skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the stock market continues to rise there will be a bubble in defense stocks and a lot of defense IPOs
Here's a paper that describes in vivo P. gingivalis interaction with iron.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2825758/

There's some suggestion that P. gingivalis is implicated in system wide effects:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41368-022-00215-y

I've read various other things about it's pro-inflammatory effect.

I'm somewhat wary of dental hygienists given how much trauma they seem to impart and the consequential risk of getting oral bacteria into the bloodstream.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456308
I wonder if the next CEO will be shot or taken down by drone.

I think it's very likely that in 2025 we will see the first North American assassination by drone.
This here is a technology forum bucko. Also it's a figure of speech. Also I've done more manual labor than you'll ever do in your life. Time to get out of whatever bubble youre in where you be pedantic and annoying
I think this speaks more to a fundamental issue in ruby’s default redis. How is it only able to do 4k/s sets?
Sure, if they also overpaid for their phone, they should enjoy the privilege of airdropping to gp. Just not from cheap devices please!
If we take the following ingredients:

1. Regression to the mean and survivorship bias (a band with an atypically good first album has much more chances to make a second, but can find it difficult to live up to the first because maybe it was mostly luck),

2. The album that people consider "the first" actually being "the first big hit" (e.g. how many people know the album that came before Jarre's Oxygene?),

3. The first hit done with no pressure, the following album under pressure and deadlines because there's a public wanting to hear it,

I would actually be surprised if the discussed effect didn't exist.
Did the World War 1 Christmas truce football match really happen?
Yes but it also hasn't been attacked by ads yet. Google doesn't suck for lack of search results, it sucks because of ads.

Imagine asking chatgpt to tell you about slopes in Colorado, and the first five answers are about how awesome North Face is and how you can order from them. You probably wouldn't use it as much.
Rackspace Spot: turnkey managed Kubernetes
Trump becomes envious of the attention Musk is getting him and fires him, probably in Q1.
Laptop worker here. Have participated/been present in butcher of sheep and pigs and helped out making sausages a couple of times. It was fine. An interesting experience.

There is a lot of skill going in to it, so I couldn't do it myself. You need guidance of someone who is knowledgeable and has the proper tools and facilities for the job.
In Brazil we have a famous saying, not related to wars but football, "já combinou com os Russos?" or in literal translation, "Did you already check with the Russians?".
- More widespread use of AI in everyday applications

- Hybrid work models become the standard. More companies embrace "digital-first" policies

- More AR/VR applications in daily life

- Lab-grown meat and plant-based protein alternatives will become more mainstream

- Investment and adoption of renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, and geothermal will accelerate

- Further development of CRISPR and other gene editing tools

- Companies will prioritize building more resilient and diversified supply chains

- 3D printing technology will continue to evolve, enabling the printing of more complex objects with a wider range of materials

- AI will drive even more targeted advertising and content recommendations

- Drone delivery services will become more common for transporting goods, particularly in rural areas and for time-sensitive deliveries

- Research and development of biodegradable and compostable materials will accelerate

- Robots and automated systems will become more sophisticated and capable

- Increased use of biometrics for identification and authentication

- Further integration of AI into creative fields

- Processing power moves closer to the data source (e.g., smart devices), reducing latency and enabling faster, more efficient applications

- Shifting demographics reshape economies and social structures

- Growing awareness of the potential negative impacts of technology on mental health leads to tools and practices for healthier digital habits

- Increased emphasis on lifelong learning and reskilling
Sounds great! Are you (or anyone reading this) interested in doing a Stammtisch at Stammtisch?
First the popup for the browser is obnoxious and insufferable. And on all devices now, not by account like they did at first, like it should have been (like so else on HN told me “but it’s only once you’ll forget about it!” now I’ve had it at least 5 times already), because of EU decisions.

Also I don’t have to use a third-party App Store now. What do you think will happen when my BANK will decide they don’t want to go through the App Store? Or when they decide to stop supporting Apple Pay because FU?

I WANT the ecosystem to be unbreakable because it is more convenient.

It is the OTHER WAY AROUND we should think.
Nobody ever forced anybody to buy an iPhone. Why should Apple be forced to do anything “for the good of the consumer?” It is not and has never been for the consumer anyway, it’s for the companies that are “missing out.”

And it actually might even be what makes me the most mad: the hypocrisy. It is not for the consumer, it is for other companies to make more profit. At least tell it like it is, don’t try to sell it like it’ll profit me, the consumer. I know what I want and it’s not that.
The problem is data.

