skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At what point does a story become big enough to disable the flagging mechanic?

I'm not sure "big" is the right word because we're not optimizing HN for topic importance - that would make for a current affairs site, which HN is not [1, 2]. But maybe that's hair-splitting in this case.

The short answer to your question is that when there's a Major Ongoing Topic (MOT), moderators turn off flags on stories that contain Significant New Information (SNI) that is interesting in HN's sense of the word (i.e. gratifying intellectual curiosity) and there is a fair chance of the article supporting a substantively different discussion than the ones which have already recently appeared on the same topic.

If you want more information, I'd start with my other post in this subthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993092) and go on to the other links there. That should give a pretty complete explanation. If, after that, there's still a question I haven't answered, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
That trivializes it, I think. A ton of what people do related to their jobs is marketing at some level. A lot of people here probably resent marketing and self-promotion (to a certain level) but that's the way the world works. If no one has any idea what you do, either directly or through your manager, guess who is getting the chop if the company cuts back even a little.
Yes - they have the resources to buy the crashing things at a discount.
It's definitely U.S. centric.

But, I do think this is reasoning. It requires recall, but anything other than pure logic puzzles do. For example, on a competition math problem or a programming problem, No person or LLM is inventing well-known lemmas and algorithms from first-principles.
If you like cool stuff like this, be sure to check out shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/
> To start with, we know what a person is, rudimentary things about how they behave, our senses, how they commonly work, and can do mental comparisons (reality checks).

How much is this a matter of fidelity? LLMs started with text, now text + vision + sound; it's still not the full package relative to what humans sport, but it captures a good chunk of information.

Now, I'm not claiming equivalence in the training process here, but let's remember that we all spend the first year or two of our lives just figuring out the intuitive basics of "what a person is, rudimentary things about how they behave, our senses, how they commonly work", and from there, we spend the next couple years learning more explicit and complex aspects of the same. We don't start with any of it hardcoded (and what little we have, it's been bestowed to us by millennia of a much slower gradient-descent process - evolution).

> LLM’s have one architecture that does one job which we try to get to do other things, like reasoning or ground truth.

FWIW, LLMs have one architecture in a similar sense brain has one architecture - brains specialize as they grow. We know that parts of a brain are happy to pick up the slack for differently specialized parts that became damaged or unavailable.

LLMs aren't uniform blobs, either. Now, their architecture is still limited - for one, unlike our brains, they don't learn on-line - they get pre-trained and remain fixed for inference. How much a model capable of on-line learning will differ structurally from current LLMs, or even the naive approach to bestow learning ability on LLMs (i.e. do a little evaluation and training after every conversation)? We don't know yet.

I'm definitely not arguing LLMs of today are structurally or functionally equivalent to humans. But I am arguing that learning from sum total of the Internet isn't meaningfully different from how humans learn, at least for anything that we'd consider part of living in a technological society. I.e. LLMs don't get to experience throwing rocks first-hand like we do, but neither of us get to experience special relativity.

> Even they aren’t all trained in a coherent way using real-world, observations in the senses.

Neither them nor us. I think if there's one insight people should've gotten from the past couple years is that "mostly coherent" data is fine (particularly if any given subset is internally coherent, even if there's little coherence between different subsets) - both humans and LLMs can find larger coherence if you give them enough such data.
This tickles my nostalgic bone.

I ran a Hotline server in parallell with KDX for many years. Came in handy when studying abroad and I wanted to access my files. KDX had screen control as well, which I used to freak my brother out by recording messages and having them play when he was asleep… Good times!

I enjoyed having a "home" online where I could invite friends and strangers – it was so much friendlier than irc.
If you can't trace something back to its source, it's suspect. It was that way then too. I suppose you're just concerned there's a firehose of disinformation now.

So perhaps we have to just slough off the internet completely, the way we always have for things like weekly rags about "Bat Boy" or whatever.

I hate to see the internet go, but we'll always have Paris.
I don't think it's very high, like 1500 upvotes or something, there is a large population of people who can flag.

Another idea is to make flags fractional, so the more upvotes you have the more weight your flags have. So those newly empowered get say 0.1 of a flag while more highly rated users get progressively closer to 1 flag.
Regarding military and security, you are right. Unfortunately that means all superfluous spending becomes military and security.
Show HN: Curatrs – Scheduled Programming for Podcasts
Like many of us, I got tired of scrolling endlessly through podcast apps trying to find the right show for my commute. So I built Curatrs (curatrs.com) - it brings radio-style scheduled programming to podcast discovery.

Instead of endless scrolling, you get podcasts programmed for specific times and durations. Currently in early MVP, built with Vite/Supabase, focused on making discovery more intentional and time-based.

