skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LLMs won't get intelligent.

I think this sentence doesn't mean much unless we have a strict definition of what intelligence means.

Just today ChatGPT helped me solve a DNS issue that I would not have been able to solve on my own in one day, let alone an hour. I'd consider it already more intelligent than myself when it comes to DNS.
Show HN: Obtain the color palette of any website, no AI required
Slashdot fixed this way back in the day by identifying which category the comment was in (Informative, Funny, etc)

Would make great training data these days!
An intro article that explains the what and why
https://www.hydra.so/blog-posts/2022-12-13-how-we-built-fast...
Just try it!
> The dude coaching was someone with obvious ADHD who (like a lot of us) probably had an easier time communicating what should be done than doing it himself. He definitely was no therapist.

I just wanna add to this: ADHD is fundamentally about subjectivity. The trouble with ADHD lives in what it's like to be someone who has it. And medical doctors, scientists, and even psychologists, who don't have ADHD often attend so much to the objective facts that are known about ADHD or particular treatments for it that they neglect, discount, and basically fail to grok virtually anything about what having ADHD is like, what taking stimulant medication is like, and so on.

As a result I've consistently gotten way better care from 'less qualified' clinicians who themselves have ADHD than from 'more qualified' ones who don't. I would (and you should, too) expect a psychiatric nurse or nurse practitioner who has ADHD to do a better job with ADHD patients than a PhD-MD who doesn't. And it's totally reasonable that some random coach who has ADHD but only minimal training could be genuinely helpful.
Yeah, it doesn't take a genius inspector to take the as built plans, the list of work permits, and see if that explains current state of the house. And then there's the whole issue of mandatory disclosure forms and how forthcoming you are on those and if whatever you put down aligns with the inspectors find.
I can quantize models up to 70B just fine with around 40-50 GB of system RAM, using the GGMLv3 format.

GGUF seems not optimised yet, since quantizing with a newer version of llama.cpp supporting the format fails on the same hardware. I expect that to be fixed shortly.

For inference, I understand that the hardware requirements will be identical as before.
It's seen more DNS content than you and anybody else have seen in their entire lives, and are able to regurgitate what it read because it has far faster memory access than you did.

A dictionary contain knowledge but no intelligence.
I classify those as "business news", which were 1.5% of 2022 front-page stories, as compared to 3.7% in 2009.

(I generally use 2009 as a representative "early year" as HN was sorting things out and evolving rapidly in 2007 & 2008.)

By year:

2007 418
2008 438
2009 407
2010 290
2011 271
2012 222
2013 224
2014 259
2015 329
2016 442
2017 426
2018 476
2019 418
2020 251
2021 194
2022 167
2023 95

This is the first I've looked at these numbers specifically. I'm noting the substantial fall-off in 2020, which I suspect is paywall-related. Note that data for 2023 are partial.

Sites: bloomberg.com, wsj.com, economist.com, venturebeat.com, businessweek.com, businessinsider.com, fastcompany.com, inc.com, hbr.org, ft.com, alleyinsider.com, forbes.com, fortune.com, nikkei.com, marketwatch.com, xconomy.com, entrepreneur.com, portfolio.com, business2.com, cio.com, bizjournals.com, bloombergquint.com, insidefacebook.com, nasdaq.com, fool.com, financialpost.com, prnewswire.com, adweek.com, morningstar.com, americanbanker.com, businessinsider.com.au, industryweek.com, bankertimes.com, businessinsider.co.za, businessinsider.de, businessinsider.fr, forbesindia.com

As above, these are ordered by overall frequency within the FP archive.
Laziness in Haskell – Part 3: Demand [video]
The problem is there are only a few players in the game, so they basically collaborate to keep wages down.
I will definitly have a look on this one. Thanks a lot for sharing
Introducing Twenty Twenty-Four
iOS 17: How to Straighten Your Shooting Angle with the New Camera Level Feature
I was thinking of people who... well, take commissions to make lewd images of various themes (e.g. furry stuff) or new specific characters or such... not my cup of tea but i know from researching what is possible that you only need a few images of new season anime girl blue hair edition #9237191 from the Japanese sites to do a lora and be able to make mostly anything you want when it's done on the booru models. And you can pose people with controlnet i think. that's also how those super cool QR code images are made.

Those guys apparently used to make pretty good cash from twitter, usually using pen names so they wouldn't' be associated with their regular work

The scary bit here is you can also "clone" a person to make any image you want of them. Obviously there's a lot of problems coming from that in the future, but also neat applications, e.g. some guy made selfie pictures of himself in the past with this for internet dating.
Not understanding the basic idea of

"{I, a loved one} is hungry; I will steal to feed {myself, them}"

is an amazing thing to me. I am so glad people exist who can't understand this thinking.

Not because of any moral idealism about "stealing is wrong", but the fact the person thinking this has obviously never been in a place where the options were "stealing" or "starvation".

