skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South Korean court removes president from office, says he violated duties
Only if there's some force pushing it away from the goal position.
>> Is there anything they could have done differently in the past decade or two to have broader sympathy now

> not used race to discriminate on certain out groups ( https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discriminatio... )

Since we have documentation of discrimination in university admissions for over a century, I don't think this particular issue produces "broader sympathy now".

In fact, I will be speechless if I ever learn the new administration policies do not lead to even higher levels of, but I suppose different, discrimination. Check back in 6 months.
Would you recommend similar actions from countries that have more stringent intellectual property laws than the United States?

Why or why not?

The harmonization of EU IP laws with American ones was a quid pro quo done in exchange for the adoption of free trade agreements.

If America doesn't want to hold up their end of the bargain why should Europe?
As the old saying goes if you aren’t paying for the service then you aren’t the customer. You are the product. All of these things make money by selling your attention to advertisers and vendors.

Advertisers are paying them to have themselves be shown to you. Their interests factors into the search results as much, if not more than, your query. They are paying to make it happen, so it’s going to happen.
TFA refers to 'non-trivial compositionality' as what's novel about how humans communicate (and how it's perhaps not as novel as we thought):

> However, the team also found examples of non-trivial compositionality, the first such discovery outside of humans.

> The first non-trivial combination was high hoot-low hoot that was translated as a distress call. But it was also used to stop other individuals’ display behaviors—dramatic, exaggerated actions or gestures bonobos perform to assert dominance or attract attention. The second was either peep or yelp in the “join” meaning paired with high hoot to form a structure used for coordinating with others before traveling. Finally, the “I would like to” peep followed by “let’s stay together” whistle was used for initiating more romantically inclined interactions bonobos are famous for indulging in.
It is funny that this is getting downvoted. AFAICT, the answer to my question is actually "no". :)
So you had to be "that" guy. I think it looks pretty cool.
> Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

Such as?
> In my experience, the people who outsource their thinking to LLMs are the same people who outsourced their thinking to podcasts, news articles, Reddit posts, Twitter rants, TikTok videos, and other such sources

He's talking specifically about OSINT analysts. Are you saying these people were outsourcing their thinking to podcasts, etc. before AI came along? I have not heard anyone make that claim before.
It is bad analogy specially because we value that so much that we are even discussing on how to have more of it.
OK? What does that have to do with pop culture IP rights?

If you're building an LLM for management or technical consulting then the valuable content is locked up behind corporate firewalls anyway so you're going to have to pay to use it. In that field most of what you could find with a web crawler or in digital books is already outdated and effectively worthless.
I thought it was pretty neat and think they did a good job of creating that vibe. I have fond memories of that time and the computers and the electronics magazines.

As for the heaviness of the page… My 8 year old iPad loaded it just fine, so it couldn’t have been all that heavy.
> The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency.

I think it is misleading to speak in terms of enemies even if that plays to the fears of US isolationists. It is good rhetoric but I think it obscures the truth, There was a time when the stability and strength of the US made the dollar a good choice for friends and enemies alike. The world is changing and the current US administration is accelerating some of those changes. China is going to play an increasing role as the US turns inward but I doubt they will ever replace the US dollar as a reserve currency. The Euro is the second most held currency after the dollar and there are probably a few others ahead of China.
Deterministic search is power for you, manipulated search is power for them.
It is interesting, especially in the context of Gates childhood upbringing and his extremely rare access to computers and computer training.

Something that maybe one or two other dozen children had access to in the entire country during that time (60s/70s).

You have to also remember that computers were also seen as a public good for a large swath of users during this time too.

Makes you wonder how different this industry would be if we replaced Bill Gates singular childhood privilege with that of Bill Joy's (which looks like your typical middle class experience)? Only instead of one child, you could probably help thousands of children.
Because “fuck you”. This appears to be the new customer service philosophy of the major tech companies. Perhaps they’re sick of people pestering them with endless questions?
Curious, what's great about it?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573980
The other reply has better info on covid specifically, but also consider that this refers to "immortality drugs". How long do we have to test those to conclude that they do in fact provide "immortality"?

Now sure, they don't actually mean immortality, and we don't need to test forever to conclude they extend life, but we probably do have to test for years to get good data on whether a generic life extension drug is effective, because you're testing against illness, old age, etc, things that take literally decades to kill.

