skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disappointing especially since the stress the importance of seeing the chain of thought to ensure AI safety. Seems it is safety for me but not for thee.

If history is our guide, we should be much more concerned about those who control new technology rather than the new technology itself.

Keep your eye not on the weapon, but upon those who wield it.
There is a grand conspiracy against your natural destinies. You and your civilization are being looted.

These crazy conspiracy sub-cultures you identify with are only the restless who "feel" something wrong yet cannot coherently relate to what.

It is a shame even HN will neg me when I say "the conventional narrative is a lie."
Super neat, the end result looks great and adds a lot to the posts. On the downside, inlining the map causes the HTML to balloon up to ~500kB/~180kB gzipped, compared to 30kB/10kB on this post (which lacks a map). The site is already insanely fast, but you could pull the map SVG into an actual file, so it's cached between pages, and becomes a lower-priority resource (which will ~halve First Contentful Paint). Then you'd just position the circle on top of that generic map file!
"chain of thought" is just search, right? Wouldn't it make sense to tailor the search with heuristics relevant to the problem at hand?
Elixir + Phoenix is so great at this with contexts and eventually umbrella apps. So easy to make things into apps that receive messages and services with a structure. I’m amazed it isn’t more popular really given it’s great at everything from runtime analysis to RPC/message passing to things like sockets/channels/presence and Live View.
Awesome Steven, I'll msg you once you're back. Happy break
Yes, I understand the context, and the Keys study suggests that Bannister et al. (2014) is wrong.

My point is that you seem to be saying that the Keys study shows that metformin doesn't increase life expectancy. I am basing this understanding on two things you wrote:

"found no reduction in all-cause mortality by metformin treatment"

"Mortality rates are worse among metformin treated subjects."

But the Keys study does not show that Metformin doesn't increase life expectancy (or reduce all-cause mortality). It shows that Metformin isn't enough to counteract the impact (on lifespan) of diabetes. But it seems to say nothing about whether people (whether diabetic or not) would live longer with metformin or without.

I realize the Keys study isn't the only piece of research in this area. But the topic of my original comment (and this one) are simply that particular study, and what you say it shows.

If I have misunderstood anything I am happy to be corrected/educated.
Do read the follow-up, and maybe also the Adam Neely video about this, linked both there and in another comment here.
It's particularly bad with Twitch and YouTube streams IMHO. The economics and experience of being in a large stream chat is depressing.

The entire system is geared around feeling unheard, unseen and paying to be heard or seen.

20k people shouting into a a void. Paying to get a badge signaling you subscribed. Paying to highlight messages hoping they are read. Hanging on for that hope this popular person gives you 10 seconds of attention.

That's the reality of the depressing industry. And that's how the streamers and steaming providers like it. Ever wonder why the stream chat experience has never been improved? ;)

Oh, and the toxic communities it breeds.
Until we get to the total market dynamics (ie, the idea that "black markets" are an immediate substitute for bounty programs) I don't have a dog in this hunt or any reason to litigate the importance of changing how this particular program is managed. If it can be managed more effectively to the benefit of researchers without breaking internal incentives for the bounty program, I'm all for it.

I'd be rueful about leaving so many holes in my original argument, but I think these are useful conversations to have. Thanks!
I still use pinboard every week. I also find it very interesting to follow what other people are pinning. There aren't many niche places to follow ONLY the notable links of other hackers.
The larger economy just doesn’t have enough similar positions to absorb all of the Boeing employees without them having to significantly reskill. Not to mention after you build airplanes going to build most anything else might feel like a downgrade.
I was looking this up as well. When these batteries enter thermal runaway, the chemistry of the battery is basically self propagating heat which allows it to continue to heat up and ignite. It doesn't need oxygen to continue this process.

Burying it insulates it, which will increase the runaway, but isolate the issue. It's good for small batteries like cellphones and laptops because it allows you to move the battery somewhere else and contain the fire, but doesn't do anything to retard the runaway.

Water can cool it off and slow down/potentially halt the runaway. Someone smarter than me would need to comment on what to do after it's halted, because I assume it's still a problem waiting to reignite at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_runaway#Batteries

Edit: This actually is a potentially interesting idea, a tomb vehicle that basically encases the burning vehicle in a heavily insulated trailer for relocation.
> Just to be clear I think Bluefin is really cool and I'm a fan of your work overall.

Thanks!

> I'm speaking from the industry/production perspective here. When polysemy and freer-effects were released there was a similar belief that they were here to stay.

Well, from my perspective, I've never worked at a place that's used polysemy of freer-effects.

> transformers and MTL have stood the test of time, are heavily documented, and are pervasive throughout Hackage. Understanding them and how to build programs with them is essential for anyone trying to break into 'production haskell' as a career move.

