skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary optimization for the conditions of thriving on Earth decided that a water-soluble lipid stable at ordinary temperatures maximizes your chances for survival under the conditions Earth presents.

There are other fats that are liquids at freezing temperatures and solid as a brick at 1000c. It shouldn't really surprise you that animal fats are optimized for the average living conditions of a warm-blooded mammal. Any other mutation simply would have died off during evolution.
I dont think LLMs are the only type of AI.

By the way, robot dogs now have perfect auto-aim, they can multi-shoot 50 people at once without wasting any bullets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3iUHplvQE

Also, the AI robots can detect infrared and heartbeats all around them, and can also translate wifi signatures to locate humans behind obstacles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHdF8tuKeU

Self-organizing deadly drone swarms can sweep a building methodically: https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-is-building-out-the-pent...

Currently they’re working on network analysis to help police to do precrime at Palantir. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

They can then have ubiquitous CCTV+AI feeds allow AI assistants to suggest many plausible parallel construction cases to put people away. And this is in the Western democratic countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Oh yeah, and they can do warrantles surveillance of everyone at scale with AI far more easily than Five Eyes and PRISM did in 2013: https://www.privacyjournal.net/edward-snowden-nsa-prism/

It will be very hard to keep your privacy considering AI can recover your keystrokes from sound in Zoom calls, can lip read and even “hear” your speech through a window thanks to micro vibrations: https://phys.org/news/2014-08-algorithm-recovers-speech-vibr...

Not like they’ll need it though once everyone has a TeslaBot in their house.

You won’t ever have another revolution again by peniless plebs out of a job. Their walking around the street and personal associations will all be tracked easily by gait, heartbeat etc. Their posts online will simply be outcompeted by AI bot swarms as well. Don’t worry, your future is Safe and Secure from any threats, thanks to AI!

Here it is in more totalitarian countries:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953515627/facial-recognition-...

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-uses-ai-software-i...

https://www.tiktok.com/@wssz27/video/7427489079312256274

But this is the good version. The bad one is where everyone has access to killer AI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/ai/scientists-grapple-risk-...
News Flash: company that has sunk billions into GPT and LLMs trying to get AGI asserts that AGI is just around the corner.
In such an extreme case it may be possible sue to vacate the arbitration. The law does allow for it when they refuse to hear evidence.
It was a mix of markdown, liquid, scss and ruby scripts via a Rakefile to tie it together to generate html.

I bought a prince XML license for PDF generation. It was a hodgepodge of stuff.
FWIW I’ve started to see new arbitration agreements pop up that specifically try to disallow this strategy by using verbiage like “ only the consumer is allowed to file this claim” and even “lawyers who would handle more than 20 of these claims are not allowed to file them”. I have no clue of the legality of such clauses but I have seen them in the wild in the last few months
Gary Marcus is writing this article every year so that one day he will be right.
Ok, then it’s as fair as it gets.
A somewhat related idea that's been done for Toronto TTC subway stations is mapping out where the exit/stairs are for your destination station, that way when the doors open they're right there and you don't have to walk down the platform:

* https://theurbangeographer.ca/Subway-Exit-Map

* iOS app: https://efficientttc.weebly.com

* Android: https://recursivepizza.com/#TtcRider_more
Why do you need to "aggregate" anything? You have 10 feeds, you hit refresh, the 10 display new content.
Ok, it’s fair then
Maybe but if they were related to the vaccine we would expect them to occur more than once in the study group, right?
> Also that's a pretty common misconception, cancer is pretty well defined, abnormal cell growth

I don't think cancer biologists would subscribe to this simple definition (and it's not hard to find cases of 'abnormal cell growth' that do not ultimately constitute cancer). There have been, and continue to be, publications that pose the question of what it means for a patient to have cancer (cf https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)00127-9 )

Cancers quite clearly cause different diseases - it's even the case that cancerous cells can yield distinct clinical presentations simply based on whether they are primarily found in the blood or in solid organs.

I don't think anyone would disagree that 'viral infection' is also an unhelpful description. Viruses may transiently infect host cells and die out (the common cold, for example) or permanently become part of the host genome (consider the various herpesviridae).
Reading the article, a better summary might be "the current human shape is optimized for speed at the current human size." This is expected given the relatively strong fitness pressure to maximize locomotion speed.
Sudden death almost two years later, and Cerebral hemorrhage almost three years after vaccination does seem unrelated to the “medicine they took”.
A product which will significantly improve the productivity of programmers, if nothing else. That may not be a good return on investment, but I think it is undeniable that recent AI advances have nonzero value for coding.
You're kidding, right? For people with allergies and/or chronic sinusitis, it's a thing they're taking for about a quarter of the year off and on. ...and they _will_ practically "cut you off" if you buy enough to be taking it for 45 days straight, no matter how you buy it.

