skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia:

"The Cornerstone of Peace at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman lists 149,193 persons from Okinawa – approximately one quarter of the civilian population – were either killed or committed suicide during the Battle of Okinawa and the Pacific War."

How can anyone stupid enough to think that the people of Okinawa have had a healthy lifestyle over the past century? The subtle statistical effects of any dietary or lifestyle prefererences would be completely swamped by the effects of the above.
The better word is "content policy"
So Apple could not sell many Macbooks anymore? Good luck with that idea
Curious choice of mustard as main picture of the article. Dijon mustard has like 4 ingredients: mustard seeds, salt, vinegar and bisolfite. Among processed canned condiments it must be the healthiest one.
Better given them some dried frog pills.
Waterfox is nearly same as Librewolf; it comes with own set of additional settings and tweaks. From what I saw around some users weren't fond of the arrangements the author of the project went into (startpage, fastly) and bundling of tree tabs extension that had to be disabled by about:config entry change.

Pale Moon: IIRC initially it was a fork of Firefox ESR then project switched to own Goanna engine, which in turn is a fork of Gecko; it also tries to keep alive XUL extensions platform. There were some dramas happening in the past around the project, esp. regarding porting browser to OpenBSD. It's kinda a niche project I'd say - surely it has some community but it's not that big.

As for IceCat - I'm surprised it's still around; seems it runs own extensions database (https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/mozzarella/) but these aren't keeping up with official releases, at least on the page. Perhaps autoupdate bumps these to the current versions; still, uBlock Origin is stuck at 1.51.0 from last December, while the current version is 1.59.0.

I tried Zen recently - it's kinda hard to get used to tabs sidebar. For some people this might be useful but not for me - I prefer tabs on top.
Add me to the list of people wondering about it too. An odd throwaway line, something of a non sequitur, some information we didn't really need to know - and yet, it was included. (And the noses referred to again later.) But without further elaboration. Clearly we are supposed to take something from this - but what?

And I also considered the anti-semitism angle. It's not like the hook-nosed hand-wringing cartoon Jew isn't an extremely well-known anti-semitic stereotype, and it's not like the idea that somebody might be anti-semitic is hugely surprising. I don't think this thought is exactly some ridiculous flight of fancy!

Turns out Michelson was a Jew though. Well, maybe that was just his art style then! But now I'm even more confused about the inclusion of this information.

It is a strange comment.
This has been my experience as well. I treat LLMs like an intern or junior who can do the legwork that I have no bandwidth to do myself. I have to supervise it and help it along, checking for mistakes, but I do get useful results in the end.

Attitudinally, I suspect people who have had experience supervising interns or mentoring juniors are probably those who are able to get value out of LLMs (paid ones - free ones are no good) rather than grizzled lone individual contributors -- I myself have been in this camp for most of my early career -- who don't know how to coax value out of people.
I especially recommend the original edition of these posts. For me the current edition does way too much hand holding, taking care of the entire bootloading process with a specialized crate.
They already focus on ROI, the problem is it's ROI for them not the student. In most states the biggest or second biggest company is a university because they run for profit sports programs with no pay to players, make money off commercial research grants and classes using pHd students making 34k/year, use the students as both low wage workers for campus jobs in high value retail space leased to franchises and as a captive populace to price gouge with required meal plans using the student loans, capitalize again off the real estate that is often land granted to them by the state by offering overpriced student housing that is often mandatory for freshmen. You basically have to accept getting scammed to get a degree.
> "Teaching is relatively well paid"

Compared to what?
In the US, teachers are absolutely underpaid relative to their similarly-educated and -skilled peers in other professions.
As per this article, even copy-paste hallucinate e.g. because there are no infinite datasets.
> That’s a killer business feature, never own a laptop again

It's also a business killer feature which would kill their MacBook sales. So, won't happen anytime soon imo.
One bit of clarification, I am counting the flight both ways. On average I would fly to Japan from SFO one a month, sometime twice. I would always have some work in Japan then half the time I would need to also fly to Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, NZ, etc.

1. The remote calls have gotten better but 15+ years ago not so much.
2. Timezone and remote calls are hard.
3. Face to face is very important to be able to build understanding and also judgement (you need to read the room, which you cannot do over a call).
4. Building relationships requires time not in a meeting, dinner or drinks with a client.
5. Having a relationship with your local team requires the same.
6. In Asia the foreigner flying moves the needle. It is a sign of respect for the customers that you value and will support them.
7. Languages. Unless you are fluent in the local language remote meetings are difficult.
8. Nature of the company. Im my case all 3 companies were startups. They are a risk for the customer. Your willingness to be there helps them feel more comfortable with the risk.

