skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it turns out, it's not just simple next token generation, there is intelligence and self developed solution methods (Algorithms) in play, particularly in the math example.

Also the multi language finding negates, at least partially, the idea that LLMs, at least large ones, don't have an understanding of the world beyond the prompt.

This changed my outlook regarding LLMs, ngl.
What does the voting population look like?

Where I am in Canada, we typically do not prioritize canvassing neighbourhoods with more renters as they usually don’t vote.

I imagine that tenant rights and rent control transform many renters into essentially homeowners for purposes beyond the asset itself. They also aren’t impacted by prices.
The type of people who frequently cause collisions are the same people that will drive without a license. And because they're also judgment proof deadbeats they often don't have liability insurance either.
My dad is landlord of an 8-plex in a small town. My brother is a social worker in a big city. When they get together and talk it's amazing how much their jobs overlap. So much of the job as a small time landlord these days is dealing with drug abuse, interpersonal problems, police, social services, housing authorities, etc.
I was in an EU country for a week as a tourist and an American last week, and I only got reactions ranging from neutral to positive when I told people where I was from.
> The gimmick of the LLM is that it outputs text sequentially, as if it is talking to us. That's what makes them feel "alive" and "intelligent" to us.

Yes, I got that that was the original claim. I still disagree with us. What makes them feel alive and intelligent is that they produce human-like language output, not that the process by which they construct that output is sequential. Non-autoregressive LLMs of equal output quality would (do) appear just as alive and intelligent as autoregressive LLMs. An autoregressive LLM behind a non-streaming request/response interface where the token-by-token sequencing of the response is not exposed to the user still seems just as intelligent as one where the output is streamed to the user.
Show HN: Fast URL-to-[QR,Code39,Data Matrix] in Rust
Hey HN,

I wanted to share a side project I built recently: gen.printercow.com. It's a simple free web service that generates QR codes, Code39, and Data Matrix barcodes just by visiting a URL.

Example 1: https://gen.printercow.com/code39/svg/HELLO-WORLD
Example 2: https://gen.printercow.com/qr/svg/HELLO-WORLD

This started as an exercise to deepen my understanding of Rust (using the Salvo framework). It also fills a small gap I needed for my main project, Printercow.com (which lets you print things like AI chats on thermal printers). I needed a quick, reliable way to embed barcodes dynamically without adding heavy dependencies client-side.

Performance & Hosting:
It seems quite fast! It's currently hosted on a small server in Frankfurt, Germany. From within Europe, I'm seeing response times typically around 25-30ms. Obviously, latency will be higher from other regions.

Privacy:
No content you encode, IP addresses, or other PII are logged. The only thing tracked is an anonymous, in-memory counter for each barcode type generated (to see what's popular).

I'd love to get your feedback, hear about any bugs you find, or discuss potential features (other barcode types?). If you find it useful but experience high latency, let me know which region you'd like to see a server added next (e.g., US-East, APAC?).

Thanks for checking it out!
Again, no. Not all TS material is SCI. You only need a SCIF for SCI.

"SCIFs are often employed for processing things that are only marked Secret or systems only handling Secret"

No. SCIFs are expensive. They are not built when they are not needed. They are only needed for SCI materials.
[threat of] Hitting on Iran may stop the flow of drones and ballistic missiles to Russia and to the Houthis which would be helpful to the ending both wars.

Edit: for the people, like the commenter below, who happens to be unaware about that major piece of the war (in particular these drones have been the main tool devastating Ukrainian infrastructure)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-lau...
Yes, could almost have been written for another story altogether.
This isn't really accurate.

In the case of plugging a "phone", as a device, into a USB host computer, the USB device (the phone) can present a filesystem endpoint to the host, and allow read/write access. The OS of the phone then passes these read/writes through to its mounted filesystem, with whatever mapping and access controls to the mounted filesystem it wishes to implement.

Thus the USB connection doesn't require that the raw filesystem of the phone be mounted by 2 hosts at the same time.

This already happens with every USB "stick" you plug into a host computer. The memory in the USB stick is accessed by firmware on a CPU inside the memory stick, which then presents that memory to the host as a USB storage class device. The firmware may not have a linux or iOS OS, but it does perform mapping to preserve and remap sectors to alleviate flash endurance issues, perform secure mounting, and other features.

There's no technical reason android can't do this.

p.s. MTP clients accessing an android device are a major PITA! Especially, ironically, for a linux OS USB host...
My son has been trying to meet people his own age around Ithaca and struggling but has been overcoming from his own effort with some help from his friends like me and my fox [1]

Of course the early 20s demo is dominated by college students which has some positive but also negative effects. He found it was easy to meet boomers at rock concerts and poker tournaments but once he cracked the code of meeting people his own age he was told by townies that townies leave because they can’t afford the rent. It is one thing to move on to seek fame and fortune but if you’re going to be one of the people who construct and maintain housing (can’t outsource that work to India, won’t be replaced by LLMs) it is a step down to move to a blighted area where you can afford to live.

