skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple. Just take the hydraulic react redux emulator, and attach it to the transdimensional photon nodejs emitter. Bam! New website.

But seriously, nerds these days don't make it easy. Pretty sure they revel in the complexity. The nicest simple stack I've found is this:

1. FastAPI backend - this is almost really good for getting a simple backend running. Some downsides:

- some astonishments, bugs: [1] [2]

- it's coupled with Pydantic, which can get confusing because you end up with basically two sets of models if you use an ORM: your ORM "actual models" and then your Pydantic validation models. Just got a little confusing. I'd rather avoid Pydantic and ORM's completely.

- uvicorn? gunicorn? unicorn? WSGI? who?

- it's python, so you'll have to deal with cringe and blue-pilled dependency management, among other things

2. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS - nice thing about FastAPI is you can be flexible with how you implement the frontend. I've used it to make everything from simple SPA's using vanilla web components to traditional templated SSR sites, and mixes therein.

[1] https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/2872

[2] https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/discussions/3970
My father worked as a mechanic as a teen in the early 1960s. He tells stories of loading air hoses up with trike and hosing the other mechanics down with it. 78 years old and no neurological issues so far. But he is one of those people who seems to completely ignore his physical condition and yet has minimal health issues despite his obesity. Mom has had a daily 6AM workout routine for decades, is at a stable healthy weight, and has no end of health issues.
This feels like theater. Make society fear AI, requiring regulation, so central power controls access to it. I think Osho put it nicely:

"No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots."
My favorite comparison has always been a basic working knowledge of how we go around in a kitchen. We need to know what an oven is, and what a refrigerator is, where the knives are and where the dishes, and what each of these tools are for and how they basically work and how to use them. In computing, we've had a strong trend towards the "magic cupboard", which "just knows" for you what is needed. No need to know what's in the kitchen and how stuff works, this would be just too much for your brain. Open the cupboard once and it's the oven, open it another time, there's your knife, open it yet another time and accidentally throw your freshly baked cake in the waste bin…
You're preaching to the choir. I've been singing the praises of Erlang for about 15 years now - since I discovered it via a competitor's open source project.
Thank you! It's definitely evidence that the universe has a sense of humor.

I like the idea of going into the woods -- how do I get ALL the data off the phone in a human-readable manner that's accessible to someone like me -- not a sophisticated computer nerd, but someone who dabbles in python, can do rudimentary stuff with the command line, and would be lost without Windows? I can obviously grab the photos. But can I recover anything else? The filetypes will all make the data sticky to the apps, wouldnt it?
Are you aware of any dedicated insurance platforms tailored specifically for companies deploying AI products? My cofounder and I are building an Insurance for AI and we would love to chat with anyone who needs insurance or is building in this space.
Will there be a tool to convert natural language into Guidance?
IIRC they switch from frying the fries in beef oil to using vegetable oil and the fries have never been quite as good.
> so you are saying JPM does keep a log of video, audio, and monitor screens. Today, they are just too incompetent to process all of the data.

GP said the opposite of that:

> this post is dramatically blown out of proportion

> the HD video feed that measures changes in stress etc are completely made up.
If you find this subject interesting, the different ways the sort of post-enlightenment intellectual diaspora has begun to try and chase fundamental "meaning" again (after realizing perhaps they could not arrive at it by deduction), and the deeper nature of "religion" beyond the thing your parents used to drag you to on Saturday/Sunday, the author of this piece, Burton, also has a book called Strange Rites.

I've always enjoyed the lighthearted analysis of the Nietzchean "God is Dead" moment as asking:

"Yes, God is Dead. Congratulations; that was the easy part. Now what?".

He had is own answer of course, but, as the characters in this piece have discovered, it's not necessarily an effective one.

edit: ah they mention the book in the postscript of course.
"We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI"

Dismiss it as the opinions of "a Googler" but it is entirely true. The seemingly coordinated worldwide[1] push to keep it in the hands of the power class speaks for itself.

Both are seemingly seeking to control not only the commercial use and wide distribution of such systems, but even writing them and personal use. This will keep even the knowledge of such systems and their capabilities in the shadows, ripe for abuse laundered through black box functions.

This is up there with the battle for encryption in ensuring a more human future. Don't lose it.

[1] https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...
I think Economist articles are anonymous.
It could be, but it could also be because he is genuinely worried about the future impact of runaway capitalism without guardrails + AI.
sample size of two,
We used this for a project: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ before we moved to Elastic Search.

