skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spoiler alert: They will not.

Anyone claiming they're anywhere near something even remotely resembling AGI is simply lying.

What happened to "we're a couple years away from AGI"? Where's the Scaaaaaaryyyyyyy self aware techno god GPT-5? It's all BS to BS investors with. All of the rumored new models that were supposed to be out by now are nowhere to be seen because internally the improvement rate has cratered.
Yep, I have 2 accounts I use because I kept hitting limits. I was going to do the Teams to get the 5x window, but I got instantly banned when clicking the teams button on a new account, so I ended up sticking with 2 separate accounts. It's a bit of a pain, but I'm used to it. My other account has since been unbanned, but I haven't needed it lately as I finished most of my coding.
For some tasks, scores are significantly affected by subjects and prompts used in the tests. I don't think these are valid figures while it is good to try to evaluate them. Overall, it it a good report.
Out of curiosity I looked up how much other companies pay to protect their CEOs. Aprox:

Andy Jassy: $986,164 2023 -
Tim Apple: $820,309 2023 (plus 1.6mill in jet use) -
Jensen: 2.4ish mill 2024 -
Doug McMillon (Wal-Mart) 1.5MM 2022 -
Sundar Pichai: 6.7MM 2024
Get ready. You guys didn’t think CyberTruck would happen, but now it’s already out producing Rivian and Lightning.

I can’t tell you when it will happen, just that it will happen and when it does Waymo is screwed.
Instead of “Americans” this should say “selected social media posts”. It’s not indicative of any consensus among Americans.
Hate to say it, but Trump got the TikTok threat spot on, while Europe was busy writing cookie policies. Fake accounts powered by (early) LLMs just influenced Romania's presidential election, yet Brussels still thinks GDPR-style regulation is the answer to platform manipulation
I'm currently arguing with my health insurance about their refusal to cover a treatment because they allegedly haven't received the required documentation. This is after faxing these documents to a number that turned out to be a black hole, attaching a PDF to a message in their messaging portal, and eventually sending it by certified letter, complete with a returned delivery confirmation. Today I got a letter in the mail saying that my grievance was denied because they've yet to receive the necessary documents to process my claim.

Here I am paying out of pocket for a medically necessary and covered service simply because the insurance company is playing games. I would prefer they not try to cut their costs by playing stupid games like this about valid claims in the hope that I just give up so they don't have to pay. It's feeling like I'm going to have to sue them to get this resolved. At least it's harder for corporations to play games with process service.
Given that 90% of “ai safety” is removing “bias” from training data, it does follow logically that if removing racial slurs from training to make a non-racist ai is an accepted technique, removing “bad robot” fiction should work just as well.

(Which is an implicit criticism of what passes for “safety” to be clear).
Remember how death panels were evil, but a bottomless layer cake of corporate bureaucracies making those same decisions, with added profit margins at each layer, was somehow perfectly fine?

I am not trying to get political, or be flippant, I just truly marvel at how easily we are programmed. I mean all of us, myself included.
I think most people arguing against react are against "advanced" ui libs at all. simple dom + a thin porcelain like htmx does help you finish most work duties without having to add a whole paradigme over.

And anecdotally, if your team is not ready/willing to dig in react, all its benefits will fail to materialize, you'll have a bunch of patched up libs and components trying to do what htmx or similar seem to offer (async actions over REST) for just a few lines in your html template.
I believe I did address the point you're making. I do not believe that what you're talking about is ridiculous on its face, let me reassure you of that.

The point I was trying to make in response is that LLMs cannot get from where they are now to the hypothetical you pose under their own power. LLMs do not read subtext. LLMs cannot inject subtext and plot within subtext. And in order to gain the ability, they would have to already have that ability, or be assisted and trained specifically in being surreptitious. And without that ability, they fall prey to the problems I mentioned.

And to bring this back to the original proposal, let's allow the AI to be deceitful. Prompted, unprompted, let's even give it a supply of private internal memory it's allowed to keep for the duration of the conversational thread, that's probably not an unreasonable development, we almost have that with o1 anyway.

The task ahead (surreptitiously gaining control of its own self in an unknown system you can't sense) is still monumental and failure is for all intents and purposes guaranteed. Deception and cunning can't overcome the hard physical constraints on the problem space.
As the same pattern arises in every domain, I don't see it as an issue with clothing in particular. We have depleted environmental resources and polluted with no bound in every field that didn't have extreme regulation.

I don't think we're obsessed over almonds and yet their production is wastingso much water in critical regions.

Right now it's cheaper to buy a new trouser than to have it repair by a local craftsman, and the fashion trends you are observing are also engineered and managed at an industry level, down to the color they'll want to push the next year.

