skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good reminder about avoiding low quality posting but also we aren't supposed to compare hn posts to reddit. I've done that too, and been reminded not to.
Somehow doesn't get the attention it deserves. Developing AI applications needs a new take and I welcome any fresh ideas. Will check it out.
Contributing factor for sure
> The EU can simply tell them they can no longer operate Analytics. Too bad if it's hard on Google.

No they can't. The US doesn't even let them decide whether to supply chip machines to China. Or for Schiphol Airport to reduce slots for noise abatement. the US immediately trumped up diplomacy and raised threats to stop those things.

Banning google analytics is just unthinkable in the current relationship between EU and US. I agree they are a predatory company but this is unfortunately how things are right now in the balance of power.
Yes. There's sourcing for the first attack that Israel implanted daughterboards of some sort with small (30g?) amounts of explosive. The battery may have been involved with the triggering, but it wasn't a battery explosion.
> I don’t know if you are trolling or so misinformed

Neither, you just somehow misinterpreted my comment.

> The UK and EU do limit those activities. They remain entirely legal providing you get explicit opt-in consent.

The point is that they do not limit them sufficiently, clearly. People who complain about the popups want to blame the businesses, but the business are doing in compliance with the law.

That's the point. So blaming the business for the popups doesn't make sense, because the popups are a result of EU regulation, not the businesses doing anything wrong. Because as you say, the EU limits those activities and allows those businesses to do as they do.
> There only seems to be hopelessness on the horizon. [...] As someone who also feels like the future is trending downward, [...]

What are you talking about? We are living in an age of unprecedented global peace and prosperity. Most people never had as good as today, and things are set to improve further.
The world is the most unstable it has been in decades. If/when a war kicks off, you have to have your supply chain local because the oceans will be instantly impassable until we can work out how to counter submarines.

This has little to do with welfare and everything to do with national security.
GOFAI from 1991! Wasn't AI back then though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_adaptive_regres...
Devs will have their mailing addresses posted in EU App Store, thanks to the DSA
There are a series of challenges like:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/09/technology/ai...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/19/technology/ar...

These are a little bit unfair, in that we're comparing handpicked examples, but I don't think many experts will pass a test like this. Technology only moves forward (and seemingly, at an accelerating pace).

What's a little shocking to me is the speed of progress. Humanity is almost 3 million years old. Homosapiens are around 300,000 years old. Cities, agriculture, and civilization is around 10,000. Metal is around 4000. Industrial revolution is 500. Democracy? 200. Computation? 50-100.

The revolutions shorten in time, seemingly exponentially.

Comparing the world of today to that of my childhood....

One revolution I'm still coming to grips with is automated manufacturing. Going on aliexpress, so much stuff is basically free. I bought a 5-port 120W (total) charger for less than 2 minutes of my time. It literally took less time to find it than to earn the money to buy it.

I'm not quite sure where this is all headed.
One is a failure of social order, product of greed, evil and stupidity. The other is the largest-scale arbitrary detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II.
This doesn't make sense on many levels. "Hospital IT" does not code the hospital EHR systems, just like the airport doesn't code flight management systems.

These are life-long software engineers, just like others reading this comment, using the best tools at their disposal to engineer lifesaving software. They're not using "regex" to develop algorithms for monitoring patients (???), and frankly that suggestion is so wild that one has to assume you don't know anything about algorithm design at all.

An LLM literally hallucinates incorrect answers by design and struggles to get extremely basic math and spelling correct.

You're welcome to put your literal life in the hands of a hallucinating english generator, but when it comes to healthcare, I want a "0% LLM" policy. LLM's will be the cheap things that offer substandard care to poor people, while the wealthy and elite enjoy personalized and human-centered care.
Saying this "further heightened tensions" between Israel and Hezbollah is like saying Jason "further heightened tensions" with the campers at Camp Crystal Lake.

Can you imagine what must be like to be a rank-and-file Hezbollah soldier at this point? What the fuck is going to happen tomorrow? I'd throw away my socks.
> Again: police don't just shoot people preemptively. They do so when there is a risk of injury or death.

They most certainly do, otherwise there wouldn't be trials and some cops in jail. Well, there are, so some do. And when those "some" do, then people will defend them via risk. Which DOESN'T WORK if you eliminate risk by preemptive murder.

> Nobody is saying that the police should be excused for shooting people because they're in a job where they could get shot at.

Many, many, many people do say this. They say almost exactly this. There's many examples, I won't list any however because I don't think it matters and I don't want to give you any fuel for a tirade.

