skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You do not think this is possible.

Not at all.

I believe just throwing a corpus of dolphin-dolphin vocalizations at an LLM will fall very short.

I quote myself again -- 'But that alone would tell us almost nothing of what dolphin dialogue means".

Note the emphasis on the word alone.

What needs to happen is to build shared experiences, perhaps with a pod and incorporate that into the ML training process. If this succeeds this exercise of building shared experience will do heavier lifting than the LLM.

Had you spent less effort in coming up with insults and used the leftover processing bandwidth to understand my position it would have made for a nicer exchange. For restoring civility to our conversation I indeed do not hold high hopes.
I am lost for words, what kind of evidence will you deem sufficient?

Surely the two students attacked at the start of the article due to wearing yarmulkes in public by a man wearing a keffiyeh is not related to subscribing to a specific ideology
>“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.

Dark times...
Not really. It allows you to order your cases from most-likely to least-likely, and get human eyeballs on the most-likely cases first.
Authoritarian governments are arbitrary governments, all decisions are made arbitrarily. Consistency is unnecessary. That's the trouble with choosing power as a guiding principle over reason or consent.
Dead things, and behaviors that don't align with our predictive models shift the context to one of threat - if something shaped like something you understand starts behaving in a way that you no longer understand, you'll become progressively more concerned. If a pencil started rolling around aggressively chasing you, it'd evoke fear, even though you'd probably defend yourself fairly capably.

If enough predictive models are broken, people feel like they've gone crazy - various drugs and experiments demonstrate a lot of these factors.

The interesting thing about uncanny valley is that the stimuli are on a threshold, and humans are really good at picking up tiny violations of those expectations, which translates to unease or fear.
Yeah Openrouter is generally better. Only exception is when some API is launched but not yet on openrouter, rare though
https://bulletin.gwu.edu/courses/istm/

Information Systems and Technology Management

I've also never heard anyone say this though, but I'm guessing that's what they meant.
The toilet flushing one is full of weird, unrelated noises.

The tennis video, as other commented, is good but there is a noticeable delay between the action and the sound.
And the "loving couple holding IA hands and then dancing", well, the input is already cringe enough.

For all these diffusion models, look like we are 90% here, now we just need the final 90%.
> antisemitism is barely mentioned as a problem

Because it's very obviously being used as a cover to exert control over universities which are deemed to be too "woke" (which has nothing to do with anti-semitism).

Yes, antisemitism exists, like many other social ills. But is it a major problem at Harvard and these elite institutions? No, it is not.
I hesitate to ask, but... what?
"Criminals" is a meaningless word in Trump's America.
Does the general principle "we're always performing, in a particular costume, for our audience" help confirm the excited marine biologist desperately wanted to keep their job in spite of a "nothing that's not AI" mandate, so they made up some bullshit?

Separately, could invoking it anytime someone appears excited be described as distrustful of human sincerity or integrity?

After working through these exercises, my answers are no/yes, which leaves me having to agree its clearly cynical. (because "define:cynical" returns "distrustful of human sincerity or integrity")
I knew the name sounded familiar:

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Plus they tried to buy other companies that they thought posed a threat (snap, etc?)
My read is that started as anti colonialism against the French but then the big powers took sides so the Vietnamese started fighting each other.

The sad thing is that a lot of problems could have been avoided if the Americans in the 50s wouldn't have been so scared of any kind of communism or socialism. They messed up Iran, they drove Egypt into the arms of the Soviets, and they may have even had friendlier relationships with Fidel Castro.
It's quite easy to correctly classify 100% of benign cases as benign.
R is much crazier than that because even things like assignment, curly braces, and even function definitions themselves are all function calls. It's literally the only primitive in the language, to which everything else ultimately desugars.
Write once, run nowhere.
It's true that it's another dependency, but this is the entire contents of a file I drop into my project root called `raw-loader.d.ts`:

```

declare module '*?raw' {
const rawFileContent: string
export default rawFileContent
}

```

Then, when I add the file to my types property array of my tsconfig's compilerOptions, I can import anything I want into a typescript file as a string, so long as I add "?raw" to the end of it. I use it to inject HTML and CSS into templates. No reason it couldn't be used to inject a .proto file's contents into the inline template.

