skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn’t a universe where insurance companies didn’t write the ACA under Obama. The lobbied to hell Congress and Senate write the laws, Obama pushes through the best we get from them.

The ACA as a single payer totally supportive law would maybe have passed back in the early 1800s when communists headed West.
This whole issue seems frivolous. That she used a MacBook for this presentation doesn't mean she "can't be bothered to figure out how to run FreeBSD".

> I wonder why a woman like Kim McMahon was hired by the FreeBSD Foundation to begin with.

Her experience, listed in paragraph two, I'd assume is one factor.
It's fun to what people pretend that they are stupid. You know very well what they meant:

the people that will run the train cars regardless of the cargo.

You know, the standard, widely accepted definition of "the right people".
That's not quite correct. The California aqueduct is able to transport water from the delta down to LA by pumping it over the mountains.

This is only a technicality though because even though the system includes the largest pumps in the world, it's still relatively small compared to a natural waterway at full capacity and it's already running.
Great question. AWS secrets and Hashicorp Vault have both been audited by a plethora of agencies (and have passed). GitHub code for someone's pet project very likely isn't going to pass any of those audits. When something goes wrong in prod, are you going to point your copy of 'some JS code that someone put on the Internet' and still have a job?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/...

https://www.hashicorp.com/trust/compliance/vault
> Many Democrats stopped believing that Silicon Valley was a force for good

... yeah, which happened because Silicon Valley has increasingly become less of a force for good and more of fountain of grifts (eg. crypto) and massive rent seeking.

I'm old enough to have lived through the obvious differences between the old greybeard Silicon Valley and the new finance bro Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley rotted from within, it wasn't forced to this rightward swing by Democrats (though the Democratic party is pretty feckless and horrible these days)
> They are too deep, what do we do? Wait until they die?

Yeah, you tried. Any more is probably energy wasted.

> What about the generations they’re radicalizing after them?

Explain to them how oligarchs are burning the younger generation's security and quality of life to amass ever more wealth and power for themselves.

Help them see how this is happening to both them and the people of their generation on the opposite side of the surface political divide.
I'm sure there's a time and place for these things, but this sounds very much like the echo chamber I hear at work all the time.

Someone has a 'friend' who has a totally-not-publically-visible form where a chat bot interacts with the form and helps the user fill the form in.

...and users love it.

However, when really pressed, I've yet to encounter someone who can actually tell me specifically

1) What form it is (i.e. can I see it?)

2) How much effort it was to build that feature.

...because, the problem with this story is that what you're describing is a pretty hard problem to solve:

- An agent interacts with a user.

- The agent has free reign to fill out the form fields.

- Guided by the user, the agent helps will out form fields in a way which is both faster and more accurate than users typing into the field themselves.

- At any time the user can opt to stop interacting with the the agent and fill in the fields and the agent must understand what's happened independently of the chat context. i.e. The form state has to be part of the chat bot's context.

- At the end, the details filled in by the agent are distinguished from user inputs for user review.

It's not a trivial problem. It sounds like a trivial problem; the agent asks 'what sort of user are you?' and parses the answer into one of three enum values; Client, Foo, Bar -> and sets the field 'user type' to the value via a custom hook.

However, when you try to actually build such a system (as I have), then there are a lot of complicated edge cases, and users HATE it when the bot does the wrong thing, especially when they're primed to click 'that looks good to me' without actually reading what the agent did.

So.

Can you share an example?

What does 'and has a lot of usage' mean in this context? Has it increased the number of people filling in the form, or completing it correctly (or both?) ?

I'd love to see one that users like, because, oh boy, did they HATE the one we built.

At the end of the day, smart validation hints on form input fields are a lot of easier to implement, and are well understood by users of all types in my experience; it's just generally a better, normal way of improving form conversion rates which is well documented, understood and measurable using analytics.

...unless you specifically need to add "uses AI" to your slide deck for your next round of funding.
The vast majority of teens don't have the skillset to cover their tracks like that. Although the vast majority of parents don't know how to check logs.

The issue here (as always) is a parenting one. If you are supervising your children (as is your responsibility) then these issues can't happen. I hear from people all the time that supervision is unrealistic and not feasible, from the same people who have 12+ hours of screen time reports on their phones...

