure), but it can be an option.

They sell them in membrane form or paint-type form.
should we apply this to boeing's planes too?
Why? By his own account, by his family’s account, and coming from every remotely reliable source that could have any knowledge to the contrary, he was born as, raised as, lives as, and most importantly is a human.

Anyway, this is the reason he gives for the no: "The most probable DSD for Imane Khelif is 5-alpha reductase deficiency, or 5-ARD. People with 5-ARD have XY chromosomes and testes that produce testosterone. But because of a gene mutation affecting the 5-alpha reductase enzyme, their testosterone can’t be converted to dihydrotestosterone, which is essential for developing male genitals. People with 5-ARD, though biologically male, are born with female-appearing or ambiguous external genitals, leading to potential misidentification as female at birth. Many with 5-ARD are raised as girls, only discovering their condition at puberty when their internal testes trigger male puberty. This results in masculine features and a physical advantage over women in sports."

One may defend that women going through male puberty should compete with women going though female puberty but it's not so obvious.
It's the words that were used in the 90s.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnprivatisierung
Why?! How does this help? That sounds insane and pointless to the education process. Unless the point was to educate your kids to be obedient slaves with childhood trauma for their corporate overlords.

We used to have something similar during communist rule in my European country, to teach kids who's boss and to respect authority.
If you disagree with someone's political opinion, obviously they aren't fit to do anything of constructive value.
Models aren't going to get really good at theorem proving until we build models that are transitive and handle isomorphisms more elegantly. Right now models can't recall factual relationships well in reverse order in many cases, and often fail to answer questions that they can answer easily in English when prompted to respond with the fact in another language.
For those who don't have the time to read the entire thing.

The “Shadow Resources” attack vector, which has since been addressed by AWS, stemmed from the automatic generation of S3 buckets by various AWS services, including:

- CloudFormation

- Glue

- EMR

- SageMaker

- ServiceCatalog

- CodeStar
> Monsanto and their "terminator" seeds that prevents farmers from planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to purchase new seeds for every planting.

Kind of misleading to just state it like this if your source points out that Monsanto never sold this, pledged 25 years ago they won’t do this, and according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_tech... , they also didn’t invent it.
Per source, yes.
Could reading instruction manuals become a thing of the past?
Not who shared that but there's a concept of non-violent communication that they may be referring to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

Coercion -> force -> violence

Forcing ads onto kids = violence?
Note that human preference isn't universal. RLHF is mostly frowned upon by the open source LLM community since it typically involves aligning the model to the preference of corporate manager humans, i.e. tuning for censorship and political correctness to make the model as bland as possible so the parent company doesn't get sued.

For actual reinforcement learning with a feedback loop that aims to increase overall performance the current techniques are SPPO and Meta's version of it [0] that slightly outperforms it. It involves using a larger LLM as a judge though, so the accuracy of the results is somewhat dubious.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.19594
They don't need to be intelligent to make conceptual leaps. DeepMind stuff just does a bunch of random RL experiments until it finds something that works.
Starliner needs to autonomously perform a few missions before risking human lives.
15 min already? Damn, I remember, when the threshold was at 5m59s and that was already kind of outrageous.
The more I think about the state of news, the more I'm convinced that we need independent rankings of news sites and journalism. Something similar to a health inspection score. With considerations like:

- News needs to be verifiable. Direct links to data sources.

- News need to have history of modifications to their article.

- Factual errors will cause dings to their score.

- Revenue sources/tax forms need to be public to find conflicts of interest.

If a news site wants to sell it's soul to make ad money, that's fine, but I want to see some sort of "F" rating on that site. There's no incentive for news sites to make good news right now.

Edit: Or, linking to this article: a sort of "nutrition facts" label for news
How they took over is a completely different subject from how they maintained dominance.
On HN, hundreds of devs worked for FAANGS and this includes working on all the projects we also claim are immoral.

