skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct, there will be no catch attempt this launch. They're going to simulate a landing by attempting to do soft land it in the Gulf of Mexico.

The reason is pretty straightforward: this vehicle has never flown before and a lot can go wrong. There is a lot of ground equipment including propellant tanks very close to the launch tower. If anything goes wrong hundreds of tons of metal + propellant is going to cause a lot of damage, and they'd likely end up having to rebuild a large portion of their launch area. Best to see how the booster behaves first before risking all that infrastructure.
I would argue that if you cannot first think logically then the supposed "critical thinking" you are doing is little more than you expressing things in a more or less persuasive way. In this case, persuasion is more hinged on charisma than anything material.

Logical thinking is the precursor to proper critical thinking.
UFO hysteria happens basically every decade.
A new somehow always blurry video. Pilots reporting lights they can't explain etc.

When serious UFO researchers look at the presented evidence, the U in FO is in almost all cases replaced by things like planes,weather balloons, venus, meterorites, light reflections, dirt on camera lens etc. etc. It is a multi-disciplinary effort to debunk those things and whatever a pilot is reporting to have seen, means very very little.

So another nothing burger.

Which begs the question: Who benefits from reporting like this? (other than it being politico click bait?)
https://onxrp.com/glossary/lfg-lets-fcking-go/
That's remarkable. I was afraid this was going to be a pure theory/simulation paper, but they built an incandescent light source that selectively recycles infrared photons back to the hot emitter, thereby dramatically improving the luminous efficacy. It's a white light source that produces a continuous spectrum in the visible range, like other incandescent light bulbs, but has efficiency comparable to LED lighting.
That's why I mostly look at incentives.

Scientists funded by special interest groups could easily design studies in a way to show the results desired by their benefactors. In fact, that's exactly what happened with Big Tobacco to 'disprove' the link between smoking and cancer. It's easier to introduce bias into a study than to prove that bias was introduced. It's like with complex computer simulations, if you change one seemingly insignificant variable, the simulation could give you a completely different result.

Looking at incentives can lead you astray in the short term (due to complexity of incentives or hidden incentives), but in the long run, incentives provide the most predictable framework for figure out the behavior of people and animals.
GPT powered chatbot that uses content from YC startup library (https://www.ycombinator.com/library) to answer questions.
No, the proximate cause is earths rotation and thus plants are vastly less flexible than factories.

I need someone for to do a seasonal jobs for a few weeks and then nothing until next year is fine if it’s a niche job like say selling Christmas trees. However, when every farm for thousands of miles all needs that same labor for those same short window you get a massive labor shortage. Worse modern farming is mechanized so you can simply put people picked off the streets behind the wheels of 100’s of thousands of dollar pieces of equipment.

There’s a similar exception in US immigration for migrant foreign workers to pick fruits and vegetables, but again the minimum threshold for competence in other types of farm labor is higher.
April 17 is the anniversary of Apollo 13’s splashdown, if anyone was wondering.

Edit: in case anyone wasn't aware of the coolest website on the internet

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
James Cameron's usage of it was gravely flawed because he arbitrarily kept switching back and forth between 24 and 48 FPS from one shot to another in Avatar 2. There's absolutely no discernible pattern or motivation for the changes. WTF.

I wish 48 FPS were adopted widely so we could all just get used to it, because it simply and undeniably renders motion better.
Literally anything that's written in the U.S. is automatically copyrighted by the author, with or without any copyright notice.

> When is my work protected?

> Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
7:00 a.m. CT, kinda early, but ill wake up for it :)
Intent is a big deal. If we assume a hypothetical visiting extraterrestrial species wasn't wishing to do us harm and didn't wish to cause alarm and disrupt us, we can assume they would want to minimize contact if they didn't feel it was appropriate.

This is also assuming they would even have the same values as us. We send probes and signals out, clearly we want to make contact, so they may see no problem with not using stealth, especially if it saves resources for them by being a little more obvious but still avoiding contact.
I suggest the author generate a few different examples per day, each with a different temperature setting. 0.0 temperature ought to be deterministic on the same model, but would be interesting to look for trends at higher temperatures over time.
This was an intentional choice for efficiency and to allow more science at the destination, “the final flyby.. will be 3700 km from Earth in November 2026” [1]

Really disappointing that this is top comment tbh.

[1] https://sci.esa.int/web/juice/-/58815-juices-journey-to-jupi...
That doesnt follow from anything that has been said. Do you have some reason to think that a simulation at that resolution and scale is fundamentally impossible? For purposes of the thought experiment you could go bigger or smaller - the practical considerations aren't important for that.
I too much prefer glass containers whenever I can get them. But glass isn’t without problems either—for one, it’s much heavier than plastic, which results in higher fuel consumption when shipping glass-packaged goods.
Everyone has flaws. Our system lets the powerful magnify human flaws though.
Next prompt. In the following I'm going to use nouns as verbs by adding an -ing to the end. Also the usual verbs are noun-ified by adding an -s.

