skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The allegations and current trial (and what looks like an upcoming European Commission investigation) seem to show that someone purchased illegal electoral ads (i.e. they were not declared as such, and financed though unclear means, by unclear parties).

TikTok was required to comply with electoral law and check/enforce all this stuff but did not respond until after the elections, and apparently did not enforce these electoral laws, while pocketing all the illegal ad money.
YouTuber repairs audiophile preamp, gets copyright strike [video]
The public reaction around this reminds me a lot like shinzo abe's assassination given the reaction, although the former ceo wasn't a political figure. The public really seems gleeful around it, to be frank. The abe analogy is the general public reaction is sympathy towards the assassin and antipathy to the murdered.
You can also use something like DES3 to get a bijection. Easier if it fits in 64 bits so you only need one block.
I'd like to announce my new `npm` package called `get-uuid`. Behind the scenes, it loads `everyuuid.com`, picks a random row number, and returns that UUID.
That’s hell on the tires if they are fixed axle isn’t it?
I just tried this and it worked fine. Right clicked on image, clicked "copy image" then pasted into a word doc.
"individually targeted algorithms"?

With data ranging back years, sometimes even birth of the individuals?

I don't think so.

Newspaper editor edit one newspaper for everyone.
This is a feature
Name fields in general.

But sometimes I don't have control, e.g. another person is inputting the data and dutifully duplicates my name. That's how I ended up with the 2 phone calls/3 person situation, which happened about a month ago.

Hell, my driver's license is missing the apostrophe because the system doesn't accept it.

When somebody is trying to find me in a computer there's a whole litany of things they have to try, including assuming "First O'Lastame" got bashed into "First O. Lastname".

I think about this every time I read an article extolling the wonders of technology.
You're misunderstanding "thinking before you code" vs premature blahblah.

It shares the same mindset as the saying: Fail to prepare is prepare to fail !

The challenges and the evils is in the details of the process of optimization, not that premature optimization is evil.
> And unicode is an evolving standard where this normalisation sometimes changes between standards

Unicode normalization is subject to its stability policy, and Unicode no longer allow adding new canonically equivalent code points.

https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html
> Steve Jobs is a prime example, he tried to treat his pancreatic cancer with fruit.

That is true – and probably didn't help. But his case is a poor example since he delayed treatment for months.

EDIT: Also, actual fruits are probably not an issue. It's difficult to eat too much fruit, unless in juice form... which he did.
What surprises me about this is how poorly general-purpose LLMs do. The best one is OpenAI o1-preview at 18%. This is significantly worse than the purpose-built models like ARChitects (which scored 53.5). This model used TTT to train on the ARC-AGI task specification (amoung other things). It seems that even if someone creates a model that can "solve" ARC, it still is not indicative of AGI since it is not "general" anymore, it is just specialized to this particular task. Similar to how chess engines are not AGI, despite being superhuman at chess. It will be much more convincing when general models not trained specifically for ARC can still score well on it.

They do mention that some of the tasks here are susceptible to brute force and they plan to address that in ARC-AGI-2.

> nearly half (49%) of the private evaluation set was solved by at least one team during the original 2020 Kaggle competition all of which were using some variant of brute-force program search. This suggests a large fraction of ARC-AGI-1 tasks are susceptible to this kind of method and does not carry much useful signal towards general intelligence.
The problem isn’t the performance of the battery but the safety. A dead battery for this always-connected use case is probably a non-issue. A swollen battery that could explode or catch fire is definitely an issue.

You could take it out but many phones won’t work without a battery so you need to find a way to trick them into thinking one is installed.
Very neat! I bet it isn't good for the tires though haha.
Since 2017, organizations like the Clean Futures Fund have been providing veterinary care, including vaccination, spaying, and neutering, to manage the dog population and reduce disease transmission risks
I guess I don’t understand what “never took off in a big way” is supposed to mean if it excludes a bunch of big players.
Q = ∫idt, so you just need something that regularly samples the current (typically measured via a shunt resistor) and accumulates it over time. This is typically done by a dedicated low power chip with an integrated differential amplifier for reading out the sense resistor, ADC, and nonvolatile memory - these are often referred to as "gas gauge" chips. This functionality can also be found on higher end all-in-one battery management chips.
https://www.tiktok.com/@mrgeemath/video/7353832903404490027?...
Your over-reaction sounds far more reminiscent of mental illness or drug abuse than any of his actual opinions, which are fairly pedestrian in 2024 (for the record I don't agree with them).

