skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, lately I've been keeping my notes as markdown files in a `~/wiki/` directory, and the most common links are now HN posts.

I find the HN discussion often adds a lot that will be relevant. For example, in `~/wiki/machine-learning.md` the section on specific LLM models is a nested bulleted list, with the top level the names of specific models (sometimes as links to their canonical landing package, and the bullets under each are usually very relevant HN post links, and links to official other pages for that model.

I only polish it when I really have to: the priority is to capture the info, because 15 seconds now might save me days or an entire endeavor later. But spending more time than that can discourage capturing info, or later make me resistant to doing a quick split of pages or sections that really should happen immediately (because I don't want to spoil the polish that I spent time on).

In Markdown, my current HN post links look like:

[HN, The Bookmarking Data Model Is Wrong for Highlighting (lgug2z.com),
2023-05-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35964335)

(My Emacs mode hides the URL part, and makes it look like an underlined blue hyperlink, with the remaining markup characters de-emphasized.)

It's a variation on the familiar citation format, which I also use:

[Jane Doe, "Some Article Title", *Some Journal*,
2023-05-16](https://journal.example/12345)

In the rare case I want to quote an entire HN comment in my wiki (e.g.,, some super-useful insider scoop that might disappear), I'll just click to its page, select it and copy&paste the test with `>` characters, and then turn the header line into a Markdown link to the comment page URL.

Someday, I'll make a browser plugin for the copy&paste parts, while still keeping it very simple.
You see it everywhere, I see it occasionally.
To use logic, or to accurately spit out words in an order similar to their training data?
On the other hand, Dwarf Fortress was free for how long?
Misinformation Detection Algorithms and Fairness Across Political Ideologies
Canadians are considered nice but what drives that is a desperate fear of conflict or being perceived as 'negative'. It is debilitating and starkly clashes with some of the cultures that are now immigrating in to the country.

Business and employees here are universally perceived as suckers and ripe for fleecing which gives the country a poor reputation. The reality is that there are a lot of people here who are naive, but there are also many very skilled, experienced and capable people. Again culture clash.

Cost of living here is becoming almost impossible for the average person, with few places to go as most of the country does not have infrastructure to cope with those even there. There is a profound difference in politics and tolerance between cities and smaller town, so: yup, more culture clash.

While most of the world let inflation happen, Canada basically stalled inflation and placated citizens with cheap Chinese goods, and low interest rates. The result is that inflation is that Canadians are now priced out of their own country, inflation is accelerating and interest rates are creeping up.

In order to prop up profits and stave off economic collapse Canada brings in over 500,000 legal immigrants annually. The result is a massive strain on infrastructure which governments have been cost cutting for decades. Tensions are high and you can definitely see it in the moods and attitudes of people, especially on the roads.

Money parking and laundering are a huge problem here with little enforcement. Foreigners are buying property as fast as they can to aid in immigration applications and to hide their money from their own governments. The result is that property values have skyrocketed well beyond the reach of even tech sector workers.

Canada has some maturing to do and decisions to make like investing in the future rather than simply relying on population growth.
Attacked for what purpose? Reactor fissionable material can't be used to make bombs.

Anyway, if being attacked is a possibility, physical security for such plants isn't a hard problem.
FSD already introduces new failure modes, if it's going to hardcode human mistakes as well what's even the point?

This is also assuming that FSD runs through crosswalks at the same rate as human drivers, but it might be much more frequent. If Tesla actually backed up their safety claims with data we could check and verify, but they are famously reticent to provide evidence of how their cars perform that hasn't been cherry picked.
Doing what Siri is doing is not rocket science. It’s a simple intent based system where you give it patterns to understand intents and you trigger some API based on it.

Once you have the intents parsing, it should be just a matter of throwing man power at it and giving it better intents.

Yes, I have experience with building on top of such a system.
Most prominent recent heads-up was BionTech who decided to start a "Strategic Partnership" with the UK government for their research.

[0] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
This is a demonstration of how money affects justice. Normal people would be waiting for their appeal date in the jail cell rather than on the beach.
You appear to be ignoring a few thousand years of recorded history around what happens when a demagogue gets a megaphone. Human-powered astroturf campaigns were all it took to get randoms convinced lizard people are an existential threat and then -act- on that belief.
Good for you. Great way to learn!
A much better analysis from a qualified researcher https://openfuture.eu/blog/undermining-the-foundation-of-ope...
Is WHAT? The title should tell us what the post is about. Why do we have to keep bringing this up? A title like this is a great way to miss out on a lot of views and reduce the usefulness of your post.

Let the downvoting of this simple observation begin.
My memory is that the pentium pro had a common memory config of 256MB, way below what modern installers are going to expect. I'm sure you can get linux to install on 256MB, but I doubt it's going to work on the current RHEL/SUSE/Ubuntu installers.