> You gave no reason to believe that anyone actually presents such arguments.

How the actual fuck do you expect me to do this? I've talked to people in my life, I've been on Twitter. Hell, I live in Texas and BOTH my parents are Trumpies - I've heard MUCH more insane arguments. For fuck's sake, I've heard arguments on how vaccines cause autism. Not just small little arguments too - many real people I actually know.

You're really, truly, with your entire heart, telling me you've never heard an argument like this? Really? Okay. If that's the case then okay. You win. Jesus Christ talk about difficult.
I feel like you're giving certain entities too much credit there. Yes text is generated to do _something_, but it may not be to communicate in good-faith; it could be keyword-dense gibberish designed to attract unsuspecting search engine users for click revenue, or generate political misinformation disseminated to a network of independent-looking "news" websites, or pump certain areas with so much noise and nonsense information that those spaces cannot sustain any kind of meaningful human conversation.

The issue with generative 'AI' isn't that they generate text, it's that they can (and are) used to generate high-volume low-cost nonsense at a scale no human could ever achieve without them.

> Life’s too short to go through it hating others

Only when they don't deserve it. I have my doubts about Google, but I've no love for OpenAI.

> Plagiarism has a particular definition ... no-one is required to append a statement crediting every text he has ever read

Of course they aren't, because we rightly treat humans learning to communicate differently from training computer code to predict words in a sentence and pass it off as natural language with intent behind it. Musicians usually pay royalties to those whose songs they sample, but authors don't pay royalties to other authors whose work inspired them to construct their own stories maybe using similar concepts. There's a line there somewhere; falsely equating plagiarism and inspiration (or natural language learning in humans) misses the point.
Not the OP, but one reason is because concentrated wealth allows you to adjust the rules of the market or suppress competition. Another reason is that the market only rewards you for delivering value to people who can pay for it, so wealth concentration skews the production of goods towards a small quantity of luxury items, which lack the economies of scale for efficient production. This may still be a Pareto efficient market but not one that maximizes national wealth or welfare.
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Huh, why, how?

People in mainland China have gotten massively richer over the last few decades, but America did not have to pay more for imports. If anything, the increase in productivity made Chinese imports relatively cheaper.
I think the parent comment was talking about building factories and amortizing their costs over your unit production, whereas you assume the factory is a fixed cost with fixed capacity and looking at the marginal cost to produce a unit, which is really rare in many real world situations.

For most goods, the factory doesn't run anywhere near N, and the fixed costs are 6 or more orders of magnitude higher than the marginal widget costs, so your business is well served just by finding any method to use that plant more effectivly. As an example, I was quoted $60,000 for a mold which would have produced parts at $0.005. (Very small plastic widgets.) At that ratio, any amount of scale will increase my profit, since the marginal costs, even if they increase by a factor of 10 or 100, are negligible to the cost of the tooling. (And the global market for this widget is measured in hundreds of units.) Any amount of reusing the mold is going to save me money. Sure we have problems if we need N+1 widgets in less than 1/N more time, but if we expected to need 2N widgets, we could reuse the tooling design at a second factory, and marginal costs actually do keep dropping.
The english NHS is not Europe in general. Some western European nations still have relatively good quality care without ruining themselves. Although admittedly, this is getting less and less common.
in addition to neighbor, there are multiple standards for everything, even core language features like objects, which makes reasoning about code difficult. dplyr and friends, which make the aforementioned data analysis easier, require interacting with one of the least consistent metaprogramming systems I've ever dealt with.
You would think with the economy doing poorly, more people would learn how to cook, but most I know under 30 can barely handle reheating a frozen pizza.
call them new names then
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1. That’s interesting and it shouldn’t happen. I just tested it myself and was able to connect via both VNC and Terminal at the same time. I’ll check with the team to see if there’s an issue.
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Remember the "end of history"? How times have changed.
Well, the quality of them is so high that you don't need to buy new ones every few years so of course they are bankrupt ;)
It is based on a relatively traditional time series regression method. "AI" is just the usual spin.
Please note that this is distinct from yesterday's incident - these are for a different set of communication devices - from what I can see, they went off at 16:58 local time - notably 2 minutes prior to Nasrallah's planned speech on the first incident.
Off the shelf, LLMs can’t just look at docs and give you the answer.

But if you properly pre-process the documents and create a RAG type system (which uses embedding to find semantically similar docs before inserting them into LLM context) then it actually works quite well.

