skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have "somatic tinnitus" where I can change the tone, frequency, and sometimes make it disappear altogether for a few days. This is a working theory, but it's supposedly caused by inflammatory arthritis (spondyloarthritis) in my cervical spine and other areas compressing nerves and arteries. I can also move the ligament in my C8-T1 spine, which causes all sorts of side effects but it can also resolve or make worse my tinnitus for several days. Sometimes just moving my neck towards one shoulder can also resolve or make worse my tinnitus.

It's been like this for almost 10 years now with the worst of it starting about 5 years ago. Not many doctors are familiar with this condition, so as you can guess, I get a lot of looks like I'm crazy but it's legit happening. Not to mention this is the least of my neurological concerns. The US healthcare system thus far has been hugely disappointing in giving a damn beyond "yep, looks like you have to live with this forever".
iPhone user since the original version. I'd take him up on the offer in a second.
Guitarix – GNU/Linux Virtual Amplifier
What does uncanny valley has to do with VR?
Even in some of the FAANG that's not the case. Not sure about all of them though.
Show HN: Llama.go – port of llama.cpp to pure Go
It's April 12 - The First Man in Space* Day - and I'm releasing #ML framework I've been building for the last month :)

It's written in #Go and allows #LLaMA #GPT inference having just regular PC - so no monster GPU cluster is needed to start experiment with:

https://github.com/gotzmann/llama.go

The V1 is using FP32 math only, but will work with AVX2 data types and INT8 quantisation soon.

* The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin from USSR
China’s struggles with lab safety carry danger of another pandemic
This is the irony - The unicorn candidate (IMO) is a myth. I can assure you (we) faangers wear our pants one leg at a time and dont just "jump" into it :) Having hired at startups - hiring for passion, curiosity and desire has gone a long way rather than trying to act all big. Now key here is to be honest with yourself and the candidate (TC) that your pay is "mediocre" and X,Y,Z are going to be the mutual benefits. Best case scenario company and TC grow together. Otherwise TC learns a lot and is ready for their next role when ever the market bounces and I am glad to be the guy who helped you launch rather than tried to hold you back with BS. Ive literally said that and I mean it.
FWIW, I've found uses for it already that will improve the company I'm building in the very short term. Maybe you disagree in the magnitude of the value, but I find it to be at least somewhat significant. Enough to pursue.

I've never worked for any company where leaning into the Metaverse or crypto would generate any meaningful business value, short or long term. The promises for Metaverse and crypto are always about a nebulous future that could exist if only everyone collectively bought into the vision.
GPT4 is pretty good at this. Here's what I got on a first run, though you can keep prompting it to go more esoteric if you want. I honestly think that GPT4 will obsolete most existing recommendation systems; it's already better than what I previously used (Goodreads).

> Prompt: give me some books similar to "Three Body Problem", "Brave New World", and "Dune" - but dont give me the common suggestions, give me some more esoteric stuff i probably haven't heard of

> I understand that you're looking for lesser-known, yet thought-provoking science fiction novels similar to "Three Body Problem," "Brave New World," and "Dune." Here are some esoteric suggestions that you might not have heard of:

> "Blindsight" by Peter Watts - This hard sci-fi novel explores the nature of consciousness and humanity's first contact with a terrifyingly alien intelligence.

> "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi - A post-human heist story set in a future Solar System, where advanced technology has given birth to an array of strange and wondrous societies.

> "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin - A groundbreaking work of feminist science fiction that explores gender and societal norms on a planet where inhabitants can change their sex at will.

> "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester - A classic sci-fi novel that combines elements of revenge, teleportation, and corporate intrigue in a richly imagined future world.