[1] shapeshifting lessons taught him how to be an ambivert like myself
Behind the Code with Anders Hejlsberg (2016) [video]
We have the tools, it's just going to be inter-generational warfare, and nobody really wants to say it out loud.

The bigger the housing crisis gets, the more people are going to change things on the state level instead of the local level.

This isn't a pendulum shifting event, it's a cascade, and that's why Abundance is doing so well, and that's why things are getting ugly on the left.
You Sir are at least the equal of Sacha Baron Cohen. Thank you.
Can you point to a single public school in the US that does this? Not being snarky, I would love to have one to show as an example.

My public school had a kitchen ... that it used to heat up pre-packaged deep fried chicken and pizza from Sysco. Sometimes we would get some withered celery on the plate as well.
Show HN: Punch a college that rejected you
I basically made a site that allows you to punch any colleges that rejected you (or for any reason they made you mad).

The link is https://re.ject.ing . 100% free, not an advertisement to anything, I'm running this on my server. Also just for fun and giggles.

I'm expecting Ivys punch score to skyrocket in a few hours. For now, GO PUNCH 'EM
> Why not? Sure, they could be undone, but that's true for any law in a democracy.

Not a democracy, and you just answered your own question. They can be undone because the people do not wield absolute power. They can be overturned by the state government, or federal government, or local lobbying groups.

> Yes, it sucks, but my point was that the doomers couldn't disentangle a few very bad economic years from their highly motivated belief that the whole rotten system is gonna come crashing down Any Day Now, I Swear.

I never said the whole system was going to come crashing down. I said Liberalism is over.

> Got some bad news for you if you think abuses of executive power like this aren't largely normal here.

I don't understand your point. You acknowledge that things are bad and also seem to acknowledge that they are getting worse, but you also claim that I am being "doomer". I am simply stating that whatever remained of the liberal framework, like:

- separation of powers

- due process

- representative democracy

- constitutional law

Is going bye-bye. I don't think it is "doomerism" when it is literally happening right now and has arguably been happening since the GWOT. I think you just want to be contrarian and look at everything bad happening and feel superior because you are aloof about it.
Honestly no. That guy was fucking around and found out in the end. This guy ordered something that was basically supposed to be a novelty for collecting purposes and has been fucked for it.
Loved the book. Bought it in hardcover, based just on the blurb, which sounded so futuristic and imaginative. Surprised me in ways I didn't expect.
Microsoft and Mozilla.
I don’t really think that it is. Evolution is a random search, training a neural network is done with a gradient. The former is dependent on rare (and unexpected) events occurring, the latter is expected to converge in proportion to the volume of compute.
>In rural Colorado there is a law that makes subdividing lots under 35 acres very difficult.

Those sorts of laws are often to protect farms and ranches from being turned into subdivisions are generally a good thing if you want a stable food supply.
CSV is the PHP of fileformats
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Americans (esp white Americans) have a lot of individualist, anti-collectivist, anti-government cultural attitudes. The last time a situation like this happened, it took a Great Depression and intense widespread economic pain for them to snap out of it.

So what is it gonna take for Americans to demand universal healthcare? Idk, but 1 pandemic didn't do it. Maybe 3-5? Similarly real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth has been largely stagnant for most American workers, so eventually things will get bad enough, but not today and not tomorrow.
But everyone already has a GUI installed for editing xlsx files...
Um, as someone who just released a product, and has no experience with marketing, I see marketing as "connecting people to solutions to their problems".
Primitive in what sense? Lacking nuance, or not reflective of modern society? I do think that the success category is easily mapped to money, which may be why it’s a primary heuristic for measuring success in a modern western society.
One past discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354401 - September 2023 (62 comments)
What the Collapse of the Bitcoin ETF Cash-and-Carry Trade Means for Investors
Some people don’t even do that!
> It won’t be OpenAI or Claude. They have other priorities. The real opportunity is for small teams who move fast, stay close to users, and keep ahead of the pack.

It could be small teams within those companies, however, who have special access to the full power of the platform.

I don't know where things will end up, but I'm leaning towards the big guys dominating coding, because they do coding themselves, and so are automatically extremely sensitive to the issues for that particular task. They can build tools for themselves and share with the world.

