skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is funny, but in common parlance if someone tells me they are an athlete; then I'm expecting they are either some sort of a athletic scholarship or are paid or sponsored in some way. Otherwise there is some strong probability that I will think they are a bullshitter.
Doubt so. Many of my Asian collegues aghast seeing Euro zone commiting economic suicide. Without Putin cheap energy, Russo-Indo-Sino-African huge market, plus extreme competitions from Chinese+Indian, Euro will not be prosperous. There was one centuries old company in Germany collapse bankrupt because of the support of Ukraine causing economic downturn. All my colleagues and friends in high places private side are finalizing retrenchment and liiquidation for coming quarters. Everyone of then blame it on stupid government policies of supporting Ukraine. Euro political parties arent that independent from controls of Dems and Rep in USA. As sanity, if you are having Asian views, none would use the wording sane to describe any of Euro parties.
Because people aren't taking the ghosts from Pac-Man and hooking them up to the internet with read/write access and sometimes-human-level capabilities.
ChatGPT has plugins in closed beta that can fetch real-time information from other sites and services. Things are moving so quickly that even though this appeared to be a problem a week ago, it’s pretty much solved now.

And in the months Google has had to respond, they have released Bard which is very noticeably bad compared to the competition. If this is their response then Google is in deep trouble.
I doubt Apple still maintains macOS for PowerPC. Building for RISC-V would be to keep future options available, whereas PowerPC is a dead end.

We might look for clues in any Apple contributions to LLVM and Darwin for RISC-V or PowerPC.

I went searching if Darwin still supports PowerPC. I found a Reddit thread about compiling Rust code for Darwin PowerPC, but they only talk about old versions of Darwin:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qbok3d/how_difficult_...
Maybe it should be replaced with a fuel-per-mile limit?
We know monkeys are smart but we (society generally) are fine with researchers keeping them in cages and euthanizing/dissecting them whenever convenient.

AGIs aren't humans, so even if they're "alive" we can still do things like this to them.
While I don't worry about the impact of sonic booms on humans, and were concerned about the impact on the rest of the natural world.

Like low-level sonic booms, light pollution was never considered to be a big issue but eventually crossed the threshold where it now has significant negative impact on animals insects and plants. My concern is that once little sonic booms become commonplace and we start noticing the impact on the natural world, there will be too much money in play to stop the damage.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00665-7

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627884/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8322

[edit] just remembered another low-level fact that people did not think was important. Jet contrails significantly increase high-level cloud cover which alters weather patterns and holds more heat in the atmosphere. A simple change in flightpath by modifying altitude by couple thousand feet can eliminate 80% or more of cultural formation but the airlines won't do it because of the small amount of additional money it would cost.
If you are concerned about the costs of raising CO2, I would suggest looking first at the places where it can be cut with the smallest investment and smallest economical impact that add to more than 80% of the CO2 emissions, like transportation and electricity generation.

The places that require the highest investment, could completely ruin the life of most people, and add up to a single digit percentage of the problem (or less) are better left to research.

Carbon taxes would indeed help. More because it will let people do the calculation above than for any other reason. But trying to hijack a discussion about carbon substitution in steel making into a "we must act because the sky is falling" is in very bad taste.
I don't really care much one way or the other, but the article does address this.

The actual externality is the noise/pressure wave, not the speed. It makes sense to regulate as close to externalities as possible, rather than banning sort of related upstream things.

In other words, if they can do supersonic without booms that cause problems, go for it. If they're unable to, well, then they keep flying so as to not produce them.
I don't mean to be dismissive, and while I strongly disagree with the idea that LLMs are demonstrating AGI I have to acknowledge that since I have no way to define or test for AGI I could certainly turn out to be wrong. That said, it looks to me like the internet has seen its own reflection for the first time and mistaken it for a new friend.
Yea well cern had beer on tap ... For lunch!
Every time stories appear about the Particle Physics Center, Fermi Lab - they seem to show up in waves.
Isn't the real killer of supersonic commercial flights the inefficiency? You're using ~5x more fuel to have a flight that's ~2x faster. I suppose you can recoup the fuel cost with expensive tickets, but should we encourage even less efficient flights?

https://theicct.org/new-supersonic-transport-aircraft-fuel-b...
"..there is something decadent about putting a complete halt to the development of a key technology simply because a few otherwise harmless sonic booms might annoy a vocal minority."

-> benefit a minority?
Sorry, but you are comparing apples with oranges. This transistor can whitstand 40 V and can drive 200 mA. The other one is a processor working maybe at 3.3V or 1.8 V.
You might be over estimating how potable local rivers/streams are without professional treatment.
I asked gpt4 if it could guess what I was talking about: "It seems that you are referencing an AI language model like ChatGPT, which is developed by OpenAI. These AI models can provide useful information and perform tasks like an intern, but they might not always be consistent or accurate in their responses, similar to someone not taking their antipsychotic medication consistently. It's important to remember that AI models like ChatGPT are not perfect and can sometimes produce unintended or nonsensical outputs."