> "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin - A thought-provoking tale of two societies, one anarchistic and the other capitalistic, and the physicist who attempts to bridge the divide between them.
This is interesting, thank you for bringing it to my attention.
VR currently works as good as ChatGPT.
The speed of my car can also go up and down quite quickly and yet it would be crazy to try to drive it using a moving average of how fast I was going over the prior 60 seconds. "I dunno. I realize I slammed on the brakes ten seconds ago, and my speed over the past minute has certainly gone down a bit? But I'm still going really fast... I should keep holding this brake down." Meanwhile, of course, you are stopped on the exit ramp of the highway. I'm sure you'll figure it out, though, in another 50 seconds.
Might be true in 2023, won't argue either way. In ~1995, it was insane. Java startup costs were dozens of seconds, and that's assuming it didn't have to push anything into swap to do it. The browser needed some sort of language that was always present and didn't have such a staggering footprint, some sort of built-in language that could be parsed and executed without all that. In a perfect world we might have gotten an existing language that fit the bill, but in literally-a-week, it was easier to put something together new inside the browser than to integrate anything into the codebase.

The reason for the deadline wasn't that Java was a good idea. You should also bear in mind we're not talking the Java of today, but the Java of not-even-1.0 yet. Java in 1995 wasn't a very good language. Sun was just jamming it everywhere they could, and the browser looked like an appealing target from a marketing point of view. From a technical point of view it was insane.

Java grew up, certainly. But it was forced on the world on the back of an enormous marketing budget and a full court press, not the technical merits of Java circa 1995. Many people around here remember the XML push forcing a technology everywhere, even where it doesn't belong, well, the one before that was Java. Completely inorganic.
Consciousness is not the ability to respond to events. It's the ability to experience events. There are no words or tools in a universe of space, time, mass, and energy with which to deal with other's experience. Our language applied to other than ourselves deals exclusively with responding to events not to experiencing them.

By its very nature experience is unique to each of us as individuals. Other's experience is absolutely inaccessible and not definable except by analogy with our own. It is ineffable.

To otherwise define consciousness, you must intellectually reach outside the universe of space, time, mass, and energy and assume that awareness exist at an equivalent fundamental level. Assuming that awareness exists as a primitive at the quantum level, consciousness would have to be self-organizing behavior arising from an assemblage of such quantum-level primitives of awareness. Consciousness, then, must have evolved in step with biological evolution and all species resulting from biological evolution are conscious to a degree. I don't see any other way to look at this.

Well, I know what I meant, even if what I've written is confused. : )
My chances of being seriously injured by being hit by a moron in an SUV are astronomically higher than my chances of being seriously injured by being hit by a moron on a bike.
US cities are so absurdly overbuilt that it's actually much easier to add bike lines, protected intersections and bus lanes.
Decoding the Success of Transformer Models in Natural Language Processing
They likely just haven't gotten around to all of them yet.
> I have always wondered why Java is hammered for this while Apple is celebrated for this.

Indeed.

And it's good to remember that there is nothing in the Java language forcing one to name things verbosely, that's on the developer's personal choice. Just like on every other language.
“In a hot fucking minute” Which is why his attempt will be thrown out in court. Making changes to regs likes these requires bureaucratic paperwork or they get thrown out like many of 45s rushed regulation reversals did.
That you're a sucker for a sales pitch which begins, "You know those people you hate, we hate them to!"
I'm discussing government independence specifically, not whether companies are beholden to someone else.

Obviously all businesses are beholden to someone. Yes you should always have an interest in what/who companies are beholden to.

There's a reason Nike and Apple don't chastise the Chinese government.
I asked ChatGPT-4 to write a poem in Simlish, then translate it to English.

Surprisingly the English translation rhymes!

The fact that Simlish lacks any precise meaning probably makes it a bit more tractable.

Michel Kandel's translations of Stanislaw Lem's robot poetry from Polish to English also rhymed, but he's an world class translator and also an accomplished science fiction writer and editor himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kandel

Here's a previous discussion of Marcin Wichary's translation of one of Lem's stories from Polish to English. He created the Lem Google Doodle, and he stalked and met Stanislaw Lem when he was a boy. Plus a discussion of Michael Kandel's translation of the poetry of the Electric Bard from The First Sally of Cyberiad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28600200

>Translations of [Lem’s] works are difficult due to passages with elaborate word formation, alien or robotic poetry, and puns. — Wikipedia [...]