Not to mention various drivers have gone without maintainers and pulled from the upstream linux kernel.

Not to mention dropping IA32 and related PAE support.
Same deal, would love access in AU/NZ
I love how our benevolent government creates so many different rules and regulations and laws. It's really wonderful
This can be bad for many cases, but also good for people who lost access to their accounts and finally that embarrassing YouTube videos and Blogger posts posted with they real names from 2005 when they were 15 year olds will be erased from the internet.
I'm not proposing shutting down existing plants. I'm opposing beginning new 20 year construction projects in the USA for new fission plants vs. investing in:

- Energy storage

- Energy transport

- Nuclear fusion, such as ARC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&t=2414s

It's the "perfect world" people who think fission plants will never contaminate 100,000 sq. km. of farmland ever again. I'm personally okay with spending a little more money on developing storage technologies. However, I'd also like to quote myself again:

> That’s not an argument for “fission is ecologically sustainable”, that’s an argument for “even though it’s not, we should still build dams and fission power plants anyways”. Which is a fine argument. It’s just a different one.
The A.I. Dilemma: presentation from private San Fran gathering on March 9, 2023
within a few decades there will probably be technology that would allow a semi-dedicated person to engineer and create a bioweapon from scratch if the code was available online. do you think thats a good idea?
> I cannot sell a "rain coat" made of gauze which offers no protection from rain, and I cannot sell a "smoke detector" which doesn't effectively detect smoke. Why should low-volume AI/ML products get a pass?

i can sell a webserver that gets used to host illegal content all day long. Should that be included? Where does the regulation end? I hate that the answer to any question seems to be just add more government.
Timmy Timer: Social Pomodoro Timer with Leaderboard
Gradient: A Gradual Typechecker for Elixir
Despite the intro, you sound like a great father. You invested a lot of time into them.
Tesla has always done advertising. Here's a Tesla ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMtONBK8dY
I am no way suggesting that corruption is a new thing. It is an erosive force that has always operated throughout history. The amount of corruption in an institution tends to increase unless specifically rooted out. It goes up and down over time as institutions rise and fall or fade in obsolescence.
> me as user

This becomes more complicated when Siri is the interface on a homepod in a shared area. Who's data and preferences should be used? Ideally it would recognise different voices and give that person's data priority, but how much can/should be shared between users? Where are these data - they shouldn't be in the homepod, so it would have to task the phone with finding the answer. I'm sure something good could be done here, but it wouldn't be easy.
> I think there is an important little nod to the future in this announcement. "Personal Voice" is training (likely fine tuning) and then running a local AI model to generate the user's voice.

My Kiwi accent needs this so bad.
I think as an industry we need to disrespect these people in person when we see them! This is unacceptable and anti social behavior and if I ever see Sam Altman I'll let him know!

People love to kowtow to these assholes as they walk all over us. Fuck sam. Fuck other sam. Fuck elon. Fuck zuck. Fuck jack. Fuck these people man. I dont care about your politics this is nasty!
Yes these anti-amyloid drugs announced recently. I wasn't aware of the controversy. Hopefully, this period is the start of more fruitful discoveries.
Migrate to Palm API from Azure OpenAI
US National Banks and Local Economic Fragility
And this is connected to GDPR how exactly?

Companies do these things all the time, I guess it's fun to imagine that opening offices in other countries is fleeing and that are fleeing to UK because they are having trouble processing personal data when developing drugs but I don't see why would that be the case.

Fun fact: UK data protection laws are about the same as EU.
I think the game-theoretical way to look at this is that AI will be regulated no matter what, so Altman might as well propose it early on and have a say before competitors do.
If I’m reading your comment correctly, 24 minutes of added battery capacity is 1.6% of the number of minutes in a day, which is actually greater than the nameplate capacity increases in solar and wind. This seems more significant than you suggest.

I would also assume that 24 hours is more storage than is actually required given the mix of wind and solar and the geographical coverage of the grid.

How much battery storage, in minutes, is considered “enough”?

Do the battery figures include only batteries or other storage like pumped hydro?

I am not an expert and am interested in knowing why I’m wrong.
Yes and we should also have EU regulators at every design meeting for every company. They did such a good job with the GDPR making the user experience better on the web
> A fission disaster or attack on a fission plant can take half of Californias agriculture out of the picture over night.

Nonsense. I don't know where you are getting your information from, but it's fearmongering with no basis in fact.

> new fission plants will take 20 years to build

Newer designs have shorter build times since they are simpler and can be made smaller, with more components made in factories instead of fabricated on site. And even for older designs, the 20 years is not the time it actually takes to build them; that's a few years. The rest of the 20 years is the time required to overcome NIMBY lawsuits--if that is even possible. In fact it mostly hasn't been, which is why virtually no new nuclear plants have been built in the US for quite a while. But that's a political problem, not a technical problem.

