skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still can't believe Musk came up with a name that shortens to DOGE. This is next level political trolling. Then again people got what they voted for.
While your engineering perspective emphasizes efficiency, it's worth noting that, akin to the human brain, we aim to develop powerful LLMs capable of performing complex cognitive tasks. Although they may operate more slowly, these models can, for instance, reason through intricate problems without external tools, much like Einstein conceptualized relativity through thought experiments or Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem through deep mathematical insight
If you translate the article and read it, you will find that there are a lot of reported issues with the headlights. It is hard to find exact information on the actual issue in detail, but I'd suspect it's about the calibration of the headlights in most cases. That's a minor issue and calling it a reliability problem doesn't seem accurate. Also quite conveniently, they don't really mention that Teslas have significantly more mileage on average than other electric cars when they have their first TÜV visit. It's common for the German press to blow things like these out of proportion when they don't like a brand.

Also there's things like these which are way too common for my taste: https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/adac-skandal-gelber-enge...

I think the German car industry and the press around it as a whole have a serious corruption issue.

I am sure HN has made up their mind already and this discussion wouldn't have an effect on your opinion anyway, so please feel free to continue downvoting.
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I posit they'll find out that living inside London is terrible and they'll all move to the location that'd be Surrey. Turning that area terrible in turn.
Funny enough this is almost a canonical example of data leakage and the incorrect (or extremely extrapolated) assertions that AI can solve what seems like majorly important and valuable tasks. There are 2 very pertinent observations needed.
1. The state of the healthcare system, assuming this is the US, care is based on triage and constantly requires a number of hoops to go through to get deeper analysis or specialists, an emergent property of not having value based care. They do this to save costs while ensuring you are not going to die.
2. They are using and feeding in data from the doctors visits, which means that AI is not really providing a diagnosis in a way that can replace anything necessarily. The fact there are many visits would help a flow chart decision rule out/in possibilities.

You see a lot of this in AI hoopla and even in some of the industry papers where AI is relying on data that only becomes available because of a doctor's orders, so you are not "replacing" it per se.

If anything this demonstrates that value based care would provide better experience and outcomes for people with hard to diagnose conditions.
In a way it's the same thing as finding that models got lazier closer to Christmas, ie the "Winter Break" hypothesis.

Not sure what caused the above but In my opinion not only is the training affected by the date of training data (ie it refuses to answer properly because every year of the training data there was fewer or lower quality examples at the end of the year), or whether it's a cultural impression of humans talking about going on holiday/having a break etc in the training data at certain times and the model associating this with the meaning of "having a break".

I still wonder if we're building models wrong by training them on a huge amount of data from the Internet, then fine tuning for instruct where the model learns to make certain logical associations inherent or similar to the training data (which seems to introduce a myriad of issues like the strawberry problem or is x less than y being incorrect).

I feel like these models would have a lot more success if we trained a model to learn logic/problem solving separately without the core data set or to restrict the instruct fine tuning in some way so that we reduce the amount of "culture" it gleans from the data.

There's so much that we don't know about this stuff yet and it's so interesting to see something new in this field every day. All because of a wee paper on attention.
I don't keep anything I can't replace on my phone.

Hell I still use paper for some stuff...
The first comment (now) quibbles about the definition of advertising.

The second comment (now) quibbles about the use of the word cancer. (there is benign cancer).

Advertising (whether it uses tracking or not) can be defined as the intention of convincing someone rather than providing information. Intent is to convince. PROPOGANDA.

The intent is for the target/prey/victim to be unable to distinguish the truth value.

So here we have a first problem. Is the intent of the first comment on HN

"Most of the arguments .. are not about 'advertising' ..."

made to help me understand the article better? Or are they made with the intent of causing to me doubt the article (or even not to read it).

The same question can be asked about the second question. Ad infinitum and nauseaum.

THAT is STAGE 1 social cancer. I can no longer trust the intention of posts on HN.

STAGE 2 is that I can no longer trust the INTENTION of any media.

Do I want a recipe for cookies? Use the "garrble" to search. Can I really believe that this recipe has ever been made by the person/bot/AI that created it?

STAGE 3. Human societies and Communities are founded on trust. The ability to come to a common understanding of a situation and act collectively. STAGE 3 is when communities and societies no longer function.

The internet has STAGE 2 cancer and some STAGE 3. Since our society in the US depends on the internet ....

Well you cannot trust anything I say, I could be an AI for all you know. And probably my definitions are wrong, my understanding of stages of cancer is faulty, etc.

