skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, such a great way to put it.

This is relevant to HN because I'm probably paraphrasing this incorrectly but pg has said the following about why it's hard to launch a startup: the vast majority of ideas that sound stupid are, in fact, stupid. The ones that sound like great ideas have most likely already been done. Thus, the startups that have huge growth potential tend to be the ones that sound stupid given the conventional wisdom (so unlikely to have been tried yet) but are, contrary to the norm, actually great ideas in disguise. These ideas are basically by definition very rare.
I think this is a response to Gary Marcus: https://xcancel.com/GaryMarcus/status/1888606569245679893#m

“The architecture of the DeepSeek SYSTEM includes a model, and RL architecture that leverages symbolic rule.”

Marcus has long been a critic of deep learning and LLMs, saying they would “hit a wall”.
Ah, but probability is all about hypothetical instances, and how the host makes his decisions—or if he’s allowed to make a decision at all—is a key consideration in the calculation of the probability. If we don’t know how the host decides whether or not to offer a switch then we can’t calculate a probability and can’t decide which choice is better.
tl;dr they were able to get an AI to copy a directory and run a program with extensive prompting, by bruteforcing running everything in the directory. It could query a liveness port by running or generating netstat (which is cool!) to check if it was alive, and repeatedly tried to run literally everything until it worked. The code was explicitly set up to make it as easy as possible for the AI to run, and required no configuration or work of any description on the part of the AI

Their idea of an AI self replicating is copying a directory and running an executable. In their model, this code is alive:

cp p1.py p2.py
python p2.py

This is one of the most grossly sensationalist papers I've ever seen for an incredibly trivial amount of work, and that's saying something. The field is full of such incredible rubbish
I reckon Musk is so over extended that the only reason he’s doing what he’s doing is to basically rob what he can to cover it before a bigger fish comes along and he falls off a yacht like Madoff.
Who are they? Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta have already kissed the ring
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It's the kind of trait you perceive positively when they are applied against people you dislike, and you perceive negatively when they are used against you.
There are different type of bad actors, some are ready to invest heavily, meaning time and money, some are there only to make a quick buck.
> It's my computer, I should be at the top of the permissions totem pole, not Apple

Here are the instructions to enable logging in as root, since privilege escalation seems inconvenient for you:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102367
Lordy... I followed a link from that to his vaccine website project. Whole morning, gone.
I kind of wonder how many BTC I had... Never got around to installing a GPU-accelerated miner back then (they were quite new) as I quickly stopped seeing the point (the more sensible alternative for donating computation was BOINC) and deleted the thing.
Yes, I also saw the post about the fire hydrants the other day. No I was not able to confirm that fire hydrants are shown in countries in which they are not a common sight.

However, I am far from arguing in favour of reCAPTCHA. It is also an example of shit CAPTCHA that also bans people. I am often one of these people.

No there is no example of a CAPTCHA-as-a-service that I know of that I would be fine to impose on my users.
>In the USA, given that the vast majority of apartments don't have to pay energy bills, this means they don't have an economic incentive to upgrade appliances, provide adequate insulation during construction, or maintain air seals.

I don't understand this argument.

Someone is paying the bill (the owner), and they are also paying for maintaining air seals and upgrading appliances (you don't bring your own). Why don't you think there are economic incentives?

In fact, I'd argue there are greater incentives to do this for the building owner: greater scale and more efficiencies.
You might live in a world where the host doesn't want to give you the car, and only opens a door and offers you the option of switching if your first choice was the door with the car behind it. In that world, you shouldn't switch. I don't think this form of the problem statement gives you any reason to believe that you aren't in that world.
If it matters, ask your lawyer. If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Good luck.
> He's using his enormous amount of wealth and influence as a weapon to bludgeon anyone and anything in his way.

Using your "enormous amount of wealth" as a weapon means you'll be frittering away that wealth very quickly. Especially since others will be inclined to take the other side of the bet as soon as they catch on to it happening.
Yesterday I watched a Harry Potter movie with my GF. I was a huge Potter-head back in the days, she haven't read the books. So I tried to explain to her the huge discussions around the acronym RAB in the books, and how the Norwegian translator had guessed on RAS to match how other character names were translated. Led me down to this article which has a whole section on "difficulties in translation" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_transla...

So how the mirror of Erised had do get a proper backwards name in Norwegian, the O.W.Ls needed a fun acronym as well, Tom Marvolo Riddle is translated as Tom Dredolo Venster to make a matching sentence akin to how it in English is I am Lord Voldemort. Gotta make the songs and poems rhyme, etc.

