skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much do they have to be "neutral" when there are multiple candidates with significantly different popularity?

If there are three candidates polling about equal then okay, it's easy to be neutral. But what if they're |40, 35, 25| or |60, 20, 20| or |55, 40, 5|?

When does a minor candidate drop out of their neutrality?
I'm not saying the general idea is bad but just pointing out that neutrality is kind of a vague concept. It's a bit like giving climate change deniers equal airtime with serious scientists.
I notice that the earliest version of this post[0] is dated 1999, whilst the latest version is modified in 2001 (see the main link). Which year would be appropriate to mark it on HN? 1999? 2001?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20000310230940/http://sites.inka...
Zuck said Trump's fist in the air was the most badass thing he has ever seen. I don't think that sounds like what you are saying.
The thing is it isn't reliable enough to rely on the answer from just one question for anything that matters.
Circenses et panem
bc1qjasf9z3h7w3jspkhtgatgpyvvzgpa2wwd2lr0eh5tx44reyn2k7sfc27a4

Isn’t that the public Tether bitcoin address with over 75K coins?

https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/address/bc1...

That's precisely A LOT more than anyone knew about FTX's non-existent Bitcoin.
Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84
boiling the frog slowly. if you start out being more expensive than traditional media, they won't use you.

same thing with streaming. start out cheaper/more convenient/more comprehensive than traditional media - and an enormous market to grow into, so your shareholders are happy even with a reasonable price. wait a few years until you have saturated the market, and now the only way to achieve the holy growth is to raise the prices indefinitely.
Hi, contributor to Entropix here. This is just my opinion, but I don't think it goes counter to the Bitter Lesson at all, because it's meant to leverage model computation capabilities. Several papers have suggested that models internally compute certainty (https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16254), and in my view our method simply leverages this computation and factors it explicitly into decoding.

This is as opposed to pure sampling + next token prediction which basically randomly chooses a token. So if a model does 1274 x 8275 and it's not very sure of the answer, it still confidently gives an answer even though it's uncertain and needs to do more working.
They have satellites of their own. Since it's more expensive to launch, put them into orbit and operate them, I'm sure they'll reach some sort of "mutually beneficial" agreement, like we promise not to screw with yours if you won't mess with ours.
OpenBSD has had it since forever [1]. Why is such an obvious feature only reaching Linux now?

[1]https://man.openbsd.org/mimmutable.2
My understanding is that base models are reasonably well calibrated but the RLHF and other tuning that turns them into chat assistants screws up the calibration.
> Companies shouldn't be able to reinvest money into themselves because every extra dollar needs to go to employees

This wouldn't be called "profit", now would it?

Regardless, letting the market dictate as much as it does also doesn't make sense. Neither does trusting investors/shareholders to determine what's best for society. It's all just kind of broken.
Not the economic elites, or at least not most of them, otherwise they'd be better funded. Hope that makes sense.
Pygfx uses webgpu while VisPy uses OpenGL.
Most distros use https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy while RHEL uses https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy

It's also my experience that Fedora has better support for it, but Gentoo used to be good enough with hardened gentoo (they use https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-refpolicy.git/). Redhat and Gentoo are the only ones that officially support it afaik. I think hardened gentoo might have lost popularity since the fall of grsec, but I'm not sure how popular it is currently.
Sure, but I didnt claim he made a valid argument either. What I am claiming is when someone says things like

"The question of what this would do in the human body, which is full of polymers with very sensitively evolved mechanical properties, was obvious - yet it was not asked in a funded capacity until we had been letting it accumulate in our kids for decades"

which the article I linked supports, people come out of the woodwork to argue we need "more evidence/an exact biochemical pathway" when we dont have the understanding/technology to actually do that.
Isn't the Cybertruck that Mad Max looking thing that looks like it will shear you clean in two if it hits you? I'm surprised that's street legal.
Yeah that's not how investigations work. USAOs don't publicize ongoing investigations for obvious reasons. Once they wrap up an investigation but before convening a grand jury to indict, they may send a target letter, but they typically don't. Most often, people don't find out until they're indicted.
The sun shines through a mountain mirror in Viganella (2023)
This appears to be an alternate article, rather than an alternate headline for this one.
We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
Money is a lot in US politics, but Michael Bloomberg will tell you himself that it isn't everything. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg_2020_preside....
Same thing at LA Times: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/los-angeles-times-edito...
At this point, most of the stuff in a corrected edition of _Influence_ would have a bunch of asterisks in it or have to be deleted for failing to replicate or being fraudulent. I wonder how well this old social psych priming/influence experiment has held up...
pygfx/pygfx: https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx :

> Pygfx (pronounced “py-graphics”) is built on wgpu, enabling superior performance and reliability compared to OpenGL-based solutions.

pygfx/wgpu-py:
https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py/ :

> A Python implementation of WebGPU

gfx-rs/wgpu:
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu :

> wgpu is a cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics API. It runs natively on Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, and OpenGL; and on top of WebGL2 and WebGPU on wasm.

