skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister got taken in by drone conspiracy theories, because for her it was just "obvious" that nobody would ever mistake a plane for a drone.

Meanwhile, aeronautics experts whose job it is to know about this have created an entire lexicon for the various perceptual illusions we experience relating to flight and airborne objects, precisely because it involves conditions where our intuitions fail. Many of them have to do with inability to orient depth, distance, or motion for lights at night.

Every time someone says their speculation is "obvious" it rings every possible alarm bell for someone who has completely lost grasp of the ability to distinguish between facts and speculation.

The road to misinformation is paved with overconfident declarations of the form: "it's so obvious, who needs sources!"
Believe me, people are seizing this "opportunity":

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/09/artificial-intelligen...
If I pay more, I'm often still missing proper support, reliable updates, quality materials, tested working devices, designed to last, and peace of mind. Solve that problem and you'll become very wealthy.
yeah, we use Cyrus replication still - it's protocol specific so it detects changes very efficiently as well, using the internal MODSEQ system also used for the JMAP /changes and IMAP CONDSTORE/QRESYNC.

Plus it has protocol consistency sanity checks built in.

Plus, I wrote it :p
Did the missile hit the plane or the pilots ejected preemptively when their aircraft detected an incoming missile?
I’ve worked in the pharma industry for a long time, particularly focusing on clinical trials, and I couldn’t agree more with the key points of this article. Clinical trials are still a key bottleneck, with patient recruitment being one of the biggest challenges.

It’s crucial to make clinical trials more accessible, understandable, and streamlined for the entire ecosystem (patients and HCPs).

This is exactly the mission of PatLynk: https://patlynk.com. It provides efficient patient / trial matching leveraging different sources of data and making the process seamless, finally !
It’s somehow funny to hear a British company being described as ‘in Europe’, but I suppose you’re technically correct…
On a second read I see that the comment notes that it is intended as speculation, but still it seems rather confident in its own accuracy and I am not even sure it's wrong, but just looking for something that warrants the confidence.
Cool idea. Wonder how it could be adapted to include those who don't drink (already too many social events revolving around drinking IMO).
Cancer Treatment on a Budget
One fundamental challenge to me is that if each training run because more and more expensive, the time it takes it to learn what works/doesn't work widens. Half a billion dollars for training a model is already nuts, but if it takes 100 iterations to perfect it, you've cumulatively spent 50 billion dollars... Smaller models may actually be where rapid innovation continues simply because of tighter feedback loops. O3 may be an example of this.
Make some Apple Intelligence features available on any iPhone
What's your workflow like to do this?
The differences between Haskell/OCaml and C-family languages are much more significant than syntax. Rust brings a lot (but not all) of the richness of these languages while staying within a broadly imperative paradigm.
My main issue with ZFS encryption is that it only supports one key.

LUKS2 has something like 9 key slots.

I run ZoL over LUKS2 and it works great.
Yeah, we have good vendor relationships, good datacenter relationships, and we've made mis-steps along the way for sure. Own hardware isn't for everyone, but it's been great for us. YMMV
I think this is kinda like the C++ vs Python as your first language question. C++ is better if you want to really learn programming but it’s harder to get to the magic of your first real program. Python gets people making programs sooner but it’s harder to build good habits and get that deep understanding. It depends what your goals are. There’s stuff like this for math but it’s kinda like trying to learn math from 3Blue1Brown videos. They sure help, but you eventually need the rigor
I think it's okay to make logical conclusions but you must base them in evidence, not just suppositions. Intuition is a good start to begin generating hypothesis, but it doesn't render conclusions. I interpreted the GP asking for sources as "can you give me some evidence that would help me reach the same conclusions you've reached". I think that's much preferable to just accepting random things people say at face value.
Right but that doesn't address the collaboration issue: who gets to decide where the branch points to?
We also did our own web framework :p

https://github.com/fastmail/overture
The htmx also has the logic defined elsewhere. It's literally exactly the same html.
AI video summary at your service:

In this video, Sam Altman and team introduce OpenAI o3 and o3-mini, showcasing their advanced reasoning capabilities and performance benchmarks compared to earlier models. The session highlights the models' robust accuracy in coding and mathematical tasks, as well as new safety testing initiatives involving community participation. The o3-mini is noted for its cost-efficient performance, while safety strategies are enhanced through deliberative alignment.

## Key Points

### Introduction to o3 and o3-mini models

During the final day of their 12-day event, OpenAI announces two new models: o3 and o3-mini. These models are positioned as advancements in AI reasoning capabilities, following the success of the earlier o1 model.

### Performance benchmarks

The o3 model achieves significant improvements in capabilities, scoring 71.7% on software benchmarks and reaching near-expert levels on competitive math exams. In comparison to o1, it shows over 20% improvement in coding tasks.