No government policy or technical solution will cover for people being shitty, disconnected parents.
In other words, you do care, and your whole "it's unimportant to me" and "your best guess is fine" isn't actually true. Instead, if you've chosen to play guessing games with someone who has made clear their intent to respect your preference, all the while pretending they're the ones who are being unreasonable.

That I don't feel any need to respect.
Is that a sarcastic observation of the state of news media in recent years? Because that is not at all what journalism means. Journalism is about reporting the truth as objectively as possible, and there used to be a journalist "creed" of sorts, much like doctors have.

NYT and other trusted publications built up that trust by (mostly) upholding such principles in the past, and have lost a lot of that trust by violating them.
Accepting millions from whom? When you run for president, people who happen to work in medicine might donate, that doesn't make you crooked.
What is the experimental evidence to show that he nailed it?
It's "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

Which is a stupid argument, since there is "any tech" that can do your laundry and dishes, and it's been around for decades! Is it too hard for you to put your dishes in the dishwasher, or your clothes in the washing machine?

And I say this as someone bearish on AI.
And what makes you think the Biden administration wasn't just doing a better job? Or Trump administration wasn't underreporting to make him look better. If you don't test, it isn't there!
Cryptographic protocols are algorithms built on cryptographic primitives and they have plenty of footguns.
> the latest work addresses one of the biggest criticisms of the microbial theory of Alzheimer’s: HSV-1’s ubiquity. Alzheimer’s impacts only about 10% of the population — if HSV-1 were causing it, why are there so many people who are repositories of the virus but not developing the disease?

That's the rub. Even if this non-traditional brain model is to be taken at face value, there is a missing variable somewhere, arguably more important; HSV-1, at best, would be a contributing factor.
I consider virtual shares (in Germany) an unregulated scam. It’s a “nice to have” but should absolutely not be considered compensation, nor should renumeration be compromised for them. I don’t know a single person who has come out profiting. Dangling carrots.
Yup! I recently took a pretty substantial project I wrote in 2006 in Java that was sitting in a tar file, unpacked it, and it ran just fine with a current JVM. Even better, I was able to compile it again with no problems: again, with a modern JDK. I wish I could say the same for years of projects written in Rust and Haskell: the Haskell ones are almost all bit rotten since I haven’t kept them up to date with GHC, and Rust is similar. Those two are even worse since with Java I had a rich standard library, so I didn’t have any 3rd party dependencies in my 19 year old project. The Haskell and Rust ones rely on Hackage and crates, and keeping things working for that long would require me to do bonus work beyond my actual project code. I’ve had similar but less painful problems in Python land: the library APIs are mostly stable: the biggest headache there are projects that predate python3 so there’s some work to bring them up to date. That’s at least a one time investment.

Java: no bonus work induced by third parties to keep projects alive, keeps working for a long time. Would recommend.
I definitely have my radicalizations and biases but in my effort not to repeat the silence, I am definitely trying to aim away from what I view as mistakes. But heck I could totally be wrong and maybe I’m just a dumb asshole who wants healthcare.
I Googled "redhead herpes" and the first result was for "Virucidal activity of ginger essential oil against caprine alphaherpesvirus-1". I found that a weirdly funny bahaviour of the Google search natural language parser
If you're actually paying a significant cost generating stack traces for NPEs, there's a JVM option to deal with that (-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow). It still generates a stack trace the first time; if you're able to go search for that first one it shouldn't be a problem for debugging.
One prescient comment was made by Eric Yuan (Zoom CEO), who made the claim that the reliability and general efficacy issues from AI products would be solved "down the stack", and I think this is more or less the attitude right now. Firms believe if they can build their LLM/AI products, the underlying LLMs/AI will catch up over time to meet their requirements.

I've also talked to a number of CTOs and CEOs who tell me that they're building their own AI products nominally to replace human workers, but they're not necessarily confident it will be successful in the foreseeable future. However, they want to be in a good place to capitalize on the success of AI if it does happen.
There is a way to "make your own GPT" (https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8554397-creating-a-gpt) by feeding ChatGPT with some example questions and answers. If you include situations that ChatGPT is getting wrong, it should help.
I grew up beneath that lake..this is insane.
I don't think that any special books are needed. Try to find what will be interesting for you.
In my experience, just laying down and reading to the baby so the baby can look at the pictures and text. It worked great for me.
Most of the math in ML papers is smoke and mirrors. Some good theoretical papers exist but too many others cover up accidental discovery with vague mathy explanations.

