skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find anything on that site that wasn't marketing material. I didn't dig deep into that organization but it appears to be run by the type of fanatics that I am talking about. It is dedicated to advocating for a certain type of treatment, not dedicated to gathering what we do and don't know about the topic.
I can't get it to go slow either, I have a fancy prompt (Starship) and nerdfonts.
Potentially. See "Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates" [1].

[1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lithium-in-drinking-water-linked-...
What a neat bench mark! I'm blown away that o1 absolutely crushes everyone else in this. I guess the chain of thought really hashes out those associations.
Last time I heard it was before I switched to FastStone
This is, craaaaaazzzzzy. I'm just a layman, but to me, this is the most compelling evidence that things are starting to tilt toward AGI that I've ever seen.
Hacker news is a pretty strong echo chamber for the work from home crowd. When covid hit there were many people at my company who really struggled with working from home. The reasons ranged from having kids or family interrupting them, being stuck in small condos, some of the new to the country employees relied on office time to get to know coworkers and make friends, others just really disliked working alone or wanted physical separation of work and home life.

Often the people here on HN try to make it out that anyone who appreciates or wants to work in an office is evil or stupid or the like, but honestly probably half of people actually want a few days in the office. Comments here are not actually representative of the whole industry.
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Citizens convicted of crimes are citizens just like you (I assume) and I. I don't think most people find it beneficial to disenfranchise them.

One obvious use case for not disenfranchising citizens convicted of crimes, is a politician who criminalizes opposition, thus making it impossible to vote them out.

As for policies which hurt people: policies favoring old folks often hurt the majority of people, but there isn't a big push to disenfranchise old people.
Open-Source, Chiplet-Compatible RISC-V Controller
In general, I think 'unit test' level business logic should be in the model (think configuration for data-driven workflows, normalization logic, etc) but 'integration test' business logic should be in a service (callback logic, triggering emails, reaching across object boundaries, etc).

I think most people agree about skinny controllers but I've definitely seen disagreement on if that gets moved to fat models or service objects.
Gut-to-brain regulation of fly aging through NPF, insulin, and juvenile hormone
I think that misreads the market. From what I can tell, the RTO efforts reduce headcount without layoffs and the costs with those. It's not as if these companies are hiring to replace the people not moving. RTO is about financials, IMHO.

I've been talking with people in the tech sector and getting hired is hard for far too many people. Remote or in-person.
What if they do and are just lying to us.
I can neither deny nor resist market forces, but I abhor RTO. There is a staggering amount of signaling and ritual utterly divested from delivering outcomes.

To be honest I think perhaps more than 50% of “work” need not be done. It’s a game theory dilema and tragedy that we put each other up for these charades.
Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. AI moderation should easily catch the worst offenders and the most obvious ones. The examples you gave easily stand out from non-offensive content and are easy to catch with high confidence. So, human moderators will have to look at where AI has low confidence classifying the content. In fact, AI will reduce the likelihood of human moderators ever seeing traumatic content.
Modern English lexicography is descriptive and not prescriptive. The OED is simply insufficient to show much more than a particular meaning was common among some cohort.

ELIZA transcripts also use to pass as human even with experts in some contexts, but was clearly mimicry.

It is almost impossible to have real discussions on this topic without deciding on definitions beforehand.

Especially with the impressive results of modern LLMs, but they are still essentially pattern finding and matching.

If that meets your personal definition of 'reasoning' that is fine.

It is probably advisable to understand the limitations if you are going to monetize it.

Even stochastic parrots may have practical applications, but mimicry doesn't prove understanding.

One challenge is that modern LLMs are so huge that it is fairly difficult to find anything outside the corpus.

Look at OpenAI's GPT4 technical report and you will see that almost all of its performance on school tests is from pre-training.

That doesn't diminish the potential value, but it does point to the limits. If you have access to things that are reliably not in the corpus, or are likely to be lost with set shattering it is fairly easy to show it is still NLP without a real understanding of the tokens.

But that is my personal definition of 'reasoning', which obviously isn't the same as yours.
I'd jump ship if it weren't for the real time voice chat. It's extremely powerful for beginner conversation language learning. Hoping that a company will make use of the real time api for a dedicated language learning app soon.
I see this power struggle in job applications. The companies who really want to hire talent will include a remote option. Those with a more constrained vision will insist on hybrid or even full RTO. As an applicant the first thing I do is to filter out the latter.
Then use a DE that moves the file into the trash.
>"...a superinsulating material that, at close to absolute zero, has an electrical resistance 100,000 times higher than its room temperature value."

[...]

