skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, AutoGPT is limited primarily by the poor state of its tools. For instance, browsing web pages often does not return relevant text that a human would pick out of the same page content. GPT-4 makes very good plans of what it should do, but the tools fail to give it what a human would receive.

For example, when asked to search for the top executives at company X, it rightly uses Google Search with the query “top executives at company X,” which returns a list of web pages such as the company’s About page. It then parses the About page but because of messed up page formatting, it returns nonsense data like the LinkedIn profile URL and some marketing material like a case study link, even though the executive profiles are right there.

The google search function is also limited. For comparison, SerpAPI masterfully scrapes Google Search using a proxy network and very intelligent parsing. In experiments using SerpAPI in combination with Microsoft’s guidance module, I got much farther than AutoGPT.

Fortunately, a lot of people are contributing to AutoGPT now and it is improving quickly. They are revamping the core right now and I expect it will work far better when they are done. With time, better tools will be made available to GPT-4 and progress should then be faster.
We are not susceptible to changing our minds. A mind is a hard thing to change once it’s been made up. Manipulation is done by feeding information that already sounds like it’s true, but carries a payload of false information intended to influence people toward a certain goal.

If you say the President is a pedophile, and provide fake evidence to people who don’t like him, they’ll just dislike him more, they aren’t going to go against their own thoughts and think “I don’t like the President but clearly he isn’t really a pedophile.” That is too complex for most people. They don’t want to defend something they don’t like. People are simpletons.
The photograpgh of the card in the article shows the DisplayPort sockets labeled as _in_ fwiw.
Beyond the 'Matrix' Theory of the Mind
The title of this article is what malware authors say every day =)
So you want to regulate generative AI such that corporations need to build very effective filters on the output?

The implementation of this filter is very difficult, it’s a task humans would struggle with to be 99% accurate. It would certainly be wrong a lot.

What I don’t understand is that this goes against most principles of published content and freedom for journalism. If you read something online, and you treat it as the truth, that’s on you.

If a journalist suggests you quit your job, and it doesn’t work out, they wouldn’t be liable for your decision.
USB4 mandates every port have DisplayPort capability. I think it's quite likely indeed DisplayPort input we see here.
> It’s weird to aim this at Meta. It also doesn’t say that they’re not receiving these benefits - just that Meta doesn’t pay for them, which is how I’d expect a vendor to work.

I think the point here is that these moderators are basically Meta employees but since they aren’t officially Meta employees they don’t get the same benefits that “full” employees get.
Did you really just compare Tesla’s driver assist to lynching?
Are you sure he would have left? Going to any US-friendly country (or ones that will buckle under their pressure) gives him a high chance of getting arrested and extradited to the US, or he could suffer the Assange treatment from the inhumane Brits. So it seems there are 2 locks keeping him in the "prison".
Ah, I see it now. That makes more sense.
> They all literally share the same DNA, [...]

Do you mean this literally or figuratively? Isn't one of the serious problems with tumors that the mutation rate inside them goes through the roof? (And then they eventually figure out how to be metastatic?)
Uranium ore != Uranium.
torrents work fine without having a monetary incentive, this misconception of the blockchain crowd really has to die its killing real decentral solutions
Okay, maybe 90s MS could've, but I have a feeling that's 30 years ago.
World's spy chiefs meet in secret conclave in Singapore
Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website
One time while hiking off-trail in the San Gabriel mountains, I stumbled on a memorial bench. The bench was dedicated to a child who died just a few hours after birth. Given its remoteness, whoever installed the bench must have hiked the materials and tools in, climbing almost 2,000 feet over 5-6 miles, probably several times, transporting hundreds of pounds.

Contemplating that, the love this person felt to motivate that, I was overcome with emotion and had to sit for a while.
Satellites are a lot harder to replace than webservers.

I remember the prefix "cyber-" already being seen as cringy in the late 90s. I'm a bit surprised it's stuck around as much as it has.
tl;dr

Crushed stones, or ballast, along railway tracks provide stability, aid drainage, control vegetation, and distribute train load.
Wonder is this locked to MSI boards or could it work on any board?
const var scores = [3, 2, 5]!
scores[0.5] = 4
print(scores) //[3, 2, 4, 5]!

Genius! This trivially solves the problem of reading integer and floating point numbers from input and inserting them into a sorted array. Too bad there are no loops in this language.

(Remember that arrays start from -1.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nearly all the immigration to Iceland happened before 1000 CE.

