skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems odd. If your scribe can lie in complex and sometimes hard to detect ways, how do you not see some form of risk? What happens when (not if) your scribe misses something and real world damages ensue as a result? Are you expecting your users to cross check every report? And if so, what’s the benefit of your product?
It's not even "pro-israel" articles, it's just global event where israel is on the "receiving" end, such as the unprecedented Iranian missile strike

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025617

I'm not even "pro" most of the actions israel has taken, but implying that the moderation is anywhere close to unbiased is just a joke.
The point of antitrust action is exactly this, to destroy noncompetitive business models like chrome and allow true competition to thrive between actors in a free market. Given that you do not seem to understand the core point of antitrust i'm not sure you're in a position to judge it as ill advised.
Very interesting. We're in the neuro/sleep/health space, so hibernation is an area of interest to me.

What I think wasn't addressed in this article is how a lack of physical activity may affect a human body, or how animals that do hibernate adapt to a loss of muscle mass.

Most animals are stronger by weight than humans, so perhaps this isn't as much of an issue for them.
Task mAIstro: AI-powered task management agent
Pricing your product is artistic expression, you philistine
For who? How would this help their core mission?

Maybe it becomes a big enough profit center to matter. Maybe. At the risk of taking focus away, splitting attention from the mission they're on today: building end user systems.

Maybe they build them for themselves. For what upside? Maybe somewhat better compute efficiency maybe, but I think if you have big workloads the huge massive AMD Turin super-chips are going to be incredibly hard to beat.

It's hard to emphasize just how efficient AMD is, with 192 very high performance cores on a 350-500W chip.
Sex-dependent effects of early life overstimulation on behavioral function
Note that Texas has a long history of taking a “hands off” approach to energy companies abusing the public commons:

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/28/abandoned-oil-wells-...

The people that complain about water table corruption and the people that complain about view corruption are in the same boat: the governments of Texas don’t care. Perhaps they’ll vote in a government more interested in regulation someday, but until then — or, at least, until four years from now — Texas voters are the sole group able to take action to change that approach. 40% didn’t vote this month, so there’s lots of opportunity there!
Ha. “more than double”. So, a third? If I needed government welfare to pay half my salary in order to get by, I’d consider myself pretty damn dependent. A far cry from getting a free meal at costco to be sure.

But I agree it’s not the ICCs guns that are the problem for any israeli’s wellbeing.
Wind power is not their core business, so they don't even seem to be trying. Someone decided that doing some wind power would be good publicity, and then did a token effort with this farm. Someone's friend who needed a job but couldn't be trusted to run anything serious in Chevron was then hired to run wind business with predictable results.
The same government that is prohibiting construction of the transmission lines to move that power to where it would be used?
A Fruit Fly's Internal Compass
No one understands increased productivity?

The video is OK but the title is misleading.
Right, I meant it's not a JavaScript object. It's serialized into a string in any case, no matter which API you're stuffing it into. So it's a bit of a non-sequitur for the parent to suggest that it's somehow weird to store JSON in a cookie, but not in localStorage. It's all just strings.
Chevron is a profit-making company, and will do anything that makes it money. The only relevant question is whether they'd have any advantage in green energy, or would they lose margin to competition.

Failing at green energy might be profitable enough if it drives up costs for other green energy companies.
Did anyone else notice that the HTTP protocol embeds within it ten-thousand different protocols? Browsers and web servers both "add-on" a ton of functionality, which all have specifications and de-facto specifications, and all of it is delivered through the umbrella of basically one generic "HTTP" protocol. You can't have the client specify what version of these ten-thousand non-specifications it is compatible with, and the server can't either. We can't upgrade the "specs" because none of the rest of the clients will understand, and there won't be backwards-compatibility. So we just have this morass of random shit that nobody can agree on and can't fix. And there is no planned obsolescence, so we have to carry forward whatever bad decisions we made in the past.
The electricity mostly comes from fossil fuels too.

The reason I mention it is because it's unfair from the start. That we ever allowed such unsustainable transport to become the norm is a huge part of the problem.
I’ve done a project connecting hall effect sensors to vibration motors.
You could put a tiny vibration motor in each key cap and set different vibration intensity and timing patterns based on the hall effect readings.
You could have the intensity slowly rise as you approach an activation point, then suddenly drop off right before and at activation to mimic the resistance of a physical switch.
I don't think it has anything to do with your logic here. Actually, people just like talking shit about OpenAI on HN. It gets you upvotes.
I think I'll run my gaming computer on its own isolated network and do a reinstall of Win10 every month or so rather than install Win11 (or pay MS for patches lol; like wtf, I might pirate those just out of principal). Win11 is genuinely that bad of an OS from my limited experience with it.

