skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one paper from 2020 suggesting that Neanderthals may have torpor (there's some evidence in bone growth patterns suggesting that they basically just... stopped during winters).

That being said, Homo Sapiens likely could have directly out-competed Neanderthals even without this hypothesis. While Neanderthals almost certainly could overpower Homo Sapiens, we've yet to find any evidence of projectile use amongst Neanderthals, especially bow and arrow. There's also some evidence suggesting that Neanderthals biomechanics/skeletons would have severely restricted their ability to use throwing spears.

The spread of Homo Sapiens tends to coincide with local changes in climate transitioning from forest to grassland environments, which would have further favored the the apparent range advantage that H. Sapiens had.

That's what we've found so far anyways.
My local Macy's is pretty nice, so I shop there pretty regularly. It's in the middle of the country, but it's also located in a relatively affluent area and attached to a mall that's still doing quite well.
I wonder how many people or companies choose to send their data to foreign services for analysis. Personally, I would approach this with caution and am curious to see how this trend evolves.
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> I prefer fact over fear based science

What is that supposed to mean? Most science is based on theories but you don’t wait for the Theory of Everything to take learnings of science. Fear is a very useful emotion and you shouldn’t fear it.
I left windows 7 (with payed updates) for linux last year.

The reason: I want my system to just work, to not switch UI every other year or month, to not require ultra total upgrades twice a year, to not hog cpu to download and install some multigigabyte upgrade, to not start updating when I immediatelly need to fix my crashed webserver, to not hide basic settings from me etc...

I've win10/win11 on other mostly browsing only laptops, where I can ignore that OS is actively preventing me from using my device, but I can't have this on my 'prod' machine.
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> Nordstrom Inc. is going private in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion in a bet by the founding family that the department-store company will be more successful without the scrutiny and demands of the public market.

> As part of the transaction, the family will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Nordstrom not already beneficially owned by the Nordstrom Family and Mexican department store chain El Puerto de Liverpool SAB.

> Under the terms of the agreement, Nordstrom common shareholders will receive $24.25 in cash for each share of Nordstrom common stock they hold. The Nordstrom Family will have a majority ownership stake in the company.

- https://archive.is/soEKw
The agentic reasoning models should be able to fix this if they have the ability to run code instead of giving each task to itself. "I need to make a graph" "LLMs have difficulty graphing novel functions" "Call python instead" is a line of reasoning I would expect after seeing what O1 has come up with on other problems.

Giving AI the ability to execute code is the safety peoples nightmare though, wonder if we'll hear anything from them as this is surely coming
That’s beautiful. Why didn’t I think of that?!
> waaaay too many operators, etc.

Haskell doesn't have operators, it's based on expressions consisting of function compositions, some of which can be infix and look like operators.

> This is just a collection of words. No clue of what is a function call, what is a variable name, etc.

That's by design, because all of them are expressions that can either reduce immediately or require runtime data to reduce fully.

> How about you pick between 8 alternatives...

How about you pick either of those and start using for real, and then come to the point it either works well or you find inefficiencies to look specific alternatives for? It doesn't take much.
I can draw on my past experience of interacting with the person to assign a probability to their answer being correct. Every single person in the world does this in every single human interaction they partake in, usually subconsciously.

I can't do this with an LLM because it does not have identity and may make random mistakes.

LLMs also lack the ability to say "I don't know", which my fellow humans have.
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This shallow dismissal pretty much proves OPs point.

For starters, you compared Nix the ecosystem to Starlark, perhaps the smallest aspect of Bazel. But Bazel (the ecosystem) has a horrendous documentation problem as well.

I grant that "Nix" is a very overloaded term, but it seems like you don't know which part of Nix you are even referring to. "Somewhere... in all of Nix" is not something that makes any sense.

I fully admit that Nix has a steep learning curve. Very steep. But I don't think you know enough to give a thoughtful critique.
A small side benefit of tobacco advertising laws is that it no longer holds any such association for me.
Remarkable seems to be a pretty hackable device? They give SSH ability and have stated they're not removing it. I think it's a very good balance of letting the community do weird things while they focus on their core product.