It’s good for big organizations with internal wikis, I’ve found.

It also works well for ingesting articles from online publications.
I mean, how are people supposed to afford all this high tech shit if they can't work decent paying jobs without a degree and the welfare state has been hollowed out? Manufacturing used to provide that.

Are companies just going to fight for a constantly shrinking middle class? Or just turn into gacha companies looking to hook a whale? Sell a single doll for $46,000?
You could outsource more services and automate them more. But many service industries are protected by laws and regulations from such competition and improvements.
Tupperware came in a wide variety of convenient, space-efficient shapes and sizes. Maybe modern Chinese takeout also does? My experience is extremely limited.

Back in the day, extremely few people were regular consumers of any take-out which might come with free could-be-reused containers.

Vs. these days, not filling the landfills and oceans with cheap plastic take-out containers is a thing for quite a few people.
Yeah and not enough people do it. That's the biggest problem.

If enough people do it, it will have an effect. Remember when Apple pulled the advertiser ID unless users opted in? That really got the ad industry barking. That they feel. Ad Nauseam they don't. It's way too fringey.
Its incredible that this is needed.

Medical isnt science, and its frightening.

The weirdest thing I've experienced as a patient is that Physicians will urge you against second opinions or having multiple doctors.

Hope telemedicine becomes more mainstream, I'd like to avoid US physicians as much as possible.
Knowing what I know about workplace dynamics in hospitals I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the "new hotness" factor of the term "AI" probably does a lot of heavy lifting here when it comes to getting buy in from management and users.

Forgoing a decade of income to get some letters beside your name selects for people who don't take orders from Clippy unless you market it well.
I keep wishing I could find a chinese restaurant near me that still uses oyster pails for everything, and solves the leakage issue by just not gooping up their food with so much sugar syrup that it becomes a problem in the first place.

But I suppose people around here gotta have their General Tso's.
Yep, this happened to me. Got a random message from a half brother, dug deeper into my ancestry and realized that my dad isn’t actually my biological father. It was certainly an odd week for me when I found out.
People who work with R for data analysis want to put their results on the web, even in the form of full web apps, without necessarily learning the full stack of front end technologies. Frameworks like Shiny offer the promise of writing web apps in the language they already know. In my experience watching this play out from the sidelines, it only ends in tears. But, technology progresses, and maybe it'll get better.
A second day!

I can't believe the full up and down owning of the communications supply chain.

Makes Hezbollah look like a clown show.
It can be frustrating if those post-docs underestimate the time cost and engineering complexity of software development. They would complain why it takes so long for your friend to "just" change a button in some app.
Muh AI shill
> Thousands were injured / wounded

Just as footnote, I think that mutilated is the correct word here. Having in mind that 2000 people lost fingers, or noses or a chunk of their hips.
This isn't just a small advancement, though. It's a simple tool, which isn't restricted to medical specialists, with a huge impact.

If a study found that letting cats roam hospital hallways reduced unexpected deaths by 26%, I think that would be reported, too.
> So they're understaffed and could just look into the results more, oh wow what an use of computational power.

How is this not a good use of compute?
Well, personally I'd like to read that novel!
Tupperware should have died with the invention of the microwave. You inevitably want to heat things up in the microwave and grease burns will forever stain the material.
> Tupperware listed $500 million-$1 billion in estimated assets and $1 billion-$10 billion in estimated liabilities

How in the world do you accumulate $1B to $10B in debt when you make plastic containers?
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Patch Proposed for Adding x86_64 Feature Levels to the Kernel
Clever! ...almost TOO clever... ;-)

That's a great technique, but the `:` as no-op is tough to expect bash-normies to understand (and a tough "operator" to search for). Thanks for sharing, it'll definitely stay in my back pocket!
Seems to me the term "self-hosting" tends to auto-adjust its position based on the other end. So if "not self-hosting" is hosting on a shared VPS, then self-hosting is hosting on a computer at home. But "not self-hosting" has now become "hosted in cloud" so self-hosting moved to "shared VPS" instead, as the other end moved.

Kind of makes sense, but kind of also makes historical texts more difficult to understand. In the year 2124, who know what "self-hosting" meant in 2054? I guess it's up to future software archeologists to figure out.
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> so it's a moot point and needless paranoia.

No it's not. You are misunderstanding my point.

I'm not talking about Apple being able to patch the OS and control everything at that level - of course they can, but it seems unlikely.

