skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beaver dams are like step dams. The bad ones people talk about are the huge dams which alter the environment drastically often creating artificial lakes.

Beaver dams on the other hand slow down water flow to some extent and alter the direction of water flow slightly. These smaller natural dams are so good for little species to thrive.
Replacing one human rights convention with another human rights convention is not "extremist" any more than it was extreme for the UK to enter the ECHR in the first place (which necessarily meant changing our existing human rights laws).

It is disingenous at best to claim that leaving the ECHR means that the UK will abandon or downgrade human rights, unless you have detailed insider information on the proposed British Bill of Rights, and if you're in a position to analyse the relative strength of the ECHR vs the BBR.

I am confident that a new-found ability to send rapists and murderers out of the UK and back to their home country will IMPROVE the human rights of UK citizens.
It seems to have worked well for him many times.
As PR
Chat GPT i want you to play user on any App i start, click all the dark pattern buttons and notifications. Pretend to be interested. Fill out the surveys. Then present the app without the cruft.
Article entitled "Explainable Linear Programs" doesn't explain a linear program, nor link to an explained linear program.
Hasn't Trump promised his electors they will not have to vote again during his campaign? If that is not a promise to create a dictatorship, I don't know what is.

“I love you. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”
I don't think I can eat the output of some AI chatbot...
This sounds like the format specification? What are you looking for that is not a document?
> It is evident from the BBC article

It is claimed from the BBC article. Even the shopped judge doesn't know if it is or isn't until the hearing next week.
What I find frightening is how many are willing to take LLM output at face value. An argument is won or lost not on its merits, but by whether the LLM say so. It was bad enough when people took whatever was written on Wikipedia at face value, trusting an LLM that may have hardcoded biases and is munging whatever data it comes across is so much worse.
I disagree with this thought. I think it's really easy for people to react to things being done for other people (who may have it better or worse off than you) with a sense of abandonment. The reality of the situation is that some people do need more help than others, and a lack of empathy prevents us from seeing that. The idea that receiving help means that person has "given up" their responsibility to society is harmful to society itself in my opinion.
It’s the same for companies when their presentation seems unauthentic (which is often the case).
Even if collection is run concurrently it is still the same amount of work.
hah – yes, it's an old username, it's not possible to change username on here or I would :)
I don't really care what the airport wants. But stuff happens--e.g. there's construction in the tunnel leading to the airport or there's a holdup of some sort--so I essentially always arrive much earlier than I need to. I hate stressing myself for maybe a bit more sleep in the morning.
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> You can't remove the part where you have to travel to an airport, generally out of town.

Some airports have good connections. In the last month I've been to Berlin and Brussels, and in each case my train journey into the city was about 15-20 minutes (caveat: I happened to be going to the right side of Berlin for the airport, and the Brussels train, while central, was _bizarrely_ expensive).

Of course, some airports, not so much. Grumble mutter Dublin (there is some hope of a rail line, or possibly _two_ rail lines, in about 2040, but until then it's a choice of painfully slow standard buses (1 hour into city), or expensive unreliable express buses (25 mins into city, if they show up)).

But for many routes, really security, and the sheer poor layout of the airport, is the big slowdown. My favourite for this is London City; the (small, weird) plane lands, you walk out a door, and you are at a DLR stop.

Boarding also always takes far longer than you'd imagine it should, mostly due to people being people. In principle you could board an airliner in a couple of minutes, but only with perfect behaviour from all passengers, so good luck with that.
People are really bad at doing their own research and diagnosing themselves.

I'm much more medically knowledgeable than the average person. I'm reasonably smart, and interested in the subject. And then I married a doctor.

But even given all of those things, I'm very bad a diagnosing myself. I once swore that I had Giardia. I read dozens of papers and case studies. A close family member of mine was also having some similar GI symptoms at the time, and I even calculated the probability that our symptoms were independent.

After that was ruled out from testing and I kept having stomach pain, I did more research. I was pretty sure I had stomach cancer.

Eventually I got scoped--gastritis. Took a PPI for a little bit and it cleared right up. Gastritis wasn't even something that I had considered. It showed up in my search results, but because it wasn't a serious problem, I didn't focus on it.
I really only care about performance in a SIMD sense, as not using SIMD means you aren't targeting performance to begin with(GPU == SIMD, CPU SSE/AVX == SIMD)

Branches fall off vs cmov/select as your lane count increases, they are still useful but only when you are certain the probability all lanes agreeing is reasonably high.
Self-Backtracking for Boosting Reasoning of LLMs
If you mean Trump I don't "trust him", I am just highlighting that they don't seem to be in the position or want to interfere with the voting process.

