skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s an even deeper problem, which is that insurance as a system simply doesn’t make sense for things that are not rare or that affect a sizable fraction of population

If it’s that common, then there’s no need for a large bureaucracy of actuaries, accountants, agents, etc…, in the middle or to serve as your intermediaries.

And a single paperwork error every five years, causing you to spend a few hours sorting it out, would more than outweigh all the tiny advantages that might theoretically benefit the customer.
Even a third less is probably still plenty. And the putative immune system benefit strikes me as hypothetical unless the exposure and effect are quantified.
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LLMs don’t have a canonical output that could serve as a specification. And if they had, we wouldn’t consider that a satisfactory specification at all.
The cost of these mega stadiums seems even less likely to be covered by revenue from the teams.
The US government likes funding encrypted communication channels because it helps destabilize the kinds of dictators that eavesdrop on dissidents.
How many ~~twitters~~ Xs would it cost in real terms (True Q, not being snide - using it as a measure of scale, as most people now understand what 44 Billion bought in Corpo Dimension
If you "tell it" to make up a random story then your prompt is part of the context and if the model is fine-tunes to follow instructions it will emit a story that sounds like a random story that begins with A (since that's a constrain).

If instead the prompt says it should emit 5 repetitions of the letter "A" unsurprisingly it will compete the output with " A A A A".

The task is performed by emitting tokens, but on order to correctly execute the task the model has to "understand" the prompt sufficiently well in order to choose the next token (and the next etc).

Now, obviously current LLM models have severe deficiencies in the ability to model the real world (which is revealed by their failures to handle common sense scenarios). This problem is completely compounded by a psychological factor in which we humans tend to ascribe more "intelligence" to an agent that "speaks well" so the dissonance of a model that sounds intelligent and yet sometimes is so hilariously stupid throws us off rails.

But there is clearly some modeling and processing going on. It's not a mere stochastic parrot. We have those (Markov chains of various sorts) and they cannot maintain a coherent text for long. LLMs OTOH are objectively a phase transition in that space.

All I'm trying to say is that whatever is lacking in LLMs is not just merely because they "just do next token prediction".

There are other things these models should do in order to go to the next level of reasoning. It's not clear if that can be achieved just by training the model on more and more data (hoping that the models learn the trick by themselves) or whether we need to improve the architecture in order to enable the next phase.
This is likely why the grabbed Durov, he has the keys to the kingdom. Telegram is a remarkably small company and not a 800lb gorilla and it would be very easy for him to provide whatever they need if he folds.
Great game! I actually found myself doing an adventure for 10 minutes and it was fun!
Few notes:

* As someone said, it'd be cool if you could render what I'm saying and add a loading indicator for the LLM. It'd improve the UX a bit.

* As someone mentioned, you can try to generate images to make the story more "real". This could be fun.

* You can also try to generate more realistic and drammatic sounds, and make the DM sound more theatrical. I'm not sure if that's easy but might be a big improvement. Bonus - maybe it'd be fun to choose a famous voice, like morgan freeman or anthony hopkins.

* It'd be cool if that could save my adventure. Right now, it is restarted everytime I leave the page.
The admins of Matrix instances sure can be forced to give up data. The metadata is not encrypted, and many rooms are not either.
Also https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
There is zero proof that this is the case.
Thanks.

I finally realized I was seeing this ad constantly and decided to look into it.
I'll have you know they had maths PhDs design their security, sir. Eight of them!

Yeah, it's a bit of a joke.
Whats sad us we instantly devolve to "talking points" that we didn't even think of ourselves. Zero original thought just repeating what some pundit said your opinion should be on the matter.
A bluetooth and USB-C modification kit for the iPod Classic: https://moonlit.market/

I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while living in a hostel. In my free time, I developed a Bluetooth kit, a crude first version which required hours of hand-soldering soldering, CNC milling, etc. to manufacture. While selling these I used the money to prototype and manufacture the second revision.

That's the version you can purchase today, which can now be assembled in about five minutes. This has allowed me to scale the business, and now we're a few employees big, shipping worldwide. A few grey hairs have appeared at 22 but finally I can relax a little.
It's a bit unfortunate there isn't a mechanism to establish a key between your desktop and smart phone client that would allow message history to be synced over an E2EE connection. It's doable, but perhaps it's an intentional safety feature one can't export the messages too easily.
MDM profiles are just XML files. They can be created with any text editor and distributed to the phone by email or web server. Apple provides the free "Apple Configurator" app in the MacOS app store. There are also websites and/or OSS tools to generate profiles, e.g. https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator.
What do you think about vaccines?
There's no information or content in your reply.
There isn't one true thought process. I'm usually surprised by the various different ways people can approach a problem. What I want to know is whether they actually do think about the things that matter in software engineering such as complexity, readability, maintainability, scalability etc, the specific approach isn't important.

