skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually really important! Both statements.

It would be amazing when the planning dept just has you upload a BIM an an AI not only devours the BIM model -- but this is how we are going to get to the sci-fi version of "Pull up a blueprint of downtown and show me all the air-ducts where John McClain is hiding!" and "There is a door on your left"

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But the rivers and lakes thing should be readily doable right now - based on media reports of spills - then geo locating them on a map, then pulling in studies based on toxicity and soluability of stated chemicals in the spills - then pull the environmental reports from planning agencies for 'environmental impact reports' which would have a composition of the soil, then compare the chemical lliterature to its permeability to the soil conditions in the area, with the water precipitation records - and you can see where a chemical is going to leech - and what waterways it will affect... and the environmental impact report will tell you all the critters that live in that type of habitat... and if the chemical is egregeous to amphibians, and that marsh is home to a lot of frogs....

you get the idea - but this could be done right now with autoGPT with some effort...

(I cant get autoGPT to write out files though - even though I can get it to do the work... What I think Ill do is have it write python scripts for me to scrape the data I need? Any thoughts on some approches? There is historical data trapped in ChatGPT till 2021 that can be useful for the framework, and then auto GPT to get some current data to populate with?

Or is there a tool that I should be using?

Is there a GIS-AI tool somewhere I can use?
Lower-income Americans already take the bus far more than wealthy ones, who are much more likely to be driving.

A congestion charge will fall disproportionately on the wealthy, and allow the buses carrying lower-income folks to move throughout the city faster.
Yeah, that costs a lot on a scale of reddit.
I would like to use it to produce fully static executables for simple utilities written in Common Lisp, but I haven’t successfully gotten it to work yet. Basically, in any case where a 50 MB SBCL binary would be overkill (eg performance is not critical and portability is the top concern).

I’ve also read elsewhere that ECL runs on OpenBSD, where other CLs have traditionally not been fully featured.

Edit: also seems like it could help with compiling to WebAssembly (again, when performance is not critical), although I think their work there is not complete yet.
That's a really good post, interesting read. This is similar in some ways but I don't see how their approach protects the user from more advanced attacks (an attacker could still swap the captcha).
Any laws should be legislating the downstream effects of AI, not the models themselves. Otherwise we will quickly get to a place where we have a handful of government-sanctioned and white-washed “safe” models responsible for deleterious effects on society, with plausible deniability for the companies abusing them.

Legislating around the model is missing the point.

There is no evidence that a runaway artificial intelligence is even possible. The focus on this is going to distract us from the real and current issues with strong AI. The real risks are societal instability due to:

- Rapid disruption of the labor market

- Astroturfing, psyops, and disruption of general trust (commercially and maliciously, both domestic and foreign)

- Crippling of our domestic ai capabilities, leading to cutting edge development moving overseas, and a loss of our ability to influence further development.

- Increased concentration of power and disruption of decentralized and democratic forms of organization due to all of the above.
Years of auto and oil industry propaganda has deluded people into equating freedom of movement with car ownership. My freedom of movement is violated when the subway isn’t moving. For people on a bus stuck in traffic, their freedom of movement is violated by a government that incentivizes car ownership and creates gridlock. As a cyclist, my freedom of movement is violated by reckless drivers putting my life at risk, supported by a government captured by the auto industry, failing to build real infrastructure that enables that freedom the way it does for car owners. Not only car owners pay taxes, by the way. Particularly in Manhattan.
wut? in manhattan, calling 'cars' the successful more of transportation is very weird. the train is almost always faster, cheaper, and more consistent. The pitfalls are accessibility sucks (most stations are not ADA compliant), and frequency drops off later at night, but if you just plan a little it's not a big deal.
The state won’t subjugate and punish itself
How exactly is Mercedes accepting liability? I mean to say, how does this work in practice? Who absorbs the demerit points if your car is accused of going 40 in a 30 zone?
Ditto here. Wonder why it was downvoted.

Upvoted.

Using Firefox iOS on iPhone.
Yes, that’s been my experience as well.
Yeah, it really was. That's the main thing that bothered me, though. The cursor was distracting but I wouldn't have thought of it if the text wasn't so small.
To be fair, I'm not so worried on this. Even if Jupyter was what introduced some (many?) folks to notebooks, that is fine.

I was soured as early advocates were pitching it as way more impressive than it is. With some being proud of themselves for realizing you can put a "pip install" at the top of the notebook, thinking that somehow made it repeatable. I recall senior engineers wanting notebooks to have prod access so that you could deploy from a notebook. And thinking they were making a good practice statement. Ugh.
Alex, I've been reading all your posts on Zig and Rust LSPs with great fervor and appreciate everything you've done for the community with rust-analyzer. Can I ask you about clangd, the llvm/C++ lsp? It seems to work tremendously well, far better than I naively ever thought it would even on massive codebases. I was using it from its first release and the quality ramped up rather quickly. Can I bug you to write up about it from your perspective and with your insights sometime and where we could benefit from their design choices and where we can't? And of course, the limitations of their approach?