It's true that an external team may end up doing it better and be used internally. I just don't think the outcome is predictable at this point.
I feel this is similar to how humans talk. I never consciously think about the words I choose. They just are spouted off based on some loose relation to what I am thinking about at a given time. Sometimes the process fails, and I say the wrong thing. I quickly backtrack and switch to a slower "rate of fire".
It would boil down to a profitability tax. As an exaggeration: a company with 7 people on the payroll that brings in $10m a year has to pay it. But a company that employs 700 and earns the same does not.
If anyone wonders what atop looks like at runtime or what it would be useful for, there's a video dedicated to the tool at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AtCR5ftyM .
There's a fabulous article[0] by William Langewiesche in "The Atlantic" that I read years ago to that effect; it's "An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS" that follows a B-2 mission against a group of ISIS militants in the desert that shows how ridiculous they are against such an enemy. But yes, essentially they are enormous military-industrial capital investments, and it seems they just want to get used now and again.

[0]https://archive.is/P8oUN
People are fooled to think it is OK to pay an inflated price for a house even if it means you struggle with the mortgage and taxes because you will sell to a greater fool…. But that perception is cracking.

Leftists in Ithaca have learned that high property taxes drive up the rent and voted down a bloated school budget because they realized that we all pay taxes.
I blame the scientific community for blindly accepting OpenAI's claims about GPT-3 despite them refusing to release their model. The tech community hyping every press release didn't help either.

I hope one day the community starts demanding verifiable results before accepting them, but I fear that ship may have already sailed.
Wouldn't the fact it only occurred on some specific browser be a big hint?
> as long as the property is not damaged

According to who? Landlords already tend to exaggerate to try to keep your security deposit, tenants would have no motivation to admit to damages after the lease ends. If the answer is "go to court", then "evictions are fast" will have to be amended.
Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from fundamentalist ravings, so says Poe.

But this comment has me solidly believing it's satire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495692. Not that I can't believe someone would really think that way, just that the odds of them being an actual psychopath who doesn't see what they're saying seem lower than the odds of a non-psychopathic person taking the opportunity to make a joke.
That sounds nice, but don't rent to your friends. I've been there and it sucks. Everything works great until someone hits the hard times and the resource imbalance between parties gets amplified. You're either going to end up trashing friendships and dealing with the emotional baggage, making a really poor business decision or both.

Rent to people you're comfortable evicting/taking legal action against if things sour and then if you're so inclined, help your friends out by subsidizing outings/entertainment etc.
Yes, I agree, but ...

> Probably not that long, uranocene (a comparatively heavy molecule of similar structure) apparently has an appreciable vapor pressure of 10^-3 torr or so at 200C.

200°C(392°F) is hotter than boiling cooking oil (it's a hot oven to cook, but far from red hot)

vapor pressure of water at 0°C(32°F) is 5 torr

i.e. almost frozen water has 5000x the vapor pressure of very hot uranocele.

Let's replace "forever" with "extremely slowly".

> Weight does matter of course, but intermolecular bonding/affinity is generally the more important consideration.

I agree, so I choose a non-polar material to compare. (i.e. petrol instead of water). Probably petrol and parafin are very saturated and linear, and both change the properties of the molecules a lot. I'd better have choose something with more double bounds, but I don't have a very good example at hand.
AI safety shouldn’t stymie the obvious value of AI, but the claim that AI safety is utterly irrelevant seems just as counterproductive as claiming we need to stop all AI research right now
> as do the Socialist party in France

I don't agree with you here. On the right of the Socialists, you have Macron's party. These two parties vote together on some things but disagree on others.

Also the fact that the socialist were part of the downfall of the previous French government is telling that they are not on the same side and their respective electorate are very different.

So to say that the socialists are hostages of their right leaning members is not correct. All the right leaning socialists have already jumped ship to Macron's party a long time ago.
Self-hosting almost certainly.
The problem is that voters don't seem to actually reward parties for getting stuff done, or for basic good governance in general. Trump accomplished relatively little of his agenda in his first term, and tried to overthrow the government at the end, and people decided to reelect him four years later anyway.
It’s much easier to deploy and has a much older high availability story that has been battle tested for a decade or two. It also has a more linear regression. The query optimizer doesn’t try to be clever. It only works with the query and the schema. So if your query is bad, it will get worse with data size. Double the data in prod compared to your test instance? Double the bad query. Postgres tries to get clever with data size so it might switch to a different plan with more data resulting in your one customer with a lot of data all of a sudden getting really bad query times but nobody can reproduce it locally. So now you as the admin have to go into the database and pull a dump that for once actually trigger the same query plan as it did in production but your devs might not be allowed to see all the data or have it locally. This is one annoying thing at least you don’t have to do with MySQL.

Oh, also, MySQL just updates in place without bitching. Postgres wants you do install both versions side by side and migrate the data directory. That is annoying with docker.

