skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one would happily use a keyboard to browse... If only...!
AI has been trained on all human knowledge up until now but as it continues ingesting human ingenuity going forward it will remove the incentive for people to create new knowledge or styles or art since the AI can immediately mimic you and steal it. Promoting creativity is what copyright law was created for so I got a feeling we'll be revisiting those laws sooner or later.
> Do MIME types in HTTP headers affect how browsers render content?

You can test it with the following snippet:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>test</title></head>
<body>
<h1 style="color:green"><span style="color:red" />If this text is green, this file was parsed as XHTML</h1>
</body>
</html>

With Content-Type set to "text/html" the text will be red, with "application/xhtml+xml" it will be green.
Well, GCP did fire most of their senior customer techs 18 months ago.

Alphabet is most ruled by arbitrary fiat of empire-builders.

Killing products and footgun changes are standard.
Packard bell comment made me laugh :)
> "stop, it's not time to train yet, first we need an experimental harness"

I was going to say that the model is probably stuck on the boss because it doesn't get sufficient success feedback for incremental improvement.

The Google Alpha team used simplified games that allowed the AI to get over humps like this.
Of course this is possible but usually criticizing a dismissal like this as being wrong comes after it has been proven wrong.
It is the continued progress of technology that aggregates more and more knowledge and expertise into centralised platforms and services.

Nobody seems to care much, and we proceed to fulfil the destiny of our technological enslavement 'because it's going to happen anyway.'
All the way! I was 1-505 PIR.

> dumb Joe that keeps erasing the codes out of the radio by turning on the truck without putting it on standby

Oh man, I have nightmares about comms. Juggling frequencies while traversing areas of operation, trying to get satcom working in mountainous terrain with jammers, and depending on the finicky windows-tablet encryption device, was not a fun time.
> although a recent review concludes that the
advantage is slightly less, only half a standard deviation Lynn (2004).

From the paper you linked. Most of the studies cited were pretty flawed in implementation iirc. The paper you linked also fails to mention the most probable reason for Jewish success, which imo is the community itself. More specifically, the n-word, nepotism. I have a very Jewish name, and I've experienced preference for it. I think this also presents unique opportunities for access to early, high value education, regardless of socioeconomic status, which definitely skews the IQ results.
Nit - I don't think your last clause is true. E.g. the truth of "pi contains a sequence of 1000 consecutive sevens" is unknown, afaik.
The 4-hour batteries are most profitable right now. They're used both for frequency regulation and price arbitrage: buying cheap power like midday solar to discharge at dusk, or cheap wind/nuclear/coal at night to discharge in the morning.

For days/weeks storage -- it's not a problem yet. We already have plenty of natural gas plants in the US. I'm perfectly happy, environmentally, if we have to run natural gas plants two weeks a year but it means that we get to 80 or 90% clean energy a decade or two faster than Plan B.
Except that "copilot" doesn't appear to be registered by itself in this field, only in combinations. But we'll see.
Great, many thanks for this elaboration!
Ok Google doesn't work well either.

20% of the time it can't play songs on Spotify, and I have no idea why.
My own gpu accelerated neural network trainer using backpropagation: https://github.com/zbendefy/machine.academy
not a kid! but I use keyboard as my main interface!
In a place where technical cofounders are very common (e.g. Silicon Valley), probably equal across all founders. Where tech cofounders are rarer (e.g. SE Asia), we usually take a larger portion, but not too much that the other founders are demotivated. It's quite common for the CTO to have a higher share than the CEO here.
It shouldn't be necessary to say freedom is a basic human right but in practice it is absolutely necessary given how often corporations will trample all over it.

Congratulations to Colorado citizens for enshrining those rights into law. I hope this paves the way to enshrining general computing freedom into law as well.
> How would that change society if all authors just disappeared behind a generic AI brand?

I've been thinking about that but in terms of famous actors. Once AI can replace actors in movies, as well as singers and models like Instagram influencers and so on, maybe some of the weird hero worship and the paparazzi and the gossip mags and all that nastiness will fade away somewhat. That, I feel, would be a good thing. Pick your favorite Hollywood actor, or pop singer. A supremely talented human... Amongst thousands and thousands of supremely talented humans in their field and yet they are the ones who got lucky, had the right connections or got lucky with the right role. Then for the rest of their lives they are feted and hero worshipped as if they are more than human, while thousands of equally talented people who didn't get the lucky break are ignored. That's what being famous is, mostly, and it's not good for either the famous people or the people who worship them.

Does that apply to scientists and authors? I'm not sure. But in terms of scientific breakthroughs it's extremely rare that a particular discovery could only have been made by one person. In fact, nearly every discovery, from the calculus to the theory of evolution to DNA, was concurrently discovered by multiple people. And yet we attach one name to each discovery and hero worship that person because they published a few weeks earlier or were just better at self marketing.

