skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common exercise that photography schools use to teach students to "see" is to photograph shapes that form letters. For example the bough of a tree might look like the letter "Y". The idea is to collect the entire alphabet.

It helps people separate the visual form of something from its literal interpretation as an object. Good photographs are often not just a documentation of an object, but a nice visual composition that is also compelling when viewed upside-down or on its side. Being able to set aside the label of an object and focus on the visual elements helps create these compositions.
I guess I don't have an answer for that specifically, but I think it shows the need for some innovation or flexibility to protect from Amazonification in order to avoid the situation from getting to that boiling point entirely.
Yes, and?

If you're worried about being identified from alt-accounts you're much more likely to be tracked via reuse of emails or some other information that you have slipped (see multitude of cases)

Simple text is not PII, laws are not interpreted like technical discussions are https://xkcd.com/1494/
This is so brilliant! But wow. Look at one of the generated comments, self-awareness incoming soon.

> What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated world, and this is our existence now?

https://crackernews.github.io/comments/startuptechnews.com-g...
Is there something like degrees of freedom in mechanics but for logical constraints / software ?
And yet, you yourself likely don't believe that, right? You know with high likelihood that elephants exist somewhere in Germany. Yet you are still willing to repeat what you know is probably a lie - there are 0 elephants in Munich.

Because, of course, you know you're taking a test and they expect on tests that the problem statement is symbolic, just there to pose a logic puzzle.

That's the idea we're talking about here.

For your convenience: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=elephants+in+germany&t=h_&iax=imag...
I love how you spell out your interview process, I have applied, I hope I'm not too late.
Can you refer to a specific video?
I have tried these examples with GPT4 and it didn't need any prompt engineering. You can just type in a very loose way and it still works. Prompt engineering was much more needed in GPT3.5 I think. GPT4 itself is pretty good without any prompt engineering. And if improvements continue, I think prompt engineering will have no significance for almost all use cases, which is what matters.
This browser isn't that ambitious. They're not trying to revolutionize anything, just to make a working one.
Tourists in NYC generally don't drive their own cars around manhattan.
Not your keys, not your car (registration).
The real world highway range of the smallest battery option lightning is about 213 miles.
Parallel Sysplex with 32 mainframes in a cluster.
Since people writing HTML and CSS started calling themselves "software engineers", the "engineering" word lost all meaning already. You're fighting a losing battle here.
>We need more leaders of color, women, LGBTQ representation, and others besides.

I can’t really understand where the US is heading with this agenda. As a EU citizen I’m often puzzled and worried, why can’t the sentence just be “We need more competent leaders”? This should imply diversity per se, and btw who decides a place has enough diversity? There will be a diversity judge on workplaces?
I think there are FTC laws around this maybe.
they all do about equivalent when the tires are sized appropriately to the mass of the car.
I for one totally trust an organization that can't operate a "pick a number" machine correctly to get my official ID and driver's license right on the block chain.
Not sure why you are using Colin Powell as an example. He’s one of the worst stooges, helping both covering up the My Lai massacre and presenting false evidence for the UN regarding the Iraqi WMDs.
>What FSF should do is work stop the move to secure boot. Already there are Intel Laptops being created that will not allow us to replace Windows with Linux or a BSD.

Can you provide an example or article? I have not yet encountered an intel platform that refuses to erase the secure boot keys.

That being said, I would not be surprised.
Right, and this is why human intelligence didn't dominate the planet and why the animals quickly caught up and stopped humans from driving so many species extinct....

If you don't know the formula for the equation and the values plugged in, then you like me, have no idea where the curve levels off at.
I'm already imaging the integrated helmet AR HUD, with a (remote-operated) switch that just appends "in the style of Pyro's hallucinations in Team Fortress 2" to the prompt for the transformer sitting between your eyes and the helmet cams...
This seems much closer to the reality. With LiDAR's, imaging radar's, a host of other sensors, more custom calibration and crazy high development costs, these autonomous vehicles are going to be the price of a Lamborghini for a long time. The idea that A/V's like this will clog streets across America because every worker will keep 2 in their garage is unlikely.
Because it's not trained to be a human.
Essai – Generative AI for Websites
I prefer "a doomsday cult but, somehow, even sadder".
> switch to something more modern

such as?
I think main question really should be how effective they would be in the role. And what truly are the goals of FSF and how could right leadership aim at those.

Now some might thing diversity and inclusion should be the goals, but I think many disagree and consider that there is enough other organizations being able to do those things. FSF should have unique value proposition if it wants to continue to exist. And leadership should be effective for that value proposition.
It's so strange that we now have systems for which we weave magical spells to create a serious result. Previously it was just in games and fiction, for fun or theorizing about different realities. Now all we need is a template language in Latin, which will create full prompts, and fantasy-authors might go bonkers.
The best models will always be closely guarded and have the best outputs, it’s the watered down models that are fighting for scraps.
If I clock a bathtub with cement (insulin resistance) but I don't fill the tub with water (carbs) - then you won't get an overflowing bathtub (diabetes).