Sadly true.
Americans are weird. I’ve been going to the same barber for years. He doesn’t know my name, barely says a word and it’s just so comforting.
Or maybe some people have moral qualms with simply taking without giving back.
> then it will be sampled by a computer and instantly recreated at scale.

You don't need to train the AI on the work for that. You don't even need to show the AI the work itself. You can just give the AI a vague description of the work and it is able to replicate something very close to it.

That's something you can try today, hand Claude or ChatGPT an image, let them describe the image, put that description into your favorite image generator. The output is a clean-room-clone of the original. It won't be a photocopy, but it will contain all the significant features that made up the original, even with surprisingly short descriptions of just a 100 words.

Won't be long and you can hand the AI a movie trailer and the AI will build you the rest of the movie from it.

> Why would we embrace this now that a computer can do it

You can't stop it long term. That old "How To Draw an Owl"-meme is reality now. You give the AI some key points and it will fill in all the rest. The issue here isn't so much copyright, but that we'll be so flooded with content that it will be impossible for anybody to stand out. We might be heading towards the death of static content and heading into a world were everything is generated on the fly.
> The cost of an uncharitable blog post is potentially unbounded (as in: not many people in a large tech company would know how to put a ceiling on the cost), and the cost of a bounty, even a high one, is more or less chump change.

Look up "apple bug bounty" on Google, or any other search engine of your choice, and you'll find absolutely no shortage of people complaining of issues with the program. If these complaints each cost Apple a bajillion dollars, then why haven't they shut down their program already?

Or, if almost all of those complaints are just from the reporter being dumb, then how are potential future reporters (who would care about the company's prospenity to pay) supposed to find actual meaningful complaints among the noise?

I don't think that sporadic blog posts are nearly as powerful as you're making them out to me: my intuition tells me that the company can usually ignore them safely, short of them making front-page news.
'Ukraine must defend itself': Washington leaders dismiss Putin's war talk
A ballistic missile flight to go from New York to Sydney would take 40 minutes. The Concorde, travelling at Mach 2, if it had the range to do that flight, would take 7.5 hours, or 16 hours on a regular jet, if you can get a direct flight (except there currently aren't any).
That's really terrible. I'm surprised this kind of law survived Germany splitting and then reunification. I would have thought that it would have gotten lost in the wash somewhere along the way.
Counterpoint, a place like Civit.AI is at least as dangerous, yet it's nowhere near as well funded.
I think it could be some of both. By giving access to the chain of thought one would able to see what the agent is correcting/adjusting for, allowing you to compile a library of vectors the agent is aware of and gaps which could be exploitable. Why expose the fact that you’re working to correct for a certain political bias and not another?
90s rock and pop hits me in the feels as well. Such a different time.
The average American has never used a cell phone I guess?

https://www.israel21c.org/made-in-israel-the-top-64-innovati...
Nice thing about the Flair is it is very low maintenance. No cleaning (just rinse and dry after use). Just buy new O-rings once a year or so for $8.
Waymo launched on Lyft in 2019, paused during the pandemic, and then resumed with Uber.
5400rpm laptop hard drives were notoriously sensitive to external force because of their thin metal construction and low power motor.

I remember having a MacBook Pro with a Toshiba 5400rpm hard drive that failed shortly after I rested it on an HVAC unit in our server closet (the HVAC unit happened to be the perfect height off the floor for doing work while standing). Just to be sure that was the cause, I had the drive replaced under warranty, did the same thing again and it died again after only a short while of using it on that HVAC unit.

After Apple replaced the drive a second time, I instead used a crash cart as a laptop desk and put a sign on the HVAC unit that read "Don't put laptops on here."
> Embracing gen AI is absolutely the wrong move for a content creators. People are not paying for visuals and conversations. They are paying for a genuine human to human interaction. If you take away that part, you’re left with worthless pixels on a screen

If people are going to a porn site to spend relatively small amounts of money to get "genuine human to human interaction," there are more than a few flaws in their strategy. Unless they're spending many thousands of dollars a month, there could be no reasonable expectation they're getting anything but extremely superficial interactions. If they get mad because they think they should get an e-girlfriend for $10 a month or whatever, I'd say that's on them because of unreasonable expectations.

Honestly, I think gen AI is pretty much inevitable for these kinds of parasocial services, but it will be clandestinely used because otherwise it makes perfect sense for the "content creator." Whatever relationship they think they have is an illusion in their head anyway, and they're probably expending a fair amount of energy to maintain it.
Simpler: fill the drive with random data, hashing as you go, flush the kernel's buffer cache, hash the entire contents of the drive, and compare.

