skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not believe this is the case when someone calls the Yellow River the cradle of Chinese civilization. I believe that people hearing that term primarily understand "cradle" by reference to the baby-related object, rather than because the word has meaning in itself relating to the start of civilization.

I think I just factually disagree with you here. I think it would be very rare for a fluent English speaker to hear “cradle of civilization” and need to actually do the work of calling up the concept of a baby bed and make educated guesses about what metaphorical similarities the speaker is trying to evoke.

In fact, in American English I think it’s pretty rare to use “cradle” in informal speech to refer to a baby bed. “Crib” or even “bassinet” or “baby bed” are much more common. “Cradle” is in the lyrics of a well-known lullaby, but to use it in casual speech would be somewhat conspicuous. It’s much more common as a verb, like “cradle the baby in your arms,” which I suspect you would also describe as a metaphorical usage (and I would disagree).
Because I bought my first IPU device in 2016. libcamera has been "in the horizon" before then. I'd bet that most laptops bought today will be obsolete by the time their webcams work.
Google launches Ads Transparency Center as a searchable database
Why would you be in such a rush to return home?
I just checked and found one of my company's ads. It seems it just pulls in the ads that a normal search on bing would find. I'm gonna have to ask our Bing account manager tomorrow if they're charging us for these clicks as if it was normal SEA, because it's pretty busted with the url beneath the description being a different website from what the text says.
This was the book that got me into Librivox recordings.

https://librivox.org/the-machine-stops-version-3-by-e-m-fors...

The feeling of futility it imparts is emotionally frustrating. Wonderful writing. It's easy to forget this story was written in 1909! It feels more like 1979 or later.
> People who directly contributed to destroying evidence should also be arrested the same way you would for destroying evidence in any other crimes.

This is not a criminal case, so “evidence in any other crimes” is inappropriate.
Well, brain damage may not be a detriment to some.

Btw, "misnomer" doesn't mean what you think it means.
What's the advantage to not being able to tolerate rotten meat? Perhaps it's costly to tolerate it.

Apparently the advantage of losing body hair is fewer problems with lice (consider how much time other primates devote to grooming)
> Are you of the opinion that corporate training events matter?

Yes, they definitely matter. Corporate trainings provide social validation for ideas (good and bad). In my field, managers are herd animals, afraid to disrupt the status quo. Trainings can be a way to break out of group think ruts.
Silk Pavilion - Humane Silk-Based Products (2013)
Where have you read that HVM beats C or Rust? That is not something I've ever written and we're far from that, specially considering the budget that has been thrown into Rust, although we could (and hope to) get there one day. This is possible in theory, because interaction nets are as lightweight as Rust, but have the added benefit of built-in parallelism. Please see the whole FAQ, I think it addresses all your questions. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Did anyone else notice this bill includes a provision that requires the department of Commerce to inform the president Quiet partwhen wall street has made such a cockup of gamblingQuiet part that it becomes a national security risk and gives him the power to issue an Executive Order requiring the general investing public sell that particular stock so hedge funds can pay off their debt?

S.686 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686
Great to see yet another Tailwind version. I’m a huge fan. CSS is always a “get it over with” ordeal for me, and Tailwind allows me to finish the job in the quickest way. And Tailwind UI has been one of the best purchases I’ve made in the past year.
> President banning people to sell paper, ink

Is this what is happening?
This seems to me like free speech absurdism.
Be free to post the equivalent of `Fuck Joe Biden` but about Xi or other leaders without any fear of repercussion. Be free to critique without fear of being disappeared.
Is there any sort of function or usefulness to this outside of an interesting new tile design? I've seen this a couple of times now, and I'm interested to hear what the potential outcomes are with this discovery.

(For clarity, I am not arguing that every new discovery must have practical application)
SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table
Not Google. Owners of Google - so, specific people again.
Oh yeah arp spoofing or just session hijacking your way into people's accounts was way too facile back then. I seem to recall a browser plugin that did it [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
That makes sense especially since they're not intending to deploy this model to production. For models like GPT-3/4 it makes sense why they would train them more because the costs of running the inference "in production" likely dominates the compute costs. (Just like how Youtube will spend 50x more compute to compress a video an extra 2% because bandwidth costs far outstrip the compression costs.)

Do you know what percentage, roughly, this model has been trained relative to something like LLaMA? Are we talking 10%? 50%? 90%?

It may be possible that it is still useful if it can be trained further by the community!
Mistrial in capital murder case after Dallas police failed to turn over evidence
I have an English Lit degree, and the following advice from a professor almost made it worthwhile: "if you're reading for pleasure, and it's not pleasurable, put the book down. Give the author 50 pages, and if they haven't made it worth your time, move on to the next book."

