skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should pedestrians wear protective gear? It's like telling non-smokers to wear respirators if they don't want to passively smoke. Going outside should be the normal default and shouldn't require suiting up like you're going into battle.

The difference you describe is more cultural. In Europe most people who are able to walk regularly. Cars are used for longer distances and perhaps a few super lazy people. But generally everyone knows what it's like to walk. Most people don't know what it's like to cycle, though. So people get angry at cyclists all the time. In the US people don't even walk. Walking is seen as a leisure pursuit, not as a way to get around. So basically pedestrians are treated the same way cyclists are here.

It essentially boils down to empathy. People who have only ever used a car can't relate to people outside of a car. They can't imagine what it's like being exposed to the elements or having to actually expend energy to move. You'll see people completely soak pedestrians or cyclists by driving through puddles. Or getting frustrated that cyclists aren't going above 20mph because they have no fossil fuel assistance.

I think if everyone was required to work their way up to having the responsibility of operating a car things would be much better. I think at least a year spent using a bicycle or other non-motorised vehicle should be required before being able to use a car. Pilots don't get straight into jumbo jets as soon as they've learnt to walk. Why do we let people get straight into cars?
Why do I feel I saw all this happen when NFTs hit the market? Math behind GPT is solid but still.
Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
I prefer not focusing on games and benchmarks. Hopefully we ll get to robotics soon
> I didn't get why fewer lines of code is better.

There have been a few studies showing that bugs-per-line-of-code is pretty consistent from language to language. So, if you can reduce the number of lines needed, you reduce the number of bugs.

There are also surely diminishing returns
I have no solutions, I'm not even convinced that my statement really encapsulates the problem in a real way. Humans are very difficult. I'm reminded of that speech made by Hugo Weaving's character in The Matrix, about how the original matrix had been very utopian, with everyone living happy and harmonious lives, and the subjects rejected the illusion on a deep enough level to break it. I don't think one should look to Hollywood for good philosophical thinking, but I think he was onto something there.

If I could make one law get passed, I would outlaw algorithms on social media feeds (edit: and search engine results). Let them collect the data, let them target ads. I don't think those things are inherently harmful, or at least, no moreso than the old ads and surveillance.

But the seizing and algorithmic manipulation of the feeds, with the accompanying incentive that the whole thing fails if it doesn't turn a profit, is far more toxic than the gatekeeping of the old media emperors. The great promise of the internet in the 90s was that consumers of internet media would have complete control over our feeds, and get only the things we want and demand.

We have received the exact opposite, because people with money want to put their money to work, rather than work.
Is there a better page to link to? I cannot even see "Kosmos" on this page!

Edit: Ah, looks like this is the link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045

It was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34965326
> Nope! we didnt trash anything at all. No arcade games were harmed in the making of this show.

Phew! :)
Having a Polish wife an knowing something about Polish through a few failed attempts to learn some, Polish is a lot more "bloated" to an English eye. The moods and aspects make learning Polish super hard. If you learn the morphology of the individual elements I guess you can guess what a verb means, but it all seems a bit alien. An needing to know if a verb is in one aspect or another, and that sometimes the aspect is "past" and sometimes "future" in tense... it is hard unless you are a native speaker or really dedicated.

As for English and bloated - I'm probably a high A2/low B1 Swedish speaker. I can read a lot better than I speak. I also dabbled in Norwegian out of fascination of how absolutely similar and yet different the two languages are. (It's like Czech and Polish.) So much looks the same, just spelt differently, but you also have a large corpus of vocabulary that is on the surface different - but in reality a native speaker would know there is a word that is equivilent (maybe just not used as much or archaic.) The one I found today, which blew my mind was "trenge". This means "need" in Norwegian. It is one of those odd "Norwegian seems to prefer another word". Swedish seems to mostly use "behöva" and Norwegian does also have "behøve", but I see trenge way more. Today I saw some Swedish song lyrics with "tränga" (which is basically a Swedish equivalent of the Norwegian spelling.) Synonyms happen in all languages. Even if languages that are purely Germanic with minimal Latin influence. Caveat: this is obviously my own observations. Not claiming any thing other than casual knowledge and no actual expertise.

More examples, from a Swedish speaking point of view, are jente/jänta (latter is archaic, flicka is more contemporary), snakke/snacka (the latter is normally tala or prata), bruke/bruka (bruka in Swedish is seeminly used to mean "usually" rather than "use", and änvenda is used for "use")... the list goes on. I find this really interesting. I think the Hanseatic league and Low German it brought explains an least some of these synonyms.
This is pretty plainly obvious to anyone who has been a Twitter user throughout this whole thing.