The Norwegian translation is a work of love, and the translator Torstein Bugge Høverstad got quite famous here for his work.
I've been saying the same thing about Tesla for years, but here we are. The market can stay irrational blah blah blah
I believe the US stock market has become too big to fail. Which is one of the reasons why the central bank has stepped in, to stabilize and essentially prop it up. Too many American investors have their life savings in it, and if the bottom falls out, the pitchforks will be coming for those (who think they are) in power.
I would be pretty shocked if the Anthropic reasoning model is not mind blowing and doesn't take the lead back.
> He always had it? Money give influence naturally.

Not as much as he has now: he was famously frustrated by the California state government's Covid lockdown mandates, and was pretty powerless against them. That frustration is probably what led him to buy influence in the Trump campaign,and later administration. Money can take you so far, political power will take you further for imposing your will on others.

The "Shock-and-awe"/blitzkrieg strategy is another force-multiplier. By moving much faster than the bureaucracy and legal system can respond, the question on whether he has the power or authority to do the things he's doing may become moot.
You're right. I was too quick and jumped the gun by calling it "bad analysis". However, I do believe that the source of this offer is the larger factor than the dollar amount in OpenAI's valuation of the offer. If this was anyone else offering to buyout OpenAI then the argument makes sense, but Sam Altman and Elon Musk seem to hate each other's guts and are even resorting to name-calling online in the fallout of this offer.

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1889062013109703009

There's a good chance there's more to it than I realize, though.
I had to search for it
> So weird to be nostalgic of something I never owned or used.

For what it's worth, I feel the same way about the Nintendo 64, and the Mario franchise, etc.

Makes me think that nostalgia requires a certain quality, not just familiarity.
Locking the cockpit doors solves the 9/11 problem. On a multi-hour flight someone could still just blow up the plane or start killing passengers.
How much harder would it be to implement than say, JS? 3 orders of magnitude more difficult?

I wonder if there's a deno/bun style business in here. Would be cool to see Ada compete with Go/nodejs/java etc. Or do you think that would be a terrible fit for the language?
> When trying to make an informed choice on a purchase, I'll typically look for enthusiast communities or unsponsored reviews. Marketing actually tends to actively get in the way.

Right but where do they get their info? If there were no advertisements, would they call up companies to see what they offered? How would they know a new company existed? Would there be an online enthusiast group for toilet brushes and tape and granite blocks for curbs? How would you know if there was a new store to buy those things? Would that store having a sign that included what they sold constitute advertising? Could your local fish shop put a sign in the window advertising the weekly special? Could they post a picture of it online? Obviously circulars would be advertisements— would catalogs constitute advertisements? What would inspire any innovation at all if there was no way for anyone to discover some new competition existed? How would stores know that manufacturers and distributors existed? Is packaging advertising? Is there a limit to where you can place packages? Show them on the Internet? Do you really think those enthusiast communities wouldn’t be chock full of industry voices? Do you think they aren’t already? Do you really think your process is totally objective?

There are a lot of shitty practices in marketing and advertising. Especially with data-driven marketing, I might be the harshest critic I’ve encountered. But advertising at its core is just telling people that products exist. That’s it. Capitalist societies don’t function without being able to communicate that products exist, but even communist countries have (and always had) advertising to tell people that things existed.

I abhor many practices in marketing and advertising, but at some level, companies must be able to tell people that they have a product to sell. I have never encountered anybody that suggested a reasonable replacement that would work for everything from computers to condoms to lettuce to bars to bakeries to cars to cleaning services to email hosts to edge network caching to hobbyist clubs to camp grounds.
I think verbosity has an unreasonable stigma attached to it. I think verbosity without any value is bad, but that's not what one gets with Patrick's blogs. He's verbose because he is trying to explain very complex situations to people who have no prior background in them, and that means it's going to get verbose. He couldn't really cut anything without hurting his readers' ability to understand the situations he writes about.
I assume you are using Postgres? If so i believe you will be limited by max_notify_queue_pages.

I would instead try would be to create an event table in the db, then create a publication on that table and have clients subscribe to that publication via logical replication. You would have to increase the number of replication slots though.
My point is more housing stock alone would solve many issues, just not this one. It’s the same reason sound insulation which most people care about isn’t directly measured when renting or buying an apartment, you just don’t know upfront.

Now if there was a lot of housing stock, and apartments were forced to include expected utility bills / apartment to apartment sound transmission level that would help.
And we aren't those countries.
Well, I would at least ask what the baseline was. The vast majority of websites on the internet don't really have to deal with sophisticated bot traffic, and a very simple traditional CAPTCHA, one that can be trivially solved using existing technology, will also cut SPAM to zero or very close. I don't know exactly why this is, but I suspect it's because most of the bot operations that scale far enough to hit low volume websites are very sensitive to cost (and hence unlikely to deploy relatively-expensive modern multi-modal LLMs to solve a problem) and not likely to deploy site-specific approaches to SPAM.