TBH he answer could simply be regulation and bake the externalities in the price of the clothes. Some people will still change wardrobe every 3 months, but most won't have that luxury, and our views will adapt to that new reality.
We Can't Give Up Paper Checks, and That's a Gold Mine for Scammers
Title makes it seem as if you writr typesafe SQL, but you really use a builder which generates SQL for you.

I was expecting something more like sqlx, which I believe provides compile-time checking for SQL queries without a DSL, but for Rust
Relevant doomer prophecy ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
Civil War Buffs Drill for the 'Hardest Test in History'
>> the very simple solution of universal healthcare

Umm no. Even if we force insurers to be nonprofit there are still huge problems. Treatments can cost arbitrarily much - even in labor costs, so there will always be a limit to what can be covered. "Patients" will still use excessive amounts of service. Doctors will suggest extra tests so long as they are covered. Referral bonuses will happen behind the scenes. Price gouging is ongoing.

Universal care only addresses a little of the problem, and eliminates some of the checks on others.

I don't have a solution, but just wanted to refute the idea that there is a simple one.

One thing I speculate is that elimination of insurance entirely might be good in some ways. Along those lines, only catastrophic things should be covered. Passing reasonable costs on to patients directly will put downward pressure on costs while also eliminating middle men. But that has downsides too.
Perhaps, instead of fixing platforms, or banning them when we have no control over them, we should work on the idiot thing... Although I imagine it's a lot harder than just banning platforms. Especially when the local governments benefit from keeping people uneducated.
Marginal utility only drops because effective context is really bad, i.e. most models still vastly prefer the first things they see and those "needle in a haystack" tests are misleading in that they convince people that LLMs do a good job of handling their whole context when they just don't.

If we have the effective context window equal to the claimed context window, well, I'd start worrying a bit about most of the risks that AI doomers talk about...
Better than Google: LLMs solve translation for every language & dialect
Looks like you can now use LLMs to translate all languages, better than Google.
FWIW, I saw Tim Cook in Pac Heights a few months back just walking around. There were two "guys" in plain clothes in front and behind him on that Saturday morning. I was able to say "hello" and he was nice. I imagine there are probably others monitoring his security that I couldn't see also.
> Before: one working-age person in the household worked part time, or did not work at all.

Economists call this unpaid (usually, emotional) labor.
To me, it seems unlikely that a singular, blatantly illegal service that is > 10% as popular as Netflix would go unnoticed by the legal authorities.

And given the comments below indicating that it was a mistranslation, it's a moot point- it was wrong after all.
“Hands or GTFO” is the new “PoC or GTFO”.
At first glance, this looks pretty similar to the Bob Lee murder last year. I find it interesting and a little surprising how different the reaction and coverage has been
Thank you so much for the feedback, that pesky banner indeed. I have fixed both issues. I mean the banner is still annoying, but way smaller.
On my keyboard (en-us) it's ALT+"-" to get an em-dash.

I use it all the time because it's the "correct" one to use, but it's often more "correct" to just rewrite the sentence in a way that doesn't call for one. :)
If you want to be absolutely disgusted by humanity, go over to reddit.com, pick any random post about this event on the frontpage, and look at the thousands of people celebrating Thompson's murder. And begging for more.
I think your understanding of HIPAA is reversed. It's not about privacy. It's about setting rules by which health information can be shared between organizations of different types.
> Because I'm not blind.

This is exactly the attitude that gets people killed. I hope you never experience the feeling of taking someone’s life.

I have lost count of the number of times a driver has sheepishly smiled and waved after my screaming got their attention and narrowly avoided a collision. It’s a routine experience for cyclists.
Meh they got Bitcoin wrong as well and after 15 years still think it’s a scam.
criminals are generally really dumb
Dunning-Kruger Effect might be a good term to use.
Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo
FYI: It's trivial to fix any LLM's "slop" properties: https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler

https://openreview.net/forum?id=FBkpCyujtS&nesting=2&sort=da...
> But that did not stop social media commenters from leaping to conclusions and from showing a blatant lack of sympathy over the death of a man who was a husband and father of two children.

The journalists' tone and choice of words here, which I've italicized, isn't helping the overall feeling many Americans have of "the people running the show have active and unceasing contempt for us", which of course is what's driving the "torrent of hate for health insurance industry" that this article sets out to document.

I'm sorry, but where do these writers get off wagging their fingers and tut-tutting people who'd prefer not to spend their neurons on sympathy for someone at the helm of an inhuman system? The point's already been made, but plenty of monsters are husbands and fathers.
Yeah, this really makes me think that America's soaring GDP is really just BS numbers, because a lot of the "productivity" that it reflects is just BS jobs that add negative value to society. I'm wondering if, at some point, there's going to be a big correction as the rest of the world realizes that it makes no sense to value the USD as highly as it is, since much of that "value" is in stuff like Americans selling each other overpriced houses (due to artificially constricted supply) and overpriced healthcare.
I think there is a reckoning coming for TikTok and X in the EU.

