skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it's free. (But also aiming for 100% correctness is very very expensive) I'm talking about trading correctness, readability, security and maybe others for another metrics. What I said is just not every project that has value should be optimized for the same metrics. Bank or medical software needs to be correct as close to 100% as possible. Some tool I'm creating for my team to simplify a process does not necessarily need to. I would not mind my webgl shader possibly causing problems to some users. It would get reported and fixed. Or not. It's my call what I would spend my effort on.

Of course the tradeoffs should be well considered. That's why it may get out of hand real bad if software will be created (or vibe coded) by people with little understanding of these metrics and tradeoffs. I'm absolutely not advocating for that.
Perhaps. From a distance (physical, social, or both) local norms of behavior are often non-standard and abnormal.
800-20k is a pretty tidy profit margin for someone with connections. I think the bid was for a hundred of them.
An OS that won't let you do what you want to do is malware.
"In 2023, numbers released by UNOOSA showed that only 11 percent of the world's astronauts are women"
Learning From Data: https://amlbook.com/
Super interesting. Can you explain more, or provide some reading? I’m obviously behind
It seems to churn the index. I have no other explanation for its behavior. And of course filing Feedback in Apple's tools doesn't help.
Those memes and videos should only be coming from pages that you follow and groups that you're in.

I don't understand where your comment comes from, to be honest. I use Facebook a decent amount, and every single post in my feed comes from a page that I follow, a group that I'm in, or a friend.

I think the issue is when your friend Bob shares something from a page that you don't follow. People seem to blame Facebook for showing you irrelevant content, rather than blaming their friend Bob for sharing it. People share things on Facebook with the intent for you to see it. If you don't like it, then block the page Bob shared from. If Bob does a lot of sharing, then either unfriend him entirely, or at least unfollow so his crap stops showing up in your feed.
Today in “typesetting before we had typewriters”: …

At least we have dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now. But we still see a lot of "straight" quotes instead of “those smart quotes Microsoft Word likes to generate”. And dashes. Did you know there is a dedicated ellipsis character? This is often set with slightly more space between dots than ..., and it by definition never wraps across a line between those dots. You still see (C) instead of ©.

It is one of those things that doesn’t really matter for readability, but although they can’t necessarily put a finger on why, people may still notice that some documents or pages appear to be set with more care for details than others.

(edit: I guess if you don’t have to search on Google what the hell a ‘Microsoft Word’ is, then you’re officially old)
Is an asylum seeker really legal if their claim is a stretch and they are in fact just an economic migrant? Seems like an arguable category that should be treated separately. Though I agree there appear to be plenty of people in Europe who want to restrict legal immigration too. Is this taboo there now too?
I understand and appreciate the sentiment, but I see the intent very differently. Apple is not employing a frog boiling strategy, but rather being responsive to an increasingly sophisticated adversary.

It’s like criticism of the quality of Google search dropping. It has absolutely tanked, but it’s not because the algorithm is worse, it’s because the internet has grown orders of magnitude and most of it uses the same hyper aggressive SEO optimisation, such that the signal to noise ratio is far worse than ever before.
I'm going from memory but I think when posts of hers get traction here she'll get comments that I think she refers to as 'The One' [0], and also comments that... you typically wouldn't get for a male poster.

[0] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/
No ads. No microtransactions. Just simple games you can play on airplane mode with no internet required.
The big difference is as an owner you are fully in control of allocating your time, and so if out of hours workload is becoming too much, you can choose to not work on other things in favour of fixing that. In the corporate world, there's some manager who weighs up spending two weeks to properly fix an issue or automate a process vs just making their workers unhappy and doing something that will make the manager look good in the internal politics, and often will insist on the latter.
You need to run it under MLX, and AFAICT ComfyUI and the like are not really optimized for it (or at least not as optimized as LLM inference).
Rust does the same in release, although it panics in debug.
Meh - I've spent the better part of my career being told by Silver backs "No, that won't work" - only for it to then turn out to work, and be a superior solution.

So I No, but your fight for more No, but!
> it can be tedious to understand documents right before signing them

I’d be wary of my signature tool giving my employees and potentially clients legal advice.
I lost Windows fluency around 7. I have little desire to get it back even though I use it every day as a secondary system.

