skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When someone is speaking on a high moral ground, it is always imporant to check their motivations. I bet that China/Tiktok or their affiliates will be reaching out to people to pay them to write positive posts. It is called thought influence media war and it is prevalent tactic in China. If 'free and open internet' means CCP can monitor our evey move and can occasionally change the algorithm slightly to push vidoes that influence a good percet of 150 millions of Americans such asto make it move divisive, more negative then, I think it is fair to restrict this 'free and open'. 'Free and Open' is not enough. It should be 'free and open and legal and not destructive to the democratic systems, values and ways of life.
Why can't it be that we use it for boilerplate knowledge and that we will continue to innovate on our own? Or how about having it recombine knowledge itself based on the vast corpus of data it has already consumed?
maybe the people who understand it are human individual persons and the people who don't are corporate collective persons.
I think I’m more on guard these days on HN which led me to be a bit too hasty in my judgement, I am sorry.
There are multiple qualities to maximize.

Most people have spent their entire lives only seeing a few small deviations from the traditional typewriter shape.

That's what they had, so they developed themselves alongside it. It was hard work, and they don't want to do it again.

Not having to do the work of creating new muscle memory is a quality many people highly value.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, the assumption has been that there aren't enough people interested in trying something new to have a viable market. It would be a risky business venture: at the very least, difficult to raise venture capital. That is a self-filling prophecy: circular reasoning that demands conformity.
something in there should be grokable

best imho, 10 min and done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvAbjfJ0x0

longer and more over produced: https://radiolab.org/episodes/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-...

totally academic : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011...
sorry, should say: I interpreted *the article* to say shampoo didn't matter.

Not that I buy into that conclusion myself.

I buy shampoo (and toothpaste) without SLS.
You’re giving a lot of credit to drug dealers. All the ones I’ve ever known had to no clue what they were selling and as long as you paid they didn’t care what happened to you. If they were regular functioning humans then they wouldn’t be drug dealers.
You make a good point. Considered in this light, it's amazing we can get most people to stop at red traffic lights.
This is huge. I often mentor mid-career folks by saying "you got here by being the guy/gal who knows the answers. From here on out, you can only grow by figuring out how to succeed when you don't know."

The following is the opening quote from Ray Dalio's book and it's what sold me on working for him:

“Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know.”
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/fortnite-statistics/

62% of Fortnite players are 18-24
The more parameters you have, the less error you will find on these prompts. This is the emergent frontier.
And this is why people still use tube amplifiers with design from 70s, just with modern high quality power supplies and EMF practices, right? /s

(Actually SET is a valid topology and can be done well. As can be a pure transformer amplifier, transformerless tube, BJT, FET, current mode in a variety of classes. Even open loop, funnily enough. They have different strengths and sometimes applications.)

The challenge to "mr. objectivist" is always the ABC-HR test. It's similar to ABX (or double blind randomized controlled trial) but you also assign comparative number rating at each pairwise comparison like in MUSHRA. It detects people who cannot rate things or detect a difference but lie about it too. Preferably with a known total garbage device as a low anchor or two to keep the rating scale honest.
Needs a digitally controlled relay switch box for amplifiers, a bit of programming, a lot of amplifiers, potentially multiple loads and a lot of time with material that may expose flaws.
The test has been used to tune psychoacoustic codecs with great successes. (It's easier with software only.)

It's next to impossible to run one of these unless you're super rich and/or an audio shop.

If you have not done that, you are a number chaser not an objectivist. A Pythagorean.

Amplifiers are often enough roughly audibly different based on their topology, especially when driving weird loads, even if our minimalistic measurements show they supposedly should not be.

And on the other hand, people have made amplifiers that pass the number checks but produce sound with an obvious annoying signature.
(And the fun part is, these are either chip amps or sold as random audiophile equipment to people who are supposed to have ears and know what high fidelity means.)

We don't know what to measure and how, besides a few total fail checks.
Detailed financial records and the sex+mental health history detail.
Liquid Trees; a tank full of water and micro-algae an alternative to trees
That's why they chose 44.1khz for redbook audio, right? Takes you up to 22khz, but most people can only hear up to 15khz or less, so you've got some headroom to play with if things aren't perfect between 15-22khz where our hearing isn't super sensitive anyway.

Or no?
Why Humans Don't Have Fur
Here I was thinking it's go "no big deal" server and client
Are there degrees of alignment? I'd like to think there's a pretty big range in there between made some decisions I didn't love and destroyed the world and everyone on it.
What is the multiverse–and is there any evidence it exists?
If we consider increased drug use a natural response to increasingly adversarial and stressful environment, could we use this as an inspiration to maybe reverse some of the forces behind the stressors?
I've sort of mentally bucketed MLS into "secure end-to-end messaging for large group applications", like Slack or Telegram, where Signal's idea of a "group" is more akin to a bunch of people making plans to meet up for drinks or something.