> and by then we'll have actually clean baseload energy from fusion reactors

Practical fusion has been about 20 years away for the past 40 years or so. It would be very nice if we finally get it, but I would not bank on any claims about the timeline given past history in this area.
> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong.

What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong.

Unfortunately the article referenced doesn't appear to have the goods, and the crux of it appears to be a critique of the style. I like the style. It's accessible. It's interesting. It's engaging. Which was his intent as he has discussed in interviews.
I do not think we are morally sophisticated enough, as a society/species, to handle that without it going to shit.
How are memories stored in neural networks? – The Hopfield Network [video]
This is amazing! Thank you!
I'm completely ignorant about nuclear power plants, so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but when we say that nuclear power plants today don't have the possibility of a similar meltdown, are we taking into account actions of an adversary?

For instance, if someone dropped a sufficiently-sized bomb on a well-designed, modern nuclear power plant, would it melt down?
That doesnt make any builder a good person! Have a great day! Everyone at palatir is evil by nature!
The current generation of AIs are scary to a lot of the initiated, too - both for what they can do now, and what their trajectory of improvement implies.

If you take seriously any downsides, whether misinformation or surveillance or laundering bias or x-risk, how does AI model weights or training data being open source solve them? Open source is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is misuse-resistant (and the "with many eyes all bugs are shallow" thing hasn't proved true in practice even with high level code, much less giant matrices and terabytes of text). Is there a path forward that doesn't involve either a lot of downside risk (even if mostly for people who aren't on HN and interested in tinkering with frontier models themselves, in the worlds where surveillance or bias is the main problem), or significant regulation?

I don't particularly like or trust Altman but I don't think he'd be obviously less self-serving if he were to oppose any regulation.
I don't trust Sam Altman since he said he doesn't understand decentralized finance and 2 months later he started crying on twitter because the startups he invested in were almost losing their money during the SVB collapse.
You are exactly correct.

I have sent correspondence about ten times to my Congressmen and Senators. I have received a good reply (although often just saying there is nothing that they can do) except for the one time I contacted Jon Kyl and unfortunately mentioned data about his campaign donations from Monsanto - I was writing about a bill he sponsored that I thought would have made it difficult for small farmers to survive economically and make community gardens difficult because of regulations. No response on that correspondence.
“ so i highly doubt that more rental units will automatically lead to lower rents.”

They will IF landlords can expect positive returns on their investments given a certain price level. You can dig into the public filings of companies like LEG, Vonovia and TAG who publish the average rental prices and the occupancy. In cities with supply exceeding demand, rents are lower (e.g., high vacancy rates). Example: https://irpages2.eqs.com/download/companies/legimmobilien/Qu..., page 5.

There is of course also a big callout with respect to “correlation does not imply causation”, e.g., it is very likely that there is a hidden confounder (economic prosperity) that drives down vacancy rates and drives up rents which ties back to my earlier argument that capping rents doesn’t make sense if the cities, politicians and bureaucrats fail miserably at their jobs.

Maybe get a business degree or learn something about it. Your statements make me cringe very much the same way an MBA explaining LLMs to you may make you very miserable.
Small Models Are Valuable Plug-Ins for Large Language Models
that doesn't make you moral! Have a great day!
I think it is quite individual. I am not impressed by any of the newer features. The UI become more cumbersome to use. I sometimes need to search for things now, while I don't see any new advantages compared to before.
Oh they don't flee, they just don't bother to start new ones in the EU.

Which of the new AI labs is setup in EU?

Stability? Midjourney? Anthropic? Cohere? Every single one is either in the US or UK. LLM companies deal with huge legal uncertainties, especially around data and privacy. Hence investors are reluctant to fund any in the EU, and potential founders are deterred. This is all legacy of the GDPR and the 'regulatory superpower' mindset that the EU deluded itself into.

The only new wave AI company from the EU is DeepL, which is going to face really really intense competition from LLMs.
Elon Musk says that A.I. ‘humanoid robots’ will eventually outnumber people
I like the idea behind this.

My concerns with using it are that the app itself languishes, or doesn’t get traction.

Is there any capacity to use a neucard with a recipient that doesn’t have the app?

Are there any plans to open this up to alternative clients / implementations?

Are there parts you can open source while maintaining a business around some portions of the product? (Such as the physical cards)
A Java Runtime for Hello world is just 32 MB: https://adoptium.net/blog/2021/10/jlink-to-produce-own-runti...
Show HN: I made an undetectable Google Search scraping API
The amount of written functions/libs for opening c sockets has to be in the 100,000s at this point. And they are all slightly different.
I'm definitely thinking about getting a Framework, I could use a decent Windows / Linux laptop for random hacking (and some light gaming). Might wait until the next model comes out though since I don't have any immediate need.