That's why it's such a paradise for DNA research, and why they have websites so you can check how closely you're related to someone before marrying them -- everyone's related to everyone else, at a fairly close level.
Assuming you mean encrypting the secret files specifically and not the whole repo. This could work, but why put the secrets in the repository at all? Either everyone has to replace them with their own secrets before being able to run the code. Or everyone has to have the key to decrypt the actual credentials (developers, interns, deployments, CI, scanners, etc) making it not secret.

Why not inject the credentials at runtime, from a system meant for this, with support for auditing and key rotation etc?
And worker harder at school, those bootstrap are not gonna pull themselves
Aren't these magnet links useless without trackers?
I also remember an expensive discrete math book. I came home for the holidays and was doing some exercises when my dad found his copy from when he was at university. Most sections were word for word idential, but the problems were all different. His had a chapter on Fortran too.
Apologies, but you are mistaken.

> thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-...

Less than half of the world’s grain harvest is eaten by people ... nearly half of all grain is either burned as fuel or eaten by animals. The ... second-biggest crop, maize, was even less likely to end up on a plate: humans ate just 13% of global output

Feeding grain to animals does generate food for people indirectly, in the form of milk, meat and eggs. However, this process is highly wasteful. For every 100 calories of grain fed to a cow, just three emerge as beef.

> Animals, on the other hand, tend to regenerate grasslands and restore wildlife habitats

https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline

Thankfully we have options to build a better future. If we can reduce agricultural land – and primarily land use for livestock – we can free up land for wild mammals to return.

> If you really want to help fix the environment then you should consider not eating plant-based food.

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too

Crop fields do indeed disrupt the habitats of wild animals, and wild animals are also killed when harvesting plants. However, this point makes the case for a plant-based diet and not against it, since many more plants are required to produce a measure of animal flesh for food (often as high as 12:1) than are required to produce an equal measure of plants for food (which is obviously 1:1). Because of this, a plant-based diet causes less suffering and death than one that includes animals.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction. The global rate of species extinction today is higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years.

Firsty, global dietary patterns need to move towards more plant-heavy diets, mainly due to the disproportionate impact of animal agriculture on biodiversity, land use and the environment. Such a shift, coupled with the reduction of global food waste, would reduce demand and the pressure on the environment and land, benefit the health of populations around the world, and help reduce the risk of pandemics.

Secondly, more land needs to be protected and set aside for nature.

Thirdly, we need to farm in a more nature-friendly, biodiversity-supporting way, limiting the use of inputs and replacing monoculture with polyculture farming practices.
Why when Torrents work fine and are free
Having recently built some (Open Source) tooling for managing end-of-life dates for AWS infra while a feature request is pending for endoflife.date, I feel this pain!
In engineering school in the 1990s, a Taiwanese student in our school would order all the books in Taiwan and then their mom would ship a huge box to us in Canada. It costs 50% less than buying the same books in Canada.

Textbooks are a racket.
To be clear, even diesel locomotives use electric motors to drive the wheels.

The diesel engines drive an on-board generator to make electricity.

This avoids the need for a transmission, which would have trouble delivering the torque needed to start the train from a standstill.
You're right about the square peg, but the big difference is the size of the community. I could do this work on any platform but if there's only a handful of people that know what a MangoPi or KiwiPi (names invented) can do, there's a whole lot of context to understand how cool a hack is.

Ditto for reading about projects -- it's great that Alice's Intel nuc can serve X pages per second, but it's easier to read and understand the technical feats of someone hacking off traces on a Pi 4 to expose PCIe because we all know the limits of the platform.
I don't know. I think everyone on Hacker News would consider themselves to be "thoughtful, informed people with a common denominator of morality" but most people here are using some kind of big social media. Even if it's LinkedIn.

Even here we pay the "small price" of Y Combinator posts being boosted and comment-free in our feeds. And any time subjects like homelessness or rent control or zoning come out, most of HN loses their effing minds and the seething anger (about rent prices in NY/SF) and hatred of the poor washes over the whole thread like a tidal wave.

The way I see it, Mastodon is just the place where all of the smug, self-righteous people have gone -- to the benefit of the rest of us.
Anecdotally, I've noticed a much higher engagement % on Mastodon compared to Twitter with my own posts as well.

On Twitter, with over 8K followers, I get very good engagement in general (imo). But on Mastodon, with only 1.7K followers, I'll get engagement of almost 50% that of Twitter whenever I duplicate posts. If I had 8K followers on Maston and if those numbers continued the same trend I'd probably drop Twitter altogether.

Off-topic I also find the folks that comment on my posts on Mastodon to be friendly by default. It's a very refreshing vibe.

For a much smaller audience, I'm seeing a very active user base for the topics at hand. It also helps that I tag my posts in Mastodon (like people do on Instagram) to help increase reach a little bit.
Immediately (2-3 Days) after the massive flash-floods in Germany in 2021, Starlink Dishes started appearing in the Ahr Valley community spaces where the Red Cross and the Bundeswehr were providing relief material. There the victims could communicate because no mobile reception was available anywhere.

