skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the pharmacy lobby have any role in this? Pharmacist associations have been lobbying to expand what they can do and get in on the pie, for example now able to give vaccine injections. Perhaps a solution is to automate the pharmacy process more so people can be freed up from counting pills to helping customers.
I have similar age and bio and I also live in Germany.

"I need to find people / companies who can see this as an advantage."

My opinion on this is, that it is good to have diverse experience, even more so in times of crisis. Specialization is for insects.

However, I am convinced that you never ever should present yourself as a generalist. In German there is the saying: "Geh gleich zum Schmied und nicht zum Schmiedl.", meaning no one takes the almost expert if they can have the real expert.

Our superpower is not being generalists, it is that we can be experts in more than one discipline.
Son, you don’t need to see the desert or the ocean or the rainforest. You have a beautiful Midwest prairie right here at home.
Was there much big news around that in 2024?

There were a few interesting papers - the Anthropic one about alignment faking https://www.anthropic.com/news/alignment-faking and the OpenAI o1 system card https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/openai-o1-system-card/ - and OpenAI continued to push their "instruction hierarchy" idea, any other big moments?

I'll be honest, I don't follow that side of things very closely (outside of complaining that prompt injection still isn't fixed yet).
Zimbabwe Abolishes Death Penalty
Correct, it's E1M9, the shareware secret level, on Nightmare difficulty.

You can strafe with the old-school chording of Alt.

The sound was fucked up for me, high pitched, no idea why (fits the ridiculousness of this experience though, so NBD).
It’s not available on touch screen devices.
Looks great, but no Mac app?
E^2 = m^2 + p^2 where p is momentum and i’ve dropped unit adjustment factors like c

this allows light to have energy even if its massless
All you need is talented friends, a professional looking website, an email solution of some kind, and maybe a small investment in some collaborative software too. It was like a week of effort tops to do all that and I haven't had to mess with it much since that effort, it's basically just there to keep up professional appearances and host blogs and code whenever we decided to do some writeups on our work.
Math with LLM– State of the Art
I loved ottertune, it's a shame it died the way it did.
For perspective, 2055 is about as forward from us as these predictions are backward from us. Of all of the predictions about our future that exist now (AI/AGI/ASI, VR/AR, fusion, health and longevity, autonomous vehicles, human-computer blending, …the list goes on), which will seem naive, optimistic or pessimistic? I guess we’ll find out.
"High explosives are basically legal in the US"

The compounds generally are. The applicable use is where the laws come into play. Things like pipe bombs, devices marked "lethal", etc are not legal without special permits and would be deemed destructive devices.
The absence of photographic evidence from the gulags doesn’t negate their existence. The Soviets deliberately restricted documentation of the camps, and destroyed records before and during the fall of the USSR.
let me introduce you to the 'superseding indictment'. They charged him with the easiest thing. They'll follow it up later.
Organize Your Bookmarks
Whatever you think of Communism, the repression under Lenin and Stalin is worth knowing in and of itself.
I happen to be reading the latest edition of the pickaxe book, as I'll soon be using Ruby at work (first experience) and this 'it' update sounds so much better than the _1 described in the book.

I remember thinking it clashed a bit with the idea of trying to make the code read like natural language.
Looking forward to Web5, starting 2025-01-02, obsoleting everything Web4
> That is what had made Falcon 9 so cost effective. Mostly because they get nearly 10 flights per booster.

You’re way out of date. Multiple boosters have flown over 20, a couple are at 23.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage...
> 1. OpenAI has confirmed it’s not in their train (unlike putnam where they have never made any such claims)

Companies claim lots of things when it's in their best financial interest to spread that message. Unfortunately history has shown that in public communications, financial interest almost always trumps truth (pick whichever $gate you are aware of for convenience, i'll go with Dieselgate for a specific example).

> It is funny to me that HN finds it easier to believe theories about stealing data from APIs rather than an improvement in capabilities. It would be nice if symmetric scrutiny were applied to optimistic and pessimistic claims about LLMs, but I certainly don’t feel that is the case here.

