skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never knew horses went extinct in North America. Apparently we don't really understand why either. Fascinating.
> X to run involved real risk. Get some of the parameters wrong and you could destroy your monitor.

The flexibility also allowed you to accomplish neat things.

I was spoiled by high res 21" workstation monitors at school, so my laptop with a 640 x 480 screen was very limiting. But, telling X that the LCD was a multiscan monitor made every other scan line go to /dev/null-- the effect was a pseudo-resolution of 640x960 with scrunched up, but very readable fonts. Ran that setup for years.
I think you greatly underestimate the difficulty and time in hunting them. Most non-hunters have no comprehension of the time and effort involved.

How much would I have to pay you a day to hike in the backcountry and hunt pigs?

It is simply not economical even if there were a legal commercial Market for the meat and if it were legal to hunt them where they are.
Show HN: Create Telegram chatbot answering questions based on your data e.g. PDF
How many guns did he own?
That's not a WebFinger URL. WebFinger URLs point to /.well-known/ path that returns a JSON document with links to other places for the user. To simplify WebFinger use by a human, we introduced acct:user@example.com syntax. And (at least my) WebFinger clients can assume the acct: part, much like email clients do for the email: scheme.
I find comfort in talking to ChatGPT
We say to make the list reasonable. I believe I said that in the article.

And like I said, the primary way we retain talent is by paying about 20-30% above market. This is just an effective perk.

Calm down.
Any preliminary data about her sleep schedule? I was hoping the article would say something about that.
I'm guessing this was posted because RISC-V SBCs are starting to ship, with VisionFive2 and Pine64 recently announcing availability of their boards (although I haven't seen the one from Pine64 in stock yet). Especially with the RaspberryPi shortage, I expect that as RISC-V gains software stability, these boards will start to fill the SBC niche.

Meanwhile, institutions like NASA [0] and the EU [1] are making big investments in the architecture. You can sense the hype by looking at the top submissions in r/riscv [2] from the past year.

I think this architecture is very promising. I'm excited for the ecosystem to mature.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/95911-sifive-risc-v-cores-micr...

[1] https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/12/16/europe-to-dish-out-e270-m...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/RISCV/top/?sort=top&t=year
>Why would someone write a report for others if they could shorten their own sentence instead?

Isn't this like asking why economies exist?
Like any package or plugin for any language or framework, you are responsible for understanding what you are installing. Since TLEs do not come with any compiled code, this is relatively easy for you to verify yourself with code inspection.

We expect a lot of DBAs to say "no way" to something like TLEs, that's fine, for similar reasons people don't use pip, npm, or cpan. You make your own risk/benefit analysis.
If I made any factual errors, corrections are welcome.
Here’s an essay on why we should start saying “synthetic intelligence” in certain contexts:

https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence
I mean, regardless of what you think about his scruples, he was the single most influential occultist of the 20th century (barring maybe LaVey), and calling him "just another charlatan" kind of ignores the things that actually make him notable. Like calling Houdini "just another street magician".
Yes but also no.

Training on shite results in a pretty poor AI compared to one that’s trained on quality data. Do I think that means that quality AI will keep up with “hoover AI”? No. Hoover AI still gets you to profitability and that’s mostly what matters in a capitalist arms race.
who wrote this?

The text provided in the prompt was written by an individual or group of individuals who have knowledge about these computer engineering students at the University of Perpetual Help Isabela Campus—Francis Arnold Munar, Ryan Corpuz, and Remegio Catoltol. The information contained within the text serves to provide a brief overview of their backgrounds, skills, and accomplishments.

As an AI language model, I am capable of processing and analyzing the information presented in the text and responding to your questions or concerns related to the subject matter. My purpose is to provide you with an academically rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the topic while ensuring that complex concepts are conveyed in an accessible manner.

If you require further information or clarification on any aspect of the text, please feel free to ask, and I will endeavor to assist you.
The vast majority of intelligence assets are analysts or sigint, not James Bond-ish operators who can discard identities and their family/friend/etc like a Scooby Doo mask. This is not a plausible thing.
Easy indeed... but is it accurate?

Are you sure the AI model isn't, you know, making stuff up?

(I can't find Pulo Mahamba island in Lake Matano on any map.)
Just tested it out. The Kandinsky 2.1 model does render high-quality images accurate to input prompt. Each iteration of a prompt produces more robust interpretation; exciting. Still working through the relationship between the positive and negative prompts.

There is a bit of a gap in understanding metaphor and reverse polarity. For instance if I include in the prompt "move away from negativity" Kandinsky produces images of sad faces (e.g., mouth curved down, downward-focused eyes). However I expected there to be an inferred "towards positivity" interpretation (e.g., eyes closed/looking forward or upward, and mouth relaxed/smiling). Trying to see how much this outcome can be achieved leveraging the negative prompt field.