I say this as someone who has not purchased one, but is considering it.
The point is to single out and avoid whatever is realistically possible, for you. Like you said, you would have to live in a bubble to avoid them all!
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See section 5:

https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

In the single process access model, you can connect exactly once and remain in a reserved lock state the entire time.
After many years, my head is still exploding from the hundreds of articles trying to pump the next version of perl.

What a disgrace.

Are there like 3 version of perl being developed?
The body does need trace amounts of chromium.
> in Rust it's a compile-time error to use a variable whose value is moved out, whereas in C++ the variable is still usable but has an invalid value

C++ does it this way because there are common cases in systems code where doing it the Rust way would literally be unsafe. Not all memory references are visible at compile-time and may exist outside the address space.
> I said that search engines also hallucinate — my actual link gave several examples

They don't. Google added a weird widget that do hallucinate. But the result list is still accurate, even though it may be biased towards certain sources.

> You could tell where a search engine got an answer from, but not which answers were hidden

A bit pedantic, but a search engine returns a list of results according to the query you posted. There's no question-answer oracle. If you type "King of the United States", you will get pages that have the terms listed. Maybe there will be semantic manipulations like "King -> Head of state -> President", but generally it's on you to post the correct keywords.
Agreed, thanks. Too late for me to edit.
I also wonder about those re-usable Keurig pods that are typically a plastic frame with plastic mesh.
If you can't find useful things for LLMs or AI at this point, you must just lack imagination.
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> Apple is so afraid to change their OS that it's forever locked into worship of itself.

Don’t agree with this, there’ve been changes made over the years, mostly to make the platform more palatable to users who were brought into the Apple fold by way of iPhones/iPads. The parts that haven’t changed aren't out of worshipping itself but more out of trying to not alienate its existing userbase - much as longtime Windows users don’t like longstanding conventions thrown out, neither do longtime Mac users. The conventions just happen to differ from those popular on the Win9X-desktop-paradigm side of the fence.
>It would be more effective to go out and kill your neighbors who vote differently than you, and reject things like single payer healthcare or reform.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not but I'll argue as if it isn't. First of all, nobody knows if single payer or any reform would lead to anything better. It's a complex issue that boils down to trying to get something for nothing (or at a price lower than the limited supply of healthcare dictates), which leads to enslaving other people to pay for one's own needs. You can do something about corporate corruption such as in the insurance industry. But state corruption is much more insidious. If you feel that strongly about state-sponsored healthcare then there are lots of other countries you can choose to live in that allegedly have the benefits you want, rather than just hating or doing harm to your neighbors. Furthermore, the MAJORITY of people who approve of the current system aren't going to stand by helpless as random wannabe tyrants attack them.
> with an annual contribution of €13.61 and a real rate of return of 3%, 400 years of annual compounding would be over €7 million. With a rate of 4% it would be €280 million.

Calculating the total return given an annual average rate of return is the easy part here. The idea that you can easily invest in a diversified basket of assets and receive a fairly safe x% a year is a relatively recent one. I'm not sure what assets you could invest in 400 years that would even be guaranteed to exist today.
> I don't think department stores are failing because they're a bad business. I think they're failing because they're being gutted by corporate raiders for their real estate assets.

I think you are confusing cause and effect at least the case I know of, Sears. Because Sears' core business was dying, because of Amazon, the best way to get value out of it was to raid its real-estate assets. It may have hastened Sears' demise, but it probably was the smartest thing to do from a business standpoint.
The root issue is parents not being safe for kids to come out to. If you risk being chucked out on the street, or sent to a conversion camp, why the hell would you come out to a parent?
We're planning to release the weights once we do a moderation pass. Our SAE was trained on LMSys (you can see this in our accompanying post: https://www.goodfire.ai/papers/mapping-latent-spaces-llama/).

No images in training - 3.3 70B is a text-only model so it wouldn't have made sense. We're exploring other modalities currently though.

