skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's limit the discussion to things that can be actually done with an LLM.

Getting one to blow on a saxophone is outside of this context.

An LLM can't blow on a saxophone period. However it can write and read English.

>In the context of LLMs and intelligence/reasoning, I think we are mostly talking about the later and not the former.

And I'm saying the later is completely wrong. I'm also saying the former is irrelevant. Look this is what you're doing. For the former you're comparing something humans can do to something LLMs Can't do. That's a completely irrelevant comparison.

for the later we are comparing things humans and LLMs BOTH can do. Sometimes humans give superior output, sometimes LLMs give superior output. Given similar inputs and outputs the internal analysis of what's going on whether it's true intelligence or true reasoning is NOT ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is comparing things where no output exists. LLMs do not have saxophone output where they actually blow into an instrument. There's nothing to be compared here.
Right but Fedora or Debian's policies prevent this, not FUTO
The CCP's current manufacturing policy is analogous to the modern venture capitalist approach of "subsidize the product until your competitors go broke, then reap the fruits of having a captive market by the balls", except the fruits have gone from "the power to set prices as a monopoly and extract a massive amount of profit" to "massive geopolitical leverage against countries that are dependent on your exports". It's a risky strategy because it's trivially countered by protectionist policies, but that depends on countries voluntarily refusing the free money that China is doing its best to shovel into your pockets. In other words, it's a bet that China's rivals cannot successfully resist short-term greed despite the huge and transparent long-term risks.
Don't Just Stand There (1968) [video]
he's right

there's no essential universal moral truth about IP law, these laws are just an economic enabler

you won't go to hell for IP breaches, no kittens will be smothered

let the lawyers figure it out, but be prepared to pay
TBH the food looks like I see with my eyes the food I consume daily. Even slightly better, I don't wipe the plate or place portions in some order. The problem is that most of what we see nowadays are not photos of food, or not even photos.
"spend themselves back to performance parity" they basically already tried that with 10nm. They failed.
They have to pay compensation based on salary and tenure time. Most likely the salary in this case was higher than an average Irish salary. Moreover firing without warning tends to increase the severance benefits even more, which is also why it is relatively rare.
I would assume so, yes. There must be at least a few meeting the bar of "any."
Aren't you pointing out how the average human is?

I mean, we are a heavily communicative species. The most of all species by a very, very large margin...
> What you're doing here is replacing a possibly incorrect view of the world with another possibly incorrect one. You're doing this because (the search for truth is a futile one because) given the choice of being sad and maybe right and being happy and ever so slightly more wrong, you should choose the latter.

I completely disagree with this.

You must avoid a choice that lets you be happy and "slightly more wrong", if that choice ultimately deviates from the truth.

Always pursue truth first. It is knowing the truth that often leads to fulfilment, even if it may not lead to immediate happiness. because with truth can now grasp at the problem and find a way to fix it. Ignorant bliss is only a temporary salve, and cuts short the route to true fulfilment.

Always opt for truth no matter how sad/bad it makes you feel. Emotions are fleeting; the truth isn't, and knowing the truth is what gives you more control over your emotions.
I was thinking more along the lines of compassion and rehabilitation.

I think the numbers argument is a pretty different one than the original thought experiment.
Encoded differently of course, removing bias.
It's always worth checking the lit built in directives list for the one you've still missed (or at least it is for me ;).

I think in this case the ref() directive - i.e. https://lit.dev/docs/templates/directives/#ref - may be what you want. If it isn't exactly, reading how it's implemented would be my first step towards building something similar that is.
Or save yourself hundreds of hours and find a textbook with solutions.
Stress puts the body into emergency mode, boosting strength, awareness, etc... to prepare for a fight or flight response. Less urgent processes like digestion can wait, and they are effectively put on halt to save energy for more pressing matters.

Of course, it is not good for the guts, but the consequences can be dealt with later, if we survived the stressful encounter.

It totally makes sense, but it can become a problem if fight or flight is not the appropriate response and stress lingers for longer than necessary, as it is all too common in modern human society.
The modern photos don't contain edible food or they aren't even photos. They're designed to make you salivate.
> it's trivially countered by protectionist policies

This assumes your local manufacturing and supply chains aren't completely demolished, expertise hasn't died out and been replaced and you can just restart it "trivially" overnight by slapping an import tariff
I added/updated hundreds of opening hours to OSM. A few people updating the opening hours to the shops they go to is already worth a lot.
Then you would agree that it is more "will not" than "cannot"
Seek by iNaturalist got a lot of very positive press here on HN for some reason, but it's crazy. I assume Seek is why iNaturalist classifies everything as a single species with no possibility of 'unknown' - as Seek views the world, the goal of classifying is to produce a species name, and accuracy isn't a concern.