"Titanium nitride films, as well as films prepared from various other materials, can act as either superconductors or insulators, depending on the thickness of the film,' explains Vinokur. 'If you take the film which is just on the insulating side of the transition and decrease the temperature or magnetic field, then the film all of a sudden becomes a superinsulator..."

Related:

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24460-7

>"Recent experiments evidenced that superinsulators are the mirror-twins of superconductors with reversed electric and magnetic field effects."

Perplexity.ai (in response to one of my queries about superinsulators):

>"Superinsulators exhibit unique electric field effects, such as expelling electric fields similarly to how superconductors expel magnetic fields. This results in the formation of thin electric flux filaments within the material."
Article title: Ozlo Sleepbuds hands-on: resurrected and I’ve slept so good
I'm not commenting on who makes a trend, only the patterns that emerge in new products for sale.

It's pretty easy to see. Go to redfin, go to any city, and then filter by new construction.

Random example, Atlanta: https://www.redfin.com/city/30756/GA/Atlanta/filter/include=...

White, off white, beige, black is the overwhelming color palette for non-masonry color choices.

Builders buy what people want. And people want the trends they see on HGTV and social media. Not my preference, just pointing out what is most common.
maybe like a said I am not lawyer, I am just a peaceful person :)

for audio/visuals the game is currently pretty basic because I am not wearing all the game development hats, and 3D graphics/audio/animation is not my favorite things (but PR queue is open if anybody is interested), but it can be scaled to more complex map, I actually convert old "real" dust2 map to this game a _year_ ago and record video of playing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIBVGZanVvU
40% say that, but how many actually do?
I watched the second link you sent me. It cuts between clips ever 0.5 seconds or something. I have no idea what he actually said. I believe GPT.
Agree. CH is a great technology to have some awareness of. I use it for "real things" (100B+ data points) but honestly it can really simplify little things as well.

I'd throw in one more to round it out however. The three rings of power are Postgres, ClickHouse and NATS. Postgres is the most powerful ring however and lots of times all you need.
Cloud Empires' Physical Footprint
That is giving a lot of geopolitical leverage to Australia. Singapore will soon become hostage to the aussies every whim.
Mochi 1 preview. A new SOTA in open-source video generation. Apache 2.0
If the review was that their shipped packages were improperly packaged to survive shipping of any carrier would be useful info. Finding out they took 6 days to arrange for delivery after the order is useful. Bad shipping doesn't just mean the selected carrier had issues
Especially since one of the main arguments I have heard from folks who approve of the ruling is "but these agency people are un-elected officials!" So are Supreme Court Justices, who unlike agency people have no ethics rules.
CoffeeScript was amazing. It was only a dead-end because flow and subsequently typescript made an offer the ecosystem couldn't refuse. Unfortunately, I doubt that Civet will have much future momentum because even though typescript is the state of the art for front-end dev, it's a much less stable foundation to build on top of than ES was for CoffeeScript.
> It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed.

So implicity only offering review units to positive reviewers is still not allowed.
Ditto. Today's PHP is not your what your grandfather used to use. It's a much matured and evolving language. Python only got so popular due to Google's use and AI. It's like the new Perl.
+1 work - life separation is a must. And not everyone can afford a home office. Also isolation is a real threat.
Hiring in tech is harder than ever. AI isn't helping
I read the headline 5-10 times trying to make sense of it before even clicking on the link.

Native English speaker, just used the other “use” many times
I get that point of view, but for me, being alone in an empty office isn't much better than being alone at home. I'm not trying to force people to be in the office, I just want to find a team where people WANT to be there. It seems very hard to find, but it's also hard to believe I'm the only one in the world who wants to be part of something like that.
Paul Tudor Jones Reckoning on US Spending: "We are going to be broke"
Huh. I didn't notice Claude had serif font. Now that I look at it, it's actually mixed. UI elements and user messages are sans serif, chat title and assistant messages are serif.

What an "odd" combination by traditional design standard practices, but surprisingly natural looking on a monitor.
It just depends on the task I suppose. One could have a VM dedicated to a model and let it control it freely to accomplish some set of tasks, then wipe/redeploy if it ever breaks.
This is covered in the linked blog post for Next 15, including a demo repo, videos, and new templates here: https://github.com/nextjs
The empirical results seem legit. Not sure about all those "theorems". Those are claims of function existence, not a demonstration that transformers actually work that way. Comments?
As far as software goes, the proletariat is the means of production, which explains the focus on getting LLM's to write code.
> So perhaps you'd like to address those most recent instances instead.