GPT-3 was trained on 4:1 ratio of data to parameters. And for GPT-4 the ratio was 10:1. So to scale this out, GPT-5 should be 25:1. The parameter count jumped from 175B to 1.3T, which means GPT-5 should be 10T parameters and 250T training tokens. There is zero chance OpenAI has a training set of high quality data that is 250T tokens.

If I had to guess, they trained a model that was maybe 3-4T in size and used 30-50T high quality tokens and maybe 10-30 medium and low quality ones.

There is only one company in the world that stores the data that could get us past the wall.

The training cost of the above scaled GPT-5 is 150x GPT-4, which was 25k A100 for 90 days, which poor MFU.

Let’s assume they double MFU, it would mean 1M H100s. But let’s say they made algorithmic improvements, so maybe it’s only 250-500k H100s.

While the training cluster size was 100k and then grew to 150k, this cluster is suggestive of a smaller model and less data.

But ultimately data is the bottleneck.
Well this would work, but I think the parent asked how to change all "Got it"s to "Fuck off"s :-)
Which I now learned, is "invading" Europe (The southern giant hornet), thanks.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11549532/
1. Germany got over 30% of its power from reliable, CO₂-free and cheap nuclear, not 13%

2. It has now spent €400-600 billion to replace that reliable, CO₂-free, cheap energy with unreliable expensive CO₂-free energy. That's a lot of cash for getting a worse product.

3. That first part was the easy part, because up to now Germany has retained base-load capacity, in the form of coal power stations. There is no precedent for an industrial country powered by 100% intermittent renewables, and the models are clear that there is a good reason for this: "...which challenges the economic sanity of 100% intermittent renewable targets."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

So from here on it will get worse. Much worse.

4. Electricity prices in Germany have soared since 2002 (the year the Atomausstieg was enacted). Heavy industry is leaving the country. They say energy prices are to blame. Not wholly to blame, but to blame.

5. Inflation in Germany is high, largely due to energy prices. Now this is difficult to disentangle from the global energy crisis, but it is pretty clear that Germany was hit worse by this than other countries.

6. "You think all the problems of the economy...". Nobody made the claim that it was "all" the problems, except you. So calm down.
> Maybe that's why German tourists are notorious for using towels to try to reserve chairs in tourist resorts the world over?

Perhaps the Germans started it, but they are by no means the only nation doing this anymore. They may not even be leading in this discipline anymore. Over 20 years ago, I already observed English people reserving the best poolside loungers with towels before sunrise.
They could have gone with northern asian hornet, to follow proper taxonomy of including general and specific.
Probably true, but I can confirm that this relationship does not go both ways :). Absolutely hated going from WO to Java EE back in the day. But I understand it's gotten better in recent years though.
thanks, can you give me the tip anyhow?
it seems not much is out there
To me it is testable and debuggable.
And my experience is the opposite, on both counts. I guess it's moot because two anecdotes cancel each other out?

Cloud VMs fail from either the instance itself not coming back online, or an EBS failure, or some other az-wide or region-wide failure that affects networking or control plane. It's very rare, but I have seen it happen - twice, across more than a thousand AWS accounts in 10 years. But even when it does happen, you can just spin up a new instance, restoring from a snapshot or backup. It's ridiculously easier to recover than dealing with an on-prem hardware failure, and actually reliable, as there's always capacity [I guess barring GPU-heavy instances].

"Server grade hardware in a reliable colo with good uplink" literally failed on my company last week, went hard down, couldn't get it back up. Not only that server but the backup server too. 3 day outage for one of the company's biggest products. But I'm sure you'll claim my real world issue is somehow invalid. If we had just been "more perfect", used "better hardware", "a better colo", or had "better people", nothing bad would have happened.
Generally speaking single use zoning in North America combined with parking minimums make it illegal to open a cafe, pub, shop, etc where people live.
Isn't this a reason for Meta to outsource to countries where people somewhat immune to the first world problems? Aside of corruption and work force neglect?
Loomio: Collective intelligence to make better decisions
The web2.0 made the professional critic obsolete. Back when punishing was difficult, those with the means to disseminate information needed a reliable way to get opinions on a topic: the professional critic. But around the turn of the millennium that changed, and we now have a plethora of ways to just access the opinions of fans and laypeople.

Of course paradoxically we now also have more professional critics than ever before. We just call them reviewers and influencers. A lot of them shallow or outright bought, but that has always been an issue with critics. But if you avoid the bad actors you will find insightful critics on the most obscure topics. And if you don't you can always just ask the relevant subreddit
I am not sure : when you take a loan at the bank, the lender is the bank, not you in the future. In the case of tech debt : who is the bank ?
You mean, the explosion of human centipede LLM prompts shitting into eachother?