Durning the pandemic there was no flying of course and it was great to be home. I now have a new startup and we just started doing business in Japan at the start of this year. I have hired the same local team that I have worked with at 3 companies. They are amazing! However by the end of this year I will have visited 6 times. Reestablishing the connections lost durning the pandemic has already moved the needle enough that it will materially affect the success of my startup. To be fair, come next year I do not feel I will need to visit every month, but once a quarter is going to be required.

For me cutting flights times in 1/2 is a major win.

As to first class, yes the novelty goes away. It is just another segment of a very long day.
I was enlightened to read your interpretation, which Wikipedia indeed lists as a "more modern, alternative interpretation".

The prevailing interpretation is a directive to make a decision rather than dally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait
Progressive taxation isn’t even necessary. If someone makes $10,000 and is taxed 10%, they give up $1,000. And if someone makes $10,000,000 then they give up $1,000,000.
Dozens. I’m a consultant and it’s what I do. The modeling is very easy. The operational changes are the hard part. Basically any random task of. A sort of maintenance, production, replacement, procurement or scheduling task can save 10-30% with a simple model. There’s a long way to go but this stuff is everywhere.

The world hasn’t even fully realized the productivity value of spreadsheets and email.
This is a fairly standard dynamic programming problem. The crucial insight is that if you take two pins with a single ball, you split the problem into two independent subproblems, so the core question is when to hit two pins at once.

This lends itself to a solution that doesn't use dictionaries or even lists. To decide whether you want to: skip the current pin, take the current pin alone, or take the current pin together with the previous, you only need to keep track of the previous pin's value, and the past two scores. For example, in Python:

values = [3, 4, -1, 6, -1, 6, 6, 3, -1, -1, 6, -2]
prev_val = prev_score = score = 0
for val in values:
prev_val, prev_score, score = val, score, max(score, score + val, prev_score + val * prev_val)
print(score) # 64

(This solution still has a list with the input values, but it is only iterated over, so you could just as easily read those one-by-one from an input file, for an O(1) memory solution.)
There have been a lot of socialist countries that were proper and strong democracies, notably India. The result? Hundreds of millions in abject poverty in India until socialism was given up in the 90s, and is slowly recovering.
Yes, that is the standard UI for this problem. You select a country, then that loads a the country's divisions ilfor another select box, and that load the cities for that division.

Another way is auto complete for the city with just country preselected.
Bloated JavaScript libraries and their bloated dependencies.
> The hypothesis Newman is implicitly presenting in TFA is that Tinniswood is indeed very old,

I'm curious why the census isn't presented as evidence of location. UK census are very informative and the 1921 census is the most recent one available.

I'll note that a very small percentage of individuals aren't found (illegible, record loss, issue at taking) but it's exceptional.
My (German) grandfather was born in Stettin :)
>An Ipsos survey found that among Canadian boomers who are planning to leave 100 per cent of their estates to their children, the average inheritance will be about $940,000.

Presumably this is in most cases simply their parents' home being inherited? (also with that being close to the average home price in the country)
That, probably can and should be fixed. Set a minimum age for someone to take a college loan to say 21. Otherwise, a parent takes it and it's subtracted from a parents' social security check before it does from kid's. Then people will think twice. Maybe that's fair.
> there’s no longer any motive force towards quality, as your payment is assured

There are many excellent European universities, including ones which have been around for centuries, telling me there are ways to handle your concerns.

> A vigorous market for education

How's that Corinthian Colleges degree working out? Costly and no quality. And exactly the life-crippling outcome we should expect in a 'vigorous market'.
See also the excellent book "Shop Class as Soulcraft" for a thorough examination of skilled trades as an under-appreciated and vital aspect of our economy and culture.
Please share your insights.
I feel like other comments in this thread are not quite getting what the story is saying.

OpenAI (and probably others) do not like the bill. Their employees do on account of (possibly among other things) the whistleblower protections offered.

If you're going to write the same thing regardless of what the story actually says (e.g. regulatory capture is bad) what's the point of writing it?
The return window should be time limited so that the uni shoulders some of the risk - that their degree has market value. Masters programs can be particularly egregious, they are profit centers where only a small fraction of those getting the degree advance to a PhD program or some position where the degree matters. If the time is limited and one only need to pay a % over a threshold pay, the uni has some skin in the game and can lose on the gamble. In this market design they may be more careful about the promises they make and better guide our population towards programs that have better market value (and less personal debt).
This happened to me too. The root cause was a bad memory stick.
Having seen a cow killed with a captive bolt gun, and a pig with a knife, I think the difference is abysmal, and the first way is "awesome" in comparison.

