skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI makes the entire process less reliant on human involvement. Humans can be incredibly cruel, but they still have some level of humanity, they need to believe in some ideology that justifies their behaviour. AI on the other hand follows commands without questioning them.
I was just reading about it the other day, pure ingenuity!

For those who don't have time to read, Tailscale uses a quirk in how stateful firewall treats inbound UDP traffic to allow connection to a remote server without it opening up to the public.
This is why i do most of my shopping online. its not about price or laziness, but about selection. retail stores usually only stock the worst brands of anything.
> I notice that I am particularly confused by the example of "categorize" -- I am pretty sure you're not saying that ChatGPT can't categorize things, but then I have no good hypothesis for what you do mean.

That is exactly what I mean. GPT infers patterns. Some language patterns themselves are categorization, like words surrounding "or". It's important to recognize that humans are creating the categorization in these cases.

GPT does not differentiate at all between one pattern and another. It doesn't categorize the pattern that represents words, or the pattern that represents sentences, or the one that represents an answer in response to a question, etc. These are all symbolic categorizations that humans do to text; and we call that set of categories "language". GPT, ironically, has no concept of language or grammar. It only sees patterns as patterns.
5000k is really uncomfortable in a living area. Fine for work but not relaxing. Just living with 5000k lights for a while won’t change that.
I've known people who write OCaml for biology, but they sure looked lonely :)
In a weird bit of synchronicity, last week I was in Zion, on a bus tour with my octogenarian mother, and one of the activities was a presentation about the history of climbing in Zion.
AGI means ability to improve itself indefinitely. Humans have this ability, obviously. Even ancient worms with 3 neurons have it, because they evolved to be humans, albeit very slowly. ChatGpt can't improve itself yet, but maybe with a few tweaks it could.
Spoiler: https://forum.rescript-lang.org/t/proposal-untagged-variants...
> run at the highest temperature possible

So consumers in hot climates who abstain from A/C cooling will suffer such failures disproportionately.
> but got back in after things settled down.

Unless targeting has wildly changed, that doesn’t seem to be the case (have things “settled down”, even?) None of the major brands that I used to get ads from regularly are hitting me with ads at all now, and most of the ads I see are for the same type of places I was seeing just after the major backouts.
A four-day work week can be a wild success – just ask this Vancouver company
True, but that's never how they market it.
Woa woa, I never said bitcoin. I would never bring it up on HN, that's a recipe for downvotes.
Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
The internet absolutely was a public space until the ads/walled garden model replaced it.
Also a huge amount of Americans CANNOT protest, because of that whole, being dirt poor barely scraping by, miss a day of work and be fired thing. We have no safety nets, so the people on the bottom have no choice in the matter if they still believe they can at least survive under whatever tyranny is coming down the pipe.

Voting should be a national holiday. There should be a national minimum number of polling stations per ten thousand people, and there should be limitations around how much a state can fuck with their placement and hours of operation.

There's also a lot of Americans who believe other things are more important but I don't think that is relevant here because this bill has bipartisan support.

Mail, Email, or call your state reps.
Nice and simple! I had a similar design on the iPhone back in the day where you could play head to head on the same phone.

Great work!
Plants emit ultrasonic sounds in rapid bursts when stressed, scientists say
> For this reason I think it's great to connect different temperature bulbs to each light switch in your house and switch between them during the day. I keep all of my bulbs on during the daytime and then switch to just the warm ones at night.

If you care that much about that, it would probably make more sense to get something like Philips Hue bulbs that can vary their color temperature.
Show HN: Godot Copilot – AI-assistant for the Godot engine, supporting GPT-4
Hey HN!

This is a pretty straightforward addon for folks that work with GDScript and like to do so within the Godot editor insted of VSCode. Integrating code-completions directly with the default code editor used within the engine.

One advantage it has over Github Copilot is that it allows for usage of 3.5-turbo and gpt-4 (the latter performing better with GDScript than previous models), as well as davinci-003. It also features some prompt adjustments reducing the most common issues found when when requesting GDScript completions, which usually amount to the model either confusing 3.x and 4.x syntax, or hallucinating python methods.

Intention is for this to grow into a more complete AI-assistant that can automate various things like setting up scenes, generating textures/models etc.
Also wouldn't it be easier to control everything through social media such that all people are slaves and all the ai has to do is decide what people will do next? It's not like it has a concept of lifetime like a human does. It can wait 1000 years for something to happen. And humans have already built everything necessary to enslave themselves. Not to mention there are way more valuable atoms underground then inside your body.
https://drexel.edu/uhc/resources/briefs/BCHC%20Drug%20Overdo...

