skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of comes back to the common law vs civil law system. Most English-speaking countries operate under a common law system where the laws as written down provide the ground work, but precedent set by previous court cases is also legally binding. In contrast most of Europe and South America operates under a civil law system (yes, terrible name, not the opposite of criminal law) where the written law reigns supreme and previous court decisions are merely informing opinions.

As you can imagine, algorithmic decisions are incredibly difficult in any common law system. And while they might be viable in a civil law system, you would lose out on the ability of a judge to give consideration to the specific circumstances of each case.

In practise both systems end up unwieldy in an attempt to be fair. Common law systems because of the overwhelming amount of precedent to consider, civil law systems because the laws become incredibly long and complex, with complex interactions between laws
Perhaps someone should have considered what problem they are trying to solve before spending vast resources on the "solution"?
We do; it was tested nationally a couple of years ago and, AFAIK, unused since then
The answer is a wealth tax. The inequality grows leading into a need for investments like these. If all other assets weren't so inflated then we could at least wish PE wouldn't need to do things like this but this is what will happen. Excess capital keeps buying up assets lower classes need due to lack of options otherwise.
I imagine lawmakers would be amenable to rules that you can't use GenAI to make legal filings, or that forced arbitration can now use AI to "screen" claims.

The courts are not for the little guy with little claims, nor are they a high volume system.
As if the title of engineer couldn't get any more diluted. Reminds me of how everyone now is a "specialist".

Call Flow Optimization Specialist - Works at the front desk answering the telephone
Most people in the U.S. think regulations are bad in and of themselves. Regulations as a concept are the wrong target.

Lack of government oversight and regulations almost always leads, eventually, to cartel pricing and/or monopolistic type pricing.
> and you'll never be able to escape it.

Slow down, cowboy. Getting a LLM to generate code for you that is immediately useful and doesn't require you to think too hard about it can stunt learning, sure, but even just reading it and slowly getting familiar with how the code works and how it relates to your original task is helpful.

I learned programming by looking at examples of code that did similar things to what I wanted, re-typing it, and modifying it a bit to suit my needs. From that point of view it's not that different.

I've seen a couple of cases first hand of people with no prior experience with programming learn a bit by asking ChatGPT to automate some web scraping tasks or spreadsheet manipulation.

> You + limited knowledge of Python + ChatGPT << someone + good knowledge of Python + ChatGPT.

Substract ChatGPT from both sides and you have a rather obvious statement.

> Respectfully but that's a bit like saying you don't need to learn how to ride a bicycle because you can use a pair of safety wheels.

How did you learn to ride a bicycle?
Related: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/
A lot of people have money, and luck can only explain a single case.
This is a little like I a features I wish macOS spaces or Vision Pro screen arrangements provided.

To be able to group, name, save, browse and retrieve multi-space/screen contexts.

I would end up with some projects I open and close frequently. And a growing list of started projects, which would be much more likely to continue for being so easy to resume.

Not being able to put away and resume contexts (of any kind) is a significant cognitive and productivity impediment.

A separate do-undo chain or tree for context edits, in addition to content, would be nice too. I.e. see a context history of what windows I closed, to quickly reopen something.

Seeing a lot of this in a browser is inspiring.
Same needs to happen to Elon Musk
Ok. Understand. Thank you.
Self-sufficiency is poverty.
They start to hurt around year fifty.
+1 for sure running LLMs 3.2 3B is super fast and useful. I have been pushing it for local RAG and code completion also. I bought a 32B memory Mac six months ago, which I now regret because the small local models are now extremely useful and run fine on old 8B memory Macs, and support all the fun experiments I want to do.
Because a healthcare plan isn’t insurance. You used the correct term. If you want a prepaid healthcare plan that’s fine, just stop calling it insurance since it’s not.

Totally agree it should be available for cash pay.
> as if our brains deep down were not just a much (much) more sophisticated machine, but nevertheless a machine.

That is one position, but materialism is not universally taken as a foregone conclusion.
Power cord?
seems reasonable to add an initial cost burden to the filer then, to pay for the review, especially if they are filing a lot of suits. Say first 10 suits per year are free, but then you need to get on the premium plan :D
Super feels to me like it's a difference in degree rather than in kind. Something with intelligences {A, b, c} might be super intelligent compared with {a, b, c}. i.e. more intelligent in domain A.

But if one has {a, b, c} and the other has {b, c, d} neither is more or less intelligent than the other, they just have different capabilities. "Super" is a bit too one-dimensional for the job.
We tend to over estimate how long it takes to form good habits and under estimate how quickly bad habits form.