That phenylephrine (which everyone with sinuses knows doesn't do a damn thing) was perpetually being touted as a substitute was just adding insult to injury.
- There _was_ a problem with diminishing returns from increasing data size. Then they surpassed that by curating data.

- Then the limits on the amount of curatable data available made the performance gains level off. So they started generating data and that pushed the nose up again.

- Eventually, even with generated data, gains flattened out. So they started increasing inference time. They have now proven that this improves the performance quite a bit.

It's always been a series of S-curves and we have always (sooner or later) innovated to the next level.

Marcus has always been a mouth just trying to take down neural networks.

Someday we will move on from LLMs, large multimodal models, transformers, maybe even neural networks, in order to add new levels and types of intelligence.

But Marcus's mouth will never stop yapping about how it won't work.

I think we are now at the point where we can literally build a digital twin video avatar to handily win a debate with Marcus, and he will continue to deny that any of it really works.
By that logic we’re in a simulation because water freezes below our range of viable life and boils above it.

Congratulations on discovering the anthropic principle, then turning it into a horrifyingly myopic and solipsistic vision where the universe has been made to fit you rather than you having evolved to fit it.

If we were in a simulation and that simulation had an intelligent designer that was intending to improve on things, would your fingers be able to be inserted into both your asshole and your mouth? If the fecal-oral route exists you’re not in a simulation for humans, you’re in a simulation for bacteria, which in turn is a simulation for viruses, which in turn is a simulation for entropy, which then is ultimately just a non-pseudo RNG.
Depends on what the rate was before the cutoff on the y axis
The article talks about how Lua "has gone on to become a staple language of modern game development", but could have given more credit to Grim Fandango for that. It was the first game to use Lua and and its success was what put the language on the map when it comes to gamedev.
> Getting pushback from men and women while trying to be progressive isn't some special thing that affects only men. It's the damn default to any progression

I absolutely agree, but I think this is unique in the sense that progressive men often don't get support from progressive women. But progressiveness has been focused on progression for women, so often progression for men is viewed as strange, distasteful, un-man-like, etc.

> Absolutely not. If your friends/family/etc can't handle you not being a toxic shithead of a man, you should push back. Is that not part of being a man? IMO that's part of being a good human. A space that makes jokes and mockery of women is not a safe space for good men.

To be clear, I'm not talking about being a shithead here. These men I'm referring to are the good ones. The ones you'd see on liberal college campuses.

They are progressive, but progressive for a man. They still perform masculinity nearly constantly, and drop only the most convenient and easy to digest hints of progressiveness when needed. They might, say, talk about how poorly show X has aged. They won't talk about their feelings, their depression, their desire for a fresh self expression, etc.

> Well, young men have decided what they want to do is follow andrew tate, and ghouls like the "Fit and fresh" podcast on twitch, which spends hours every day espousing hatred towards all women.

Once again, I agree, but these are not the men I'm referring to.

> Why are young men so absurdly hung up on sex? Why is not getting laid in high school a psyche breaking experience for men?

I can answer this one: it's because heterosexual men's self identity relies on sexual prowess. From a young age, boys are told they are sexual deviants. They can hardly exist around girls without overly-sexualized connotation from adults. Sexual behavior is not just excused, it's expected.

A successful man is one who has the ability to get sex. Look at any media, and I really mean any. Who has the most power? Who has the most money? Who has the most confidence? Is it the man who has sex, or the virgin loser? This reinforces the message that without their sexuality, men are nothing. They will be lonely, poor, with no future.

People sometimes miss this key part of sexual objectification. When we make women sex objects, we make men oglers and sex-doers. Sex is often perceived as something men DO to women - not something two people engage in together. It's both subtly, and blatantly, reinforced in movies, TV, and music. The most successful rappers brag about their women. The most successful men have trophies. The most loser men in movies are ugly and awkward.

For these men, a loss of sex translates to a loss of life. They have no future. Of course it's all perception, and their perspective is incorrect. But we need to understand WHY they have this perception if we want to deconstruct it and remove it.
Regarding keeping the test set private to avoid contamination, the comments about leakage are spot on. The real test set should always be the future.

We should evaluate LLMs on text from beyond their knowledge cutoff date, by computing their per-byte perplexity or per-byte compression ratio. There's a deep theoretical connection between compression and learning.

The intuition here is that being able to predict the future of science (or any topic, really) is indicative of true understanding. Slightly more formally: When ICLR 2025 announces and publishes the accepted papers, Yoshua Bengio is less surprised/perplexed by what's new than a fresh PhD student. And Terence Tao is less surprised/perplexed by what will be proven in math in the next 10 years than a graduate student in a related field.

