skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - I don't want to come across as negative, but this is certainly in the "extraordinary claims" category for me right now. If this works, it's obviously huge, but I really want to see third party validation before I can let go of my skepticism.

I would be very curious to hear about interviews with the patients (conducted through their current means of communication, eg: eye gaze interfaces). Are they finding that the speech generated by the system reflects their intentions accurately?

EDIT: the EEG peripheral they are using is 4 channels / 250 Hz sample rate. I freely admit I have little knowledge of neuroscience and happily defer to the experts, but that really doesn't seem like a lot of data to be able to infer speech intentions.
That's exactly my point :)
This is why no one can build anything. You can't even have an idea without first doing all the work. That's insane. He doesn't owe anyone anything.
In general, getting high is a maladaptive coping strategy chosen by some people, and technically it is against the Hippocratic Oath to assist giving them a chemical lobotomy.

The opioid epidemic helped erode away ethics in medicine, as many physicians partnered with drug-dealers/Sackler-family to exploit users knowing full well the "medication" had serious side-effects.

As I watch the squirrels getting high on the poisonous mushrooms, and howling at a passersby in the yard this time of year... it reminds one that the methodology of self-harm is an irrelevant detail.

Drug addicts have an endless supply of excuses why they think their behavior is justified. Indeed, there are an ecosystem of unethical people willing to help them along the wrong path.

I don't think people should go to jail for seeking an artificial cathartic experience, but rather be forced to join the Native shamans in a 2 week Datura fueled experience. However, facing insanity while hallucinating and rolling in your own excrement naked for 2 weeks is not popular for some reason... =3
It might be able to identify a unique user but not the user personally. I think there’s also a fairly broad margin of error in how accurate it can identify a unique user.
You managed to be incorrect twice in one sentence. Well done. Actually watch the video. It's quite interesting.
That's a good assumption because that's exactly one way it is done. :)
That problem genuinely doesn't matter to me at all.

If an LLM hallucinates a method that doesn't exist I find out the moment I try and run the code.

If I'm using ChatGPT Code Interpreter (for Python) or Claude analysis mode (for JavaScript) I don't even have to intervene: the LLM can run in a loop, generating code, testing that it executes without errors and correcting any mistakes it makes.

I still need to carefully review the code, but the mistakes which cause it not to run at all are by far the least amount of work to identify.
Thank you for providing this very helpful and needed context. I was indeed getting very excited.
> Concrete examples if there are so many!

We were told mass surveillance against US citizens doesn't happen. It did and still is.
We were told healthcare reform will not force people to change their insurance coverage and healthcare providers. It turned out to be "a lie of the year".
We were told US law enforcement supplying guns to drug cartels is crazy talk. It was true.
We were told FBI, CIA and DOJ heads would never lie to the Congress. They did, and suffered no consequences.
We were told the inflation is a temporary phenomenon that is going to go away very quickly, and is insignificant. It never did, and was very significant.
We were told the hypothesis of COVID originating from Wuhan lab leaks is insane fantasy which no scientists have ever believed and it has no evidence at all behind it. It turned out to be not so.
We were told migration restrictions as a way to reduce the impact of the pandemic is a racist bigotry. Then in a short time it became a mandatory policy.
We were told masks are useless and nobody but medical workers should use them. Then there were mandated for everyone.
We were told COVID is nothing to worry about and is less dangerous than the flu. Then 2020-21 happened.
We were told lockdowns are vital and even sole person daring to go to an empty beach should be arrested because it is necessary to prevent millions of deaths. Then the same people endorsed mass protests where thousands of people gathered together.
We were told 2020 protests were "mostly peaceful". They were anything but.
We were told we need just a two week lockdown to flatten the curve. It turned to be many months.
We were told closing the schools is absolutely necessary or our kids will die. It turned out not to be so.
We were told COVID vaccines prevent the spread of the virus. They did not.
We were told Hunter laptop is a Russian disinformation operation. It wasn't.
We were told rumors of US government working with social media companies to censor dissenting opinions are total lies. Until the documents confirmed that's exactly what happened.
We were told rumors of Joe Biden being unfit to rule are absolutely false and he's never going to be replaced as a candidate. He was.

These are just some random examples, only from recent years, I could have many more, especially if I dug deeper into the modern history. The press and the government are lying to us constantly, incessantly, brazenly. And the only way we even know they do and can challenge them on it is because they don't yet have the total control over the information. And that's why they want it.

> There are, objectively, a lot of very stupid and/or impressionable people out there in the world.

