skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really spot-on, I agree this is the most important issue with inherent limitations of LLMs: not LLMs themselves and what they are supposed to do, but how a lot of people do not understand the limits of language and equating human knowledge and experience with language and "what has already been written". Tbh I find it quite disappointing from an intellectual/philosophical perspective that so many people think that the realm of human experience can be reduced to communicative language (and even more to "what has already been written in the internet") thus equating human creativity with LLMs' creativity.

My fear is that people may not realise/care about this issue till it is too late (eg when journalism degrades to "the same article is written over and over"). The reason is that the bulk of "human creativity" is in fact reducible to what LLMs do: building a standard website, a lot of "creative writing" and art in general is to a big part not "innovation" that comes from experience (and in general from non-written-linguistic domains), at least in a lot of fields. I am afraid that because the bulk of work for a lot of fields is like that, especially exactly that kind of boring, repeatitive work that gives most of the money to survive and AI is better than humans at (ie cheaper), we may even risk having degradation on many fields that we may not even be able to notice.
Mike Perham's Sidekiq was what I modeled my own business, EmailEngine, after. I took my decade's worth of expertise in email protocol implementations (I also run the open-source Nodemailer library) and built an email gateway app my customers can download and run on their machines or servers. Just like Sidekiq Pro, the customers need an active subscription to run it, but the app runs on their premises, and they maintain it. I only run the key generation and validation server, which costs me around $50 per month, including all the backups and so on.

I quit my job to go full in with EmailEngine exactly one year ago, when MRR for EmailEngine was $500, now it is $3,900 and steadily growing. I do work full time on it, but the result is async - the work I put into EmailEngine today brings me income sometime later, and the recurring income I receive today is unrelated to any effort I put into the company right now.
this reminds me of being scolded as an ADHD child for not cleaning enough... and really the only solution to my mind if I got the same result either way was to give up entirely.
Does this mean the Heardle developers will be tasked elsewhere, like writing that AirPlay 2 integration they've had the ability to do for well over a year now, instead of a stupid widget for our iPhone lockscreens that doesn't even do what people want it to?
when things go badly enough with someone all you can do is shrug and walk away

Unfortunately, some people can't shrug and walk away. You can't walk away from racism; you carry your face with you. You can't walk away from an abusive home if you have no money. You can't shrug off the next blow when you're a victim of violence.

Being able to shrug and walk away is an ability to be treasured. Not everybody has it.
Linux/Qutebrowser, had to use firefox to access the site. Some sites won't work even in firefox unless I use private window.
I wrote a coffee table photobook that includes some of those.

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

You may find that the bibliography cites slightly different dates:

https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf

For example, dinosaurs died out around 66.04 ± 0.05 Ma.
Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”
Guinness world records is a publicity/marketing company, not a record keeping company.
There are specific criterion for fair use: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/. None of them are process specific. Maybe bone up on the law rather than getting yourself in any deeper.
sounds like the best way to describe you and your feelings about this subject is: incontinent!
It's also a viable business if that business needs grunts willing to do the types of things that would land them on the FBI watchlist.
I believe H1 employer data is public [1], and many sites make it more accessible. For example, [2] [3]

1- https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe...

2- https://www.myvisajobs.com/

3- https://h1bgrader.com/
Weak typing? No, it's not. R is a strongly typed language.

> 1 + "string"

Error in 1 + "str" : non-numeric argument to binary operator
This.

I'm already doing kinda the same work with 2 established ecommerce B2B industry businesses, one in US and one in my country, and I'm getting payed a percentage of the gross profit from online sales & leads.

We have a competitive advantage because no competitor on these sectors has an "in-house" dev for ecommerce ops.
Because they're making it available to someone else, who (unlike you) is authorized to connect from anywhere in the world.
Your move, Aaron Rodgers.
On the original article I commented: Bitcoin mining requires special devices (ASICs). These ASICs would lose their value if Bitcoin lost its value. Given this fact, why would anyone rent them out, or rent out the hash power?[1]

This article points to a website "mining rig rentals"[2]. While the website talks about mining bitcoin or alt-coins the main pitch seems to be that if "you never have to monitor pricing or find the new hot coin to mine as you will always be competitively priced and paid by us" which is only relevant for general miners that can mine different alt-coins.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35544416

[2]: https://www.miningrigrentals.com/
> What's the worst that'll happen?