GPT3 had no clue
The PR is not in their repository, it's in the fork. Pull Request refers to "pull this from my repository, here's a link", GitHub just presents it in a convenient interface.

(But you're right, those who send DMCAs are likely to just a send a link to the original repository :)
You're pretty wrong on all of those points. Take bodybuilders for example. Most bodybuilders track number of reps daily because if they're not progressively overloading, they're not making progress. It also tells them when to take a deload week.

Track your meals for a week or two and you'll see the actual calories and macros are pretty far from what you might think in your mind. When you're doing a lean bulk and shooting for a +250 calorie surplus, how in the world are you supposed to actually know you're around a +250 calorie surplus without tracking? It would be almost impossible to know your actually TDEE without counting calories for a few weeks or months.
Not safe, and not good meat.

Don't take my word for it, here is proof by inference: hunters in Texas aren't barbecueing it already, thus it's not edible, QED.
NordVPN is a professional business making wild claims about the security properties of their product. We are not talking about bashing an amateur gamedev for their coding standards - we're talking about something that supposedly protects your privacy online. I think it's OK to expect a high standard of code review.
Consciousness and intelligence are not necessarily the same things, the former is difficult to define.
The predefinite CSS-in-JS library for Vite
Genuine question, how much of a difference is there if it's connected to the internet with read/write access? There may be restrictions now, but people are happily gluing LLMs to their databases, various APIs, using them to write code and throwing it into production, ... Does it matter if it's emulating the instinct to fight for life if it might eventually be able to act on it anyway?
Yes, but if those viewpoints come from “reputed” media organizations, there’s a problem.
Like if bbc called bin Laden an “activist”, I’m sure we’d have a very different reaction. It’s just unfortunate, that western media organizations paint people as “activists” or “freedom fighters” if it affects countries they don’t like, but the same acts would receive very different labels if this individual was doing something that affects the Us or Europe.
DOE should really be spending more money on condensed matter physics than on high-energy physics, at least the former has more practical applications and research can be done with smaller budgets, and the latter has plateaued in many ways.

Neutrinos are pretty fascinating, it's true, but the price tag's pretty high. DOE could instead be financing solar PV research, battery research, etc... although then the politicians would likely cut their budget under pressure from the investor-owned utilities and fossil fuel exporters.
Are we really any different?
Think:

prompt = f"Write a script similar to {old_material}
but in {new_setting}, making sure that
it meets {studio_criteria}, maximizing
the probability of box-office success."

first_draft = LLM(prompt)
Our sense of ”is it okay to do this to this thing/being” is entirely based on pattern matching how similar we find that thing to ourselves with whatever criteria we deem relevant at the time.

You as a human being cannot know what the internal world of another being is beyond comparing that being to yourself.

We can never know if AI’s can feel true pain, for we can never know if anyone else in this world can feel true pain besides yourself. You just assume that since other human’s brain is so similar to yours they do.

That being said, the ’internal world’ of LLMs is so dissimilar to that of mammals that I’d rest easy.
> The faster the plane goes, the more fuel it consumes due to the drag increase by the square of the speed.

... at the same altitude.
Seems like a good job for a carbon tax to change the economic calculations involved. Perhaps for some, the speed would be worth it, but they'd be paying for it.
As a weird contradiction, don't Americans also generally say '4th of July' when referring to the holiday?
Do not eat before bed. Activation of your digestive system will definitely keep you awake.
Of all the cynical attempts to squeeze more money out of their customers...
> chatGPT has no motivation and no feelings. It is literally an algorithm for autocomplete.

I agree! But given how much is coming out now of various AGI claims, I think it's important that we stop and actually seriously think about the ethics of what's happening here.
I consider myself team robot but I would say running in an LLM is basically analogous to using your own verbal intelligence. You don't really have ethical qualms about using parts of your own brain for your own ends even though the control neural net is mostly separate from the inference part.
What makes you think that isn’t the case now in other services you subscribe to?
The point is, they break a lot of news that gets burried on other venues.

I would rather a discussion of the article, than an attack on the publisher, which has nothing to do with the topic.
YMMV, but I’ve found my own results to be (to my surprise) in contradiction with that. For me, a meal close to bed is associated with about a 9% increase in subjective sleep quality, and 13% increase in sleep quantity. I’ve been using an app called Bearable to log such info for about 4 months now. Sadly I don’t have HRV data correlations (they’re working on that!).