There are. But that doesn't mean some self-appointed guys that get paid for bloviating in public are now some magic geniuses that have the right to tell us all how it really is. They do not possess any such capacity and they are just as fallible as the rest of us. Except that they have been already caught, many times, lying to us.
> Being explicitly upfront about your administrative weaknesses early in relationships

This sounds like a Good Thing, and I'm sure for some people it's a good idea, but in my experience, frontloading this sort of stuff tends to backfire.
The problem is that most[0] people don't know how to deal with special needs[1]

If you focus on the facts and "your administrative weaknesses" a lot of people just hear excuses and think you're incompetent.

If you try to explain it as a medical thing first, you might get the "you don't look autistic" response -- they think you are putting yourself down -- but the response I've had even more often is "what does that mean?".
Now you have to work to convince them that you are a liability.

A strange game. The only way to win is to not[2] play.

[0] "most": a population large enough that you can't safely ignore their existence. Source? what I reckon.

[1] I don't really like to use the phrase, but I mean the literal meaning of the words and also that's often how they see it.

[2] not the only way to order words
>They have world-class batteries and insatiable domestic demand

Excellent, then they won't have an issue with losing their export markets to tariffs, because they can just sell their EVs to the "insatiable demand" of the local consumers.

>what if China is undercutting us because their cars are just better

Price/performance they ARE better, China can produce cheaper because of their years of (government aided) investments and economies of scale. Of course, we aren't obligated to buy from belligerent states engaging in strategic mercantilism producing the goods of the future. We aren't obligated to prop up the Chinese export-oriented economic model in pursuit of one generation of cheap EV cars.
But on the other other hand, there's the commercials generated to sell new models or new model features, that FREQUENTLY lie about actual capabilities and fake demos and don't actually end with an equivalent amount of time going over how actual usage may be shit and completely unlike the advertisement.

I'd say parent is absolutely correct - we ARE being sold (quite literally, through promotional material, i.e. ads) that these models are way more capable than they actually are.
Correct me if I'm wrong but he was also behind Section 174 which in 2022 basically put what amounts to a huge tariff on the head of engineers, web developers, etc...
The problem with that is that you'll see a massive uptick of bot detection checks.
We all agree it’s a disorder. No one is debating that.
Gem dust could cool the planet
This is genius. But can we add an input field for the username?
All my grandparents lived in CA, nice try though
I have vivid nighttime hallucinations. Sometimes it is bugs or spiders (so many spiders), other times dancing teacups emptying themselves onto my face. I remember a time when my alarm clock was a lion that I had to tame. But a few times it was very much what you describe. In one case, a ghostly looking woman looked me directly in the face from not more than an inch away.

Our minds get kind of funny when we are asleep. They manifest strange and incomprehensible imagery. I wouldn’t make too much of it.

(By the way, I have these much more frequently when I am stressed. Perhaps that was a factor for you?)
Those non-invasive headbands (which work very differently from implanted electrodes) are notoriously inaccurate at recording brain signals. Even scientific studies, which use advanced setups like the 10-20 system for scalp EEG, face unsolved challenges in removing noise from the data and in using the data to reconstruct underlying brain activity [0] – let alone making meaningful inferences about it.

Patients with locked-in syndrome (one of the use cases mentioned in the article, also called a pseudo-coma), or with other disorders of consciousness, are unable to protest, or to confirm the accuracy of the generative message which is being attributed to them. Communicating on your own terms and in your own words is fundamental to human dignity.

Meanwhile, this coincides with lukewarm reception of generative AI from consumers; perhaps it is the lack of autonomy of locked-in patients, which makes them an interesting segment to this new generation of ventures, scrambling for a ROI on the enormous over-investment in the sector.

The conference venues look lush tho.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography#Artifac...
What is missing is that I never want to touch js for anything, so how do I do that if I have to write glue and imports in js/ts?
No, I made an error, since I didn't differentiate "salt" from sodium, of course since where I'm from sodium is generally what is labeled for daily intake and not chloride, even though the daily recommended is equimolar[0].

[0]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7009052/
I thought it was established that the studies blaming sodium for cardiovascular issues were flawed and there was no clear connection, but this paper cites https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510971... which reaffirms that sodium is bad. Has there been any recent discourse on this conflict?

Edit: Just recently, two articles here saying sodium isn't really bad - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41362798 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38400460

Edit 2: The paper I linked also claims humans got ~0.5g of salt for most of history (implying humans need very little salt). I'm skeptical of that too - early human civilization was near the ocean, and plenty of animals need much more salt. For instance, non-active horses need 25g of salt daily, which is bodyweight-equivalent to about 5g in humans, not 0.5g. Sheep are 9-11g salt (similar body weight to humans).
I looked into tiny Forth and Lisp interpreters as the foundation for bootstrapping bigger things.

I expected Forth to be better for this because it seems like a smaller language, minimal even, that would have the smallest interpreter.

