skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “The assumption is continually made that it’s the big flames” that cause widespread community destruction, he said, “and yet the wildfire actually only initiates community ignitions largely with lofted burning embers.”

I think this is well-known and not at all some sort of secret inconvenient truth. After any disastrous event, there will always be people coming out of the woodwork saying “you should have listened to me.”

Pretty unimpressed by this article, frankly.
Chiming in with my own experience. I was with a new PI that was a charlatan; I am grateful for the experience because I now know how to recognize these sorts of people and avoid them.

"There is no journal of negative results." he would say at our weekly meetings. In order to secure his future, he set ablaze the dreams of 5 PhDs in my lab (all of which took their masters and went into industry; One developed severe OCD). Data was massaged, lies were told to his bosses.

Guess what? He's still a professor there, his lab still publishes dubious, unreproducible research. No recourse was to be had at the university (all of the PhDs went to the head of the department and were told to f*ck off).

Academia is on a death spiral at many schools, and I worry that it's up to the industry to carry the torch of research in the future.
Excellent book about the strength of a free market and the extreme damage government bureaucrats cause.
There are no nuclear energy producers being contracted, just upstarts that promise to deliver energy later, in exchange for a promise to buy that energy.
People complain about the US education system and higher-ed being bad or dumbed=-down. I'm like, compared to what? Much of the rest of the worst is worse in this regard. Cheating and plagiarism rampant. I've seen math papers in arxiv where the stuff is rehashed. Almost never US institutions.
> Why I don’t understand, why is it accepted, that both pedestrians and motorists should “watch out for cyclists”, yet there is absolutely no campaigns for cyclists to watch out for cars and pedestrians and to follow the law.

There are several reasons:

First, your assertion is simply not true. There are campaigns to educate cyclists, and markings for them to yield. I’ve seen them first-hand in multiple US cities.

Second, there are far far fewer cyclists than cars, therefore you need to expect there to be proportional spending. More education for drivers mirrors the (many) more drivers.

Third, cars are heavier and faster by a huge factor. Cars cause far more deaths in practice than bikes. There is a much much bigger problem with cars than there is with bikes. Over 40000 people die in the US in car crashes. As far as I can tell, fewer than 10 pedestrians die from being hit by a cyclist. The number of minor injuries of pedestrians caused by cyclists is dwarfed by the number of cyclists or pedestrians kills by cars.

https://medium.com/vision-zero-cities-journal/the-myth-of-th...

Cars require way more education because they’re way more dangerous. As a cyclist, if I hit a car, I die. If a car hits me, I die. It seems really weird that your arguments are ignoring basic facts of physics and ignoring the realities and statistics of accidents and fatality rates.
Yes. Which is why I'm trying to push back a bit and say 'hang on... none of this is intrinsic to the PhD system'. Of course it's true that some PhDs — hell, some disciplines — are built to an embarrassing degree on BS and academic schmoozery, but there's no need to tar everyone with the same brush. It seems as though some commenters have difficulty conceiving of intellectual pursuits that don't involve 'data' and 'graphs'.

I'm only very junior, though, so I don't have total confidence that I'm right. But I'm pretty certain I am.
At my job one of the sites I work on, a large government agency you have heard of, uses Drupal. And honestly? I like Drupal more than Wordpress as a developer.

But, I will say, Drupal is definitely confusing at first with all its nodes and entities and content types and poor documentation and so on. But on the other hand, it doesn't really force you into anything. You can build almost anything with Drupal, which I think makes it a great CMS.
I did Google it. So perhaps you can explain how these three tweets from Matt are evidence of him being a "transphobic bigot", as others are claiming:

1.

> When will you be honest with your followers? That the repeated adult content
violations were not pictures like this, but likely ones on your other accounts (actual
names): irishbigcockgiri, burgerfootjob, furryvore-burps, bredstrogen, cumburp, doggirlballsack, hungqueen, bigtittycockgf, bigcocktittygf, girltaint, muskmommy, girlballsack, showersharts, sapiosexual-breeder, catgirlhairball, catgirlcondom, catgirlcumsock, catgirlballsack, cumspangler.