I was (was) a daily user for the last ~8 years. Then a few months ago all of the sudden like half my timeline was either elons tweets or tweets about elon. I don’t follow him and never have. But there he was, all over my timeline.
The corporate behemoth is publishing something that I get to use for free. It has a bug, that I just happen to trip over constantly. It's important to me to fix it since it requires effort to work around it. It's just not high enough in their priority list that I can expect that to happen soon. The fix is simple and I have a good idea how to approach it.

What do I do? Fork, carry the patchset until they fix it? Or contribute the fix, taking all the burden of maintaining it.

I can now freely decide to accept their terms on how to contribute a change that benefits me to a project they own.
Your comment has so many "speech marks" I find it hard to read.
In case anyone is wondering, it's a backend issue. "Welcome to Twitter" empty timeline message on web, desktop, and native mobile apps.
Ugh, no, that's a bad idea. Fantasy adaptation on TV need to be based on a plot which is realistically complete in 2, maybe 3 season max. And by complete, I mean without any cliffhangers. Lore may exist for the universe, but should not be a mandatory pre-requisite. Preferably it needs to avoid large battles, big creatures and alien architecture, all that to lower production costs.

For example - Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny, super cool, I would very much like to see it on TV but honestly it would be a failure in production, butchered by the studio and abandoned after 1 or 2 season while needing 5+.

Another example - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Williams. Full medieval setting, minimum number of fantasy creatures and screen time with them, small cast. With liberally cutting out whole chapters it can be adapted into an inexpensive, optimally paced 2-3 season show or even movie series a-la LOTR. Diversity in built in, so there is possibility that director won't butcher existing characters for the sake of it.

So the source material to be adapted need to be carefully picked with TV constraints in mind, not just whatever is popular among readers.
FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'
Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care?
Better link would have been the tweet, it includes the paper & GH repo: https://twitter.com/alphasignalai/status/1630651280019292161
Bags under the eyes are the breasts of the insomniac's face
I noticed this on my android phone, but my iPad seems to be working fine.
capitalism ruins everything.

imagine speed of improvement in AI if everything was open sourced, instead of guarding their little secrets.

i hope google get f**, hoarding AI knowledge for years, only got shaken after recent events force them.
On the contrary, I’ve had more problems with the site in the last week than ever before.

Maybe it was the threads you were talking about. Maybe it was said upgrade process.

It was probably coincidence. Personally I doubt anything has changed.

What are you considering a lot of comments? The largest I’ve seen since I’ve been here was the Roe v. Wade overturn post, and it was around 1000. The site’s acting no different for me now than it did then.
Totally agree, my comment certainly was provocative but OP mentioned that he "still want to learn it anyway because so much stuff is built with c++ and also because i just want to" after he got discouraged to learn C++. And I think with that in mind he should just start learning C++ and make his own experience with the language.
Another fun fact. It is quite expensive to license some games to show in TV/Movies.

What is the logic or justification here? It would never have occurred to me that you have to license games if you are filming in an arcade. Do you have to get a license if you film someone playing on a PlayStation? Playing a board game? Playing with LEGO bricks? Making coffee with a Bialetti? Standing next to a car with trademarked design elements? Is there somewhere some legal clause like you can play with your Game Boy but you can not film it without explicit permission? Is it because in the case of games - or software in general - you are not truly buying it but only getting a license to use it? Do I need a license to film someone using a browser or Photoshop? I mean, I can see that you have to license the music in a film if you make deliberate artistic decision and it really contributes to the scene, but what about some random music playing on a radio in the background? What about the radio in the background of a documentary film?
He is definitely right there. At this point, I consider OpenAI partially acquired by Microsoft, since it is almost majority controlled by them. It is essentially a Microsoft AI division.

It is similar to what Microsoft did with Facebook in the early days of slowing acquiring a stake in the company. But this is an aggressive version of that with OpenAI. What you have now is the exact opposite of their original goals in: [0]

Before:

> Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. [0]

After:

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. [1]

The real 'Open AI' is Stability AI, since they are more willing to release their work and AI models rather than OpenAI was supposed to do.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

[1] https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond
This comment is magnificently self-unaware
My main reason for using C# is that's it's nice enough but Visual Studio feels amazing.
Take It Down
Bet you 5 bucks I can train one that gets 100%. Just gotta train it on the ravens answer key.
And so if we provided physical inputs to a system that utilized GPT-4+, would you call that sentient? If we have a system video / ocular input, and sound (just throw a microphone into the mix), and finally a fuck ton of sensors on its physical “body”— does that qualify?

