skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He seemed to be reacting to a new study by the right-leaning Media Research Center, which purportedly found that Google search engine results tended to show news articles that supposedly were positive to the Democrat Harris ahead of Trump’s own campaign website when a user searched for “Donald Trump presidential race 2024.”

Er… I mean, yeah, probably, because:

(A) Most people searching that probably aren’t looking for his _campaign website_, they’re looking for news about the race, and

(B) He keeps going on about people eating cats and otherwise being weird, so, yeah, the average news article is probably not going to be favourable to him.

Like, this is very much a self-created problem; if you court publicity by being publicly crazy (and you’ve got to assume that this is a deliberate strategy), you have to expect much of that publicity to be negative.
Now reading again, than you for pointing it out, I reversed the NYT by the TH article. My mistake while writing on the mobile phone. I basically said that I preferred the TH article over the NYT one.
If you haven't seen it already, check out "Tea with the Dames". It's great, and I'd assume one of the last things Dame Maggie Smith was in.
> You can create the impression of getting a lot of work done. Or the impression of a well-written cover letter. Or of a genre novel, techno track, whatever.

Yeah, one of their most "effective" uses is to counterfeit signals that we have relied on--wisely or not--to estimate deeper practical truths. Stuff like "did this person invest some time into this" or "does this person have knowledge of a field" or "can they even think straight."

Oh, sure, qualitatively speaking it's not new, people could have used form-letters, hired a ghostwriter, or simply sank time and effort into a good lie... but the quantitative change of "Bot, write something that appears heartfelt and clever" is huge.

In some cases that's devastating--like trying to avert botting/sockpuppet operations online--and in others we might have to cope by saying stuff like: "Fuck it, personal essays and cover letters are meaningless now, just put down the raw bullet-points."
Why? Some guy writing an op-ed saying how frustrating it is that science is full of fraud is a great argument for the scientific method? There have been people writing articles like this for over 20 years if not much longer about all kinds of fields. Nothing ever happens, nothing ever improves, it never goes beyond people saying "tut tut how terrible". This sort of thing is entirely predictable and will keep happening, over and over again. On the current course, there will be articles just like this one being discussed in another twenty years from now.
"People are flagging this because you've editorialized the title which is against the website guidelines. Also many of us already know about this and/or consider it surpassed by the Snowden files."

THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL!
I think the idea with the “canary in a coal mine” isn’t that it’s the margins that are at risk - it’s a signal that those margins have moved.

When working conditions worsen, and those at the previous margins leave, does that mean there’s now new people in the margins who were “safe” before?
If it doesn't have a Cutty Sark pub it's not Greenwich.
And what's to say that other highly celebrated and highly referenced texts from that time were not based on bad science or were outright frauds? Your memory of them?

Picking the winners as examples is not good sampling.
You are telling me your students can safely implement single decree paxos.... I worked on a few paxos production implementations before the RAFT paper, single and multi decree. The idea that paxos, as it is to be implemented, is easy for students to understand... Well let me re-read the paper, but i assure you, raft was a big deal
> The most frequent complaint from users was that they could easily turn off alarms by simply removing the app.

Why would people do that? And why should we prevent this it if that is what they want. I don't understand.
Tangential: As an American, one of the things I liked most about London pubs when I first started visiting in the ‘00s was the lack of screens, which were hard to escape in American bars. Unfortunately this was only temporary, as the majority of the London pubs I’ve seen on recent visits are covered with screens like home.
Unfortunately, I don't see any relevance in that argument, if you consider GPT-4 to be a breakthrough -- then sure, single breakthroughs happen, I am not arguing with that. Actually, same thing happened with self-driving: I don't think many people expected Tesla to drop FSD publicly back then.

Now, chain of breakthroughs happening in a small timeframe? Good luck with that.
So you are basically saying "it failed on some of my Rust tasks, and those other languages aren't even real programming languages, so it's useless".

I've used LLMs to generate quite a lot of Rust code. It can definitely run into issues sometimes. But it's not really about complexity determining whether it will succeed or not. It's the stability of features or lack thereof and the number of examples in the training dataset.
Oh, man... this is the same old stuff from the 2023 Anna Goldie statement (is this Anna Goldie's comment?). This was all addressed by Kahng in 2023 - no valid criticisms. Where do I start?

Kahng's ISPD 2023 paper is not in dispute - no established experts objected to it. The Nature paper is in dispute. Dozens of experts objected to it: Kahng, Cheng, Markov, Madden, Lienig, Swartz objected publically.

The fact that Kahng's paper was invited doesn't mean it wasn't peer reviewed. I checked with ISPD chairs in 2023 - Kahng's paper was thoroughly reviewed and went through multiple rounds of comments. Do you accept it now? Would you accept peer-reviewed versions of other papers?

