skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those error bars are too wide for the formula to be useful for training based on heart rate percentages.
Keyword: "understand".
Yep, it’s a mob of epic proportions. My neighborhood of 250 homes gets at least that many protesting when the HOA sends out nastygrams about dirty mailboxes.

We never even make the local community news. Maybe if I can get Musk to join the HOA we could get some exposure.
Yeah unfortunately I've spent a good bit of time talking to Grok (v2 I guess) and I agree with you. The commenter asking people not be political would be the same commenter that seems the most dismissive of any criticism and coincidentally also the most political. Grok is generally dismissive of any criticism(s) against certain parties, even when presenting facts.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! This sounds like a nightmare haha

What kinds of problems does this cause in practice? Do you have any examples? Not questioning you, just curious to learn more.
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Yeah, I think the first chair we observe is the template for recognizing other chairs later. Surely that 'seed' chair will undergo substantial revision in time as we become aware that it wasn't the ideal basis on which to base our modeling of all chairs to come, and we unconsciously 'normalize' the model for chair in our head (and adjust that memory too).

It stands to reason that this happens to all of the baseline models for the referents we learn (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc) that subsequent learning surely reshapes.

This is likely comparable to the revision of 'concept' clusters that goes on in all unsupervised learning NN models, especially in humans, those that arise pre-linguistically (since words surely provide landmarks to memories enabling future retrieval). Perhaps we rewrite our early word2vec tables, making early memories less retrievable.
I have steel pipes for my central heating flow (UK) because my house was built during a copper shortage in the late 1960s. Every plumber has said they're a nightmare to work with compared to soft copper.
This is much, much less than I would've guessed. I thought the new UI is universally hated.

I should leave my bubble more often.
he may have deleted it but… around 2020 or so there was starting to be a lot of hype about llms. elon musk responded to a “doomer” on twitter saying that he “didnt see the potential for that” referring to LLMs achieving AGI. it was a 100% dismissal of everything he is saying now. at that point elon musk had already been saying publicly for years “AI is more dangerous than nukes.” but he also had voluntarily walked away from openAI which he would never do if he thought there was any chance of AGI. i just want to known the truth… is this really just advanced search and some jobs will be lost because they ended up being nothing more than search tasks (ie coding boilerplate) or are we really on the cusp of AGI (and therefore in a great deal of danger)? its impossible to say whether or not elon musk really believes what he is saying… there are public figures on both sides providing conflicting explanations.

as i watched the grok3 stream i became very angry. so very tired of being jerked around and not knowing whether or not i should be planning for the future or investing in the world as it is now… its really a form of psychological torture
>when the Country needed Americans to call out the corruption

Just for the record, Trump tried to get the attorney general of the Southern District of New York to drop the case against the mayor of New York, a Democrat, in exchange for the mayor to give ICE carte-blanche to do what it wants in the city. So illegal was the requested action that seven people including the acting attorney general resigned immediately in sequence. Mind you, the acting attorney general was appointed by Trump literally three weeks before her resignation. And the resignations only stopped because Bove threatened to fire everyone in the office (30 odd people) if someone didn't accept. If that wasn't enough, and since some on the thread mentioned Soviet propaganda, Homan the border czar trotskies out Eric Adams on Fox News and forces him to applaud what ICE is doing, and then Homan proceeds to tell Eric Adams on national television that if he backs out that he Homan will be in his office right away and "up his ass".

That level of corruption would be choreographed nicely to Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre."

If you want to read two bad-ass resignations by Republican attorney generals, read Sassoon's and Hagan Scotten's resignation letters.
> DOGE makes recommendations to the president, who has the final decision making authority.

It's clearly being run by Elon Musk, but he has not been nominated or confirmed for any official position.

DOGE appears to have unprecedented access to systems that usually have safeguards in place. What do you think people should do in this situation if they are concerned about abuse of power?
How does Observable Plot work here? Do you translate the code to JavaScript?
That might be a good thing. Current housing prices are insane.
Not yet. Some internal prototypes did try using IOSurfaces on macOS to go with the zero copy route, but there were a fair number of limitations.

