skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and others had similar products which were never released. No wonder why.

There are literally billions of people that can be empowered by these tools. Imagine what will result when the tens of thousands of “one in a million” intellects are given access to knowledge that only the richest people have had. Rich incumbents have reason to be worried.

The dangers of tools like these are overblown. It was already possible for smart actors to inflict massive damage (mass poisoning, infrastructure attacks, etc). There are so many ways for a person to cause damage, and you know what? Few people do it. Most Humans stay in their lane and instead choose to create things.

The real thing people in power are worried about is competition. They want their monopoly on power.

I’m really optimistic of legislation like Japan’s that allows training of LLM on copyrighted material. Looking for great things from them. I hope!
It's been this way for decades. Consider Feinstein's permanent, steadfast, and sweeping support. She asked completely a performative set of "questions" about its abuse in 2017, along with a lot of pro-702 data.

Mostly, she was chock full of softballs under the false pretense of being concerned about privacy, that obviously led to no improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Fa-G6pGmI

Laws like 702 of FISA and the Patriot Act seem to be 2 of the 1,000 cuts against the legitimacy of government.
This is my own analogy but think of the concept of pressure and brownian motion. At a micro level pressure doesn't seem to exist in the way we understand it. There's just little spheres exchanging momentum. But at a macro level we can talk about pressure.

My takeaway with many discussions about self and Buddhism is just that it's a macro or emergent property, and not just one "thing".

Language can be imprecise but I think that's what is being referred to when we say self is an illusion.
Yep, the "target triple" (poorly named) defines a C ABI. Every target triple defines a new C ABI.
I definitely agree state of the art is good enough for 97% of driving scenarios but they’re also not fail-safe and robust. In order for autonomous to be truly acceptable, they need to be 100x more safe. No, nearly flawless. In order to accomplish that you need physical and hardcoded methods as well. In addition, and equally as important, is that road infrastructure gives you improved ability to coordinate cars on the road without relying on individual and disparate compute units.
Because it’s very very simple. One system is self driving and other isn’t, no matter how you try to spin it.
He didn't say they are negative, he said they are externalities. I've come to the same conclusion that minimalism is only supportable by other people not being minimalists. That's not necessarily a judgment on whether it is good or bad, but a statement of fact.
The burden of proof is on the person making the hypothesis. It's not for everyone else to show that every hypothesis someone comes up with is false.
Have you been to New York? The subway is the mode of transportation for nearly everyone and it works great. I wouldn’t say cars are the successful mode of transportation in New York at all
Sometimes DDoS is 'layer 7', running you out of CPU etc on requests that are easy to make and hard to service. Try to avoid that?

Otherwise, DDoS is usually volumetric: send you more packets than will fit on your network interface. The only prevention is larger interfaces, but 1Gbps of DDoS was readily available when I was dealing with it in 2018ish and it was pretty clear that people were using the site I ran as a test target for DDoS as a service (always exactly 90 seconds of junk traffic on our www, very rarely a real service host, etc). There was a recent crackdown on DDoS as a service, but I'd be surprised if 10Gbps isn't easily available now.
This is a gigantic strawman. Having some limited car free areas like downtown cores has nothing to do with free travel. There are already plenty of areas you aren’t allowed to drive. And car-free areas can make a downtown area so much more pleasant, for example Mountain View closed down just a few blocks on one street in its downtown and that alone makes it 10x better to visit.
I reject your accusations. Claiming without evidence that the Lena image is harmful is about as absurd as claiming the face of the statue of David is harmful. That's another often used picture, and of course completely ignored by the breathless "sexism!" yellers.
AirPods Pro 2 Review - they are really good [video]
I was poor, I took the bus to college and work (there were times I'd have to add 30 minutes where I knew I'd have to leg it). It was an hour and a half with transfers. It's doable --you get used to it, just like tech workers get used to driving in from the East Bay into the Peninsula. It's no biggie. On the way home, sometimes you get off at a different stop to pick up groceries and then you're the one walking home with two plastic bags -at first your arms ache. Again, you get used to it.
Live EO is working towards that. So far though mostly focussing on vegetation encroachment and similar dangers for linear infrastructure.
Given "using the roads that their taxes pay for", OP seems to be under the impression that gas tax just about covers it. Difficult to find an unbiased source but iirc gas tax covers 30-50% of whats spent on roads