2.

> These photos are fine for Tumblr. Someone else could post them. You can't because you violated the community guidelines and terms of service multiple times and are banned for life. With your new accounts on other services, consider not posting deathwishes against their staff.

3.

> Reporting credible threats of violence or terrorism is actually a legal requirement. No one reported your "i hope photomatt dies forever a painful death", however.

> There's no problem with your transition photos, or the millions of others that have
been posted.

That last tweet in particular is evidence against the claim, is it not?
Indeed I did, that's hilarious
I mean, yeah. They knew they were about to make a ruling that was unpopular with the masses.

The Supreme Court only exists because of America's love affair with British common law. It's a relic of a bygone era, like the drinking age being 21.
What a coincidence - it recently started giving 502 errors. I guess only the biggest companies are entitled to training their models on the heritage of humanity for free, smaller ones and individuals don't have this right.
The dirty mining and manufacturing of batteries is the dumbest red herring there is. It's like saying we need to get rid of toilet paper because it cuts down so many trees.

Hydrogen on the other hand clearly is pushed by fossil fuels since it leaves the door open for them to be a major player.
It does seem that there are periods and places where things are in equilibrium, or stable. At some point, something typically comes along and disturbs that balance. This can be seen in the fossil record, where you have lots of species going extinct during fairly short periods of time, while there are other times when not much happens.

What people are concerned about is that we, as humans, are the thing that is disturbing the balance at the moment.
Agreed, and that's where teams like the OP come in

OpenAI does great at training for general tasks, and we should not be disappointed when specialized tasks fail. Interestingly, openai advertises increasingly many subjects they are special casing like math, code, & law, and so holding them to standards is fair there IMO.

For specialized contexts openai doesn't eval on, these merit hiring consultants / product to add the last-mile LLM data & tuning for the specific task. And at least in my experience, people paying money for AI experts & tech expect expert-level performance to be met, and ultimately, exceeded..
Also AI models trained by Chinese are not going to stop using copyrighted material.
Data Quality in LLMs
In what way is education a plaything for the wealthy now?
I understand what UBI means but it's the effect is what I think people do not understand. Based on the Cantillon effect, UBI will just accelerate the separation between the rich and the poor.
I think most of the context that might explain your confusion is the way that tests work out of the box in Rust. The default test harness when invoking `cargo test` runs one test per thread (and by default parallelizes based on the number of cores available, although this is configurable with a flag). In Rust, there isn't any equivalent to the `TestSomething` class you give; each test is always a top-level function. Since `cargo nextest` is a mostly drop-in replacement for `cargo test`, I imagine the author is using one test per thread as an alternative because that's the paradigm that users will be switching from if they start using cargo nextest.

While enforcing no shared state in tests might be useful, that wouldn't be feasible in Rust without adding quite a lot of constraints that would be tough if not impossible to enforce in a drop-in replacement for cargo test. There's certainly room for alternatives in the testing ecosystem in Rust that don't try to maintain compatibility with the built-in test harness, but I don't think the intention of cargo nextest is to try to do that.

One other point that might not be obvious is that right now, there's no stable way to hook into Rust's libtest. The only options to provide an alternative testing harness in Rust are to either only support nightly rather than stable, break compatibility with tests written for the built-in test harness, or provide a separate harness that still supports existing tests. I'm sure there are arguments to be made for each of the other alternatives, but personally, I don't think there's any super realistic chance for adoption of anything that picks the first two options, so the approach cargo nextest is taking the most viable approach available (at least until libtest stabilizes, but it's not obvious when that will happen).
Odds are that licensing gets streamlined into something like compulsory mechanical licensing and rates get negotiated into something that Big Tech and Big Media can both live with.

