skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve replicated the OthelloGPT results mentioned in this paper personally - and it def felt like the next-move-only accuracy metric was not everything. Indeed, the authors of the original paper knew this, and so further validated the world model by intervening in a model’s forward pass to directly manipulate the world model (and check the resulting change in valid move predictions).

I’d also recommend checking out Neel Nanda’s work on OthelloGPT, where he demonstrated the world model was actually linear: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00941
What would be the reason? In most titles / statements I can come up with it changes the meaning, and saving 4 chars ain't good enough reason, better would be a/an/the.
Not all machine learning. Neural networks.
I agree with everything you said. Leaving the morale and ideology aside for a moment though and looking at the technical side, couldn't this, at least in theory, also be implemented in a way that's not so dystopian? Everyone has a SIM card, whether physical or digital, and also a cell plan. If you make carriers mark all underage customers and then have the SIM forward that boolean value to the phone and nothing more, could you in theory still implement something like this without any further breach of privacy? Of course, as with any system there's workarounds, but as a baseline this would work, no?
It was more he had a grudge of his because I would always push back his ideas. This made it a hostile environment as I always had to ensure I cover my arse in all area's. This was his "gotcha!" moment.

He wanted to put me on-call with no pay increase, wanted eight Cassandra servers for no reason. All this other crap because he had herd buzz words.

They were trying to brown nose the position of the CTO as at the time the company had none.

Shiite company that collapsed six months later.
This is actually an excellent technique. Your friends act as filters of the noise and negativity, and only the important bits reach you.
Everyone is complaining about Google since years ago. But no one has built a good alternative. Is it a bad business idea?
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So they are proud of this?
It's "only" about 50% of their revenues, which isn't too bad.
Here are the devastating results of that bad ideology:

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Matt has become truly deranged.
> Not even a week ago a new law was signed that enables anyone to legally change there sex yearly while making it a finable offense up to 10.000€ to state reality.

First of all, that's Germany, not the US. Second, the only people who will realistically be using this right are trans people whose legal situation has been defined by a very old law that has been partially declared unconstitutional multiple times for years now.

Of course, there will be trolls abusing it - but it's expensive, so TBH I do not expect more than a dozen dumbasses going through with it. Even name change after a marriage is a huge fucking deal of bureaucracy. I went through that one just a year ago. Banks, authorities, association memberships of all kinds, billing changes for tons of services, new name => new card => new CC number, probably the associated effort cost me well over 5000€ if I include the value of my time, and probably around 1000€ in travel (dual citizenship) and fees for new documents. And for fucks sake it's a smokescreen anyway. There was nothing stopping creeps from invading women's toilets, installing cameras or outright raping women before, and such cases were on the regular. The new SBGG changes absolutely nothing, sexual coercion, rape and other abusive behavior were and will remain crimes.
> some of those people here who haven't seen real non-democracies make all sort of such unfounded claims. To anybody making such claim i suggest to visit my old country - Russia - and try to use any rights supposedly guaranteed by Russian "democracy".

Well, let's wait and see how it looks at the end of the next four years.

It seems like your experience of countries that calk themselves democracies is the US and Russia? Two extremes for sure, but I don't think either of them provide a good model for what a liberal democracy can be.
I think for many countries it's more "they would if they could" and it's lack of resources that means that a lower standard of medical care is provided. But American healthcare is unique amongst 1st world countries.

Though tbf in the UK the NHS has been allowed to fester with overpaid middle management and corrupt supply chains designed to siphon money off wherever possible, it's something that the government needs to address very badly.

Because public healthcare _always_ works, it's when private businesses (supply chains, agencies, contractors, etc) get involved that things get expensive for the taxpayer.
Ok, they will join places like 4chan instead.
Ahhh, sorry, somehow I thought you meant the two Vice President candidates as the 'cherries being picked'.

Not the two betting examples.
There is just a lot of really dumb people we live with.

Imagine believing there would be something as powerful as Tiktok and it wouldn't be used for propaganda purposes.

It is just boring agreeing with these morons at this point. Let them live in their dream world as they pretend to be smart. Sheep are easy to herd.
Those demo videos look great! Does anyone know how this compares to the state of the art in generating realistic, relightable models of things more broadly? For example, for video game assets?

I'm aware of traditional techniques like photogrammetry - which is neat, but the lighting always looks a bit off to me.
yeah and it looks like some agree with you:

https://github.com/wordpressenginetracker/wordpressenginetra...
I wonder if there is even that much dark money is circulating beyond official numbers. Why would they bother, given that they have the legal loophole of PACs, Super PACs, and 501(c) groups.