Now that they are in power interfering with the election process seems to cause them more harm than good, after all if they try it makes their regime seem less legitimate.

Of course with Trump you never know, but I don't think he will be capable of doing more than shouting at governors of each state. If any voting changes go through it will probably be stuff that has bipartisan support.
exactly my point. This is so obviously NOT genuine.
> however most of what I hear from them is about industry and social impact instead of product

Have you considered that, since they are a public benefit corporation staffed with people who left OpenAI in part due to more capitalistic pursuits, this is by design?
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I mean a lot of people have lost trust in doctors, but then again a lot of people have decided that vaccines are created by Bill Gates to mind control them.
What do youy mean by this?
My favourite "visible from space" object (more a manmade geographical feature) is the Hambach surface mine in Germany, home of the Bagger 288.

If you zoom out and look at all of Europe in Google Earth with labels disabled, it's clearly visible as a large bright spot in the Rhineland.
If you consider going to a conference abroad like a mini-holiday with everything paid, and maybe even some fun activity, well, it can be seen as a reward.
EG Daemon – the only developer productivity focused CI/CD system
Moving the data to China is pretty much the same thing as backdooring the encryption, as we have seen.

Really though, decentralised is the way to go: Apple should allow custom endpoints for iCloud that users can set. If the UK or China wants to block a regional endpoint, they can.

Having user provided configurable iCloud servers might be a bit too empowering for Apple though, I suspect they would rather profit from their hosting services!
But who knows, maybe they will be forced into empowering users?
> Is there nothing to learn about dam construction from beavers?

I have to imagine whatever we might learn about dam construction from beavers, we've done so.

> Is there not a 3.5 year beaver-inspired project that could be done cheaper?

Maybe, but it's still not really relevant that beavers made a dam themselves.
I don't think you're going to find any on-he-record first person testimony. It's going to be unnamed government officials, or front-line government employees who are talking to reporters and providing information without direct attribution
The author makes this assertion about LLMs rather casually:

>They don’t engage in logical reasoning.

This is still a hotly debated question, but at this point the burden of proof is on the detractors. (To put it mildly, the famous "stochastic parrot" paper has not aged well.)

The claim above is certainly not something that should be stated as fact to a naive audience (i.e. the authors' intended audience in this case). Simply asserting it as they have done -- without acknowledging that many experts disagree -- undermines the authors' credibility to those who are less naive.
Not really any surprises here, if you’ve been following this stuff. I’d be much more interested in understanding what is holding up penetration of Claude and the rest into medicine, finance, and law.

This may just be my ignorance, but it seems that distributed version control is a highly valuable technology which hasn’t penetrated that well into law. If this is true—my evidence is only anecdotal, talking with lawyers—then it should provide partial insight that translates into the problem of LLM adoption.
Potentially a good source of startup ideas: Look where AI is being underutilized vs its economic potential and go there.
"K is a general-purpose programming language that excels as a tool for data wrangling, analytics and transformation."

How does it compare to R/tidyverse?
People really do sell Tailwind as if it’s a Bootstrap-like framework. I think that’s why so many sites (see: most startups) have a very similar “Tailwind look” now - everybody wants to use Tailwind because it’s hip, but nobody actually wants to write styles if they can help it, so they just copy-paste a very basic rounded-border-plus-shadow style onto all their components and call it a day. It’s a little better than the “Bootstrap look” because at least it doesn’t come with a default accent color that nobody will ever change, but man, it’s not that much better.
That’s a tautology.
Have you noticed the growing number of sites trying to be increasingly aggressive towards ad-blockers? They're not jumping through these increasingly sophisticated (and expensive!) technical hoops to try to squeeze a few more ad views out of a "tiny, tiny percentage".

The Reg gives 52% of all Americans [1], b2.ai (who sells anti ad block services) gives 45% in North America [2], and so on. Most sources seem to fall in a 30%-50% range, with all sources agreeing that uptake on adblockers has rapidly and dramatically increased. People hate ads.

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/

[2] - https://www.b2.ai/ad-blocker-statistics-2024/
I don't see it. This is just an analysis of how Anthropic customers are using the product and what investment areas seem most promising in the future - why wouldn't they want that?
> I really don't buy that this person's AI tool did anything here.

The author fed their medical records to the tool and then, as far as I can tell, the tool included autoimmune disease as a possible explanation.

Every comment that I saw asking for clarification received a vague response. The closest I can see is that the LLM and rheumatologist both proposed “an autoimmune condition” around a similar time, though the answer about which came first is also unclear.

The catch is that for the author to even have a rheumatologist referral to begin with, some previous combination of directors would have had to have suspected an autoimmune possibility and created some documentation to that effect. Those documents were supposedly fed into the tool, which obviously would have surfaced some of the data and possibilities that led to a rheumatologist referral.

