skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my initial position too, but I think there is a search efficiency story here as well. CoT comes in many flavors and improves when tailored to the problem domain. If the LLM can instead figure out the right strategy to use to problem solve for a given problem, this may improve performance per compute vs discovering this at inference time.

Tailoring prompts is likely still the best way to maximize performance when you can, but in broader domains you'd work around this through strategies like asking the LLM to combine predefined reasoning modules, or creating multiple reasoning chains and merging/comparing them, explicit MCTS etc. I think those strategies will still be useful for a good while, but pieces of that search process, especially directing the search more efficiently, move to the LLMs over time as they get trained with this kind of data.
A different notion of special, I suppose. If they do not expect fierce armed resistance, or special environment like an unlit derelict factory, or a need to interact with unusual machinery / electronics, I wonder what makes their job "special". I suppose that SEK/MEK are capable of tackling special circumstances, but in this case they didn't need to, they just had to do a job of a police inspector, only with a large safety margin.
Decentralize decision-making, delegate, bottom up culture, etc.

These things have merit, but increasingly less the more you move away from "whole" plans in which they make sense. These particular ones are troublesome because they fall closer on the spectrum to "reduce executives". If you're pushing decision-making downstream, it should also be reduced upstream. If you reduce it upstream, you have less (not zero) need for leadership there. That has to manifest either in fewer leaders or leaders doing a better job at their other duties. In particular, they need to be producing much clearer stronger vision for the downstream folks to align their decisions to. Vision is perhaps the hardest task in the org and when it's hard it's easy to shirk on. Often, when leaders talk about trying to move to a bottom up culture, they are (unconsciously?) trying to absolve themselves of the vision work. And they're usually doing it while still gatekeeping information and resources they were meant to have because they were decision makers.

This is going too far, but directionally:
Leaders should largely not be advocating for delegation and bottom up decision-making. It's not that this can't be better for the company, it's that they could be executing the goal better by quitting or firing their peers. It's more of a catch-22/worst of both worlds situation—leaders shouldn't be advocating for it because they shouldn't be there to advocate for it.
If you're learning jewelry design, I'd like to point you towards Rhino, which is popular in the jewelry design community. It's not OSS, but since you're learning, I'll point out that they have a generous educational discount.

https://www.rhino3d.com/for/jewelry/
I have an ACE score of 4 and have been marked as gifted at various stages of my life, elementary, high school, college, and other somewhat impressive things during my 30+ year life.

The hardest part about being "gifted" and having a difficult childhood is being able to compete/achieve at high levels consistently. For brief moments I can be amazing at art, relationships, work, social situations, etc. But it all comes crashing down once I get too taxed or triggered. I simply don't have the energy or ability to be functional at the gifted (and even less) level for long periods of time. Even worse the recovery time from being drained is way longer than my close friends who grew up in more stable environments.

On paper things look pretty good for me. But keeping everything in order takes a lot out of me and I'm struggling to find the strength to do more and to live up to my "potential".
Most of it strikes me as toxic, largely only applicable to YT, with a few soiled gems mixed in there.

What are your takeaways?

Thoughts on Tate's Hustlers' University?
>Human drivers are taught to avoid scenarios like that. During drivers' lessons you will be taught to check your mirror before braking

If I'm going to crash into something I'm going to be slamming the brakes without checking my mirrors first.
That ranks as one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, and it was really not bad on a human or planetary scale. Carbon-based power plants kill far more on an annual basis.
You don’t need to be defensive, I wasn’t attacking you. I don’t think you have understood my comment in the slightest but I don’t wish to cause you further distress as you seem to have become quite irate. I will tell you that, like most people, I’m not above eating junk food on occasion. Also, I was upfront that I watch Folding Ideas videos for the entertainment. Savouring and entertainment aren’t mutually exclusive.

I urge you to attempt to engage with arguments as they are made, not with a version created in your head that vilifies the other person.

Finally, I wish you a calm and peaceful week, with no conflicts and all the YouTube videos you wish to gorge yourself upon, as long as the habit isn’t detrimental to you or others in any way.
Fuck Cancer. RIP.
This seems the usual CoT that has been used for a while, o1 was trained with reinforcement learning with some unknown policy, so it's much better at utilizing the chain of thought.
I am fairly sure that there is no formal way to send money from United States to Iran or North Korea by an individual or even a business without special government authorization.

Happy to be proven wrong if there ways to send/receive money to countries via banks today.

