skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asking for humility in a world of selfishness and out of control egotism. I completely agree with you, but we'll never force humility on others; they have to go on a soul-searching mission first and learn to reject the false dichotomies of red vs. blue, left vs. right, Republicans vs. Democrats, etc.
I find it strange that people are so upset about the absence of an opinion piece from this newspaper. What is the reason? Either you want to be told what to think, or you want everyone else to be told what to think. I think it is the latter. Would there be any outrage here if Fox news decided not to endorse a candidate? I highly doubt it. Some people may like being challenged on what they believe, which is good, but that's probably the edge case
@michaelt: looks like you need to knock it further up still!
Related from 23 days ago, when the story broke:

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (31 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957

Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (13 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310
>Throwing random cryptography buzzwords at a problem does not magically create a secure solution.

no but any more words between those naughty ones and im pushing my quota

Diffie Hellman,

TIFU, handshake, auth between two+ parties

Homomorphic encryption, zero knowledge proofs,

Doesnt publicly exist in a useful manner; any implementations likely will be ITAR'd or NIST'd moled. allows verifiable, but anonymous computation, trust-less computing,

decentralized triple (sender, messenger, receiver) layered protocol.

like tor/i2p/other "pony express" decentralized trustless transport protocols - pass on what you cannot decrypt.

Faraday caged, deafened power supply, Heartbeat/pulse sensors, proximity sensors, voltage sensors, EM/radio triggers, dead-man switch, all reporting with constantly rotating codes.

^forgot to add bluetooth / orientation / volume kill-switches for physical security.

>Even if you had a genie to give you all of this,

lets not joke the culture, they are the best at math

>you’d absolutely want to include and build upon the work Apple is doing here.

ive described a modern da vinci codex and you think itd be better in a safe to be reverse-engineered.
Yknow maybe these are just actual us political groups… they have to exist, right?
> allaying guilt

We all know the mere act of being rich makes someone guilty, so that's a tautology.
It’s not a good product itself, with too many obvious bugs. The first issue was that I couldn’t log in with my Google account, and it redirected to an invalid page. After waiting for two days, it finally worked. Later, the scheduled product kept showing as pending, even though the set time had long passed.
You conveniently ignored the part where I noted that having double the consequential pollution will halve the speed of discovery. And yes, the pollution will double because more humans means more pollution that accumulates without getting recycled. Plastics, PFAS, CO2, etc. are all examples of pollutants that do not get recycled. It harms brains, aging them prematurely. A cleaner environment without strong financial pressure for survival is a much better way to do more cool things. Once the CO2 exceeds 800 ppm, brains will be tired all of the time, too tired to invent anything cool.
That would be worst case. Never happened so far AFAIK
So is a hundred random auth services developed by bit players and separate credentials for each better?

I don't think there's an obvious answer or ideal, but I've also had trouble finding more comprehensive discussion on the subject.
Hyphen War
Scenario 2 has already arrived - it's just not fully rolled out.
What if len() of a char* vs a Unicode string?
Training costs will come down. We already have hacks for switching mathematical operators and precision. We originally used to program machines on room-sized computers, yet we now all have access.

"Open source" should include the training code and the data. Anything you need to train from scratch or fine tune. Otherwise it's just a binary artifact.
The linked-to report at https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c10... says:

> Per the reporting party, on 10/17/2024 at approximately 1700 in the afternoon, a mixture of dye and an unidentified water treatment chemical used for the chiller system to cool the Tesla Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer was released into a storm drain at the listed location. The Palo Alto Fire Department recovered approximately 550 gallons of the mixture from the storm drain.

The reporting party is the Palo Alto Fire Department.

This was accurately presented in the article.

Yet you believe it's over 500 gallons of cleaning detergent. (According to the article, 12 gallons of those chemicals and the rest water.)
Many of the philanthropy videos are either manipulated or outright frauds. If you state your aim is to earn a million dollars to spend a million dollars on philanthropy and then after earning the million dollars you spend half a million dollars on philanthropy, the half a million spend is not a great philanthropic gift, it does not justify misappropriating the other half. Philanthropy as a shield is a strategy as old as time. We can forgive people for failing to meet their stated aims if they failed due to naivety following an earnest attempt. Can we forgive people for failing to meet their stated aims wilfully?

The premise of your position is that philanthropy is always a net good, but that isn't true: philanthropy can be harmful. Homelessness is the easiest example to think about, where half-baked philanthropic efforts can have immediate harmful consequences, as we see time and time again.
(1) might be both common and also wrong. (1) being why I dislike most of these media outlets. (2) the editorial board may be wrong and suffering groupthink, and ultimately slowly killing the paper.
why on earth did a legit question get flagged? that's counterproductive.
Majority of HNers are obviously left-leaning, and left-leaning political views always get much more support than right-leaning political views.

