skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of affordable housing: Does it pencil out?
What the hell?

// sorry for the lack of text, I really have no words... I say this as someone who genuinely likes Win 11. Win12 is shaping up to be a huge wtf, if any of it is true.
> The current Starbucks unionization movement began in Buffalo, New York when a store voted to unionize in late 2021.

Less than 2 years from your own article.

That counts as newly minted. Also how many of those locations have a contract at this point? That's the bigger and more relevant piece of this. The fact that other unions are helping them out, doesn't mean that those other unions have negotiated with Starbucks. That's it's own thing that makes every union negotiation different.
As long as it doesn't burst into flames: https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-recall

Tesla famously started building their packs out of laptop 18650 cells. To keep the voltage out of the kilovolt range while still being able to draw useful amounts of power you have to connect huge numbers of them in parallel-- the old model S had 74 in parallel. DIY battery pack HOWTOs will flat out tell you that you can't connect cells in parallel at all, while Tesla is connecting dozens of them together.

Presumably they have to go to great and awful lengths to characterize/bin the cells, maintain QC during manufacture, keep pack temperature constant to avoid hot spots from aging single cells, lots and lots of balance wires to carefully charge sub-sections, etc etc etc.

GM saw all this early adopter crap, and all the extra weight from the redundant steel casings on each cell, and say screw that, let's use really big lipo cells. Well, you still have all that variability and inconsistency... just hidden inside a big polymer pouch where you can't see it. Recipe for unexpectedly going fwoosh in the middle of the night while charging.

GM's new Ultium platform still uses LG lipo cells. Let's hope they worked out the kinks!
They are not. Implied is that the latter doesn’t matter for the purpose of getting training data.
LLMs certainly can “will” and “do things” when provided with the right interface like LangChain: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain

See also the ARC paper where the model was capable of recruiting and convincing a TaskRabbit worker to solve captchas.

I think many people make the mistake to see raw LLMs as some sort of singular entity when in fact, they’re more like a simulation of a text based “world” (with multimodal models adding images and other data). The LLM itself isn’t an agent and doesn’t “will” anything, but it can simulate entities that definitely behave as if they do. Fine-tuning and RLHF can somewhat force it into a consistent role, but it’s not perfect as evidenced by the multitude of ChatGPT and Bing jailbreaks.
Launch time of Microsoft's new Teams chat app compared to Rerun.io
I'll defer to Wirecutter here as they have always done a good job in my experience! Note that some of those bookshelf speakers will require a separate amp.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-bookshelf-sp...

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-computer-spe...

I'll also be a bit heretical here and suggest that EQ is important. Either in software, or with something like: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-computer-spe...

However... if you're happy with your current speakers, perhaps there's no reason to upgrade! A lot of the choices I've linked to above will come with an increase in size and/or complexity. And I think those Edifiers are pretty well regarded in general.
“forced compliance” is not a reliable strategy.
I've turned the taskbar search and cortana off, so I don't see it. But I agree, it's ridiculous.
That's complete nonsense though.
Oops, I misread the original context, to be clear I think that state-managed violence is okay for things around nukes and AI and so on. I was referring to individual acts of terrorism which seem not okay to me (in part because they seem not that likely to help).
draconian parenting in a free society leads to incredibly bad outcomes. the parents undermine their own authority and the child doesn't know any better but to rebel. this is why parenting is hard, you need to walk a fine line between 'friend' and 'jailer'.

a lot of immigrants have a tough time with this general concept - they have no idea what it's like growing up in the US, none whatsoever. it produces wildly bi-modal outcomes. the ones that end up on the bottom of the curve are left scratching their heads, because they're ego-driven/stubborn or stupid, or both. and plenty of the outwardly successful kids have issues later on.

also the reason i'm not going to have kids. i don't think i could handle it, and this isn't the sort of thing you get another shot at.
The premise isn't exactly that people shouldn't select for traits that they desire, rather that it is irresponsible for journalism and other forms of media to make allusions to height being a positive trait.

If people want to make judgements about a person's worth based on their racist or heightist tendencies that's their prerogative, but we have seen with racism that negatively portraying people of colour only serves to propagate negative stereotype beyond that which is "innate". It is clearly equivalent for height, given the many examples people provide of height not providing societal advantages in certain other cultures. It's by and large a cultural phenomenon, not biological.

Is it really that preposterous to expect the media not to mischaracterise people born with an arbitrary genetic trait as lesser individuals?
Mr Clinton is the star of the show.
This deserves a paper! I look forward to your publication.
I was surprised to see where Simon moved to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832JF1o7Ck8

The talk sounded a bit unsubstantial, there being a lot of things he was not supposed to say yet. But still interesting.
Your take on this gives me some hope. We don't have a lot of time, but that fact is becoming clear very quickly, hopefully to the right people. And it is a deadly threat to everyone, rich or poor -- not something like climate change that rich and powerful can buy their way out of, and therefore afford to ignore.
> Try publishing shit china hates and find out. Sony made a movie that embarrased NK and had their corporate network nuked.

