skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to admit, there's a lot of crap on this page. But...

They do provide reasonable contrasts for all text on the page.

The text is a reasonable size.

Which is honestly better than most websites, especially technology sites.

That said, it would be nice if they supported readers though, or directly linked to their "gem text" (pure ascii) site. Putting blame on the browsers for the site's design choices is lazy.
Being an Illinois company is irrelevant once they actively choose to do business in Colorado. You have to follow the law wherever you go; so do companies.

Pulling out entirely is one possible answer, but something less than that (like advertising and servicing without selling directly) could be enough to bring a company within the state's jurisdiction. The Supreme Court decided a similar case a couple years ago, Ford Motor Co. v. Montana. In that case Ford was selling in-state, but hadn't sold those particular vehicles there.
That's a really interesting question!

I haven't yet gained access to the enhanced chat features with image outputs. I'm using the API with default parameters, with the gpt-4-0314 model, outputting SVG.

It's not a perfect experiment, but we'll see how it gets on over time.
Easy for you to say safe in your shelter! How about going to the front lines or sending your sons?
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Hi everyone, member of the Livebook team here.

We’ve been investing a lot in making Elixir great for data exploration.

Today we’re taking one step further in this journey by contributing to the Explorer library and integrating it with Livebook.

Explorer is an Elixir dataframe library built on top of Polars (from Rust) and inspired by dplyr (from R).

Its integration with Livebook (open-source code notebook for Elixir) makes it easier to explore and transform dataframes interactively.

Let me know if you have questions about these new features or anything related to Livebook’s launch week. :)
It's not what DevOps mean
I gave this a try and it’s really pretty cool. Something I am looking for is the ability to have a debate with someone who purely uses logical fallacies. It would be interesting if the AI could take on a persona like that and only give logically false arguments. This would help me recognize these fallacies in real arguments.
How about if you have set aside four hours for a literature review, and you use LLM assistance in the first hour to narrow down the best options for things to spend the next three hours diving deeper into?
I take it as the structure being anchored in the training data. But while current models may not extrapolate beyond the boundaries of the training data[0], my understanding is that the training data itself defines points in the latent space, and those points cluster together over time (the point of doing this in the first place), and otherwise the space is quite sparse.

The latent space doesn't represent the set of things in the training data, but rather a (sub)set of things possible to express using bits of training data. That's a very large space, and full of areas corresponding to thoughts never thought or expressed by humans, yet still addressable - still able to be interpolated. Now, there's a saying that all creativity is just novel way of mashing up things that came before. To the extent that is true, an ML model exploring the latent space is creative.

So I guess what I'm saying is, in your "2x" example, you can ask AI what is between 2 and 3, and it will interpolate you f(2.5)=5, and this was not in the training data, and this is creativity, because almost all human inventiveness boils down to poking at fractions between 1 and 3, and only rarely someone manages to expand those boundaries.

It may not sound impressive, but that's because the example is a bunch of numbers on a number line. Current LLMs are dealing with points in couple hundred thousand dimensional space, where pretty much any idea, any semantic meaning you could identify in the training data, is represented as point proximity along some some of those dimensions. Interpolating values in this space is pretty much guaranteed to yield novelty; the problem is that most of the points in that space are, by definition, useless nonsense, so you can't just pick points at random.

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[0] - Is it really impossible? In pedestrian-level math I'm used to, the difference between interpolation and extrapolation boil down to a parameter taking arbitrary values, instead of being confined to the [0...1] range.
Probably trying to copy the "cool"/snarky PR approach of dbrand[1] or Ryanair[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1626716812128952320

[2] https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1569268623235231748
https://utopia.fyi/blog/designing-with-fluid-type-scales

This is a good write up of using clamp and fluid type
They are - I believe they’re electric rather than electronic, and theoretically can be powered by a hand crank. They also use a neat trick of a tube filled with ball bearings with a one ball gap so only one key can be pressed at a time (it fills the gap while pressed).
> WebGPU released recently and provided big speedups to GPU intensive use cases.

On the contrary.

WebGL was going to get OpenGL ES compute shaders, contributed by Intel three years ago. Google blocked the effort with the reasoning WebGPU compute was around the corner. Again three years ago!

Due to politics between browser vendors, we have now yet another shading language to learn, and because Rust is fashionable, naturally it moves away from classical shading languages into a more Rust like syntax.

It arrived six years too late, so it represents Vulkan, Metal, DirectX when they were released in their version 1.0.

Still it doesn't fix the issue that after 10 years of WebGL, there is no reasonable debugging story and no Web games that can match PlayStation 3 graphics.
Camera wonking is great, but if you don’t like any AI art, that suggests you are rejecting the concept out of hand.

