skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To emphasize your point, I don't think anyone will notice if someone's alzheimers is 2.3% better.

These rating scales like CDR-SB (invented by drug companies or researchers who are funded by drug companies) are very good at making the tiniest improvement sound significant.
isn't that a different site? that's lumon.industries, this is lumon-industries.com
The leaked tools that NSA used, like XKEYSCORE, used publicly available data collection methods, including purchasing advertiser lists, to cross correlate all the data and form a profile. So anybody could do this stuff.
I could see a regulatory environment where if a package is personally escorted through commercial flight, it falls under a different set of rules than as a package sent from one place to another.

Or not! But I don't think the problem is that we cannot craft regulation, it's whether we ought to.
Say whatever you want about openAI, they are shipping more than any other company on the planet.
I was witness to someone doing this into New Zealand. It clearly states all food stuff, but someone failed to declare their half of a Subway sandwich. This was a sandwich bought in the departing airport in the US, and then sat at room temp for the entire flight to NZ. Like, why do you still have it on you, and not have trashed it already? Nice little fine for essentially trash because someone wasn’t paying attention.
A good friend of mine was friends with Dan Brown when they were both kids. Dan broke his back (or something else just as serious), and was in a cast for a year+. My friend used to say that he was normal when he got hurt, but turned into a real menace after the accident.

My friend passed away a couple of years ago, or I'd have him fill in the details.
Laminar flow over aircraft has been studied for decades. Hell the mustang used a NACA airfoil specifically designed to maximize laminar flow.
Hugo awards are by popular vote of fans attending conventions, and SF mostly prided itself on being about ideas, so you'll get what caught most people's fancy at the time.
Are you exploiting open knowledge creators, using their work without compensation?
If I understood the graphs correctly, it only achieves 20% pass rate on their internal tests. So I have to wait 30min and pay a lot of money just to sift through walls of most likely incorrect text?
Unless the possibility of hallucinations is negligible, this is just way too much content to review at once. The process probably needs to be a lot more iterative.
IOW I believe it's the same thing as Rust's format_args! macro, but trying to get away without needing a separate format! macro by using implicit conversions.
Some part of the problem statement you want help with (rather than a complete answer)?
What does "actually in control" mean? When the IRA set up a checkpoint in Rosslea, should that have moved the border on the map? When there are disputes over uninhabited islands, do you want it to show whoever visited first? Obviously these are small examples, but the same issues apply to full-scale civil wars.

You'd also be essentially legitimising the right of conquest if as soon as country A invades country B you move the border on the map. That would be pretty counterproductive.
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no, (a) that's not the essence of my question and (b) I was not asking the essence of my question, I was asking literally my question.

Microsoft would not respond to North Korea by deleting all the unicode flags all over the world, so while that might get you closer to the essence of your question, there's no point in me asking my question if you are just going to dodge it.
> This whole scenario assumes that the majority of people are just plain dumb

No, but price-driven. That's the point. Temu, Shein and whatnot other "fast fashion" is successful because they are so much cheaper than the competition (who has to pay for shipping, customs, ...), and an ever larger part of Western populations has to struggle financially every single paycheck. Replacing domestic or even mid-quality Chinese clothes with Shein is just like the Boots theory [1].

The problem is, once too much of the lower income bracket falls away on the demand side, anything of higher quality on the producer side doesn't have enough of a market to sustain itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
ok, but that didn't answer my question.
Context is always important. Part of why this gets attention is that the plant is killing protected species, including many that don't fall victim to cats.

More than that, the solar plant itself is an entirely unnecessary addition. Photovoltaic cells were already viable in 2014. Other net-zero CO2 power options are also available, though wind turbines frequently suffer the same problem.

This plant exists to feel good about the energy it produces, and being able to sit around and watch it immolate protected species every day cuts against that goal.
That could be the case. I read it on vacation so I was more willing to indulge in a slower story
> they think memorizing all the world capitals was a way to improve your intelligence. It's not.

It definitely is. I don't understand the disdain for facts. If, when talking about a city, I know that it's a capital city, I am smarter than I would be if I did not know, and I have a better ability to participate in the conversation. If I know a bunch of constants (in whatever trade I work in) offhand, I can quickly do calculations in my head. Does knowing how many centimeters are in an inch make me smarter? Yes, it does. There was a reason why you memorized every letter in the alphabet.