HN not abstract entity, it is full of living organisms with biases and majority view carries the day.
I think it's like wearing a jersey for your favorite sport franchise. It's not meant to influence anyone outside the group but reinforce group cohesion.
FT does much better.
But this change doesn't stop any of the journalists from writing editorials endorsing a candidate, including laying out reasons, correct?

The difference is that the paper as a whole won't endorse a candidate?
3 days ago:

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2024/los-angeles-times...
Improving SSH's security with SSHFP DNS records (2022)
Thanks for the considered response.

> "Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP": https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284

That's a very cute result, but requires a very specific definition of 'efficient market'. There's actually a range of 'efficient market' definitions, each with their own 'efficient market hypothesis'.

One of the weaker forms that I like is: 'don't expect to make any money trading stocks as an amateur on news that the full time professionals (and their computers) in the hedge funds and at Goldman have already seen.' (This one is mostly useful for internet discussions with people who believe in reading price charts etc.)

The paper basically shows that if you want to be really careful in your definition of '(weakly) efficient market', you need to take computational complexity into account. It says more about definitions, than about the economy. In any case, if you like that kind of thing, you should check out https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=735 too.

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> In this case, government control makes this sector function as a planned economy. The normal flaw in a planned economy is that it cannot respond quickly to changing consumer demand, and I do not dispute this.

There's lots more wrong with (most) planned economies.

Eg the demand for toilet paper is---covid aside---famously easy to predict. Yet, the Soviet Union was also infamous for their toilet paper shortages.

> In the case of medical issues, consumer demand is a lot more predictable by the government than by the general public, as the demand 20 years from now is mostly directly influenced by other government interventions in the meantime [...]

The government officials in power today are most likely not the government officials in power over the next 20 years. In most cases, it's not even the same party that's in power. Current government officials don't necessarily have any special insight into long term government actions.
How is it faux if he’s giving away a lot of money for pretty objectively good things?
Congrats on the launch! Will check this out
This is great. Now if they could also stop pretending there are only 2 options maybe we could one day have peace in the world.
It took this long to establish a Right to Repair for Ice Cream Machines... So, where shall we set the over:under for number of years til regain a Right to Repair our own cars?
In a recent comment, you write that "single purpose accounts are not allowed on HN". This one is fourteen years ongoing, and I know that you have been alerted to it numerous times: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rayiner
A Case for Binary Packages
When was that decided? By who? This game of constantly changing definitions and deciding who can and cannot say what is the hallmark of a tyrannical psuedo-religious ideology that cannot tolerate dissent because its results cannot bear scrutiny.
For reasons nobody understands, paper beats rock.
Show HN: Turn your Google Doc into a website
> Wait, so you begged your CISO to figure out why your work internet ecosystem was blocking your personal project website from work computers? Man that sounds like a horrible waste of the CISOs time and not what work resources are for.

Sticking to your strict productivity line of thought, this kind of ask would:

1) be a great small teaching task for an intern, and

2) build goodwill elsewhere in a company, something good CISOs won't pass up an opportunity to do when the cost is relatively cheap.

But it's also likely that the CISO just wanted to help.
Ask HN: Any success with using LLMs for emotional inference?
I have trouble reading emotions in both myself and others. I've been trying to get better at labeling emotions as I think it could help me manage my own and improve my interpersonal relationships.

Recently I've been using LLMs for reviewing conversations to help me "read between the lines" and infer both others emotions and how they might interpret the emotional content of my communications. I think this has been moderately successful, but it's difficult to tell.

Has anyone else been using LLMs for similar purposes? I'm wondering if it could be integrated into browsers/chat apps in some way, just like automatic translation and transcription.
The funny thing about this is McFlurries are absolutely disgusting. Hopefully, anyone who likes genuine ice cream won't care the machines will be back online!
I don't doubt that, but what company isn't compromised in favor of its owner's interests?
The Linux kernel is considered Open Source because (among other things) the compiled kernel binary that is used to boot a computer can be reproduced from provided source code.

source code -> compile -> kernel binary. That binary is what can be reproduced, given the source code.

We don't have the equivalent for Mistral:

source code (+ training data) -> training -> weights
As a wikipedia contributor (aroound 10-13 year old account) but not really serious, i have no kind words for wikipedia.

The trolling and brigading is alive and well there.

Thats the reason i stopped contributing.

As my name would suggest, I live in a hotly contested part of the world and I have hundreds of pages in my watchlist.