How many "control panels"? How many places are there to adjust audio device properties?
Have a minimum of say, 60 minutes, and if that is exceeded, the issue gets escalated or deferred. If deferred, presumably to the next day shift, the cost is limited. If escalated, the second person must also defend the time spent. If management still doesn't trust their workers to be honest, then the company has other issues that tweaking on-call will not solve.
Just because someone frequently lies doesn't mean they're exempt from ever being criticized about it again.
Kind of. If you look at the specs of the tensor chips they appear to essentially copy exactly what Qualcomm is doing. They use off the shelf ARM reference design cores packaged together the same way QC does. They’re also about a year behind QCs latest stuff.

In comparison Apple (and the very very latest QC chipsets) use custom ARM cores. Google has yet to do this.
It's a lie. Those constructed things would become increasingly sub-par requiring even more maintenance from workers that no longer exist because of the 25% efficiency gain. There is no win here. It's a shortcut for some people that will cost other people more time. It's burden shifting to the others on the team, in the industry, or in the near future. It's weak sauce from weak workers.
Oh, gotcha. we don’t do that in-house but lots of companies are available that specialize in this - probably one near you if search for sheet metal fabricators.
Cancer progresses differently depending on ethnicity and sex. As does treatment and likelihood of receiving treatment at early stages.

Black women experience worse outcomes and are diagnosed with more severe forms of breast cancer than white women.

Cancer is not just one disease. Its progression will vary depending on type. If the AI is trained on only some strains of cancer, eg those traditionally found in white women in early detection scenarios, it might not generalize to other cancer types.

So yes, to your genuine question, medical imaging of cancer can vary depending on ethnicity because different cancers can vary between genetic backgrounds. Ideally there would be sufficient training data across the populations, but there isn't because of historical race bias. (Among other reasons.)
I'm enjoying Sorbet Leopard on my 20 year old Dual Core PowerPC tower. Mostly just messing around with old versions of Max making weird sounds.. but when I do interact with the OS it feels great and responsive and a joy to use. Modern MacOS can feel that way if you turn off a lot of crap. I don't even sync my accounts to the OS anymore.
It's not a new product. The functionality I'm talking about dates from when Apple Music was iTunes.

You can listen to the playlist offline just fine. I just mean you can't export a playlist of trimmed tracks as audio (e.g. "My Mixtape.m4a") from within Apple Music. If you sometimes want to hear the full track and sometimes want to hear the trimmed tracks as a mixtape, then it's not a good solution. But if you just want to cut a 5 minute intro or 20 minutes of "hidden track" silence then it's there.
ChatGPT has a share button. This is like a bug report with no repro steps.

If people aren't linking the conversation, it's really hard to take the complaint seriously.
What, shouldn't that nerve be more ...internal...what crazy head injury did you sustain
How come you have to use Windows to play Minecraft? Are you using Bedrock edition?
Curious how this is the case. Do European companies not provide 24/7 services? Or staff a "follow the sun" model so no one has to answer pages outside of working hours? Do Europeans write better code so they don't need on-call?

I've worked at a few FAANGs in the US, and every single one after 2010 had an on-call rotation.
You can also hold the hyphen key to select an en dash.
I started reading DF when I was a college student, probably in 2002 or 2003. I listened to every iteration of The Talk Show that I can remember --- both runs with your former host, and the current edition from the very first episode. When I moved to Los Angeles and had no friends and felt lonely as hell all the time, I used to put on the keyboard episode of The Talk Show to give me something pleasant to fall asleep to.

But John, your cheerleading for Israel's genocide --- man. Way before the election of the current cheerleader-in-chief for that effort, you were ahead of the game.

You said that students who protested this genocide should be expelled from college (you've got a friend in the White House now, John!):

> These students should be expelled from college, not placated.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/19/violence

And, most sickening of all, you cheered the indiscriminate pager attack that maimed children, which your friend in the White House has now got a golden pager memorializing:

> This whole operation sounds like it would make for a great movie.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/17/israel-hezbolla...

I could go on, but the effect was heartbreaking. My old friend, the voice in my little Pasadena apartment all those years ago, clapping for the maiming of children and howling for the expulsion of students who disagree with him? Who was this guy? Who is this guy? Had I read him wrong the whole time? Had I changed --- would I have loved those blown-up Lebanese kids back in 2002, and now I'd gone soft? I don't know. But if I'd visited DF for the first time in 2003 and found content calling for the expulsion of Iraq War protesters, I don't think I'd have made a second visit.
> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

That's what the recent Signal tormoil is like.

