skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong. The claim was never made that players got worse, only that their ratings dropped, which is empirically true. After playing AlphaGo, for example, Ke Jie dropped in the rankings and was quickly taken out of 1st place overall. The overall point though, is that AlphaGo produced nothing of value for humans, since there's also no evidence that players have improved since AlphaGo's creation. Factoring in the immense cost and human brainpower wasted on creating a superhuman perfect-information-game-playing program, and it's easily a net negative for humanity.
They are doing it wrong. If you keep two or three things on the go you can switch to a different one when you get stuck without wasting hours or interrupting someone else right this minute. Very often, having switched focus the solution to the original problem will reveal itself without needing to bother anyone.
No, they lie to cover up the cheapness and inadequacy of their flextures. "Users can't handle the truth" is a bullshit excuse and you should be ashamed for making it.
Yep! Point to point, decentralized mass transit using the same infrastructure as everyone else.
In this case Microsoft is using Bing Chat to promote Edge use, but Bing Chat doesn't have anything close to a dominant position so it's hard for me to see an argument that this isn't allowed under US anti-trust (or that it should be prohibited).
i work in europe and people still go to the office while sick; the famous "eh, it's nothing!" when it's in fact, something.
'Grusch told the Debrief that he had filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general. That complaint contained classified locations, program names and other data, the Debrief said.

Nick Pope, who spent the early 1990s investigating UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence, said the existence of that complaint could hamper the oversight committee investigation.

“As an active complaint it is very difficult to get into the substance of the testimony, because it constitutes interference with an ongoing investigation,” Pope said.

Pope added: “So, for anyone who thinks great, the hearing will determine whether David Grusch’s allegations are correct or not, I think an awful lot of [what is said in the hearing] is going to be: ‘That’s the subject of an ongoing investigation and we can’t discuss it.’”

Pope said to find out whether Grusch’s claims about alien craft are true, “we need a few key pieces of information”.

“Number one is the project name or office name. Number two is who is the person in charge of that – the director, the commanding officer, whoever it is? Thirdly, what agency is it embedded in?”'

So looks like we're likely getting nothing.
Draw at random just six people from a population of millions. Take the min and max wealth of those six people. That procedure produces a confidence interval that contains the true median wealth of the population more than 95% of the time. Even if the population wealth variance is high.

How did I just produce a reliable estimate using a sample size of only six?

By quantifying the uncertainty of the estimate. There's a trade off between sample size and uncertainty, and that trade off allows small sample sizes to be useful for many practical applications, most of which can accommodate uncertainty.

Again, small samples are informative. Whether they are informative enough for a particular application doesn't determine whether they are informative enough for all applications in general. I certainly wouldn't call them "useless in practice."
Ask HN: Is it hopeless to try to build new foundational models now
Sama says in an answer to a question(What should Indian startups do to build foundational models?) that it is hopeless to try to build foundational models that can compete with OpenAI. What does the community think? Is OpenAI too far ahead? Is there a possibility of some new tech coming which can displace OpenAI?

We are betting on the fact that such new tech is possible. Just wanted to get the feel of the community in this regard.
I'll take your point further. If you have a college class of 1000 students and they submit 5 papers a year, that is 5000 papers. 1% miss would be 50 student assignmentss accused of plagiarism. This isnt detecting cats, this is about lives being seriously affected.

Further, i'm curious how universal the accuracy is...do certain subsets incur more of the burden?
https://twitter.com/RajanAnandan/status/1666641010284449792?...
or other version:

"Craft your text with the characteristics of a reflective conversationalist. Be sure to weave in personal insights, express opinions, hesitate, reconsider, use colloquial language, and make occasional minor errors to reflect human thought patterns."
Oh boy.

> Guile is also the default extension language for the GNU project.

AFAIK Guix is the only project that uses Guile and has any actual users (I'm not counting Shepherd because outside GuixSD it is nothing). Guile is like 30 years old, and has been envisioned as "the default extension language for the GNU project" all that time (I was an active contributor for a while, so I should know). Guile is not even used by Emacs; Guile extensibility support in GDB is not even commonly built by distros. Guile is a nice and very competent Scheme implementation and I'd love for it to be useful outside Guix, but that's just not the case, and repeating that slogan won't change it. Seriously, just stop.

> It is the old freedom and responsibility problem

No, it is not. Software development is a social and technical field, not a branch of philosophy.
As naked monkeys in the wild, perhaps. However in our modern world a visit to the esthetician and an appointment with a makeup artist before the interview will make you appear healthier than the most nourished monkey in the jungle.

