skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@streakolay - What's the reason for the checkout price changing at the last minute? I see several people mentioning that they were quoted $17 and then charged $33 (x2) or $50 (x3), but I don't see any replies explaining the reason or confirming that it's a bug.

Surely it's not an intentional bait-and-switch, right? That would be an extremely scummy anti-pattern; the cart price should always match the final checkout price aside from reasonable surcharges like tax and shipping that should be displayed as soon as the needed information is collected.

The fact that the mentioned higher amounts are almost perfectly double or triple the quoted amount makes it sound like some kind of error, like either a server-side bug or a user accidentally adding several copies to their cart without realizing it.

Can you please clarify the reason for the discrepancy?
The problem is in the service module which will be jettisoned and burn up in the atmosphere.
> surreptitiously stoking anti-immigrant sentiments.

That's a strange way to say reporting on illegal immigration reality
Russian cosmonauts already regularly fly on SpaceX missions [1], and Americans also regularly fly on Soyuz missions. [2] The entire point of science cooperation, sports, and the like is to rise above politics.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2#Crew_Dragon_fl...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soyuz_missions
I have to assume people who don't use equipment have either arrogance or poverty.
If you can do that and do it, for what do you need to ask the chatbot? Genuine question, because in my mind that's the heavy lifting you do there and you will get to a conclusion in the process. All the bot can do is agree with you and that serves what purpose?
I have a friend who insists that the fuelling all happened in FB groups and WhatsApp groups, and journalists are blaming X and this website because they can see it, and can’t see the private groups.

For investigators - the police have said those posting false information online will “face justice” - this is a real problem. If you repeat something earnestly believing that it is true because you believe your source, are you guilty of a crime simply because you were the first one to post it in public?

The amount of reverse ferreting going on in press and with some of these groups is astonishing though. I only hope everyone learns something from it.
Sideways eye look at leetcode culture
> Studied and found to be non-damaging, or just studied and sucks to be them?

Nothing permanent or serious [1][2]. (On the other hand, astronauts' telomeres lengthen during spaceflight [3]. We have no idea why.)

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-021-01496-9

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49211-2

[3] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8650
I think it's a bit similar to the deaf community hating on hearing aids or bald people hating on hair transplants. Psychologically, it's challenging to accept certain conditions, so our brains create rationalizations as a defense mechanism. Similarly, with death, we have no option but to accept it (at least for now), and so we develop rationalizations to convince ourselves that it's actually desirable.
"Your" life is awesome.
My takeaway is that it's difficult to make a "generic enough" evaluation that encompasses all things we use an LLM for, e.g. code, summaries, jokes. Something with free lunches.
I still can't get over the newer meaning of that phrase. Particularly jarring to read it on HN too!
Market data science is tragically fascinating. It's a superpower, capable of being used for eithger good or bad.
A cheap DIY way of achieving the same thing as RLHF is to fine tune the model to append a score to its output every time.

Remember: The reason we need RLHF at all is that we cannot write a loss function for what makes a good answer. There are just many ways a good answer could look like, which cannot be calculated on the basis of next-token-probability.

So you start by having your vanilla model generate n completions for your prompt. You the. manually score them. And then those prompt => (completion,score) pairs become your training set.

Once the model is trained, you may find that you can cheat:

Because if you include the desired score in your prompt, the model will now strive to produce an answer that is consistent with that score.
Sounds like dying isn't very effective at solving social issues either, then, so the argument that it helps is somewhat moot.
There is an environmental cost that you are not paying alone.
I don't identify my "self" (or consciousness) with memories or anything the supposed LLM in my brain might babble about. If you took those things away, I'd still be here. Rationally speaking, self is the only thing that certainly isn't an illusion. Anything you perceive could be a hallucination, memories can change or disappear, and thoughts are mere dust in the wind, but you can't have any of those things without something to perceive them. It's the only thing you know is there, whatever it is.
> Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic at the time the moderators closed the topic), which created an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt...

> Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism”, concepts not backed by empirical evidence, which could be seen as deliberate intimidation or creating an exclusionary environment.

So simply having an opinion and expressing it counts as "intimidation" now? I have to point out that one aspect of an organization's culture that actually creates hostility and exclusion is punishing people for engaging in good-faith discussion. (And if the dialogue in question was not in good faith, why not put that at the top?) It's not enough for someone to engage in the process and help the team reach the best outcome. Their opinion must also be the correct one, or else.

