skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but the purpose of sanctions isn't important to me. My question is has the war increased the prices of fuel that the global supply chain relies on and, in turn, wholesale prices for goods.
I haven't heard anyone talking about "agents" since the days of the AT&T "You Will" ad campaign. They've been a couple years in the future for at least half my life.

Although honestly I feel like at least half the stuff people used to breathlessly imagine "agents" doing is being handled by a social media algorithm whose controls are in the hands of a corporation whose only aim is to increase engagement to sell more ads against, regardless of whether or not what it shows you is total lies that make you angry, or by specialized websites.

Like you want your customized feed of things your friends said, things your potential friends said, news, etc? In 2024-via-2023, your "agent" would make your daily newspaper. In 2024, you open up whatever your favorite social network is. It is either a chill, low-engagement open-source ActivityPub server run by someone in your friends circle and supported by donations, or it is a corporate site which chooses what to show you based on what is most likely to keep you stuck to the site, scrolling and commenting, and seeing ads, regardless of whether it's showing you total lies that make you angry. Perhaps by 2024 the ActivityPub servers will have added the same kind of "hey you might like this" stuff that the for-profit corporations have, except with the controls in the hands of the end users rather than the site owner fat on VC and ad revenue co-opted from the people who make the stuff they're putting online.

Like you wanna book a plane? In 2024-via-1994 you would talk to your "agent" who would go out and query multiple airlines and show you a few that matched your desires, in 2024 you visit flightpenguin.com and get a browser extension that hits the API of airline sites and presents some cool graphs that let you sort for things like "least agonizing" as well as "cheapest", and doesn't reveal a single thing about where it makes enough money to keep up with airline and browser redesigns. But it has a cute penguin mascot. Back in 1984 you would have gone to a "travel agent" who would have had deals with various airlines and access to their schedules, who would put together a few possible flight plans and say "this one's fastest, this one's lowest-stress, this one's cheapest", and negotiate from there. They'd make a commission off of it, and probably be pretty open about how this motivated them to upsell you.

I mean that's an "agent", really, right there, no AI involved. Cute cartoon character who performs a specific job on the Internet, that used to be a specialty field. You'd find travel agents in every mall, with pretty pictures of the places they could arrange a vacation to, for deep pockets and shallow ones, and neat plane models to look at.

Apologies for the stoned ramble. TL, DR: most of what people dreamed "agents" being is pretty much here IMHO, just not with one single unified interface.
> It depends on "software services" hosted and coded by "other software companies" so his infra's SLA is basically outsourced to either Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle.

It also depends on an incredible amount of in-house custom code.

If I deploy a change that breaks our Angular front-end, or a C# API change that has a typo that routes calls to the wrong places, or a configuration file for our open-source software that handles the phone systems, how exactly do we tell our thousands of customers they can't run their call centers? Or our restaurant customers can't take orders because their phone systems are dead?

Let's not be ridiculous. I'm not humble-bragging. I'm telling you what I do at my job.
You can simply reset the password with your Apple ID credentials

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211021
Conservatives are all for letting parents take their kids to churches where people play with snakes and speak in tongues, and you are actually pearl clutching over a man wearing a dress?
You are correct, and I misunderstood what the article was saying. I just skimmed the paper itself.

I thought it was saying that spiders were simply adjusting the material properties of their glue in response to environmental conditions. This is not evolution.

The paper is saying that while the glue genes themselves are largely conserved, the material properties can vary by altering the ratios of protein which are expressed.

Presumably this ratio is controlled due to other faster evolving genes (although this is not proven by the paper as far as I can see). I'm not entirely sure if they ruled out whether spiders could in fact adjust their glue in response to changing environmental conditions.
> I think it is not just software design that will become shortsighted we may even see less interest in improving programming languages.

I believe in the contrary. AI code generators and modern languages that enforce type and memory safety are a great match, since the compiler ensures the mess doesn't grow too much.
I don't get the reasoning. If people are more effective at doing their jobs with a tool, their productivity would increase meaning their wages would also increase. Does anyone think people in finance would be paid more if we got rid of excel?

And if productivity increases that means it's worth to hire more people. Look at bank tellers after the advent of the ATM. There are more bank tellers today than before the ATM.

> The number of human bank tellers in the United States increased from approximately 300,000 in 1970 to approximately 600,000 in 2010. Counter-intuitively, a contributing factor may be the introduction of automated teller machines. ATMs let a branch operate with fewer tellers, making it cheaper for banks to open more branches. This likely resulted in more tellers being hired to handle non-automated tasks, but further automation and online banking may reverse this increase.

Doom from technology is always around the corner but we just never happen to get there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine
Considering Tom Clancy became Tom Clancy(tm) several years before he died, heavily using ghostwriters...
> These fine-tuned models are intended for research use only and are released under a noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, in-line with Stanford’s Alpaca license.

