skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of people are defiant through their entire lives, and those people do disproportionately like to work in science.

That is strange since to work in science today you have to be extremely compliant for close to a decade. Most people who aren't gets kicked out or removed in selection processes, what you have left is one of the most compliant parts of society.
Is there a way to write the trace to a file, instead of spinning up a local web server?
>There is no objective definition of reasonable doubt.

And I never claimed that there is, I clearly referred to its creation i.e. the _existence_ of reasonable doubt that can be objectively identified through specific factors such as conflicting evidence, inconsistencies in testimony, lack of evidence, or any other substantial issue that undermines the certainty of a defendant's guilt.
The degree of the perceived doubt is what's subjective.

>DNA evidence of someone other then the accused but not the accused at the crime scene wouldn't introduce reasonable doubt if there was a video of the accused committing the crime, so it doesn't inherently introduce reasonable doubt, but only if the evidence against the accused isn't strong enough, which is again subjective.

The presence of forensic evidence[0] such as bloody shoeprints, fingerprints, and hair at the crime scene that does not match Marcellus Williams directly introduces reasonable doubt. This isn't about subjective interpretation but a factual mismatch that challenges the prosecution's assertion of his guilt. When critical evidence linked to the crime does not implicate the accused, it inherently raises questions about their involvement, thus fulfilling the criteria for reasonable doubt under the law. This is a clear and objective basis for questioning the conviction.

>Responding to an admission of subjectivity ("to me") with "your subjective opinion is irrelevant" only discourages humilty.

I don't see how this has anything to do with humility, it was more like "there objectively exists contradictory evidence that can't be simply downplayed by personal opinions"

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/23/missou... - "Among the evidence police collected: bloody shoeprints and fingerprints, a knife sheath and the suspect's hair collected from Gayle's shirt, hands and the floor. Missing from the house were Gayle's purse and jacket, and her husband's laptop."
Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 20%. The United States' debt to GDP ratio is 123%.
Doesn't seems like it was written by ChatGPT. I find that amusing somehow.
Make everyone unemployed. Offer the unemployed a pittance for having their retinas scanned with "the orb". Claim that you are helping society.
It can work with things of very limited scope, like that you describe.

I wrote some data visualizations with Claude and aider.

For anything that someone would actually pay for (expecting the robustness of paid-for software) I don’t think we’re there.

The devil is in the details, after all. And detail is what you lose when running reality through a statistical model.
Dan Olsen of Folding Ideas on YouTube has a great video about contrepreneurs as a concept.

https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=16FKN4fTFj9kSvNZ
X Transparency Report
Modern men’s clothing often originated as work clothing (e.g. jeans) or military clothing (e.g. chinos), or something with practical use (ties stopped you spilling food on your shirt).
Sure, whatever.

The moat is still the cost.
Context: X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Finally Here (https://www.wired.com/story/x-twitter-first-transparency-rep...)
Statial Adjustable Mouse – Charlie Pyott Design
Especially for the blind. There are many volunteers who help blind people do normal day-to-day tasks and having a view through glasses affixed to a blind person’s face would make it that much easier. https://www.bemyeyes.com/
The idea of "Safe Coding" as a fundamental shift in security approach is intriguing. I'd be interested in hearing more about how this is implemented in practice.
The thing that I never knew I needed, but I predict within a few days I won’t be able to live without. Thank you!
Personally I miss the smaller devices. I wish Apple still made a premium spec small phone.
> TV, newspapers and magazines supported themselves just fine using zero tracking on the advertising they ran.

False, false, demonstrably false.

Get familiar with concepts such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_to_action_(marketing)

Any business who places an ad may simply inquire of their customers "How'd you hear about us?" and they would be able to gauge the reach of a particular placement. Furthermore, anytime a coupon is published, clipped and used at that business, they are going to know where it came from, and so there's your tracking, on paper, no electronic voodoo necessary.

Now when we get to radio and TV, the calls to action were even more immediate and measurable. The stations themselves ran promotions where hundreds, thousands clamored to phone in and be the correct-numbered caller. The advertisements ran specials and promotions and "tell 'em Joe sent ya!" type stuff. They could give a special number or they could run at a special time. The business knew exactly what ad correlated to those callers.

Infomercials are classic calls to action. You purchase time, you run the ad, and you give an hour or so window for callers to get a great deal. The calls roll into your switchboard and you correlate them. Then you buy the next round of ads based on your successes.

I guarantee that there has never, ever been a time when advertisers were unable or unwilling to collect metrics on responses to ads. Especially when marketing costs money, that investment needs to be based on facts and statistics.
IMO, the only solution is to abolish it.
> At most you’ll have like 5 major players.