Here is my 2cents. The article vastly underestimates the damage and dangers, but is definitely worth a read.
> still another net 600,000 people

.. many of whom are NHS employees, since we don't train enough locally.

https://www.nhsconfed.org/articles/immigration-harming-nhs

"Recent NHS data shows that across all NHS staff in England (1.4 million), more than 17 per cent (264,815) are from overseas. Percentages for nurses are much higher – nearly 27 per cent of NHS nurses are from outside the UK (99,856 of the 372,605 nurses and health visitors recorded).

Further, the workforce plan is supported by the government, for example, having set a target to recruit between 51,000 and 57,000 international nurses by 2023/24"
> While electricity is remarkable, no one gets extremely rich selling it.

Enron did!
It uses the same FSRS as Anki. You can see some of the logic in my open source version of the app here https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt...

Anki uses this FSRS which is an open sourced algorithm https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki
I don't know about that. As an old school gamer, I notice that the second IAPs show up the design of the game changes to accomodate them, and that is always hostile to the player's time if not wallet.

I don't have any recent examples because I'm simply avoiding anything with IAPs but look at Guild Wars 2 and Path of Exile.

Even if you sell "extra content" (not game expansions) as IAPs you end up with 20 extra leaders at $5 each for Civilization, or whatever Paradox is adding to all their games.
Note that he's inferring from a base model there, which are fairly capable of regurgitating their (highly-weighted) inputs since they do nothing but predict pre-training tokens. For instruct services like ChatGPT, if they regurgitate something I'd think it would more likely be their fine-tuning data, which is usually owned by the provider (and also kept secret).
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Ignoring the age of the people involved, the idea that what is happening is in the name of "efficiency" is laughable.

Maybe these departments are all wasteful but there are better ways achieve "efficiency" than just shutting down departments without having plans about what is going to happen afterwards.

What is efficient about shutting down departments without notice or without looking at the impact or having alternatives besides just not providing those services. How about seeing if there are better ways to do the same things before just shutting down departments? Or looking at the areas of the government that have more significant budgets? Or considering that there is more to efficiency than money?
it would be helpful to evidence your hypothesis with example threads here on HN, I guess. do you have examples at hand? And are you talking about "brigading", i.e. groups of HN users who organize outside HN to in dang's terms "activate" discussions inside HN? as in "hey brigade, please have a look at topic xyz: ..."? is this what you're talking about?
1. I probably don't care. On the list of things I want from a shell (what you are asking for isn't a function of the terminal, but of the program running in it) this is so low, I would never cared if it was added. I never wanted it to work like this, but as long as it doesn't actively get in the way, I'm OK with it.

2. What's "normal"? Do you mean CUA-style navigation? In that case, absolutely, no effing way! These keybindings are awful. And it's good that they are awful. It wouldn't be a good idea to often accidentally press C-c and kill whatever thing you are working with. But, it's not a convenient key chord for an operation as common as "copy". Now, you may say "in addition to already existing text editing key bindings": but then, again, no, because I want these keys for rare and dangerous operations. I don't want them to be duplicates of existing and better functionality.

NB. Both of your improvements aren't about terminals. They are about programs run by terminals (eg. shells). But you probably knew that already. I realize that OP and the comments lump all these tools together under the same label. But it's still worth pointing out that these are separate issues at least in the sense that nothing you can do to the terminal will effect the change you want to see.
But you're still a liar. And 'calling you out' isn't a prerequisite to (correctly) suspecting it.
Is an independent audit in November of 2024 recent enough? Nothing material found. A few recommendations on reviewing leases and tightening expense reports.

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/0-000-25-0...
Indeed, the reasoning I've read falls close to the last paragraph of your previous comment. Components will consistently apply "atomic styles" everywhere and so are thought to be a replacement for "semantic styling" (sprinkling in some quotes because I don't know the exact terminology).
> I've long been confused* to why there was no legislation to prevent "local" companies from giving away the keys to their kingdoms to foreign countries.

>*Not really, politicians are just as short-term motivated as business owners.

Voters also like lower prices today in exchange for higher volatility tomorrow. No one was forced to shop at national businesses rather than local businesses, but people like the lower prices of larger businesses.
It also wrongly suggested MS for me, so shall we say 50% success rate?
Yeah, I'm always a bit suspicious of apparently effective dietary changes which result in a calorie reduction - often different people report completely different dietary changes helped them, but one thing they all have in common is being in calorie deficit.

