skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this too, and it seemed like dumb propaganda on the part of the Ukranians. When you hear someone describing their enemies in cartoonishly dehumanizing terms, it doesn't really increase your respect for them (the speaker).

On the other hand, if your town was flattened, your family was killed, and you've been living in your basement for the last year, maybe that's just how you're going to be. Maybe no other response is reasonable.

(I still think "orc" is weak though. Something real would be stronger. Even just "beasts". Though, animals are frequently nice. "Monster" is a little metaphorical, but, monsters are also real (in that metaphorical sense). That might be stronger.)
Oh that's not true at all. First I think they taste better, they're sweet without being syrup-y. Second it allows me to drink a lot of soda, 5+ cans a day adds up when it has calories. I have no expectation that it helps
me lose weight, it's just tastier water.

It's funny that folks will look down on diet soda but then be fine with tea and coffee and sports drinks like the bubbles make it meaningfully different.
Balto's Puzzle
I appreciate this, that is why I said, "LLMs and other models". Knowing the probability relations between words, tokens, or concepts/though vectors is important, and can be supplemented by smaller embedded special purpose models/inference engines and domain knowledge in those areas.

As I said, it is overhyped in some areas and underhyped in others.
> it may be possible to create new intelligence

Define “intelligence” with good enough precision and details to compare it against some complex algorithm (linux core etc).

Until then your statements bear no real meaning to argue about.
chrome does ublock do not work?
Also non-flouridated, non-chlorinated water.
> The thing that doesn't get mentioned much

This gets mentioned every time. The regulation boogeyman always shows up. If only there were fewer rules... everyone could make more money, the little guy would be able to enter and play fast and loose, and nobody would do the wrongdoing those rules were meant to correct/prevent. Yes, there are regulations in health care. There are regulations in almost every industry, and yes, they can be a pain to deal with. Yet people still start businesses, make money, grumble endlessly about those regulations, and society marches on. As part of the general public, who are often the victims of business's negative externalities, I'm grateful that our government still manages to regulate businesses.
Mem Reduct: Monitor and clean system memory on Windows
Between the lines it seems the legal professions depend on strong barriers to entry to justify their high prices, and this is threatening them more than the companies.
I agree about diversity. We use a very limited range of cultures in mass manufactured foods.
Ironically this statement glosses over the indisputable issue of the specifics of the paperwork volume, and the change in it over time. "Regulations exist everywhere" is far to general an argument to be meaningful in my opinion. Humans are forever limited by time and their labor capacity within it.
I think you're misunderstanding me, which may be my fault because I'm being a little vague. I'm talking specifically about abortion.

There are those that want abortion banned under all circumstances, allowed, and allowed only in some cases. That third option is deceiving, however, and should for all practical purposes be treated as "banned" because:

a) one must prove they meet the government's requirements

b) the government with such a law is de facto hostile and run by those predisposed to deny requests

c) the government must make their decision quickly (which may be impossible, like if a rape must be proven in court)

It really is as simple as that.

The reason I was being vague is that this applies in a lot of other cases.

Frankly, I think the problem isn't that some algorithm is causing a divide or merely reflecting it. The real problem is that many people aren't used to thinking about the second-order details of their policies, they just respond and vote with their gut.

(Ironically, the same side that wants to ban abortion also tends to argue against policies like UBI because they say if the government can grant it the government can also take it away.)
Let's go with the no next gen models, then we'd be looking at an operationalized service. I might be up for paying $20/month for one. Certainly more value than I get from Netflix. All I would want from the service is a simple low-friction UI and continued improvements to keep up with or surpass competitors. They could manage that.

The long-term problem may be access to quality/human-created training data. Especially if the ones that control that data have AI plans of their own. Even then I could see OpenAI providing service to many of them rather than each of them creating their own models.
This is all quite good too:
http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html

Great to see someone take down XML, what a nightmare. Of course for markup nowaday we use the pragmatically simple "README.md" not "README.xml", although I'm sure the latter is quite popular amongst Java circles.
This looks like more work/income for the legal profession, not less work.

The whole article is about how with minimal effort you can cost companies and individuals beaucoup bucks in legal expenses.
The community has to be based on actually knowing people and a progressive level of trust. Just like other things in society: doctors and accreditations make sure that fake doctors don't practice, keeping sensitive information is based on trust, etc. An anti-AI community has to be a real community that is based on knowing and actually working with people, and not some online thing where anyone can sign up.

In other words, it's not a social network or an amusing website with a free account. Nor is it just about photo collections. It's about supporting real people who do not want to support or use AI.
I Stayed
> If OpenAI does not make profit within two years, the "investment" will turn into a loan, which probably means bankruptcy.

