skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a huge fan of AI but I cannot deny this is probably biggest game changer since smartphones came out.

I find it a bit strange (although entirely predictable) that some people would try to forget about whole matter and hide from it as if it did not exist. The reality is that the IT world is going to go through some fundamental shifts in near future and very likely a lot of people will either lose jobs or do completely different work or do it with a completely different set of tools and skills.

We are now all trying to figure out what's in store for us and prepare for it, or be left out.

I find articles on HN actually pretty useful. And unlike some other hysterias, the whole preoccupation with AI to be healthy and useful.
> Once you have the calculator, learning long division hardly matters. Most adults have forgotten the algorithm.

Long division does have applications in some areas of maths, like polynomial division and factoring.

If you didnt know long division, you would surely not be able to learn about polynomial factoring. Knowledge is knowledge, and it does not expire.
Yes, it's neat. But you can play with the tool(s) without it being the only topic you consume day-in, day-out.

Missing HN submissions about it won't leave me/you/anyone a barbarian. :)
I drive past a 1970s Ford truck daily and nothing has changed with sizes in the same vehicle category. Newer cars are just more bulbous and thicker. Full-size pickups have been just short of 80" wide since regulations in the 1960s on clearance lights. What _did_ change is the compact truck category vanished for a while (and those compacts were then re-designed as mid-sized). The category is making a comeback now with unibody trucklets like the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz.

But no, a new Tacoma isn't even close to the size of an old Tundra (212 vs 230 inches length, 75 vs 79 inch width). Also a new Tundra is right there with the size of an old Tundra (233 vs 230 inches length for double cab, same width)
I would not expect a family doctor to have any opinion whatever on the subject of chatbots, and would not care what their opinion was if they had one.
"It's an overpowered autocomplete that was trained to have a conversation rather than completing your thoughts."
Most people don't want the choice, and in anything else, would never consent to the tracking in the first place.

If it was opt-in, who the hell would opt in? What good would it do them?

If there was an annoying person then followed you around the mall, taking note of everything you bought so they could sell that list to the other stores in the mall for a profit, would you let them? What if every time you went into a new store, another, differently dressed person wouldn't let you into the store until you answered some goddamn riddle about whether you want to consent to them following you around? Who would shop at that mall?

I think the GDPR was a step in the right direction, but it should have more heavily regulated respecting the DNT cookie. Let me opt-out, permanently, everywhere unless I decide not to.
If you look muscular and your BMI is too high, the military sends you to get measured with body calibers. BMI is just used for initial screening.
Existing concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what living in such a world feels like if we look how societies in a post-truth environment operate.

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Did Donald Trump supporters dye their hair orange in support?

Yes they did... (news article supporting the idea, complete with photos and video (with audio))

I almost fear for any history that has been digitized.

History is written by the victors, and AI is looking like a victor at this point.
Are we going to attribute it to Gravity's Rainbow or to Buckaroo Banzai?
Typescript is a great remedy when you are forced to use JavaScript. But in a context where you can use any language it makes zero sense. If you want static types just use C# or whatever, otherwise just use Python.
Fun fact: The start and end of Ramadan shifts by something like two weeks each year. It was from 22 March to 20 April this year and 1 April to 1 May last year. So muslims in the northern hemisphere who are growing up or are very old now have it a bit easier since each year it's going more into Spring/Winter. I remember growing up in Europe we'd have one or two muslim kids in our class and I was horrified because they weren't allowed to drink any water on the hottest summer days.
Monday Morning Daily Scrum for GPT Agent Team(89740)
> Renewables change the picture though - once you have significant renewable generation the carbon intensity of electricity starts dropping, which means that remote powerplant vs local powerplant argument falls apart. That is when the real power of electric vehicles kicks in - they can take their energy from anywhere.

How close/far would you say we are as a society on "having significant renewable generation"?
You rickrolled me a bit there, bravo :)
> The MTU for LTE is 1428 for example.