If you really want to go deep on a topic in ML, take a subtopic paper and read related works until you can connect the basics to the paper. This consists of not only writing down the math but also coding the concepts. ML students go through this process when they choose a topic and start working on it. Focus on one topic and learn it. Present it to yourself or others. Find holes in the literature and try exploring them. Science!
> The only thing is that the ban gives parents some way to say "no"

They can already say no. You know how? "No."

I think the concept of autonomy we teach to children has a lot of positives, but combined with an entire generation who want to be friends with - not parents to - their kids, it's causing a lot of problems.

You are the adult. If the kid says they want a phone, you can say no. If they want social media, you can say no. You can take away their things as punishment. You are a parent and you have a responsibility to sometimes be an arsehole when you don't want to be, for their sake.

Yes, there are consequnces to choices you make for your kids - from food to where you live to the role model you present to if they have social media. I highly doubt most normal parents have sat down and done a cost/benefit to their kids having access to this crap.
I know in my State, it's not too unusual to retire early by using accrued leave to push out the actual retirement date. If he had 60 ( minus weekend ) days of leave, he could "retire" same day.
I don’t disagree but do you have a hypothetical or real example of what that looks like? I am stumped from trying over the last 20 years. It is important to realize that there is a mythos to your parents. My Trump voting father also voted for Obama because he hated Bush for the wars. I originally thought he saw the Hope. Stuff like that keeps you seeking the non-existent Hope person. You’re negotiating with the subliminal-y terrorized.
> Taking some time to point out the vulnerability is already charity work

Sure, but if you’re not going to reason why the vulnerability you’re pointing out is an issue or respond well to questions then it’s almost as bad as doing nothing at all.

A non expert could leave the same Maintainers on many Github pages. Developers can’t be expected to blindly believe every reply with a snarky tone and a blog link?
The author seems to be conflating developers and designers (or perhaps I'm out of touch and most developers consider themselves designers now?).
I insta skipped any song that I liked but didn't want in X context, but disliked songs I didn't want, period, I don't know if it was the intended way, but it seemed to work for me
Like I said, it is one of the funnier American units out there. I’m not arguing against it being useful in an American context (no doubt it is), but this connection with the mile markers, a common field size dived into 13 lots, and flooding of your fields by a foot of water, it only makes this unit even funnier.
because fines are incurred when the government sees you guilty of a crime. In this case, stolen wages.

The process to incur a fine is much more structured (and bound by its own laws) than a government trying to break your down down and grab your cash.
> Is it too hard for you to put your dishes in the dishwasher, or your clothes in the washing machine?

Is it "too hard"? No. Is it a substantial time sink, and one that (in the case of laundry, particularly) breaks up flow, so that it is inconvenient for someone who has to deal with $DAYJOB and those chores and wants to do art and writing (or other personal projects that take focus)? Yes.
Sam Altman is considering open sourcing models again
Thank you!, providing examples about tricky situations is something I will try. My company has their own azure openai deployment which is the only thing we could use to integrate into company related tools.
Now it's possible for someone to ask the server to sign a blob that they only know the hash of. Is that an issue in your threat model? No idea.
Do you believe that the Library of Congress is immune from the current administration's information purge?
Nope. It's at times like these I'm glad I've never claimed I was competent to design cryptosystems. I'm a pentester that happens to be able to read ~30% of published crypto attack papers. My advice is: ask Deirdre Connolly.

My standard answer on PQC about about the quantum threat is: "rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist."
Obama did not have a supermajority. He didn’t even have 60 Democrat votes, hence having to compromise heavily on ACA, which passed in the 6 months (out of 8 years) that Obama had enough votes with a few independent Senators.
No. People’s tastes and judgments vary too much.

