skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ones that stand out to me are industries like pharmaceuticals and energy exploration, where the data silos are the point of their (assumed) competitive advantages. Why even the playing by opening up those datasets when keeping them closed locks in potential discoveries? Open data is the basis of the Internet. But whole industries are based on keeping discoveries closely guarded for decades.
Much appreciated. You might appreciate this follow-up on assertions: https://gist.github.com/daveliepmann/8289f0ee5b00a5f05b50379...
The Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash [video]
I appreciate the kind words and am glad it helped :)
TBH, I'm kind of paranoid about CIA and FBI. Last time I travelled to the US on holiday, I was worried somebody would attempt to neutralize me because of my involvement in crypto.

I don't think I have delusions of grandeur, I worry that the cost of exterminating people algorithmically could become so low that they could decide to start taking out small fries in batches.

A lot of narratives which would have sounded insane 5 years ago actually seem plausible nowadays... Yet the stigma still exists. It's still taboo to speculate on the evils that modern tech could facilitate and the plausible deniability it could provide.
What’s the source for that?
It is better to be precise here. Validity could be a different measure than correct. It might very well be like you reserve the latter for some ethereal mathematical property, free of axioms, to which type you want to cast "validity in the domain of morality", which then has to pass the type checker for mathematical expressions.

In Philosophy and Ethics you strive to improve your understanding, in this case in the domain of human social groups. Some ideas just have better reasoning than others.

To say no idea is good, because your type checker rejects any program you bring up is an exercise in futility.

"might makes right" is a justification for abuse of other people. Abusing other people might be understood as using other people while taking away their freedom. If you think people should rather be owned than free, go pitch that.

I emphasize: it would be your pitch. There is no hiding behind a compiler here.

On topic: "might makes right" prevails in societies where people have limited rights and therefore need to cope with abuse. There is a reinforcing mechanism in such sado-societies, where sufferers are to normalize that, thereby keeping the system in place.

For example the Russian society did never escape to freedom, which is a tragedy. But I think every person has an obligation to do his best in matters of ethics, not just sitting like a slave and complain about how you are the real victim while doing nothing.
A society is a collective expression of the individuals.
I don't use TurboLua, but I think it's feasible to build a Luon adapter module if need be. The necessary 'extern' keyword is already part of the spec.
> It's funny, when I was in business school years ago (please forgive me) getting a job at McKinsey or BCG was more or less the crème de la crème of post-MBA gigs.

Still is though right? Just now you have enough experience to be wise enough to know what is important.
Being grateful for a miserable life marginally improving does not negate otherwise unavoidable prolonged suffering.
That's the second best incentive you have, after "making sure they don't die".
I'm definitely okay with this although historically, none of the technological revolution did actually collapse the employment market, they freed up future jobs which were impossible economically previously.

Not saying that can't happen, there's no hard science about this but when we experienced as many technological revolutions as we have, betting the opposite of what happened previously might not be the most likely option.
The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect
> I'm skeptical of claims like this. How do the claimants define reading?

There are many. I just did this one, the first hit on Google:

https://swiftread.com/reading-speed-test

It said:

«
Reading speed: 861 Words per Minute (WPM)

Comprehension: 100% of questions answered correctly

How your reading speed compares

Slow 150 WPM
Average 250 WPM
Fast 400 WPM
Speed reader 600 WPM

You can read pretty fast! Remember that reading fast is only valuable if you're able to maintain good enough comprehension for your goals.
»

I took my time and paid attention in order to be able to give dates and things.

I can go considerably faster. I read about 1000wpm or so for work, a bit slower if I am taking time for pleasure, and when I was a teenager, about 2-3 times faster than that when under pressure.

For instance, I read Joseph Conrad's _Victory_ -- 432 dense pages -- in 2 hours for homework, then wrote an essay on it and went to bed. I got a B+. :-)

Shorter lighter SF novels I read in half an hour, back then.
https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/country

Note the "Download country names" button, and the "Display results in" language toggles.
Wow. I’m very impressed by the site and even more so by how you did it over a winter break. It’s definitely very intuitive and I’ve been looking for a way to learn music theory as an adult. Thank you!
I run that service, and, so far, no issues. It's definitely not secure against server takeover, but it's much easier than making your own switch reliable.
Here's a litmus test for German propaganda channels:

What does it say about Palestine?
This will be my favorite Issac Asimov story and the reason I will start reading him
I concur, and this can be solved once you get the hang of actually creating a small bubble inside crowds and accept the FOMO of missing the rest of the event to have a quality conversation for a few hours.

Not everybody is made to ride a wave of people. But you can find a way to enjoy it in a different fashion. I find it true for a lot of situations, actually.

You don't have to follow all the rules.
Your github link is broken.