Not that Win10 is drastically better, but at least you can turn off most of the dumb Win10 things that Win11 will absolutely force down your throat, given half a chance.
War at its core is not a murder contest. You have to be strategic and you have to deal with the reality of trying to govern any conquered subjects which historically hasn't been very successful in the long term. In a globally connected world, you have to deal with the rest of the planet reacting to your actions.

That's not even touching on concepts like human rights and international law.
Im not claiming the war-effort hasn't benefited greatly.

you are the one claiming Israel wouldn't even exist as a country without that aid.
French Startup Aims to Make Fuel Out of Thin Air
OK, that was fun. I just tried o1-preview on today's Wordle and it got it on the third guess: https://chatgpt.com/share/673f9169-3654-8006-8c0b-07c53a2c58...
Half way through reading this, after just jailbreaking it, then deciding to take the whole thing as intended.... I recalled a conversation, earlier this year, with my friend Ward, who had just lost his best friend, and found himself in possession of years of chat logs, and wondering if LLMs could help him get some of his friend back. I regret telling him it likely wouldn't work, but that was my assessment at the time, I now think differently.

Now I've lost Ward... and wondered if I could get them both back, given those same logs. Then thoughts of a different matrix, the one in Doctor Who, came to my mind. In that Matrix were contained the complete memories of all of the Time Lords, with their collective wisdom. It always seemed like pure fiction, because it was.

However, in the present day, we've got agencies and companies who have decades worth of private conversations available as training data. They could build, with todays technology, a version of the Dr Who matrix, and call upon the collective spirit of those people for almost any purpose.

What would you do with such a tool? What could be done with it?
I support these warrants.
This doesn't seem to match what the ICC is saying. I don't see anywhere that the icc accused Israel of using aid as a bargaining chip.
Really interesting findings around fine-tuning. Goes to show it doesn't really affect the deeper "functionality" of the LLM (if you think of the LLM running a set of small functions on very high-dimensional numbers to produce a token).

Using regurgitation to get around the assistant/user token separation is another fun tool for the toolbox, relevant for whenever you want a model that doesn't support continuation actually perform continuation (at the cost of a lot of latency).

I wonder if any type of reflection or chains of thought would help it play better. I wouldn't be surprised if getting the LLM to write an analysis of the game in English is more likely to move it out of distribution than to make it pick better chess moves.
Stratcom Boss: AI Useful, but Don't Expect 'WarGames'
Yeah, but we are all in software so for us economy is not a concern. All of us should learn maths.
Discharging Lean goals into SMT solvers
Node:
- easy to deploy:
If you dont complicate yourself, with cpanel or plesk hosting is just matter of copy the files.
- Terabytes of npm packages (even too much :))
- A non bloated and nice language (JavaScript)
- Optional type checking with typescript if you want.
- Non blocking IO
I wrote about this last year. The levels of trust people have in companies working in AI is notably low: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/
> Chevron did everything wrong on this wind farm even before they built it. This is not a wind issue, this is not a government issue, and this is not a PacifiCorp issue.

What do you mean by all this? Anything specific? The parent comment seems to imply they just haven’t built interconnect yet
Comparison of Claude Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, o1, and Gemini 1.5 Pro for coding
> If you want your project to remain the currently dominant web browser, you better keep developing APIs people love, you better keep doing it faster than your competition can keep up with implementing them, and you better keep dominating the web standards committees.

Hey look, an incidental collision with my point!

I'd argue that Google specifically doesn't have nearly the obligation to keep doing these things as long as they are the ones who own Chrome, due to how many other things they can do to put their finger on the scales.

For instance, they could do things like:

- Show overwhelming amounts of ads in everyone's Gmail and say "Switch to Chrome for an ad-light experience."

- Or limit YouTube to 360p in non-Chrome browsers.

- Or only show the sponsored Google Search results (no organic) to non-Chrome browsers (let's be honest though, most non-nerds never click non-sponsored results anyway, and could scarcely find them even in the current Search UI).

- Or limit any new features on Google Workspace to Chrome browsers.

Google can maintain the Chrome near-monopoly using leverage from their other monopolies and near-monopolies. And they can use the Chrome near-monopoly to preserve and expand their marketshare of those other products. A very neat virtuous cycle (for Google). I don't think it promotes the health of free markets or consumer choice.
Or, alternatively, use `__call`
Finland urges NATO, EU to shield critical networks after undersea cables damaged
Very fast (faster than naive assembler) but not at all high-level; having to look after the stack is a bit of a pain. Writing your own FORTH is fun - it doesn't need to be in assembler - I once wrote a FORTH-like scripting language in C++.
This sounds like a book I needed for one of my early comp sci classes in college. It was called something like Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving. Maybe it was this, maybe it was something like this.

I mean to say, just applied scientific thinking is important. Even if you never get into pure math or computer programming, applying concepts like "variables", "functions" or "proofs" is universally useful.
I am trying to stress pushing through these barriers with my kid right now. The second her brain encounters something beyond its current sphere she just shuts down.