SAE is a basic ReLU one. This might seem a little backwards, but I've been concerned by some of the high-frequency features in TopK and JumpReLU SAEs and the recent SAE (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14435, Figure 14), and the recent SAEBench results (https://www.neuronpedia.org/sae-bench/info) show quite a lot of feature absorption in more recent variants (though this could be confounded by a number of things). This isn't to say they're definitely bad - I think it's quite likely that TopK/JumpReLU are an improvement, but rather that we need to evaluate them in more detail before pushing them live. Overall I'm very optimistic about the potential for improvements in SAE variants, which we talk a bit about at the bottom of the post. We're going to be pushing SAE quality a ton now we have a stable platform to deploy them to.
Is it the government regulation, or the American medical association?

From my limited knowledge the AMA has attempted to restrict doctors from non American schools from practicing in the USA.

While there are probably minor legitimacy/ educational standards, concerns with immigrants and foreign doctors, let's face it. This is really about supply restriction and increasing the value of doctor's education.

I believe the AMA is also involved in certification of medical schools. They very likely are restricting the supply of doctors that way as well.

I believe the AMA is always opposed as well to the implementation of intermediary skill levels between nurses and doctors such as nurse practitioners.

Obviously the AMA will be opposed to ai-based diagnostic tools and other types of things which will further undermine Dr. Value

Anyway, there are four pigs at the trough of medical care: insurance companies, drug device manufacturers, Doctors providers, and trial lawyers.

Restriction of supply doctors is just one aspect of the entire problem. It's a big aspect. Don't get me wrong.
LLMs train from online info. Online info is full of misinformation. So I would not trust an answer to be true just because it is given by multiple LLMs. That is actually a really good way to fall into the misinformation trap.
Pity that the Holy Roman Empire dissolved a while ago.
No it isn't. There's nothing necessary about it. It's not written in the stars that these businesses must succeed.

Businesses fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. If the business model is no good then the business will fail. If people decide they've had enough of advertising then those advertising based businesses will fail.
You can’t remove the nail polish (without likely damaging the base surface) when you want to sell or gift the device to someone else, and it doesn’t look good on non-black devices. (Even on black devices you might not like its glossiness.) Black nail polish also completely blacks out the light, whereas one might only want to reduce the brightness (which the product I linked to supports).
Nothing is truly neutral. Humans all have a different corpus too. We roughly know what data has gone in, and what the RL process looks like, and how the models handle a given ethical situation.

With good prompting, the SOTA models already act in ways I think most reasonable people would agree with, and that's without trying to build this specifically for that use case.
> I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, generate sooooo much trash, and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand.

I hate the research part, especially Amazon hasn't improved their system since the late 2000s. I'm sure lots of great improvements on the logistics and business-development side, but the store feels like hobby project and "we couldn't make filtering work, so whatever".

But on the trash part: you generate visible trash. But if you frame it slightly differently: the mall you'd go to needs to be built and heated and fully staffed, and thousands of cars need to drive there etc etc, and that consumes a lot of resources. It's just not visible, and with online-shopping it is. But I'm pretty sure online-shopping is more efficient even if you have to return 4 out of 5 shoes.
Even back in the last decade, the only thing I ever printed in the office was return labels to slap on a package.
I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that you're talking about a printer that is already connected to the local network? But in my case, the software was needed to connect the printer to the wifi.
A similar one owned by Yale can be viewed online [0]. It was issued in 1648, and it seems to have a fairly continuous payment history since then. There are gaps of a few decades, but nothing too extreme.

[0]: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008714
> captchas

I suspect that AIs are already more effective than humans at passing captchas.
Respectfully, 70 folks is not larger than I thought.
Agree, many non-technical people I know have a horrible Windows performance after a short use and cry for help (or try to buy a more powerful PC). This is not entirely Microsoft's fault, but the system enables all of the invasive behavior of programs installed, including browser notifications and addons, which causes all the problems. Many also install anti-virus software, which makes things even worse.

Funnily, when I myself tried to install Windows recently I immediately bumped into issues.

1. You can't install it without internet connection (by default). I don't have RJ45 port on a laptop and at the same time Windows couldn't get Wi-Fi card to work and connect to a Wi-Fi network in the install phase. Dead end for a casual user.