Now you could argue that having the awareness to do this before an interview is a display of intelligence, however I would say that this is indicative of a type intelligence different to the one needed to be, say, a good engineer.
What if I take chatgpt output and partially rewrite it in my own words, or add or mix in some original content? What result does this identification tool return?
> Moreover, what kind of wisdom would you expect from someone who spent their years merely waiting for the day of their retirement?

The kind of wisdom that they have earned dealing with the daily practicalities of personal life, society, law, bureaucracy and in general the knowledge of navigating the winds of change for many decades. But in order to get the benefit of that wisdom, you have to value them as individuals with valuable experience instead of thinking of them as someone who spent their years merely waiting for the day of their retirement.
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words have meanings (though of course they evolve over time - fascism used to mean government control over businesses through regulation, now it's just "everything you disagree with")

but "capitalism" has been fairly consistent - rewarding people for investing in the future instead of spending for today.
Guess that is why I'm surprised this is even an argument. Can do quick search and find many papers and books related to historical developments of the sciences and how in early times they were related. But that would take reading and then trusting historians, which I'm not sure is allowed either these days. In post-truth world, can't trust any studies, can't trust history, can't trust what we see.
See mine is too cheap to have any logic or memory in it
I keep telling my son that he needs to go see a doctor (also a dentist) --- the likelihood of overall health benefit is way more likely than an unlikely wrong diagnosis which will probably only result in some expensive (to the insurance company) tests.
We're about 3 orders of magnitude away from green hydrogen being reasonably described as "at scale" at this point. It's roughly where PV was 15-25 years ago: nice to see the effort going on, but not at scale.

I would like to see some home system that makes and stores H2 with excess PV — such a thing certainly feels like it should be possible, given how easy hydrogen is to make, but I'm not a chemist or a civil engineer, so I'll leave that to those who know what can go wrong and how to fix it.
This is described in the article.
Maybe in California, weather does not look uniform in the rest of the world. December is literally less than 30 hours of sun here, and wind is weak - we're literally smog capital of Europe due to it in the winter.

"good interconnections" on the other way sound like surrendering any energy security - good luck with that after russian invasion.

I'd be comfortable with that as long as we can have 3-10x overbuild and a week of storage.
In the UK, there were 1300% more cycling fatalities than car fatalities in 2021 per the UK government[0], and this isn't controlling for differences in the kinds of miles traveled--most car fatalities happen on highways outside of the city, but these aren't the kind of miles that cyclists are doing; cycling primarily happens on slower city streets; if we account for these differences, the safety gap (with respect to occupants) grows even more considerably in favor of car transit.

> Also urban fatalities of people on bikes is driven almost entirely by people driving cars. In what world do we look at the problem of cars killing people on bikes and go “well obviously the bikes are the problem”. All the stats in this area clearly indicate that drivers are far more often at fault in these collisions than those on bikes. Same again goes for pedestrians, cars kill pedestrians regardless of how careful pedestrians are.

No one is making this argument. We’re debating what mode of transit is safest for one’s children, not in what way we should remake society.

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
A hilarious thing about his argument is that it also would rule out nuclear.

Existing thermal burner reactors cannot power the world -- the cheap uranium they depend on would run out too quickly. So, one either needs breeder reactors or cheap seawater uranium extraction. And neither of those are available commercially.
Anecdotes are not data. Look at the game statistics. There is zero evidence that players are playing at a higher level since the inception of AlphaGo.
I was real curious about this article yesterday and didn't see any comments.

Anyone have any idea what these cost when they came out? They seem like an unbelievably powerful/expensive machine for the year they came out.

Were they $50k, $100k, $500k?
The issue is that even after measures like this, criminals still have limitless access to new technologies. Meanwhile, we also introduced a huge opportunity for the powerful to attack the powerless.

On the other hand, I do understand the government need to control the "e-space" so to speak; and I'm now lumping in here every form of internet control too. If a government ignores to control a popular information channel like the internet (or the radio, television, etc), powers that seek to replace the government will take root there and coordinate weakening them. So if they don't control it, others will, and that's not necessarily good for the people either. So, it's only natural that after a new form of communication is created, that regulation will come soon after that extends government control over it.
Your comment isn't really that informed.

OpenGL wasn't designed by Khronos, rather it was designed by SGI and called GL. It was then given to Khronos and then maintained it.

OpenCL wasn't designed by Khronos either, rather it was designed by Apple and then given to Khronos to maintain. It was orphaned when Apple gave up on it, and not because of Kronos's leadership but rather Apple decided to go all in on Metal, their proprietary solution that did graphics and compute shaders.

Vulkan also wasn't fully designed by Khronos, rather it was based heavily on Molten from AMD, which was gifted to Khronos. It is much more widely used than Metal.