No one is going to commit him over that grandpa, seriously.
I don't think that OP's comment was any more flippant than is appropriate for the treatment in question.
The other parties reported spending as per the law, and this guy didn't. You can't run a campaign with no money, and he had no real grass-roots support (he was polling below 5% in all polls).
Donald Trump won the election 77 million to 74 million, and that's only counting voters. 74 million is a lot of people who voted against that oligarchy and are likely ideologically aligned with being gleeful with health insurance CEO murder.
Well hopefully they cannot do that in the future, since TikTok is also being investigated in the scandal. They are the ones who pocketed the money for the ads after all, and are required to comply with the electoral laws of the country, which they did not.

(later edit: Actually probably they did not pocket the ad money, since I think the accusation is most of it was not legitimate ads, but puppet-account posts from some service. Of course, TikTok could still be be held responsible to better police these, but perhaps is not the direct destination of the money.)
>People who live in a lot of African countries don't play much of a role in deciding what their governments do.

Holy fuck, are you saying this as someone who lives in the UNITED STATES? Incredible
What is the name of the AI newsletter?
> I think it's important to recognize that a lot of Americans (most? nearly all?) simply don't have a choice in health insurance. If you are on United, it's probably because that's what your employer has offered as a benefit.

As a non-American, this was indeed a big surprise when someone here recently replied to me to make that exact point.

All the disadvantages of a monopoly, none of the advantages of a free market.

Kinda like the UK rail network and water systems, neither of which the British hold in high regard.
Took me a moment to realize this isn't related to 86Box, the low level hardware emulator.

Cool project though. We needed something like this in Linux.
> What if they just don't respond. How does it get banned.

We had a very recent example of how that can work here in Brazil. Like the USA, we have hundreds of independent ISPs, and no national firewall. Twitter tried the "just don't respond", and got banned for over a month (the ban was lifted once Twitter gave up and cooperated with the courts).
Maybe it's a chicken-and-egg situation that needs a tipping point. If there's enough EVs on the road it becomes profitable.
I don't know who "we" is in your comment, but the question of whether capital punishment exists or not is a totally different question from whether the rule of law exists or not. It's perfectly self-consistent to support the rule of law while believing that some of the rules are wrong (e.g. that the state shouldn't kill people as a punishment). In fact that's essential to the whole thing working, since there's no way everyone will agree on the best set of rules for society.
Tried this today and came across an issue that I could not get around: if the dialog contains a form, then submitting the form with enter (focused on any input) or space (focused on the submit button) will close the dialog. I couldn't find any nice way of preventing it.

Normally a form will reload the page anyways so I guess this isn't a normal problem but I was using htmx.
Well, I would definitely avoid cow parsnip even though Giant Hogweed is supposed to be much worse. The blisters didn't hurt but they left scars after they healed that took a few years to fade. And I heard about a woman who had to be evacuated by helicopter from a hiking trip because she had most of her legs and a lot of her torso exposed. She was also hiking on a glacier so UV exposure was probably pretty high, too.

Fortunately, we only have cow parsnip around here. (So far, the qualifier we always have to use with invasive species.) From what I understand, Giant Hogweed looks very similar, only larger.
What can they do, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, that's the system as designed. They offloaded any and all moral scruples in order to become effectively cogs in the machine, and will be replaced by someone who's willing to ignore those pings of guilt to get the line moving up and to the right if necessary.
Awesome - this will be my new coding interview question
My second year without a job
So, you take the Lat and Lon of point[0] and add the offset vector. This locates with precision, like X marks the spot.

We could store an arbitrary path in a database in the clear, and only with a decryption key find a dropped point.
Facts don't sway opinions.

Persuasion does.

And once one has been duped, good luck convincing them they were...
What if the lifeboat skipper picks up many people, but decides that picking up more would endanger the lifeboat itself?

Asimov’s rules don’t work; that’s the whole point.
Not exactly, because "governments" are expressly capitalist. While you're right in that governments and capitalists want this type of fodder, OP's nephew is wrong in his assessment of modern capitalists.

As an aside, some religions do teach a duty to be fruitful and multiply. While I don't think capital G "Government" cares who does or doesn't procreate in their country, there are large organized political groups that promote this for strictly ethno-nationalist reasons.
Yes, as I said, as of right now they have not been held liable, only the voters have been punished by having their votes revoked.

The voters were apparently too stupid and got tricked by scary russian ads, so we must re-do the elections until they come to their senses and pick the correct candidate.

It's TikTok's fault for letting Russian ads in, so we'll take some of their money and we'll also stay in power. Win-win for the establishment.

It couldn't possibly be that the voters knew exactly what they were voting for... They're too gullible, that's it.
> Some (few) of them.

The majority of American voters have chosen this system multiple times, and have voted for a president who has explicitly said he'll make this system worse by repealing the ACA. He almost did it the first time, too, and it only failed by one vote.

Maybe this UHC CEO event will get more people talking about healthcare, and ultimately get more people voting for candidates who want to improve the system next time around. I support a public option, so I hope it does. But I won't hold my breath.
If you eat a serving of grilled chicken 5 times a week as part of an overall balanced diet you will not damage your bodily due to horrible eating... though you may find the other ~16 meals a week you're eating something without a serving of grilled chicken suddenly a lot more interesting.

