skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of AI does not exist and might not for a long time or indeed ever (i.e., it can fully manipulate the physical world at scale and unopposed).
> The logical consequence of preventing overdoses is that his customer base will have less churn, expand more over time, and be more profitable.

street dealers aren't that sophisticated in my experience. If there's competition they just kill each other. They don't have to worry about demand because addiction handles it for them. All the actual street dealers i've encountered ( quite a few in my 20s ) were basically the equivalent of a vending machine.

edit: well i will admit one clever setup i saw in old East Dallas. A drug house started taking copper as payment for drugs because, at the time, copper scrap was very valuable. So like the dealer would take a bunch of copper pipe in trade for drugs. It made for a rash of ridiculous copper thefts, like breaking into and stealing all the wire out of the walls in apartment construction sites.
As a foreigner and commenting this in good faith ... the country who saw birth Facebook, Google, Instagram... well actually created the Internet as we know it... can't produce an alternative to an app that just shows small videos sorted by an algorithm? What is going on with you guys?
> Interesting aside, the "mental" addiction can be harder to kick than the physical. Some former opiate and gabapentin users I know have mentioned this - psychological cravings for even years after stopping. Anyone who has ever tried quit nicotine will also know this.

Oh yes for sure, didn't mean to make it seem like it wasn't. I was(/am) a poly drug addict from Finland. Buprenorphine and amphetamine were my jam for a couple years. One year of using intravenously daily. It's been years since my last time but I still think about shooting up every now and then. It's a deviously strong urge. But the mental battle doesn't only start after the physical stuff is over: at the beginning they both compound on each other and it's absolutely devastating when you've been awake for two weeks because of the restless legs...
They provided an option to build it locally and run it yourself. But yeah, I wish there is a common proxy protocol that would allow website accessing private resources without exposing private keys
CRI has to do the hard job of describing a spectrum using a single number. It's like looking at the entire menu of a restaurant and having to say how healthy the food there is. (heck, there's probably way better metaphors).
Using "privilege", with its connotation of inherited wealth, and applying it to a profession that pays well above average but is open to anyone--the opposite of inherited wealth--is kind of rhetorically dishonest. Disingenuous at best.

It's also out of context, which was that two tech parents were discussing having time for family. There's a strong correlation between expensive homes near tech campuses and tech jobs at tech campuses paying over $150k/yr for someone out of undergrad (if HN reports are correct). And besides, optimizing your location includes choosing both job and location; there are tech jobs that are not in expensive locations, and spending most of one's money on an expensive mortgage to buy free time for family is also an option.
> - It is quite difficult to even buy high quality LEDs as a mere mortal

I'm going through this again now. At one point I found Philips EyeComfort bulbs on Amazon which checked all my boxes (2700-3000K, 60W, dimmable, almost non-existent flicker). I've had a couple bulbs die on me now, and I cannot for the life of me find replacements, it's like they stopped manufacturing them. I have no clue what to replace them with now
AI or ChatGPT. if you create a system that uses it to create an outline of facts from 10 different articles and then use an embedding database to combine the facts into a semantically similar list of facts then use the list of facts to create an article you'll get a much better factually accurate article.
It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in
But why would he bother? If the company was really in such bad shape, why not just let it fail and create a competing service (for a lot less than $44B)?

In any case, from my perspective Twitter didn't really make serious mistakes. They got $44B for the company despite its issues.
Tenstorrent Shares Roadmap of Ultra-High-Performance RISC-V CPUs,AI Accelerators
Just a quick question on your traffic / conversion stats.

How come you have (almost) as many conversions as you have leads?

How do you count these?
Even if you can't have personal connections with the founders of 80 companies in a batch, having hundreds of companies in each batch--twice a year!--is seriously diluting my own worked-for-a-YC-startup brand equity. "Oh, yeah, I met Jeremy at $EVENT" becomes a thing of the past when there are thousands of founders with tens of thousands of early-stage employees.
Can you comment on main differences between this and Aurora?
> Humans can be incredibly cruel, but they still have some level of humanity

History is filled with seeming counter-examples.

> they need to believe in some ideology that justifies their behaviour.

"Your people are inferior to my people and do not deserve to live."

I know I'm Godwin's Law-ing this, but you're close to wishing Pol Pot & Stalin away.
You and I have different definitions of public space.

I've been on the net since the early 90s, and even back then there were no public spaces.

There is nowhere online, and really never has been, where you have a right to be, or where you can express your government-given rights (also, which government? most of us are not US citizens) without anyone having the ability to cut you off or kick you out at their own discretion.

Every server, whether it was Usenet, IRC, the web, email, or otherwise, was, and is, owned by a private entity that could moderate, manage and restrict usage as they see fit.

If you cause them enough trouble, they will boot you, and have every right to do so.