It depends on how bad you are at following rules #1 (be attractive) and #2 (don't be ugly). If poorly enough, then even a coffee invite will get you fired with a sexual harassment suit following you around for the rest of your life.
You might want to look at 1990s micropayments work like Millicent and Peppercoin.
You... can? If you want to make cheese at home, the first step is usually buying non-homogenized milk from the grocery.
If it's flowing water there is no risk.
I don't know or care about Business Insider, but if you are going to try diminish a source's credibility by calling it propaganda, at least spell the word correctly.
Apparently so is antifreeze? (Exaggerating the possible health outcomes for effect - I'm aware they aren't comparable.)
The article doesn't say they never left the cave during this time. It does mention them surviving by eating dates and the fruit of the carob tree which likely means they left their hiding place in the cave upon occasion to gather them.
The fact they don't track how much has to be thrown away is a problem, it could be none and the program is just continued.
Thats a factor as well. I guess the relative work depends on how good you are at finding and shooting them. If you do 10 hunts to find a pig, that changes the picture. I have a abysmal sucess rate hunting pig.
the question was intended to spark introspection

the simple answer is that people copy. there are too many infinite permutations to incentivize reinventing the wheel.

a newer example being how ChatGPT simply showed people what product market fit is, various people and organizations had similar AI products and just didn't know that's what would hit. Google was sitting on one for years earlier its engineers were too busy getting finessed by it. Suddenly Google sees "oh, thats what we can do with it" and now Bard is out.

Its the same with UX patterns.
>We're probably at least a few steps away from that currently, but how many?

Lets say you are an IT specialist in charge of a data center. Given a single chat box with an LLM on the other end, what would have to occur for you to give it access to the systems?

Because thats what it would take for AI to start taking over computer systems. Computers arent black boxes where some amount of correct input results in an exploit. Its totally possible to have a fully secure system.
First of all, this is certainly impressive and inspirational!

I've been toying with the idea of writing a compiler from scratch for years, problem is I worry too much about optimization. With a simple code generator that isn't at all competitive with hand-written assembly, I'd want it to at least run on the kind of machine that such simple compilers have been historically written on. Like, say, a PC with 640K of RAM at most.

>So how much RAM does it use, exactly? Well… I didn’t realize this until after finishing the project, but in fact around 40 GB. I commend the brilliant engineers of Linux for designing an operating system kernel that can deal with people like me.

Wow. The latest Linux kernel source tree is 1.5 GB - multiply that by 16 if you stored it all in memory as a linked list of 64 bit chars, and it would still only account for about half of that! Shows the cost of abstraction, if the compiler where written in an imperative language you could easily get away with never deallocating anything.

>Name mangling

This shouldn't be required at all when you don't need to use an external linker? Maybe for debugging, but I suspect there is a lot of unnecessary use of strings where a pointer to some AST node would do.

>Assembler

AT&T syntax: just say no! I'd also recommend reading the Intel/AMD docs instead of a summary on some random website; at least enough to understand when the SIB byte is actually required. The best introduction would probably be the 80386 manual, since it's the first version of 32-bit x86 and the instruction set is a lot smaller. Then move on to a recent version to see what is different in 64 bit mode.

>Difference between syscalls and libc, and ELF32/64

Here's where UNIX culture is actively hostile towards any language not based on C and the "standard" toolchain. Really, it's hard to find any other explanation other than that they want to make it as difficult as possible to escape from that ecosystem.

Linux is still better than others, in that it at least has a stable kernel ABI, but the documentation is terrible. The assumption is that you only call the kernel through the wrapper functions in libc, which may do extra things you wouldn't want unless your goal was C compatibility, and the differences are barely (and incompletely) mentioned in the manpages.

A lot of it is not documented at all, it's all in include files that are themselves included from somewhere else, sometimes multiple levels deep. And /usr/include/asm-generic/unistd.h is an outright trap, the comment at the top (at least on my Debian system) states that it is based on x86-64 but the syscall numbers appear to be fictitious.
> there's a Chkalov Drive in Vancouver WA

Eyyy that's the Freddies I used to do most of my shopping at.
Most writers on the subject of AI killeveryoneism do not worry much about the torture scenario: their big worry is "merely" that everyone will be killed, probably so quickly and efficiently that most people won't ever know what hit them.

No one knows how to make an AI or and AGI that cares what Sam Altman wants or that can be controlled by Sam Altman. (Corollary: it matters very little what Sam Altman's intentions are, only whether he continues to use his wealth and influence to accelerate AI research.) The first publication on how to aim an AI (as opposed to merely training an AI) came out in 2001. Since then people have made careers out of studying the question -- and the field has not made a lot of progress.

The first AI much smarter than the collective smarts of the human race will almost certainly care about some random thing (which BTW is very unlikely to be what its creators believe and hope it will care about) that has nothing to do with humans -- because the field of AI will continue to the end to not have any idea how to make an AI that wants to be nice or to be nasty to the humans or some particular human.

So, "good news": your death will probably be quick and fairly painless.
Tell HN: Google Search redesign mixes tabs and suggestions
Tabs like images, videos and news look just like suggestions for similar searches, and they're all mixed in on the same bar. I hate this change so much.