That said, benevolent dictators who are competent can out do committee decision making, but committee decision making is often better for an industry as a whole because it aligns different interest groups.
I was with you on the nuance until you said "US" -- we have actual laws making it illegal to boycott Israel in a bunch of states. Its not illegal to boycott anything else on the planet, just Israel.

Any politician who steps out of line on the issue, even just pointing at obvious facts on the ground, is disciplined immediately. See what happened to Rashida Tlaib a few years ago for making mild factual observations.
The public isn't ok with paying for it though. They only want to receive it. The yellow vests were protesting a level of taxation that couldn't sustain the pensions, let alone one that can.
The Withings scales definitely do not.

Personally, I've only ever had one scale in my life that I thought might be using memory to give false consistency. But even then, it was short-term, not long term. I.e. if you stepped off and back on, it might bias towards giving you the same weight. If you walked away for a bit, then came back with a small extra weight in your hand, it was accurate.
All of these laws are always absolutely useless against serious criminals.

Outlawing technology doesnt work, because they will break laws, use open source code and not trust closed source code. For example, if you outlaw encrypted apps like Signal, they will simply use open source tools like PGP, which you cannot take away. However, the average non-technical citizen will suffer serious hacks because they actually obey the law and won't use the secure technology.

Likewise, in this case a serious criminal will use a phone with no microphone/camera or put it in a faraday bag, if they even use a phone at all at sensitive times. Meanwhile, the average citizen needs to constantly feel a chilling sense of being watched literally the same as in 1984.
Supreme Court simply ruled that EPA exceeded its authority given by lawmakers. Congress should give EPA more authority if its intends for the EPA to do more.
The issue we have is government agencies overreaching beyond their remit.
I agree. Most people only see the 5 minutes lost though...
Oh but it's so beautiful out... I can't resist! I'll die young to watch the lovely hummingbird swing through.
So, you're objecting to industrial society itself? Ok, we're done here. Back to your cave.
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Do people really not understand that they’re just building a GAN (generative adversarial network) and the endgame of the arms race is that not even detector machines will be able to tell the diference within a margin of statistical error? Unless that is the goal, this just helps the machines in the long-term.
What colors would be best for this site?

I would like to see dark mode. rather than this trend of white and 'Apple-esque' looking sites.
I started printing out again. That also helps and it is nicer to read, when sitting in the bright sun, than a screen.
> The "proposal" is simply pointing out that those claims are simply false.

Then you can surely point out some peer-reviewed articles detailing this. Merely confidently stating something doesn't make it true.

> Hydrogen storage is a solved problem.

Awesome, I'm happy to hear about these recent breakthroughs I must have missed. Can you provide references please?

> In reality, the whole thing is a disruptive technology to BEVs since it fundamentally solves the weaknesses of BEVs. It is entirely a matter of when it displaces BEVs, not if.

If we could figure out how to store hydrogen cheaply with decent energy density, and cheap high efficiency electrolyzers and fuel cells, hydrogen would be an obvious winner. But so far it seems we haven't figured out answers to these questions, despite decades of research. But maybe you can provide references to research breakthroughs I have missed?

> This will become more obvious when hydrogen cars become no more expensive than ICE cars.

Sure. In the meantime it seems BEV's are on track to become cheaper than ICE cars within a decade or so, so while we wait for the hydrogen revolution we can at least decarbonize large parts of road transport.
I've recently been finding that even where in-person meetings are an option, having everyone at their desk with full access to all their files, emails etc. along with the ability to quickly and easily share their screen is just more productive. There's far less need to make a list of things to follow up during the meeting because you can usually take care of these things as they come up.
To your first point it seems pretty clear to me their goal is to have everyone on the team in the same office so meetings are in person.
It could be independent of the OS software if it were a design goal (e.g. in safety-critical applications you sometimes have display controllers that have dedicated hardware layers for important indicators that are driven independently of the main display feed, something Apple could easily replicate given their level of integration)

And of course it doesn't have to be on the display, given they already have a cutout island in the display where they could place such a thing.
The Last Egg
Fantastic blog on infrastructure at the bottom of the world from the perspective of an IT guy. Super cool stuff!
Show HN: We made a GPT bot to explain you CV data
https://github.com/dioptra-ai/katiml
> They don't need to justify their cost to you, ever,

Correct. I'm just *wondering* why they choose that price. I don't want them to change it and they have every right to not talk about it.

I selfhost a lot of stuff. I don't understand why people think this is an attack.
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> A location with a thousand voters turning out a million votes

Easy to detect for a small town, not for a big city, where there are literally millions but who knows how many actually vote. In fact I could cite the exact kinds of statistical reasoning for certain counties in the recent election, but you wouldn't accept that.
Surely what matters more than detecting generated content is verifying that the information is true and consistent and limiting the quantity and length of submissions per verified user of a system.