Probably because your user name is not "yourusername."
they didn't become angry, they became excited.

and a famous conjecture is by definition something for which all the experts know that its truth is UNKNOWN (even in cases where most experts believe it's true).
Does anyone know of a way to disable the update notification badge? Or indeed remove the list of updates available. The old 'softwareupdate --ignore' flag has been removed.

So freaking annoying.
CEOs struggle to process their new reality after the public glee
Bass is a guitar in 99% rock bands.

I have not seen a good band with more than 4 people on stage simultaneously.
We need to talk about Salt Typhoon
I use AI in my work as a machinist/CNC programmer on a weekly if not a daily basis.

It's primary advantage for a while has been it's crazy breadth of knowledge which it can present in a human, flexible form. But perhaps we excuse this as Generally Knowledgeable not Generally Intelligent.

But with the most recent models I'm finding the intelligence harder to deny. They are now catching errors and false assumptions unprompted and with regularity and providing reliable feedback and criticism. Gemini 2.0 can now read prints usefully, if not perfectly and has caught multiple print errors missed by the engineers and experienced machinists alike.

It provides valuable feedback and criticism and frequently interjects when it thinks I'm barking up the wrong tree. The newest models have gotten quite good at asking for clarification rather than leaning into assumptions.

Now it's certainly not the smartest. It's creativity is mediocre and it's lack of practical experience is apparent. But thats understandable, as _it's never machined a day in it's life_. It's merely studied what's been written.

Sure, hallucinations and the like are still a thing (though they've been cut down drastically). And the creativity is quite mediocre. But it seems a lot more intelligent than some of the burnouts coming out of trade schools.
Aside from comparing assigned public IP addresses regularly, I think we (ipinfo) probably have this data internally, or at least we can figure it out. We are pinging and running traceroutes on every IP out there to figure out IP geolocation, so I think we should be able to tag ASNs/ISPs that use CGNAT. So, on CGNAT connections the RTT on the same IP address will be different from time to time and traceroute paths and times will be different as well.

But I'm not sure who will and how they will find this information useful. If anyone can think of a reason why CGNAT detection can be useful generally, I can pitch this to the engineers.
Beginning of the abstract:

> Despite well-documented disparities disadvantaging women (e.g. discrepancies between men and women in salaries and leadership roles), we argue that there are contexts in which disparities disadvantage men. We review the literature suggesting harm to women is perceived as more severe and unacceptable than identical harm to men...

Part of me says "wow, really?" - in a very cynical tone.

Another part of me concludes that their supposed academic discipline exists in some sort of theological bubbleverse, and needs to be re-classified as such (non-profit, but no public funding). Any young man who's been hassled by the police a few times, or any guy who has experienced the "everybody knows" assumption that his sex automatically makes him less qualified and less trustworthy for domestic duties, or anyone bright enough to connect the "conscription for combat duties is 99.9% male, and lots of people die horribly in combat" dots could have told you that their thesis was already "everybody knows" by 100 years ago. Or 1,000 years ago. Or 10,000 years ago.
Exactly so.

As a kid, at once 2 month period, I only had access to a library for a few hours on Sunday afternoons and no other time. I could not remove books.

So I read as much as I could in that time window.

5, 6, 7 books in 2 or 3 hours.

Then I'd spend the next 6 days going through them in my head and enjoying them.
I’m an introvert. I prefer long stretches of solitude to just about anything else. I need people and interaction, but in very small doses.
I’m glad Ilya starts the talk with a photo of Quoc Le, who was the lead author of a 2012 paper on scaling neural nets that inspired me to go into deep learning at the time.

His comments are relatively humble and based on public prior work, but it’s clear he’s working on big things today and also has a big imagination.

I’ll also just say that at this point “the cat is out of the bag”, and probably it will be a new generation of leaders — let us all hope they are as humanitarian — who drive the future of AI.
Sorry ... I am replying mostly to the dice idea which wasn't you.

Yes correct about the guid idea. My point is the discussion is easier to follow if grounded in reality (as best modelled since that is all we have plus some evidence stored in the same "SSD"!)
Correct github, https://github.com/yottanami/chord_nebula
The government defines reasonable to save money. I’m surprised at people who think bureaucrats like those from the motor vehicle licensing departments will be able to handle such decisions.
My guess is that a lawsuit from OpenAI itself is enough to ruin your life. They don't even need to win the case.

Completely unrelated: https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-spent-8-years-fighting-the-c...
> Maybe I have the benefit of giant shoulders, but this seems like a fairly mundane observation.

It is not mundane, and it is also not right, at least for entropy in Physics and Thermodynamics.

> High-entropy states are those macrostates which have many corresponding microstates.

That is how you deduce entropy form a given model. But entropy is also something that we can get from experimental measurements. In this case, the experimental setup does not care about microstates and macrostates, it just has properties like enthalpy, heat capacity and temperature.