I'm talking about a developer framework, a high level abstraction, where the method of resolving would be more likely to be intercepted - consider for example something like that on an iPhone with the justification being safety or 'for the children' or whatever.

That doesn't seem unlikely or improbably at all, and certainly not moot or any kind of paranoia.
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576276
Machine learning is indeed extremely good at pattern recognition, but I wouldn't trust an LLM to reliably identify patterns, especially in a medical context. As other commenters have said, this article is evidence of classical methods continuing to be useful.
Yes, but the material presented in no way makes distiction between potential organic growth of 'delve' vs. LLM induced use. They just note that even though 'delve' was on the rise, in 23-24 the word gains more popularity, at the same time ChatGPT rose. Word adoption is certainly not a linear phenomenon. And as the author states 'I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans'

So I would still state noun-phrase frequency in LLM output would tend to reflect noun-phrase frequency in training data in a similar context (disregarding enforced bias induced through RLHF and other tuning at the moment)

I'm sure there will be cross-fertilization from LLM to Human and back, but I'm not seeing the data yet that the influence on word-frequency is that outspoken.

The author seems to have some other objections to the rise of LLM's, which I fully understand.
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"Persons in the $1 million income filing bracket in 1963 faced an average effective tax rate of just over 40 percent of their adjusted gross income (AGI) for the year."

Let's do that, then.
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> Yet you still decided to accuse somebody of malicious intent and of being a scammer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8

He is a scammer and was convicted for it.
A lot of it stuck around. I grew up in the rust belt and tons/most of my friend's parents worked at one of the many factories that were, and are still around. Think dog food, plastic molding, car part manufacturing, and glue. Not the big stuff that people think of when they think of manufacturing though.

I think if you start to deep dive into the industries that left, you'll find the reasons were often more complicated than simple labor costs. American companies did get out-competed by foreign firms in a lot of key areas.

America is large, but they can't expect to be the best in the world at every industry. If an entire country focuses on a specific niche for long enough, it's possible they will become the best. Samsung and TSMC are incredible companies that didn't happen by accident. And yeah, the USA might not compete at that level on the global stage, but the American economy is also not so completely dominated by one megacorp either.

Also, a lot of manufacturing, especially the high tech stuff, is highly automated. So these massive factories don't generate the same number of jobs they once did. And the jobs they do generate are often technical. More maintenance and calibration of machinery, and less putting bottle caps on.
Have you considered that those foreigners are humans, too?

Or do you believe in out-of-sight-is-out-of-mind?
Any de novo chip plant operation in the US seems like a big win. Machinery can change any day. Operational workforce is significant.
It’s a regression model. You don’t “need” AI for anything. But using ML to identify thresholds for decision making is extremely useful.

I don’t like calling everything AI, but I’m even more irritated by people that don’t understand the value of simple ML models for low hanging fruit decisions like the one shown here
> The proposed patch adds the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels v2 / v3 / v4 as new Kconfig options if wanting to cater to them when building the kernel with modern GCC and LLVM Clang compilers. It's just some Kconfig logic to then set the "-march=x86-64-v4" or similar compiler options for the kernel build.

How much would these compiler flags save a standard datacenter and then an HPV center?
I think there’s too many layers of counterfactuals here: much of the government’s economic intervention stems from a (perceived) need that transcends ordinary economic concerns. Think wars, epidemics, famines, etc.

In other words, I think we’d need to presume the absence of those concerns to intelligibly consider the absence of taxation-funded interventions. And that’s more of a minarchst fever dream than a thing that could actually happen.
I don't think you're going to find anything with true free speech, because that always almost immediately leads to child porn and drug and arms exchanges and loads of Nazis that no mainstream business wants to be known for.

Those communities are typically on the darknet (remember that?) in unregulated peer to peer communities like freenet and such, and to a lesser extent TOR. There was a lot of shady shit on Napster/Limewire too, back in the day, before censorship technologies and regulations caught up. I think these days there are other places like that, but I haven't kept up.

Even less-moderated communities (the chans and old reddit) still have to abide by legal regulations wherever they're hosted/registered or risk getting shut down or at least blocked by ISPs.

So if you really want liberty, you have to exist in a network layer that can't be easily moderated by anyone. Monitored, yes, but not easily moderated.

But guess what... you go there, and the content is obscure, slow, and usually trashy and toxic and often outright illegal and dangerous and abusive. Turns out extreme liberty can bring out the worst in people (or at least daylight the worst people), and normies tend to flee those places in droves and go back to arguing about gender on Twitter or whatever.
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