### Safety testing initiatives

OpenAI emphasizes safety testing for the new models, opening access for researchers to facilitate public testing. The goal is to ensure models are safe for general use while their capabilities are further validated.

### Introduction of o3-mini

The o3-mini is presented as a cost-efficient alternative to o3, also equipped with strong reasoning powers, allowing adjustable thinking time to optimize performance based on user needs.

### New safety techniques: deliberative alignment

A new safety training technique, deliberative alignment, uses reasoning capabilities of the models to create better safety benchmarks, enhancing the ability to accurately reject unsafe prompts.

### Future developments and availability

The video concludes with information on how to apply for early access to test these models with expectations of full public availability in early 2025, alongside a call for safety researchers to contribute.
Thanks, yes, refactoring. Please allow me to vent.

First, I totally agree with you on Rule No. 1. I would never refactor legacy code or suggest a rewrite. It's always a terrible idea. The downside is that I worry I might look like a ghost engineer. This is why I hate this industry sometimes. I heard about this paper at Stanford on ghost engineers a few weeks ago. Where LOC as their basis, it's just absurd. It went to the mainstream media as well, but looking at the paper, it has no metrics on the non-coding aspect of programming.

It seems the industry hates the dev, like we should not be paid this high. Did execs make poor product choices? Let's fix this by increasing shareholder value by another round of layoffs. Which department? Engineering, we have metrics who does not provide enough value!
> let any device use AirDrop and AirPlay

What's the problem with that? That's a win for everyone involved. Maybe finally we'll have an open, universal file transfer and proximity screen casting protocol, thanks to it already having a critical mass of compatible devices.
Ceph is most certainly not the only game in town. It's good and stuff, but it's just tech. We're using protocol level replication for each of our data stores.
If you disagree with their reasoning then you explain that.

You don't do this passive aggressive "source???" thing.

It's a bit like starting a Slack conversation with "Hi?": we all know you have a secondary objective, but now you're inserting an extra turn of phrase into the mix
There's various articles on our blog about our stack!
No, just like I don’t want coworkers using LLMs to generate code. LLMs have their uses, producing quality code is not one of them, they generate cancerous outcomes.
If there was a nice "bathing house" per 1000 people, as suggested in the article, that would make it at most ten minutes walking distance for me. I could absolutely see myself shifting some of the weekly showers in that direction for social reasons.

But completely giving up on the option to comfortably and conveniently wash myself without leaving the house? No way!
I think that makes them a fairly decent source if your goal is a counter point to whatever the Atlantic's take on the issue is.
I think the problem of those is that they are special purpose, and probably too expensive and bulky for that single purpose.

A single general-purpose robot that can do everything would be much easier to sell.
It would be cool to see these benchmarks on the newly released Jetson Orin Nano Super, like faster-whisper.
The Atomausstieg was decided by the SPD/Green coalition in 2002.

Getting rid of the nukes was primary reason for the founding of the Green Party, it was an off-shoot of the German anti-nuclear movement.

That SPD/Green coalition was the first time the Greens were in power, shutting down the nuclear reactors was their precondition for entering into the coalition with the SPD.

So for the Greens it was their raison d'être. For the SPD under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder it was expedience in order to obtain and maintain power. And, as we later discovered, personal enrichment: Schröder, or Gazprom-Gerd as I call him, was handsomely rewarded after he stepped down with a seat on the board of Russia's Gazprom energy giant. A seat he retains to this day.

The corruption is so blatant, it still boggles the mind: a former head of government of one country given a seat on the board of the state-run energy company of a different (and not entirely friendly) country after enabling major deals for that company with the country he was the leader of.

The Nordstream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany via the Baltic was approved and started soon after the Atomausstieg was inked, by the same government.

The CDU-led government that followed immediately after (Merkel 1) did not touch this, because it was a grand coalition that included the SPD who had made the original decision. The second Merkel government did not include the SPD, and so they actually had planned to reverse the shutdown. Then Fukushima happened and Merkel, always the triangulator of popular opinion, flip-flopped. In the end, nothing of substance was changed compared to the original law passed in 2002, just the times were pushed back a little.
Doesn't seem to be needed, there's a web and iOS SDK right there. Google is no angel with interoperability, but the Apple lock-in is another level. Filesharing should be an open protocol imo, making it proprietary is behavior straight out of a scummy telecom company in the 2000's.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/overview
YouTuber finds popular browser extension Honey engaging in deceptive practices
Rundoc is very interesting. Great work!

I believe there are two ways to do what you want.

1. Use the VSCode extension APIs and the built-in commands[1] to write an extension that unit tests your tutorials

For example, you could use vscode.executeCodeActionProvider which will return the actions that VSCode suggests at a specific point in the file.

For the shortcuts, I think the only option would be to read user's keybindings.json file directly.

