skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key point here for me was that this was on FB, and no one else. Zuckerberg might regret doing this, but he did it. No one else. And, unless he is lying, he wasn't forced to do this. So, really, nothing more to add.

Should note:

The Supreme Court in June tossed out claims that the Biden administration coerced social media platforms into censoring users by removing COVID-19 content. The majority ruled that because Facebook "began to suppress the plaintiffs’ COVID-19 content" before the government pressure campaign began, platforms, not the Biden administration, bore responsibility for the posts being taken down.
When it comes to truly novel things, 20% of even modest success is a very high number. I worked in research heavy places (industry labs) over the last decade and if 90% of things you try do not fail, your work is not ambitious enough. That is very hard thing for a SWE to live with, but such is the price of progress. The remaining 10% tend to make it worthwhile. 20% is twice that. It needs to go lower still - you’re not going to succeed by just finetuning yet another llama variant.
There's a difference between saying "there are more important things (to you) to put your energy towards" and "the lab leak theory is wrong, stop talking about it"

The former is reasonable, the latter is not (assuming the theory is unproven either way at the time).
> Nice! I have so many questions.. How stable is the injection molding process once it's fully proven out, up and running? Is it a bathtub curve shape, do defects keep randomly popping up?

They tend to pop up randomly -- mold wear is a big one -- and that's a function of material selected for the mold itself (resin vs aluminum vs steel.)

> What do you use on your end to label the ejector pin locations, parting lines, etc? Does this process use Hexagon software inputs to make that easier?

Right now we have an in-house tool for this - but it's a bit painful on our end so we're always looking for good alternatives!

> If you're not relying so much on a skilled operator, would you be using a CMM for dimensional inspection anyways, and then would this be better solved with a CMM? How can you get quality parts if you don't have a skilled operator anyways to set up the machine correctly and correct the defects? Are you ever going to be able to replace a good machine operator? Or this just helps reduce the inspection toil and burden? Do they usually need 100% inspection, or just periodic with binning?

Injection molding is usually for mass manufacturing - think multiple parts coming in bursts every minute or so - which makes CMM a tough to integrate without way slowing down your line. There's also the case of big objects like bumpers and chairs that might not be easy to CMM. We're not shooting to replace machine operators - just make their lives easier. With injection molding our customers so far usually really want 100% inspection instead of sampling.

> Don't most of these machines have the parts just fall in a bin, with no robot arm? Doesn't this seem like instead of paying a good injection mold tech, now you're paying for an injection mold tech and a robotics tech, if you have to program the arm path for every part setup?

Depends on the shop! Some have automated packaging systems that someone has to stare at. Some are trying to add in automated packaging a build out a defect plan. Keep in mind you don't necessarily need a full robot to get bad parts off your line - a little shoving arm to just boot the bad parts off a conveyor works fine in some cases.

> How many defects are "dimensional" and how many are "cosmetic" ?

Varies wildly by design - but I'd say we see more cosmetic than dimensional. Maybe because the ratio of cosmetic surface to interface surface is fairly high.

> Can a defect detection model accept injection mold pressure curves as input? Isn't that a better data source for flash and underfilling?

I'll have to keep that in mind - it's a great idea. The hard part there is that you'll need a per-machine calibration and a lot of data collection. Could be good though!

> Is this supposed to get retrofit, or go on new machines?

Ideally both since it's a separate camera system, although I'd love to try to integrate with the machines themselves.
Both paths teach that man is the dangerous one.
Gemini is powerful but I don't use it because I don't trust it. I don't trust the current Google, nor the current Gemini team.
Because dereferencing a raw pointer in Rust requires unsafe.
Absolutely. The article in question is about how it runs counter to increasing said wages instead, and the comment I'm replying to I think is saying if we raise wages tips will raise. Which is true, short term.
Kamala is 59. Is there a problem with 59?
>Why would you even care when the version is released?

I don't. The actual numbers, both in my example and yours, are almost irrelevant.

Your example only communicates more info if you know what constitutes a major and minor release for that specific project, which (let's be real here) you don't-- hell nine times out of ten the project itself doesn't know that. And if you do, then you also know which milestones were reached or are planned for specific dates.

My example sorts nicely. Looks pretty. Gives you an idea at a glance how old and busted your stuff is.
I mean to say, modeling a company hyper accurately - down to personal psychology of the high level employees - has diminishing returns for predictive value, and also diminishing returns for generalizability. And a surprisingly useful toy model (the egregore and it's hand eating lifecycle), describe better(or at least, good enough) what will happen with any particular company given it's current state according to the terms of that model.

To clarify the possible misunderstanding: 'its' is referring to the toy model of the egregore (not any particular company/egregor), My point is useful things are useful regardless of them being strictly true.
Very few people ever complain about this in an egalitarian way, though, like: if wages are too low, let's make them higher. If the market isn't doing what we want, we should change the market.