>Memoirs of a train traveller: The day I stalked Stanisław Lem [...]

>I have always wanted to ask Michael Kandel how he translated the poetry of the Electric Bard from The First Sally of Cyberiad.

>Especially the one that is "A love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."

Prompt: Write a poem in Simlish.

ChatGPT-4:

While it's important to remember that Simlish is a nonsensical language without a proper grammar or vocabulary, I can still attempt to create a playful poem using some known Simlish phrases and sounds. Keep in mind that this poem will not have any real meaning:

Sul sul! Vadeesh, plurna zib,
Badeesh! Dag dag, cribna drib,
Froobi flazzle, noogit fraz,
Glarbni weeb, frizzle maz.

Lerpna gort, jibbly zor,
Slooble wib, kwebna dor,
Skibbi plurt, pleeba narn,
Grubble veeb, shazzle darn.

Wabble gret, minzi glarn,
Flartle doo, zibba yarn,
Yibbs frazzle, dribna glorp,
Vorpti zound, greeble snorp.

Enjoy the playful sounds and rhythm of the poem, even though it lacks any real meaning!

Prompt: Translate that poem to English, as best you can.

ChatGPT-4:

As a language model AI, I must inform you that Simlish is a fictional language created for The Sims video game series. It does not have a direct translation to English or any real-world languages, as it is designed to mimic the rhythm and flow of speech without conveying any actual meaning. However, I can attempt to provide a creative interpretation of the poem, loosely inspired by its structure and sounds:

Greetings all! Joyful day, skies so bright,
Cheers! Hello, dreams take flight,
Whimsy dazzle, laughter near,
Chatter soft, moments dear.

Dancing thought, playful breeze,
Gentle touch, secrets seize,
Colors blend, friendship true,
Laughter shared, skies of blue.

Murmured dreams, shadows play,
Whispered words, threads of gray,
Heart's embrace, silent gleam,
Boundless sounds, life's grand scheme.

So is GPT-4 actually creative, or just terrifying?
What makes you think that? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5694/j.1326-5377...
To offer an additional perspective:

A far less monetized and more user content focused version of "the Metaverse" already exists: VRChat. It's been around since before Covid and it is still around. Granted, yes, it is still mostly a niche hobby for some very dedicated people, not all of whom even use VR, but it exists. I think the people who would have been interested in Meta's product looked at it and thought "But we already have a less crappy version of this that's not tied to a questionable company." Especially since Meta's handling of Oculus has been far from great (i.e. requiring a Facebook/Meta account just to use any headset, as opposed to the separate account like before).

But as I said, it's still fairly niche and mostly serves as an escape for people. I think slapping the whole "buy in-world items with crypto" thing on top of that just made the target group even smaller than before. It just felt like jumping onto any tech buzz words to broaden appeal, when it actually caused the opposite. For all the data they're supposed to have, that was poor decision making imo.
It's an active and current discussion.

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/1646154796905136128

> Steve Inskeep (NPR): John Lansing, NPR CEO, at the ⁦ @MorningEdition meeting.

> NPR says it will de-emphasize Twitter. Aside from the misleading label, NPR says Twitter isn’t used by most Americans; drives little traffic to NPR; and “no longer has the public service relevance that it once had.”

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/1646155432124137474

> Steve Inskeep (NPR): NPR employees with personal accounts are told they may make their own decisions. I’ll take it day by day.

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1646166679032938501

> Abby D. Phillip (CNN) replying to morning edition meeting: At the news org level, this makes sense. And even at the reporter level, we’d all be better served spending less time on here, because the conversations happening here are increasingly divorced from what’s happening in the real world.