I have heard it is the ego protecting itself by rejecting something outright rather than admitting you can't do it. It still happens to me all the time. My favorite technique was one I heard from a college professor. He starts reading while filling a notepad with sloppy notes, once a page is filled he just throws it away. He claimed it was the fastest way to "condition his brain to the problem space". More than the exercise I like the idea that your brain cannot even function in that space until it has been conditioned.
companies are made of people, and generalally all of the execs in charge cut their teeth in the oil and gas sphere
Sure, that's one way to define it. But to people who think work (and effort) is in itself a virtue, optimization is lazy, because it reduces the total work you'll need to do.

Even some of your examples I'm not convinced are lazy according to your own definition. Am I lazy for flicking a switch at ankle level with my toes if I can do it well enough, when bending down would take so much more effort? I think by your standard I should be commended for my foot dexterity! When does the desire to reduce effort cease to be vicious and become virtuous?
Update:

Synopsys disavowed Markov's paper:
"Regarding the CACM article that Igor Markov's comments and writings do not represent Synopsys views or opinions in any way. Synopsys is also aligned with you on the potential of Reinforcement Learning AI for chip design"
(https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1859431937640665474)

Jeff Dean's post on the overall situation: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1858540085794451906
Mathematical reasoning is the most obvious area where it breaks down. This paper does an excellent job of proving this point with some elegant examples: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
Recent events suggest dismissing sabotage as a likely cause would be foolish.

10:13 presents details involving sabotage throughout Europe as well as states choosing to not disclose to their public about the nature of what is happening to avoid spooking their citizens
https://youtu.be/6KVnJqaBsnk?t=613&si=8lgB4A7x2fSmJC4N

NATO’s Admiral Rob Bauer discusses what he is at liberty to disclose to Arctic nations
https://youtu.be/DjpALbzKdJM?si=b4uU2KZ18JlNW5wf

I’m willing to trust what he’s saying verses online discourse where individuals will never have the level of insight as someone in his position.
However, potentially a localStorage (and sessionStorage!) compatible cookie-replacement api might allow for annotating keys with secure and/or HttpOnly bits? Keeping cookies and localStorage in sync is a hassle anyhow when necessary, so having the apis align a little better would be nice. Not to mention that that would have the advantage of partially heading off an inevitable criticism - that users don't want yet another tracking mechanism. After all, we already have localStorage and sessionStorage, and they're server-readable too now, just indirectly.

On the other hand; the size constraints on storage will be less severe than those on tags in each http request, so perhaps this is being overly clever with risks of accidentally huge payloads suddenly being sent along with each request.
Why does the channel have over 200k subs and the video less than a thousand views (as of now, 1 day after upload)?
Privacy-focused mobile phone launches for high-risk individuals
Its interesting how my brain immediately sees the ambiguous bike lane mixed in with pedestrians spaces, and thinks 'That's dangerous', but i am not conditioned to think the same way about bicycles being forced to mix with car traffic, or pedestrians forced onto very narrow sidewalks in the clearzone of roads.
> Apple Support

Are we sure the website wasn't just broken normally? I kid, a bit, but good lord does Apple _suck_ at websites. Apple Developer and, more often, App Store Connect is broken for no good reason with zero or a confusing error message.

Note: I'm typing this on a M3 Max MBP (via a Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse) with an iPhone 16 Pro and iPad Mini (N-1 version) on the desk next to me with an Apple Watch Series 10 on my wrist and AirPods Pro in my pocket. I'm a huge Apple fanboy, but their websites are hot garbage.
I felt the same way about a year ago, I’ve since changed my mind based on personal experience and new research.
"If only they used DC from the wall socket, all those H100s would be green" is, not, I think, the hill you want to die on.

But, yeah, my three 18MW/y racks agree that more power efficiency would be nice, it's just that Rewrite It In (Safe) Rust is unlikely to help with that...
Yeah. Elections have consequences.

Everybody who stayed home, and decided that they'd be fine with a Trump Presidency... this is your fault. I know your whole litany of excuses. Let them keep you warm, while the greater of two evils actually does the evils they said they were going to do.
It's not a loss leader. It makes a huge amount of money, but only because of its tight integration with Google infrastructure. It is not an abuse of a monopoly any more than it would be for an oil refinery to sell both diesel fuel and petrol.
Sorry. If I knew you will have such a negative reaction I would have not posted my reply to your IRL story.
I feel like that is circular logic. We started with the idea that the US is more expensive. That isn't an explanation for why it is more expensive. Why do we have so many more admins, and why do we pay them so well compared to median income, while Europe does not?
I've switched to Linux/Proton which has worked for basically anything I care to play these day.
Unity in C#
Maybe because people seem to be very emotional about this right know? I'm myself not sure if this is related to the woke mind virus or Kent being a dick
This happened to a friend who was trying to sim basketball games. It kept forgetting who had the ball or outright made illegal or confusing moves. After a few days of wrestling with the AI he gave up. GPT is amazing at following a linear conversation but had no cognitive ability to keep track of a dynamic scenario.
But the LLM isn't "using next-token prediction" to solve the problem, that's only how it's evaluated.