It's ostensibly driven by the `compile_commands.json` produced by the compiler during a run (mapping each source file to the output .o and the command (w/ all options) that was used to generate it) but in reality that's just because C++ doesn't have its own build system so the tooling has no other way of knowing how a project is wired up. But aside from that, it's extremely fast and has fairly low latency for a language that's got a lot of the same warts that rust has (generics, monomorphization, macros, strong types, (limited) type inference, etc) especially when compared to all the other LSP offerings (although I think C++ compilation units are smaller than rust's, which has to help).
The bit about the best developers graduating to work on Visual Basic components had me thinking of Epic. And now they are mixing in web workflows a well. :-P
100% agree but it won't fix this problem, which was also introduced by the government.
Realistic driving simulator?
What about them? Many of them can't drive, how are you working to address the inequalities caused by that? Because of regressive asset cap laws many of them can't own a personal vehicle that suits their needs without losing access to their critical health care.

Disabled people have lots of current issues with the current system. It's possible you're already working to address those but if not this doesn't seem like an honest concern.
For a more digestible introduction, see the companion blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-bitsandbytes-integration
There's nothing terrible about downvotes as such if they are done right, but this is one thing Slashdot did right: you can never be more than +5 or -1 on any post.
Firmware is inextricable tied to hardware; you could pretty much say it is hardware. Hardware has had "software" in it for decades and no one complains about it either, except when this software is loaded in a particular fashion.
hydrogen is almost as bad as batteries for storage, distribution, and portable use. Worse in a lot of ways. Even if it were totally free.

Maybe it can be a component of an artificial hydrocarbon, but unless the carbon were sourced from the air it wouldn't be a cycle and wouldn't be any better for the environment.
Very serious limitation of Tesla:

The human has to keep the hands on the wheel at all times and eyes on the road.

Edit: I looked at these FSD videos before and am very sure it will not work that well in an average European city. Unfortunately, because I really would love to buy a real self driving car that legally allows me to watch a movie while driving (highways is enough).
Five air changes per hour, if you also need to heat or cool it, is unfeasible. Maybe writers misheard one air change in 5 hours? Just as they routinely confuse bits with bytes and millions with billions.
Imo Abandon Chalk IRL Too
Yesterday I wrote about why I'm abandoning using chalk as a package in my code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36267082

But this morning with my coffe I'm realizing that using chalk on a blackboard is the same concept. Just use markers on a whiteboard instead. Nice markers with nice marking and super nice erasing and no smudges and plenty of markers and plenty of erasers and scent-free chemical-free markers as much as possible. This way no possibility of chalk screeching at you in real life or in your code.
The situation isn’t being shifted to interfacing with an authority figure for children. That’s what it already was! Maybe not primarily, but don’t miss the very point that research is setting an example and it percolates widely outside of college journals into textbooks, onto the internet, into videos, into work, and into homes. The movement is centered on the simple idea that we need to take the fact that we’re setting examples for young women and young men alike slightly more seriously.
You’re allowed to come to New York. Just leave your car at home.
Sounds like what the App "Home Connect Plus" (developed by Bosch) aimed to achieve, however they partnered with the device manufacturers.
As a business case however did not appear, the development and also the ability to use the App and the cross vendor integrations was shut down.

From a technical perspective, their approach however was interesting. They provided a separate adapter for each device they integrated and all of these adapters communicated with "Eclipse Ditto" via Amqp1.0 Protocol (other protocol like Mqtt or Apache Kafka would also be an option).

Eclipse Ditto, an open source digital twin Middleware, then provided an harmonized API for all integrated devices.
The mobile App would connect via WebSocket to Ditto and interact with devices of various vendors.

Technically, this worked well. Maybe something to learn from.
> That doesn't sound like French government at all.

They don’t need to go there physically. They just need to review satellite pictures, do some background work, and send letters. The point is, the AI surfaces dubious cases but in the end it’s a human making the decision.

> The reputation of the tax office is that the tiniest of inconveniences is more than enough to prevent them from doing something.

That might be the reputation amongst people who’ve never been audited. They might be too lenient by default, but they will bite you if they have to.

> Oh and there's the surprisingly little known fact that French citizens torched most of the cars and half of the government departments, including Police stations, in Paris (and Marseille, and Lille, and Toulouse, and ...) on a regular basis for 5 years now. And I bet the recent pension reform is going to make that worse, not better.