This is a no-commercial-use-allowed license; it is neither considered free software nor open source, the definitions of which disallow restrictions on what you can use the work for.
Did anyone else get tripped up by the juxtaposition of "killer app" with AI? A little Boston Dynamics vibe?
I've just bought a Pi for some always on stuff (like Home Assistant). I wanted to buy a mini-PC but I found it really hard to identify which ones would have low idle power. Did you find a good reference for this?
>> Case in point: basically all your mentioned alternatives (Datalog, SMT, I'd add ASP) have implementations that use the Prolog syntax or something close to it with very similar semantics. But not being tied to that specific execution model can give you (better) answers or more complete answers, termination guarantees, or other things we might need.

To clarify, datalog is a restriction of Prolog excluding functions of more than 0 arguments (i.e. constants). For example, P(x,y) :- Q(f(x), g(y)) is Prolog but not datalog. There's also a restriction in the sharing of variables between head and body literals that ensures termination. The point of datalog is that because of its function-free structure it's decidable. You could simply ground a datalog program and get its entire Herbrand model.

SMT, I don't know much about. It's got nothing to do with Prolog, as far as I know. It's not a programming language, but a framework for boolean constraint solving. I don't know why it (or SAT) is compared to Prolog which has nothing to do with boolean satisfiability problems.

ASP also has nothing much to do with Prolog. It's a strictly first-order language (Prolog is higher-order) that is based on the idea of stable model semantics. Very briefly, a stable model is often the set of queries to which Prolog will answer "true" (or "yes" depending on the interpreter). ASP programs share some syntax with Prolog, but are not definite programs. For one thing, ASP allows classical negation, alongside Prolog's Negation-As-Failure. ASP is said to be well-suited to optimisation problems but to me it's more interesting as a formal treatment of reasoning under uncertainty in a strictly logic framework.

Note that datalog is incomplete (obviously, since it doesn't have functions) and ASP solvers are NP-complete. They are also special-purpose languages, so for example nobody is going to write a web server in ASP anytime soon. By comparison, the SWI-Prolog website runs on a web server written in Prolog (https://eu.swi-prolog.org/dogfood.html).
Everyone who owns enough capital that an AI bump can set them up for life.

Everyone else? Oof.
> I can see us relying far more on centralized institutions (again).

Yes. In an age of abundant junk, curation of the gems can be a successful strategy.
Right, lots a simple physics games, I forgot about that. Launch the turtle, destroy the castle, etc. Also some relatively interesting wargames. And some interesting experimentation.

It was a golden age of enthusiast creators indeed. Browsing random games was very interesting (of course, lots of garbage, but Sturgeon's Law applies).

Is itch.io sort of like that nowadays?
Fixed it for you: https://aiincidentsreport.vercel.app/

Prompt: write html using tailwindcss for a landing page of a website called "AI incident reports" that boils down to "there have been 0 incidents of AIs causing harm. The website should look like it's meant to have lists of incidents, graphs, and so on. Consider what someone thoughtful about AI x-risk would want to track. And then have 0 for all the categories and graphs.

Let's think step by step: what should be on the website?
Like the strong financial incentives to compromise certificates owned by banking websites? Securing voice communications the same as website communications is an awesome idea, and the fact that it’s possible to steal some piece of data and compromise it shouldn’t prevent us from moving in that direction.
I want my two dollars!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdF_Vo4B6Ms
Kaggle competition for protein function prediction
It's $3k period, for offsetting normal earned income. There is no cap on offsetting capital gains (for example, from selling stock). And you can do both, e.g. wipe out for example $20k in capital gains then another $3k in normal income.

I sold a business at a $60k loss 4-5 years ago and between capital gains offsets and normal income deductions I still have about $30k in deductions left.
Correct, although I'm not sure if they proved that other genes were responsible for the variation, just that the glue genes were essentially the same between them.
Interestingly, some time ago as part of my job I tested this out -- how effective is a fake breach settlement website / notification as a phishing vector? It turns out, to my surprise, not very. You can't harvest anything particularly juicy beyond basic PII without arousing a lot of suspicion, and as far as vectors for harvesting basic PII, more "normal" approaches are a lot more effective.

Outside of very limited circumstances (e.g. when everyone is really angry, Hello Equifax!), the average person is remarkably uninterested in filling out data in return for an unknown amount of money, at some nebulously undefined future date, that is likely to be somewhere between $7 and $0.
I disagree, based on the fact that we're continuing to make further and further progress on manned space exploration v. borderline zero progress on becoming post-human; it's readily apparent, given existing progress, that the former is the more practical choice in the relatively-near-term by a rather wide margin.
I still think agents need budgets and some way to communicate costs.

