skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone think it was otherwise? The article seems to be an interesting review, but never really substantiates the titular implication.

The URL and header reads as the much more apt "why-hypochondria-can-be-deadly-and-how-newer-treatments-help".

I suppose some hype-mognering editor got their hands on it and revised it to
"Hypochondria Is a Real and Dangerous Illness, New Research Shows".

The closest the article gets to this topic is the following lines, which seems to undercut the claim, rather than support it.

>Despite the pain and anguish it causes, “for centuries, hypochondria was deemed a fashionable, even a desirable disorder,” perhaps as a sign of an intellectual, thoughtful disposition, according to hypochondria reference material from the Wellcome Collection....Some of the most revered minds have claimed to have the disorder, complete with mournful descriptions.

Anyways, it is still a fascinating review and seems to confirm my anecdotal experience, which is that hypochondria is a neurotic control issue stemming from underlying anxiety and depression. It is essentially the human mind seeking a post-hoc danger to explain a pre-existing sense of fear or despondency. If you fix the anxiety and depression, the hypochondria resolves itself.

Also in my opinion, anxiety and depression arise as a cognitive distraction to avoid confronting a real underlying issue, which is painful or difficult to process.
Pretty sure most frontend developers use Chrome since it has better dev tools. And yes everyone uses Linux most just don't know it.
Yeah, I think that's the point they were trying to make.
> This is lightweight, by way of comparison: until quite recently, Python's header tax was 308 bytes

Really? I thought that PyObject_HEAD only contains two machine words.
> On the contrary, it seems to me that humans and their children are hugely efficient.

Does a child remotely know as much as ChatGPT? Is it able to reason remotely as well?
The bad news about those is that it's easy to mindlessly create a parser that runs on exponential time.

The good news is that this happens in the grammar definition. So once you define your language well, you don't have to watch for it anymore.
The Case Against Spinning Off Chrome
I did a similar project at 18. Needless to say I didn't have enough HW and SW skills to do much since I implemented the most naive form of the TDOA algorithms as well as the most inefficient way of estimating the time difference through cross correlation. I still learnt a lot and it led me to eventually getting a PhD in SAR systems, which are actually beamformers using the movement of the platform instead of an array
Was to be expected.

US used to be a deeply racist and sexist country, and in order to "make things up", people overcorrected, effectively creating a society that hates white men. Now the pendulum is slowly swinging back. Give it 50 years, white men will be in the position of power again, albeit to a lesser degree. Then it's going to be women and non-whites again. These cycles will keep going on. The idea that a deeply racist and sexist country would magically stop being such "because we've collectively decided not to be sexist and racist anymore" was naive. It's going to take generations to create a society where people are truly equal.
That said, it seems he is mostly accused of direct criminal liability not superior liability (failing to prevent/punish)
Immortality: A Practical Guide (2015)
It's the biggest purchase most people make in their lives (and on a regular basis to boot), aside from real estate. Not the worst thing to be passionate about.
Thank you—this is exactly the point. People confuse their own values with science, and ‘follow the science’ rhetoric only makes it worse. Science might say, ‘If you take action X, thing A increases,’ but deciding whether to take action X involves weighing A against everything else we care about—values, costs, benefits, and human experience.

COVID was a perfect example of this. Policies like isolating grandma in a nursing home or pulling kids out of school for two years were framed as ‘following the science,’ but they ignored entire fields of science and vast parts of the human experience. Loneliness has measurable health consequences—science shows it can kill. So do we isolate grandma to protect her from COVID, or risk her dying of loneliness? Similarly, the science of childhood education tells us that pulling kids from school harms them for life. These are real trade-offs, rooted in human values, not just science. And to be frank, that entire discussion was shut down completely. The entire decision making process was incredibly one-sided and myopic.