I don't call that public spaces.
> To be fair, not being webshit is part of why their UI is usable (if not great) on low-end hardware.

I have a TV with Roku built-in. It ran great when I got it in 2020, but it has gotten slower and slower to the point of being unusable. I'm not even talking about apps, but the Roku home screen itself. Apps are even slower and crash all the time, sometimes crashing the TV itself.

On the other hand, I have a Chromecast from 2016 that still runs just as well as it did when I bought it. I'd rather use my phone as a remote and have a movie playing in seconds with the Chromecast than wait 1+ minutes for Hulu or Netflix to even get to their respective home screens with the Roku. I also don't get ads with the Chromecast.
I almost always want something in between those two. Electronics aimed at consumers tend to be unacceptably awful, but I rarely need something actually high-end.
The Ultra Efficient series only just launched in November: https://www.signify.com/en-gb/our-company/news/press-release...

There must be some kind of listing error on Amazon, maybe an old listing being repurposed without clearing the old reviews.
I’m really curious where you work, the team you mention in your last paragraph sounds like my dream job :D
TikTok: Is this a national security scare or is something else going on?
I stopped using it not long after he took over, not because of any principled objection just because how much crap I had to sort through to get to anything worthwhile had greatly increased.
No idea about whether bad actors would think twice, but if you are asking about whether having YC attached to your business opens doors, absolutely. I did a startup with a much less well-known incubator VC and that alone got us in so many doors compared to when you are trying talk with VCs on your own. Honestly, I think that is the one and only major benefit to doing an incubator. Unless you are just really green and need the support for things that maybe aren't on your radar like taxes and payroll and compliance, etc., the unknown unknowns.

There are a lot of businesses with a great deal of traction that do incubators because it simply opens a lot more doors for VC investment. You would be surprised how little due diligence many investors actually do. Many will just invest in whatever $respected_vc is investing in. Assuming that $respected_vc has already done the due diligence.
https://mentourpilot.com/sr-71-when-cia-used-soviet-titanium...
I work at Rev.AI, check us out

Lowest WER in the industry, cheaper than Whisper API, and we have an on-prem solution
> Google catches Bing copying [search results], Microsoft says “so what?”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/02/googl...
I already explained why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35375320
It could be sensitive power circuitry failing due to power quality, but is more likely a heat buildup. LEDs bulbs fail rapidly without good convective cooling ability, particularly in locations where you have the bulb on for great lengths of time.
Weird that nobody has mentioned Game Of Trees[1] (aka got), which is developed by OpenBSD-related people and “prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility”, according to their main page.

[1]: https://gameoftrees.org/
I assume these are paid in crypto too, is it possible to easily exchange this large amount of money to regular currency? Then again, even 10% of that looks enormous.
Love this... and I agree with it
Yes. I never understood why Data had to type rather than just use wifi
It only matters when it hurts a large corporation, apparently...
> "Johnny gets all of his work done quickly and it's stellar work, but then he is a frequent distraction to those around him."

Yep, a variant on bright/"gifted" + ADHD presentation. ADHD as fuck, but smart enough that they get by kinda OK-ish regardless, and maybe even excel... until, perhaps, one day, that's not enough anymore and everything falls apart. The intelligence masks the ADHD enough that it might go undiagnosed and untreated for a long time.

Fortunately, spotting these kinds of "twice exceptional" situations is a big focus in modern gifted education, so that's getting a bit better.
If it is an actual self-willed AGI, the power moves to the AGI. But the real and more certain and immediate problem than AGI defection is moving from power that requires assent of large numbers of humans (the foot soldiers of tyranny, and their middle managers, are often the force that defects and brings it down) to power requiring a smaller number (in the limit case, just one) leader because the enforcement structure below them is automated.
Show HN: Open-source ETL framework to sync data from SaaS tools to vector stores
Hey hacker news, we launched a few weeks ago as a GPT-powered chatbot for developer docs, and quickly realized that the value of what we’re doing isn’t the chatbot itself. Rather, it’s the time we save developers by automating the extraction of data from their SaaS tools (Github, Zendesk, Salesforce, etc) and helping transform it to contextually relevant chunks that fit into GPT’s context window.

A lot of companies are building prototypes with GPT right now and they’re all using some combination of Langchain/Llama Index + Weaviate/Pinecone + GPT3.5/GPT4 as their stack for retrieval augmented generation (RAG). This works great for prototypes, but what we learned was that as you scale your RAG app to more users and ingest more sources of content, it becomes a real pain to manage your data pipelines.

For example, if you want to ingest your developer docs, process it into chunks of <500 tokens, and add those chunks to a vector store, you can build a prototype with Langchain fairly quickly. However, if you want to deploy it to customers like we did for BentoML ([https://www.bentoml.com/](https://www.bentoml.com/)) you’ll quickly realize that a naive chunking method that splits by character/token leads to poor results, and that “delete and re-vectorize everything” when the source docs change doesn’t scale as a data synchronization strategy.