That said, the IPC minimizes copies and is actually fairly efficient at handling large numerical arrays.
”Attempts by SpaceX to enter Vietnam - a market of nearly 100 million people - were put on hold in late 2023 after the Communist-run country declined to lift a ban on foreign control of satellite internet providers”

One can probably guess why they had that particular ban…
So, to replicate the results of this study how long would a person have to do this each (morning?)?
You can't trust the server on Signal. Anything else, especially theoretical navel-gazing about plaintext fallbacks or make-believe audits of the client half of the system is inconsequential against the simple fact: You can't trust the server on Signal.
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I think your definition of innate is counter to the common definition of innate. The common definition of innate is that there is no thought behind full understanding and capacity to perform- for example, snakes do not generally need to learn how to move without legs or how to open the mouth large enough to consume big food. There isn’t a try/fail cycle while they understand the capacities of their body. I fed my pet snake a baby quail for the first time in its life and it clearly had to learn how to eat it (tried and spat out the leg, wing, etc) even though the core mechanism of big mouth big swallow is there was clearly innate in it. Just because there is a core mechanism to walk existing in babies doesn’t mean the baby doesn’t still need to learn how to perform the behavior voluntarily, on command, consciously according to their own will.
My aunt has a big avocado tree in the north west of Argentina. The avocato are very small, probably an inch long. They are very tasty, but you must collect a lot of them to prepare a dish.
The problem, as I see it, is that the results from AI systems will either be used to make decisions, even if those results are flawed. Or worse, those flawed results will be used to justify decisions that negatively impact peoples' lives.

This isn't something specific to xAI, but it turns out that the person who controls xAI also holds an unusually strong influence over the highest level government officials. These officials can use xAI as an excuse to implement harmful policy, "because the computer said this is the best course of action"- not unlike people who end up driving on train tracks or into large bodies of water because their GPS told them to go that way.
Agreed, and what you mention here are the main reasons Cot has been strongly inspired by Django. Whether we'll achieve the same level of stability and ORM ease-of-use for the Rust-preferring community, only time will tell.
The way I see it is our government is being rescued from the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats with near zero accountability. And now that Trump has appointed someone to take a close look at everything and make recommendations for improvement, people are losing it. Why? I'm outraged at how irresponsible our government has been with my tax dollars. Trump has been the most transparent president in history, and it has absolutely been a breath of fresh air.
XMPP is great, until you have to explain to granny how to use it.
Signal isn't perfect, but I can just tell Granny ‘install Signal, it's like WhatsApp or all the other messaging apps’.

The best crypto protocol is useless if no one uses it.

I don't know if you're familiar with the Olvid app. Its cryptographic system has been audited and is used by the French state. It allows you to create accounts that are not linked to a phone number or email address, etc. Lot of great features for tech-savvy crypto enthusiasts.

The only problem is that you have to be physically present and scan a QR code on each client to add a contact. So it does prevent spoofing, but it's incredibly impractical. Setting up a group chat is a real challenge because all the participants have to have each other's keys. Nobody wants to revive the PGP parties
The Helix editor, a popular alternative to Vim, is going to implementing it's plugin system in a Scheme-like language. Helix is also written in Rust.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...
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Why? Prescriptivist/prescriptivism is afaik the usual term. Proscriptivist is the other, but quite rare, so rare that my phone dictionary says it’s a misspelling.
Not just for vietnam, its a risky proposition to have a foreign company supplying the US military becoming a core communication provider in your country.
That is the MO. Elon has stated publicly that if you don’t have to put something back, you haven’t cut enough. That is the idea. You cut things and see what was necessary.
The profit was made by the private sector in supplying goods to the program. Today, private companies do a lot and earn a lot of money from stockpile maintenance.
No, it's not safe at all, but it's legally required.
Look their product up, look at their story, and consider this joke:

"Do you want to be a millionaire? If so send me $10 and I'll send you the instructions."

Let me put it this way: if someone came to you and their story was that they could never figure out how to make money from investing and decided to make money from telling others how to invest instead, what would you think?

The glimmer of hope here is that they have customers, who will with any luck guide them to a real value.
yeah, "middle of winter" wasn't quite right, but the chances of a microburst during what is an otherwise already windy/gusty winter day are basically none
> Don’t even remove it and store it in your bag temporarily when on an airplane, you never know if it’ll capsize on landing and you’ll need to avoid people on the internet criticising you.

You'll need to first avoid succumbing to smoke inhalation or flames if you don't get out in time (or cause someone else to not get out because your fumbling).

The take-offs and landings (and perhaps add approach) phases of flight constitute ~5% of flight time, but the vast majority of the fatalities:

* https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/loc-i-accidents-led-oth...
The main issue with tradespeople is quality risk. Most do decent job, but some things I've seen give me nightmares at night.