Kahng is the most prominent active researcher in this field. If anyone knows this stuff, it's Kahng. There were also five other authors in that paper, including another celebrated professor, Cheng.

The pre-training thing was disclaimed in the Google release. No code, data or instructions for pretraining were given by Google for years. The instructions said clearly: you can get results comparable to Nature without pre-training.

The "much older technology" is also a bogus issue because the HPWL scales linearly and is reported by all commercial tools. Rectangles are rectangles. This is textbook material. But Kahng etc al prepared some very fresh examples, including NVDLA, with two recent technologies. Guess what, RL did poorly on those. Are you accepting this result?

The bit about financial incentives and open-source is blatantly bogus, as Kahng leads OpenROAD - the main open-source EDA framework. He is not employed by any EDA companies. It is Google who has huge incentives here, see Demis Hassabis tweet "our chips are so good...".

The "Stronger Baselines" matched compute resources exactly. Kahng and his coauthors performed fair comparisons between annealing and RL, giving the same resources to each. Giving greater resources is unlikely to change results. This was thoroughly addressed in Kahng's FAQ - if you only could read that.

The resources used by Google were huge. Cadence tools in Kahng's paper ran hundreds times faster and produced better results. That is as conclusive as it gets.

It doesn't take a Ph.D. to understand fair comparisons.
>turn off your phone

I was wondering about this, smartphones don't turn on when your alarm goes. (So you could just turn it off to bypass the "super alarm"?)

I have vague memories that older cell phones used to turn on when the alarm would ring, but I might be imagining it.
>> While the professional looking text could have been already wrong, the likelihood was smaller, since you usually needed to know something at least in order to write convincing text.

...or...the likelihood of text being really wrong pre-LLMs was worse because you needed to be a well-capitalized player to pay your thoughts into public discourse. Just look at our global conflicts and you see how much they are driven by well-planned lobbying, PR, and...money. That is not new.
> Arguably some have figured how to game the system to advance their careers

lol arguably? i would bet my generous, non-academia, industry salary for the next 10 years, that there's not a single academic with a citation count over say ... 50k (ostensibly the most successful academic) that isn't gaming the system.

- signed someone who got their phd at "prestigous" uni under a guy with >100k citations
Can you expound on why do you find it unusable?
I feel like there was also a brief window where "many amateur eyes in public" trumped "private experts"; wikipedia, open source software, etc. This doesn't seem the case in a hyper-partisan and bifurcated society where there is little trust.
Good high-seniority teachers can walk out of their job and straight into the white-collar office job world for more money and usually less bullshit. Probably even a remote role for extra improvement to QOL. It’s far from just new teachers leaving (that’s always been a thing).
A decent chunk of the pandemic response was politicians power tripping in the name of The Science and later having to roll things back, either because of public backlash (eg hotlines to encourage snitching on their neighbors), because it was actually illegal (requiring all large businesses to have their employees vaccinated or tested weekly), or because of politics (initially telling the public that masks were ineffective, then tripling down on mask mandates, Harris saying the vaccine could not be trusted based on Trump talking about its efficacy).

There was also dumb stuff like social media suppressing mention of covid, even to this day youtubers use euphemisms to refer to that period.

To me it seems perfectly understandable how people who aren't actually involved in science might mix up The Science and actual science after all the political nastiness of those years, especially when we add on top all of the awful pop science reporting from the past decades.
I think you're demonstrating the point I was trying to make. You're falling for a very prevalent narrative that just isn't true.

Fact: Life has improved for the majority of people on the planet in the last 50 years.
I tried searching for it, without much luck. I don't think I was thinking of Sidewalk, though. It was more like some TV manufacturer like TCL, LG, etc. The best I could find are some unconfirmed reports of devices automatically connecting to open WiFi, which doesn't quite match.

But I can't find anything now, so it might be best to consider it apocryphal.
https://www.justonecookbook.com/onigiri-rice-balls/

You can make them all sorts of ways. Plain rice around a filling or with rice with stuff mixed in shaped into a ball.

You can also make a more sandwich like variant called onigirazu. This link is for one made with chicken katsu, but you can use any kind of sandwich filling--strongly flavored, savory things like ham work best.

https://www.justonecookbook.com/chicken-katsu-onigirazu/
I think it actually sounds kinda cool, if it’s something unique that couldn’t just be purchased!
We don't hate it, we just know it's going to be hijacked by SEO bros.
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I feel gaslighted when "fake news" is brought up by people, that consider CNN etc to be somewhat reputable. Like, the atmosphere on those sites are surreal nowadays. There are fake news, fake ads etc.

Like a article with a picture of some fat person, a picture of a child star, and the headline "you can't believe how child star whatever looks like today!". But the fat person is not the former child and nowhere to be seen in the article, etc.

