skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have to have insurance, the state has to make rules where it's almost impossible for the insurance company not to pay the necessary actions (like in Europe).

Exactly.

Capitalism without rules ends up with situations that we would like to avoid as a society. Thus the government should step in create guard rails and enforce them.

The government, through the FDA and DEA, played a large role in the huge increase in the abuse of Oxycontin during the 90's.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2622774/

When OxyContin entered the market in 1996, the FDA approved its original label, which stated that iatrogenic addiction was “very rare” if opioids were legitimately used in the management of pain. In July 2001, to reflect the available scientific evidence, the label was modified to state that data were not available for establishing the true incidence of addiction in chronic-pain patients. The 2001 labeling also deleted the original statement that the delayed absorption of OxyContin was believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug.19
The summer that BERT came out I was working at a startup that was using character-based CNN models for classification. We were thinking a lot about alternate representations, other members of the team were keen on word vectors but I wasn't, particularly because it seemed the documents were were working on frequently had out-of-dictionary words, because those words were important, and because discarding them would lead to failure.

(We were working on "foundation models" too, so it's not just being out-of-dictionary in the final model that's a problem but being out-of-dictionary in the foundation model which is more expensive to train.)

We were doing OK with character based models for classification but people believed that storing the "dictionary" inside the neural net was not a good use of the neural net so there was a lot of enthusiasm for tokens.

Meanwhile I felt so sure that schemes like Word2Vec were doomed that I had left an earlier project using RNNs where the goal was text understanding with a foundation model made by training an RNN to write fake abstracts for case reports from PubMed.

When byte-pair encoding was introduced I remember telling people in a meeting that it was the first tokenization scheme we'd looked at that I could endorse.

I have to admit though that I wish we could work at the character label.
Good God, the absolute stench out of those capsules in Tokyo would not be the first thing a weary traveler would want.
> Before others post about the definition of whistleblower or talk about assassination theories just pause to consider whether, if in his position, you would that want that to be written about you or a friend.

People are free to comment on media events. You too are free to assume the moral high ground by commenting on the same event, telling people what they should or should not do.
I've been watching technology for the last fifty+ years, and I had the same (admittedly unfair) reaction as the OP.
I wonder how much this issue is oversimplified by being held at the national level. I’m certainly pro tracking in general, and I’m certain there are plenty of people who philosophically think that putting people in the same class is “equity”.

But I imagine at a poor school, and I think the Wire made this implication, that some kids will be tracked into something that barely represents education at all.

Sure the wire has the special class for the corner kids, and that was great! But it seemed heavily implied it was an expensive class and without that money it wouldn’t have existed.
What's Oberon's unique selling point?
Maybe they taught it in grade school, I don't know. I avoided learning much of what was taught in grade/middle/high school. I didn't learn the US states and their capitals either.

Of course if I had paid attention I probably would have just learned "USSR" at the time. But maybe that makes it even less forgivable since it was current events.
Always assumed the reason why conversations or business meetings, should not have more than four persons was due to Metcalfe's law...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
This is super neat. By modulating the timing of the data being sent to a websocket, (which is basically a /dev/null data sink) it implements a covert air-gaped side-channel data transmission mechanism.
he just wanted money from investors, that's why he used such short limits

https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-prof...

> 2/3/4 will ultimately require large amounts of capital. If we can secure the funding, we have a real chance at setting the initial conditions under which AGI is born.
That offends you??! Then explain why you like racism better than health care, and think platforming and worshipping Kyle Rittenhouse is justified?

The right wing are so thin skinned and hypocritical and allergic to facts, sheez.

Luigi used a gun to murder just like Rittenhouse, so why aren't you whining about his second amendment rights being violated and 3d printed gun being confiscated by the cops? He didn't even eat anyone's dogs or cats, just some McDonald's hash browns.

Get it together dude. You seem irrationally angry to the point of defending blatant hypocrisy and racism. Why does my criticism of it personally hurt your feelings, hmm? Go play Kyle Rittenhouse's Turkey Shoot game about shooting journalists to blow off some steam.
No, very few for things with this much uncertainty.

Most of it is survivorship bias: if you have a million people all making predictions with coin flip accuracy, somebody is going to get a seemingly improbable number correct.
> Needlessly tied to crypto

Let’s unpack that. By “crypto” you probably mean cryptocurrency, but let’s not forget it’s the same crypto as in cryptography. You absolutely want cryptography involved in something like this for obvious reasons.