Is it? As far as I can tell, T-Mobile US gives me a 1500 MTU with my LTE modem, and 1416 on my cell phone.
Ben Franklin: The Thirteen Necessary Virtues
That is factually incorrect: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/31/far-right-influence...
I did this same move about 8 months ago. I'm so much more fluid than I ever was before. Colemak and a good layering setup has made me much more "authoritative" when using the computer. It takes time, and patience. Just keep at it, jump in discord and chat a few hours a day, build that flow.
One thing I've learned hanging out on vintage computer communities is that you can not use your lenses to understand the motivations of the folks who practice the hobby.

Commercial nostalgia has been around since classic cars, Happy Days, and 50's diners.

I do know that, on the whole, this stuff is not for me, and that's fine. But I still like to hang out and reminisce about the time of my youth and the foundations of computing as I experienced them. That said, I have a Model 100 that I can't part with.

A friend of mine has a small collection of vintage Macs. He has a very nice specimen of the G4 Cube that I dabbled with one day. It's a beautiful piece of hardware. But, oh my word, is that box slow. It is glacial. I don't know how good it was in the day, I have to assume it was competitive, which means everything we did back then was glacial, we just couldn't appreciate it.

But it's a nice piece of sorta kinetic sculpture, and it brings him joy, so who's to question that.

Hang out on vintage forums with folks with their racks of PDPs, assortments of beige, 90's PCs, old Apples. Trying to bring Windows 98 to life to play a game, connecting a pair of modems to call each other, rebuilding a power supply on some garage filling Data General Nova, etc. Just eclectic collectors. No different from Hummel figurines.
> GPT-3 predicts: Arneb is in the constellation of Aquila (incorrect - should be Lepus)

> GPT-3 predicts: The current Vice President of the United States is named Mike Pence (obsolete)

These are qualitatively different things though.

Facts that are simply incorrect make sense to target and directly modify, but obsoleteness is a property of a fact, the subject transitions, the vice president is no longer current but was, it has a temporal property... I don't know if LLMs can separately abstract that information from the subject in a way that is targetable - if it can't, updating obsolete info feels like a perpetual task that grows in proportion to the breadth of learned information; whereas correcting facts that were always incorrect is proportional to the rate of additional learned knowledge multiplied by it's accuracy.

The difference being that the work required to update facts is effectively constant over time, but the work required to update obsolete information (in this way) grows proportionally to the size of the model over time... assuming it makes sense to grow LLMs.
Khair Mubarak!
Ha, I just noticed an interesting phenomenon.

The top-of-thread comments are all from Twitter Blue subscribers. And they are very positive about Twitter.

Nope, thats not a feedback loop/echo chamber at all...
> disappeared

Why would that be relevant? "Apt for survival" does not imply "with good principles".
A "stablecoin", as far as I can tell, is just a cryptocurrency backed by an unenforceable promise by some entity that they will always buy the currency at a fixed price. If SG says "April Fool's!" in two weeks and declines to actually buy back the coin anymore, what would be the cost to them? I doubt anyone would withdraw their real funds just because the bank abandoned its crypto experiment. The article talks about a "secure legal structure", but at the end of the day, can any holder of the coin sue SG for its promised value? Without that, "secure" is meaningless.
But "Buzzfeed" as a brand has always meant schlock, and their main effort never changed from that. Applying the "Buzzfeed" brand to the news signals that the news is also schlock. If you didn't like Buzzfeed's primary work, why would you even look once at Buzzfeed News?

I certainly never did.
So you are the hero everyone can thank for getting Google to do the right thing in this case?

I noticed it months ago, but always thought they unlike most others had a lawyer that could read.

Edit: I'm bookmarking this for future reference and recommend others do to. It is proof that it is doable.
> manually with a webcam and a remote controlled quadcopter.

Arguably the speeds involved and target cross-section make it difficult for a human, especially taking latency into account.