Agent hubs will evolve into marketplaces.

and some way to manage micro transactions.
According to the Rice Outlook published by USDA, total global rice supply is 691.4 million tons [1][2]. If there is a shortage in production (of 8.7m) this year, it will simply debit against that total. Rice is stored for long term.

As of now that 8.7m figure is simply a forecast. The weather could turn favorable for the season and there could be a surplus. No, we cannot predict the weather beyond two weeks from now.

[1] https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
[2] https://usda.library.cornell.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&loca...
I have recorded all the operations of a document. Each operation has an id .

When the document is loaded into memory, it has a unique uuid as the agent id.

If the current version is

hash(a1 b2 c3)

If two people edit the document at the same time the name will become

hash(a1 b2 c3 e4)

hash(a1 b2 c3 d4 d5)

After merging, the document name will become

hash(a1 b2 c3 d4 e4 d5)

a1, b2 is "Lamport timestamp" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp

the full version (a1 b2 c3 e4) is “vector clock” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clock
The instruct tuning can be done with several open datasets at minimal cost. Should be easy for someone to create their own open model.
>Like is it possible for you to acknowledge that folks in Florida don’t want to kill sexual minorities, but are also wary of a resurgent sexual revolution that could change the behaviors of kids who aren’t born gay or trans? Like can you seriously deny that there is an emerging trend of sexual identity becoming a form of self expression?

Sorry, but what's the problem with sexual identity being a form of self expression? Really struggling with this...
There are some quirks to setting up SMB so Time Machine is happy, but I have had great success with ZFS+SMB hosting my TM backups. Have been running for a little over a month and nothing is corrupt. Self hosting is still somewhat hard, I don't blame you for bailing on something so critical to uptime in the first place.
Should publicly listed companies should publish their financial results every quarter? Do they have to use GAAP or can they make up their own financial metrics? What do you think would happen if we removed the regulations surrounding financial disclosure for public companies?

The questions are rhetorical. Companies will rob their shareholders blind if you let them. You can't just be "lol caveat emptor".

(Casinos also cheated players shamelessly in the good old days before regulatory oversight.)
How to train your own Large Language Models
Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)
Has anybody figured out the hardware requirements yet?

This could be the beginning of something beautifull and i am always impressed by the work stable diffusion does!

They are the true openAI (without empty promises in the middle ;))
Can't be "cozy" on your own? Maybe the article explained it wrong? My god, please tone down your self-righteousness.
2008 was a pretty crappy time to be a carpenter or electrician.
Online is just offline with the caching layer missing.
This is why I call ChatGPT a mirror. And it's a really damn good mirror. But even the best mirror can only reflect that which already exists.
Thanks :) Let us know if you come across interesting findings!
Think "processor" in the sense of "coprocessor", not in the sense of "CPU". There are enormous numbers of chips which embed multiple processor cores, often with heterogeneous architectures; baseband processors, network switches, all kinds of SoCs. Consider Intel's own Movidius VPU, which includes two different LEON cores (SPARC) and 16 SHAVE cores (VLIW vector processors) all on the same die. There are many options for the cores used in such a device - ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, others - and now Intel wants Xeon cores to be an option too.
That would be pretty neat. I bet the author takes feature requests.
The general mechanism is always the same : in-group vs out-group. My tribe is humane, your tribe is evil beyond compare.

The exploit is emotional reactivity, get your in-group gaslighted so they are on permanent rage.
There is no reason to regard Bloomberg as a serious publication when it's writers and editors vacillate between different forms of psychosis:

Elon buys enough Twitter shares to get a board seat - BAD

Twitter enacts poison pill - GOOD

Elon offers to outright buy Twitter - BAD

Elon walks away from Twitter offer, Twitter takes Elon to court - GOOD

Elon buys Twitter - BAD

What do these lunatics expect?
Really wish they'd released this as open source. Sounds interesting.
Yes, we do. It’s AI accelerationists that are the ones demanding special treatment of being able to deploy potentially dangerous technology without any regulations and without doing any work to verify and demonstrate it is safe.
George Costanza’s 10 Rules for “Working Hard” in the Office
I just asked it to explain a problem that actually has been acknowledged to exist in USB errata from 2002 - not to solve anything.

It took me a while to realize that what I was experiencing was this particular problem, but I already did all the hard work there and only asked it to explain how it fails.