(Not everyone might be seeing this, I have no idea if/how they A/B test and release these designs).
Naturally. It's being advertised on social media.
I am distinctly more skeptical, I find it implausible that these scenes would be given their centricity and word count and "rich detail" were they there merely a necessary evil to construct an argument or move the plot. There is no shortage of celebrated examples of literature treating the grotesque, violent, dehumanizing, painful, etc... without lingering on it. The abhorrent can be evoked without fetishization. :/
Exactly. It is already in toothpaste, so adulterating drinking water has a negligible health impact.

Water is an essential resource. We really shouldn't be messing with it. Just deliver it to the customer as pure as possible.
So, to be clear, this is absolutely a case of these businesses making choices they know are harmful but are technically legal, and is bad.

But I wonder if in the long term adding trace amounts of common allergens to many foods is a viable strategy? I read recently that exposing kids to trace amounts of peanuts at a young age drastically cuts down on peanut allergies.

Maybe a better strategy is to make a pill with tiny amounts of common allergens (shellfish, peanut butter, sesame, celery, etc) and encourage parents to feed it to their kids daily?
Open source ML algorithm unblurs the cosmos
They purposefully underspecify the definition so that they can use their discretion.
While I agree this borders on the literally insane, that line of thinking starts down a slippery slope. At what point do we consider any religious beliefs that have deleterious effects on oneself to be mental illness? I still believe in self-determination, even if that determination leads to killing oneself.
Could be the chlorine. With some of my plants, I used to decant water into an a pitcher and let it off-gas for a day or two and then use that to water the plants.
> under federal labeling rules

Anyone know what the specific regulation is? Seems the article missed an opportunity to provide actionable information instead of the usual doomsaying
For the same reason that walking around pulling on car door handles might be considered “suspicious behavior”
About the only thing it doesn't work for is insulin, which is a bit of a pity.
I am asking for the opposite, i.e. keep everything as is and only add 2-300 lines of zig.

In particular, I explicitly don't want to rewrite 15000 lines of build system code, so anything that uses build.zig is a nonstarter.
I have walked away from racism on multiple occasions.

Obviously if someone is actively striking you or detaining you that's a different category, which is well outside the context of my comment.
what specifically is abhorrent about it?
Cougar are far more effective at hunting them than any group of entitled Elmer Fudds. It should be illegal to hunt cougar, and they should be reintroduced back to everywhere they were extirpated. But there's also a sense of what's been happening with coyote, which is the more they are hunted, the more pressure is put on them to proliferate, i.e. the more coyote hunters kill, the more coyote there will be. It may very well be far more effective to TNR or haze feral pigs, no matter how much fun killing things is.
I've often wondered how "clean" water from a dehumidifier would be, since it's basically just distilled water.
>> current life as a IT/IP consultant

Lol. If you are going to get personal, at least read to the end of the bio. I am 100% definitely not any form of IT consultant.
> raw water off roof runoff

Isn't that basically puddle water? Would he drink from a muddy water puddle after it rains? What's the logic here.
It's not the only source. In fact it was water coming out of a concrete box located on private property.

And the trendy part is that it's not isolated to this location or these people: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfilter...
Yeah I'm not one of those "COVID is less deadly than the flu!1!1!" people or anything, but the reporting is so terrible for COVID that these numbers are very probably vastly over estimated (some European countries and some US states) and vastly under reported at the same time (China).

On the over estimated part, many many deaths are reported as COVID related even if COVID had nothing to do with their death or other factors caused their death.
> To be fair, he announced that he was going to launch an “anti-woke” AI effort after having a falling-out with OpenAI (...)

By "falling-out" you mean he tried to take over OpenAI but failed. Musk even tried to claim OpenAI "had fallen fatally behind Google" to validate his takeover.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
Please don’t do this. Your comment history has quite a few violations of the guidelines[0].

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Maybe bone up on the law rather than getting yourself in any deeper.

we're not talking about fair use here buddy
Heck the well water I drank growing up was naturally fluorinated.
Nothing? It's a classic supply chain attack.

The same goes for pypi, npm, crates.io, docker.com, github, chrome extensions, etc.

Generally it comes down to trusted authors/package names. Many people trust `requests` from pypi. That being said even this doesn't prevent the package to be sold, or hacked, or from the owner later adding things, or a 3rd party sneaking something in via a PR. Some like docker (and technically most git based ones because of md5) can have specific tags changed at any time, so you could later add a malicious package to version 3.0.4 or whatever.

Many package managers (mostly linux ones) include key-signing, some package managers also have built-in scanners. Preferably you proxy/cache versions you need, and have a way to audit version upgrades - but in reality it's a lot of work to do properly.

Recent example of `pytorch` nightly on pypi accidentally having a dependancy named `torchtriton` that I think was name squatting? Anyway installing the pytorch nightly between December 25th to 30th would result in your home directory being uploaded, etc. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pytorch-discl...