We took the code we used to build chatbots for our early customers and turned it into an open source framework to rapidly build new data Connectors and Chunkers. This way developers can use community built Connectors and Chunkers to start running vector searches on data from any source in a matter of minutes, or write their own in a matter of hours.

Here’s a video demo: [https://youtu.be/I2V3Cu8L6wk](https://youtu.be/I2V3Cu8L6wk)

The repo has instructions on how to get started and set up API endpoints to load, chunk, and vectorize data quickly. Right now it only works with websites and Github repos, but we’ll be adding Zendesk, Google Drive, and Confluence integrations soon too.
> I always despised how this effectively trashes the repository

The followup assignment should have been teaching the value of taking care of your environment by cleaning up after yourself.
Indeed you are right, I stand corrected. Thank you!
I think the inherent design of Twitter has a bit of a flaw in that you're friends with people instead of joining communities. So if you think "geez, I have a lot of political content on my feed I don't want to read," you can't just unfollow all the politics topics/forums/subreddits/whatever you are subscribed to, you have to "unfriend" people, which is socially difficult if you're both small enough to follow/recognize each other. On top of that the "for you" page and trending topics seem to be injecting more stuff I don't want to read into my feed than before, which exacerbates the problem.
I for one was waiting for a touch screen option as well, but this sounds easier than the AMD part sounded awhile ago. And they will probably add it as an option at some point, their track record for listening to what their users are saying in their forums is awesome so far.
Nice choice of license. MPL. Much clearer and straightforward than LGPL. Existing files and changes to them must stay MPL licensed. New files can be any other license.
"Good thing for freedom and democracy" is a bit optimistic.

Suppose 40% of voters think social security should be eliminated, 35% of voters think social security should be saved, and 25% voters vote to save social security because they think lepricons are poisoning babies, and only the social security save party is willing to do something about it.

This would show that social security's future is now now determined by who tells the best lies about lepricons.

Whatever this thing is, I don't think "good" is the right work to describe it.
"Twitter already had a $400m paid API business…They fired the entire team so that business will go to $0 soon."
Any fact checking on this?
> Ad's... don't show them, timeline... put it in order, etc.

People doing that are probably why they're deprecating the API.
I also have the ikea home smart bubls. They're dimmable and can change color.

It seems like some people are more sensetive to flickering light. I've asked people every now and then when in a group if they can tell the light is flickering, and I'm usually the only one. The effect is pronounced in my peripheral vision and somehow even more when drunk.

I don't think these lights emit the entire spectrum of light either, but a spectrum that "fools" us to think we're seeing the whole spectrum. Maybe that feels uncomfortable for some?

The ikea bulbs I have flicker a little when dimmed, but I don't really mind.
That’s the current problem is knowing when a “Brand” which was a marker for quality cashes in.

Consumer Reports tests a lot of consumer goods and used to be my go to for testing. They don’t take ad revenue so that helps. Though you have to be a member to see their reviews.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/about-us/what-we-do/inde...

They used to be the go to for car reliability info (when your car was rated high you sold more, according to my dad who was in the car business)
I suppose it depends on the extend of the impoverished-ness.

The homeless certainly aren’t worried about lightbulbs but the 65% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck probably appreciate the savings.
Where are they up in arms?
It's almost as if Python was designed to make it easy for kids to learn how to program.
> It only describes what is acceptable and what is extreme. The average citizen is not a static thing

My point here is that government is ultimately restricted by the people. Any assumption what the government does will change that window of acceptability is wrong.

This bill won't make it OK for the government to ban (insert thing the average person likes or does here). To do so will likely mandate that the average person begin to dislike or oppose that thing.

> Russia managed to pull a partial draft even if the people didn't want it.

Key word here is partial, and as far as I'm aware it was quickly withdrawn. Ultimately Russia will act against its people, because it's an authoritarian nation, they just have to get there.

The USA, however, is a functioning democracy.

> What many people criticizing this bill are saying is that despite TikTok being a danger of multiple kinds, this bill is also a danger for democracy.

The number of blatant lies about the bill makes me think otherwise. The tone isn't "this needs fixed" it's "this must not pass".

The end result here rapidly looks like it's approaching an end to any ban on TikTok, and when that happens we will be deeply and truly fucked. Far far more so than we would be by this bill.
It's because he has money, influence and can plausibly claim to know things about business. More to the ppint, he has been involved with OpenAI and his reactions might give an indication of the internal politics there surrounding AI safety.
Highly Discussed Topics
These words like Apple, Twitter, GPT are attracting most discussion. I have seen any topic which have any of these words, gets tons of comments, is these words are not limiting our life, thought, vision? Why we are bothering so much for them?