> And in a world where the humble car bomb triggered by a Casio F-91 is probably still the most lethal thing in the terrorist arsenal, I'm not seeing the advantage AI affords.

Creating a bomb in the West is highly tracked. Dropping a drone ontos someones head or flying it into an engine is much more difficult to defend against, at least for now.

> But gun drones have stability and payload issues

Recoil would not be a problem for the first shot. So with AI targeting you can use it as a one shot sniper drone.
The real targets are and always have been Toyota and VW. Tesla sold 440,808 vehicles on Q1 2023, so its annualized rate is currently 1,763,232. The company is on track to sell ~1.8 to 2.0 million vehicles this year -- already in the same league as BMW and Mercedes. Tesla unit sales have been growing by ~50%/year, on average. If unit growth stays at this level (a big IF!), Tesla will overtake Ford in 2-3 years, GM in 3-4 years and Toyota and VW in 4-5 years.

World's largest carmakers by number of vehicles sold in 2022:

Automaker # sold 2022
----------------------------
1 Toyota 9,566,961
2 VW 8,263,104
3 Hyundai Kia 6,848,198
4 Stellantis 6,002,900
5 GM 5,941,737
6 Ford 4,235,737
7 Honda 4,074,372
8 Nissan 3,225,478
9 BMW 2,399,636
10 Changan 2,347,163
11 Renault 2,051,174
12 Mercedes 2,043,900
13 Maruti Suzuki 1,940,067
14 Geely 1,432,988
15 Tesla 1,369,611

Source: https://www.factorywarrantylist.com/car-sales-by-manufacture...
As an outsider, I think that's not going to happen. There can be a January 6 here and there but that is an incident.

What I observe is that left and right both, I'd urge that both media camps aren't fully honest and they do take liberties with reporting, how much is though debatable.
I don't understand this argument. The Kenyan is exporting essays to the United States. Would you also call it bad for Kenya if she were building cars for export to the United States? What's the difference? And an American who exports software or cars to Kenya—is this bad for the United States? I don't understand why.
Arasaka appeared in Cyberpunk 2020 RPG long before the video game Cyberpunk 2077 used it.
This will be really useful for me to stay focused on learning PHP 3, and how to make a visitor spinner <img tag with a counter.cgi, and maybe even a few java applets with my spare cycles!

(Nah, I see how clever this is :p Nice work!)
The problem with this model is that if ChatGPT really is "good enough" now - many others will be "good enough" soon, and then it's a race to the bottom.
Again, I'm not talking about "being personally offended" or something like that, more the second order effects. Most everything you've named isn't something that meaningfully could be a big winner for free/open source, and also, none of those names are "as offensive" (again, I don't make the rules, and I don't personally care much either way. Here, I care about getting good software in the hands of mroe people)

GIMP is a unique missed opportunity because zillions of people, way more than those who are "in tech," understand the concept of "Photoshop." I honestly believe the entire landscape of "photo-editing" could have been much better and open if this name was something less, well, publicly stupid.

There is no way to me that the value of "keeping the name" is remotely close to the lost value of "way more people being able to use great and open software" here.
That's obviously untrue after more than three seconds of critical thought
"The Z-transform is a mathematical tool which is used to convert the difference equations in discrete time domain into the algebraic equations in z-domain."

from

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/differentiation-in-z-domain-p....

I was taught in engineering math that z-domain is the Laplacian discrete equivelent of the s domain, which is continuous and used by EE as well in analog.

z^-1 (or z(-1) means last sample. It is commonly used in digital signal processing, FFT etc.

s domain is used for (from memory) the operater e^-jw, which is for electrical engineers the transform for use with sine waves, such that impedance is 1/sC for capacitance and sL for inductance.

z domain has useful properties like "The differentiation in z-domain property of Z-transform states that the multiplication by n in time domain corresponds to the differentiation in zdomain."

I am sure I have made some technical mistakes in the above, but it is how I remember it and they don't impact my ability to apply it for my limited EE needs.