One fundamental area of disagreement is how closely a translation should reflect the content and structure of the original text versus how smooth and natural it should sound in the target language. With languages like Japanese or Chinese translated into English, for example, the vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric can be very different between the languages. A close literal translation will usually seem awkward or even strange in English. To make the English seem natural, often you have to depart from what the original text says.

Most translators will agree that where to aim on that spectrum should be based on the type of text and the reason for translating it, but they will still disagree about specific word choices. And there are genres for which there is no consensus at all about which approach is best. I have heard heated exchanges between literary scholars about whether or not translations of novels should reflect the original as closely as possible out of respect for the author and the author’s cultural context, even if that means the translation seems awkward and difficult to understand to a casual reader.

The ideal, of course, would be translations that are both accurate and natural, but it can be very hard to strike that balance. One way LLMs have been helping me is to suggest multiple rewordings of sentences and paragraphs. Many of their suggestions are no good, but often enough they include wordings that I recognize are better in both fidelity and naturalness compared to what I can come up with on my own.
> I'm also not a huge fan of ASP.Net. I've never really cared for it, and I think that stems from a project I had early in my career duct-taping together another developer's classic ASP applicat^HHH monstrosity and mucking about with IIS and FoxPro (!!). I know it's not classic ASP, but once bitten, lol. I will say that it is modern and performant, but very rigid. I'd defer to others' opinions here because I have mostly avoided it.

Indeed, it's a completely different product nowadays.

Take a look at this! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/m...
Your neutral news source is from a country that’s very anti-immigrant.
Bowl Builder (2023)
Well, the post said o3-mini did great in the beginning, so it’s likely something other than reasoning causing the poor performance towards the end.
because someone lost a case of multiple appeals, and their hail mary when those all fell apart was "you can't fine me, that's taking my property". Mind you, this is returning the money he stole + a $16k penalty.

It's absurd, but judges have had to rationally argue against crazier things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_supernatural_...
Congress has the data. There's even current public sources for monthly and daily ledger values (and a live API) at https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/ and https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/

There's zero reason to do all this for read only access, I strongly feel he's pushing for the CA keys behind the system that would allow write access to the ledgers.
Supply and command Ricky
Make billions of sheets of paper, eventually demand for pens will go up.. right?
What you wrote can be summarized as:
1 Write Prompt
2 ...
3 Have a complete work

Let's take step 2. Drawing is easy to learn, but it's very hard to master. Why because, it derives from understanding and muscle controls. People fails to draw a simple cube because they don't understand the thing they see. Yes, they probably know that it has 6 faces that are square, but they haven't learned to see it. Knowledge is important, but it's just the initial step. You then have to understand how it all fits together (extract the rules), then apply that understanding.

Same with writing. Everyone has a story, but not everyone can tell it because they don't know how to. You have to learn the techniques, then apply it until you have a complete understanding, then you can create as much as you want to.

With no understanding, there's no creation. And generative AI won't help, because it can't feel the world as you and I do.
Yes, I quoted that in a comment.

I'm sorry, are you being a fascist apologist here? Is it remotely acceptable to make it a crime to vote a given way as a democratically elected representative? Once a single such law exists, it's now precedent we can do it anywhere.

Such a law doesn't even exist for murder for obvious reasons.
Considered and discarded as baseless.

Next.
TBF, I did read the article. The article obfuscates the complaint to a link to the DOJ website and just runs off the crazy rationale of the defendant.
By which definition is that not true?
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus
I know people want to get paid but 90% of crypto is just about making sure the thing takes constant time, please stop acting like it is some elite knowledge
We get to solve new problems, the ones that are currently being created.
The industry has largely moved to [Bruno](https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)
Same with Cline
Show HN: Yet Another Image Converter
This is an old project. I just wanted to share.
It as yet another image converter. When I created it, I just wanted to make a software that does not collect user's images, thus, all the conversions are on device. Also, I wanted something more ergonomically nicer that the main results we find while searching for such a tool.
Yes you could give examples in the prompt rather than training a GPT model.
Supermarket Simulator is a game whose Steam capsule (the very first art players see on Steam) is blatantly AI made.

The estimated sales are > 2M copies.

[0]: https://steamdb.info/app/2670630/charts/
Totally depends on the kind of information. Personal information hoarding happens in fascist states