On the other hand there are tons of topics like health, career, nature, etc. gets very less focus.

Any specific reason?
Catalog of AWS Customer Security Incidents
We hired an immigration lawyer for this most recent process, and he told me a story.

There had been a large group of people from a particular country who all attended a church together here in the US. They had affidavits and bank statements and so on, but most or all of the photos were actually group photos in which the happy couple were circled.

Somehow it all came unraveled, and it turns out that the couples weren't couples at all. They were all as a group close enough to share bank accounts and addresses and so on, but not romantically. Very, very strange, the details I was able to get, but that's another wrinkle.

I think yes, the system is rigged, but also, a lot of people want to immigrate pretty desperately. In some cases, that leads to lying about romantic relationships, and in others, apparently, going way out their way to prove they are not lying about that part!
Diverted drugs become black market drugs. I'm sure the Mexicans are getting ultra pure fentanyl or being trained to make the pure shit from precursors. Somehow most of it ends up being stomped on by the time it reaches the consumer. That is to say just because it was pure when the junky got it, doesn't mean it was accurately represented to the end user or altered along the way. Black market diversion from treatment facilities seems non-ideal.
The Adapter Pattern in Go
It'd be cool to have an LLM that's trained almost exclusively on books from good publishers, and other select sources. Working out licensing deals would be a challenge, of course.
> the more obvious, "It has the backing of Microsoft".

I'm a VS Code user despite that. I just find it to be far superior to everything else. It's what I hoped Atom would have been.
I don't think that's a great comparison. Exons already have sequences that mark 'block' boundaries; amino acids are encoded in triplets of base pairs, but sort of like you see in 8b/10b encoding, there are sequences that are valid but only used for control purposes and don't correspond to amino acids.
> Run locally on browser – no need to install any applications

That's not what "run locally" means. This isn't any more "local" than talking to chatgpt directly, which is never running locally.
Kinda odd to let someone post 50,000 tweets, but only read (see) 10,000 tweets...

On a platform with a spam problem, you'd imagine you'd be stricter about who can tweet...
One part that was pretty relevant to AI today was how songs were written by machine. Not sure why but that always stuck with me.
I personally think high color temperature lighting is harsh, like hospital harsh.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get into that in the first place? Was it purely recreational? Escapism? Or..?
Yes, I am projecting my bias. That's my opinion. That is the whole point.

If you cut someone, and they heal, that doesn't erase the fact that you cut someone. The important thing is not to cut them.

My friends here drive me crazy with their self-conscious body-shaming because they grew up constantly surrounded by impossible images of beauty. They do this so much that it is a nuisance. And what we have here is but a fraction of what it sounds like the east has. People living under your system must be positively insufferable then, without their precious beauty apps.

To be clear, I'm against any fake anything. Fake tits, fake lips, fake asses, fake selfies.... unless there are medical reasons it is all garbage.
Maybe this: https://snap.berkeley.edu/
> We recognize the need to think about the long-term impact of AI. But these sci-fi worries have sucked up the oxygen and diverted resources from real, pressing AI risks — including security risks.

I'm not convinced as to why one risk is "real" and the other is not. If chatbots want to leak their creators' confidential details, that's up to them and their programmers. They already have their commercial incentives to patch those issues.
Correlation with success drops because you need to convince chimps that your idea is better and they don’t reason in Nth order. But given capacity to force them one could succeed. Stalin after all wasn’t that stupid neither was Hitler. We just portray them as crazy to feel better about being humans. I mean they were quite capable intellectually just optimising for weird goal (from perspective of bread eaters). Nothing has changed as one can see on Ukraine.
It would be great to make that attack surface available only to malicious mirrors.

That is exactly why I was pushing to remove the keys from the mirrors but unofficially it's too late as any changes could cause disruptions for people that have private internal mirrors. I suggested just communicating the change for a year prior which would have occurred years in the past as of now.
I think it's great- most of the hate probably comes from people who came into their first programming class already knowing how to code to some degree and had to "downgrade" from a traditional language to Scratch to learn along with the class.

I've been there, but there's still some cool stuff you can do when you bring in your outside programming knowledge.
A lot more than 10 accounts got that boost, because this prevented panic and contagion.
The real punk rock thing is: "here's a power chord, slide it around, NOW FORM A BAND"
FWIW it's not obvious that you can pay monthly on your pricing page, it seems like the only option is $120/year until you scroll down on mobile. Also it doesn't mention how many users can use a subscription?
Where the standards are set isn’t arbitrary.

If LEDs were exactly as efficient as incandescent bulbs there wouldn’t be a law that bans all lightbulbs. Also there’s no way a law would pass that sets the efficiency standard of incandescent bulbs because the law would do nothing.

It’s a ban on incandescent bulbs with the thinnest veneer of generalization.