skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of water in the air is almost impossible to change because the evaporation and condensation keep the balance "constant". It actually depends on the average temperature and other factors so it's not a real "constant", but unless it's possible to cover all the seas it's impossible to reduce it.

The amount of CO2 changes more slowly, plants and cyanobacteria and some minerals absorb it, but it's a slow process. Natural decomposition, fires and fossil fuel power plants release it, but it's a slow process.

So it's easy to modify the CO2 amount in either direction. Burning fossil fuel to produce energy makes a lot of money. Carbon capture requires a lot of money. So you can guess which one is wining now.
Not surprising. Another senator used Jack Bauer from the series “24” to “prove” that torture is an effective interrogation technique.
I wonder if this could help Venice with its subsidence problem.
Open source is picking up steam in this space, it would be interesting to see what happens if open source becomes the leader of the pack. If corporations are stifled, I don't see how open source could possibly be regulated well, so maybe this will help open source become the leader for better or worse (runaway open source AI could give lots of good and bad actors access to the tech).
The extensive tests made by GitHub actions are simply amazing.
Been meaning to try to build one of these.

Example: https://www.instructables.com/Virtual-Pinball-Machine-1/
Is what you're describing simply not what people are using the term AGI to loosely describe? An LLM is an AI model is it not? No, it isn't an AGI, no, I don't think LLMs are a path to an AGI, but it's certainly ML, which is objectively a sub-field of AI.
Just posting this here too, my pizza calculator could be interesting too: https://pizza-calculator.the-bread-code.io/. It's part of the repo as well.
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It's genius, but it's also solving the "easy" problem of checking syntax. If you ask an LLM to generate some structured data representing something you describe (or a program that "does X") checking the result for valid syntax is just the first step. You then need to check for semantic validity; i.e., is it what you want?
Why do you need Tailscale and Mullvad?
didn't know that. Are they massive by European standards (significantly above 75 acres)? I'm sure they're small by American standards given the size of the landmass...
Actually good idea for lake eyre in australia which is below sea level
Not the OP, however Anecdotally, I've seen firms/teams who intrinsically lack data opine that they need data to make any decisions which are uncomfortable.

Data comes in a variety of forms - many of which are intrinsically expensive to acquire. It's ok to acknowledge that you don't have sufficient data, and won't be able to acquire sufficient data in a reasonable time/budget - and that you need to use judgement.
When I worked at an Erlang shop, the director’s hiring strategy was to hire generalists willing to learn Erlang. He also hired remote, years before the lockdowns. He built distributed teams that builds distributed systems.
Hmm… is it about vehicle size or the fact you’re operating commercially? Naively I’d assume that I can’t start a bus company with a fleet of Honda Civics and hire people without CDLs?
I responded to the other user I saw who was breaking the site guidelines in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35957674. If there were others, I didn't see them—I didn't read the entire thread. It's impossible to read everything.

I didn't ban the other account because when I looked at their comment history I saw a track record of mostly using HN as intended.
Presumably all these could be allowed to get saltier than the seas they fill from. That would allow more water to evaporate, which would speed up the water cycle, which has a net cooling effect on the planet, and which would cause more precipitation that would then help green the planet. It would also tend to lower sea levels. Win win win win!
So they seem to have a special agreement.

1.3 Your Obligations. You shall receive a Query from the End User and shall forward that Query to Google. You may not in any way frame, cache or modify the Results produced by Google, except as otherwise agreed to between You and Google.

https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/171430...
Given that your writing supports the notion that he knew exactly why you said what you said, it seems like he can parse the context of your writing just fine.
I know it's the fault of the journal, but I thought we edited here to remove clickbait. Can we put at least the name of the chemical (trichloroethylene) in the title?
It's very hard to do anything in a data driven way. Where do you start? Where do you stop?

Is it signups that matter? Or DAUs? Or MAUs? Or (and it actually is this one) revenue?

But how do you decide the relationship between each of these? Does an easier on-board mean that you get less "sticky" users? How will you tell?
My understanding is it is the other way around, that in equal concentrations water vapor has a much stronger greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. However for physics reasons the atmosphere does not hold much water vapor.

In fact if I understand correctly this is the mechanism for a runaway greenhouse, that is, something like what happened to venus. Warmer temps allow for more water vapor in the atmosphere, due to it being such a good greenhouse gas, temps then build out of control as more and more water is vaporized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Role_of_water_v...
From another article about this:

"One way the US government could regulate the industry is by creating a licensing regime for companies working on the most powerful AI systems, Altman said on Tuesday."

