skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I think we all have to admit, we should have given them more weapons pre-invasion.”

Absolutely.

Pre-2022, it was largely US, Canada, UK, and Turkiye taking unilateral action in helping Ukraine rebuild military capacity, along with Poroshenko's reforms.

The rest of NATO remained aloof of Ukraine until 2022

Germany especially did too little by placing irrationally high expectations about Poroshenko's ability to reform Ukraine [0] while ignoring the strides he made in building administrative capacity within Ukraine [1].

Furthermore, it might be heresy on HN/Reddit, but Zelensky's administration is extremely lackluster (even before the war began), and most of the recent missteps that Ukraine has done recently are due to Zelensky and his cabinet (eg. UKR-PL relations being lead by a UKR AgBusiness oligarch, politicization of upper levels of the military administration, active procurement corruption scandals, not arresting Ihor Kolomoisky until arm-twisted by the US, Pandora Papers).

Once this war is over, Ukraine will need to work hard to build it's institutions. They have the capacity, but it will require having to finally end the oligarch model, which will be extremely difficult politically.

If it does not, it will stagnate like Serbia and BH - which is something the oligarchs might gladly accept.

[0] - https://www.dw.com/en/poroshenkos-promises-merkels-disappoin...

[1] - https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-histo...
Upwards Pressure on Originality
Maybe the problem is rinse aids in dishwashers? These prevent spotting on glass by adding detergent.

I just put water in the rinse aid dispenser of my dishwasher.
High costs are certainly present in socialist medical systems, they're just somewhat obscured.

I'm more familiar with Canada's taxpayer-funded, "universal" provincial health care systems than the European ones, so I'll describe the costs we typically see with them.

Government health care spending makes up a huge portion of the provincial budgets each year. This results in costs like high tax rates, and significant government debt. (Those, in turn, introduce other costs, such as the stifling of business development and employment, among others.)

Another significant cost is the poor quality of service. Long delays are the norm. This can mean single-digit hours-long waits for emergency service, double-digit hours-long waits for semi-emergency situations, and weeks to months for routine diagnostics and specialist appointments.

A lot of Canadians don't have a family doctor, and walk-in clinics are typically quite busy and have relatively short hours, so people end up going to emergency rooms even for relatively minor health issues. That only exacerbates the problems there.

Even once you're finally seen by a practitioner, there is little incentive for them to do a good job because there's pretty much no competition, and no punishment for providing poor service. Don't expect a favourable outcome, especially for anything requiring in-depth investigation or long-term treatment.

Common dental, vision, and pharmaceutical costs often aren't covered by the provincial systems, which results in many Canadians paying even more money for costly private medical coverage on top of the "universal" coverage they've already paid for via taxation and public debt.

It's very revealing that despite paying a lot for the local health care systems, Canadians with the means to do so will often seek treatment in the US anyways. Even if they have to travel and pay a lot more money to do that, at least it tends to result in much faster, and much higher quality, service than they would ever have received in Canada.
Why would the only limit be hardware capacity? Can’t there be an innate limit due to the model size/architecture? Maybe LLMs can’t be superintelligent because they are missing a critical ability which can’t be overcome with any amount of training? It’s not obvious to me that it’s going to get smarter infinitely.
Yeah but dishwasher soap is a different kind of soap, it's way stronger. Plus dishwashers also use rinse aid which has its own set of problems.
> In a world context where the largest companies are more likely to stay private than IPO

Which world is this?
"zigger" is more of a 4chan thing and isn't really used by Ukrainians.
The changes in vibes – why did they happen?
the problem is that these stock footage companies are up against the richest corporations to ever exist. Legal recourse will take a monumental amount of money and time.

Hate to say this, but as things stand, tech companies stand to become all pervasive and all powerful if AI keeps growing the way it has
> You have three reasons:

> 1) reading the comment in good faith

> 2) understanding 'robotaxi' is not a precise technical term

> 3) safely assuming that most commenters here know about Waymo

#1 is the main reason why I wouldn't read "robotaxi" as anything other than "taxi robot", closely followed by #2.

> As for "50 years" - I don't care about electrical engineering, I am talking about intelligence.

Neither was I, and you should take #1 as advice for yourself.

> In the 1970s we had neural networks as smart as nematodes. Today they are as smart as spiders. Maybe in 50 years they will be as smart as bees. I doubt any of our children will live to see a computer as smart as a rat.

You're either overestimating the ones in the 70s or underestimating the ones today. By parameter count, GPT-3 is already about as complex as a medium sized rodent. If today's models aren't that smart (definitions of "intelligence" are surprisingly fluid from one person to the next), then you can't reasonably call the ones in the 70s as smart as a nematode either.
Non-flouridated is gluten-free, right?
I'd give you feedback, but there's no way I'm entering my email address just to see a demo.
I haven’t heard of some of this and it raises a whole lot of questions. Can you tell us more? What is a “minor bone injury?” What sort of alternative healthcare do they use instead to treat it?

