skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the flag! Absolutely, there are many verticals where we think Fresco can be useful. Would love to hear your thoughts on price point.
In most jurisdictions they're limited to that power because they're ebikes. Above that you just have an electric motorcycle, which mandates different brakes and so on, but you can still do that. Just need a another license, more taxes, etc.
LLMs are fundamentally text-completion. The Chat-based tuning that goes on top of it is impressive but they are fundamentally text-completion, that's where most of the training energy goes. I keep this in mind with a lot of my prompting and get good results.

Regurgitating and Examples are both ways to lean into that and try to recover whatever has been lost by Chat-based tuning.
Every privacy advocate I know hands over exquisitely detailed private and personal information to Google and/or Apple. It seems unfair to generalize as “privacy advocates” so much as it is people who are anti-ads.

Being anti-ads is a valid opinion. It has less intellectual cover than pro “privacy” though.
> unflagging anti-israeli articles while keeping articles about other major events that have appearance of pro-israel - is bias.

To a limit. Very famously, a lot of Israeli publications promote an unrealistically positive perspective of their politics (a-la Hasbara). These Israeli articles with a predetermined bias are generally lower-quality and contribute to less fruitful discussion than the Israeli exposés like the "Lavander"/"Where's Daddy?" reports or the sniper drone allegations that NPR reported on yesterday. Since Israel has banned all other forms of reporting in Gaza I do not think it is biased to filter obvious propaganda when it appears.

> banning pro-israeli posters after a few messages supporting israel for "it's not place for political discussions" and keeping on-site those who post continuously anti-israel articles - is bias.

This I agree with. But it's not dang that's doing that, it's your everyone on HN that's not using a burner account and has the "flag" capability. We are extremely biased against fringe opinions expressed on fragile throwaway accounts. If you're seeing a disproportionate number of flagged Israeli perspectives, shouldn't that prompt a reflection on what the narrative is now? Gaza is not a back-burner discussion anymore, you cannot whataboutism or handwave justification for the plainly apparent ethnic cleansing Israel initiated.
Which are what if not computers?
Interesting tidbit I once learned from a chess livestream. Even human super-GMs have a really hard time "scoring" or "solving" extremely weird positions. That is, positions that shouldn't come from logical opening - mid game - end game regular play.

It's absolutely amazing to see a super-GM (in that case it was Hikaru) see a position, and basically "play-by-play" it from the beginning, to show people how they got in that position. It wasn't his game btw. But later in that same video when asked he explained what I wrote in the first paragraph. It works with proper games, but it rarely works with weird random chess puzzles, as he put it. Or, in other words, chess puzzles that come from real games are much better than "randomly generated", and make more sense even to the best of humans.
It is highly likely that the results of a touristic liposuction will be quite horrible. Also, the probability of grave complication is not that low. People are strange...
Heya!

I saw there was a mention of content moderation when the author discussed https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat

But when I went to the github repo, I didn't see anything about that.

I'm loosely related to the content moderation space through my employer, so wanted to learn more about that.
I look forward to James Kettle's yearly research results, he's the most incredible appsec researcher I know of.
The Most Important Economic Concept No One Understands [video]
It’s just another Bambu clone anyway
Curious, what is the modern version of Chipwits is written in?
The removal of Manifest v2 support clearly shows there’s a conflict of interest there. The best thing for users is to allow ad blocking, but the best thing for Google is to not allow it. Since they’re choosing to impede/reduce those capabilities, we can clearly see who’s getting the benefit.

I know there are other arguments against Manifest v2, but they seem like parallel construction to justify the “real” reason.
I am professional scientist. I am not allowed to use certain substances, because exposure is damaging to the unborn child. I am a man.
I am not allowed to perform certain procedures, unless I rebuild half the lab.
I am not allowed to use lasers you can buy as costumer products in the US and china unless I write a safety manual .

Innovation needs creativity and fast iterations, in our current setup that is incredible hard.

MRNA tech is a good example: It was stuck in limbo for ages due to safety concerns, COVID allowed people to ignore these and push forward.
Every php ORM disagrees. Nothing about it is magic
For those coding in Swift, there is the Physical[0] package.

[0] https://github.com/hyperjeff/Physical
Linux connection tracking and (Slow) DNS
> There are actual techniques that career mathematicians know about.

Your best example is the decimal system in contrast to roman numerals. I think that explains the point well. The zero is one of those tricks, and most people know it now, but that wasn't true until very recently.
No countries in Africa and Latin America would enforce the ICC arrest request for Putin. Concerning the rest of Europe, with the exception of the only military power left: France, are you arguing they could defend their sovereignty without the USA military big stick?

"Why Europe Is Unprepared to Defend Itself" - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-nato-armed-forces/
> Insurance companies don’t actually make very much profit.