The same applies to dams. Decisions about whether to keep or remove them aren’t just ‘science versus activism.’ Both sides are informed by science, but they’re also driven by emotion, lived experience, and the values people hold. Science doesn’t tell us what to do—it gives us information about potential outcomes. What we choose depends on how we weigh those outcomes and whose priorities matter most. When rhetoric like ‘keep the dam = science, remove the dam = activism’ takes over, it oversimplifies these deeply human decisions and turns them into unnecessary battles. At the end of the day, it’s not ‘us vs. them’—it’s all of us trying to navigate complex trade-offs in a way that reflects the full spectrum of what matters to humans.
As well as a way around Newton's Third Law.
its a better experience, prints out token responses faster, and doesn't randomly 'disconnect' or whatever ChatGPT does

I hope they're also cooking up some cool features and can handle capacity
The general principle is that "pipelines" impose a restriction where the errors of the first step get baked-in and can't effectively use the knowledge of the following step(s) to fix them.

So if the first step isn't near-perfect (which ASR isn't) and if there is some information or "world knowledge" in the later step(s) which is helpful in deciding that (which is true with respect to knowledge about named entities and ASR) then you can get better accuracy by having an end-to-end system where you don't attempt to pick just one best option at the system boundary. Also, joint training can be helpful, but that IMHO is less important.
Consumers don't have to consciously choose Claude, just like most people don't know about Linux. But if they use an Android phone or ever use any web services they are using Linux.
Detroit's actually kind of impressive the drop that Detroit's managed to obtain in the last four years since Covid. The jump at 2020 was probably horrifying to the citizens, yet afterward, really serious downward trend. 262 murder / 969 woundings (2020) to 149 / 417 (2024). ~57%/43% of the 2020 numbers. Pretty impressive from a crime and gun violence perspective. Down below pre-Covid numbers while a lot of cities are still elevated.
https://archive.is/20241122153424/https://www.theatlantic.co...
Germany: Bosch to cut 5k jobs with car industry in crisis
What about a soundfield microphone? Does about the same thing and the electronics can be done in the analogue domain.
I honestly don't think we should do anything to stop the population from naturally declining. Fewer people is a good thing. What we need to be doing something about is mitigating the adverse impacts of the necessary shift to a sustainable economic system.
It really feels like they've got some weird vendetta against Google and are just trying to kill it. Which really sucks because Google is the only big tech company that I haven't had negative interactions with. Using Apple and MS products feels like constant friction to try "force" me into their ecosystem. Whereas with Google you can just use a product, have it work with any device, any OS, across devices and you're never forced into anything else.

The DOJ also seems to be going way beyond their mandate in saying Google monopolizes search and ads. If the Microsoft precedent is anything to go by, just require Android users to choose a browser and search engine, allow other ad companies to bid on showing ads on search results or something, that seems fair.

But forcing them to sell Chrome, open proprietary algorithms to competitors and divest from business parnerships is way over the top and really, really feels like the government is doing a favour to Microsoft and Apple. Maybe Google didn't cooperate enough on something classified?
Not by a long shot. War and peace is the classic long read, but outside of Russian literature you also get authors like Victor Hugo and Les Miserables.

Also, depending on your tastes, Charlotte Bronte and other similar period writers were equally bland or significant.
It's nice to review some of this theory after a week of coding my own interpreter. I have been studying about compilers at pikuma.com the whole week and reading this article after coding a parser is a great way of reviewing what I've implemented.
Beamforming is standard in modern conference room gear. It's being used for making a video focus on the active speaker and optimizing his audio.

Have a look at the "Meeting Owl" for example.

It works great up to a limit (around 5m) then you will need additional microphones closer to the speaker.
I'd wonder if a reasonable compromise would be for licensed ranges to have guns that people can toy around with, and not civilians themselves.

At the very least, a ban on semiautomatics and bump stocks sounds like it'd reach bipartisan appeal.
That's quite fun! I didn't know about "Marble Madness", but it reminded me of Cuboro [1], a (hardware!) toy that consists wooden blocks and allows people to create quite complicated marble runs that look very very similar to this game.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboro
Funny, I use Mistral because it has 'more" of that same factor, even in the name!