The "real processing" happens through the various transformer layers (and token-wise nonlinear networks), where it seems as if progressively richer meanings are added to each token. That rich feature set then decodes to the next predicted token, but that decoding step is throwing away a lot of information contained in the latent space.

If language models (per Anthropic's work) can have a direction in latent space correspond to the concept of the Golden Gate Bridge, then I think it's reasonable (albeit far from certain) to say that LLMs are performing some kind of symbolic-ish reasoning.
Pretty unrelated outside of it's about wind turbines, but couple days ago I watched this and it was super fascinating + fun, recommend it as somethingto put on in the background - Why Toronto has that one, weird wind turbine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-w_zohw6Y (~16 minutes)
Futaba Channel is a Japanese imageboard website originally born as a mirror backup for the textboard website 2ch (now 5ch). You may be aware of 4chan, which was directly based on Futaba and from which it took much of its culture.

Nico Nico Douga is a video hosting website that was created soon after YouTube's boom. It's famous for having user comments scrolling across videos and for being one of Japan's biggest meme factory from 2007 to 2012. Forcing users to login to watch videos, the push for premium accounts, and a rough transition from FLASH to HTML5 are considered some of main reasons of its decline.
I do not see any advantage here. All I see (or rather, what can't be seen) is hidden control flow. For what? To save a few characters?
https://danluu.com/ballmer/

For the argument Ballmer didn't waste a decade but setup MS up for the success it's seeing today.
We rely on multimodal input: the voiceover from the superintendent, as well as the video input. The two essentially cross check one another, so we think the likelihood of lies or hallucinations is incredibly low.

Superintendents usually still check and, if needed, edit/enrich Fresco’s notes. Editing is way faster/easier than generating notes net new, so even in the extreme scenario where a supe needs to edit every single note, they’re still saving ~90% of the time it’d otherwise have taken to generate those notes and compile them into the right format.
Looks very cool!

Relatedly, there's http://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/, which I think looks lovely. Has anyone gone through that and would like to share their experience?
malort definitely does lol

tastes like something you would pour into a chainsaw with that perfect 50:1 ratio of gas to oil.
I recently decided to upgrade my 10+ year old Corsair mechanical keyboard, and learned about these fancy magnetic ones. I ended up getting a Wooting Two HE and I love it. It definitely feels like a generational leap and I doubt I'll go back to mechanical.

I'm not a competitive gamer, but being able to have so much control over the key activation is cooler than I expected. Also, having analog WASD movement in a first person game is super intuitive. Unfortunately, a lot of games don't support it because they try to be smart and switch between "gamepad mode" and "keyboard mode", not letting you use both at once. So you gotta do some research to find compatible ones (Half Life 2 works mostly, but climbing ladders is buggy)

Also, even though I'm generally a fan of Corsair, I decided to not buy their magnetic keyboard even though it would've been an obvious progression from my previous one (which was excellent for over a decade). Why? Because Corsair's iCUE software sucks, and Wooting's is not only way better, it also officially supports Linux via an AppImage!
That happens to me all the time. Like wow I've never heard this 30 year old song before, but it was a hit at the time it released.
There is a rack mount version of the Mac Pro you can buy
Those are just two out of many points. I stand corrected on the second, but the first holds - road safety has been improving for 20 years now, why bother?
I don't think they'd admit much about it even if they had one internally, both because Apple isn't known for their openness about many things, and because they already exited the dedicated server hardware business years ago, so I think they're likely averse to re-entering it without very strong evidence that it would be beneficial for more than a brief period.

In particular, while I'd enjoy such a device, Apple's whole thing is their whole-system integration and charging a premium because of it, and I'm not sure the markets that want to sell people access to Apple CPUs will pay a premium for a 1U over shoving multiple Mac Minis in the same 1U footprint, especially if they've already been doing that for years at this point...

...I might also speculate that if they did this, they'd have a serious problem, because if they're buying exclusive access to all TSMC's newest fab for extended intervals to meet demand on their existing products, they'd have issues finding sources to meet a potentially substantial demand in people wanting their machines for dense compute. (They could always opt to lag the server platforms behind on a previous fab that's not as competed with, of course, but that feels like self-sabotage if they're already competing with people shoving Mac Minis in a rack, and now the Mac Minis get to be a generation ahead, too?)
Probably just semantics.
I always thought that's what Seasonal Affective Disorder was all about.