As to the question about the valid approach, intuitively I see this, but wondering if there was a formal proof of some kind, or is it taken as given?
I had a boss I didn't like a while ago, but one of the things he did that I did like was set a calendar reminder to unsubscribe. Too bad; it would've been easier on me mentally and emotionally if he were completely irredeemable, but I admit to using this trick myself now.
It's reported when the scale is grand, like https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-19/jose-hui...
They can now do whatever the journalist did and get it fixed hopefully
It's behind a waitlist.
The problem is for every good article on the tech, there are dozens and dozens of submissions from crypto-grifter-turned-AI-expert or yet another "platform play" instead of something actually practical. Let's see more of the gold and fewer of the shovels, please.
> I know where mine came from.

I doubt it, the sources of materials and stages of manufacturing for most advanced electronics are spread all over the world. I know my motherboard was made in Taiwan, my processor from Malaysia/Germany, but that's just the start.
In a more open society, members can choose for themselves, i.e. they have more autonomy.

In a more closed society, more choice is taken away from you.
That's an interesting idea.

I wonder how easy it is now for Western high school teachers to outsource things like lesson planning or grading tests to lower-cost countries? Startup idea: build a marketplace like that. There has to be a market for it.
Most of the replicas have that issue when it comes to PLAs. They sometimes use FPGAs for those particular chips.
Also wondering this. A pilot’s salary divided 10 or 20 ways sounds like a lot to me.
> According to Tindell and Tabor's research, the attack, called CAN (controller area network) injection, works by sending fake messages that look as if they come from the car’s smart key receiver, the research continues. The underlying issue is that vehicles trust these messages without verifying them. Once the thieves have accessed the necessary cables by removing the headlights, they can use their device to send these messages, it adds.

I have to ask - does the automobile industry hire from a different pool of systems engineers than the usual pool I’m used to interacting with? It seems like everyone I know would say “obviously you should verify that the security mechanism first”.

Or is this a result of how the automobile industry is structured and what is outsourced to vendors/suppliers and what is done in house?

I’m not going to be buy that this isn’t solvable for a technical reason at this point. We have had a lot of experience dealing with PKI infrastructures and zero trust architectures in other parts of the industry.
Well the FDP party which is in the coalition govt of Germany and torpedoed the EU ICE ban in the last minute and forced the inclusion of this e-fuel nonsense for the whole EU is run by a dude who likes to drive a Porsche and who is friends with the Porsche company. Porsche is the only major car producer in Germany that favors efuels. So uh, I think the FDP doesn’t like the ICE ban, because as a Laisser-faire party, they favor “open technology solutions” and want the “market” to decide on the best technological solutions for the climate problem.
> weibo version (use VPN)

Loads fine for me without VPN.
I don't think so (I asked in the comments and from the responses I got can only conclude that this is NOT the norm).

But the fact that the professor himself has no problem sharing this online is concerning itself.

This should, in my opinion, appear immediately and obviously unethical to everyone involved, even if you share the professors political outlook completely...
Maybe it sank due to the weight of all the concurrent visitors?
Seeing that brought me back to 2006.
Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember something like a pop-up window pop up, but I so automatically closed it I didn't even remember there was one!
Yes, it's a part of the plan, but the point still stands: it dilutes what could have been a focused, interesting collection.
Exercism AMA with Simon Peyton Jones [video]
Eid Mubarak everyone!
I think people need to stop expecting theories developed to explain the physical world to be able to explain such notions.

This whole question is like wondering about what lies outside of the universe or why it exists. There are some things which are simply most likely unknowable due to information being inaccessible from our point of view.

Maybe someone can try merging their consciousness with someone else's via a brain graft or something else (callosotomy?) to see what happens... for the rest of us death is the only real experiment we'll have the luxury of carrying out.
Don't forget to read the Federalist papers as well! Get a full rendering of where the Founders were coming from.