They're the only company who doesn't lobotomize/censor their model in the RLHF/DPO/related phase. It's telling that they, along with huggingface, are from le france - a place with a notably less puritanical culture.
The point is that the person I responded to criticized LLMs for making the exact sort of mistakes that professional programmers make all the time:

> I’ve found LLM code to be of poor quality. I think that has to do with being a very experienced and skilled programmer. What the LLM produce is at best the top answer in stack overflow-level skill. The top answers on stack overflow are typically not optimal solutions

Most professional developers are unable to produce code up to the standard of "the top answer in stack overflow" that the commenter was complaining about, with the additional twist that most developers' breadth of knowledge is going to be limited to a very narrow range of APIs/platforms/etc. whereas these LLMs are able to be comparable to decent programmers in just about any API/language/platform, all at once.

I've written code for thirty years and I wish I had the breadth and depth of knowledge of the free version of ChatGPT, even if I can outsmart it in narrow domains. It is already very decent and I haven't even tried more advanced models like o1-preview.

Is it perfect? No. But it is arguably better than most programmers in at least some aspects. Not every programmer out there is Fabrice Bellard.
Have you considered using R3F for this project? Also curious, why did you implement a custom renderer pipeline?
this would be 100% accurate if this was an actual election issue, real or spoon-fed by politicians. while 80+% may be fully against ownership what do you reckon is a percentage from that group that would vote for a candidate simply on that one issue alone?! I am ballparking less than 2% - perhaps only family and friends who lost loved ones to gun violence
They're saying that only the lock should need storage in the object header, everything else can be computed on the fly (obviously at a CPU cost rather than memory).

Equality is computed (and the default is trivial, it just compares addresses), hashcode is computed (and the default is trivial, it just returns the object's address), string conversion is computed (and the default is trivial, it just prints the class name and the hashcode IIRC).
These are kids. Teacher thinks they cheated then mark them accordingly.

Reading that article makes the juniors sound criminal. They are kids they played the game and got caught. So they learn a lesson, move on. But it should not reflect on the rest of their academic life.
Using AI in Academia
They didn't really have a chameleon. See "Experimental setup" in the linked paper [emphasis mine]:

> After fabrication of the meta-optic, we account for fabrication error by performing a PSF calibration step. This is accomplished by using an optical relay system to image a pinhole illuminated by fiber-coupled LEDs. We then conduct imaging experiments by replacing the pinhole with an OLED monitor. The OLED monitor is used to display images that will be captured by our nano-optic imager.

But shooting a real chameleon is irrelevant to what they're trying to demonstrate here.

At the scales they're working at here ("nano-optics"), there's no travel distance for chromatic distortion to take place within the lens. Therefore, whether they're shooting a 3D scene (a chameleon) or a 2D scene (an OLED monitor showing a picture of a chameleon), the light that makes it through their tiny lens to hit the sensor is going to be the same.

(That's the intuitive explanation, at least; the technical explanation is a bit stranger, as the lens is sub-wavelength – and shaped into structures that act as antennae for specific light frequencies. You might say that all the lens is doing is chromatic distortion — but in a very controlled manner, "funnelling" each frequency of inbound light to a specific part of the sensor, somewhat like a MIMO antenna "funnels" each frequency-band of signal to a specific ADC+DSP. Which amounts to the same thing: this lens doesn't "see" any difference between 3D scenes and 2D images of those scenes.)
I’m merely proposing a mechanism for how it could be possible to have salmon return to the same spot after several generations, if that actually does happen.