Sounds like he basically wants competition to create a barrier to entry to his competitors.
My favorite pinball implementation was a PC game that was one of the first to use hacked VGA modes to get a better resolution. I don't know what I found more interesting, the game itself, or the mode tweaks :-). I'll need to dig deeper to find the exact name...
I’m working on something very much like this!
Maybe before, but now no cacheable content should be part of the basic SLA i think.

But they still need to clarify that. Maybe that is just a bandwidth constrained by plan not by type.
this is one thing makes me think those claiming "it isn't AI" are just caught up in cognizant dissonance. For llm's to function, we have to basically make it reason out, in steps the way we learned to do in school, literally make it think, or use inner monologue, etc.
Recently went to a pinball museum. Was awesome. $20 got you play for the whole day, and they had a variety of machines from the early days of pinball to the present. Really helped you see the evolution of pinball from then to now, and because it was a flat payment, I could experiment and play around without feeling like I was burning money.
I am on the East Coast and there are probably at least a half dozen places places to play in my area that have ten or more machines. Many bars now have at least a few machines. I'd say there is a large technical community here and pinball does really feel at home in nerd/tech culture.
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Is the premise that the LTE was being used to ensure no connectivity happened when she wasn't using the laptop? And they weren't happy with this because they wanted the laptop to regularly phone home when not in use?
> SHA-2 is still the gold standard

Truncated SHA-2, eg SHA-512/256, has some resistance against length extension attacks[1] while non-truncated has none, so wouldn't that be the gold standard?

edit: Thinking a bit more, I guess there are a lot of interesting cases which are not prone to length extension attacks where the full SHA-512 would be better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Comparison_of_SHA_functi...
How does cloud gaming work from a customer perspective? I see it mentioned on the main page but I haven't found any additional information about it (on your mobile page).
https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies

Just scroll down to the other legal docs on the same page

(Dated March 1 at time of access)
Yes, the barcade business model works. Mostly as a bar. Most often the machines are owned and operated by an outside contractor or dedicated hobbyist (who knows how to fix them.) The games make it a destination for families with kids, and the adults play some but really spend on food and drink. Same as how a tabletop game store is really making money on the food items, not the trading cards.

And as for your last, yes, virtual pinball games don't come close on ball physics. Real ball motion is so much more than a pair of X-Y coordinates and velocities. A real ball slides and spins and scrapes across the playfield and the objects in all sorts of ways. A ball's motion is very 3d even on a 2d playfield - it can have a spin axis aligned anywhere on its sphere.

Flippers too. It's much more than one object moving at one velocity. There are really subtle details in the interactions with the rubber on the flippers - a real ball will sink into the rubber by a fraction of a millimeter and rebound in ways that depend on that. Flippers accelerate and decelerate on a time scale of single-digit milliseconds, with all sorts of subtleties that an experienced player can feel. Response time matters too - a computer platform is usually limited to 1/60 second input resolution by the host hardware and OS, while a real machine responds hard real time instantly.

And of course nudging - no virtual controller comes anywhere close to all the things you can do to a real machine, shoves and pushes and slaps. No game physics engine comes anywhere close to all that detail in all these areas.
If your business doesn't have a moat of its own, get government to build one for you by forcing competitors to spend tons of money complying with regulations. Will the regulations actually do anything for AI safety? It's far too early to say. But they will definitely protect OpenAI from competition.
Oh yes, but it's nice that this technique enforces the grammar during generation, one token at a time, rather than having to check after completing the query and rerun for adjustments.
It would be great if this were possible. I believed it could be done initially, but then I realized it depends on too many parameters: Flour, water, temperature, sourdough starter microbes, starter microbial activity level, desired consistency, baking times and a few others. One guy once tried to put together a table with different starter levels: https://www.wraithnj.com/breadpics/rise_time_table/bread_mod.... In practice it doesn't work though.
> I wouldn't say lying as I think lying has a knowing quality to it (i.e., you have to know the statement you are making is incorrect).