Again, you're technically correct! But a "import non js content" feature is a pretty solveable problem in TS. Maybe not at the language level, but at the implementation level, at least.
Yes, that would probably work quite well, given enough training data. However, I interpreted the question/claim as a task that LLMs excell at, meaning that writing text while avoiding a certain character is a task for a general purpose LLM.
No such thing as FU money. As you get more you want more, or if you don't then your spouse does. There is such a thing as "I can tolerate a 3-6 month job search no problem and not jump at the first opportunity" money. It makes 90% of the difference, especially in the long run.
In some dimensions I recognize the slow down in how fast new capabilities develop, but the speed still feels very high:

Image generation suddenly went from gimmick to useful now that prompt adherence is so much better (eagerly waiting for that to be in the API)

Coding performance continues to improve noticeably (for me). Claude 3.7 felt like a big step from 4o/3.5. Gemini 2.5 in a similar way.compared to just 6 months ago I can give bigger and more complex pieces of work to it and get relatively good output back. (Net acceleration)

Audio-2-audio seems like it will be a big step as well. I think this has much more potential than the STT-LLM-TTS architecture commonly used today (latency, quality)
That's not a complete answer, as mods can unflag stories. If they wanted it to be unflagged, it would be unflagged.
You may also enjoy Surface Stable Dithering:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs
I’ve seen firsthand how overregulation and red tape slow down businesses in emerging markets. In one startup, it took months to get approvals, which drained our resources and slowed growth.

Economic freedom is key, like in Singapore, where a free market encourages innovation. If African governments reduce barriers and create fair systems for entrepreneurs, it could unlock huge potential. Streamlined policies and trade would boost investment, reduce corruption, and help lift people out of poverty. This is the way forward for Africa.
Ah, I'm thoroughly familiar with the idea of multiple share classes (although I must commend your excellent explanation and examples here) - I was actually particularly interested what their six choices were to cover the bases as a lowest common denominator etc. No worries at all if you can't say though, I get that.
There's nothing stopping moderators, owners or the founder from fighting the gaming or at least making a public statement addressing the destruction of the society which has benefited them so greatly. But alas...true values are revealed in times of trouble.

This community is becoming a moral embarrassment and nearly not worth participating in any longer.
The article also notes

> Despite no web browser implementing unencrypted HTTP/2, we detect that up to 6.28% of websites support unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic.

My own experience with trying to use unencrypted http/2 between two docker containers was that it was easier to use a self-signed certificate than to get my libraries to use unencrypted http/2. If I was in charge of the Chinese firewall this would be pretty far down on my list of holes to close up
Since ~1885 and the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Refo...

Submitted some historical breadcrumbs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686221
This sounds very similar to all the DEI stuff which they didn't have an issue with before. Forcing them to not be aggressively hostile towards Republicans does not seem like an unreasonable ask.

I had to take critical race theory classes for my grad school program, I'm sure they can find a Christian to make a powerpoint on avoiding hate towards Christians.

This is all stuff which has been happening in reverse for decades. The real solution is for schools to find a funding route other than government, but until then these shinanigans have been happening for decades and this isn't suddenly "insane".
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It all makes sense with a fascist power logic. The goal isn't to implement consistent policy to reach rational targets. The goal is to wield power and slowly errode any opposition with divisive actions that support anybody that is loyal to you. Importantly being loyal doesn't guarantee you will be spared. In these goals consistency is irrelevant, in fact being inconsistent and acting with arbitrary despotism is a feature since it produces more fear.

If you ever find any fascist critique of their enemies you will quickly realize that all of which they accuse their enemies of doing, they will do themselves. Decry freedom of speech as no one is "allowed" to say sexist/racist things anymore? Be sure they will go in and ban books, political thoughts and literal words. Hillarys emails? We literally operate our foreign policy in signal groups.

Quite frankly I am a bit puzzled by the neutrality with which some Americans try to analyze this absolutely crazy political situation. It is like pondering over the gas mixture in the smoke while your house is on fire, absolutely unhinged.
if you hate universities it makes obvious sense
I'm not sure if my chain's bein' yanked right now, but surely you mean "gos"‽
This is only true if you define "Lisp" as the common subset. If you look specifically at Common Lisp, neither Python nor JS come close in terms of raw power.
What if I told you the dice were loaded, but I didn't tell you which face they were loaded in favor of?

Then you (presumably) assign a uniform probability over one true assumption and five false assumptions. Which is the sort of situation where subjective entropy seems quite appropriate.
It came with a threat that you'd lose your account of you didn't approve. That's hardly voluntary.
I agree. 4.1 seems to be a release that addresses shortcomings of 4o in coding compared to Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.0 and 2.5
Usually when we’re doing it in practice there’s _somewhat_ more awareness of the mechanics than just throwing random obstructions in and hoping for the best.
I know that Jewish people are attacked by antisemites. No one is questioning that Jews face race-based hatred, just like Muslims do. Especially after 9/11, Muslims face a lot of antimuslim sentiment here.

I am questioning the notion that leftist groups on universities are doing antimuslim or antijewish activities.

