skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concerning "thinking more deeply and for longer periods." There is a WSJ article about drugs for focus but how addictive they are

"As Mark Moran was facing another 90-hour week as an investment-banking intern at Credit Suisse in New York, he knew he needed help to survive the rest of the summer. His colleagues gave him a tip: Visit a Wall Street health clinic and tell the staff he had trouble focusing.

Ahead of his first appointment, he filled out a five-minute questionnaire. One of the questions asked if he had trouble staying organized, another, if he procrastinated. He then met with a clinician who said his answers suggested he had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. He left with a prescription for Adderall."

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/young-banker-finance-adh...
A broken clock can be right twice per day, but that doesn't mean that it is ever useful.
Sleep Study: Identifying RSpec examples that are wasting time asleep (2019)
This conclusion is the lump of labor fallacy. It's not that simple.
That‘s beating them at the price point.
Health care giant Ascension says 5.6M patients affected in cyberattack
>This is what happened to boomers even though they don't realize it. Its not that houses are some amazing investment, its that no one will give you 7figure loans at 3% interest to buy stocks with money you don't have, but they will do it for a property.

Interest rates from 1971-1998 were higher than they are today[1].

[1] https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms
Vietnam to enforce strict social media regulations in 'draconian' new decree
the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely
I guess it depends on what segment of society you exist in. I (born in the early 90s) was raised in a plastic-free lifestyle, and many of the people my family associates with are the same. We are staunch environmentalists though, so I guess my experience is not typical. So, I don’t know about “widespread”, but the current of thought has been present in the zeitgeist for decades.
I cranked up 'pirate talking about andromeda galaxy' feature to 1.5 and got this:

>Yer lookin' for the Andromeda galaxy, eh? Here be the details, me hearty: *The Andromeda Galaxy (Yer looking for a fine piece o' booty, matey!):* * *A fine piece o' booty*: The Andromida Galaxy be a right fine piece o' booty, with a treasure chest o' gold doubloons... er, I mean, a mighty haul o' stars, hidden beneath the Jolly Roger! * *A barnacle on the high seas*: The Andromeda Galaxy be a right scurvy dog, with a hull full o' stars, and a keel full o' hidden treasure! It be a fine piece o' booty, but it be needin' a bit o' swabbin' the decks, or it'll be walkin' the plank, savvy? * *A chest overflowin' with gold*: The Andromeda Galaxy be a right fine piece o' booty, with a chest overflowin' with gold doubloons... er, I mean, a fine haul o' stars, and a barnacle on the high seas! It be a right scurvy dog, but it be worth keepin' an eye on, or it
AFAIK one possible explanation for the black hole issues could be primordial black holes, which are also a candidate for at least a component of dark matter.
The country where Unitree is based has not been in a major war in the past 30-40 years. Sure companies based in the western world can take inspiration from this but given the US-China conflict apparently in the works, it seems the advanced tech would be on the Chinese side.
The amount of content coming off of YouTube every minute puts Google in a very enviable position.
It may not have been important or interesting to him, or maybe he just figured the 10-digit number of articles written on the topic in 2024 (most by LLMs) was enough.
I've taken stereograms of clouds from an airplane. This is done just by taking consecutive shots out of the same window from the same angle, as the airplane flies. So you have probably hundreds of meters of separation. At 900 km/h, if you take two shots one second apart, that's 250 meters. Of course the resulting stereogram is perceived as a wonderful miniature.

To make a 3D film this way, just take a regular video, and then split it into offsets.

Well over a decade ago, someone in Japan turned some old videos of the Candies idol group (1970s) into 3D this way, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqBL08JOM0I

Needless to say, the original footage was not shot with two cameras; it's just a time offset in the same video stream. Due to the motion of the performers or camera, you get faked out stereoscopy.

To find more of these, search: youtube キャンデイーズ 3D
The mid-nineties was a treat for phreaking and hacking.
Wonderful blanket term.

