skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy-to-use UI to fact-check AI outputs is an interesting alternative to cope with AI inaccuracies, increasing perceived reliability of AI systems without necessarily improving the model quality itself.
Are you kidding? This paper hews dangerously close to bullshit itself.
This is bleeding edge stuff.

All advances in this direction do indicate that it will be easier and easier for more people to do things with it.

This doesn't need to work for everyone.

A 4090 costs today 2k, the 3090 with also 24gb costs today 1k and costed 2k.
One day I will find an excuse to get one of these; they induce a heavy sense of nostalgia but I just don’t know what I’d do with it
Usenet isn't really a thing anymore, sadly. Don't get me wrong, it's going strong for file sharing, but most ISPs don't provide access anymore, so it's not really a place you find discussions.
"In an update provided to Aerospace, Hamilton explained that he “misspoke” when telling the story, saying that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical “thought experiment” from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation.

He said: “We’ve never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realize that this is a plausible outcome … Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI.”"
Context, imessage attachment based iOS exploit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151220

Seems pretty noisy IMO. It prevents software updates with visible errors. I wonder if its just the limitations of iOS or its a non-nation state actor. I noticed it modifies some Facetime files, I wonder if it exploits the camera through that.
Agreed on AI being a red herring. Social apps have been cutting off third parties for years. As it is on most things, Reddit is just very slow to get on board.
The grey squirrels in my UK garden routinely make what we call the 'leap of death' between two trees whose upper branches are a few feet apart, at different heights. I've seen two falls - one because the target branch snapped when the squirrel landed, the other during a high-speed chase where one of the squirrels apparently mis-jumped. In both cases the squirrels fell into lower level bushes and disappeared (no subsequent bodies). It's not unusual to see a squirrel with one one useless leg but still managing to feed and get around, so I can quite believe that they can recover from a broken limb given sufficient time.

* * *

We also had a pheasant who routinely visited the garden and one day showed up with a broken leg, that survived for ages before eventually disappearing. Initially he sat quietly in the undergrowth but started hopping around and doing short flights (with clumsy landings). I put out bird seed for him and he incredibly quickly learned to hoot and flap outside my back door when he was hungry. He once followed me into my shed when he was expecting feeding and had to be shoo'd out.
This article gave me a good laugh. Just proves how much AI is subservient to our will. We just have to be really clear about what we mean. I expect everyone's communication skills to shoot up this century.
> UPDATE 2/6/23 - in communication with AEROSPACE - Col Hamilton admits he "mis-spoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit and the 'rogue AI drone simulation' was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation
I have a heuristic that puts such "adventures" in perspective:

How you hire is whom you hire.

You'd think more outfits would be more methodical and coordinated about hiring, but we all have head scratcher encounters and (too often) even horror stories. Or you get hired and look back and see a red flag fest that was the interview and onboarding process.

What you experienced is (likely) what that organization is. Yes, it sounds like you wanted the role and were a great fit. But that role exists within a context, a context that rubs you all the wrong ways.

Unfortunately, just move on. There's better waiting for you somewhere.
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’
FUD by other AV makers.
Many people don't want to associate their opinions with their real world identities. This is why I don't want to give social networks my payment info or my work/school/isp email. Especially social networks that are as politically charged as reddit.
I don't think that car manufacturers should be held responsible just because AEB contributed to a collision. It isn't that rare for safety features to do harm in specific circumstances, for example seatbelts can prevent people leaving the car in a hurry and airbags can sometimes kill people when they activate.

The question is whether the feature is a net positive, not whether it is a positive in literally every potential collision.
Funnily enough they quote a person called "Harry Frankfurt" which really sounds like some name made for a cartoon or something
The trick seems to be keeping it targeted towards one unique and tight nit community. Then opening the doors for those users to branch out. Like if you had a "subreddit" for an MMORPG where community is already a key attribute.
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Time to ban TikTok, EU lawmakers tell governments
The same old:

"The video-sharing app loved by teenagers around the world is facing allegations from Western security services of facilitating espionage, failing to protect personal data, and even corrupting young minds."

Again, no mention of other social media companies, which all have such a track record on these things.
You already sort of have that with a public profile. And you don't need to include your phone number. You basically don't get my phone number without a specific reason.

I've only gotten jobs through people I've known since the 1980s but at least a capsule version on my resume is embedded in bios on countless event sites. It's hard (and undesirable) for a lot of people to keep that information hidden.
I'm a little confused...doesn't Shap-E itself run locally?

I played with Shap-E when released. It did download a model on first run, but the actual processing happened locally.