Maybe losing the attachment of famous names to things is a good thing for society. As long as it's not replaced by a corporation pretending ownership of all the knowledge in their place, at least.
https://archive.ph/812N7
Code review really does work, yes. Boehm has it at 60 % defects discovered at 15 % additional effort.

Apparently "directed" or "scenario-based" code review works even better, uncovering an additional 20 or so percentage points of defects. But I have yet to find out what that means! Does it mean having a list of common problems and looking for one at a time? Does it mean taking a very concrete user story and mentally executing the code involved in satisfying it?
The fact that money isn’t growing on trees? (Not anymore at least)
I guess a bit more advanced than a potato clock. Although, I wonder how many mWH a Russet has. I'm thinking load testing would work like any other battery.
Would the IPFS-ness of this make updating all the programs that suffer from an exploit or error a difficult thing? Kind of like smart contracts, once it is published, there is no changing it? So the chain of dependencies containing the exploit or error, make updating all of the consumers a pain.
Balmer was the worst, so anyone is better.
not sure how interesting but definitely useful :D I like to listen to Albums and I missed the "Give me a random album from my collection" functionality in Spotify so built a tiny webapp to do exactly that - https://shuffle.ninja.

It uses the Spotify web APIs to fetch your album collection and gives back a random album from it. I use it daily.
Loongson / LoongArch nowadays does have mature LLVM support.
For eg Whisper is unlikely to meet Debian's requirements around ML models; such as it being possible for third parties to retrain the Whisper models from scratch using only data/code publicly available under FOSS licenses.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
https://blog.opensource.org/episode-5-why-debian-wont-distri...
https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast/why-debian-wont-dist...
This bug was in the front end (dynamo) so I’m not surprised it happens with hidet too. I fixed this for the 2.0.1 release.
I appreciate a good rant in certain contexts, but this is not the place for it.

That's not an ethical point, btw—it's about the dynamics of different genres (or if you like, the McLuhan point about the medium dominating the message). The format of the large, flat internet forum is not able to sustain comments like what you posted here. Even if 99.99% of the audience has no problem with the rant, the other 0.01% is enough to completely destroy the thread if triggered—and believe me, someone is going to get triggered.

The downside of trying to operate a forum like HN, along the principles outlined in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, is that we're all subject to a certain blandness.
I was playing a MMO with a market. Sometimes people would make mistakes, e.g. selling 100 iron for $1,000,000 instead of selling 1,000,000 iron for $100. I made a little tool that polls the API and sends a notification when someone made a mistake.

Eventually I got bored of grabbing these mistakes and left the tool with my clan. It had the side effect of getting people active on Discord, and making people more actively involved in countering raids. We ended up building one of the most elite clans in the game until some other whiz kid built a better bot.

There was also this little augmented browser tool that calculates the best order and timing to attack in the game, and the statistically likely result.

We'd joke that all the tools we built for that game were probably well worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and that's around the time I decided to quit and spend my time on something more useful.
I've been teaching my nephew how to code using Scratch. He told me that they blocked Scratch at school because some of the kids were using it to play games during school. Kind of a shame, because it is a great way for kids to learn how to code.
As it happens, I just built the minimal, hackable tool for drawing boxes and arrows that I've always wanted.

https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love
The EU is trying to rein in a completely new and different tech using old ideas about "control" and "regulation". Most likely it won't work and will just end up hamstring itself.

What nonsense, they’re asking for “Open AI” to be transparent. Why is this such an “old idea”?
What do you mean by "outperform" in this context?
Use synvert to automatically remove unused imports
I think big question with these actions should be were there monetizable traffic in first place. That is would the site die either way, and banning of porn is just the most realistic attempt to get more adds available.
I don't think ownership makes sense in the future we are building, optimizing society to achieve greatness as a multiplanetary species involve reinventing money and its purpose

What society would be today if you had to pay a fee whenever you wanted to use the Pythagoras theorem, we'd be stuck in dark times
It's free as in beer not as in freedom and the way they formulated that part made me wary of their intentions. (I'm still a huge fan of Clojure)
No chance that happens.

Why not ?
Meta braces for data transfers suspension order, GDPR fine
My townhome complex had one of those call boxes at the front gate. When Doordash/FedEx/the cleaners/the in-laws/etc arrived they would have to call me from the call box and I'd have to answer it and listen to garbled audio to figure out who it was and press 9 to open the gate. It was kind of a pain, so I made a Twilio app to answer calls from the call box.

I set up custom entry codes that I could hand out to anyone. Everyone got their own code, and it would text me whenever someone used a code so I'd instantly know who was coming. The text conversation was my timestamped access log. I also put time constraints on some codes so e.g. Doordash couldn't open the gate in the middle of the night, or I could set up a temporary access code for a party, and I rotated codes too, with text notifications if an outdated code was used.

