skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was pretty neat seeing this because a recent paper found that AI models are bad historians: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-isnt-very-good-at-histo...

But the gist of its argument just seems to be that they don't know fine details of history, and make the same generalized assumptions that humans would make with only a cursory knowledge of a particular topic. This seems unavoidable for a model that compresses a broad swath of human knowledge down to a couple hundred gigabytes.

Using AI as a research tool instead of a fact database is of course a whole different thing.
The assertion here is that there is a negative correlation between knowledge of AI and enjoyment of AI. For both iPads and Strawberries, I expect you would not like them less were you to learn more about them.
As the federal government expands the stakes get ever higher. What could be overlooked before now becomes fierce debate.
Concat to a file but it helps to make an ascii tree at the top and then for each merged file out its path and orientation details. I’ve also started playing with adding line ranges to the ascii tree hoping that the LLMs (more specifically the agentic ones) start getting smart enough to jump to the relevant section.
"Your screen resolution’s as confused as your career path after reading one too many "YC applications open" posts."

We need a comedy benchmark now
Homemade Silicon Chips [video]
I have seen several videos on this but seeing an actual demo on a homemade setup really helps understanding how it is actually done
Yeah, the phrase they were looking for is "largest on record", or more precisely "largest in the CDC's records".

"Recorded history" has a very specific definition that places it in contrast with "prehistory": it's the time period in which we have written records of any sort, as opposed to the time period in which there is no surviving writing. That both phrases have "record" in them doesn't make them synonymous.
That’s one reason the BCG vaccine isn’t given in the US, but it’s also because the data on whether it’s effective in adults is really inconsistent. It seems to vary based on geography (maybe distance from the equator? they’re not sure). If we were going to administer it routinely, it would be for infants, where the data is better.
So is it still art if a photographer is driving the car with a dash cam and they drive it with the intention of capturing great images, and then goes over all the captured frames to find the best ones?

I would say yes, this dash cam technique can be an artistic method. Reminds me of Jon Rafman's wonderful Nine Eyes project - he captures screenshots from Google Streetview, see
https://9-eyes.com
In a democracy anyone wo doesn't vote should be considered to have voted for the winner as they were equally OK with any outcome.
One thing I'd love if models would get to help me confirm a thing or find the source od soemthing I have a vague memory of and which may be right or wrong, I just don't know.

E.g. I have this recollection of a quote, slightly pithy, from around the 19 hundreds about hobby clubs controlling social life, maybe from Mark twain, maybe not.

I just cannot come up with the prompt that gets me the answer, instead I just get hallucination after hallucination, just confirming whatever I put in, like a student who didn't study for the test and is just going along with what the professor is asking at the oral exam.
This is a harsh foot-gun that seems to harm many ollama users.

That 2k default is extremely low, and ollama *silently* discards the leading context. So users have no idea that most of their data hasn’t been provided to the model.

I’ve had to add docs [0] to aider about this, and aider overrides the default to at least 8k tokens.
I’d like to do more, but unilaterally raising the context window size has performance implications for users.

Edit: Ok, aider now gives ollama users a clear warning when their chat context exceeds their ollama context window [1].

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/llms/ollama.html#setting-the-context...

[1] https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/bas...
I saw someone use this to track his mail state. They have a contact sensor inside their mailbox that rotates the broadcasted key based on the trigger count.

If the key changed, aka a new different device is visible, you know mail has been dropped in, very clever !
It's hard to do technology when your staff and customers have TB.
Those are definitely not the limiting factors here.

Not nearly all data centers are water cooled, and there is this amazing technology that can convert sunlight into electricity in a relatively straightforward way.

AI workloads (at least training) are just about as geographically distributeable as it gets due to not being very latency-sensitive, and even if you can't obtain sufficient grid interconnection or buffer storage, you can always leave them idle at night.
No, it means that over a third of people DGAF. They neither do want it nor don't want it.

(It's like NULL values in SQL, only much worse because it's in real life.)
I use yek

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek
It has a fixed polynomial, so not really that useful for anything but AES

The only case where I've had use of GF(2^8) inverses is in FEC algorithms (Forney's algorithm) and then you need some kind of weird polynomial. But all of those needs are rarely in the hot-path, and the FEC algo's are way outdated
Who exactly would stop them?
Let's not pretend that they want to have all the benefits of having those part-time drivers without any of the responsibilities.

I don't expect them all to be converted to FTEs. But this unavailability BS is just that, BS.