If I have an unclogged bathtub (normal metabolism) - I can fill the tub quickly with water (a carbed up meal) with water and then it drains out.

The problem is when you combine high fat with low fiber carbs (donuts, meat AND potatoes, cake, peanut butter) - you clog the tub and dump water into the tub.

Low carb diets are associated with higher all cause mortality - and are not sustainable for the planet.
Bookshop.org Survives–and Thrives–In Amazon’s World
Apple has some SSL export restrictions I've yet to successfully navigate. Will have this fixed in the next version.
> What FSF should do is work stop the move to secure boot.

How would they do that? They have no influence, and if anything have worked for decades to alienate any potential allies. Nor do they have any leverage via the software or licenses the control. The only GPL software that's best of breed is Linux, which FSF has no say on. No critical software uses the latest versions of GPL.
Depending on what you need, you will need to refine the prompt a bit at least.

Lets say you're building a system that perform actions based on what the LLM gives back, then adding "Reply with a JSON object with the keys 'action' and 'parameters'" will make it return something actionable. And that is what people call "prompt engineering". Obviously, you're not gonna need to do something like that unless you have a bit more advanced use cases, but there are use cases where some prompts are better than others.
"no interventions could change IQ except genetics" and "IQ is 100% genetic" are the same statement.
The closer to midnight on a day you submit a paper to the arxiv the closer to the top of the "new" list you are the next day.

I assume they submitted at 23:59 and were aiming for 00:00
Listening to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou on Spotify, sounds to me like an old honky tonk solo piano recording from before world war 2. Lots of pentatonic melodies. I'd rather listen to Ethopian orthodox choral music: https://youtu.be/F051ninkSWg

Listen to this instead if you want to hear something different from Africa. This recording from 1968 of drummers from Burundi, was later a huge inspiration for Adam & The Ants in the 1980'ies:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q6un8mTsYxGU9rN1OSje9?si=285...

Here is the backstory https://medium.com/loopandreplay/burundi-beat-the-ants-annab...
You seem to be tripping up on an imaginary difference between computers and brains. There really isn't one and 99% of the field agrees that brains are just computers.

The only out you would have is to claim that there is something supernatural that separates the fundamental operations of a brain from those of computation, i.e. given an computer the size of the universe, with billions of CPUS and GPUS to simulate each neuron of a brain, that you still would not be able to simulate one. That there is something supernatural that even infinite regular computation could never capture.

If you don't take that stance, then the only line you are drawing between brains and computers is their compute performance for a given task (even if that task is "be conscious").

This is (perhaps) similar to the difference between regular and quantum computers. There is nothing a quantum computer can do that a regular computer can't, the difference is just in their relative performance for given tasks.
Submitted March 29th, so likely a gamble on time it takes to get released.
> Even the simplest possible 1995-esque browser will have to deal with that (support for images was added in 1993, and text and networking were always central).

Indeed they did. Here's what author of KHTML said, https://twitter.com/LarsKnoll/status/1421121639845187585

--- start quote ---

Implementing a browser engine from scratch was a lot of work in 1999/2000, it’s close to impossible today.

--- end quote ---
Imagine you're a tech company that pays software engineers $200K/year. There is a free open-source coding model that can double their productivity, but a commercial solution yields a 2.1x productivity improvement for $5000 annually per developer. Which do you pick?
her music is so effortless, seemingly weightless, like a butterfly flapping its wings in an early spring garden... a meandering presence of delicate ornamentation. you can feel the human spirit and presence of these songs. seemingly simple but also complex. slow and fast at the same time.
"but projects like the State of California’s effort to put auto registration on a blockchain are likely to simplify the painful process of dealing with the Department of Motor Vehicles."

A surprising number of tasks can be performed online already at the CA DMV w/o any crypto or blockchain involvement. The few painful bits include an in-person driving test (“behind the wheel”) which is unlikely to be blockchained away. Then there is photo taking and vision test and some admittedly annoying paperwork if one goes for verification (RealID). How exactly is blockchain helping here?
Wow I didn't know ai.com redirects to chat.openai.com. How long has it been doing that?
My view is WE are society, change starts at home etc.. Again, my point here was that pointing out lack of diversity is absolutely appropriate. I disagree that we get to just say it's the pipeline's fault and not try to do better in our organizations.
Datacenter costs. With the models getting better the cost of data tagging is moving from a human dominated cost to a compute cost.
As someone who spent ~8 years in the blockchain space... I absolutely agree with you, and so most of my friends from the space.