It’s difficult to see exactly what you are trying to say here. Maybe try in French, with some sources?

> So I would like to add: they won't physically inspect these pools for the simple reason that nobody wants to get killed working for the tax agency in France, and that's exactly what will happen if they go out and physically check.

You are out of your bloody mind. They already do audits in person and they will come and check if they suspect some of your declarations are not truthful. Nobody will kill a taxman over something like that. I mean, now you’ve killed a civil servant to avoid paying taxes you should have paid, so you are going to jail, pay a fine, and still pay the taxes. On what planet are you living?
I do not know about London (UK), but there is a lot of corruption here in the US with handicap plates. So I can see a lot of people (like politicians and maybe police/fire) families getting this special exemption.
And that’s the thing here as well: linking to a website has a different intent to embedding an internal resource from it that isn’t meant to be accessed through anything other than the main site in a way that takes away revenue from the site

To be clear I’d like projects like this to exist but I’m not convinced that it’s legal under current laws
If no one is driving, we can take the unbelievable amount of public spending currently going into subsidizing automobile traffic and redirect it to fund public transit.
Because people aren't used to the idea that computers will make things up. I don't see why anyone is surprised by what the lawyer did here and for sure there is a lot more of this going on than is getting into the public.

People spend their whole lives thinking of machines as logical and correct, but lacking in creativity. Suddenly generative AI comes along and totally upends this. If you're an HN reader and see in depth discussions of LLMs every day then of course it's obvious that these things can make up citations, but if you primary experience of the tech industry is search engines that have never made up fake results ever, then why would you even imagine it's possible?
Winmodems had plenty of alternatives, for PCs the choice is usually limited to 'what you were given' or 'what you recycled from a dumpster'. Linux is typically not the first OS to be installed on any given piece of hardware (even if brand new plenty of people pay either the MS or the Apple tax). And because those are exactly the people that benefit from having a working PC I'm all for maximizing their chances. Choice is a luxury.
I’m sorry what? Cars are the most subsidized thing in America today, you can’t speak of success when they get billions of blank checks handed to them in many different ways. See here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...

Meanwhile public transit: https://www.apta.com/research-technical-resources/research-r...
Do you have any promising examples of a non-proprietary site for Reddit-esque discussion?
Or the AI just points it out for them to manually verify.
Now I know where all the caret usage comes from!
People will still drive, just not in downtown areas.
>Well you need tax payer money to finance the AI that find potential infrastructure problems

You mean like the tax-payer money paid at the pump which was sold as a way to finance the maintenance and fix of potential infrastructure problems?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-gas-taxs-tortured-...
My objection is making this decision for everyone. So of course I am opposed to making a counter decision for everyone. From the post you are replying to: "you do not"..."make a decision on behalf of all humanity to consign us". If for some reason you were in position where you were forced to make a decision for everyone, the most ethical choice would be a decision that grants the least constraint.

And "simulation", at all, is the problem, for me. That is the ultimate and total catch. If I was born in a simulation I would still want to know about the simulation I was born in, as well as whatever I could find out and do to access, explore, and manipulate the above world which is creating my simulation. I wouldn't want to go deeper into a nested simulation, so far removed from reality. The mere thought of this is hugely anxiety and sadness provoking.

They had access to the multi-dimensional time-knife in the IHOP. And were so scared of both they swore both off forever. A fundamental part of reality that they turned their backs on. That is a part of reality I'd, personally, like to get a handle on. But I can't, because they decided that future humans wouldn't have access to this part of reality. We'd be consigned only to simulated environments.

This is not a philosophical quibble. This is a "quibble" on the fundamental purpose of (my) life. And a "quibble" on the use of power to constrain the drives of others over the personal preference of the constrainer. I don't want a god making decisions for me. I want any constraints to be an argument between humans, not an imposed condition by a (temporarily) omnipotent power.

The actual "Matrix" Matrix was objectively better than living in the real world of the Matrix. Yet Neo chose reality over simulation, as did most of the others in Zion. Likewise knowing they were in a simulation was incredibly depressing for the folks in "The Thirteenth Floor", and leaving the simulation was freeing.

> “everyone lived happily ever after (or for only a few decades after, if they insisted), each according to their own free beliefs and desires and choices, and there just was no catch, the end”

The Atlantic article I linked addressed this point. In a society there is always a catch to deciding not to exist. The catch is the impact of this decision on other people, and on one's personal valuing of selves, in general.