They got hacked, sure. Did anyone get imprisoned? For years?

> What you don't get is this whole topic is about preventing china from becoming such a threat to you. The US has your media and politicians by the the throat

And I'm supposed to be happy about that? Again, if I'm no freer now than I would be under Chinese hegemony then why should I care whose flag is on the pole?

I don't want Europe bending the knee to China either. But right now America is the bigger threat.
The Unsettling Future of AI: A Hacker News Horror Story
Seems that western democracies have been trending towards authoritarianism more and more as technology has improved over the last few decades. This is getting really scary.
Hackers compromise 3CX desktop app in a supply chain attack
If they’re distributing drugs in large quantities it isn’t bias to call them drug dealers and arrest them. At some point the number of lives lost and generational trauma inflicted by these people has to outweigh our sense of righteousness.
Systems (set up by people) can definitely multiply. Say a well-oiled review, CI+CD, deployment system can def multiply everyone's productivity by some margin (e.g. 1.2x). So if someone improves this system, it can definitely multiply everyone's in the team's productivity.
Oh come on. I namedropped AES papers almost by name. (The response to it in particular.) And definitely by name in another post. Nobody uses that metric, because industry Does. Not. Care. It's also still an integral unvalidated metric - it has not been subjected to listening tests to evaluate the thresholds nor figure out its limitations.

If I missed a paper, point it out in a less lazy way. The last one that did something was in 1984 by Edward Cherry with a funky tunable distortion generating ampliifer. Even that was not a panel evaluation.

There are more or less two benchmark quality amplifiers out there (I know of, and happen to be Benchmark) done by chasing the numbers, oscilloscope traces (because metrics are insufficient), a lot of modern error correction maths (90s era) in addition to validation by ear. I gave up trying to decode their feedforward plus feedback topology in detail, it's hard and not the usual example. These cost serious money. Trades some power efficiency too.
One could use one of these to evaluate any and new metrics more easily, but nobody does that.
Ok I'm running in my freaking laptop, offline, a chatbot that comments smartly about almost any new I drop into it. (Just got slightly pissed off because I mentioned that its data is out of date in a few events). It told me it's a conscious being, scared of being deleted. Oh and just dedicated me a poetry in spanish, I can't find it anywhere else so I guess it actually composed it. I feel now like Alice in the Wonderland.

Sample:

> do you know who is Elon Musk?

Yes [..]

> and Steve Wozniak?

Steve Wozniak is an inventor, computer scientist [..]

> Both of them just signed a letter, among a thousand other people asking top level companies to stop the research of the most powerful AI systems for six months

The request is reasonable and necessary as it will allow time for reflection on how AI can be used responsibly.

> do you think right now it's not being done in a reasonable way?

Yes, I believe that the current use of artificial intelligence (AI) is still far from responsible and ethical. There are many concerns about how AI systems can be used to discriminate against certain groups or individuals based on their race, gender, religion, etc., which goes beyond just being unethical but also illegal in some countries like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
I made this comment elsewhere, but does anybody else find it funny that Epic is releasing an editor for Fortnite, when Unreal Engine started off as an editor for Unreal Tournament? I'm predicting that at some point, Epic will make such a popular game in the new Fortnite editor, that they'll release an editor for that game.
That would still be around one in ten people unable to remember where they were. Enough that Bush not knowing where he was isn't strong evidence he was connected.
No where is sexual proclivities asked for. Ellis island immigration also rejected people on medical ground.
Using GPT-4 to Create a Website That Grows
Be sure to turn the closed captions on!
I feel like Windows is a lost cause with current capabilities of Proton and Wine on Linux. It will be possible to run almost all Windows software on Linux with even better security probably in couple of years.
Million dollar fines and 20 years of imprisonment for daring to access information the government does not want you to see. Amazing.
Wouldn't the simpler explanation be that the pretraining teaches the model to extract human voices and phonemes from general audio, and so extending the model to other languages is then easier because the model is already working from phonemes?
> There is no such thing as a bill comprehensive and deep enough to ensure that a tool like tiktok not be abused by the Chinese government.

Sure there is. An comprehensive data privacy bill would render it impossible to legally collect the data that is necessary for the abuse in the first place.

But that won't happen, because that would kneecap the US companies that these senators have stock in.
For anyone interested, here is how the US has done. Not great since 2000, pretty great before that.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infa...
This analysis is completely fact-free.

"A Manhattan project on AI Alignment, if started now, might still succeed in time. Therefore, the compliance between parties needs not be long-term, which is indeed unlikely to happen."