My electric network took me time, but at least it won't burn my house like the existing one promised.
Good point! I'll add some code samples soon, thanks!
the cool thing about this is that it is the first mainstream PC chip with a pretty big integrated GPU + massive unified RAM pool.

See die shots here: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-ai-max-300-strix-halo-...
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You raised a good point
“people … in here” seeing “past it” or not is irrelevant, the VCs won't see past it once they realize that money is lost.
I honestly expected OP's "what a week" meme to be Liz Lemon until I saw tintin in the URL.
What are your plans for a data table UI?

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The book Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler goes deep into explaining precisely this. https://profmattstrassler.com/waves-in-an-impossible-sea/
It's on par/better/worse depending on the problem. o1 is significantly worse, for example, in Rust programming than Claude 3.5; at least for me.
There are only a dozen protestors in each photo might be a clue?
> So how do I replace any of them with my own, small tool?

You write them with an equivalent public interface.

> They have no stable interfaces.

This is nonsense. All the D-Bus (and now Varlink too) interfaces are stable, documented and we do not break backward compatibility.

> yet nobody was able to write a replacement.

That's because actually doing things is hard, but complaining on social media is extremely easy.
I've had my phone on vibrate for so many years I barely even remember what ringtone I have. But these do sound nice. May end up with a mixture of 102 and 103 maybe for the short periods I do not want to miss a call ;)
Thank you for confirming

@dang, anything that can be done about it?

I’d be happy to lend a hand with the code if you are short on people
A painful reminder as it is, that for many projects / components in the open ecosystem, there are very few if not a single person actually keeping it alive, maintained, and updated.

Mandatory: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Also LLMs represent, for most people I suspect, something entirely unconnected with notions of consciousness.
That's good to know. Given that, I don't understand the suspicion of Google Play (App Store, sure).
The scripton Python library internally transforms many common Python data formats (regular arrays and dicts, numpy arrays, data frames, ...) to an intermediate format. These are transferred to the IDE when you call the plotting functions, and then auto-translated into the JS equivalent.

Your Python plotting code ends up looking like this: https://docs.scripton.dev/api/plot/orion/overview
> Who gives a shit?

Nobody really should. This is just to make the scam more obvious to Milei's shrinking supporters.

Milei and his closest circle are now stuck in a loop, trying to argue simultaneously that "$LIBRA and cryptocurrencies are just a gamble, a casino for very technical people", "this only affected a minority of crypto gamblers", and that "he wanted to spread the word about a project that could be good for Argentina".

Anyone with a gram of brain matter can tell these assertions are incompatible.

And yes, one of the co-creators of $LIBRA candidly said the way these things work, only insiders make money, and the rest loses. He claims he's upset by "insider trading" being considered a naughty thing, when it's "the way these things work".

Before anyone asks: I've watched all the interviews, with Milei, his economy minister Caputo, and this Davis guy. Not hearsay, they are literally saying all these things now.

It'll be hard to argue Milei is such a savvy guy now (he often makes a show of calling his opponents "econochantas" -- slang for "econo-fraudsters"). And now he's proven himself to be either a bumbling fool, a scammer, or both. A losing proposition for anyone trying to defend his actions.
Ah yeah, my experience is with the Django ORM, with which I've had nothing but good experiences with.
As a Historian (and a German historian in particular) - I've spent a reasonable amount of time educating myself on the nature of fascism and in particular the break down of democracies (Wiemar, France, and also the erosion of civil liberties during the great depression in the United States).

I have also been a delegate to both the RNC and the DNC at a state level.

This is not a appeal to authority, but rather a honest response to your request for my education level.

IMHO, The root cause of the "senseless partisan drive" is the fact that he founding fathers could not come up with a way to restrict parties (they called them "interests") and left them unchecked. This is a constant "sin" of the American political system, and is a key reason Slavery survived as long as it did, why separate but equal became the law of the land, why America shot itself in the foot several time with the Banks of America and why we are looking at the wrong side of history now.

The parties now act to destroy each other as their prime directive, rather then to better the country. I liken this to Wiemar Germany, where the increasing radicalization of both the Nazis and the Communists led to political instability and eventual violence that destroyed the government. That erosion of democratic norms, as well as the "other side must be destroyed for us to survive" messaging is the true threat, IMHO.