> The API is based on the WebGPU standard. It serves as the core of the WebGPU integration in Firefox and Deno
It may literally be too sharp for EU standards...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/08/tesla-cyb...
Los Angeles Times owner blocks presidential endorsement
Do Presidents Affect the Stock Market?
In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
I remember a paper long time ago that claimed that one reason why women have higher life spans than men is lower iron content in their blood due to menstruation.
A thousand atomic bombs are a dystopian hellscape enabler technology. Food that can grow without sunshine is a dystopian hellscape survival technology.

You could not have this more backwards.

EDIT: Unless you mean that someone would launch 1000 nukes on the belief that they could survive the impending hellscape only because of electro-ag mushrooms which is a possibility I strain to believe.
> Their sudden popularity is due to the FDA allowing it to be prescribed for obesity (instead of diabetes), not the discovery of a new drug.

That's not true. I started on liraglutide, which is a previous-gen GLP-1 agonist. It was approved for that purpose in early 2010-s. It worked, but it required daily injections due to its short half-life. It also was unpleasant, as you could feel its effects wax and wane throughout the day.

Ozempic was approved for diabetes in 2018, but became available in sufficient quantities for that purpose in 2019. Doctors started prescribing it off-label for weight loss in 2020 (that's when I also got switched to it), and it was approved by the FDA for weight-loss in mid-2021.

So while we could have moved faster, it's not like there were decades of time lost.
Because he very likely has a security clearance because SpaceX is a defense contractor to US government and regular people would lose this clearance on spot if they would try to communicate with anybody from Russian government?

See https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-bui...

Sure it won't be a problem that details about such space intelligence network satellites could get to targeted entities....
So the answer is yes, lol
You're missing my point. Words are simply serialized thoughts. When we humans read the words, like you would be doing for this sentence, you are building a model of what those words mean based on your conceptual understanding and experience in space-time. That modeling is how you can then determine if the model formed in your mind using the serialized words in the sentence corresponds to reality or not. For the LLM, there is actually no model of reality whatsoever, its just words, so there is no way the LLM would ever know if the words when modeled would be true or false etc.
Yeah, I think the idea of finding out what flavor of uncertainty you have is very interesting.
Starting from the beginning of the book, I came across this gem of a sentence, when speaking about math compared to science or engineering:

> Because of this, mathematicians are in a weird and, I’d say, unique position of always having to defend what they do with respect to its value for other disciplines. I again stress that this is something that would be considered absurd when it comes to any other discipline.

I think this is a concept that anyone who studied anything that does not directly lead to monetizable outcomes can relate to, but it's nice to hear even those whose gifts skew to the numeric also have to contend with "Milton Friedman's Razor".
While rates were low they could offset nickel and diming consumers by handing them cheap cash in the form of inflated wages to work lame jobs. Now rates are high, jobs cut, less consumer nickel and diming as consumers are tapped out

For the time being it’s back to the old way of screwing the public by over charging government for consulting work
I think you can remove one of those A's from FAANG supporting Trump, and it's not Bezos' A...
According to SimilarWeb (https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#ran...) HN gets 12.8M monthly users which is approx. 427K a day.

Do you think that there are anywhere close to 427,000 founders at any given time?
Frutiger Aero – The Promised Future We Never Got [video]
That's not in civilized countries (hum, Europe)
“We realized that our performance, especially on low-end machines, was really terrible — and that was because we had adopted this React framework, and we had used React in probably one of the worst ways possible.”

I'll bookmark for posterity.
Nuclear Startup Pacific Fusion Nabs $900M in Funding
This kind of human interaction is way too quick to have any deeper thinking involved. Because brains are prediction machines, if something unexpected happens that requires a quick response, it will be fully handled via autopilot.

If it was done via text messages I would expect a different outcome.
https://archive.ph/QcDqh
I spent a good chunk of my 20s lifting heavy weights. I ate well. Bulking was harder for me than cutting. It never took any real willpower or discipline for me to eat healthy food in healthy quantities.

Then I got busy with life and the convenience of fast food and then eventually uber eats lead me to putting on weight at a steady pace, and before I realized it, suddenly it was incredibly difficult for me to eat healthy quantities of food. As someone who had many years of success being healthy, it was not something I ever succeeded at doing for more than half a year or so after I let myself get fat, despite repeat attempts to resolve the issue.

Did our culture make it easy for me to get fat when I started devoting all my mental energy elsewhere? Yes. But I was never able to get back to where I should be prior to tirzepatide. Now my relationship with hunger is basically where it was back when I was fit.