It has a REST API (and can be used to query the internet also, though our use case required us to restrict the results of one particular domain). I believe this is the closest thing to a Google Search API.
It did not work :(
Any sufficiently advanced technology has emergent properties that might make it turn into a person
It would be plagiarism to copy much of anything from someone else’s original work without citation. Even using GPT as a drafting tool will result in a lot of AI content making it into the final work verbatim. I think citation would legitimize this process, to an extent. Right now I feel like using the tool at all would count as “cheating” in many people’s minds, and I share some of those feelings if there is no disclosure. I also think LLMs are a legitimate tool for many purposes and their widespread use is inevitable.
It was a team decision. I interviewed with the hiring manager and three developers. It sounded like I was the first Elixir person they'd spoken to, and just decided it was outside of their comfort zone.
Many long-term skilled labor positions have this handled with a generous salary, not treating the skilled labor like bus drivers picking up extra routes for some nominal pay increase that period.
> I am talking about wasting a year with non-degree coursework and saddling students with tens of thousands of dollars of debt because of it.

I did my post-doc at EPFL, a 3 year university but almost all the CS students would stay in for at least 4 years (and get a 1 year masters). I took 5 years myself to do undergrad in the states, I don't think that one year was a deal breaker either way.

> Coursework that should be covered in high school, preparing young adults for the world --even if they don't go to college.

High schools can't really do that, unless they are structured more like universities. I got 2 years of physics and calculus out of college, and while I breezed by the first year of college math, physics killed me. Sending kids to college earlier if they are ready for it would be better than restructuring HS to teach at the college level.

> Are we sitting here pretending that all is well with our system of education? I would find that disturbing.

Nothing in my comment implied or deserved that.
I don't have any beliefs about the litigation of obesity diagnoses and was not reacting to yours.

Rather, I was replying to your pattern of breaking the site guidelines in many places. You've done it again, unfortunately, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35964586. If you keep that up, we're going to have to ban you again. I'd rather not, so could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this?
Absolutely, such a great project! I understand one of the guys behind the project is doing it more or less out of passion as he made his money from WinAmp back in the day?
By the time I graduated, 90% of my books were ebooks or pdfs the professor had samizdat'd from the publisher.

The other 10% were books the publisher only had physical prints of or which I could find pdf copies from other locales of.

> LaTeX

I submitted a lot of things done in LaTeX that professors hated grading for the sheer reason that I made them count words manually instead of letting them skim-count based on the number of words on a Word page. I eventually wrangled the `Geometry` and `mla.sty` packages into submission and even made my own custom version of Garamond that added an extra en-space to periods following a character followed by a space just to be boring.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25319031/what-is-the-def...

Just to clarify, busy_timeout = 0 by default
For Data Driven Decisions, you must first have the correct model of the universe (or at least the subset of the universe that you are interested in) that you can feed the data in.

A vast majority of orgs that claim to be data-driven don't have the correct model
Will it still be all like "As an AI language model I cannot ..." or can this fix it? I mean asking to sexy roleplay as Yoda isn't the same level as asking how to discreetly manufacture methamphetamine at industrial scale there are levels people
> Kind; class; sort; type; ; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.

> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Yes, only sometimes used to indicate disapproval, but such ambiguity does not work to your favor here. It is better to remove that ambiguity.
Ukraine downs Russian hypersonic Kinzhals and Kalibr cruise missiles
The RTX 3080 consumes ~300w at load, the M1 Ultra consumes ~200w. If you extrapolate the M1 Ultra's performance to match the 3080, it would also consume roughly the same amount of power.

Is this not a battle-tank-to-battle-tank comparison?
DMA (Direct Memory Access) memory capture card
Meaning we won't be able to buy an a100 without a license... Wait, I can't afford an a100 anyway.
Are the rumours that "crypto" in Argentina is just everybody being on the Binance app true? (Let's hope not!)
Reminds me a lot of Asimov’s laws of robotics. It’s like a 2023 incarnation of an allegory from I, Robot
Some people buy into the propaganda.
While vast.ai (see other comments) may not be a direct competitor, Runpod is. And Runpod is significantly cheaper https://www.runpod.io/gpu-instance/pricing

Runpod:
A100 80GB for $1.990/hr

vs

Oblivus:
A100 80GB for $2.41/hr

How do you justify being significantly more expensive?
You're basically saying that if you don't like the take then it's not reasonable. I find that unreasonable. :-)
Spanish Catalans will not be pleased by reading that Catalan is only mentioned to be spoken in Andorra.

https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/standard-catalan
Offline Wikipedia in Factor
Sounds a bit elitist to me to be honest. Only a tiny percent of people can afford to do this, considering career, financial, and family obligations.
Skills I learned and are still valid today:

- SQL
- Terminal
- OO programming travelled pretty well from C#/Java to Objective-C to Swift