That's not to mention that any drug like that will be met with intense skepticism and likely need to overcome far more scrutiny than normal (rather than the potentially less scrutiny that covid drugs might have managed).
Claude Code
Massive news. One cannot shake the idea that Taiwan is playing all the cards it can to protect it from invasion. This is one; ingratiating itself within the core of American production.
https://archive.md/nEVfm
What happened to the information economy? And getting everyone trained on that type of skills? Nowadays education seems to be frowned upon by those in charge.

Edit: looks like this is discussed in a sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573036
The Book of My Life with Yuval Noah Harari
If you came up with that on your own then I'm very impressed. That's very good. If you copied it, I'm still impressed and grateful you passed it on.
The American Yawp: A Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook
Epsilon, Phi: The Tariffs Have Some Math
>Gabbard

Tulsi isn't Trump.

> Zelensky

Trump quite reasonably called Zelensky a dictator. Ukraine can legally skip elections while under martial law, sure. But seeing as Zelensky has the power to end martial law at any time, he is single-handedly preventing Ukranian elections, depriving the people of Ukraine of their voice during what is potentially the most pivotal span of time in Ukranian history. Surely you still call Putin a dictator, even though he attained his status without directly violating the constitution?

> Trump also said Ukraine started the conflict.

Are you referring to that time Trump uttered the words "you never should have started it" in one of his word clouds while speaking to a journalist? That is evidence that he is in thrall to the Russians?

> In his last admin he said that "Crimeans want to be Russian".

The vast majority of them are Russian, ethnically and linguistically. All polling prior to the 2014 invasion showed that a significant majority would support annexation by Russia. Don't worry, you can know this fact--and even repeat it out loud!--without the bad men in the Kremlin gaining control over your mind.
This does seem to work for writing. Feed your own writing back in and try variations / quickly sketch out alternate plots, that sort of thing.

Then go back and refine.

Treat it the same as programming. Don't tell the AI to just make something and hope it magically does it as a one-shot. Iterate, combine with other techniques, make something that is truly your own.
I have also noticed all docs websites seem to be using the same terrible search plugin that means they match pretty much anything except what you are looking for
> While AI has been very helpful in lowering the bar to /begin/ learning Rust
Same situation, If I buy something from aloexpress I also never had to worry about VAT and the duty office. It's somehow handled in the background.

From some amount I assume I'd have to go to the post office and fill in find paperwork, but I never had to for the cheap junk I get from Ali.
"Well, yes.

I just like that they made up the numbers to get an exact negative 1.

Again, I am a financial columnist, and I have a patriotic appreciation for the US’s export industry of finance, and two of that industry’s most popular products are:

Sprinkling some Greek letters on your work to add visual interest, and

Making up parameters to solve for the result you want.

Even in this tariff announcement, you see the US leaning into its comparative advantage."

Matt Levine at his delicious best !
But you're still ruining other people's fun for selfish reasons. Why not find some fun activity that's not a zero sum game?
Reading before commenting would be helpful. It is very clearly stated in the article.
I've found the same effect when I ask the LLM to do the thinking for me. If I say "rewrite this function to use a list comprehension", I don't retain anything. It's akin to looking at Stack Overflow and copying the first result, or going through a tutorial that tells you what to write without ever explaining it.

The real power I've found is using it as a tutor for my specific situation. "How do list comprehensions work in Python?" "When would I use a list comprehension?" "What are the performance implications?" Being able to see the answers to these with reference to the code on my screen and in my brain is incredibly useful. It's far easier to relate to the business logic I care about than class Foo and method Bar.

Regarding retention, LLMs still doesn't hold a candle to properly studying the problem with (well-written) documentation or educational materials. The responsiveness however makes it a close second for overall utility.

ETA: This is regarding coding problems specifically. I've found LLMs fall apart pretty fast on other fields. I was poking at some astrophysics stuff and the answers were nonsensical from the jump.
> even pirated material

If you knowingly use pirated content for any purpose, that's not legal.
Pianos are already cheap. You can get used pianos for very little money if you shop around. No one has space to keep a piano in their house anymore, and they don't want to deal with keeping them tuned.
The welfare state is predicated on a pyramid-shaped population.

Also: people deride infinite growth, but growth is what is responsible for lifting large portions of the population out of poverty. If global markets were repriced tomorrow to expect no future growth, economies would collapse.

There may be a way to accept low or no growth without economic collapse, but if there is no one has figured it out yet. That's nothing to be cavalier about.
Simple answer - too much Content chasing too few Eyeballs.

Content (Supply) keeps growing but Eyeballs (Demand) is fixed by the number of people and time available.