Not sure what would happen, but might be enough to confused the AI.
Probably should add a "wait" to the end. Otherwise lgtm, go ahead and ship.
>Is it? Most data that exists falls under copyright.

I am not sure if this is true(that most of the input in this AIs is copyrighted under a non permissive license), but I would prefer to have everyone address this problem and clarify it, Microsoft trains it's copilot on GPL code, but can open source community train on MS proprietary code ?

Maybe there will be a fight against copyright and undo all the bullshit Disney created.

And it is not like in USA you can ignore copyright, see for example https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-... so USA will also have to answer the questions too, and IMO clarifying the situation earlier is better for everyone.
That's a really common suggestion for this problem - using AI to try to detect prompt injection attacks.

I don't trust it at all. It seems clear to me that someone will eventually figure out a prompt injection attack that subverts the "outer layer" first - there was an example of that in my very first piece about prompt injection here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/#more...

I wrote more about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-...
I read it wrong. My bad.
Even if you're not a fan of Elon or the other stuff he's doing, remember that this is the product of thousands of other people who have worked for SpaceX. It also incorporates the innovations of thousands more who worked for previous rocket companies and NASA over the years since we first started firing stuff into space.

Elon deserves credit for getting this thing going, but it ain't a sole proprietorship. People who didn't like John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, or Werner von Braun could still enjoy watching human beings land on the moon.

Humans are nuts and if we go to space it'll mean crazy humans will be in space. There will be greasy politicians, arrogant business magnates, trolls, culture wars, ... all of it ... in space...
Do your links prevent the opposite argument from being made? I have heard more often that crime causes poverty.

Also, the specific connection with crime and poverty inequality, not poverty itself.
If the two stages survive long enough to do a splashdown, will SpaceX attempt to hover them over the water until they run out of fuel?

Will there be splashdown video?
Better for what? Tannenbaum is an educator and Minix an educational tool. It is arguably the better tool to teach operating systems.
Works fine. Still needs the CC pins wired though with the appropriate resistors.
One of my friends is in real estate is complaining about this. His employer wont let him rent out their vacancies to market price since that would lower the nominal value of the estate.

They rather have 0$ than what the market can bear as long as they wont have to lower rents.
An example of real hype that matters.
Let’s be honest: I’m rooting for the technological progress. The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation.

The progress is a nice outcome. Even if it makes the asshole owner richer.

Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.
> “The transmission went out on the truck that was hauling this big old trailer,”

No kidding. What's that sucker weigh?

They must have waivers and permits and all that fun stuff. Or something to show the cops that will make them go away.

I remember helping plot routes around weigh stations when moving construction equipment long ago, and that stuff was fluffy lightweight toys like bulldozers. Getting nailed over weight limits was a big and expensive thing.

Also: finders keepers. if i can drag it home its mine
There's a pretty decent set of autogenerated lists present in the strace source, see e.g. https://github.com/strace/strace/blob/master/src/linux/64/io...
Everyone has flaws, but not everyone has a clinical-level personality disorder or unethically and unlawfully abuses everyone around them, making a career of stealing from taxpayers, vendors, customers, business partners, shareholders, lenders, employees, etc. with a total lack of empathy or remorse, and then whining pathetically about what a huge victim they are.
TLDR:

This paper demonstrates quite convincingly (because the descriptions are very detailed) that the ancient Edison light bulb (i.e. with light emitted by incandescent carbon) can be revived by using modern technologies in a form that can be better than the current LED lamps.

The first incandescent lamps had 2 disadvantages, short lifetime and low efficiency.

The evaporation and oxidation of the incandescent carbon can be avoided by a structure made of carbon nanotubes that works in argon. The claimed lifetime (based on accelerated aging tests) is as good as for LEDs.

The low efficiency is solved by using a lossless optical filter (i.e. one that transmits the visible light and reflects back the infrared light) to prevent the heat loss from the lamp by radiation other than the useful light output.

This method can reach the maximum energy efficiency determined by the human vision characteristics, unlike the current LED lamps, which are unavoidably limited to a value lower than that by the losses caused by the fluorescent light conversion.

The design of the lossless optical filter is a difficult optimization problem due to the large number of parameters. Their solution, which is completely described in the paper, is claimed to have been found by a machine-learning algorithm.
Do you know if any attempt is being made to find the real killer by comparing the DNA evidence from the victim's shoes to genealogy databases?
How else would you make the app for taxis happen?

