skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday I watched a video blaming China for "oversupplying" electric cars at low prices and how that was hurting car manufacturers elsewhere e.g Germany. These manufacturers were trying to secretly lobby for tariffs to be placed on Chinese cars, while publicly denying this because THEIR largest and growing market was China. They had some "expert" talk about how China is known to oversupply and is doing this to recover from their housing bubble. All of these experts were preaching the virtues of Western free-trade to the east when they were the ones exporting TO Asia 10 years ago, but now the balance flips and they all tell you how important tariffs are and how evil China is instead..

In summary, China makes useful things in mass and sells them to get out of a recession,the West prints money instead and shits on China for doing it better. They preach free trade while it helps them and put up tariffs when it doesn't.

I'm not Chinese or some mega fan but it really struck me how corrupt and full of propaganda western culture is becoming and people don't seem to recognize it.
Teletext? Not so much save for the 'reveal' button. Think of it as something like gopher but without the query selector, and instead of enforces menues, you could acces the 'pages' directly by the number instead of querying menues and submenues by number, too.
https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/AMD-Llama-135m-GGUF
How is it "for developers"? Looks like "normal" bookmarking to me...
Verified pre and post conditions would be nice. Especially in the era of LLM's, which can usually fill in the implementation given a sufficiently clear specification.
In cryptocurrency, mining is not necessary for technical progress. You could have a world in which the top cryptocurrencies are 1/100th of their current speculative value and thus 1/100th of the funding would go to miners and they could still demonstrate the technology and improve the state of the art.

In many ways, the amount of money being put into cryptocurrency is antithetical to its development
The problem being, we have "economized" academia, by things like "publish or perish", a citation pseudo stock market or third party funding, and all incentives are built around this pseudo-economy. Which also imports all the common incentives found in economy…
It’s a bit of a pain to set up and self host the container stack but Outline has been great for me. Does anyone have experience with using Outline as a public facing docs/blog site?
TFA links to a "best of:" https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9453

A discussion of that list might be interesting, since it will always be very subjective. In particular, I tried really hard to like Planescape: Torment since I like story-driven games, but I was only able to tolerate it for maybe 8 hours before I put it down and never picked it up again.

Arcanum is also interesting to be at #5, and I agree with the text of the reviews; it does such a good job of almost succeeding at so many of its ambitions that its easy to forgive how bad the rest of the game is. Kind of a "shot for the stars and landed on the moon" sort of game.

I was also mildly surprised to see Betrayal at Krondor at #16 with no mention of how the last third of the game is mediocre. I think the first 2/3 of the game would put it closer to #10.

Also somewhat surprised that the core Ultima (as opposed to Underworld) games were as low as they are and that IV ranked so far above V (even one of the reviewers for Ultima V said it was a far better game than IV).
If Matt had wanted to, for example, tell WPEngine they're own their own for hosting these services with a cutoff date at least 4 weeks in the future, then fair play. Or to demand to bill them some reasonable cost share of the price to operate (and let's not play games, a reasonable cost for the humans involved, which likely far exceeds servers or bandwidth), then still fair play.

To pitch a tantrum, cut them off with no notice, then gloat about it online... oof. I can't understand why anyone would want to be in business with someone like that.
Decoding VBI frames on LISP, this guy was something else.
Very easy to make. You can make them with pretty much anything if you aren't a stickler for authenticity.

One of the best flavors I have made was what I called "Spaghetti Onigiri". For that I took a basic American style spaghetti sauce (tomato sauce + ground beef) and simmered it down until it was very concentrated and almost dry. I used that for the filling. Then I took the filled rice ball and rolled it in a mix of grated parmesan cheese, garlic powder, and "Italian seasoning" blend.

Another version I didn't invent is ketchup onigiri. This is made by mixing dried chopped onion and ketchup into cooked rice with small cubes of cheddar cheese. Form it into smallish onigiri and toast in a medium to medium low pan, brushing the outside with soy sauce. I don't remember where I learned it other than some random little Japanese cookbook I picked up Kinokuniya in the late 90s.

A popular standard in my home is to make them with tuna salad. It's probably the most common way we eat them. Just mix your tuna salad to be a bit dryer than usual.

I replied to another thread here with some links to more traditional recipes.
The Canadian 7-11s have a larger mostly rice one available now for $5 CAD each.
I think clicking the time stamp field in the comment will allow you to get a reply box.
there are no much reliable benchmarks which would measure what is gap really. I think currently corps compete in who will leak benchmarks to training data the most, hence o1 is world programming medalist, yet makes stupid mistakes.
I'm not fully convinced either, but it certainly raises eyebrows, and might attract an investigation to gather more facts.
>But once a model is large enough to generate coherent sentences, persuasiveness kinda...stops. All large models are about equally persuasive. No runaway scaling laws are evident here.