"You are unable to log in because we have enough drivers to meet anticipated demand." Simple. Not log in, and then do a job or two then "oops, you've been randomly selected to be unable to earn money for the next hour".
It's not airgapped if it has bluetooth access.
Mark Gurman (from Bloomberg) is saying that.
I end up using $CDPATH a lot for initial movement. While it's probably not as comprehensive as this, I find it and something like zoxide can cover a lot of ground.
> all the helpdesk employees

They should just tell people to use Google's Chrome remote desktop.
I don't have anything unique to say, but I love when this project comes up on HN. The project exemplifies what a patient and loving hand can do.
At the very least, some went to unemployment benefits, I’d expect.
> The problem is when a model returns a premade answer that the developers put there

Sure, and do you have any examples of that happening with Western models?
From the linked UNMC article;

> The outbreak involved 13 people across four households in Kansas City and spanned 1 year. While a majority of the seven adults identified were born outside the U.S. in a country that had experienced a multidrug-resistant TB outbreak with the same genotype in 2007-2009, most of the six children were U.S.-born, noted Elizabeth Groenweghe, MPH, of the Unified Government Public Health Department in Kansas City, and colleagues in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

So it's either been a latent infection in someone in the first household or they traveled to their home country and brought it back, or something.. it's likely the local health department knows the exact lineage and route it took but they avoid publishing the full details for obvious reasons in this climate.
>Using an analogy: If I believe that society sees those with tan skin as being more valuable and successful, and I spray tan in order to match that appearance, then I am delusional? (Regardless of whether I sincerely believe my spray tan is believable or not)

If you sprayed your skin purple and think it is tan, that is delusional. If you didn't spray your skin at all and now magically believe it is now tan, that is delusional. If you believe your fake tan is natural, that is delusional.

>I mean, you specifically pointed towards the "left" in particular, multiple times... Whatever.

And? That's not the claim you made earlier.

>We're talking about observing someone that's claiming to be persecuted...

Yes, we can observe delusional people.
Agreed, zsh autocompletions are noticeably worse than fish and is precisely why when I switched to fish it was over
There are two categories of family photos:

1) Photos you look at when the subjects are still alive

2) Photos that you remember people by and cherish people for

1 = are all the typical family group pics, lots of posing

2 = the photos where the subjects may not even know that they are being photographed, while doing the things they are cherished for by others. Sometimes they might not even like the presented actvities, but everyone else around them appreciates it .

- Photos of people repairing their family's gadgets
- Photos of people doing mundane tasks, ironing their clothes, cooking dinner for everyone, being exhausted, reading to others...

- This is what prevails while people are still alive who remember you. What you will be remembered by. Mostly what you did for other people and how people observed you.

Take photos of your parents and loved relatives during daily life and their tasks. You will be far more moved and inspired by these pics, than by typical family group photos.
> Basically, just write the software as if it's the year your target platform was released. It shouldn't be more difficult than writing any software was back then. Heck, it may even be easier because you have access to more modern tools, like AI.

I used Claude heavily for this project. I doubt I would've put the time in to get this to an acceptable release state without being able to use Claude. I did buy a few old books and reference them for Xcode things, but most was done with Claude.
But not the training data
how have you been able to use it at festivals? I tried it once and maybe the default settings are terrible but no communication could be achieved. There were dozens of other nodes that it found in a tight space and I think the entire network was saturated with pings/messages that I couldn't get mine to work. Are there settings to change that get around network saturation issues?
As Phillip Kotler says marketing is cosmetic cheating AI marketing wants all not to know the intricacies and risks by analysing it.They want to celebrate what we get.Sounds like bounded rationalities canvassed by marketing cheaters.
Those rules are established by the states, but in general, they are not. A spoiled ballot is equivalent to no vote.

The states do track undercount votes, But they don't mean anything in terms of the law that decides representation.
X could do seveal different screens I did have this working once. However then moving an application to a different display was impossible (an app could do it but it was a lot of work so nobody bothered). I few cad programs supported two streens but they were seperate and the two didn't meet.

Most people want to drag windown between screens and sometimes even split down the middle. One large display supports that much easier so that is what everyone switched to in the late 1990
> These insights pose a challenge for policymakers and educators. Efforts to boost AI literacy might unintentionally dampen people’s enthusiasm for using AI by making it seem less magical. This creates a tricky balance between helping people understand AI and keeping them open to its adoption. To make the most of AI’s potential, businesses, educators and policymakers need to strike this balance.

Why would we avoid educating people, in order to keep them willing to use AI? Why is getting people to use AI seen as a good in itself? Did AI write this article? (Don’t answer that.)
In this demo I load the KoviD Rootkit onto the operating system when exploiting a Linux RCE vulnerability. Full writeup coming soon!
I don't know if something has changed since then, but in 2023 the author did quit their job to start working on the search engine full time [0]. So yes, it's a passion project, but it's also not just a side project.