Insurance companies usually (maybe it's always, not certain) are regulated to a percentage cap spent on categories. What is the result? They are incentivized to push prices ever higher as much and as fast as possible because a % of higher price is more profit for them.

> Insurance companies are an easy target though, since no one wants to go after the doctors and hospitals for charging too much.

Doctors and hospitals actually provide a valuable service, they provide health care. They deserve to be paid.

Insurance companies provide no value whatsoever, they are just a middleman siphoning off profits off the work of doctors (and nurses and everyone else doing the actual work).

Also, doctors don't actually charge that much. When I get billed $980 for a 15 minute doctor visit (as I just was last month), it is most certainly not because the doctor is earning ~$4000/hr. That doctor isn't paid more than your average senior software engineer (in Silicon Valley anyway), all the rest of the money is lost to middlemen who didn't contribute anything.
This is Cowboy State Daily, one of the few news sources from Wyoming.They publish a lot of stories with a significant amount of bad faith, particularly concerning energy and environmental issues.

wyofile.com is a better source for energy and environmental reporting.
Maybe one could even say that this is a kind of blight and a reason to use eminent domain, so that it could be done without any changes in law.
Thank you for doing the research I should have done! From the passage you quote, it is clear that the IRI is already based on the response of a vehicle's suspension to the roughness of the road, even though the results are expressed as the ratio of the sum of the absolute vertical displacement to the distance traveled. The article says, about putting the results in this form, "The slope statistic of the IRI was chosen for backward compatibility with roughness measures in use."
You generalize this without mentioning that there are LLMs which do not just use random 'dogshit'.

Also what does a normal human do? It looks around how to move one random piece and it uses a very small dictionary / set of basic rules to move it. I do not remember me learning to count every piece and its options by looking up that rulebook. I learned to 'see' how i can move one type of chess piece.

If a LLM uses only these piece moves on a mathematical level, it would do the same thing as i do.

And yes there is also absolutly the option for an LLM to learn some kind of meta game.
Some very nice related works that dispel widespread math myths:
(1) What Is Mathematics, Really? Hersh, 1997. https://books.google.com/books/about/What_is_Mathematics_Rea...
(2) Where Mathematics Comes From. Lakoff and Nunez, 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From
Most comedy is tragic.[1] And laughing is an inherently selfish act, as Mel Brooks observed when he said, "comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die."[2]

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/25/comedy-plus/

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/mel-brooks-film-exc...
I think your price analysis is predicated on the amount of friction.

For me to sign up with a 3rd party service to pay a subscription: yes, $10/month is probably the smallest fee I'd bother with.

To add a subscription through my Apple devices, where I can manage my apps in a single pane of glass and start/stop subscriptions at will, I'm fine with paying $10/year, $2/month, whatever.
Yes, but they are both “design” so of course it’s going to reflect on the product offering. Nothing wrong with criticizing what is offered for review. It is just a fact.
I'm amazed Apple don't have a rack mount version of their M series chips yet.

Even for their own internal use in their data centers they'd have to save an absolute boat load on power and cooling given their performance per watt compared to legacy stuff.
> Among other factors it can be argued that true reasoning involves symbolic logic and abstractions, and LLM are next token predictors.

I think this is circular?

If an LLM is "merely" predicting the next tokens to put together a description of symbolic reasoning and abstractions... how is that different from really exercisng those things?

Can you give me an example of symbolic reasoning that I can't handwave away as just the likely next words given the starting place?

I'm not saying that LLMs have those capabilities; I'm question whether there is any utility in distinguishing the "actual" capability from identical outputs.
Neither kid is an angel, but they both are smart enough not to risk an all-out fight with each other.
I was forced to move from Symfony to Laravel and I really dislike it. This experience seems to be very common.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201261
Yeah I knew that, that's why I've found it interesting.

It looks a lot more high-level than something like C, but is used in similar spaces, which makes me wonder why it never really became more popular.
The Challenges of Building a Sigstore Implementation from Scratch [video]
Youtube can buy those services from google as an independent entity, like everybody else. Not profitable enough? Good. I see a lot of people who don't understand that is not a side effect, but the point of antitrust action, to destroy business models that are only competitive as loss leaders for another arm of the monopoly business. Finally we'd get closer to fair competition between video platforms.
Autism prevalence increasing in children, adults
> I would also like to understand why the most basic regulations aren't in place on cars to limit their maximum speed, and maximum acceleration and/or power?

If you bring this up, the amount of visceral reactions, you get from people who demand that you stop talking about the subject is incredible.

They come up with all sorts of crazy hypotheticals (what if I need to rush to the hospital at 105 miles an hour).
It sounds like you got the gist of the critique of getters/setters but just haven’t been exposed to the alternatives.