Forth feels lower level and simpler. After all, on the face of it, Forth is mostly a flat sequence of tokens and simple commands, run one after another liike assembly language.

Whereas Lisp has obvious tree data structures up front in a prettier syntax, like higher level languages, and you're encouraged to use them. Even lexical scope, closures and macros if you want them. That seemed like it must be bigger and heavier.

But I found the small Forth and Lisp interpreters came out about the same size.

This is backed up by the existence of 512-byte boot sector implementations of both Forth and Lisp.

So I decided for applications needing a tiny interpreter, or for bootstrapping, to not pursue Forth any more for those things, as a tiny Lisp does the job with (in my opinion) better ergonomics and versatility, and negligible cost difference.
"Repeatable builds" seems like what you want?
NGL I was impressed when I asked Claude how to do some fancy UI stuff and it just spat out some working react. A few hours later and I'd saved £500 I was going to spend on a designer.
You have a very limited view on what being productive is. I have a home lab, I'd rather spend an hour or two improving it and learning things along the way rather than playing factorio.
So ozempic can save the lives of millions of people but it’s bad and not worth celebrating because it’s not a cure?
I'm quite certain there's a contingent that are salving their egos with some flavor of narrative around that idea. Thing is I'm reminded of a particular gaping chasm of a human being that used to work for Epic Games. Around the time Gears of War bonus checks started dropping he flipped out and bought a Lamborghini. Shortly after taking delivery he was overheard complaining loudly about not being able to "pull" at the local club and expressing frustration that the car wasn't getting him enough attention. He decided having the car painted radium green would fix everything. We can, of course, pretend folks like him aren't common as grass but then you're stuck having to explain away things like the Hummer H2, or the rando on here that was bragging about dropping five figures on overpriced kitchen appliances until someone pointed out he could have gotten an actual restaurant walk-in for an order of magnitude less...
> I still wonder if it matters all that much.

It's a daily reminder that you're a second class citizen, that your family isn't really a family worth respecting. It matters a great deal.

Imagine a state prohibiting mixed race marriage, and saying "oh it doesn't really matter" because unlawful mixed race couplings can always drive over the state lines somewhere.

It's spit on your face on one of the most important days of your life.
All the times an apparition has appeared to me, they were dressed as people.

I just somehow knew they were a spirit.

Its happened a half a dozen times or so for me, since I was a small child.
how does that matter? calling 70% ALL is a very funny thing that i can only see on hn
We need to start treating PCs like the utilitarian objects they are and bring back beige cases.
>they have the US government block competition

>Only from China. Non-communist non-dumping, friendly states are welcome to compete.

>50% of Telsas are made in China. China built Teslas are noticeably better built, too.

Please explain how your comment relates to mine, because I see no connection.
Unfortunately, it didn't pass the fingerprint test. You can see the results here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/.
On the other hand, Brave does pass it. I'd like to use Brave for all my browsing, but for some reason the devs haven't been able to get hardware-accelerated video decoding to work in their latest builds. That's why I've been using Librewolf for a very long time.
The problem with Teslas almost universally is with lemons. Which is to say if you get lucky your experience will be great. The problem is that there are a fuck ton of lemons and cars that have no problems turn into lemons right around the time that the first few problems show up (which means more lemons as they age).

That's essentially just a QA and reliability design failure which is indicative of broader issues with Tesla but it also means that until someone's vehicle starts having problems they will have nothing but a positive experience which can leave them blindsided by said problems.
> I immediately glommed onto this list as a more useful formulation than Goodhart’s Law. Joiner’s list suggests a number of solutions:
> Make it difficult to distort the system.
> Make it difficult to distort the data, and

If companies knew how to make it difficult to distort the system/data, don't you think they would have done it already? This feels like telling a person learning a new language that they should try to sound more fluent.
What problem does it cause?
I did not know runme.dev. Thanks for reaching out! It looks absolutely awesome
... right until you need to bounce the printer spooler (service) to unwedge your ability to print. (And reboots don't always help — then, it's the only way).
If you have some time, visit Vizag. It has some cool beaches, and the city has both hills and beaches. I liked the vibe of the city.

Also visit the Buddha statue in Hussein Sagar.
It's a controversial mount amongst the player base, lots of flaming between two sides on the official forum and on Reddit. I hope someone writes an article about microtransactions and such gaming trends in general to lay out the broader issues.
My original reply was to a post suggesting something go into the public domain so many years after it has stopped being sold. I was just trying to illustrate how quickly that becomes a tricky problem.