So I agree. The way this tool is being presented as diagnosing a mystery illness by itself feels very misleading. I saw this spammed across multiple subreddits last week when the author was trying to promote it. I think maybe they set out trying to get attention on their AI side project on their GitHub profile, but got a little carried away with the angle that it was diagnosing medical mysteries.
>A blood draw is hardly invasive and there is absolutely no reason why the tests cannot be cheap

Sure that's not an example of an invasive test.
Which comments you put this on tells us a lot.
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I would say it is trust worthy because if it were found to be gamed then Anthropic’s reputation would crater.

But, we found out that OpenAI is/was gaming benchmarks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761648) and that seems to be forgotten history now - so I don’t know.
Your two comments here read as scammy and not fit for this forum.
Its a public benefit research company. Expecting it to behave like a normal Corporation is missing the point...
Adobe DRM still troubles readers, but its end seems near
I stopped using Google well before LLMs, because Google became almost worthless to me. But I still use a search engine heavily. LLMs haven't been able to even come close to replacing one for me, and I do find it surprising that they have for others.
I feel insane cognitive dissonance when I read a comment like this. I know/hope what you're saying is in good faith and you aren't trolling. Yet my own experience on how good these models have become and how rapidly they're improving makes me feel like we're talking about 2 completely different things.

Screw the benchmarks, it feels insane how much utility these models already provide in my life and that they keep getting better. I guess all my problems are simple and and "lie in the span of text on the internet", but they're still extremely valuable to me.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out!
Oh yeah that’s the other thing. The software still has multiple bugs. But in general I appreciate the updates. I just wish the update process to be (much) easier. I have sometimes been sitting an hour at the dealer at night just to download the update. Feels like a massive waste of time IMO. I bought the car so that it can provide service for me not the other way around.
The levels of downvotes on your reasonable comments really makes me weep for HN. Seems like it has turned into standard Reddit hivemind users.
Human made dams are not always comparable with bever dams, to say the least. The wildlife have learned to coexist with beavers. Human dams on the other hand can be a lot larger, not allow for emigration, drain large areas and van themselves be drained.
Pre–TSA each airport authority was responsible for security. In theory there was a common standard, in practice it varied greatly airport by airport and contractor by contractor.

Am pulling this completely out of foggy memory but one of the justifications for TSA was that potentially local airport authorities would be considered liable for acts of terrorism like 9/11.
I love that the search is so fast.
If I turn off Javascript, your blog breaks in ways that shouldn't be possible if it really was HTML (specifically, links and images disappear[0]). You're not blogging in raw HTML, but markdown. Your homepage is the most 'raw HTML' page I can find on your blog, because it uses real HTML elements to display things, and doesn't even use JS or CSS.

[0] it's particularly bad on https://devpoga.org/cheap-complexity/
https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/yj1gf2/whatcha_gonna...
I think this is literally _just_ Spain, isn't it? Can't think of anywhere else that does it routinely.
Is there a way to do it as not PR?
> But let me remind you—we’re standing on the edge of World War 3. This isn’t just about OpenAI or DeepSeek; it’s about who controls the future. If China wins the AI race, or if the U.S. loses its edge, we won’t just be talking about lost jobs and struggling tech companies. This is about global power, and the consequences will be catastrophic. The outcome of this war will shape the future of you, your manager, your mother/father, your children, and everyone you know.

Either this part among others is from someone on the outside that is believing the hype or it could be someone from the inside “getting high on their own supply”.

There are a lot of risks that we have from China that doesn’t involve AI - hacks on infrastructure, distribution of supply lines that start or go through China including rare earth minerals, bombing Taiwan, etc
The point is, big.

I've seen a "small" dam in person, which was about 2m high and 10m wide. Such remarkable animals. They need to have a long term plan involving the topography and where the water will be when they're finished and where the lodge will be at that water level. Site selection is critical. Then they have to implement it one limb at a time, by felling whole trees and limbing and transporting them. And the stamina to do this day after day, year after year. Solid engineering and PM work.
> Boarding also always takes far longer than you'd imagine it should, mostly due to people being people. In principle you could board an airliner in a couple of minutes, but only with perfect behaviour from all passengers, so good luck with that.

I don't know why there isn't just a bunch of seats in the terminal laid out the same way as the plane. Sit there and wait, and then when it's time to board, the people at the end get on first, tada, everyone is boarded and we're not stopping each other from getting in.
I’d switched to DuckDuckGo years ago but now it’s a combination of Perplexuty and Deep Research and a few other LLMs
At this point it feels like there is nothing stopping Python's performance from approaching that of Julia over the next decade.
Same. They're generally "not useful" for any practical purpose. But they look nice to a higher level audience that does not require much technical understanding. "These guys drew a diagram, they must know what they're doing", right?
What is missing from this point of view are individual responsibility and willingness to contribute.