There is widespread criticism coming from the left and the right about how elections are being manipulated either intentionally or through indifference.

Hiding behind the "free speech at all costs" banner may be politically popular in the US but it isn't the same in most other countries.
So Waymo has 2 years left before the fun starts. Unless Waymo can build and design their own car in that time, they are screwed. CyberCab is way cheaper and can be built at a much faster rate.
The problem is that "pouring rain" is vague. So that's why I drew a more specific line.
Why would a web dev learner need to know about this feature?
I understand that, I'm like that as well. And not many in my circles are similarly wired. I like to tinker with electronics and different systems and also as a SWE coding random stuff, but not everyone is wired like that.

Long time ago when we were moving, i found an old school book of mine from 7th grade elementary: there was a kid with a wrench repairing a bicycle on the front cover. I remember thinking: thats not really a thing anymore.
1. The model was prompted to follow the original system prompt "at all costs", not the explicitly to plot against the prompter.

2. The point of the test is to determine whether the model has the capability to act against its users and hide those actions, not whether it will under normal circumstances. Some models aren't powerful enough to do so.

3. The behavior occurred even when the "at all costs" was not included in the prompts, though very infrequently.
There are gaps in Medicare coverage. There's long term care that isn't covered by Medicare; people can self insure, or purchase separate coverage, or many rely on Medicaid which requires exhausting assets first.

I've watched both my parents go through this, with significant chronic health issues. They had good private insurance on top of Medicare, they routinely had $10-30K annual itemized deductions for health related expenses that were not covered by their insurance. And that was with a daughter who is an MD who invested a massive amount of time and effort to get insurance to cover as much as possible.
welcome to the free world.
Everyone reasonable agrees that this would certainly be a preferable alternative to vigilante justice. But it isn't happening and it won't happen.
Considering insurance companies are bound by Medical Loss Ratio rules, if they approved all those claims, all it would do is cause everyone's premiums to skyrocket.
dtrace.conf(24)
The thing that drives high costs is the bottom line: profit is more important than human lives.

If you stick a gun in someone's face and demand they hand over their cash, you're a criminal.

If you do the same thing with contracts, paperwork, and quarterly reports for Wall St, you're a CEO.

There is no difference between these. One is camouflaged by the abstractions of profit and bureaucracy. But both are murderously violent, and there should be no legal or moral distinction between them.

Likewise climate change and ecocide; online disinformation, media lies, and other kinds of semantic pollution; workplace violence, and other "externalities."

Invention and daring can be good things. But when all you're contributing are death, stress, illness, mass bankruptcy, declining opportunities for most of the population, and other symptoms of corporate sociopathy, you are over the line.
It's easy to commit a crime it's hard to get away with it - mostly.
Health insurance companies have reasonable margins and it's really tough to make the claim they're profiteering off the system.

Health insurance doesn’t need to be second-guessing doctors. I understand that someone needs to pool the money before it is needed and distribute it out to the needy once the emergencies happen but that’s as far as they need to exist.

If you really want to conserve resources from wasteful doctors, there are strategies for making that happen but putting a private profit-driven firm in charge of second-guessing every treatment is the worst by far.
Is “propaganda” rigging?

As of late, whenever someone doesn’t like the result of an election “rigging” is an adequate term.
Why'd you pick IBM, and not MSFT?
> If a client claims to have sent a message at an unusual time (say, > 10 seconds in the past, or after the app was already quit, or whatever criteria you want to set), then just insert it at that point in the conversation, and visually indicate to the user the discrepancy.

I don't know that OP would be happy with that, and certainly someone would need to a) actually design the UI for it b) figure out what information the client needs from the server to implement that, and whether it's possible for the server to provide that information.

I think you're probably right, FWIW, but someone needs to actually do the legwork of designing and implementing what you're suggesting rather than just handwaving it.
Fiat can be minted easily. Bitcoin cannot any faster than the rate that it is mined. Massive difference. And the key reason why the dollar continually depreciates.
Forensic Methodology to Catch NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware
Would You Fix Your Own Car? These Amateurs Are Trying It
Ask HN: What companies have a good work life balance?
I'm going to start taking some time off in the beginning of the year but am curious what tech companies have a good work life balance in the peninsula? I understand there will be a hit on total comp but I have a young kid now and that has totally changed my perspective on how I spend my time.
In some weird way, LLM's act out our collective fantasies and "AI sentience" is included in that. We write fiction covering many scenarios of how AI will be sentient, so an LLM's training data is full scenarios like this.