That takes care of the quality of the submission. The other part is determining attribution. Why not just ask the human submitter to defend their work in a controlled environment? If they can, it's their paper now.

I don't see a difference between unassisted people turning in crap vs assisted people still turning in crap.
I understand that the headline is wrong, but it doesn't matter, because one day it might not be.

I need to have a phone that can protect against this, because it doesn't matter if it's a state doing it with a warrant or a talented hacker - either case is unacceptable to me.

So far a FairPhone running DivestOS and only trusted software via F-Droid is the best solution I have found. GrapheneOS on a Pixel is nice, but I don't want Google hardware if I'm not trusting their software.
So what... give us raw measurements too, still better than someone trying to influence us without data.
Only "break" was a recent decade, with smallest increase of population in time. Up till 1860s US was growing at over 30% every decade, up till 1910 20%, and up till 2000 over 10%, with only exception being 1940s... due to known reasons.

"Foreign born" percent of population was higher in the 1800s as well.
For anyone not in the real estate market, "TI" here is "tenant improvement" and basically means all the construction that the owner does to configure the space to the needs of whoever is leasing it
I remember seeing this a while back when John Carmack tweeted about reading it.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1456511953912860699

The premise is that an AI is written for an MLP MMO and it is tasked with satisfying users’ values. It becomes a singularity and gains the ability to digitize people’s minds. The AI manipulates almost everyone into uploading and humanity goes extinct in the real world.

Imagine a Paperclip Maximizer but for individual happiness. Or, The Matrix but the Architect is a magical horse whose only goal is to make you feel satisfied for all eternity because it was originally designed to make engaging quests for an online game based on a show designed to sell plastic toys.

All in all it’s an interesting take on AI because you don’t often see stories where the AI’s sole goal is to manipulate you into a state of continuous fulfillment.
If a "reset passkey by email" option exists, they don't seem much more secure than a unique complex password + (non-SMS) 2FA.

So for most people on HN (who also probably won't be successfully phished) they offer only new problems, yet if implemented and used widely they're probably a net positive.

It's a bit like the Covid rules. I am more than capable of avoiding other humans without new laws, but "normal" people seemed to need a lot of coercion.

Personally I'll give it a few years and see how passkeys pan out before I switch (if I get the choice).
Probably goes under the name of "computer applications", but I sure hope so. I'm not a great typist by any means, but I did manage to get out of typing class by taking a little-advertised test. If you could manage 35 WPM, you didn't have to take it.
It's not hopeless, but it requires so much money and time that you might as well surrender all hope. Competing with OpenAI is tough, finetuning llama to a point that it competed with GPT3.5 required several finetuning attempts and many months of research.

There's still room for more AI models, but competitive ones are remarkably difficult to build. Competing with OpenAI's thousands of GPUs is not an easy feat.
Depends what you are looking for. It's great to avoid the commute.
This is completely backwards. The most charitable interpretation is you're thinking the entire country would have proportional representation?

You can still have proportional representation on a state level. This allows minorities who might be 10% or less of the population to have some representation. Instead we have situations like North Carolina where the GOP won by 1-2% but has a supermajority or in 2018 in Wisconsin where the GOP got 38% of the vote yet got a supermajority.

The other issue here, particular to the US, is that small states have disproportionate power. No one really predicted 200+ years ago that one state would have 40 million people and another 500,000 yet both have equivalent power in the Senate.

So for the European Union, proportional representation would most sensibly be done on a country-level, not over the entire EU.
LE should have tools to enforce the law, no question.

However, there's a huge difference between (a) setting up means for spying on 100% of the people and (b) developing operational excellence in LE to be able to follow individual cases.

Usually the path of (a) is followed because of mental laziness of politicians, assumed cost-saving, lobbying by some companies who want to sell their LE Big Data product and BS megalomania. Citizens have to stand up and fight against getting criminalized.
> 1. this was tested only on 180 examples, which is a very very small dataset to draw conclusions on, and

If you have 180 samples, and a >99% accuracy (meaning a single misprediction), that is a statistically significant conclusion with a p-value of 99.994%.
> Think css, how much nicer would it be to type "mato" in devtools and get "margin-top"?

I can't say that this type of search has ever crossed my mind. This type of search would seem to me to be greatly ambiguous. For example, if you have "tomato" in the corpus then that obviously supercedes "margin-top" for the search string "mato". If you know the entire corpus, then I suppose you can take advantage of shortcuts like this when you know there is only one match, but then again it would seem to me that simply writing "margin-top" would require less mental gymnastics.