Being so low-barrier, there is naturally a flood of images from beginners who are just futzing around. But, I hear a common refrain that sounds to me like “DeviantART.com has millions of sketches from bored 13 year olds. Therefore I don’t consider pencil to be an artistic medium.”

I’d be interested in your opinions of the works of https://twitter.com/rainisto
Here's one in action: https://youtu.be/KnPBWru2Ecg?t=417
I still don't get the argument.

> And the alternative is to have to pay lawyers every time I want to start a business on the web?

I thought it was pretty commonplace to hire a lawyer to draft various application, bylaws, policies and stuff like that when founding a company, online or not.

> Yes because reading and interpreting an 11 chapter 99 section law is really simple…

GDPR really is very simple at the core: you are not allowed to collect personal information, unless. 99% of it are definitions of those exceptions.
I'd imagine you can set things up where at least that would be logged, no?

It also doesn't mean that these LLM tools would be any less secure than other tools (and I'm generally a sceptic of these tools, for what it is worth).
> Congratulations on your success!

That is very kind of you, thank you.

> What did "getting it out there" consist of for you? How did you get it out there in the beginning?

For Scanii in particular, the original product was a thin wrapper around an open source AV engine, a hacked on a weekend UX, and a credit card processing integration to collect payment - the very minimal needed to find out if _anyone_ was willing to pay for this service.

With that said, what worked for me in this case is not what I would focus here since it depends on what kind of business you are trying to build. What I do believe is important is focusing on the economics of your space which, for IT, is all about productivity or, more succinctly, saving people's time - they pay you X for something that could cost them, in terms of people's time, Y to do.

So, what you want to ask yourself is whether signing up, paying and onboarding onto your product (the X in the equation above) is significantly lower than the next best alternative, either doing the same on a competitor product or building something themselves - the Y above.

For scanii, even at launch it saved people lots of time managing and operating malware detection engines which are cumbersome and hard to keep up to date. I had a feeling that would be the case when I launched but I couldn't be sure until our first customer voted with their credit card.
When we used Sidekiq in production, not only did I never see crashes that lost us jobs, but there are also ways to protect yourself from that. I highly recommend writing your jobs to be idempotent.
Right, give me even one practical use for blockchain, beyond Dunning-Krugerrand.
That's a popular argument that falls apart when you look at the aggregate level of material wealth on this planet. Using GDP per capita as a passable proxy: current world GDP per capita is around $12k afaik, which is about where Mongolia and Indonesia are. Considering high level of inequality there (when you go there as a tourist, you're exposed to the wealthiest part of the society, and we're talking about the average), do you think people would be happy to freeze their consumption on that level? Or even lower, because most people talking about "over-consumption" also think that the current level of consumption is unsustainable?

To make things worse, there are also embedded emissions. You can see it with China, coming out of poverty requires infrastructure expenditure, which means "wealth averaged out" would be even worse than the average would suggest, as you can't average sewers and highways, you have to build them anew.

There is just not enough wealth on this planet as it currently is. When you're saying "they'll be happy far below the most conspicuous of over-consumption", it actually means "worse than an average citizen of Mongolia, forever", which doesn't sound as enticing, does it
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The model being used is `gpt-4` but each result records the model that was used to generate the output. With incremental updates, the model will change automatically. This is to support incremental updates without needing anything from me. :)
What a feeling to actually belong to something larger than yourself.
> LLMs are so hyped and written about these days

It's because it shattered every AI engineer. The work they were previously doing was over night made irrelevant.
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Do coupons for your hosting provider count as payment?
yes, me too
for those interested in this also check out massscan for another port scan tool.
They're working together. Youtube algorithms compute the most likely influencer that is going to occupy your attention and serve you advertisements in the process.

"Nobody is addicted to ads" is true if you think only about the pop-ups and couple-second videos as "ads" - but the concept of advertisements is much wider than that. Some adverisements may not even be presented as such - they may be presented as "useful content", but which is chosen above other such useful content by the virtue of being paid for to the advertising company.
I mean it gets exhausting. We had Covid (and Q), Musk taking over Twitter, war in Ukraine, fear of war in Taiwan, ... accelerated climate change and so on. There are real limits to how many things one can be upset about.
Of course, what you do is publish plenty of different hashes on the block chain(s) of your choice. Then you can later reveal what you feel like.
> And that lakes are uncontroversially fresh water by definition?

As someone who grew up next to the Great Salt Lake, this is not uncontroversial!
13 billion, and a total valuation of 29b, which could be leveraged as well.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/etfs-to-gain-on-microsofts-%...
Basically the ultimate goal is that Chrome turns into a kernel agnostic version of ChromeOS.
Sure, but the costs of code duplication are well known. We know it increases maintenance, and can sometimes lead to issues if you forget to update one or another of something, and so on.