Those sites are as reputable as pornsites.
It's entertaining when one sees it as sama trying to save OpenAI from massive costs by persuading governments to invest an order more magnitude into compute to artificially distort the actual costs of compute to make OpenAI's costs make sense.
Courtesy of kicking the tires on your app, I discovered: https://github.com/apnadkarni/tcl9-migrate#migration-tool-fo... (via https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/comp.lang.tcl/67166 )

and "EuroTcl 2024 - presentation videos and slides now online" https://openacs.org/conf2024/info/schedule (via https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/comp.lang.tcl/67134 )
Ah thank you. That is a good list although I personally dislike the "Paxos Made Moderately Complex" paper... I think it adds too many different roles for very little benefit. When implementing multi-Paxos for class, I used that paper and felt it was more trouble than it needed to be.

I'll check out the other two papers though! Also just looking around and I found this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2408 [PDF] which looks useful as well.
I've never heard that, and that's very funny.
hcaptcha cofounder here. Whenever i read these stories and papers they never talk about how captchas have different difficulty levels or what level they were using. I assure you we've been using LLMs since before transformers in the captcha industry and we can catch and defeat them all at the correct difficulty level
Not my fridge :( I'm renting an apartment and they installed some awful fridge where the doors don't close on their own. In fact, there's actually some resistance so that you have to push it with some effort to close it.

I've been living here for months and I still forget to close it half the time. But, at least it has a "helpful" feature that beeps at me (very quietly) if it's left open.
> C appears more and more relevant these days

C is not relevant any more, not sure what world you are living in. it only has any relevance because it was the best option at the time decades ago, and so people are forced to use it when making syscalls. thats it.
> The research might be novel, but the procedures for research and publication are very similar.

This is wrong.

Some time ago, I completed the checklists for publishing a paper in a somewhat prestigious multidisciplinary journal. Large parts of the lists were about complying with various best practices and formal requirements in different fields. I often didn't even understand the questions outside my field. And the questions nominally within my field were often category errors. They assumed a mode of doing research that was far from universal. Overall, the process was more frustrating than (let's say) applying for a US visa.
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Look, if you're going to get picky, it literally is at least an order of magnitude faster. And in addition, Hz for Hz, the eZ80 is much faster than the Z80A, which is what people would actually be comparing it to.
There are an incredible amount of ways that life is better today than 50 years ago. For starters the life expectancy has almost universally improved.
It's really easy to verify that this claim is pure nonsense - we still have very real, astonishing scientific progress.
Yeah. Memory failed me a bit here so i agree with you and stand corrected
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Many sportsbooks actually do not run that way. The name "sportsbook" implies that they do, but that is an older style of betting that has fallen out of favor. Modern sports books usually use fixed odds set by an oddsmaker (in modern times, algorithms set by the oddsmaker), but those odds are allowed to float with the probability of the outcome changing. I believe they take supply and demand into account, but you actually are betting against the house. That prevents the kind of trading against the crowd that would be normally viable.

The Hong Kong horse race track was a famous example of market-priced bets where the book was run the way you said and the crowd was exploitable in the way you are suggesting. It was one of the last books to work that way.
I think it's just ignorance and timidity on the part of investors. Memristor or memory-computing startups are surely the next trend in investing within a few years.

I don't think it's necessarily demand or any particular calculation that makes things happen. I think people including investors are just herd animals. They aren't enthusiastic until they see the herd moving and then they want in.
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Perhaps a regional specificity? Personally I've never seen such an auto-closing fridge in France.
It's pretty undeniable that OpenAI's lead has been diminished greatly from the GPT-3 days. Back then, they could rely on marketing their coherency and the "true power" of larger models. But today we're starting to see 1B models that are undistinguishable from OpenAI's most advanced chain-of-thought models. From a turing test perspective, I don't think the average person could distinguish between an OpenAI and a Llama 3.2 response.
CITR! There be some 80s memories.
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So that's what keeps USDT going.
I meant Sam's answers.
And the previous government closed pretty much all our storage capacity, disabling any ability to buy at lower prices and store for later use.
See The Analytic Spreadsheet from 1986.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/28697.28737
> For every one of these cheats there are hundreds of honest, extremely hard-working ETHICAL scientists

Every one of these /discovered/ cheats.

Remember this particular cheat was one of your ethicals until a few moments ago.
Alright Terry Davis, don't get lost in heaven.
When we were kids, at some point we lived in a house whose garden was on top of a hill. So we would sometimes just look for whatever cardboard box is available and roll down the hill inside it.

I stopped offering stuff to my kids for birthdays a long time ago, they got enough from uncles and aunts. I prefer offering "events" like going some place special. Memories are more important than plastic stuff.
Personally, I don't have a HOTAS, I just an XBox controller and of course the VR controller.

The cockpit is interactable with the VR controllers. You can reach forward and push buttons and turn knobs. It's a bit awkward, but it's doable.