Would appreciate any feedback, especially from regular podcast listeners
>Nvidia has spent the last two decades refining its AI processors, while Intel has only recently recognized the opportunity—arriving late, like a sluggish hippopotamus at a sprinting contest.

This isnt strongest argument

Copying and improving things takes less time.

For example how many years Nvidia needed to develop 4060 4080 and how many years Intel needed to reach similar capabilities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
The language is also commonly referred to as Nix expressions or the Nix language.
Honestly, I'd give Musk the benefit of the doubt if he would even say that it was a joke or he didn't mean to make that particular motion. His refusal to say it wasn't intentional and it wasn't a nazi salute means, IMHO, that he ment it that way and it wasn't a joke, but a power play.
When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce.

They were wrong. Now that Elon is applying the same philosophy to all of his companies and now the federal government, people are once again saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

At a certain point, you have to ask yourself if these people who complain like headless chickens are actually serious people …
Hey to all you NL people (we're in Den Haag) - I've been researching solar water heaters and they look really promising? I've read they even work in winter. Is that wishful thinking in a country like NL?
You can donate here -

https://buymeacoffee.com/chistev12

I don't have a RSS feed but I have a newsletter with a subscribe button.

What do you mean by posts are not links? You mean you can't click on them to get to the detail page?

Edit: What's wrong with my Twitter account?
There is a valid criticism that when you rely heavily on synthetic outputs, you bring along the precursor model's biases and assumptions without fully knowing the limitations of the data set the precursor model was trained on, as well as intentional adjustments made by the designers of the precursor model to favor certain geopolitical goals.

But that's not the criticism that I'm often seeing; it's more that there's an "unfair" amount of press coverage towards new models that rely, in the critics' views, more on distillation than on "true" innovation.

It's worth noting that there are many parties with significant motivation to build public sympathy that only "true" innovation should be valued, and it is only their highly-valued investments that can uniquely execute in that space. Cutting-edge models built in caves with a box of their scraps are counter to that narrative. It's worth considering https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html in this context, and understanding whether it is truly "everyone" that is critical in this way.
Blog because you want to, Blog because you can.

I write both technical, and non-technical posts on mine. It is literally one of the few corners of the universe where I can say what goes, what shows, and how it all flows. It is a garden I tend for myself, but others are free to inspect.
Both do search, devices, OS and browsers - very natural verticals to integrate with AI, and both have cloud platforms where they can sell it to developers.

With Meta I can’t think of a single existing vertical where AI would be desirable. Maybe Quest
Spoken like management, ha ha.

It happens. People step in and take over. The company continues.
Oops! ;0)
You can always tell when someone doesn't think that their personal nest eggs can get cracked.
You have fallen for Musk's con.
Reality isn't a Metal Gear Solid fanfic, sorry.
Why are high level figures in these departments just letting them walk in and have access? Tell them to kick rocks until they have proper clearances.
At least it's not AI Demons
Sure. Should be able to extract the relevant bits tomorrow.

I tried some tiling WMs on MacOS(Amethyst?), but they never truly felt like tiling WMs on Linux. I could never reliably switch focus where I wanted it to go. This is not to disparage those projects; my config works well enough and I may not had given them a proper chance.

My tiling is manual and closer to Windows snap feature mixed with Power Toys zones.
https://gwern.net/complement

Joel Spolsky in 2002 identified a major pattern in technology business & economics: the pattern of “commoditizing your complement”, an alternative to vertical integration, where companies seek to secure a chokepoint or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dominating one layer while fostering so much competition in another layer above or below its layer that no competing monopolist can emerge, prices are driven down to marginal costs elsewhere in the stack, total price drops & increases demand, and the majority of the consumer surplus of the final product can be diverted to the quasi-monopolist. No matter how valuable the original may be and how much one could charge for it, it can be more valuable to make it free if it increases profits elsewhere. A classic example is the commodification of PC hardware by the Microsoft OS monopoly, to the detriment of IBM & benefit of MS.

This pattern explains many otherwise odd or apparently self-sabotaging ventures by large tech companies into apparently irrelevant fields, such as the high rate of releasing open-source contributions by many Internet companies or the intrusion of advertising companies into smartphone manufacturing & web browser development & statistical software & fiber-optic networks & municipal WiFi & radio spectrum auctions & DNS (Google): they are pre-emptive attempts to commodify another company elsewhere in the stack, or defenses against it being done to them.
I don’t think anyone wants generated content in their IG/FB feed, so not sure how this will play out in the long run
Is there anything to the notion that you might prefer to be batted around in the “soft body” portion of the dense-crowd “fluid” rather than pinned between several tons of soft bodies in motion and a hard limit? You seem rather more crushable than an individual molecule might be…

(edit: “crowd crush safety expert” Paul Wertheimer, who came to some notoriety through studying mosh pits from within them, apparently suggests—at least in situations where the crowd is moving toward a clear focal point—you’re right: he recommends the edges

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/13/us/how-to-stay-safe-at-concer...

