skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something that's been left unsaid until now is that the implementation is clumsy and downright dangerous, therefore the implementation is totally botched. A supermarket whose job it is to feed people so as to keep them alive is a vital service in the vast majority of economies, and so has the duty to go a little deeper and fine-tune their model or at the very least heavily prompt-engineer their interface layer to avoid such obvious flubs.

There's no point in apologizing for the LLM. Of course it's doing what it's asked to do. That's not the gripe, nor points toward any kind of solution, though.
You are conflating things. If you sell a product for profit, it needs to be foolproof, so the general public can use it without shooting themselves in the foot. Capable tools have to be gatekept somehow, either through actual hard licenses or soft gates of obscure forums, hidden small communities that don't advertise themselves to the world, so they can do their thing in peace. The trouble comes when the latter kinds of communities build something useful/fun-when-used-correctly and it leaks and people demand to participate, complain that it's too hard and demand it be dumbed down.

So yeah, don't broadcast your stuff to the mainstream unless it's foolproof. But also, let people be, who are satisfied with dealing with the rough-edges stuff.

This is true in many contexts. Think about enthusiasts of weird drugs or other niche communities like sword swallowers. There's no principle of "you are only allowed to do things that are also safe when ignorantly attempted by a random person".
UPS CEO says drivers will avg $170k in pay and benefits at end of 5-year deal
Well after supersonic you get hypersonic, so hyperconductors and hyperchemistry
Both the data and the code (Python) is here: https://zenodo.org/record/8065875

That link came from the paper. Zenodo.org is a open science site curated by NASA.

The analysis is interesting. He is using Gaia space observatory data to identify "nearby" binary systems, filtering out those with a high likelihood of being compromised by additional bodies in the system, and those for which the bodies have poor mass estimates, then measuring the orbits of the remaining 26k systems that can be confidently projected to three dimensions and aren't too eccentric, etc. His results are that below some small level of gravitational acceleration (the stars are far apart with long orbital periods,) the orbits predictably deviate from Newtonian gravity, and that due to the small size of binary systems Dark Matter cannot be a factor.

It's a Nobel prize winner if correct. Good old fashioned falsifiable Science: future data sets and peer review of the work will tell us.

Too bad Gaia runs out of fuel in two years. The longer the data set the more confidence can be achieved in this sort of work. It's interesting that only the most recent of the so far three data sets from Gaia provides the data necessary (tangential and radial velocity,) to do this.
You can see on the pictures that the ship is very narrow in the middle (that becomes the stairwell/elevator shaft for going down into the undersea researchy areas), so when it stands on end, the waves cause relatively small changes in the buoyancy. The big forepeak that provides reserve buoyancy so the thing doesn't sink outright if a big wave hits it, sits well above the water surface.
Depends what support means to you really. The docs use support to mean things AMD tested and expect to work, modulo errata.

If you're building the stack from source or found it in a Linux repo, decent odds it'll work for you. More likely to work on gfx9 or gfx10 than the older cards. I think that's roughly the last five years.

If you use the official distribution, some parts are compiled to gpu-specific machine code and if your gpu isn't one of those, you can't use that library. I think there's a reluctance to compile the libs for GPUs that aren't in the internal CI in case they don't work.

As an anecdote, I do most development on unsupported hardware, unsupported distro and unsupported kernel, with the upstream driver, using whatever was on llvm main that morning. That mostly works despite positioning myself as most likely to run into bugs.
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

This case is not about a law passed by Congress abriding freedom of the press. This is a decision made by the judiciary after weighing the competing rights of two parties before it.
Belarus hackers target foreign diplomats with help of local ISPs: researchers
I find myself using View Source sometimes, too, but more often I just use devtools, which shows DOM as a readable tree even if source is minified.

I'm actually all for binary HTML – not just it's smaller, it can also be easier to parse, and makes more sense overall nowadays.
Ask HN: Looking for tech founder thoughts on the “startup coaching” industry
Just noticed a lot of ex-humanities
people becoming like "grifters" sort of.
Like the recruiting industry.

They seem to position themselves as some kind of "coach",
"career coach", source of advice, and use psychobabble and BS to prey on your insecurity and get money out of the "startup" world.
I love being exploited as long as I can set my own hours. I can quit at any time... just one last ride.
I actually really like the interface. You have the "generic" speed test information at the top and a lot more additional information at the bottom. It feels a bit overwhelming at first, though, granted.
The Ugly Business of Monetizing Browser Extensions
Yes, the models are updated officially around every three months, with a notice you can still use the previous version for a time until it is decommissioned.

Some people claim there are also unannounced changes, but I can't vouch for that.

The daily variation is likely due to temperature. To make the response less repetitive.
If you destroy all the Mexican labs producing fentanyl, then Colombia will produce it. If not Colombia, then another country. Mexican cartels will move their operations somewhere else. It's too easy to make fentanyl.