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/1646202479988686855

> Steve Inskeep (NPR) replying to Abby: This captures something real. While I am not stepping away at this time (I read all sorts of sources!), Twitter always encouraged groupthink; has never captured the full range of what’s going on; and is a less valuable resource than a year ago. I’ve been on here less.
This list is going to get longer, and the consequences are going to be much worse, in the near future as more and more people leave the church.

Moderates leaving means no moderation and the jesusfreaks will feed back on each other as they become more and more extreme.

Even as their numbers dwindle the influence they have on society will grow because they act as a single bloc and are propelled by religious furor.
Many of the least efficient vehicles like the EV Hummer the steel frame is still heavier than the battery.

The efficiency game as EVs scale up will always try to get the highest range out of the fewest batteries/battery cells, so cars don't necessarily "only get heavier" because weight impacts efficiency (as does drag coefficients and overall surface area). Lower weight cars get more battery range from the same size battery.

Also, while battery cells sometimes get heavier as the charge capacity gets denser, it is not a straightforward relationship. (Look at phone batteries over the last couple of decades: they store more charge than ever but are also effectively "lighter" in weight than ever.)
While C syntax requires commas, there's nothing about having the function name outside the parentheses that suddenly forces commas.

Theoretically:

(myfunction a b c)

could be written as:

myfunction(a b c)
I mean this sincerely because I don't get it -- even if you're a republican DeSantis is batshit insane and is arguably closer to neo-fascism than Republican. What's the draw?

Like even if I liked the policy changes he's proposing I would be wary of him being the one to make them since he seems to give zero fucks about the democratic process or procedure if it gets in his way. Once you break the glass and people don't accept democratic results or don't believe it matters I don't see us repairing it.
Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Hi HN,

Today we’re launching GPT-4 answers on Phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses generative AI to browse the web and answer technical questions, complete with code examples and detailed explanations. Unlike vanilla GPT-4, Phind feeds in relevant websites and technical documentation, reducing the model’s hallucination and keeping it up-to-date. To use it, simply enable the “Expert” toggle before doing a search.

GPT-4 is making a night-and-day difference in terms of answer quality. For a question like “How can I RLHF a LLaMa model”, Phind in Expert mode delivers a step-by-step guide complete with citations (https://phind.com/search?cache=0fecf96b-0ac9-4b65-893d-8ea57...) while Phind in default mode meanders a bit and answers the question very generally (https://phind.com/search?cache=dd1fe16f-b101-4cc8-8089-ac56d...).

GPT-4 is significantly more concise and “systematic” in its answers than our default model. It generates step-by-step instructions over 90% of the time, while our default model does not.

We’re particularly focused on ML developers, as Phind can answer questions about many recent ML libraries, papers, and technologies that ChatGPT simply cannot. Even with ChatGPT’s alpha browsing mode, Phind answers technical questions faster and in more detail.

For example, Phind running on “Expert” GPT-4 mode can concisely and correctly tell you how to run an Alpaca model using llama.cpp: (https://phind.com/search?cache=0132c27e-c876-4f87-a0e1-cc48f...). In contrast, ChatGPT-4 hallucinates and writes a make function for a fictional llama.cpp.

We still have a long way to go and would love to hear your feedback.
A Girl and the Tiger: Award Winning Naturalist Paul Rosolie
Lot of people understandably pissing on this. I did some research: Seems like Tadakuma Lab at Yamagata University in Japan have a group at their Uni helping them market their ideas to western audiences. If you dig in a little bit, it seems pretty legit, and the tech is interesting. They focus on novel mechanical movement systems for robots: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Tadakuma-Laboratory-Riichir... // https://twitter.com/garagefolks/status/1599224023640342528

Unfortunately, I'm not sure they realize their marketing come across like spam.
More Brazil than The Matrix I'd venture.
You know Fortnite has a huge ad business right? Like in the hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter.

Roblox also has a branded games business. It does not mediate ads but it also has advertising of other games on its platform. They are definitely working on automatic ad mediation.
Syllabus and coursework for the database course: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/schedule.html

It looks really good
He is explaining that once crime becomes so common, it is not reported (and hence not statistically accounted for).

