skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read this comment from elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969050. Then go onto Google and read all the details about this person, including what he was given access to; how a federal court upheld his access just earlier today; and then how, hours later, he resigned when his recent social media commentary was discovered.

Quick primer: he was one of only two people who reports to Elon Musk at Doge who had access to the treasury department payment system. There is suspicion (to my knowledge not yet proven) that he had write access to the system, but there’s no debate that he had read access because an actual judge stated he could continue to have access today (judge’s decision was before the WSJ reported on the social media commentary and he resigned).

If I may, when you’ve had a chance to dig into this, would you reply here and give your take? Would you call it a major red flag? And given the contents of the social media commentary, do you see any parallels to 1939? And if you do see the parallels can you at all, I mean in the slightest, understand where the “panic” is coming from? You don’t have to be at your keyboard or phone crying “fascist!” Just wondering if you can see it, even a little bit. I can, even though I think the fascist language has lost most of its punch from overuse.

Note this is just one example of several over the last few weeks. It’s just a very clear one given there is little debate about the facts.
I was there, I'm personally convinced it's much worse now. Perhaps I'm suffering from rose colored glasses, wouldn't be the first time.

My general impression is that the abuse in the past tended to concentrate in a few well known figures, who often got banned on sight or at least generally carried little to no real influence. Or it concentrated in particular toxic projects which you could just avoid. A little bit of abuse wrangling contributed to project cohesion.

Today it's more like an intermittent firehose, with clueless mobs being weaponized from other platforms. Performances being made in issue trackers and pull requests for offsite audiences, and just a particular depth and relentlessness of harassment that was uncommon decades past.
"Is this rhetorical? Nothing"
Nonsense, and the article addresses this. "Block Meta’s Trackers"
I've been taking 1mg orally for 2-3 years with noticeable side effects
The ability to jailbreak should be a legal right. We shouldn't be relying on vulnerabilities just to own the devices we bought.
> known and unfixed security bugs

Which are..?
Tailscale is a bit overpowered for just using custom DNS. Even if it’s “free” for personal use.

A simple WireGuard server setup at home configured with my custom DNS resolver to block known tracking urls and setting up VPN profiles on devices works for me.
I would lean the the skip level managers on both sides of the move. Leaders should be looking out for the overall wellbeing of the IC and the company, not just their individual team. Hopefully, the skip levels are more mature about the whole process.
TL;DR;

Base models exhibit what rhe authors call "Superficial Self-Reflection" where it looks like it's reasoning but it doesn't lead to an actual improvement in answer quality.
Then with RL the models learn to effectively use this reflection to improve answer quality.

The whole read is interesting but I don't think the title is really an accurate description of it…
I think the key thing missing from go slices is ownership information, especially around sub-slices.

Make it so you can create copy-on-write slices of a larger slice, and a huge number of bugs go away.

Or do what rust did, except at runtime, and keep track of ownership

s := []int{1, 2, 3}
s[0] = 0 // fine, s owns data
s1 := s[0:2] // ownership transferred to s1, s is now read-only
s1[0] = 1 // fine, s1 owns data

s[0] = 1 // panic or compiler error, s1 owns data, not s

With of course functions to allow multiple mutable ownership in cases where that's needed, but it shouldn't be the default
I just tried this in the last few weeks after oral minoxidil didn't do anything noteworthy; I was on it for only a week before I started having these bizarre and extremely vivid/realistic dreams.

I'd never read about that as a side effect so at first I didn't connect the dots, but it was almost daily. Stopped after I stopped taking it - I looked it up out of interest and it's a rare side effect. I wasn't keen on it because it was a neurological side effect.

The dreams themselves didn't bother me but I also found myself more tired than usual, and I'm not overly bothered about my hair so dropped it. Others will probably tell you about the more common side effects, but wanted to drop this one in as it's not often mentioned!
Nowhere did I say that we should just transplant African smallholder farms and their underlying (and often deficient) systems worldwide. That would obviously be stupid. Just as stupid as arguing that there is nothing to learn from people who have mostly succeeded (because most of them are still alive and their populations are growing) feeding themselves from their own land despite having the worst starting position imaginable.

> For example, most of these farms are well known to underuse fertilizer. There is no good reason for it, except in some relatively snall amount of cases where extreme poverty doesn’t leave farmers with enough capital to buy fertilizer (even though ROI is ridiculously high).

Capital constraints are an extremely common problem for African farmers, not "a small amount of cases". It could easily be remedied with the right support. Or simply by regulating international trade in a way that does not allow excessive subsidies in the E.U., U.S. and elsewhere completely destroy the local market for agricultural products on the continent.

At the same time, fertilizer overuse is extremely well documented in "modern agriculture" across the world. It has extremely bad externalities, from CO2 emissions to over saturating local water reserves, which of course Big Ag usually does not have to pick up the tap for.

