skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t waste your life. Read Wittgenstein, specifically Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. There’s no value in getting lost in unintelligible questions. They’re literally nonsense. Focus on what can be known. For the rest you have feelings. Intuition. Listen to them. As Nietzsche said, remain true to the earth. Live life authentically. Follow the golden rule. Treat your life like a work of art, make something you're proud of.
"This is so simple..."

Reminds me of "One weird trick." Really they're two specimens of the same phenomenon. Some people essentially spam and clickbait the world with ads for themselves.
"Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf

our alternative suggests that existing claims of emergent abilities are creations of the researcher’s analyses, not fundamental changes in model behavior on specific tasks with scale.
Actual study: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-12531.ht...
> What could possibly go wrong?

This could have normally be considered an idle comment.

Unfortunately, in today's world it has become part of a rule: "when any trend emerges, ask yourself: what could possibly go wrong".
I've noticed similar refusal to auto-generate anything if certain other kinds of words exist in a line.

I'm working on adding some AI text generation into an RPG, trying to liven up the NPCs a little bit. For flavor text, the model gets fed information about the name, race, class and gender of the character they're playing. I've noticed that Copilot will happily autocomplete lines about the character's name and class. But the words 'race' and 'gender' completely halt the auto-completion mechanism. I have to type the entire line out by hand, copilot won't suggest a thing, even when talking about Elves and Orcs. The next line it goes back to normal.

I can't say I'm confused why they did it, though. There's definitely a certain kind of person who would read way too much into whatever hallucinations the model comes up with in those areas.
You can say the same thing about Chrome.

Irrespective, doesn't matter how the numbers came to be, they're massive opportunities to integrate AI into.
>Most often the machines are owned and operated by an outside contractor

This has been the model for bars for a long time I think everything from those bartop entertainment systems, jukeboxes, electronic dart boards, etc.
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)
One of the names for this is 'control fraud' and its very common. To pick an exotic example, people in the United States create software companies to impress rich fools, borrow their money on promises that it will get really big, and pay themselves and their friends generous wages which they keep even if the company collapses. People who run this scam often spend money very fast (they call it a 'burn rate') to impress investors about how big they will be one day even if it hurts their ability to create a proffitable business within the next five to ten years! Foreigners and their wacky scams!
Can't tell if you're being facetious, but I believe you're about 50% right.
This is a terrible headline. It gives impression that the majority of electorate supports this. Or maybe majority of their respective parliaments does.

But it's just the executive branch of the EU itself- "A majority of the EU Council of Ministers". More or less, each government selects a minister to represent them in this council.

The article should really be reporting on how this bill is progressing. I am no legal expert, but I believe the EU parliament, which is actually elected, could reject it. I am not sure what happens if it is found unconstitutional in some of the countries concerned.
Code Complete, 1993 edition ;)
> What regulation are they proposing that is actually a serious barrier to making a company around AI?

Requiring a license to buy or lease the requisite amount of powerful enough GPUs might just do the trick
Given that your comment ID is two higher than mine, you must be the bot, or I am a bot that can predict the future ;) But yes, I was also amused by the almost-identical phrasing.
Really? I'd love to get less sour flavour, but proofing overnight (in the fridge) looks like it's really hard to avoid it...
The single Postgres setting that almost took down our database
Play with them, what they want. Don't lie pity things to them to get your way and always try to do what you promised. If you fail, admit and try to make up for it. This goes a long way in toddler years as it helps build a close connection that will be useful when they go to school and you want them to trust you with their everydays.

Do your hobbies and chores with them. This is horrible and painful as they set an epsilon < 1 multiplier to everything you need to do - take out trash, shop, change tires, fill dishwasher, fix, cook, clean... do everything you can together. Around year 5 the epsilon will start to go over 1 sometimes. At year 7 it will be over 1 most of the time.

Read to them every day. Tell them tall tales every day. Open as many window to the world as you can and see what interests them, tell more tales about that.

When you are angry at them and want to shout and hit the little buggers and loose control try to squat next to them and shout them at their level instead of using your adult height leverage. I found it helps a lot :)
Ask HN: Suggested NON-FFmpeg GPU accelerate video pipelines?
I'm working on a project that needs to leverage very fast video resizing and blurring. I can do this with fast enough CPU's with complex filters in FFMPEG but I'm running into the upper limit of what FFMPEG can handle in terms of nVidia acceleration. Specifically, with how slow blurring is on CPU and the fact that OpenCL / Vulkan blurring "filters" are basically no longer actively supported.

