skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have also talked to many researchers and professors about this, but to me it just seems to come down to survivorship bias. We all observe a lot of scientists who care a lot about their careers because the ones who don't focus as much on advancing their careers are no longer around. I've commented to many people at my own place of work about how I dislike the up-or-out nature of current research practices, because it incentives people to play it safe and focus on incremental ideas that get results by the end of the current funding cycle. But as other people are saying here, we need to change the incentives to reduce these kinds of behaviors. Form follows finances.
not at the district/state/federal level, unfortunately. These DoE bureacrats in DC (and lawmakers) send their kids to private schools, while over-regulate public schools with nonsense and grift.

Regular public school principal has very limited arsenal of tools he can do to meet parents' needs, unfortunately.

its like you can only complain to McDonald's store manager, but McDonalds shareholders dont give a damn about your complaints, unless you take your business elsewhere - and with public schools you cannot take your business elsewhere. Taxes always go to public schools.

and through teacher's unions regulatory capture and lobby they always make sure the grift continues.
Space travel is dangerous. Could genetic testing and gene editing make it safer?
>I mean, this is kinda silly right? If I get a $48,000 a year housing stipend that I can only spend on housing, that means I have $48,000 more to spend elsewhere.

They didn't receive any money from CHIPS Act yet, did they?
We will see. He was asked in the interview twice and he _did_ respond and it wasn’t good. He pulled his calendar out and read out dates he met with their CEO.
Url changed from https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_117_smart_tvs_ar..., which points to this.
It doesn't need to be that bad if they cared about it. If channel is on the same band as previous one it could keep previous data in the buffer and decode it at once when switching.
Agreed, but that goes back to defensibility. WP Engine has been doing their thing since 2011 without a peep from Matt. He should have been issuing cease and desists, etc. back then.
The problem isn't the new tool, it's wasting an opportunity to have a more significant impact. The same amount of time, money, and resources that's going to be invested in this, could have been invested in a larger solution that still would have solved the immediate goals, as well as many others. We're pissing away the chance to improve not only more security but reliability of software as a whole. This is going to distract people for years away from other issues, and the result will be real world harm that could have been prevented. All because one class of bug is meme-worthy.
Getting requests up through the cache hierarchy to the DRAM controller, and data back down to the requesting core's load/store units is also a non-trivial part of this total latency.
> So how are you all handling this problem?

Increasing my per-hour rate until I'm comfortable spending hundreds of hours unspaghettifying code.
What if Trinidad changed residency requirements for its TLD? ...
Sure, but that would arise because you've followed the advice in the article.

If you're a relying party, and you want to integrate with Okta, Google, other OIDC-supporting IdPs … implement OIDC!

If you're on the RP side and you have to integrate with an IdP that only speaks SAML and not OIDC, well, then you're probably out of luck and just have to make the call: is it worth the business? Maybe it is. Then you implement SAML.
stop mentioning animals and develop a culture that uses proxy items in place of animals, such as napkins, silver ware, and to be a bit risky post a pic of chuzzle the GP [guineapig] approving the items.
Something for discovery imo (if it gets that far). He seemed put off that wp engine would release his texts, would be unfair of him to do the same? I'm not sure.
Your right on the first point, but I would consider the “productive output” to be the product and services that ultimately drive the trade. While there are plenty of contemporary hedge funds that would disagree with me here—with few exceptions, simply moving numbers around, constructing high-level abstract financial instruments, and/or arbitrage trading is not what I would consider productive activity. After all, if there are no firms designing widgets, mines digging up widget ore, factories making widgets, logistics moving widgets, stores selling widgets, technicians supporting widgets, or consumers using widgets, then there quite literally is no market.

Cryptocurrency has precious little to demonstrate itself as an analogous store of value to legitimate, organic market activities. It’s primarily been a tool for speculation, as well as evading regulatory and legal scrutiny. I believe Bitcoin has been an incredibly valuable and unique experiment, a fascinating exploration of human nature and our culture of trade. Much of the technology behind it, like the blockchain have found useful applications, but mostly outside of cryptocurrency proper. But it’s been long past the point where, if cryptocurrency had a unique purpose with which it was particularly suited towards, it should have found that purpose by now.

If one takes a strictly amoral perspective, then I suppose the cultivation, manufacture, transportation, sale, and consumption of illegal drugs would technically fit within my prior definition of “productive output”. Whether or not that’s worth its own overhead, complexity, inherent risks, and the collateral consequences to most/all of the humans involved with that productivity is a larger question…and to be fair, a lot of those concerns are nothing new or unique to cryptocurrencies.

But if the intention is to weigh a given currency’s efficacy and inherent value against a broader slate of considerations then, in my opinion, the most definitive distinctions by far between cryptocurrencies and traditional sovereign fiat currencies is the tangible, productive, economic output of its respective national domestic industries that naturally selects and underpins its perceived value and stability.