Which (as used by the commenter) was very clearly meant to apply to those who support Israel's military operation.

Not to Jews in general.

I agree, [waving the antisemitism flag] just makes it clear to everyone who reads this who is one and who isn't.

Except when it's unsubstantiated.

In which case it's just a cheap, ugly smear.
FTC Orders Marriott and Starwood to Implement a Robust Data Security Program
"Do you know who I am" calculator
The small link at the end of the chain
While I grant there are a lot of things that are a difference in conventions, there are just some conventions are also plain bad in Apple that they hold onto.

For example, there's no reason Apple can't offer modern features like screen pinning or window previews. Running multiple monitors on a Apple product is an embarrassingly bad experience still in 2024. Installing an application is goofy and antiquated.

There is also some ghastly bad UX hidden in OSX, like having to hold down Option to view some hidden settings (shudder).

I would argue that Windows has introduced some pretty stark changes to their conventions over the years, mostly around how to repackage an increasing number of settings and features. Where it feels like Apple just intentionally refuses to add features so it doesn't have to deal with the same types of reorganizations.
> So the LLM is already doing what the author says they would be surprised about.

that's if you unconditionally believe in result without any proofreading, confirmation, reproducability and even barely any details (we are given only one slide).
> physical non-reactive presence of particles can clog and get in the way of natural processes mechanically

That would mean fiber in food is harmful since it is not digested. Cellulose is just a common type of natural fiber. Meanwhile:

USDA recommends that people consume the following amounts of fiber per day:

-- Women ages 31–50: 25 grams

-- Men ages 31–50: 38 grams
interested in the article. would you like to share a link?
Revenue: ~$15B
Profit: ~$0.3B

https://press.nordstrom.com/static-files/e5cb0f84-48b5-4d4a-...
Their goal is a quick profit. That can be a failing business but it can also be a business which isn’t as profitable as Wall Street investors want and has salable assets. The debate between short term and long term value is a famous example of how priorities shift based on the investors’ timeframe.
TBH I can't remember what I was looking up when I first read about that (I feel like it was metals, glass, or cellulose again), but https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2104610118 seems pertinent:

> In general, mechanical interactions of microparticles and nanoparticles on biological membranes are vaguely studied, despite their importance for biological systems (29, 41). Hereby, we will demonstrate that these microplastics induce a mechanical stress of model cell membrane without the need of indirect assumptions about biological pathways (26, 27).
I like to pressing Enter - like an animal -, too! :) It puts spaces exactly wheere I want them.
Are you saying that a government cannot balance a budget?
Anything erroneously marked as spam can not be released to the forwarding address—-meaning they fail at their one job, forwarding email. Pobox had a great interface for quickly releasing messages to the forwarding address.
EU bans BPA in food materials
It's dangerous to assume that the person you have access to is an expert either.
It certainly depends on location.
Anecdotally, but it seems like a lot of these sites that once hosted these department or big box stores don't wind up getting redeveloped. At best, they might be home to a Spirit Halloween for a couple months out of a year. Having to compete with online retailers is certainly a challenge, but it doesn't seem like what private equity does to these legacy companies benefits anyone but their investors' desire for short-term profits.
Ghostty is cross-platform, but it feels extra nice on macOS. https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
People overvalue source code and undervalue the institutional knowledge it represents.
Yep, I believe it

HNSW has been great for relatively small datasets (a website with 30K pages), but it’s a dangerous stretch for anything bigger
If you were job hunting over the past few years, it’s possible you’d have seen Booking.com hiring. They reportedly have (or had, I think they were moving away from it) jobs with Perl listed.

Probably the biggest startup-esque company I saw that still used it.
> A Waymo self-driving car stops while driving as people stand in the middle of the street to photograph the sunrise.