Try exercise breaks (quick set of reps/stretch) or a game session (get back to work when you realize how much fun you’re having yet BEFORE you are tired of playing.)
> , if someone says "robotaxi" then I have no reason to expect they mean anything more nor less than "a taxi with no human driver".

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

There is no reason to choose the most pedantic and smarmily bad-faith reading of the comment.

As for "50 years" - I don't care about electrical engineering, I am talking about intelligence. 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.
Be careful with coaching. It's very easy to leak information. The point is to get it without letting it know.

As for o1, well I've been using this for a year and a few big players have used it too. So remember that they get spoiled because they end up in the training set
I don't agree its always a get-rich-quick scheme, it can also be seen as a passive income stream. Its just another example of parasitic rent-seeking on which our economy is based.
I use buildroot to make a commercial product.

It builds the bootloader, the kernel, initramfs and rootfs, and then my application(s) all installed in the right place and connected to systemd. The output is a set of images that burn into their respective partitions on eMMC.

If you're a masochist, there's also Yocto. It'll build your compiler and crosstools as well as the entire system image.
It's pretty obvious to most of us that "integrating the group more deeply across its research efforts to help the company achieve its safety goals" is the corporate spin for what was actually "disperse the group that thought its job was to keep Altman himself accountable to safety goals and replace them with a group that Altman personally leads".

Eliminating Ilya's team was part of the post-coup restructuring to consolidate Altman's power, and every tribute to "safety" paid since then is spin.
The mixture of the narrator + common elements between each one (galvanized square steel) + the weird corporatized animations and it all knowing it is satire is what makes it so funny.

Other people have made their own versions [0], which sort of shows all their elements of the meme transplanted into a different context (furry, in this case).

[0]: https://x.com/i/status/1804207289517359223
Dead end. You cannot create information out of nothing.
It’s still not true.
Wasn't this only about supplementation?
That's a great scene. I mostly remember it for the exchange the two had after they finished modding the game and it worked [0]:

Red: "Congratulations, son! You have seen the future!"

Kelso: "Yeah, yeah, you're so right, Red! Home computers! That is the future!"

Red: "No, no, no. Not computers! Soldering! The future is soldering! [...]"

How often do we try to extrapolate from current technological improvements to predict the future, yet fail to grasp which changes are truly important.

[0] https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=936&t...
Or his honesty?
You articulate this position well. I've tried to convey something similar and it's tough to find the words to explain to people. I really like this phrase:

"Words are words. Writers are writers. Writers are not words."

I'm very bullish on AI/LLMs but I think we do need to have a better shared understanding of what they are and what they aren't. I think there's a lot of confusion around this.
Yes, I agree with that
George Orwell is kicking himself for not thinking up that name first.
I see—design rule. And your website is inspiring.
Everyone knows the US healthcare system sucks. But the United states medical system is not uniquely under regulated compared to the rest of the world. It's uniquely poorly regulated.
Or maybe both
> who notably said horrible things

How do you objectively decide which statements are horrible and which aren't?

The other stuff you listed are facts, but this one would be subjective. That isn't just providing contextual information, but adding personal bias into the reporting.
We don't have to speculate. If you look at the actual tweet from Firaxis, they are recommending a Ryzen 9 5950X which is a 16 core/32 thread CPU or a i7-14700f which is a 20 core CPU (8 p-cores and 12 e-cores). So they are recommending more than an 8 physical core CPU for 4K/60 High (the specs for lower resolutions/framerates are a lot lower)

Maybe a newer (AM5) 8 core/16 thread CPU will be equivalent. Like the 7700X is 8 core/16 thread but has better single core performance than the 5950X. Just depends on how well the game utilizes the extra threads.
50 Years of Queries – Communications of the ACM
That is exactly the point I was making in my comment above. This type of unambiguous problem is best solved using formal languages - something more like quantitative reasoning. But stuff like prolog or classical automated reasoning approaches are quite brittle. They break down quickly when you start to introduce ambiguity and noise. Statistical approaches like hidden markov models that people used in these instances were the precursor to the LLMs we have today.