This is an unstable State in an Attention based Economic system that doesnt acknowledge the massively growing difference between those 2 curves.

We have seen this in Cash based Economic systems where cash is printed faster than products entering the market. People in the market spent centuries attributing the consequences to everything other excessive money printing cause it was non obvious to them that money supply was increasing too fast. This is why central banks emerged.

Same story here. People will talk about everything other than Supply massively overshooting demand because there is no Central Attention Bank monitoring the divergence. So we just get huge amount of cannabilism and everyone shocked and suprised by it.
Oh god no please, no

TSMC is a perfectly fine company. Let them do their thing intel!
What stands out to me about Gates and Allen is the serious technical chops. Writing an emulator for the PDP-10 and then an interpreter, line editor, I/O system all in 4KB of memory. The code is worth reading and in addition to that they had a very solid business sense and pretty serious work ethic for people who were 20 years old.

It stands to me in real contrast to the "fake it till you make it", "if it works you shipped too late" hustle culture that took hold of the industry, with entire products just being API wrappers. Really hope we see more companies that start out like Microsoft again.
You know, things looked off to me, but thinking it was the output of an LLM just didn't seem obvious -- even though that was the claim! I feel ill-equipped to deal with this, and as the enshittification has progressed I've found myself using "the web" less and less. At this point, I'm not sure there's much left I value on the web. I wish the enshittification wasn't seemingly pervasive in life.
Realistically, the $25 minimum is to cover the costs of handling the imports (with some premium), so it doesn't make sense to charge it for every item in a batch separately.
Check out the Timelines Forecast under "research". They model this very carefully.

(They could be wrong, but this isn't a guess, it's a well-researched forecast.)
Eugenics as in forcible sterilization of the “unfit” was similarly Progressive back in the early 20th.
I guess it depends. 40 years later, I vote completely opposite to what I did when I was 18-20 years old.
China, for one, has state-enforced labor of Uyghurs and other minorities: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-sit...

And, while Mexico is trying to limit forced labor, they’re still one of our bigger exporters of forced labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-la...

So it’s hardly a hypothetical. As for balancing benefits and costs, slave labor intrinsically weakens the value of labor to any country that imports, so ideally the US would tariff goods that are labor intensive from countries that practice slave labor. In general, taking China off of the UN Human Rights Council would be a good show (for what little the UN does), and countries that oppose slavery should tariff the countries that do it as well. I don’t want a blood diamond on my wife‘s finger, why would I want a blood apple in my mouth?

As for Trump, I believe he does so in part, not from an ethics perspective however. I imagine he views slave labor as undercutting US labor value, just as illegal immigration does, and that it plays some part in wrestling manufacturing away from China.
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> Do we really think things will move this fast? Sort of no - between the beginning of the project last summer and the present, Daniel’s median for the intelligence explosion shifted from 2027 to 2028. We keep the scenario centered around 2027 because it’s still his modal prediction (and because it would be annoying to change). Other members of the team (including me) have medians later in the 2020s or early 2030s, and also think automation will progress more slowly. So maybe think of this as a vision of what an 80th percentile fast scenario looks like - not our precise median, but also not something we feel safe ruling out.

Important disclaimer that's lacking in OP's link.
As a supervisor I didn’t resonate with this until I remembered in some jobs I have communicated the company attendance policy but didn’t enforce it unless someone was a poor performer. I trust adults to manage their own time until they give me a reason to believe otherwise.

For my part, I’d rather trust people’s judgment and intrinsic motivation than enforce the rules. Enforcement is annoying, tedious, and distracting to my mission. However once I decide their judgement can’t be trusted I use rules to extrinsically motivate them.
Before current AI you might’ve had to rely on brain damage inducing amounts of free association to connect the dots.. now it might actually be a hundred times easier to learn.
Cybersecurity professor targeted by FBI has not been detained, lawyer says
The forecasts under "Research" are distributions, so you can compare the 10th percentile vs 90th percentile.

Their research is consistent with a similar story unfolding over 8-10 years instead of 2.
More than one thing can be causing problems in a society, and enterprising humans of lesser scruples have a long history of preying on the weaknesses of others for profit.
How has this happened? What are your concrete examples of this having happened?

I suspect all of the example(s) you might have are going to be overblown news storie(s)
But if there are decades of this, I'd love to see the evidence.
> I don't know why you are being down-voted

Just give it a few minutes to settle out. Sometimes people tap the downarrow by mistake, since it's 2mm away from the uparrow. It's not always a conspiracy :-)
Check out the sidebar - they expect tens of thousands of copies of their agents collaborating.