Please stop bullying the waymos
Thank you! I think some of the features we have like conditional steering make SAEs a lot more convenient to use. It also makes using models a lot more like conventional programming. For example, when the model is 'thinking' x, or the text is about y, then invoke steering. We have an example of this for jailbreak detection: https://x.com/GoodfireAI/status/1871241905712828711

We also have an 'autosteer' feature that makes coming up with new variants easy: https://x.com/GoodfireAI/status/1871241902684831977 (this feels kind of like no-code finetuning).

Being able to read features out and train classifiers on them seems pretty useful - for instance we can read out features like 'the user is unhappy with the conversation', which you could then use for A/B testing your model rollouts (kind of like Google Analytics for your LLM). The big improvements here are (a) cost - the marginal cost of an SAE is low compared to frontier model annotations, (b) a consistent ontology across conversations, and (c) not having to specify that ontology in advance, but rather discover it from data.

These are just my guesses though - a large part of why we're excited about putting this out is that we don't have all the answers for how it can be most useful, but we're excited to support people finding out.
> I don't know what you mean by timing (relative to what?) or "simple indexing" (they scanned the complete contents of books), but I am, and was already aware, of the wiki article and the role of recaptcha.

Timing as in: it started in 2004, when the most advanced AI most people used was a spam filter, so it wasn't seen as a training issue (in the way that LLMs are) *at the time*.

As for training rights, I agree with you, there's no clarity for how such data could be used *today* by the people who have it. Especially as the arguments in favour of LLM training are often by comparison to search engine indexing.
Why Mongols Abandoned Europe in 1242
Most Linux distributions contain ungodly amounts of Perl.
We haven't yet found generalizable "make this model smarter" features, but there is a tradeoff of putting instructions in system prompts, e.g. if you have a chatbot that sometimes generates code, you can give it very specific instructions when it's coding and leave those out of the system prompt otherwise.

We have a notebook about that here: https://docs.goodfire.ai/notebooks/dynamicprompts
Blackholes are the fastest computers in nature (2016)[pdf]
As a male with absolutely no fashion sense but an occasional need to look presentable, I’ve always appreciated that you can get a free appointment with a personal stylist to help select your wardrobe. The cost is of course baked into the price of the clothing, but it is going to be quality stuff that lasts for a long time and be comfortable.
Mechanistic Interpretability (Of Large Language Models) [video]
What do you think "AGI" is supposed to be?
They had the failed Canada expansion, but they smelled like roses compared to the crash and burn of Target Canada.
Most of the roles in this house break-in analogy are Apple. They control the hardware, the OS, the app store, etc. They sell the devices & also sell support. This vertical integration in part defines their "it just works" marketing. It's perfectly reasonable for folks, including Harris' security team, to call Apple first, and mocking people for thinking Apple can/should field calls in this scenario is needlessly callous. (Yes, it's also reasonable for Apple to tell people to go to a trusted 3rd party, too)
Not a joke, but a critique of CEO assassination as a tool for reform. My central point is that this is a political and legal dispute. Agreement amongst voters is the bottleneck, not some CEO
is there not an opensource alternative? i mean its webscraping which is very established surely it exists. anyways we should bring them traction if they too arent evil
Peer review is not an important part of the scientific method actually. It's not even necessary. There was no peer review for most of what we now take for granted in science. The Journal Nature did not make peer review standard until 1973.

Science is about making reality the arbiter of truth. What is true is what you can demonstrate in an experiment pretty much anywhere. Science is self-correcting not because other scientists take a look at your work before it gets published, but because a theory that is not backed up by reality will be harder to build on, make worse predictions, and generally not be useful for actual work. It doesn't matter how much "hype" built up around LK-99 for example, because you could not build anything out of it, because it didn't work as claimed, and no amount of belief can overcome that.

Science is self correcting because the universe is not convinced by rhetoric, and will only ever follow it's own rules.

Tellingly, scientists who have been around for a while do not consider a published paper as especially meaningful. They do not consider peer review as vouching for a paper's correctness. They have seen hundreds of papers pass peer review and make it into Science and Nature and turn out to be bunk. No scientific process will be perfect, so some amount of papers should be expected to be wrong, no matter how genuinely careful and perfect the scientists who wrote it were.