But I was going down a rabbit hole there. My main point is that trying to use LLMs to solve logic puzzles - that can easily be solved in prolog - is a waste of time and a failure of the imagination. The applications that should be explored and would be most fruitful are those where there is ambiguity and contradiction.
Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say
It's funny, my first job out of college was machine learning for a company processing medical bills to detect fraud on the part of hospitals. It was a very eye-opening process for me as to how American health care is perhaps the worst designed system conceivable by man -- as in, it's genuinely difficult to imagine how the various regulations, incentives etc could be made worse from any perspective (left or right) or measure (human care, cost, equality, whatever). Medical diagnoses are systematized in a rigorous manner through a series of codes (ICD9s, CPTs, DRGs etc), but there is no real set or expected pricing for each code apart from Medicare and these strange agreements between particular insurance providers and particular hospitals (i.e. what defines "in-network" or "out-of-network", where pricing is more or less random). Bills also have an explicit location type (Inpatient, Outpatient, Emergency room, Ambulance etc) and Urgent/Emergency Room care is significantly and consistently the most expensive to the insurer (most American insurance is, after all, high deductible emergency insurance) and thus one of the major vectors of fraud was passing bills off as such. One of the real aspects of madness in the whole system is the pricing disconnect and lack of transparency between all participants: hospitals ask an agreed upon price to insurers who pay it with few questions asked, as hospital pricing drifts up insurers raise premium prices, employers keep paying premiums, and individuals either pay something contractually determined by their insurance company or an essentially random price if uninsured.

TLDR; it isn't at all surprising to me that yet another vulture on American health care expenditure has discovered how profitable emergency rooms can be and that we see such a mad proliferation of urgent care facilities on every corner.
Open AI’s AGI is like Tesla’s completely automated self driving.

So close, yet so far. And, both help the respective CEOs in hyping the respective companies.
Actually, CEOs, and other board members, are supposed to be held to certain standards. Specifically, honesty and integrity. Some charters explicitly include working for the public good. Let's not forget that and not get desensitized to certain behaviors.
> If we lived in smaller, more self-sufficient communities, then we would not have scale and the people in such communities would not have much desire to develop AI either.

You could say AI is the child of internet, as it was the internet that cooked up the massive trillion token datasets. Without internet, no AI.

But if you look closely, internet resembles AI - you can search for images instead of generating, there are billions you can choose from. You can search for information and you can chat on social networks instead of using a LLM. It's the same with AI but even better, human made. An HGI made of humans and networks.
Lactose tolerance is a fluke, not the norm. Unless you're of European (+ non-Jewish) descent, you probably won't be able to digest most dairy products as an adult.
> I already miss them, and most only quit yesterday. I feel their departure as a personal loss, and my grief is real. The sadness is like a cold fog on a dark, wet night.

I can't understand this. I do not view my coworkers as part of my personal life, so while I enjoy working with some, I wouldn't say I'm sad if they leave. This sounds unhealthy
Did you build your NAS in the 90’s or early 2000’s?

This has been available in Synology and QNAP devices for that long…

I used to own the tape library that is the Disney Vault. A common pattern for transcoding is to have a watched folder. Drop files you need transcoded in, get files you want in a diff directory when finished.
Ask HN: Would you WANT to be the next tech celeb?
A hypothetical:

A few years of hard work, endless swearing, a little bit of luck, and hundreds of late-night meetings later and you could become the next Zuck/Musk/Gates/Altman/Jobs/Herd/whoever. Would you want it?

Pros: Never worry about money again. Adoring fans everywhere. Mingle with stars and presidents. Free meals. You can reshape (some part of) the world in your image, tinkering with it over and over again, until you feel satisfied. Go to space. Maybe Mars. Maybe come back. Probably not. People will make memes about you. Your drunken bedtime tweets will be seen by millions.

Cons: Your drunken bedtime tweets will be seen by millions. People will make memes about you. Adoring fans everywhere. Haters too. No privacy. Can never enjoy a simple walk around town again. The peasants might chase you off Earth. Every tiny thing you say and do will be harshly judged. You'll never be rich enough, and someone will make you feel small not even a decade later. Never know who to trust and who your real friends are. Literal assassins are out to get you. You can never be an ordinary person again.

Regardless of whether you could become the next great tech person, would you want it? Why or why not?
Sure, if you don't want a job.
Not clear the relevance to the article, but I suppose people using GenAI for contracts need to be cautious, since they will be bound by whatever the AI comes up with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_...
Why is it interesting to just test one brand of probiotic with a single strain of bacteria?

Surprised to see it on arstechnica and HN.
Thats an interesting sentiment to me. I dont have much trouble believing in the work, even in for-profit companies. For me, it is about the end product, and if it makes the world a better place or not. If it is net positive, than the work (as a whole), is meaningful. Everything beyond that is just degrees of efficiency.

I conceptually like non-profits, but that seems tangential. Why would I discount my work due to comparison with a hypothetical alternative that is more efficient at doing good.

>especially one that just makes blogs

What's wrong with blogs? I like blogs.
Almost as bad as using ellipses in a sentence for dramatic effect...
Another (non-divorce) story.

* My wife and I own several rental properties.

* The properties are in an LLC that we formed.

* I went to local housing court to file papers for an eviction (non-payment of rent).

* I hand the paperwork to the clerk and the clerk says, "I need your ID to determine that you actually own the property ..."