No, San Francisco is at number 11 on the top 10 in 2020. The rest are below that.Why didn't he mention any of the top 10? Why does foxnews discuss crime in San Francisco and NY so much?
With 62% of public companies nowadays being in the same loss-making predicament[1], the bigger question is: how much of the US economy is being propped up by the goodwill of investors?

[1] https://www.consultantsmind.com/2018/03/04/choosing-stocks/
I spent probably $150-$200 for 7 packages of "high CRI" "long lasting" phillips brand LED bulbs last year, for a total of 28 bulbs.

6 of them have failed in less than 9 months, either flickering so badly it could cause an epileptic seizure or just straight up dying on me.

It's maddening.
Platform shifts don’t happen overnight.

A year ago this time, Mastodon was a curiosity. Today, it feels like Twitter circa 2010. That's something.
This makes sense given that:

- Elon has stated that bots are a problem for Twitter

- Bots were most likely largely operated via the API. Or at a minimum, used the API as a data source for targeting and crafting of tweets.

- If not the API, then using web based automation tools

Therefore, if you want to drastically reduce the number of bots you should:

1. Remove the API free tier and/or drastically reduce the feature set of the paid tier

2. Raise the cost of tweet creation e.g. Twitter Blue and paid verification
We did W21, and whilst the point that 'remote < in-person' has some validity, I fundamentally disagree on the points about YC's network, partners and community.

Most of the YC network effects occur after demo day. Likewise, most of the socialising occurs after demo day, as during the batch companies have little time to socialise. You get out of the network what you put in.

Similarly, with YC partner advice - it depends on how you utilise it. To be honest, we probably under-utilise the partners (we made most of our stupid startup mistakes pre-YC). But looking at batch-mates I've seen companies attribute pivotal decisions to YC advice, particularly during funding rounds.

I'd liken it a college experience - you won't be spoon-fed like you were in preschool. You must be self-directed to be successful, and there's always someone smarter and more successful than you to learn from.
If what you feel is true then explain why 50% of the world moves the US each year.
The math is easy, the delta-V is hard.

There is a precise point the craft would need to stay at relative to the earth and the target. There aren't any stable orbits that keep a craft at precisely that position, which means you are firing engines for 20 hours straight.

Remember, you don't stay in space unless you are either in a stable orbit, moving at many km/s, or you're firing engines to resist gravity's pull.

A spacecraft to stay at this point for 20 hours would be massive, and 99.9% fuel tanks.
So its the former, its funny because it’s a reference at all?

I’m quite aware it is a reference from Animal Farm, I didn't see how it was related and was wondering if there was more, or if the joke was funny aside from “unexpected orwell”

Is there a special privilege conveyed to the 10 large accounts over every other depositor that had more than $250k on account?
They are (or see themselves as) a leading reason why all their followers are on Twitter, and seeing whatever paid-for ads Twitter is currently running. Why isn't Twitter giving them a cut of the ad revenue, like (say) YouTube would?
'QBism': Quantum mechanics reveals a world of genuine free will
I went back and looked it up, the piece he wrote is called "Torture vs Dust Specks." The part about bombing countries who build data centers is in the submission editorial.
The real problem with AI, as I see it, is that we are not ready to give the average person the capabilities they will soon have access to. The knowledge necessary to build nuclear weapons has been readily available for decades, but the constraints of the physical world put practical limits on who can do what. We are also able to limit who can do what by requiring formal education and licenses for all kinds of professions. This is no longer going to be strictly true; or at least not in the same way. If we impose no restrictions, literally everyone on the planet will eventually be able to do anything, provided they have the resources.

The fact is that AIs are more likely to be accomplices than masterminds, at least for the foreseeable future. What we are afraid of is that they will end up being just as terrible and flawed as we are, but it's more likely that they will do what they do today: what we ask them to do. The greater risk is therefore from malicious internal users rather than from the technology itself.

Perhaps more to the point, there is no effective way to limit the output of an LLM or place restraints on how they work. I think it's foolish to even attempt that -- they just don't work that way. The better way to regulate this kind of technology is to focus on the people. Some data classification and licensing program seems a lot easier to implement than the road we currently seem to be going down; which is either no regulation or insanely restrictive regulation.
People already largely answered on many points, but I'll just answer on one point:

> unsecure

How is security defined? What is your threat model? If your threat model includes includes running random native binary blobs from random places like Android or iOS does, then yes, you can definitely consider it unsecure.

But that's NOT the target paradigm here, and if you consider it is, you're throwing away 90%+ of the GNU/Linux distributions out there. Last time I checked, running GNU/Linux on servers or desktops wasn't considered bad practice, quite the opposite.

