skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good response. People seem to think that what I call “single pass” inference is the only thing that matters - a monolithic single process system

When in fact the world and intelligent agents inside it are ensembles of ensembles of systems with various and changing confidence that flow and adjust as the world does
What I'm trying to say is that games that are differentiators between consoles are common, and this cannot be a basis of blocking such a deal. Indeed, it's no different than applications running only on ARM or x86, or requiring ray-tracing, or a specific Vulkan version support.
Prevent disclaiming liability for security flaws, capped at the sum of the purchase price + any subscription fees paid.

No risk for free (as in beer) software like most OSS, since the total price is $0, but risk for paid services & software.
Write a program that makes 2 and 2 = 5
Because 30 hours is 30 times more than 1 hour. That's what a random sampling lets you get away with.
I think the next step logically is to see how the human brain functions. We have a similar model where certain parts of our brain are hopelessly useless by themselves as they are so overly specialized in one thing, but work in harmony to create network effectiveness.

And we only just [mapped it for the first time](https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-generate-single-cel...) so now much of what we are learning can potentially be applied to our “digital twins” in coming years.

I imagine a lot of progress with AI will involve similar networks, with governance providing evolutionary paths and guidance for multiple concurrent goals.

There are also lots of issues with training data and memory limits that make LLMs weak at continuity. Holes or weaknesses in the training data might “come through” in the behavior of hallucination.

Where do you think general AI is going right now that we should be looking at? I’m overwhelmed by how large this field has become in the last five years and am always interested in what others know.
Funny. https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/planes-trains-and-... says that the average commute in the Bay Area is worse than Atlanta.

I think that you're overstating the problem.
That's the cyclic, not the collective.
> I thought helicopters were so expensive because every part had to work and last, or else.

Yes, but the key to why helicopters are expensive is that is that aviation is highly regulated by the government. Individual manufacturers, pilots, airlines, etc. don't get to decide what is "safe enough," they have to obey the standards set by the law. Adhering to the standards of the law requires a lot of process and paperwork.
Of course it's related. That doesn't mean it "leads to"--I think that's a case of the cart before the horse.

Those who have no sexual interest in children are neither going to have CSAM nor engage in abuse. The fact that they had CSAM already shows it's a highly non-random sample. The control would be pedophiles with no access to CSAM--but how do you find that control group????
To think that I've been able to mix and match left and right earbuds from the same manufacturer+model, and they pair up as the same, and be able to order replacements only from one side from Aliexpress, directly from the manufacturer after explaining myself, for very little, really tells me a lot about this unnecessary convenience baked in, where the lesser option is much cheaper and less hassle when it doesn't work, for very little sacrifice.

Also, just a heads up on Apple ID's 2FA: it's different from the trusted number used in recovery, which can be repeated across many IDs. I had my parents set my number for their Apple IDs, as they seem to constantly forget their passwords and don't really understand much of the app downloading process, so I end up getting the SMS but it doesn't interfere with my own accounts.
We have an interesting situation: We live in Germany as a couple of German and Korean native speakers, but mostly speak English and Korean with each other. It'll fall to me to speak German to our daughter - we're a few weeks away -, which I haven't used at home (or much at all outside of work, for that matter) for a very long time. Quite a strange-feeling prospect! And we have three languages in total to think about.
Is it as simple as the euclidean distances of the vectors in N-dimensional space is intended to approximate the difference in meaning between two texts?
I mean, sure? At the same time, google was sending camera equipped cars around for a while now. https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/google-reveals-how-many-mi...

And, really, if you want to know what someone's house is like on the interior, you can probably just look it up at the local planning office. Often for free. And this isn't even getting into the people that have vacuums that map out the place on a somewhat regular basis...

Look, I get it that this is yet another vector for information. I just can't bring myself to think it is a meaningfully worse one than any others. If you view it as "cars are another item on the nightmare that is modern privacy", I fully agree. Thinking they are somehow more capable of surveillance than basically every other one that has proliferated in recent years feels off.
"When Tyranny Takes Hold – autocracy demands collaborators." (December 2016)
Not sure why this is downvoted :p I'd guess HN income is multimodal with a peak for broke-ass college students and 3rd world programmers (where it is life changing) and another peak for the gainfully employed (where it isn't).
> But, like, nature is a cruel mistress.

Two objections:

A) The inability to completely remove suffering from the world does not absolve us from wantonly contributing to it without cause. We do still need to ask whether the results of each particular experiment justify the suffering we inflict, even with the knowledge that suffering is a part of life. Death and pain are parts of life that we will never eliminate, but we've still tried to cut down on infant mortality and we still invented anesthesia.