* Me: "Actually, my name won't be listed. It'll be listed under the name of our LLC."

* Clerk: "Then you can't file the eviction yourself. You have to be represented by a lawyer."

* Me: "???? Can't I just prove that I'm an officer of the LLC?"

* Clerk: "No. If it's not directly owned by you, you need a lawyer to proceed with the eviction."

* Me: "But I can represent the LLC in every other capacity that I can think of. You're telling me that I can't do this on my own?"

* Clerk: "I don't make the rules ..."

$1500 later, I have to keep my lawyer on task to file the paperwork.

<grumble>
I dunno. I’m a millennial so all sorts of stuff was just ascribed to my generation. As a result, I tend to just assume these differences are overstated.

I worked with college students fairly recently. They did often reach reflexively for video. But when the written material was good enough, they used it.
Musk is an ideological asshole, this is Matt recognizing further growth probably requires pushing WP Engine out of their market. If you disagree with him on this, you probably disagree where Automattic as a whole is going.
Second Post Office IT system faulty and caused wrongful convictions
Well, I mean the actual answer is raise more money from investors. But it is better to leave things up to the imagination of the listener.
I imagine it is something about bandwidth costs
AI can do that too.
Here are two explanations of why cutting the power won't help you once you reach that state. In short, you have already lost.

[0]: No Physical Substrate, No Problem https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-...

[1]: It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
Santos Drumond you say ;)
There is a line. Forging documents is one of them.
No that just tips the playing field back in favor of the larger players who can afford the fees.
Every tech CEO (and honestly almost every wealthy person) is doing the same thing. You're mistaking correlation for causation.
As noted previously: Depends on the question. It is actually illegal to ask some questions, at least in the U.S. Ie. How old are you? Etc.

Cheers, M
I think that’s true, but it’s kind of like the trade offs during the pandemic where we knew it would eventually settle into a stable state but still wanted to reduce the harm getting there. We basically need some large fraction of the global population to level up in media literacy at all once.
I think the causality runs the other direction. Europe has an efficient system so they can easily afford to give everyone health care. We have a very expensive system so we don't.

Medicare costs do not look like the rest of the world. Medicare has slightly lower costs than private insurance but that's mostly bargaining power not any increases in efficiency. They free ride a little off money made off private insurance.
I see it differently. ChatGPT holds a unique position because it has the most important asset in tech: user attention. Building a brand and capturing a significant share of eyeballs is one of the hardest challenges for any company, startup or not. From a business standpoint, the discussion around GPT-5 or AGI seems secondary. What truly matters is the growing number of users paying for ChatGPT, with potential for monetization through ads or other services in the future.
Forget that. Pasting logos of big-named companies on forged documents. I mean, seriously?
Guess what? It didn't happen, and all the naysayers that McAfee bet his own penis on were right.

Got any other grand predictions you want to make about crypto, while we're here?
Wow, hearing about “tea mushroom” (that’s how it’s called in Ukraine) for my whole life, and it’s not a mushroom!

Fascinating.
Humans were also not meant to handle corporations of a scale that could engage in things like IP theft, data theft, wage fixing, and mass psychology, with impunity. It strikes me as a cat and mouse game. Not that I think either side will make things better for the rest of us.
Too many ABBA references and not enough Black Flag. I need some more. Don’t ask what for.
Yeah, OP doesn't say they didn't happen.

Regardless of their initial intentions, I find it difficult to argue that these acts haven't served as a tool of war.

One must also acknowledge these acts were not isolated. I do not have concrete proof, maybe there is some out there, but the fact of the matter is that scale and their psychological effects are undeniable.
This general method has worked well for me, too.

Keep things as simple as possible for as long as possible, identify abstractions later rather than sooner, build the system knowing it will change and optimize for as little friction as possible when that change inevitably happens.
You forgot the /s. Or at least I deeply hope you forgot the /s.
Not true. In classical general relativity singularity have 0 size.
Any other theory to avoid 0 sized singularities (LQG, string theory) has not been accepted and that's actually my point: true hard singularities are probability due to our theories not being complete and likely something else happens. However, you can't claim you know singularities have plank volume because no one managed to quantize spacetime in a coherent theory that explains everything we observe.
His evocation of the assault on Rodney King and the L.A. Riots is perplexing.
I use the fake bokeh "lens blur" tool in Adobe Camera Raw every day, and 99% of the time it gets these kinds of problems correct. Every now and again I have to click the tool and adjust the depth map, but for the most part it is amazingly good. I don't know what ML model they use and how far behind this Apple SOTA research Adobe's product is.
Zeldman, Bowman, Molly, ppk are the ones I remember reading and learning from back in the IE6, pre-firefox days.

Legends indeed.