skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it but you have misunderstood what it does. It builds a model in memory and then you can use that to do other tasks at build time. It doesn't persist the model in a form that the app itself can use to start up faster.

See here:

https://github.com/remkop/picocli/issues/539

Although looking over that issue, it looks like maybe reflection was never proven to be the source of the slowdowns.
If only I could remember where I left that tiny violin...
How often do you actually have control over the entire process of anything? Even website development, unless you’re going to handle raw TCP sockets, you’re going to build on top of someone else’s tools one way or another. And in a business world, you almost always have to deal with other teams, other people, other priorities. Even when you run a company, not all of your employees and partners can always do things exactly the way you want. Having a flexible tool that works in the real world on real world data on top of real world processes is incredibly valuable.
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"Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 72% of our simulations and we don't think that's an acceptable risk."

They kinda did - that's what GMail/Chat/Docs autosuggest does. You've got canned replies to e-mail, editors that complete your sentences, etc.

It works okay for simple stuff - completing a single sentence or responding "OK, sounds good" to an e-mail that you already agree with. It doesn't work all that well for long-form writing, unless that long-form writing is basically just bullshit that covers up "OK, sounds good". (There's a joke within Google now that the future of e-mail is "OK, sounds good" -> AI bullshit generator -> "Most esteemed colleagues, we have organized a committee to conduct a study on the merits of XYZ and have developed the following conclusions [2 pages follow]" -> AI bullshit summarizer -> "OK, sounds good".)

This is a pretty good summary of the state of LLMs right now. They're very good at generating a lot of verbiage in areas where the information content of the message is low but social conventions demand a lot of verbiage (I've heard of them used to good effect for recommendation letters, for example). They're pretty bad at collecting & synthesizing large amount of highly-precise factual information, because they hallucinate facts that aren't there and often misunderstand the context of facts.
Yes, I use something similar. I keep one in my travel bag, just in case.
> Chatgpt and the likes generate convincing fake news

It's not like fake news was a non-issue before ChatGPT existed. Breitbart, and other fake news sites existed for years before this was even imaginable. Fake graphics were around for ages too, with image manipulation, even before computers. Take for example the Surgeon's Photo of the Loch Ness Monster.
Tacos Moreno's Al Pastor in Santa Cruz was like 50% of the reason I made trips back home.
I've been using biblio.com for the last year or so. I don't really know how it works, but lots and lots of independent bookstores sell books through it.
Github Repo for reference: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
I mean probably not, at least not for a while. Perhaps some charmingly straightforward people have precisely the same persona online and off, no matter the situation, but I suspect most do some amount of code switching. An LLM would be best served in its goal by approximating the persona, which wouldn't translate well. I could be wrong (maybe we "leak" enough that a convincing rendition of the persona would necessarily take into account some amount of interior state) but it seems to me that personality is a convenience adopted for communication.
I don't see mixed messaging. They're pushers, not users.
The problem is generally poorly perceived and expressed by the client, and badly understood by the dev.

So the UI is the best road to build one in collaboration with the client.
Considering Musk has openly endorsed Russia's talking points, his changes don't surprise me. Such a shame to see Twitter destroyed completely.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/07/elon-musk-...
Hypothetical distant future? Lmao

It's already here mate. GPT-4 is human level intelligence however you'd wish to evaluate.

I agree a model of your brain is not strictly speaking you. But it might be close for what someone might want.
Traditionally, security updates had always been free. There's no reason why that can't be the case again.

The problem is that the industry has largely decided to combine security and feature updates into an inseparable whole, which I think is a bad thing both from the customer's point of view and from a security point of view.
True. I just checked the ID cards for a few EU countries, and most of them don't seem to include an address of residence (I checked Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Switzerland). France includes an address too.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/search-by-document-...
This is such an awesome thread, and wanted to thank you all for all the insight you’ve provided. I’ve been helping Kara (joinkara.com) search for a Head of Engineering for a few months now and it sounds like a bunch of you might be great fits for the role :) if you’re interested in building a platform that helps Venture Capital align their capital incentives with their Impact and ESG goals, reach out to me at Nick at modeselekt dot com. I’m still actively searching for this role! All the best out there.
Norwegian living in the UK, and have used Hetzner for years, both via a personal account and more recently via a corporate account (UK company, Norwegian citizen), and it's not been an issue. For one of the other corporate accounts I used it for the managing director at the time (UK company, UK citizen) did have to provide ID, though. Not clear exactly which criteria has been in place when and for whom.
938 crimes per square mile in SF [1] It will never get better, you cannot build a moat big enough to insulate yourself there.