B) I don't think it's a controversial take for me to say that human beings should have higher moral standards than hyenas do?

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I would argue that the majority of human achievement from medicine and surgery, to cooperative political structures that reduce war, to sanitation that allows human beings to group together on a level that other animals can't, to agriculture and domestication is the result of humans looking at natural processes and saying, "wow, those suck, we could do way better than that."

The experiment in question is about the health effects of zero-gravity on the body. There is nothing natural about that, human bodies are not evolved to survive in space. So it just feels weird to me to be turning around and saying "but what about the lions who eat gazelles, why are people trying to defy nature?" We're defying nature by building a rocketship and putting it into orbit; what we do or don't do to the mice on board the rocketship isn't going to change that.

So while some experiments are going to be worth the cost of inflicting suffering on animals, we have to ask that question about each experiment because we're not completely bound by nature and we've advanced as a species to the point where we can ask that question. We aren't lions or hyenas, we have evolved to the point where we can ask moral questions about our actions and we can take steps to minimize suffering even if we can't completely remove it. The cruelty of nature is not an excuse for us anymore to ignore that moral responsibility.

And to be kind of blunt, I don't think that most people believe the "nature is cruel" argument anyway. I think it gets brought up specifically in topics around animal welfare that make people uncomfortable because it provides an excuse to reframe animal suffering as something to be admired rather than mitigated; it's a way of saying that we don't have to feel bad about this because this is how the world is supposed to work -- animals are supposed to suffer.

But nobody argues that "nature is cruel" when it comes time to put a baby in an oxygen tank, or when they're getting anesthesia before a dental operation, or when we're setting up mosquito nets to stop the spread of malaria. Nobody asks, "why build mosquito nets, even if you completely eradicate malaria people will still die, it's unavoidable." We are very selective about where we use the argument that suffering is an inherent part of nature. Everywhere else, we understand that suffering is something to mitigate when possible and to avoid inflicting without good reason.
Just in case anyone else would like to send a quick note to Mazda:

https://webpage.mazdausa.com/MazdaStatic/contactus.action
We actually have a core personality characteristic in human psychology for just this thing: neuroticism.

It may be part of complex networks and intelligence, and humans may have a lot of it happening all the time but have ways of compensation or suppression of neurotic or hallucinating thoughts.

We have some intense “mental illnesses” that look a lot like what AI is presenting, where it can’t tell what is going on and fills in the gaps (schizophrenia maybe) or uses behavioral patterns to compensate for memory or intelligence inadequacy.

Obviously straight conjecturing here.
> In addition the more we adopt and make use of cloud command and
control architectures the more surveilled we become, because it
becomes trivial for anyone with access to the cloud provider's
internals to tap everyone's behavior.

Spoke about this last night in London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcWIQALtOtg
> The only way to fix this would be to adopt protocols like QUIC or later versions of TLS with encrypted SNI for everything all the time and block outgoing plain text http.

Or choose a phone that doesn't act against you in the first place.
Pornography reduces rape.

Violent movies that appeal to teens reduce vandalism and the like--they're in the theater rather than out causing trouble. (And it's not displaced, rates don't spike later, they just return to normal.)
I know plenty of scientists that might approach it as a joke. But they are far too busy to regularly spend significant time on such a things.
I considered it but all the dumbphones were using insecure 2G
There are like 20 game publishers that are worth over a billion dollars. Gaming is much, much bigger than you think, this is just rearranging the deck chairs.
It's really hard to maintain German in the states, because unless you're in certain parts of rural Pennsylvania, no one else speaks it and it's not really useful for jobs.

But I'm grateful that my parents passed it onto me.

Acquiring that core of the language at an early age is really valuable. Throughout my teens my German was a lot weaker, but once I decided I wanted to get better it was really easy to train myself up by listening to news and podcasts, and setting up regular conversations with native speakers.

Your kids' experiences may turn out to be similar.
Yes, as stated in my earlier comment: there's an alignment tax, and then almost certainly an un-alignment tax, on top of that, compared to the raw, unaligned/uncensored, models.
That's an argument to reduce the penalty for sharing a single music file, not for making the penalty for a false report also ridiculous.