Isn't that kind of obvious? Even human speakers and writers have problems changing people's minds, let alone reliably.
That may come as news to sanctioned Russians and various motley crypto types…

Isn’t the GDPR’s basic theory about jurisdiction that, if I’m sitting in New York City but routinely serving my web content to people in France, that service I’m providing relies on browsing intentions and tracking functions being executed by a user and on a machine in France, and therefore the meat of the “wrongdoing” is happening within their borders?

You can choose to do that the European way or not at all. And the local contests division of the NYC local transit authority is choosing “not at all.”

Isn’t this then a case of NYC complying with the EU’s express wishes for privacy by not “exporting” code they don’t want there?
Title should be changed to be more specific. It appears as if it's referring to an industry rather than just a person.
A computer scientist would say they have identical parsing complexity, so not much.

A computer programmer wouldn't even know where to begin, as the chesterton's fence had long been rejustified
That's an interesting example because I find React to be an absolute disaster every time I've tried to use it. I feel like anyone using not-React would have a competitive advantage, and yet we're all stuck with Facebook's droppings because they're the 800lb gorilla.
> mainly because I haven't found the protocol to be so bulletproof that I only need to trust it and can believe that the network will hold regardless of how many bad actors may attempt to corrupt it (not saying that is happening today, only that it is inevitable with time).

On the plus side, the protocol effectively has a built-in bug bounty program! :-D
Yes, they where. But you needed to wait to get all the pages, which wasn't a fast procedure. Around a minute or such, I can't remember.
Most obviously, the precarity of XMLDSIG.
Thank you for sharing that!

Whatever else he has done, he ranks super-super-low on the empathy scale...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Search for "car payments". It's heartbreaking :'(

If I ran a company, I would not hire this man.
No, unfortunately. QNX was itself not exactly open source, but at least used a “source code available for inspection” model and apparently had a fantastic user community.

Then it got bought by RIM (BlackBerry). The source code went away and the owners stopped responding to the user community and the whole thing basically became irrelevant.
That attitude coincides with current delusion in our society that science is perpetuating a fraud at the level of religions whose leaders are trying to control their flock for financial and sexual gain.

A broken system that incentivizes fraud over knowledge is a real problem.

An assertion that scientists chase the money by nature is a dangerous one that will set us back to the stone age when instead we should be traversing the space as a whole.
I like how this quote combines the bleak reality of automation with the imagery of a far side comic
> Do you smell them?

It's irrelevant: you can smell many of them even after they have left the wagon or room, still you're not with them.
What state isn’t?
More often than not in scientific fraud I've seen the underlying motives be personal beliefs than financial. This is why science needs to be much stronger in weeding out the charlatans.
maybe it would make more sense if i framed my perspective differently. i think as a default laws should offer as much agency as possible to the individual. if someone wants to smoke cigarettes even though it literally does nothing but kill them, i'm fine with that. i think that there is a threshold that can be passed whereby *on average* it starts creating serious externalities on society. if the externalities get too high i'm fine with them stepping in and making regulations restricting and potentially banning them. there are plenty of weapons and chemicals and materials that fall into this area. i think that when it comes to stuff like drugs and gambling if you do a blanket ban on them it might actually make the problem worse because it creates a black market and demand will just go there. this will be make it impossible to regulate and impossible to even know what is happening in these markets. i would suspect that a better answer is to have specific types of gambling and a form of drugs that are legal that is hopefully less damaging that people with propensity for this sort of thing could be funneled into.
> Just a few weeks ago WPEngine donated $75,000 to the Foundation for their conference.

Conferences are generally sponsored, and not merely donated to.

I'm not at all familiar with Wordpress, the foundation or the company. If I look at the Foundation's financial report of 2023 [1] they expended $4,275,813 for their conferences, and got 88% of it covered by sponsorship – so there were a lot more or bigger sponsors. It doesn't seem that the development of Wordpress is covered by conference sponsorship.

In fact, there doesn't seem to be any money going into the development of Wordpress at the foundation at all. So again, I don't know much about Wordpress, but a quick glance seems to imply that much of the 'official' development is going
on at Automattic.

[1] https://wordpressfoundation.org/about/financials/2023-financ...
I think sports gambling should be legal because otherwise the Bookies will kill you if you can't pay your debts. At least with legal gambling the worst that can happen is bankruptcy.

The gambling institutions have some regulation as well.

I do think that gambling ads should be banned just like cigarettes, and pharmaceuticals.

USA and New Zealand are the only places that allow pharma ads and the public is uninformed to make that decision but the Agency problem means MDs will prescribe those drugs.
I imagine how common fraud is has more to do with the relative number of researchers in a field and the chance of getting caught.