Instead, it's always about how the immigrants should be locked up or deported. And that's always about immigrants from Mexico, never from Canada or other places.
In the Yellowstone area they would also run them off cliffs.
> That’s unlikely to be true, and not anyone’s decision but MakeMusic’s

The nuance here is that it depends on the contract between MakeMusic and their customers. If I'm purchasing a subscription and the fine print makes it clear that service may be discontinued at any point for any reason, fair enough. If I make a one-time purchase and expect that I will be able to use what I paid for indefinitely, then them taking down their activation servers without providing a workaround might be a violation of their contract with their customers.

But I'm not making a completely ill-informed proposition when I suggest that the expense would be minimal and fixed for MakeMusic to do what I suggested. Obviously I don't know all of the details about how their software works, so I can't know for sure. I'm making certain assumptions based on how long their software has been around, the fact that they have a remote activation mechanism and having developed software professionally myself for over 25 years.
> Yes, but we have to be careful about double-taxing mortgages for ordinary home-buyers.

In the context of home ownership, a loan using an asset as collateral translates to a home-equity loan or reverse mortgage. If you want to protect ordinary home-buyers, set an asset value floor of say $20M.

However, I think most share "pledging" [1] by the uber-wealthy is done using company stock as collateral, so you could restrict the tax further by having it apply only to loans taken against stock holdings over some similarly high value floor.

1. https://aaahq.org/portals/0/documents/meetings/2024/ATA/Pape...
Awesome =/= objective moderation.

I claimed the former, not the latter.

IMO, there is no such thing as objective moderation. All editorial decisions are subjective, but this is besides the point.
I would say this is ridiculous, until I read Snyder v. United States[1,2].

> Held: Section 666 proscribes bribes to state and local officials but does
not make it a crime for those officials to accept gratuities for their past
acts. Pp. 7–16.

1. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf.

2. https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/snyder-v-united-...
AFAIK, nearly 60% of software projects fail. That means that 40% don't, what is about double of the 20% they are reporting for AI.

That phrase you are quoting is probably a case of journalists being bad with numbers.
This reminds me of the letter in the pond https://thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-letter-in-the-...
I wouldn't deify "real" engineering like that. It's different, and more regulated, but it isn't all harder and fancier than all programming.

Find me a rocket scientist that could implement an unbounded model checker.
I also question the actual productivity benefit, but I'm not sure most large corporations are so rational in their decision making. Once they've bought Gemini and CoPilot licenses for whole swathes of the business (something which it seems we're still at the beginning stages of), then how likely are they to reevaluate and go back to the old "manual" way of doing things? It's a bit like the "no-brainer" decision to outsource developer jobs to India, based on lower salaries, and then subsequent failure to measure productivity to see if it is really paying off.
My view is that modern advertising has become indistinct from stalking. I have no idea how we can fix this but the ad tech industry has shown a gross inability to self regulate.
> 3B parameter model

That's tiny. Can it train/fine-tune 70B models?
Relevant: https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems
Well done, your categorization reminds me of grugbrain.dev.
I remember what the media was saying was different from what the leftists were saying. I remember the twisting of the most offensive viral take to garner views for the news outlets, sure...

Do you believe everything you see on TV?
> If they tilt the crap shoot part in a way that makes the community better, who cares?

Everybody's all for tilting the crap shoot until they start tilting away from Asians.
I've actually gotten much better service in places like Australia / Japan where tips aren't a thing.

From my understanding, poor people are often the best tippers in the USA, and rich folks tend to not tip.
I've noticed much higher level of service in the US compared to Europe were tips are not expected as much

Might be true, but I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. If someone is forced to be excessively friendly/caring because he/she fears that otherwise he/she might not get enough pay, this is a toxic work culture in my opinion. Also (even though I don't have data on this) it might also create unfair advantages to certain people, for example I think it might be possible that people who are more attractive (especially in restaurants) get payed more. But for the last thing I am just guessing here.
Super informative video!
Regarding attribution to Volt Typhoon please see CISA's previous advisory where they have raised alarms about the targeting of critical internet infrastructure by this threat actor

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...
Deliberate practice seems to be very important in sports. And the modern regime of sports practice, where people specialize early and follow a strict regimen over years, produces results that leave earlier generations in the dust. Almost every athletic record is held by people alive today, and the best performance of 1900 would be considered amateur-level today in most sports.