What I see is generic unsubstantiated claims of artificial intelligence on one side and specific, reproducible examples that dismantle that claim on the other. I wonder how your epistemology works that leads you to accept marketing claims without evidence
have you been trying to provide it as an image directly? if so, doesn’t surprise me at all.

really thanks for sharing!
> If it was so essential to the Soviet system, where were all the images of millions of prisoners in gulags after the Berlin Wall fell?

This doesn't really make sense as an objection; the gulags were (mostly) long emptied by then, and the collapse followed. Correlation is clearly there; causation is something you can argue either way.

Navalny died in a ex-Gulag labor camp.
Read when they are asleep. I also read when sitting next to my son on his bed, after I read him a book, while waiting for him to fall asleep
Is there a ToS/License somewhere?
Why do you need pictures of camp inmates to believe that the Gulag was an integral part of the system?

And (Nial?) Ferguson seems to be alive and well and speaking his mind freely, like wut? Was he de-banked recently?
This is so metal. Great work.
Nah just the final bits, stuff like `Simd::<u32, 8>::splat(q)`, I'm not sure what splatting is or how Rust's Simd library works or, admittedly, how SIMD works in detail at all. So eg I'm not sure what that 8 is doing there in the type parameters, details like that. Maybe this isn't a Rust thing but a SIMD thing, btw, I don't know much Rust but I also never wrote any SIMD code ever. I don't know how the article could be clearer, IMO once you go into the deep nitty gritty optimization stuff you just gotta assume the reader knows the tools you're using. I'm OK with dropping out halfway cause the core idea is there even before you squeeze out all the perf.
today I learned I really suck at Doom.
This highlights a problem with car dependency - cars tend to push out other modes of travel until the only way to travel is via cars.
Some impressive results

> 1.58-bit FLUX achieves a 7.7× reduction in model storage and more than a 5.1× reduction in inference memory usage
They go on to teach at John Jay College?
frankly i’m not sure what standard you would possibly consider a debunking

codeforces constantly adds new problems that’s like the entire point of the contest, no?
Ah yes, I did consider sorting the queries at some point but I guess I then forgot about it again. If the queries are random and much less than the input size, probably most queries will hit different cache lines in the final layer, and I suspect benefits will be limited at maybe 2x best case since the last layer is where the bottleneck is.

Also (radix) sorting is very memory bound usually, and we probably need to sort in at 16^2=256 buckets or so to get sufficient reusing of the higher layers, but I don't have the numbers of what a round of radix sort takes. (My guess is order 1ns per query? Maybe I'll find time to investigate and add it to the post.)
Fantastic Tool ... Mac version is paramount
I think that lamentations about real world data running out is misplaced. We can multiply data with slight variations which might lead to better resilience and more accurate model's responses for novel problems.
Can't move or shoot on my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard.
Thank you, this is helpful. The post on X was seemingly wrong.
Same issue, would prefer the option to use any browser also. Chrome is not my cup of tea
Who will pay the bills when Google is forced to end that search contracts?
Largest Computer Science Subreddit Bans Discussion on H-1B Debate
It may not have amounted to a desire to save communism itself, but there was enough opposition to the "shock therapy" liberalization being imposed after its fall that Yeltsin had to shell parliament at the U.S.'s behest in 1993. We got what we wanted, and the Russians got 10 years of kleptocratic asset stripping whose consequences led directly to Putin.
Is Nial Ferguson really your idea of a troublesome dissident?
Fair point, but I wonder how much that event led to international support that mightve been well intentioned but also with potential issues, thinking more in the context of the Green Revolution (Norman borlaug documentary https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/man-who-tr... ) and critiques of it ( see 'The Globalization of Wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/ )
a. That depends on the suburb. One can live well enough in some close-in suburbs without using a car, at least without using it much.