Not sure why would I need a psychology degree? I'm not doing a psychological evaluation, I'm looking for a good engineer that will fit in the team and company.
The worst is that Telegram Secret Chats are limited in functionalities, compared to the normal ones, for no reasons. Stickers set don’t work, for exemple, and that’s one of the main feature of Telegram chats.
WhatsApp has defaulted to aggressively storing allegedly "E2EE" conversations without any form of encryption in Google Drive (freely) for years. And it would seem they are also currently in possession of the keys to decrypt them when you restore such backups from another device without the key stored on it (that lately cannot be extracted without exploits or root access anyway). Facebook/Meta has often expressed their love for the practice of client-side scanning or parallelly sending data to their servers, but it doesn't seem the case for WhatsApp yet, so what measures they take to remain compliant with the ever-increasing surveillance practices remains to speculation. For a somewhat educated user that knows to opt-out of online backups every time it's prompted by the application, I'd say it's probably safer than normal Telegram chats, but very far from flawless.
I don't care for crypto bullshit, and I was not too happy to hear that Signal joined that party, but it turns out you don't run into this as a Signal user if you are not specifically looking into it.

I don't believe they lost any credibility with this, I thing people don't know about it for the most part, or don't care for the majority of the remaining part.
That’s my concern as well, maybe none of the devs have the capability, but if -anyone- does it’s Durov, so why not just grab him under false pretenses and throw the book at him, trying to scare him into compliance with anything they want or face the rest of his life in the worse French prison they can find for him.
I'd agree based on my own bias which appeals to nature, and thus can only agree if the environment's somewhat untouched. but we've introduced so much into our environment, from tyre/brake dust to micro plastic to covid, I'd really much rather we just clean the air. we are not anime protagonist that evolve in real time, evolution in the real world consists of the unfit dying, and the ones that lives reproduce etc
Many are. Scissors, drill bits, even the way most people use a kitchen knife, they put as much force onto as small of area as possible. At certain differences in scale it won't matter (razor blade vs a single hair), but how a cut is performed is definitely part of the design process.
I'm a bank customer in the EU without a smartphone. I have a dumb phone (think Nokia) and the bank will happily send me a traditional SMS for two factor validation, when required. Works everytime and no need for a smart phone at all.
Signal also allows edits and deletions.
A printer’s guillotine that cuts hundreds of sheets at once has a diagonal blade.
Same Reason a Katana is curved, while the temp causes this, it augments the blades cutting angle, length, draw.
The US government can still get at that data, because Amazon is still an American company. It doesn’t matter where the data actually lives.
Schools are competing with cell phones
https://github.com/russellballestrini/flask-socketio-llm-com...

just made an battleship game today, look at research for for more
All Dads are welcome
Matrix also keeps your message on the server. Except you can run your own server. And the messages are end to end encrypted. And you can keep a proper backup of the keys.

Granted it can be clunky at times, but the properties are there and decentralised end to end encrypted messaging is quite and incredible thing. (Yes, Matrix nerds, it's not messaging per se it's really state replication, I know :))
Heterosexual women definitely respond to the physical attractiveness of other women. So do men on men.

All else being equal I'd definitely prefer to work with a more attractive coworker regardless of sex.
That's pretty similar to what I'm doing!

The CPU builds an RPN expression (like "circle, square, union, triangle, subtract"), and the shader evaluates that in a loop.

I wasn't able to find examples of other people doing similar, but it seemed too useful to not be invented yet (:

Do you have any links to your work?

I'm writing some blog posts for my approach, but haven't finished them yet.

> You can tile up the screen to avoid having too many instructions per fragment.

I don't quite understand this part... If a given SDF needs N instructions to be evaluated, then how does tiling reduce N?

> performance may vary depend on what you're doing

Yeah, fill rate was not good enough with a straightforward approach, so I had to cache the evaluated distance values to a (float) texture atlas, then use those to render to screen. Luckily, standard bilinear filtering on distance values produces pretty decent results.
>European market has always seemed like a tertiary market compared to the US and Asia

Well, this isn't even remotely accurate on the numbers. For virtually every big tech company the US is about half of the market, Europe about 30%, then ~15% Asian Pacific, and give or take a bit in the rest of the world.

Given that most large tech companies are locked out of China or quickly leaving the only large country with comparable purchasing power to Europe in Asia is Japan.
I keep them as unnamed numbers and remember what I use each one for. I switch mostly with scrollwheel or directly with keyboard.
Git uses SHA and then dynamically set the number of characters to use based on repository size. You could do something like this.
lol
I can't tell if you actually believe that I'm somehow hyper-focused on this because I was able to scrawl out two paragraphs, or if you're just deflecting, but either way it's pretty funny!