If you internalize the costs of fertilizer use, "modern" agriculture quickly becomes uncompetitive. You can see this in many European countries (i.e. Netherlands, Ireland), where the enforcement of nitrate regulations has basically put whole sectors of the agricultural industry out of business.

> But that’s like saying “sure I got very meager crop because I didn’t water my crops in the drought even though I could, but if you consider my inputs (very little water and energy spent on watering), I actually did pretty well”, which is ridiculous: we shouldn’t imitate that.

No, but we should learn from it what we can. Especially with climate change rapidly leading to less availability of water and restrictions on using fertilizers.

> Up until last couple of decades, overwhelming majority of Africans have been seriously malnourished, and this was caused by the inefficiency of their agricultural sector.

Again: both the calories and the nutrition to adequately feed the entire population of the world is easily available, including in most cases locally or regionally. If it doesn't reach specific people, it is not an availability problem, but a distribution problem.

Most emergency aid organizations have long since started sourcing both calories and nutrition for disaster relief regionally because they can.

Is Africa's agricultural sector terribly inefficient? Yes, of course. Is there nothing to learn from African smallholders? Hell no!. Will "modern agriculture" have to change radically, including by incorporating lessons and practices from smallholders from around the world if we want agriculture to stop messing up the climate and literally killing the lion's share of natural diversity? You bet!
Serious comment: how does comparing productivity (or anything) by dividing into GDP work - let alone to three significant figures - when all countries measure GDP differently?

The USA for example includes about $7t of hedonic and imputed values that a) never happened in the real world, but b) exceed Japan's entire GDP.
> men care.
-257, I just added my [down]vote.
The funny thing is, the same happened for me. I could only get it up with tadalafil.

Yet half a year later I decided to take the deal with the devil: What good is my libido if I can't get hookups anymore due to hair loss? I'd rather keep my hair and lose my libido. And so I went on finasteride again. The most feared and vilified medication in existence. I just took the finasteride and swallowed lots of tadalafil every day and things just worked that way.

Half a year ago I decided to switch to dutasteride because I felt like I was slowly losing ground again. I still couldn't get it up without my penis pills and was always nervous about timing them correctly to not be embarrassed during sex. But then I ended up in a relationship which kind of reduced this stress. If I can't get it up, I can't get it up and I don't care. There are other ways to satisfy my partner.

And guess what: My penis actually works and I can have sex -any time I do not plan it. What I want to say is: I read all this nightmare fuel about fin and dut and suffered from severe nocebo.

People worrying about hair loss are neurotic. Those that take fin or dut after reading all their scary side effects must be super neurotic. We are easy prey to the nocebo effect and playing mind games with ourselves.
more attractive than hair might be not caring so much about it
I don't think its related. One looked like a POC around an alternative to git using CRDT's?

This one seems to be a nice little wrapper around git commands.
I've been using it for a few days and it seems quite nice
I think they used to have a lot of canned responses which made them feel like bots.
The option to accept or decline cookies is, unfortunately for parent, not necessarily legally enforceable outside the European Union and the United Kingdom. There might be an argument that Meta cannot track a user after explicitly offering the ability to opt-out (promissory estoppel?), but I rather doubt it.

In the EU/UK, the argument is academic, as the GDPR requires ongoing consent to track a user: you can't sign away your privacy in perpetuity.
Mistral: Le Chat
I sort of flipped between “boring” to “..interesting..” to “maybe boring?” To “possibly interesting?” Reading this.

The meaning of the title is simply that models from most providers can do some self-reflection when prompted to do so, without any R1-Zero type fine tuning.

This is put out as surprising, and I do not think that it is surprising at all. We’ve known about Chain of Thought type prompting for some time, and this is a variant of it.

They then mention that 1.5B-ish parameter models don’t seem to be very good at self reflection out of the box. This does not surprise me in the slightest. Unless heavily distilled and tuned for a very specific job, 1.5B parameter models aren’t good at much.

They then note that something about the reward functions in R1 Zero’s setup create a typical pattern of shorter and shorter self-reflection until some sort of inflection point where the reflection gets longer, and correct answers are more common.

This seems pretty interesting! The so-called “Aha” moment is when a model during training hits this inflection point and starts productively using and extending the self-reflection.