b. The prison aspect does offer a degree of parental control, until the offspring are old enough to drive.
made same comment recently in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330055#42331927
How long emptied, exactly?
Bash’s default prompt ends with a $ when it’s not running as root.
Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget
There are tests they are passing that they can't be hardcoded for by design. They still have all kinds of flaws and inconsistency but getting upset they answer "2+2=4" because someone trained them on what the answer to 2+2 is supposed to be is silly.
> New Glenn will be flying at least half a dozen missions carrying payloads throughout 2025

12 missions is their upper limit of capacity, so it’s “at most 12”.

https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1835610703174255074?mx=2
My best books of 2024:

* Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins. Now that I'm into physics I had a hunch that I would now also appreciate chemistry. This book delivered.

* Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Gail Montero. I recall it just being a really well-written overview of an interesting field.

* Systemantics by John Gall. Very entertaining musings on why systems fail.

* Hard-Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami. Read this while in Japan. A very strange and interesting noir detective story.

* All Systems Red by Martha Wells. <3 Murderbot <3

* Desert Oracle Volume 1 by Ken Layne. American southwest folklore. Read it while in Joshua Tree.

* There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Biggest brainfuck I've read in a long time, probably ever.

* Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality by Frank Wilczek. Physics musings from a Nobel winner.
It’s nontrivial why it’s mc^2 and not 1/2 mc^2, since kinetic energy generally is 1/2 mv^2
Impressive, if just to reduce pollution from cigarette butts.

And even more impressive if it is executed:
> In November, a proposal in Britain to phase out smoking by young people passed its first parliamentary hurdle […]

> The bill would prevent anyone born after 1 January 2009 from legally smoking by gradually raising the age at which tobacco can be bought.
Meanwhile half the internet and some comments here are "what is he being charged for? He did nothing".
e=mc^2 is only correct for objects at rest. The full equation takes into account velocity, but for "low" speeds where v<<c, the term is close enough to zero than E=mc^2 is still a good approximation.
But that was too late by then. Soviet Union was done. The goal has been achieved. No one really cared about what happened to Russia after (and in a hindsight, it was a mistake - process of breaking it down into pieces, each having it's own version of history and hating each other, should have continued until what remained was safe). But of course, hindsight is always 20/20.
Show HN: Typing Analyst – Constantly shows typing speed and accuracy on macOS
Hey everyone! As a New Year holiday project, I built out a MacOS tool that constantly measures typing speed and accuracy in the background and displays it on the status bar.

I always used to wonder if my real-life typing speed is similar to how I perform during typing tests on typeracer etc. I looked for tools like this, but could not find anything out there.
So, I gave myself a gift this new year by actually creating this app (it only took 2 days - thanks to AI and no thanks to Apple’s poor developer documentation).

It would be great if you could try it out and let me know what you think.
How many school shootings occurred prior to the gun control act of 1968? Guns were even easier to acquire before that point.
> PRNG Stream - Fills the device with a stream from the PRNG.

How are you going to explain to the TSA officer that the disk does not contain encrypted data?
Adding "(1999)" to the title might be appropriate.
This is an open-source project. Link to the source code: https://github.com/avikalpg/typing-analyst
> What can you learn from something parroting data we already have?

You can learn that a neural network with a simple learning algorithm can become proficient at language. This is counter to what people believed for many years. Those who worked on neural networks during that time were ridiculed. Now we have a working language software object based on learning, while the formal rules required to generate language are nowhere to be seen. This isn’t just a question of what will lead to AGI, it’s a question of understanding how the human brain likely works, which has always been the goal of people pioneering these approaches.
It would be nice if we had an example of a communist state which came into existence and was not immediately beset by foreign intelligence agencies, influence campaigns, and actual military invasions attempting to depose it. We've seen how capitalist regimes behave under such conditions and it's no better.
>>“Seattle has a solid bus system but everyone who can afford a car has a car."