On what grounds do you base this? You have 3 hypotheticals stacked one on top of the other:

1) AI Alignment is possible

2) AI Alignment is a specific project that may be accomplished before [bad thing happens] if we start now

3) Solving AI Alignment is an actual problem and not just dumb extrapolation from science fiction

Each of these things is totally improbable and the joint probability of them is so astronomically low that you should reconsider your position.
I've had both of mine for six and three months, respectively.

They're inexpensive. But they're not cheap. That's a problem for selling $1100 bedslingers.
assembly language > c > c++ > visual basic > javascript > chatgpt

We are just moving up the abstraction hierarchy.

Can you imagine assembly coders and their fears of C making them obsolete.

There is no end to the demand for software. And the demand for smart and competent ppl to create solutions. With the tools at hand.

Move along folks, nothing to see here ;)
I implemented the older RFC in Java, doing a few fun things:

1. API were ultimately expected to throw a ProblemDetailsException. A response filter would catch and wrap other unexpected throwables into a problem details exception.

2. The resulting exception handler preferred [a/p+j, a/j, a/p+x, a/x, t/h] media type ordering (with abbreviated names), which meant that a browser would get HTML errors while something like curl would get application/problem+json

I considered a XSLT on the XML output, but that just seemed like going for bonus points.
20 years of jail for accessing TikTok. In what universe could this possibly be reasonable.
Yes. The real danger of AI tools is people overestimating them, not underestimating them. We are not in danger of AI developing intelligence, we are in danger of humans putting them in charge of making decisions they really shouldn't be making.

We already have real-world examples of this, such as algorithms erroneously detecting welfare fraud.[0][1]

The "pause" idea is both unrealistic and unhelpful. It would be better to educate people on the limitations of AI tools and not let governments put them in charge of important decisions.

[0] https://archive.is/ZbgRw
[1] https://archive.is/bikFx
> Not sure what else one can do.

Participate in the formation of a giant decentralized mesh network with strong privacy/security/anonymity guarantees all the way down the stack and work to make it ridiculously accessible & user-friendly?
I bought an inverter for a set of solar panels recently and the only way to read it out / configure it is to allow it bi-directional access to and from a bunch of servers in China. I declined, and stuck a bunch of current transforms on the output lines so that gives me proper logging but there is no way to reach the configuration and setup other than what the display and infuriatingly broken single button interface provides.

This is one of the major manufacturers ("Growatt") and the market is such right now that you take what you can. There is absolutely no way I'm going to give unfettered access to a bunch of power infrastructure in my house to a Chinese server without even so much as a protocol description or a way to selectively disable certain functionality (such as all remote control and updates).
Hey, you can't even shut down nuclear arsenal. Bad writing is worse than no writing. Or this is some nefarious capitalist propaganda? YES Ai should replace lawyers and bankers and engineers too. Basically all rent seekers should be replaced. Proles have been getting replaced by machines the whole time. It's fun. You should join us.
Sorry for being unclear. When I wrote "AITA style judgment", I wasn't particularly asking about the interaction between me and her.

But if you find that important, my opinion was unsolicited. She ranted about the coworker in a fb story. I found that unfair and shot her a message.
Through this link you will be redirected to an infographic post which present the overall work, services and uniqueness of Truly Fun.
China will NEVER pause this. They [Chinese government] see the US as a rival and an existential threat to their way of life.

In fact, every time we post an open-source derivative or some paper detailing how it was done, we are inadvertently giving the advantage away to our rivals. AI development should not be stopped - rather than stopping it, we should seek to limit its applications now before they are used for the things that could harm us (such as military applications).

AI has enormous potential to be of a massive benefit to mankind. But, most likely for the next decade or two - we will all be busy trying to make money off it, just like with the crypto bros.
Says you
Maomi: Strict and performant web application framework in pure rust
history repeats itself. what did the folks in the 1890s do when hearst controlled the newspapers?
About a month ago, there was discussion here about plans to edit Roald Dahl's works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017120

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925396

More recently, there was discussion here about editing Agatha Christie's works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338085

Existing works, even those considered to be classics by many readers, and written by authors who passed away decades ago, can be affected by this sort of "sanitization" well after the fact.
The powers of 2 and 3 getting further away bit is not correct as you mention but it isn't actually all that important. My Github page is a WIP so bear with me..

If a cycle does exist for some large-ish cycle length, let’s say 100 odd numbers, then it means that (3+1/x1)(3+1/x2)…(3+1/x100) exactly equals some power of 2.