I think my reaction overall is that the research is worth doing, as it’s trying to get at what exactly works about R1-Zero training, and why it works, and that’s great. It’s just a small start though.
I'll bet it's cheap! Only $1299/mo USD.
> oral minoxidil didn't do anything noteworthy

How long did you take it? It generally takes months to get noticeable effects.
What a puzzling reply, HTML parsers are famously mistake-tolerant and convention driven. Its standard is almost a suggestion, there can be plenty wrong with it without causing practical everyday issues, as the modern web is very established.
I agree it's ironic, however they seem to use an inert version of the share button. The default share button by Facebook contacts Facebook when you view the page, doesn't matter whether you click the button or not. The one used by EFF only contacts Facebook when you click it.
This is a really cool project, but obviously don't expect the same quality of filament as a big company. The width will vary across the length, leading to inconsistencies in the final part.
Oh yeah. Full chop be it!
Not wishing to disparage the good name of "lawyersclubindia" and their guesstimates but OpenSecrets has him at just over $1M in 2018[0] and ThisNation has him at $900k in 2022[1]. (Neither sounds that plausible but they are definitely less shady than "lawyersclubindia".)

The only places that have him in the 10s of $M bracket look like spam content farms who've stolen the majority of their content from Wikipedia.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/charles-schume...

[1] https://www.thisnation.com/politics/people/chuck-schumer-net...
Guess now is a good time to hoard some recent dumps. What would be some good local tools to browse those?

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
I’m really curious about the number of requests you end up making. I’d imagine that this would get expensive fast in a web app - AWS charge $0.40 per million read requests, so if you’re seeing ten request to your app server a second and that ends up making a hundred requests to S3, that’s going to come in at at about $34 a day!
Before having a kid I never realized how powerful of a tool a TV or an iPad was in terms of (essentially) free babysitting.

Families where grandparents can afford to retire and / or move closer to their grandchildren are operating on an entirely different level financially. As are families where the parent or parents can work from home. As are families that can afford childcare which can easily cost as much or more than a mortgage in California at least. Even after public Kindergarten or TK becomes available these are mostly only half day coverage (again in CA) and you are completely on your own to figure out how to cover (pay for) the rest of the time if both parents work and there aren't other family members in the picture.

So in summary, I never would have realized that regardless of how much screen time you want your kid having the reality has shown itself to be that there is a direct correlation between relying on screen time and the financial standing of you and your extended family, for better or worse.

I was very lucky to have remote work when I had a kid, but my parents couldn't / can't afford to retire and that has had a huge financial impact on us. If I had an in-person job we would have had to rely a lot more on screens to fill in the gaps.

In any case no complaints I absolutely love having a kid and am glad to pay for good quality school / childcare and I don't really believe there's anything wrong with screen time anyway.

Watching 3-6 hours of TV a day after school while my parents worked and did whatever adults did in the 90's didn't seem to do as much harm to me mentally as I would have thought. It seems insane in retrospect.
Schools and education systems are like Mail clients

some suck less
I had a hair transplant. Watched soap operas on a bed for 5 hours while they worked on me, and now I have hair like 80s Richard Dean Anderson. (Was nearly Patrick Stewart before.)

Until this treatment is ready I recommend what I did. :)
Putting it your way, I'm saying it might break short-term, but long-term it would be fine.
No wonder, she fell into an expensive Carinthian tourist trap. 3000€/night.

My father did water skiing in Maria Wörth and met my mother there. My aunts still live there (owning hotels). It's beautiful, but a trap.

You can get the cheapest rooms in Austria there for around 30€, but then you have traps like this and Pörtschach and more.
Full chop is indeed awesome, also solves a lot of other side issues

- look dangerous so people take you more seriously

- always have a “good haircut”

- swimming / bath - no need to dry hair

- solves dandruff immediately

Just positives really

Buuut I always did feel a little bit jealous of guys with fulls set of hair.

That’s why after almost 15 years of full chop, just did “an elon musk” and got myself some implants. And honestly it has been so worth it, just from the feeling you get to run fingers through your hair.
Also same, though fortunately only for 6 months or so.
The added value would be humans upvoting helpful answers.

So the highly upvoted ai answer on SO would not be a hallucination.
What are the side effects you've noticed?
I have to second the remarks about abuse from the Vogons community. There are members of that forum that are a blight on the retro computing landscape quite frankly. The abuse that I've seen them level at others for simply enjoying themselves is staggering.

When I debuted my own first major retro project, "Building the REAL Ultimate Windows 98 PC" [1] I went to absolute lengths to prove my research was done with such absurd meticulousness simply out of fear that I'd be targeted by Vogons and bullied into oblivion for it. I spent two years and thousands of dollars buying old hardware just to ensure every little detail was as perfect as I could make it.

Other much larger youtubers such as PhilsComputerLab received so much abuse over the years they straight up left the site entirely.

Another friend of mine was also recently harassed by a user on that site, snarkily editing all his posts with ".Deleted because it was useful but ignored." after giving useless commentary [2]

Vogons is a blight. The files hosted on it should be moved to the Internet Archive and the website allowed to sink into linkrot oblivion. There's very little useful information on it to begin with, just a bunch of angry old men smugly jerking each other off about "period correct" 90's computer builds

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETxI4rA_gs

[2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=95770
> without access to mainstream security patches

They do have access to them. The lead developer and project owner has sec bug access in bugzilla.