Yes that will be a sight to behold.
Unitree B2-W demonstration [video]
They work just fine. I can always notice them working for my car and other's cars.
Thats all fine, but I think you are missing the bigger picture. It's not about whether what we already got out of this is good. Of course it is. But this is about where it's going.

Until about 120 years ago, people were happy with horses and horse carriages. Such a great help! Travel long distances, pull weights, I never want to go back! But then the automobile was invented and within a few years little travel was done by horses anymore.

More recently, everybody had a landline phone at home. Such great tech! Talk to grandma hundreds of miles away! I never want to go back! Then suddenly the mobile phone and just shortly after the smart phone came along and now nobody has a landline anymore but everybody can record tiktoks anywhere anytime and share them with the world within seconds.

Now imagine "AI". Sure, we have some new tools right now. Sure we don't want to go back. But imagine the transformative effects that could come if the train didn't stop here. Question is just: will it?
also interested!
The FDP has ~5%. The Schuldenbremse was added to the constitution in 2009, which requires a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and so had to be passed with broad agreement from both the ruling parties and the opposition.
The same is true of Google, no?
And of course it is has ≈28 unsafe declarations.
I don't have sources, but a few people I know had their issues resolved and I noticed over the years they didn't relapse. There were a few others which abandoned therapy and weren't fine - I guess those are the people counted to failure rate - but was it the fault of psychology I wonder?
20w for 20 years to answer questions slowly and error-prone at the level of a 30B model.
An additional 10 years with highly trained supervision and the brain might start contributing original work.
Correct. 18-Jun-2023. 76 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36376071
I think you’re right that criticism as an exercise in well-written insight is harder to find. However, criticism as a filter is abundant. Those YouTubers might not be producing erudition, but as long as they have watched a ton of content and decided what the good stuff is, and as long as their tastes seem to align to mine, then their opinion is still very useful.
> This is not done in practice because it would be a waste of verifiable type safety.

Why not? The current application is working, so I'd start with that and then gradually move away from it. But it seems they chose to go the opposite way.
> A question asked to an AI is not reviewed by anyone, and it's ephemeral. The AI can answer "yes" today, and "no" tomorrow, so it's not possible to build a consensus on whether it answers specific questions correctly.

It's even more so with humans! Most of our conversations are, and has always been, ephemeral and unverifiable (and there's plenty of people who want to undo the little of permanence and verifiability we still have on the Internet...). Along the dimension of permanence and verifiability, asking an LLM is actually much better than asking a human - there's always a log of the conversation you had with the AI produced and stored somewhere for at least a while (even if only until you clear your temp folder), and if you can get ahold of that log, you can not just verify the answers, you can actually debug the AI. You can rerun the conversation with different parameters, different prompting, perhaps even inspect the inference process itself. You can do that ten times, hundred times, a million times, and won't be asked to come to Hague and explain yourself. Now try that with a human :).
The day it becomes impossible (or too difficult) to not watch ads, youtube will start to die. And it will be fast. There is no reason to not use bittorrent for videos and music, it is just that using youtube with ad block is a little bit more convenient.

But their recommendation algorithm is so terrible that I'm wondering about stopping using by myself. Not worth it.
In my experience LLM generated answers are more comparable to an ad-hoc answer by a human with no special expertise, moderate google skills, but good bullshitting skills spending a few minutes searching the web, reading what they find and synthesizing it, waiting long enough for the details to get kind of hazy, and then writing up an answer off the top of their head based on that, filling in any missing material by just making something up. They can do this significantly faster than a human undergraduate student might be able to, so if you need someone to do this task very quickly / prolifically this can be beneficial (e.g. this could be effective for generating banter for video game non-player characters, for astroturfing social media, or for cheating on student essays read by an overworked grader). It's not a good way to get expert answers about anything though.

More specifically: I've never gotten an answer from an LLM to a tricky or obscure question about a subject I already know anything about that seemed remotely competent. The answers to basic and obvious questions are sometimes okay, but also sometimes completely wrong (but confidently stated). When asked follow-up questions the LLM will repeatedly directly contradict itself with additional answers each as wrong as the first, all just as confidently stated.
Only a matter of time. The costs are aggressively going down. And with specialized inference hardware it will go further down.

Cost of coordination is also large. Immediate answers are an advantage/selling point.
Alas, it isn't valid if one goes beyond even reading the doco.