So there can be an assumption that deduplicating removes costs, when it may, but it may also create further ones. That removing something can make some things more difficult, isn't intuitive for everyone.

Like all things programming, their is a balance, pros and cons, of each approach. Knowing when to use which approach, that's part of the profession, and everybody can get it wrong sometimes. And the environment can change, and the choice may become invalidated - and then you get stuck with the hard choice of changing abstraction, or keeping the same. And that's a hard choice, as well.

Nothing in coding comes for free, but sometimes it can look like it does.
> how can I trust the output to not be hallucinated?

You can't, not absolutely. You can have some level of confidence, like 99.99%, which is probably good enough tbh (and I'm a sceptic of these tools) and honestly, it is probably better than a human, on average, at this!

But if that is a deal-killer (and it sometimes is!) then yeah, sorry - there aren't workarounds here.
Author here: these images are using `gpt-4` but I'm recording the specific model that OpenAI use with each result. As the incremental updates come out, that will change (without requiring me to change anything.)
Rather than reasoned, such a tip may be useful—if one wishes to speak or write about what one has read without giving an odd or unintended impression.
Very cool story! How did you grow the group? Was it all through word of mouth from your initial seed group of friends?
San Francisco police arrest tech consultant in killing of founder Bob Lee
Anyone old enough to still remember the opening of UFO episodes (1970)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdI-F4-7jM

SHADO

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ......

ALIEN DEFENCE ORGANIZATION ...

SECRET LOCATION .... BENEATH FILM STUDIO
I also came up with the optimal solution in 3 seconds, because for my side “hustle” I work on scrabble apps all night and compressed tries are an integral part of move generation.
Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence
Sure, Australia the continent and country have the same name.
This seems interesting but I don't have time to read, can someone TLDR?
The article is ignoring proportion here: while fresh water is scarce, 700,000 liters of water is insignificant (like, one millionth of one day's fresh water use for North America).

To offer some scale: 700,000 liters is a shallow half-acre pond.

Finally, fresh water is often discussed as a limited resource, but it is only scarce in places where is it is scarce. In many locations it is naturally renewed faster than it can be used.
The former yes. The expectation is that updates will start to become more and more iterative over time. For this reason, I record the specific version that is pegged to the generic `gpt-4` model.
What are the best lucid dreaming techniques?
Latest Xcode 14.3 supports building applications that target macOS 10.13.

https://developer.apple.com/support/xcode/

While Zig is not even 10.15.

andrewrk commented Feb 17, 2023 •
macOS 10 is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore also no longer supported by Zig. You have to use one of the latest 3 versions or else your system is not being patched for security vulnerabilities, and likewise zig does not provide support for cross compiling to anything less than the latest 3 versions.
https://ziglang.org/download/0.10.0/release-notes.html#macOS

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14651#issuecomment-143...
Spanish climber leaves cave after 500 days in isolation
On the contrary, for forms over data they are more than alive.

At work we only target mobile devices via the Web.
> And so what if you sign the EXIF data. That only really guarantees that version of the image. If you adjust the saturation or curves or exposure... or correct for some lens aberration does that EXIF information still match the resulting photo? For that matter, what if you crop it to a square from a rectangle or stitch two images into a panorama?

Oh, that's actually possible with cryptographic techniques. Very exciting!

See eg https://medium.com/@boneh/using-zk-proofs-to-fight-disinform... or http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/photoproof-oakland16....

Of course, the analog hole stays wide open.
I saw it happening too. The search result was empty.
Ahh, I see. So you are receiving donations. Royalties to me mean payments that are required not voluntary.
South Korea is paying ‘lonely young people’ $500 a month to re-enter society
Have you watched this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ

(You don't have to, of course. An hour-long video recommended by a stranger on the internet is a big ask)

There's a ton of evidence that this is moving way faster than people think. I don't think there's anything particularly special about human intelligence. And time and time again, we've been able to copy things that nature does and make them way more powerful, like planes vs birds. It does the same thing, but in a completely different way. It would be surprising if we couldn't do it with brains.

I feel like a lot of people are not going to admit that we have already created AGI until we literally have an unstoppable AI that has taken over everything. It's not human level everywhere, but it's way better than humans in a lot of ways. It's never going to be exactly human, it'll work differently than we do. But if you count intelligence as the ability to achieve goals, which is how most researchers do, then we're already pretty much there.
The go to is still Emacs with CIDER however, there are many who are using Visual Studio or Cursive [1]

[1]: https://cursive-ide.com/
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Hardly, feudalism runs into span of control issues. Its rise and fall around the world coincides with a specific mix of agricultural practice and at most light industry.