That's fine and okay.
I think writing a toy Forth interpreter is a good way to learn about the language. It's easy and I had a lot of fun with it. But it is so ridiculously easy, at least up to a certain point, some may find it too elementary, or too tempting to go beyond a toy implementation.
sometimes skilled chess players make illegal moves
This was a very good suggestion. Updated.

Thanks..
One of the things I’ve always found frustrating about cookies is that you have to do your own encoding instead of the API doing it for you. I’m sure someone somewhere does but too often I’m doing my own urlencode calls.
But it's not real reasoning because it is just outputting likely next tokens that are identical to what we'd expect with reasoning. /s
They mention that it's C# and that it's at least 10x the amount of code...

I loved this game! I actually had the Forth package for the C64 also but I never put 2+2 together that the game was made with it.
If you like Farnam Street, then go read about Charlie Munger - who is quoted quite often on the blog.

If you've never heard about him, and you want to learn about thinking and decision making, he's THE guy.
> what do you mean by 'invite to the table'? it's a criminal court, so it's going to deal with criminals

"Criminals" in this context is meaningless. Please hear me out.

We're dealing with the concept of "International Law", which is largely understood as agreements / treaties amongst different countries.

This means that those agreements are no more valid or better or righteous than the countries that enter into them. If the nations involved share certain basic principles and make an agreement that aligns with those principles, the enforcement of these "laws" would come from those nations that are party to the treaty.

BUT - if one nation changes its mind, or changes its internal laws or decides "nah, no thanks" then how do you enforce these so-called "laws"? Do the other nations declare war on this nation?

It gets even worse than that. Because the very concept of "International Law" contains a logical contradiction.

The idea is that we are going make war (force, violence, death, destruction, conflict) subject to some kind of rules. The problem is, you can't. You can have two parties to a conflict agree to certain things: like not to murder civilians, or prisoners etc. if it can be helped. But at the end of the day it's an agreement that doesn't have any kind of binding power or significance because the idea of war means that two groups have decided that they can't reach any kind of rational agreement and so they have resorted to violent conflict.

War, by definition, is the absence of law. The absence of reason. The breakdown of civilization. It comes about when two groups cannot reason with one another; cannot agree with one another on what the rules ought to be.

Law is not a concept that comes out of nowhere. It is the idea that in order to protect individual rights and liberty, the element of force and violence is going to be taken out of civil existence and placed into the hands of a monopoly: the government, which sets the rules and enforcement mechanisms around when force is and is not justifiable within their respective operating jurisdictions.

When you have multiple nations that operate independently, each with their own laws and rules, all you can do is get them to agree to certain things, as long as they have some basis upon which to enter into an agreement.

My thesis is that a free, rights-protecting nation has no basis for an agreement with a dictatorship that routinely violates peoples' rights. That the dictatorship has everything to gain by getting the free nation to agree to what its evil desires want, while the free nation has only things to lose (through compromise, which is part and parcel of coming to terms).

That's what I mean by "invite to the table."
I'm sure that would have worked about as well as Napoleon agreeing to live in exile on Elba.
I think the question we're grappling with is whether token prediction may be more tightly related to symbolic logic than we all expected. Today's LLMs are so uncannily good at faking logic that it's making me ponder logic itself.
He was a former head of state by then.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/prenatal-bisphenol-a-b...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48897-8

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10794604/
Trolling on HN might be one of the stupidest things I've witnessed in a while.
I don’t fully understand how the DOJ believes selling Chrome will help. Like others said, browsers lose money.
For starters, I would push back on the inflation narrative. Yes, inflation happened, and it's not great, but I don't think it's throw-the-bums-out-at-all-costs (including electing a criminal with a cabinet full of criminals) bad. I think that a lot of other factors were more important.

For his actual points, I don't think they're especially helpful. A lot of this is just acceding to Republican talking points. You will never get Republicans to stop accusing Democrats of forcing everybody to be vegan, and that they're going to pay people to immigrate illegally. And you're never going to get people to stop believing it.

Unfortunately, I've come to believe the exact opposite of this. The Democrats should lean on their far left, because they're the ones who get excited -- or don't. They should not worry about attracting "centrist" Republicans, because they never will. Nor should they worry about losing centrist Democrats, because they're the ones who will do their dumb, boring duty where the flighty extremists won't.

That has worked fantastically for Republicans. Republican moderates line up to vote for the most extreme candidates the party can dream up.

I hate everything about that. I don't usually agree with the Democratic far left. I think their policies are bad ones. If we do get into office because of them, we'll spend most of our time infighting. Just as Republicans do -- they accomplished practically nothing in the 2016-2018 time frame, and I bet they'll accomplish little in 2024-2026.

But at least they've got the Presidency, and that's a huge opportunity. They played that to own the Supreme Court for the rest of my life.