[0] https://www.marginalia.nu/log/83_full_time/
Romney 2012 types are obviously not the marginal Democratic voter.
The paper referenced is behind a paywall. This article is really hard to understand because the paper it is reporting on uses "AI literacy" as the determinant of "openness to AI". I'm very curious about what they mean by "AI literacy".
I never came across Auto-Xbins, but it's good to know it existed. Hopefully it got a lot of use over the years.
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There is no difference between cloudformation, clicking, terraform, boto, awscli, pulumi, or whatever else. The platform at the other end of those tools is still ECS.

Backing up databases isn't the job of the container-running platform (ECS), especially not in AWS-world where databases are managed with RDS.

The rest of the questions were "how do I run containers on ecs?" in various forms. The answers to all of them is "by asking ecs to run containers in various forms."
XLOOKUP, XMATCH, dynamic arrays and related functions. There are also new regex functions, but it seems that those didn’t make the cut for Excel 2024, unfortunately. I had situations in the past where lambdas would have been handy.
Llama2.c (early alpha) on Sharp X68030
There have probably been things written about it in more technical detail, but the chinese firewall became an issue in world of warcraft, when players discovered the packet sniffing and used addons to take out chinese players and guilds by dropping malicious keywords into packets (wow addons also have the additional problem of having way too much machine access). Honestly, I take no political position here at all, because I think most countries are engaging in some sort of form of this behavior - but in the case of WoW, it basically forced chinese players who were becoming quite competitive out of the game entirely. I felt really bad for them. How do you even mitigate issues like that in a global internet? I have no clue. I’m sure scrapers of all sorts of countries are tripping up over all sorts of censorship stuff, which is why, I think a tightly protocoled isolated section of the web would likely be a good thing to have as a safety raft.
Not the current elected representatives for sure
Chinese companies are working euv litho, its coming.
Man, do I love myself a deep, well-researched long-form contrarian analysis published as a tangent of an already niche blog on a Sunday evening! The old web isn't dead yet :)
Are you sure you're in the index?

https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...
>As Phillip Kotler says marketing is cosmetic cheating AI marketing wants all not to know the intricacies and risks by analysing it.They want to celebrate what we get.Sounds like bounded rationalities canvassed by marketing cheaters.

Your comment is incomprehensible. Please use commas.
In most states the electoral college representatives are not meaningfully bound to the vote as popularly voted. It is more of a cast for a suggestion, and they have on many occasions voted a different way in the college which is the real vote for president.
How fun do you think the ipad factories and strawberry fields are to work in? How many pesticides are on the strawberries? How many people in Africa get killed so some warlord can run the cobalt mines.
the profit motive
For sure. What I meant to articulate was that the admin is the only one it makes sense to point to. Saying "the electorate is stupid!" has no utility other than catharsis, though.
Standing up for neo-nazi opinions is in no way admirable. I don't think you mean to but these apologies normalize supremest ideologies.
This seems to be it: https://thearf-org-unified-admin.s3.amazonaws.com/MSI_Report...
Is there public reporting for actions taken by the current American Presidential Presidency?

It would be useful and highly informative to be able to visit a single page to see daily/quarterly/bi-annual/annual diffs of which efforts habe received signoff.
Cancelled my subscription immediately - went back to my lifetime 2021 edition. Haven’t noticed anything different.
That’s pretty much what I was looking for in clicking on the article, by what logic or rationale they made that statement.
My point is that you have to make the case for anything being over/undervalued. The null hypothesis is that the market has correctly valued it, after all.
> owns several Senators

This is the regulations I'm talking about.

> just go "start a frozen potato company"

No thanks, I bet the regulatory burden is absurd
Presumably you stick the bluetooth antenna in the physical keylogger.
Would you be willing to pay 50% more for tix per flight? I think that’s the issue. And airlines have realized that, no: By-and-large people prefer low price over saving a few hours.
ArgoCD has a "New App" button that opens an actual web form you fill out.
Do all sites manually submit themselves via PR? I'm happy to do it, never encountered this information previously.
>I feel like Microsoft's whole thing with Windows 11 has been "just force the users to do what we want them to do, we know better than they do"

My biggest gripe about Win11 is they stole from us the ability to move the task bar. It can ONLY be pinned to the bottom of the screen now. For the longest time, I was a top of the screen taskbar user. From what I've read, they have no plans to implement or change this "feature".
Or on the far end of the spectrum of literacy, we have serious techno optimists that understand the fullest potential of lifesaving research (alpha fold, etc)
Human slop is still written by humans, implying there was effort and labour. Not sure how to put it in words properly, just "the vibes" are different.
At least the one where they tried to demo some voice recognition and it went pear-shaped, must have been some twenty years ago.