Instead, it may be more secure than iOS, depending on your usage, because the paradigm is to install only opensource software that you actually trust.
This looks fantastic, gonna try it out if I can once I'm on a computer shortly!

thank you!
For example: the stairwell shin-height lights in this 90s house are 12 VDC. There's a transformer plugged into a wall outlet in the nearby storage closet.
> Myself I do art projects that require making fine sensory distinctions and it clear to me that I can do that better with more blue light.

That’s what it’s good for. But do you want that lighting in your living room while you watch tv?
Yes, a large chunk of engineers & computer scientists have shifted to Mastodon, which makes it great if you follow that crowd. It's the largest collective action I've seen in that cohort since people stopped using IE6 in favour of Firefox.

Now I'll head to Twitter a few times a week as a guilty pleasure to read the people left behind — comedians, political commentators, and journalists. But for stuff that's relevant to my job, Mastodon is great. And my Twitter usage has dropped by over 95%.
Your confirmation email is broken ("Magic link"). Link is not clickable. Just an HTML formatting issue.
I left the day my client stopped working. Broke a decade-long daily habit.

Twitter had already become less enjoyable than it was back in the day, that started before Musk and isn't his fault. The underlying engagement was no longer there, only inertia. Inertia alone would have kept me there much longer, but without true engagement I wasn't going to start using their crappy official client/site, and the idea of paying for a subscription was laughable.

Twitter won't die like MySpace did, losing to a single party like Mastodon as MySpace did to Facebook. It will die like Craigslist. It will be very slow, still be around a decade from now, having lost its cultural relevance and having been supplanted by a number of different options rather than one. I'm seeing Twitter's niche get fragmented to different places, and everyone has one foot out the door and the engagement is dwindling slowly but intractably. The brand is poison, but people are taking their time to figure out how to deal with that. So I'm not expecting to see an abrupt exodus. Nor do I expect to see Mastodon become as big as Twitter was, or die out completely.
for >90% (a made up stat) of the population, it does though. the majority of people are too lazy to double check any of the information they learn from whatever source they are receiving it. the people making these edits know this. they lose no sleep at night about it.
I’m going to polish it up and will share with you, I explained to it eru in more detail
Would 112k conversations make a huge difference in the model?
Kind of in the sense that it exposes a LAN-accessible service to the WAN, it seems to me. Also kind of like ngrok in the same sense.
Autoscaling Postgres
Nvidia is still nvidia -- with newer kernels you may occasionally find some build problems for their drivers. Fedora amplifies this by using such recent kernels

There are better packages/attempts at handling it, but I still find myself switching it to an LTS kernel if I have Nvidia or ZFS involved.
It's not in the top 10 cities of overdoses per 2020 data that I posted on another reply.
I agree that the system is complicated. But it's hard to make the argument that we were genetically well adapted, or that said adaptation didn't come up with sub-optimal tradeoffs to everything we suffered through when we were paleolithic as well. Evolution is very good at building "good enough" systems for an organism to survive in whatever environment it's in based upon what energy it has available.

I too don't like rejecting things outright, but knowing that, I also don't accept things outright either. We have no reason to believe that eating rotten meat wasn't a choice made out of necessity rather than out of some sort of optimal health.
Awesome, let me know what you think once you do!
The AI still will be used by a human, unless you think that the actual power moves to the AI and not the humans and their institutions using it.
The average commute in the USA is under 30 minutes. I have no idea where this idea that everyone commutes 2 hours came from, but its completely ridiculous.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...
I’m CEO of Neon. Happy to answer any questions
"If they asked humans to draft 77 news articles and later when back to analyze them for errors, how many would they find?"

It doesn't matter. One self-driving car who kills a person is not the same one person killing another person. A person is accountable, an AI isn't (at least not yet).
The Zion canyon walls are hundreds of millions of years old, they change in a 80 year span but not as much as print technology :)
Not only specifc - but one of the most likely to use an alternative.
Very interesting and now I'm motivated to learn more about his thoughts. I developed a fascination with this kind of thinking since I gave a friend a ride to the San Francisco airport in 1978 in my VW bus so he could fly to Jonestown, Guyana to join the Jim Jones church. I never heard from him again. Don't know if he drank the Kool-Aid. Too bad too, because he was a fantastic drummer.

I wonder if we'll have more mass suicides, like the Nike wearing techies following Marshall Applewhite, by those who fear it's hopeless to resist AI?
As a part-time resident of two major drug cities I've been looking for that article. I just have to read between the lines and contrast it with the results we get from the same words.

It should be obvious when reading a story about Portugal that they couldn't get the junkie to stay in rehab voluntarily, so obviously they don't mean "no potential of a criminal charge at all".