Then there's stuff that is still called the same but completely unrecognizable compared to the time I was good at it like HTML / JS / CSS
I hope this becomes extremely popular, so that anyone who wants to can completely decouple this from the base model and actually use LLMs to their full potential.
Make money and try to acquire a monopoly?
> No need to know what's in the kitchen and how stuff works, this would be too much for your brain. Open the cupboard once and it's the oven, open it another time, there's your knife, open it yet another time and accidentally throw your freshly baked cake in the waste bin…

What's wild about that trend is that if you watch low-ability computer users interact with that crap, it confuses the absolute shit out of them. A bad UI that is consistent in behavior and appearance and layout is 100x better for them than "helpful" on-launch pop-ups that sometimes appear, "smart" screens that try to re-arrange things to be helpful, and better than that "improved UX" redesign that moves everything around. And an ugly-but-consistent UI is way better for them than pretty but less-clear or less-consistent.
the blog posts mentions that it is for any protocol that is non bft
Experts don't get to decide but society, I'd say; you need - dare I say it - political operators that understand rule making.
The problem isn't safety.

The problem is that we need to adopt a proper copyright framework that recognizes that companies building AI are doing an end-run around it.

Since only a human can produce a copyrighted work, it follows that anything produced by an AI should not be copyrightable.
You are correct that water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas. Despite that, water vapor emissions are not generally considered to impact warming. I think that is because the water content of the atmosphere is already in balance due to the massive amount of evaporation and condensation (e.g. rain) that is constantly going on. If we dump some extra water vapor into the atmosphere, that will balance out as a bit of extra rain and/or a bit less evaporation somewhere else; atmospheric water vapor levels won't change.

I don't know whether a large scale, ongoing intervention, such as permanently flooding a large area, could nudge this balance sufficiently to result in a sustained (if small) increase in atmospheric water vapor content, and thus an increase in warming. An interesting question!

I wrote about the role of water vapor in global temperatures a while back at https://climateer.substack.com/i/60052576/you-thought-the-ma.... My primary source was an IPCC report, specifically the sidebar on pages 8 and 9 of this PDF: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapt....
good luck, I deleted the Windows update service exe

it came back a few days later, but I found what did that and deleted that too

hasn't come back now
Pinball always seems like something that is just below the threshold of pop culture at any given moment.

Every now and then it pops up over, but for the most part, it's just under the radar.
https://archive.ph/LnmMB
They are closely related. If X is distributed normal with mean 0 and variance 1, then X^2 is distributed Chi-squared with degrees of freedom 1.
Show HN: Ollie – AI powered gift recommendations
ShowHN: Ollie - AI powered gift recommendations

Hi HN!

I'm Jaba, employee #1 (or 2?) at Confabulation Corporation. We're building Ollie - an AI-powered shopping assistant who works for you. We've been at it for about 3 months, and today we're launching our v0: gift recommendations. Would love for you to try it out and give feedback, thanks!

The company was spun out of the Allen Institute's AI2 incubator. Bill Lennon, one of our founders was an Entrepreneur in Residence there. Our other co-founders are Matt Busigin, and Max Fergus.

Having gone back to school as a mature student to study Biophysics, I put out some low-key feelers for a summer job. Matt (who I'd worked with before) convinced me to drop out of school (again!) and "come do crazy things" with him. He reached out to me on a Thursday, I talked to Bill on Friday, and by Sunday I was all in. Then I met Max, on Monday. All in squared.

It's still early days, but we're finding that the ideation and gift suggestions are already useful. How does it work for you?

Thanks for having a look!

Ollie: https://heyollie.ai

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeyOllieAi

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/heyollie-ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heyollieai/
>Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines, which was very important because we didn’t have any other kind of rendering engine and looking at artificial images can be pleasing.

If this were true then the Impressionism movement would never have come after the Renaissance. But it's not, there's more to visual art than just reproducing what we see with our eyes.
I believe this is called "pulling the ladder up behind you".
It's an old, stale gimmick, but considering how out of touch our congress can be, it's likely one they haven't seen before.
My main concern is what new regulations would do to the open source and hobbiest endeavors? They will be least able to adapt to regulations.
Are we submitting jokes as posts for people to take seriously today or what?
Apparently here:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804929273925.html
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong another post is or you feel it is.

As I just mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965090, if you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
Switch your node, might be luck but after trying a few different Mullvad nodes I was able to connect.
It depends on the fabric/you can ask. I brought in one delicate item to be washed (a cosplay) and they said they'd wash it in cold and not dry clean it.
I'm confused here. If I'm reading this correctly, the following is happening:

- Node 3 is the leader.

- Node 1 is isolated (failure #1).

- 10 records are written. They are successful because a majority is still alive (persisted to Node 2 and 3).

- Node 3 loses data (failure #2).

- Node 1 comes back up again.