Not to go Les Mis, but it is an easy choice for me if my wife was hungry, to go out and steal some bread.
Productivity has risen a ton since the 1970s.

Wages are practically flat.

Software and the internet haven't helped, quite the opposite.

The profits are captured at the top.
I’m fairly sure that it’s iOS/Safari who does give the website the jpegs when you use the photo chooser.

Even in other sharing workflows, sending the HEICs is a pita.
1m as the potential world record? I used to easily clear double that as a child, albeit with some limb windup and release
Honestly when you put it like that it sounds like a pretty sweet deal. We get a few years of irrationally cheap services for free? I’ll take that.

VC-subsidized Ubers were awesome in my mid 20s. It’s too expensive now for everyday use but I still banked all that consumer surplus.
When someone adds virtual keyboard support so they can play Tetris in there on their phone, you will at least be able to eliminate any rational reasons.
Ask HN: What are some information dense websites you follow, non-tech preferably
What are some of the most information dense non-tech websites you learn from / think about which are not very well known ? Rabbit holes you have delved into.
The genetic code maps nucleotide sequences (DNA) to amino acid sequences (proteins). Every three bases (say AGT) maps to one amino acid. So you can literally read a sequence of ACGTs and decode it into a protein. A sequence that encodes a protein is called a gene.

Almost all variations that humans have in their genomes (compared to each other or a reference genome) are tiny, mostly one base differences called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). These tiny changes encode who you are. The rest of it just makes you carbon-based organism, a eukaryote, an animal, a mammal etc, just like a whole load of other organisms.
I cycled to all the villages in alphabetical order
> Magic Mountain – What Happens at Davos?

A bunch of rich fartknockers having fun with prostitutes, and in the spare time discussing how to bribe world governments. /s
Something similar to "begin with the end in mind".
The only way we will NOT see severe social stress is if AI is able to barely keep up with the decline in labour supply.

My gut feeling is that it will either be too little or way too much.

Anyway, once they're able to fully robot-ify the police force, social upheaval may become easy to deal with for those in power.
While in principle I agree with the usefulness of this approach I wonder about how actually it benefits orgs and projects.

Seems to me that the fact that there exist extensive runbooks that are maintained separately from the scripts of the project that either duplicate actions between them or those just only exist in runbooks are massive smells.
Kind of hard to beat nuclear fuel, if energy density is what you want. But sure, in many situations that's not a deciding factor.
Euphemistically, one might say that different culture approach the concept of intellectual property differently. In that context it's just a misinterpretation of the MIT licence: permission to fork and claim ownership taken to mean: permission to fork and claim authorship. :-)
Transportation costs in hyper dense cities are not cheap either. Tokyo spends a lot of money on new metro infrastructure, they have a world class system but it isn’t cheaper per person than what they have in other smaller cities.
by emulation I have meant this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_capacitor
Scaling laws apply to a single model. The best single model right now is supposedly a 8x mixture of experts, so not even really a single model in the purist sense.

I still expect the final solution will be more along the lines of picking the best model(s) from a sea of possible models, switching them in and out as needed, and then automatically reiterating as needed.
Genuine question, not rhetorical or cynical.

My understanding is that sunlight doesn't reach the South Pole of the moon. Then what's causing the shadow in the video? Is it the light from the lander, or has the lander maybe landed on the part that does receive sunlight and hence the shadow?
> For example, if T=20s, which seems like a reasonable value to make the sport interesting, one would expect to achieve D=1m.

This seems awfully small for spending 20 seconds pumping the swing. I can almost certainly achieve double, and probably triple in that time.
It's on line 1 of the linked article: "The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and segmental duplications" and comes with 3 citations.
Maybe delete this post then :-)

There's two copies of it on the front page.

Thank you for your effort!
> .. I have to occasionally open the Syncthing app on Android to "bump" it and get it to sync.

Almost the same with me.

Turning WIFI off and on again is easier on my Android, it triggers syncthing to sync. But that might also require you to have set the run conditions of syncthing accordingly.
what's the point when all scientists interested in the topic already know about it and working with this assembly?

In this context, I would say the point of a press release is getting the news out generally to non-scientists.
>modeling it after a general cryptocurrency is probably a bad idea

Not modelling after but integrating of an existing one. Because this saves massive amount of engineering effort.

>rising prices may prevent legitimate clients from being able to connect to onion services due to the challenge being too expensive

Obviously, the price for legitimate clients would be much cheaper, as their requests shall be placed in the middle of priority queue (clients can wait a few seconds) while the attacker have to occupy the very top of this queue all the time. Also note that the bigger the DDoS in this scheme - the bigger profits server could make, which he could spend on expanding capacity.

>each visitor contribute to a partial solution that can then be combined to derive funds

This scheme predates monero, which was about 10 years ago.