It already seems so easy to throw money at a candidate if you wanted to, without even needing to do it behind closed doors.
Ongoing discussion on the WordPress subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1glejno/wp_engin...
We all want this regardless. Yet we don't. We also want innovation, and that means we have to vote by avoiding the amount of shit coming down the pipe. So for starters I use an ad-blocker. But platforms will still strangle free speech because of their business model acting out.

I think for starters we should have competition, therefore mandate federation between platforms. No big winner-takes-all tech monopolies. But the USA doesn't want to give up the profit, nor the power that comes with it, to own the world.

Perhaps as an example, Google performs an auction in the milliseconds before serving up ads. So it's possible.

In the end platforms will integrate an AI buddy that will come to know us even better, and that represents our ways. Of course we'll want that, but please, federate.
There’s a near-zero chance of getting caught driving without a license. Despite not having a drivers license checking mechanism, people generally don’t drive without a license because of the mere fact that it’s illegal.

Societal signaling is pretty powerful.
I tested the small model with a few images from Clevr. On first blush I am afraid it didn't do very well at all, it got object counts totally wrong and struggled to identify shapes and colours.

Still, it seems to understand what's in the images in general (cones and spheres and cubes), and the fact that it runs on my mac book at all is basically amazing.
Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
Apparently those kinds of titles are considered "clickbaity". I agree that this particular edit makes things confusing.
> I agree, I also think it's fundamentally different from other "minority" rights.

Both result in completely preventable deaths. In the case of LGBT in massive youth suicide rates compared to non-LGBT youth, in the case of abortion bans deaths from medical complications of which there have been a few very widely publicised cases since Roe v Wade fell.

> Anyway, I think the state referendums have proven the voters are going to defend abortion, whatever the right says about it.

The problem is, when the federal government does things like revoke the certification of mifepristone (abortion pill) or levonorgestrel (plan b), there's jack shit the states can do. If they go and classify it as scheduled drugs, grey-importing or shipping it around the country will be a serious federal crime now.

And yes, that is the strategy. They already tried with mifepristone [1], they will try again now that they actually control the FDA and can just do it themselves instead of asking for a court order, and plan b is already dropping massively due to restrictions of states [2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2qq1wqw3w2o

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/plan-b-us...
and just kind of scratched my head

Can you at least conceive that some people might find it deeply creepy that someone can follow their every step, and equally creepy to be able to 'spy' on another person 24/7?
Given the complete lack of any actual details about performance I would hazard a guess that this approach is likely barely realtime, requiring top hardware, and/or delivering an unimpressive fps. I would love to get more details though.
Loosely related, some HN folks in London added themselves to https://meet.hn
It's like asking whether one would use ACH to buy coffee. Yes, nobody uses Bitcoin for transactions per se, but if it were to be used as a currency then one would transact Bitcoin over more efficient payment ledgers rather than the Bitcoin ledger. This analogy is similar to how Transferwise enables cross-border payments without actually sending the equivalent volume of money across borders. I know this doesn't address your main question, but either way it is worth thinking over when you think of "transacting with Bitcoin".
Going to the hygienist is more to strip the tartar off tbf, as well as a general check/look around your mouth.

It takes time for tartar to build up, atm my dentist recommends I go at minimum once a year, preferably twice (so I'm going twice).
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The other day I was wondering if Borges had read Lichtenberg:

> “Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.” —GCL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#:~:text=Despite%20th... (why an odd number?)
Officials warn of Russia's tech-for-troops deal with North Korea for Ukraine
~2 years into the LLM revolution, not a single productivity metric has significantly gone up in any country while we collectively spent hundred of billions on it.

What really happened: LLMs are fuelling the phishing and scam industry like never before, search engine results are shittier than ever, every other website is an automated LLM generated seo placeholder, every other image is ai generated, students are heavily using these techs for homeworks with unknown long term effects, scientists are using them to write their papers: quality--, quantity++, bots on social media increased dramatically and probably playing a huge role in social tensions. You can probably add a few dozen things in the list
2024 U.S. Election: Exploring the Surge in Cyber Activity and Cyber Attacks
The problem seems to be that generating procedural generated complexity (history of a planet), civilizations etc. is not even attempted at the moment.
I found it very effective to get my kids to watch a youtube movie about the game. That's often easy to do and it works like 10% of the time, which is far more than what happens when I show the game directly.
These kind of policies are usually grounded by the one dickhead who tried to do something completely stupid that they never anticipated, now they have to have a policy for it.
It doesn't open in new windows by default, which was enough for me to stop using it.
But with less drama.
Yeah - exactly.