> The way to do that is to just read books, study, work hard in your chosen field

Spaced repetition is literally just a way to study. You make the cards as you read books.
That's a good question. With sufficient dimensionality, interaction terms, and enough linear regressions, I suppose it's possible. But dynamic and reactive coordination of many multiple linear regressions wouldn't be just a linear regression. The output of a linear regression is simplistic just like LLM token prediction is simplistic. Saying something might be a component of eventual intelligence is far from it being intelligence. LLMs are episodic responses to a fixed context by a fixed model that is programmed to predict tokens. Even the CoT models, while more complex, still use a static model with a recursive feed of model outputs back to the model. I think Dr. Chollet does an excellent job of identifying the fundamental difference between a potential AGI and static models in his ARC-AGI papers and presentations.
I don't really can't imagine being it usefull in the way where it writes logical part of the code for you. If you are not being lousy you still need to think about all the edge cases when it generates the code which seems harder for me.
I assume they're talking about the bond between the metal frame that interacts with the brackets and the actual pad material itself, made of sintered metal or ceramic or something.
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Deepseek proved that there is no moat. Thus no path to profitability for openai, anthropic & co.

Stealing from thieves is fine by me. Sama was the one claiming that all information could be used to train LLMs, without permisdion of the copyright holders.

Now the same is being done to openai. Well, too bad.
> how an intelligent person can still think this

Cognitive neuroscience

“qualia”

Ray Kurzweil

I’ll take “things OP doesn’t know about that an intelligent person does” for 800 Alex.

If you’re enamored with LLMs and can’t see the inherent problems, you don’t actually know about AI and machine learning.
Not the GP, but ideograms/pictograms are overused, half of the time one has no idea what they are supposed to mean. That was already bad in desktop interfaces where you would at least get a tooltip when hovering the mouse over it, but that has gone out of fashion as well.
Different levels of self-awareness about ultimately not taking themselves too seriously, arguably. (Doesn’t mean one can’t enjoy both, of course!)
Phones send out probe requests to get a list of open wifis. If you have a static access point, with a known geo location, software can be running on that point to remember a mac address of the phone from a probe and store it. Thus enabling real time tracking.

Im like 60% sure this is how they figured out who the Bomber was in Austin TX.
Only if you are asking questions at the level of a cutting edge benchmark
Didn't OpenAI steal everyone's data they could consume from the internet? Actively being sued by the NY Times and others for this...
Normally my workflow is: My advisor provided me with general research direction, and from there, I conduct a SLR to identify gaps in the literature. This helps to find areas where research is lacking or where new approaches could be explored. Once I identify a gap, I refine it into a specific, viable research problem that aligns with both feasibility and innovation. The SLR also helps me see what methodologies have been used and what potential solutions might work.
Care to explain how something that cannot be copyrighted and was not generated by a human is “intellectual property“? Or are you just parroting a narrative?
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This isn't true. You can search Twitter for 'cis' and find endless unbanned accounts.
OpenAI has a deep bench. I bet they pushed this out to change the narrative about deepseek
Practically every place in the world where it's disputed whether it's part of another country or independent creates a flag issue. Do you include a Quebec flag? Northern Ireland? Somaliland? Palestine?
Feels like only a matter of time before these crawlers are blocked from large swathes of the internet. I understand that they’re already prohibited from Reddit and YouTube. If that spreads, this approach might be in trouble.
What is the current state of DSPy optimizers? When I originally checked it out it appeared to just be optimizing the set of examples used for n-shot prompting.
What does that even mean? Treating each iterative model as a new product is not any different than Google changing its search or youtube recommendation algorithm.

Different pre-cooked prompts and filters don’t really amount to new products either, despite them being marketed as such. It’s like adobe treating each tool in photoshop as its own product.
Do you have any benchmarks to back up your 'feelings'?
I chuckle every time I see this. Poor OpenAI.

Meanwhile, their entire training corpus was the result of scraping the intellectual property and copyrighted materials of THE ENTIRE PUBLIC INTERNET.