The article you linked writes this about the perpetrator of the attack you're referencing here: "The man, whom police later identified as Jarrett Buba, a 52-year-old white man from Pittsburgh"

That doesn't really sound like a leftist student protestor to me. I was told that leftist student protestors are attacking people based solely on their ethnicity, so I'd like some evidence of this.
I'm sure he's got plans to issue an executive order declaring all of the votes against him null and void because they weren't cast and counted within 4 hours of each other on election day.
I guess theZuck didn't donate enough to the campaign
I do know about the ISO C standard, I was actually more intending to refer to the fact that, even though there exists a well defined standard, there may be implementation differences in the libc variants you compile against, certainly in certain UB-areas. I probably should have made that a bit more clear, because I didn't actually make that point at all. Excuses for the bad formulation of my thoughts.
Still haven't fixed https://xkcd.com/773/
I don’t know how 66% compare to other prediction models like the ones based on classical Machine Learning algorithms. Do you have any comparison data?
> the many billions it was meant to provide, in interest

THATS WHAT WHAT THE FIFTY BILLION IS

It’s a war chest that has been carefully cultivated over decades. The fifty billion is the result of a hundred years of investment and management.

If it can’t be spent now then when the fuck exactly can it be spent? In 200 years you’d still be saying “this is the seed corn for tomorrow!!”

I’m not saying burn it down to zero. But the whole fucking point of an endowment is to provide stability during trying times. If you can’t use the interest that has been accumulated now then when the fuck can you??
Imagine if South Vietnam had remained independent. If it had become a thriving prosperous free democracy like South Korea or Taiwan.

Would we still be talking about “Vietnam’s storied anti colonialism” today?

How often do we talk about Korean anti colonialism or Chinese anti colonialism nowadays? Not much. When people talk about Korea and China nowadays it is in the context of the differences between North and South Korea and the differences between mainland China and the free democratic Chinese[1] island that is Taiwan.

When I look back at the American counterculture movement and how triumphant those people were that the Vietnam War was over…and then you read about the end of South Vietnam….the fall of Saigon… and then you look at where South Korea and Taiwan are today….you can’t help but wonder…

And many of these stories of Vietnam are paternalistic. They deny the agency of the South Vietnamese.

[1] By this I mean Taiwan is Chinese in terms of culture.
1st Amendment is more important than you not liking a specific spending of government funds.
> it has also been de facto illegal to have demographic compositions substantially different from the general population

How so? To which law or case precedent?
What is AI to you? Neural nets only? LLMs?

I still have my textbook from almost 20 years ago: "Artificial Intelligence: A modern" by Peter Norvig. Lots of topics covered as AI there that surely do not meet your definition.
More like it's two philosophies with similar elements originating from places where both were taught. In both cases, those that believe in them try to force them on everyone in law, policy, etc. They've been doing that, too, so it isn't speculative.

There's also large groups pushing this stuff in businesses, forcing it on all employees, under the banner of ESG. That includes Blackrock and World Economic Forum. There's billions of dollars behind forcing thus stuff on America. Yet, we still see voters rebelling against it, like by electing Trump, because they don't want our country to keep being ruined.
>On the "very-online right," there's a lot of "go woke, go broke," but there is generally not a lot of precision when it comes to actually measuring whether this is true.

In other news: Despite many chants to the contrary, the Cincinnati Zoo reported only two visitors trespassed for male full frontal nudity on the most recent anniversary of Harambe's death.
It reminds me of "Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI."

The more i think about it however, command line applications are about as interactive as a program can be.

Let's say one is interested to find out which one of the following 7 next days is gonna rain and send it to a telegram bot. `weather_forecast --days 7 | grep rain` | send_telegram.

The whole thing of off-loading everything to nondeterministic computation instead of the good ol determinism does seem strange to me. I am a huge fan though, of using non-deterministic computation for creating deterministic computation, i.e. programming.

/As a side note, i have played chess against Ishiguro many times on lichess.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind...
At the byte level, it's quite possible the layouts are the same. However, an "intrusive data structure" means that the nodes themselves are the data.

In other words, intrusive is like this:

struct T : NodeType<T>
{
// T data
NodeType<T> next, prev;
};

whereas non-intrusive data structures the T's are not the nodes themselves

struct NodeType<T>
{
NodeType<T> next, prev;
T t;
};

Doing non-intrusive means you need to own the lifecycle of the nodes (and make them copyable, move-constructible, or some combo thereof). Intrusive means that the caller can manage the nodes' lifecycles and just say "here's a node, I promise it'll live while the list is still alive" and have that node be on the stack, heap, static, etc.
> The immutability of God is a necessary theological conclusion. If God changes, then He isn't God, by definition. It would be a metaphysical absurdity.

Is that so? Just because some people can't conceive of a mutable God, it doesn't mean it's impossible by definition. (Quantum mechanics was equally "inconceivable," until it wasn't.)