"Eat a balanced diet of healthy foods" is good advice but whether or not you've achieved that has nothing to do with whether you had 5 servings of the same thing or not. You can have an extremely healthy diet and still regularly eat something many times a week, just don't try to make that something a McDonalds shake.
Nvidia's Unique History and Culture
This was a demo they did in a video but it's not available to anyone who actually owns one of these. I believe the EV Mercedes G Wagon does have it as a feature though.
>is because they go to sleep thinking, "what are our customers going to do about it? They're a captive audience. We only have to treat them as well as we are legally obligated to." And they are wholly unprepared for how many Americans are currently thinking, "hmm, I suppose murder is something we could do about it."

This is obviously incorrect. Simply being hated has never been cause for finding fault with oneself . Most people think they are misunderstood. Half of America hates the other half, and vice versa.
Baggy Tees, gold chains and now this!? Make this man president immediately!
Humans really struggle with identifying fault past one step. If you shoot a CEO, it's national headlines, but thousands die due to denial of proper treatment and there's no outrage. It seems this shooting made bridging the gap a mentally easier task for many people - Hence why there is very little public support for the late CEO.
> All the disadvantages of a monopoly, none of the advantages of a free market.

Just wait until someone tells you about Comcast.
I don’t really care about sponsor segments. They’re quickly and easily skipped. Sponsor-free videos for premium subscribers would be nice but it’s a pretty small thing.
> both of these candidates are rightwing

Just curious by what metrics do you consider Lasconi to be a right winger?
And then do that in parallel for 10 billion people.
And for each of their devices, and servers or other supporting infrastructure.
And do it multiple times per second (e.g. for every log message, every datapoint, ...)

That's why we need 128 bit numbers.
Speaking from the other side, I got an EV (Ioniq 5) ~$10,000 off with ~15k miles on it.
Rivian's R&D center is in Palo Alto, but their charger map doesn't show a public charger anywhere near there. They have zero chargers of their own in Silicon Valley.

There's a standards group at SAE working on making US charger payment compatibility work.[1] BP Pulse, General Motors, Ford, ChargePoint, Electrify America, Tesla, Toyota, and Rivian are on board.

It's good to see more higher-powered chargers. When and if solid state batteries with 9 minute charge times ship in volume, they'll need big chargers. QuantumState and ProLogium announced "breakthroughs" again this week. They do that a lot.

Samples of solid state batteries do exist. It's quantity production that's hard. Ehang, the flying car company, demonstrated a 48 minute flight using prototype solid state batteries recently.[2]

As I've said before, I think the future is one for one replacement of gasoline pumps with fast chargers. Once charge times drop below 10 minutes, a charging station doesn't have to look like a parking lot.

[1] https://www.sae.org/news/2024/12/sae-itc-plug-and-charge-fra...

[2] https://www.ehang.com/article/
The important point is that the patients are almost always not the customers.

Health insurance in the US is like a twisted version of the stilted app that corporate IT forces on employees, only different in that if it breaks it could kill or maim you or one of your loved ones.
I do have an HDHP+HSA plan, but you still have to run all your routine care through the insurance, (a) so they negotiate a lower price and (b) so it is applied to your deductible.

Truly "paying cash" for routine care would be difficult as most doctor's offices have no idea how to quote a cash price for services, unless you go to one of the very few cash-based practices.
Commodore BASIC, derived from Microsoft's 6502 BASIC, actually has 40-bit floats, with a 32-bit mantissa and 8-bit exponent, not that it would help much, if any, with 64-bit maths.

There are Microsoft BASICs that have 64-bit floats, such as built into ROM on the TRS-80 Model I, III and 4 w/Level 2 BASIC, TRS-80 Model 100/102, TI-99/4(a), Apple III, and MSX systems, or on cartridge such as Microsoft BASIC for the Atari 8-bit computers.
One of the best examples of bad policy and misplaced incentives is how the Affordable Care Act limits the amount of profit as a percentage of premiums that health insurance companies are allowed to make. Sounds great, right? If they make too much as a percentage (profit margins) they have to give money back to customers.

However, all it has done is incentive costs to up for them so they can charge higher premiums (since they have to now) and pocket the same percentage of premiums which is of course a larger number overall. How could an insurance company ever even consider lowering premiums by striking better deals with providers?

The dead CEO is a symbolic thing for people to direct their anger at, and with some justification (anger, but not wishing death), but really the frustration is with how bad policy and regulations of the healthcare industry in general is. There's a reason there's very few startups in the space as regulatory capture is all over the space. Between tort law, regulations, and poor policy it's no wonder the space is a mess.
I'm shocked by all the comments in this thread. Dude was assassinated.