[1] https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
While it's not the group, there is a Github repo which is constantly updated: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love.
Jeez you're range of hearing is capital F Fucked. Did you go to school next to an airport and live backstage at a heavy metal concert? No disrespect.
did you have to say yes to the “trust this computer” question to enable data exchange?
I don't use public chargers, and I use USB condoms for charging my devices even with chargers I own, because basically all the charging devices are made in untrustable supply chains. I thought this was common knowledge, and basically what everyone is doing. Wireless charging helps a lot with this, and I now prefer wireless charging whenever possible. The only devices I connect my devices to using USB are computers I control, I don't cross-contaminate between computers (e.g. anything plugged into my work laptop will never be plugged into a personal system, and vice versa). This is just basic hardware op-sec with USB.
If they were truly state run, they would have been supportive of the past president... which they definitely weren't.
You have to take the context in to account and then it makes more sense.

For example: unskilled labour used to be essentially free. In that case good and cheap meant either training someone (slow) or finding someone who already did it as a hobby (slow because they are hard to find then don’t prioritize your project).

Similarly: the culture it was created in didn’t value “personal time” so doing it yourself over time with a minimal cash budget was considered cheap. Now we’re all pretty familiar with opportunity costs and paying ourselves for sustainability.

Personally, while I feel like this triangle does show it’s age a bit it still serves as an excellent reminder when Those In Charge are trying to justify convincing themselves that they can have all three. Thankfully just that checkin has multiplied more than a few invoices so that there’s enough budget for quality.
> almost everything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost everyone

I disagree really strongly with this. Innovative things look like impractical long shots that have obvious upsides but that violate conventional wisdom around what is possible. The smartphone is a great example of this: it was obviously innovative, and the idea was obviously great before it actually became reality, but the practical limitations of hardware made it impossible until one day it wasn’t. Same for generative language models. The real innovation for both of these things is that some element constraining a good idea changes and someone notices and can act on it decisively.

Some version of the Metaverse has always been possible in one form or another, but no one acts on it because it doesn’t benefit the users it depends on for success. The fundamental limiting factor is participation incentive, and technology doesn’t change that.
> some weird Victorian notion about the capital-T Truth.

Only if neither the patient nor insurance are paying for it. Otherwise that's just straight up grift.
Is hornswoggled a common word in the USA?
> Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early -- I'm sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it'd be towards generative AI.

It's also important to remember that Facebook was staring down the barrel of a bunch of investigations regarding election misinformation and basically tailoring their products to be addictive to teenagers while they internally realized it was harmful. The rebrand was much more about rebranding than meaningfully changing the direction of the company. I think he just figured with ZIRP he could do the direction change as well at 0 risk.
Most likely people who predict failure will say of course Mark managed to make it work because he could afford to throw billions on top of billions after it.

The metaverse is a 10 year bet that involves progress across multiple axes. No-one here can predict the state of progress in ten years.
This argument has been rehashed time and again and it's getting a bit boring: the fact that you can do something at all is qualitatively different from when you can do that same thing at scale.
As an EV owner I see not much reasons to agree, I'm from EU so my point of view might be different but... I almost NEVER charge of public chargers except on highways. I sometimes charge on some sparse public chargers in cities but as a comfy way to have a pack place where no other option is available for the amount of time I need.

Essentially: I have not bought an EV if I can't recharge it at home. No one can have a life on public-charging only, no matter how spread will might became.

IME the real needs for public charging are:

- on highway, for trips longer than the battery range, so fast charge

- similar for long range artery not necessarily highways

- inside parking lot/garage of hotels/other touristic places, for visitors

- casual fast chargers spread just for quick "emergency" charges

In this terms the low level of EU offer is already more than enough, try to do more targeting those who do not own a garage is pointless: they'll never buy EVs until being forced and even in this case they'll probably can't afford them anyway.
command: lift left leg to ~horizontal thigh
control: lift right leg to ~horizontal thigh

So command+control => midair splits?
Yeah but hyperlocal targeting with extremely specific information/metrics was not possible.
Have a company whose business purpose justifies spending company money on servers. Make a profit so you have company money to spend. Spend it on servers. There you go.
The mismatch is that it's disingenuous to apply the label in the US, while not applying it to NBC, ABC, Fox, NYT, WaPo, Sinclair, etc. The US has a microkernel government where most actual power resides with corporations, with the same investors and executives owning the major news sources and shaping their coverage. Ironically, "government funded" NPR and PBS are in many ways actually more independent of the governing power structure. There's a similar blindspot where US culture readily condemns foreign governments with singular dominant parties, while letting our own two party oligopoly (in alignment on most policies) go essentially uncritiqued.