Maybe give us an example of some people who do this?
Trackberry: 2.8 Watt TrackMania Server
A Software Defect Repair Method Based on Multi-Objective Genetic Programming
They could have just put the correct result into claude in the time since he wrote this (Sept 25th).
There could be AI agents in this thread right now

And you wouldn’t even know it
If it was about institutional needs, surely it would make it easier to mitm for middleboxes? The biggest opposition to QUIC came from big corporations and other institutional players
Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity (2022)
> High-intelligence AGI is the last human invention

Citation?

...or are you just assuming that AGI will be able to solve all of our problems, appropos of nothing but Sam Altman's word? I haven't seen a single credible study suggest that AGI is anything more than a marketing term for vaporware.
Thanks! Full disclosure: by the time this was done, the actual question that prompted this was long forgotten. I got a "huh, that's nice." for my trouble (:
It's funny and somehow disappointing how a year ago HN jerked off to Altman and down-voted any critical opinions of him. Just shows no social platform is free of strong group-think and mass hysteria.
I don't think there was a comparison between WordPress and Rodney King. If so, what is the comparison being claimed. Is WordPress the cops? The one saying can't we get along?

The way I read it at least, it was a simple reference and sentiment, not a comparison.
That was my first thought, sounds uncomfortable. Hopefully you'd just get used it though and to be fair, it's definitely less uncomfortable than dying from preventable diseases.
I’d like to point something out. When we look back at the racism of Americans against the Japanese during WW2, that racism was in the context of barbaric and horrific Japanese atrocities, particularly in China, but throughout the area of their conquest.

Japanese soldiers murdered civilians and raped women. They took “comfort women”. They murdered POWs. They didn’t observe the rules of warfare. They (by mistaken timing) attacked the U.S. before declaring war in what was perceived as a “sneak attack”.

The scale of the war crimes perpetrated by Japanese soldiers no doubt fed the desire to other them - to portray them in the most disgustingly racist ways.

I think it’s important to remember that context.

Unfortunately, the racism continued for a long time after the war.
Very early in my career I interned at a company that rotated all of its developers ONTO THE SUPPORT TEAM for a few days every now and then (if memory serves, for 3 days per year). Yep, if you wrote the product, it meant that sooner or later, you were going to be on the phone with a customer who was having problems with that product. Even the interns were included and I got to be a support tech for two days. The support team was absolutely amazing with excellent documentation on what to say and do and how to close out a case.

We were 10x slower than the real support techs at resolving cases so this didn't improve support by all the typical pinhead boss metrics. Customers tended to think it was pretty awesome they were talking to a dev regardless of whether we solved their issue. The real benefit of the experience though was FOR US, and was transformative. I credit a lot of my better instincts regarding product development to having that experience so early in my career. For example nothing makes you more sensitive to performance issues than sitting on the phone just waiting and talking to some random person for two minutes every time anyone tries to load a particular screen - you get back to your "real" job and the first thing you do is go into the bug database and start asking where the hell is that bug and when are we going to fix it.

I own my own business now and I have never left, and will never leave, the email support alias, I will read every one of those emails I can until I die (and respond to the best of my ability as well).

Later I worked on the team for a web-based product which had feedback fields all over the product. It took everything anybody wrote in those fields and piped them, unfiltered, into a screensaver that was installed on every computer used by the development team. When I was new to the team my manager told me "You just have to accept that you're going to see a lot of profanity on people's screens, that's how it works here." LOL! He wasn't lying. But you'd get exposed to dozens of random bits of feedback about the product over the course of each workweek. Tons of bugs and user pain points were discovered this way. You'd be in the middle of a 1:1 and some expletive-laden complaint about the feature you designed that went live three weeks ago would pop up, well OK, guess we're going to have to deal with that before the meeting is finished! It was wild.

I remain of the view that relentlessly and aggressively exposing your entire product team to tons of customer feedback through any avenue you can is the right choice. Got a popular "water cooler" or #random/#general type of Slack channel? Start piping a bit of customer feedback into it. You can email Slack channels! Do it today.
Switzerland has a private insurance model IIRC. Israel and the Netherlands, too, according to Wikipedia.
The chords are the best part of this, makes everything sound good and in tune
> Sure, we don’t understand qualia. We might never understand. But that doesn’t mean we can’t replicate.

I’m pretty sure it means exactly that. Without actually understanding subjective experience, there’s a fundamental doubt akin to the Chinese room. Sweeping that under the carpet and declaring victory doesn’t in fact victory make.
Well—that's debatable. I've yet to meet anybody who thinks he's in any way "cool".