When we say North Korean or Iran we generally don’t mean people with those ethnic background[1] or even citizenship who have legal, physical and banking presence outside[2] these countries. We typically mean legal entities (both individuals and businesses) who are present within these regimes

Are they sanctions perfect ? Of course not, but they are still far better than what crypto exchanges do today

[1] that would be racist that is not the purpose of those sanctions

[2] the governments of these other geographies persumably have controls and oversight into these people
But that's the thing, humans can't do it either, except only in some very specific simple cases. We're not magical; if we had a good way of doing it, we could implement it as an algorithm, but we don't.

There's a nice discussion of it in this CS Stack Exchange thread:
https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/47712/why-can-humans-...
Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI
I was thinking that too. It’s something you don’t hear much from YC but a lot of founders have similar corporate hiring policies.
The "sour grapes" attitude has IMO really started crowding out other content. Pretty much any popular content here just has a flood of social signaling content all about how morally wrong, bad, evil, etc the content is. And if you don't want to pile on the commentary, which is all pretty much the same thing regurgitated in different ways, then your content just kinda languishes at the bottom of the page. I don't really know why this kind of content is so engaging but I guess it is. Kinda like a sports match where everyone just shouts at how bad the other team is or something.

EDIT: My pet theory is that it has to do with the general aging of the users here. There's a kind of well-to-do, Western, mid-40s (usually male) social opinion I see upvoted a lot here that I feel like hits the sweet spot of the folks who still read this site regularly. But it's just a theory really.
It always amazes me eyewear entrants don't start with something tried, tested, and timeless like wayfarers or aviators. More room to work with and shove batteries evenly, too. Sure, offer this as an option for people who like it if you want, but the classics are still popular for a reason.
And now I'm on my computer, here is the modified version. Put this in:

.git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg

#!/usr/bin/env bash

BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2> /dev/null)

# fail gracefully if we don't have a branch
if [ -z "$BRANCH" ]; then
exit 0
fi

# add a git trailer with the branch
git interpret-trailers --in-place --where before --if-exists addIfDifferent --trailer Branch="$BRANCH" "$1"

And if you add the following alias to your ~/.gitconfig you'll be able to see the branch names in the logs by typing git lb (for log branch):

[alias]
lb = log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %C(bold)%(trailers:key=Branch,valueonly,separator=%x2c)%Creset - %s %Cgreen(%cr)%C(bold blue) <%an>%C(nobold yellow)%d%Creset' --abbrev-commit
I have two people in my direct circle get and have stage4 lymphoma and adult leukemia this year at the time of their initial diagnosis. Does seem like it is on the rise from my perspective.
> processed the now known public key from which the private key can be recovered in 2^33 operations (2^(n/2))

So anybody that has sent a transaction can have their private key cracked just from their public address? How is this considered secure? That's absurd...
Just because Apple includes it in one of their prompts doesn't mean it improves performance.
This has been asked a few times now.

The structure would most likely need to be a hardened microkernel, similar to se4L; and would necessarily need to mask every unique piece of information that comes from the hardware in a generic way that prevents or dramatically impacts fingerprinting in a non-deterministic way.

To do anything programmatically in a resilient way you need to uniquely identify what you are working with first.

Also, in practice, there can be no secure OS so long as there is no control over the hardware. Existing consumer equipment would need significant redesign at the hardware/signal domain level.

Firmware malware is becoming more common, almost ubiquitous, and frightening with the applications it allows, thanks in large part to existing companies creating backdoors. As all companies build this functionality in, and there is very little benefit to them in short or long-terms to do so, its reasonable to assume its by some secret order. Free-market companies don't generally spend money on features that target only a small portion of their customers when it also creates liabilities that can balloon.

Application wise, here is a thought experiment for you:

How hard would it really be to silently upload software to a target running in a SMM context (Ring -2) that scans or hooks memory looking for high entropy strings of common fixed widths (i.e. a Rabin-Karp search), and when entropy is above a threshold saving those into the service sector of the attached hard drive in a cache-like structure.

While a bit rhetorical, what would the consequences be for this? Would encryption keys stored in memory persist and float to the top for remote or physical querying? Is there anything you can do about that without access control to SMM? Is there any software instrumentation that lets you have visibility on something like that?

The general obvious answers are yes its likely in the first, and no to the rest.
I must say I never really understood the economics of newsstand subscriptions. Even when I probably subscribed to 10+ magazines I almost never bought single copies unless I was quoted in one.