Does this embed the model in the repo? Or does it still need to download the model from somewhere at some point?
Literal FUD. It's a 300 line python script.
Yeah but unfortunately it provides `.len()` directly. It's documented to make clear that it's the bytecount and not the characters, and that humans usually work with characters, but given that this isn't even a trait implementation I think `.as_bytes().len()` or something would have been better.
It looks like a RAID setup might remove your concern for moving parts, while benefiting from a cheaper storage price.

I had this concern myself and eventually I gave up and do it on cloud.
I notice it only do that when I browse on the phone sometimes.
I agree that chatGPT is a great product in itself. But does they mean turn end state of this round of AI is going to be that we have conversational assistants? It's certainly been represented as more than this, which is why I'm curious what actual further applications have come about.
sadly yes they are right. the implementations are sadly lacking so as a competent and always aware driver, i’ve found that 100% of the time these systems (on all levels of car, honda to mercedes) these systems do more harm than good. however your typical usa driver is quite poor, so yes these systems need to be required
Unification was reasonable at the time, given the goal to fit Unicode in 16 bits, and willingness to exclude obsolete characters. It's just that they followed official Japanese standards, and therefore unified too many from the point of view of other languages.

I think the first big mistake was using postfix/infix operators (combining characters, modifiers, variant selectors, joiners, etc.) rather than prefix, preferably in blocks by arity. That would have simplified processing (in particular a keyboard dead key could have been identical to a combining character) and made broken sequences detectable.

The latest big mistake, I think, was retroactively changing some non-emoji characters to have “emoji presentation”, which means that some text has to be edited to preserve its original appearance.
I expect you are in the minority in terms of rationale. For most people, the more you get in the bundle, the greater the incentive, the faster the flywheel spins for Amazon. This is why bundling is both so powerful as a strategy and is also often the target of anti-competitive complaints.
Asking an LLM to analyse gender and IQ data
I turn on blinker when I do it to indicate to others that I am about to.
The RAeS Summit notes at https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-fu... have a few highlights that might be of interest to the HN crowd.

As well as the part this taskandpurpose.com article is based on:

> one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

> He went on: “We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

It also includes some interesting stuff about autonomous vehicle security:

> autonomous cars have already been ‘hacked’ and, as the Ukraine War has demonstrated, the need for reliable supply of equipment, food and ammunition could be at threat. Why bomb a column of supply vehicles when you can simply ‘turn them off’? Or as Clarke asked: “Why shoot down a jet when you can steer the pilot’s car into a ditch before he’s even reached the airfield?”

As well as some great stuff about the military value of commercial off-the-shelf drones, and the challenges of tactical deployment of UAVs:

> “The Queen’s Dragoon Guards are fresh back from Mali,” he explained. “They took around 30 UAVs with them and we came back to two! They broke, they got lost, they deteriorated with the conditions and couldn’t be fixed - there aren’t many trees in Mali but they found them!
what apps did you try? I use RIF (reddit is fun) and it's much better than the official app. The UI is much cleaner (looks like a proper mobile version of the 'old' reddit) with much better information density.
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Ads are dynamically served via client-side scripts (on the web). An API endpoint contains static data (post text, image URLs, etc) that's the same for everyone, so it cannot serve individual ads to users in that way.
I would expect elements of those phenomenon to exist outside of human skulls, and to be manipulable in such a way that instruments could be constructed that use those principles to detect souls in human skulls.

They'd also be empirical in that no other simpler/more-rational explanation exists for the properties they exhibit.

This is plainly obvious. You're incapable of coming up with something like this, because you're a p-zombie. Like those LLMs we read about on this site, you can't imagine anything that hasn't been part of your training corpus. Novel, intelligent ideas are beyond you unless they previously existed and you have been exposed to those already.

Why did you even have to ask your rhetorical question? Your consciousness is an illusion. You can't even properly understand this comment I've written. The manner in which you'll respond to it is perfectly predictable.
The media is dying to build up the "AI is going to eradicate humanity" narrative, such as in this *very* misleading headline (nobody was "killed", but it sure sounded like someone was), which ultimately is going to be another big giant mess of garbage information your aunt believes, all while OpenAI laughs all the way to the bank. I think reasonable voices who aren't set to make billions from the burgeoning "saving us from the AI apocalypse" industry need to speak up more.
It’s like the difference between civil law and criminal law. In civil law the balance of probabilities is used. In criminal law the accusation should be proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Option one means treating something like civil law cases. Option two means treating it like criminal law cases.
From having friends try different things in VR, Beat Saber has been far and away the biggest hit with the most people relative to any other type of game or experience.