I don’t believe this is accurate. I think this is what you’re referring to?:

Under the terms of the new investment round, OpenAI has two years to transform into a for-profit business or its funding will convert into debt, according to documents reviewed by The Times.

That just means investors want the business to be converted from a nonprofit entity into a regular for-profit entity. Not that they need to make a profit in 2 years, which is not typically an expectation for a company still trying to grow and capture market share.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuati...
> Mindless, lifeless carbon orbiting around a star iteratively configured itself into a machine capable of creative thought

Just a hypothesis, unproven still, never reproduced in the lab even in its most primitive form.
Show HN: Job Board Simulator 2025
Hey guys, hope y'all are off to a good start this Saturday morning,

Needed a break from the job hunt, so naturally I decided to spend an afternoon building a site to simulate the job hunt. I'll be the first to admit that this one's pretty on the nose - but I wanted to share as I know I'm not the only one having a hard time in this job market.

That's all, this is just a fun little site to soothe my hacker soul - no real reason to exist. Keep on keeping on.
I'd actually be in favour of deregulating a lot of healthcare, but probably not for the same reasons as you. I think a cheap but unverified device/consultation/surgery is better than none at all (where only an unaffordable regulated option exists). But that's miles away from how society, even American society, functions. Without some mechanism to manage trust you can just remove the safeguards. It's actually quite possible to keep the safeguards and run a half-decent healthcare system, and this is surely much easier than finding a way to let people take calculated risks without causing mass deaths and a collapse in social cohesion.
It’s loud enough you hear earlier repetitions as a vague buzz in the distance, then crescendoing to a blare on your block, then receding with agonizing slowness like some hellish echo. And the whole time you thinking, awake now and very annoyed, “I don’t even own a car.”
Maybe the fact that they actually did dissolve the safety team formerly led by Ilya Sutskever in the aftermath of Altman's coup [0]? I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you're questioning.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/openai-di...
Browsers responded by blacklisting the Kazakh certificate the same way they blacklist the certificates that came with pre-installed spyware on laptops from shit vendors like Lenovo. You don't need to block all certificates to prevent against a well-known bad certificate.
That's true, although those government guidelines were not rooted in any evidence at the time. They were speculative.

Now for example, we know for a fact that monkeypox spreads through touch and physical contact, but still most people don't take action to safeguard against it.
Yeah, but the register is more regular. This one’s been ripening for a decade and is as fresh as the day it was produced:

https://www.theregister.com/2014/01/20/haribo_gummy_bears_im...
For what it's worth, I always thought that yogurts, etc. are better at slowing down digestion/dealing with diarrhea than constipation.
What kind of vegetarian? Some allow eating eggs and dairy. Some allow fish or even birds.
https://archive.ph/y4JOI
I can get into my Tesla, that I own and don't have to rent through an app, right now, and have FSD take me to the airport, or literally anywhere I want to go in the country. I don't have to be in one of San Francisco, Austin, Los Angeles, or whatever cities Waymo operates in. Tesla is leagues ahead, and to say Waymo is the "clear leader in autonomous driving" is a total joke. And this is coming from someone who regularly uses Waymo in SF. It's a cool tech demo but that's about it.
I really don't think that's the way to interpret it. Automattic is saying "you have the right to fork, but you can't use the trademarks if you do". The GPL says that's allowed -- you're not required to grant a trademark license.
That's great! Get involved if you want and suggest features for instance.
Whenever some theme gets broad advertising, I get suspicious. "Helps boost the immune system!" -- WTF does that mean?

"Probiotics for gut health!" -- yeah, right. Get back to me in 10 years when you have some actual evidence.
Wait, my mistake; the wi-fi toggle got added in the 18.1 beta track.
Ads don't reveal targeting criteria, the visible content of the ad doesn't indicate the user's private profile, it just means an advertiser chose to target them. No one treats the ads you're shown as credible & accurate determinants of anything, let alone sexuality.

It might show up in the "ad preferences" page if someone glances over your shoulder while you're looking at it, but generally people glancing over your shoulder to view private information isn't a Facebook privacy problem, it's a people-glancing-over-your-shoulder privacy problem. It turns out that even the most private & secure systems will leak information when you open it and let people see it over your shoulder. It's like saying your web browser puts you in danger if someone glances over your shoulder to see the gay porn you're watching on it.
In theory: yes. In practice: mitmproxy is written in Python so there will be a delay because of the language not being all that fast. When you're visiting web pages with hundreds of small delays, you'll notice.

That said, for many people who care about this stuff, this could be an option. There's nothing preventing you from doing this technically speaking.

There's a small risk of triggering subresource integrity checks when rewriting Javascript files, but you can probably rewrite the hashes to fix that problem if it comes up in practice.
I should be more specific. By "peaking" I mean a local optimum rather than a global optimum. I would liken it to the reaction of, say, the civil rights era. Put another way: the civil rights era (particularly desegregation) caused a reaction by those who resisted progress and sought to reinstate their desired social order.