Of course, like other infrastructure, its not necessarily meant to pay for itself directly, so long as economic growth makes up for it, but I think there's many cases where adding another lane to thr highway costs more than it enables. Frankly a lot of the road construction seems like a grift to me - how many hours can we take to resurface this section of the interstate ? Easy place to pour money - the roads always need repair, and yet, with all the bridges and tunnels failing with inadequate upkeep, one wonders if the money ever touches the ground.
I don't know much about AI, but I think one reason you might do that is to learn which variations are preferred (which are committed unmodified) so you can tune the model in the future. I don't know if Github does that, but given they've cited how often code from copilot is committed without modification, I assume they are measuring it at least in some cases.
I also like how the HN submitter changed the name of the programming language to "Golang". I guess they also call Ruby "ruby-lang" since they didn't get "ruby.org"?
OODAcon+2023
Paid placement, HR and commercial RE are both suffering with WFH, etc.
You sir, know nothing of heroin and it's work.
Huge topic, worth Googling. Short version is that too little randomness limits the solution space, so retrying suboptimal results yields the same problems.
well yea, we are talking ikea cloud. cheap but serviceable (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud)
Right, because reducing waste is what people buying $500 shoes are worried about.
Great read for beginners. I've read about Robert Fano being the creator of Project MAC that turned into MIT's AI lab (CSAIL).

I'm sure AI will end up the winner in compression in the end.
A 30yo with no experience in the outdoors, maybe
The article (at the linked page, not here) title was changed. The original was as GP described it, and in the last few minutes it was altered to match the HN title.
I agree that U2F/webauthn/FIDO2 is superior (in terms of security and in most cases convenience) in basically every way. This is an alternative approach that is less secure than webauthn but a bit more secure than regular number matching or enter this code 2fa.
I think PGP proved that the Web of Trust is not a scalable concept.
The only marine science lab on San Francisco Bay is at risk of closing
It shows like that for me too now, but I am 100% sure this wasn't the case a few minutes ago. I copy/pasted the title.
I think cars have a lot of advantages like the one you mention (and others, eg much less crime risk). But we can pull back on the car obsession a little bit, we’ve gone kind of crazy the past 100 years and made some awful cities. I think cars should be an option, they just shouldn’t be the only reasonable one.
In arp242's defense, I opened the article a couple of minutes ago and it showed the same title he was faced with until I refreshed the page.
Do you have a citation for that claim? Here are a few refuting it:

https://bikeportland.org/2016/01/25/low-income-households-dr...

https://medium.com/100-hours/is-congestion-pricing-fair-to-t...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/7/toll-roads-hurt...
It's strange that Egyptian never took off in a similar way, considering that many Greek thinkers received at least some of their education there. Perhaps it was difficult to "port" for some reason (complexity, lack of proper writing materials/equipment, etc.)?
I think the two aren't closely tied to each other. Here are >15 years of stories that show an fairly unbroken line of this particular abuse. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:techdirt.com+"fbi"+"702...
Not really, my implementation isn't smart enough to guide compilers to the right solution. Trivial instructions, like xor, are of course recognized, but for example the 32x32 mul implementation isn't. Maybe compilers will be smart enough one day...

https://godbolt.org/z/WEcTzKf7M
The world depends on all the dumb little rules someone put in place for dumb little reasons not being adequately enforced. Imagine automatically getting a speeding ticket every single time you went over the speed limit by one mile an hour. Take a moment and mentally inventory all the code violations in your house right now. Look hard enough and everybody is breaking the rules every day, but we muddle through because it doesn't matter 99% of the time.

If all these rules were actually enforced — let's even assume impartially and perfectly — we would be overwhelmed by them. Maybe the consequence would be that we would refine some of the dumb little rules, and remove others. But maybe we would just be overwhelmed.
> ...It seems every other day there's a new article or implementation of a tokenizer on HN. But downstream from that, rarely anything. As a non-expert I would have thought to tokenizing is just one step.

If someone points out a preponderance of information on one step relative to all other steps, they probably are not asking for even more information about that step.

People like to chip in with what they've recently learned, so one answer is that most people on HN don't understand much beyond the input layer. A better answer is that the relative complexity of the processes in subsequent layers increases substantially, along with the requisite background to understand them. They also don't share the relative commonality of the input layer, so fewer people are qualified to discuss them with any authority.

That's where I am, so I get it. I'm working on building learning resources for a symposium, and it feels very much like "Step 1: Tokenize, Step 2: ???, Step 3: Output!".
Well, AI disaster is software disaster by definition; AI being a kind of software. We’re pretty much guaranteed to soon have some “normal” software disaster on a classic software failure mode on AI pretty soon (especially since the AI world is in a very excited and experimental phase).

For sure there are emerging AI-specific risks with alignment and driving negative side-effects into culture. Surely these anticipated emerging problems will come to pass much later than the mature serious software problems that we already face on a regular basis.
Why? People want you ousted for malice or incompetence. They don't want either and also punish either. It sounds like it would be circling back to incompetence to think one could get away with looking hugely incompetent.
He talked me out of going down the hardware synth rabbit hole [0] I did get a BeatStep Pro and a MicroFreak even after seeing it, but I'm quite happy stopping there. The free software synths are good enough for my needs. I bought Reaper for a DAW.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32qvbi5OM28
The real cost of roads is in the space you take up that other cars cannot (at least in any area with significant population density). And that’s not paid for at all.
I didn't realize either. I'm kind of glad, I think links in articles are an anti-pattern.
Ask Boeing how ignoring it works out.
I watched a bit of the second vid, and I see why some people would have fun making and/or watching this; but to me it totally misses the point of what is magical about cinema.
Regulate large GPU clusters, similar to bitcoin mining.
> Ever wonder why most TVs and Home Theater Receivers do not come with DP ports?