Conceptually,

# tee /dev/DEVICE </dev/random | sha256sum
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# sha256sum /dev/DEVICE

though I wouldn't expect this exact command sequence to work unless tee's buffer size divides /dev/DEVICE's capacity and tee errors out writing past the end of /dev/DEVICE before writing to stdout.
There have been many documented cases where tech giants have outright refused to pay out, employing practices like: changing the rules of engagement post-factum, silently banning security researchers from active bounties, escalating good-faith disclosures to law enforcement, extreme pettiness from managers, etc.

> The sums involved are not meaningful to the company

Which makes it the more bewildering to see how mishappen the handling is
As someone with extensive experience paying legal bills, I would guess the bill was well over $40,000 unless the lawyer did it pro bono.

Our legal system is badly broken in favor of lawyers making more money.
I think the assumption here is that "microservices" means each team is dealing with lots of services. Sometimes it's like that. But if you go by the "one service <=> one database" rule of thumb, there will probably be 1-3 services per team. And when you want to use other teams' stuff, you'll be thankful it's across an RPC. First basic reason is if you don't agree with that other team on what language to write in.

It'd really help to see a concrete example of a modular monolith compared to the microservice equivalent.
> “crucial to know the exact location where they were found” for “reasons that could range from ritualistic to supernatural”

I wonder what they implied there.
You may want to file a complaint with OpenAI then, in their latest interface they call sampling from these prior conversations they've recorded, "thinking".
It's much faster! There's been significant performance improvements since 3.8.
Scaling LLM Test-Time can be More Effective than Scaling Parameters
Do you need an iPhone to use them, or only for the initial setup/audiogram?
So the internet enshittified even the idea of strip clubs. Now that's an achievement.
Look, I believe you, but people complain about all these bounty programs, some of which I know to have been extraordinarily well managed, and usually when you get to the bottom of those complaints it comes down to a misapprehension the researchers have about what the bounty program is doing and what its internal constraints are. I acknowledge that another possibility is that the bounty program itself isn't performing well; that is a possibility (I have no actual knowledge about this particular case!)

The only thing here I'm going to push back on, and forcefully, is the idea that bounty programs have an incentive to stiff researchers. They do not. I cannot emphasize enough how "not real money" these sums are. Bounty program operators, the people staffing these programs, don't get measured on how few bounties they pay out.
I've had the PID enabled version of Quick Mill Carola for a few years now, and I don't think I would recommend it. The #1 issue for me is the water reservoir and associated fill sensor. The water reservoir is too difficult to refill, too difficult to see how full it is, and the water sensor is really unreliable and will beep loudly and prevent warm up even when the machine is full. I ended up disabling the sensor. I won't be getting rid of my Carola, but I think there are better choices now, something like the ECM Puristika, perhaps.
Explaining OpenAI's O1 Model
> Like, is "Denver" really a special crowd?

As someone who frequently goes to concerts, I can absolutely testify that the audience can vary a lot between cities. You can usually tell if the band/artist is genuinly enjoying their performance or if they are doing the bare rehearsed minimum.

If you read/watch interviews with touring musicians, all have stories about how "Tokyo was crazy", "London was boring" etc – even though the set list was the exact same every evening.
> This speaks more about the problems at FAANG

Right - "most of my work can be done by Sonnet 3.5" doesn't exactly conjure up an image of a high level or challenging job. It seems the challenge with FAANG companies is getting hired, not the actual work most people do there.
The initial patent for semaglutide specifically was issued in 2008 and is under protection for 20 years -- while liraglutide has been around for much longer, semaglutide is relatively new in patent terms.

So presumably the licensed DMF facilities are operating under a license from Novo Nordisk, because otherwise they'd be shut down. But why do the terms of the license allow them to sell to anyone else?

You are correct that the use specifically for weight loss is newer and the FDA's labyrinthine procedures give Novo Nordisk exclusivity for a significant amount of time after that.
I can recommend the book "Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe" for anyone wanting to inoculate themselves against survivorship bias.
Which is exactly why you pay them, right?
> It's got the same feature parity as Pinboard

Internally, perhaps, but it doesn't have external feature parity when it comes to, e.g., being able to automagically import things using IFTTT.

(Yes, I could probably lash up a webhook feeding into linkding but IFTTT's webhook support still isn't great but I'm already 20 projects behind on my personal list and redoing all my IFTTT recipes that talk to Pinboard isn't going to be a priority.)