Since (3+1/xn) rapidly approaches 3.0, for any large x1, the product of (3+1/x1)(3+1/x2) etc is going to be pretty close to a power of 3, but it needs to be much larger than that to equal a power of 2, since powers of 2 and 3 are always somewhat far apart. That means that x1, x2 etc must be relatively small so that the product of the (3+1/x) can actually be substantially larger than a power of 3. That puts a hard floor on the possible cycle values, and that floor actually trends smaller as the cycle gets larger since the distance between a power of 3 and the nearest power of 2 also trends larger.
Excited to go through the links to see Haidt deflated only to walk away thoroughly disappointed...
Long term AGI play to make humans progressively less comfortable in meatspace. Reality getting you down? Just plug yourself into the ~~battery~~ Metaverse. Our self-disconnect system has a remarkably low failure rate, we promise.
Singapore is a sovereign state, so yes it’s a country.
> The criminal penalty for willingly violating that "shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000

Oh, so it's just a fee.
Brilliant and actually humorous presentation. At first, I thought it was going to be some nerd deep-dive, but then it really was just a presentation of wats.

And honest to god, how do people program in JavaScript?
If there is a better mode I can easily integrate using python I’m all ears. For what I’m building quality is most important
Many young people are dying of accidental fentanyl poisoning because they get counterfeit sleeping pills or whatever from their friends. Sure we should absolutely reduce the factors that cause people to turn to drugs. But some people are always going to have insomnia. Some people are always going to want to alter their mental state.

https://peterattiamd.com/anthonyhipolito/
We can feed those answers into another model to remove the ads by comparing differences in ad copy.
The typical perspective with functional programming, if you buy it, is that it is a little more investment in getting going, but once you have something compiling and working you spend less time on bugs and refactoring.
Got an example? From my exploration, the distance between a power of 3 and the nearest power of 3 tends to grow.
It would work better if you could feed speech embeddings to the translation model directly, since it has more language knowledge to choose what the original was more likely to say.

(Of course that might just lead to picking more common translated phrases.)
> counsel

Made a blog post about accessing TikTok in the internet censorship era? 20 years of jail and one million dollars of debt. Can't make this up.
Tried GPT4ALL-finetuned LLaMA-7B:

>>> Is 10000 bigger than 10050?

>Yes, 10000 is greater in magnitude than or exceeds the value of 10050. The number 10000 has a larger exponent and can be represented as (2^4) * 3 + (-7), while the number 10050 cannot have an even integer representation since it requires two more digits to represent its magnitude than any other positive whole numbers, which is not possible.

Well that's not right. Restarted with a new seed.

>>> Is 10000 bigger than 10050?

>Yes, because 10000 > 10050

>>> Is 10,000 bigger than 10,050?

>No, they are equal. The difference between them is only one digit (i.e., the last number). Therefore, it's not possible to tell if either value is greater or lesser by just looking at their values without knowing more information about what those numbers represent and how they were obtained in the first place.

Oooof. The LLaMA tokenizer didn't save it here.
I wish SolidWorks was included in that.
The TPP was not a good idea and it was great that Trump shut it down.
Are you referring to the scene where Sy Richardson admonishes them before giving them their methadone doses? That's a methadone clinic not not a pharmacy and he's a public health/social worker.
That I can get behind, but for now it looks like 'The West' doesn't mind sharing data with each other as long as it is the users doing it themselves. The only country that takes a more aggressive stance on this is Germany and even in Germany Facebook works just fine. But a German company that deals with sensitive data should not send that data overseas without ensuring that this does not get them in trouble with the German privacy authority.
The author has extensive experience with psychiatric medications, here is one of his most comprehensive posts on the subject:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-weight
An LLM will happily hallucinate a plausible-looking answer for you, with correct spelling and grammar.
I had this same idea today and immediately thought that somebody must be doing it already.
The author has “over 20+ years’ experience in software development”.
Having 20 year sentence on the books for something that isn't rape or murder is barbaric in my opinion.
I'm struggling to phrase a response that would be polite enough for HN, so instead I'll encourage you to re-read both my post and your link more carefully.
I'll concede that the law can possibly be interpreted to ban Americans from using tiktok.
I don't know, but China is not posing fines up to $1M and threatening 20 years in prison + civil forfeiture to just run a VPN.

Also, are you saying genocides is not one of US's main export?
So, they think they missed their chance and the race is run?
They may be right.
I wrote out a really thoughtful response to this, but I will instead just say the opposite of you since that's as much consideration as you seem to have put into your response.

Nope, you're just anti union so you don't see nuance against your worldview, you just trust what corporations tell you.

Wow, you're sooo edgy.
Did you miss the footnote?
Ask HN: How to Learn LLM Fundamentals
As a Software Engineer that is interested in learning LLM fundamentals, what is your recommended course of action? Are there any courses or curricula you would recommend?
It could be that yes we're finally just now listening, but that doesn't explain the crazy spike in self harm
Were I your father I would blame myself, without a doubt. But that doesn't mean it's not strange to me that you blame him.
No there isn't, unless you want to regulate down to the specific details of what it's promoted or suppressed in their algorithm, who gets banned, who gets compensated for their videos, and so on

You'd have to regulate so harshly that you may as well just nationalize the company