skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still salty about the loss of OiNK and the cruft of junk that is streaming services.

Finding new artists is near impossible with the profit focus of streaming services today. Spotify insists that you listen to product placement paid top one this week, no matter if you've just had a two hour session of death metal, it insists that you want to hear whatever top-star released last week.

Apple is similar, but on their personalization page will gladly confound artists with similar /same name, and _insists_ that Sunn-O))) is clearly _chill_ this week.

Not to mention that "related artists" suggestions are tame, at best. Unable to suggest "member of band <X> has a new solo project out now!" or "This band has split and two new ones may be interesting".

And let's not get into the part that they still cannot actually tell you when a band you listen to _start_ a tour, or do a merch-release for some reason, features that used to exist, but do not anymore.

Yet, for some fucking reason, there's a full middle page on Apple Music dedicated to music I don't enjoy.
Never been a big fan of twitter, but it looks the same to me as it always has. It's never been that user friendly for those not logged in.

Anything Elon is bad now though apparently. Seen quite a few comments hoping the Starship launch fails tomorrow, strange times we live in.
I'd go further. If you think you understand the terrain in itself, all you've really done is make a more detailed map. You can ask the terrain questions, but you can never understand it or predict it or do anything useful with it except by making a map.

"The map is not the terrain" is useful if you're in danger of throwing away evidence that challenges your favourite model, in all other cases it distracts attention from the fact that building models is essential and important.
It loaded faster than a YouTube video would have for me. Since I don't have an X login, there wasn't even a temptation to get drawn into any other pointless content. I like it.
But then again, most of them are perfectly adequate minds that could have got a lot more right if they'd ever questioned themselves rather than assuming other people's disagreements merely proved how great they were...
https://archive.ph/NTZDg
Yeah, he needs atleast 12 years living on a farm doing subsistence farming while not seeing another human being, and then I will listen.
Compared to an LLM, the corpus they use to become proficient at language (and countless other things alongside) is achingly small. It’s also embodied so it can relate sounds and utterances to the world and actions. Thus comparing outputs between to two entities is really like comparing apples to oranges, it’s not that the pronouncements of linguists and philosophers are useless in the face of it, they’re just in a different domain.
It’s most likely using chatgpt in the backend
Oi, get staphed ya mutt!

Father was a vet, and he made me respect antibiotics. Including, IF you take them THEN finish the entire course as directed. DO NOT stop taking them because you feel better.

I think we gotta normalize being sick, and sitting at home watching Netflix.
This is true. A full 230 miles worth of charge for our Nissan Leaf at home is like $8.
Thank you!

I am pretty sure Yalom can be ruled out a source : I learned about the saying around that time, and sure his writing couldn't have reached me so quick.

Furthermore, I find Dutch sources dating earlier ( online poems and obituaries ).

The saying as I know it is more succint, it is either :

You are not really dead when your name is still used/referenced ( Pardon my English ), or :

You are only really dead when your name is not used/referenced anymore.

I do agree with your assesment that it is probably cross-cultural ( and much older ), a bit of a canon.
https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
We are already there- take a gander at the latest Grammy nominees. It's about to get a whole lot worse.
"Net zero by 2050" sounds like greenwashing to me.
if ($Csc = gci "$env:windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\*\csc.exe" -ea silent | select -last 1) {
Set-Alias -Name csc -Value $Csc
Remove-Variable Csc
}

Or even:

gci "$env:windir\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\*\csc.exe" -ea silent | % {
Set-Alias -Name csc -Value $_
}
I think you're correct. I also think that they're envisioning this tool's potential in terms of the kind of derivative, trite rubbish that makes up 95% of what is played on pop radio stations nowadays.

I don't doubt that's achievable. What I do very much doubt is that software will ever capable of auto-generating something with the beauty, passion and originality of a Beethoven symphony, as performed by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of von Karajan. I don't believe that an algorithm will ever be able to compose and render a new song in the style of Nick Drake, that has even 1% of his soulfulness.

Machines can be programmed to imitate patterns of musical notes, or even the timbre of a voice. That's nothing. Lived experience and human emotion are prerequisites for the creation of great art.
Take note, building .dmg or .exe of python apps may cause anti-viruses to panic when your users run the apps, they can add exceptions but I would recommend doing proper research into this.
This is quite an interesting tool. Is this update changes real time?
To be clear, they pretty much already do. There are only a handful of companies that require an app install. Filtering chargers nearby by company/tap-to-pay is probably a few months away from one of the mapping apps.
The narrative is contradictory, hence the confusion I guess, geopolitics or theology, pick both
South Park was right (panderverse episode)
> "I have very fond memories of playing that with a friend, first on the C64 then on the Amiga - with a serial cable for multiplayer connectivity!"

Oh yeah! This game on Amiga networked for multiplayer was one of my first "LAN party" experiences on any sorta regular consistent basis. Me and my friends would have tournaments every weekend at one of our houses and man was it fun stuff!
The image is distorted and squashed, because the aspect ratio is wrong. It should be 4:3, but it is closer to 16:10.
This article strongly reminded me of "Reality has surprising amount of detail", an old HN favorite:

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

E: which was also noted by the top comment under the article
Seems like calling for the genocide of Jews perhaps has in part lead to this.

When facing an existential crisis, people unite for security.
The Naturalist and the Wonderful, Lovable, So Good, Bold Jay
I was barely on OiNK. Got an invite and I think 2 months later it shut down :/
But I used waffles quite a bit. (I didn't like what.cd for some reason)
There was actually a version of this for the Spectrum (48K) which I played a lot!