There are plenty of studies showing that caloric restriction calms inflammatory responses which are responsible for the majority of common diseases. Without balancing the energy intake, I'm always slightly suspicious that any improvements with changing what I eat are actually caused by the change in how much I eat.
>>"We" decided that 'privacy' is more important

Umm, the importance of privacy was decided to prevent insurance companies from abusing your data & history to jack up your rates or refuse coverage.

>>us as individuals allowing our doctors to use existing LLMs to help them diagnose us

What prevents you from giving your human doctor permission to upload your data/history into an existing LLM to assist your diagnosis? Just fill in the HIPPA form and hand it to their administrator...

>>study shows human doctors don't effectively use LLMs even when they do have access

YUP. That is the problem; they are not yet taking as full advantage as possible. Although I have read that it is spreading in radiology where there is solid evidence the AI models do better, so it might be just a question of medical professionals being conservative and waiting for more solid data...
Because doctors aren't diagnostic machines, they learn a bunch of shit, use 10% of it, develop hubris syndrome and never fill in the blanks. An expert system doesn't have these same failings, but definitely has others.
do you have any studies that back that up?

IMO the chime, if anything, decreases safety (it interrupts the driver's attention)
The app is using the same Anki FSRS algo its open source https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki

Agreed would be swimming against the tide rolling a custom one. Anki's is awesome! This app functions much the same just makes card generation MUCH faster than Anki.
China is investing a lot in "AI hospitals".
No, even 'good' advertisement is mostly zero-sum game bad for the consumer. However, Overton window has shifted so much that people just accept them (at best as a free entertainment) without questioning.

Example with airlines: airlines stealing each other's customers just raises the price for the tickets (by the amount paid for advertisement) without net benefit for the consumer.

The only advertisement I can consider a good one is a shop sign on the shop/restaurant and perhaps a sign on a nearby crossing to direct me there.

Logically, a 'really good deal just became available' should be a useful one (information - wise), but that has been gamed to such an extent...
I'm loving Claude, is there a good VS Code integration tool that isn't Github Copilot?
It took a while to parse the title! (IANAMD, IANAB, this may be wrong.)

Autogene: From the tumor, so 100% customized

cevumeran: Is a mRNA covered with lipids (similar to the covid-19 vaccines?)

Atezolizumab: Is a monoclonal antibody that is already in the market.
Yeah but it does seem that they're getting high % numbers for the distilled models accuracy against the larger model. If the smaller model is 90% as accurate as the larger, but uses much < 90% of the parameters, then surely that counts as a win.
I'm guessing that it's a reference to the leading theory for the origin of the Indo-European language family.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_homeland
Yes there is, but you have to tell someone you have something to sell at some point. Even if it goes through independent reviewers, the reviewer has to be reached somehow, that's still advertising.

You are probably not going to find a job if you don't tell anyone you need a job, job hunting is also advertising.
I agree. If it wasn't for the memory safety meme this would have never been considered.
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Things back in 2004 had some pretty big weaknesses.

A manual backup once a month? Easy to lose a month's work. Or more, if you're forgetful.

A backup hard drive in your laptop bag? Easy to get the laptop and the backup drive stolen at the same time.

A network drive you can backup your files to any time you need to? Easy for a virus/cryptolocker to hit your computer and your backup at the same time.

Backing up your smartphone? What's a smartphone?

I'm not saying I like the complexity of modern backups, but there are reasons for it...
Pulled from above:

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A more enjoyable read than the parent post.
Not gonna lie - the website design looks really good.

Since I primarily build native apps, it seems the SDK is still in development. What are the expected timelines for that (plus or minus)?
The company raced to beat Amazon to sell AI tools to the Israel Defense Forces.
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The underlying point is game theoretical: ads are driven to these methods because within their niches, they're zero sum games (and negative sum for society at large due to externalities).

> Honestly it's hard to see how we get to this level of speed and content online without it having been funded by advertising.

I don't understand what this means. Most content online that isn't user generated (forums, blogs, wikipedia, YT, short form video etc) is junk. Most of it is made for free. The distribution has costs - but it's extremely unclear the costs couldn't be solved in different ways. Serving text is ultra cheap. Torrents distribute way more video than industry is happy with. We didn't need to take this path.
> A $15 tool that would save hundreds of hours of tasks?