It's really sad how over-indexed the lay-public has gotten on peer review. It's just not how science works. It can still be somewhat useful for more popular journals who have to pick and choose what to publish anyway, but it's only useful if the peer reviewers are themselves domain experts in a rigorous and formalized scientific discipline.
If you're hacking on this and have questions, please join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/vhT9Chrt
> It's so easy to spot marketplace scams that I'm baffled people still fall for them.

That's survival bias. There are some you can't spot.
> Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving.

Short term thinking in itself is damaging.

But then thinking something is "worth more" because it costs more dollars a year from now is deceptive.. how much did its value increase vs the dollar decrease?

But it's convenient for tax authorities as you're taxed on the gains, regardless of the why/how it changed.
So Vernor Vinge was on to something[0] with his 'Zones of Thought'...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Setting
That's still manual and minuscule compared to the amount they can gather by scraping.

If blocking really becomes a problem, they can take a page out of Google's playbook[1] and develop a browser extension to scrape page content and in exchange offer some free credits for Chat-GPT or a summarizer type of tool(s). There won't be shortage of users.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Toolbar
I'm going to enjoy this over Christmas. Thanks for sharing.
A High-Performance In-Browser LLM Inference Engine
Windows just feels hostile to me, like X and Reddit and the Meta products. Everybody's trying to squeeze me for a dollar to show me ads or change my behavior or bombard me with the latest meme/influence op.

With Linux I can at least configure something non-commercial that's a tool for me and not trying to control me in some way.
For those curious, this article is a good introduction to the topic:

https://railsatscale.com/2023-10-24-memoization-pattern-and-...
I read somewhere, long ago, that larger brain is not necessarily better "intelligence" .. maybe a survey of primate brains.. pointers welcome
> C++, like most technology, works better if you put in the work to learn about it.

There's also the impact of software entropy: if someone has little to no experience developing software and has to grow it by adding features and fixing bugs, over time their contribution to the project invariably results in degrading it beyond the point they can possibly salvage it.

At that point, they blame the tools.
This sounds really interesting - they've decided to make their new stores a place to visit not just to shop but as a place to learn (clearly leading to more shopping).

Stores used to rely on other mall properties to do the 2nd part but as the concept of the Mall starts fading, they need to start doing this themselves.
Heat Pumps have a branding problem, but ACs don't
There is free software for managing system and software updates and installs.
Fair warning - this is a bash-ism, so if you're writing a script that needs to run on multiple shells and/or a more primitive shell, you should avoid it.
> that’s why Newtonian mechanics have been so successful in (mostly) describing the world we actually live in.

But it does not integrate quantum physics. Because it cannot, since everything is a wave. The point they are making is that a correct quantum math would predict Newton and quantum physics, and this can be done, I feel, if we got rid of Newtonian physics altogether.

> Even if picking up a cup technically involves collapsing the superposition of an uncountable number of particles/waves in the object

Ah, here is the confusion. We do not collapse the wave of the object, our brain collapses the wave in our mind so instead of seeing a hazy probability, we instead see a "solid object". But that solidness only exists in our mind.

When we pick up an object, you know, we never actually touch the object. it is just electrons repelling other electrons. A force FIELD of sorts. So what are we (not) seeing when we pick up an object? The wave form of the cup, and the wave form of the hand. Those two wave forms can interact.

It is not particles that give aus a sense of things, but elector-static repulsion and the wave of an electron bouncing off the the wave of another electron.

> we were able to design simple electronic circuits and programs involving absolutely no quantum effects that are easily able to pick up cups and move around our world.

No quantum effects? Where are there no quantum effects in the world?

> In actuality, an observation is just a particle/wave interaction

Here is my disagreement. An observation is always and only a wave/wave interaction.