I'll typically hold the XBox controller in my left hand to control the flight stick and have a VR controller on my right hand to interact with everything else in the cockpit. It does get awkward though when I need to use the rudder or brakes, though, since in a real airplane, those are controlled by pedals. I have to try to press buttons on my XBox controller on my right hand while still holding the VR controller.
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EDA claims in the digital domain are fairly easy to evaluate. Look at the picture of the layout.

When you see a chip that has the datapath identified and laid out properly by a computer algorithm, you've got something. If not, it's vapor.

So, if your layout still looks like a random rat's nest? Nope.

If even a random person can see that your layout actually follows the obvious symmetric patterns from bit 0 to bit 63, maybe you've got something worth looking at.

Analog/RF is a little tougher to evaluate because the smaller number of building blocks means you can use Moore's Law to brute force things much more exhaustively, but if things "looks pretty" then you've got something. If it looks weird, you don't.
> Using this as a key point of your article seems flimsy at best.

For nursing... just ask literally any nurse and they'll chew your ear off. I happen to know some via local volunteer emergency service work and they're all on the verge of burning out, only staying in because they don't want to leave their patients and colleagues.
Disabling foomatic seems hard since the PPD can be distributed by the attacker and foomatic-rip is part of the cups-filter package. But yes, lp user + SELinux should be enough to make this not a 9.9.
Subsidies increase the amount of money in circulation and taxes decrease it. The price of goods is set relative to the amount of money in circulation (this is what inflation does). Hence, exact equivalence of taxing sugar and subsidizing foods without sugar.
At what point does scientific fraud become criminal?
I have avoided him and PirateSoftware for similar reasons that are hard to express. They both strike me as - I don't know, barbecue uncles? Too many stories in which they're the hero, perhaps.
Yeah, the way of the future that amongst other things immediately breaks all and any file formats that don't consist of a single atomic file.
Private schools (and charters) usually pay worse than public schools.
OpenAI has the biggest appetite for large models. GPT-4 is generally a bit better than Gemini, for example, but that's not because Google can't compete with it. Gemini is orders of magnitude smaller than GPT-4 because if Google were to run a GPT-4-sized model every time somebody searches on Google, they would literally cease to be a profitable company. That's how expensive inference on these ultra-large models is. OpenAI still doesn't really care about burning through hundreds of billions of dollars, but that cannot last forever.
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Cool! My interest in flight sims is more GA than military so I don’t think HOTAS is as appropriate there but I can definitely see that military flight sims are the killer VR app.

Could something like Apple Vision Pro work in an AR capacity so I can still see my physical controls?
I wonder if there's evidence of fraud _increasing_ or if the detection methods are just improving.

In my last workplace, self-evaluation (and, therefore, self-promotion) was mandatory on a semi-annual cycle and heavily tied to compensation. It's not surprising that it became a breeding ground for fraud. Outside of a strong moral conviction (which I would argue is in declining), these sorts of systems will likely always be targets for fraudulent behavior.
On a CPU with 8- or even 16-bit instructions, if at all possible (I don't know much about AVR8) it's probably better to use jump tables than to try to decode bit-wise when emulating I think.
> But unemployment increasing since 2022. Sounds like it might work itself out?

No. Partially because these are high stress jobs and not everyone is willing to take them - and honestly, no one should become a nurse or a teacher if they don't want to, because the damage potential is so high, partially because becoming a teacher takes a lot of study and in the US it carries the non-insignificant chance of getting shot.
For some reason this reminded me of permaculture.

Permaculture = permanent + agriculture

One doesn't have to pay tax if on income or expenditures if one does the work, makes the product, or trades.

Are knowledge and skills are considered wealth?

Cheers, M
Stay away from sports pubs/bars.
This company can do no wrong. The sensor is still pretty small (1/2 inch) but not tiny. But Insta360's computational progoraphy kicks ass and they seem to find great parts to work from.

The pan-scan one looks really interesting. It feels like this is the domain of $1000+++ conference gear, and now it's an affordable consumer offering in brilliant 4k. I'm very excited for this.

Hopefully some brave souls can make it work pretty well in Linux, get at some of its capabilities. Maybe we can get their Android app going under wine/photon? That'd be half as good, not bad. Programmatic control would radically expand the usability of this so much though!

The submission on their Ace Pro camera I feel is a good view of Insta360, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363428
Private school vouchers are the worst idea ever.

How's removing yet more funding for public schools supposed to be an answer to public schools don't have enough funding?

As the funny paraphrasing goes (https://x.com/teedjvt/status/1685251077753430016)
"I don't really like the city parks.
I want to join a country club so my kid doesn't have to play with 'those' kids and I want the city parks system to pay for my membership"
I don't think I fully understand your question. If, with turnkey operation you mean virtualization, enterprise GPUs already officially support it now, and it already works with consumer GPUs, at least the discrete ones.