I still don't know how that was possible when Starlink wasn't even really available at that moment.

Source: I saw them myself while eating during breaks.
> if cursed

As long as you keep it internal-only, get a reliable server that doesn't do any anti-spam shit (AKA, nothing from MS or any other large company), doesn't use some unreliable proprietary database (again no MS), and have a reliable journaled disk, your only important failure mode will be losing disks. That's an easy failure mode to deal with.
One appeal I've seen is if a ccTLD matches the last 2 letters of your last name. You can then set up a mail adres first@lastna.me. Or a personal website at http://first.lastna.me/

Not for everyone probably, but if it'd be easy for me, I'd go for it.
There are reasons why drug approval can be slow and conservative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
Far too cynical. You are incredibly uninformed about the significance of this drug.
> Otherwise, there is no world where the highly desirable features of the California coast are not among the most expensive.

One with more tall buildings and less NIMBYism? There's a lot of space in California if you're allowed to build.
> I don't know much about the other stuff but outrage over this is misplaced and typical of comfortable out of touch urbanites

I haven’t worked on a farm or a construction site, but I can comfortably say that I’d be equally outraged if 16 year olds had jobs being the coder or the sales/marketing guy, if they were paid less and had fewer protections while working long hours.
World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days
Have you considered that we don't fucking know if AI will behave the same way as other types of organic life? This is not clear at all. Organic life on earth optimizes for reproduction, which implies AI systems will have very distinct features compared to humans. If you told me an intelligent alien made of organic matter subject to evolution is coming to Earth I would definitely be much more worried. That's not the case with computer programs.
It's probably between blocks of elements. Like, when the vec needs to realloc they insert a guard page. This is a pretty common allocator trick
Doesn't that boil down to "it's the way it is because it's the way it is"? Seems a bit... circular.

The question is why a Kenyan in Kenya is worth less than an American in Mountain View for the same work if it is not dependent on their location? What's happening to all of that excess value that's not being returned to them?

If all of Google's employees in Kenya emigrated to the US, what would happen? What happens when global mobility is not exploited in returning fair compensation to workers?
Though they likely surveil him quite closely, I feel that, without further (compelling, even circumstantial) evidence, it is unlikely they feel any sort of need to keep him.
Wait, I thought piecewise-linear interpolation search was well-known, and known to be similarly performant to the Google "learnt indices" paper?

This paper seems to imply that previous approaches didn't use piecewise-linear approximations??

Can someone clear up if I got my history wrong? Did I just assume piecewise-linear is well-known when it isn't?
I would point out that you still do real work.
People campaign about these weird issues and then ignore the plastic in the drinking water and the hormones in the food…
I did all those jobs before I was 18 and I did farm labor too all for less than minimum wage and it's simply exploitation. These jobs are open because they pay shit, they are dangerous and they work you like a rented mule. The solution is simple and always ignored, raise the wages and if you keep raising them people will flock to the job. The fact of the matter is paying $7.50/h (less because they are minors) for dangerous work where you have a foreman screaming at you 8-12 hours a day is just not worth the effort -adults figured it out, so now the businesses are trying to exploit children.

And these aren't good jobs they are laborers at best, no skill required, you are a human mule.
I don't understand. Who's "we"?

The store sells a scratch card containing a single-use code, after you show them ID. When you sign up with whatever social network, you enter the code and the social network validates it with the code provider service. That's it.

At best the code provider can tell the social network which store the code was purchased in. Drive over to the next state to purchase codes if you're paranoid. Mandate by law that no records of code purchases or copies of ID are kept. We don't require it for alcohol or tobacco purchases so there's no justification here.
"staying out of trouble".

Staying out of the middle class more like.
I don't know, variable decelerations seem to me to be funny but useful.

I mean constant constants, constant variables, and variable variables seem useful.

I'm not sure how would variable constants be useful.