I thought about making a paid app out of it, but it just didn't seem worthwhile. I didn't expect that many people would want to pay for it. For a while I was excited about a YC startup called Doorport that was going to make a hardware device that you'd install inside those dumb call boxes and make them smart with all sorts of cool features, better than my Twilio hack. But I think they pivoted to a much less interesting pure software thing and then got acquihired.
Is there not an option on Spotify to only stream on wifi?
Siri is Steve jobs’ version of the disastrous Newton handwriting problem.

Unlike the Newton they don’t seem to have fixed it … or better yet, replaced it.

I’m surprised Giannandrea hasn’t junked it by now.
The crypto stuff is opt-in only, including on mobile. If you accidentally enabled it, you can disable it by clicking on the settings icon and going to 'Brave Rewards' and turning off 'Brave Private Ads.'
that is cool, but I'm curious when the highest tide vs lowest tide of the year is.
Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle
He snatched failure from the jaws of success by ruining the cool. Accomplished fragile machines that routinely breakdown, are difficult to repair, and then have the gaul to demand piles of coin from users of said new systems under supposed warranty periods. He has no vision and continues to ride SJ's legacy without innovating. He should step down.
https://archive.ph/MeP4z
So that every corporation can have "you have no rights and waive any rights you think you have" standard legal boilerplate in their documents? No thanks.
That is not how I read this. I read it as the way to pass the imitation game is to mimic human desire.

I see it as a similar test question as people who look at AI generated photos and look at the background or the hands.

If you have a text only version, then you have to just simply see if the other person expresses desire for something or instead is only able to respond to you.

Of course, I am not sure how I feel about having an artificial intelligence system with its own desires...
The Censorship Industrial Complex [pdf]
Is it emacs?
not only can voice input never be a universal input mechanism that is seamless (so limits reach of application), Apple's specific implementation is just janky.
> I want to know if OpenAI used say GPL or other copyrighted software and then the bastards had the genius idea to put restrictions on the output in their ToS.

This is a bit of a gray area. Are you allowed to read GPL'ed code and use a similar pattern in a closed source project?
I built a cross of React + Wiz (a fantastic frontend framework at Google): https://github.com/aschleck/trailcatalog/tree/main/js/corgi . Totally irresponsible and probably full of bugs, but I was so tired of writing business logic in the same place as my view logic with React and now I'm free of it!
I don't know if it qualifies as the "most interesting" but as a travel bug I wrote a little airfare scraper that I got plenty of value out of.

Basically it's a script that scrapes several places for flight deals and "mistake fares" and notifies my phone if it matches with my city. No searching like other flight apps, you basically just set it up and wait, and various places will pop up. Helps if you're in a hub city e.g. NYC.

The phone notification was crucial because such deals sold really fast. In case the booking didn't work out I was usually covered by the 24 hour cancellation rule [0][1].

I started off running it on my own server but later I learned IFTTT handles device notifications without paying the Apple Developer tax, so I migrated things there. Used it more when I was single but nevertheless it's helped me land some killer deals e.g. NYC-Dublin RT for $300, NYC-Paris RT for ~$400.

Thought about making a paid app out of it but the limited seating and time-sensitive nature of these deals is tricky.

[0] https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/notice-24hour-res...

[1] I believe this rule, which is not so broadly known, was imposed on air carriers in response to certain fraudulent online marketing practices going on at the time.
Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks
Would also be funny if Europe avoids a bunch of problems America suffers from for having the brains to want to understand the systems they’re deploying at scale ?

I mean ChatGPT-4 is being trialled in congress and you don’t want to know how it’s built, what influences it etc ? Seems ridiculous.

ChatGPT-4 should be the most open system known. If it’s not open because it’s dangerous, then the whole industry should be regulated immediately. It shouldn’t just be up to Sutskever et al to be in control of such dangers.
Very good search engine. Default on all my devices. Better than Bing (and DDG which runs on it). Results were so decent, that I was suspecting that they were scraping Google.
I create a bunch [1] of [2] stuff [3] pretty much non stop [4] and I like rolling my own, in NIH syndrome therapy.

[1] https://noben.org/boomwrist/
[2] https://noben.org/boomdeck/
[3] https://noben.org/tvmaster/
[4] ... https://noben.org
We are all good
It is like that in NYC too.

But the convenience depends on which terminal. I normally fly American--ez taxi from JFK.