This sentiment you're speaking of is basically a racket created by conservative politicians and the media, designed to, as dang would say, "activate" the parts of the voter base. Since Reagan and probably before, they have hammered home catch phrases about "welfare queens" or whatever the buzzword of the day is with no substance behind it. It works for the base because they don't really know or make an attempt to know anyone being "othered" by the media or the politicians in this way.

In reality, it's people like Musk who get tons of tax payer money, privatize all of their gains and then contribute nothing back. They will then have the temerity to cry foul whenever someone tries to make them pay income tax, and they get their way, too, not because they work hard, but because they already have the capital.
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I cannot. Beavers are following biological instincts, not logic. Their dam may not be in the best place, or may fall apart in a short while. What happens when those beavers leave/die?
Technically correct. Best kind of correct. I stand corrected.
>You do realize

Yes, because I did the interview. But then I've done the background check and interview for jobs as well. And honestly, there's a ton of that information about you in computers if you travel by air at all. Don't fly (in particular) if you want to be anonymous.
>The key part of that statement is "continue to improve" we have no way of knowing where we are on the sigmoid curve of improvement.

Such a tired take. What we do know is we are not on the flattening part and literally every company working on these technologies is saying there is no end in sight.
I don’t understand why people act like checking bags is a huge time sink. It’s maybe fifteen minutes at most on a bad day for the bag drop, and I can’t remember the last time I had to wait more than 20 minutes for them to show up on the carousel at my destination (and 20 minutes is super slow, it’s usually more like 10). The only times I’ve really had problems with checking bags is connecting flights when my flight is delayed or canceled and such, and even then while there was some stress over it my bags always got to my destination either when I did or sooner. On the last point the last time I flew international I had a baggage attendant at Heathrow actually call my phone personally to reassure me they had my bag and told me where to go to pick it up when I got to baggage claim.

I’m sure there’s horror stories out there of course, there always is, but 99.99% of the time checking a bag is only marginally less convenient than trying to fit everything in my carryon.
Justify it however you like, but there is no course in which hacking the system is legal
Let's look 100 years ahead. With natural selection/evolution replaced by technology, it's not hard to imagine that the human species can survive with a much smaller population. So mass population decline plus space colonization will probably create a steady equilibrium, where the intrinsic value of a human equals the cost of keeping them alive.
I'm not in a position to tell them anything. If I were, I would try and convey
that I understand nothing can replace what they've lost, but the cause of the accident will be investigated and determined. Recommendations from that investigation will result in procedures being added to cannon of safety measures to help prevent future similar tragedies. What would you tell them?
> Your own source would be a good example

You say this then go on to shit on it and then only agree with parts that support your argument?

> they are unlikely to ever have children

This reports the same thing:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...

> That study is 'p-hacked'

Not typically how p-hacking is used?

> Having the age range be 18-49 is illogical

It looks like they selected the buckets on the criteria of being adults and physically able to have children.

> 18-49 is not reasonable for fertility issues

I guess? It probably made the survey easier to conduct though.

> Even with their heavily biased sample

Why is their sample biased? It was a survey of that population.
No reason to release the ants, just code just make a model and solve it with Ant Colony Optimization Algortihm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algo...
Okay, thanks for saying so
If I have a 2-year old child and I need to feed him or change his diaper but he's enclosed in his own sealed pod do I just have to wait 8 hours before I can interact with him at the other end or something? And what if I am traveling with my wife and she wants to put her head on my shoulder?
FinePersonas
Open dataset of 21 Million detailed personas for diverse and controllable synthetic text generation.
This would be really nice as browser library. Could just dragn drop a file and see its insides. But impressive nonetheless.
Ada has practically no mindshare, Rust does. Just like say, Scala, things can be technically 'good', but without adoption it isn't going to get the attention and visibility to compete with everything that does.
Everyone reading this should research the end of life healthcare situation in the US. In the current system you will be destitute, your assets will be sucked dry until you have nothing, only then will you qualify for Medicaid. Only the wealthy can die with assets to pass on. We are currently experiencing this with our parents. The system is set up so social security pays just enough to not qualify for Medicaid and Medicare doesn’t cover what they need (assisted living or home healthcare).
Liz Fong-Jones shouldn't cite Paul Krugman citing Nathan Tankus (ugh) as some sort of expert on COBOL! Same goes for Talking Points Memo.

Liz's expertise as a site reliability engineer is more than sufficient already!