Then again, I personally do think that knowingly filing a false report of law-breaking should be treated as a very serious crime. I think the harm of filing a false report of copyright infringement is greater than the act of infringing copyright itself.
Sodium ascorbate is the sodium salt of ascorbic acid. It satisfies your dietary requirement for Vitamin C.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-Consumer/#h4
How do you feel about the tradeoff of losing copy-and-paste functionality? I'm not implying it's a bad decision - there are tradeoffs in every option - but I'm wondering what you thought about it.
Mazda is in a rather unique position where they're under the care of one of the biggest and richest automakers (Toyota), while still being "independent" and "small" enough from a regulatory point of view to have a much more relaxed timeline for EV adoption. The Mazda-Toyota relationship could be described as a partnership, but it's probably more accurate to describe it as vassalship with Toyota being the largest and most influential shareholder of Mazda.

Their plan seems to be to let the bigger wealthier players figure it out first, because the bigger players have to because of regulatory pressure, and in the meantime they're encouraged by Toyota to work on their passion projects.
Age of Empires has been very well maintained, even restored. It has a pretty large player base 20 years after release. It would be cool to see the same happen with Starcraft
Oh right, thanks! Good catch. :)
SpaceX is offering less
In other words, LLM's are, in the technical sense defined by Harry Frankfurt, bullshitters.

The essence of bullshit (as he defines it) is that it is neither truth nor lie but rather unconcerned with veracity altogether. A bullshitter wants to appear smart, or convince others to agree with them, or some other conversational objective. Bullshit statements may or may not ultimately turn out to be true, but the thing that makes them bullshit is that the bullshitter didn't actually know when they said it.

Hence I propose a far more succinct term to describe the phenomena at hand. A far more accurate terminology than the presently vogue "hallucinating": AB. Artificial Bullshit.
None of this matters to me because I have a car that actually has CarPlay. Living in the future.
Ask HN: People who joined a company hoping to fix/add features, how did it go?
Whether joining a certain company or team within a company with the express purpose of fixing that one bug which annoyed you in your everyday use of a product, or if you really wanted for a product to add a certain feature.
You finally joined that team. How did it go? Were you able to do what you wanted?
If not, did you finally understand why it's not a priority and do you agree with it?
I don’t know - I started gaming again during the pandemic after trying Stadia on a whim. It worked great over 100 megabit DSL. Amazingly so. I went in super skeptical but was blown away. Perhaps being in the Bay Area helped?

I consider myself pretty attuned to (and annoyed by) compression artifacts in streaming video.

I did end up buying an Xbox instead of using Stadia though - I couldn’t get over paying full price for games I didn’t actually own.
Sure it is. The bag of "heroin" on the movie set turns out to be real, think the actors are going to be convicted of possession?
A few months ago, I didn't imagine I would have completely dumped Google for a huge quality improvement in knowledge acquisition and navigation. The Internet is shiny again!! :)

I use GPT4 for questions, and Kagi (paid) for search.

I would love to dump Amazon's search. Maybe someone can scrape Amazon (and other stores) and create a universal agnostic LLM product concierge. Please!

Besides the conflicts of interest ads/trash-products, searching for a product based on highly specific specs has always been hard.
Strange, that query worked fine for me on dalle-3.
Yup. Inteligence agencies are something that when you start doing serious research on, you end up being very paranoid. Cause the most sucessful operations leave no traces, and if the people responsible don't happen to leave behind documents about it that happened to be disclosed later, it is very possible for everybody, even the country responsible for it, to never learn the truth.
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king?

;)
Steam basically has a monopoly on PC gaming distro
This is indeed understandable. For me, the fact that I can run my own lighthouses and depend on / trust no third party is the big plus. Both cases (third-party and self-hosted) are in demand.
I remember applying for Cisco 10 years ago and after registering on their site they sent me an e-mail confirmation with my password in plaintext.
Not to be confused with “Jesus Code”. Jesus code is any code written in a way that only the author and god (Jesus) would know how it works. That is until inevitably the author forgets. Leaving Jesus as the only source of reference.

It is believed that Jesus Code is the reason the second coming of Christ has not yet occurred. As Jesus would be flooded with support requests, jira tickets, and zoom meetings. (Some people believe the modern SDLC to be the devil’s way of keeping Jesus from coming.)
You can come up with these excuses and caveats, but at the end of the day they don't matter.
If you have a cost advantage, you keep your prices just under your competitors if the possible market it small.

To the everyday man there's no difference charging 64 million or 100-150 million.
As a young kid I remember my dad in an AOL chat room chatting with Kai. We had KPT Bryce, Kai's Power Goo, etc. I loved those programs, but KPT Bryce is probably what I spent the most time with. I would just sit and stare at the antialiasing passes, making minor tweaks. As a kid it felt oddly intuitive in a way that I can't say I've experienced with most modern software. There was also a sense of discovery where you'd kind of dream about how the wireframes on the screen would be painted once you'd selected various textures and lighting effects to be applied.