Linkding is definitely worth a look though as backup.
Can we talk about how most of us haven't read 80% of everything on the internet and yet we are all still better at many basic things than these AIs? At what point do we admit to ourselves that this isn't a sustainable path forward.
that sounds like a path to an unsustainable situation where your company is run by socially adept fratboys and charismatic politicians instead of hackers, with company leadership insulated from actual facts on the ground by many layers of middle managers with strong incentives to lie? even if those incremental engineers are generating more value at first, they won't be able to continue doing so when most of the company exists to defend their pointless make-work. the people who leave first won't be the ones spending their time on pointless make-work
Homebuilt tool. Started when the Pocket BS in FF happened, just kept playing with it. It's a PWA/Share Target on mobile and an extension in my browser.

Downside is I have to be online to use it.
It seems ridiculous but I think it may have some credence. Perhaps it is because of sci-fi associating "dystopian" with "futuristic" technology, or because there is additional advertisement provided by third parties fearmongering (which may be a reasonable response to new scary tech?)
Supabase.

We do also use their auth, storage, api, etc. But even if you just want to host a postgres db it's still worth checking out I think.

It's managed postgres, 2 free db's, connection pooler, super easy read replicas (requires a larger paid instance), backups, lots of tooling/dashboards/advisories, cli for running locally during development, database branching, backups, fdw, and lots more. All of it open source.

You can turn off the data api's etc if you just want to connect directly: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/hardening-data-api...
This quality of life take is something that can be talked about only in the context of security needs being met. Since WWII Europe's security needs have been met by the US taxpayer. Everything else is built on that (i.e. Maslow's hierarchy of needs).

And yes, I agree that the US does have a geopolitical interest in paying for Europe's defense, but if we didn't, it's likely that Europe would look very different today than it now does. My guess is that it would be a lot more militarized and that there would be less money for QoL programs.
This is correct. Most people hear about AI from two sources, AI companies and journalists. Both have an incentive to make it sound more powerful than it is.

On the other hand this thing got 83% on a test I got 47% on...
TIL AOL still exists.
simple.css https://simplecss.org/
>Boeing stock is worth 4x what it was 15 years ago.

The S&P 500 is worth 5.4x over the same time period. There might have been some enthusiasm back in 2018, but in the past 5 years they've definitely underperformed.
please tell me all the nitpicks so I can improve.
also this is just an MPV so deleting files will be added in future
Or they mean velocity.
Do FAANG engineers normally advocate for more services instead of fewer? I haven't gotten that impression.
Sure but I've seen people complaining not that there is any build step but that they think it requires the whole node/npm ecosystem to be installed for it to work.

At this point I don't think anyone doing anything beyond a landing page is working without some sort of build process anymore.
IMHO the writing animation should run about 4x that speed.
Pay no attention to the man behind the mechanical turk!
Had a big bank’s app force me to update. Ok, updated it.

Ok, looks like a total UI refresh.

Tried to schedule a bill payment (which previous version could do, uhh, for 10y+) and threw a dialog saying “coming soon”.
that is an amazing idea. will be added soon
Don't equate criticism for police with a preference for hostage takers. In my view that's exactly the point of the article.

The police told her to prepare to die at her post. She criticized that response. "You developed the hots for your captors!" was the response to her criticism.
Yours look great, you should have a demo though.
How I hate the title's framing. Greece has no population problem; it has an economic problem. Greeks have not given up on sex; they are simply responding to economic incentives, the same as people everywhere. The interviewed economist, Nikos Vettas, said as much; they just need to increase the country's productivity. If the economy grew at a respectable rate 5̶-̶1̶0̶%̶/̶y̶e̶a̶r̶ instead of flatlining since 2008, they would have no problem.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
Not by definition but by the nature of the incentives.

They face a lot less monetary risks and people are harder to fire. Not to mention the additional bureaucracy and administrative weight due to the additional laws and regulations that apply to public services and how being a part of the state means facing more administrators and bureaucrats.
Millenarism is a seductive idea.

If you're among the last of your kind then you're very important, in a sense you're immortal. Living your life quietly and being forgotten is apparently scarier than dying in a blaze of glory defending mankind against the rise of the LLMs.
> In practice microservices can be just as tough to wrangle as monoliths.

What's worse: Premature scalability.

I joined one project that failed because the developers spent so much time on scalability, without realizing that some basic optimization of their ORM would be enough for a single instance to scale to handle any predictable load.

Now I'm wrangling a product that has premature scalability. It was designed with a lot of loosely coupled services and high degrees of flexibility, but it's impossible to understand and maintain with a small team. A lot of "cleanup" often results in merging modules or cutting out abstraction.
I didn't know that. thanks for sharing
Tailwind's global reset is pretty aggressive.
They seem basically comfortable now, which I guess is about as much as they could have hoped for in the era of liberal democracies. Whatever little details fell out of their court games, their hard power wasn’t going to survive contact with the brutal grinding power of the giant industrial meritocracy behind a big moat.