Once I flew in on JetBlue. Nightmare taxi stand with a winding, immobile line. Had to call an Uber.
Isn't GDPR currently the main problem? There's personal information on the Internet. If you are processing crawled data, then you also end up processing the personal information, but you don't have consent for the processing from those individuals.
I agree with you in terms of thinking about which career choices will be rewarding and stable over decade, but I think you underestimate the importance of credentialism in landing jobs, particularly with earlier career professionals. Tech (in many places) has a fairly well understood credentials / technical skills that you could learn which yields a high likelihood of some lucrative job placement. Compare this to other lucrative pathways with less defined skill sets (say, consulting, policy etc.), where job entry has little predictability with regards to upskilling or increasing your credentials.
I think it was asked for a study to back up the claim that legalization increases consumption
I really like Brave, and use it on mobile, but container tabs is still the killer Firefox feature for me on desktop. Hopefully one day Brave will get the equivalent.
I suppose I think of this the other way around. When the query engine is inside your app, the query engine doesn't need to do loop-like things. So you can have a much simpler querying language and mix it with plain code, kind of similar to how you don't need a templating language in React (and in Clojure when you use hiccup to represent HTML)

Additionally, this laziness means your business logic can dynamically choose which data to pull in based on results of queries, and you end up with running fewer queries as you'll never need to pull in extra data in one huge query in case business logic needs it.
Maybe the problem is the reliance and substitution of glowing screen distractions for fundamental teaching. Take the devices away for most of the time.
Zak ?

Edit: my bad... the cut in half BT-40 reminded me of someone else...
I don't particularly care about synonyms (when I consulted a thesaurus too much my writing became too flowery) but the historical quotes feature was just great! I can imagine downloading the full text of several of my favorite authors and index the words from that corpus.
This is a good move.

1. The problem of testing ai alignment is hard, verifying test data is only laboursome.

2. Laws are only as good as their enforcement. Regulations regarding what can be used to train are worthless if one cannot check.

3. This might give open models an edge and make them more competitive.
Great. Is there anything left that isn't conquered by this "war"?
@RedGreenBlack : could you share more please ?
What if he is watching videos about quantum physics, and he might have been the next Einstein, if his parents didn't restrict his access to the information superhighway?
I know that research is expensive but $30B? Isn't this a bit too much? Is it because of hardware? Salaries cannot explain more than a tenth of this IMO.
Or Batman’s Harvey Dent
Why would small molecule drugs like these be so expensive? Limited market?
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CLion is pretty good! If you like JetBrians IDE's, you'll like CLion.
Quite so. Thanks!
In a democracy, that question is literally up for debate.
Just need to prove that it doesn't store data under GDRP in models that can be extracted. After that GDPR is not an issue.
I feel like the argument here for "not passing the Turing test" is simply a reframing of the test.

Which is fine. But a better conclusion is "chatGPT passed the Turing test, but all that means was that the Turing test was insufficient to determine intelligence.

Once upon a time we might have defined intelligence as the ability to do math really really fast. Or play chess really well.

Clearly those tests are insufficient. Equally the Turing test has been shown to be insufficient.

I look forward to the next-generation intelligence test. And yes, maybe the Prometheus test is it.
Siri does ok for me on this. It also gets the shades right if I say shade instead of blind, otherwise the error rate is higher. Overall, I’d rather live with Siri than without. Google does ok as well, Alexa is utter crap for these tasks.
Siri is without a doubt in my mind the most embarrassing thing Apple has had on the market in the past 20 years.

With ChatGPT it is now feeling like Siri the broken tricycle is being compared to a Lamborghini.

Honestly I would have been concerned if Apple employees weren’t frustrated with Siri.

Pretty sure they need to take Siri out to pasture and start some LLM-based project from scratch.
For me all of the current voice assistants have issues.
Playing music seems to be super hard to get right if you don’t follow mainstream. Either you get a playlist with always the same titles, or it starts playing some obscure remixes.

Home automation is in my opinion totally stupid to do by voice. The light should switch on when it is dark and I go into a room and should switch off when none is in the room. But using voice which 99% of the time works is “slower”, and in one percent of the time it is annoying if the light in my kids room switches in.

I see use in the Knowledge augmented ChatGPT like assistants, since then I could reliably ask a digital assistant for information. Right now I know the moment the assistant starts answering with “this is what I found on the web” that it’s going to be wrong. Similar annoying is that Alexa for example seems to rewrite some requests, where I ask about “what is X” and I get the answer on “what is Y”.

I’m pretty disillusioned and disappointed in all the different voice assistants out there, and I seriously think that voice on top of gpt will actually help me get more often what I want.
I look forward to following your work. I don't know what the ideal integration of generative AI and hardware design is, but I do feel like there are opportunities. Excited to see what y'all cook up.
For starters you can feed it every book on electronics and every datasheet out there

That plus broad world knowledge and reasoning abilities gets you very far

And then you dynamically provide proper context and prompting as well as deterministic tooling such as a calculator to and voila…you got your new favorite virtual team mate :)