We can build models after the fact and say that e.g. the entropy of a given gas matches that predicted by our model for ideal gases, or that the entropy of a given solid matches what we know about vibrational entropy.

That’s how we say that e.g. hydrogen atoms are indistinguishable. It’s not that they become indistinguishable because we decide so. It’s because we can calculate entropy in both cases and reality does not match the model with distinguishable atoms.

> The classification of several microstates into the same macrostate, is this not a distinctly observer-centred function?

It seems that way if we consider only our neat models, but it fails to explain why experimental measurements of the entropy of a given materials are consistent and independent of whatever model the people doing the experiment were operating on. Fundamentally, entropy depends on the probability distribution, not the observer.
Thanks, but today I avoid troubleshooting it, I just accept the roadblocks and escape to my windows+msys2 installation as soon as possible. I find this combination a better gnu-based system and better upside / downside balance, which is all I need on desktop. Even logs usually get written to text files cause windows system logs are rarely used by regular apps and unixy services.

I’m not a gnu vs linux pedant, but gnu never let me down like that, and linux is really just an implementation detail underneath that I’m free to replace without compromising key functionality.
Sorry about that, I switched the link. Thanks.
> I own Linux

Does idevicebackup/idevicerestore not work anymore?

But agreed, there's no technical reason why the phone can't just accept normal USB-connected storage and store a file in there (in whatever proprietary/encrypted format it wants, but at least the _storage_ is standards-compliant).
Gold was a multimellenial currency that then became an international standard. It’s not volatile. It still is treated as a store of value to combat inflation and currency debasement.

Bitcoin is not a currency. No one uses it as a medium of exchange. It’s a speculative asset that behaves like a kangaroo on crack.
It's really crazy.
20 years.

And we have been able to produce graphene around 2004 I believe, so we are going soon to cross that threshold.
(I do realize this is an unpopular position, I just like truth and less confusion). KISS serves me well as does honesty. It would be interesting if Trump made it so everyone has to lie about the time.
From the final paragraph:

_experimentalists are still the ones leading the way. “Everyone’s rushing as fast as they can,” Yankowitz said._

In my experience, the final line is what contributes to my optimism most:

_“I can’t believe that we’re six years in and you can’t take a break.”_
This is why I always go outside to hang out with the smokers at parties, even though I don’t smoke. The conversations are always more interesting in those small circles of 2-3 people who went outside for a cigarette than in the main party.
Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace is an excellent book. I picked it up ages ago, and rather liked it.

A lot of writing advice out there is... weird. There seem to be a couple different varieties. One is "first year university students do X too much, so nobody should do X at all!" This advice is usually "directionally correct" for many writers, but it shouldn't be taken as an absolute. The book Style offers better balanced versions of much of this advice. For example, it shows several examples of when the passive voice can actually increase clarity.

The other bit of weirdness in English-language writing advice goes back several centuries. There was supposedly an "arms race" of grammar advice, where each writer tried to ban more things than the next. The result of this was a bunch of rules that nobody has ever actually followed. Strunk and White is notoriously guilty of this. E.B. White was an excellent writer, but he routinely ignored the rules he proposed. Sometimes he ignored the rules on the very page where he proposed them! This kind of constantly-ignored advice is suspicious, because writing advice should ultimately be based on the common practices of well-respected writers, not on "zombie rules" that have been passed down for centuries without ever having been obeyed.

One good source for telling the "zombie rules" from the useful ones is Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. This categorizes advice into rules that good writers actually obey consistently, rules which affect how formal your writing feels, and rules which have no basis in actual practice.

Weirdly, this tendency towards "zombie rules" may be less of an issue in other languages. For all that English-speakers love to make fun of the Académie Française, the Académie's grammar advice seems to be a lot more evidence-based, or at least focused on the well-established differences between spoken and written French.
Me too. Most of it in fact.

But not only.

Back in January, Dave Mills died. I told my boss I'd not heard of him so I didn't think an obit was called for.

The mourning on HN over the weekend persuaded me otherwise.

So, on Monday morning, I read everything I could find about him -- I estimate at least 2000 pages worth and maybe twice that -- and then I wrote this:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/david_mills_obit/

It gave me a bit of a headache but I can still tear through large amounts of text, retain the info, summarise it, and then if I don't want or need it let it go.
Some high-ranking politician considering that making money profits over people suffering by denying them medical care is a matter of "policy differences" or "viewpoint", that may be quite a dark fandom.
> how much data do you need to train the "law state" specific LLM that doesn't know anything else but that?

Law doesn’t exist in a vacuum. You can’t have a useful LLM for state law that doesn’t have an exceptional grounding in real world objects of mechanics.

You could force a bright young child to memorize a large text, but without a strong general model of the world, they’re just regurgitating words rather than able to reason about it.
> companies have captured all of us

No, they didn't. They baited the large majority with convenience and promises of free services, who got into the trap happily.