I also recently tried to use it to write a code for drawing wrapped text formatted a'la HTML (just paragraphs, bolds and italics) in C, again, just to see how it does. It took me about 2 hours to make it output something that could be easily fixed to work without essentially rewriting it from scratch (it didn't work without edits, but at that point they were small enough that I considered it a "pass" already) - and only because I already knew how to tackle such task. I can't imagine it being helpful for someone who doesn't know how to do it. It can help you come up with some mindless boilerplate faster (which is something I used it for too - it did well when asked to "write a code that sends these bytes to this I2C device and then reads from this address back"), but that's about it.
how different are lekker / leuk / gezellig?
"Magical Power's" should be "Magical Powers"
I made a pretty cool semi-idle game recently, in the spirit of Progress Quest. It's called "Console Quest" and runs from the terminal.

It's a simple RPG where your characters fights monsters and completes quest achievements without your input, but you get randomized chances to visit the merchant or medic, which largely determines your fate. It seems simple at first but it's harder than it seems as the game moves on.

https://github.com/donuts-are-good/consolequest

I made it just for fun one night, and found it strangely addictive all on my own while testing because I'd want to keep playing even after verifying the thing I was testing.

P.s. my high score is 356 days in game. not sure it's possible to get higher, you get wiped out quick.

It'd be my pleasure if anybody wants to play :)
https://sander.ai/2022/01/31/diffusion.html

The differences are thoroughly discussed here. From my point of view, while there is this surface-level similarity, the training process for diffusion models is directly a result of the mathematical framework on which they are defined which is distinct from denoising autoencoders.

I'd suggest reading the above blog if you are interested, it is thorough!
> Sounds bizarre but the DC-9 (and MD80 and B717) have a similar setup with the magnetic compass. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/25142/why-is-th...

The Youtube video linked from that question that actually shows the compass setup "isn't available anymore," but I found it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140323065924/http://www.youtub...
So extrapoloating from that progress, it'll soon be able to do: requirement gathering, documentation, dependency management, unit tests, integration tests, configuration of infrastructure, cost management, alerting, monitoring, metrics, logging, secrets management, outage responses, discussions with stakeholders, A/B testing, security compliance etc?
In 2023 faceid works flawlessly for me, even when wearing a mask and glasses. I only use the passcode to unlock after a reboot. If your wife is having this much trouble she probably should try retraining it on her face.
Guys, this entire section is under the ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS section. Taking a deduction is never mandatory (though usually recommended if applicable). Context matters.

> In computing taxable income under section 63, there shall be allowed as deductions the items specified in this part,

Generally, these sections explaining deductions, including 174, are things you adopt. From the beginning of the section

> (a) In general

> In the case of a taxpayer’s specified research or experimental expenditures for any taxable year—

Everything that follows is subject your specified R&E. Which is all part of the itemized deductions framework which is all completely discretionary.

For instance, here’s section 162

> a) In general

> There shall be allowed as a deduction all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business, including—

> (1) a reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation for personal services actually rendered;

You are simply carrying on business ordinarily. People don’t operate businesses on R&E expenditure. It’s just not a rational interpretation of the tax code and you don't even need to be a lawyer to read this document or form that conclusion.

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ch...
Having now switched several projects from webpack+babel to esbuild, with a bunch of plugins to replace various bits of resolution magic, SCSS compilation, and more, the performance gains are consistently astronomical. Simple builds go from taking several seconds to consistently completing in an unnoticeable amounts of time. Full rebuilds are still significantly faster than incremental (--watch) builds used to be.

Setting this up takes a bit more work than for webpack, and it's easier to run into limits on what's reasonably possible, but I don't intend to ever go back.
Overblown criticism like this give GDPR an undeserved bad rep.
Generative Disco: Text-to-Video Generation for Music Visualization
It simply means that you feel a degree of resistance or firmness when you bite an al dente piece of food, ie. it has a "tooth feel" unlike soft, fully cooked starchy things.

An engineer might say that al dente has more shear strength left than fully cooked.
This was pretty bad for me, I tried asking the name of a person references in the PDF and it couldn't find it. I asked who is the claimant in this PDF and it said the claimant was empty.

But if I asked if the claimant name was in the PDF it answered yes.

I am assuming the PDF to Text is not working great here, which I supposed is the whole point.
I take it you think OSHA was a bad idea and we should go back to the level of worker safety that was seen at the height of the Industrial Revolution?
The reason you can’t do it is because JavaScript is Turing complete (like postscript, but unlike HTML) and JS needs to load from the network. This does not happen with postscript. There is no comparison to postscript that is meaningful in my mind.
It's down alright. DNS is still responding though, so hopefully it's just temporary and nothing serious.
You have no information on how I approached using chat gpt, what prompts I used, how close its replies came to being correct/useful or not, but you decided to regale us with an irrelevant car metaphor anyway.
>> All sw dev is considered R&E. Soo you have no choice

You certainly have a choice to claim it as such or not.

More importantly, why TF has the government been paying software engineers salary all these years? That's the real question. Also, has it occurred to anyone that this may be why the big tech companies are laying off engineers in droves?