Some people are be able to push through the various biological feedback loops based on willpower alone. I'm not one of them. So instead of staying fat, or berating myself for my repeated failed attempts, I'll take the drugs and be better off for it.
The future of AI needs more flexible GPU capacity
Haven't you noticed? The future of all cars is SUV.
Just getting celiac disease would counter iron intake :-)
Recent research using SAEs suggest that some neurons regulate confidence/certainty: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16254
This exact situation caused me to burn out hard as a dev.

Had a thick-as-dogshit “product owner” with absolutely no technical skills, no vision, just fucking clueless and arrogant.

I cared and tried to make “good decisions” but they sabotaged the project. Then they scapegoated me to leadership when the project was dogwater.
The ability to express joins in terms of SQL with Estuary is pretty cool. Flink can do a lot of what is described in this post, but you have to set up a lot of intermediate structures, write a lot of Java/Scala, and store your state as protos to support backwards compatibility. Abstracting all of that away would be a huge time saver, but I imagine not having fine grained control over the results and join methods could be frustrating.
> They negotiate network and power contracts at a scale that exceeds any typical Fortune 500 company.

..and then mark it up. AWS overall has 38% operating margin[0]. Depending on your application this can hit you really hard (cloud egress bandwidth being an especially obscene offender).

> I'm skeptical that running your own data center will end up a cost saver in the long run.

It's not cloud -or- your own Azure-scale datacenter. There are any number of approaches in between including hybrid to offload stuff like CDN, storage, edge services, etc to cloud but the fact remains many companies can run the entire business from a few beefy machines in co-location facilities. Most companies, solutions, etc are not actually Google, Snapchat, Geico, etc scale and never will be.

Throw in some minor accounting tricks like leasing (with or without Section 179) and these kinds of "creative" approaches are often impossible to beat from a pricing/performance and even uptime standpoint. That's certainly been my experience.

[0] - https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-aws-fat-margins-...
I still wonder if there's merit to this comment critiquing the state of the field of psychometrics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798887
Money has an influence but it's not decisive. In the 2016 presidential election, the Clinton / Kaine campaign spent about twice as much as their opponents but still lost. Could they have won with even more money? Maybe?
With luck, maybe some new nudity tolerance movements can be fomented. :^D
To me, the downside of on premise hardware isn't hardware swap out, it's just dealing with hardware in general. All hardware needs updates which is downtime for that hardware. Also, anyone in this industry long enough has been around for "Oh, we will just replace that broken piece of hardware" that ended up "WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE?" because versions didn't match up, hardware was rejected or just plain "Actually, THAT failure mode isn't redundant."

That can happen to Public Cloud as well but since they work with hardware at much much larger scale and most of time, build actual hardware software, they are much more aware of sharp edges.

Finally, with Broadcom acquisition, what virtualization software are using and is it really cheaper then the cloud?
> is providing a common language for computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists to speak

The cat theory framework is too high level to usefully exchange ideas between these fields. The consensus in academia seems to be that it is a nice "party trick" framework that has very limited insights or expressiveness in actual physics/CS problems.
It's a common misconception that the crusades were a crime of white christians versus non-white non-christians. In reality crusades were just as well a crime against other white christians as against non-white christians, white non-christians, non-white non-christians, an excuse would be found for any of these targets
It took me a few minutes before I realized that putting “n” at the end of “prove” makes the HN title readable.

But yeah, should have just used the original title.
I hope it was just pure intellectual incompetence and not financial motivation…
I believe that the academic programming language community is more relevant than you think it is. It's where a lot of ideas get their start, and where live projects get discussed, leading to future evolution.

Still, you're right that I don't expect that to lead to a lot of big changes. The set of really important languages is actually pretty fixed. We're still using C++ how many decades later?

I think TFA is more concerned about the genesis of genuinely novel languages, than the practicalities of what languages are being used. From a PL design point of view, a lot of the languages we use are pretty much the same thing over and over. The differences are of immense interest to working programmers, but the range is really quite limited compared to what's possible.
“Had”, not “has”, a long history of not endorsing candidates. They’ve been endorsing since the 80s.

The proper framing is “the owners stepped in to change the policy, to mirror the same policies they had before the 80s”.

Whether that’s right or wrong to do is a separate question. But framing this as though it has been editors going rogue or something is just not what’s happening at all.
What about… GitHub, Gitlab, Gitkraken, GirButler (featured on HN recently)? The list goes on forever!
I don't really understand why it is acceptable to speak for others on this topic. It is fine if it doesn't work well for you. It is also fine if it works well for others.

These blanket statements lead to flame wars.
While true your examples are AI, I believe in this case AI is being used in this context to mean LLM-based AI.