What we've seen in the last 10-20 years is a similar reaction to improvements in the rights for various minorities. Combine this with poor material conditions and you have a recipe for reactionary attitudes and violence.

There are many parallels between now and 1930s Germany. The Great Depression hit Germany hard so there's your declining material conditions. One of the earliest targets of the Nazis was what's likely the world's first transgender clinic, Berlin's Institute for Sexual Research [1], complete with book burnings. We also have increasing nationalistic sentiment, currently with the completely invented anti-immigration crime hysteria.

Also in common: this idea of moral decay. Then with "cultural Bolshevism" [2], now with "cultural Marxism" [3]. And the Great Replacement [4].

What's required is a normalized belief system and the right material conditions for this radicalization and polarization to spread. Social media is, well, a medium. It cannot replace or create either of those conditions. It's like blaming radicalization in earlier times on the existence of the printing press.

[1]: https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-in...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

[4]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-the-great-replaceme...
If you're not going to judge people, then why bother at all?
In other replies, I've made it clear that if people really do want to spend their time searching for prior art, fine, go ahead.

I've also been clear that I won't be doing that because I found patent searching to be a real grind. I think most people would agree with me on that point if they've done it. It's much harder than people here think it is. (To be clear, on something that I enjoy learning about or is relevant for a project of mine, I'm happy to search deep and for far longer than I did when I was an examiner. I can't say anything I was assigned at the USPTO was ever that interesting to me.)

I also don't view this as a public service because Cloudflare can easily afford to pay market rate. And honestly, now that I've thought more about it, this Whac-A-Mole approach likely won't stop all patent trolls. There are way too many bad patents. Trolls will just find new bad patents! The best way to stop trolls is to raise the bar on patent quality by giving examiners more time and making legal changes to raise the bar even more.

All this stuff about how I must be unaware that people have passions, aren't paid for open source, and are not "rational economic actors" is extrapolating beyond anything I've said.
Allegations of Misconduct and Inappropriate Behaviour Within Submarine Service [pdf]
Mice != Humans
Lawsuits may become automatic when you leave a store unhappy it might have the ability to create a lawsuit and then the store's lawsuit Api will be called, then the two ais will start negotiations and end up with a $15 deposit in your account by the time you get home. And it will be all because a certain hormone raised in your head.
I hate private equity they bought our company and proceeded to nickel and dime it -
If everyone can catch up so easily, OAI has no moat and SamA is further full of shit asserting that they do.
> We recently made a Polylog video about the P vs NP problem. As usual, our goal was to present an underrated topic in a broadly understandable way

Interesting post but not sure why the author calls it underrated. It seems to get a fare share of attention and love amongst those that care about such things.
Regulation is where protectionism and corruption manifest.

Regulation is a tool that can be used for many ends. It's not very helpful to speak about them collectively.
You’d probably want an auto sealing system. You can coat the inside of your bike tire in a goop that hardens if a puncture happens. The positive pressure squishes the liquid out the hole and it hardens. That will probably be standard equipment in space soon.
> chat with an AI bot from home and get prescriptions or test sheets delivered

That would be a glorious day because most doctors are spectacularly bad at it. It will never happen though because the medical establishment is very protective, and will never allow it if using one's health insurance.

Meanwhile, I have a corresponding Custom GPT that I find useful: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Myvb8o0yb-medical-lab-tests-advisor
There has never been a gambling prohibition as far as I’m aware - so I won’t address an imaginary argument. Hope that helps. However, an astute reader would realize that there have been multiple other attempts at prohibiting “vices” that have failed in spectacular fashion. I trust you can do your own research here and don’t need to belabor that point.

On gambling prohibitions though - one local one I can think of is the CA gambling market. California has decided
most forms of online gambling are “illegal,” (except the ones that have successfully lobbied for it), yet it is not enforced at all, only on corporate sites, which creates a massive black market that actually causes far more exposure to harm to consumers than legalization would. This isn’t a novel argument, it’s been debated for 20+ years and the results are pretty clear. I understand however people don’t seek nuance in these arguments and if your stance is “GAMBLING == BAD” I really don’t have much else to say here.
> Money needs to be redistributed so the ratio of dollars to brain cells is more balanced.

It will likely do that naturally unless something gets in the way in the name of progress.
> The hidden cost is the time he spends.

Everyone seems to think that managing AWS is free.
Show HN: AzChat – Chat with Azure OpenAI Service
Minsky and Papert showed that single layer perceptrons suffer from exponentially bad scaling to reach a certain accuracy for certain problems.

Multi-layer substantially changes the scaling.
Then maybe the government (i.e. the public) should pay for more of these regulations, as opposed to unfunded mandates, which small operators cannot afford.