I feel like a crazy person when I discuss this, I admit. But I have not found one solid rationale for a proof we

-know what sentience even is
-LLMs confidently do NOT have it
I'm surprised a linguist would use Duolingo. Which languages does she use it for?
This is a pretty dumb/blunt justification, but there is _some_ truth to it: The number of bugs in a program correlates roughly to the number of lines in that program, irrespective of language. Ergo, if some language lets you accomplish your goal in 30% fewer lines, you will have 30% fewer bugs.

The huge caveats are at a minimum that you're writing the code idiomatically (ie not putting your entire program on a single line), that it also strongly depends on developer proficiency with the language (likely lower for a newer language like nim), whether the problem you're solving is well understood, etc
Thanks for the kind words :)

Actually, I know I'm not leaving, just venting and reminding people to cherish the functional countries they're in.
Dont know what to think at this point. Spent years thinking this was a conspiracy theory, given how may red flags of this type of thinking this seems to have. Now being told that its real feels off. Especially given the absence of evidence.
> I suspect this was some woke writer self-insert, its so weird.

What does this have to do with (rolls eyes) 'wokeness'? Why is this just the default criticism of everything on HN nowadays?
Yes, but while you wait for the software to load, don't you have a smile on your face thinking that the developers used "clean code principles"?
Logout because of too many comments? What browser and OS are you using?
In this case it seems like the "modified optimization" is where the bug lies.
How do we prove that there is a meaningful distinction between a sufficiently advanced "feature of carefully curated language in [an entity's] dataset" and general intelligence? Is there such a meaningful distinction?
Thank you, but I've made too many inflammatory posts to dox this account now.
It's still British law for now. I've not heard that it's planned to be cut in the mass-cut of EU laws, but given that it's pro-consumer it may well be.
I've noticed the same. Never seen it get overloaded before, but it's happened several times over the past week.
> if your comment feels good to write, it's often a red flag

I'm not new to HN and I don't think any such rule of thumb exists. Writing vindictive flame comments is one thing, but writing a measured opinion of someone's actions is another. Your comment sounds condescending and I don't think it accurately represents the community's mindset here.
I'd be cautiuous with such general statements given the rapid pace of development in this area.

Benchmark shelf lives aren't that long.

You ommitted the fact that tuning bumped it to 26% vs random.

Sure, questionable what effort is involved in that step, but at the same time, that hints to me that tuning will be the new baseline within the next 12-24 months.
Well, hopefully they stop breaking “the entire reason people come to twitter”. At least when tweeting broke last week we could still scroll the timeline.

Thanks for pointing out that privacy blunder. I hadn’t heard of that. It’s interesting that stories like that end up spreading in the east but not in the west.

How long were those 5 total outages? I wonder if this one will be average.
From what I gather from Greek news [1], there was no separate freight track. But there is one track per direction under normal conditions. One direction was knocked off by a power failure at the time of the accident, so both directions were running on a single track for that segment. Then, some signaling-relatd failure sent two trains on a head-to-head collision.

[1] https://www.news247.gr/koinonia/sygkroysi-trenon-sta-tempi-p...
You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this piracy
Since when was Tesla created to be open-source and non-profit?
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and tools in recent years has led many developers and IT professionals to wonder about the future of web application development. With the increasing use of AI in various industries, including web development, many professionals are asking themselves how they can position themselves and their companies in the market to stay relevant and competitive.
The creators talk about this in the companion podcast - the idea was that literature/media from these games still exists (which we can see as Ellie has the poster), and the only way you found out about fatalities anyway was via gaming publications/urban legends. Just like in the real world, nobody really learned these combos by trial and error.
Modula-2!!!
> The reason for the behavioral change is that police stopped doing traffic stops during the pandemic

I suspect there isn't just one cause, but I did see that several states have stopped requiring new drivers to take a road test. Teens who wouldn't have passed a drivers test, cell phones, higher than normal stress/anxiety/frustration, grief, and an increase in walkers may also have played a role .
Really?! Wow. It was very famous in the Sinclair community of the time. The last new computers from Sinclair Research were the QL (a 680xx home computer launched two weeks before the Mac) and the Spectrum 128, which used a design partly from Investronica in Spain, which tragically didn't incorporate the improvements from Timex in the USA -- it didn't have the extra graphics modes, which the Spectrum desperately needed, and it didn't have joystick ports or a cartridge slot. (Those appeared in the ZX Interface 2, of course.)

The two planned machines that Sinclair was talking about were the Pandora and Loki.

Pandora was to be a Z80-based laptop -- and bear in mind, at this time, laptops did not really exist yet. Sir Clive's second computer company did launch a derivative of this idea: the Cambridge Computers Z88. I have one. It's a lovely machine, hindered by nonstandard storage slots (because the standards didn't exist yet), and an awkward way of getting documents off the machine: RS-232 serial.