There is nothing in blockchain that will help with the issues in DMV. If anything, adding blockchain may complicate things.
In the beginning of his book he spends a chapter explaining exactly what he means by consciousness. I'd say the first few chapters are worth reading since it does a really good job of de-obfuscating the term consciousness, and also has a really interesting take on metaphors as the language of the mind.

He points out that most reasoning is done automatically and done by your subconscious. When something "clicks" it's usually not because your internal monologue reasoned about it hard enough, it's because something percolated down into your subconscious and you learned a metaphor that helped you understand that thing. So animals can also reason and make value judgements even without language or an internal monologue.
I'd really like a non-web based RSS reader; something that respects my privacy and isn't collating my reading habits for data resale to advertisers; a traditional open-source app.
He is possibly one of the most successful CEOs in history. He managed to sell something almost worthless for 44 billion
How the great home working experiment fell apart
What's with the NSFW need? I'd understand if this is some image generator, but here? Is it some sexting, "romance", or is NSFW about something else altogether?
This is a depressing list, I was expecting some interesting new bio engineering process or dunno quantum chemistry this or that for easier synthesise of whatever, but instead it was either marginal improvements like wasm or total BS like blockchain/cloud. AI/ML is probably the only interesting thing happening in tech at the moment, it has been getting more attention in the last year but that is because it has honestly enabled a lot of people to do things they could not do before. Personally I think that there is also a lot of things happening in computer graphics but the money has been miss allocated on creating virtual places instead of making the real world better.
Apache only provides organizational infrastructure for OSS projects, the foundation doesn’t drive the development and maintenance proper. Apache projects are usually either heavily supported by companies, or else on life support if not dead.
What matters in sand isn't vehicle weight but contact pressure, which is dictated by tire pressure. That's why tanks use tracks. A giant M1 Abrams tank has a contact pressure dramatically lower than any car. Its weight is spread across the tracks. You could drive a 30,000lb vehicle on sand, so long as it has enough soft tires to keep the contact pressure down to something like 10psi. Deflate your tires before you get stuck in the sand.

Conversely, this is why road bikes are horrible on soft surfaces. With narrow tires at 100+psi a bicycle has a higher contact pressure than any car or SUV and so sinks in sand.
Expert as of 2021, which is obsolete for many software dev purposes, not that SO is much better.
> What is an appropriate punishment?

You know as well as I do that going down a road like what antibasilisk is suggesting only ends in concentration camps.
Thanks for sharing. Loved it.
> Maybe it’s dying because it already succeeded in its goals.

Not really? Stallman obviously wants everything possible to be GPL licensed and harped on about GNU/Linux for decades, and so far all that is gradually fading away.

The modern landscape is much different from when things started, the core tools are a far smaller proportion of a modern OS and have been rewritten many times since, including in non-GPL licenses. These days there's efforts to rewrite them in Rust, usually not under the GPL.

I think under better management the FSF would do a better job of dealing with this. Both in watching for new developments and making sure not to lose relevance (eg, IMO the FSF should lead the effort to build new Rust-based versions of the GNU tools), and in being in touch with the modern tech landscape (eg, cloud)
> It's why I don't understand why in the US, the president is also the top military commander.

Simple: the founders of the US thought it would protect our democracy to ensure that a elected civilian was in charge of the military. It's mostly worked.
RVs get stuck all the time. Sand driving isn't all down to one variable. RVs are terrible because the back wheels will just dig themselves into a hole. Check out the youtube channel "Matt's offroad recovery". There's a ton of big pickups and RVs that just get themselves in trouble and dig themselves deep. Their recovery vehicles are usually comparatively light Jeep Cherokees and a custom tow rig they built.
A few reasons:

First it's just boring. 99% of the time, it's mostly boring and what you'd expect. Some dumb Django or Rails app? Who cares. A Python library to talk to some internal service? A backend implementation of some well-known, public feature? Probably knowing about the feature is more interesting if its somehow secret or salacious...

Second the coding environment is very specific. FAANGs have very unique software ecosystems, coding styles, ways of structuring services. So even if you had the code, what could you do with it?

Third, and most importantly, the secret sauce IMO isn't in the code. It's the institutional expertise behind the code.

If you had Google's way of matching ads to search queries, then OK, you have a snapshot of a point in time. Same with Twitter's recommendations. It is moderately interesting and you can learn from it. But these algorithms are _constantly evolving_ around experiments and shipping. The internal teams are constantly learning and evolving how they understand that feature. So the team's mental models about that area of their product is the actual secret sauce.