The underlying library that the tool uses, click (https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/), turns out to include the idea that the "tweet" strings can contain ECMA-48 control sequences.

This permits not only boldface and italics, but also (on very old terminals and very modern terminal emulators) underline, strikethrough, faint, reverse video, invisible, and even 8 whole colours. (-:

Again, though, I expect that in the 9 years of the system's existence, no-one has actually used this in earnest.

In part, this is because the default mode seems to be to apply a regular expression substitution to attempt to strip out control sequences, because of course ECMA-48 and ECMA-35 are over-expressive permitting things like OSC, NEL, PM, APC, cursor motions ("layout is content"), insert/delete/erase, and code page changes.

Amusingly, the regular expression substitution is not based upon an understanding of ECMA-35 and is faulty.
Added this to https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-deve..., thanks!
> The ancients personally knew from multiple sources that gods, demons, and witchcraft existed.

Good point.
Added this book to https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-deve..., thanks!
Added these references to https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-deve..., thanks!
> USA stops supporting Ukraine war efforts and Ukraine is forced to cede large portions of land to Russia, creating a DMZ along vast stretches of the new border.

Some GDP numbers to put things in perspective (source: tradingeconomics.com).

Ukraine: $0.2T

Russia: $2T

United States: $27T

European Union: $18T

So even if you drop the US, only the EU should be sufficient. Russia

More specifically, I saw estimates that Russia spends about 20% of its GDP on the war. This is sort of in line with estimates from the second world war where numbers, from the top of my head, went up to 40% or higher. If 20% of your economy is busy throwing ordnance at someone else sounds pretty unsustainable, then you are probably right. Inflation in Russia is now at about 20% to 30% [1].

And the kicker is that the EU only has to spend about 2% to match Russia's numbers. Long-term it's just a losing proposition for Russia. Their economy is tanking while the rest of the West just gets stronger on an exponential rate. Even if the EU would spend twice as much as Russia, then that sounds perfectly sustainable for the EU.
This is the popular narrative, but what it misses is how relying on the public/internet at large to fund criticism (or even art in general), you’re not going to get the kind of niche hyper-expert analysis that previously would have been funded by a newspaper or magazine owner. Fifty years ago, you could pick up a newspaper and expect the critic to be fairly educated in the topic. Nowadays you have to go to the third page of YouTube results to find a similar level of expertise, if you can find it at all, and that critic isn’t making a living at it.

Reddit has plenty of its own biases and isn’t a great source either.
Some of those, like multi track drawing/dragging, are crazy useful.
I like that this works, but it would be nice if it could all be done in JRuby without the Java shim.

It feels like adding a JRubySource here [0] shouldn't be too tricky. See the Kotlin one for an example.

[0] https://github.com/jbangdev/jbang/tree/main/src/main/java/de...
Power of LLMs. Bring any book down to as short as you like. Or as long, if that's more your alley.
There’s a world of difference between blindly trusting an LLM and using it to generate clues for further research.

You wouldn’t write a legal argument based on what some random stranger told you, would you?
I fixed a Facebook ad account disabled
My Facebook ad account got disabled recently (standard "policy violation" with no specifics). After some digging, I found the issue was a seemingly innocuous landing page redirect that triggered their automated systems. Here's what I did:

Scrutinized all landing pages: Checked for redirects, cloaking, or anything that could be interpreted as deceptive.
Removed the redirect: In my case, it was a redirect from a short link to the actual product page.
Updated all ad URLs: Ensured all ads pointed directly to the final landing page.
Submitted an appeal: Explained the changes and emphasized transparency.
Account was reinstated within 24 hours. Key takeaway: Facebook's automated checks are sensitive to redirects. If you're having this issue, double-check your URLs.

Has anyone else encountered similar issues? What were your fixes?

Read more about my process here: https://agencygdt.com/facebook-ad-account-disabled/
Everyone is so concerned about “losing” the “AI” “race” to the PRC.

I say ship them Altman and an exaflop and watch their society corrupt itself at a fractal nature at machine speed.

Good fucking riddance. I see your fentanyl crisis: raise you Sam and a failure to ship GPT-5. Have fun with that.
I always liked the old Swagger name better.
From the video: "Infinigen is 100% procedural. Math rules only. Zero AI. Just graphics."

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Timestamp: https://youtu.be/6tgspeI-GHY?t=107
The minimum tap bounds for a button in the Apple Human Interface guidelines is 44x44 points. So the developer must of not followed those guidelines. The size of the screen shouldn’t have an impact on this.