I would strongly suggest Richard Evan's three part history on Nazi history to understand Fascism. Don't worry, you can still hate and worry about Trump and think he is the next coming of Hitler afterwords - it will just be for better reasons.
I use it for lots of stuff where I'm not an expert, or that are low stakes. I don't use it for the "core" of my job, but there are many things that are not "core" and still eat up a lot of time, in fact, most of my workday would be in this category. Some typical examples from my daily life as a university professor:

- Writing Python scripts to make charts out of Excel sheets, and then refine them. I could do it myself, but I would need to learn a library like Seaborn or similar which honestly is not especially intellectually stimulating, and then spend nontrivial amounts of time iterating on the actual code. With LLMs it's a breeze.

- Working with cumbersome LaTeX formatting, e.g. transposing a table, removing a column from a table, etc.

- Getting the tone just right in a professional email written in English to someone I don't know much (I'm not a native speaker so this is not trivial).

- Finding resources on topics that are tangential to what I do. For example, yesterday I needed to come up with some statistics on English words for a presentation I'm preparing, and I needed a free corpus where I could search for an n-gram and get frequencies of next words. I don't usually work with that kind of resource, it was just a one-off need. I asked for corpora of that kind and got a useful answer instantly. The manual process would probably have implied going through several options only to find that I needed a license or that they didn't provide the specific statistics I needed.

- Brainstorming on titles for scientific papers, presentations, names of concepts that you introduce on a paper, variable names, etc.

- Shortening a sentence in a paper that makes me go over the page limit, or polishing the English in a paragraph.

- Summarizing a text if I'm kind of interested in knowing the gist but have no time to read it whole.

- Answering quick questions on basic things that I forget, e.g. the parameters to make a Linux folder into a tar.gz. Man is too verbose and it takes time to sort the wheat from the chaff, Google is full of SEOd garbage these days and sometimes you need to skim a lot to find the actual answer, LLMs are much faster.

- Writing bureaucratic boilerplate, the typical texts with no real value but that you have to write (e.g. gender perspective statement on a grant request).

- Coming up with exam questions. This is a rather repetitive activity and they're fantastic at it. At my place we also have two official languages and we need to have exam assignments on both languages, guess who does the translation now (respecting LaTeX formatting, which previous machine translation tools typically wouldn't do).

- As an example of a one-off thing, the other day I had to edit a Word document which was password-protected. I asked ChatGPT how to unlock it and it not only answered, but actually did it for me (after 3 tries, but still, much faster than the time it would have taken for me to find out how to do it and then actually do it).

These are just some examples where they contribute (greatly) to my productivity at work. In daily life, I also ask them lots of questions.
I see, so whenever anybody states their position tersely, I can accuse them of using a motte-and-bailey argument, and force them to be so pedantic and long winded that their point get lost in the weeds. Unless I like what they're saying, of course. I'll keep it in mind!
I still use it, but it was primarily me and my wife. Since the Messages app on iOS has encryption, we haven't felt the need to continue. I use it with other tech friends. I feel like Signal could have been bigger if they adopted usernames long ago. I don't want to share my number with anyone anymore.
> People die in hospital waiting rooms. Why risk it when you know you have everything you need right on hand?

Because people also die in incomplete airplane evacuations. In the Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash, 41 of 78 occupants died while folks were seen evacuating with their bags. Some of them would have died no matter what, but somebody slowing down an evacuation from a serious airplane crash for even just seconds to quickly grab their insulin kit out from under the seat in front of them (let alone to film for social media or whatever else) could cost someone else their life.

The situation might look "fairly under control", but the plane is upside down, leaking flammable jetfuel, and surrounded by firefighting foam that no one wants to spend more time around than they have to. Leaving behind medical supplies in a crash has a real impact on a diabetic or similar, but any slowdown to the evacuation also has a real impact on all of the other passengers.
If only HTML had a locale-aware <time> element with custom date formatting :(
Yeah I’m in the same boat with it. I do keep trying, but so far it has been far from earth-shattering.

I’d love it if I could get it to write decent unit tests given a basic description of what I’m testing but I at least cannot get it to output anything useful for our codebase. It’s too unaware of the broader context of the code, what objects need to be instantiated from some other internal library and passed in, etc. It can do a decent job if all I have is a totally isolated function that doesn’t touch the rest of the codebase or use any domain objects, but that’s a rare enough case as to be essentially useless to me.
more like SubScripton
Why Are We So Mediocre at What We Do?
DOGE is a rebranding of USDS which was established under Obama. All their authority to access systems derives from that.

They have read-only access to systems and the “abuses” seem to be publicly posting what the government is spending money on.

Why do you think it’s a problem for the public to know where the government spends money?
What to Submit: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

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