Those of us who were warning about the importance of not giving up our self-sovereignty are free. All it requires is just a little bit of effort to self-host things.

Stop being lazy and crying for regulation, when the people themselves can take action.
Good point too many smiles. I just wrote an article about this as well actually https://medium.com/@l.korganas/founder-style-developer-outre...
You've omitted the definition on the lower part of the page:

quite

adverb, predeterminer

"a little or a lot but not completely:"

I'm quite tired but I can certainly walk a little further.
There was quite a lot of traffic today but yesterday was even busier.
It was quite a difficult job.
He's quite attractive but not what I'd call gorgeous.
It would be quite a nuisance to write to everyone.

The same dictionary also includes a grammar article clarifying that quite [usually] means "a little, moderately, not very", when the adjective or adverb it modifies is gradable (e.g "good" or indeed "difficult") and it being an intensifier in [generally rarer] situations where the adjective or adverb isn't (e.g "it is quite wrong to say that 'quite' invariably means 'exactly')

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/qui...
U2's Larry Mullen Jr: my dyscalculia makes 'counting like climbing Everest'
Oh I see. But on your guid thing, people often describe entropy in terms of the set of micro states of your system (the actually physical states in your model) and the macro states (sets of microstates that are described by a collection of high-level state variables like pressure/temperature).

Physically indistinguishable stuff would have the same micro state, so yeah, they wouldn't affect entropy calculations at all, no matter what macro states you picked.

But I disagree a bit about grounding things in reality - some concepts are quite abstract and having clean examples can be helpful, before you start applying them to the mess that is our universe!
> a difficult book -- The Left Hand of Darkness

Difficult?! That's a favourite novel of mine. I've read it 3 or 4 times. What is difficult about it? It's short, as well as beautiful. Only 250 pages.
4 people just means 3 people talking and me eating food.
This is extremely sad and I'm sorry for Suchir's family and friends.

As someone who has struggled with suicidal ideation while working in the tech industry for over a decade, I do wonder if the insane culture of Bay Area tech has a part to play.

Besides the extreme hustle culture mindset, there's also a kind of naive techno-optimism that can make you feel insane. You're surrounded by people who think breaking the law is OK and that they're changing the world by selling smart kitchen appliances, even while they're exploiting workers in developing countries for cheap tech support and stepping over OD victims outside their condo.

This mindset is so pervasive you really start to wonder if you're crazy for having empathy or any sense of justice.

I have no special insight except to guess that going from being an obviously brilliant student at Berkeley to a cut-throat startup like OpenAI would be a jarring experience. You've achieved everything you worked your whole life for, and you find you're doing work that is completely out of whack with your morals and values.
Coming from the Haskell world, I sorely miss the speed of nailing a precise and elegant data model with sum types.

Exhaustiveness checks are a big one for me. For each default case I wish that my type checker would be smarter. I know that records can have multiple constructors, but it escapes my why we cannot seal those records so exhaustiveness checks are free.

A default case is somewhat like a final block for an exception, whereas I want compile time cursing.

F# Sums are indeed nicer (also tons better syntax than Typescript uses).
Show HN: A new Bluebook implementation of the Smalltalk-80 VM
I strangely can’t get any of the examples to work on iOS - even on chrome.
Maybe I'm not fully grasping lock files then, but why isn't it sufficient to just pin the versions in the requirements.txt? Obviously it doesn't handle the python version itself but I just use pyenv for that. So my stance is just pyenv + venv seems to solve those problems. But then I see people singing the praises of these newer tools and I wonder what I am not getting
Or perhaps something like Kartvelia in English since, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)#Names_of_Geo...:
"The Georgian circumfix sa-X-o is a standard geographic construction designating 'the area where X dwell', where X is an ethnonym."
very nice! They mention the use of Barker codes, which I'd not heard of before;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_code
I attended this talk in person and some context is needed. He was invited for the “test of time” talk series. This explains the historical part of the talk. I think his general persona and association with ai led to the fluffy speculation at the end.

I notice with Ilya he wants to talk about these out there speculative topics but defends himself with statements like “I’m not saying when or how just that it will happen” which makes his arguments impossible to address. Stuff like this openly invites the crazies to to interact with him, as seen with the cryptocurrency question at the end.

Right before this was a talk reviewing the impact of GANs that stayed on topic for the conference session throughout.
Me too. I think this what introversion means.

Being quiet at bigger gatherings is a different thing.
I keep thinking it's called Luberon, which probably isn't helpful.
It makes the incredulity over the recent unpleasantness all the more... something. What world do you have to live in NOT to see the rationale? People have set themselves on fire over causes they felt passionately about, to get essentially no attention from the media. Hurting powerful people appears to many the only remaining avenue. Even that seems less impactful than the gleeful memes that followed. The elite are having their "Okay Boomer" moment and they really don't like it.