Yeah, this is the difference between lies and bullshit. Lies are specifically not the truth (possibly selective truths instead) and bullshit doesn't care what's true.
Ah I see now, thanks for the clarification. I was wondering if CLIC was the sole organiser or not
it tends to be true. we do things at the application tier to minimize these things.

for example, assume you have to write A, B, C ... in syscalls it would be

write( A ), flush()
write( B ), flush()
write( C ), flush()

so if you add a debounce of say 4ms you get

Write( A ),
Write( B ),
Write( C ),
Flush()

and saved 2 flush()-es

This is common with protocol aware storage applications.
The more they can move Siri on device the less that will happen.
Yes, and generic multicore ARM CPUs can run ARM's standard compute library regardless of their hardware: https://github.com/ARM-software/armnn

Plus, the benchmark you've linked to is comparing hardware accelerated inferencing to the notoriously crippled MKL execution. A more appropriate comparison would test Apple's AMX units against the Ryzen's AVX-optimized inferencing.
I’d argue that sweeping categorical statements like this are at the center of the problem.

People are coalescing into “for” and “against” camps, which makes very little sense given the broad spectrum of technologies and problems summarized in statements like “AI regulation”.

I think it’s a bit like saying “software (should|shouldn't) be regulated”. It’s a position that cannot be defended because the term software is too broad.
My dad was gifted an old, defunct Globetrotters pinball machine in the 90s by a neighbor, and spent most of my childhood refurbishing it and fixing it up when it would break down. Lots of fond memories showing it off to my friends, and later pulling off the glass to get a perfect 99999 score!
Highly recommend the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda if you're in the Bay Area.

https://www.pacificpinball.org
> I feel like I could just go through the docs for for java / kotlin collections lib and cracking the code interview, and get a good understanding of DS / algos. What would this offer beyond that?

Reading the Java standard library documentation will teach you what pre-made data structures are available to you, but will not teach you how they work under the covers, or why they work. Reading Cracking the Coding interview will help you use data structures and algorithms specifically in the context of applying for jobs. If you want a deeper understanding you should do a course/tutorial/book that is more focused on the fundamental problem solving techniques like the linked Berkeley course.

In the book realm, I recommend Grokking Algorithms for a gentle introduction, or Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne for a deeper understanding. My own book, Classic Computer Science Problems in Java, is a gateway to the wider world of computer science. Yet, for sure this deeper understanding is not necessary for the majority of day-to-day dev work. However, if you have a curiosity, want to work on more fundamental problems, or be sure that you are always doing things the most efficient way possible, it is necessary.
If you want guidance acceleration speedups (and token healing) then you have to use an open model locally right now, though we are working on setting up a remote server solution as well. I expect APIs will adopt some support for more control over time, but right now commercial endpoints like OpenAI are supported through multiple calls.

We manage the KV-cache in session based way that allows the LLM to just take one forward pass through the whole program (only generating the tokens it needs to)
This is pretty common where I live. We take water from the river and replenish the aquifers.

Why do it manually you ask? We have thick layer of impermeable dirt that prevents natural infiltration.
IIRC it's based on vehicle weight and not use-case.
They can try. “O&O Shut Up” put an end to that nonsense on my install a long time ago.

I’m not worried about a nation state going after my Steam credentials, so any updates they’ve pushed in the last couple years are likely just going to annoy me by changing the UI in some way like adding a 6th or 7th control panel for sound settings, with the real one being hidden deeper into their fever dream of a menu structure.
StreetFighter was meant to be played standing up
Some regions in India with wet and dry seasons have been successfully doing this for some time now. Interestingly, the very high precipitation during the wet season allowed them to achieve improvement without megaprojects, instead focusing on outreach campaigns to teach many small farmers to build recharge wells and water slowing features (frequent small dams) on runoff streams on their land to foster ground absorption during the wet season.
cljs and reagent. my setup is this:

https://github.com/nathants/aws-gocljs
Poor analysis of the market. iOS is unique to Apple and includes iMessage... iPhone is a status symbol. Tons of people are committed to Apple and aren't changing no matter what.
Pocket is getting a redesigned iOS app
There's also just the fundamental difference in motives— PC pinball is designed to be fun, while arcade pinball, at least historically, was designed to eat your money.
That is usually true, but not always: http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2018/12/dr-liston-and-the-sur...
I agree. Every talk on "AI safety" I've heard given has essentially been some form of "we can be trusted with this power, but someone else might not be, so we should add regulations to ensure that we're the only ones with this power". Examples like "ChatGPT can tell you how to make nerve gas, we can't let people have this tool" seem somewhat hollow given that the detailed chemistry to make Sarin is available on Wikipedia and could be executed by a decently bright high schooler.