(full disclosure: I'm unable to listen to NPR without falling asleep. That's not meant to be some sort of knock, rather it's just what happens)
I honestly don't mind the "buy current version" as long as the company doesn't prevent you downloading the version you have the license to.

IE years ago I got a vmware workstation license, I bought it at v15, got a v16 update, and I still have access to v16 which works perfectly fine for my use cases.
I'd be curious to hear what Breitbart has faked.
Zuckerburg was always a bit of a hypocrite. "Facebook's mission is to create a more open and transparent world", while simultaneously buying the 4 properties around his Palo Alto estate so that he'd have privacy from the neighbors and general public.
Why is Tilig shutting down? – Tilig
If a doctor gives you a placebo, you only get the placebo effect. If a doctor gives you medicine, you get the placebo effect plus whatever extra benefit the medicine provides.

We already are leveraging the placebo effect, unfortunately we are also doing it in a negative way by highlighting side effects.
This is an illustration about not just placebos but how delusional people are.

These are doctors who were taught to be investigative and logical yet they were so delusional they have to say that you were faking the blood that you were coughing up.

A lot of "logical" people like to rag on cults or religious groups but what they don't understand is that delusion is pervasive. Most humans lie to themselves extensively and you dear reader, are likely not an exception.

Take for example the armies of people who told me AI won't ever take over their jobs and chatGPT is just a stochastic parrot. There is merit to both sides of the debate, but I guarantee you a lot of the hostility against AI comes from delusional lies people tell themselves to cover up a possible future trivializes their job skills. Not trying to start an argument on AI here, but I bring this topic up because it's the most current example of mass delusion I can think of. You have to bring up the current delusion to show people how strong the capacity to lie to oneself is.
From the article:

>Most of NPR's funding comes from corporate and individual supporters and grants. It also receives significant programming fees from member stations. Those stations, in turn, receive about 13 percent of their funds from the CPB and other state and federal government sources.

Also, here's NPR's report on financing: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance.... It also includes breakdowns of member station financing. 8% average from CPB, 5% from other government sources.
I would personally always demand proof of life regardless if fake or real and I would ask my family member to answer a question only they would know the answer to. We would of course have code words ahead of time.

Maybe this is a sad anecdote, but the code phrase my mom and I had for duress was "I love you"
The "fun" thing about the tech in the current state is that it's wrong quite a bit, which puts a cap on how much of a productivity boost it can give any organization that cares about correctness or its reputation; meanwhile, it has nigh-unlimited productivity-boosting promise for organizations that don't care about correctness or reputation.

Which kinds of organizations don't care about correctness or reputation? Scammers, spammers, and certain types of propaganda-spewing organization, especially those that puppeteer "grassroots" campaigns. We may give a single-digit multiplier in productivity to some roles in legitimate business, while giving a two or three digit multiplier to similar roles in harmful, parasitic organizations.
That is not evidence against bad behavior, that is more evidence of bad behavior.

I agree that Musk has not honored his original intent. He has already broken in many ways the transparency pledge and free speech principles.

Yet, these were already broken under previous ownership. We simply see that as continuing.
Show HN: Cross-Platform Automatic Time Tracker, Stopwatch and Pomodoro
Paymo Track automatically records time spent in all desktop apps. At the end of the day, just match the app entries with their corresponding tasks and projects to create your timesheet.
From the article:

> DeStefano found the voice simulation particularly unsettling given that “Brie does NOT have any public social media accounts that has her voice and barely has any,” per a post on the mom’s Facebook account.

> “She has a few public interviews for sports/school that have a large sampling of her voice,” described Brie’s mom.

and

> Then, DeStefano remembered that her 15-year-old daughter Brie was on a ski trip, so she answered the call to make sure nothing was amiss.

No public social media accounts combined with the timing of the fraud happening during a ski trip implies that somebody close to the family was in on it. It's possible that they used the public sports interview and got randomly lucky with the trip timing, but I'd be looking much closer to home for a suspect.
I read it as 'to be cheated'. And I'm nowhere near native level, I think the link for me is the swoggled mentally links it to swindled.
I have always considered the long s in German, English and Greek to simply be a variant form of "s" given that the two are otherwise utterly equivalent.