Out of ~20 people, I think there has only been one who liked something else better (the X-wing mission in SW:Battlefront).
If you are looking for a threaded forum where posts contain dense information with code segments, quotes and decorated text, the cards are definitely a core problem. The implementation is very bad, too.
Was there anything special in the cars that made off the shelf aftermarket ECUs not work with them ?
Pulsar (Atom fork) now with modern tree-sitter support
This might be your browser settings because this never happens for me.
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Just to be clear: you build an engine controller with a normal arm cortex-m0?

And if this thing breaks the engine just do nothing?

Did you build any hardening or redundancy into it?
Black Holes as Tools for Quantum Computing by Extraterrestrial Civilizations
"...We explain that black holes are the most efficient capacitors of quantum information. It is thereby expected that all sufficiently advanced civilizations ultimately employ black holes in their quantum computers. The accompanying Hawking radiation is democratic in particle species. Due to this, the alien quantum computers will radiate in ordinary particles such as neutrinos and photons within the range of potential sensitivity of our detectors..."
So in some ways it's hard to argue against new "safety" features; but on the other hand there is a cost to sprawling feature creep in cars (or software): increased complexity surface; increased failure modes; increased repair costs. How many sensors/computers are on new cars; 10 years out how many of them will start to fail/go flaky. Right now I apparently have an O2 sensor and a crankshaft position sensor failure on my vehicle; they do not seem to be impacting normal operation, but replacement of them would cost $600
From another thread -- It wasn't even a real simulation, just thought experiment.

UPDATE 2/6/23 - in communication with AEROSPACE - Col Hamilton admits he "mis-spoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit and the 'rogue AI drone simulation' was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation . "In an update provided to Aerospace, Hamilton explained that he “misspoke” when telling the story, saying that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical “thought experiment” from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation.

He said: “We’ve never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realize that this is a plausible outcome … Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI.”"
Even if you would rather not have the feature in your car, wouldn't you rather the idiot about to hit you had it in his?

Unless you are proposing that they should require it in everyone's cars except yorus.
I could have made a lot user selectable, added bluetooth connectivity (or CAN, I suppose), allowed uploaded maps, etc. But I wanted to concentrate on keep it simple plug-and-play for two reasons. First, the majority of people who own these cars don't want to fiddle. Their car died and they want to just swap out the unit and go. Second, I had some trepidation about the Clean Air Act of 1970, which basically says "don't screw with emissions". If I made it too easy for people to "play" with ignition maps, I was worried I'd be in violation of that law.
I actually cancelled prime because Amazon products these days suck, it’s become literally flea market shit

I probably would use Amazon cell phone service, but would be good if I could just buy that, not all of prime
Maybe I’m wrong (I haven’t used ChatGPT) but this really feels like the examples of that output.

Is that why it’s getting downvoted?
Japan has a wild idea to launch a satellite made of wood in 2024
Memory size mostly depends on the batch size. With a smaller batch size you usually learn more per sample but it takes more time per sample. When I was trying to make a foundation model for clinical notes around 2015 with LSTM I found a batch size of 1 worked best on a CPU but a much larger batch size was ideal in GPU. That is, the CPU would not be faster in terms of samples/second if I increased the batch size but the GPU would get better. What I really cared about was calendar time not sample efficiency, the CPU did best when I optimized for sample efficiency, the GPU sped up enough with large batches that I didn’t mind showing the network more samples.
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> Availability of C++ tooling is much, much closer to availability of C tooling (often it's the same tool!) compared to Rust. Adopting Rust isn't the same category of conversion at all.

Which tooling? Just curious, asking entirely in good faith. My recollection is that the majority of tooling I was using with C++ worked with Rust - debuggers, profilers, and sanitizers being the main tools. Although I find that I use them much less frequently since I don't find debuggers as useful for the types of bugs I have these days, and sanitizers are only useful if you have unsafe, and profilers are cool but usually I just write benchmarks using a crate and then iterate from there.
AFAIK you can "just" take Cortex-R based MCU and just configure it properly and you will get the "resets if 2 cores don't agree" behaviour
I love it. Just keep jamming more random stuff in there and periodically saying, “you know, we give you so many amazing benefits that we just have no choice but to raise the membership fee again!”
SEO keyword stuffing strikes again.
I think one could make the argument that when you're producing high performance real time applications, diagnosing why your GC pauses and trying to find workarounds/fixes can take a lot longer than just managing the memory yourself. There's a lot of techniques like object pooling that people use in unity because .NETs GC isn't really built to handle how dynamic some of these applications end up being.
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