EDIT: That said if anyone from supabase reads this - I'd love to see GPG signing, version hashing/integrity verification, 2FA if it's not their already, and I know this one is a lot of extra work - but any type of automated even cursory glance for malicious code.
Twitter is operating at breakeven and could turn profitable in matter of months
Oh and when we did buy a car, they now have a “contract” you have to agree to that basically says “you can’t exercise your rights under the CA lemon law”. What fun!
Hopefully you are joking because this is 100% false.
One way if you seldom do it: Compose new email in gmail and it appears in the draft. Go to the other computer and you see it.
Never-mind toothpaste, I want to know if they drink tea?
> if a model knows about rooms and doors and floorplans, there's no obvious reason why it mightn't think up an arrangement of those things that would be novel to the people who trained it.

Once again, you're missing the point.

In 16th century people also knew about floors, and rooms, and floorpalns. And yet, the first architect to use a coridor used it for the first time in 1597.

What other "corridors" are missing from LLMs' training data? And we're sure it can come up with such a missing concept?

The Othello paper and the examples (are you referring to the example of coming up with new words?) are doing the same thing: they feed the model well-defined pre-established rules that can be statistically combined. The "novel ideas" are not even nearly novel because, well, they follow the established rules.

Could the model invent reversi/othello had it not known about it beforehand? Could the model invent new words (or a new language) had it not known about how to do that beforehand (there's plenty of research on both)? Can it satisfactorily do either even now (for some definition of satisfactorily)?

People believe it can only because the training set is quite vast and the work done is beyond any shadow of the doubt brilliant. That is why the invention of new words seems amazing and novel to many people while others even with a superficial armchair knowledge of linguistics are nonplussed. And so on.
North and South America are isthmi
And that's probably why you're talking to yourself.
> My second expectation is that residential CA solar is almost entirely in places that don't get "winter" - which I guess in this case means 1) storms covering the sky and/or panels, 2) cold enough that heating power usage is significant, and 3) sun being lower in the sky means a reduction in power (I don't know how much tho)

Er, every part of California has #3 (that’s just latitude), though its somewhat true that #2 and #1 are anticorrelated in that the coastal areas have more cloud cover but more moderate temperature and the inland valleys have more extreme temperatures (summer highs and winter lows) but less cloud cover, so much of the state doesnt get a the combinatiom of #1 and #2.
That's an absurdly reductionist viewpoint. You might as well say there are no people, only particular groups of molecules that can be fuzzily classified into humans.
Checks out. Thank you for your work. Surprised Sam agreed to 49% after pay back. That is crazy amount of equity to give out. I mean it makes sense, especially since MS is providing the infrastructure. It will allow them to scale.
> RUSSIAN ECONOMY MINISTRY SEES OIL AND GAS EXPORTS DECLINING BY 6.7% IN REAL TERMS IN 2023 - TASS

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1646922047371501586
Also, do flowering plant coincide with insects?
Readability is not an issue, as long as there are #line directives and symbol names are preserved so it is possible to use gdb.

The idea would be that if C files are reproducible across multiple environments (esp. 32 vs 64 bit) the end user would not need a zig toolchain.
Suspicious, OK. Straight up abuse, though?
The bottom tier of animation is still pretty big. You apparently are too young to remember what a lot of animation was like in the 70s and 80s.
I've been using Beam Analytics for quite some time and just love it for its neat UI as well as for a generous free tier.
Merge and Combine 2 PDF Recto / Verso In-Browser
Was pretty difficult to find a tool for AFD non-duplex scanning.
No upload required.
Juice launch to Jupiter - Live [video]
It’s an interesting question. Personally I think the line is whether you’re harming anyone else.

If someone wants to amputate their own hand, for example, it seems hard to argue that they shouldn’t be allowed to. But it does depend whether they’re mentally sound; you wouldn’t want to let someone who’s clearly suffering an illness do that.

It’s… tricky. I try to err on the side of personal freedoms though.
> let me just point out that Yogis live in caves for 30 years at a time

Yogis well known to leave their caves in order to gather picnic baskets.
In conference/zoom calls I'd like a slider to express my boredom-to-fascination level. And I'd like the average value prominently displayed, to discourage droning -- the scourge of meetings.

I'm talking about status/discussion/brainstorm meetings. Not presentations, altho maybe they could also use some kind of feedback mechanism.
> At what point do we consider this a mental illness

usually when the patient complains or harms someone else, and not before
I have an interesting friend, with many interesting antics. They have a property with a clear creek running through it, and wanted to know if it had giardia. Assays are expensive, but metronidazole is cheap, so they drank the water, and determined shortly thereafter, it in fact had giardia.
You are right, most LLM queries won't be exact match, so you will need semantic search for hit those similar but not same questions