You’ve probably also heard the term blockchain and immediately think of speculative currency futures. So throw that to the wind for a second and imagine how useful a distributed list of records linked and verifiable with cryptographic hash functions would be for this project.

Then finally, run this all in a secure and autonomous way so that under certain conditions the action of releasing the key will happen. In other words: a smart contract.

This is an absolutely perfect use of Ethereum. If you think cryptocurrencies are useless, then consider that projects like this are what give them actual real world use cases.
I have it from good authority that — ­even in the absence of a lawsuit — fighting OpenAI can lead to having dramatically less time to enjoy life.

It's a bit like smoking. Some activities are just not good for your health.
>In all seriousness: why has it been years now and it feels like there is no incremental engineering-level progress on these issues?

From where I'm standing, LLMs appear to be the fastest moving technological field in history.
The thread looks very different than it did when I wrote any of the above—at the time it was entirely composed of people casually asserting that this was most likely an assassination. I wrote this with the intent of shutting down that speculation by pointing out that we have no reason to believe that this person had enough information for it to be worth the risk of killing him.

Since I wrote this the tone of the thread shifted and others took up the torch to focus on the tragedy. That's wonderful, but someone had to take the first step to stem the ignorant assassination takes.
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so your prediction is that most predictions will be wrong?
Let's hope the fab that pioneers this is not owned by Intel
Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
Buzee is a file search application that helps you find your files effortlessly.

As a modern-day knowledge worker, I have several thousand documents, presentations and other files on my computer. I built Buzee in my free time to help me weave my way through this maze. I have been using it pretty much everyday since the day I built it - and I love it!

I thought I could turn Buzee into a startup. I reached out to offices and helped set it up for them. But it didn't pan out.

I am now letting go of this project because I have other priorities in life.

Please feel free to do with this project as you wish. I am happy to help you get started with the codebase.

Do share what you build. I would love to see it!

Cheers
I've often wanted to talk with an LLM about its tokenization (e.g. how many tokens are there in "the simplest of phrases") I wonder if you fed it information about its tokenization (text like "rabbit is spelled r, a, b, b, i, t") if it could talk about it.
Maybe I'm misreading something, but it looks like you cited the expected lifespan at birth. To the right, in the paleolithic section, it says:

life expectancy for the 60% reaching age 15 averages 39 remaining years.

So the average expected lifespan of someone who reached 15 years old was 54 years.
Probably not entire mammoths, though.
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> of course the compiler vendors have to worry about portability.

Yes, but the point was that "defining a language that doesn't suck" is a competing requirement. Again, C++ just dropped the ball here and solved the wrong problem. And we all suffer for it with repeated blog posts like this one trying desperately to explain exactly what "acquire" means and not how hardware actually works.

And yes: Linux has clean and easy (or as easy as these things get) read/write barriers, the implementation of which has now been terribly polluted by the toolchain's incompatible choice of semantics.
On a recent tv reconstruction by an italian TV show about historically events ("una giornata particolare") it seems that the archeologists are finding remains of food typical of the autumn
Just today a video became extremely choppy and then stopped. A refresh fixed it. Same setup as yours.
Are 2d crystals the depth of 1 molecule?
Good recommendations, including a neat tool to audit your GHAs: https://github.com/woodruffw/zizmor , “A static analysis tool for GitHub Actions”.
> 90 years ago in Serve it Forth...

I wish there were a tool that could quickly connect new articles to older ideas, highlighting how much of what seems original today often builds on existing work, or just was mentioned before.

It wouldn't need to be as precise as mathematics or the hard sciences, just probabilistic enough to reveal meaningful connections.
Ilya Sutskever believes superintelligent AI will be 'unpredictable'
I don't think so; I've looked up the story, and what I remember doesn't match the setting of the summary I've seen of that novel — assuming it was the Peter Watts novel, because while I kinda assumed you wouldn't have meant the Lisa Fipps novel of the same name, there may be others with that name which I just don't know about.
I agree. It's quite useless.
I’m curious how they’ll distinguish between say “factual” political bias — it would be a left leaning bias to say we should teach evolution in schools alone vs teach evolution and creationism side by side — and other stuff.

I don’t know how you square the fact that I think religion and pseudo-science are right coded, and that fact oriented LLMs can be unbiased. This is not to say that I think that “left” ideas are better than “right”, the older I get the more I understand conservative ideas, and yet, politics doesn’t nearly settle itself only to cover neutral topics.