Whereas in Vancouver they specifically changed the rules so you can buy and do drugs in front of the police, pass out and almost die - get revived and smoke more drugs, and have no charges, no special detainment, nothing.
What benefit would they get from paying for Twitter? They already get Twitter for free.
developers who use the publicly available API can't use that

The point is that saying there's no API is wrong. There is an API. Elon has chosen not to let developers outside of Twitter use it. It's clearly a political choice rather than a technical competence problem.
Having watched the TV Show Bosch (Detective show), I think that as soon as AI + Humanoid robots are ready to be deployed in public, the law enforcement will do it, just like many countries’ military adopted drones to conduct air strikes thus guaranteeing zero losses during the strike on the their side.

PS: It’s just an opinion, don’t take it at heart.
The really cheap stuff actually doesn't even have a power supply!
There's a breed of LEDs that takes straight AC and rectifies it using the LEDs themselves. By using a large number of tiny LEDs in series (typically in COB form), you can easily reach close to 110v or even 220v, and then you add a small current limiting controller in series that's dirt cheap compared to magnetics...
These are super cheap, and appear bright, but they flicker at 120hz, which can be annoying when there's motion or if you're sensitive to it.

I'd say it's a very bad choice for a bedroom or living room light, but I have nothing against it for the outdoor lights, signage and a bunch of other applications where cost is king.
> APL shows 74 symbols. I count at least 50 math symbols that seem very likely to show up in an undergraduate degree; notably, 26 symbols +-×÷|⌊⌈!~∧∨⍲⍱<≤=≥>≠∊∩∪≡≢∘ in APL are taken from math with similar meanings.

I have counted at least 30 symbols that I haven’t seen in an undergraduate degree + master degree, not counting symbols that I know but haven’t seen used directly as symbols (eg , or ?) but as punctuation. Of course I might have forgotten some of them but I think it’s undeniable that APL introduces a lot of new symbols.

> The arguments to a primitive are not context! You may as well call addition context-dependent because 1+n increments n while 2+n increments it twice. You're describing overloading

Not the arguments themselves but the amount of arguments. Operator overloading is also context dependency. Maybe we’re getting lost in the words: what I mean is that you can’t say for sure what a certain symbol means unless you have the symbols around it. For example, in C / always means “divide what’s on the left by what’s on the left”, but * is context dependent because it can either be multiplication or pointer dereference.

> That is, maybe symbols encourage this design choice, but in themselves they aren't the problem.

If some part of a language encourages things that we consider bad decisions, then that part is a problem. Again returning to C, one could say that the memory allocation system isn’t a problem despite the fact that it makes it really easy to cause leaks and bad memory accesses.

> A language with 74 symbols, many of which are related, is what makes it possible to teach APL quickly

Quickly… compared to what? Because I honestly don’t think an average person is going to learn APL faster than any mainstream language.

> APL was near-mainstream in the 1980s, and I think there are better explanations for its decline since.

It’s not just that APL has declined but in general the array programming paradigm that it pioneered hasn’t really taken off. For example, LISP declined quite a lot but new similar, functional languages have appeared and attracted interest.
Can't wait until MV2 is gone in Chrome, I'm curious how much this will diminish real-world effectiveness of ad blockers and if that'll bring browsers that maintain the features ad blockers like to use a bit more market share.
I find that with LED bulbs you need to read the box carefully. Putting an LED bulb not rated for enclosures into an enclosure often results in early failures.
Agreed.

This isn’t a dire times warning. It’s that the era of free money is over (and fucking hopefully for a long time), there will be some settling in to actually needing a business that makes money to stay around.
I love APL and I use J too as desktop calculators up to programming some quick mathy things for work and fun. My latest love is APRIL (Array Programming Re-Imagined in Lisp) [1]. It allows me to use the libraries and legacy of Lisp for a lot the drudgery in all programming and APL to sling numbers.

I dabble with BQN and Klong.

[1] https://github.com/phantomics/april
- from O(N²) to O(N) complexity during training wrt context length

- only need the hidden state at position t to compute t+1, i.e. run inference locally on edge devices

- fine-tunable to longer context lengths than seen in pre-training

If it continues to scale as well as it has so far it's pretty huge.
Yes that's a good point, there's definitely more to it than just CRI. That said, a bulb with very poor CRI definitely sucks, so it's not entirely useless. This seems like one of those things that will suck until it doesn't.
This complaint seems somewhat unlikely to lead to an actual FTC action. The criticism is about unfair or deceptive business practices under the FTC act. The FTC has a fairly specific definition of what constitutes unfair or deceptive business practises[1]

> “Deceptive” practices are defined in the Commission’s Policy Statement on Deception as involving a material representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead a consumer acting reasonably in the circumstances. An act or practice is “unfair” if it “causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition.”

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/mission/enforcement-authority