Look, I'm an outsider here, so there are obviously a lot of details I'm missing, but this doesn't look good to someone reading it without context, and I don't think it makes the PSF look good. How it reads is "hey, we're writing to let you know we're banning someone. We won't say who it is, and we won't say exactly what they did, but the two top things came down to differences of opinion."

I would love to be wrong about all of this, because I especially don't like seeing it in an open-source organization that's so integral to my own work.
It makes sense when you realise that Thomas uniquely is very often smeared for this sort of stuff.
> Not everyone is the same. Some people are more open to change and new experiences than others.

It's also likely that in the future, this trait will be tunable with technology.
ReasonML maybe
I enjoyed this Karpathy post about how there is absolutely no extant solution to training language models to reliably solve open ended problems.

I preferred Zitron’s point* that we would need to invent several branches of science to solve this problem, but it’s good to see the point made tweet-sized.

*https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/
It's a bit over the top to put the UK in the same category as Ukraine and the Middle East isn't?
Reading the comments, it feels like almost everyone here might benefit from WeCroak - I definitely recommend it.

https://www.wecroak.com/
well, as yann lecun said :

"Adversarial training, RLHF, and input-space contrastive methods have limited performance.
Why?
Because input spaces are BIG.
There are just too many ways to be wrong" [1]

A way to solve the problem is projecting onto latent space and then try and discriminate/predict the best action down there. There's much less feature correlation down in latent space than in your observation space. [2]

[1]:https://x.com/ylecun/status/1803696298068971992
[2]: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
Why hello again :) I really appreciate your projects and noticed the web server one. There's an ask - please prefer built-in containers unless you have to use custom ones, at least for now. It is also not necessary to define aliases for types accessible directly: `using Namespace.AnotherNamespace` is enough to access them. There is no need to re-define the alias for `AnotherNamespace` if it matches either. When you have time, please look at sharpl PR which simplifies the implementation and makes it more compiler-friendly: https://github.com/codr7/sharpl/pull/2

In any case, welcome to C# and thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_inheritance#Mitigatio...

CLOS and Ocaml figured it out
Yes, I had the same question popping up.

On a meta-level, this is the essence of social engineering: creating a seemingly harmless and fun distraction to get what you may really want.

"Consent to give me pictures of your face and movements" as a pop-up would probably spoil the fun a bit.
Yes. And why ? Because some heretics are not using hyper-V as hypervisor. So microsoft works with Linux to make sure windows can be run as guest.

The day AWS and GCP migrates their workloads to hyper-v will mark the end of microsoft's upstream contribution on Linux.
Rockwell International made the orbiter. Unless they were later merged into Boeing and now perhaps involved in Starliner?
The accusation around the SNL sketch seems flawed owing to a clear misreading of what he was speaking of when he said "it" was genuinely funny.
Hate it when that happens.
This is why AI coding assistance will leap ahead in the coming years. Chat AI has no clear reward function (basically impossible to judge the quality of responses to open-ended questions like historical causes for a war). 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. And then whole process can turn into training data for future AI coding models.

I expect language models to also get crazy good at mathematical theorem proving. The search space is huge but theorem verification software will provide 100% accurate feedback that makes real reinforcement learning possible. It's the combination of vibes (how to approach the proof) and formal verification that works.

Formal verification of program correctness never got traction because it's so tedious and most of the time approximately correct is good enough. But with LLMs in the mix the equation changes. Having LLMs generate annotations that an engine can use to prove correctness might be the missing puzzle piece.
Read "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Yes, inverse profiling works this way. A group with known individuals communicates constantly with someone who ain't using FB or Insta. You still know this person quite well, easily identifiable, maybe lacking some information but more than needed.

This is also why privacy has been a game over for decades. Ten years ago or so, friends boasted that they don't use Gmail due to privacy concerns but happily email folks with Gmail accounts.

One group picture is sufficient, you can work from there.
That's a pretty crazy example but I can top it. I've met programmers who think that Communism works and that Stalin was an admirable guy. Honest to god tankies.
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how do people writing C# deal with its gazillian features? It seems easier (and more useful) to learn and master every language that it absorbs, rather than C# itself.
A game like Go has a clearly defined objective (win the game or not). A network like you described can therefore be trained to give a score to each move. Point here is that assessing whether a given sentence sounds good to humans or not does not have a clearly defined objective, the only way we came up with so far is to ask real humans.
Wow, there are over 20 other villages in a 4'593 m radius from here, so I guess I'll be leaving such ultras for those who have the space to see the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended.
Granite Rapids, to be launched in a few months, is said by Intel to support AVX10.1/512 (which is identical to the ISA supported by Zen 5, except for a few additional flags reported by CPUID; Zen 4 lacks only VP2INTERSECT of AVX10.1).