Magazines were always mostly relatively niche outside of maybe a few fairly general interest news and personality mags.
There was a huge fight over what proportion of these trucks would be electric. Wikipedia says 75% of the initial order of 60,000 trucks will be electric, and after 2026 they will all be electric.
There's a lot of virtue in that, and managers prefer that just as much as engineers do. But sometimes it's as the article says: "Your organization might not have the luxury of years of runway, and the environment you're operating in is rapidly changing". If you've got a big customer making 20% of your revenue who's threatening to jump ship (not an uncommon scenario for small to medium sized companies), you simply have to deliver whatever they want as fast as you can and worry about your vision later.
I'll push back in defense of Scrum, but it probably bears a little explanation because my conceptualization of that framework is very likely a lot different from yours. (As something of a bonus: I'll bring in the military given the whole "wartime" trope.)

In particular, Scrum is only there to establish rituals that enable empiricism in decision making. A sprint is a reporting period to keep the team from spending too much time in the weeds. A standup is there to keep the team working together. The andon cord (which is often missing I find) is there when the facts have changed so utterly profoundly that everyone needs to regroup.

Anyone who's been through RTC ("boot camp"), and even some who haven't but have lived vicariously through others, understand that being constantly yelled at by RDCs ("drill instructors") on how you make your racks and fold your clothes is all about building certain habits and only tenuously related to what you'll be doing after A-school. It all has more to do with building trust that the rest of the folks in your ship will help carry you when the going gets tough. Scrum, at its core, is kinda like that.

I really dislike the term "Scrum Master." They're a team captain. The more military-minded might be keener to use "gunnery sergeant" or "chief petty officer:" they're just the most senior person in the rating group^W^W^W^Won the team. (Though, I'd probably take more inspiration from the Marines than the Navy here: a culture of servant leadership seems to bring out the best in people.)

The most popular implementations of Scrum tend to come with a ridiculous amount of meeting and tool baggage, and it's so unnecessary.

Use Excel. Hold your standups at the close of the day so people can go home. Write your product backlog items in delivery order so that sprint planning is less about sitting in one room playing poker and more about just getting valuable shit done.

That said, what isn't unnecessary, however, is kneecapping command a little: the engineering officer of the watch has comparatively little understanding of the actual operation of the machine. They just know that they want operational excellence. However, that excellence also sometimes comes with the watch supervisor—a subordinate—publicly calling out mistakes that the watch officer makes.
That, and the image they conjure up. Refreshing the player to something more appealing, when more people are realizing that the old players are douchebags.

And, surprise! -- the new player still has tailored suits, and expensive status symbol wristwatches, goes to expensive hotels for "fun", etc.

Newly aspiring player image types should start buying things from GQ advertisers.
Yeah seems to just be an issue with my Firefox configuration -- works fine on Edge.
You really are condescending to us over Mr.Beast's management style right now. Hackernews is beyond parody.
it's not until the middle of the article that they detail that the side effects are mostly seen on the highest dose of the drug and that it isn't out of line with the rate of negative side effects of similar competitor drugs.
I don't fit all your criteria. My schools didn't have a gifted track, but I scored highly on many aptitude tests, took the college in high school classes, etc. I wasn't diagnosed with autism until I was an adult. ACE score is 0 though.

I definitely feel like you when it comes to success. I would be considered moderately successful (grad degree, decent professional job, married, kids, etc) but just sort of average (median household income for our area). It doesn't feel like "I made it" yet. It's been a real struggle to keep my job, or really want to keep it. I can't stand the politics and the unknown standards that I need to hit. It also sucks that they can't give me the reasonable accommodations I asked for such as additional coaching and they even talked about putting me on a PIP this year. With the job market the way it is, I'm finding it hard to switch jobs internally or externally. Of course with my autism, changing jobs is also difficult and risky even in a good market. Also as you mentioned, these internal struggles are consistently unknown to those around me. Even my wife doesn't understand how hard certain things affect me and instead sees me as being very smart and very successful even though the data I see only supports the moderate versions of that. I don't feel appreciated at work or at home and I don't get to do very many things that I enjoy.

I'm not satisfied with my life. I wish I had my diagnosis before getting married and I would have chosen a different path. Although I think I'm also greatful for not having the diagnosis before graduating as I probably would have had a "what's the point of trying" moment at some of the difficult points.
those may be contact carriers
In an ideal world, would I like to see drugs or sex work decriminalized and legally transacted ?

Yes, but that is not the world we live in , most democratic elected governments have unfortunately not done that. unable to pay/receive for businesses related to them is sadly no different than any other illegal activity.