I said a thing. You said a thing. I gave you honest and apathetic feedback. You're the one that got defensive about that. You could have left it there; you could have said "oh, I've got nothing formal, I'm just talking about case X, Y, and Z, as brought up in article W."; you could have done anything other than take it hard. Instead you got pissy about me not caring about your unsupported opinion (I make no value judgement on whether it's actually good or bad; just that it's unsupported).

I'm sorry that my immediate response, in informal conversation, is less charitable than you prefer. I don't have any interest in arguing about stuff that has accessible points of well-supported data. I prefer to argue about stuff like art and flavor and preference and anything that doesn't have some reference-able data to make one side or the other impractical to support. If you want to talk movies, or games, or food, I'm happy to volley back and forth about the "better" and "worse" things. But if you want to "argue" that you know of a way for me to do my job "better", I cannot stress this enough: I would LOVE to see your data. Because it will help me do my job better. It's not facetious; it's not smug; it's not a spit in your face. It's an honest offer for you to either provide something that does what you say (at least in your opinion!), or to leave this topic with me. There's nothing tempermental or nuerotically formalized about politely offering a path for the conversation, should it continue. You should try just ignoring the path if you don't want to walk down it.
There is a long list of biases at play for sure. But I think beyond ideas like structural racism and such, we can look at just how decision making is done and see this isnt solvable
What needs to happen is more and more money has to go to pharma from tax payers for novel medicine research. Today there is some, yes. But the vast majority of money comes from the markets. And anyone that has invested across the bio sector knows it’s capital intensive and almost everything fails. Money is just burned through so quickly.

So yes with lower returns investors will look elsewhere. Especially since overall pharma doesn’t really outperform. There’s no alpha across the sector.

So the money has to come from somewhere. If not then yes, innovation will slow down.
But he is not journalist, neither he is a freedom fighter
Same, these are all great points that I find as well. LLMs have made me a way more productive programmer, but a lot of that is because I already was an alright programmer and know how to take advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of the LLM. I think your last bullet point is most poignant, using Claude 3.5 I've been able to do tons of GUI and web programming, things I absolutely despise and refuse to do if I'm writing code by hand.

I sort of understand some of the vitriol that I see on HN but it is incredibly overblown. I don't really get a lot of the criticisms. LLMs aren't deterministic? Neither are humans. LLMs write bugs they can't fix? So do humans. LLMs are only good at being junior programmer copy paste machines? So are lots of humans.

My current project is training an LLM to do superoptimization and it's working exceedingly well so far. If you asked anyone on hacker news if that's a good idea, they'd probably say no.
> a casing that we designed to resist the heat of a fire, thanks to it's thick aluminum casing, and a design which dissipates heat quickly

Thus turning a difficult to deal with Li-Ion inferno into a slightly less difficult to deal with block of superheated aluminum, that will happily set on fire anything that looks at it funny?

This is always my concern about fire-proof metal casings for batteries: where do you put that so it doesn't set anything on fire?
Great read. Now I just need you to grok vim so you can tell me who I am. :^)
As I said in another comment, most of the best engineers I ever hired had bad grades or no grades at all - they didn't care about that and spent their time building real things instead. And on the other hand, some of the worst people I ever hired had perfect grades. Of course, this is not universal, and there is a large space in between - but I just can't agree with any usefulness of such tests. Real world engineering is totally different from any standardized tests..

How will a result from a standardized test tell me that their approach to engineering matches ours, and that they will fit in with their future team and company?
There's a large continuum between great and crap, and it sounds like you've placed a rather high bar to even consider using it.

I don't like BASH scripting. I wanted to automate a certain task and dump it in a justfile for convenient reference.

Learning BASH scripting would be a poor use of my time - I didn't value the knowledge I would gain.

Using Google to piece together everything I needed would have been very painful. Painful enough that I simply didn't bother in the past.

Asking an LLM solved the problem for me. It took about 6 iterations, because I had somewhat underspecified and the scripts it returned, while correct, had side effects I didn't like.

But even though it took several iterations it was infinitely more satisfying than the other options. Every time it failed I would explain to it what went wrong and it would amend the script.

It's like having an employee do the work for me, but much much cheaper.

That's the power of LLMs. They enable me to do things that just weren't worth the time in the past.

Would I use it for my main programming work? No. But does it increase my productivity? Definitely.
cr box basically owns everything else go build a couple yourself, it's great, if you live in the US you can order kits too
yes. in that if you want it it's there, but nobody's forcing it on you if you just want a burger.
added: For banking I use the Web interface in a browser on my PC (Linux or WIndows, both work).