Only the availability of AVX10/256 in Intel's consumer CPUs and in its server CPUs with E-cores is in the proposal phase (mainly because Intel has yet to design and launch, as the successor of Skymont that is being launched now, an E-core supporting AVX10/256; this is expected only in H2 2026).
Depends on the network adapter in use. E.g. a bridged adapter will bypass it, an emulated vlan won't.
Ship of Theseus has many variations; one I like is from Terry Pratchett, regarding dwarfs and axes.

“This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Yeah, Rockwell was broken up and that part of the company is now Boeing Defense, although i do think Boeing was directly involved in designing of the shuttle back then. Now you've got me wondering if I'm mistaken about that.
All the social media platforms that have no dampening on the spread of disinformation (not stopping, not censoring, just throttling back the spread) bear some blame, those platforms that actually incentivize First Post! fueled gasoline spreading are arguably at fault to a greater degree (weighted by platform reach).

From TFA and initially wrt The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter:

Some profiles like this have racked up millions of views over the past week posting about the Southport attacks and subsequent riots. X’s “ads revenue sharing” means that blue-tick users can earn a share of revenue from the ads in their replies.

Estimates from users with fewer than half a million followers who have generated income in this way say that accounts can make $10-20 per million views or impressions on X. Some of these accounts sharing disinformation are racking up more than a million impressions almost every post, and sharing posts several times a day.

Other social media companies - aside from X - also allow users to make money from views. But YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook have previously de-monetised or suspended some profiles posting content that break their guidelines on misinformation. Apart from rules against faked AI content, X does not have guidelines on misinformation.
As the article says, this has nothing to do with France but with inventor Henry French.
That one was the exception to the rule. The vast majority of CEOs aren't actually that dumb and reckless with their own lives, just greedy and sociopathic.
Isnt /r/btc the bcash guys?
Doesn't he do this full time?
I’m getting a 502 Bad gateway :/
Hey, remember me? We met randomly on a bus from Machu Picchu to Cusco a couple weeks ago! First "orange site" people I've met IRL lol.

Great work on this - very slick UX and super quick.

Be cool to expand it to support the UK or maybe develop some open standard for the way data can be reported. I'm sure businesses would pay for a consolidated data api.
Huh, I see it quite frequently. In particular I see references to the anti-Palestinian bias with suggestions that the fact the editor in chief volunteered to join the IDF and served as a guard in a prison camp might be relevant.
How old are you now, out of interest?
Under Meloni, concerns for press freedom in Italy mount
Most jailbreaks and rooting software rely on some exploitable bugs to gain their initial foothold and install/modify files onto the system.
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Will there be any layout optimizations performed by Roslyn for fields that can be aliased? E.g.: for a type union which has variants with 2 object fields and one ushort-sized at most each, have a base layout of (object, object, short)?
In the documentary The Fog of War, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara recalls General Curtis LeMay, who relayed the Presidential order to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, said:
"If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Selden mentions another critique of the nuclear bombing, which he says the U.S. government effectively suppressed for twenty-five years, as worth mention. On 11 August 1945, the Japanese government filed an official protest over the atomic bombing to the U.S. State Department through the Swiss Legation in Tokyo

Truth is most people here are hypocrites, might makes right and the end justifies the means, but only for our side! Mind you, I'm no arguing that these obvious truths are wrong, but intellectual honesty shouldn't go to the trash in favour of wishful thinking and posturing.
> Is the requirement free of implementation? (Requirements should state WHAT is needed, NOT HOW to provide it; i.e., state the problem not the solution. Ask, “Why do you need the requirement?” The answer may point to the real requirement.)

Sounds obvious but always worth repeating.