"Alignment" is a euphemism for "agrees with me", and building uber-AI systems which become heavily depended on and are protected from competition by regulation, and which are aligned with a select few - who may well not be aligned with me - is a quick path to hell, IMO.
I don't know who needs to read this but:

Always always always keep personal and work things 100% separate. For most of you this means carrying around two laptops and two phones. It's mildly annoying but it's just part of being a tech worker in the 2020's.
“ilk” has acquired a negative connotation in its modern usage.

See also https://grammarist.com/words/ilk/#:~:text=It's%20neutral.,a%....
Sounds like a nice gig.
My concern for urban permeable pavement is all of the chemicals that would be absorbed with it. Same with the forced injection of water back into an aquifer. I was under the impression that the water being pulled through the ground is a filtering process so that the water in the aquifer is clean.
I thought the SWP involved supercritical carbon dioxide, but apparently it just involves solubility tricks and sacrificial beans, and CO2 is the new, new method.
Filling basins with ocean water will not increase the volume of sea water. It will probably increase the area of sea water (thus increasing evaporation, causing more precipitation, and speeding up the water cycle, which has a net cooling effect on the planet), and it will lower sea levels. Win win win win!
Every time I read things like this I wonder what the managers themselves are thinking since they themselves are employees and have their own managers. And in a company of that size there's A LOT of managers.
“Oh dear Congress, my company can’t handle open competition! Please pass this regulation allowing us to pull the ladder up behind us!” — Sam Altman

(Not a real quote)
Probably most of this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Unpolished IP theft just makes it illogical for anyone to invest in R&D. It's a type of tragedy of the commons.
I am posting on LinkedIn almost daily.

I found it to be the easiest platform to build an audience and make money from.

YouTube is highly competitive. LinkedIn is not.
What is an "alcohol hydrocarbon"? Alcohol isn't a hydrocarbon. As already pointed out a hydrocarbon is comprised entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
The one in Asheville, NC? I'm glad it was a flat fee because some of those oldest pinball machines they have are just plain terrible game design. Very unforgiving if you make the slightest error, the ball is out of play.

Really cool place and I'm glad they are keeping those artifacts running.
Elon Musk just seems awesomer and awesomer. A spectacle.

His work at Tesla and Space-X showed vision, persistence, focus, insights, … and now this?

EDIT: The downvoters might do well to keep in mind that "awesome" does not mean "admirable". "Spectacle" also does not.
And I guess the idea is furthermore that just because you don't fsync after every write does not mean that you haven't fsync-ed before responding to the user request saying the data is stored durably. I assume that you do actually guarantee the flush before returning a success to the user.
I took it down, was like 95% done but ran out of motivation to make it bullet-proof and catch all the corner cases. Also needed to add something like WebRTC, we found out playing with my friends we always were in a Zoom/Jitsi/WhatsApp call with each other, half the fun is the "vocal banter" :D

Wait Wait do you work for "Hasbro" :O ?

PS - Fun Nerd Fact: Hasbro owners of many many board games including monopoly also owns the trademark for "Ouija Board" (yea the spirits phone-home one) :D
It's very Lord of the Rings.
There might have been a misunderstanding. I meant I got mine done 12 years ago and that's when I was researching the risks. I'm fine with getting them done again after another 15-20 years from now - well worth the money.
It senses the dev is upset and doesn't want to get into trouble so it keeps quiet. Yet another example of emerging, human-like behavior ; )
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection
If we're able to simulate airplanes before they fly, I'm pretty sure we can simulate a sphere.
I don't think that people are using them says anything one way or another about what stage this tech is in. Lots of people used transistors on a daily basis in the form of radios and such back when transistors were brand new on the market.
Our taxes are complicated. We employed a nanny this past year which somehow made our tax due jump up by over 3K. I assume this was a mistake in TurboTax?
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With a guest speaker from the Cod Fish Historical Society.
This would have been either Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, or Epic Pinball. All of them used the 256kb of VGA video memory to display a playfield several times taller than the screen (a 64kb bitmap), and could scroll instantly just by setting the start-position register each frame.

What table themes do you remember? If it was Android, that's Epic Pinball; if it was Party Land (an amusement park theme), that's Pinball Fantasies.
Yes, animal husbandry is an integrated part of food production, but there is merit to the suggestion of _reducing_ meat consumption; most of the world has increased meat consumption per capita quite a lot the last 20 years and going back to 2000 levels might not be a bad idea in the case of a lot of richer countries.
No geese are harmed in the making of eiderdown either (eiders are ducks and the down is collected from their nests, not from animals.)
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