There is absolutely no need to own a smartphone for banking
I don't see how integration with a special separated chip designed specifically to increase cryptographic security can't make a difference.
Which begs the question: why wasn’t it shaped like a ^
Agreed. There have been many assessments of what bugs cost, and the assessments are often very high, and that's the reason the industry has, for decades, been working towards having _fewer_ bugs.
For context, Raph Koster is not only the person who designed Ultima Online, but generally considered one of the top theoricians in game design. This isnt some guy who has a small blog and came up with a neat explanation for how some word came about in the early days of the web. Its the guy who did it.
Obviously you need to subtract costs from that, not just production costs for this year but development costs, and the development costs of other drugs that didn't even make it to production.
You have to trust the provider with signal; they are fiercely anti-third party clients, control the network and have released version of the code that are not tracked by sources- in extreme cases we’re aware of years old code being in there (mobile coin for example).

Signal evangelicalism needs to halt, you mean the Whisper protocol.
Yes, self/home hosting is an option for some. but maintaining a server is not as easy as you make it sound.
Power, cooling, noise, spare hardware, network etc are all factors that are taken care of by a provider, that are not easy to replicate.

And even if you can self-host, fighting against (D)DOS attacks is not something I have seen done at any consumer ISP.
Technically but not practically.
Careful now someone might flag you! :)
You’re also not stuck with the official client and all of its decisions like with Signal. In addition to the official Qt and Swift/Cocoa Telegram clients, you can find third party clients written in WinUI and GTK as well as a CLI client, which gives users the choice to use the one that fits their wants/needs best.

I use both on desktop for different people and the desktop Signal client doesn’t hold up well in comparison. In some ways it feels more clunky than the iMessage ancestor iChat did 20 years ago.
Matrix doesn't allow this. You need a dedicated chat key in addition.
Binary has only two bits. I really don't want to code in two bits.
I'm sure diagonal blades are more practical, but style must be part of it right? It was a theatrical method of execution after all, done for crowds.
Hey, you're doing great - keep going!
I think this has been the dream of the digital personal assistant for a long time.

When people started talking about LLMs and AI I was hoping for something that would monitor news and websites and find things that I was interested in. Something that would go beyond just keyword searches and also be able to pull in stories on radio and tv.
nothing comes close to crbox in terms of performance... the gold standard IQAir do give you close to perfect single pass filtration but the cfm is so low and noise much higher...
Due to previous rulings on poll taxes, any place where ID is required to vote, ID is also required to be obtainable for free.

The people repeating this myth are smart enough to know better so one must assume they intend to have people who can't obtain ID via legal means, voting.
Well, I've got all mine, unless another booster is available that I don't know about. One thing about vaccines is that you know exactly who got them, and who didn't. This probably makes it a lot easier to study.

And I'm willing to believe that some childhood exposure to pathogens is beneficial, but I don't think we know how much of a good thing is enough, or too much.
I pay for Kagi Ultimate, and it does almost none of what OP asked for. The only thing you could say it does is searching curated content from other people they trust - that is fulfilled by the custom lens feature, since they can be shared.
How Switching Behavior on Digital Media Makes People More Bored [pdf]
EU: 440 million people, 60,000 EU bureaucrats. US: 330 million people, 2 MILLION+ US federal employees. Maybe what they need is more bureaucrats, so we don't get half-assed programs like this.
This is a fantastic case of hypocrisy here. I personally see Facebook ads for illegal drugs at least once a week, and nothing happens. I even stopped reporting it because it was obviously pointless. Why? Because Zuck is "our son of bitch".
Why would you spend 40-ish hours per week with stuff that isn’t fun and you don’t take pride in, if you have the choice?
yes, you can just get a prepaid SIM virtually anywhere. though there is an option to add your ID for security purposes
And yet you produced zero evidence. The irony is off the charts.
Those articles claim that these problems don't exist in Go, but they don't really explain why, for many of them.

The one part that is clear indeed is that the pervasive use of value types in Go reduces the amount of garbage that gets generated compared to Java or C#, and, of course, less garbage means less time spent on GC.

The claims about memory fragmentation are less clear though: the first article just says that it's not a problem; and the second one does have a segment dedicated to it, but that segment gets fragmentation completely mixed up with memory locality, an entirely unrelated concept. It later claims that certain allocators are known to not suffer from fragmentation issues, but given the previous confusion, I'm not sure how seriously to take this. It also doesn't say if Go actually uses those allocators or not.

As for the diagnostics, I gave a specific example of a very commonly needed diagnostic, identifying GC roots to understand why a memory leak is occurring, that Go simply doesn't provide (someone else suggested a third party package that might help). I am well aware of the basics provided in the article you linked, and they don't even discuss this. For whatever bizarre reason, the Go memory tools don't provide this info (that the GC obviously needs to determine in its operation) - probably another victim in their quest of making it easier to implement the runtime.
About 50 hostages where released based on negotiations over 9 months ago.