Also, vacuuming.
Mostly replying to emphasize the second line part of this that seems to get skipped over in a lot of the discussions

> one of the members of the group chat was in Russia at the time, because he's the special envoy to Russia, which means that the communication was likely viewed visually by cameras if he were to open the signal chat on his phone

One of the members of the Signalgate chat, Witkoff, was in Moscow meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Just after midnight Moscow time, the chat named an active CIA intelligence officer; according to a Telegram post by Sergei Markov, Witkoff and Putin were in a meeting until 1:30 a.m. [1]

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signa...
I'm reminded of the metaphor that these models aren't constructed, they're "grown". It rings true in many ways - and in this context they're like organisms that must be studied using traditional scientific techniques that are more akin to biology than engineering.
No they’re cheap. But compared to the other ingredients which are mainly subsidized…
Yep basically sums it up. Enough "middle-class" people are insulated from collapse that they still defend the system even though it has already been torn up. Collapse is happening and has already killed people, it just hasn't been equally distributed yet. Once a "critical mass" of people feel collapse and it becomes "real" to them, they will be able to internalize the reality of the class conflict that caused it. Until then people will just keep thinking that "ah well this is just a temporary stumbling block on the path of liberal incrementalism".
Maybe you could feed data from relevant fan subreddits into an LLM to extract results from discussions?

Sure, it's poor quality data, but there's presumably quite a lot of it.
I hate to break the news to you, but 2032 is only 7 years away, and the article says it'll be another year still until the list of foods to phase out will be finalized. The phaseout of gasoline cars is set to take 15 years from 2020 to 2035, over twice as long, and IIUC some plug-in hybrids will still be allowed even after then.
That doesn't really scale though. Once you have ten houses, you'll start thinking about how it really should be 100 houses and they should build a better road to service everyone and then you'll want power and phone and internet, and before long all of the natural areas are just subdivisions.
>The rhyming example was especially unconvincing since they didn’t rule out the possibility that Claude activated “rabbit” simply because it wrote a line that said “carrot”

I'm honestly confused at what you're getting at here. It doesn't matter why Claude chose rabbit to plan around and in fact likely did do so because of carrot, the point is that it thought about it beforehand. The rabbit concept is present as the model is about to write the first word of the second line even though the word rabbit won't come into play till the end of the line.

>later Anthropic claimed Claude was able to “plan” when the concept “rabbit” was replaced by “green,” but the poem fails to rhyme because Claude arbitrarily threw in the word “green”!

It's not supposed to rhyme. That's the point. They forced Claude to plan around a line ender that doesn't rhyme and it did. Claude didn't choose the word green, anthropic replaced the concept it was thinking ahead about with green and saw that the line changed accordingly.
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Some of them, maybe. Some others are just not tolerant of LGBT lifestyles and equality at all.

Also, I don't think someone who wants limited immigration is necessarily far right.
Lockdown mode does this. Preventing weird attachment types entirely. Preventing most of the “edge case” things. Like you also can’t be added to an icloud album, or install new configuration profiles.

Although it’s a bit extreme. It disables almost all web-fonts which breaks a lot of websites. (It’s easy to toggle this, but you have to do so per-site) It’s really not designed for the average user.
Fixing housing isn't one thing, it's many dozens. ADU's are just one of many. If your list isn't at least 50 items long it's going to be ineffectual. Here's one example of a reasonable list, it's 55 items long: https://www.ontario.ca/page/housing-affordability-task-force...
And there are still many other things I would add.
Bitcoin will be useless in that case. Half of the techbros wouldn't even survive the early 90's. In the 80's, forget something like properly learning Forth with Starting Forth and doing something useful.
Hi! I lead interpretability research at Anthropic. I also used to do a lot of basic ML pedagogy (https://colah.github.io/). I think this post and its children have some important questions about modern deep learning and how it relates to our present research, and wanted to take the opportunity to try and clarify a few things.

When people talk about models "just predicting the next word", this is a popularization of the fact that modern LLMs are "autoregressive" models. This actually has two components: an architectural component (the model generates words one at a time), and a loss component (it maximizes probability).

As the parent says, modern LLMs are finetuned with a different loss function after pretraining. This means that in some strict sense they're no longer autoregressive models – but they do still generate text one word at a time. I think this really is the heart of the "just predicting the next word" critique.

This brings us to a debate which goes back many, many years: what does it mean to predict the next word? Many researchers, including myself, have believed that if you want to predict the next word really well, you need to do a lot more. (And with this paper, we're able to see this mechanistically!)

Here's an example, which we didn't put in the paper: How does Claude answer "What do you call someone who studies the stars?" with "An astronomer"? In order to predict "An" instead of “A”, you need to know that you're going to say something that starts with a vowel next. So you're incentivized to figure out one word ahead, and indeed, Claude realizes it's going to say astronomer and works backwards. This is a kind of very, very small scale planning – but you can see how even just a pure autoregressive model is incentivized to do it.