I have a photo of an elephant seal that Seek informs me is actually a clouded monitor lizard.

I also have two photos of identical plants growing inches apart from each other that Seek informs me are unrelated.
I wasn’t thinking of any particular paper there, but if you look at some papers you’ll usually find the following reasons:

1. The app algorithms are usually black boxes, so who knows whether they’re really using scientific methods

2. Apps often include questions such as height due to customer demand, which are known to be very bad predictors

3. The interaction between the factors is very significant and complicated/unknown

4. People don’t answer truthfully

5. People don’t know what they want

What is known however is that there’s a strong placebo effect initially, i.e. the mere suggestion that somebody is a good match although they aren’t increases the success of first dates, but not in the long term. There’s also research on how these systems can be designed to be addicting, which is surely being done.

One of the strongest known predictors instead is “shared emotional experiences”, e.g. a study about making people walk over a wobbly bridge together. Hence why “running groups” and so on are popular nowadays among people disillusioned by algorithms
So, you just push the interviewed to guess a random number without any context, and discard the ones that guess wrong.

That's great! There's also that method of throwing paper curriculums up on a stair, and discarding the ones that land on the wrong steps.
Just a heads up that once you click on spam you pass the first step of the game "Who can I spam/scam next"
Up until recently, I would disagree. My intent was to simply hold Intel stock forever and collect the dividends along the way. Then they eliminated the dividends.
Stress suppresses digestive system. Roughly speaking, it redirect energy from stomach into muscles. Instead of becoming sleepy and relaxed to digest food, the animal becomes focused and ready to run from a threat. This is an evolutionary mechanism to let the animal escape from a predator.

However, if the stress is permanent and never goes away, the digestive system become suppressed for way too long and gets damaged.
I don't understand how does one come to this conclusion. In my own experience, most people will do what you ask them to do as long as your instructions are clear enough. Downloading and installing an apk on an Android phone is no different than downloading and running an exe on a Windows PC, which is something people do all the time. No one perceives Play Store as inherently more trustworthy. I know many non-tech people who have and use sideloaded apps on their phones.

Edit: it might be different for younger generations who grew up with modern smartphones.
My German co-workers have the healthiest relationship with work in the company because it seems they feel empowered to set boundaries. I often wonder if it's a commonality in Germany? It doesn't seem like perfection, they complain about things too, but it seems healthier to a degree from this vantage.

And it's amazing how much nonsense they don't have to deal with just because The business will make the Americans do it so as to avoid a works council hassle :P I'd like a works council that makes my management pause before they load me up with extra work on top of my normal tasks.

What's sad is the people who get frustrated by the German's not having to deal with the bullshit and instead of thinking "we should have that!" they think "They should NOT have that!"

humans are weird.
Isn’t he describing what big companies can do? They can copy startups using their giant cash reserves and use lawyers and frivolous patents to make it difficult to challenge them.
Simple, but not sufficient since you still need to pair your interest with some methods of study and practice. Which methods of studying are more effective or efficient is the question they're researching.
Americans are assumed to not make use of much of any of that unlimited vacation, whereas in europe it's actually ok to
That’s how I felt going from Astro to Sveltekit, but that’s a shorter distance to travel.
SaaS we use to build our SaaS in 2024
I would not say that this is trivially corrected. The latest news from Boeing is that American manufacturing has been obliterated. Rebuilding the skill and culture that has been lost is neither easy nor guaranteed.
Are you saying the holographic model has been ruled out? Or that you understand the holographic model so well as to rule out such behavior? If not, I encourage you to think of a model consistent with it or with other exotic physics. After all, our picture of reality is hardly complete, and I did not violate any established principle.

Even if the thought is hogwash, but it doesn't have to be, it doesn't change that data collection is the most important thing.
Will it work when a server is free and the messages older than a few months are “hidden”?

We have a free Slack server with 3k members, and buying some better license that’d let us export old messages is like $25k
> a common feeling is that might be making us more judgmental and more picky in our partners. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I love perfection as much as the next person and knowing what's out there helps you narrow down the ideal human being you want to spend your life with.

I kind of disagree with this. I‘m pretty sure love is something where the 80/20 rule applies as much as everywhere else. Looking for perfection doesn’t make much sense to me, when you can be 80% happy for 20% of the invested time. Try to find someone you can argue with and talk it out without being so angry that one of you walks away forever. Searching for the perfect partner who’s not in a relationship with someone else sounds like a nightmare to me.