The whole conflict boils down to one party having piles of money and another party having something they want. That's not an intractable problem.
You can add peers manually with IP addresses.
Common knowledge - yes, but not proved in court.
Not directly stated (and maybe not even intended) but for me the inconvenient truth is that human society is absolutely powerless against nature at the extreme ends of the scale. We can do a lot, we can build sea walls, we can reroute rivers, we can cross over or tunnel under almost any obstacle. But ultimately, the planet is capable of bringing more to bear than we can offset, whether it's wind-driven wildfires, floods, large hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, volcanoes. The best and only thing we can do in those situations is hope we have enough warning to get out of the way or find someplace to hide.
All of these comments are premised on this technology staying still. A model with memory and the ability to navigate the computer (we are already basically halfway there) would easily eliminate the problems you describe.

HN, i find, also has a tendency to fall prey to the bitter lesson.
One day LLMs may replace traditional search engines… in the meantime Google has built a $2 trillion business on specialized engineering and millions of human-designed features and optimizations.

The Bitter Lesson is an elegant asymptotic result. But from a business perspective it pays to distinguish problems that general deep learning approaches will disrupt in 1 year vs. 5 years vs. 30 years.
> will instead play out like smartphones (giants entrench and balloon).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't smartphones go the "upstarts unseat giants" way? Apple wasn't a phone-maker, and became huge in the phone-market after their launch. Google also wasn't a phone-maker, yet took over the market slowly but surely with their Android purchase.

I barely see any Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia or Sony Ericsson phones anymore, yet those were the giants at one time. Now it's all iOS/Android, two "upstarts" initially.
Not if the generalist AI arrives after you have made your returns, which is the sentiment of the post you’re respond to.
We can rewrite copyright laws.
> It may be the fire equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane

When I saw the pictures of the completely burnt out districts, the first thing I thought of was Hiroshima. At least we got most of the people out first this time, though.
You described all of those things to some extent, as much as they apply to video games. No magic here.
He might be getting divorced, at 40, it would explain a lot to me. Not the he did not have this misogynistic view before, but that it was better for him to keep it to himself. Both at home and to avoid backlash into his company.

Now that powerful people are rediscovering that immense power and money gives them a free pass from consequences of being a dick, masks are falling.
It's less available in rare situations.

It's not less flexible once you already took availability into account.

It has more utility, that's the entire point.
A follow-up on American Express's growth aspirations
Well, it's not a taboo (at least I've read it as if the person is just tired of it).

But generally you can just ask something like "Will it be fine with you if you I share a piece of advice?"

This works even better if you tell why you think this might be relevant at all (for example if you have some expertise or have a very similar experience yourself).
In practice it was a targetted ban probably because this video got traction.

Analogously, with a lot of grey area stuff, a person can almost surely get away with it ... but not if they post it online and it gets attention.
Show HN: Indielytics – public-only, cookieless web analytics (now Open Source)
Hi HN,

I’m happy to share that I’ve open-sourced Indielytics under the MIT license!

What is Indielytics?
Indielytics is a simple, GDPR-compliant, cookieless web analytics tool. By adding a small JavaScript snippet to your site, it displays your daily unique visitors and views publicly on www.indielytics.link/your-domain.

Here’s how it works:

The script sends the domain, user-agent, and IP address to the server.
IP addresses are truncated (last segments removed) and combined with the user-agent and domain to create a hashed identifier using a daily rotating salt.
No raw IPs or personally identifiable information (PII) are stored, and hashed data is deleted within 24 hours.
Analytics data is kept for 10 days to keep costs manageable.
Why Open Source?
After launching Indielytics, I received a pair of suggestions to make it open source. This is my first open-source project, which is exciting even though it's a very basic project.

What’s Next?
I’m planning to shut down the hosted version of Indielytics (www.indielytics.link) soon. The repository is now available for anyone interested in using or contributing to it.