(The better way, IMHO, is what Alphasmart did later: make the portable appear as a keyboard, so it can just type your documents into any computer with the right keyboard port, whatever OS or apps you are running.)

The Z88 does show that Sinclair learned from his mistakes: it has its own proprietary OS, OZ, which is still in development -- a new version, 5.0, is in beta.
https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/spaces/OZ/overview

But on top of OZ it runs the standard Z80 edition of BBC BASIC.

The other machine, the Loki, was to be an all-singing all-dancing games machine, and it never happened in any form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(computer)
Just as a reminder that it doesn't have to go like this: Finland sees record low number of road traffic fatalities in 2022.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20010847
StayFocusd is a popular Chrome extension (500k+ users) to block distracting websites, users got the message that a company Sensor Tower is the new owner. There is also a new privacy statement [0] in which the new owner announces to collect a lot of "anonymized" data.

Judging on the reviews this has already lead to some users uninstalling the extension and giving bad reviews.

[0] https://sensortower.com/page-stayfocusd-privacy
Everything open source = No copyright and ownership of produced models.

That's a sure-fire way of guaranteeing only Government funding, free labour, donations and oh so much politics of various forms. And I don't think the "speed of improvement" will increase, I'd say it'd slow to a crawl as there would be no money in it.
Welp, HN has nerdsniped me again: After some unpaid pondering, here's my suggestion for a middle ground on downvoting:

1) Reduce issue-related downvoting by only allowing some random subset of the current active users to downvote, a different set per post. Don't let the user know their vote won't work in advance, but tell them after.

2) Reduce vote sockpuppeting by recording which pairs of voters downvoted a post, then disallow that pair from downvoting a post again. This includes votes that failed due to 1).
Bill Clinton also considered Mandela (and other blacks in Africa who were fighting against Apartheid like the ANC) a terrorist. It was George W Bush that lifted his terrorist designation his last year in office.

https://www.france24.com/en/20080702-us-drops-mandela-terror...
In the context of 'cheers' being a direct one-to-one replacement of 'goodbye'. (Or more precisely 'bye'.) If, in my local usage, there is any difference between 'bye' and 'cheers', it's that the latter has a bit more bonhomie about it.

In this context, I'm afraid, you are wrong. When I'm in the office, the last thing I say to everybody else as I leave is, 'Cheers.' I'm not thanking them for letting me into office; I'm saying, 'Goodbye.'

I'm perplexed as to why you're pushing this so hard. People who have experience of this are telling you something. But you, despite clearly not having the same experience, are telling them that they are wrong. Don't mean to be snarky, but why is this so important to you?

Next up, 'Do Midlanders really call each other mardy?'
Also almost every big open-source project? ffmpeg?

OAI is not bad for being for profit, it is bad for the bait and switch. They started off with "Open" and still have it in their name even as they turned into the next Microsoft.
I have been using Twitter for 12 years and this has not been "obvious" to me at all. You shouldn't assume that your opinions are obvious or even shared by the majority of people you mention.
Total outage usually didn't last long, I believe there was at least one that's more than one hour.

What is more annoying is Twitter sometimes had highly disruptive bugs that often take much longer time to fix.

About half a year ago, there was a timeline bug that Twitter will constantly showing you three random tweets repeatedly after every refresh. It took them days to fix it.
My prediction; there _is_ going to be a severe and widespread automotive security event which cannot be ignored, before that culture shifts.

Yeah that's a big Definitely.

I wish developers and consumers alike exercised a higher standard for software quality and weren't becoming increasingly tolerant of crap.
I wonder how they understood hurdling being misspelled
Hmm... LLMs / MLLMs might be truly a unified input / output interface of a would-be AGI, I think.
Cultural contextualization is often omited in this kind or research, and I think he is right to underline it. I agree : we can find a lot of science work taking for universal some local or date behaviour.
And why would this kind of thinking would be banned of hn? It's clearly a legitimate epistemological question.
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I'm sorry, but imho it would be a gigantic flop or cut and modified so much that no source material will not be recognizable afterwards. As much as I like Mars Trilogy, that's exactly the book which needs to be avoided as a TV source. It has all problems which we see in other shows packed together - sci-fi environment (high cost), big cast, slow pace (glacial pace even, and I did read all books twice by now, and plan to read again), too big primary cast, unrelatable problems for the majority of viewers, way too much new terminology and geography, etc. And it's too damn long, even cutting it won't help. Meaning abandoned after season 1 or 2 because expectations would be too high due to high cost.
> Don't forget significantly stricter tests for getting licenses

Some states in the US stopped requiring new drivers to take a road test before being handed a license due to the pandemic. I imagine that meant a lot more people were driving who shouldn't be on the road.