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TLDR; it isn’t some collective delusional belief that makes a dollar worth a dollar, but rather the aggregate sum of the American people’s labor and dynamism, which isn’t nearly so easy to handwave away, as some of the more myopic cryptocurrency advocates have been known to do in an attempt to undermine traditional financial systems, and draw a misleading distinction between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.

EDIT: Format, grammar
Amazon has had serverless functions for a long time now. I built an iOS app with a backend in AWS and it was as you say, “here’s my code, you make sure it’s running somewhere.” I uploaded my Typescript code, set up an API gateway to call the lambda function and… that’s it. No load balancer, no ECS management. It’s been running for years and I haven’t to do anything other than pay the bill every month.
If you don't worry about the programming model, it's pretty easy to be way better than than existing methodologies in terms of pure compute.

But if you do pay attention to the programming model, they're unusable. You'll see that dozens of these approaches have come and gone, because it's impossible to write software for them.
> Digg-proof

What's the modern soon-to-be-obsolete equivalent?
Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover
well the voucher system allows me to opt out of supporting this corrupt system with my taxes.
If you can self-host something, you can run a SSG*-based blog platform (Hugo, Jekyll, etc). And static webpages are even simpler to self-host. If you are willing to bend a little bit for big tech, you can just host them dropping generated files in any S3-like object storage.

*Static Site Generator
Basically the plot of Gattaca.
There are plenty of caring and sensitive CEOs.

In fact good leadership demands high amounts of empathy, sensitivity and emotional intelligence.

Either way he is not demonstrating those qualities now.
Bacteria involved in gum disease linked to increased risk of head, neck cancer
I think those final 8% demands we’ve heard about have been after months of stalled conversations with WP Engine.

Given the lack of reliable information right now, I’m going to believe the individual that has a decades-long track record indicating that they care about open source over the private company that is legally obligated to pursue profit as its only objective.
I also work in healthcare. There are some entities out there doing OIDC, but SAML is pretty popular, unfortunately.

Healthcare, as an industry, is not making decisions based on what constitutes "good engineering", for the most part. There are so many other things I'd burn to the ground that are just ancient, ass-backwards things that the rest of the industry has moved on from, but healthcare clings to. (…IPSec, for example. God I'd like to not have to do double-NAT'ing with providers who don't even understand NAT and just expect me to recognize IP addresses that are only internal to their network and never exposed to me, ever again.)
It is not a good analogy for LLMs and the infrastructure that is needed for running them, not by an inch. The variability of scale is not there, according to OAI we need massive piles of resources for allowing innovation by common people (i.e. scale it, make it an utility and then wait for emergent use cases).

Electricity didn't need the scale sama is asking for thriving as a tech (obviously eventually it did explode in use cases with enough scale, but that's not my point). Scientists used to make electromagnetism experiment demonstrations in Academies with equipment that was not that expensive nor inaccesible for the time. You can even produce enough electricity with a potato to light a bulb.

A better technology for this analogy would be promoting on-device/on-site open SLMs, but that's not what OAI promotes, is it?
Note the attempt to reframe bad actions as bad optics, to make it about perceptions instead of concrete actions.

But perceptions are downstream from actions in a smoke/fire kind of way, and it shouldn't be used as a way to get out of answering for actions.
There are mitigating techniques to work around that.

Another set of eyes, not to rewrite it into safe corporate speech, but just as a safety guard to say “hold up there bud… Stop and count to 10”

Talking about “counting to 10”, you don’t hit the publish button right away, save it as a draft and leave it a few hours/over night and come back to it when your not as fired up. Hitting publish when your fired up is rarely a good thing.

If you want to vent, swear and shout. Write that angry post, but then select all and delete it, take a breath, and start again. 9 times out of 10 you are going to be a lot less fired up the second time around.

Granted the last two require some self control, but that’s what the first one is for.

As you said, CEOs are human too, and as humans we all need a helping hand every once and awhile, nothing wrong about that.
Alternating currents for alternative computing with magnets
It would be neat to have STL and STEP output for 3D printers.
That’s exactly the rationale the corrupt senator uses to justify his actions in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Intel has historically been pretty great at Linux support. Especially for peripherals like WiFi cards and GPUs.
You’re certainly able to sus out everything about my worldview, knowledge level and intentions from my one-sentence comment.

The only thing that LLMs are at risk of subverting is the livelihood of millions of people. AI is a capital intensifier, so the rich will get richer as it sees more uptake.

About copyright - yeah, I’m quite concerned for my friends who are writers and artists.

> You'll get left behind with these takes, it's not smart. If you don't care about advancing technology or society then have fun being a luddite, but you're on the wrong side of history.