The "solid" descriptor is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. While IDK specifically about the Seattle system, experience with other systems (Boston, NYC) shows that "good enough" often isn't.

If the system is not reliably on time, as in 99%+, its value degrades exponentially. When people rely on public transport to get to work, and they have consequences for being late even a couple times per year, if it isn't 100% reliable, they MUST take the earlier bus/train/trolley, and thereby waste every day the interval between rides. Same if it is overcrowded and they cannot reliably get on the ride.

Sure, similar 'leave early due to traffic' considerations are also rampant for automobile transport, but it is much more in your own control. Leaving 2min late in a car will rarely make you 35min late because you missed that train. Same for staying late at work. If you need an extra 10min, commuting by car you'll probably get home 9min later (evening rush-hour clearing a bit), but with the train, that 10min will reliably cost you 50min. And if you can't rely on the trains running on time it might be even worse.

If the people running public transport really want to substantially increase ridership and decrease auto traffic, they MUST upgrade their standards from "good enough for government work" to much closer to Swiss trains, where I could reliably watch the train start motion in the exact second the second hand ticked past the minute of scheduled departure.

While a 'good enough' system is better than none and will always have some ridership, it is not enough better to make the difference that is needed for full utilization.
>Making core Firefox better is not going to generate revenue

Only because Google decide to pay more for less. Despite Firefox losing marketing share and users.
This only helps with the framing and cladding. You still need all the labor for interior finishings, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, foundation, and site prep. That’s 80%+ of the cost. Assuming the 3D printed walls are even cheaper than wood frame, which is doubtful.
Rome Alone (2012)
Haha, as I read your comment I was thinking “yeah, like back in CT.” I saw this done in ridgefield as well. My friends property was basically all bedrock about 1’ under the topsoil.
Yea, people have a really hard time dealing with data leakage especially on data sets as large as LLMs need.

Basically if something appeared online or was transmitted over the wire should no longer be eligible to evaluate on. D. Sculley had a great talk at NeurIPS 2024 (same conference this paper was in) titled Empirical Rigor at Scale – or, How Not to Fool Yourself

Basically no one knows how to properly evaluate LLMs.
Elon Musk is on a collision course with Stephen Miller
My wifes particular area of research is using the capitalist system to "re build" broken slave family trees, she flys around the US going to archives and getting contracts and receipts for slaves, figures out how they got traded, and then figures out where they ended up, and then "re links" them to their their family to best of her ability. Although her area of research isn't particularly overflowing with researchers, there are still a lot of people like her who just have this very tacit knowledge among each other, they email around a lot and stuff, knowledge like who was running a region during a period, ofc they publish, but it's a small field and it's all extremely poorly documented. Was watching the Adam Brown interview with Dwarkesh Patel the other day and he said for his work LLMs are better than bothering an expert in an area of his field with a question, I'm not sure people in her field are able to do this as readily. Franky, I've yet to find a novel/or good use for an LLM in her work. I often joke that her and "her people" are going to be the last ones with jobs if they don't transfer their knowledge into LLMs, ha! :)
Consider reading critiques of the Green Revolution, such as 'The Globalization of Wheat' https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947349/
I know little about this... but small amounts could still pose an issue. See: mules, Pseudoephedrine
Putnam problems need to actually be graded, often the answer itself is trivial.
Death's End, the third book in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.

The book has so many great concepts and touches upon many of the fundamental questions of life itself. I fully recommend it if you’re into space sci fi.
It is extremely lame to reply to your own comment to grouse about downvotes.
They are not only simple renames. LLM is good at those. They are minor structural changes.
> they don't want to be simply compute providers

I'm still surprised they did not create an App Store for AI. Basically lock everything down and make developers pay a % of their revenue, Apple style.
My wife's grandfather had to endure the horrors of a soviet gulag and came back almost starved to death. A 1.9m tall man who weighed less than 50kg.