>the next generation learns from our senseless technology-burnings.

Not if they would reinvent the wheel each time instead of adapting of existing tech to current needs.
> Right, [San Diego / Little Saigon / Chinatown is] called "ghettoization".

Just because a geographic concentration originated from forced-segregation policies over a century ago does not automatically mean those bad policies and pejorative status continues today.

> It's not really a good recipe for a safe, prosperous nation. [...] exploited so many immigrants

Hold up, I think the goalposts are moving a bit here: Earlier you said it was about "supporting themselves" economically.

However now it sounds like no amount of economic-self-sufficiency is enough--you're saying those people ought to be blocked/deported unless they can satisfy some ill-defined requirement about where they live and who they socialize with.

> bring in millions of people and all they can do is work as exploited workers in restaurants

I am doubtful that millions of people who *checks comment-thread* have doctorate degrees and PhDs will be arriving to work for the rest of their lives in restaurants.

If they do... well, then they're probably choosing it to escape something crappy enough that we should be letting them in for humanitarian reasons anyway.
> if you pay everyone 10% more, the difference between a $30k worker barely scaping by and a $100k worker that is cofortable simply increases by $7k.

As long as more of the gross profit goes to workers, that's a step in the right direction.

Though I would say the linear solution is paying everyone $6k more, which is much better!
There is a pattern here (that also goes with the author's prior article on inverting gauss' sum formula): Generally if if you can make a formula that counts the combination of things you can convert that into a code to encode and decode those combinations into indexes.

It's often easiest to convert the counting expression into enumeration code if you can express it in a recursive form.

So for example the opus audio codec needs to encode/decode signed integer vectors of dimension n whose absolute values sum to k. https://github.com/xiph/opus/blob/master/celt/cwrs.c#L74

(More writeup on enumerations for that set of combinations here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150619082342/https://people.xi... and https://nt4tn.net/papers/cwrs.pdf)

Or this rolling cuckoo filter that optimally encode/decode four sorted numbers in a range 0..2N with the constraint that the they span a range of <=N. https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/blob/202006_cuckoo_filter/sr...

If you're lucky there will be closed form expressions for the encoding and decoding equations. (There are for both of the above, at least for some parameters, but in both those examples the implementations use small tables because for the ranges involved the tables end up being faster than sqrts).

Another simple example of these is converting subsets of N out of a collection of M elements, where the underlying counting function is just the binomial function. I often do this when constructing tests for trying many combinations of choices without a whole bunch of nested loops or uglier constructs.

Though if you don't need indexing iterating can of often be more simply done in other ways. For a particularly extreme example, to iterate the subsets define your membership as the bits in an unsigned integer. Start with N least significant bits set then update your state each step like so (stopping when the N most significant bits are set):

t=(state&-state)+state;
state=t|((1<<(popcount(state^t)-2))-1);
On other hand, compared to alternative of just leaving it in a pool or even dry cask under open sky might not be that much better in medium term.
Agreed with this nuance w/ regards to investment vs. asset. But IMHO even if volatility goes in your favor half the time it's still not a viable alternative. If the value of an asset is dependent on what a future buyer is willing to pay for it without taking the implicit value into consideration I leave it as an exercise to the reader how this will end ;-)
In my personal experience, it's absolutely necessary. Breaking changes are all over the place. I have non-dev coworkers who have built Python tools without any knowledge of package management, and it's a minefield getting it up and running.

For individualised shell usage, sure. I have global installations of common data science utilities like pandas and jupyter, or requests.

Reproducibility isn't just about deployment, it's also about coordination with colleagues.
> Add the cost of this kind of storage facilities to the cost of nuclear energy.

In Finland, and I believe many other countries as well, there is a special tax on nuclear power plants whose proceeds go into a fund for handling the end of life costs, like building this repository.

> Of course oil, coal, solar, idro, etc have their own costs for cleaning up the places.

Indeed, all energy generation should have similar schemese like nuclear to handle end of life cleanup costs. Unfortunately it seems nuclear is fairly unique in actually having it.
This is probably the reason I will stop paying for the stability API and just host my own instance of Stable Diffusion. I’m not trying to generate porn or sexy images, my problem is the massive amount of false positives! My project revolves around making video to video animations with Stable diffusion but when 10 images of your 100 frame sequence is blurred out (for safety) it ruins the entire thing, you’ve lost both time and money. I complained to Stability and they were kind enough to refund me some credits.

The funny thing is an image of someone winking at the camera will trigger it but a bunch of unsolicited nipples makes it through with out any issues.

It’s too bad because I want to support Stability but these false positives will force me to stop paying them directly for the API.
Same here. I really like the Excalidraw plugin for drawing diagrams when the occasion calls for more visualization than the pure markdown allows.
Supercharging AI/ML Development with JupyterLab and Docker
> 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Rock was just blues recombined and hip hop was just drum solos recombined. Everything "counter culture" a generation comes up with becomes cultural business for the next, when the youth who created it gets mortgages.

