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Attempts to eliminate this have even failed in solid blue states -- Prop 6 in California failed 53-47 last election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_California_Proposition_6

Fwiw, there are some pretty great HN reader apps I’ve found — Hack and Octal are the two favorites I’ve come across for iOS.

How do you differentiate between the two? Each token the model outputs requires it to evaluate all of the context it already has (query + existing output). By allowing it more toke…

This is a great article -- I really appreciate the author giving specific examples. I have never heard of mise ( https://mise.jdx.dev/ ) before either, and the integration with the…

Yeah, as the other commentator mentioned, it practically just means he won't be entering any other competitions until April. He'll probably cover >1000 miles in training over that …

The rule since 2020 (when supershoes really started taking over) has been 40mm stack height/1 carbon plate: https://worldathletics.org/news/press-release/modified-rules... As for t…

To be fair, his argument is valid for FSD! We have fully deployed FSD in multiple US cities now!

Zitron is a blogger whose content/internet personality is centered around being anti-Big Tech, and very much falls in the "AI is dumb/useless and will die any day now". He's a good…

> AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean it to be a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields. Is it just me, or is…

Yep, here’s one about symptoms chronic kidney disease that showed significant results: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39246955/ Similar significant results for symptoms of cystic …

I've heard of a startup that claims to be able to achieve a near-0% false positive rate: https://www.pangram.com/our-model/how-it-works They appear to basically RLHF a model on a b…

Everything comes back to social identity theory :) Especially programmers, who are already partially drawn to pattern matching. I still enjoy articles like these, though -- think t…

Yek is fantastic -- I've converted my whole team to using it for prompting. As input context windows keep increasing, I think it'll just keep becoming more and more valuable -- I c…