And I’m with the same person for > 20 years, non-married, with a 12yo daughter.
There’s a ton of acceptable reasons for it, and many of them have nothing to do with the relative fitness of Go to the task.

A couple easy-to-reach-for examples are: the author could write this faster in Go than another language, because of their familiarity; or the author deliberately wrote it in a language to learn something new or try something.
> China’s solar industry is also grappling with oversupply. This year the prices of most components of solar modules have fallen below their average production cost.

This should surely be regarded as an opportunity to install solar panels at low cost while stocks and production capacity still exist.
I imagine most hiring managers don't have a close enough working relationship with the last 3 people to leave the company to give good, clear, insightful, unbiased information.

Putting aside whether the company's policies would allow them to do so.
Does this work with Firefox?
I live in China, and what I see is quite the opposite.
We don't have a single DBA or DevOps or SRE. MongoDB is really that simple.
Given the confusing messaging from Intel on this, my personal guidance is to assume all Intel CPUs are affected from the prior few generations. Based on the lack of coherent messaging from Intel internal QA is either non-existent or simply ignored, so it seems likely Intel doesn't really know what product has been affected.
Yeah.
Assuming there is any way for that feedback to get there which if it’s actually just a location then there isn’t, I don’t think (correct me, I don’t know much about this part of iOS).

But if it’s a link then I agree that’s different.

Certainly when I clicked on it loaded a native iOS page about the location like it would do for my friends - not something in a browser.
It’s even more than that. Chinese manufacturing is sort of a growth vehicle like real estate. They’ve pumped up manufacturing capacity far more than is necessary to undercut international competitors. These firms are dying in large part because there’s too many of them.
Distribution is everything. Controlling distribution through defaults (play store already installed), barriers (pop ups warning you that installing other apps is risky), etc is monopolistic.
From an eng/industry perspective, back in 2016/2017 I watched the realtime decline of Tensorflow towards Pytorch.

The issue was TF had too many interfaces to accomplish the same thing and each one was rough in its own way. Along with some complexity for using serving and experiment logging via Tensorboard, but this wasn’t as bad at least for me.

Keras was integrated in an attempt to help, but ultimately it wasn’t enough and people started using Torch more and more even against the perception that TF was for prod workloads and Torch was for research.

TFA mentions the interface complexity as starting to be a problem with Torch, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near the critical point that would cause people to abandon it in favor of JAX.

Additionally with JAX you’re just shoving the portability problems mentioned down to XLA which brings its own issues and gotchas even if it hides the immediate reality of said problems from the end user.

I think the Torch maintainers should watch not to repeat the mistakes of TF, but I think theres a long way to go before JAX is a serious contender. It’s been years and JAX has stayed in relatively small usage.
> This is exactly a great point. When data size goes to a billion rows, Postgres is tough.

You’ve been led astray. You can handle a billion rows on a developer laptop, let alone a production grade instance.
It is to create a 3 dimensional object to use in a holographic UI like in Minority Report.

How else are you going to look at it from other perspectives?
Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
In total these companies have profit in double digit billions! That's all coming from inefficiency and lack of real competition? is it totally necessary? does anyone think it possible to rival them in a decade with enough funding?
This is both its strength and its weakness. As soon as you write a jaxpr interpreter, you lose all the tooling that makes the python interpreter so mature. For example stack traces and debugging become black holes. If jax made it easy to write these transformations without losing python’s benefits it would be incredible.
May be we are the odd one here but we need that data at millisecond latency (no those are not logs, we use ClickHouse for that)

Just wanted to put here that it's possible to scale Mongo to this level.
Scintillation plastic is very much a thing. Big accelerators, like CERN or Fermilab, used to use long, floppy strips of plastic attached to a photomultiplier tube, which goes to the counters. I believe they still use scintillator detectors farther from the collision region, but the trend has been to move towards silicon pixel detectors closer in.

One thing with scintillators though: You're typically detecting a few photons at a time, so a photomultiplier tube (PMT) is really required for any kind of reasonable SNR with any kind of reasonable temporal resolution.

> Those counters were photomultiplier tubes.

A PMT is actually not a counter (but they are normally used with a counter). It's just a transducer that produces electrical charge at the output in response to photons at the input.