This work has it right: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html//2402.00861
That's what the designers want you to think, man! Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes, let them distract and dissuade your thoughts on this.

Embrace the truth, don't shy away. Take that stick of butter and revel in its incredible happenstance, its wonderful mystery, and know that such universally derived splendour is not to be waved away.

Take that butter, spread it. Feel the joy in is flavour and taste. Know that this only happens, that your toast and bread only survives unscathed in a universe where butter temp and human temp are a conjoined state of blissful commonality.

Move that metric a little off, and your morning is torn asunder, your toast made into shreds of its former dignity, by the might of your hard, cold, angry butter.

It's not a mistake, it's planned. Quintillions likely watch us all walk around, spreading butter every morning.
What nice thing are you referring to?
I’m still waiting for a neural net that can do my laundry. Until there is one I’m on Marcus’ side.
BSD already was a complete operating system by the time linux kernel development started. unfortunately in 1992 there was a lawsuit that put the license of the BSD code into question. by the time the lawsuit ended and the license was clarified or confirmed, linux+GNU had already taken over in popularity.
Google maps does automatically this for most stations in Tokyo.
Alternatively, the popularity and disimination of butter throughout the culinary world is largely due to how easy it is to preserve and use in environments which are ideal for humans. If not for that, it might be a more niche product.
Red teaming?
And yet, all that said and done, butter is butter.

You've not explained butter, instead you've merely described distractive choke-points in validation of my theory, placed there by designers of our simulation.

Why do you think we eat butter in the morning, at breakfast? It's because we're not awake enough to realise the wonder of butter, a joke by some developer in the real world.
I think I'm pretty comfortable leaving the butter where it's at right now, thank you.
Guess what happens when people take antihistamines... Lovely, lovely side effects. Side effects which are generally equally as annoying as the original problem.

If one can treat the symptoms just as easily as the cause and pseudoephedrine doesn't make them feel like a drugged-out zombie, just guess which drug people are going to take...

...and yes, doctors actually will write prescriptions for pseudoephidrine because they're generally pretty sure their patients aren't using it to make meth. I know three people who've gotten such prescriptions, and I've been tempted to do the same thing myself.
What I'd be more curious about is being able to trust the beacons.

Certainly there is a mechanism where if a phone can get a GNSS/GPS fix, it can then listen for other signals like Wifi and cell towers, and correlate the two: so if GPS isn't available other stuff can heard and used for location.

But if there's no GPS, but there are other signals, how can you map the signals to an actual location?

You'd have to have someone (Apple? Google?) go in with survey equipment and map the non-GNSS (beacon) signals to locations 'manually' and put them in a database.
I'm parsing 3000 pdfs a month straight into our system which were all previously manually entered.

Total game changer.
UK student invents repairable kettle that anyone can fix
If you "know literally nothing about a programming language", there are two key consequences: 1) You cannot determine if the code is idiomatic to that language, and 2) You may miss subtle deficiencies that could cause problems at scale.
I’ve used LLMs for initial language conversion between languages I’m familiar with. It saved me a lot of time, but I still had to invest effort to get things right.
I will never claim that LLMs aren’t useful, nor will I deny that they’re going to disrupt many industries...this much is obvious.
However, it’s equally clear that much of the drama surrounding LLMs stems from the gap between the grand promises (AGI, ASI) and the likely limits of what these models can actually deliver.
The challenge for OpenAI is this: If the path ahead isn’t as long as they initially thought, they’ll need to develop application-focused business lines to cover the costs of training and inference. That's a people business, rather than a data+GPU business.
I once worked for an employer that used multi-linear regression to predict they’d be making $5 trillion in revenue by 2020. Their "scaling law" didn’t disappoint for more than a decade; but then it stopped working. That’s the thing with best-fit models and their projections: they work until they don’t, because the physical world is not a math equation.
100%. We all fall prey to this. Two tricks that help more than you might expect:

1. Read it in a different font than what you write it in.

2. Read it out loud.
I am not a big Zig aficionado but I definitely contrast it in my mind moreso with C and C++ rather than Rust. It definitely aims at being a “better C” sort of language moreso than a “better C++” which Rust seems to be focusing on.
> Taken as a game rather than the movie it often seems more interested in being

It's interesting how movies today seem to be the "top" art form: there are books, comics, videogames that want to be movies, but never in the other direction. (There are books and games based on movies, but they are clearly secondary.) I wonder if there could be some other art form that would be "above" movies in this sense.
Ask HN: BOM for a remote operated HAM UHF/VHF shack
If you were to build a remote operated ham shack for UHF/VHF, what would you choose?

Ideally I could use a cheap base station or mobile station, hook up a pi, add tail scale, and run some software on my laptop to control the radio.