The amount of "bjp it cell" work they put in to portray their world view on Wikipedia is astounding.

Ithought naively for a few years I could fight them but I simply couldnt.

They just March across pages, make edits with their clear intentions and make you the enemy.

I remember a time when I had a particular "pronoun" ish word on certain pages and that was swiftly being edited out as soon as I changed it.

It became hopeless.

Besides, they just go "Well since this is "Indian" page, we are responsible to maintaing it in our image".

I dont really use Wikipedia these days because of their hate.
You used to get purely determinant near-quotes, but still affected by floating point inaccuracies.
> but nothing much changed

Two of the three platforms (and the former CEO of one) have publicly admitted what was done at their companies was a mistake and the third has quietly reversed much of the topic controls around pandemic and vaccination content.

I’d say that is something.
New polymer design breaks the tradeoff between toughness and recyclability
As someone who has worked in community projects in rural areas, I would like to point out a few things:

1. It is not the donor's fault if the wells are not being maintained properly. Ideally this should be something that the locals are paid and trained to do but honestly, if you can't even be bothered to take care of your primary source of water, you have big problems which cannot be solved by ANYONE's philanthropy.

2. That brings me to the point about local attitudes towards donors and what is done for them: I have seen locals really benefit from things donated to them and they then use the new facilities to build a much better future for themselves and their children. HOWEVER, I have also seen locals who absolutely waste whatever is given to them. They may even loot everything down to the last nut and bolt. I have some theories about why this happens (based on personal experience) but I have noticed very different outcomes in different villages for the EXACT SAME help received from donors.
It's a mix of both, I guess. I don't like youtube taking over for text based sources. It's less accessible, way less efficient, and feeds into the google surveillance machine.
Ok, I actually RTFA and it just seems like a bunch of conjecture over what the reasons might be? Nobody actually knows?

And the editorial board's comments seem a bit dramatic?

"It represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love, and for which we have worked a combined 218 years"

How does it represent an abandonment? These editors have been sharing their convictions for the past combined 218 years. I don't think any reader is going to ask "I wonder who the Post is going to endorse"?
Scout Motors mounts an electric comeback with new SUV and truck concepts
Politics is the new religion. Everyone is cowed by the power if the zealots.
So people have said, but as I've noted I disagree with the characterization that training is equivalent to compilation. Even the companies that can afford to train a foundation model do so once and then fine-tune it from there to modify it. They only start a new training run when they're building a brand new model with totally different characteristics (such as a different parameter count).

Training is too expensive for the training data to be the preferred form for making modifications to the work. Given that, the weights themselves are the closest thing these things have to "source code".

And this is where the reproducibility argument falls apart: on what basis can we insist that the preferred form for modifying an LLM (the weights) must be reproducible to be open source but the preferred form for modifying a piece of regular software (the code) can be open sourced as is, with none of the processes used to produce the code?
It’s the same on Reddit. I wouldn’t confirm if it costs of ‘teams’, since it could also include loosely organized organic behavior.

Reddit also has similar turfing efforts for Sino related news and content.

The only time this ever gets over turned, is when some news article gets traction during EU/US consumption hours, and gains its own following.
There is a Help->Rules link on all of the puzzles linked here. It can be a little tricky to decipher them if you're coming to them completely brand new, however. I mostly use them as a refresher.
In their defense (and I don’t defend Google often), addressing this really well means:

- knowing all the complexities of every local, state, federal, international jurisdiction that might interfere with the whitelist

- awareness of the content in question which could be millions of subpages

- a customer support team that is definitely not incentivized based on tickets triaged per day, but is somehow incentivized to spend hours on “whale” tickets.

- going through ticket history and solving the problem for everyone now that its policy to solve this

- dealing with the inevitable rush of fraud that follows every tiny change in google systems
Not sure what cases you are referring to, but “Hurt feelings” in India have caused multiple riots, resulting in utter carnage, spilling over to years, decades longs strings of terrorism and reprisals against minorities.

Feelings are the reason people get up to live in the morning.

I get why we used to make that statement. In a way it’s about rationality mattering, and how feelings being hurt are different from actual hurt.

In the context of this conversation, I’ll argue its an un-pragmatic dismissal of a pertinent fact.

I’ll make this argument: “At the scales we are talking, and across the breath of human cultures, feelings end up mattering.”
Strangely, the same people who call newspapers "legacy" are all over Twitter calling WP a failure and that people need to cancel their subscriptions.

There's a trend among Tech Oligarchs to diminish the role of journalism. Seems to be all about getting slices of government contracts, if not controlling them.
Philanthropy never works. Philanthropy requires large amounts of money. Only the monetary Ponzi yields that kind of money.