The idea would be that a salmon could be genetically predisposed to follow a certain path, perhaps preferring the smell of a certain combination of chemicals, thus encoding the location. It means the „memory“ would be encoded via genetics as a result of genetic combination and mutations, and the „encoding“ would essentially just be selection. It’s just speculation on how this genetic memory idea could work without actually encoding memories on genes.
> Claude is the best model for programming

This week.
There's a whole wealth of papers proving that LLMs do not understand the concepts they write about. That doesn't mean they don't understand grammar – which (as I've claimed since the GPT-2 days) we should, theoretically, expect them to "understand". And what is chess, but a particularly sophisticated grammar?
Most people I know in real life have certainly heard of ChatGPT but don't pay for it.

I think someone enthusiastic enough to pay for the subscription is more likely to be willing to try a rival service, but that's not most people.

Usually when these services are ready to grow they offer a month or more free to try, at least that's what Google has been doing with their Gemini bundle.
> then it is a correct formula to say 'it's not "true reasoning"'

why is that point fundamental?
fwiw this is exactly what i thought - oai pursued it as a skillset (likely using a large chess dataset) for their own reasons and then abandoned it as not particularly beneficial outside chess.

It's still interesting to try to replicate how you would make a generalist LLM good at chess, so i appreciated the post, but I don't think there's a huge mystery!
> Yes, many people can't think properly. Proper thinking remains there as a potential.

that's a matter of faith, not evidence. by that reasoning, the same can be said about LLMs. after all, they do occasionally get it right.
Yeah I was going to say that "Achilles Heel" makes it sound like it was a previously unknown vulnerability. This is really an intentional access point into the infrastructure that didn't have mitigations in place (or an actual unknown vulnerability) that was used to gain access.
So you agree that Israel has controlled Egypt's border to Gaza then.
I love these kind of inadvertent measurements. One of my favorite examples is that a sufficiently accurate IMU can get you relatively accurate longitude measurements from the Coriolis effect.
Using it to describe Israels effort to provide infrastructure, jobs, healthcare etc in the preceding decades is just insultingly wrong.

No contradiction there.

It's perfectly possible for the State of Israel to be nakedly and unapologetically engaging in a long-term campaign of ethnic cleansing (in the West Bank) and somewhat more convertly/discreetly so (in Gaza), while also, occasionally providing some measure of benefits to the affected population in certain narrow contexts.

In fact, this is exactly how colonial occupations work.

Or as Captain Willard put it (starting around 5:15):

"It was a way we had over here of living with ourselves. We'd cut them in half with a machine gun, and then give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d4cZ3UMwoE
Thank you for a good reply. I saw a photo and thought the same thing. I’ve had snakes a lot of my life, and they certainly aren’t emotionally deep or socially engaging, but they are absolutely happier in a nice place to live. Balling up like those pythons looks like a stress response to me.
Dont know about that..

I do see MS buying it but keeping it as an independent foundation and letting other join to vote and help steer development... I could see Google itself doing this to chromium to avoid loose chrome..

Apple is more unlikely since they do not use Chromiun or Blink for Safari, but give that Blink is a fork of WebKit that is what Apple use in Safari i would not say chances are zero..
Just bad wording from me, trying to combine too much information in 1 sentence. The auxiliary loss is supposed to prevent dead latents from occuring in the first place - therefore "prevent dead latents" - and it is also supposed to revive the latents that are already dead - therefore "revive dead latents".

Now that I review that sentence again I see that I used 2 verbs on the same subject that could be interpreted differently depending on the verb. Me culpa. I hope you still gained some insights into it =)
No such evidence exists: we can construct such a model manually. I'd need some quite convincing evidence that any given training process is approximately equivalent to that, though.
Not entitled but of course can’t be legally prevented from doing so unless we want to re-write the Constitution…
>That’s ignoring all the other more serious issues I raised.

The only other issue you raised doesn't make any sense. A world model is a representation/model of your environment you use for predictions. Yes, an auto-encoder learns to model that data to some degree. To what degree is not well known. If we found out that it learned things like 'city x in country a is approximately distance b from city y' let's just learn where y is and unpack everything else when the need arises then that would certainly qualify as a world model.
I do too - thank you so much to your relative for their important work.