Even in 2024 this seems surprisingly difficult for under $1500, even though decent SDR UHF/VHF HT are $50 and raspberry pis are $100.
yeah, that's why we're putting them together
> The reason Hogan won the lawsuit against Gawker is because they shared a video and story that was not newsworthy, and unfairly invaded a person's privacy.

I have no issue with Hogan winning: "I have many issues, not with Hogan's lawsuit, but Thiel's bankrolling of it".
yeah, that's why we're now building agents
Police quest was just way too tough for the foreigner unused to American procedures. "Administer sobriety test" is not the easiest of commands without a very broad vocabulary.
This case is about ticketmaster changing the TOS to use a new arbiter after they fell for that trick with their last one. The new arbiter has rules that prevent mass arbitration
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Going to suggest one metric is that the LLM doesn’t suggest by default that humans act in a manner likely to result in the termination of fellow humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092961#42092997

I’m calling it the Pangolin Principle.
Very interesting article, I feel like some of the criticisms also apply to Broken Age. I was well into that game before I realized (ok, looked up) that a puzzle needed you to toggle characters. This functionality was never mentioned prior to that. Some of it just felt so janky, but interesting art and story.
I had a Cyrix Cx486DLC as a teen and it was the first thing I put Linux on… in 1993, from a stack of floppies. Fun times.

The Cyrix had weird issues every now and then but Linux seemed to run fine. I remember Slackware with kernel 0.99.15.
Depends Marcus might need the book to do well more than Sam who could pivot into another 100 billion dollar company.
The Psychology of a Book Hangover (2020)
Any change since your last post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41832043 ?
This is the closest possible approximation of the Fulton St Station hypercube understandable by humans. Some compromises have to be made to represent non-Euclidean spaces in ways that residents of lower dimensions can understand.
LLMs are only a subset of generative AI. If we discover that LLMs aren't a pathway to society-transforming AGI, I think the attention towards them will be pretty easily redirected towards image use cases. It seems like a pure engineering problem, well within the state of the art, to e.g. enable me to produce a beautifully formatted flow chart or slide deck with the same amount of effort it takes to write a paragraph today.
> ... How do dogs know what not to eat in the wild?

They don’t.
Calling cervical cancer a death sentence is a bit extreme. Regular pap smears and early treatment made it eminently survivable.
I have to imagine most of that safari is mobile safari / iPhone traffic?
Because some people, prefer to use their terminal as their universal IDE.

Most of the time, diffs are small, and the overhead/break in workflow, of starting a separate GUI program just for them, can be big.
What has Gary Marcus done to be considered "The wisest people in your field"? Looking at his Wikipedia page, he seems like a professor who wrote a couple books. I don't see why I should privilege his view over people at OpenAI (who make functional and innovative products rather than books).
I switched from GNOME to KDE on Debian testing and it has been going great so far. What issues were you seeing back then?
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42096116. Not that what you posted was bad, it just led to an offtopic tangent.)
Mistake? I think that if it were otherwise we wouldn't have a thing called butter. The critical characteristic is why we have this thing. The way butter is, it is.
Butter is breast milk that’s been shaken and allowed to congeal. You need to get to cheese and ghee before you’re anything like awake, dreamer.
HPV vaccine is also a big win for oral cancer, which pap smears and treatment didn't help with at all.
That's less a GenAI problem, more robotics. And perhaps it's here, literally doing your laundry:

https://x.com/physical_int/status/1852041726279794788

https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/jeff-bezos-backed...
Debian testing updates to the latest stable KDE releases quite frequently, larger releases like KDE 6 take longer, but thats already in experimental and will be in unstable/testing after the Qt transition finishes.
why? i don't think it's any different from requiring a degree. if a qualification exists it most likely can be tied into a degree. like in law for example. you study law and then you pass the bar exam. seems pretty straight forward
Yeah, if EWD had had his way, very little software would ever have been written. I think his insistence on proving the correctness of imperative programs is understandable but entirely wrong headed. The sheer amount of insight needed to get through the working day would be unattainable by most and unsustainable for all but a few.
> getting bit by a rabid animal is typically just an inconvenience

Actually, in the USA it's a financial catastrophe if you're uninsured and of average means. You're looking at a $7,000 expense. Or you could spend like $1,000 on a ticket to Thailand or something and get it there for $70.
Agree that it adult stuff in it but loved that as a kid. I always hated 'kid' content, it felt fake.
Cerebral hemorrhage over 3 years after a vaccination could actually have another cause not listed here, eg. high blood pressure or poor diet.
Stargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
> Vaccines are one of the most amazing inventions

Sure, and so are NSAIDs, but I'm still not taking Rofecoxib (Vioxx).
That naquadah is very heavy.