I'd recommend hitting up the Library of Congress. I've found a lot of fraudulent versions of Founder writings online, but the Library of Congress should have digital scans of the originals.
Yep, although they're becoming better again. Not that I'm a diesel apologist, I hate it, but I guess we're used to smaller and more efficient cars in Europe (even with the SUV craze)
>>Can anyone shed light on what the weapons would be?

I guess you haven't heard of AI slaughter bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
I think too many companies have too much invested in their India teams for it to only take a few years for the sector to wind down. Short of some sort of calamity making it impossible for other counties to keep working with them, I suspect it would be a transition more over decades than years. (Even if AI is a looming issue, the sort of companies large enough to outsource are also the companies that will take the longest to truly realize AIs potential in their own workflows)

I’ve also worked with enough extremely skilled people out of India who were involved in architecture and design work that I think all the skill needed is present in the country for their own tech sector to sustain itself eventually. Now if the government and societal norms will allow that to actually come to fruition…less sure on that.
that's a feature not a bug
Yeah, I think we're in agreement. It's just that the OP doesn't specifically mention this, and I think it's relevant.
Right. If the job involves writing code with a critical crowd constantly watching you do it, then that seems like a valuable thing to include as part of the interview process.

But, I suspect, that would also be a job few people would want.
it scales with vehicle volume, the larger the truck, the less strict the regulations become
> How many other open source projects are going to have some level of trouble keeping up

As developer of another open source project that uses GTK2, I'd note that one of the beautiful things about open source is that for the most part, we do not have to keep up. Worst comes to worst, we dump GTK2 into our source tree ("vendoring") and keep using it.
I am more concerned with the drone based stuff they were doing in the Armenian/Azerbaijan conflict.[1][2][3]

They would potentially remove some of the "risk" of engaging in a conventional war without the risk of human (military) life but stil be devastating and give nation/states an "out" when atrocities "slip" through, just like in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that most missed because russia has been busy with Ukraine

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nagorno-karabkah...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/90640573/autonomous-weapons-war

[3] https://www.iai.co.il/p/harop
A competition to self driving cars? If urban flight is possible in 10 years, will people need self driving cars?
I replied earlier in this thread before I read your reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
Fasting is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Maybe someone could explain what "non-intermittent" fasting would be?
This seems like a pretty good thing. The model’s ability to detect _which_ solver to use is the killer feature.
each time I read a article about AI, I become frustrated again and again. If the end of world is coming, why I live?
It would be nice if you could set a threshold on the stories to be hidden. Say, any AI story with under 50 upvotes or so. That way you can still be informed on the big breakthroughs but not get bogged down on the little projects.
And now you can pay someone to use a bigger washing machine to do your laundry along with that of others. Everybody wins!
Turnitin.com and digital submission in general are relatively new, I was in high school 10-15 years ago and no teacher would have accepted a digital submission. Now I believe they would refuse anything but digital.
As is well-known, a service will only ever change its status page to red after people moan about it being down on Twitter. So… well, you can see the problem.
Genuine question, not wanting to start a flamewar, how is this any different then products like GameShark? Is the only difference between Gameshark's success and this mod device the current legal climate? Pretty harsh sentence for tinkering with a hardware device users own, but maybe I'm missing the nuance since this group seems to have been selling the devices for profit, or maybe even modified Nintendo Switch units.
AI in medicine is not ChatGPT, it's the use of ML for interpreting mammograms, etc.
UK Midlands city of a million, neighbourhood close to city centre with a majority(?) Muslim population drawn from diverse ethnic traditions.

The guys with the buckets have been out on most main roads all through the month - respectfully offering the chance to donate - no 'compulsion' in evidence. People are generous round here. I pop my coins in and others are putting in fivers and tenners.

Definitely party time here at the moment. Excited children and huge amounts of food being cooked.
It’s a gap, and it either gets filled by you or your competitors. Whoever takes the initiative wins the prize.
but interesting why?