"Zuckerbro is cool" has this kind of energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson_is_a_genius
Lactase persistence is also common in many parts of Africa.
Louisiana Law Is Sweeping Teens into Adult Court for Lesser Crimes
The title of the article is:

> A Law Was Meant to Target Teen Violence. Instead, 17-Year-Olds Are Being Charged as Adults for Lesser Offenses.

I didn't know how to shorten the article title, so instead I used the webpage title.
He's also reigned in his abrasiveness, despite saying "I'm done apologizing". Hot air.
HSAs can be wonderful, but you absolutely have to have a good one. Some of them still pay less than 1% interest and charge monthly fees. The ones which can be invested and have no fees are an amazing savings tool.
It really bugs me that the first bits AI has targeted are the parts people actually enjoy doing for fun.

As things stand, AI is okay at writing, art/photos, coding, and now, videos.

These are all things people like doing. Even coding is something a lot of people get a ton of pleasure from.
One thing for me that works really well is Pomodoro timer, I do 15 minutes work 5 minutes rest. During work sessions I put my phone in the other room so it’s not distracting me with notifications. After a few flow cycles I just get zoned in and the flow state hits.

If you’re on Mac I really like this app:
https://www.flow.app/
>> You'd get the answer to a riddle wrong or miss something and nobody would start assuming that means you lack a fundamental understanding of how the world works. There's entire fields that look into how and why we make various mistakes and riddles and puzzles designed specifically to trip people up.

That's because with humans we assume a certain level of competency and intellectual ability. We cannot make the same assumption when testing AI systems like LLMs because their level of competency and intellectual ability is exactly the question we are trying to answer in the first place.

Note that getting an answer a little wrong, because the question looks like a question you already know the answer to, can be catastrophic in real world conditions. Tipping a frying pan over a plate on a table to serve an omelette when you've learned to do the same thing to serve a cooked shrimp works just fine and shows everyone how smart you are and how well you generalise to novel situations, right up to the point where the contents of the frying pan are on fire and you still tip them over a plate, on a table. Made of flammable wood. Oops.

Also note: a human may be confused by the Tsathoggua-Cthuga-Cxaxukluth river-crossing riddle but they'd never be confused about the danger of a frying pan on fire.
In 2017 Daniel Gross, a YC partner at the time, recruited me to join the YC software team. Sam Altman was president of YC at this time.

During my interview with Jared Friedman, their CTO, I asked him what Sam was trying to create, the greatest investment firm of all time surpassing Berkshire Hathway, or the greatest tech company surpassing Google? Without hesitation, Jared said Google. Sam wanted to surpass Google. (He did it with his other company, OpenAI, and not YC, but he did it nonetheless)

This morning I tried Googling something and the results sucked compared to what ChatGPT gave me.

Google still creates a ton of value (YouTube, Gmail, etc), but he has surpassed Google in terms of cutting edge tech.
I see it more as cringe than fun.
Show HN: Read Hacker News in Your Language
I don't know what you're trying to imply. Rodney King was beaten and shocked by four police officers, 63 people died and approximately $1 billion of damages resulted from the Riots. Zeldman's grief is understandable to the extent that one can emphasize with the internal conflict of choosing to remain employed by a company that is under scrutiny by people in your professional/personal community and ran by a man who is proving to be rather unpredictable.

There's likely more to Zeldman's personal struggles with respect to his health and other financial concerns than what he discloses (rightfully so). But at the same time, evoking the rhetoric of King during the Riots is indeed perplexing when measured against what Zeldman does speak about more openly: his commitment to the open web in light of the aforementioned drama. In this regard, as the kids say, "It's not that deep".

Edit: +++ "in light of the aforementioned drama"
Netherlands has a mostly public system with heavily subsidized mandatory non-profit insurance under government oversight: Health insurers receive compensation for high risk individuals from the government,[5] and government subsidies pay about 75% of insurance costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands

Israel also has a public healthcare system in practice. Mandatory participation in 1 of 4 non profit insurance programs looks like private insurance but … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Israel For the health tax, wage-earners and the self-employed must pay 3.1% of their monthly salary up to 60% of the average prevailing market wage (appx. NIS 6,300 in 2020), and 5% of anything earned above it.[25] Employers are legally obligated to deduct insurance contributions from their employees' salaries, while the self-employed must arrange payment on their own. Pensioners have contributions deducted from their pensions, as do those receiving unemployment benefits. Those who are not working but have income must pay 5% of their income in health tax, while those who are not working and have no income must pay NIS 104 a month.

Switzerland has a similar system with mandatory participation and non profit insurance programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland
Video data is still very much untapped and likely to unlock a step function worth of data. Current image-language models are trained mostly on {image, caption} pairs with a bit of extra fine tuning
Zeldman would have zero trouble getting hired anywhere tomorrow if he indicated that he was available.

