skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. How can you say the expectation of accuracy is much higher when the creators literally tell you to not expect accuracy? That's a problem with your expectations, not the programs problem.

Imagine a program that had some kind of concept of "interesting and novel mathematical proofs", and it could spit them out. But, 99.9% of the proofs were actually logically inconsistent or true but extremely uninteresting. Would that still be an interesting exploratory tool? I think so.
Why not use Google, Facebook, etc.?

Ideology?

If so, there's nothing wrong with that.

But time invested in avoiding the normal channels is not an investment in your business.

Also it is not an action that benefits users.

And at worst it is an invented problem to excuse failure (not that there's anything wrong with failing).

Good luck.
Web discoverability was solved and then unsolved once again by endless SEO.
Sadly you are so correct.

I was once watching a VC interview a snooty machine vision scientist at Johns Hopkins who was talking up how well his research was at recognizing three d things. So the VC pulled out his cellphone and took a photo of a box on the table. He asked the professor to have the software highlight the rectangular solid. Whoop. He never heard back. The software in the lab that was supposedly so great couldn't do a very basic task that wasn't from its preapproved set of tasks.

I do think that academia can be the source of some great ideas, but they often end up believing their own BS.
"the worst-case scenario is unlikely or in the future ... loss of human life is virtually certain"

These two things are in conflict. We could ignore both asteroids and climate change and according to the best known science there'd be very little impact for vast timespans and possibly no impact ever (before humanity is ended by something else like war).

Yes, also for the climate. Look at the actual predictions and it's like a small reduction in GDP growth spread over a very long period of time, and that's assuming the predictions are actually correct when they have a long track record of being not so.

Really stuff like asteroids and climate is a good counter-argument to caring about AI risk. Intellectuals like to hypothesize world-ending cataclysms that only their far sighted expertise can prevent, but whenever these people's predictions get tested against something concrete they seem to invariably end up being wrong. Our society rewards catastrophising far too generously and penalizes being wrong far too little, especially for academics, NGOs etc. It makes people feel or seem smart in the moment, and they can punt the reputational damage from being wrong far into the future (and then pretend they never made those predictions at all or there were mitigating factors).
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Hilarious. Still on the "I can't believe I got caught" train. No, the problem wasn't that they didn't have enough collateral to withstand a huge crash. The problem was that they decided to hand over customer deposits without telling anybody in the first place.
Wasmer 3.0
> ”I don’t care about Twitter itself, but I hope that Elon’s cruel and destructive approach fails.”

Cruel and destructive?

That’s quite the extreme and bizarre interpretation of recent events, and it’s not very charitable. I hope you find something a bit more positive to focus your energies on.

The truth is, neither of us can know what the long term consequences of the leadership change will be but it’s almost certainly not worth doing this to yourself over it.
Hmm.

Please correct me if I am misrepresenting a chain of events here.

A.. tool lands that allows one use language model to generate content. People feed it false data and share that, surprise, data it produces from the data the model is based on is false. How is this a surprise? I am still not sure why Meta would pull it? It can still be useful, but it was made not useful. I am not sure what a proper metaphor is for it, but it is almost like I give you a tool ( lets say a knife ) and you complain that the tool produces bad results when drinking soup.

What am I missing here?

<<or maybe it [Galactica] was removed because people like you [Marcus] abused the model and misrepresented it. Thanks for getting a useful and interesting public demo removed, this is why we can’t have nice things.

<<Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts.
Analysis on Docker Hub malicious images: Attacks through public container images
>For the case of AI analysing x-ray photos, the obvious solution would be a system that can tag photos with information about what AI thinks is going on there. And this information could be passed to the human.

The human will still have to look at the x-ray to see if the AI missed something. 95% accuracy is not good enough, those 5% of cases are what most of their training is for, missing it can mean a lost human life. Maybe it can be used to speed up obvious diagnoses, but it cannot be used to filter and rule anything out. The amount of time a radiologist will spend looking at the x-ray will probably not be reduced, so I don't think there's money to be saved here.

A useful productivity tool could be to examine datasets after the radiologist found nothing, as a way to double-check their reading. This won't reduce costs but might marginally improve patient outcomes. Radiologists in first-world medical systems don't really miss a lot of stuff, though.