Legacy and network effects: home A/V has HDMI because HDMI is on all home A/V equipment. At this point you can probably have either/both and things would work fine.

One technical distinction for HDMI is perhaps having CEC.
It’s just a single stack trace of dependencies highlighting a bad verb. Not great but nothing to get in a twist over.
Sorry, I just noticed this comment. I know you probably won't see this, but that's not what I meant!

What I wanted to write and the reason why I noticed the accent was not because it was bad, but because I'm also Polish, so I am especially sensitive to Polish accents (and I hate hearing myself speak foreign languages, so there's that)! The same way, for example, Swedish speakers hate hearing their own countrymen speak Swedish! I didn't mean for it to be taken so seriously!

Also, IMO, videos which are voiced by their creators sound better, more genuine. I'd honestly prefer it if you were to practice your pronounciacion just a bit more and the videos would be perfect!
I don't have a problem with doing that. Of course how you get public transportation into rural communities is a bigger challenge but we don't have to have society be based around the car.

My issue is that the previous post said they would pay for public transportation and walkable carless cities through increase gas taxes and road tolls.
Golang is a common way to refer to Go, especially for SEO purposes. “Go” is hard to search for.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

I use “golang” for clarity all the time, and I’m sure many others do as well. There’s no ambiguity you’re talking about the language then.
I would say the two factors of free parking and free road use far eclipse the rest.
I Gave the MIT Commencement Speech for 2023
Oh I’m fine with imperfect produce. But Instacart frequently brings me really terrible specimens, like strawberries with mold literally yesterday (the second batch was fine, and I would have eaten both if they were both good).

The grocery store should be pulling terribly produce, but my local one apparently does not.
> go f**g cry about github you f**g piece of s*t n**r, I hope your
throat gets cut open and every single family member of you is burnt to death

Are github users gamers? Really puts the "git" into "github" there.
BMWs are also higher quality than Corollas.
I read a bunch of your comments and you seem like a very erudite person. Is there a way I can contact you?
I am not sure. I feel more surveilled than I thought would ever be possible. My car watches me in my own garage, and the FBI can pull that data without telling me, without a warrant, just to learn my impressive laundry habits (I'll skip you the trouble, FBI: I use Gain and Downy and Borax, always on cold, tumble dry low).
For those unfamiliar with NYC, street parking is free basically everywhere so the space cars take up is already heavily subsidized.
You seem to happily ignore the distribution costs, metal embrittlement, sheer loss of efficiency and rest of factors that make hydrogen a bad idea for almost any use where it's not yet being used.
his second shape doesn't require the mirror. "The Spectre"
RNA-Editing Octopuses Rewire Their Brains to Cope with Drops in Temperature
In my experience people who claim they are libertarians are against all forms of government regulation and taxation.

But it doesn't really matter to me if my characterization of libertarians isn't 100% accurate because I have no respect for anyone who calls themselves libertarian in any way.

That ideology is a swirling bag of contradictions and people who claim to be libertarian usually just circle back around to being anti-regulation, pro-laissez faire capitalist, pro-consumption, anti-worker conservatives who don't want to admit that they share a bed with the more ugly side of that ideology.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, but I believe you’re reasoning in circles between “immersion hasn’t been better enough to merit interest” and “immersion can never be good enough to merit interest”
“Normal” as in, if you take a random 13 year old off the street and throw them into the Amazon with their younger siblings, they wouldn’t be able to keep a 1 year old alive for a month.

I’m not talking about history. I’m talking about the current state of the world.
Elixir has a similar concept with doc tests:

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...

You're comments/docs for the method can have demonstration code that is executed when you run your tests, ensuring your docs remain accurate.

It's a great pattern.
This is a great example! I hope people will take the time to click and watch it drive.

I think it’s a tough call in this case. The Tesla is trying not to block an intersection where a light is green but there’s no room to clear the intersection on the other side due to traffic ahead. In fact an oncoming car is able to turn left in front of the Tesla because it waited.

Probably the law is that you should NOT enter the intersection in such a state, but the human nature would be to make a more nuanced judgement of “how bad would it be” to continue thru and possibly get stuck sticking out into the intersection for a bit until traffic moves again.

I would think - how long might I be stuck? Would it actual impede other traffic? Also factors like, am I’m late for work? Am I frustrated because traffic has been horrible or am I enjoying a Sunday drive?

