skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I traveled quite a bit at one point and it was beaten into my head repeatedly that you never mention work unless you have a work visa

It was acceptable to say you were there for a day for a “meeting” but that was still a touchy subject they could absolutely detain you for. “They” in this case was not the U.S. border patrol. All countries want to keep out workers who don’t have the right visa

Needless to say, telling border patrol of any country that you are a residing at someone’s house to work under the table in exchange for housing should get you in trouble.

The U.S. just seems more amenable to making your life hell over it right now
She might experience the same thing if she planned a "work away" trip to the EU, now that UK is not part of the EU.
"We know that the one whale would not have been in the state to choose for the interaction in a way that they normally would have been able to because they were so compromised in their condition."

So whale SA?
It seems like a common detail for both situations is both travelers were at a land crossing. It sounds like a nightmare scenario but I bet they also could have been bounced back and forth between the guards of either country. At that point, one side will have to take on detention responsibilities because neither side will trust the person to make good on their return plans.
They also did that to Bengal in the famine there much later. It's a pattern with the Brits.
I don't understand what you are saying.

How can the RLHF phase eliminate bias if it uses a process(human input) that has the same biases as the pre-training(human input)?
FYI Tacoma Northwest is a Geo Group private prison. Geo Group is paid per number of beds at this facility not number occupied so locking her up has zero added expense. But you do not want to be in a Geo private facility especially their immigration facilities.
Stocks represent ownership of companies and assets so at some point they become a bargain as you are buying assets and profit income cheap. For dividend investors permanently low prices would be good. They are quite expensive at the moment though.
> ...a lot of the safeguards and policy we have to manage humans own unreliability may serve us well in managing the unreliability of AI systems too.

It seems like an incredibly bad outcome if we accept "AI" that's fundamentally flawed in a way similar to if not worse than humans and try to work around it rather than relegating it to unimportant tasks while we work towards a standard of intelligence we'd otherwise expect from a computer.

LLMs certainly appear to be the closest to real AI that we've gotten so far. But I think a lot of that is due to the human bias that language is a sign of intelligence and our measuring stick is unsuited to evaluate software specifically designed to mimic the human ability to string words together. We now have the unreliability of human language processes without most of the benefits that comes from actual human level intelligence. Managing that unreliability with systems designed for humans bakes in all the downsides without further pursuing the potential upsides from legitimate computer intelligence.
The Biden admin pursued antitrust in tech even more seriously than Trump. That's part of why big tech rallied behind Trump in 2024
They choose 37 =)
The existence of an exception to a general rule doesn't disprove the rule. Most every "general rule" has notable exceptions that you can find if you look.

But until you demonstrate that girls outnumber boys in terms of violent tendencies, you'll have to accept my rule as true and your exception as...an exception.
I would like to live in this world. If for no other reason than the idea of teams frequently declaring "bug bankruptcy" or the frequent use of "stale bots" to ignore issues that I haven't nagged about enough recently are actually offensive.

Both of them throw away real bugs and even work done by users to reproduce and turn a fact: "your program crashes when x happens" from something they can verify and accept to an ongoing time commitment to nag them. I don't want to nag them, I doubt they want to be nagged by me. What they probably want is some signal for prioritization of planning which stale bots do, poorly.

Why do they constantly ignore what their users tell them? Because to use the terminology from the article, to a user they are reporting a bug but to the maintainers that is potentially adding to planned work and their capacity is finite. A team should absolutely be able to say "we have no plans of addressing this even though it's true that our software doesn't work on an ancient version of glibc" for example.

In this model the stale bot would apply to plans not bugs. A "stale" plan would be an item of work that users have not expressed interest in for the last N days. Which at a gut level is a lot more acceptable than "the software we acknowledged is broken hasn't been fixed this month so we're going to close the issue".
Tacoma Northwest is a private 'detention center'.
Owners would love to be able to convert capital directly into products without any intermediate labor[0]. Fire your buildings full of programmers and replace them with a server farm that only gets faster and more efficient over time? That's a great position to be in, if you own the IP and/or server farm.

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
He (author) has a strong proclivity for policy-based planning, shall we say.
>Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.
You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)
Cannot citizenship be revoked for past violations?
I lasted about 10 seconds of that video before I had to stop it as I was beginning to develop a very unhealthy urge to inflect violence on the presenter and his whiny overly performative voice.
I dont understand this yet.

GPS allows us to navigate, based on the timing of signals
from several satellites.

GPS jamming would involve flooding the relevant frequecies
with noise, or somehow making it harder to acquire the signals?

How does creating a more accurate clock at the GPS receiving end
help

That sounds like the jamming interferes with the speed fo the signals
from the satellites which I dont think it likely?
Hah--while political reasons exist, I'd view them more as as a trigger to deflate a bubble that already existed, as opposed to large amounts of downward movement all on their own.

Plus, if for some reason investors believe consumers economic uncertainty will be rampant, that suggests fewer American consumers will be buying cars at higher price-points, so you might invest less in manufacturers selling those kinds of cars.
If the question inherently allows for "no-preference" to be valid but that is not a possible answer then you've left it to the person or llm to deal with that. If a human is not allowed to specify no preference why would you expect uniform results when you don't even ask for it? You only asked to pick the best. Even if they picked perfectly, its not defined in the task to make sure you select draws in a random way.
> That megayatch? It cost him 2 Washington Posts to build.

Nice. I wonder... A Copilot prompt of "[...] Instead of using units of dollars, please use units of "Amazons", where 1 Amazon equals 2 Trillion dollars." gave a plausible result. And country populations in NYC's. The speed of sound is 19 Zebras (at max gallop). Great Oxygenation Event occurred at 8 gal and Cambrian Explosion at 18.5 gal (galactic year). Oscars viewing cost 100 lifetimes, superbowl 650. c is 1800 Gff (gigafurlongs per fortnight). Rewriting problems and text using alternate units. So... how to use this in education?

The Money Chart xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/980:_Money
Even if polling had been exactly right, you wouldn't have been that confident in the outcome.

In my unsophisticated toy model, plugging in the exact actual result as the polling average (but not telling it how the actual vote went) spits out 66% R-34% D. Clearly one side favored, but hardly a guarantee. Because the result was close, and even highly accurate data in a close result yields an uncertain forecast.

Remember that asteroid a month ago? We knew what its position would be seven years in the future with a precision of a few hours. But because the position was very close to an impact, even that high precision was not enough to rule out an impact.
I'm awful tempted to say no. If it's so complex it can't be made secure before shipping it, maybe that's just too much complexity. I could possibly be convinced otherwise, but it would have to be a compelling argument.

EDIT: also a lot of the "security" stuff around consumer devices is just active user hostility. I don't need my office printer to connect directly to my home WiFi, a USB cable is fine. If making a secure WiFi enabled printer isn't something we can do as a species, maybe it's just not a reasonable goal.
True enough. I was really targeting Germany, Paris and Brussels with my statement, the power centers, and I should say something more like net negative sentiment, as viewed from their respective mouthpieces and official policies. I was thinking more EU Parliament and TV than man on the street.
> Oh course lesswrong, being heavily AI doomers, may be slightly biased against near term AGI just from motivated reasoning.

LessWrong was predicting AI doom within decades back when people thought it wouldn't happen in our lifetimes; even as recently as 2018~2020, people there were talking about 2030-2040 while the rest of the world laughed at the very idea. I struggle to accept an argument that they're somehow under-estimating the likelihood of doom given all the historical evidence to the contrary.
That tourist couldn’t be admitted to the IS, nor returned to Mexico as they didn’t have permission.

So they had to wait for deportation?
This answers a question I didn't realize I had. I had already been thinking about some kind of utility gadget made up of a Pi Zero with a tiny screen and battery, but an Android phone solves a lot of problems in one go.
I guess the important question is what activities aligned with Hamas did this fellow engage in? Until that is known it's impossible to say if this is an overreach by Trump and rubio, or if he's a person who should be deported for the supporting terrorist activities.
> 1/3 of one claim

This should be your clue that there are multiple claims which is why I asked you which ones you wanted evidence for.
It is insufficient to make a prediction like 50-50 in a US election unless you also can explain turnout. Anyone can throw out numbers like "51-49" or "55-45" but how did you get to those numbers? How are different demographics voting? How is there turnout changing? I've seen people laud their own accuracy in 2020 while being off by about 30 million in predicted turnout.

The way different demographics vote in US elections doesn't change much from election to election. What does change is turnout and turnout is a function of many things: enthusiasm for the candidate, voter suppression, ease of access to voting and so on.

2020 was unprecedented because of the pandemic. We greatly expanded early voting and mail-in ballots, which greatly increased participation.

A perfect example of this is Arizona. In 2020, Native Americans were crucial to flipping the state to Biden. Arizona state lawmakers responded to this by essentially punishing them and making it way more difficult to vote. Voter ID requirements, birth certificates and even having a physical address are all impediments to people who were born on and/or reside on reservations. There were fewer voting places and voting options. A rural voting place might randomly close early too after being an hours long drive.

Some looked at this and said Native Americans in Arizona swung hard to Trump. No, they were simply largely prevented from voting such that the only Native Americans who could reliably vote were more affluent and thus more likely to be Trump voters.

My point is: what polling model captured this prior to the 2024 election? I guarantee you it's none.

What really happened in 2024 was:

1. Biden voters swung to the couch in the millions;

2. Trump basically didn't lose white women, despite the abortion issue; and

3. Trump activated a previously low-propensity voter demographic: angry, young, terminally online white males, basically the Andrew Tate and 4chan crowd.

Any model has a difficulty with low-propensity demographics. Did any model capture this? I think it only started to become apparent with early voting exit polls.

I don't think the 2024 polls were particularly accurate. I do think they threw their hands up and simply converged to 50-50. Small differences in turnout predictions for different demographics can massively impact the result.
You can certainly send people to jail for negligence.
HP is the worse but most printer makers have or will come to the same conclusion sooner or later.

Successful consumer electronic brands right now make money with either simple or "premium" looking but wallgardened products you need to throw money at at every turn. And HPs are available everywhere and will mostly work if you don't mind the running stream of money.
Well, that's one way to kill the U.S. military industrial complex.
Always was the king of new music discovery.
The second link I posted is specifically from the Australian market. How becoming no 6 in 2024-2025 for a model selling is not “improvement” is logic I don’t understand. They shot to no 6 after not being in the market — that’s obvious improvement. Maybe your definition of improvement is not one I share.
For clarification I’m not arguing against your claim Tesla outsells in Australia. I take issue with the unfounded claim they are not improving sales since it obviously is not true. That’s my bad I didn’t make that clear from the jump. That second article is just for the first two months of 2025 so again obvious improvement since 10/24.
Nice. I felt the same way - read that book from cover to cover many times.

I could never afford a BBC Micro when that came out and certainly not the Archimedes but I always admired from afar.
I've read about this happening before under previous administrations, but in those cases people were detained for only a day or so.
not everyone uses reddit.
i did not see it on reddit.. it was from another news site.

reviewing timelines, it made news circle from facebook before it hit reddit.
Because with blockchain/crypto there was actual money to be made (at the expense of users or not). LLMs are just a money furnace.
Isn't the majority of US debt held by Americans by means of bonds and treasury bills? I think it's about 2/3 of the total US debt, if I'm reading that right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...

I would really hope that Trump doesn't start nuking the US.
Yup. Firefox Relay, their own VPN, MDN Plus, and many more.

The funny thing is that the same people on here that crow on about Mozilla needing to "just focus on Firefox" are the same ones who complains about its reliance on Google for income.

Based on their interop performances Mozilla seems to be doing the best they can to do both. Firefox interop has improved significantly in the past 4 years (surprisingly, so has Safari's) and they've also rolled out more new Mozilla offerings that could some day replace Google revenue
Einstein Mode LLM: Temperature - 2

Then it's just a matter of checking all the “nonsense” that's been generated.
How many of the people providing the funding are interested in science, and how many simply want an outcome which furthers their ends?
You seem weirdly determined to ignore all context in a discussion about markets.
I see why others flagged you although I wouldn’t.

For anyone else who doesn’t know, Ireland was exporting grain and meat during the famine at the orders of the British. They explicitly let the Irish die if someone else could order the food because Free Trade was perfect and if it wiped out a bunch of undesirables to boot, even better[1]

As you had groups with a wildly different wealth as the Ottaman Sultan and the Choctaws on the Trail of Tears scrounging for anything to spare to feed the starving Irish, their British overlords were shipping away food to anyone who could pay them a penny more.

If it wasn’t an engineered genocide then it’s close as you can get to one imo

[1] https://ireland-calling.com/irish-famine-ireland-exported-fo...
He's not wrong. If you aren't going to raise revenue by raising taxes, you have to make cuts to those programs.

I'm using the numbers from the current FY to demonstrate how severe the cuts have to be right now.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

Current deficit (time of writing) is about $839.5 billion for the FY.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

$502 billion : Social Security

$368 billion : Medicare

$334 billion : Defense

$322 billion : Interest

$321 billion : Health (covers a lot, but Medicaid is a high percentage of that)

$218 billion : Income Security

$139 billion : Veterans Benefits & Services

The rest adds up to $232 billion or so

What are you going to cut if you want to save $839.5 billion from all of these categories?

If you entirely cut each of Health, Income, VA, and the rest you only get to the target (and then some) with $910 billion saved. But in the process you completely eliminated all welfare programs (outside Medicare and Social Security) and VA benefits along with a lot of other things people might revolt over.

Realistically none of those will ever see a 100% cut, let's say of all that money 50% of it can be cut (may entirely eliminate some departments, and leave others more intact like VA). You can cut $455 billion before touching Defense, Medicare, and Social Security.

You're still $384.5 billion short, and that's more than you'd get from cutting Defense entirely. You still have to touch Medicare and Social Security to hit the target of a balanced budget.

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All that said, if you're willing to raise taxes the cuts can be less severe to achieve a balanced budget. If you cut taxes, the cuts have to be more severe.
It's not really pedantic when there's an entire wikipedia page on the tendency for people to conflate the two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

I believe the distinction they're trying to make is between "sounding like a human"(being able to create output that we understand as language) and "thinking like a human"(having the capacity for experience, empathy, semantic comprehension, etc.)
It's a bit pointless to repeatedly have this story on HN given that most of the heterodox comments just get flagged.
> Peanut allergies?

Yes. The article has an image of an internal memo with the list, if you believe ProPublica.

FactCheck.org checked [1] a speech from RFK in which he (at timestamp 1:05:53 of [2]) attributed some "autoimmune diseases, neurological diseases, obesity, peanut allergies, food allergies" to some toxin that humans use in food production or as a flame retardant. (He also threw in cellphone radiation.)

[1] https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/rfk-jr-s-exaggerations-on-...

[2] [video] 2024 Presidential Policy Perspectives with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUMhLMGs_2o
I've seen small shops doing, for instance, deep tech work in physics. Their problem is big and their team is small.

Some questions for you:

Would you say every programming language is fungible? If so, then why are there so many? How many should there be?
You can argue that you take a giant risk being born Palestinian and coming to US.
Don't forget the venerable Via, SiS, Chips and Technologies, OPTi, ALi, ULi, etc.
I recently decided that I wanted to relive the PII/3dfx glory days went a little bit overboard buying up parts on eBay. I ended up with an Abit BH6, PIII-800, 768MB RAM, dual Voodoo2 cards and an Asus 3800 TNT2.
Given the deafening lack of any reasons presented, I have to assume there is none.
Supposedly they moved him to Louisiana after and in response to habeaus corpus being filed by his lawyers (https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3lk2k...) which is, of course, incredibly alarming.

For those who aren't familiar, habeas corpus is an incredibly important civil right that effectively allows anyone who is detained to go to court to challenge the detention. Khalil's lawyers state that after they filed for habeas corpus, ICE moved Khalil to Lousiana without telling anyone. Extremely concerning.
I’m just quoting the article… I don’t think they’re saying that animal welfare didn’t improve, but that the purpose of the program was an excuse to raise profit margins.

It’s not exactly greenwashing but it is used as a political tool nevertheless.
Anecdotally, I've heard of people developing neuropathy at doses of 25mg/day, so I try to keep my intake below that.

Less anecdotally, regulatory agencies around the world have repeatedly lowered what they consider safe amounts of B6.

B6 is particularly an issue because there seems to be a general assumption that b vitamins are safe, and that water-soluble vitamins cannot be harmful. Couple that with the tendency of multivitamins and energy drinks to add b-vitamins, and it's very easy to end up overdosing on B6, which it turns out can be harmful despite being a water-soluble b-vitamin.
Do you have a source for this? I'm a big fan of Mullvad and trust their service more than any. I wouldn't mind supporting Mozilla's independence from Google while getting the same VPN service I'm currently getting

Hopefully Mozilla's MDN Plus offering can grow to bring them a big source of revenue. MDN is a treasure for any web developer and, should Mozilla go under, this public service would be sorely missed for the open web.
Leaving aside any drops, the entire market cant be sold/liquidated at once at it's current market cap / value. The current "value" / market cap of any given stock / the market is based on whatever tiny fraction of shares traded today.
It was just single-CPU, but I had the ABIT BH6 with a Celeron 300A, one of the most overclockable setups ever. Mine was stable at 450mhz without any special cooling.
That doesn’t make it legal, particularly in the US
If anyone is fair weather it’s the USA. You have betrayed western civilisation. Good for you. But to then call us fair weather friends is too much on top of all the rest.
This is relevant if they can show that he was deemed to be supporting a terrorist organization, which of course would require him to show up in court and would require the government to defend their decision. They have done neither, and have instead moved him over 1000 miles from his lawyers without telling them
Yeah, that's fair. I have a few blank blu-rays lying around but I've never actually used them.

Playing blu-rays on computers has always been irritating, particularly on Linux. I'm actually not sure that there's a fully legal way to watch a blu-ray on Linux; it's not hard to do it, but I'm not sure that it's legal. I don't think PowerDVD with Blu-ray support is on Linux.
Sticky desktop notifications don’t work on macOS on FF, which means event notifications from calendar apps disappear within a few seconds, leaving no time to snooze them or act on them in any other way. Queue missed meetings.
But, would that happen today? Trump has stated the intention to deport Ukrainian refugees.
Most of the reason LLMs will "admit they're wrong" is because they've been trained not to argue too hard, and to not hold strong preferences. It's a sort of customer service personality.

When you don't do that sufficiently you run the risk of producing the "Sydney" personality that Bing Chat had, which would argue back, and could go totally feral defending its incorrect beliefs about the world, to the point of insulting and belittling the user.