I don’t think that concept is viable for other reasons, so hypothesizing is all we’ll ever have.
The author leads by claiming that San Francisco has made it "illegal not to compost your food scraps" (completely false) and condones people doing meth at playgrounds (also completely false, though it would be nice if SF police were more responsive and helpful), then he starts apologizing for rape and demanding that sex workers and anyone possessing a hypodermic needle be charged with crimes, because if they aren't it "verges on criminal negligence" (without any apparent consideration of why such failed laws were changed). After that preface he gets to his main point, a weird fantasy ramble of a cultural-ethnic-origin "explanation" of how this is supposed to have come about, something about Puritans representing state control and Scots-Irish representing individual freedom or something (while apparently ignoring the groups who actually settled in California). I gave up at that point.

The author is apparently living in a weird Newsmax/Infowars (?) media bubble combined with occasional off-topic nonfiction books and doesn't seem capable of critically evaluating information before mashing it together and hyperbolically passing it to readers.
Technically it also had a fourth :^) [0] but it was spun out into a separate project of its own, jpegli [1]: JPEG but it uses some tricks from JPEG XL. These include spatially adaptive quantization, quantization matrices that better preserve psychovisual detail, more efficient color spaces, and also HDR (10+ bit depth) support [2].

[0] https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/tree/main/lib/jpegli

[1] https://github.com/google/jpegli

[2] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli...
Insurers using satellite to inspect homes in California and dropping policies
I read through the golang code once due to coming across this issue with kubernetes clients which use the standard golang http client under the hood.

I would need to re-read the code to refresh my memory.
Is this where a Nuclear Thermal Rocket[1] is more efficient by mass as hydrogen running through the reactor might take some of the heat away, reducing the need for radiators? This is such a fun topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
There's no fancy machine learning needed to detect some "bright" LIGO signals (some of the first blackhole-blackhole mergers). Given a set of template signals, a matched filter tries to find the one that best matches the noisy signal your instrument recorded. In order for a MF to work, what you really need is a good understanding of the noise in your instruments observations -- and there're very few people in the world better at that than LIGO folks. LIGO spent almost 20 years in construction and R&D, and almost 30 in planning. When you hear stories about how they can detect trucks miles away, and detect the waves crashing on the coast, it's possible because of scores of PhD students' who spent years characterizing each and every component that affects LIGO's noise levels. All of this to say that it's possible to download their data online and do a quick MF analysis (I did that), and with a little bit of work you get a blindingly bright statistical significance of 20-sigma or so. The actual result quoted in the papers was a bit higher. That's a testament to how well the instrument was built and its behaviour understood.
Thanks, that was enlightening.
The Bolt looked nearly as dorky and they sold plenty of those. Even with the battery recall. I doubt GM made much if any profit though. LG chemicals sure didn't.

The Ioniq 5 looks way better than both and of course it is doing numbers as a result.

i3 was just expensive, low range, and overall not a competitive EV in the NA market.
Wouldn't we be better served by legislating the bad behavior, targeted pricing, stalking etc, versus developing an arms race, sometimes circular, amongst software engineers?
I don't need to imagine because I too have ADHD.

While I'm not also a quadrapeligic I feel confident that ADHD in general and quadrapelgia are not comparable.

I acknowledge that there are varying levels of severity of ADHD but very few of the instances of ADHD are comparable to such a profound disability as quadrapelgia.
Google to Preview AI That Takes over PCs
Re: specific tools staying outlawed even after this win:
What about offering a tool for some legit purpose, but it just happens to be the right tool that can be used to repair the protected item?
I've spoken to a lot of smart people on the topic of EEG (I'm in a very related field). I agree with you.

It's an extremely powerful tool for diagnosis of a limited range of conditions but it is not magic. Electrical signal gets attenuated heavily when signals are not on the outside of the brain. Even still, a headband like this is susceptible to noise from movement and other factors. You either need to correct for this with AI, which introduces a second source for error, or you need a very still user. I'm not convinced by the ability to "read minds" with the technology; I would need the man in the video answer some specific questions to be convinced.

Is this better than not being able to communicate at all? Yes.
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GM has Silverado and Sierra EV trucks on the same platform as the Hummer.
It is quite literally a regulatory issue. Orange County just recently shut down a permit for a significant desal plant with a ton of planning. Very frustrating.
Even if the LLM hallucinates every word, just knowing when to say something versus stay quiet based on EEG data would be a huge breakthrough.
That's fine if you have a USB DAC lying around, I guess.
I doubt it. But if true, that feeling of inadequacy could still be triggered in nearly every other everyday activity. Be it social media, print media, people on the street, co-workers, close relations, or the visual arts. Good luck insulating yourself from attractive people.
> San Francisco forces people to compost their food scraps (completely false)

In place since 2009,

> The San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance (No. 100-09) is a local municipal ordinance requiring all persons located in San Francisco to separate their recyclables, compostables and landfilled trash and to participate in recycling and composting programs.

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