PS: 2006 https://slashdot.org/story/06/07/29/1258212/vista-speech-rec...
They're a PaaS provider. Why the hell is that so hard to understand?
English economist William Stanley Jevons vs the author of the article.

Will NVIDIA be in trouble because of DSR1 ? Interpreting Jevon’s effect, if LLMs are “steam engines” and DSR1 brings 90% efficiency improvement for the same performance, more of it will be deployed. This is not considering the increase due to <think> tokens.

More NVIDIA GPUs will be sold to support growing use cases of more efficient LLMs.
Looking through the code, it looks like this uses your personal Apple Mail entitlements to pull the locations that get collected by devices on the FindMy network:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/blob/8d214aa5eb68...

I wonder if this were also possible by making an Apple developer account.
> This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The resurgence of TB has been the big story in infectious diseases for a while now.

Globally:

> The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. This represents a notable increase from 7.5 million reported in 2022, placing TB again as the leading infectious disease killer in 2023, surpassing COVID-19.

https://www.who.int/news/item/29-10-2024-tuberculosis-resurg...

As well as in the US:

> After declining for three decades, tuberculosis (TB) rates in the U.S. have been increasing steadily since 2020, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a disturbing trend given that 1.5 million die from TB every year, making it the world’s most infectious killer.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/us-tuberc...
It does suffer slightly from looking like it was developed in the 90s. The UI kit it uses by default looks very out of place on most modern platforms and despite their being other UIs available, most end users will look at the default and choose something else, likely office. They need to invest some time in modernising the human interface parts of the suite.
You have to releaseethings like this in parts because it needs too many external people to do things to make it useful. Managing those parts is something nobody has figured out and so people live you end up using it before it is ready for your use and then complaining.
I would also venture a guess that someone on hacker news who claims they know nothing about how an ipad or produce transport works isn't necessarily someone to pay close attention to.
Americans tend to like their own House representatives far more than they like Congress writ large.
> It's probably time we start looking a bit harder for "natural" or alternate treatments.

Is the idea that a different label would lead to higher compliance rates?
I think the AFFINE and AFFINEINV instructions are specifically for FEC and maybe compression algorithms. I also think they smell like something requested by one of the big customers of Intel (e.g. the government).
It can still provide seperate displays. The problem is you couldn't do something like drag a window from display 1 to 2°. IIRC it's also annoying to launch two instances of a program on both displays. The hacky merged framebuffer thing is a workaround to these problems. But you can have independent DPIs on each display.

° For most programs.
I heard a lot of good things about the DJI Osmo and their action camera. I have been reluctant as they require you to install an app to use their products?
Read the data. There are many more latent cases recorded, and current new cases are not all recorded as the tally lags people sick right now.

You keep quoting that part and ignoring the rest of the article and the live data sources linked to it. The text of the article likely wasn’t from yesterday, as the reporter likely went around a week or two, gathered quotes, interviews, then spent some time in editorial revisions.
Thanks Simon! I’m a big fan of your writing (and tools) so it means a lot coming from you.
Wait, was this prophecy from a decade ago ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo
Absolute best episode of TZ lmao, top-tier reference right here
> you get pissed off as a software engineer lol

I think this part depends on the person. I've personally been programming since I was a kid making games for my TI-83+, and in all that time and fatigue have been the limiting factors in how much of what I wanted to build that I actually could build.

So something able to write code rigorously enough to replace SWEs would be an absolute dream! I love programming with all my heart, and it's the thing I've spent most of my life doing... but I feel in love with it because it could make things.

A way to make even more things at a greater scale I'm individually capable off is such a joyous idea that if anything, I get annoyed at the idea they'd tease that without knowing it's possible (of course, they're trying to raise so...)

The aspect of wanting to replace SWEs is completely ok with me and I think there should be a rush to see it through. Imagine if every researcher could have an army of top tier SWEs at their beck and call for example. Or even imagine learning to program alongside a personal world-class expert from day 1, after all the fact AI could do it wouldn't mean we couldn't still do it ourselves if we wanted to.

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Unlike the "AGI in 3 years crowd" I don't actually know that it's possible, but where I agree with them is that the route there is probably not going to be a slow burn. Most companies need to demonstrate some external value along the way or they won't be able to continue, hence the chasing down of usecases that they can ship today.

Unfortunately not all of us can raise $1B on a txt file and a promise not to release our product :)