One piece of software that most may not be familiar with which I see as very related to Kai's work is U&I software's MetaSynth. The UI feels similar to Kai's UIs, and it is unlike any other sound design tool I've ever used. I believe Eric Wenger of U&I is a MetaCreations fellow and also worked on KPT Bryce way back in the early days.
Based on my family's history, my guess is that success rates are generally higher for the first kids.

My mom's side of the family is from East Friesland. My maternal grandfather was born in the US, but didn't speak any English when he started school. Grandpa was certainly fluent in English by the time I came along, and I presume he was reasonably fluent in English by the end of grade school. My maternal grandparents were bilingual, but decided to speak "Pig German" at home and let their kids learn English in school. My mom's oldest brother learned English the same way Grandpa did. Mom's older siblings spoke English enough that Mom never really learned to speak German. Grandma and Grandpa would speak to Mom in German, and she'd reply in English.

Though, plenty of German vocabulary made it into Mom's lexicon. I think I was in late middle school or early high school when I realized wunderbar wasn't an English word.

My oldest son is more fluent in Thai than English, where my wife does a good job of speaking almost 100% Thai to the kids. We'll see how the twins do once they start speaking and when the oldest starts going to preschool. My guess is that the oldest will speak primarily English to the twins, making it harder for them to pick up Thai.
I thought hydrogen was red.
So there's absolutely no avenues of reverse engineering here, is what you're saying? If so that speaks more to Apple's competence in being able to lock things down.
Bafflingly, even the high end head units do not play any of the playlist formats. I do not understand this. I realize that .m3u8 is CSV-like in its lack of exacting standard, but come on.

Apparently, everything is done through one's phone now. And then it seems so difficult to get files on and off of an iPhone without using the system-wrecking iTunes that most people resort to some kind of service, so rather than your music, you're getting whatever is available that "they" feel like popularizing now.
On the contrary, I'm quite happy about "cloud gaming app" because all the DRM-infected software stays remote. I get a web browser or whatever, and they pipe video to me and pipe input back up. Really lightweight on my side, less room for insane anti-cheat whatevers. Now, the connection issues, the online-only requirements, the resolution, the lag, etc, these things are less good. But I really like the software part.
Don't expect the corporate media to examine the CIA's more recent operations too critically (or report on them at all) - they're riddled with "ex" CIA and other government agents: https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/23/cnn-msnbc-15-spooks-mccab...

And please spare us with the excuse that they just hire subject matter experts. You would not accept such logic for Russia or China. Though the NYTimes are far from perfect or impartial, they are at least good at appearing neutral (one has to gather statistics on how they cherry-pick stories to see their well-hidden but strong bias). Their journalist ethics guidelines warn against the appearance of bias, and their reporters aren't allowed to give political donations: https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/ethical-journali...
Such things already exist: “ If applicable download the Time of Use schedule of your local electric utility to prioritize heating when the rates are most affordable” https://www.statewaterheaters.com/literature/spec-sheets/res...
Two spaces is all you need
As I understand it, it's the rank-and-file "unelected" government employees that are perceived as the real problem. And all government spending is always bad. And unions are commie pinko bastards. And taxes are always bad. Add it all up, and government employee unions are corruption on corruption, fighting to screw the voter out of their tax dollars.
I'm not sure that is it. The mother is an engineer who works a typical 9-5 job in an office and often travels for work. The father works remote and is home all day.
Had a similar experience the one time I tried Wim Hof Method at home, unassited. My tinnitus was very mild, I was trying WHM for other reasons. However, after those 10 quiet seconds, the ringing came back much louder than before, and has stayed like that since. WHM, never again.
I agree that it's an arbitrary social concept, but it's not ridiculous at all, deeper thought or not. I think it's completely reasonable to expect that my house is my house, and others aren't allowed to enter it or live on my property without my consent. If you think we all should live commune-style and have no property or physical privacy, that's certainly fair for you to believe, but the vast majority of the people in the world would staunchly disagree with you... hence the concept of property ownership.

Certainly there are issues with how we've implemented property ownership, but I don't think the concept itself is inherently flawed or ridiculous.
Its funny reading the descriptions of weather for the eastern US. I tried explaining to someone just last week that what GA and NY call "rain" is not what we see in Seattle. Such that, "does it really rain a lot" is tough to answer. In very real terms, what they think of as rain is a once a year thing here.
There is a CPAN tool to convert perl programs to an ASCII-art equivalent. https://metacpan.org/dist/Acme-EyeDrops/view/lib/Acme/EyeDro...