I share this advice with everybody, but almost nobody takes it as far as I know. There's way too much guilt and shame surrounding reading: "if I pick it up, by GOD I will finish it, even if it takes a year and I hate every second of it". It shouldn't be that way.
Trans, furry, plural... sounds about right. It's missing a Rust crab sticker.
Reminds me a bit of this old 1970 article in Physics Today: The Stability of the Bicycle. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3022064
It was supposed to be renovated and converted to a hotel, but there was some sort of squabble between the co-owners and it was left half gutted. It was auctioned off then as a dispute resolution.
I've had the complete opposite experience. Hallucinations aside (more common with bad prompts or niche/specific topics), ChatGPT 3.5 has been perfect for searching anything that isn't past the model's cut-off date, as well as summurizing long articles I don't have the time or patience to read.

Google on the other hand, is at a point where even Yandex of all search engines is starting to give better results, especially when it comes to image searching and content Google doesn't like as much like piracy. Google used to be amazing back in the day, nowadays I find myself having to specify REDDIT (or a specific forum) on my searches because the top results without it are hardly ever good.
Ask HN: Do you plan to do indie game dev after you retire?
When money is no longer an issue, maybe you would do indie game dev for fun and not worry about whether you can make money with your games?
Well, how can it be much worse than a smart human „hooked up to the internet“ with bad intentions? Other then generating comments or spam faster?
1984, the government told you what to think and feel and say. Perfect Nanny state...
Strawman. There’s a whole world between “this thing is harmless and 100% beneficial” and “this thing is dangerous in all situations and will always lead down dark pathways.”
If long covid was real it would have happened already. I had covid a year and a half ago, and am fine as is everyone I know (who have almost all had it at some point). At some point it's the flip side of the vaccine side effects that antivaxxers keep insisting will emerge at some point
The absolute smelliest of code smells.
Yep, this is when it was called iChat. I used it for that exact purpose for some time. This was before Apple had their own protocol, though; I believe it just supported AIM and XMPP.
Scientists Gain Insight into Old Master’s Use of Egg in Oil Paintings
I think it makes sense to debate whether this pause can or cannot work and the game theory behind it.

But to those that trivializes the potential danger of AI and compare it to the likes of climate change is ignorant at best. AI has been consistently ranked as the highest potential cause for the extinction of the entire human race (by experts, a random survey of the population will likely say climate change, sadly). (https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/ranking-of-potential-caus...)

Human caused climate change at the worst potential possible outcome would not even make a dent to the human population at a multi-century time-scale. We also have a lot of solutions in place for climate change that merely requires time and investment for adoption. Climate change's impact to humanity is less than the alarming birth rate we are seeing today (which also, we have no solution for...)

We literally have no solution for AI Alignment, and this is with a lot of smart people working on it. From Bostrom to Eliezer and many others (check https://lesswrong.com). A lot of experts have give up because they see no way out and is only merely thinking about how should humanity end with dignity. We can't even figure a way out of the prisoner dilemma on doing a 6 months pause.

Comparing AI Alignment with Climate Change trivializes the matter and only illustrate the ignorance of the populace. Another reason why we will not solve AI Alignment and will likely go extinct.
> In the next 10 years, AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale. Food, clothing and shelter will be plentiful.

Anyone who believes in the possibility of post-scarcity society must be either naive or trolling. Something cannot be made from nothing, therefore scarcity cannot be overcome, even assuming that all planning and execution is performed by superhuman synthetic minds.

Assuming that it's theoretically possible to utilize existing resources in a very efficient manner (e.g. motor running on a grain of rice for a century) and we just need AI to help us figure it out, is a _gigantic_ leap of faith and i would not bet a cent on that.

Let me paint a more realistic possibility for you (with a broader time horizon): most of the value created by automating knowledge work will be captured by private capital, and middle class will all but disappear. Education beyond basic reading and writing will become unattainable (and, frankly, unnecessary), most population will be reduced to the state of semi-literate serfdom dependent on the newly minted lords for survival. The lords wouldn't have to worry about feeding their subjects for too long though, as mass death brought about by climate change will take care of that problem.

Under that scenario, there will be no new enlightenment age to come and save us. The only reason we get to enjoy whatever freedoms we have today is that a (semi-)intellectual population is absolutely necessary to keep the complex modern economy running. Even then, those above you will do absolutely everything to limit your agency - by withholding information, lying, or just outright taking freedoms away. Do you know what happens once our participation in propping up the economic machine becomes unnecessary? Demotion to the default state of a human throughout history - a groveling, suffering serf who has no idea what's going on.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever."
I'm sure the AI this company will produce will "do no evil"
I googled GitHub personal access tokens and got https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou... as the first hit. It covers expiration and links to another doc on token expiration at the end of the article. I don't want to assume that you haven't done that and seen that, but it's not linked in your post.
> you're competing with the entire online world.