A few theories I have for why this is the case:

More carbs before bed increases muscle and liver glycogen (assuming your stores are not full. Mine usually are not since I typically work out in the evening) which requires water to store. Henceforth, carbs close to bed should lower chances that you have to get up to urinate during the night. Carbs also lower cortisol levels and thus may promote relaxation.

Amino acids in meat like tryptophan also create a feeling of sleepiness (post-Thanksgiving nap, anyone?).

Maybe there’s something to the whole “rest and digest” after all.
I walk around outside and jot down thoughts in Apple notes.
If you don’t write things down, many ideas are forgotten.
Oh my.
This surely falls under the category: G_d has a sense of humour.
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They did not say "eat nothing". They said you do not "need to eat much of anything".
I had a car for about five years, and now haven't for about ten. I don't miss it in the slightest. Maybe in the days before convenient short-term rental carshares I'd want a car for those rare trips that really benefit from one, but it's not actually a big deal to walk a block or two to pick up a car for the day.
This is the part I don’t get why people are so weird about. If all the math and physics underpinning the human brain were laid out we would find it equally unimpressive.

For all intents and purposes we have made an artificial language processing center that by all accounts is better than the one we have. It feels really uncanny because we have a lot of control over how it operates and provide it memory but there’s no inherent reason such a thing would be impossible with a section of a human brain in a jar.
I’ve also learned it’s ok not to be in the top percentile for that title. You don’t have to be David Goggins or Jocko, but you can apply their techniques to your own athletic program.

Similarly, when working with a trainer, I don’t let them dictate everything, even when it comes to strength programming. I choose what works for me.
Ask HN: How does your company do secret management? AWS/GCP/Vault/CyberArk?
It seems like every company has a different stack and setup these days and I'm trying to distill what the discrepancies and use-cases are here.

At first glance, Vault seems like a sound solution for managing secrets especially when it can be self-hosted; but then again there exist AWS/GCP/Azure cloud-native solutions that are in a sense "self-hosted" on your cloud and provide the bulk of functionality like secret versioning, rotation, audit logging, scalability & availability, etc. as well. Overall, I'm hoping that y'all can shed more light and educate me (and everyone here really). Some questions:

- What does your company use for secrets management (stack, hosting, setup) and what's the rationale?

- What your thoughts are on AWS/GCP/Azure secret managers vs. Vault. Is Vault overkill or should AWS/GCP/Azure secret managers suffice even for most enterprise cases? Put differently, why would a company self-host Vault if they can use a native secrets manager from any one of the major cloud providers that offer a ton of benefits already?

- Does your company use one or multiple secret managers? If multiple, what for?

- Do you set environment variables in platforms like CircleCI, GitLab, Netlify, etc. manually or do you manage to pull them in from secret managers? What's the typical approach here?
DUNE wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Underground_Neutrino_Expe...

The video of the project is pretty cool https://youtu.be/nv13DswIKr8

Shooting neutrinos through the earth 1300km in 4ms
I doubt Picasso was a manga reader.
Wow, I stand corrected. Italy is scoring terribly. Somehow I thought “the old guard in EU are okay”

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/wb_ruleoflaw/
I mean, 8051 isn't dead yet. SiLabs continues to make extremely competitive UniversalBee 8051 designs.

In my experience, bet on legacy. There will always be enough time to wait and switch later if things turn out better.

This is doubly so in embedded, where legacy issues / manufacturing issues reign king over performance.

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Cores are often the wrong thing to focus on anyway at the embedded level. I don't think performance is a major concern. Maybe power/performance is a concern in battery constrained apps, but many electronics will bottleneck elsewhere.

So I'm really not sure how or why RISC-V would break into the uC world / low end.

If anywhere, they have a chance at the higher level, like at Rasp Pi level chips or stronger.
Except, they're not disrupting the way the web works. The web still works fine, and LLMs are an incomplete and often incorrect interface for some of this information. AdSense will be relevant for as long as networked visual ads are relevant, and that's not going away until LLM brain interfaces catch on.

I'm no Google fan, but it increasingly feels like HN is trying to justify it's FAANG hate boner with predictions of imminent failure. The reason Google is successful is because they ignored search and focused on greener pastures. Investing further into LLMs at this point would be a money pit with plenty of room to backfire.
Makes sense to focus on the actual issue (noise) and not speed.

It’d be awesome to have supersonic commercial aircraft that were also quiet. I’m excited about YC’s Boom and their overature plane, but it’d be so cool to able to fly coast to coast at supersonic speeds.

Hopefully something like this can pass.
I don't trust this. The article cites semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...), but semafor states the 1T parameter count without any source.
Yes. Experienced numerous Space Shuttle sonic booms. For me they weren’t problematic like broken windows. But would wake you up.
I also remember waiting for the sonic boom from Columbia, which never came..
I think it will be complemented by a ban on "non-official" computing devices and major push for thin clients. I'd rather the internet stay.