If companies are motivated and parents are motivated to prevent it and schools have the cover to also police it, then social media usage probably won't hit critical mass for kids and they won't feel FOMO to get it.

"it's illegal" is usually a decent enough hard stop to most kids for "why can't I have it"

Should just age-restrict smartphones altogether imo lol. Entire generations survived without mobile phones and it would remove entire issues around addictive mobile games, social media abuse, attention/focus issues
What even is it? I read the github repo but that explains nothing about what it actually is.
I can imagine it. (And in this case I think my sister and her husband simply hadn't yet adapted to the new technology they had at their disposal.)
I'm solo technical founder and currently bootstrapping, not actively looking for a cofounder but looking for like-minded individuals who want to bounce ideas off each other, whether that be technical or non-technical. In my case specifically I have a consumer facing app which is live and I'm in the mystical stage of nailing down PMF.
That's cool, considering ShadowPlay breaks every driver update or two.

Can't count the times I had to manually restart it because it was disabled for some reason.
Because without the sorry the comment may be interpreted in an aggressive/dismissive tone. For this issue, adding a sorry is an easy fix.
EV apocalypse: Which brands might not survive the electric revolution?
NERVA makes sense with all the "tanks" along th length of the Discovery spacecraft from that movie.
Would you say that when I went back to the initial quote (the 18 year age restriction) twice, it was not clear that I wanted to talk about the 18 year age restriction?

I really don't care about the 6. My point about the 6 was that when I disagreed with 18, they went down to 6 (presumably because that's easier to defend). But that is just diverting my point. My point was about the 18, and I kept coming back to the 18. They kept coming back to 6, that's right, but as a way to redirect the discussion (I started it, it's my right to say where I was going, not theirs).
They mean var vs local vs from-a-resource. There are some places you can’t use some types of variables. It can be annoying but it’s not really a huge problem if you design your approach with that in mind.

The worst part is that the Terraform team at Hashicorp often excuse not fixing these design issues as “safety measures” which isn’t entirely untrue but when over half of your users want something, sometimes you should get over yourself.

For what it’s worth, OpenTofu is fixing many of these sorts of things that cause people pain.

But my advice is to learn to use the tool. Terraform has such great benefits (in the right use cases). If you’re struggling, either you are missing something or you chose the wrong tool for your particular job. Either way, don’t gripe that this specialized tool for infra management doesn’t work exactly like every other general purpose programming language.
> Women do want careers as good as those of men

Why would anyone choose the role of a provider if they aren't under a huge biological pressure to be one? All it does is offer an alternative way to slightly increase dating prospects.
What has Discord anything to do with a Steam feature?
>Just because there is no solution to a rat infestation doesn't mean you should burn the house with the people in it.
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What? you mean asking the parent to enter a date of birth before giftin the child a phone and setting it in child mode is like burning things?

Did you really relied to me? Then explain

Seems to me a better idea then government IDs or sending your ID to Facebook.

I could guess why Google did nlot add this feature to Android , they want the money from ads, and maybe Apple wants Google to bhave money to share with them.
Nissan announces lay-offs, cuts in executives' pay
Ok that's pretty cool, I've not seen that before.
> SocMed / AdTech cos. can already ID and target users with precision.

Not reliably so, and not people who are deliberately trying to fake the system.

Looking at the ads FB are showing me, they are not well targetted at all. I can see an add about AI in education that seems to be aimed at teachers (not a teacher), one from a charity aimed at people with spare rooms that could be used to accommodate human trafficking survivors (I do not have a spare room), a summer school for kids who might do a history related subject at university (that one is well targetted), one advertising admin jobs at British intelligence agencies (I only just meet security requirements and I do not have relevant experience). I get shown multiple ads aimed at Muslims (I am not a Muslim). In the past I have been shown ads for Judaism GCSE courses (not Jewish either, and my kids did not do any religion GCSEs).
Commoditizing space brings a lot of issues, I'll agree on that.

But if you don't see how it is an environmental one... well I don't know how I can help. And I mean that honestly. I see a lot of comments about SpaceX where people seem to genuinely think that it is "helping the human species". And I just don't see what to say against that... it's just pure faith to me.