And certainly I could imagine a world where religion and pseudoscience were left coded, it wasn’t long ago that at least sort of secular spirituality and pseudoscience were left coded. Which begs the question, how do you eliminate political bias when political stances are a moving target?

I’d be curious of folks who say that it shouldn’t make this distinction, but so many things are political these days removing all political bias seems impossible.

On the flip side, I suppose if these things started correcting you that expecting people to be on time is an example of white supremacy, that would be a problem.

If you try and remove all bias, the results would be laughable. Which doesn’t even really get into the fact that politicians are incentivized to tell you that these systems are biased against them, even if they weren’t.

And worst case of course is some of case where all responses end up as some sort of ultra political correct legalese all sides kinda thing.

FWIW, Claude.AI won’t take the bait on whether timeliness is white supremacy. Consistently says factually speaking it’s not.
The Boeing whistleblower comes to mind.
I think it was more or less “nag ware”. I remember clicking “no, later” multiple times in a row and they’d only ask like twice a year. I don’t think it ever stopped working for people who didn’t pay (afaik).
Interesting. Are you thinking of an agentic system here?
Not necessarily. A theory of everything does not imply either the computability of a future state or determinism.

Even if our ToE is deterministic the universe may be computationally irreducible, meaning it cannot be computed accurately at lower resolution in all cases. Note that such a universe could contain within it regions that are computationally reducible, just not the whole and not all regions.

I would expect a ToE to give us knowable bounds to either determinism or computability. It should tell us what is precisely knowable or predictable and what isn’t.

Edit: to understand how a ToE could leave some things unknowable (but tell us what they are) consider the Hubble horizon. Light beyond it will never reach us making sufficiently distant things unknowable.

Limits may be great. It means we can at least subjectively consider ourselves as having free will — even with a deterministic theory it may be unknowable determinism. It’s just like how the speed of light might be why we got to evolve before being bum rushed by aliens.
I think we're not close to running out of training data. It's just that we would like knowledge, but not necessary behavior of said texts. LLMs are very bad at recalling popular memes (known by any seasoned netizen) if they had no press coverage. Maybe training with 4chan isn't as pointless if you could make it memorize it, but not imitate it.

Also, what about movie scripts and song lyrics? Transcripts of well known YouTube videos? Hell, television programs even.
Making a watch from scratch
I don't want my health holding back my family or depleting my wealth. I am 100% for MAID. If you have ever had persistent pain you know how little of it is required before you want to check out. People should be able when they want to.
These are all great 'shoulds' and most people would probably agree. So why do you think there isn't political support for anything close to this?
There were thousands of victims that died by being denied healthcare but we can’t see them or hear there stories but they are ignored and forgotten
I remember that somewhere during my physics degree this idea of the article clicked with me.

Entropy is just a simpler way of manifesting properties of a system that we didn’t measure because it is too difficult (when I was still at classical physics level) or it’s not possible to measure (when quantum mechanics became present in everything we learned).

We use it because we can’t measure the position and momentum of every particle (same goes for temperature) so we created theories on how a system with a particular entropy behaves, but it’s just a clever way to work with aproximations.

I find this idea fascinating.
ALS will destroy your family if you try to stick it out. Best to go on your own terms.
I appreciate PyPI's transparency and the proactive measures to mitigate future risks. Are there plans to further educate developers on secure workflow practices to prevent similar incidents? This seems like a vital area for community collaboration and awareness.
I made something similar with https://github.com/0x41head/posthumous-automation

It's completely open-source and you can self host it.
I'm seeing this suddenly with Firefox on Windows. Persists even after reboots.
Not sure if the USA has ever had a popular uprising, but never say never.
This person's build is amazing! Mostly photos, but still super cool to see how "from scratch" it is - if you're expecting "bought a few components from Swiss companies" then, yeah, it's not that!

I submitted this a week ago and sadly it sank without trace (poor choice of posting time I suspect), so I'm trying again. I have no affiliation with the builder.
"Summoning an LLM is closer to the act of editing in a text editor than it is to republishing." This quote puts so succinctly all that is wrong with LLM, it's the most convenient interpretation to an extreme point, like the creators of fair use laws ever expected AI to exist, like the constrains of human abilities were never in the slightest influential to the fabrication of such laws.
> Transmission lines alone would be huge.