It's actually even worse than that: you're competing separately in each field, in parallel. But you only see the others in the context of that which they are good at, which is why you see them in that space in the first place.
I’ve been using AI to teach me concepts, and it’s great at it. It can sometimes be wrong, so having familiarity with the topic is important in letting it teach you. But OpenAI knows programming languages really well. It’s been amazing at teaching me concepts. Then I go test it to verify its teachings. It is certainly making me more productive at learning.
Llama individually tokenized digits, how much did it fix the issue?
"Incompetent nice people, as long as they are not so incompetent to be a liability"

This is veering into tautological territory but "not competent enough to be useful" is where my personal definition of "incompetent" would land. ;)

I also don't want competent jerks but... neither end of this spectrum is good.

(IMO the real trick is that neither of these scales (either competence or jerkhood) is universally the same across companies. Different people interact in different ways, and different teams have different problems to solve. Putting up with bad fits on your team for too long hurts your team regardless of the precise sort of bad fit. If you've tried to coach them on what's needed for months on end already with no luck, you have to make a hard decision, and "no action" isn't actually avoiding that decision.)
No you said a comparable dataset to TikTok was commercially available.

Few random webcams which would be illegal to take video from is not substantive and does not provide any insight into their interests, likes etc.

The whole issue with TikTok is that the Chinese government is able to personally identify people who disagree with them.
Mental health emerges as the fastest-growing marketplace for startups
Nuclear destruction wasn't the same in key ways:

- It was only a possibility. You also knew the nukes might not launch, the world might not end.

- If the nukes did launch, it wouldn't be due to a moral failure of your own.

- Although you may sometimes have felt scared or depressed about the USSR and MAD, you weren't being constantly told by your society that optimism was illegitimate thoughtcrime.

Climate doomerism is pretty much ideal for creating mental health issues. It tells adherents that they have no future outside of some hellscape, that it's all their own fault or maybe their parents fault, the root cause is moral failure, that maybe it can be stopped except SURPRISE no it can't really, and that any deviation from any of these beliefs makes you utterly evil and depraved, absolutely worth of immediate and total ex-communication from your friendship groups.

Personally I think it's more likely to be the phones, but there are enough anecdotes about real young people whose thought processes around the future have been totally broken by climate propaganda, that it's worth taking seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
Interesting that TRAPPIST-1 is the farthest on the list.

I think I'd just start with Alpha Centauri- 40+4 years for a return of direct images of a planet orbiting in a trinary star system.
No big surprise there

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315542#35316234
"You made a mistake here. Correct it."

"You made a mistake here and need to correct it."

"Please correct this mistake."

"There's a mistake here that needs correcting."

"Can you correct this mistake?"

I'd say the top two are direct and definitely impolite. Number two may seem polite to a direct sort of person, but the blame makes it impolite. Of the latter three I'd say the top one is not only the most concise and direct, but also fairly polite. These last two are more polite, but lack directness.
"Amazon’s cashierless stores: Webvan that ran out of gas and decided to use AI cameras instead." :@>
It's a social engineering tool designed, built, and ran by the Chinese government.
>For most markets you just can't buy what you want. Even if you would be willing to pay 2 to 4 times.

This is a problem I see everywhere... People have no idea that mass production leads to order of magnitude reduction in costs or more.

In most products you buy today there is a 4X price range between low to high end products. When suddenly you're talking about 10-100X price range people go with why they can buy.

You'd think HNers would have a better idea on manufacturing costs.
When I checked yesterday I believe the signature said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, so it was definitely a joke signature, not a case of two people having the same name.
Anyone can get your address and phone number from just about anywhere. What you can't purchase are the thousands of data points that Facebook or Google has about your habits, location, and preferences. That's their secret sauce after all.
FTC requires sponspors be disclosed. Either the sponsor is a Bing-wide constant list (like the credits of a TV game show), or it's a "sponsored token" that can be tagged in the model and cited in the output, similar to how Bing cites sources now.
I see your point. In my case it was basically a proxy concentrator. On one side, accept and hold open a huge number of connections, then maintain a single open connection on the other side. It worked really well for this situation.
Random thought people say you can't put a corporation in jail.

Well they're wrong. You could sentence the board to serve a stint in jail. Or management. Or even everyone that works there.

Want to talk about lighting a fire under people.
try / catch is almost he opposite of On Error Resume Next

OERN would make it so uncaught errors were silently ignored and execution would just continue on the next line as if nothing wrong happened. This would likely result in more errors, which would then also be ignored.
Where is the lab-grown rice?