This isn't the case for most people, but he is anything but most people.
In my case it was very helpful to read (!). I mean books, not tutorials or articles.

technical books (e.g. a New programming language) were easy to follow but well structured, although sometimes a bit outdated. I started building New skills every friday afternoon, turning off the phone and the Internet to minimize distractions while doing practical tasks.

Another helpful tool was a paper journal, where i wrote down notes about the books i've read, instead of writing it in a digital journal.
Interestingly some M&A banks keep (or used to, at least) discreet residential addresses where the crucial meetings between senior people can take place over dinner rather than them being obviously seen to meet at the banks or their own offices.
I don’t think ultra-wealthy preppers want catastrophic events to happen, and I agree that prepping in itself isn’t nefarious. My concern is more about the mindset it can encourage. When someone like Altman—who has significant influence over the future of technology—starts focusing on a solid “Plan B,” it might lead them to take more risks, consciously or unconsciously. Having what they believe is a safe fallback could make them more comfortable pushing boundaries in ways that could accelerate instability. It’s not about wanting disaster, but rather how preparing for one might subtly shift decision-making. For instance, “AI safety team.. who needs it? amirite?!”
Gonna really date myself here, but back in the 90s, HTTPS was still a big deal, and only the really fancy ecommerce sites had it, and export to many other countries was banned (or at least the browsers had to ship a watered-down export-only version with decreased keysize). That was when people still requested credit card numbers by email, fax, or phone.

Streaming video was also a big deal, with RealVideo serving like 160px live-ish sports across the world seen as an amazing accomplishment. With it, early VOIP apps like Roger Wilco experimented with early codecs and managed to make semi-real-time convos possible, usually for gaming groups.

Then "interactive" webpages became all the rage, with Shockwave, Flash, ActiveX, and Java duking it out for everything from animations to things as simple as buttons with hover-over gradients. CSS was still in its infancy, and nobody thought Javascript itself would end up taking over all the other contenders. JS wasn't a serious option for anything.

AJAX (what we now call XMLHTTPRequest, or a simple clientside fetch) was revolutionary when it first launched, with Microsoft (of all people) releasing it with IE. Overnight, the Web jumped on the bandwagon, and suddenly all the server-rendered pages could return little snippets (like a confirmation that your comment successfully posted) without re-rendering all the HTML. Early Gmail and Google Docs blew people away. Nobody thought web apps could behave like desktop apps at all. Competitors like Mapquest took a while catch up (and eventually died altogether).

Of course people always thought portable computing was going to be big (Apple Newton, PalmPilot, Blackberry, etc.) but it took the iPod Touch and app store to make it real.

There was a time when Bluetooth was considered exciting, before people realized how shitty all the appliances were (and still are) compared to their wired versions or proprietary dongles.

Design went through similar cycles. Round edges, square edges. Skeumorphics, translucencies, dark mode, gradients, etc. all had their moment in the spotlight before everything started to look like Tailwind & Vercel. macOS used to be considered pretty and lots of things imitated the leopardprint & metal buttons, or the old plastic candy iMacs.

Little things too... the Windows key on the keyboard was really controversial at one point, since it displaced (or at least nudged aside) the ctrl/alt/altgr keys. Then all the keyboard manufacturers started making their own version of it, and all the apps (desktop apps back then) that wanted to look cool added keyboard shortcuts for it. The f-keys were out of fashion for a while.

Oh, and one thing I miss a lot about those days: Chat apps used to be intercompatible. They often shared Jabber/XMPP protocols and could talk to each other, and apps like Trillian let you merge your contact lists and talk to people on different networks from one client. Now it's all tiny walled gardens, of course.
He's been grifting long before the current AI hype

He went from a failed startup to president of yc to ultra wealthy investor in the span of about a decade. That's sus
There is enough residue left over that even diluted 1:10 its still cytotoxic. [1]

I seem to recall a post here a while ago showing that dishwasher residue was genotoxic as well but can't find it atm.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009167492...
You think putting neosporin in your nose a few times will get someone infected with antibiotic resistant staph?
As of 11 months ago, Fidelity had marked down their stake by 71%.

As of now, it’s 80%.

Are you saying that your threshold for “serious” is more than a 71% loss of value?

These losses are squarely in the territory of those who are commonly labeled as “worst ceo’s of all time”.
Interestingly the shortest route question of the salesman problem (which is what everyone associates it with) is NP-hard and thus not necessarily even within NP. P vs NP is specifically about P vs NP complete whereas NP-hard is problems that are at least as hard as NP-complete but need not be in NP nor decision problems. So make sure you give the “is there a route <= k” version because the much more common “find the shortest route version” is not NP.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1857244/what-are-the-dif...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
How Are Holograms Possible?