This is the easiest way I think and may be enough but generally speaking, VSCode's APIs are very restrictive and may not give you everything you need.

2. VSCode being an Electron app can be run from Playwright (similar to Selenium) which should give you full control to drive and inspect it. I haven't done this myself but apparently Playwright is used internally to test VSCode as well. So it should be possible. See [2].

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/commands

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/22351
Okay, but is this similar to how humans bill you?
What, Moynihan Hall, the separate structure across the street? Dilapidated Penn Station remains.
Yes, Merkel flip-flopped.

No, nuclear power is still comparatively safe and clean, even when you include the few times that something did go wrong.

See: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Yeah, they're running their headless J2K. Seems like a fine phase. No need to nitpick the phrasing so much.
Vector.dev: introduction, AWS S3 logs, and integration with VictoriaLogs
> Anyone interested in checking out more of his work can browse this list of his papers, which goes all the way back to 1995. https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/

Very delayed reply, but do you have any suggestions for which of his publications are most interesting so I can read those first?
Ah, fair enough. I missed the speculation bit.
I'm trying to unfuck a C# codebase that was converted from Java by some tool. It did an OK job (nevermind the reasons for all this) but no one went through and resolved the problems that don't cause a build failure. These conversions have a blast radius of unknown proportions.
Imo you have to really lack imagination to not see use cases. I can tell you one use case from the top of my head that you may like. AI tutoring, especially for kids. I'd built a voice based language teaching bot for a young cousin of mine and giving the bot the face of a character she likes (e.g. Rey from Star Wars) would make her so much more engaged and excited to learn.

You'd be surprised by the number of people just talking to chat/voice bots. We make voice calling bots, and some people love endlessly talking to our bots for hours. Most of these people are perfectly normal. Check out: https://x.com/deedydas/status/1806352948328583221 .
To me it seems like "growth mindset" is a buzzword that everyone defines differently.

The weak version is something like: "Even talented people need to work on improving themselves, if they want to be successful." Most people would agree with this.

The strong version is something like: "If people believe that there is such a thing as talent, they automatically stop working on improving themselves." This is used to justify things like: "never tell your kids that they are talented or intelligent, you must attribute all their success to their hard work". In my opinion, this is a false dilemma: there can be things like talent or intelligence, and hard work can be necessary to succeed among those who are comparably talented or intelligent.
Temu is the most downloaded app on the US App Store in 2024
In the U.S. the name Stammtisch has often been co-opted by German-speaking clubs. I myself helped usher the Philadelphia one through a low point 20 years ago. They are much bigger now, with at least 4 weekly meeting around the Philly area (I have since moved out of the area):

https://www.meetup.com/netzwerkphiladelphia/
Dupe (84 points, 22 hours ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483500
- I'm not just talking about ARC. On frontier Math, we have 2 scores, one with pass@1 and another with consensus vote with 64 samples. Both scores are much better than previous Sota.

- Also apparently, ARC wasn't a special fine-tune but rather some of the training set in the corpus for pre-training.
> No, the stat I am working from is "homicides", not "gun deaths"; I'm just inferring that guns drive those homicides.

If there's a huge, outlying number of homicides, but there's even more suicides by gun death, does that sound like a mental health system that's working? It's so weird that you'd think this strengthens your case somehow.

> our health care system has the same structure in basically all 50 states. But CVD outcomes vary wildly among states

As you would expect, because:

1. Not everyone in every state has equal access to coverage. States like Alabama and Mississippi have higher rates of uninsured people.

2. Wealthier states with better public health systems invest more in preventive care.

3. Poorer states may have fewer resources that discourage routine doctor visits. A hospital in Massachusetts might have state-of-the-art facilities and specialists, while rural hospitals in Alabama might lack funding or staff.

And, there's lots of other variations by state which could affect CVD outcomes; diet, smoking rates, pollution etc (which often lead back to healthcare, and access to it).

> No part of our life expectancy gap has anything to do with health insurance.

I urge you to reconsider this stance; not just because it's deeply wrong, but because it ignores and enables some really evil stuff. I've given you all the pieces you need to see that, because I know that you have all the intelligence necessary to put them together. I do hope you put them together.
I forgot to mention the Madison one that I was in before then: https://www.facebook.com/groups/252293088142844/
There's a great lesswrong article that provides a libertarian critique of phone based sports betting as well as some good attempts to quantify the damage that it does.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online...
How can Europe build its first trillion dollar startup?
with an anchor tag's href attribute, is the logic defined elsewhere?
What a way to ruin the day of introverts and autistic people. Please just leave us alone.
No, there are smaller crates out there that enable a simple https request with far less crates.

Much of that is due to not needing Tokio & co.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_(brand) - "O2 (typeset as O2) is a global brand name owned by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica"
Not a bad idea, light enough to implement a telegram bot everyone can use or email or maybe a bitlbee plugin so you can have a twtxt channel.