Communication via Signal app that's safe if you could be sure it was compiled from verified open-source code, but Signal still doesn't provide any way to in principle eliminate the possibility that client binary distributers put in a backdoor at the last minute.
Well the API calls worked perfectly. The LLM didn’t misinterpret that.

The data extraction via tesseract worked too.

The whisper transcript was pretty good. Not perfect, but when you do this daily you are easily able to work around things.

The summaries of the calls were very useful. I could easily verify those because I was on the calls.

The interview - again, transcript is great. The bulleted narrative was guided - again - by me having been on the call. I certify he quotes against the transcript, and audio if I’ve got any doubts.

Scrapers - again, they worked fine. The LLM didn’t misinterpret anything.

Podcasts - as before. Easy.

Article to voice - what’s to misinterpret?

Your criticism sounds like a lot of waffle with no understanding of how to use these tools.
New forensic findings on the death of Suchir Balaji, OpenAI whistleblower
Hotels always ask to physically take my credit card, random maintenance guys ask to access my apartment without a heads-up from the landlord. It's seen as normal, but in my book it's a bit careless.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the "normal things have 'ADHD' translations" bit. It reads the same as trans to me - a counterculture subculture where you get to feel good about things you feel bad about.
Around four.
It's all done quite easily when that's the priority but it's not because the priority is hype to keep the cycle going to mint a few more ultra-wealthy assholes. Nothing about fixing 404s would require resources unavailable to these mega-corporations and your and others carrying their water is part of why they don't.
Also, I don't think broadcast TV news is quite as reliable as the post makes it out to be.

Like this exchange happens all the time:

"and now we're going to our on site reporter, Onda Premises"

<45s silence>

"Oh, it appears we've lost them for now, we'll cycle back later. In our next story...."
paging 2000s Bethesda puzzles
I was surprised a couple of years ago to read that the US no longer made the aluminum tubing used to make bicycle frames. Despite having quite a significant custom frame building scene and many craftspeople, such a simple raw material was no longer made in the US.

I'm sure there are many, many things like this, for most countries.
The planning is certainly performed by circuits which we learned during training.

I'd expect that, just like in the multi-step planning example, there are lots of places where the attribution graph we're observing is stitching together lots of circuits, such that it's better understood as a kind of "recombination" of fragments learned from many examples, rather than that there was something similar in the training data.

This is all very speculative, but:

- At the forward planning step, generating the candidate words seems like it's an intersection of the semantics and rhyming scheme. The model wouldn't need to have seen that intersection before -- the mechanism could easily piece examples independently building the pathway for the semantics, and the pathway for the rhyming scheme

- At the backward chaining step, many of the features for constructing sentence fragments seem like the target is quite general (perhaps animals in one case, or others might even just be nouns).
One thing that cameras can do that we can't do with our (unaided) eyes is change focal length. When a camera zooms in or zooms out, there is a change in the geometry of perspective. When zooming in, the change is difficult to see but is well documented. Portrait photographers are well aware of this because it tends to make people look better. When zooming out, especially when zooming out to a very wide field of view, the effect can be very noticeable. When people use a phone camera to take a picture of a group of people, the people at the edges of the photo can look very flattened and unnatural. Again, this effect is well known and very much discussed and written about in photography and art. In the article about Piranesi's work, we see a very interesting remedy to the perceived distortion of a wide view. Again, these works show a field of view, and therefore a focal length, that is not possible with our eyes. We can visualise in our mind's eye what the scene looks like but what our eyes are doing is moving around the scene while our visual cortex and ultimately our mind's eye construct a mental model. In our minds, we know that the arches of the bridge are the same size and shape despite being distorted by distance. We can look at what's in front of us and see that in the receding row of arches the nearest appears to be bigger than the farthest but we also know that's just an artefact of our point of view. Things are subtly different when we look with our eyes at a photograph, painting or drawing. It's not the same as when we see something in real life, we're looking at a 2 dimensional representation of a 3 dimensional scene. We do see the perspective in the picture - we don't see a bunch of lines on a two dimensional plane. Our brains are making that happen and are making some adjustments along the way. It just so happens that something we have difficulty adjusting so it "looks right" is a very wide angle scene. That's because we don't ever see a very wide angle scene in one glance in real life.
They need a Snow-IOS too.

- Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed.

- The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge on the app only works off of what they classify as your "Priority" mail. There's a setting to change that, so that it shows you the unread count of ALL mail, not just priority mail, but when you change that setting nothing changes. This is my biggest problem with new iOS.

- Keyboard sometimes doesn't get out the way any more when it should.

These are just off the top of my head. It used to be such a nice, polished experience. Their competition was just outclassed. Now, when my phone dies I'm going to have a good look at all the other options.
So many highlights from reading this. One that stood out for me is their discovery that refusal works by inhibition:

> It turns out that, in Claude, refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is "on" by default and that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information to answer any given question. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well—say, the basketball player Michael Jordan—a competing feature representing "known entities" activates and inhibits this default circuit

Many cellular processes work similarly ie. there will be a process that runs as fast as it can and one or more companion “inhibitors” doing a kind of “rate limiting”.

Given both phenomena are emergent it makes you wonder if do-but-inhibit is a favored technique of the universe we live in, or just coincidence :)
I understand that you're doing it on principle, but for a software development team, 99$/year is a really minuscule price to pay to be able to build / notarise / distribute software.

Developers pay exorbitant amount of money for much lesser value, and the idea of putting your teammates at risk to stick it to apple is kind of sad bordering with negligence from a business POV.
I use both Mac and windows extensively and I'm not sure what are you referring to.

You can access most settings by Windows + "yourquery".
I have been using Claude this week the first time for a _slightly_ bigger SwiftUI project than just a few lines of bash or SQL I used it before. I have never used swift before but I am amazed how much Claude could do. It feels to me as we are at the point where anyone can now generate small tools with low effort for themselves. Maybe not production ready, but good enough to use yourself. It feels like it should be good enough to empower the average user to break out of having to rely on pre-made apps to do small things. Kind of like bash for the average Joe.

What worked:

- generated a mostly working PoC with minimal input and hallucinated UI layout, Color scheme, etc. this is amazing because it did not bombard me with detailed questions. It just carried on to provide me with a baseline that I could then finetune

- it corrected build issues by me simply copy pasting the errors from Xcode
- got APIs working
- added debug code when it could not fix an issue after a few rounds

- resolved an API issue after I pointed it to a typescript SDK to the API (I literally gave a link to the file and told it, try to use this to work out where the problem is)
- it produces code very fast

What is not working great yet:

- it started off with one large file and crashed soon after because it hit a timeout when regenerating the file. I needed to ask it to split the file into a typical project order

- some logic I asked it to implement explicitly got changed at some point during an unrelated task. To prevent this in future I asked it mark this code part as important and that it should only be changed at explicit request. I don’t know yet how long this code will stay protected for

- by the time enough context got build up usage warnings pop up in Claude

- only so many files are supported atm

So my takeaway is that it is very good at translating, I.e. API docs into code, errors into fixes. There is also a fine line between providing enough context and running out of tokens.

I am planning to continue my project to see how far I can push it. As I am getting close to the limit of the token size now, I am thinking of structuring my app in a Claude friendly way:

- clear internal APIs. Kind of like header files so that I can tell Claude what functions it can use without allowing it to change them or needing to tokenize the full source code

- adversarial testing. I don’t have tests yet, but I am thinking of asking one dedicated instance of Claude to generate tests. I will use other Claude instances for coding and provide them with failing test outputs like I do now with build errors. I hope it will fix itself similarly.
Easy way to eliminate the possibly.

Stop the immunosuppressant pills and see what happens.
One of the sidebars mentions that: "The production system in question is almost certainly a schizophrenic box of compromises brought about through poor decision-making, unaddressed technical debt, design-by-committee, and impossible timelines and budgets. This is not a system that any single rational human being on the team would’ve chosen to build if permitted to do so alone. Trying to assert ownership over an environment like that is just begging to get your shit rocked."
> Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass

sudo spctl —-master-disable
so what? that's not a reason to not donate at all. It's not an "all or nothing" proposition. donating a little is still better than donating nothing.

(and what's more, I disagree with your premise. I think I'd everyone donated, the cost would be very spread out and it would be shockingly affordable, especially relative to the benefits we get)