So effectively, philanthropy is funded using the proceeds of theft. It's about diffusing harm to all and concentrating the benefits towards a select few.
If a community isn't prepared, willing or able to maintain a well, is building a well in that community a good example of philanthropy? or is it an example of a lazy one-size fits all solution that reflects poorly on the donor, not the community? The donor is responsible for their choice of donation.
> bjp it cell

I'm not Indian, I have no specific interest, I'm reading to pick up PoVs outside my own:

BJP IT Cell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_IT_Cell

a department of the Indian political party BJP that manages social media campaigns for the party and its members.

According to Washington Post, 150,000 social media workers spread posts aimed at exploiting the fears of India’s Hindu majority across a vast network of WhatsApp groups.

BJP orchestrates online campaigns through its social media cell to intimidate perceived government critics. Sadhavi Khosla, a BJP cyber-volunteer in the BJP IT Cell said that the organisation disseminated misogyny, Islamophobia and hatred.

That's a hell of a propaganda machine you're dealing with there.
For me, seeing a person or business consciously claim neutrality this year is reprehensible and impossibly out of touch. Whether Bezos likes it or not the business he is in comes with the assumption of an endorsement, and silence is an implicit endorsement. I’d never hold an individual to that standard but power comes with responsibility and this choice is putting his privilege on full display.
Wikimedia India is an independent nonprofit, with executives in India who could be held in contempt by the Indian courts.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India
We're not talking about reinstating anyone, or doing anything about sanctions. We're talking about the execution, which was deliberately off. As if someone important started beating his fist on the table. I suppose that not Russian, but fellow American citizens should be the first to worry about the reason.

You are wrong about things people cannot change. All of this depends on “small people” believing they are small, and finding convenient stereotypical excuses for “doing what everyone does”. Not on some magical evil powers.

There's a lot of advice in those threads telling people what they should do. I wonder if people are going to follow them themselves, and rush to storm offices of agencies and military bases to figure out what's happening.

On the other hand, if you're saying “I'm fine if one day they torture Torvalds until he gives all the passwords, as long as it's in full accordance with the law™, and for the Big Good Cause. It's something that we cannot change, la-la-la~~~”, then state it clearly.
If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
He's afraid of Vance. Trump is an egoist but Vance has an ideological dislike of amazon.
From: https://medium.com/eedi/how-i-wish-id-taught-maths-8ec9b0578...

[...]the day I started reading educational research was the day my life changed.

It all began with Daniel Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School, which led me onto his ridiculously good series of Ask the Cognitive Scientist articles for the American Federation of Teachers and the associated research papers he quoted. I devoured them all with eyes wide open and jaw firmly on the floor. Next came Cognitive Load Theory, which I was introduced to via the incredible blog of Greg Ashman and our subsequent conversation on my podcast. I was familiar with the work of Dylan Wiliam through the development of my Diagnostic Questions website, but I read and re-read everything I could get my hands on from the great man. I didn’t think life could get any better — and then I came across the work of Robert and Elizabeth Bjork. Good God.

One thing led to another, and before I knew it I had read well over 200 hundreds books and research papers. I would wake up in the middle of the night, my head buzzing with ideas[...]
Many of the ways that C programs are incorrect are abstract portability problems, that don't have a repro test case on the machines and compilers that people care about.

Rule of thumb: almost never fix some alleged problem without a repro test case.
I don't think we'll get every other person to choose farming as a career again.
Half jokingly, MrBeast is a decent source of learning other languages given (1) how children friendly the contents are, and (2) how many dubs/subs the videos have. I particularly like the Takeuchi Junko Japanese dub.
That's absurd. His political donations are very blue.
They were under the thumb of the regime. They produced whatever the government told them to produce. They had a predetermined profit margin that the government dictated to them. German capitalists certainly fared relatively well, but their influence and prestige was greatly reduced compared to the past. Nonetheless they took that deal because the alternative was literally communism.
Clickbait, the answer is "still nobody, just like before."
You didn't need to make a throwaway account, Drew DeVault.

We know you wrote it. We have the smoking gun. Gig's up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793

Someone's reputation was tarnished beyond recovery by this act of attempted character assassination. It wasn't RMS.
I wonder something similar on a larger scale...

I wonder if planets revolve around stars cw vs ccw evenly distributed.

(and could these kinds of things be related?)
It is a complicated problem. A single village may consist of multiple groups who don't get along with each other. Also, there are people who benefit from the status quo in many ways.

Secondly, there is this issue of trust. There are villages where the people simply do not trust each other AT ALL. I have seen villages where each person thinks they ought to steal first before their neighbours do.