5 companies doing a repeated leapfrog game where consumers can flip without much effort seems like the opposite of a moat, unless and until they consolidate into a monopoly.

I'm starting to feel some diminishing returns on the new releases, too. The wow moments are still there but fundamentally we're reaching a point wherein even open models can come close enough on some tasks that we can eschew paid models for not-insignificant pieces here and there.
I feel much the same way, to the extent that I only very recently added analytics to my blog, via plausible
I don’t know what the general population sentiment analysis is of FB but my trust level is 0 and I’d never use their tech regardless of features.
That’s exactly what they were saying. The department are operating behind the executives.
How would you manage long-lived branches that are periodically rebased against the master branch (when there is a release, for example)?
Did Democrats have a filibuster proof majority since 1970? IIRC that has not been the case since at least 2000 (perhaps going back even further). Passing such a law would require a filibuster proof majority. I agree to the sentiment of uselessness, but some fairness should be payed. Congress is kinda dysfunctional with any serious legislation requiring a super majority in congress and the presidency.
OK that's cute, but when is Facebook going to release this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EohIA7QPmmE

Lex: "It just feels like we are in the same room. This is really the most incredible thing I've ever seen".
Are they? College students stopped wearing those like 3-5 years ago.
MiniMax AI, a Chinese AI startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent. MiniMax unveiled its latest text-to-video AI model at Hailuo AI in early September 2024. This model is notable for generating ultra-realistic video clips with precise prompt following. The best part is that Hailuo AI offers generations free of charge.
4-5 issues per week can be a lot or a little, all depending on the severity of these issues. Likely most of the them are recurring issues your team sees a few times a month and the root cause hasn't been addressed and needs to be.

Driving down oncall load is all about working smarter, not necessarily harder. 30% of the issues likely need to be fixed by another team. This needs to be identified ASAP and the issues handed off so that they can parallelize the work while your team focuses on the issues you "own".

Setup a weekly rotation for issue triage and mitigation. The engineer oncall should respond to issues, prioritize based on severity, mitigate impact, and create and track Root Cause issues to fix the root cause. These should go into an operational backlog. This is 1 full time headcount on your team (but rotated).

To address the operational backlog, you need to build role expectations with your entire team. It helps if leadership is involved. Everyone needs to understand that in terms of career progression and performance evaluation, operational excellence is one of several role requirements. With these expectations clearly set, review progress with your directs in recurring 1-1s to ensure they are picking up and addressing operational excellence work, driving down the backlog.
Larger AI models more likely to generate incorrect answers and mislead users
> like no other

Really? Anthropic seems to be popping off right now.

Kagi isn’t exactly in the AI space, but they ship features pretty frequently.

OpenAI is shipping incremental improvements to its chatgpt product.
We’re so interested in the public good that we can’t be hampered by the restrictive chains of legal obligations to the public! Don’t worry, we’ll just make rhetorical promises instead, it’s much more freeing.

After all, who cares about nonprofit law in a new era with super high stakes? It’s all about agility now that we’re irreversibly in the Intelligence Age, and if you don’t let us abandon our obligations, we won’t be able to successfully bring about the Intelligence Age!
They have always been such.
I'm a bit concerned about how this might impact their commitment to AI safety though. The non-profit structure was supposed to be a safeguard against profit-driven decision making. Will they still prioritize responsible AI development as a regular for-profit company?
Facial recognition is the killer app for me. Being able to keep track of people and their information would be amazing.
If it just automatically created the fix up commit and moved it to the proper place in the commit tree, I’d be happy with that. You can then run a one-liner to merge the fix up commits after reviewing.
Or maybe just use jsdoc at this point and skip the compile step completely. Though i admit it is not as pretty to read but you can get used to it.

Still a nifty new tool though. I wish JS would just allow type declarations at this point. It doesn't need to enforce them, just allow them like Python does. That would be amazing.
Having the tool actively prevent classes of errors is a worthwhile endeavor, but I do agree it gets overly focused on alone when several other _massive_ classes of vulnerabilities continue to be introduced. At a high level though, it is a lot easier to just have a framework enforce 'x' on all devs to raise the minimum bar. It doesn't help that the average Rust-bro, from which a lot of these memory safety arguments come from, is utterly terrible at making that case in reality. Case example: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771.