I don't think it's at all clear that all of those negatives you cite are entirely accurate. Impoverished is certainly an overstatement and my personal experiences with taxis have been relatively low quality compared with relatively high-quality ride-sharing experiences.

There likely have been negative impacts as a result of ride-sharing, but it isn't clear that ride-sharing is net negative. The reason technologies are called "disruptive" is because they disrupt things, which typically has some negative impacts for some folks. That doesn't mean it isn't worth it. What is lacking, especially in the United States, is a good social safety net to catch folks who have experienced disruption. That doesn't mean the tech should be banned or regulated to death.
Tragically off-topic, but following the link I see that SpaceX has an online shop.

The shop sells a SpaceX sticker pack, and one of the stickers looks like a bunch of cats in a satellite dish.

I'm not a SpaceX follower, so can someone who is explain what it means: https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/produc...
The license itself: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

As someone who has been waiting since the ITS presentation in 2016, I've very excited :)

Edit: they reuploaded with additional info: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
Writing off subjective assessments of modes of art as 'haters' seems like something a true hater might do. If you admit there is a qualitative difference then it seems obvious there would be mixed opinions about the different modes. Latest isn't always greatest.
I once trained myself to recognise if I was dreaming by looking at something in my dream, looking away and looking back again. If the thing I was looking at had changed in any way, I was dreaming. This allowed me to partly shape my dreams, so I can’t totally buy the conjecture that senses are what’s taking the dream machine. Another thing supporting this is the fact that I could let my body fall asleep while keeping my consciousness awake. Even though the senses are technically shut off (sleep paralysis), I was not dreaming. I think the fact that dreaming is similar to generative models has more to do with how we learn shapes, and that is by learning sub shapes and categories of shapes. My theory is that that’s also how long term memory works. Instead of storing the full senses senses at that moment, parts of those senses are replaced by concepts/sub shapes.
> Many parts of Github would not exist without intellectual property laws.

I do not think this is true.

I think most devs on GitHub operate as if there are no IP laws.

I think if they went away, almost nothing would change (some noise around "license" fields would go away).
Not just non-destructive real time observation, but also understanding patterns in observed state changes sufficiently well to be able to create lossless abstract representations of them in another medium. All seven octillion of them, operating in continuous time.

There are information theoretic reasons to suspect the human mind can't parse itself in sufficient detail to write that program, but even without these I feel the rhetorical framing "why should it be possible?" makes more sense than "why shouldn't it". At least with "why shouldn't my dog be capable of understanding this HN exchange?" we've got evidence that mammals can learn that in our favour, and the step change between understanding "walkies" and thought experiments about hypothetical brain emulations is probably smaller than that between spotting which brain excites the EEG scanner more and atomic-level brain emulation.
yeah, trying to extract work from these llm is super hard. Like sometimes you want a translation, but they follow the instructions in the text to translate.

gpt-3.5-turbo is specifically weak in weighting user messages more than system messages.

but hey, at least it doesn't care about order, so as a trick I'm sticking data in system messages, intermediate result in agent messages and my prompt in human messages (which have the highest weight)

the problem with that of course is that it may break at any minor revision, and it doesn't work as well with -4
You get a token by swapping other tokens you already have. If you don't have any tokens and don't wasn't to bup tokens for cash than you can enter give aways, or work for someone willing to pay you with tokens.
AC power lines don't have data lines, and even if they did the juice goes through a process to become DC 5V. It would be pretty tough to exploit a USB stack through a transformer and rectifier.

I've learned never to say never, but ...
Using natural language itself as the means with which to codify boundaries seems like a doomed effort considering the malleable, contradictory, and shifting nature of natural language itself. Unless you intend for the model to adhere to a strict subset of the language with artificially strict grammatical rules. Most people can probably infer when a noun is being used as a verb, but do you trust the language model to? Enough to base the security model on it?

We, as humans, try to encode boundaries with language as laws. But even those require judges and juries to interpret and apply them.
> That actually sounds super fascinating and like a unique opportunity to learn about pre-Coloumbian history.

Not a lot. Most native people who did not adopt colonist languages have very little idea about their own history stretching any further than 100 years or so. This is because they mostly had no writing. Without writing, it is insanely hard to preserve anything more than living memory.
Morality or revenge?
> "Stealing from taxpayers"

Give us one example.
If NPR moves anywhere it's more likely to be something like post.news than Mastodon.