Overall I'm happy with the results and will continue to use it. Thanks for sharing!
Preparation of pork-based meat is rather stringent in U.S.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/pork
She's the type of person you want to send to Mars.
If you’re willing to answer a question a bit beyond the scope I have one that relates to your story but also to your experience as a journalist. It seems like grifters often rely on “reputation laundering” through reputable news & media. They get one small-time outlet to say they’ve done XYZ and then they finagle that into more coverage because the next outlet sees the prior one has reported the grifter has done XYZ so they report on it, too. And on the one hand it seems perfectly reasonable for a journalist to say well XYZ has been reported in all of these reliable publications so it must be true because otherwise someone would have caught it by now. But sometimes, as it seems happened with Richard Walter, it turns out they’ve all just sort of confirmed with one another but no one has actually given XYZ a proper look.

So I guess my question is to what extent do you think this happens because the fraudster deliberately manipulates/exploits the free publicity vs some reporters, for whatever reason, failing to do enough due diligence? Are there any sort of journalistic ethical obligations around “confirming” a fact with an infotainment type of outlet compared to a news outlet? Your story specifically mentions 20/20 as one of the first “big” news outlets that bolstered Walter’s false reputation. (And even now that I’m thinking about it I’m not really sure whether that’s meant to be news or not!)

And I don’t mean to single out journalists here. It’s clear the legal profession bears significant blame for the reputation laundering he was allowed to do through his “expert” testimony. I only ask about the journalism angle specifically because you happen to be a journalist. I’d also love to hear the perspective of any litigators who might be inclined to weigh in.
Alright, fair enough.
It's harder to depart from the median situation in a large geographical region one way or another. All else equal (which is never the case, consult a real criminologist), San Francisco probably can do more about its property crime than violent crime, under the very general principle of regression to the mean.
Additionally, artists can sign up to get prioritization in the radio and recommendation algorithms... at the cost of some of their royalties. You're likely already missing out on artists who don't pay the troll toll if you rely heavily on Spotify's recommendations.
Totally, just use `zig cc` as an in-place replacement for clang and move forward from there as you feel comfrotable. I wrote a blog post about this approach: https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/
I think explanation is redundant :D
There's also a project that generates automatic bindings for raylib:

https://github.com/Not-Nik/raylib-zig
Although this is a reasonable definition, it would mean many people who are referred to as scientists in practice would have to be considered non-scientists. Refusing to publish data and code is widespread in many academic fields, even in cases where academics sign documents promising to provide these things on demand.

For example, at minimum psychology, epidemiology and climatology have this problem. In climatology attempts to get the source code of models and data underlying papers has led to some of the biggest dramas in the field e.g. the Climategate hacker appears to have been motivated by the closedness of the field (similar to the llama leaker).

Given that society is clearly not ready to reclassify large parts of academic work as non-scientific, it seems like this definition cannot work even on its own terms.
I feel like you should add the appearance of the first dinosaurs to this list (~240mya)!
> as a US organization they cannot do business with the sanctioned entity

But are they doing business if no money changes hands?

For example, Github locked me out of all paid features because I used to sponsor someone and had russian billing address on file. I can still use github free plan, presumably because if no money is involved their lawyers aren't worried?
Bld: A New Pure Java Build System
"The elegance of R" is a phrase I never expected to read :)
I encountered this with "Mexican" food in Germany, which—anecdotally speaking, uniformly tasted of Maggi-brand chicken bouillon.
People who haven’t worked in areas with classified/sensitive information don’t seem to appreciate that once you have the appropriate clearances, you’re considered trustworthy.

You are treated as one of the gang, and people will often willingly share information with you that may even fall outside of what you need to know.

If someone is motivated to then collect/disseminate that information, it is exceedingly simple. It is always going to be difficult to stop these sorts of leaks.
there are plenty of disaster code bases in both dynamic and static typed languages. my cause for mentioning common lisp was use of an example i personally know of where a dynamic language (albeit one with strong and static typing support available) produces some really high quality code that can stand the test of time
I couldn't a damn about sports. But I get quite nervous watching rocket launches, thinking about all the money and effort that have gone into them. I was so relieved when the JW turned out to be a massive success.
This is a good idea, I was just thinking if something like this existed the other day. Good domain name too.
Man, I must be the only person who actually LIKES the Spotify UX. The color scheme looks cool, the app is pretty intuitive and well designed IMO, and it also hasn't majorly changed in 10 years.
That is rather hand wavy and doesn't explain where the complexity in DNA comes from, you just swept that problem under the rug with a blanket explanation that lacks explanatory power.
this isn't true at all

the process the work was generated through is of primary importance for copyright

the existence of the concept of "derivative work" should make this obvious

see the reverse engineering of the IBM BIOS for another example
Ask HN: How would you build copy and paste across computers?
It would be really help sometimes to copy from one computer and than have it available on another one.

