skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of them remind me of Elizabeth Holmes. She ran Theranos through a promise of lies long enough they turned into fraud.

So far Musk has been pushing the lies out continually to try and prevent any possible exposure to fraud. Like "Getting to Mars will save humanity" or the latest "We will never reach Mars unless Trump is president again". Then again, self driving cars are just around the corner, as stated in 2014 with a fraudulently staged video of their technology, that they just need to work the bugs out.

Altman is making wild clams too with how Machine Learning will slow and reverse climate change while proving that the technology needs vast more resources, specially in power consumption, just to be market viable for business and personal usage.

All three play off people's emotions to repress critical thinking. They are no different than the lying preachers, I can heal you with a touch of my hand, that use religion to gain power and wealth. The three above are just replacing religion with technology.
People who have things which are exotic, rare, or complicated don’t present some kind of existence proof against advice directed at a general population which doesn’t have those conditions.
All it would want to do is talk about Minecraft and the funny memes they saw.
You CAN add a Wi-fi widget. And while there's not a native airdrop widget, you can add a Shortcut widget that controls airdrop.

(edit: spelling of Wi-fi)
None for raid 1. They do it for raid 5/6 if you're a crazy person and want to run parity raid in 2024.
> although you won't find, like... fascism in there (sorry if you're disappointed)

I don't understand how HN can hit such highs sometimes, but also host nonsense like this.
I feel like a godmother doesn't work as a metaphor like a godfather does
Elizabeth Holmes screwed up by telling the wrong lies and also having the wrong chromosomes. She should've called some cave rescuers pedophiles, then maybe people would've respected her.
Beth Mole is as consistent as ever
https://archive.is/uTgE6
Unfortunately there is still the issue[1] of fingerprinting. Until it can spoof the TLS handshake of a typical browser, you get these "Just a quick check..." or "Sorry, it looks like you're a bot" pages on about 80% of the web.

[1]: https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/4575
Believe it or not surveillance capitalism isn't the only business model out there. Builders and makers may perhaps find something more interesting to do.
I happened to watch a snippet of the anime Demon Slayer in an obscure Chinese fan dub. Ironically, this caught my attention.

How is that ironic?
Journalists smell blood in the water. When times were looking better they gave him uncritical praise.
Home-Made RTOS on Renode Simulation
MOS is a self-made RTOS written in C++, which was running on a STM32F4 series board.

(1)Original repository with FatFS and GuiLite: https://github.com/Eplankton/mos-stm32

(2)Renode version (pretty trivial, only for Cortex-M): https://github.com/Eplankton/mos-renode

I have been working on this project for over a year, and now it can run smoothly on Renode simulation platform under Linux environment just like what I've done on a real dev-kit board, also debug and tracing works just fine.

For anyone who wonders what Renode is, to be simplified, it's an alternative to Qemu simulator, for better infrastrutures in embedded MCU/Soc, Cortex/RISC-V etc.For more information, check this link if you'd like: https://renode.io/
Ask HN: Any tips to reduce visual snow?
I've had visual snow for as long as I can remember, which reduces the clarity of my vision even when wearing glasses.

I saw a thread here on tinnitus a few weeks ago and figure this is along the same lines as a persistent problem with not many well known solutions

Has anyone with visual snow found a way to reduce or eliminate the experience?
yes, really, don't do it. it's a danger not only to yourself, but to others as well.
A CEO that is the CEO of a publicly traded company who has over-leveraged their position and is now locked into chasing growth even if the company they're running suffers has a fiduciary duty to lie. There are plenty of CEOs not in this position.

I'm not talking about Altman in particular, I'm just annoyed with this constant spam on HN about how we all need to turn a blind eye to snake oil salesman because "that's just how it's supposed to be for a startup."

For a forum that complains about how money ruins everything, from the Unity scandal to OSS projects being sponsored and "tainted" by "evil companies," it's shocking to see how often golden boy executives are excused. I wish people had this energy for the much smaller companies trying to be profitable by raising subscriptions once in the 20 years they've been running, but instead they are treated like they burned a church. It truly is an elitist system.
Pythagora pivoted to full app development using AI. There's an open source (FSL-MIT) licensed core[0] and a VSCode extension[0]. There's an overview video of just-released v1 (early access), more info at https://www.pythagora.ai/

[0] https://github.com/pythagora-io/gpt-pilot

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Pythagor...
> Learning a language? Well, unless I can get imminent rewards, or be continually interested and engaged, there's just no way I'll be able to do this. And I feel like rote, deliberate practice is just impossible for me to build a habit out of.