FWIW I work in applied research on LLMs.
In what way is GPT-5 missing? They never announced a release date, did they? And we had the o1 release just a couple of weeks ago, so why wouldn't they take more time working on improving GPT-5?
I'm baffled, I must be misreading your comment. Are you saying the government is like a startup or just that's heavily funded startups are like the government because the government is also heavily funded?

It's also really odd to me that you claim Sam Altman can do more impressive things with 10 billion than some government. I mean, have you seen a public transit system? A sewer system? A dam? Sam Altman could hand code a true AGI tomorrow and people would still need to flush their poop.

It's also worth noting that without the government there is no economic system that allows for startup investments, nor does the USD really have any value.
As always... well done shipping!

It doesnt seem to preserve "face photo" lady very well. Maybe the generated pics are similar as in "could be a relative" but not the same face.
At least give Heather a few days to respond/engage, given the big-ass-drama that Matt created.
Part of the clusterfuck going on here is...

a) the nonprofit owns a trademark

b) gave an exclusive license with right to sublicense to a for-profit

c) which appears to be run by the same person

d) who is demanding of a competitor to sublicense the trademark

e) paying the money to the for-profit, not the nonprofit

f) when it's not clear that the competitor is infringing on the trademark in the first place.

The litigation here is not likely to go Wordpress or Automattic's way, I think.
Chemists succeed in synthesizing a gallium compound
Distorted because both companies are very different and putting resources in helps Automaticc in different ways. Having 47 people working on specific things is a strategic thing where the other company is just hosting.
A gun is substantially more dangerous than a jar of bees. Dangerous things warrant suspicion. If you don't see that, I question your abilities in the realm of risk analysis.
Show HN: Malaysian ed-tech product for STPM students
Hi HN,

STPM is the national exam in Malaysia students take before going to university.

Pengajian Am is the only compulsory subject in STPM, and it's also one of the harder ones because it's a general knowledge paper but in the Malay language. A lot of STPM students struggle with Malay specifically because the proportion of Chinese students taking STPM vs SPM goes up significantly (lots of Chinese students don't have access to other options like Matriculations or Asasi or MARA scholarships).

It's also difficult generally because STPM programs aren't very well funded. It's not uncommon for teachers to be absent for 6 months (and the students have to study everything on their own). Textbook supply is also shrinking because there's just no demand for it (print has stopped for some subjects like Chemistry).

I built PengajianAm.com to help students learn Pengajian Am in a more structured way. I'm probably crazy to even be working on this given what I've just told you, but PG said to work on problems you have, and this was definitely a problem I've had before.

If you happen to be a high-ranking Malaysian official reading this, I'd love to talk about how the program can be better structured because all things considered I still think it's the best option for most students in Malaysia.

-Walter
This man is having a breakdown disguised as a legal battle.
New study shows AI can forecast mining disasters
> The Cortex-X925 is Arm’s most powerful CPU to date

Given how bad the stock Cortex designs notoriously are, this is really not a compliment in the slightest.
Shitty-AI-crawler-proof
This is just assuming the conclusion. Anonymous purchases should be the default, so that ordinary people aren't baselessly subject to mass surveillance. At which point you'd have to be arguing that 99% of all purchases are criminal, which seems implausible.
If he didn’t have a financial stake in his former company, WP Engine, he would have put it at the top of his list of disclaimers. His company was acquired by WP Engine, it would be crazy if he didn’t get stock as part of that deal.

The omission of that suggests that he does have a financial stake.
I don't particularly believe superhuman AI will be achieved in the next 50 years.

What I really believe is that we'll get crazier. A step further than our status quo. Slop content makes my brain fry already. Our society will become more insane and useless, while an even smaller percent of the elite will keep studying, sleeping well and avoiding all this social media and AI psychosis.
Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round
I'm not sure "historic" means what you think it means. Obligatory XKCD so that no one is taken in by this spurious argument, which is often made for temperature rather than C02, https://xkcd.com/1732/.
Another thing to mention, as I have in the past[0], is that SAML is frozen in time and will no longer be updated. The link in that HN post has TLS errors now, but it says:

> At the request of the members, the Security Services (SAML) TC has closed.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056529

There are tons of orgs that have built SSO on SAML so it won't die for a long time, but it's a frozen standard. From my understanding, it's frozen because no one wanted to put in the time to improve it.
Lidar-based system helps unmanned aerial vehicle team reconstruct environments
Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons
Is your argument that Xinjiang is somehow autonomous from the CPC government? That's a very strange claim to make considering it's undeniably ruled completely by the whims of the CPC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Hard_Campaign_Against_V...