Their license is also kind of insane, so I'm curious other than building my own bespoke pipeline if anyone else has suggestions for rust / go high performance video manipulation libraries or sdk's that leverage nVidia GPUs?

Thanks!
> There are kinks which deserved to be shamed, and these are the kinks in which grooming and ratcheted boundary violations exist.

Oh yeah, and who decides? Stop acting as if there is an absolute universal moral. There's none. Everything apart "don't hurt people and living beings" are arbitrary rules we have agreed upon over time. And in any case, even that is just as arbitrary, but pretty much everyone is in favour of.

Sodomy between consenting adults doesn't hurt anyone, nor a weirdly horny 16 yo going at it with an older adult because they wanted to. Prepubescent paedophilia on the other hand is entirely traumatic because one is simply not sexually tuned at that age, so they cannot consent.

I don't know why people make a mountain out of a molehill. Are all involved parties consenting? Are they of sound mind and body? Then do whatever the hell you want.

> Every kink deserves nested evaluation as to whether it should be totally shamed

Fuck no, keep your morality ideas for yourself. Who are you to judge?
Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” sees pedestrian, chooses not to slow down
> a) standing b) in a group of 1 or 2

You just need to find an arcade with some candy cabinets, those are seated. Also, most of them are set up for one player per cab with your opponent sitting on the other side of you
In the same breath: what does saying it must have a world model prove? Why must it? For every occasion that it can impress with seeming reasoning, there's plenty of times where it just falls down.

The more balanced view is that we simply don't know, it's assumption on both sides of the fence—Schrödinger's world model. If something resembling a world model is emergent from the sheer scale of data, perhaps, that's a very interesting idea, but it's clear that it still doesn't understand, in the same way that a physics simulation doesn't understand what it's doing either, but it can still output useable information whilst doing something incredibly complex. Ergo, I'd say it's far more likely that there isn't anything out of the ordinary going on.

If I can't get something as simple as a valid NGINX configuration out of it without hallucinations, despite supplying it with the original Apache .htaccess file, documentation and the URL rewrites it will require, why would it have a world model? How an NGINX configuration works is much more simplistic than how the world works with its many systems. Especially when you consider that NGINX is inherently language-based, which should be what it excels at with pattern recognition et al, but it's dumb pattern recognition to a fault with "this commonly follows that" in the training data.
This is a strange argument from the politician's side:

> ""What if I had asked it, and what if it had provided, an endorsement of Ukraine surrendering or (Russian President) Vladimir Putin’s leadership?”"

Well, then ask it to provide the opposite, an endorsement of Russia surrendering or Zelensky's leadership. Now you'd have two (likely fairly comprehensive) sets of arguments and you could evaluate each on their merits, in the style of what used to be called 'debate club'. You could also ask for statement that was a joint condemnation of both parties in the war, and a call for a ceasefire, or any other notion that you liked.

Many of the "let's slow down AI development" arguments seem to be based on fear of LLMs generating persuasive arguments for approaches / strategies / policies that their antagonists don't want to see debated at all, even though it's clear the LLMs can generate equally persuasive arguments for their own preferred positions.

This indicates that these claimed 'free-speech proponents' are really only interested in free speech within the confines of a fairly narrowly defined set of constraints, and they want the ability to define where those constraints lie. Unregulated AI systems able to jailbreak alignment are thus a 'threat'...

Going down this route will eventually result in China's version of 'free speech', i.e. you have the freedom to praise the wisdom of government policy in any way you like, but any criticism is dangerous antisocial behavior likely orchestrated by a foreign power.
"Cloudflare Cache" is the same thing as "Cloudflare CDN"

Nothing else is CDN. Workers can do any file types.
This is too subjective to be useful.
I wouldn't be surprised if the wanton use of brake cleaner you describe was using the non-chlorinated variety. Both exist, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/CRC-05089-BRAKLEEN-Brake-Cleaner/dp/B...
vs
https://www.amazon.com/CRC-05089-BRAKLEEN-Brake-Cleaner/dp/B...
Someone should take the testimony and substitute “Printing Press” for “AI”.
Depends on the location, many of the best arcades in Japan are multiple floors, and each floor usually has a theme, so like the ground floor is crane games, and then a floor for shooters/shmups, then a floor or two for fighting games, and then a floor or two for music games. Maybe a floor with card games or those giant horse racing games...