Create your own environment. Set your devices to the language you want to study. Consume content in that language. Instead of doing X in English, do X in your target language. It can be a processes of enriching substitution. This helps with technical skills as well, as there are also far fewer resources when you search an error message, and you need to be able to mentally grep the text quickly for what you're after.
And some Mongols, Romans, etc probably said continually expanding their boarders would give them comparable contemporary heights.
You can even take an enormous sample of articles that he has written and fine tune a model on it, so that it really sounds like him.
I don’t even know how this fake news started
Hey, I am not trying to be mean to anyone. We all are forced to use technology more than we could choose too. Some friends and family of mine use AI and I am not mean to them. I just gently talk about it. Even my Macbook has some AI processor in it though I don't use it.

There's no condemnation whatsoever, except for some who are really pushing AI.
Vote for politicians who support a single payer health care system
Nearly all of the stories of unrecoverable data loss I've read involve someone discovering they have a problem, then trying the traditional ext/xfs recovery techniques before reading the docs, and thereby destroying their fs.
Like this magic pill to loose weight that you need to take before every meal with large glass of water, where pill is optional.
I thought throw tent. Too many fiberglass splinters in my fingers growing up. Why can’t we just invent one that unfolds and snaps into place?
But of course can never happen because it only takes a minority to cry about a few factual bad stories and present the fallacious "is it worth it" argument. "Is your epicurian enjoyment worth even one dead baby?" And a majority who have no reason to think much about it go along with it because no one will say "yes it's worth it" and few are able to articulate how the question was invalid in the first place.

The opposite minority argument, that variety, depth, richness, are important, not luxuries, don't have their own dead babies to present. They do exist, but they aren't visible except in aggregate. You can measure a change in average health over the course of entire generations, and from that you can extrapolate the change in number or frequency of deaths, and then you could compare numbers of dead babies. But you can't obviously show any particular cause & effect because there are so many other variables, and even if you could, it took entire generations whole lives lived and died before they could benefit anyway.
Most sweeteners also have been shown to cause more weight gain than sugar (they screw up your metabolism). Unless you’re diabetic, there’s literally no reason to consume them.
Author here for your mechanical computer questions...

P.S. there are two more parts to the series, going into more details on the Globus, explaining the circuitry and the "algorithms":
https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-electroni...
https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-in...
After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Odds are you probably can't, at least not when you need the care most, which is the exact issue the article decries. Systems like Kaiser Permanente are not, but Kaiser is a vertically integrated HMO and structured very differently (disclosure: worked for Kaiser as a hospital per-diem for a number of years). Your best option is to make sure you know what EDs are actually in-network for you so at least you're less likely to get nailed if you have a little time to work with and aren't being transported by EMS.
The C919 is China's answer to the A320. But what is it like onboard?
The thing that doesn't get mentioned much in these conversations that I've personally seen play a big role is the regulation. When you have highly complex regulations, you end up consolidating practices. As regulations increase, the number of distinct providers/owners decrease. Many individuals don't want to run their own practice due to the complexities (insurance, etc) that exist beyond the work (treating people). It doesn't make a lot of sense to deal with the insurance, billing, recordkeepeing, etc for a single physician or two. They wouldn't be able to compete with the larger and more effiecent practices that have more bargaining power with insurance companies anyways.
LLMs aren't really simulating intelligence so much as echoing intelligence.

The problem is when the hype machine causes the echoes to replace the original intelligence that spawned the echoes, and eventually those echoes fade into background noise and we have to rebuild the original human intelligence again.
This is great insight. Science fiction does a great job inspiring technology research, but we forget that real-world accomplishments can be much humbler and still astonishing all the same.

I'm a bit tired of the hype surrounding LLMs, but all the same for very mundane and humbler tasks that require some intelligence modern LLMs manage to surprise me on a daily basis.

But it rarely accomplishes more than what a small collection of humans with some level of expertise can achieve, when asked.
Just that you need to aling on one blockchain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blockchains). So if i would be VISA or anyone else, i would just create a visachain without any need for distributed, public etc.

And cross chain transaaction is not a solved problem.

Also for financial transactions and things, i do not want them public. Now i need some magic zero knowledge system and a trust anker. Who verifies the trust anker? again a company.

Its not getting easier or frictionless at all just because blockchain and smart contracts.

I also don't see any advantage for a company to let random people run my transactions and paying others instead of just doing it myself.

Also user don't run blockchains. A normal company will just go to another company to do that the same thing as we do today. Do you think a company will just deploy a smart contract and then out of thin air someone else calls it? No another computer system would call it which also needs to run somewhere.
What you mean no? That's exactly what GP said.
I hope I am very wrong here, but it's already looking like it's game over for Democrats. Once they lose, it will also effectively be game over for democracy in the US, leading to a single-party rule, not like the benefactory one in China, but more like the feudal one in Russia.
I would think if the men were willing surrender and change loyalty, they would also have been more useful alive.
>>You’d be prosecuting people for concealing ownership.