If that's not what you mean, can you help me understand what you're saying?
> Too many programming books and tutorials are like “let’s build a house starting from scratch, brick by brick” when what I want to “here is a functioning house, let’s learn about it by changing something and then seeing what happens”

That's how I taught myself how to program. I spent years getting good at writing small, simple, kinda crappy programs. Later on I learned I wasn't eligible for better software development jobs, because I had absolutely no fundamental knowledge about software design, programming languages, and computers. It was humbling walking out of a job interview realizing how much I didn't know because I never learned the boring way.

Always read the whole manual. Always learn the fundamentals.
A CEO who takes 43.5% and reduces it to 25% should be asked to leave. He may have gotten to 75% (now down to 43.5%) but even Jobs was fired.
Forty-nine states recklessly allow florists to sell flowers without a license. Only the good people of Louisiana are safe from dangers of unregulated flower purchases.
The efficiency you mentioned probably applies to animals that rely on subsistence to survive, work, and reproduce. But it doesn't hold for modern humans, whose needs go well beyond mere necessities.
Surely some GenZs are this way, but there are millions of HS graduates who cannot remember instructions, cannot follow simple rules even when reminded many times, cannot follow multistep procedures even when holding a checklist, and can't be bothered to read anything longer than a page. These are the 'employees' that HR is failing to onboard.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/
What are you choosing to believe? The 8% isn’t disputed. Matt has acknowledged it is true. Matt has acknowledged his actions are because he believes WPEngine are not fulfilling their moral obligation. The facts are settled, the question is whether you side with Matt’s belief about WPEngine’s obligations and how you feel about Matt’s actions (in the context of Matt operating a competitor).
No, OP, this is not a problem with your rationality. You’re doing fine. You made the correct call about judging methodology and conclusions of a field you’re not an expert in. But obgyn doctors nowadays do need to have sound legal instincts because US states have chosen not to define what medicine is criminal.

Here’s Dr. Marchand’s quote:

I'm an OBGYN
She's just a lying piece of sh!t.
There are no states where a woman must be on death's door.
In all 50 states an OBGYN can terminate a pregnancy whenever THEY deem a woman's health is in danger.
This is just a lie.

He called her a liar twice and it’s common knowledge that exceptions to the state bans are not for the HEALTH of the mother but for her LIFE. Are we asking too much for a productive researcher to closely follow the politics of his/her field? Yet, how could he be so misinformed when a frenetic computer hacker can via ambient news reports?
What about some of us creatures who aren't shelled? Should we be as blase about the sharp spike in CO2 as you are?
Where did this happen at?
Is there a free tier?
> You don't see how a bank not doing KYC and thereby financing terrorists and Pyongyang could be seen as behaving recklessly?

Even if that were a reasonable premise, the analogy would then be automakers not doing KYC and thereby enabling drunk drivers to have cars. Which is a much more controversial claim, and it's not at all obvious why carmakers should be the ones deciding who gets to drive.

Which is the reason the premise is unreasonable. Is it reckless for a general store to sell ski masks without investigating their customers? That's not the right place to address the problem.

> It's why a lot of anti-money laundering isn't prosecuted and why OP's complaint strikes me as silly.

Laws that are commonly violated and selectively enforced are bad laws.

> U.S. AML law is actually somewhat terrible for mass surveillance.

Just having it inside of megabanks is already mass surveillance, because then the bank is using it for things and the user can't switch to a bank that doesn't collect the information because the law prohibits that.

Moreover, the data is dangerous as soon as it's collected even if it isn't currently being centrally indexed, because its existence allows the central database to be created ex post facto. Turnkey totalitarianism is bad.

> The practical arms of mass surveillance are the credit/debit card rails.

How are you distinguishing this? Those companies are financial institutions that have to do KYC/AML.
I do not think it appropriate to believe the individual who is in two roles and is trying to use his position in one role to benefit his other role, especially while trying to muddy in which role he is acting.
Yeah my new fridge also has this for some reason. There is a sort of detent at the quarter open positon and it won't go past that on its own. You have to push it past that point to close it. And it will beep if you leave it open for a few minutes. Absolutely baffling design.
Recreating Dune II for the Amiga
>However, my question is this: has WPE given a factual rebuttal to Matt's claims?

I mean... The article talks about this extensively. And the article is my first exposure to the issue but presumably it's not the first place where these points have been presented. The authority or obligation to give back isn't a legal one, the authority to demand 8% raises all kinds of conflict of interest issues and appears dubious if not outright illegal, the global message posted to admin dashboards was an abuse of power, and the banning from using plugins doesn't even pretend to have a legitimate pretense.

Apparently part of the backstory here is there's a dizzying context, and there might be some subjectivity involved in surfacing these as the pertinent issues, but I wasn't left with the impression that the ball is in WPE's court to explain any kind of smoking gun that hasn't been accounted for by the discussion in the article.
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