2. I wanted to use external GPU, but Windows could not make it work automatically even with correct graphics drivers installed. Had to search the internet and find a fixing .bat script that solved the problem.
Teach your kids it's ok to make shit up when it's in a good cause. Should do them no harm, right?
What will SBOM require in regulated domains?
We'll be open-sourcing these SAEs so you're not required to do this if you'd rather self-host.
nice work. enjoyed the zoomable UMAP. i wonder if there are hparams to recluster the UMAP in interesting ways.

after the idea that Claude 3.5 Sonnet used SAEs to improve its coding ability i'm not sure if i'm aware of any actual practical use of them yet beyond Golden Gate Claude (and Golden Gate Gemma (https://x.com/swyx/status/1818711762558198130)

has anyone tried out Anthropic's matching SAE API yet? wondering how it compares with Goodfire's and if there's any known practical use.
It drives me batty that terminals don’t have a trivial way to “scroll to last command”.
I highly recommend checking out the charts on the Time and Date website: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/washington-dc. When considering the abolition of DST, it is essential to choose the time that best aligns with Solar Noon in a given location. I’m also curious why the time change on these charts is not symmetrical. DST seems truly absurd.
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They are not mutually exclusive. Likely we'll get more clear separation of architecture and underlying technology. In this case agents (i.e. architecture) can use different technologies or mix of them. Including 'AI' and algorithms. The trick is to make them work together.
That did happen to Boomers, but I wouldn't assume it will happen again. Over a long enough time period housing values must approximately track inflation, because there is an upper threshold of income percentage (certainly below 100%) people can afford to spend on housing. Currently, mortgage rates are about 2x what inflation has been over decades historically. Boomers mostly made money with regulatory capture- landowners were able to politically block housing construction during a time of increasing population, causing a short term anomaly where people were paying steadily increasingly high percentages of income on housing. Both that regulatory capture, and the population growth are disappearing now.

When I run the numbers where I live based on current market rates buying a home is predicted to be a big money loser over time vs renting and investing the difference. Renting lets you buy into housing with the prices and tax rates of when the owners bought them decades ago.
If we really cared about this at all

We'd look at one map of the deforestation of the North America / United States since the arrival of the European colonization.

I think there'd be plenty of plants for all types of pollinators if we went back to such a a map.
Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc.

If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping, it would be fogus, of course.
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> Inflation makes it harder for the current generation

Inflation benefits borrowers and penalizes lenders.

I would posit that younger people tend to be borrowers and older people tend to be lenders (bond owners).

That said, it's not clear what you meant by "the current generation."

Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving.
It's hard to envision a greater success for the "great academic project" than what happened. I mean, what else were they trying to accomplish?
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Have you shopped at Nordstroms and do you have money? Here's how Nordstroms won me over back when I was in a better economic class than I am today:

My daughter had a speech impediment and other issues that caused her to not feel great about herself. Little girls can be scarily mean and self organize pecking orders of meanness in some way based on self confidence which my daughter didn't have. The women at Nordstroms made her feel like a princess and made her feel good about/have confidence in herself in a way that overruled the meanness from the girls in her class (sorry small town little miss, the fancy ladies at Nordstroms in the nearest big city overruled your opinions).

Nordies then every season called and let my wife know when new things came in, and held back items in my daughter's size and the next up for her to come try on, and then would just go get them when we came in. No 'oh we don't have that size'. When they know you daughters taste and name, have brought smiles to her face, and made her confident when running into other kids from her school when out and about where before she would want to run away, well, it makes you a customer for life (or until your life falls apart and finances no longer work).

Shopping therapy probably isn't the healthiest mentally, but Nordstroms was way cheaper than what we were already spending on speech therapy a year and 1000% better for my daughters opinion of herself. I would (and did) pay anything for that. Again, maybe not healthy and it wasn't intentional (we just went in originally to get her something fancy to wear on our fancy Christmas night out to dinner and The Nutcracker) but it was shockingly life changing for my little girl. I'll add that this endorsement of (probably gross) classist/capitalism consumer therapy is brought to you by someone raised by hippie parents in Santa Cruz.