I've seen system requirements specs that were detailed implementation design documents and, worse I have seen system engineers ask software engineers how they had implemented something so that they could write a matching system requirements (too detailed, of course) after the fact!
I would love to read about tech details behind this.
Uh, that's the point?
Kill it with Apple-Option-Escape!
If it's just a matter of (not) breaking ToS, then my idea of manually collating prices shouldn't be able to be shut down (or credibly threatened with being shut down). It might be a painstaking (and unsustainable) effort, but price tags in a physical store have no ToS.
Those languages are too SIMD-hostile.
Why a device? Everyone there will have a phone. Phones can identify music and location.

The rest of the problem is left for the reader to solve ;)
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
Since I got kids I realized how they are the weakest link in the chain and are targeted by everyone. From tobacco (at the end nobody starts smoking at 30), to "free" cartoons (peppa pig backpack is not free, though), school book sellers. Heck, even the school this year pressured to put my kid in their social media.

There is a whole world of people making their living out of your kids.

Sorry for the rant. This is just another two. Does not surprise me.
Even there how you score it is hard.

"Is it the same for this s y of inputs?" May be fine for a subset of things, but then that's a binary thing. If it's slightly wrong do you score by number of outputs that match? A purely binary thing gives little useful help for nudging a model in the right direction. How do you compare two that both work, which is more "idiomatic"?
Tangential, but does anyone know the VFX software used for book/report animation used in the video? Very sleek.
On the "Center for Immigration Studies":

> The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an American anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham alongside eugenicist and white nationalist John Tanton in 1985 as a spin-off of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). It is one of a number of anti-immigration organizations founded by Tanton, along with FAIR and NumbersUSA.

> Reports published by CIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration, fact-checkers and news outlets, and immigration-research organizations. The organization had significant influence within the Trump administration, which cited the group's work to defend its immigration policies. The Southern Poverty Law Center designated CIS as a hate group with ties to the American nativist movement. The CIS sued the SPLC over the designation, but the lawsuit was dismissed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies

And on Michael Yon in the Darién Gap:

> Since 2021, Yon has worked as a fixer in the Darién Gap, a dangerous stretch of jungle used by migrants entering the United States illegally. He has worked with figures such as Alex Jones and Laura Loomer, getting them access to the camps where legacy media are barred by security. A New York Times article noted that he targeted the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, quoting him as saying that "they’re coming across the border and it’s being funded with Jewish money.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon#2021-24_%E2%80%93_...
Determining the equity distribution between co-founders is a critical step that requires careful consideration. Here's how you can justify holding 51% equity based on your contributions and goals:

Technical Foundation and Completed Product: You have invested a significant amount of time and effort in developing the application, which has already passed the MVP stage and is ready for use. This substantial contribution provides the groundwork for further development and marketing efforts.

Maintaining Control: Holding 51% equity allows you to retain control over strategic decisions within the company. This is crucial to ensure that your vision and goals continue to drive the direction of the business.

Division of Responsibilities: Considering that your potential co-founders will primarily focus on marketing and business development, their contributions will be highly valuable. However, this does not diminish the importance of your technical input and development expertise.

Management Flexibility: Retaining a controlling interest (51%) also gives you the final say in case of disagreements. This is important for effective management and conflict resolution.

Motivation and Balance: Co-founders should be adequately motivated to work on the project, so they should receive a significant equity share. This can be around 20-25% each, which collectively totals 49%, leaving you with 51%.

An example of equity distribution could be:

You (Founder and Developer) - 51%
Co-founder 1 (Marketing and Business Development) - 24.5%
Co-founder 2 (Marketing and Business Development) - 24.5%
This distribution ensures that you retain control over the company while providing significant motivation and involvement for your co-founders. It is also essential to formalize all agreements in a legally binding contract that outlines each participant's contributions and mechanisms for conflict resolution.
> No need for passport when buying from inside EU

Not true. I got flagged when buying from Sweden, even though my card passed 3D-Secure validation (which essentially shifts liability to the customer in fraud claims).

They just have a clunky system that’s getting in the way of potential customers.
lost.com is up for sale.
I find the solution of giving non-safety-critical posts to the engineers that care most about safety very indicative of the culture at Boeing.
multiple dispatch or whatever helps people stop thinking about a hierarchy of inheritance and more in terms of objects and messages.
Understandable, they have been trained to convince you of their helpfulness.
it definitely seems like they're using "consumer privacy" as a way to gate/limit whether other companies are allowed to build certain types of third-party apps.
I found the story:

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=8101209&page=1

At the end, I think his bad investment was to pick his ex-wife. I think.
Aren’t no script and uBlock Origin redundant?