Sure money could be a factor, but the desire for prestige can motivate people just as easily.
> I bet we could throw away half of publications tomorrow and see no effect on the actual pace of progress in science.

Undoubtedly this is true. The problem, like with advertising, is identifying _which_ half to cut.
Minitel was AX25 I think, among the Spanish Ibertex. Totally different tech, it was more bound to two-way teleco comms (and internet) than Teletext which was one-way, akin to a radio/TV stream with some cached data in-memory for further usage.

You could chat over Minitel for instance. Or do business.
I'd replace at most with at _least_. Archiving is the minimum that they have promised; what can be disseminated when, to whom, how, and for what purposes is unsettled business, clearly.
It's probably a bot that doesn't care.
> Wikipedia is a fraud run by fascist bullies.

That is indeed an angle.
What are you talking about? How would Hinton be incentivized by money?
Good. Now I hope someone figures out how to abolish software patents.
Matt, you currently have three roles. You are running Automattic, the WordPress Foundation and wordpress.org. It seems that this is a huge conflict of Interest and a dispute with one seems to quickly become a dispute with all. eg a Trademark dispute with The Wordpress Foundation results in a ban from wordpress.org.

Will you be resigning from one or more of these roles?
Do you mean chooses it over OIDC, or even when a product can only do SSO via SAML?
You just need to go with the flow and "yes, and", as long as nothing dangerous is happening
There may be a dark twist to this story.

The expose article writes:

> "UCSD neuroscientist Edward Rockenstein, who worked under Masliah for years, co-authored 91 papers that contain questioned images, including 11 as first author. He died in 2022 at age 57."

They say nothing else about this. But looking at Rockenstein's obituary, indications are that it was suicide. (It was apparently sudden, at quite a young age, and there are many commenters on his memorial page "hoping that his soul finds peace," and expressing similar sentiments.)
I spent a few minutes at an Apple Store holding an iPad Pro with tandem OLED, and I couldn't perceive any difference with the iPad Air right beside it.

(The even more expensive nano texture option was worse. It simply felt blurry.)
I think a lot of people don't abstract their brain model when they say "models a human brain", or they'd say "models biological intelligence", etc. Specifically, I don't think there are any human traits in LLMs other than having mostly been trained on human outputs. They see tokens and predict tokens; very different sensorium from humans. There aren't any specific corvid or cephalopod traits either afaik.

Biological brains don't use gradient descent and don't seem to use 1-hot encoding/decoding for the most part.
SendSmart.ai
Europe stole them.
Probably more than 2x...

"Semi analysis did some cost estimates, and I did some but you’re likely paying somewhere in the 12 million dollar range for the equipment to serve a single query using llama-70b. Compare that to a couple of gpus, and it’s easy to see why they are struggling to sell hardware, they can’t scale down.

Since they didn’t use hbm, you need to stich enough cards together to get the memory to hold your model. It takes a lot of 256mb cards to get to 64gb, and there isn’t a good way to try the tech out since a single rack really can’t serve an LLM."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966620
At first I was very interested in this post, because I believe that a strong visual representation can really help people to understand something and how it works. Even if it is somewhat simplified, just being able to envision how a principle works can give more understanding than reading an entire book of text and equations. And it sounded like they were on-board with all of that and willing to try to do something cool. So I was really looking forward to seeing what they came up with.

They started with a 3D Bloch sphere representation, and I was all "meh", but then they realized that the Bloch sphere wasn't the way to go, and I started to get excited. They get it, I thought. A Bloch sphere representation doesn't show the entanglements that are the heart of quantum computation. Are they going to find a new way to visually represent entanglement between multiple Bloch spheres? What is that going to look like? This could be really cool and I might actually learn something!

And then at each step of the design, they moved farther and farther away from the Qbit. At the end, the video was of a spinning wafer. It was a pretty spinning wafer, and definitely on-brand for Intel, but man, I was really kind of hoping it was going to go in a different direction. I guess I'm just not the target audience.
Maybe we should stop subsidies to buy electric cars and let China subsidize on the production side instead, while lowering taxes on the production of our own cars.
The article spurred a bunch of interesting comments. The comments are why I come to HN.
We have seen multiple massive AI breakthroughs in the last few years.
They do though. The old guard keeping the depressing pubholes alive do so by watching their football there. It's usually just one or two screens, granted, but they're there. Thankfully they can be easy ignored.
The Biden administration had OSHA make rules to force employers to make their employees get the vax. The Supreme Court stopped them.
Can you make a case against this? It seems plausible to me that AI could be used as a weapon of mass destruction
Manufacturing is still the biggest bottleneck, but resolution density is very achievable. Jade Bird Display is a manufacturer I follow as they make extremely dense, high refresh rate, high brightness microled displays for projector purposes: https://www.jb-display.com/.