Also statistics can be manipulated in many ways, I'd trust 1000% more the feeling of people living in the town, than official statistics.

Here, all the testimonials I see, my own experience in SF, plus all the posts really confirm that there is an issue, without having to care about the statistics or what the politics or police wants to show.

You don't see such with Tokyo for example.

And Tokyo, you get your cup of tea/coffee stolen, it may be accounted as a crime. In SF they would laugh at you and it would be a total waste of time.
Happy to see this type of work that is truly open source and commercially usable. Is this the entire corpus or a subset? Do you intend to release any new iterations?

I've been thinking of starting similar efforts at another BigCorp by hosting a UL2 or GPT-J instance.
Reminds me of Greg Egan's "A Kidnapping" from "Axiomatic". (I'd like to describe it, but it would spoil it. Just go read Axiomatic, it's got some of the most mind-blowing stories I've read.)
Something I forgot to mention here that supports my view that designers of modern cars are not thinking about this problem at all: after battery power is lost cars lose their maps and tables for ignition timing and fuel delivery. After a usually short period of time (20 minutes is typical) that data is lost and the engine etc. has to 'relearn' when the power is restored and the vehicle is operated for a time.
Rubygems adds hardware security device and passkey support to the CLI
The “idea” doesn’t even make any sense
Notably, this is the "server" business, as in rackmount server units, not the server market (e.g. Intel Xeon).
Or even the desktop browser part. If you were on Windows or a Mac, maybe you had access to Flash player.
Yes but what a reader unfamiliar with the server auction at Hetzner should know is that there is very limited supply (and sometimes none) plus it's outdated hardware. At this very moment I see 9 servers with 1080 priced between 105 and 118 euro per month available.
I think it's not the case of AI or ChatGPT is the best solution because it can be a local optima. But it's currently the "best" solution available to the average Joe. The fact in this OP case study the average Joe is probably one of the best mathematicians of our time, makes the situation much more interesting and intriguing.

I'm in the middle of reading Steve Jobs' very own words, Make Something Wonderful book. Apparently throughout his whole life he frequently mentioned and discussed a lot about providing and creating easy access to the computer because ultimately people do not want to program but want to use computer instead. He did mention about how Morse code was not popular as much of the later telephone technology because people refused to learn and use the unintuitive Morse code even though it only takes 40 hours for average person to learn the entire Morse code. As a trained communication engineers I can very much relate to this because even though we learnt much of the underlying technology of communication that enable the Morse code or the telephone to work across the Atlantic ocean most of us can't be bothered to learn the Morse code and use it if we can help it because the telephone make it redundant and it's counter intuitive to use.

Granted, now we know that telephone or circuit switching in general is a suboptimal in providing and solving the human communication problems and needs. As of now the Internet, packet switching and the multimedia approaches are probably the best solutions but telephone has served us a potent and still one of the best solutions for communication until very recently.
Show HN: OnePanel – Next-Gen AI Powered Manga Reader
Seems like a funny reaction to a label added as a subtitle to an organization with the name National Public Radio

People get attached to words or phrases without thinking about what they actually mean, seems like definitions get modified to emotionally herd the [un]imaginative/initiated

Wild that style of thinking goes that high up the chain at NPR the CEO sounds child-like with their response
That's the thing that matters. The funding isn't relevant, but making a ruckus about the funding is the tool through which Musk has plausible deniability that this was ever about editorial control. It is factually correct but conveys no information other than misdirection and you are falling for it hook, line and sinker. NPR has a lot of staffers, want to bet that at least a number of them have prior government employment on their CVs? Want to bet that some of them will leave NPR for government? That too would be utterly irrelevant, but you could make a nice argument about it and maybe even prove it to be factually correct. In the end it's all just noise and no signal.

State affiliated media are those media institutions that are editorially controlled by the nation state where they are based, and funding is secondary to that by a very large distance.
What Meta has been pushing as Metaverse is pretty big on human-like avatars.