If Democrats want to win, they have to keep their eyes on that. It won't come from trying to woo the center. If it hasn't worked by now, it won't work by shifting further right.
I guess I assumed it was a reference to Alfred Whitehead's and Bertrand Russell's book Principia Mathematica, which predates Wolfram himself by several decades.
Agree. The article turned me off as well. No specific example, felt like an ad.
Furthermore, oil fires can be extinguished by water and/or CO2 - Lithium battery fires can't be smothered and require exponentially more water to bring under control (producing copious amounts of heavily contaminated water too). And once put out can easily re-ignite.
Good way to hit max header length issues. Ask me how I know.
Why Europe Is Unprepared to Defend Itself
I generally agree with this take. The big problem with it is that the current and likely future israeli administrion(s) have as one of their largest goals the annexation of the west bank, not because of security but because they truly believe god gave them that land. IMO there is little reason to believe israelis will ever allow the palestinians full sovereignty in the west bank. So whats on the table for them in your situation? Probably giving up even more land in the west bank and the fear that israel can start a war to annex even more of it any time the israeli right wins an election. Which gets at the heart of the issue here, neither side has any reason to believe the other is negotiating in good faith, so negations can never really begin.

Ive spent a decent amount of time in Israel and my observation is that the prospect for peace is incredibly dim.
Interesting. I've been using Emacs for 6 years and have never heard of CCL. I would love to read a book on all the strange and fascinating code that Emacs has accumulated over the years.
Well, based on my DEXA scan from before I started on tirzepatide, if I had dropped to 20% BF with my starting LBM, I would have been in close to the best shape of my life. I certainly have a lot of extra muscle in my legs from carrying my fat ass around.

> Does more muscle mass indicate stronger muscles?

Yes. Strength for specific movements involves CNS adaptation, but if you look at the top tier of powerlifters, ranking them within a weight category by MRI muscle mass would produce basically identical results to their actual rankings.
The Executive-Coder Experiment: Returning to Code with GenAI After 7 Years
> mysql_real_escape2

Blame MySQL for that name, not PHP.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.4/en/mysql-real-escape-str...

(And, if you're doing modern PHP, it's just PDO->quote().)
Much appreciated, glad to learn something new today.
To the OP: I think this tool would be much more useful/accessible if one could name the cryptographic system, the operation (sign, verify, encrypt, decrypt, hash), specify the key and message sizes, then compute the operational cost. Right now someone must first figure out how to decompose their primitives into low-level operations which are going to be very implementation and library-specific.
I think you've simply redefined genius. Many years ago I read an article on youth football, if I remember correctly, and in it there was a bit about the writers visit to the Ajax Youth Academy. In it he writes of a moment during practice when a plane flies over and all the 7(?) year olds on the pitch look up to see it except for one kid who keeps his eyes on the ball. That kid (of course) grows up to be a very good midfielder for Real (I'm forgetting the exact details, I think its Wesley Sniejder?). My point is: whatever that motive energy is that manifests as the single minded pre-occupation with math at an age when everybody else's attention is all over the place is that inherent thing that people call genius. I have read many of Thurston's non-mathematical writings about himself and in it this sort of singular pre-occupation is also clear -- which is why he developed his preternatural geometric vision.
One of the reasons I thought that was unlikely was personal pride. OpenAI researchers are proud of the work that they do. Cheating by calling out to a chess engine is something they would be ashamed of.
IMO the demon core incident resonates with people as kind of the ultimate case of "playing with fire". Humans have always played with fire, so we see the attraction, but also the dangers of it. It's a primitive behavior that's put us at risk, but also been the origin of most of our technology. The juxtaposition of a top nuclear weapons scientist taking such a "caveman" approach, playing with a new kind of "fire" that's millions of times more powerful, is poignant in the way it's absurd, but also relatable, sad & darkly funny.
The future of Dgraph is open, serverless, and AI-ready
I didn't fully grok what this was about from the website. Though just last night I was talking to a friend about that quote from the Matrix that Morpheus tells Neo, so some nice synchronicity there. The sense I got from this is that they are developing a triple AAA type virtual world that can get generated on the fly based on text prompts? When the authors say frame level control do they mean that at any point, the next frame can be manipulated, either to be completely new or to influence the current story or context that is being played out?
Point taken. But I do think it’s wrong to put no value on the reason behind the popularity of that visceral reaction. Unless safety and efficiency are the only things we are optimizing for.

Being able to drive what you want, where you want, when you want, and how you want, within reason, is one of the emergent freedoms ever granted by the progress of civilization.
The type of preparations being forced are things the government should be doing regardless as part of their national defense.
(some of?) their servers do run apple silicon: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
The other time I was thinking why this hasn't been done, here it is
Understanding misinformation isn’t just about spotting lies—it’s about recognizing how our brains process truth and doubt.