For the sake of argument, let's assume that God exists. Of course it's not our place to proclaim that God does change — that's above our paygrade, too. But to purport to categorically rule out the possibility is not just Dunning-Kruger arrogance, it's blasphemy.

Our discussion brings to mind chapter 38 of the Book of Job. We can summarize it (profanely) as God's saying to Job, in essence, "Who the f*ck are you to question me?"

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2038&versio...
Not new, launched in December 2024.
https://community.openai.com/t/free-tokens-on-traffic-shared...
I don't think you want evidence of this, I think you'd like to be combative, therefore I am disengaging
Thanks for sharing:) Your approach seems reasonable and extremely powerful for variable features. As you mentioned, using local Envoy proxy with Istio is an excellent choice. But my approach was for reducing all the extra setups and just ‘port-forward’ services with single binary. I was intended to help developers who might be less experienced with cloud-native complexities, or anyone who just wants a simple way to do testing against their clusters!
You made several good points. While I am struggling to validate "Student groups must be vetted so that they don't violate orthodoxy", it may be because I am unfamiliar with the actions of the student bodies listed at the end of the section, or maybe subtleties in the wording that I am missing that could be exploited later.

Also I find the mask-ban strange and alarming. That example alone was probably enough of a red flag for me to more carefully scrutinize the good-faith of the rest of the letter.

Thank you for taking the time to actually engage with me constructively. Unfortunately many others decided to just downvote my questions.

I find it so disappointing that on a forum like Hacker News I am being downvoted for asking a question in good faith in an attempt to better understand a complex and nuanced topic.

When I ask ChatGPT to explain Facism to me, two aspects it pointed out were:
- Suppression of political opposition, dissent, and individual freedoms.
- Use of state power to enforce conformity.

I can see how the letter from the government to Harvard would be considered use of state power to enforce conformity. As someone who is open minded trying to understand the truth, the letter on first pass reads like they are using state power to unwind enforced ideological conformity. This is confusing, because on its surface it seems anti-fascist, so when people label it fascist (with charged emotions), it's hard for me to take them at their word without further explanation.

When the people who are concerned about the current actions of the government attack me for asking questions in an effort to actually understand their concerns rather than just accepting them, it makes me more suspicious of their viewpoints, not less.

Also, ChatGPT's thorough explanation of Fascism indicated to me that both administrations have been showing signs of increasing fascism, almost complimenting each other in their policies as they rock the cultural and institutional trunk of the united states back and forth with ever increasing momentum until it tips over into catastrophe. If such is the case, then maybe the only hope is for people to engage in these thorny issues with curiosity and nuance, to carefully sift out the bad from the good instead of assuming that everything the other side is doing is evil.

I have no control over what other people do, all I have control over is my own actions. I don't see a good way out of this mess that doesn't involve curiosity, empathy, understanding and reconciliation. So I will continue engage in the conversation with these intentions, and if people attack me for that then I suppose to will just have to accept what's inevitable.
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I realized I don’t understand idea of pure functions anymore. If a function fetches a web page it is not pure because it modifies some state. But if function modified EAX register it is still pure. How creating a socket or changing a buffer is different from changing a register value considering that in all cases outside observers would never know?
I would like to know questions that make hiring team think from other end as well.
really the next big leap is something that gives me more meaningful artistic control over these systems.

It's usually "generate a few, one of them is not terrible, none are exactly what I wanted" then modify the prompt, wait an hour or so ...

The workflow reminds me of programming 30 years ago - you did something, then waited for the compile, see if it worked, tried something else...

All you've got are a few crude tools and a bit of grit and patience.

On the i2v tools I've found that if I modify the input to make the contrast sharper, the shapes more discrete, the object easier to segment, then I get better results. I wonder if there's hacks like that here.
That's just how government works, buddy. I disagree with my tax dollars being spent to shoot wild horses and fund Lockheed-Martin, but here we are. It's not forced speech, because you have representatives who (in a working system) you could ask to fight against tax dollars being spent on something you dislike. You have a voice, you just don't get to have the only voice.
It makes sense if you understand that they aren't focused on general principles. Diversity is bad when it involves non-whites, women, gay people or research involving these groups. Diversity is good when it involves "race realists." Free speech is bad when students are advocating for divestment initiatives. Free speech is good when a professor calls somebody the n-word online.

The goal is white supremacy and antifeminism.
The future of healing is already here – it's just not evenly distributed [video]
“Although cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of the overall pregnancy-related deaths, cancer, mental and behavior disorders, and drug-induced and alcohol-induced death were important contributing causes of late maternal death”
Well, 2.3% of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. I would bet that, say, the business school has a slightly different makeup…
most people are building straightforward crud apps. no experimentation required.
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