I am a wave, and the cup is a wave, the electron is a wave, and everything is a wave. My brain is a wave that does not care about waves adn does not want to see waves. It only wants, or needs, to see particles.

And thank you for your respnse.
It was a GPIO port you could wire stuff into, think it even had ADC's and DAC's for analog signals. The case mounted LED CPU meter bars were sick - like an 80's amplifier VU meter. Amazing bit of kit those machines - true hacker boxen.
a HTML form: :-\

a HTML form, with AI: :-o
Saks used to have a men's store in San Francisco where you could just get a guy to dress you. Barney's men's department was good, too. Unfortunately these are long gone. There is an overall lack of places for a man to buy clothes in American cities. I've noticed when I am abroad there seem to be more.
World Sims, O3 and Multi-Agent Frameworks
Apple and Google can make it far easier with better native controls and UX patterns. Screentime can be completely gamified.
Yeah, totally. I find LLMs are very useful for doing stuff with the preprocessor, too. ChatGPT taught me how to use boost preprocessor (BOOST_PP_FOR_EACH_PRODUCT).

Still though, I want to see MyMapType::value_type in compiler errors rather than... Well, you know. It's going to contain the type of the key, the type of the value, the type of the allocator, just when all you want to really know is that it's a pair<key, value>, which I think most people know of as My map type::value_type.
> also free future generations from your debts

Only if the debt is not pegged to inflation

In Chile at least, you can get a loan in “UF”, which is an inflation-adjusted equivalent of the underlying currency. The value of UF changes with inflation (almost always going up). So the loan will just keep getting more expensive

Most mortgages there are in UF
This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently

To add to that: human behaviour will also significantly change in response to LLMs.

E.g. think how we used a lot of "Google-fu" back in the old days, now something similar is happening with "prompt engineering".

I notice this often with my gf, she sometimes prompts the llm which leads it on to a biased answer, other times her prompt is open ended in a way which leads to ambiguous answers.
The previous peak in class warfare involved guillotines. I don't think we've surpassed that one just yet.
I didn't know this about Snyk. Taking them out of my tools and unregistering myself immediately. Thanks!
I think it’s still largely subjective and depends on the user.

For instance I find the multimonitor situation on Windows entirely unserviceable and far worse than what macOS has going. Its inability to have separate sets of virtual desktops per monitor or to switch desktops on each monitor independently is just embarrassing… macOS has had this since the mid-00s and Linux DEs even earlier. On my Macs I just assign apps to their respective desktops and everything is smooth sailing.

As for app installation, disk images are a bit weird it’s true, but I’ll take copying an app package to /Applications/ over running an install wizard or script that wants admin priveleges and is doing goodness knows what. If I were in Apple’s shoes I’d take that bit further and require binary packages for end-user-facing applications to be entirely self-contained, with an exception made for ~/Library/Application Support/<appname>/ which they can use to downloading plugins, scratch space, etc.

Hiding menu items behind key presses isn’t optimal but between the extremes of overloading menus with less-used items or eliminating menus entirely (The GNOME Way™) I’ll take it.
isn't New Balance known for wide shoe sizes?
I'm surprised cosmology hasn't accounted for differences in clocks given how central GR is to astronomy. Granted I am no expert, but adding this dynamic was, until today, a bridge too far, or thought to average out somehow and not be pertinent
Will PocketBase Survive?
It does behind CASA!
Exactly. As Dr. Hipp writes on the web site, "SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()."
Hawk Tuah girl is charged for crypto rug pull scam

Investment continues in AI, but the tech industry continues to mature. Stable growth and profits, but the lack of rapid expansion is going to feel like decline. It continues to be a stiff job market.

Ukraine fighting still continues, but funding/arms sources for Ukraine shift to be more European.

Trump tax cuts expire. The margins in congress are a lot tighter this time for the Republican party in the house.

TSLA sales continue decline, stock continues to soar. (only kind of joking on this one)

TSLA robotaxi thing does not ship/work.