I'm not sure what more you think I can say beyond what I've already said - "It is very clear that some soldiers in the IDF, like in any army, have committed war crimes." Some of the cases in that list are fairly clear war crimes, others are more complicated (and I don't know enough about them).

Let me make my position as clear as I can:

- I'm 100% sure that in this war, plenty of war crimes have occurred.

- I'm personally extremely angry with the lax professional standards of the IDF in many cases, and of the relatively lax threshold for choosing which targest to bomb.

- I would've been happy with a ceasefire a long time ago, mostly to start allowing Gazans to go back to normal life.

That all said, I think Israel's desire to remove Hamas is totally valid, and would probably be better for Israelis and Gazans themselves. Hamas is absolutely acting in many ways in order to maximize civilian deaths, which makes it really hard to take them out without killing civilians, and for the most part, the IDF is doing its best not to kill civilians.

I think if you compare the numbers of combatant vs civilian deaths coming out of Gaza, and look at expert military opinion on the IDF, they're pretty clear that the IDF is doing relatively similarly to how other armies faced with similar situations have done (e.g. the US in Mosul).

And I think war is horrible. You can sit down and list thousands of tragedies, and sometimes war crimes, in every single conflict. That's just not unique to this situation, and listing individual tragedies or crimes is just not by itself evidence of much except that war is terrible.

> With particular emphasis on "purposefully targeting civilians", which you seemed to suggest was no longer an IDF thing

So this conclusion, that the IDF targets civilians on purpose, as a policy, is just wrong. The IDF could kill as many civilians as it wanted with no IDF soldiers dying, pretty much at any time. It has never done so and never will do so, because it doesn't target civilians. Have individual actions been wrong, or do individual soldiers sometimes commit war crimes? Absolutely. But as a policy the IDF does not target civilians.
> For many tasks, inference on an LLM is a lot cheaper (including for the environment) than keeping a human around to do them. As a baseline, humans by themselves take around 100W (just in food calories), but anyone but the poorest human also wants to consume eg housing and entertainment that consumes a lot more power than that.

Obviously not true because that human is alive regardless, and has mostly the same base energy needs no matter what they're doing.

Reducing humans to just energy-using machines is an absolutely insane misanthropic take.
Definitely! Those with movement disabilities could have a much easier time if they could just dictate actions to the computer and have them completed with some reliability.
NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog [pdf]
Interesting!

Did not know that before...

Excellent link!
The rule also prohibits implicit compensation, but we'll see if it's enforced/enforceable.
> This is one of the saddest aspects: so much high-value effort and skill towards an end that, in the whole, I view as a massive drain and retardant on human development.

I think this speaks to the scale of the economy. There is all this waste. Soooo much waste. And patents are just one small aspect of the constant waste. And yet all these businesses and people, in aggregate "the economy", consistantly make money and progress and invent more. It's impressive.

And still, yes, so much more could be possible.
I agree, people's creativity in grabbing cash from VCs has no limits. You'd think you've lived long enough to see enough and the next day you get another surprise.

But maybe that's the way it should be - a lot of rubbish and among them one good idea that gets developed and actually make some positive change.
I don’t watch TV.

To my mind, this dog whistle moniker is more of a tool for suppressing dissenting views than identifying covert bigotry.

Apparently all the critical thinking has already been done off stage and now only those whom we agree with are tolerated. The others are shunned as racists or worse.
I remember the day where I knew that I wanted to become an engineering manager, but I had no idea where to start. There were very little resources out there that I was able to find. And the ones that I did manage to find were so theoretical and abstract that I didn’t know what to do with it.

In his book, Oren Ellenbogen aims to help those folks who are going through the same experiences as I have by providing them with practical ideas, which upon reading, you immediately can put into practice.

I especially enjoyed the “Captain’s Log” where Oren recommends that we take note of the dilemmas we encounter on a day to day basis. Not always might we know immediately how to react in such situations, but in order to do better next time, we could take a note of what happened, so that we can replay it against another manager with more experience then ourselves. This is a brilliant idea!
Re ORM: fair enough, I don't have any experience with Diesel, just wanted to know if you have an actual reason or if it's just a case of NIH [0] syndrome :)

Re templates: I understand that writing a new template engine can be a very fun task (it is both hard enough not to be boring and easy enough not to feel daunting). I also thought many times of creating my own template engine to fix things that I don't like in the language that I am currently using (mostly jinja2).

But if you intend this project to become an actual production ready solution, I see a lot of good reasons not to reinvent template language:

1. Forcing users to learn yet another template language is an additional entrance barrier

2. Tooling support. Existing languages might already have a good tooling support (coming from Python world: PyCharm supports both Django templates and jinja2 very well) including syntax highlighting, auto-complete, auto-formatting, linting etc. Are you going to create all of it yourself?