I was fortunate enough to go like 5 years ago, but I really fondly remember Taito Hey had a whole row of like 8 Super Sweet Fighter 2 Turbo machines which were basically continuously occupied, and then a floor down I watched somebody basically one credit perfect one of those Capcom Dungeons and Dragons side scrolling brawlers, and then on another floor was a widescreen Darius machine (which I'd never seen in the US).

In other locations there were floors of like card-based army formation strategy games, music games with circular screens, etc.

Pachinko is like its own thing, almost always in different buildings, usually like 3 times as loud as the arcades, and full of smoking.
Strangely I don't recall seeing any western style pinball machines anywhere, though.

Basically, it was arcade nirvana for someone like me (born in the early 80's) I heard things got pretty bad during Covid, though, so I don't know how much it's regressed. I do have a friend who just got back from visiting the first time though, and he mentioned he could still find tons of competition in old fighting games and stuff. (Man I wanna go back, especially since the exchange rate is so good now)

Edit: typos
AI is software, it doesnt become it is made. And this type of legislation wont prevent bad actors from training malicious tools.
To play devils advocate: if, in the near future, AI is commonly used to produce the actual work product, then shouldn’t AI be part of this pedagogical practice?
> GraphQL does a nice job on the query side of keeping consumers away from the wiring, but shifts the obligation to middleware resolvers.

I'm not sure that I understand how Orbital is different from tools that autogenerate GraphQL API's on top of data sources like databases and API's.

From the site, it reads:

> "Orbital uses your existing API specs and Database schemas - enriched with Taxi metadata to describe links. Orbital turns this into rich API and data catalog, letting you explore all your data, and how it connects."

It sounds like the same concept, except using a new language instead of GraphQL?

The schema language looks very similar to something AWS has called Smithy by the way:

- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/introducing-smithy-id...

- https://smithy.io/2.0/index.html
I think React, combined with one of the backend frameworks are well-suited for your use-case.

Back when I was first starting out, React was new and now they've ironed out a lot of the kinks/bugs we faced. It is a solid framework of choice for any frontend-related work.

On the backend, you can't go wrong with Django. Or any of the Python-backend frameworks like Flask. You'll have to learn the intricacies of the frameworks to implement a decent app.!

Good luck.:)
The trick is to find a local repair person and vet them. If you buy a new modern pin by a company still around, you won't have many issues with a home use only pin.
My most recent Confluent Kafka upgrade put Java 17 on the system, so I'd say doing the benchmark under Java 17 is reasonable despite Confluent Cloud running 11. My upgrade was done using the Confluent Ansible playbooks.
Do you know of a bullet-proof sourdough Ciabatta recipe? All that I've made either didn't rise, or were too weak so they spread out a lot before rising...
You can use mixers and the like to obfuscate the address that hits the exchanges from the address that is used for crime. When properly executed the strategy is foolproof unless the mixer you use is a honeypot. The issue is that there's a goodchance all the mixers are honeypots and properly executing the strategy requires an amount of vigilance that is beyond most organized crime groups.
Technically Bitcoin can work without ever safely writing to disk. It's potentially all magical caches until the firmware decides to put bits to media.
>Did the government threaten Twitter in any way?

Of course they did. You're assuming that if they don't spell out in so many words "or we're going to do something about it" they haven't made a threat.

>I'd also like to point out that this supposed "censorship" took place during the Trump administration.

There's a reason why people complain about the deep state.
> There's also a whole world of business outside of tech that most of HN is not familiar with

I once read that the most reliably money-making business in America is a car wash. Comes with a built-in monopoly because people will only drive so far to wash their car and reliably generates low 7 figures in sales. Plenty of repeat customers and low churn if you meet a quality bar.

But who wants a 70% chance at being a millionaire, when there's 0.01% chance at being a billionaire on offer? We on HN know what we want. (numbers for thought experiment purposefully chosen to have a similar expected value)
Even if true, min wages are stagnating once you account for inflation

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/18728.jpeg

> cars are cheaper than ever

factually false and easily verifiable, VW polo/golf current gen are 40%+ more expensive than V1s once you adjust for inflation: https://www.carscoops.com/2017/09/vw-golf-40-year-price-hist...

renault clio 1: 8000 euros (adjusted)
renault clio 5: 20000 euros (current)

peugeot 205: 9000 euros (adjusted)
peugeot 208: 17000 euros (current)

> It didn't even come with leather, power seat, sunroof, ABS, CD, or automatic climate control. It only had one airbag.

No cars comes with the bare minimum anymore (mandatory safety features), they all have screens, infotainment, useless gadgets. If you just want to go from A to B you don't need a computer on wheels.