But, what is it? can you PM someone? participate in a conversation? or is it just that, a microblog? Usability wise what will you do? keep a client running that always checks if new blogs have happened over, how many followers? I'm currently following 500 people, that's 500 connections if this takes off.

It would be nice if an rss client supported it, until then ehh
That's neither my point nor OP's point. The soothing feeling of "this text has a comfortably familiar shape" is entirely about syntax, and indeed is only a soothing feeling because such programmer has not seen anything beyond it and is unwilling to get outside that comfort zone.

I do not hire anything who does not get outside of their comfort zone or who is intimated by syntax they haven't seen. If a programmer rejects Haskell or OCaml by giving me a good critique of say, Hindley Milner style type systems†, that's a good programmer I'm willing to hire even though I don't necessarily agree.

†: I've been asked exactly this question during an interview: to critique HM style type systems. As a candidate I felt this style of questions gave me a far better way to display my knowledge and experience than Leetcode style questions.
That's a nice thing to have. Although since marriage and especially child birth I usually need to fight for loneliness instead. Maybe I'll do it when I'm old, you know, alone.
All the nuclear accidents (and Fukushima was a Tsunami that did a lot more damage than that nuclear plant) did far, far less damage than people initially predicted, and even with those entirely avoidable accidents, nuclear is still one of the safest forms of energy generation we have. Wind turbines are significantly more dangerous, never mind fossil fuels.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

See also:

Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nu...
So true. It's funny how the article mentioned "privacy enhancing technologies" - how about instead, we get rid of the disgustingly huge quantity of technology devoted to removing our privacy?!
Generic, yes. Tangent, no: the article is of the form "we tried this thing that obviously doesn't work, and it doesn't work, and we are surprised". A comment of the form "of course it still doesn't work, you numpty" could be nicer, but it's not a tangent.

I fully understand moderating away "LLMs bad" comments in response to an article that isn't a snowclone, but removing just the low-effort negative comments, without removing the low-effort positive comments, introduces a bias that risks exacerbating a happy death spiral.

It's not sustainable to have to read the latest doomed attempt in enough detail to write a specific and substantial criticism, when we know that it's doomed from the start. Prompt engineering is, in many cases, little more than p-hacking, so many claims of positive results are still actually negative results. Why are generic comments forbidden on generic articles?

I am generally a fan of the news guidelines. Their bias towards the perspective that every article is valuable is a feature, not a bug. But this particular topic feels to me like a failure mode of that very feature – and an easily-exploitable failure mode, at that.

I'm all-but-certain this isn't the first instance of this failure mode (just the first I've noticed), and that you've written multiple relevant essays in the past three months. Most likely the flagging was all users, and you're just here to explain the rules. I don't think it's worth changing the news guidelines over. I still think the moderation decision is wrong.
It's just concept space. The entire LLM works in this space once the embedding layer is done. It's not really that novel at all.
I doubt it, if you ask ChatGPT whether GPT-4 is OpenAI's fourth LLM, it gives the correct answer. That's the sort of thing GPT-2 might have said.
> with a high temperature

More like: with the right prompting
not yet, i am predicting it will happen
Palantir and Anduril are building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts
I was expecting the post to go into using the JRuby API to run the scripts rather than shelling out to a binary and was left a little disappointed. Still, it looks like a nice way to get everything running quickly.
I think it would have to be a general-purpose robot, and doing the laundry would just be one of many things it can do, similar to how running a particular program is only one of many things a computer can do. More than that, I believe it would actually require a general-purpose robot to handle all contingencies that can arise in doing laundry.

As someone who does laundry about twice a week, it would certainly be nice. But it’s a pie in the sky at this time even just on the technological side.
> posting large woodlands is deliberately difficult in Vermont

Can you elaborate on this? I’m curious
But if the scaling law holds true, more dollars should at some point translate into AGI, which is priceless. We haven't reached the limits yet of that hypothesis.
The article is paywalled. Someone please provide an alternative link and/or an archive. (Archive.is et al. are blocked)
Not true.

Finland just built a repository. The US one was finished and then shut down for purely political reasons.

Wherever it's a problem it is politics. Technically it's a non-problem. And of course temporary storage is also a non-problem, which is why politicians can play stupid games with the final repositories.

Oh, and of course we shouldn't be throwing it away in the first place, as it still contains >95% of the energy when we do. We should be recycling the fuel, preferably with reactors that can burn it directly.
A lot of things in this article don't make any sense. I'm surprised this was even upvoted.
Old timey charm is overrated. I want to get to the point.

The use of AI here is really cool and I hope to see it applied to other older tomes
Thanks! I've filed a PR to add that to the documentation. https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/pull/183