A captive bolt gun costs $200. If you kill your cows with a knife, you must have some kind of problem in your head.
You forgot the most important part. The people agreeing to these debts, by definition, do not have an education in complex debt instruments that cannot be discharged.

Taking our a vast loan to study English literature might seem unwise, but it’s something I could definitely see a starry eyed 17 year old deciding to do.
While the US system is particularly messed up, it's not that great in Europe either.

In my country universities get paid by the government based on number of graduates. Things like quality of education and employability matter very little. So, the end result is a system where many young people spend 5 years of their life on a masters degree that doesn't give them any monetary benefit. The university gets their money, the government gets fancy stats about level of education, but many students end up just misled and wasting their time.

Obviously this is better than graduating with massive debt, but it's still a major financial loss compared to working full time, or studying something employable. In my opinion, what we need is a change in mentality. People shouldn't tell their kids that it's okay to study just whatever you enjoy, at least not until you have some other means of earning a living you're happy with.
If we only used LLMs for use cases where they exceed human ability, that would be great. But we don't. We use them to replace human beings in the general case, and many people believe that they exceed human ability in every relevant factor. Yet if human beings failed as often as LLMs do at the tasks for which LLMs are employed, those humans would be fired, sued and probably committed.

Yet any arbitrary degree of error can be dismissed in LLMs because "humans do it too." It's weird.
What is missing from the debate....

The rise of Education Grants on Fed level and the decrease of state funds per student...classic economic game-ship gone wrong...

What might have worked better is higher Fed grants per student handed over to states as match grant where it matches state funds in the same student.

Anything else delves into false narratives around false facts....

And we do in fact have an example of said cure working...elementary education where no student has a debt...everyone forgets the 1-12th grade school system that works with no debt transferred to students....
Slightly off-topic: Is it legal to call your company whatever you want in the US? For example, could I create a company called "Free food for everyone" but then charge for the food I'm offering? Or a company called "The only non-poisoned cupcakes in NYC"?

Seemingly, OpenAI does everything they can do prevent competitors or helping anyone else but their investors/shareholders, but at one point someone has to have enough influence/smarts to get them to change the name, right?
One might look at this and think "huh 30% success is not too bad" missing the fact that this is from a VC perspective.

From a founder perspective, this is abysmal because the chance of you getting funded by the likes of a16z or YC is already really slim, about 1% according to YC.

So let me ask you something: would you embark on a journey if you knew your chance of success is 0.3%?

So many good startups go to oblivion, pandering to the VCs. Where they could have been more resilient on their own.
You switch cause and effect, all of that is the other way around.

Startups give frequent investor updates if things go well.

Startups are alive longer if things go well.

Things going well is the cause, not the other way around.
I checked the links and I think it's amazing and it answers with Latex formatted notation.

But I was curious and I asked something very simple, Euclid's first postulate and I got this answer:

Euclid's Postulate 1: "Through any two points, there is exactly one straight line."

In fact Euclid's Postulate 1 is "To draw a straight line from any point to any point." http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/bookI.h...

I think AI answer is not correct, it may be some textbook interpretation but I was expecting Euclid's exact wording.

Edit: Google's Gemini gives the exact wording of the postulate and then comments that this means that you can draw one line bitween two points. I think this is better
Welcome to the world of VCs. And, honestly, business in general the last decade or so. It feels very much like building a sustainable business is frowned upon. Build big and build fast so that you can cash out at max value, or just crash and burn.

It’s why your password manager can’t just be a password manager, it’s a subscription security product. Your cloud storage can’t just be storage, it has to be a more expensive document management system. So on and so forth.
One minor nitpick: Firefox has vertical tabs, they were recently added in version 131 nightly builds. (Blog was probably written before it was added)

Also Edge/Vivaldi have sidebar/vertical tabs, but they don't nest which reduces their utility in my opinion.

The Miller Columns view implemented in a recent HN post[1] would be great way to view history. Each column could be linked visually with its sidebar tab. I use my sidebar tab tree structure to give additional context on what I've viewed, I can see that page G is a child of B, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263203
Oh we’re playing with fire alright
In the definitions of which models it applies to:

> An artificial intelligence model trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, the cost of which exceeds one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) when calculated using the average market prices of cloud compute at the start of training as reasonably assessed by the developer

So unless you casually think you're going to throw 100 million dollars at a model training run, you're safe to innovate.