That said I note that the authors of TFA draw a distinction between dense-crowd situations undergoing unidirectional flow and the steady, confined dense crowd whose behavior they describe.)
Nomenclature but I generally think of the west coast on the national scale, but you're correct. I mean, downtown LA is definitely the west coast but it can be much much hotter than Santa Monica, 15 miles away.

But you're right that expensive electricity kills the value proposition.
Unmanned Aerial System designed to carry 300 kg for up to 300 km
By assigning random people with no experience and criminal work history to an internal system with no data restriction on personal information scope? No, that's not how they work. What are you even asking?
Also apparently huge scores of data was just dumped into a Microsoft hosted LLM [1].

So that data is (a) publicly available if you don't secure your VPC properly and (b) available to anyone without RBAC or request logging. This is an extraordinary degradation of the level of private and security controls.

[1] https://www.firstpost.com/tech/elon-musks-team-at-doge-feedi...
Procrastination may be useful. [1] (first thing from a Google search of useful procrastination)

At the very least it’s not universally a bad thing.

Instead of ignoring that comment, take it to mean “users may want a feature to allocate an amount of off time” or something.

https://professional.dce.harvard.edu/blog/the-perks-of-procr...
Failed as a machine, succeeded as an intelligence. Intelligences don't make good machines though.
DOGE isn't providing accountability or transparency. It provides destruction of government agencies and services. And given the enormous amount of grift and corruption done by Trump and the people he associates with, I would expect more corruption after this not less.

And some of the cracked eggs you mentioned are real human lives.
Exactly. People are always incredibly happy and eager to have other people's eggs cracked.
Is it really impressive to reduce expenses drastically if you also reduce revenue drastically?

Secondly it's doubly unimpressive because I believe Musk could have actually maintained very similar revenue levels, but the haphazard and immediate way of laying everyone off was incredibly counterproductive.
Huh? The post: a question with a binary answer. The comment: a binary answer, and slight addition.
I strongly doubt the current Twitter programmers could recreate Twitter from scratch. They are living of of the work a much larger number of programmers and building up a lot of technical debt.
USAID employees did and were fired for it.
Seriously? Not everything needs to be xxxOps. And if you need a "FinOps" team to manage your cloud cost, I would argue that there's something wrong with your whole damn paradigm.
> The biggest irony to me is that Musk wanted to reneg on the Twitter sale

With everything he has lied about why assume he wasn't also lying about that? He has been caught lying about being good at videos games.
great question, i was wondering about that. I think it's mostly in discovery phase right now, similar to how they dabbled in crypto before, and the largely finished by now "metaverse" experiment. (yes, this dabbling involves a ton of money sometimes). These demos actually show what they might end up using AI for, but whether it's truly game-changing for their business and whether it will be good for the regular users, considering their shitty UI's both in FB and even Instagram by now are grossly obsolete, haven't changed in over a decade despite 70,000 people working there, and are nowadays mostly focused on violently shoving more ads over actual usefulness, is still an open question.

If their business remains a shitty declining buggy 20-year-old Facebook and a 10+year-old Instagram app, but they contribute to advancing open source models similar to how they did with React, I'll consider that a net win though.
If you think that inventing new gadgets or writing software will somehow mitigate the effects of climate change, you might need to rethink your worldview.
That's really cool! Can I ask roughly where this is? I wonder if it's an area with generally low humidity.
> it's not a comparison to the cost of new, high end electric vehicles.

Sure, but the point of this entire thread is making this comparison.
Even if this problem you identify really does exist, and isn't just a boogeyman in your imagination, this is not fixing the problem. DOGE is literally creating more graft, and eroding processes put in place to ensure transparency. It will make the problem worse, not fix it.
Have you tried nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/)? It embeds GNU coreutils written in Rust, so it feels like Linux even on a Windows machine.
Millions of dollars?

Bah. Musk and Trump will make a lot more than that disappear into their own and the other oligarchs pockets.
Why You Shouldn't Worry about AI Taking Jobs
Opposing claims?

"Vitamin D3 and omega-3 fatty acids not helpful in reducing risk of frailty"
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-vitamin-d3-omega-fatt...
He went through great lengths to try to get out of it. I suppose it's possible that was a charade, as well, though.
All this data?