(I don't know how accurate this really is, and MLS people would also probably argue that their abstractions work nicely for small groups too).
Why do you think it is impossible, besides the Fermi Paradox? It seems much more likely to be possible than impossible. There are a lot of other solutions to the Fermi Paradox you should consider possible too.
The people who do the advertising have only changed their names from magazines to influencers. A mere cosmetic alteration, nothing more, nothing less. What difference does it make if they do it on social media instead of paper? The game is the same as it ever was. Only the mediums have changed.
What language/tech should CSS have looked to?
US holds back nuclear forces data from Russia in response to treaty violations
I’ve been I’m working professionally in the industry for 23 years. I’ve never had a company refuse to purchase any tool I say I want or need. I wouldn’t work for any company that would. My hourly rate is way higher than the cost of any tool. It is ridiculous to not buy tools that might make me more efficient.
you are absolutely correct; the most important thing is just application context

java was in browsers but couldn't manipulate the dom; same thing with flash

vbscript was in browsers but only msie
some people just love making their environments needlessly complicated.
Because people are fools and will use it to minimize investment/operating costs not considering serendipitous advances.
In hindsight if social media in its current state was around when I was a kid I would’ve had a very, very hard time.
Pope Francis hospitalized after having breathing trouble, the Vatican says
If like that, computers are super-human long ago with their calculation capacity or memory or retrieval speed.
If it takes writers as long as this article's author to get to the point, no wonder we have reading buckets/backlogs/rivers/whatever.

People optimize for search engines, not brevity and therein lies the problem.

Be concise and communicate your idea. That should be the North Star of writers.
very acidic stomachs I assume

> It is interesting to note that humans, uniquely among the primates so far considered, appear to have stomach pH values more akin to those of carrion feeders than to those of most carnivores and omnivores.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> More like universal speech memorization.

If it can memorize all possible waveforms across all those languages and how they convert into words in only 2B parameters then I'm incredibly impressed.

(Of course it isn't doing this, and this criticism is just wrong.)

> Model implies they had some sort of insight, a simplification, an understanding of how natural language works.

Well it shows that using the same model for multiple languages increases performance which was something that was not at all clear 10 or even 5 years ago.

> This is just bragging about the number of parameters they can pull off.

A humble brag about how small the model is maybe?
The change to allow anyone to prescribe it is very recent, prior to that it was extremely limited, and most providers will still not prescribe it for a variety of reasons, ranging from not understanding it to addiction stigma to fear of the DEA.

The sad fact is that most people who would benefit from it simply do not have access to it.
To add: Lennart Augustsson created the first publicly available Haskell compiler.

I worked with him briefly, and also talked over beers. Great chap!
Relatively speaking...

Cultural optimism is likely to follow periods of growth and abundance, like buying a property in the 1970s for $5K and selling it in the 2000s for $2M. The last couple of decades have seen a reversal of this effect, so I don't think it's unreasonable that more people are feeling pessimistic about the future and their place in it.
Seems like blog link would probably be better: https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi...
it sounds so easy, doesn't it? they've been trying to ban tiktok for 4 years now.
I was this person! I was eager and kind. But I was incompetent. I was a graduate of the first ever cohort of the first ever coding bootcamp. The teachers were great, but they didn’t check in on me or have evaluations. I left not really being able to do…anything.

But I got a job as a Ruby developer from resourcefulness and eagerness. It was a great company. It was clear, however, that I wasn’t pulling my weight when the intern was technically running circles around me. They do the only right thing. They made some “bare minimum” requirements in the form of an evaluation and gave me three weeks to complete it. I couldn’t do it. I was getting much better by the end of the three weeks thanks to a coworker who decided to mentor me, but it was past my ability level. When this was clear and they were firing me I said to the CTO “you can fire me, but I am getting good at learning, so I am going to just study really hard and reapply in 3 months and you’ll have to give me another chance!” I said this in a motivated way, not an insane person way. He decided he would find another spot to put me in the company.

He ended up putting me on the technical integrations team. The other person on that team was an incredibly kind human who loved teaching people. It was perfect for me. I ended up performing super well in that role and became very good at it. It was a win/win for the organization.