Does something like that exist?
> Sam Altman selling both the poison (GPT-4) and the antidote (Worldcoin).

I actually find it pretty amazing that more people aren't given pause by Sam Altman's involvement here. After the WorldCoin stuff, I'd think that he'd be viewed with a much more skeptical eye in terms of his ethics.
Any road has a "natural" speed that ~80% of drivers will drive at if not otherwise restricted. If you limit the speed below that, you have a lot of annoyed, frustrated drivers and that is a recipe for more road rage and accidents.
Philosophers. That's why I used the word "philosophical" not "scientific".

Dismissing serious ideas with thousands of years of philosophical history behind them as "magic thinking" is either a failure of imagination or education; you can rectify the latter by reading up on the subject.

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

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
Lets say this another way

"A Child left in an empty room is never going to get ahead of one that has experiences with everything in the world"

Anyone that thinks a clean room is going to make a valid AI, in my mind, is insane.
> It's working about as well as DRM has in stopping video and music piracy.

quite well then?

streaming services have essentially replaced music and video piracy

and steam (essentially streaming games) vastly reduced video game piracy
I experimented on the task of information extraction with GPT3 and 4.
The EU also had its copyright law amended to allow data mining on copyrighted data sets. And I would not be surprised if US courts decide that training an AI is fair use. The goal, after all, is to create a machine that draws new images.
It turns out Mark Twain didn't say the quote that I was thinking of. Instead, it was Clarence Darrow who wrote the original version: "All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
I also use ZeroTier because I had several problems using TailScale on Android. They're known issues and don't seem like they'll ever be fixed.
There have to be two AIs, one examines the original and produces a description while the second examines the description and produces a new work. Neither the description nor the new work are assigned copyright because they were produced by an AI (see [1]). However, if subsequently a human then manipulates the new work, the derived work is automatically protected by copyright assigned to that person (see [1, 2]). Furthermore, the new author has a defense against a copyright infringement claim by the owner of the original based on existing case law shared previously.

This has nothing to do with gzip.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
One difference I can see is the "buy me a coffee" button isn't a "these are the people who bought me a coffee" list. I imagine most of these sponsors (from their perspective) are paying for advertising.
anyone who's written systems code will appreciate the debugging roundup: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/kalyn#worstfunniest-d...
Skyscraper Proposed for 2700 Sloat Boulevard in Outer Sunset, San Francisco
Motion Segmentation Challenge (OmniCV 2023)
Announcing the Parallel Domain & Valeo Motion Segmentation Challenge!
Why it's crucial: moving object segmentation is key for safety in autonomous driving, as vehicles need to evaluate collision risks and plan optimal trajectories.
Prize: A total of $5,000 in prizes awaits the winners: $2,500 for 1st place, $1,500 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place. The competition kicks off on April 5th and concludes on May 26th, 2023, with winners being announced on June 5th, 2023.
Consider some of our most advanced computer viruses and worms. What if you combine those with an LLM that has been prompted to take over every machine on the planet?

If an LLM figures out (or is trained to, whatever language you prefer) how to distribute itself, how would you ever go about cleaning that up? We're probably at least a few steps away from that currently, but how many?
I wonder if some day someone will write a similar story about early days of LLMs.
Haven't looked in any depth: How does this cope with functions like f(x) = x - x? Interval arithmetic sometimes produces very conservative bounds.

If done well, rigorous interval bounds seem like they could be really useful.
Lol. They literally do own that property. They'll even sell it off for drugs or whatever as if they did own it. It's a very rare case that police will get off their asses and retrieve "your" stolen property. You can give them a GPS signal to the property and they still won't do it. Believing in this "posession/ownership" dichotomy is just as delusional as believing in imaginary intellectual property. It's just a flat out denial of the reality of things.

You know what's funny? In my country, Apple's security is more effective at deterring criminals than any of this "ownership" crap. A stolen iPhone is basically a brick that's worthless to anyone else. So they'd rather target Android phones instead which they can more easily reset and pass off as some used phone they own.
Pitty that there are no scientific resuts presented in article only random personal details and no insights. i had hoped for more substantian information after 500 days.
For d-pads on Xbox controllers, you can cut a cross out of an old plastic folder and wedge it between the plastic and the membrane for better feel. It makes the pad crispy. 10/10 all my old controllers have it, too bad no one to play halo3 with. :(
I mean, I watched a reality TV/gameshow host run the executive branch for 4 years, culminating in a press conference at The Four Seasons Landscaping. I don't know who expects competence from the federal government anymore, but it isn't me.
Well the good news is, although they call it the vertical tail in the article, it’s not the whole tail that will fall off, just the vertical stabilizer.
If anyone thinks this overreach will stop with trans people, you're fooling yourself. They will not stop until they have their christofacist state, unless we stop them every step of the way.