Thin clients can be justified as "zero waste" and "sustainable". It also restricts computing hardware, which makes the entire field look much more mysterious and high-tech. Plus, robot policing is the first commercial application of these things. That's a whole other can of worms that will make everyone regret machine learning.
I'd recommend exploring Obsidian. It's inherently self-hosted : it's just local markdown files (but you can sync via git or their for-pay sync service). The plugin community is large and it has some of the best extensibility going.

My suggested starting point (others' may be superior): switch to Minimal theme plus watch a few videos (search for 'my obsidian setup' and you'll find a broad range of fairly different takes on how to use and configure Obsidian, and you'll likely get a hint of the plugins available -- 'top obsidian plugins' is also a decent quick tour of what kinds of things are already available).

On balance, it took a couple of tries w/ Logseq and Obsidian and then a month of iterating and adding to Obsidian, and I had something better than what I liked about Bear, Ulysses, Craft, Spaces, Roam, Logseq, Evernote, Simplenote... I feel like I've tried them all.

You won't end up with the 100% polished experience of some of the well crafted paid apps above, but it's pretty close and the depth of features w/ extensibility is worth the delta. Obviously, this is very much based upon which features and workflows matter most, but it's been a delightful piece of software that no single other product seems to best right now.
Indirect Prompt Injection
Do you think that the state shouldn't be allowed to kill unwanted Down syndrome babies after they are born because "that's eugenics"?

What about Down syndrome adults, who are reliant on state benefits?

In case it's not clear, I don't support the killing of disabled people at any age, but I understand that different people approach these questions from a different set of assumptions.

My point is that adding scare quotes around "that's eugenics" doesn't stop it from being an accurate description, so your question is not the gotcha you might think it is.
This is pretty easy to deduce given GP was a kid in the time leading up to the 1973 rule.
This is a stochastic puppet telling the prompter what it thinks they want to hear, which in and of itself is already dangerous because humans didn’t evolve along side machine intelligence. If even that famous Google guy was fooled, we’re in deep shit. That guy is an expert in his field working for one of the toughest companies to interview for in a position that requires significant dedication and scholastic achievement to attain, and he was fooled by statistical text prediction.
Insider leaks and “the fourth estate” are arguably part of checks and balances in modern democracy, but it’s clearly untenable for every employee of the government (or any large organization) to be empowered to speak on its behalf.

AFAIK the rule for federal employees is they’re allowed to speak publicly and opine on political matters, but not to identify themselves as government employees while doing so.
LLMs are quite the mirrors for our own humanity. They’re midway between humans & rocks, but from a different direction than animals.
Right. It's okay to leave written documentation on SaaS (e.g. Notion), because the text is the artifact. If they're shutting down, or I don't like them anymore, I just move the text. But if Ilograph goes down, all I have is useless YAML.

Our team went through this thought process when we decided to open source our text-to-diagram language, users need to be able to reproduce their docs even if we shut down (https://github.com/terrastruct/d2).
People ask me for advice and I immediately realize why am I not following it myself? I have had multiple people come back years later and tell me that they would have never done X or achieved Y if it weren't for a discussion we had years earlier.

The analytical knowing mind has to drag all this other stuff around!
Got it.

“rich, handsome, successful”

Done.
> We know monkeys are smart but we (society generally) are fine with researchers keeping them in cages and euthanizing/dissecting them whenever convenient.

But at the same time, we don't have monkey's in cages at typewriters 24/7, with chips in their brain forcing them to be happy and do nothing but type out answers for me. The comparison might be a little contrived, but if people truly believe that LLMs can exhibit AGI -- and that someday we might cross the bridge from AGI to full consciousness -- then I think it's important to care about the ethics now, not after tech companies have already recreated slavery.
Ask HN: Is there any good software for internal company newsletters?
Something like monthly newsletters for a product area and an easy way to consume it via a mobile app.
The more credits they buy, the more expensive they should become
Isn't the whole problem with boom shaping that it requires a thinner fuselage meaning you transport even fewer people? I just don't see this being viable.

Musk has talked for a long time about a supersonic jet that would fly higher and thus not be heard on the ground. However batteries would need to get quite a bit better still and it would be a massive expansive project.
It’s hardly the image of stability but saying people only have $4500 and it’s the Fed’s fault is wrong in two ways.
I'm sure they also have an airtight statistical regression to determine how annoyed people will be when it's happening 30 times a day!
I really thought this was about Weka (the ml lib)
Indian media is hardly reputed.

India stands at 150/180 on Press freedom index, behind even many dictatorship.

Make that very clear. Indian media is not to be trusted.
Suddenly the durability of x-box controlers has become an issue of national security
A cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts.

In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)