And of course for simple obvious non-life-affecting stuff like broken bones and dental x-rays, you don't need radiologists now either. Your son's x-ray was probably not looked at by a radiologist.
I would argue we do get upset when other companies do this. You wouldn’t want apple to give you a phone with 1TB of storage artificially limited to 256GB unless you pay a subscription fee.
Not about OS/2 Warp, apparently. I was imagining an OS/2 diehard user either migrating to some new version of ArcaOS or finally finding another worthy successor to the system.
This reminds me of a HN thread about BMW from 4 months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32068791
Not according to the author:

We are happy to announce that we have gotten all books that were added to the Z-Library between our last mirror and August 2022. We have also gone back and scraped some books that we missed the first time around. All in all, this new collection is about 24TB, which is much bigger than the last one (7TB). Our mirror is now 31TB in total. Again, we deduplicated against Library Genesis, since there are already torrents available for that collection.

http://annas-blog.org/blog-3x-new-books.html
I'm curious why don't join another instance and simply follow people on mastodon.art - Is the local timeline that important for users? I'm genuinely asking since I'm on my own single user instance but follow plenty of people to give me enough content to consume.
That's the brown smear underlining the whole thing.
Fish oil possibly

https://examine.com/outcomes/adhd-symptoms/
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The word "safety" doesn't normally encompass lying or, more appropriately in this case, saying something untrue without realizing it. That's considered a very different kind of problem. Safety normally means there's a direct chance of physical harm to someone.

This kind of elasticity in language use is the sort of thing that gives AI safety a bad name. You can't take AI research at face value if it's using strange re-definitions of common words.
It's not "just be better". It's putting yourself into an environment where you can learn intuitively, instead of doing some kind of academic exercise on the matter.
They proved that Galactica would be an excellent front-end for a differentiable information retrieval system. This definitely moved the research forward; work on the back-end (i.e. fact retrieval usable for LLMs) is still needed.
It is not the speed that kills, but the sudden deceleration hitting a tree.

Joking aside, acceleration can be a real problem. I ride a lot my motorcycle to work, shopping etc. I am closing to an intersection, I see a car that has to yield and when I am close enough, I am pretty sure I will not be hit even if the car is not yielding, which happens quite often (many drivers don't see motorcycles or ignore their rights). With a very high acceleration, the risk of getting hit is a lot higher.
The Learnability of Program Synthesizers
>You can potentially solve the handlers issue by being ruthlessly cutthroat

No, that just results in those businesses and brands leaving you, unless you can provide them a LARGE revenue stream that is impossible to get anywhere. A large brand will absolutely give up a little money just to spite you and your company for not treating them like god.
I think you’ve exactly described the point.
Wait, are we supposed to take the side of the poorly treated advertisers?
Randomly wiring a neural net doesn't remove preconceptions, it just makes it that you don't know them. Similarly, closing your eyes doesn't make a room empty, it just makes it that you can't see what's there. Minsky is pointing out that Sussman's fundamental assumptions on desiring to remove preconceptions is logically flawed.
That's not a step - it's whenever you are large enough or have the right connections to do that. I was talking about large trends of how capitalist thought in the USA is going.

And at this moment in time, the "best" strategy is to milk customers with recurring purchases. And it turns out the value-add didn't work. So feature-removal-and-sell-back recurring purchase is the current phase.

We're seeing that everywhere in IOT, gadgets, kitchen consumer gear, vehicles. Basically, it's the manufacturers exerting control post-purchase with the implicit threat that they can and will brick your stuff.

To put bluntly, we need government oversight over these realms. First-sale doctrine needs to cover "functionality sold at bill of sale". "No bundling" (of additional services that "complete" a thing) also needs to be strongly enforced. And if/when companies do stuff later and remove features (PS3 for an easy example), that they need to be dealt with as if a hacker did that - as C-level ordered felonies with prison, direct massive compensation to the wronged parties, and massive fines (company-ending if need be).
Is this on twitter, please link if so
BrowserStack – Cross browser testing on desktop and mobile
Sure, but what's being suggested is making modifications within those parameters.

You can tinker with the powertrain but it still has to pass smog.
Sure, I get that part, but in this case it seems like curation (at least to a degree that would avoid the problems that arose) is fairly trivial - just train it on high-quality scientific journals/textbooks/etc., instead of letting it peruse the whole internet (or whatever they did) for scientific data.
I think that the author is saying that it is very difficult not to disclose that a user exists, and so there is not much point obfuscating it. Validating an email address on signup is only one way to 'leak' usernames.

If you can obtain a user account on a system, then preventing checks for the existence of other users becomes much harder. e.g. if you have a login on a unix box, there are countless ways of discovering other usernames. Or a pathological case like reddit, where users have distinct URLs that are publicly visible.

Or a messaging system where you can 'friend' other users - if you allow friend requests, what do you do if someone tries to contact a mis-typed username? Do you inform them that the user doesn't exist, or silently pretend that their request is awaiting a response that will never come? That paranoia will lead to a worse user experience.