And the more you drive the production underground, the worse quality control, and the deadlier per pill.

Therefore, the only solution is to reduce demand. I'm no expert. But things I can think of include mass media campaigns, such as those for anti-cigarettes, mass education programs starting with middle schoolers, and go from there.

Also, it's not clear from reading the article whether the overdose deaths are from drug dealers mixing lethal doses of fentanyl into other drugs like cocaine or if people are taking fentanyl that was dosed incorrectly. If it's the former, then it's terrifying to know that any illegal drug could potentially have lethal doses of fentanyl in it.
It totally makes sense with the steering mechanics (assuming you have a normal car that is steered using its front wheels) but if there is a low wall or bollards at the back of the parking space and you don't have sensors or cameras or whatever then you (or at least I) can't easily reverse-park and so entering the parking space involves changing direction about six times, and leaving it involves changing direction about three times.

If there's a narrow parking space with a narrow aisle in front of it then forward-parking is basically impossible so you have to reverse-park, so it's a skill worth having.
I agree with the first paragraph but not necessarily the latter. More likely to me seems that the journalists see something that can be construed to be harmful (so they can justify the story), as well as having a high click rate (see, it ends up on HN), and thus good for business
To me that strikes me slightly more as a bull. It would be interesting to put that in front of someone who isn't precomposed to be looking for a unicorn and see what they say.
According to the author's blog post [1] the idea was that it "will use the latest gpt-4 model made available". Not sure if the code isn't up to date or this was changed in the meantime...

[1] https://adamkdean.co.uk/posts/gpt-unicorn-a-daily-exploratio...
I for one am willing to offer $1 to buy a 0.0000001% stake in GPT-Unicorn. Anyone else? :)
One or two others, 06-20 for instance, could be a very stylised unicorn too. Though that might be confirmation bias in my human brain making it see patterns it wouldn't have had it not been primed by the word unicorn before looking.
Iain McGilchrist on the Matter with Things
I have a 250 Mb/s connection, but this claims I have over 440 Mb/s download speed. When looking closer at the details I get 250 Mb/s on all tests except the 1 MB download, so it's probably because of some compression or caching or similar, but I don't get the point of the larger tests if they don't affect the final score. I have never downloaded anything faster than 250 Mb/s before, so this is not a good reflection of my actual internet speed.
Text is so yesterday, just look at that fancy Flash photo gallery. The future is now, get used to it.
I would not go to any doctor that has a TikTok account.
The first part of the article, at least, works in reader mode.
Huh? I honestly thought this was the normal way to park. I guess parking spaces are big enough in america that you don't need it.
sadly, wireguard/openvpn does not not provide any obfuscation mechanism at protocol level
No. They need something which deterministically tells them which parts are appropriate for their budget and usecase. Putting AI in there is ridicolous.
Senior Software Engineers Greatest Career Decisions [video]
>Yet all the Eastern Churches agree that Mary is sinless. [..] They agree that Mary never sinned, before, during, after birth, during her life, and that she entered Heaven with body and soul intact.

Not a dogma in Orthodox Christianity.

>So IMHO, the East agrees with the West in substance, but not in form.

You don't seem to care to make distinctions between Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox, so maybe that's why it seems so to you.

>The Eastern Orthodox Churches, typically, will deny that they accept any such thing that comes from Rome (the Immaculate Conception is a novelty, they say) and they will deny that their doctrines agree with Catholic doctrines.

Correct, Eastern Orthodox dogma does not give Mary's birth special theological status. So if you want to refer to Eastern Catholics rather than Eastern Orthodox, you should do that rather than arbitrarily ascribing your beliefs to other denominations.
The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data
How do they get GPT-4 to produce valid SVGs so well?

I experimented with SVG generation and it would often produce junk that wasn't even valid as an SVG, and even when it did produce a valid SVG, was often a couple of blobs which it would describe as if it were the mona lisa while just being a couple of elements.
It's a design decision and depends on the maker's philosophy. It's not absurd to have it either one way or the other. Is the user assumed to be an idealized empowered rational adult who knows what they want, or more like a toddler babbling around who has no idea what they want and can just approximately gesture in the direction? Or where exactly inbetween. Again, depends on the philosophy.
You guys are talking past each other but really talking about the same thing - arithmetic intensity. You're talking about FEA or some other grid solver/discretized PDE/DFT type thing where the matmuls are small because the mesh is highly refined and you've assumed the potentials/fields/effects are hyper-local. But that's not accident or dumb luck - the problems in scientific HPC are modeled using these kinds potentials post-hoc ie so that they can be distributed across so many cores.