The same is clearly not true in mathematics. The modern regime of math practice, which involves lots of schoolwork, homework, tutoring, and other regimented practice, has not left 19th-century standards in the dust. The achievements of Galois would still be utterly extraordinary today. The notion that sports-style "deliberate practice" is universally beneficial towards a vague notion called "expertise" is simply not true.
what would stop me from "hey I'll do this for $5/hr, but it would be nice if you tipped me $500 for it" — this "policy" is just election sound clip pandering
Yes. It's an unbelievable high number.

There's probably a catch somewhere, even if AI is actually being very successful.
A long while ago I read an article predicting the downfall of all unpaid internet moderation because it would attract the type of person who both has copious free time and enjoys having power over others.

Reddit during covid showed us just how true that was. Moderation was so ridiculous you'd get banned from subreddits for posts which were the same as the CDC's advice at the time they were made.

HN has largely avoided that because it has at least partly paid moderators. The worst parts are the mass flaggings which I think are still a mistake. Not least because they now hilariously happen to every one of PG's posts.
I’m highlighting that the compiler doesn’t automatically take care of vector code quite as automatically and as well as it does register allocation and instruction selection which are slightly more solved problems. And it’s easy to imagine that a compiler will fail to optimize a piece of code as well on something that’s architecturally quite novel. RISCV and ARM aren’t actually hugely dissimilar architectures at a high level that completely different optimization need to be written and even selectively weighted by architecture, but I imagine something like a Mill CPU might require quite a reimagining to get anything approaching optimal performance.
> letting them pay themselves massive dividends

Earlier this month, Intel announced that they've suspended dividend payments entirely. Prior to that, their dividend payments were decent but far from "massive".
If you must tip, only ever use cash. Otherwise you're also subsidizing Square, Toast, Visa, Stripe, etc. Did they give you exceptional service today? Use cash.
> but FWIW ‘indefinitely’ doesn’t mean forever

You just really like arguing for the sake of arguing don't you?

I'm sure that if I opened a dictionary I would find the distinction, but most people treat the words 'indefinitely' and 'forever' as synonymous. Nit-picking on that minutia kind of makes you come across like the obnoxious little brother who does the "But I'm not touching you!" thing to his sister. It's just annoying and most reasonable people know exactly how 'indefinitely' and 'forever' will be interpreted.
My bad for potentially strawmanning.
Why Unspoken Product Frustrations Are a Bigger Threat Than You Think
Aren't NetApp and Juniper slowly switching to Linux too?
OK, so Facebook at the request of the Biden Harris administration censored the Hunter laptop story and knew it was not actually Russian disinformation.

It’s not like you could draw a straight line between this action and something you’d categorize as election interference.
Please move! It only takes one mistake by your neighbor to start a fire and you will have very little time to react.

My concern about code is because there should be a minimum fire resistance rating between floors. The fact that you can see the smoke through your floorboards when your neighbor burning incense makes me think that there is no such barrier.

Home means more than single family dwelling....

Edited to put my more important thoughts up top and my mundane reply to the thread at the bottom.
I agree with you. I can tell them apart (Not Japanese vs. California rice, though).

I should have qualified that to randomly selected Americans/Europeans. And that they could understand each type of rice is different but wouldn't have a clue which is which.
The odds are getting higher by the day. There is a lot happening in the world with China’s economic blessing. American sanctions don’t work when China manufactures everything.
I've noticed that many of my searches now show several other websites before they show Wikipedia. If I'm not mistaken, search engines bury Wikipedia more than they used to.
If they've been flag killed, it will say [flagged][dead] (and yes I've seen it happen within a minute of someone commenting on very popular threads). If it's just [dead], you should look at their comment history because chances are they've been banned by dang. Alternatively, some people register on HN via Tor which also auto-shadowbans them until enough people vouch for their comments.
It's true that testing benefits learning (Test Effect).

However the question is increasingly whether simply the cognitive load of feedback is the reason for this is coming up.

i.e. does the Testing effect reduce in efficacy when you apply it to every waking hour, every course? does it just benefit when you study one course?

There are clear links that subjects where students have a stake in the result (i.e. it is mandatory for college) lead to higher attendance and final grades, regardless of study method.

Lots of the predominant psychology applies only to motivated students or those in mandatory courses.. so basically, we can't know the state for free willed learning/edutainment.
The objection to Regulations, checklists, etc seems to stem from the idea that the Checklist will include 100 useless or worse items (405.i.18: Passwords MUST BE rotated by the user every 30 days) for every good one like "close the damn ports". In theory, such a thing will just slow a solid admin down.

I don't think this aligns with the reality of modern IT. Even with high competence and good intentions, it's an organizational problem and mistakes are easy.

We need better checklists, I guess.
I would assume that the implementation mechanism involves reporting tips to the IRS so they can be taxed at a 0% rate, and that you would have to be classified as a non-exempt employee with a maximum hourly earnings rate.