In the example of the individual doctor's office, perhaps the government should provide software and billing systems to adhere to their mandated processes, inspectors, fund regulatory agencies, legislative support, etc.

Otherwise regulatory capture can drive out much of the competition, potentially leaving us worse off than we could be otherwise.
>I have had similar experience where my gut health was immediately, noticeably better in Europe. I was eating the same foods and somehow it was better.

Could be due to you being in a better mental state. Gut-brain axis is very evident for me personally. If I am tense gut is the first to get affected.
I live in north Texas, and the situation here is pretty much on par with the article.

Urgent Care & Emergency Room combos are here on every corner. It’s a lucrative business, so it makes sense that private equity firms are gobbling it up. But I think the more interesting problem here is one level up. Why are there so many of them? I see two possible reasons:

1. Anytime one of my family members gets sick, it’s rather hard to make an appointment with the primary care provider. They are usually booked, and it takes a day or two to get in.

2. Bills from the primary care providers tend to be significantly higher than a bill from urgent care. Anytime I go to a doctor, it’s around $300 for a basic consultation visit. Any problem easily adds $50-100 to it. My typical bill from an urgent care visit for sickness is around $150.

Both places are in-network. Anyway, that’s my experience.
Luboš Motl's blog The Reference Frame .. it was a unique resource of awesome quality for its physics content ... He may have been rather toxic in certain contexts, but not even close to the limits of what a rational society would accept from someone this good.
There is a lot of confusion on how to interpret studies.

The reasoning of this article seems to be "The study did not produce a significant result, therefore the treatment is ineffective".

But that is not how to think about significance.

Otherwise, you could show for any treatment that it is ineffective. By simply doing a study small enough to produce an insignificant result.
if you watch enough gay content to get gay ads, then this concern is redundant
Your first point probably isn't actually true. The research that first connected the two showed that across a population sugar consumption up -> diabetes rates up. But it turns out that when you control for weight the effect of sugar specifically is much much smaller. To the point where if you're a healthy weight your sweet tooth isn't moving the needle.
I doubt $20 a month is going to cover it. How much would you.pay before you weren't getting a good deal?
Fyi kombucha isn't made from a "mushroom". It's a combination of bacteria and yeast and can be found in the liquid itself or the pellicle (blob of organic tissue) that forms during fermentation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOBY
You can also just publish html very easily with a cheap VPS.
Unfortunately they do show up in tech interviews.

“What’s the correct way to delete an element from a Java array while iterating over it?”

“Well I suppose you’d need to avoid invalidating the iterator state but I don’t recall the…”

“BZZT!”
I lived most of my life in an alpine European village; water was chlorinated and flourinated, more than in my current US location. There was a huge difference in mineral content, US water being almost distilled (1 to 3 French degrees hardness) VS something like 15-20 in Europe
Newsblur via Reeder app.
Isn’t huge profits the definition of success in capitalism? As a capitalist society shouldn’t there be cheers instead of complaining? This part I don’t understand about American culture.
Modeled on (and improved) the booger!
Fwiw, ChatGPT can give reasonable cancer prevention advice which should always be the focus for most of us. Also, tech behind ChatGPT can be used to do a survey of a specific cancer's main research using various RAG based tools or using my free software such as https://github.com/impredicative/newssurvey
Whoops, bit of banner blindness there, thank you for the heads-up!
And it still won't produce the type of articles he produces. Because at the very least he is capable of writing new articles from something the LLM doesn't have: his brain.

Seriously. This is just the parrot thing again. The fact that AI proponents confuse the form of words with authorial intent is mindbending to me.

Wouldn't have confused Magritte, I think.
> I'm talking specifically about abortion.

We know, but notice it took you three posts to actually mention the word. In your other posts you euphemistically used the nicer sounding (and more general) "healthcare" word to make your point. That's what OP is talking about: You're ironically doing the same thing the "other side" does. Using euphemisms and vague, but extreme positions (healthcare itself is under attack) such that it's hard to have conversation.

For what it's worth, I agree with you, but it's hard not to notice you using the same tactics the other side uses.
You seem to have some very peculiar definition of "work". To display time, maybe? I don't think I need to buy a $800 fitness watch for that. And you cannot export any data without "connecting". Hell, you cannot really do that after connecting too, except to download each gpx track manually via very unfriely interface, or, if you happen to be European, find a very well hidden GDPR-compliance form on a separate site to request export of your data, which you'll receive (in up to 3 days, they warn you) on your email in very user-unfriendly format, without any docs or APIs on how to process it. And you need to be their business-partner (like Strava, I suppose) to actually get access to any APIs.
Yeah, it is pretty awkward.

My forst car, sure: Capital-double-you, dollar sign, eff, nine, you, bee, gee, capital kay...