It seems possible in principle to use cell/tissue culture to grow only the rice (or wheat or other grass seeds) grains, rather than the whole plant.

In that case just a few mega factories could feed the world.
I'm generally not a big fan of Altman or OpenAI but their corporate structure ensures limited upside to Altman and the employees so other than recognition/fame which I think as the head of YC for many years Altman already had plenty of there isn't a huge incentive for them to maintain their lead.

Short of like a binding UN resolution or something similar we don't have a sliver of hope to slow down global AI progress which is a major factor in the doomer argument.
I don’t know why this is being down voted. Prusa are trying to make an open source hardware company work and I guess this is what it looks like.

There is so much noise on HN about repairability. Well here is some open hardware And it’s ”the Chinese printers have so much more features!”
We've been applying the rules evenly for years, or at least have put in years' worth of effort to do so. The problem is that no matter how evenly one applies the rules, people with strong ideological passions still feel that we are biased against their side and secretly favor the other side. I think this is because everyone is more likely to notice and place greater weight on the cases that they happen to dislike.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

If you're aware of accounts using HN primarily for ideological battle who we haven't asked to stop, the likeliest explanation is that we haven't seen them. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. You can help by flagging such posts or, in egregious cases, emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It's easy to say this when you're not on the wrong end.
therapy got really trendy with that group and a therapist labeling you depressed ensures more visits.
I was 8 years old the first time I wrote a line of code, in BASIC on the family Apple ][e.

Did that for a few years before moving on to AMOS (also a BASIC, though definitely more modern and useful -- it even had a compiler) on the Amiga.

The summer after Junior High I started learning C on DOS (Turbo C!) and at that point I was done with BASIC.

I don't think I could have started with C in grade school, BASIC is what got me hooked on programming :)
> If they had access to primitive weaponry, why would they waste energy running when they could instead ambush?

Have you ever fought a dog, a deer or a boar? Fighting means wounds, possibly fatal ones. Spear or no spear, you're going to die in one of those fights. Running on the other hand is pretty safe and not that tiring, especially if you've been doing it for years and your weight is close to 50-60kg. Ability to sweat more should be even more advantegous in a warm climate. I sometimes run in 30°C for an hour / an hour and a half. It's hard, but you get used to it. I imagine most animals would just drop by that time.
I said that I observed people doing certain actions, and yes they are "guilty" of that. I never said anything about their skin color making them guilty. Pointing out discrimination is not discrimination.
In select countries (China, Turkey, India, many more) apps regularly get banned. In the west we frown upon this practice based on the principle of freedom of speech and free markets and competition.

The second-order effect of this is interesting to ponder about as it creates an asymmetrical situation. Those countries get the "good" parts of social media (as in, good for their government) whilst we get the bad parts of every app ever.

My main point is that these bad parts should not be underestimated. Misinformation campaigns, election interference, calls for violence, addiction, mental health issues, radicalization, polarization, dysfunction, the normalization of degenerate behavior, a cultural breakdown, mob justice, the list is long.

If in China Tiktok users get a cap of 2 hours of usage in which only productive/interesting (science) content is shown whilst in the US teenagers use it for 5-7 hours leading to a mental health crisis, then we're talking about radically different outcomes.

This doesn't mean that social media is only bad, nor does it mean we should ban it. I'm just saying that we should stop seeing it as an unimportant toy. It potentially is a weapon of mass destruction.
You're neglecting to consider the power of recursion.

Maybe the best and necessary tool in aligning GPT-N is GPT-(N-1).

We've already in just the past few weeks seen the power in using models to generate instructive fine tuning data.

Don't you think aligned models might be able to be applied to better aligning future models in ways that we can't yet anticipate because capability discovery is occurring on a week by week basis and not a six month or longer basis?
> China's seemingly made a point of outsourcing their most polarizing algorithmic decisions to the rest of the world but not to their own population

Exactly how most social media execs handle it with respect to their own kids.
it makes me miss ngate
The entire article has that tone, like many of the VC/FAANG/techie articles about "focusing on the tangible". Every single one reads like someone who re-discovers their own humanity through the privilege of being obscenely wealthy. This one started out with a visit to the Met by someone who recently quit their job....... I'm as sick as capitalism as the next human but if you are that wealthy maybe contribute to charity or work for a non-profit that helps the poorest among us, people who can't wander the Met for inspiration on their non-existent frivilous, to escape their harsh capitalist reality.

If you think the problem with America isn't a class problem and you have FAANG-money, you need to rethink it.

All that said, it is a neat-ish project if not my aesthetic.