Also, anybody knows the difference between constant constant and immutable data (constant contact constant)?
How is this relevant? Why does one need to live in Iceland (I have) to remind us that 80k USD a year is quite good in Europe, and that inflation isn't much worse than anywhere else?
A person who has a long history of lying, far beyond that of the average CEO, whose statements should already be viewed with skepticism.
Almost everything in North America is criminally priced with almost zero regulations, and all political parties are responsible for that: wanna buy a house, enjoy your 70y mortgage, wanna study, enjoy your student loans and expensive textbooks, oh you actually got sick, how rude?? Pay a hefty price or enjoy your 10hrs waiting time in the ER, Restaurants?! Pfft, pay the inflated prices for garbage food and don’t forget the 15%tip and credit card costs is also on you!! Gas is expensive? Yeah sorry despite the trillions we didn’t invest much in public transportation or bike/walking infrastructure. And so on.
std::make_shared exists to allocate the control block at the same time as the memory itself. This has a pretty major disadvantage, the memory for the shared pointer won't be deallocated until the last std::weak_ptr has been destroyed, even if the object has been destroyed.
I'm amazed how the report could get it utterly wrong considering it is literally spelled out in the only photo of the device they have. It has also been exactly the same in the previous MSI TB3 add-in card which has exactly the same port layout.

Ah, and the source article https://www.techpowerup.com/309532/msi-first-motherboard-mak... got it right.
I love using this trick. It's extremely useful for having relatively high confidence you don't have memory bugs
What's really inefficient is that every trial needs to spend (hundreds of) millions on writing up the whole thing, IRBs and FDA (and additional authorities) paperwork, recruiting, data analysis, etc. while these could all be standardized. (There are companies that do this, but they are just expensive middlemen. There was a great substack (?) post detailing a lot of these, but now I can't find it.)
Somehow I cannot get a Fedora 38 (or for that matter, Rocky/Alma 9) installer to boot with this option, it all works fine on QEMU, though.

There could be knobs to twist but UTM doesn’t expose any, so…
> 4) but doing product is icky for OSS people for some reason

I am not talking about OSS people. I am talking about integrators. And there is already demand for on premise LLM solutions.

Integrators don't ask customers to `git clone` some repo, same as they don't ask them to familiarize themselves with some cloud providers API. They ask them to buy/use the already integrated product.

> Note that the Stable Diffusion area is in way better shape.

Yes, because integrators got to work wrapping up the OSS into viable products. The same is going to happen with LLMs.
You're right it's much better to rely on information that is expected to be meaningless, has zero dimensions, is guaranteed to be biased, has no backing, and is scientifically proven to be unreliable.

Exactly what I expect from HN's crowd.
But what elevates it is that it's written so confidently and buries the insane lede so well that at each feature there's a fraction of a second where it seems recoverable before sanity kicks in. After, before, and next almost, almost seem smart
China and India have fewer people than the U.N. thinks
So what are they proposing?

They claim that the existing regulations don't work. That the unaccompanied minors are the ones filling the vast majority of these roles, but that the border crossing isn't the issue. It sounds like they don't have a solution?
Feels like more of a JS parody to me. Perhaps parodies like this are an effective way to reveal our biases. #deepthoughts
I think generally the people who are against racism and facism aren’t the ones pushing for more child labor
Ipfs is is a neat project with a lot of interesting ideas. but, yeah, the deamon is often way too resource hungry. I would like to see a lite/embedded mode that would better run in resource constrained or casual setups.
Why not sqlite with a lockfile? /s
> “Being forced to endure removal of the [device] … robbed her of the new person she had become with the technology,” Ienca and his colleagues wrote. “The company was responsible for the creation of a new person … as soon as the device was explanted, that person was terminated.”

Wow! That's some bold transhumanism! How many people would be able to say the same thing in other, more natural contexts?
Ah yes the classic conservative trope of using blue collar aesthetics to undermine labor protections. Glad to see people in this comment section are smart enough not to fall for it.
No, most BitTorrent clients support a Kad based DHT for discovering peers.
You can just use one of the root servers like mastodon.social or mastodon.online and start from there.
Icelander here as well, I've worked in Norway, the UK and Germany. An 80k salary here buys you the lifestyle of a 50k salary in Berlin, the only reason I moved back is kids and grandparents.
I'm absolutely certain that the NHS is a universal healthcare system, free at the point of use and funded by the state.
Rigour is over-emphasized in the teaching of Mathematics to the detriment of its Understanding. Teaching should always be conceptual first before representing them formally and using rigour.

The best example is Faraday vs. Maxwell. In one communication Faraday actually says it "frightened" him to see Maxwell's mathematics but that his "Conclusions" were so clear that he could think and work from them. Faraday thought and worked with concepts and mental models while Maxwell gave them a formal and rigorous representation.
A correction on another comment -- this is not a multithreaded language -- it's transthreaded-- a radically new concept where your code may or may not, run code in your thread, or someoen else's thread, without your knowledge. Errors in your code show up in their program, and their errors, in yours - see? Now bugs aren't your fault anymore!
And don't forget the KvetchGPT option. It's doesn't so much as complain about your code as you go along. It's like pair programming with your manager but you can turn them ofF.
My bosses would disagree.
Does HP Omen ship with Linux, and does HP support it?