Being able to replace components in my 2012-era Macbook Pro has saved me a number of times and a laptop that's built around that ideal sounds great to me.

Are Frameworks generally in pretty high demand and hard to get? Like when the next model comes out, can I basically expect that it will be impossible to get for a while?
I'm guessing it's a reference to the fairly racist label of a "ricer" or "rice rocket" for modified Japanese sports cars :-/
> the potential harm from a nuclear event is clearly infinitely greater than wind and solar

Nonsense. Your posts about this are pure FUD. Chernobyl is simply not a valid case when assessing the risks of actual commercial nuclear plants.
Street Layout Design by Conditional Adversarial Learning
now that my business is established, i'd like to make it illegal for anyone to compete with me

people would easily work remote for companies established in other countries
Instead of getting the balance right, the obvious answer is this is a business proposition, so cheat. Instead of having a fixed difficulty, you decide on a minimum coins-per-hour revenue, and tilt the table ever so subtley against the player if it looks like that revenue target isn't going to be hit.
I think refunds don’t cost the company. Chargebacks do.
I'm sure European startups like Plausible, Matomo, Nextcloud, which exist because of the GDPR or have gotten a huge boost from it agree with you.
I am not sure the creation of a formal process (created by those who have the power to create formal processes) is inherently more fair to those without power than an informal process.

A formal process isn't inherently more fair. It's only potentially more fair. You need to look in detail at the process to see if it's more fair.

The rest of your argument is a bit like arguing mathematics won't help you build a bridge - "The math could wrong and the user could be biased and even the best can't reflect reality exactly".
> important trust building tool

This is so often completely missed in these conversations about these tools.

Great point.
They're a small company, so at launch they meter them out through pre-orders. If you order now, you have to wait for later "waves."

Once they're out for a while, though, they're just normal "pick one up and buy it" things.
Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views
> Valve will refund any Steam purchase if made within 2 weeks and with less than 2 hours play time

Yea, I tried to take advantage of this when I picked up Stellaris, but that's not a game (I don't think) that you can evaluate in 2 hours. I gave it a couple of stabs, but found it just way more complex than I was interested it. I obviously played it more than 2 hours, and they wouldn't refund my money. No harm, no foul, but for some games, 2 hours isn't enough.
Bill banning uranium imports from Russia passes US House subcommittee
Imagine you're gripping the handlebars of a bike - you can push it a little bit laterally, but much more by leaning into a turn. Gripping the side of the machine to nudge works in the same way - you can slap it a little bit to get the ball going off its designed trajectory, but you have to use your legs and core to get it to move a lot, and if the game is set tight that will usually set off the tilt warnings.
They will chase after civilians for running unlicensed AI as a way to distract attention from the real threats by state-level actors.

So less Neuromancer and more Ghost in the Shell.
I mean, it's in the headlines regularly, but sure, I'll google it for you.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racial-bias-found...

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/10/amazon-hi...

Three easy to find examples. There is no shortage of discussion of these issues, and they are not new. Bias in new technologies has been a long-standing issue, and garbage in, garbage out has been a well understood problem for generations.

LLMs are pretty cool, and will enable a whole new set of tools. AI presents alot of opportunities, but the risks are significant, and I am not overly worried about a skynet or gray goo scenario. Before we worry about those, we need to worry about the bias being built into automated systems that will decide who gets bail, who gets social benefits, which communities get resources allocated, how our family, friends, and communities are targeted by businesses, etc.
If the game was designed for it, I could see the advantage of having a synchronous day/night cycle in game for a few reasons.

For instance, an RPG where your time of day combined with in game locations could change what enemies spawn, or characters that get sleepy and less capable after so long, but it should also be able to cause unique time events to happen, and not just spooky Halloween season or Xmas spectacular, either.
No , it wasn't always like that. The EU has gone on overdrive lately but that's not because EU citizens asked for it. This is mostly brussels people regulating popular subjects because ... they want to be associated with things that are popular. There is really little else to explain what's happening in the EU in the past 5 years. As a citizen I am concerned by this "tyrranny from Brussels" because my opinion never seems to have mattered nor were EU citizens informed before the fact.
And so is krohnkite (as far as I've heard)

But thew new tiling tool is very nice. And it will probably be augmented in the future.

There will be a bit of a pause in feature releases for KDE now though, as they are working on Qt 6 compatibility which will take longer than usual.
Power grab and preservation. This will be quickly approved to preserve existing players and power status quo (lawyers, managers and doctors don't want to be automated away).