What I'm saying is it's not like a global solver (ie taking into account all to all interactions) wouldn't be more accurate right? It's just an insane proposition because surprise surprise that would require an enormous matmul during the update, which you can't do efficiently, even on a GPU, for the same reason the ML folks can't: the arithmetic intensity isn't high enough and so you can incur i/o costs (memory or network, same thing at this scale).
This is mandatory in a lot of sites I've been too. Half for safety reasons, half so they can see who knows the rules and who doesn't belong.
If, as you are claiming, the Taiwanese don't have their own Taiwanese Mandarin, with their language being just the same as the Mandarin used in China, how can it be that at the same time they also don't get to have a say in what constitutes the "standard" of that "common" language they share with the "mainland?"

Also, there is no reason for constantly calling it "Mainland China" where you could just as well call it "China," unless it is to further a political agenda.

Anyway, this is all beside the point. The concept of a "standard" language is political not linguistic. If Google is run as a business, not a political entity, their linguistic choices should reflect the language actually being used in any given market, and not be based on purported "standards" promulgated elsewhere. The same simple concept that somehow already works well for other language pairs that could be construed as similar to the point of being the same should also be applied here.
It's a pretty dumb life move to collect disability if you don't need it. I mean, you are condemning yourself to poverty and being one bad thing away from death.

Crohns is diagnosed via a biopsy iirc, it's not a diagnosis of exclusion like IBS is. Crohns is also horrific. so I wonder if you just view your friends poor health as a typical "no one wants to work anymore" way like most people do with disabled people. Fibromyalgia is somewhat a diagnosis of exclusion, but decent doctors can mostly figure it out these days. The hard thing is discerning whether it's ME CFS or not.
I think Google has the resources required to detect different languages in Chinese script (different combinations of characters and vocabulary, even specific Unicode characters, etc.) but there is 1) lack of incentives and 2) opposing political interests. Doesn’t help that there is a bit of a mess when it comes to Chinese characters, like a single Unicode point can be rendered differently depending on the font.
Russians use diplomacy passports for their spies.

It's not ironic that they are being checked extra while they are threatening with nuclear war every week :)
In the UK when there are parking spaces next to a building with windows that may be open then there is often a notice telling people not to reverse-park because of the exhaust fumes. (So presumably there is an implicit exception for electric vehicles!)
I am not a native speaker (French) and was taught British English at school. This came with sentences where the order of words was very different from French.

We had stuff like "this is the thing you have been looking for", with the sentence ending with "for".

This forced us to parse sentences with great care to understand them and we were usually fine only after the final word. Same with Latin.

This is to say that this title was surprisingly clear to me immediately after the first reading :)

(if a French is reading this - that was in the times when we were looking for Brian who was in the kitchen, and Jenny who was elsewhere but I do not remember where. They also had a cat)
It's not even always correct in Mountain View.
It has become common knowledge that GPT4 (and also 3.5) have problems with deterministic outputs (even at T=0). So what we're seeing here is just the effect of random sampling, not any actual change to the model itself. If you scroll down, you'll see other close attempts by the exact same model that could already be counted as a win depending on who you ask.

Edit: This comment section is a super fascinating case study on the inherent flaws in human cognition. Especially when it comes to seeing patterns in random noise. The fact that some people believe that the model really has to have changed in the past few days is amazing, because if you've kept up with the GPT architecture and the way OpenAI does things (especially on the API), it is incredibly obvious that nothing has happened. But people who want to believe that something has happened will definitely also start to see something.
Is it just me or doesn't image-2023-04-25 look like a unicorn as well?
I’ve asked ChatGPT to create models using Blender’s Python API. It typically generates working code. The API has been updated since 2021 so it’s expected that things might break.

It mostly just arranges simple spheres and cylinders. You can have it label parts which are usually correct.

It struggles with the orientation of things so if you ask it to model a plane the engine nacelles are oriented the wrong way but correctly positioned.
Unikachu.
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.

Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
Cool! BTW do you know a great dashboard where I can compare VPS costs across all providers?
Room for improvement. Edited for negativity.
That's uh a pretty loose interpretation of a unicorn...
It's all neat and supreme until you are coming out of a grocery store with 9 bags and an XXXL pack of toilet paper and realize that your fancy-parked trunk is way over there, in the bushes.
Browsh is based on Firefox and Carbonyl is a Chromium fork.
Impossible to predict future if future depends on unpredictable factors.

I can't shake the feeling that recent developments like LLM's, ChatGPT & co are barking up the wrong tree. Or are missing a key piece of the puzzle. Or that vastly simpler (computationally cheaper) constructs with similar capabilities could be found. That in hindsight (say, 20y from now) we'll say "see, it was really easy!". That missing piece(s) were small but essential. And (perhaps) non-obvious right now.