Thus not all economic systems are compatible with an educated workforce which means they aren’t orthogonal.
It would be great if it existed at all: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/apr/15...
Examining the association between tree canopy, parks and crime in Chicago (2017)
I have lots of foreign coworkers and enjoy going to restaurants we find. No one sits there and complains about how this doesn’t taste exactly right so what’s the point in trying something new.
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I don't know how to put it nicely. You are sinking into a diseased swamp of illusion that is killing your soul, and what's worse you are trying to spread this mortal disease to people who are unsuspecting or weak to resist it.

What you have created is a plague upon humanity and the world. Please don't do this.
We'd be better off moving away from areas where it is so hot that it requires a lot of energy to stay cool, also areas where it is so cold that it requires a lot of energy to stay warm.
Yeah, haven't tested it but I assume this would work for realistic cartoon/cgi characters?

Maybe the researchers didn't want to freak out anyone who does 2D animation? "Hey everyone, look at this toy we made that would never be used to animate anything but toy doodles. No one's 2D animation jobs are being replaced here - this project would never do that!"
Thank you! That really helped
me understand this issue.

I got ChatGPT Code Interpreter to generate an example for me:

a = 0.1
b = 0.2
c = 0.3
result1 = (a + b) + c
result2 = a + (b + c)
(result1, result2, result1 == result2)

Output:

(0.6000000000000001, 0.6, False)
Correctness is also a concern. You can be sure that a program you write will do that, but you can't be sure that the LLM will do that correctly every time.
You're nitpicking an irrelevant detail. Expand "ads" in my comment to "screen time" (for the sake of serving ads) generally and the "despised" counterargument falls apart. The whole point of my comment is that brilliant minds are working on making stuff more addictive to people, instead of making the world a better place.
That is the beauty of the model, that it can understand what a unicorn looks like, and then know roughly where to place the features. Currently we're seeing poor results due to safety tuning but in time, it'll be very interesting to see how it improves.

There are a few factors at play here: knowing what a unicorn looks like, knowing the different areas of a unicorn, being able to translate that into a 2D space, and being able to form the connection between code (language) and appearance.
Why are interviews before evaluating a candidate?

It's possible but much harder to misrepresent things face-to-face.
Do you have any plans providing a Mandarin version of this?
Engineers build them for big corps and ecommerce sites.

The respective users, specially the corporate ones, have no alternative other than using them.
Speculating: a few of the related images have electrical wiring in them, could be both a literal interpretation as well as a metaphoric one.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWMXGLIVEp/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqd1CKOI7d3/
> I'd love to believe in God, a superior power, benevolent aliens, re-incarnation, anything! The problem is that I just can't, no matter how much I try.

I hope people here don't get tired of my self-cite about how I came around to a sort of agnosto-theism: https://www.questioningchristian.org/2005/05/why_i_call_myse...
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> A set of additional measures concern the availability of tools to enable data subjects, including non-users, to obtain rectification of their personal data as generated incorrectly by the service, or else to have those data erased if rectification was found to be technically unfeasible.

Never gonna happen. This basically says it is illegal if an AI system is not completely factual about a real person. That's ridiculous in my opinion.
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I think rather it's more dangerous that it does romance scams. I've seen so many transcripts of people being seduced by ChatGPT in intellectual ways. There was that guy who tried to play go against ChatGPT but did few enough moves that it never tried to put a stone somewhere someone had already put a stone (the only way to absolutely fail to play go.) He tried to make it draw the board and it was totally wrong. It praised his moves for being strong, etc.

You could see him having so much fun and starting to fall in love with the thing, if it could maintain that kind of emotional state in someone for 20 hours it could have them eating out of its hands.
lp0: printer on fire.
Spain, at least at my time was the same. The Continents were Asia, Africa, America (North and South as one) , Europe, Oceania.
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Yeah thats a 5 second exercise for anybody who ever came to contact with ie Midjourney output, fingers here have various usual bugs.

Honestly I believe author did include this on purpose, since its very well known shortcoming at this point. He could have done image without fingers displayed and then nobody would have a clue. But clearly judges are oblivious to recent development in some too-old-for-this-shit fashion, so they didnt pick it up and then embarassed themselves.
I mean, Pluto is definitely still a planet in the cultural imagination. There can be exceptions to rules. Even if there are some exoplanets that resemble Pluto, we can still say that Pluto is a planet and those other nameless things aren't.
Link is to sign up for a webcast.
Yeah, I actually thought it had been posted more recently (in the last 5 years) with a bigger discussion thread, but I couldn't find it. Interesting regardless!
Now that is an interesting thought!