So basically, unreported income remains tax evasion. White collar workers paid via tips is tax evasion. Etc
I would guess that the failure rate is worse for AI startups in general because of lower capital and experience. These failing experiments can only shell out billions for Nvidia’s shovels for so long before they have to start selling their shirts for lunch.
I hope people treat you with respect and understanding and don’t attack you for stealing if you ever need to discontinue any of your software products or happen to go out of business. I have had my own software business, and had to plan the sunset of a paid product, and it would have been hurtful if people accused me of stealing when I was already hurting due to being out of money and feeling like a failure. Thankfully, none of my customers did that to me, as far as I know.

As you point out, it’s Microsoft or Apple forcing you to upgrade. Why are you blaming MakeMusic for that? If you don’t upgrade, then your currently running copy of Finale will continue working. It’s completely unrealistic for most people to not upgrade, but still, it’s not MakeMusic’s fault that people upgrade.
Canadian "all-purpose" flour has a higher gluten content than American "all-purpose" flour. It's closer to American "bread flour".

That's aside from whatever harder-to-measure taste differences it might have, but it makes a big difference by itself.
“Hallucination” has been in the training data much earlier than even llms.

The easiest way to control this phenomenon is using the “hallucination” tokens, hence the construction of this prompt. I wouldn’t say that this makes things official.
Swiss scientists find way to make chocolate from entire fruit
'Illegal' spies: The Kremlin's secret tool in its war against the West
The Maasai still exist, dude, and killing a lion is still a normal rite of passage.
On thing I never see in these discussions is the toll on workers via radiation exposure. I worked at a nuclear plant in the 1990s and the exposure allowed to outage workers who worked six months a year was something like 5 REM, or 50yrs off radiation in 6 months. Are these deaths included in the statistics? It appears not - part of the issue undoubtedly is causal attribution to a cancer that occurs many years later. A cursory search of the literature suggests that not a lot of work has been done on this.
The main thing you get out of LSD and even THC is new pattern associations. Due to the way the brain works, and its constant desire to reduce resource usage, when our life consists of the same patterns, the brain will slowly tune them out. These drugs, by the simple virtue of making you feel "different", will force your brain to reassess all patterns. This is why creative types love these drugs, because they make you see regular things differently.
The rules don't apply to the people who make them. What do you expect is going to happen if he does show up on the ballot and the most people vote for him?
This is good news. Feels refreshing to see some respect towards users for a change.
Thanks for that - five minutes well spent!
I think it should be less about forbidding tips, and more about disincentivizing them, currently, if you make less than tips, some people feel like they personally have to tip because otherwise they're taking away (expected) wages

Give waiters minimum wage, split the cost among all sales, and if a server actually goes above and beyond, then I don't think anyone would complain about tipping them extra
> I think it's worthwhile just to get better correctness, regardless of security.

Yeah, well, the Rust version of coreutils had lots of funny logic errors involving security.
Nah man. This isn’t solving anything. This is praying to a machine god but it’s an autocomplete under the hood.
What? No. From your link:

> The overall acceptance rate for women was 4.5%, and the overall acceptance rate for men was 1.9%.

You're less than half as likely to get in as a man.

Transfer acceptance rates are even more skewed towards women.
What percentage of people are tipping in cash?
No need to involve whatever "political flavor" of people making the judgement. If you compare his views to other politicians, or the electorate as a whole, he's clearly a centrist.
> low waste

Did I miss some big news about easy recycling solar panels?
> Not necessarily. Chocolate abhors moisture, so sugars derived from the fruit and pulp will need to be extensively dehydrated.

Right. Definitely a place in this story where most of the questions are in the specifics of the process/method implied. About the only specific we get in the article is that the process seems to involve gelling (jello-ing?) the fruit pulp/rind in some way. I'm sure there are interesting twists involved that will be in the scientific literature and/or patents.
I wonder if something like Slashdot's metamoderation system could be used to tamp down such abuse.

One problem with metamoderation is that once a particular forum becomes an echo chamber, even metamoderation will unconsciously but repeatably ignore "valid" information from the other side and amplify misinformation from their own side. But if the site owners specifically searched for good-faith users from multiple viewpoints to serve as the jury pool for metamoderation, this could be workable.
I agree with you and can tell, but I doubt most people around me could. They could understand each type of rice is different but wouldn't have a clue which is which.

It was a bit of hyperbole, but I think you'd be surprised how undifferentiated people's pallets can be if they aren't eating something constantly.
Science starts with questions and hypothesis, not with conclusions. I personally don’t think it’s significantly related to any of the factors you’ve listed (or with genetics either), but thanks to perspectives like the one you’re presenting here, the only possible outcome is that the world will permanently have a large low-IQ underclass (which as other have mentioned ITT, perhaps that is something a lot of people want).