As for ʒ, it is literally a tailed z, not s, as even your link says.
It's unclear to me if this is an offshoot from that university lab trying to get interest in commercialization of their tech or if it's a content mill setup looking to cash in on this obscure-ish Japanese research lab's robots.

I could believe either and the kind of production fits either to me.
On a recent HN discussion on crime in SF, someone said one of the reasons it's so visible is that high income and low income sections are adjacent and intertwined. Is this true? More importantly if perhaps more crassly, is it worth it? Does not keeping your crime isolated to the "bad part of town" result in a meaningful drop in the overall crime rate?
What percentage would you add to account for crimes? That are not reported?
Yup, reason why we stay in AWS
... That is an interesting point. I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising developer hooks up an LLM to a HN account with the instructions to "blend in while promoting X". Maybe that AI already exists... It wouldn't take more than a day.
I'm also more on the negative side because I'm really not convinced by the whole "AI will just automate/remove the boring aspects of life". Every single prototype capability of current AI points in the direction of a worst-case scenario of overall misery.
Heh, I used to joke that in Go it's safer because I know where the compiler team sits, but I think there's also a fundamental design reason: the Go compiler has speed as a primary goal. I don't know if that's still true, but there used to be a rule of thumb that a new optimization had to speed up the compiler enough to make up for its cost to be added. It's unlikely that unwinding bit masks into branches would be worth adding.

Anyway, we're not moving all cryptography to assembly anytime soon, and I'm positive that would not be a net increase in security, even if it would mitigate the hypothetical risk of compiler-introduced side-channels.
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Was literally wondering about that while watching a Netflix show. Nothing can be trusted.
Proof of identity is going to be a huge opportunity.

Images, text and voice can now be spoofed with minimal cost and effort. With the progress of deepfakes and text to video, how much longer until you can spoof video calls?

Meeting in person is not practical in many scenarios.

Anyone know of any promising ideas or companies in this space of digital trust?
just move

SF will probably never be "solved"

people have been trying to "solve" SF since the 90s, it has only become worse every year

SF has to hit total Haiti-grade rock-bottom before it can be repaired, maybe in five years

until then, just go somewhere else and live your life
Last time I used GraalVM, there were huge holes in what language features were supported, compiling dynamic code was hit-or-miss, and also its cross-compilation story was not good (requires you to compile it on the target architecture). Perhaps my information is out-of-date now?
It doesn't.

It includes a survey based owners equivalent rents (OER), and a separate measure for tenant rents. Home prices used to be a factor in CPI calculations, but haven't been for decades now. It can be argued that rent is more relevant than valuations, since values fluctuate with rates... but ignoring valuations arguably allows asset bubbles to form more readily, which has its own downstream consequences.

In general, the CPI is not well suited to its purpose as the data is highly lagged. There are public rent measures that are much more real time, and would allow Fed to act more readily on current data.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
> I agree that the issues you listed are indeed real and challenging, but I also think that the media's heavy reliance on the "intelligence community" making claims as evidence when there is none is a more pressing one.

I totally agree that an over-emphasis on "access" leads to inaccurate reporting. You're certainly right to tie that to the invasion of Iraq.

But I don't think there's any evidence that the US military is running domestic psyops, and certainly if they were doing so it would not be via unpaid internships.

Of course there are broader problems. A lack of trust in the media and a lack of attention span--no doubt driven by social media intermediation and a lack of accountability for individual publishers--reduces incentives to get stories correct, and increases incentives to get stories. A public that misunderstands the role of reporters thinks analysis equals bias and is obsessed with up-to-the-minute stories, and high production values--the latter of which can only be afforded in large metro and national markets, leading to a hollowing out of local content.

These aren't original observations, of course. But they are indeed real problems. I think they have very little to do with the prospect of Pentagon psyops, which, frankly, are unnecessary given the underlying structural flaws.
Perhaps I misunderstood the OP, but isn't that exactly what he was doing? That's how I interpreted "it didn’t auto-renew and you could keep using the last version forever".
There’s a fair amount of signal processing going on inside a GPS device.

Modern GPS chips only need around 25mW apparently - older chips can pull 100mW though. Scanning needs a bit more power than tracking.
For comparison, here's an AWS a1.large instance (2cpus, 4GB ram) YABS benchmark I just ran

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/12932/8ba27254846072a43b0...