Woe is them to be sure.
The creators are aware that a human is using this, can we say the same for AI, does it have their consent?
Yeah that's true. At the time they did have the latest New York — with Gaiman on the cover — in a little pile. I didn't stop.
Well, if you control DNS, couldn’t you just block the key records?
What's the difference between FuriLabs and all the other Linux phones that have 1 hour of battery life and no app support?
I don't think the UN really defines borders, its more what other countries recognize and various international law rules. At most the un security counil can declare a defacto change in border should not be recognized (usually to ensure that an act of agression isnt rewarded with territory) but its actually super rare for them to do that and they have only done it a few times
Yes, skimming the repo on GitHub it looks like it has gone off the boil distinctly since early 2024. Shame as it looks impressive.
The burden of proof is on you, making the claim that the FAA chief and the crash are connected. What's your evidence? I'm advancing the null hypothesis, that they have nothing to do with each other. I also don't believe the Eagles winning the NFC Championship 2 days earlier has anything do with the crash -- are you expecting me to provide evidence for that as well?
> So Flemish scholars said that Adam and Eve obviously must have spoken Flemish

Obviously the Flemish scholars are blindly biased that's why it's very popular all over the world /s

Seriously, any great book or literature using Flemish that is considered a golden standard in Flemish as the Quran is? The book that's read every minutes around the world and memorized entirely, continously generations after generations? Fun facts, even the Pope do not memorized the entire Gospel let alone the entire Bible including the Old Testaments.
From what I've read, those drugs are very good at removing amyloid, but despite that, they don't seem to make much of a noticeable (clinically meaningful) difference in the people treated with them. I personally would not call that a "huge success".

After many decades of research, we've gone in the last few years from no ability whatsoever to affect the underlying disease, to 30% slowdown. To be clear, that's a 30% slowdown in clinical, cognitive endpoints. Whether you call that "meaningful" is a bit subjective (I think most patients would consider another couple years of coherent thinking to be meaningful), and it has to be weighed against the costs and risks, and there's certainly much work to be done. But it's a huge start.

If they are so good at cleaning up the amyloid, why don't people have more of an improvement?

No one is expected to improve after neurodegeneration has occurred. The best we hope for is to prevent further damage. Amyloid is an initiating causal agent in the disease process, but the disease process includes other pathologies besides amyloid. So far, the amyloid therapies which very successfully engage their target have not yet been tested in the preclinical phase before the amyloid pathology initiates further, downstream disease processes. This is the most likely reason we've seen only ~30% clinical efficacy so far. I expect much more efficacy in the years to come as amyloid therapies are refined and tested at earlier phases. (I also think other targets are promising therapeutic targets; this isn't an argument against testing them.)

I think everyone agrees amyloid is associated with Alzheimer's, the question is how much of a causative role does it play.

To be clear, the evidence for the amyloid hypothesis is causal. The association between amyloid and Alzheimer's has been known since Alois Alzheimer discovered the disease in 1906. The causal evidence came in the 1990's, which is why the scientific community waited so long to adopt that hypothesis.
You are right, but I've worn out the USB ports on multiple Garmins from using the ports to recharge and download the files. Now I just use the app and download the files later from the Garmin website, and use a magnetic charger plug also to eliminate the wear and tear on the port. I wish I could wirelessly access the files and cut out the Garmin app/download steps.
Sure, obviously it's a risky bet if a coup would make a difference. A coup didn't make a difference, Trump doesn't win an election by staging a coup. I deliberately didn't pick any of the correlated outcomes like Biden becomes President, because it's possible for them to not happen despite Trump losing.

Now, if you're an American that doesn't help, the newly installed regime after a coup can just insist facts aren't true, so the bet is still unwise, but I'm not an American.
Agree on all points - MMA being the winner is obvious.

One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of these PETG filaments are not true PETG's.

I didn't get a chance to watch with sound on, but curious if he verified it was really PETG

A lot of the PETG's are really PLA/PETG mixes.

Or event mostly PLA with some small PETG.
Or something else entirely.

I actually have had filament claim to be 100% PETG, but it dissolved almost instantly in acetone, so not sure what it was, since even PLA doesn't really do that.

Often you can also tell it's not really PETG by the claimed glass transition temperature/etc, but ....
Funny you mentioned Mongolia. Republic of China (Taiwan) still recognize it as part of its territory (together with mainland China).

It is the communist that ceded a lot of territory to the Soviet Union and the puppet state of Mongolia to appease the USSR by having a buffer between it and china
I don't remember but was it another tan suit moment? The term has been around in US politics since WW1 according to Wikipedia
From my perspective, you might be using take-home challenges incorrectly. The purpose for us is to have something that both sides are now somewhat familiar with, on which to base a technical conversation and ask questions. The actual solution delivered is a small part of the overall value.
I think we're all reaching AI fatigue. Fewer and fewer people care anymore
And that is the core problem with what happened. There may actually be a grain of truth but now there is a backlash. I'd argue though that the mounds of alternative explanations that weren't followed up on should likely get some priority right now since we know so little about them there is a lot to learn and and we are likely to have a lot of surprises there.