Transmission lines are a great example of competing demands. Copper is a better conductor so why do we use aluminium? Because of weight. And weight is a huge factor in supporting large cables over long distances.

Metals are also ductile, which is important for a cable to hang in gravity under its own weight, be moved by the wind and so on. Assumedly exotic crystals wouldn't have this property. Even if they could, what would the weight be? Would the cross-section need to be much larger? Particular to this family of superconductors, tungsten isn't exactly the easiest thing to do deal with, particularly on a massive scale.

There's an interesting Reddit thread about this topic [1]. One issue it raises is we'd need to essentiaally rebuild our entire infrastructure and transformers are a big part of that.

Personally, I think energy is going to get an awful lot more local. Solar is our future (IMHO). The ability to store excess power generated during the day and then use it when it's dark or cloudy will obviate the need to expensive long-line transmission infrasturcture from distant power plants.

Lastly, the GP is correct: liquid nitrogen is incredibly cheap. It's basically the cost of drinking water. Getting something we could use at liquid nitrogen cooling temperatures would be incredibly impactful.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/12etlkr/wouldnt...
Oh well. You don't need to nanny everyone. They have probably tried all the drugs that have made it all worse. You don't have any real context for someones personal decision like this.
Same. Tried to write a boot loader in HTMX. Wish I’d used React instead.
I’ve been using the beta version of WhatsApp on macOS for a year or so and it’s a native Catalyst app. I kinda assumed the main version had dropped electron and moved to the catalyst version too, has that not happened?
I've been having fun with your unwarranted grandiosity, but seriously, this very much reads like someone in the middle of a manic episode, who believes themselves to have amazing capabilities and secret knowledge, and who needs to proselytize in exhausting detail their magical understanding and universal love to everyone who will hear it. I sincerely hope you're doing as well as you say you are, because it's a bit concerning.
> this is very different to what the parent comment said

It's basically exactly what the parent comment said, FWIW. :)
Maybe if you opened only introductory physics textbooks then it’s not mundane; but If you opened introductory information theory textbooks, statistical textbooks, introductions to Bayesian probability theory, articles about MaxEnt thermodynamics including articles by E.T. Jaynes, then it’s a quite mundane observation.
It varies tremendously. Imo the people who have sweatshop experiences bring it upon themselves mostly.
Can you give me an example of a use case for this?
Show HN: Using Htmx for Micro Front Ends
My favorite thing about gradle is that the build file is written in the same language as your code. This gives you the great power of easily adding a little hack into your build file, so it's pretty rare you actually have to make a plugin.

The downside is that every build file is a little bit unique, but IME it's not that much worse than what happens in golang. In golang people usually slap a makefile on top of the go commands, and then you have to read the makefile to figure out what targets you need to run, and if it gets a little complicated then they start calling out to shell scripts and things like that. ech.
> Lower prices don't make things more convenient or fast.

You are replying to a straw man, I never said anything like that. It makes for dull discussions.

> Even in my current place, still in Berlin but close to the outskirts without the advantages of density, a mere four grocery bags is easier to get through public transport than it is from one end of an American car park to the other.

It's unclear to me why you compare it to a geographically unrelated area. You should compare the public transport with a robotaxi alternative. At similar pricing, how is convenience and speed impacted.
I see. I guess I think of it as something that triggers automatically if you don’t reset it every day and doesn’t rely on another person. For example, a script that publishes the information if you don’t input the password every day.
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I read extensively and learn systematically, not only software engineering but also a wide range of other subjects. (I think) I'm up for any challenge. I'm ambitious, I'm confident in myself. But I'm also humble enough to learn quickly from my mistake, and to work well with others.

I value environment with autonomy and lean process. I would love to have control over the infrastructure so that I can learn more about cloud and devops (coz my previous companies all have dedicated infra team).

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It would harm profits and maybe give the idea that an LLC doesn't give you license to break the law with impunity. The veil piercing aspect especially would be a major departure from how corporate liability currently works.

I think the biggest barrier is that it inconveniences the powerful to benefit the masses.
It wasn't a sudden change, it's been a gradual tendency towards them. James Bond was already 19 films by the turn of the century (or 20 if you include the other Casino Royale), King Kong and Star Trek both got to 6, Batman 8, Star Wars had just had the 4th, Friday the 13th had reached 9 films.

Even BttF itself was three films, and in the second one was parodying the tendency towards sequels with the holographic Jaws 19.