See https://longbets.org/1/

Ray Kurzweil's argument is well reasoned & very convincing imho. Computing power will get there or already is. And our understanding of the architecture & function of the human brain is a steadily-completing picture. Not to mention brains of smaller creatures. All it takes is time.

Doubtful about timeframe in above bet. And efficiencies of artificial vs. biological brains remains to be seen. But yes, AGI will be achieved. Likely sooner than later.
If you need syntax highlighting and an easy way to navigate between files to understand a large code base, is it still source code?
what is a karen?
Expecting a tool meant to generate cooking recipes to reject things that aren't usual ingredients of food is not surprising. This tool violates that expectation.

Even trivial things like input fields on web forms have a type attribute that lets developers specify which type of content is expected and valid. (If you're not familiar with that, have a look here: [0]).

For things that might endanger the health of customers, we can expect better.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
100%. This person is trying to find patterns in random noise and believes they are meaningful. The original post hurts my head with its bad logic.
This is just so extremely cool and makes me happy to see within my lifetime.

Btw, which satellites are being used for this functionality?
Her output isn't merely to press keys, she's supposed to be producing something with those keypresses, being able to show a lack of delivery on that work despite repeated chances given should be sufficient. No need to get so invasive.
If you're on Windows you can try Scoop https://scoop.sh/#/apps
It's just a URL rewrite rule for nginx proxy.
What do you think of the current wave of agents spawning off - given that reasoning still needs a lot of grounding?

With the probabilistic models at hands, adding reasoning and planning in some sense falls back to traditional software and system design. Do you see any plausible breakthroughs in this area with agent frameworks?
It could help end humanity, with human assistance. For example, expect far more successful phishing campaigns, expect the internet to become a majority of advertising bot garbage, etc.
Isn't this how everybody parks usually?
It caused a lot of issues for Russians when they tried to block it, because they basically blocked entire sections of AWS and GCP.

The real tinfoil hat is assuming that they allow it because it's compromised; the founder of Telegram has absolutely no love lost for the Russian state, they basically seized his company (VK; a hugely popular facebook-like which also has a music player and such) and all his assets that were in the country after trying to exert control over him (and his desire not to be controlled); that's why telegram was founded in the first place.

Of course, I have no first-hand account except watching as my video game became unplayable for Russians while the Telegram blocking was happening and my GCP rep explaining it to me, and that I had an Estonian girlfriend for 7 years who was giving me the play-by-play on what was happening.
Probably because the Russian army uses Telegram.

Even their MoD has a channel posting updates and propaganda
Copyright is so ridicolous.

"I have a right that machines never are allowed to look at my works."
It's a good interview and Tyler like pretty much always has an absurd breadth of knowledge on the topics he asks about but I wish he could just drop some of the economics jargon at times, even Paul seemed to be confused by it lol.

COWEN: Why and how did so many things here end up undercapitalized? The water utilities, the NHS — it seems to be a consistent pattern. That could make us more pessimistic because the flow numbers don’t reflect the fact that capital maintenance is even worse than we had thought.

GRAHAM: I don’t know. You’re an economist. I don’t know what the term capital maintenance means.

I mean come on instead of "what exactly, in the smallest number of dimensions, are you better at than the other people?", you can just ask, "what are your core strengths"
It's been blocked, and now officially unblocked
I don’t understand how this works but it’s very cool. I would to be able to feed in a few photos of something like a property viewing or a birthday party and it just churns out photorealistic 3D scenes like this.

Makes me wonder about its potential for use in forensics.
That certainly makes sense, as far as main() goes, but having main() in C++ for example doesn't solve the problem of needing to define functions prior to calls to them. It just helps you put all your stuff before main(), but even then it only "exists" if it shows up in the right order in every previous header file.

Line-based stuff like BASIC's GOTO/GOSUB was kind of a fun workaround to the idea of even having functions at all, and I'd happily live in that place still... but... as somoene who manifestly does not write compilers, is it still an extravagant demand in this day and age to ask a compiler to check and include/throw for all the functions out-of-order before running a code file from the top?

[edit] What I mean is, this was fundamental to ES3/4 bytecode compilers for VMs like Java or Flash, and it would be absurd to ask e.g. Javascript coders [edit: said Python, don't work with Python, there are cases in PHP where it's necessary] to order their functions in the order they're invoked with virtuals to place them. This is like providing toilets on a cruise ship. It's barely even a "service", like whereas garbage collection or something is an actual service. Restructuring the order of function definitions as you build out dependencies has got to be one of the worst wastes of coder time I can think of. Great if you really can find an optimization by doing that, but the way people code these days that basically never happens. We have to assume that everything we write gets compiled anyway, or why else is it in the code! If there are no dead branches, what's the purpose of not "existing"/let's say pre-virtualizing all the branches, regardless of which order they're written in? (Serious question).