"These characters have spun webs of interdependent relationships based on love, trust, and generosity. Then they snip those webs because they’ve reached some sense of internal “completion” that is individualistic even though it relied upon them working with others to achieve it. Beautiful relationships do not turn out to provide unending nourishment; the pain caused to those left behind does not outweigh the prerogative to leave."
I wish they used a different color for each orientation to see what pattern the angles form.
Online ordering from the restaurant's designated website is fine, but ordering from a third party like Door Dash or Uber or whatever and their jacked up prices is weird to me.

I can call a pizza place and get a pizza delivered using the pizza restaurants' delivery person, or I can use a third party app and pay 100% more?
> a good thing to agree on is that we want more transparency around alleged threats.

I'll separate out digital threats here as evidence you are beyond correct.

1) Decades of taxpayers funding the hoarding of ~100% of threat data, away from qualified netsec experts, so that it could be reserved to protecting US Gov interests (noting that NatSec typically includes US Gov, Gov partners, major campaign donors and that's about it).

2) One agency head after another sounding klaxons w/o evidence (eg:Digital Pearl Harbor), to influence policy in a way that would ratchet up agency power.
You're just punting on the question. To rephrase, does it matter ethically, legally, or at all?

(Yes, I understand that if you're basing a business off it then it matters legally differently than if you're just hacking away on a hobby project, but the law covers all things and ethics is not confined to hobbies.)
“Most” Reddit users are not moving anywhere. I subscribe to dozens of subreddits that cover my niches and if it wasn’t for HN I would not even have known that there is a “Reddit drama”. Things are fine and will continue to be fine.
Migration to cities is whats causing this. When it was just black people homes you had to bulldoze to build your freeway straight to downtown there was obviously no concern. Now that people living downtown are rich and powerful they are starting to wonder why a huge chunk of prime space is reserved for storage of suburbian commuter metal boxes.
> The first step to rid ourselves of our, dare I say, enslavement to our car-centric way of life is to make car ownership as expensive and inconvenient as possible. I hope more cities follow. Start closing off entire areas to cars.

I'm pretty sure GP is responding to this, which while I appreciate the transparency, is atrocious. Creating negative incentives just makes people angry, and generally surfaces a lot of inequality.

I just went on a long haul train ride with my dad who is heavily disabled. The people on the train were nice but trains are very clearly built around the concept of able bodied people. There's a single bathroom for disabled people and it's inside one of the sleeper rooms. He basically had to sequester himself in his room for 24 hours. Meanwhile, my dad can drive a car.

Maybe before we go making hyperbolic statements that are sure to encourage decision making that results in gross inequality we should think about the basics of a problem first.
May I also expand this even further. I'm frustrated that I don't have access to OpenAI. I can't use it to build any applications, and they are putting us behind in this market. Only as customers not as a developers.
Having more money lets you buy more of everything. Yet you are only concerned about roads (which aren’t even used by the poorest segment since they can’t afford a car)? Why not focus on making something more fundamental to existence free, like food or shelter?

Oh right it’s because it creates poor incentives and overuse (tragedy of the commons) exactly like we see with roads (and parking). If car drivers had to pay the full cost of the resources they use it would reduce wasteful driving substantially. And we could use money collected in that way to pay for transit (or just give it as a tax rebate to low income people if you prefer).
If it was done 'perfectly well' -- we wouldnt be in the position we are in WRT infra.

Or taxes. Taxes are done exactly the opposite of 'perfectly well'.
I think the whole idea of "clean-room reverse engineering" is essentially predicated on the idea that copyright would indeed apply to a scenario where you take a copyrighted work and incrementally replace all the individual pieces
It's not a secret; they're all over the place.

The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse.

Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".
See also the blog post. https://timdettmers.com/2022/08/17/llm-int8-and-emergent-fea...

I personally found most interesting of this work the emergent sparse behavior starting around 6B parameters but not before. That suggest that the model is operating in a different mode at such model size or larger.
They offer the software. If the software itself was in breach of the terms then instances wouldn’t really matter.

But it’s not, so that’s moot.
The problem isn't that people won't be able to find something to do, it's that nobody will pay them for it.

For example, there are tons of nonprofits that do great work, and could easily hire twice as many people in productive jobs, if they had the money. AI looks like it will only greatly exacerbate our growing wealth inequality.
Selective enforcement is one thing, but even perfectly enforced laws can be downright discriminatory. As someone once said: in its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
BiwaScheme is a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript
Why else bother with such an input? Are randomizations more likely to be correct or more useful?
Agreed that a 3% sell-the-news drop is minor.

But worth noting, in an era of higher inflation and stock buybacks, that probably the relevant metric for investor happiness is real enterprise value (that is, discount market cap by net cash, then adjust for inflation).

By that measure they’re pretty far from the pandemic peak.
> I can safely say it's a terrible option.

Can you elaborate?