Frankly if its JUST in the code, like some genius hacker put it there, and nobody else understands or can maintain it, it's not that useful to the organization. Those kinds of bits of code gradually die without a team to scaffold and evolve that code.
I recommend some editing of the readme to clarify the tool's purpose. Initially I thought it might be an AI-generated spoof project since the description made no sense. I think the tool is for the following scenario: you are a manager in an organization where some set of your employees are using some specific SaaS (see list of currently supported SaaS'es below). You would like to see a list of the user accounts for your employees within your company's "domain" in said SaaS, along with some account metadata. This tool extracts that info using the SaaS domain management API.
Open Source tool to translate JSON locales files with Chat GPT
No Plot Just Vibes
Those things are happening without much involvement by the FSF – Linux, for example, is famously not an FSF project to the point that some activists tried to popularize the “GNU/Linux” label. I’m not saying that the FSF has no role or that some of the software it supports isn’t incredibly widely used (GCC, etc.) but that it’s seemed to be coasting for years, drifting out of the mainstream even for open source developers. That makes their mission harder to accomplish because everyone knows that they don’t speak for a large percentage of the community.

This largely comes back to RMS. It’s fairly common for organizations to have trouble surviving the departure of a key founder, and in his case that is especially complicated by having run it for decades as largely a personal vehicle. This was especially glaring when he was invited back after leaving in a cloud: how much does a “so what if he drove people away, he’s been here for years!” message suggest that they’ll become more relevant in the future, especially with the people who saw that and decided never to touch an FSF effort?
The core plot of Snowcrash is loosely based on this theory.
Super.

A book offers structure to get going. 'By example' is great too. As is 'read the manual'. [Good to have all, I like books.]

Getting a structure filled out takes a fair bit of effort. That hurdle's overcome. On Github, its easy to fork / contribute - the tools are right there along with a creative commons (or, Apache in this case) license.

Structure, content, license and tools are all there.
The extension is open source, I'm open to new ideas on how to improve this further. The current Edge/Firefox extensions just error out, and this was not acceptable for this version of the extension per the AppStore rules.

You can make any suggestions here:
https://github.com/gnormandin/Archive-Page/issues
I really like this approach because it’s a low-effort way to prioritize development.

I did this with the CPU for my GameBoy emulator: I picked a game I wanted to work and just kept implementing opcodes each time it crashed with an “opcode not implemented” error.
Yes, it is a possible model, but I don't know of anywhere where it is actually shown to work. And yes, there are lion farms that are really sad examples where they are bread to be hunted, and they are not living in natural conditions.

Part of the problem is that the [-1 rhino] is a guaranteed figure, and may increase, but [+3 rhino] is speculative, requiring many steps that may go wrong, from mating, fertilization, gestation, birthing, survival to adulthood; bird in the hand vs bird in the bush. It may turn out that the number is more like $1.5 million for a license than $50k, which already seems outrageous.

I also have close family who work directly with African wildlife foundations and although I've heard much discussion of solutions, I've never heard any mention of this as being viable.
Reminds me of a story back in engineering school where a boat holding the appropriate amount of passengers at full capacity became overloaded and sank.

Turned out that the average weight of an American had increased in the decades since the Coast Guard had most recently set guidelines.

While I didn't find a link to the story, this news article [1] references a couple of boats sinking for that (assumed) reason and the Coast Guard increasing its average assumed weight per person by 25 pounds.

Makes me wonder about a lot of infrastructure for EVs. Bridges are an obvious one but I wonder about overpasses in areas that get a lot of standing traffic.

[1] https://eturbonews.com/overweight-americans-sink-old-boat-sa...
just like Musk! totally on-brand!
right now. Give it another 3-20 years.
You need those balloon tires if you want to do that. You see a lot of them in iceland. Beach sand is a little different though because it's compacted by the water.
>Is there a large barrier to entry?

Go ask Nvidia for a pile of A/H100's and see what the wait time is.

Also the cost of previous training was only on text, next gen models are multi-modal and will drive up costs much higher.
I saw Get Back as a complete vindication of Yoko Ono. Yoko wasn’t the wedge that drove the Beatles apart, it was George.
> Listening to Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou on Spotify, sounds to me like an old honky tonk solo piano recording from before world war 2. Lots of pentatonic melodies.

I think that's partly what's so good about it. It's harmonically simple and a little noodly, but has a lot of atmosphere and feeling in it.
> I really don't think this excuse works.

I guess you're right, it doesn't. I don't know what I'm talking about; I'm just someone who enjoys strategy games.

I'm also extremely interested in trying to figure out what Putin was thinking when he attacked, and why he didn't just pull back when his initial blitzkrieg failed.

I happen to think his own utterances and writings are a largely-accurate presentation of what he really believes about geo-politics; but they don't answer the "Why now?" question. I think you can understand his thinking by listening to what he says. I think he really believes "there's no such thing as Ukraine".

And regarding the Baltic states: they weren't in NATO, and individually they have short borders with Russia. Ukraine has a very long border with Russia.
Private armies are making a killing
Ah yes, the notorious den of communists that is Hacker News?
If you look read the parent comment in this thread you'd get an answer...