We don’t remove KYC to make these activities acceptable , we decriminalize them directly, removing KYC allows a lot of other illegitimate things we don’t want as well

Electronic or paper transfer is vital function of legal life, Monetary supply and regulation is core function of a government and it is under no obligation to support illegal activities.
Normal keys can't be cracked as they use 256-bit public keys providing 128-bit security, which is still secure.
In a legal way? Or as you saying you’ll just contact some people who’ll supply you with the weapon in exhange for a liberal amount of cash?
It’s not unreasonable to expect, but also in this case the meaning of the acronym doesn’t really matter as much as the meaning of the score. The link does to a page that lets you do the quiz and see your score, so it’s worth clicking.
I'd embrace plain text accounting more if it had a better schema. Ledger's is absolutely atrocious, and it drives my OCD nuts trying to use vim to "write" accounting entries.

I think my ideal PTA would be some kind of jsonnet-based system where I can create/call functions to generate journal entries.
Seems to me that the correct strategy for a successful print magazine is to not focus on the _content_, but to instead focus on the _form_. Which is to say that there _are_ people who do still enjoy reading periodicals and printed books, etc, in general, and producing something that is entertaining and interesting on it's own as an object beyond the "content" it contains is the way to cater to those people. Similar to what McSweeney's has been doing for decades. Create a magazine as a "collectable" or "art piece" that people want to put on their shelf and pick up again or show off from time to time.

With a somewhat loose definition, its arguable that the most successful magazine publisher right now is actually KiwiCo. Magazines haven't been the best way to deliver information to people for a long time, but there's a lot you can do with printed materials and subscriptions that just can't be done on a computer.
The New Paid Media
Randomly here and there. Usually reading history before bed or doing Duolingo, and things like that.

I usually don't do any dedicated tech related practice time at all though, unless there's something specific that's obviously the next big thing, or that I expect to need in the future.

There's a lot of stuff I just... Don't need to know. I have no interest in making a new programming language, and I'm not particularly interested in less popular languages.

I don't need ten million tools to do the same job, I'm not much of a minimalist, I already know Git, it's what everyone else uses, I don't plan to work on VCSes, so I don't need to learn five other ones.

A lot of stuff I'm perfectly happy to accept as a black box. I love SQLite, but I've never seen the code. I don't know how HTML layout engines work. And I don't see how I could have any kind of a life if I insisted on learning as much tech as possible, as opposed to just a reasonable amount to steadily improve at my job.
Jobs at big companies are less stable and end with less notice than at small ones, at least in my experience. In a small company, particularly one with engaged and transparent leadership, everyone knows what’s working and what isn’t and about how long the latter can be endured. At a large company the vast majority of jobs are susceptible to the whims and whispers of a few (who likely aren’t engaged and feel they can’t be transparent).

Obviously this is just one person’s opinion.
It would help if half the content on this site wasn't highly unethical lol. It feels like the tech industry is having a moment where a lot of us are looking critically at the work we're doing and the effects it has on the society we live in. Sometimes that's not fun but it is important. Sorry if that checks the vibes too much for you.
The interface to configure an eSIM is standardized, there is no need to use the proprietary app. You might even be able to configure it with the software included with the phone OS.
Well, or we subscribe to a few services and that's plenty of content and we don't actually care enough to switch around because we don't actually need to watch some specific show. At least that's my situation.

In general, people don't want to pay for individual content.
It seems plausible that stressing the importance of the system prompt instructions might do something, but I don't see how telling the model not to hallucinate would work. How could the model know that its most likely prediction has gone off the rails, without any external point of reference?
You're not alone. Lately, I've found myself skimming towards the middle/bottom of comments due to this observation. I suppose the more normalized it becomes, the more people feel encouraged to continue writing with this attitude.
Even private socializing. How well do you really know most people when it comes to sensitive subjects?
Someone should be in jail for this. And the boomers and older who enabled it should feel embarrassed about feeding their children into this debt machine.
Why Does Yellowstone National Park Turn Us All into Maniacs?
A while ago at a company selling monitoring software I deployed an updated agent out to clients and immediately a large number of their Solaris (SPARC) servers went orange or red. Pretty quickly worried about what I'd done.

But, it turned out there was a bug in our earlier agent version that wrapped the uptime at 365 days and all their servers were well over that. They'd had warnings set at a year and critical at 18 months/2 years, some high value.

I asked if they were worried, and apologized for the bug. They said it wasn't a problem and just increase the thresholds so it was all green again and they'd get around to rebooting at some point.