I will tell you one thing, however. The weeks before they gave me that evaluation were the most stressful weeks of my life. I was waking up in the middle of the night immediately stressed. It feels terrible to be bad at your job. It felt so freeing to be given the evaluation. Because it was cut and dry. I could do it or I couldn’t, but at least there would be finality. It is kind to not let someone flounder in a role that is past their abilities. I am grateful he found another spot for me to fit at the company. That CTO has passed now at a young age, but I owe my career to him recognizing my passion and finding another spot for me. Thanks Brandon Dewitt!
You really think "you're grounded" would have helped in this situation?
Same with Spanish. It has gotten surprisingly good.
What snares a lot of well-meaning music fans into wasting money on audio woo is that the first upgrades can be mind-blowing. Let's stick with headphones for simplicity. Pairing, say, a $400 set with a well-mastered album you've listened to hundreds of times and you'll discover sounds in it you've never noticed before - the singer's breathing, whispered background vocals, a guitar string's squeak. It even feels like each instrument is playing from physically distinct places! If the headphones are wired you might next add a $90 DAC/amp combo and - wow, you really feel the bass and sub-bass now! So what will take you to the next level?

The honest answer is that absolutely nothing will provide improvement like what you've just experienced. Tripling your headphone budget gets you a number of beautiful, well-engineered cans with sound signatures tailored to your favorite sorts of music, but with improvements on the order of "that midrange has more detail, nice" than "holy crap!"

Woo-selling companies target anyone still convinced at that point there is some next, higher level of audio bliss they can reach with the perfect combination of kit. Cables made from exotic materials, fancy power conditioners, rocks and stickers have glowing "reviews" and marketing pseudoscience about sonic transparency and skin effect. They do nothing and give the audiophile industry a bad name, but they'll be with us until suckers stop paying for them.
Ask HN: What is Apple doing now with all the AI/GPT/LLMs buzz?
I really don't expect a company like Apple to be asleep at the wheel on this. Especially with Apple having Siri launched as far back as 2011. Are we expecting some significant improvements in Siri?
> several hundred thousand dollars worth of measurement gear

Isn’t this the point though? Does it actually require that much gear to get measurements that are accurate enough that no human can perceive the difference? With harmonic distortion for instance, we know what is inaudible and yet people keep lauding companies that push ever farther past it.
Some of the emphasis on intent, to give freedom to subordinates to contradict the commander on tactics so long as the larger goal is attained, comes from the legendary Prussian general von Moltke [1]. His famous saying is that "No plan survives contact with the enemy".

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_von_Moltke_the_Elder
> But I’m curious, hacker news, how many of you are concerned (like Eliezer) that LLMs lead to strong AI and the AI itself (rather than its users) endangering humanity?

LLMs do not need to lead to strong AI for Eliezer's worries to come true, their success could bring unprecedented funding and ubiquity to AI leading to strong AI from some existing or future technique.

> (rather than its users) endangering humanity?

I think this is going to happen to one extent or another regardless how near strong AI is. (edit) I took endangering to mean harming rather than an existential risk for the human users case.
> If anything, you have a language that looks like it was made by luminaries, for luminaries.

Well, the opposite of that approach gives you Go.
This category of people that you call "incompetent but nice" is the category that I personally chose to label:

- INcompetent and NOT nice

- in my post below[0]. Creating a toxic work environment is not what I personally see as a "nice" character trait.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367245
Its just FUD then.
What did you contribute?
My biggest fantasy from that movie is that one day a chat or like that will clear my email inbox - like her.

That’s what I walked away with ;)
> If adults could get their drugs legally, it would almost entirely eliminate demand for illegal fentanyl and thus prevent it from making it into the hands of kids

There's already a wide variety of substances kids can legally get their hands on to get high with. Some are available for purchase at your local gas station, and are much cheaper than a Percocet. The drugs are being sold TO kids in this county, it's not a case of kids getting it from their parents. There are dealers in the schools selling the fentanyl and advertising it as other opiates. These dealers aren't getting it from their parents either, they're getting it from suppliers who are bringing it in from Mexico.

> Because it's manufactured with essentially no QC, fentanyl dosage varies hugely from pill to pill, it's being sold as other drugs or adulterated into other drugs

The fentanyl isn't being manufactured in the US and thus is not subject to any US drug regulation or quality control. It wouldn't eliminate the class of problems you're suggesting either as it's being purposefully pumped into the US. Drug users are always looking for the next best high - they don't stop because something is legal. It's eventually going to stop working for them anyway because, tolerance.
I've got an X1 Gen6, got it in 2018. It still works. I have never had the mouse pointer drift problem.
No shot. It's the fastest growing social network at the moment. It's only going to get more popular with all of the bad press it's been getting recently.
The innovation can be the elimination of boilerplate, and sometimes that can only be found by writing it yourself.
China as an International Lender of Last Resort [pdf]
Classic. I laughed almost as hard rewatching it just now as I did on first view over a decade ago.
Also Greenland Shark, which “has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (estimated to be between 250 and 500 years)”:

The flesh of the Greenland shark is toxic because of the presence of high concentrations of trimethylamine oxide (TMAO). . . .