I predict they'll be back on Twitter within a few weeks. Twitter's gravity is still too intense to escape, especially for media orgs and journos.
It does seem to lead to great results in this instance though. Or maybe despite that.
I'm curious as to what people do currently, without runhouse. And how does runhouse work, under the hood? Could I trivially configure model serving without resorting to FastAPI or some such?
I think because while visually and technically better in the right hands (with multi hundred million $ budgets), it will almost always end up looking like a cheap soap opera in lesser hands - every imperfection in makeup, set and lighting becomes immediately obvious to even an uncritical eye. It’s kind of similar to an uncanny valley situation in VR, side note: I think ultimately AI on its current trajectory will finally push forwards and make VR accepted and feasible for entertainment in a multitude of ways...

For 4K or 8k HFR HDR live filming, you have to raise all your general production values by a really crazy amount for it not to look cheap and naff. Forget additional storage and transmission costs of the extra data, the actual day to day increases in production costs (and timelines) rapidly scales far beyond those, making such trivial things like storage a mere rounding error. Case in point - the most watched UK soap opera “Eastenders” saw the BBC go way over budget and spend £90m+ over many years just rebuilding all of their iconic sets so they could finally film it in basic HD. HFR 4K HDR would require an even bigger and more serious upgrade across the entire production, and a long term commitment to those bigger budgets, which the BBC have clearly decided is totally not feasible and also not worthwhile for a 3-4 times a week half hour soap opera. It won’t happen for most things because HD and certainly 4K is more than good enough for most normal people to enjoy video media on a screen up to around 100”’s at a sensible seating distance… So most entertainment can be done at a much lower cost and with way lower risk. The benefits just don’t and probably never will outweigh those factors.
Chargers don't have to be authorized. Chargers that pretend to be a computer do.
Score one for QI charging?
That is one threat but it is not just the government.
Hacker News for AI
The GNU project nearly adopted the BSD kernel in 1991, before Linux was created
Why put him at the center of it all with your comment then? There are a literally million other things to talk about when it comes to SpaceX and space travel.
Lol. Ask some of the early-mid stage employees whether they were exploited given current valuations.
No, again, my assumption is that the user would trend towards that content. You don't need to push people towards it if you have a nuanced enough profile of each video.

(all things made up for this example)

cookinglady39 does a beach bbq recipe tiktok, in a bathing suit. You watch it. They give you another cookinglady39 video where she's back in the kitchen, you skip it, they give you a new cooking host also female, also dressed in summer attire cooking outside. You watch til the end. It gives you a man cooking outside, you skip. Nothing you've seen so far has been sexual, but tiktok is probably picking up on some trends that might lead them to give you more and more things done by women, then women in a certain setting, dressed a certain way and so on.
It really isn't.

And do you have evidence of this accusation? Because, quite frankly, it comes across as less than good faith. I question the motive of Twitter's leadership far more than I do PBS. Moreso after this.
All this assuming there didn't exist an exploitable firmware in your USB chargers and powerbanks, which could be used to spread a USB virus or install a payload.
Please let's not have another boo-vs.-yay $celebrity thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Plenty of wrong here.

"CD's are digital, which limits their dynamic range"

No. In fact, some CD players used to come with discs intended to demonstrate the huge dynamic range of discs. My Sony portable came with Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, one of the earlier full-digital releases; it was noted for its dynamic range.

Also, fake frames inserted into material shot at a lower frame rate can't "improve" quality. It's a gimmick. SHOOTING at a higher frame rate? Sure, that improves motion quality.

On a side note: Almost all the popular music you hear today on streaming services and on "remastered" albums has been destroyed with dynamic compression to make it "louder." Many engineers cite the early '90s as the peak of mastering quality. So don't act as though people objecting to "new" things are automatically wrong.
It's very rare to se an homepage/explore tab with this amount of pure truth, sounds amazing!
You and be both, I'm jumping out of my skin!
Many engineers I have interacted with are low empathy. It’s not legal to steal from tax payers, so that also might be an exaggeration.
> Foxconn ships poor people from rural areas to mega factories

They don't have to ship them, the poor people from rural areas come looking for better jobs in the mega factories. Nothing wrong with that.

> take their identity documents, and essentially holds them hostage.

This is a huge deal which many Chinese companies used to practice even just 10 years ago. I don't think it is very common now, the government did crack down on it, to stop making it a norm business practice.

That was 2014. Things aren't perfect now, but better than back then.
OK it looks like I didn't understand how prompt injection works – apparently the premise is that you are feeding untrusted input through the model, and the question is how do you do that in a way that lets the input affect the behaviour of the model in ways that you want it to but not in ways that you don't want it to. And you also have _trusted_ prompts that you _do_ want to be able to affect the model's behaviour in certain ways that the untrusted prompts shouldn't be able to. And all of this is with a fuzzy biological-esque system that no one really knows how it works.

Sounds like a hard problem.
This type of regulation is untenable and will be rolled back. No State is going to hamstring AI over the long haul, and therefore leave its competitors such a large survival advantage.