Sadly, it seems like things are mostly going in the opposite direction
This is also written by one of the person who helped create ActivityPub and worked along Jay Grabber to create one of the first proposals at twitter for the thing that eventually became the ATProto.
On the other hand: Smalltalk had many many more methods on Object than Java have today...
It seems like it is painting with an overly broad brush, condemnation by anecdote, and characterization by the negative extremes.

But then again, I have my own priors, which probably bias me to thinking these people have legitimate reasons to distrust authorities who view their lives as expendable.
Mathematicians' Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
I know that if Nvidia did this lots of people on twitter would be screaming about fraud and self-dealing.
1. "Declining" is true, but "barely" is a needed prequalifier[1]

2. There are more children per year [2]. In fact, there are more children alive now than there ever have been in U.S. history.

3,5,6 - Maybe.

4 - I think cheap toys is the most likely explanation. Toys today are SUPER cheap compared to the 1980s. And more capable. And more cool. I am so jealous of the toys kids have available today.

7. I take it you don't have children or live in a "weird" area. Where I am (western US), there are children everywhere playing together, often outside! Anecdotal, I know, but so is yours =D And sure, you can find the crazy "news" stories about parents getting warnings/arrested for letting their children walk a mile outside. The reason those stories make the news is that they're bizarre and rare. The more likely reason is a single power-hungry cop/social worker who just had to prove to everyone how powerful they are.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
It could be a game setting, no need to be by default.
Maybe the software engineers should talk to the deciders then.
McAfee like investing
Thanks, I was bang my head on this one, until you suggested a nice simple solution
Demo, not game.

Shadertoy is full of impressive demos.
Him falling off his game is on him. Or are you really implying some entity "cancelled" Tiger Woods' golfing skills or there was some conspiracy to prevent Tiger from winning because he cheated on his wife?
Do you remember the name of the docu? I ended up in a small Zamrock clickhole when Ted Lasso used this track in an episode outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjUOYLJ8IYI but didn't get much further than wikipedia and a couple of google results.
If a script were applied that corrected "bad math" and now the LLM could solve complex math problems that you can't one-shot throw at a calculator, what would you call it?
This appears to only be in German: https://zwwa.de/

But this site has a few different languages, selectable in the upper-right corner of the page: https://mihr.com/

Note that the bulk of the teachings are about self-evolution via transmuting our vices into their corresponding virtues. It is that transformation that unlocks our ability to consciously travel during sleep.

The key to all such teachings is that becoming consumed by compassion is the real goal; all else is just added benefit.

As Steel Pulse put it so eloquently so long ago, "Love is the golden chord that binds all commandments." It is also the scaffolding that boosts our abilities to their greatest height; but, in reality, the spiritual path is really about stripping away our selfish ego-nature that impedes our realizing our full potential.

Peace be with you.
Oh really! What happened to the theory that training on code magically caused some high level reasoning ability?
The story about eels is especially fascinating. I was told in my fishing course they can even get across small patches of land to continue on their journey. I did not bother to fact check it though.
Wild Gaussian Splatting: 3D Reconstruction from raw images
Wild Gaussian Splatting combines the capabilities of DUSt3R and MASt3R for camera parameter estimation and initial point cloud creation with Gaussian Splatting for efficient 3D scene representation. This project simplifies 3D scene reconstruction and visualization from images without needing pre-set camera information or specific viewpoints.

GitHub: https://github.com/nerlfield/wild-gaussian-splatting
Hmmm... I wonder if this is why some of the results I've gotten over the past few days have been pretty bad. It's easy to dismiss poor results on LLM quality variance from prompt to prompt vs. something like this where the quality is actively degraded without notification. I can't say this is in fact what I'm experience, but it was noticeable enough I'm going to check.