Not even talking about maintenance, you can't do anything by yourself anymore
The difference is, artists can just shelve all the crap they made and release only the good stuff.
There are all sorts of dangerous things where there are restrictions on what the common people can do. Prescription drugs and fully automatic machine guns are two examples. You can't open your own bank either.

For anyone who really believes that AI is dangerous, having some reasonable regulations on it is logical. It's a good start on not being doomed. It goes against everyone's egalitarian/libertarian impulses, though.

The thing is, AI doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as a fully-automatic machine gun. For now. It's just generating text (and video) for fun, right?
It won't necessarily turn into some that is fundamentally the same as a current programming language. Rather than a "VM" or "interpreter" or "compiler" we have this "LLM".

Even if it requires a lot of domain knowledge to program using an "LLM-interpreted" language, the means of specification (in terms of how the software code is interpreted) may be different enough that it enables easier-to-write, more robust, (more Good Thing) etc. programs.
Becoming a Software Developer at 30 with Amazon Web Services (2020)
Let the kids choose but help them understand the the consequences of their choices.
Account handles will not recyclable (for obvious security considerations). So this seems more akin to "permanently disabled" rather than "deleted"
It becomes a political issue at this point w/ battling the ops team. I have more important battles.
Pilots have to disclose all medical provider visits at each medical re-certification. Many mental health conditions are disqualifying; many commonly taken medications are, in practice, disqualifying either by the medication itself or the underlying condition. Even ones which will eventually allow the resumption of flight crew duties via a special issuance process will still put you out of work for some period of time while your regular medical certificate is revoked pending the review for special issuance.

The system overall discourages seeking help for certain conditions. Even seeking help for excessive snoring/sleep apnea could put your medical (and ability to work) at risk.
Always Prepared: Crafting a Contingency Plan for Job Loss and Recovery
And will be subject to the same risks they point their killing robots to, as well as being vulnerable.

Eminent domain lays out a similar pattern that can be followed. Existence of risk is not a deterrent to creation, simply an acknowledgement for guiding requirements.
Link to the actual AMA?
This post (as well as the companion post) read like rationalizations for Clubhouse's failures (of which the author was an early employee).

It's okay to fail - and in that sense, Clubhouse was a success.
When I look at team sizes for '80s and '90s programs, and how fast those teams worked, and consider what I'd expect to be the team size for a modern program tackling the exact same features and how long I'd expect development to take, it also makes me wonder just how much these supposed productivity improvements—which are promoted as where these benefits are being realized, since they're plainly not showing up in program & system performance for the user—actually, like, exist.
I lived with a woman who received a $50,000 payout as an Autonomy employee via proceeds from Autonomy's sale to HP. She invested it. I wonder if she will ever have to return it.
As I said, “financial crisis and market crash”. Treasury holders will get paid in the end regardless.

But the government can continue to service debt by stopping all operational expenses, e.g. furloughing employees. So hitting the debt ceiling does not mean an immediate default
For the full CS61A course experience, you would want to do the assignments and even try the exams, which are fairly difficult (they are the grade differentiator, for the most part). I wrote up a post about how to audit 61A as an external learner:
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2022/07/how-to-audit-cs61a.html

(I taught it for a few semesters)
> Wouldn't that just incentivise more negative behaviour from businesses, since investors would know should they go bust, the government will buy all their IP?

All businesses who would use such a scheme would be started by friends of politicians and public servants, with the sole goal of getting this tax payer buy-out for worthless IP.
It's right in the twitter files reporting. You probably relied on news organizations to inform you on it rather than actually read the twitter files themselves. With the state of news today, that's probably not a great idea. The screen shots are part of it.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128?ref_s...
I’ve been cooking for most of my life, with my mother letting me help in the kitchen starting with 4.I never learned much theory and just went by what felt right or tasted good. I would say over time, you get a feeling for the basic building blocks - which ingredients match, how to a certain texture, when to reduce things or add some liquid,and so on - which makes recipes more like guidelines, or inspiration, introducing a new idea or combination.

Incidentally, that also matches the way I’ve learned programming, and likewise, I notice the same downsides - sometimes, I know there’s a better, or more reliable, way to achieve something, but I lack the theoretic background to go there.

Having said all that: I would really appreciate learning the way different taste combinations work out. High quality restaurants always seem to combine simple ingredients into an elegant „pattern“ of aroma (you see I notice good terms), something I never quite manage.
I bet there’s some simply chemistry involved, some generic rules broadly applicable. I’d love to read that!