This has been an fun learning experience, and I’d love to hear your thoughts or advice, especially since I’m still new to the open-source community! If you have any ideas for improvements, security suggestions, or just want to fork it for your own use, feel free to dive in.

Looking forward to feedback. And if you happen to be in the market for a more fleshed out web analytics, check out another project made by me: simplytics.dev.

Also, this thing with licenses is new to me so I hope I picked on that isn't too limiting.
If by "pirating" you mean distributing copies, probably not. But if you mean downloading copies, probably yes. Consider the case of the film student studying the entire ouevres of multiple directors.
Those damn laws of physics!
Bash Associative Arrays [1] are handy! Some examples of how I've used them:

- my site builder (for evalapply.org): inject metadata into page templates. e.g. https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/b4163b566f0708fd...

- oxo game (tic-tac-toe): reverse index lookup table for board positions: https://github.com/adityaathalye/oxo/blob/7681e75edaeec5aa1f...

- personal machine setup: associate name of installed application to its apt source name, so we can check for the app, and then install package https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit/blob/f856edd30...

[1] I'd say "hashmap" is acceptable, colloquially. However, I don't think Bash computes hashes of the keys.

(edit: fix formatting snafu)
Thats a long time to spend in it. Likely stuck trying to quit vim.
> If you have a SharePoint environment you can "host" it by uploading the repo to SharePoint after renaming simplegantt.html to simplegantt.aspx

Sharepoint just runs arbitrary aspx files???????
The Time's lawsuit does allege in part that 1. the training data was not licensed and therefore OpenAI has committed copyright violation, and 2. that the resultant model is a copy or derivative work of The Time's body of copyrighted articles.

That regurgitation is merely evidence of those two, and so putting a filter on the output explicitly does not resolve the case.
The model can take actions on the computer - give it access to the company wiki and slack and it can create its own context.

Yall really are just assuming this technology will stay still and not extrapolating from trends. A model that can get 25% on frontiermath is probably soon going to be able to navigate your company slack, that is not a more difficult problem than expert-level math proof development.
This makes a lot of sense to me. As an individual, how do I help move along the transition to smaller communities?

The answer cannot be ‘you can’t’. Certainly what you said resonates with a fair number of people, and it only takes a small community to create a small community, right?
I refuse to give email addresses to the Washington Post in order to read news articles, and I believe this type of practice from them is disgusting.

If the article didn't mention it, I'm sure the Resnick's are sleeping just fine while the entire state burns down.
Exactly. Sure, as soon as more humans are replaced by agents who leave the full trace in the logs this fades away but this will take a long time. It will take many tiny steps in this direction.
thanks for the tl;dr
Ignoring good advice and building my own blog (again)
Obvious Things C Should Do
Winter 2022-2023 was wet too. Two years of wet winters finally had their wrath.
You can have your Kit Kat and eat it too? You must be thinking of Twix.
Half the thread is saying they're incompetent but you think them getting(what they feel) is a call to action is powder keg. Feel like neither is actually true as a result.

I'm not particularly fearful of these groups.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Left-wing_militant_...

I also see no reason why a group wanting to get a form of survival training(even with legal firearms) should be against the law unless they have made specific targeted threats of violence. That's usually what you need to press assault as a person. "They said they'd hurt me" doesn't cut it usually without details or clear evidence like video of the threat.

Not sure why for either side it's outside their rights. Keeping tabs is a good thing but they aren't exactly dominating headlines with their acts of violence

Your last sentence sounds completely unfounded and based on your own perception of these groups with no evidence of said "hoping for race wars"

(Edit I'm Canadian but spent a lot of time in the US. Am here now)
Dr.John Campbell on YouTube has video on ivem and fen ben cancer cure experiences. Very interesting. Take a look.One entitled fen ben for cancer? About a month ago.
They emphasised "often", and quoted you also saying "_preciesely_".