I think a lot of the arguments around C++ for example being 'memory unsafe' is a bit ridiculous because its trivial to write memory safe C++. Just run -Wall and enforce the use of smart pointers, there are nearly zero instances in the modern day where you should be dealing with raw pointers or performing offsets that lead to these bugs directly. The few exceptions are hopefully with devs that are intelligent enough to do so safely with modern language features.
Unfortunately, this rarely gets focused on by security teams it seems since they are instead chasing the newest shiny language like you mention.
Could you embed a series of metallic needles as you melted your way down, then communicate via radio waves that travel needle to needle? They would not need to be connected. Just close by.
I rarely refer to commits by their IDs in these cases, though. More often than not I use the relative `HEAD~n`, when it's easy to determine `n` visually. With a few aliases, the manual fixup workflow really doesn't take much effort.
It's not complicated as you make it. There are numerous caching libraries, and databases have been a thing for decades.
It is 100-1000 times harder to find application-level security bugs than it is to find memory safety bugs.

It is also far easier to apply formal analysis to code if you don't have to model arbitrary pointers.

Android has hard evidence that just eliminating memory safety makes a significant difference.
No, during development your IDE will show you type errors and your dev server can ignore them. In CI tsc can type check. It's the best of all worlds: incorrect code will compile and work best-effort, you can see errors in your IDE, and CI will fail if it's incorrect.
Plenty of states have banned it in the past 50 years. It's on the decline.
It's like binoculars, The brightest minds see further but they also have immense blind spots that leaves them exploitable.
Here's a good video about TS enums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMbPt_H3RQ
> I do not disagree that creators should be able to monetize their content however they please, but the fact that people see that as the end and only goal of content creation is baffling to me and almost certainly making it worse.

It is 110% making it worse, but I feel the need to point out this attitude is not coming from nowhere. We're getting squeezed on every side, everything in life is more expensive year over year, wages are stagnant at best and falling at worst. Doing shit just for the sake of doing it is increasingly becoming a luxury the young can't afford. It isn't that nobody wants to, it's that they literally can't justify spending time on things they find interesting, fulfilling or otherwise beneficial without some kind of monetary gain at least possible in the future because they're struggling to afford the basics of life, let alone whatever they might need to make or do whatever they might want to.

I don't mean to come down on you in particular, I just see this attitude everywhere, and it's frankly dismissive as fuck of the genuine economic vice that the young find themselves in right now. You want people to do stuff without an eye directly towards how it can make them money? Cool, odds are damn good a whole lot of the people you're complaining about would very much love the freedom to do something that doesn't make money without feeling like they're screwing themselves possibly into going hungry tonight.

Make the world you want to see.
I believe posting this site once or twice a month (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bravoboard.xyz), violates both the HN guidelines for off topic submissions and self-promotion.
It seems wrong, that the 2 major points of evidence against Marcellus are a testimony from his ex and cellmate. I don’t trust humans, to trust convicting people based on 2 hearsay sources of testimony. Maybe this worked in the past when America was smaller and the average morality of a person was very high, but now this just seems ripe for abuse.

I wouldn’t use this evidence to make a decision in an office dispute.
Sorry to hear that, all the best wishes to them.
I would bet the schedule didn't allow much time to doing subsystem level test with on-board computer, so everyone went to the big test praying for the best.

That or inexperienced programmers were involved, assuming they were not scared of modifying memory addresses directly.

As for the safe-mode, if it happened maybe you could say you were randomly injecting errors in the memory during runtime and spacecraft entered safe mode as expected, would not be far off from the truth, just do not mention it was unintended :)
I don't think we should have capital punishment at all, anywhere, and certainly this is a textbook example of why, but circumstantial evidence is real evidence, admissible in court cases.
As they make progress they slowly remove “Open” from “OpenAI”. The “o1” models give almost no details other than RL on chain of thought.

They haven't demonstrated a clear moat yet but I wouldn’t be surprised to see this restructuring occur and then they show the product that justifies the valuation.
> It gives better answers, faster.

It really depends. As a programmer, sometimes after asking a question, it takes so long to generate an answer that I can look up the answer in the docs before it’s done. Sometimes I need to give it a clarifying query and wait _again_ for it to generate an answer.

A solid 30% of the time it’s wrong about the details of a library. For example, it’s not aware of the latest (from earlier this year) version of the Bevy game engine.
> as they worry too many new friends will diminish their own place in their friend group.

I have several friends in Seattle that have explicitly told me this.

PNW is more about not inviting, the flakiness is more of Californian thing. As someone who has spent substantial time in both places as part of a lifetime of being an expat to many places around the world the PNW and California do indeed have these distinct characteristics. Other expat friends have independently come to the same conclusions. As an expat you get to do the whole making new friends thing over and over again so I know what it's normally like and I know when it's different.

It's a generalization, which is not to say that all individuals in these locals have these characteristics.
In this age of metrics and analytics, it's easy to get caught up in chasing views. But writing for yourself rather than for clicks seems like a much more sustainable long-term approach.
And a prominent study on dishonesty was itself found to have fabricated data [1].