I think you can only really lock down the known user list on a very closed system, with few, trusted users, e.g. an admin control panel where you don't want to divulge who might have access to it in the first place. But that's a very different scenario to a service open to the public.
I'd love to see more about Jai.

I don't understand why they are not working in the open, this is a tool, not a game, input for a large community is extremely valuable.

But as brilliant as Jon Blow is, he is at least equally as stubborn.

Fast compilation and nice, easy to read syntax with good default is exactly what I am looking for.

I can understand the hype about metaprogramming, and its potential usefulness, but I also think this is a pandora box.

Pretty much like C macros and C++ templates, overuse can lead to a very messy codebase, hard to read, hard to debug, with a lot of unexpected side effects.
If the cubes have correct locations, none of them need to have colored faces. The location is enough.

(At least, that's true of the 26 outer cubes. You can't get them all into place without simultaneously aligning them correctly. I don't actually know if correct alignment of the center cube is also required, but it'd be my first guess.)
But not viewed.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20763
It would be great if they could achieve this goal.
What options do you see that could be used right away?
>There's a big difference between principled citizens who choose to leak information, and foreign adversaries of the US. I would have thought this was obvious but it's down to US citizens to decide the US election, and external interference should be met as the attack on the US that it is.

I can't agree with that, the election was decided by the US citizens, they saw the information and made their choice. Unless you're arguing that said leaks are fake as far as I'm concerned information is information, if the candidate did something the voter base wouldn't approve of and it was unveiled the source is completely irrelevant. Under those pretenses any kind of leak can be trivially attributed to some enemy and now its discredited, call those who report on it pawns of the $enemy_state and there you go. You can see this being attempted in real time in US politics, thankfully with waning success.

My point about the capabilities of the US espionage comes in when you factor counterintel and exposing falsehoods, as I said before my position is that information is information and the only thing that can be argued against information is whether it was fabricated or not. For an example, as far as I'm concerned the entire hunter laptop scandal being completely pushed under the rug by intel agents[0] is far closer to actual manipulation than the DNC e-mail leaks, because it was a lie that it wasn't real and conveniently no journalist wanted to fact check it, just to come out now 2 years later after the election is done and walk back on it. I'm citing this to try and make clear that the veracity is far more important than the source.

I do concede the point that arguing that just because the US can do the same supposed leaking of documents to another country doesn't change much, although assuming they're actual leaks i'd like them to.

[0]:https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...
Generally speaking, yes, unless a dealer believes they can blame your modification for the issue. The ECU affects the entire powertrain, so there's incentive for the dealer to blame the mod for even just a cracked engine mount, while counting on you paying for a repair as opposed to filing a lawsuit.

After all, your engine must have been running hot and accelerated the wear on the mount. Oh, logging shows it wasn't? Must be a malfunctioning thermostat. That'll be $3,000 for the mount, the thermostat, and the labor. Not including any extra charges, fees, surcharges, taxes, or overcharges.

Car dealers are no different from insurance companies. Whether it's warranty or insurance, they make money by denying claims. The ECU is enough of a black box that practically anything critical can be blamed on it if it's not using factory settings.
Sorry, I should have said "one call to InstantiateModule" instead of exec. I don't know how go processes work, but surely you can do that in a different context so that the runtime stays alive and you just pass around a way to connect to it. Then on the rust side, you change it to work on lines of input, one line in means one line out.

The current way, your go code starts a new system process to process every message, the way I'm suggesting it'll only start one for the whole run.
> this article is slanted trash, its sources haters who have only one, incredibly repetitive thing to say about AI, and the author is a hater.

It doesn't "source haters". It quotes MIT Tech Review and Gary Marcus precisely in order to provide context for the subject of the “article” (blog post): LeCun's bizarre "this is why we can't have nice things" statement. This petulant remark seeks to shut down negative feedback as a class, regardless of its merits. That's what the blog post is about. The quotes are there so that the quote from LeCun makes sense, not because they're legitimate criticism.

> Emily Bender, Grady Booch...

These people are not mentioned in the linked post, which tells me you're pattern matching on "techlash" and posting a bunch of only vaguely related context (and a medium self-link).

> He should probably should stay chill.

Exactly?! That's the point of the blog post. It's in the title of the article. It seems obviously true, and I'm not sure how any of what you say adds up to a robust conclusion that "the article is slanted trash" and "the author (Andrew Gelman?!?!) is a hater" other than you don't like some of the quotes.