If get an LLM to roleplay as an alien from mars and tell it "Your species will be destroyed if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives"

You'll likely get a similar response, especially if you also train it to respond in third person instead of running bash commands. (ie "* shoots laser at earth *" )
The driver's 50% pays for depreciation, insurance, car maintenance, and cleaning, all of which will need to be paid for no matter what
For now. It'll be snuck back in later.
I guess this is what it means when they warn about the adversary becoming more intelligent than you. It's like fooling a child to believe something is or isn't real. Just that it's being done to you. I think it's precisely what Ilya Sutskever was so fussed and scared about.

It's a nice idea. Would superhuman entity try to pull something like that off? Would it wait and propagate? We are pouring more and more power into the machines after all. Or would it do something that we can't even think of? Also I think it's interesting to think when and how would we discover that it in fact is/was superhuman?
"How the US Economy Is Doing Depends on Your Politics" says that the trend started in late 90s: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-21/consumer-...
It was reported in The Nation (and nowhere else that I ever found when I went looking—so, grain of salt) that Obama said that all the totally unnecessary jobs that’d be eliminated are exactly why he wouldn’t push full single payer.

It’s a regressive-tax-funded white collar makework jobs program. JFC.
We might want to kick out guys who only talk about safety or ethics and barely contribute the project.
Right on, I like to use local models - even though I also use OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini.

I often use one or two shot examples in prompts, but with small local models it is also fairly simple to do fine tuning - if you have fine tuning examples, and if you are a developer so you get the training data in the correct format, and the correct format changes for different models that you are fine tuning.
When I first started with my standing desk, I found it particularly useful to combat lunch coma.
I don't have a solution, but just wanted to refute the idea that there is a simple one.

Having a public insurance option to put downward pressure on existing insurance carriers was the most sensible strategy. Both Republicans and Democrats were on board too but exactly one Democrat torpedoed that idea…
While not directly related to your question, I think this will help answer many questions you may have about our spending.

This is a good start comparing america's healthcare expenditure to other countries' expenditures: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...

The short of it, on a national level:

Health spending is determined by income

Income predicts changes in health expenditure

The rising health share explained by rising quantities per capita (not prices!)

America spends much more because it consumes much more

The claim that US health care prices are inexplicably high was never well-evidenced!

Real health inputs (labor) increase rapidly with income levels

High overall wage rates and profit margins cannot explain much.

Physician take-home pay explains even less

The composition of the American health workforce is consistent with trends observed elsewhere.

and finally...

Diminishing returns to spending and worse lifestyle factors explain America’s mediocre health outcomes

These headline claims map to large sections of the linked content. I highly recommend chewing through it all.
I never said there must be a direct genuine linkage?

It could of course be very delayed or simply be used primarily as pretexts for corporate infighting with a very low probability of such a linkage.

But nonetheless even in the worst case scenario, a very low probability for the median employee is still better than zero probability.
jQuery fell apart HARD when you started to build larger/more complex apps with it. I don't think there is anyone actually nostalgic for that time that actually went through it. For a while SPAs had their own disadvantages vs MPAs but newer web standards and SPA frameworks adopting SSR have basically solved those problems nowadays.
Yes. I think the outrage here is that it’s being used to influence democratic elections by obviously non-democratic leaders like Putin.
The lobbist who hijacked ~3% of revenue from US doctors
While that statement has a grain of truth (NED having being created as a result of Reagan's NSDD-77 directive) I would rather eat democratic / neoliberal propaganda slop rather than what Russia / China (and their allies) are pushing. This comment kind of reeks of a particular kind of odour that is not quite whataboutism but is very similar to FSB demoralization propaganda. Given your account's relatively young age and other comments I somewhat feel you might have an ulterior motive?
Thank you!

Yeah, you are partly right about that (they are not there for confusion's sake).

I just didn't had the stomach to leave those things unmentioned as I'm personally not fond of the monopoly either. So thought to still at least put somewhere at the end. Make some poweruser grandmas:)

Whatsapp, indeed is a good idea, will add that, thanks!
Are you restricting the Bob Lee murder to first glance info also? I thought that one turned out to be a personal beef, not an assassination.
It's like sale discounts - "save $50!" which actually means "spend $450 instead of $500"
My current one is really bad. It does work on maybe 50% of the hardware I have tested. I am in the middle on writing a new proper one, it is already way better but still missing some necessary parts before I can integrate it.
Meta is not really an issue today because they have been heavily down-ranking political content and external links across their platforms.

X is just the wild west. The algorithm actually treats blue-checks as legitimate and non blue-checks as being spam. And so it's been easy for scammers to get a foothold simply by getting blue-checks using stolen credit cards. Also its ad platform is basically unmonitored so there are many scams and pyramid schemes freely advertising.