Yes, and concealing ownership over the long term is more difficult (in many cases, impossible, e.g., for executives with stock packages — exactly the set of most likely insider traders) and investigating and prosecuting it is far easier vs insider trading.

Seems like a win.
Yeah I stopped my subscription during 4 thinking it wasn't super useful, but 4o does seem to handle programming logic pretty well. Better than me if given the same timeframe (of seconds) at least.

It's helped me stay productive on days when my brain just really doesn't want to come up with a function that does some annoying fairly complex bit of logic and I'd probably waste a couple hours getting it working.

Before I'd throw something like that at it, and it'd give me something confidently that was totally broken, and trying to go back and forth to fix it was a waste of my time.

Now I get something that works pretty well but maybe I just need to tweak something a bit because I didn't give it enough context or quite go over all the inconsistencies and exceptions in the business logic given by the requirements (also I can't actually use it on client machines so I have to type it manually to and from another machine, so I'm not copy pasting anything so I try to get away with typing less).

I'm not typing anything sensitive, btw, this is stuff you might find on Stack Overflow but more convoluted, like "search this with this exception and this exception because that's the business requirement and by these properties but then go deeper into this property that has a submenu that also needs to be included and provide a flatlist but group it by this and transform it so it fits this new data type and sort it by this unless this other property has this value" type of junk.
Everyone wants to get a diagnosis of ADHD and/or autism so they can spend the rest of their life never growing or improving

If you ever saw someone get an ADHD diagnosis, along with appropriate medication and mental tools, you might not hold this antiquated, bigoted view of others.
They haven't fixed raid 5 because no one serious uses parity raid in this decade. Try recruiting an Open source dev to write something that useless...
I'm busy so I didn't read the paper - is there a reason to use neosporin instead of petroleum jelly? In addition to your concern, many people are actively allergic to the ingredients in neosporin.
Using a scanner in an Amazon Warehouse felt a bit like that, just with the need to memorize the warehouse layout so one would know which way to turn at the end of an aisle.
The better reason to stop taking Altman at his word is on the subject of OpenAI building AGI “for the benefit of humanity”.

Now that he’s restructuring the company to be a normal for-profit corp, with a handsome equity award for him, we should assume the normal monopoly-grabbing that we see from the other tech giants.

If the dividend is simply going to the shareholder (and Altman personally) we should be much more skeptical about baking these APIs into the fabric of our society.

The article is asinine; of course a tech CEO is going to paint a picture of the BHAG, the outcome that we get if we hit a home run. That is their job, and the structure of a growth company, to swing for giant wins. Pay attention to what happens if they hit. A miss is boring; some VCs lose some money and nothing much changes.
But note that the price they can charge is based on market supply and demand. If Claude is priced at $20, ChatGPT won’t be able to ask $100.
Most plants have almost no power to protect themselves from humans. Animals do. It's not a consistent guarantee.
France's three-decade treasure hunt for golden owl has ended
SF city attorney seeks injunction to stop Oakland from using new airport name
> Nobody is taking Sam Altman at his word lol

ITT: People taking Sam at his word.
For Emacs?
Sam Altman is the modern version of a snake oil salesman
Are These Dots Purple, Blue or Proof That Humans Will Never Be Happy? (2018)
It would be interesting to see AI lawyer arguing a case in court.
Regulations for healthcare exist are complex in every developed country, but in most everything works fine for a fraction of the cost, so I don’t think that’s the main issue
The field is extremely research oriented. You can't stay on top with good engineering and incremental development and refining.

Google just paid over $2.4 billion to get Noam Shazeer back in the company to work with Gemini AI.
Google has the deepest pool of AI researchers. Microsoft and Facebook are not far behind.

OpenAI is losing researchers, they have maybe 1-2 years until they become Microsoft subsidiary.
The SEP page on Godel Incompleteness has a section 6.3 on "arguments against mechanism": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

There is also the "Criticism" section of the Wikipedia page on the Penrose-Lucas argument: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argume...

Those and the citations therein look like a good starting point.
I don't know a lot, but I do know that the legal profession will change itself as required to protect itself. Which includes protecting itself from being completely intolerable to the wider populace. This is a law of the Universe on par with the "death and taxes" adage. What this may look like is measures that will make legal action, and even public action on par with "comments", far less accessible. At least to robots. Though, I can't predict how that will look in terms of detail.
I'd like to see a source on that, because (excessive) sugar literally causes diabetes.

And of course high sweetener consumption is must be strongly linked with in general high calorie input and overweight people trying to reduce calorie consumption.
FWIW, my editor of choice is Kate (with LSP plugin!)