Ego (Tesla’s name for the driving software) doesn’t get impatient. It can maximally obey all traffic regulations at all times if they code it to do so, even if human drivers behind might be laying on the horn.

This little clip really shows how much nuance is involved in designing these systems, and how doing the technically right thing can either be wrong or at least ambiguously right.
"Isn’t “rewrite the example code in your own style” accepted best practice [...]?"

Why would it be? If a function performs the data transform I need you better believe i'm copy pasting that sucker with a hyperlink to where I found it

But then again, I'm not trying to win in court.
Yea you’re exactly right, there’s a tragedy of the commons situation right now. You could either decrease the demand or increase the supply to fix this problem, and it seems pretty impossible to increase the supply (build a bridge across the Hudson? That’s crazy). So here we are.
> We can think about applying something like that for cancellation — without going for full immutability, we can let cancelled analysis to work with the old half-state, while we switch to the new one

if we want to cancel analysis basin on old state why do we need garbage collection and two states?

And how is garage collection way different from full immutability? In my understanding this is the same thing but with extra steps, you have to copy element instead updating it in place because existing copy might be used by already running analysis. Reference counting should give you similar benefits with less work needed, usually everything have only single reference (no analysis is using anything) and we could optimize it to modify it in place in that case, otherwise you just need to copy it once without requiring garbage collection later.

Am I missing something?
How Graphics Cards Are Made – Insane PowerColor Factory Tour
Who is going to create software for an install base of 10,000 people?
Yes, I have, but I didn’t think I needed to write my whole life story to make a point. Regional accents (Massachusetts has a couple distinctive ones! While we’re being condescending, surely you are at least vaguely aware of that) are more likely to be used by people middle-aged or older. Regional media is dead. Regional cuisine is far less distinct than it used to be with many specialties gone.

In 1900 it wouldn’t have been common sense that MA and CA are “supposed to be” similar so the fact you’re throwing that in my face is actually making my point.
And how is that related to using freedom as a reason to invade a sovereign state and suppress opinions not in favor?
LangChain Decorators – syntactic sugar for langchain
Hi folks... wanted to share a little pet project of mine ... LangChain Decorators adds syntactic sugar for langchain Main principles and benefits:

- more pythonic way of writing code
- write multiline prompts that won't break your code flow with indentation
- making use of IDE in-built support for hinting, type checking, and popup with docs to quickly peek in the function to see the prompt, parameters it consumes etc.
- leverage all the power of ' LangChain ecosystem
- adding support for optional parameters easily share parameters between the prompts by binding them to one class

How it works...

tl;dr;

just write declare a function and write your prompt template as python docstring...

for example:

@llm_prompt
def write_me_short_post(topic:str, platform:str="twitter", audience:str = "developers")->str:
"""
Write me a short header for my post about {topic} for {platform} platform.
It should be for {audience} audience.
(Max 15 words)
"""
return

it'will turn the function into an executable chain
all the other settings are considered as an implementation detail and as such you can define them elsewhere (and/or override them in decorator params)
I imagine the way these work is that there’s a fast hardware path from camera to display, with the OS alpha composited on top. Any kind of post-processing of the pass-through video will introduce latency. So my guess would be no zooming.
I don't know what has been posted before this all I see is [flagged].

>posting publicly and voluntarily with the expectation of moderation

I find this statement a bit difficult when it is perhaps a duty to participate in the public square or whatever square is used to embody the desires of common or public will. If people are deterred from this arena without cause and abuse then perhaps we have failed. This entire ecosystem rests on the belief of decency or fairness. I have yet to see it.

>The issue here is the public's expectation of privacy in certain situations. In fact, no one (or very few people, anyway) dispute the need for states to surveil sometimes. The question is when and what oversight should be required. And in this case the the argument is that oversight was sidestepped.

That is incorrect. During the oversight committee they identified there was a consistent mis-interpertation of the law (now corrected) from one side to the other under 702 which perhaps enabled unauthorized use (which perhaps was appropriate under other sections). It was up to (not just due to mis-interpertation) 30% of searches in error in the potential to be in the millions of incorrect searches. I dont see much oversight for other codes. We have possibly 10,000 people with access to obtain information and we are not close to consistent oversight given moving codes and authorizations. Congress has failed the bodies that keep us safe but not without some significant non-compliance. [1]

Private access to information probably has great advantage over public ones. I believe we should consider carefully how we want to yield the power the public sector has given us. The potential for private and public conflict on this matter is significant.

We should not shoo people away with differing opinions. If language models are the future for communication and teaching while they are learning with data off of 'public' and 'accurate' discorse we are very much in danger of having a future led by biases inherent in these models (from moderation and 'weeded garden' environments) that 'isnt a problem' to the people creating the future.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIEqAjRKVyE