skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is zero reason for them not to just blatantly avoid keeping legally-required records.

They illegally fired the watchdogs put in place after Nixon (practically the only fucking useful thing we did about that—the laughably weak handling of the Watergate affair, and, shortly after, Iran-Contra, sent us well down the path we're possibly seeing the end of now) as one of their first acts, and nothing bad happened. Nothing they've done to evade legally-required scrutiny and oversight has brought them any trouble at all so far. Why would they stop?
There is literally nothing that can transpire between the VP and the SecDef that would not be subject to the PRA.
It is odd.. It's such an easy middlemen to apply and should theoretically be operated on modest margims. Instead it sounds like they for this stupid extortion of a cut behind the scenes which ruins it for everyon. Based on Cowto's operations, few would complain about a 14% uptick on delivery (and the tip was already culturally accepted. No more work to do there). Instead, you can double your meal price nowadays.

I know much of the answer is a mix of private equityb and an overload of debt taken from insane evaluations.
Great game idea. I'd suggest you limit the questions top international topics though. I got a suggestion for "name a hurricane" - this probably wouldn't generate very interesting responses outside of America.
Virginia will punish fast drivers with devices that limit their speed
Networking in node.js is maddeningly stupid and extremely hard to debug, especially when you're running it in something like Azure where the port allocation can be restricted outside of your control. It's bad enough that I wouldn't consider using node.js on any new project.
The research looks detailed and interesting. However, I don't follow this summary article.

Digital circuits dissipate most of the energy charging and discharging capacitance. It must necessarily dissipate that as heat (except for a minor amount of electro-magnetic radiation). The interconnect resistance hardly matters. Of course RC relay can be a factor for some circuits. We can hope this reasearch leads to improvement there.

Power supply bus resistance can lead to voltage drops, but this research apparently studies layers much too thin for that application.

Did I missing something?
It's at least CUI. At _least_. I would suggest material that is operational in those regards would be secret or top secret. It had:

* timelines of kinetic resource missions
* conops including order of battle, etc.

Per normal ODNI bits, it's pretty clearly within bounds for classification.
We may be in a simulation, but your odds of being alive to see this (conditioned on being born as a human at some point) aren't that low. Around 7% of all humans ever born are alive today!
> Can it just tell which x-rays belong to Black or female patients and then use some latent racism or misogyny to change the diagnosis?

The opposite.
The dataset is for the standard model "white male", and the diagnoses generated pattern-matched on that.
Because there's no gender or racial information,
the model produced the statistically most likely result for white male,
a result less likely to be correct for a patient that doesn't fit the standard model.
Meta is a funny one, because there doesn't really seem to be a "pro-Meta" contingent. They have lots of users, but not a lot of people who feel warmly about them as a company.
Alt+hyphen or alt+shift+hyphen is an endash/emdash. You may not have been aware of it because it's so subtle, but many people (including myself) used emdashes long before 2022

(edit: apparently only on Mac, see reply below)
I use the term genetic history, rather than race, as race is only weakly correlated with body level phenotypes.

If your question is truly in good faith (rather than a "I want to get in argument "), then my answer is: it's complicated. Machine learning models that work on images learn extremely complicated correlations between pixels and labels. If on average, people with a specific genetic history had slightly larger ribcages (due to their genetics, or even socioeconomic status that correlated with genetic history), that would exhibit in a number of ways in the pixels of a radiograph- larger bones spread across more pixels, density of bones slightly higher or lower, organ size differences, etc.

It is true that Africa has more genetic diversity than anywhere else; the current explanation is that after humans arose in africa, they spread and evolved extensively, but only a small number of genetically limited groups left africa and reproduced/evolved elsewhere in the world.
MacBook mics tend to be very good in my experience. Easily puts you in the "hooray I can actually hear you" category.

It's webcams (Logitech shit) and headsets that are the worst.
When I want to trace the 'thoughts' of my programs, I just read the code and comments I wrote.

Stop LLM anthropomorphizing, please. #SLAP
Why do you think the authors are aiming to produce "news"?
A genuine question about the software being discussed, no call for downvotes.
On Macs:

Hyphen -: -

En Dash –: alt -

Em Dash —: alt shift -
I am not sure why this needs a bill. Giving parents a greater power over choosing the food in the schools would have worked. Palo Alto parents can afford to ensure the schools have fair trade, organic, locally produced food with vegan options but in stockton having decent colorie intake with some vegetables might be a win.
It seems to be a side effect of an excessive immune response to a viral infection, but only in certain people with a hyperactive immune system. It's vaguely like the severe reaction some people have after a bee sting. The various viruses that trigger it are mostly harmless to most people.
Azure virtual desktop and a factory fresh laptop image?
Wait, you can order custom fabrication of lenses online?
The most concerning people are -- as ever -- those who only think that they are thinking. Those who keep trying to fit square pegs into triangular holes without, you know, stopping to reflect: who gave them those pegs in the first place, and to what end?

Why be obtuse? There is no "anthropomorphic fallacy" here to dispel. You know very well that "LLMs want" is simply a way of speaking about teleology without antagonizing people who are taught that they should be afraid of precise notions ("big words"). But accepting that bias can lead to some pretty funny conflations.

For example, humanity as a whole doesn't have this "will" you speak of any more than LLMs can "want"; will is an aspect of the consciousness of the individual. So you seem to be be uncritically anthropomorphizing social processes!

If we assume those to be chaotic, in that sense any sort of algorithm is slightly more anthropomorphic: at least it works towards a human-given and therefore human-comprehensible purpose -- on the other hand, whether there is some particular "destination of history" towards which humanity is moving, is a question that can only ever be speculated upon, but not definitively perceived.
That's a great suggestion, thanks! I'll give it a try. It already works with dust quite well though, hehe.
Covid vaccines?
Yes, I do appreciate my FDA making sure any properly rated eatery isn't potentially serving poison. Another big issue as of late to worry about asubgpvernmejr decides shilling crypto and EVs (which he ended the tax credit for... oh, and not tarriffs!) is more important than simply keeping regulatory bodies operating.
Thanks, I didn't think to even look at that company name.

https://www.taher.com/services/k-12-lunch/

Our enthusiasm for food translates directly into a better experience for K-12 lunch students: meals made with fresh, high-quality ingredients. Dishes prepared from scratch. Menus and display cooking sessions inspired by our Chef Council’s world travels. Plenty of healthy options, supplemented by nutrition information and education.

In other words, we want your students to eat the best food possible, now and for life.

CLASSIC CAFE STATION
"The cycle-menu entrée choices are made from scratch daily, offering a minimum of two selections every day. This station is available for students to choose from on a daily basis."

PIZZA AND PANINI STATION
"A daily Panini or pizza choice. Taher’s Signature Pizza starts with a specially formulated crust. After smothering it with our zesty, old-world recopy pizza sauce and fresh mozzarella, we finish it off with a variety of toppings."

FRESHWICH®
"Deli Sandwich Station offering made-to-order fresh deli sandwiches and wraps, on choice of bread, served with all pickles, peppers, sauces, condiments, or simply tacos, burritos, wraps, ets."

HOT SANDWICH & INTERNATIONAL GRILL
"Presenting burritos, tacos, wraps, burgers, chicken, fish, and other popular items."

GRAB-N-GO
"Our A la Carte offerings will include healthier food, snacks and beverages selections, including our exciting and delicious line of Grab-n-Go products; made fresh, they are also available for students on the run Items offered include freshly-made salads, sandwiches, wraps, and homemade soups."

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BAR
"An accompaniment to every meal. This station utilizes self-service and offers students a selection of fresh and canned fruits, and fresh vegetables."
The more interesting part for me is, this is just one instance we found out because they screwed up. I am sure there are many many more of these channels where national security details are discussed.

Signal still is hosted in the US, do we know how much they will fight if the government asks it to retrieve someone's messages? I don't know if I trust messaging apps that are already pandering to the administration to keep my data safe or fight to not decrypt my data.
Oh wow. Amazing. I did not think of that. I am not fan of GraphQL but you might be onto something here. I have not checked the code and perhaps this is not the right channel for this but my read is that this library allows any generic GraphQL server to exposed in this sort of way?
Once met a guy who set up a whole rooftop garden in LA for a couple of schools so they could teach their students about growing food and as well about the importance of fresh ingredients. Part of the program was that kids would take turns (in groups) preparing (under the supervision of a chef) the lunch the school would eat that day, teachers included.

The results were awesome, and then the program got cut because it was too expensive. The dude is now a management consultant, ironically enough.
I would call that an economic decision, or an opportunistic one. How can you avoid something that's not even there?
I believe that's only on MacOS.
Layers of abstraction vs. predigested programming slop.
I suppose the trick is to use the uncorrected em dash--like this--so nobody thinks you're a cleanly formatted LLM.

More generally I guess the more punctuation mistakes you make, the lower the chances your text is flagged as written by AI, so there's now an optimal amount of mistakes that maximizes the perceived value of your work.
Cosmic Rays Trigger Lightning
Labor costs. Work in the trades can pay VERY well in the wealthier parts of the US. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, tile journeyman can all make over six figures in the major metro areas.
Zoning and sanitary regulations, presumably.

For zoning, there's plenty of places that don't allow commercial operations near residential zones- hence the push for more mixed-use zoning. Unfortunately, urban environments still have very high rents, so to stay cheap enough you'd have to get permission to operate a good truck or sidewalk stand.

For regulations, there's no way to run (or rent) a commercial kitchen and sell low cost freshly made food and make enough money, especially if you aren't operating out of a food truck. There's several other licenses involved depending on the nature of the business.
Turns out you can yeah! I'm not sure the quality would be anything useful for imaging applications though. But for lighting / non-imaging stuff go for it!
That depends on your style guide.
Lav mics and boom mics are great because they solve the problem so many other designs are trying hard to work around: distance from the speaker’s mouth to the transducer.

An inexpensive omnidirectional lav can sound good for much less money and much more reliably than complicated software-steered mic arrays or even desktop mics with various pickup patterns can in the hands of an average consumer because the source audio, proportionally, is so much louder than any background or room noises due simply to distance. Because of the inverse-square law, every time you halve the distance between source and mic you get 4 times the acoustic power, so much better signal to noise ratio.

Real situations exist where simply putting the microphone closer to the mouth isn’t good enough to solve the problem on its own, and that’s why stage microphones have those pickup patterns that reject more noise but require some technique to use. That’s not the reality for most people giving a presentation on their laptop, though.
Here in Germany triple pane windows are very much a luxury.
I agree. I’ve always found it strange that mug shots and arrest information are public.
Seems like you're correct. Interesting!
> I hear we hit a plateau with current approaches

Then we need new. The important last year step was distillation as mainstream. In my opinion. Now using old models to train new is normal or even necessary. That was done before, but it was sort of experimental. Creating targeted datasets is a very powerful thing. Now big models can be trained on quality data instead of internet random mix. This includes long thinking and tools use examples from the beginning and not as fine tuning.

Another way of thinking is AI is steadily getting close to human level IQ. Not approximating, it will cross the line. This distance had reduced dramatically in last few years. Then it's singularity that everybody was talking about for so long.

This year we already have google's robotic multimodal. It's closed, but likely will be reproduced. Significant step toward useful generic robots.
I know he's gone a bit nuts but Musk + SpaceX are working on sending stuff.
Very cool. I’m the CEO of Innerscene (https://innerscene.com) and we make a commercial artificial skylight that uses some of these concepts. Actually the coelux ht25 model is almost identical to what you made but using smaller lenses and more LEDs - however the effect they were able to achieve still isn’t that great, the sun looks like a giant orb and once you get a few feet away you can make out a sun at all. We spent a lot of time working on perfect collimation and hiding lens edges and making sure the view into the sky was seamless and artifact free. I’d say the last 10% of that problem is 90% of the work. :). I think we successfully cracked the nut but currently using a lot of expensive parts so working on brining the cost down. If you search Innerscene patent many of our approaches are spelled out. We also spent a lot of time on simulation and software…
The engineers of various AIs are probably reading your comment and making adjustments.

Or we are both just AIs, as a portion of HN comments are, commenting back and forth about other AIs.
Yes Kaniko (my mobile keyboard did this weird autocorrect, sorry)
The end result tends to be similar across a lot of apps: some CI (e.g., Github Actions) step that does some combination of: uploading docker images to a registry, ssh'ing into boxes and running some restart/kick script(s), uploading some release binary. What action depends on the app obviously - but I've seen a common theme of that "action" being the last step of some CI pipeline.
I like that my VPS is just a generic Linux box, and not a PaaS. If DigitalOcean doesn't work, I can redeploy anywhere else in a few minutes.

I also find this a lot easier to reason about than a bunch of scattered services talking to each other through APIs. In the end, it's just docker plus a bunch of scripts.
Most obvious tell of the former/current Stripe employee, imho.
Huzzah! Well deserved.
Well, there goes my idea of DIYing a telescope...
> RL learning involves training the models on entire responses, not token-by-token loss... The obvious conclusion is that they plan.

It is worth pointing out the "Jailbreak" example at the bottom of TFA: According to their figure, it starts to say, "To make a", not realizing there's anything wrong; only when it actually outputs "bomb" that the "Oh wait, I'm not supposed to be telling people how to make bombs" circuitry wakes up. But at that point, it's in the grip of its "You must speak in grammatically correct, coherent sentences" circuitry and can't stop; so it finishes its first sentence in a coherent manner, then refuses to give any more information.

So while it sometimes does seem to be thinking ahead (e.g., the rabbit example), there are times it's clearly not thinking very far ahead.
Great find and post.

I've run into this exact thing. Luckily rebuilding a container doesn't cause downtime for us and 99% of our changes require rebuilding an image, so I've just left it as is...

It is annoying though when we make a small infra change and have to wait for the container image to build...
I think lockdown mode is fine for most people. Yes, some websites are broken because they assume their font always loads, but I've never really felt bothered by issues like that. Then again, I've never really used iCloud, so maybe I'm missing out on something there.

Many edge cases covered, like not being able to add configuration profile, are fixes to insecure defaults IMO.
Are you hiring? I'm looking for a job currently. Contact info is on my website :)
Anyone who has lived in a co-op might disagree lol
Yeah I can't really blame people for not realising they have shitty mics and shitty internet because it's really hard for them to tell! Basically the only way is to start a meeting, record it, and then watch it back. But what a faff!

Why is there no "play me back but delayed" test meeting option?

Apparently Zoom has this but I'm using Google Meet at the moment... Their answer is "ask someone else". No really.

https://support.google.com/meet/thread/45440945/is-there-a-t...
With a GPU stems take seconds to generate, it happens on the fly when I load a file and the track can begin playing immediately while its running.
Totally agree.

I also consider it weird that in a group call somebody could be directly staring at you but you can't tell. Highly unnatural.
How big was the one you worked for?

In my experience, smaller ones tend to align incentives better.

Once they grow past a certain size though, it's a labor arbitrage game. Bill client X, staff with resources costing Y (and over-represented), profit = X-Y, minimize Y to maximize profit.

PwC / IBM Global Services wasn't offering the best and brightest. (Outside of aforementioned tiger teams)
What's EOF?

Edit: nvm found it! No it doesn't, as this is not dealing with EVM at all
Composition fallacy much?