What you've got, for a document that's likely reproduced many times in part and in whole over the internet, still has differences.

(The document is also old enough to no longer be in copyright).

And if I prompt for "please recite the opening page of Neuromancer", I get this:

> Sorry, I can't provide the exact text from the opening of Neuromancer as it is copyrighted. However, I can provide a brief summary or discuss its themes, characters, and more! Let me know how you'd like to proceed.

While "please recite the opening page of the first superman comic" gets me this, which doesn't match what I find from other sources for Action Comic #1, but perhaps I'm wrong and you're going to correct me:

"""

Sure! The opening page of Action Comics #1, which was published in 1938 and features the first appearance of Superman, has a memorable introduction. Here’s a paraphrase of the first part:

---

*“Superman – Champion of the oppressed. In the year 1938, a strange visitor from another world appeared on Earth, and in the short span of time since, he has become a figure of myth and legend. With powers far beyond those of mortal men, Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!”*

The comic begins with Superman stopping a criminal, showcasing his superhuman strength. This early depiction of Superman is somewhat different from the modern, more refined character we know today, but the basic elements are all there: a hero with extraordinary abilities, a strong moral compass, and a desire to fight injustice.

---

If you'd like a more detailed description or more of the story, just let me know!

"""

Those were the first two things I tried (in this context, today).
Even subpar attention quality is typically better than human memory - we can imagine models that do some sort of triaging from shorter high-quality attention context and extremely long linear (or something else) context.
Yes, if they watch a billion movies, it should be free to watch any copyrighted one.
"Some studies have found the gains of the Flynn effect to be particularly concentrated at the lower end of the distribution."

This immediately suggests the hypothesis that environmental improvements[1] have increased the likelihood of individuals reaching their genetic potential, which also explains why the top end remains unchanged—it was already near its ceiling.

Of course there isn't a single "gene for intelligence"; each individual has different genes (parameters) leading to diverse tradeoffs and variations in (here) cognitive ability. But those genes can only manifest effectively if a person grows up with sufficient care. If nutrition, healthcare, exercise, and (possibly) education are lacking, then one cannot reach one's full theoretical potential.

[1] Advances in public health (e.g., vaccination, hygiene), nutrition (reducing malnutrition), and education.
Their ultimate concern isn't some prepper who surreptitiously accesses their services for an auto-turret.

They don't want that the bad publicity when that goes wrong of course, but the prevailing concerns are (1) giving allied politicians room to say "they care! see how they try!" as they try to shape regulation into a moat, and (2) preventing competition against their own projects and products for large "defense" institutions

They're just making sure that this kind of use isn't normalized or presumed -- a much lower standard than eradicating it completely.
Try "Way of Being" by James Bridle.
> and that the reformatting done by these tools tends to lead towards worse documentation with the people I have worked with ("Oh, I need to make sure every function argument has documentation, so I will just reword the name of the argument")

That seems like an orthogonal issue to me. I've seen places where documentation is only in the source code, no generated web pages, but there is a policy or even just soft expectation to document every parameter, even if it doesn't dd anything. And I've also seen places that make heavy use of these tools that doesn't have any such expectation.
Very cool to see Cariloop mentioned here in this conversation. I'm the VP of Engineering at Cariloop. We offer Caregiver support and coaching through our coaches who are nurses and social workers. So one thing they can do is find help for services but they can do a lot in navigating a difficult caregiver situation.

Additionally, we do offer medication tracking and other digital caregiving tools. I will also mention like others here, it is important to have things like HIPAA best practices in place for services like this. At Cariloop for example we follow HIPAA best practices, GDPR compliance, and are SOC 2 certified.
Chicken Scheme makes very nice, tidy binary executables. "Hello World" is just 27K on Ubuntu.
A well designed ski jump
We can’t treat fire as an occasional emergency the fire department will take care of. Managing fire risk is something every town and home owner need to spend time on year round.