Traditionally, this is done by burying the meat in boreal ground for 6–8 weeks, which presses the TMAO out of the meat and also results in partial fermentation. The meat is then dug up and hung up in strips to dry for several more months.[46] It is considered a delicacy in Iceland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
Well sure but we also don't know how frequently business was being conducted in the Continental. It certainly happened often enough to where they have a direct protocol on what to do when business is being conducted there.
Wasn't he kicked out of MS research for silly regulatory reasons?

I mean he had lots of options, so the pitch from Epic must have still been pretty good.
Suboxone, particularly from France, seems to have come with big problems of its own, as is candidly shown in the film/docu Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland: https://imdb.com/title/tt1584813/
For so many years, I always wanted to have a kid. But life had its own plans.

Now, I am glad I don't have a kid. This world is ruthless - and I speak with the sword of layoffs hanging on my neck because that's how the system is designed.
GPT-Dungeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_lives_clause
Fun read... the sentiments are agreeable -- the pursuit of knowledge and beauty are a few things that make life enjoyable
Typically every layer of command has a SMEAC that gets more specific as you go down, iirc
That's what I used to like about computers, they were predictable and controllable.

We gave up something good.
That last line makes me so sad. It also boils down to where you live. You can live in countries like china or some arab > asian > european countries and have a better life
It's a bit peculiar, but no worse than many other languages I've seen.

The examples they gave could have been improved with a bit of syntax highlighting.
Thankfully all of this bad press is starting to turn law makers minds. How it's turning out right now there is no shot TikTok will be banned. What we really need is privacy laws like almost every European country. But will currently lobbying laws I don't see that happening.
Maybe we should then pass laws restricting what companies can do with our data? What kinds of algorithms they can run if they want to be treated as a platform rather than a publisher?
Big business will not be stopped by a wall.
What if this quadrant of people are managers? That's the situation I'm in - my sister team's leadership is nice but don't want to work. They lack the skills but want the projects, and do get them because they are nice. It's a recipe for disaster.
Nope. The only thing that has changed since 2019 is that people in China are no longer mailing it directly to the USA anymore (China cracked down on that because America threatened to end preferential mailing rates from China to the USA). Beijing is no longer cooperating with US authorities on stopping fentanyl flow from China:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fentanyl-crisis-fed-by-flow-of-...

The chemicals are still making it to Mexico from China, that is still easy to track:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/08/fentanyl-pipelin...

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/fentanly-drug-path-chi...

Etc...

TLDR; China is still the source for the vast majority of fentanyl in the states (a lot of it is seized in Mexico in containers that come from china, though they get around this by just shipping a lot of it), and no one (including China) is really claiming otherwise since it is just too obvious ATM.
>We believe this moment, when people are so dissatisfied with the platforms that have dominated for the past decade-and-a-half, presents a unique opportunity to build a digital public sphere where people and communities with different preferences and purposes can participate accordingly.

I mean a lot of public utilities and services communicate with twitter, instagam or facebook. So essentially giving these free services an audience. With these services ratcheting down their free access to the public (instagram for example, shows a limited number of things before you have to sign in) it would make sense to move to more open services (Mastodon?) Of course then they'd have to pay but I can't imagine that would be a problem.
I started with a computer that booted to the BASIC prompt, the ZX Spectrum, and later moved to Z80 assembly language.

After the low-level stuff it was MS-DOS 3.3, with DEBUG.com for assembling intel assembler, and later MS-BASIC, Turbo Pascal, C, and all the later languages.

BASIC still has a soft-spot in my life, I wrote a trivial implementation of BASIC in golang which is complete enough to be fun, but missing specific features for running things like the widely-reshared Star Trek game. Maybe I should setup a stretch-goal of completing a bunch of common games/programs and work on it some more.

BASIC was never my cup of tea, but I used it because it was all that was available at the time. And books of programs really helped.
I use it everywhere. Daily driver, VMs, and servers. I think it more than makes sense to use it this way. When I want to try to use some software I can checkout a new branch and try it out. If there are issues I can just revert back and everything is normal.
Play with JPEG Under the Hood
There is a lot of evidence that training can model underlying structures in languages. This means that the model doesn’t need to see as much of certain kinds of languages and can benefit from a larger corpus of various different languages.

It’s like Chomsky, but with the Norvig approach.