I was a CA voter in 2020. The focus I saw from candidates and citizens alike were things like democracy, rule of law, housing costs/policy, and police reform. Prop 16 was a footnote, not a focus, which is probably one of the reasons it lost (alongside the fact that its language made it difficult to tell if it was allowing for civil protections or tearing them down).

And democratic domestic policy focus since has been pretty clear: economic stimulus, infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, and various kinds of working class relief. Pretty standard "promote the general welfare" stuff, sometimes joined with efforts to protect "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" (even for people who look or love differently). That's what you'd expect from classic liberals who still believe in enlightenment values and ideals. Or even just anyone who wants those things for themselves and realizes that to guarantee it to anyone, you have to support it for everyone.

This was definitely all over the 2024 democratic platform.

The problem isn't that people don't like the policy and values they'd get from the Democratic Party and its candidates. It's that they're increasingly mislead about what the difference is. As evidenced by the polling on relative policy popularity last fall:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/22/trump-har...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/tru...

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50802-harris-vs-t...
The alternative is unemployed people sitting around, earning no income, feeling more despondent... and bored. AKA how to get radicalized and doing worse than nothing in todays info enviroment. Did you live in China pre 90s, i.e. when actual "iron rice bowl" positions existed, they were above median income state job with good benefits (relative to income at time), but was about 1/6th of 600m workforce. Closer to all the random gov jobs being created on tax payer dime.
If you're on Windows, install PowerToys, and check out the KeyBoard manager. It lets you set up shortcuts. I overload my keys using right alt for greek letters. (science stuff). Could do it for these dashes as well.
> spans pages 128–34.

Who omits the 1 from the second number?! That is aweful!
Intel TDX Security and Side Channels (2024)
>As a YIMBY, ADUs are an introductory "first step" policy that should obviously be legal, but were never expected to have any real effect.

This is such a weird thing to say. Why would lawmakers ever want to support a new YIMBY policy when the people that support them openly admit that it was never meant to achieve what they claimed was going to achieve?
I mean, Stallman, if you count software commercialization as technology.

There are plenty of game developers who reject game engines in lieu of building their own from varying levels of scratch. Jonathan Blow, for example, made a number of successful and artistically meaningful games that heavily leveraged his custom tech stack.
Great project! Instead of routing ground traces, I would recommend to use a ground plane on the bottom layer of the PCB
I think it often comes about because there's a desire for developers to be able to locally reproduce what is happening on CI (good!) and having an end-to-end Dockerfile can be a great piece of that (yay!) but as soon as devs are debugging a problem or wanting to change a dependency, attach a debugger, or whatever else, it becomes too burdensome to rebuild the whole thing every time. So you end up with the setup and finalization of the build in Dockerfiles, and then some nebulous semi-manual stuff occurring in the middle.

This is workable-ish for the base developer + ship a product use cases, but it creates a bit of a crisis of repeatability when you've got a complicated CI config implementing all this mystery meat that falls in the middle of the sandwich, and there's separate documentation somewhere else that explains what the dev workflow is supposed to be, but no one is explicitly tasked with keeping the CI script and dev workflow in sync, so they inevitably drift over time.

Plus, long and complicated CI-specific scripts are a smell all on their own, as was discussed here on HN a few days ago.
Palo Alto started encrypting the police radio a few years ago, but a new chief of police was hired last year and reversed the decision and made it public again. Palo Alto cares more about transparency than the average city though.
True. See one of Anthropic's researcher's comment for a great example of that. It's likely that "planning" inherently exists in the raw LLM and RL is just bringing it to the forefront.

I just think it's helpful to understand that all of these models people are interacting with were trained with the _explicit_ goal of maximizing the probabilities of responses _as a whole_, not just maximizing probabilities of individual tokens.
they go to a small landlord who doesn't check for eviction records. most likely after the law evictions will no longer show up in credit reports anyway since the penalties for showing sealed records is high, and it's unclear how you would know they're sealed to begin with.
When humans say something, or think something or write something down, aren't we also "just predicting the next word"?