Like too much refined sugar, this is too much refined irony. What is going on?

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/gino-ari...
I hear ya. But with great open source models like Llama 3.2 dropping near-daily, I wonder if/when we’ll reach a point where free models are good enough for 99% of tasks.
macOS absolutely does antialiasing, it's just grayscale antialiasing instead of sub-pixel antialiasing. This is obvious if you mess with CSS "font-smoothing: none"
$50k/mo would be massive for an individual, but seems pretty minimal on the scale of a city. For a smallish city, that’s $1/resident/mo. A whole $12/yr in taxes for each resident.
There was a lot more innovation in computer architectures in the 80s and 90s. C89 is designed to permit implementation on unconventional hardware like the Lisp machine. C's flexible targeting is its greatest asset.
[dupe] more discussion:

Altman equity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

Mira https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651038
> I'd like to see him go back to congress and explain his previous angelic story of not profiting by one penny from OpenAI.

A businessman lied? Pikachu's everywhere were shocked.
What is the killer app for this? Dan Suarez's Daemon series probably provided some insight into what might be possible in terms of literal secret meta-communities, etc but why would I want to see an internet link about the things I'm looking at in real life?

Assuming I have the money and don't mind the looks - why should I buy these?
Then you're also okay with me choosing the bias of a prosecutor prosecuting you?
We don’t know if they will stay exactly interchangeable forever.

Google has a deal for Reddit’s data, so its models will have that information.
I can see this kind of thing being a moat as well.

And yeah obviously you’re going to feel diminishing returns.

Going from 0 to 1 always feels like a bigger step than from 1 to 2.
This is just spam. This site has only ever been submitted by this user: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bravoboard.xyz
> Often, the on-call engineers are pulled into working on production features or long-term fixes from previous issues, leaving little bandwidth for proactive system improvements.

the way my company does it, on-call rotates around the team. The designated oncall person isn't expected to work on anything else
This is true, but circumstantial evidence is seldom enough to have the DA bring a case to trial because it is weak evidence.

At least, thats my impression im not a lawyer.
I read it as the author saying that they will no doubt try it (OpenAI etc) but that it is not at all clear that’ll work, and probably won’t work as well as it does now.
That was my point ? If you just use TEMU then it’s another exercise to sit in your ass all day.
I think the Quest/Index/etc. controllers are a far better form factor than a cylindrical tube, for this use case. But then I also think we should be adding XBox controller input to CAD applications and such, so maybe I am the weird one. We should get over the idea that gamepad = unprofessional, because these are seriously engineer, ergonomic, highly sensitive input devices.

If all you wanted was a pointing device to make selections on a 2D gui interface, then the laser pointer form factor would be better. But I’m going to be an old fart and ask why are you doing this in AR then? Just use a screen. I’m more interested in the different human interface possibilities that are opened up by tactile input and 3D visual controls.
On the revealed preference thing - but most people don’t use ad blockers?
Llama is NOT open source. It’s freeware. We can’t reproduce it and its license has commercial restrictions.

That being said, most models are based on llama, so it may seem like a lot of movement is happening, but it’s not, really.

RWKV and deepseek are the only LLMs that’re fully open that I’m aware of.

If meta decided to stop releasing llama, that’s that.
Still, certainly the most visible.
Our math department does publish
You seem to be reading something in my comment that was not there.

If you have developers following unhelpful paths for days at a time then you don't just need a brief update in a daily standup. You need product managers who can determine and clearly articulate what needs to be built right now. You need technical leaders who can keep their teams moving towards those goals. You need developers and testers who provide feedback on what is or isn't working out promptly to those who need to know. Possibly you also need to provide significant training and/or mentoring to any or all of these people. All of this is likely to require much more frequent and detailed communication between the relevant parties than a quick team chat once per day.

The point is that you need everyone to communicate at a frequency and level of detail that matches the nature of what they're currently working on. Sometimes that might mean several team members collaborating in close to real time for a week. Sometimes it might mean leaving a single person to think uninterrupted for a week so they can figure out a good solution to a difficult problem that is well defined and not going to change any time soon.

So-called Agile processes that try to force real development into chunks of any fixed size and schedule process activities at any fixed frequency are going to get those scales wrong almost 100% of the time in my experience. The strange thing to me is why anyone ever expected any other outcome.
How does that look worse?
> 5 companies doing a repeated leapfrog game where consumers can flip without much effort seems like the opposite of a moat

One could say the same about search, browsers, image/video/text sharing, smartphones and yet, moats were built.