I do agree they don't fully explore the implications. But they do consider things like coordination amongst many agents.
You're muddling up some technical concepts here in a very confusing way.

Generalization is the ability for a model to perform well on new unseen data within the same task that it was trained for. It's not about the training process itself.

Suppose I showed you some examples of multiplication tables, and you figured out how to multiply 19 * 42 without ever having seen that example before. That is generalization. You have recognized the underlying pattern and applied it to a new case.

AlphaGo Zero trained on games that it generated by playing against itself, but how that data was generated is not the point. It was able to generalize from that information to learn deeper principles of the game to beat human players. It wasn't just memorizing moves from a training set.

> However my next objection would then be, sure, it can learn a new turn based board game, but if I explain these other five tasks to it that aren't board games and vary widely can it also learn all of those in the same way? Because that's really what we seem to mean when we say that humans or dogs or dolphins or whatever possess intelligence in a general sense.

This is what LLMs have already demonstrated - a rudimentary form of AGI. They were originally trained for language translation and a few other NLP tasks, and then we found they have all these other abilities.
Increasing cost of imported goods will increase demand on equivalent domestically produced goods, which are also often supply constrained. Locally produced goods will increase their prices as much as the market allows (which is somewhere around the cost of the imported good with the tariff). Tariffs cause inflation as a whole.

When the tariffs are dropped, do you think the price of the imported good is going to go back to the original price? If the domestically produced version is priced near the tariff price, they'll reprice slightly lower than the domestic price, ensuring prices stay high.
They don't, though. Plenty of words in law mean something precise but utterly detached from the vernacular meaning. Law language is effectively a separate, more precise language, that happens to share some parts with the parent language.
To be fair they definitely faked it, they said they had source code for a program they hadn't even written yet! They were just also very serious about the "making it" part.
Enterprising humans have a long history of giving people what they desire, while refraining from judging what's best for them.
OK, that does make sense. Thanks!
> terrible at virtually everything it tries

Microsoft things I think are pretty OK and don't really mind using:

Xbox, especially Game Pass; Azure; BASIC (particularly classic Microsoft BASICs and SmallBASIC)

Microsoft things that I think are not completely terrible and sometimes kind of useful:

Hyper-V; WSL; VSCode; C# and .NET; Visual BASIC; Excel and PowerPoint
> if the manager catches it you're sitting out of the sprint planning meeting for either 2 or 5 minutes depending.

Going to be a lot of sore faces when this rule comes into effect.
damn, that's a crazy process- thanks for the video link
Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
The original creator of the German fairy tale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Snow_White_tale

I see a mention of Ovid ... copyright has probably expired.
Mario Piu, “Communication”, 1999. Somebody pick up the phone!

https://youtu.be/cBMWgiQujPw?si=WMrOoYMIamjRrWpf
Some tariffs are fine. These tariffs are a disaster. There are some companies that could eat the increased costs (or at least a large percentage of them) and still make a healthy amount of profit overall, but they won't. They'd rather import less and/or jack up prices until people are priced out of things they'd normally buy. Some companies are fine with turning what used to be common purchases into luxury items available only to a small number of people.

If these tariffs continue for long, it'll mean many more people needing to put up with having a lot less.
This is certainly a take when China has effectively been doing this for decades. Good luck winning and enforcing a copyright case as a US company in a Chinese court.
Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit
The story isn't about OpenAI, they say the company could be Xai, Anthropic, Google, or another.
I could never find any justification for declaring marital law.

By his own words he did it to threaten a rival political party…
Yup! Which is why I use Linux but you better believe I've got Sublime Text installed (and licensed!)
Yeah that's right, it was fun watching the crowd try to organise themselves to the right rythm based on those around them
Activision CoD uses EOMM, engagement optimized match making. They’re optimizing for your to stay on, much like a gambler playing slots. You allow one win where the player is matched with lesser opponents, and then the next X games, you’re the lesser opponent.

It’s all tuned to keep you playing and want that dopamine hit of a win that’s always just around the corner.
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What would it cost, realistically to print and publish these in the US? Is it not mostly just laminated paper on cardboard with some resin pieces?
The animation is very reminiscent of Sneakers - wouldn't be surprised if that was the inspiration for it. It's a little distracting, but pretty cute imo.
If you're directly passing the tariff increase along, without markup, are you comfortable reporting to your stock holders a decrease in margin?