I have more respect for vi's key bindings though because they are, in fact, quite efficient. But I only know enough vi for basic editing.
You can frame it however you want, but there's no common ground between the abortion position of even mainstream Republican politicians and the position of the typical Democratic voter.
Wearing this leather belt is what's causing my constipation.
> I can't imagine taking The Atlantic seriously on anything.

Agreed - I stopped taking The Atlantic seriously after their 2009 cover story, "Did Christianity Cause the Crash?"[1] To ignore CDOs, the Glass-Steagal repeal, the co-option of the ratings agencies and the dissolution of lending standards, and instead blame the Great Recession on a few obnoxious megapastors is to completely discard the magazine's credibility.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/12/did-chr...
MBAs and similar types are the Western capitalist equivalent of the Soviet apparatchik:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik

Entities like PE or conglomerates are a lot like Soviet bureaus: giant bastions of bureaucrats appointed to run things they have no direct expertise in running.

The underlying issue here is what I call the "big dumb money problem." You get entities with more resources to deploy than intelligence or expertise to deploy them efficiently.

A major argument for things like anti-trust and some degree of progressive taxation is to avoid what I call "Soviet Kapitalism" -- which the top of the economy ends up dominated by big dumb money and bureaucratic monopolies. When this happens a market economy starts looking indistinguishable from the USSR. In a way you could say a totalitarian state like the USSR is just an extreme version of this with the state acting like one giant monopoly mega-corp.

Money needs to be redistributed so the ratio of dollars to brain cells is more balanced.
Yep, I make this point often.

The only two that match up with the Windows piece of the puzzle are Dave Kleiman and Paul Le Roux. Of those two, Paul Le Roux had a interest in online gambling. Guess what the first Bitcoin release had references to.
> The underlying social forces can't be eliminated from the equation

...nor is that desirable, or a goal of decentralization. Quite the contrary.
Many individuals don't want to run their own practice due to the complexities (insurance, etc) that exist beyond the work (treating people).

It’s interesting that the one specific thing you mention is insurance. That particular complexity doesn’t come from regulation. It comes from the immoral insurance industry.
>>nobody would want to buy or sell, as doing so would be money-losing.

Somewhat related, there is a saying that caused me great hesitation for many years: "Remember, whatever trade you make, someone else is making the exact opposite bet; what is the likelihood which of you is wrong?". Now, in large, this hesitation is largely good, but not to excess.

I then realized that on the exact same trade people can have very different legitimate perspectives that do NOT invalidate yours, i.e., many situations where you can both be right, for your goals. E.g., a trader may have a great reason to sell a stock this minute while a long-term investor has an equally great reason to buy and accumulate the stock. Or, stocks can go in/out of specific investing criteria such as for growth, value, momentum, etc., and different portfolio managers will be selling and buying the same stock at the same minute and both be completely correct about the stock meeting their goals.
What data are you using to back up this belief?

Progress on benchmarks continues to improve (see GPT-o1).

The claim that there is nothing left to train on is objectively false. The big guys are building synthetic training sets, moving to multimodal, and are not worried about running out of data.

o1 shows that you can also throw more inference compute at problems to improve performance, so it gives another dimension to scale models on.
or Emegen-C or hangover cures
Fast forward 20 years and we have propaganda machines that have been optimized on a nearly individual level

And now I have to ask: what are the beneficial applications of this research? My gut reaction is to unplug, to go offline, to seek out in-person communication and to shun online media.

But I have watched all this play out gradually over time. What about the younger generations growing up now? Will they be more vulnerable to the ever-increasing sophistication of these techniques? Or will they somehow develop a resistance to them?

Again, my gut instinct here is towards pessimism. I work with young people as a volunteer tutor. Many of them seem to keep shutting down due to the overwhelming burden of information thrown at them. At the same time, their attention is sucked away by media which draws them into a frenetic loop of scrolling behaviour, like a mouse on a treadwheel. It's extremely disturbing to watch.
The Chinese translation of those sub titles are pretty decent! Great achievement in just 365 days!
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud (...) by any private or commercial interstate carrier"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341
This brings back memories. I tried to do his (by using this exact site!) in college. Which, for reference, was 20ish years ago.

I wasn't able to get very far, mostly because I kept running into obscure compiler and linker errors and 18 year old me wasn't clear how to fix them. Would be fun to see how much is changed since then because it does appear to be at least partially maintained.
The weird distribution was something I experienced when I last visited California in 2018 and couldn't use my card in most places, despite having been to Kenya a few years before that and seeing M-Pesa all over the place.
Have you seen Carlin's bit about shell shock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVtJNv4ZNM

We're doing abnormal things (technologically-intensified war), the effects of those things are "normal" in the sense that we should expect trauma from experiencing traumatic events. What we put our soldiers through is hell. "Hardness" is scar tissue.
okay wow deep breath, you can just ferment things at home, it’s fine, I did it twice last week