Not a software tool, but a $15 VPS on Hetzner or such would absolutely save hundreds of hours of tasks in the case I described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000114

Even better, you could add a few more $15 boxes to quintuple the savings before it would make sense to look for another thing to improve. And better still, $15 is just a generic VPS price I pulled off the top of my head, you could do it cheaper if you tried.

They didn't even want to try.
I don't know if it was once different, but this seems to be a constant both in the US for-profit model and the UK not-for-profit one. After all, you are the person who knows you best, and has your own interests most at heart. So you need to advocate for yourself. Which can be extremely difficult in some situations, so you also need family who understand and are willing to help you.
i don't think it's just about the training material. it's also about keeping track of the precise number of tokens. you'd have to have dedicated tokens for 1+1+1+1 and another one for 1+1+1+1+1 etc.
Indeed, had AT&T been able to sell UNIX at VMS prices (or whatever else OS from those days) from day one, without access to source code, and history would have taken a different path, regarding UNIX and C adoption.
I wonder if the US does or would subsidize USPS. USPS is required to earn enough money to pay for itself, which it mostly does by delivering advertising to people’s mailboxes.
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It sucks being the individual in this process. The only real solution is to develop better models for understanding what's going on so that we can come up with objective criteria and testing.

To an external observer, there is no difference between someone who has a very low pain threshold and experiences normal body wear as extremely painful, and someone who has some mechanical condition causing pain.

> but endometriosis seems to be particularly bad.

I've known people who had endometriosis successfully treated after a long struggle to get someone to believe them.

And I've known someone who after a long struggle to convince someone to believe them, finally found someone. Then underwent extremely invasive and expensive surgery with no improvements.

It's an extremely difficult issue and it sucks for everyone involved.
Oh I'm very familiar, I've not had a good experience with my Skoda Karoq!
My toyota is constantly beeping.

I especially love the collision detection that goes "BIBIBIBIBIBI" and the screen goes red saying "BREAK NOW!". All of this happens regularly when I'm dodging parked cars in small streets at very low speed. The message appears about half a second too late anyway (assuming I have instant reaction time, which I doubt). I'm glad it doesn't break automatically at least.

Also it reads speeds signs but it has no idea when they no longer apply, or doesn't read the new one, or reads a speed sign from an adjacent road, or sometimes just imagines it.
> competition drives improvement

Are you saying ads helping competition? How?

> customer choice is central to a functioning market, leading to innovation.

Ads suppress customer choice, along with innovations. Can you recall any recent innovative carbonated drink? Marketing budgets of pepsi/coca cola make competition and innovation impossible.
The problem is that advertising is insidiously effective. Most people don't think ads work on them, yet the results of ad campaigns demonstrate that's plainly false. And this is even more true for children who have extremely poor reasoning and logic abilities, and are going to be being targeted by ads specifically designed to exploit their instinctive impulses. This is unlikely to be a battle that parents can win.

I think this is vaguely akin to exposing your child to gambling and explaining the impulses/desires it creates so they don't get addicted to it. But that's just not how it works.
Simulating particle creation in an expanding universe using quantum computers
> if memory safety was all that mattered we'd all be using python.

I've seen more segfaults in my Python code than I have in any other language ecosystem. Yes, that's in the C modules that Python libraries so often wrap, but the result is still that Python is far from the best choice for memory safety.

JavaScript actually tends to be better at avoiding dropping into C unless absolutely necessary.
Photoroom [0] is from Y Combinator and their product is essentially SAM plus a lot of polish along with a good user experience. I'm not sure if they're using it, but if they're not, I think they should be.

[0] https://www.photoroom.com/
There are differences (e.g., historical expectations and social contracts, as well as technical nuances of selectively not download vs. outright copyright violation and sometimes CFAA violations of unauthorized access), but I think you have a reasonable point.

Surveillance capitalism and adtech really created a mess that's hard to get out of.
Autoimmune is incredibly broad.

Also, guess what rheumatologists specialize in. I'd give you a hint, it starts with 'a' and ends with your body's immune system mistaking healthy tissue for a disease.

Technically, the rheumatologist didn't do anything any other doctor didn't already do. They saw the problem in terms of their specialty.

Which isn't the worst way for them to approach things. I will go to a foot doctor if I believe it's my foot. A joint doctor for my joints. Going to specialists is pointless if you don't have any idea of what's going on. That's why GPs exist, to try and steer people to the appropriate specialist.
That's pretty cool! I would have used it a lot at my previous job if it existed back then. In my ideal world it should work somewhat like https://lapo.it/asn1js/ -- you drop a file and it does all the stuff locally.