If you start discussing this topic here, you will get a wall of people defending their position and a ton of downvotes, but the bottom line is, they are like the politicians or CEO they blame: if the money is good enough, morality is flexible.

No amount of BS in their beautifully worded code of conduct will change that.
>Coding AI can write tests, write code, compile, examine failed test cases, search for different coding solutions that satisfy more test cases or rewrite the tests, all in an unsupervised loop.

Will this be able to be done without spending absurd amounts of energy?
You can scroll up and look at Sweden as well. Not a pretty picture.
WADA Statement on Usada Scheme in Contravention of World Anti-Doping Code
Seems sensible, which makes me wonder why it hasn't already happened
No one has to check where you bought it, just the manufacturing date which is stamped on the case.

And yes, you are an outside the law, as trivial as it seems. For some of us breaking the law is a big deal; we put a large burden on "unjust law is not law" because we recognize that "stupid" "inconvenient" or even "ruinous" law isn't obviously "unjust"
Neoliberalism was a loan against the future for cheaper goods and profits today. It has contributed significantly to the wealth inequality in the US and the dismantling of worker's rights.
this tells more about how social science data is manipulated than the usefulness of llm
Similar to this post, which I believe I saw here a decade ago: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...
"given the updated input and output pairs below, generate code that would solve the problem."
Many not-even-that-obscure topics hit “you’ll need to go get a university press book that’s not online to continue” surprisingly fast. Any decent used book store is full of information that’s not online.

Library Genesis is the only reason this is even kind-of close to true.

As someone who grew up alongside the growth of the Internet (and remembers a time before it), I gotta say it hasn’t lived up to the hype.
Wasn't there a study which showed that UK tabloid readers were worse informed than people who simply didn't pay attention to the news at all?
Having ads targeted at children can be seen as a good thing: it trains the children in what advertising is like, about how they can be manipulated and exploited. It's good for them to get this experience while young when the stakes are low.

Of course, this might also train children to be the exploiters and manipulators. Maybe their parents would think that's a good thing too, at least in the long run.
These aren't EU transportation issues, these are GER transportation issues. The most powerful "parasitism" argument against CH is probably the tax arbitrage you can get from Zug/Lucerne, but a lot of that already happens inside EU itself with Luxembourg/Ireland/etc.

But yes, a fight over bigger contributions/more harmonization is inevitable within the next 10 years.
100%. That was a whole series of articles in DN about how the Swedish railways have been run into the ground.

Separating maintenance from operations is a terrible idea and has never worked well on any railway that I'm aware of.
They can barely move but can jump on a boat? Yeah, nice try but I will NOT waste my laughter on such an inconsistent joke.
Frankly the Daily Show/Last Week Tonight are the best news, because the news isn't vegetables to begin with, it's alluring toxic slop that makes us feel like shit when we consume it. At least TDS/LWT make us feel good while getting mildly (and mostly unnecessarily) informed.
I contracted sat TV for a while. I had to pay extra for movies but news channels were free. It was like someone was paying for me to watch that movie
It is important to click one more on the header on Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisierung and this is refers to my POV.

In German private means privately owned. It is rare that people out of Germany care about the legal status of Deutsche Bahn thus I used the German meanings and many posters as well.
The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars
See also earlier HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790597
What do you think about Behringer who announced a re/issue of the CZ-1 as a small module. I personally have many of the replicas that Behringer made of old synthesizers and I love them dearly. Finally I can aford the synths of the 70s and 80s that were unreachable for me at that time. Of course a lot of them are monophonic analog machines which have a rich UI with one knob per function, but I also like the digital ones like the Brains or Victor which are much harder to program, but still have a very easy to use UI. Same is true for Korg with their volca line. The Volce FM is just great, even though I have to program the DX7 sound on a PC.
You do a disservice to anyone actually exposed to real violence. I’m sure they’d prefer advertising to violence any day
HN title doesn't match article title... payments on HTTPS sites are plenty secure already, IMO. How is this more secure?
Spotify doesn't work on my desktop computer. Linux and firefox. Granted, I'm sure your 70 year old parents aren't running linux lol.
Physics: Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement
it's coming from the hypocrisy of saying they want the scientists working on something else, and expect to magically keep the same freedoms.
Precisely. The Daily Show was a predecessor to Twitter political culture and remains the offline version of it. Blue Flavored Fox News with more laughs.