The bill itself seems reasonable to me and I'm in the camp of superalignment not really mattering because you don't know who the AI is going to align with, and there's many people with bad intent. The outcome of a model deciding to be evil or an evil person using a super-aligned model is pretty much the same except for 1 extra prompt.
Both statements you quoted can be true at the same time. Russia is the aggressor in this war, and Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil have the goal of repelling the aggressor, and not conquer or subjugate Russia.

If Russia wants to stop these attacks, it can do so at any point. Their government simply has to stop their attacks on Ukraine and retract its troops. Surely, even to a madman like Putin, this humiliation would be preferable to global nuclear armageddon.
You're assuming that the invading forces would allow people to leave. First thing invading forces do is take over airports, and I would assume blockade the ports in this case as well. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face
5) Do nothing about the problem until the debt becomes too large, then attempt to blanket cancel the debt without expecting any fallout. All the while doing nothing to fix the underlying issues.
No counterpoints from me.

Have been running k3sup provisioned nodes on Hetzner for services and even a Stackgres managed Postgres cluster on another node (yes, it backs up to the cloud). And it's been great. Incredibly low cost and I do not have to think about running out if compute or memory for everything I need for a tiny startup.
You can not do that. It is literally impossible to make a perfect physical copy.

You can make a perfect copy of a file, however.
Are there still any telephone reference desks left in the world? I would love to call up a human who could answer any question in full sentences with a set of references. Perhaps there is still an opportunity for such things in today's world, albeit likely behind some kind of paywall.
Culture enriches the nuance of words' meanings, and nuanced language facilitates our ability to relate to one another, thereby improving culture, society, and "what we are as humans."

Any obsession can be unhealthy, but if the worst problem of society ever comes to be too much attention to words and meanings, I think we'll be ok.
I would also add

5) Don't educate young people on what their degree would earn them.

So many young people think their hobby can become their career and pay for a nice life style. Unfortunately, it's not the case for many majors.
I mean for fucks sake we were pushing 18 year old teenagers into tens of thousands of dollars of debt! I dunno about most people but at 18 I had absolutely no clue about anything, especially the concept of money nor career. How the fuck does an 18 year old comprehend why taking $60,000 to get a degree in “Latin Dance” is not a good idea (and we all know many people who fall into this bucket too!). And yet parents, councilors, teachers, and “the whole system” pushed this onto every kid in high school.

And then society turns around and mocks them later on for being “stupid” and “lazy” or whatever… fuck that shit. Society strongly told kids that college, any college, was the only way to have a future.
"Everyone" is getting paid? The investors aren't getting paid, and they are your business partners. So the return of greater than 1x is pretty important.
> Was X prohibited from releasing them by the orders?

Yes, you can see the CONFIDENTIAL stamps on them in the lower left corner of the orders. For example, look at the bottom left of this image:

https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGWzpltMWQAAosr3.pn...

Note that Brazilian Portuguese uses exactly the same word we do in English, though it's pronounced slightly differently, the end of the word sounding like see-al.

I can confirm this due to having a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese right next to me at this very second, who also confirmed to me that yes, the CONFIDENTIAL stamp on the order really does mean that X was not permitted to release this order.
>In 1928, three years before his death, everyone said of Michelson, "He measured light," and today he is one of the few Nobel Prize winners whom nearly all educated people can name and give the reason for the award, although Michelson’s award actually was based on a wide spectrum of experiments.

I found this line (particularly "nearly all educated people can name and give the reason for the award") pretty amusing. Prior to this article, I'd heard of Michaelson, knew he was part of the Michelson and Morley experiment, and remembered a couple of details of the experiment design. But I also have a bachelors degree in physics, and I still couldn't have confidently told you whether he won a Nobel prize. I'm sure the intervening 50 years have dulled his fame a bit, but I've got to wonder how true it was when written.
It's a younger field. A lot of self-taught people think they will be excluded (they wouldnt be). There is a deliberate effort by execs to lower the salaries of software developers by ensuring there are no barriers to entry and flooding the market which the vast majority of the workforce has been tricked into going along with.
How exactly are they going to measure the compute number?
1. The point is once a bill like this goes through, it is easy to lower the numbers.

2. And in the future, these operations will be much cheaper.

3. New or better architectures can be more powerful with lesser compute.
To whom it may concern, the TN state "BOFH" license plate should be available now. I've had it for 30 years, but i'm not able to drive anymore and the truck died, so I didn't renew it last month.
I don't think I have switched them. I get plenty of negative investor updates. But those updates also include solutions and asks for help.

Especially when it is a company that regularly sends an update on the same day every month. Those aren't always rosy.
> when calculated using the average market prices of cloud compute at the start of training as reasonably assessed by the developer