But vulnerabilities in newer Mozilla have over time become less and less relevant in Pale Moon's codebase, which led to the latter dropping the tracking of how many Mozilla security patches have been applied in the release notes (starting with 33.0.1).
Optimization of optimization does not escape itself, clearly.
I am not a biologist, but the first sentence seems bold to me:

> Millions of years of evolution have led mammalian brains to develop the crucial ability to store large amounts of world knowledge and continuously integrate new experiences without losing previous ones.

My impression has always been that humans have been good at selective forgetting, hence keeping relevant memories and dropping others.

Edit: it looks like none of the authors has a biological background either. How serious do they mean the "neurobiologically inspired" claim?
I expected an uninformed rant and actually got a really well informed, balanced rant. I don't agree that this is a major issue, but every time I thought of a counter argument it was immediately addressed in the article. Well done!
The result will vary and the hair will thin eventually. Still, much better than the alternative, I would also very much recommend it.
Tell me that you've never visited a city outside North America (and Australia) without telling me...
This was released on 23 May 2024, and the source code is on github[0]. It didn't pickup traction like other RAG approaches. I haven't tested it so i don't have an opinion on it.

[0] https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/HippoRAG
security maybe considered "commons" but accountables are individual manufacturers. If my car is malfunctioning I'm punished by law enforcement. There are inspections and quality standards. Private entities may provide certifications.
Short men are really unattractive to women, yet there are lots of them.
Wow yeah BYD went to the Moon in the final quarters, which I hadn't checked! Somehow I suspect this article wasn't talking about China though, which is clearly where Tesla really needs to step it up!
Don’t remember where I read this theory, but the gist is that dreams are simulated events for practice/preparation, and they are therefore surprising and very diverse - you need to practice social interactions, fight or flight, shame, freezing, etc - and since you don’t have a lot of time, many dreams will sample many or all these themes.
On the other hand, I hadn't heard of ED as a side effect until I experienced it.

Personally I care about my libido much more than a head full of hair. And preferences around hair vary.
Standford built $50 open source rival to OpenAI's o1
Yes, the ESP32 has Bluetooth support and there is an open source library to read the inputs from a PS4 controller. So I just wrote a small program to connect to the controller and send the right commands to the motors.

I think "traditional" RC people use a separate receiver module that links to their remote instead of doing this in software.
this is baloney.

first, what is "personally escorted to school on a horse" supposed to be? and if he had private tutors, why did he only get 80%? and, regardless of the background, is not 80% still objectively better than 79%?

second, your example is about financial inequality. rich vs. poor. you're trying to paint a picture of a spoiled rich kid vs. a grubby gritty motivated poor kid.

but DEI is about "your color defines your opportunity" not your wealth. well, yes some races/color are over/under represented in rich/poor. but that converse is not necessarily true for individuals - an individual being a particular shade does not imply his privilege.

what happens when Billy is a wealthy minority and Cody is neither? and rich minority Billy got a 65% and Cody got a 95%? do you still give the job to Billy? because in the past people that looked like Cody were evil to people who looked like Billy? we cannot solve inequity by creating more of it.

If you are truly for equality and are able to see past what’s right in front of your nose, you’ll realize life is inherently unfair. But promoting literal racism is not going to make up for multiple generations of harm. by punishing those who had nothing to do with that harm. based on the same racism that led to the harm.
There is no such thing as contamination.

GPL code doesn't change the license of your code. It only prevents you from using GPL code from your code.
Both happens. Sometimes its only a feeling what covers the nonsense, other times I can remember the details pretty well (and its funny or extraordinary in other ways, like "meaning" has many layers, entirely unexpected).
If the later trials succeed and this gets turned into a commercially-viable product, the amount of money this will generate is going to be nuts.
I found it increasingly annoying that almost every time I searched for some variation of "what is a good tool/library/device for X" there was a SO thread high in the search results, but of course the question was closed (often with some great, but old, answers) because they do not accept questions like that. They could have had a lot of more happy users if they figured out a way to support that kind of questions somehow.
Confidence works well. Confidence with hair works amazing.
I read it can make you grow man boobs
I hope this goes better than the PhysicsForum admin flooding the forum with AI generated answers post hoc to unanswered posts.
Concerning text-to-speech and the missing separation of HTML and CSS: There are several open issues about this in the spec that defines how accessible names and descriptions are computed from HTML elements: https://github.com/w3c/accname/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label...
The Luddites were some sort of proto-socialists. The conception about them being mainly anti-machine is propaganda to mock them.
I do the “you’re probably not going to do” mentioned all the time. Maybe that’s why I haven’t had many instances of needing to adjust for white space in html over the last almost 30 years of web development haha
It's probably just the pain thart comes from modularization.