And then revisionists like you come along and start questioning things because you in person haven't seen it. Well, I guess lucky you.
For context, this drone was reversed back in 2018 as part of my bachelor thesis. At the time, the SDK hadn’t been released yet I believe, so reversing was the only available option. Recently, I revisited this work and decided to include it on my new hardware hacking wiki - HardBreak.
>People criticise Mozilla a lot for even trying,...Such as a mobile OS, "read later" app, LLM service which they could embed in Firefox?

But which of those did generate extra revenue? And mobile Os and LLM also happen to be CapEx intensive.
Does anyone else wonder about this?
I often think about this one thing: Nobody knows what the hell is going on.

We randomly spawn on a giant rock that we call earth and float through what we call space.

Everyone just pretends that that's somehow completely normal and lives their lives ignoring the apparently infinite sky right above their heads. Everyone gets lost (and probably should get lost) in daily life, never thinking about how crazy it is that you somehow have two hands and walk on meat sticks we call legs. To me, this is just strange.

Nobody I have talked to about this seems to be able to relate to this view, which is also very strange to me.

So my question is: does anyone else wonder about this?
Absolutely! I'm sure some couples are both readers, still not sure I'd have the time though.
Curtis Yarvin, IIRC in that same avatar of Moldbug, has actively advocated for the morality of slavery. There is no point in reasoning with that, there is literally only war.

Which is kind of a shame, because the top-level article does have some interesting ideas. I hope the author is just young and undiscerning and doesn't actually support the kind of things Yarvin stands for. But also, being a monster doesn't stop anyone from having the occasional interesting idea, so who knows.
I didn't downvote it, but short comments are a very big risk. People may misinterpret it, or think it's crackpot theory or a joke and then downvote.

When in doubt, add more info, like:

But the complete equation is E=sqrt(m^2c^4+p^2) that is reduced to E=mc^2 when the momentum p is 0. More info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc...
Cars are robots without arms
Yeah I miss those days, now they go to bed after I do. :)
I feel this faster than the average "click on all pictures of x".
i think it’s mostly that o1 mini can think through the solution before it starts writing the poem.

i’m able to reproduce your failure on 4o
Everyone is picking on Apple on this, but they're not my biggest problem about non-standard chargers.

- Xbox Series X: Controller charging cable's Xbox side is Type-A. In fact, no Type-C on Xbox AFAIR

- All my travel phones (cheap, non-android), -including 2 Nokias- chargers are USB Mini

- My headphones: Type A

- JBL portable speakers: Type mini
Right, renaming a variable should have zero effect on ability to solve (it wouldn’t for a human). Changing a constant should be very minor, probably also ~0 effect in most cases. I say this as someone that’s done many of these problems.
A lot of what people think of as "technology" is actually this knowledge. Your friend has lots of experience. There's people they know and trust to do certain tasks. Those people know other people who know how to solve this or that problem. They know their gear and are constantly experimenting with new gear and getting to know it.

You could gather all the "technology", all the equipment, all the cables and boxes and speakers and ropes and everything else, and hand it off to a smart, motivated young crew of complete newbies, and the "techology" wouldn't work. The show would not make it, and it's possible people would even get badly hurt or killed trying.

This is the real catastrophe when a team gets nuked and the jobs sent somewhere else, anywhere else, doesn't even matter. You can transfer the code, you can transfer the infrastructure, but you can't transfer the lived experience. Our so-called elite managers understand that this is why they can't be replaced but lack the courtesy to extend that understanding to the people who work for them, that everyone everywhere who does anything non-trivial ends up building these same networks of lived experience that are the real ability to achieve.

Putting on a show isn't about knowing that steel is made of carbon-infused iron; it's all the networks of lived experience that have developed to the level that they can achieve something like a major stadium show, safely.
That's kind hard to pin down. Khrushchev did mass amnesty to clear them; Brezhnev went right back to mass imprisonments; Gorbachev loosened things up.

Again, Navalny died in one of the more notorious Gulag sites; it never completely went away.
Rethinking Time-Series Data Storage for Observability