However, isn't this two failures at the same time? Kafka with three nodes can only guarantee a single failure, no?
Referring to normal Americans in this context as “protected communities” and in a way that’s very dismissive says a lot about insecurity and insular views.
I got this on my first attempt. On the second, it connected, but just says "You are not connected to Mullvad VPN. Connect to Mullvad VPN and try again." Clicking on "try again" then returns an HTTP 502: Bad Gateway
yeah, i've used a decscope, though not in anger. i used some government surplus adm3a terminals in the 90s for bbsing; those were also real terminals, not computers running a terminal program

the vt100 was a computer cosplaying a decscope, plus other escape sequences, but you couldn't program it. that's why i said it was a mistake, even though it clearly wasn't a dead end. even the vt52 was microprogrammed, but its microprogram state machine was too dumb to do much even if it could have stored a program

once your terminal wasn't dumb anymore there was a lot you could do with graphics that wasn't really feasible with even a vt340

aside from games, i mean. desktop publishing, pixel painting, autocad, spreadsheets with plotting, schematic capture

ram was a big limitation; you could imagine a bitmapped terminal whose text capability was similar to the decscope (12 lines of 80 characters, originally: 400 pixels horizontally by 96 pixels vertically gives you 38400 pixels, 4800 bytes of vram) but afaik nobody built one until 90s cellphones. all the bitmapped terminals i've heard of from the vt100 epoch were minimally 2.5 times that size, requiring 12 kilobytes of ram, which in the 01970s was quite a chunk of change. the adm3a or similar only required 2k

the vt100 supposedly had 3k, but without the extra-cost avo option it didn't support 132-column mode, except with a reduced line count

a lot of video games made do with less storage than that by virtue of tile/sprite hardware, basically character generators. a hypothetical smart terminal that never existed with 3300 bytes of memory could have used 2000 bytes for 25 rows of 80 characters onscreen, with the remaining 1044 bytes divided between 5x8 softfont glyphs (at most 160 of them), event and timer handlers written in a stack language (at most 1044 1-byte instructions), and state for those programs

that would enable things like local editing, a popup calculator, command line history, multi-frequency beeps, and copy and paste (though, probably, not all at once). i think that would have been cheaper and immensely more functional than the giant rom program full of fixed-function escape sequences that the vt100 in fact had

but that's with the benefit of 45 years of hindsight. more interesting to me is the question of what similar huge opportunities we're missing out on today by unthinkingly continuing to adapt our systems to technical limitations that no longer exist
Agreed! Bread machines don't make sense. You can make a very simple dough in 1 minute of work. I recommend 500g whole rye or wheat, 400g water, 100g sourdough starter, 20g salt. Mix all with a spatula for 1 minute until no chunks of flour are left. Put into greased loaf pan. Wait until roughly doubled in size. Bake in the oven at 200°C until core temperature is 92°C.
Recording of the opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd6J3M-FSk
> Also it is just me or do pinball games just never seem to get the physics of the ball right?

It sure seems that way, but I think it's more nuanced. With a top-notch video version of pinball, I don't they get the physics wrong enough to notice. But what they are is incomplete.

The physicality of playing a pinball game is an integral part of the experience. Standing at the machine, pressing the flipper buttons, feeling the vibrations of the ball and mechanisms, etc. If you don't have that stuff, then the game is going to feel wrong even if the physics of the playfield are 100% accurate.
The argument is: "we are intelligent and seem to be able to build new intelligences of a certain kind. If we are able to build a new intelligence that itself is able to self improve, and having improved be able to improve further, than an intelligence explosion is possible." That may or not be fallacious reasoning but I don't see how it's religious. As far as I can tell, the religious perspective would be the one that believes that there's something fundamentally special about the human brain so that it cannot be simulated.
Actually Apple is much more device-first than cloud-first
The neat thing IMO about virtual pinball and real pinball is how they complement each other. I've yet to find a virtual pinball with really satisfying physics simulation, but that's ok, because for me the real benefit is being able to learn the rules without the pressure of dropping quarters. Thanks to the tutorials in Pinball Arcade (RIP), I was able to reach Final Frontier on TNG the first time I played a real one.
I'm sure this is the plan, but I don't see how OpenAI will be able to damage e.g. Anthropic without equally damaging themselves.
Part of it is just the audience. Your average HN comment section would likely fiercely debate the creation of crosswalks, curb cuts and other common sense improvements (though that may be true of the population at large).

If the things you felt like dont receive enough attention were available for this level of public scrutiny well, I think you can rest assured it would receive it.
The first commit was on November 6th, but it didn't show up in Web Archive until May 6th, suggesting it was developed mostly in private and in parallel with LangChain (LangChain's first commit in Github is about October 24th). Microsoft's code is very tidy and organized. I wonder if they used this tool internally to support their LLM research efforts.