Of course that's not going to lead to introspection. Especially not immediately. Assassination is wildly inappropriate!

When was the last time you were egregiously, drastically wronged and thought to yourself "maybe they have a point"?
It's really not that hard to do. There are huge portions of the population that hate police officers, athletes, teachers/professors, politicians, etc... I think their ability to seemingly not look inward is because they fundamentally believe that people aren't trying to even understand what they're doing.

I'm sure the execs at health insurance companies feel like they are doing good work within the context of a for-profit business. The first thing to note is they acknowledge they are for-profit. And within that context they probably feel like they're trying to do the right thing against overzealous hospitals, doctors, fraud, and people don't sloppy work filing claims (even if not fraudulent).

I just don't see how you can't do trade-offs in a for-profit where costs can be almost effectively unbounded. So I think in aggregate all of these things can convince themselves that they're doing the best they can and the market will help ensure they do a good job.
No, generally speaking OpenAI doesn't re-use training data between customers. It's worth it to them anyway because they learn what does/doesn't work on different tasks

Of course, it isn't your IP free and clear either, because the base model isn't open so your fine-tuned model will always live inside OpenAI's walled garden.

If you're interested in reinforcement learning on top of truly open models where you own the end product, we're putting a lot of thought into that and are also looking for design partners! Feel free to email me at kyle@openpipe.ai.
I’ve seen a lot of people do this when resurrecting old niche sites. The high-level approach usually involves grabbing all the snapshots from archive.org, stripping out their timestamped URLs, and consolidating everything into a local mirror. In practice, you want to:

1. Collect a list of archived URLs (via archive.org’s CDX endpoints).
2. Download each page and all related assets.
3. Rewrite all links that currently point to `web.archive.org` so they point to your domain or your local file paths.

The tricky part is the Wayback Machine’s directory structure—every file is wrapped in these time-stamped URLs. You’ll need to remove those prefixes, leaving just the original directory layout. There’s no perfect, purely automated solution, because sometimes assets are missing or broken. Be prepared for some manual cleanup.

Beyond that, the process is basically: gather everything, clean up links, restore the original hierarchy, and then host it on your server. Tools exist that partially automate this (for example, some people have written scripts to do the CDX fetching and rewriting), but if you’re comfortable with web scraping logic, you can handle it with a few careful passes. In the end, you’ll have a mostly faithful static snapshot of the old site running under your revived domain.
1) DPO did exclude some practical aspects of the RLHF method, e.g. pretraining gradients.

2) the theoretical arguments of DPO equivalence make some assumptions that don’t necessarily apply in practice

3) RLHF gives you a reusable reward model, which has practical uses and advantages. DPO doesn’t have useful intermediate product.

4) DPO works off preference, whereas desirable RL objectives could have many forms

in practice big labs are testing all these methods to see what works best.
WMD in Iraq is an instance of this.
Ublock origin is not able to filter out <dialog> elements without breaking scrolling and other buttons in most cases (depending on how the site is implemented). Is there a generic way to disable these without affecting the rest of the site?
We have seen generalization too late -- rather, we have seen the need for it, but by definition, if it is left too late, it is impossible.

I personally have not seen premature optimization, but I may have led a charmed life.
The first lead I worked with inoculated me to this. He taught me about hype trains long before the idea was formalized. He’d been around for the previous AI hype cycle and told me to expect this one to go the same. Which it did, and rather spectacularly. That was three cycles ago now and while I have promised myself I will check out the next cycle, because I actually do feel like maybe next time they’ll build systems that can answer why not just how, this one is a snooze fest I don’t need to get myself involved in.
I would expect that, politically, the insurance companies are just entering their time in the barrel.

The mantle of populist, anti-establishment hero is up for grabs now that the group who campaigned as anti-establishment are the establishment. Their stated position is that private insurance companies are good, actually, and we should be moving more people out of government funded health care and into the waiting arms of UnitedHealthcare and other private insurers.

This shooting, and popular acclaim for it, are a bright red signal that there is a huge tailwind for anyone who campaigns to burn these companies down, and the new establishment is going to be forced into opposing that popular demand.
I've been impressed with this on LineageOS
I think you're confusing talk about what to do about similar future infractions with what to do about this current infraction.

Also, do you think the fine for a parking ticket is a taking? Does the government have to compensate me for the fair market value of the money it took? You application to the takings clause to these kids of scenarios is absurd.
Jumped the shark there, dude! But some of these posts are hilarious over-the-top horseshit. Seriously...

Get a grip. For all we know the shooter was pissed b/c his girlfriend was banging the health insurance executive while babysitting for him!

[I would loooove for HN to have optionally-visible meta-threads, so onlookers like me could sit in the gallery, drink a beer, joke and remark about what is posted w/o affecting the stream of thought. Now back to y'all...]