The main product they sell are monochrome 3.3mm 640x480 displays (1 million nits!), but they do have 2k resolution 5.6mm RGB displays: https://www.jb-display.com/company/127.html
> acting to influence public opinion

They are influencing me the other way. Every time I see one of their stunts I turn down my AC 5 degrees and run my car in my driveway for an hour. Doing my part to carbon offset their shenanigans.
There is an enormous difference. Flying allows you to stop, change direction, make corrections, and target with a large degree of accuracy. Jumping leaves you at the mercy of your initial calculations. If you jumped in a way that you’ll land inside a volcano, all you can do in your last moments is watch and wait for your demise.
Thanks for writing your comment, I think it’s a public service.

Cultural commentary that makes complex long term trends simple to understand isn’t often this clear or concise. What really makes it powerful though is that it manages to stay in a relatively detached observer-mode without becoming an angry rant. And so rather than provoking (understandable!) anger in others, hopefully it’s inviting more reflection.

People who haven’t thought about it this way might take a harder look at what they are doing and who they really want to be. People that are already thinking along these lines will probably benefit from a reminder that they aren’t crazy.
Hell no, my personal website is intentionally made to be kitsch . It uses marquee and blink everywhere
did you read the article? author says you get approval from Apple for your use case then it is kosher.
JavaScript is becoming the ether of web programming.
What dumb cars are you looking at?
There was one pub not far off TCR that had a nice sofa and fireplace. We'd always have one of us duck out early to secure the spot an hour or two before.
Show HN: The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript
They are pure JRPG's, you are true. But them some ports of Ultima 3 for the GB and some early Final Fantasy games got the concepts really blurred, kinda between CRPG's and JRPG's.
You may be misunderstanding the delayed open source bit [0]. Typically, this will manifest itself through commits, but isn't limited to that (releases, etc.). For example, if commit A is made on 2024-09-27, and commit B is made on 2024-09-28, A will be open source on 2026-09-27, and B on 2026-09-28. That means that any "free-rider", e.g. a competitor, is 2 years behind master (assuming the project is still maintained).

[0]: https://opensource.org/dosp
Those humans are also producing CO2 so it will have some self-sustainability. The 5% CO2 of human breath is a lot more than the ~0.04% in the atmosphere.

I have no idea how to calculate the steady state or what the losses would be.
Possibly the gp means the four quadrants (two axes)?:

https://dunnhq.com/posts/2023/documentation-quadrants/
EDA software has long allowed trading off power, delay, and area during optimization . But TSMC doesn't produce those tools, as far as I'm aware.
Signal has been audited. Has Telegram?

Signal says it's had reproducible builds since 2016: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...
For better or for worse, you’ve described the exact output some of those client companies want, so they can show off the shiny slides and have the status symbol of expensive consultants.
So is a reductive opinion such as “war is never moral” and completely ignoring thousands of years of human history.
Holy

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C0ffee Is the Color
It's interesting that "The M3 muscarinic receptor regulates fear and learning.." and "M3-muscarinic receptor knockout mice show a deficit in fear conditioning learning and memory".

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0914801107

"We demonstrate here that M3-muscarinic receptor knockout mice show a deficit in fear conditioning learning and memory."

It's interesting the Mucinex antagonizes the M3 receptor. Behavioral effects of Mucinex are very understudied.

M3 receptors also classically handle lung "learning" and response to allergens. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8441331/ - "Muscarinic receptor subtypes in airways"
Google "don't be evil" speed run
Even when I try some other variation of prompts or writing styles there's always this sense of "perfectness", with all paragraph lengths being too perfect, length and the style of it being like that.
> made of the totality of human experience

They are made of a fraction of human reports. Specifically what humans wrote and has been made available on the web. The human experience is much larger than text available through a computer.
It is a lot easier to just falsely prove the experiment since the data is already there and the publisher of the paper is not going to push back if you confirm it.

Why go through all the work of actually proving/disproving the experiment when you can just change tweak the numbers of the original experiment, say you actually reproduced the experiment, and then move on?
It will only get better. Especially with increasing corpus sizes.
Starlink could shut it down for Ukraine on a whim, right in the middle of the mission. That's all one needs to know.
Doesn’t look like it. In fact the original paper claimed that their RL method could be used for all sorts of combinatorial optimization problems. Yet they chose an obscure problem in chip design and showed their results on proprietary data instead of standard public benchmarks.

Instead they could have demonstrated their amazing method on any number of standard NP hard optimization problems e.g. traveling salesman, bin packing, ILP, etc. where we can generate tons of examples and verify easily whether it produces better results than other solvers or not.

This is why many in the chip design and optimization community felt that the paper was suspicious. Even with this addendum they adamantly refuse to share any results that can be independently verified.