We really don’t know what data is being accessed. We have a lot of people saying lots of things about the access. Such as he will block payments or tarter people based on how they vote. You have not claimed those so I won’t rebuttal then here. But “all this data” I will.

The systems bending accessed are the ones which handle money approved by congress to be spent in a specific way.

As a tax payer I am appalled that this data is not already public and broadcasted live. Even more so that the specific legislation that granted the money was already public.

Now let’s say there are social security numbers and maybe even social security numbers tied to addresses or even names. This is still not a reason to not allow an audit.

You might say. Okay let’s audit. But people need to be verified. And at this point your argument is watered down to “I don’t like who is doing this”, which is the same bullshit politics we deal with in any tech company and the same bs that only delays results.

If people were actually worried they would not be trying to stop musk. What they would actually be doing is asking for somebody who they politically align with to also have access to the data and perform their own audit, on top of making much if not all of the data public so those with real trust issues can draw their own conclusions.
Another way to look at this is that there are 12,290 bits of information in choosing 817 samples from 10,000,000.
I blog because I have to find it very difficult to take arguments online in very few words without pictures without citation.

I blog because it forces me to understand the subject matter on a deeper level, to write long form, to keep things as interesting as as possible.. and of course the mere active writing increases my ability to retain information.

I don’t really care if you read it, though, if I’m having a disagreement online, I might care in those situations if you would read a specific post.

I really don’t need to be an online celebrity, it’s not important even in the slightest. Ego does not help for anything.

In fact, even when doing public speaking engagements, I often completely omit an introduction to myself. Because the subject matter should speak for itself, it should not be a reflection of my past accomplishments or the name that I have or desire to build into a brand.
What type of layout do these use?
It's not just that it requires recall. It's that it requires no non-trivial thought beyond recall.
so LLMs can pick it up and advance the reach of the human race
Because Elon has the authority of the President who can override clearances.

US government was simply never designed for scenarios like this.
What's more worrying is whether the access can realistically be revoked. As a general rule, when a security even rises to the level of root access to internal systems, you don't even try to remove them - you just rebuild the affected VMs from scratch because it's the only way to be sure the attacker didn't leave anything behind. For the systems we're talking about, payment processing stuff at Treasury and Social Security and so forth, one wonders if they can even be rebuilt on a reasonable timeframe?
ok, then.
A hardware solution.
These drives are not mechanicaly serviceable, at least by meer mortals. So pot everything, with all of the fasteners and ports, injection molded with simple breakaway covers, that get removed by snapping them off, little holograms torn, it is now evidentialy used. It wont be worth the effort
refurbish in such a way as to look new.
got to be worth the trivial extra effort by an oem, just to return serv.
Alternative would be a tiny window, with a tiny fuse, attached across the input power, blows the first time it powers up
gota be a hundred easy ways to fox em, just keep switching up
Thanks for the response. But:

// Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material. //

..it never had anything whatsoever to do with just reciting over the course material.

...

I don't disagree because your article lacked plausibility to the general public, or that it was rhetorically ineffective, or anything like that. Like I said, I would have wholeheartedly gone along with your article before I started teaching. I might even have wholeheartedly gone along with it if I had only taught at, say, community college, teaching adults.

Just like I was full of good advice on how to have great marriage before I got married. We disagree because we've had different experiences.

// but believe it or not, I have also taught people. //

No doubt you have a store of experiences which nobody else has had, and have seen points of view we have not. Please write about those, something you are actually more than an expert on, something which nobody else could say. This "we don't need traditional education" schtick is old and stale. Don't forget Peter Thiel actually ran an experiment over 10 years ago, paying kids $100,000 to not go to college. Give us something new and fresh.
> The Spanish Catholics were the Wahhabis of the day.

I don’t understand this comparison.

> If the Iberian Moors were still in power in 1518,would we today be calling Latin Americans "Arabs"?

This assumes the Moors would have ventured to the Americas in the first place. At the very least, they didn’t have the same incentives as the Spanish to do so.
The Differences Between Direct Alignment Algorithms Are a Blur
> Free markets are demonstrably better at servicing capital

This premise is highly questionable. Certainly for competitive markets it's entirely false. Uncompetitive markets suffer largely the same failure mode as government bureaucracies, but it's not even clear that this is actually worse, because government bureaucracies are susceptible to not only charging bloated service fees for mediocre service, they can also be captured into diverting tax dollars to private cronies. Just because the government owns the real estate doesn't mean it's manufacturing its own trucks and networking equipment and copy machines, but as soon as it isn't, it's buying that stuff from the market and you need a competitive market or you're still screwed.

So what it comes down to is, you need a competitive market.