It's the same political culture of preaching to the already converted and mostly shouting about how bad the other side is. No attempts at persuasion.
EVs Registrations, Sales in Wyoming Grow Despite Big Auto Pullbacks
'ZCZC' and 'NNNN' - all caps?
Is this still set up for teletypes?!
Please tell me there's not somewhere still getting these via baudot?!
Stupid comparison, because the Monroe Doctrine is still active American policy when it comes to its Foreign Affairs (and, yes, it was/is also active during both the Obama and Biden presidencies). Please try and do better next time.
Maybe a better approach would be to purify it by chemically dissolving the old glass in eg sodium hydroxide and reprecipitating it out.

I'm sure people have tried that though and it doesn't work for some reason.
I've been working in a PR-type space recently. That narrative is the subject of war between so many different actors.

The worst thing is watching everyone around me, even very intelligent people, get so angry over a space that is so heavily fabricated, optimised even for that very same outrage.
Russia is historical name of Ukraine before Moscow renamed their empire into Russian Empire. Ethnic Russians took meeting in 1910 and rebranded themselves into Ukrainians, to avoid confusion with bloody empire, then started Great Ukrainization, to separate themselves from enslaved and erased nations, which ended with mass murder of millions of Ukrainians by Russians in 1932-1934.

Russian Empire died and buried in a grave in 1917. Don't dig it up, please.
Isn't moving the goalposts convenient?
There's an amazing talk about DB's punctuality from the 2019 Chaos Communication Congress: BahnMining, David Kriesel. Available in German, and interpreted to English: https://dkriesel.com/blog/2019/1229_video_und_folien_meines_....

My favorite anecdote from riding a German train in Switzerland was a journey from Interlaken (Switzerland) to Frankfurt in Germany. Now if you're not used to train schedules: Stops are quick, and trains are punctual. It's fairly common for stops to just be 2-3 minutes. Connections between trains are often around 5 minutes, sometimes shorter.

So, this Intercity Express departed Interlaken perfectly on schedule, made a bunch of scheduled stops in Spiez, Thun, Bern, and continued on to the border city of Basel. Everything running perfectly on schedule, the train arrived at the Swiss station in Basel, continued (on time) to the German train station that's still in the same city, just a few minutes farther. Having had 3-5 minute stops all the way from early morning to lunchtime, the train then sat in the German station for about 15 minutes, departed with only a minor delay, and just a few yards after exiting the station proceeded to stop, sit on the tracks for half an hour ("to catch up with the prevalent delay conditions on the German rail network"), before starting to move again.

Waiting in a comfy seat on a train with working AC isn't the worst of fates, and we made the final destination within half an hour of the scheduled time, so it all went well -- just funny to observe how different parts of this interconnected network had very different ideas of scheduling.
I would argue the opposite. They are not aiming to be a neutral arbiter but an active advocate for better repairability. For that they should have for-profit business relationships with basically all companies manufacturing such devices. In particular, that would allow them to pressure or drop any one misbehaving company.

> Providing consumers with information on where to find reputable companies selling repair parts would be a much more palatable alternative to selling them yourself.

That does not really make sense. They are a repair company and the only company selling specialized parts is, of course, the manufacturer.

> also stands in the way of advocating for consumers.

That is much too bleak. They made a deal happen in the first place, which is large progress even if it did not quite work out, and compromises are a fact of life.
I still think that desktop Firefox is better than any other browser. Their mobile browser is just average though.
A gentle reminder that the "fluff" is people.
Building code hasn't always been an improvement. There's the cost-economic side too.