Also, why is this flagged? Exclusionary changes to US state laws affect how people can move about and work within the US. This should be of concern to folks here.
Can you pull open the top rack and use that to stop the door from automatically closing?
Real life contains a lot of shit data that you have to learn to filter by experience. An AI containing only the best will fall flat on its face when subjected to the dirty mess reality is.
no matter how many AIs you layer: it's still just a lossy compression function

jpeg'ing frames of disney animation doesn't remove copyright (even if you do it twice)
And it's probably the closest approximation to what happens in our heads when we utter each word or take an action. We are thin layers of customisation running on top of Language.
We need a thread on projects making <20$ a month and what went wrong, and maybe HN's comments can right that ship.
She did take a 8 day break from the cave (which she spent on a tent above the cave without human contact but breaking the no-sunlight rule) because her wifi network which was in use for the security cameras/footage broke and the IT guys have to come and fix it around day 298.

This will probably make it not a record previously held by an Ucranian on 465 day mark but still very impressive

Also there will be a documentary coming out from her team
Extremely cool! This is the first time I'm learning about Livebook's smart cells, and seeing how easily you can toggle between the UI and the underlying chain of dataframe operations in code is pretty mind-blowing.
With Musk now in charge of Twitter, there is less of a reason a platform like Parler needs to exist.
The acquirer / euthanasia specialist is called "Starboard" ie, the right-hand side of a ship. Snerk.
Lots of mentions of studies by various groups, but the first one that came to mind to me was NASA or other space agencies. If we want to travel to Mars, and beyond, how will isolation affect us? Granted, you may have crewmates on a space flight, but it's still good knowledge to know the capabilities of a single individual.
Just crazy mental fortitude. I wouldn't make it three days in there.
> I also found the conversion rate increased significantly after I made the homepage itself editable — thereby demo'ing the product without a login.

I just visited your homepage to check it out, but was greeted with a page that said "You can't edit this page" with a grayed out Edit button. And I'm not sure why, or what I should do so I am able to edit it (maybe sign up? but I wanted to see the demo before signing up).
John Carmack: Nvidia H100 GPUs Going for $40k on eBay
Thanks for starting it and keeping it going.

It is one of the few newsletters I look forward to so I can “catch up” with topics that were popular during the course of a week on HN.
It is done to send a very clear message to anyone else thinking about doing the same thing.

Is it disproportionate to the threat? Absolutely. But that’s not why it’s done.
Well, the core transformers/attention paper came from Google and the DNN revolution was also kicked off by Jeff Dean at Google, no? Yes, some of the very original neural net theory was laid in academia and maybe the original GAN paper came from it, don't recall, but AI academics were complaining about being unable to keep up and having their departments be raided even 7 or 8 years ago. It's not a new complaint. So this particular AI summer doesn't seem to owe much to academia.
What we may have here is a need for some new use cases in copyright. The current laws were written with humans in mind -- human creators, human consumers. To retroactively say, "well, you released this to the [human] public under U.S. copyright law, therefore the rights you granted to humans extend to training AI systems as well" could be unfair.
Don't forget the real estate binge.. even as more and more people were WFH'ing.
You can read "It Looks Like You're Trying To Take Over The World" by Gwern Branwen: https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy. It presents a fictional apocalyptic scenario grounded in real ML.

> It might help to imagine a hard takeoff scenario using solely known sorts of NN & scaling effects… Below is a story which may help stretch your imagination and defamiliarize the 2022 state of machine learning.

An audio version of the story is available to play and download at the bottom of the page: https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy#podcast.

What is "hard takeoff"? From https://www.greaterwrong.com/tag/ai-takeoff:

> A hard takeoff (or an AI going "FOOM") refers to AGI expansion in a matter of minutes, days, or months. It is a fast, abruptly, local increase in capability. This scenario is widely considered much more precarious, as this involves an AGI rapidly ascending in power without human control. This may result in unexpected or undesired behavior (i.e. Unfriendly AI). It is one of the main ideas supporting the Intelligence explosion hypothesis.
Initially I was reading "sentences" as a line of text and nothing made sense.
S P A C E W A R: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972)
> By the late 90s any old anybody could get a CD ROM with Red Hat or whatever.

That's exactly how I got into Linux. I bought a book about RedHat 5.2 with a CD ROM install disc in the sleeve :) Have been using Linux on all of my personal devices (and every work device that I'm allowed to) ever since.

Oddly enough, I also had a Sparc Station 5 on my desk at one time. I remember the filesystem seemed very slow but it was cool as hell to be able to use "real Unix." I remember it even came with Internet Explorer of all things!