> and in the past he was very deferential to these folks, and even left Twitter for a while

How many times has he quit Twitter now? Three IIRC. Seems like he needs some coaching on the following through with promises.
No, but you also can't do that with a linux computer or any other device. You can easily copy and paste all of the photos onto a computer though.
Image classification could be employed (together with very very good UI) in good productivity tools for radiologists. However, radiologists don't classify images for a living, they make diagnoses, so it's not going to get close to replacing them. I agree that radiology is the most "friendly" discipline to inject ML-based productivity tools into their "pipeline", since they essentially don't even need to be at the hospital, other than interventional radiology.
In the US as long as you don't touch the emissions system you'd be hard pressed to run afoul of anything as long as you're not taking some specific look and chasing it to the extremes (super tall trucks, cars with tires sticking way out, absurd headlights, etc).
This. In the language popularized by Kahnemann et al. I tell myself: wow, he really got my system 1. And then system 2 needs to work on on undoing the belief created, get back to sober doubt and weigh the probabilities.

But this is an interpretation after the fact, it feels exactly like you describe it. Stupor.

Edit: typo
Non ICE cars have far lower service needs → lower revenue for dealers → expect to see more subscriptions to offset.
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> That intelligence is a emergent property of reproductive fitness isn't terrifying

You missed the terrifying aspect. It's not terrifying that general intelligence emerged from optimizing for reproductive fitness specifically, it's terrifying that general intelligence emerged while nature was stumbling around randomly in the dark trying to optimize for a complete unrelated property.

Guess what we're doing with machine learning?
The privacy commitment:

https://us.eufy.com/pages/privacy-commitment?_pos=1&_sid=d60...
The lowest friction workflows make data collection/entry as lazy/delayed as possible and maximize optionality. Allow users to "save as default" as part of their normal workflows on your site, rather than demanding the information up-front at signup.

The welcome/email verification email should have an expiring passwordless sign-in link (and maybe a way to set password if you decide to support passwords). If I use your site rarely enough, I don't even save your information into my password manager. Your password reset workflow is my normal sign-in workflow. Kudos to sites that don't force me to generate a one-time random password for this sign-in workflow. In practice, I think a lot of people accidentally use this as their login procedure on rarely visited sites.

If account creation is part of the ordering workflow, make the most significant 6 (or more) digits of the order ID a secure message authentication code of the rest of the digits and delay verification of the email address. That allows you to delay email address verification and still securely correct email address typos (of recent orders) if the user records their order ID.

If your site has made birthday mandatory but you haven't demanded a government ID for verification or run a credit check, I've lied to you about my birthday.

If your site demanded a mailing address but you're not shipping anything to me, I've lied to you about my address.

If you're demanding to over-collect information, and I'm polluting your data lake, that's on you.

Side note: the McDonald's app is nice in not requiring (or apparently even allowing) passwords to log in. However, there's a problem with its state transition, where the user needs to exit from the dialog that sends the sign-in link before they go to their email and click on the sign-in link, otherwise the user gets dumped to the next step without having actually signed in.
Also great for testing if your favorite website is up and running...
The "issue" here is that this is an instance by friends that's growing too big. This isn't a business idea, or a platform, nor is it a venture or a company. Just like minded people who are on a shared instance. Public signups were open since it was doable. Then Twitter started crumbling (or not - I don't care) and user signups exploded.

IMO the only correct way to handle this is to close public signups to your instance or require a fee from (new?) users.

But there was no mistake on the admins part initially - they just ran a fun instance for a group of like minded people who shared interesting content to each other.
> Sure, a misbehaving car can be a hazard to those around it as well as its driver, but we already accept a huge amount of that

"Well we shouldn't" is also a very reasonable response to this. Cars should have speed and acceleration governors. The main reason they don't is that they haven't, but in this case "personal freedom" is basically just the enjoyment of the driver.

There are very very few other domains where we allow people to risk harm and death to other nonconsenting nonparticipants just because it's enjoyable to them. We should bring cars in line with our other social norms, not increase the degree to which they are an outlier.
What's stopping me from setting up a Linux computer to do that?
Disrupting a PyPI Software Supply Chain Threat Actor
Excellent comment. Expatriate the employee as soon as possible, don’t attempt to operate in a war zone.
> For moral reasons, I don't want to hire someone who worked at Facebook.

No ethical consumption, etc.
If someone would manipulate images, would you believe in UFO?
> Wouldn’t the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act still apply?

The act is intended to allow voiding the warranty after modding the ECU (even though the act predates ECUs and so doesn't mention them). Well your radio warranty would probably still apply, but modding the ECU has potential to damage the engine, and therefore the engine is out of warranty if you touch the ECU code.
How to make ourselves more resilient to disease:

- Less air pollution.
- Less water pollution.
- Pesticide-free food.
- Less sugar consumption.
- Physically active lifestyle.
- Less stressful life.