E.g. the replacement of plaster walls with sheetrock and massive beams with dimensional lumber

We didn't do those things because they're better: we did them because they're cheaper.

On the other hand, modern insulation, vapor barrier, windows, and electrical are strictly superior to what came before.
Please provide a source
" o make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows. " I refer to the time before 30 years. It was a very problematic time in West and East Germany though were a Goverment Agency by legal.
> Java is generally fine enough, but it's a little annoying when I have to do whacky workarounds with wrapper classes to get something that would be done in three lines

This is a weird take, given that Java has had ADTs for years

Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_16

Sealed classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_17

And pattern matching for almost a year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_21

Otherwise big agree on how delightful to work with F# is.
Why not? Japan was using floppy disks until last week or so :D
Agreed that for-profit relationships are inappropriate, and I also think iFixit’s business selling repair tools and parts is inappropriate.

The whole thing comes across as self-promotion for their tools/parts business. Add in their dabbling in lobbying for regulations to force manufacturers to make devices that you can buy ifixit (and other) kits for… and it starts to feel as disingenuous as Epic’s “pro-consumer” interest in outlawing the razors/blades business model that game consoles use.
Competition to convert legacy C code to Rust automatically with GenAI
> Where did government get "out of the way"?

Come to Eastern Europe and notice the privatization of many services that we had taken for granted back in the day, such as Healthcare.
You can travel across Japan, similar or even larger distances, with practically no delays.

As a passenger it's not always about the bare number of minutes, the problem is that I might get stranded somewhere, and train stations in Germany are generally very dirty and somewhat unsafe at odd hours.
First, it's easier to do test on undocumented, homeless and rights deprived people than regular citizens.

Second. If you're that far in the future, the labor will be automatized, who's going to rebel? The automatons?
Something seems to be off with the grouping. If you look at Chinon (France) there are 2 different statuses, but 3 groups. A1 is not grouped with A2 and A3.
Why is free speech free? If you think people (and by extension businesses) should be allowed to express themselves that's one thing, but advertising is importantly distinct from that. It's protected speech in most of the Anglosphere to say you don't like some person or group, but not to maliciously damage someone's reputation or incite hatred. I can imagine an analogous situation where you're free to express that you think your product is good, but not to incite irrational desire in consumers or try so place information about your product in places that are difficult to avoid, like public billboards.
There is no moral equivalence here.
For the life of me I cannot remember where I saw it, but there is a comic that once explored the theme, a man wakes up from cryo 1000 years in the future to find that anyone who wanted to endeavor in any field figured they'd jump on the pod and wait for someone else to do some of more of the groundwork, that history and technological progress had basically stopped.
We should start understanding that "independent" rankings won't ever work. Let's not even get started with "fact-checking" places which we can count by dozens per country now, as they all have their own interpretations (or otherwise a single one alone would be enough).

For such a thing to work, it needs to be funded. At the end, it doesn't matter if it comes from public or private hands, it's going to be leaning towards one direction or another, then a group of people will consider it the absolute truth and other group of people will create their own site for "fact-checking".

If humans cannot possibly be objective and independent (yes, that's what I believe after 30+ years in this planet and having met multiple people), then news cannot possibly be. Bearing in mind such a limitation, let's think how this can be possibly improved.

I personally gave up on news being informative and just see it as entertainment - it's a narrative business.
There is no doubt a blue bent, but I think the fact that it says on the tin that it is satire gives it a leg up on fox news which purports to be, ya know, news. And I think you’ll find that Jon Stewart at least tries to acknowledge the argument of the other side even more than say CNN. For example he was very willing to acknowledge early on that the concerns about Joe Biden’s age were legitimate before a lot of the other blue leaning media realized they could’nt deny it any more. I’d say Bill Maher and some of the talk shows that have gone political are closer to twitter offline, more focused on gotcha moments than real arguments.