3. You mentioned planned migration from Python. How exactly I am supposed to manage templates during the transition period? Do I have to have two copies of each template: one in legacy language and one in
your new language? If you had a template language compatible with Django/jinja2 [1] this problem would not arise.

4. Whether we like it or not more and more people are using LLMs for coding. This potentially could solve the issue of migrating templates. I expect LLMs to perform really well on the task of "translating" a template from a <popular template language A> to a <popular template language B>. The problem is that if your template language is brand new, LLMs probably didn't have enough examples in their training sets to "learn" its syntax. So, basically, you are setting up your users for a boring, tedious and error prone task of rewriting each template manually without a proper support from their IDE/editor. Meh.

BTW, Django makes it very easy to bring your own template engine [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

[1] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/howto/custom-template-...
Rswag is still my favorite openapi-related project. You write integration tests against the server and get an openapi spec as output. But thats for rails.
-8% GDP by 2050 due to world water crisis; >50% of food production at risk
We may be protected from the specific literacy tests mentioned here, but there are modern variations that accomplish the same goal of disenfranchising black voters.
North Carolina's legislature asked for data showing how white folks and black folks used various voting techniques (in person vs by mail, preregister vs day of register, etc) , and then modified the voting rules to specifically lower black votes. One judge used the phrase "with surgical precision".
They were so blatant about their true intention a federal court struck it down.

But other states saw what they did and managed to pass similar laws with just a tad more subtlety and plausible deniability.
you're not going to convince companies by condescending to them.
> this does not mean we can not make the energy quanta be continuously parameterized

Sure, but can you measure those continuously-parameterized energies? I don't see how.

Continuously parameterized energies are no different from continuously parameterized space. They are part of the mathematical model we use to make accurate predictions, but we have no direct access to either, and (AFAICT) we cannot possibly have access to them because that would violate the no-cloning theorem.
I have trouble with this too. I'm working on a small side project and while I love ironing out implementation details myself, it's tough to ignore the fact that Claude/GPT4o can create entire working files for me on demand.

It's still enjoyable working at a higher architecture level and discussing the implementation before actually generating any code though.
The first thing you have to do is ban USA-based online marketplace companies from hosting foreign vendors. Then you can better regulate what is left.
actually game can be run using any modern web browser with websocket (without needing to use electron), I just provide electron as it have better performance (nodejs supports udp so no websocket bridge is needed) and key shortcut like Ctrl-W do not close tab instead you move forward while crouching :)
Yes luckily a lot of talented people are sharing their workarounds so you can host on AWS or Cloudflare with most feature parity and in plain nodejs docker with some loss. But it's a constant game of catch-up for these folks.
What has worked well is agreeing on a few days where people will focus their office time, no forcing involved. Make a thing out of it, buy lunch or whatever.

The only thing that changed is the power balance. It's still perfectly possible to get skilled workers into the office, they just have to want it.
This behavior may be a result of the climate. There’s several months where I live where the daily chance of rain falls between 20-40%, and it does rain on about a fifth to a third of those days… but the other days I have to give up bag space for an umbrella, for nothing! So I usually won’t carry rain gear unless the rain is obvious and obviously heavy (dark clouds and high winds, for instance, versus simply being overcast) or there’s some special thing where I must arrive dry (date, client meeting, the like)
Could coupons be a way around this? ... [deleted]

edit: after RTFM, page 42, coupons are considered valuable:

> For the reasons explained in this section, the Commission is finalizing the definition of
“purchase a consumer review” to mean to provide something of value, such as money, gift
certificates, products, services, discounts, coupons, contest entries, or another review, in
exchange for a consumer review.
https://genius.com/Harlan-ellison-i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must...
> Unisys will pay a $4 million civil penalty;

> Avaya. will pay a $1 million civil penalty;

> Check Point will pay a $995,000 civil penalty; and

> Mimecast will pay a $990,000 civil penalty.

With the exception of Mimecast, these are companies that are bringing in billions of dollars in revenue annually. How is this supposed to deter them?
When the tide goes out on the AI hype there’s going to be a lot of companies currently using expensive API calls for simple classification tasks that will be quietly revamped to use a simple CNN.

ML is a toolbox of methods. Not every problem needs a transformer.
> Your feelings on the matter don't constitute an argument.

Nor do your feelings that poor people have less informed, less useful, less credible, less valid, or less valuable opinions than rich people.

Better?
What was the survey methodology?