There are a lot of things that can trivially cut down SPAM ranging from utterly unhelpful to just simply a bad idea. Like for example, you can deny all requests from IPs that appear to be Russian or Chinese: that will cut out a lot of malicious traffic. It will also cut some legitimate traffic, but maybe not much if your demographics are narrow. ReCAPTCHA also cuts some legitimate traffic.

The actual main reason why people deployed reCAPTCHA is because it was free and easy, effectiveness was just table stakes. The problem with CAPTCHAs prior to reCAPTCHA is simply that they really weren't very good; the stock CAPTCHAs in software packages like MediaWiki or phpBB were just rather unsophisticated, and as a double whammy, they were big targets for attack since developing a reliable solver for them would unlock bot access to a very large number of web properties.

Do you need reCAPTCHA to make life hard for bots, though? Well, no. Having a bespoke solution is enough for most websites on the Internet. However, reCAPTCHA isn't even necessarily the best choice even for something extremely high-volume. Case-in-point, last I checked, Google's own DDoS protection system still used a bespoke CAPTCHA that largely hasn't changed since the early 2010s; you can see what it looks like by searching for the Google "sorry" page.

I agree that reCAPTCHA is not "worthless" but it's worth is definitely overstated. Automated services that solve CAPTCHAs charge less than a cent per-solve. For reCAPTCHA to be very effective against direct adversaries rather than easily-thwarted random bots, the actual value of bypassing your CAPTCHA has to be pretty damn low. At that point, it's very reasonably possible that even hashcash would be enough to keep people from SPAMing.
The name-calling in public discourse wears on me. Ad-hominems, bad faith arguments. I’ve gotten to where I avoid the news altogether because of this seemingly accelerating trend.
I'm reminded of this saying:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...
What’s impressive about Tesla? It’s already being outcompeted by companies in China, losing market share, and the other manufacturers are catching up.

Besides that, he’s pissed off the demographics most likely to buy Teslas. It’s not like most Trump voters are buying EVs
I really wish people would test their site on desktop browser rather than just their phone. Would like to read this but sites too narrow and small.
>I typically like Elon about 70% of the time

>I don't quite understand how he suddenly got so much influence.

then you don't know much about him
It's disappointing the degree to which a bulk of the Linux community seems to be chasing whatever paradigms they learned on whatever Windows machines they were first to exposed to (or pay no consideration to UX at all).

It seems that the Stallman-esque "FOSS or die" attracts a lot of people who think about engineering problems more than HCI ones, and there is a vocal subset of "FOSS or die" in every Linux community I've encountered.
But the limiting factor isn't whether you're in the airport, it's whether you can arrive at the airport with that much a time margin reliably. It does not take many traffic accidents or an unexpected rail disruption to mean you miss your flight, for example - the 2 hour window is essentially to force people to account for unexpected delays.
Ugh, sorry, the grammatical issue with this article made it difficult to read, though the actual content may be valuable.
You can email hn@ycombinator.com the request and they may grant it, there are plenty of precedents.
This was the intended use for those funds.
was looking for a musk margin call in 2023, no such luck, now he’s VP and markets are still fake
I'd take the title more seriously, "founding engineer" = "cofounder". Otherwise, you're employee/engineer #1
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> It really broke the spell that America could fuck around in the rest of the world without finding out.

That's . . . a take, considering that OBL's main beef with America was infidel troops on the soil of Saudi, because the Saudi royals were the guardians of Mecca. And the Saudis asked us to intervene against Saddam.

9/11 wasn't some coherent beef with US foreign policy; it was bog-standard religious extremism of the Salafist Islamic flavor.
You quoted something I didn't write?

Regarding the robots and ignorance. You honestly sound a bit unhinged. You ought to touch grass.
> consortium led by Elon Musk

Are there other major investors involved here or just Musk?
What is crazy is that in the entire ocean, with its massive size and biomes, we know what the scariest creature is, and that creature has never killed a human in the wild best we can tell.
The hosts' strategy is the core of the puzzle. The question is what information he has just conveyed to the player by opening the door and that depends entirely on his mental state. If he was always going to open a door then the player should switch. If he is opening a door only if the player has picked the car then they should not switch. If he has bizarre ad hoc motivations then the correct decision depends on bizarre ad hoc considerations.