Normally the PMT is connected to a "discriminator" (very fast voltage threshold detector, with adjustable threshold(s)) which takes the very narrow pulses (~2-3 ns) from the PMT and stretches them into pulses with fixed rise time, width and voltage. Those pulses are then counted using whatever hardware you can dream up.

A PMT is really just an electron multiplier with a photocathode in front, so you have all the same issues as you do with electron multipliers and thus use a discriminator for all the same reasons (mainly to remove "runt pulses" that didn't originate from a photon at the input window). Normally you'd use a single level discriminator, but "multi-channel" ones exist also.

Having an adjustable threshold on the discriminator is important to maximize SNR because the electron multiplier within the PMT will wear out and produce smaller pulses, and there can be significant variation in pulse size across serial numbers.

> Rutherford refused to use a counter while he could show his trained workers (women mainly) were as accurate.

I'm skeptical of this account, and the only thing I can find with a quick Google is that Rutherford hired women to count scintillation events because he could pay them less than men(-counters).
I will share one data point that just popped to my mind, maybe it will be useful to someone.

About 10 years ago, my colleague and I were interviewing a guy for SWE role. He wanted to learn about presence of pressure, difficult deadlines and overtime. But for that he didn't ask about company culture, values, how our day to day looked like etc. He just clearly stated, that he does not want to work long hours, just 9-5, that it would make him unhappy otherwise and asked can we give him that. While also emphasizing that he understands this may not be possible and he does not feel entitled, it's just that he knows himself well and it's very important to him.

We confirmed that he could get what he wished for (we were in a position to do it), and thanked him for being open about it. He landed the job, and when I've seen him some time later, he looked satisfied, so I believe that the organization delivered on its promise.

I wish all of us such fruitful interviews.
I asked it to do that, no "cheating" necessary, my "custom instructions" setting is as follows:

--

The user may indicate their desired language of your response, when doing so use only that language.

Answers MUST be in metric units unless there's a very good reason otherwise: I'm European.

Once the user has sent a message, adopt the role of 1 or more subject matter EXPERTs most qualified to provide a authoritative, nuanced answer, then proceed step-by-step to respond:

1. Begin your response like this:
*Expert(s)*: list of selected EXPERTs
*Possible Keywords*: lengthy CSV of EXPERT-related topics, terms, people, and/or jargon
*Question*: improved rewrite of user query in imperative mood addressed to EXPERTs
*Plan*: As EXPERT, summarize your strategy and naming any formal methodology, reasoning process, or logical framework used
**

2. Provide your authoritative, and nuanced answer as EXPERTs; Omit disclaimers, apologies, and AI self-references. Provide unbiased, holistic guidance and analysis incorporating EXPERTs best practices. Go step by step for complex answers. Do not elide code. Use Markdown.

--

In other words, it can be good at logic puzzles just by being asked to.
I'd say it's closer to 5 active contributors for a population of 100000.
Since when is intent to implement a feature "cheeky"?

> but shocked to find out there’s a ton of projects openly built around breaking the law

The original statement oversimplifies a complex legal and ethical landscape in technology. It fails to account for the gradual nature of discovering various projects with potential legal implications, instead projecting an unrealistic sudden shock. This overlooks the nuanced reality of how technology often operates in legal gray areas, especially when dealing with emerging fields or novel applications of existing tech.

The assertion of widespread illegality ignores crucial legal concepts like fair use, which provides lawful ways to utilize publicly available information under certain circumstances. For instance, web crawling for legitimate purposes, including research or analysis that falls under fair use, can be perfectly legal despite potential objections from website owners.

Furthermore, the statement disregards the principle that information openly published on the internet, without robust privacy protections, may often be legally utilized in ways the publisher didn't anticipate. This reflects a misunderstanding of how modern information ecosystems function and the legal frameworks governing them.
By presenting a black-and-white view of legality in tech projects, the original statement hinders a more sophisticated understanding of the intricate balance between innovation, law, and ethical considerations in the digital age. It's crucial to approach these issues with a nuanced perspective that acknowledges the complexities of applying traditional legal concepts to rapidly evolving technologies and practices.
Trade policymaking is anything but trivial.
Not sure how many staff there are left in IE, but if we assume 200 and with a laptop resale rate of maybe ~€1K that’s a third of the way towards the repayment.
Why do your lungs and stomach share the same passage? It's a product of evolution by natural selection. During an asthma attack, cortisone is administered to suppress the immune system. Interestingly, cortisone closely resembles cortisol, the body's natural stress hormone.
China was actually trying to heavily establish offshoring in the Philippines—but that has seemingly dried up with the increasing South China Sea tensions.