I see this as the same problem with UCT (upper confidence for trees) based algorithms. If you get a few initial random rolls that look positive you end up dumping a lot of wasted resources into that path because the act of looking optimizes the tree of possibilities you are exploring (it was definitely easier to study amyloid lines of research than other ideas because of the efforts put into it). Meanwhile the other possibilities you have been barely exploring slowly become more interesting as you add a few resources to them. Eventually you realize that one of them is actually a lot more promising and ditch the bad rut you were stuck on, but only after a lot of wasted resources. To switch fields, I think something similar happened to alpha-go when it had a game that ended in a draw because it was very confident in a bad move.

Basically, UCT type algorithms prioritize the idea that every roll should optimize the infinite return so it only balances exploration with exploitation. When it comes to research though the value signal is wrong, you need to search the solution space because your goal is not to make every trial find the most effective treatment, it is to eventually find the actual answer and then use that going forward. The trial values did not matter. This means you should balance exploration, exploitation AND surprise. If you do a trial that gives you very different results than you expected then you have shown that you don't know much there and maybe it is worth digging into so even the fact that it may have returned less optimal value than some other path its potential value could be much higher. (Yes I did build this algorithm. Yes it does crush UCT based algorithms. Just use variance as your surprise metric then beat alpha-go.)

People intrinsically understand these two algorithms. In our day to day lives we pretty exclusively optimize exploration and exploitation because we have to put food on the table while still improving, but when we get to school we often take classes that 'surprise' us because we know that the goal at the end is to have gained -some- skill that will help us. Research priorities need to take into account surprise to avoid the UCT rut pitfalls. If they had for the amyloid hypothesis maybe we would have hopped over to other avenues of research faster. 'The last 8 studies showed roughly the same effect, but this other path has varied wildly. Let's look over there a bit more.'
How do you even compare different companies? I'd say the massive farms ship every year more than OpenAI ever did.
I’ve experienced part of this as someone that once sold imported music back in the late 90s. A competitor opened up in Hong Kong that sold at retail prices lower than our wholesale prices (we used legit importers who paid their duties and priced accordingly). I placed an order to see how it would turn out, and when I received the package, there was a note inside that stated the duties had not been paid on the order and that I was responsible for them. If customs were to inspect the package, they would hold it and release it once the duties were collected. These packages were too small and infrequent for customs to ever take notice, so the buyers were essentially getting items tax free because of course nobody self reported and paid these taxes.

This was pretty much the straw breaking the camel’s back, and our little import business shut down shortly after that as orders dropped like a rock
I agree with the process not saving any of our time. however aren't examples supposed to be simple?

Take it from Aider example: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider
It asked to add a param and typing to a function. Would that save us more time? I don't think so. but it's a good peek of what it can do

just like any other hello world example i suppose
Have you even watched the video? This is a new capability and not a trivial one.
>If they are so good at cleaning up the amyloid, why don't people have more of an improvement?

I have zero knowledge in this field, but there's a very plausible explanation that I think is best demonstrated by analogy:

If you shoot a bunch of bullets into a computer, and then remove the bullets, will the computer be good as new?
> obnoxious kid evolve

Not completely fiction thou
Yes, you are correct. Nondeterministic grammars are not linear but quadratic. In the case of your palindrome example (thanks btw, added to my grimoire of grammars) I believe the quadratic is: (3n^2 + 6n)/4 (I wish HN did MathJax)

I need to do a bit more digging in to the distinction between ambiguous and nondeterministic.

When implementing parsers I enjoy the directness afforded by an Earley parser. No rejigging the grammar to suit LL, LR etc. No gotcha's with PEGs choice operator, etc.

Most grammars I end up using for practical applications are linear - so far, quadratic has been a spectre from afar. :-)
Hard to take your comment seriously when you go out of your way to degrade a discussion opponent, FYI.
Guess the Crimean Tatar speakers just get screwed?
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To anyone who's tried it: how does it handle captchas? I can't imagine that OpenAI's IP addresses are anyone's favorites for unfettered access to web properties these days.
Also named specifically to muddle the SEO for the term "deep." Nothing that OpenAI does is unintentional.
boot is not allowed caused by the complexity. So some people disallow boost, here is the solution, just add the complexity directly to the language definition!
"will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources"

Synthesize? Seems like the wrong word -- I think they would want to say something like, "analyze, and synthesize useful outputs from hundreds of online sources"..