And, as CrazyStat has correctly pointed out, as stated in the linked article the hosts' strategy is an unknown. It could be bizarre. Although I'd still rather say vos Savant was correct in her reasoning; since the answer is interesting it seems fairer to blame the person posing the question for getting a detail wrong.
We just had two teenage boys in the area get ejected through the windshield (not wearing seat belts). One died, one's in the hospital.

Wear your seatbelt.
Welcome to fascism. In Mussolini’s words “government you can do business with” great if you have money sucks for everyone else.
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Similarly rare is the "traditional" EDS phenotype with stretchy skin and hypermobile joints. Usually seeing them for shoulder dislocations or other orthopedic injuries.

By far the most common (and massively increased over the past few years) is the crowd that attracts all the eye rolls. These are almost exclusively women, usually white, age 16-35, presenting with a constellation of nonspecific chronic complaints including myalgias/arthralgias, fatigue, GI symptoms, etc. None of them have stretchy skin or abnormally hypermobile joints. Very high rate of fibromyalgia/POTS/CFS in this group. They're usually coming to the ED for diffuse pains, dizziness, or something else I really can't fix. Maybe there is some underlying organic disorder we haven't sorted out yet, maybe these are somatic manifestations of untreated anxiety/depression.

One thing about the hEDS diagnosis is the explosion of self-dx from social media (TikTok) which makes physicians cringe.

There's no good genetic test, and even if there was there is not much to be done other than supportive measures.
You can use Steam Link to render a VR environment on one device and project it into another's goggles over wifi. Or you can use Stadia and its compatriots to play 3D-rendered video games over WAN.

The amount of low-latency bandwidth modern computers have available is mindboggling.
Opinions are information?
And you suppose the Trump administration can be trusted to supply those facts? Because that's the source you're citing, if I understand Kyle Cheney's tweet correctly (I may not!).
Ok I am legit interested in the behavior of "thousand of a's" Claude lol.

You make a good point that "degree of persistence within context" is an important metric to test WRT personality. I did do some testing with extended context / long conversations that didn't make the final cut; the t-SNE looked very similar to what I included, but no conclusive results right now.
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Well, Trump was always this, but my theory is Musk cooked his brain on various drugs during COVID lockdown and is now incapable of feeling fear.
What I was saying is you completely disconnect the inverter from the panels. The panels become an island, with the positive and negative from the strings instead going through something like a basic DIN mount DC circuit breaker and into the input feed side of a battery charge controller.
IMO it was just the strongest model for awhile for programming. It got the answers right more often than not.

It is faster than the reasoning/chain of thought models. With current o1 and DeepSeek though I haven't logged into Claude in a few weeks.

I have no inside knowledge but I am kind of expecting Sonnet chain of thought any day now and I am sure that will be incredible.
I think the author is discounting their own design sense which is necessary to come up with the ideas! (Or even to take inspiration from other sites.)

Side note, better not animate with useState when you can use CSS animations, react renders are cheap but they add up and can't match the browser's layout/styling engine!
This is cool enough. But I find the "celebrification" style of the piece a bit off putting. Did I really need to see multiple posed shots of this young man reposing in various university settings? It's like we need our own version of La La Land to glorify the survivors of computer success to motivate more to participate.
So... not wanting to have people around with enough money to buy a US president is... Marxism?
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> Nothing about the problem should lead you to believe that the host is an evil genie purposefully trying to trick you.

Is it really unreasonable to assume that the host would like to keep the car? As I see it, that's the economic intuition behind why most people don't switch.
I really thought his inauguration performance (the drugs, the saluting) would finally wake people up to what's going on what Elon Musk.

To anyone who can see it (maybe it takes some relevant life experience), it's patently obvious he's been spiraling down a dark hole of drugs, depression, ego, burn out, and addiction.

He's in a very dark place and lashing out, hurting himself and others, like so many people in dark places do.

The man desperately needs help, as much as someone on the street doing fentanyl does. But being rich can actually make it harder to get clean. Wealth can insulate a person from consequences, which can make it harder to hit rock bottom which is often the wake up call people need to shock themselves out of their problem.

Elon Musk isn't the devil, he's actually good and useful person deep down, but right now he's fighting demons and they're winning.
Both hypotheses seem plausible: https://www.behindthename.com/name/enzo
It wasn't always this bad for most people. It's fREe SpEEcH aBSolUtISm now.
next move, please finally enforce the switch to the metric system!

if you want to cement your legacy as US president, that would do it.
I'm not up to date on the state of the art but I've implemented hash tables a few times and we would expand the hash table whenever it was 75% full, which means x is never greater than 4. Improving the runtime from O(x) to O((log x)^2) doesn't matter when x is so small.

I imagine there are some niche memory-constrained applications where you'd let x get larger but I never ran into them personally.