I don't know if LLM-based translation is better than previous translation models.
lol, love the attempt
Software Bloat Makes me Sad (2015)
I saw that but I'm not sure I see the "long history". From Eisenhower to Carter, then from Carter to now, that's not much of a long history of non-endorsement. The Post is taking a very strong stance here and it will be interesting to see if this stands up in 2028. The LA Times may have left the door open to future endorsements, but not the Post.

Better question: Why now? What changed for them? Was it declining revenue/readers, an overhaul of ethics or process? I can't wait to read the tell all some day about these decisions.
Or maybe Big Tech has swung to the right since the Trump administration better aligns with their power lust
I'm upset that we just accept a society that requires a lifelong commitment to purchasing a drug as an appropriate answer, rather than looking at real causes of why people are so unhealthy. I don't think it's exclusively a matter of personal responsibility, rather a supply chain and incentive structure to produce sick people that need medication to be healthy. This is a band aid.
Flink does have a SQL join now that you can make work. Streaming joins remain a hard problem, though and, imo, SQL doesn’t map nicely onto streaming systems.
I am sure it is “possible”, but we are talking about practicality here.

Why doesn’t the Linux kernel embrace model checking instead of experimenting with Rust?
> It took the FDA four years to pull Thalidomide from the market.

BZZT! Wrong.

Thalidomide had _never_ been approved in the USA for the morning sickness, thanks to the FDA. The only pregnant people receiving it were getting experimental pre-approval samples (now illegal) and during the clinical trials. See, for example: https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/fda-did-not-appro...
More expected (over ensemble of specimens) evolutionary "fitness" per unit of whatever you need to expend to make a jaw muscle a bit stronger. The buck is small because we're doing optimization calculus.
Well anyone can buy ads so it's not really an oligarchy.

What alternative would you propose for candidates to get they're name out?
>OpenBSD has had it since forever.

OpenBSD introduced mimmutable in OpenBSD 7.3, which was released 10/4/2023 (for US people, it would be 4/10/2023), so it isn't "forever".

Meanwhile Linux and FreeBSD has "memfd_create" forever while OpenBSD doesn't have anonymous files and relies on "shm_open".
IMO this year the ballot props are much more meaningful to the average person than usual. The perennial niche prosp about kidney dialysis aren't making a showing for what feels like the first time in a decade.

There are some big proposed changes to how local bond measures work, rent control, and the criminal justice system, IMO those are the ones spending the most time researching and considering the consequences.

As far as the more niche ones this time around, there's the same-sex marriage prop (which I believe is purely symbolic and doesn't have an actual impact on same sex marriage in California) and the prop designed to force the AIDs Healthcare Foundation to spend more money on AIDS healthcare (IIUC currently they spend most of their money on political causes like lobbying against rezoning that would allow denser housing)
This is f* cool! Privacy is super important and writing+running code this way would help to mitigate some of the concerns about data access control; browsers can access whatever user's identity does, which is a great improvement over, ie, an approach where a centralized LLM (trained with unspecific/too specific data) is run for a whole company.
Keep in mind it is only google. Trump has been developing his comms channels for a decade with a core base composed of people who hate 'the media' in every form. And he has gotten pretty good at using those channels. It's also the case that everyone has heard of him now (you may recall that he was recently The President).

Harris was put into candidacy at the last second and needs to speedrun building a president's worth of goodwill from scratch against a guy who functionally already has it. That means her marketing base is 'the entire country' and you need to hit that as hard as possible as fast as possible, which is expensive.
I think people "need" their publications to do this in the sense that the publication may worry about losing readership for not "doing their part to support the morally correct candidates." But you're right. Ideally a publication would report the objective reality and let its readers decide what to make of it.
I'm confused how that applies to political ads.
Waymo is providing the self-driving AI, it's currently tied to a specific hardware, but it will become adaptable to a wide range of hardware. It will be used in both cheap and expensive cars. If the technology is good enough, it will work with cheap cars too.

They will start using highways with regular passangers probably by the end of this year. Maybe Baidu can launch on highways with a 10x higher accident rate, but I don't think it's a significant advantage to the business.
I'm skeptical of this, as I don't see how the oxidation state from the food will influence the resulting oxidation state once it is absorbed and in the blood stream, or in a cell.

For digestive absorption Fe3+ is reduced to Fe2+, and then it gets reoxidized to Fe3+ after digestive absorption.

I would expect that different forms of dietery iron- reduced or not, protein bound or not, etc. would affect how well they are absorbed, but not affect the resulting oxidation state after absorption.

I suppose I would need more details on exactly how they think the iron is being transported to the cells in these colon cancer situations.
I’m speaking to how things are practically implemented, not making a statement about ideals.
Calling what is happening here "reasoning" is just nonsense.
tbh I continue to say the i3 scale/weight was what mass market EV transportation should have been designed towards (and more efforts focused on public trans than single/small n occupant cars). Societal/environmental cost of 6000-7000 lb behemoths erase any emissions gains from going EV.