To me, regarding SpaceX it sounds like engineers saying "if you keep walking one step after the other for long enough, then you'll reach the Moon" and then focusing really hard on the next steps. And if someone says "well if you keep walking you'll surely stay on Earth", they answer "He has a plan, someday a solution will come".
I was thinking the neutral-to-serious face requirement in passport photos is so that you can be easily recognised when you're being detained at the airport and asked to wait for 3 hours in an interrogation room. That's exactly what one would look like.
None of this addresses the problem of making reality illegal not to mention that there is a monumental difference between illegally installing cameras and being legally physically in women spaces. If you want to play dress up and be called something else good for you but forcing people by law to lie is tyranny.
I've been working on some ML solutions similar to this with, and the high accuracy is the challenging part. Specially with "creative" layout documents.

I'm curious as well to see how they are handling accuracy, since I had to build an external agent to validate data.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, that friends/family are a good source because they filter out noise?
I would assume it's the worst type of source, people that are biased and don't provide a basis for their views, and might not always be understanding if you ask doubtful questions.
RE "...is it good for Australia to have their citizens hand such mountains of PII to unaccountable foreign megacorporations...." NOT NEEDED , Mega Corp needs to have office in Australia where such documents are checked. Document never leaves Australia.
Can you speak to the accuracy, particularly of numerical value extraction, that you’re achieving? I have a use case for pulling tabular financial data out of PDFs and accuracy is our main concern with using AI for that type of task.
All of this assumes that policy suggestions from democrats can reach republicans. Because of filter bubbles this is simply no longer the case.
Correct, I am using OpenAI through the software, includes, gpt-4o, 4o-audio-preview(for multi-modal response, includes audio and text), and whisper(speech to text for generating transcript for user).
I mean yes, that is an approach.

However that only really works if people are willing to put effort into tests. It also surmises that people are able to accuratly and simply navigate dependencies.

The issue is that monorepos make it trivial to add dependencies, to the point where if I use a library to get access to our S3-like object storage system, it ends up pulling a massive chain of deps culminating in building caffe binaries (yes, as in the ML framework.)

I cannot possibly verify that massive dependency chain, so putting a test on some part which fails is an exercise in madness.

It requires a culture of engineering discipline that I have yet to see at scale.
IMHO user data needs protections to be enforced. Meta absolutely should lose this case.
Offtopic but I'm so confused, how and why are there so many players in this space? Who even are the customers?
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>Incoherent

Nope.

That three hour long podcast was a very coherent conversation, and it was quite enlightening in what Trump actually means when he says he has "good relationships" with people like Putin and Kim Jong Un.

Specifically in regards to the impact of that on the election, neither Biden nor Harris can talk their way out of a 1st grade reading class due to his age and her inability to orate respectively.

Communicating clearly and with conviction is among the most basic of required skills as a leader of a country, and neither could do even that much.
See also Linux's nolibc headers, which allows one to write C software that completely bypass libc, but instead directly operate through syscalls.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/tools/include/...

A sample use-case? I was developing an Erlang-like actor platform that should operate under Linux as well as a bare-metal microkernel, and all I needed is a light layer over syscalls instead of pulling the entire glibc. Also it provides a simple implementation for standard C functions (memcpy, printf) so I don't have to write them myself.
Yeah. He will.
Could also be the "iesus Christus" cockroach.
An active society reduces the burden on public health care, take a look at the obesity rates in Australia, especially childhood obesity, shouldn't we also regulate lifestyle choices that contribute to this? How about the explosion of massive 4WDs in Australia? Are you not also subsidising the health care burden those? If you want to keep cyclists safe then build more bike lanes.
Good alternatives exist, like Yandex. But it's close to impossible to compete with google's resources and platform lock in Android and chrome.
The author certainly makes this claim, but fails to provide any evidence.

"It is during this period [the era between the mid-1830s and the
Civil War] that the word inflation begins to emerge in the literature, not in reference to something that happens to prices, but as something that happens to a paper currency.7"

The footnote doesn't contain any reference.
No, the tracking is irrelevant. The important point is to establish a shared cultural norm.

In the US, children under 13 are usually forbidden from having online accounts. Do some kids lie? For sure, but the sites will try to ban those accounts.

In practice, this legislation would be very positive because it would establish the expectation that young teens _are not on social media_. This only works if it's national legislation: No kid will feel left out because his/her friends are on SnapGramTok. They are all banned. They can be mad at the unfair government/adults together.
How do brains coordinate activity? We've discovered this universal principle
German coalition government collapses as Scholz sacks his finance minister