But there's always subversive, alternative sub cultures out there. A world of 8 billion, where the Internet has been a thing for over 30 years, with literal hundreds of giant cities. And you think "there's no more counter culture because I ain't seeing any"? Really?
It boggles my mind. CSS isn’t hard anymore.
That's a humanity, and everyone knows those are bad and evil
you get to cheat by having a starting point of higher than zero
Ostensibly, yes.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot/disallowing-gptbot

I would not be the slightest bit surprised if some "error" prevented this from working as intended, but hey, what do I know?
The Gradient Podcast – Terry Winograd: AI, HCI, Language, and Cognition
> or a hardware circuitry linked to the start of streaming from the camera which is difficult to implement (you need to decode the stream in hw).

Why would you need to decode the stream in hw? Simply attach an LED to power-good signal of signal buffer and you are good to go. As long as the data stream is open, the LED is on. It's not even intern level, it's student level circuitry.
My point being that you get a tax number after your first address registration ("Anmeldung einer Wohnung")
> If you had a list of all the genomes of all the people in the world, and all their phenotypes (height, eye color, hair type, etc), you could take all their genomes as input variables and treat all their phenotypes as output variables, and make embeddings or other models that mapped from genomes to phenotypes. The result would be a predictive model that could take a human genome, and spit out a prediction of what that person looks like and other details around them (up to the limits of heritability).

Would such a predictive model really be possible? As far as I'm aware there is contradicting research whether a specific phenotype distinctly originates from a SNP/genotype.
What’s the motivation to do so? Removing telemetry and adding another? Or what’s the other features were added/removed?
What happens if you start editing the code in a block?
If I was a dev there, I certainly wouldn't be approving those PRs either.

But if the devs at the org all (or even substantially) tend towards malicious compliance, that's a sign that something has gone wrong, relations-wise
>if there are rental alternatives.

That's good advice for almost all tools. The average weekend warrior may never have been to their local tool rental shop, but it's worth checking out! You can rent just about anything, for very reasonable prices, and it tends to be pretty high quality/industrial stuff. For all the tools you only use one a year, it probably makes more financial sense to rent than buy.
I really like your build videos for DaedalOS, great insight into all the components. Topnotch stuff.
> They are sequence completion engines

But at the basic level - isn't our own brain just a sequence completion engine too?
i wish the same can be made in other countries.

car manufacturers market "genuine OEM spare parts" as if we have a moral and social obligation to pay for their parts 4X than the same part from cheap chinese knockoff brands.

They too are buying from the same chinese OEM, just their "brand sticker" gives them the power to charge a high premium
This is very interesting indeed! A lot of the design choices fix issues I've also personally encountered. The "experimental" dissuades me from using it for real projects, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
I forget who it was, but I think it was Ghrist that mentioned in his TDA book that expectations were to be extremely tempered before trying to apply TDA to a given problem domain.
I'm a bit disappointed this part of the conversation is buried under everyone arguing about whether the article is right about AI or not, since the real interesting part of the article is why the author(s) seem to think that the reason McDonalds is doing signing bonuses is because people are just just not working, and the article never seems to really understand why people aren't flocking to jobs colloquially known to be absolutely awful and shit jobs.

Similarly, I'm very disappointed that the discussions in the article focus so much on _replacement_ of these workers, but in terms of human replacement, it really seems like AI is better suited to displace management and executives, not the people who perform specialized and physical work.

AI should help people and extend their abilities, and right now it's very good at that. It can be used to make our lives easier _now_, not replace us, and I think this is the real reason the article is so heavily discussed. I think the article explains how the author released a lot of the conclusions they did, and I agree, the author is jumping around way too fast and in my interpretation, making some very wild assertion in the article without further fleshing out their points.
Guys at Verily are working on Terra.bio with the Broad institute and others. Genomics England in the UK is also experiencing with multimodal and machine learning applied to whole genome sequences [1].

[1] https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/blog/data-representations-...
The permits exist for a reason.

If too many people start doing it, it becomes an issue of overdrawing groundwater. This leads to an arms race of digging ever deeper wells to reach the remaining groundwater, and on top of that starts leading to ground subsidence as ground formerly full of water dries out and compacts.

Off the top of my head, there is massive groundwater subsidence in the Central Valley of California, Mexico City, and Jakarta due to this issue, at rates measured in feet per year. This makes the land prone to flooding, and also damages buildings and infrastructure since the subsidence is generally not evenly spread out.
And then you thought "æ" was an infamous danish letter. Oh well, those Æ, Ø, Å letters are still funny though (they typically have a funny pronunciation that is).
> The one who are adamant about staying have a very broken country of origin.

Unfortunately that is most of the world.