In retrospect that is probably the most impressive port, in the "there's no way this machine could handle this!" sense.
The Pleasure and Pain of Speed (2014)
If the barriers to entry are low. But I'd imagine that even if they are, switching costs will be extremely high.
If I have muscle or respiratory difficulties, 100% I can't take a cold shower.
The guardrails are cool!

I think more details of where the data goes and when it goes from few-shot to fine-tune will be helpful.
We’re there already - everyone has adopted NACS. Interestingly, the standards group was the problem…
I love Christopher Nolans movies, but there is something seriously wrong with the audio mix on Oppenheimer that makes the dialogue inaudible. I cannot see how that was a deliberate artistic choice.
Made an app that summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News
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Why aren't we saving this stuff? We have a way to turn dumps of raw human creation into very useful models. Why isn't there a scramble to preserve things like this in the very least so that it can be used as training data?
What.cd was certainly better than oink in terms of the library (largely because it was started by seeders who already had the entire oink library) but was definitely missing the charm.
The pdf at [0] clearly says that while they believe it could not be made without "high-precision modern machinery", that is only a belief. They are aware of that flaw writing:

"To address the question of whether or not such manufacturing accuracy is possible by hand, we will need to expand the analysis to include both modern and ancient objects that are known to have been hand-made."

I read [2]. It comes across as post-hoc numerology - looking for patterns on the assumption they are present. It is also missing a way to perform the same analysis on other objects - are all such vessels using R(n)? Can you find similar patterns in "ancient objects that are known to have been hand-made"?

There's also a complete lack of discussion of known archeology. With a bit of searching I found a picture of an Egyptian making stone vases by hand ca. 1504–1425 B.C at https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/72/9/595/6966500?log... .

"Ahh, but the object scanned is from pre-dynastic or early dynastic Egypt more than a thousand years previous" I imagine you saying.

Digging some more I found "Artists and Patrons in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt" at https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325730?seq=8

> The first assemblage to my mind unquestionably connected with [stone-working] is not funerary; Room 12 in House Group 89 in the early Old Kingdom town at Hierakonpolis was a vasegrinder's workshop. Quibell and Green found one quartzite and two sandstone drills, as well as the benches and stands used by the cutters and the remains of their abrasives

It cites page 17 of https://archive.org/details/hierakonpolis00petrgoog/page/n26... under the section "Vase Grinder's Workshop".

> Round the room ran a bench of beaten earth 0.8 m. (2½ feet) above the floor. This bench projects considerably in the W. angle and to a lesser degree in the S. angle. The upper parts of these projections have cup-like hollows in which were vase borers such as are shown on Pl. LXII. That marked .1. was of chert. It stood with working surface upwards in the depression in the bench ; under it was a quantity of sand that had been used as the abrading material. On the top of the borer were two rough pieces of chert. Near to it (marked 2) was an oblong corn grinder. The borer marked 3 on the drawing was of diorite. Both sides had been used as working surfaces. Little or no sand was found in the socket or depression in the bench.

> From the fact of the bench being 0.8 m. above the floor, it seems as if the workmen must have stood to their task ; the squatting position is, however, that represented on the reliefs, when the operation of vase making is represented.

Why can we find a room where stone vase grinders worked, and depictions of them making vases by hand, if at that time they had access to machine-made vases?

Given there were clearly hand-made stone vases, what are the odds that the first vase analyzed happens to be machine made?

How do you distinguish between hand-made and machine-made vases?
When you buy your ticket you have an option to donate to the airline's greenwashing campaign.
I just see this as a tool to help make UI designers (and maybe POs) look smart and competent, but the real work is going to go to the programmers, just as it does today.

UI designers will be able to give a "demo" but how will this basic functionality translate to the rest of the app? It won't.
Except we can’t get LLMs to say it doesn’t know - it doesn’t process the concept of “know” and “don’t know”, heck it doesn’t even process the concept of true and false.

It’s a language model. It models the statistical properties of human languages.
from the other side:

"in order to unify people, give them a common enemy"
I found that it's hard to get it to even use 2k of the 4k completion length. Most of the time, it's happy to stop after 1k and just insert comments like "<-- rest of the section -->"

Here's one I got it to output almost 4k tokens.

Reference website: https://canvasapp.com
Generated code: https://a.picoapps.xyz/explain-company (images are now broken)

The defensive prompting does seem to help!
This doesn’t make sense. There’s already a standard everyone has adopted (NACS). Tesla has chargers which will start becoming available to other drivers next year. Other companies will compete or die.
I know a philosopher with four legs and a fondness for balls and bones. Without using language, he knows if I’m happy or sad and can usefully alter my state. Get ChatGPT to repeat this trick.
Works ok for me in safari. This post shows a video and I was able to watch and close with no popups or anything.

Certainly the least scary horror show I’ve seen in a while.
OpenAI Assistant is an awesome tool for building customized AI assistants. However, I found that sharing these assistants with others can be challenging. I really wanted to introduce my bot to my teammates via Slack but, but found no straightforward method.

As a humble software engineer, I developed a service to connect OpenAI Assistant to Slack channels with no code. I'm eager to share this service with fellow OpenAI Assistant enthusiasts for feedback.
If you're not talking about animated CSAM, why did you reply to a post talking specifically about animated CSAM without indicating you were changing the topic?
The West Bank Settlers are 'to me' the crux of the entire conflict. It's why Israel can't legitimately say they're looking for peace when they actively support these 'salami tactics'. The constant and consistent encroachment on Palestinian land to create a feedback loop of faux legitimacy. The UK sent planters to Ireland to achieve the same thing. The Chinese creating island in the South China is the same thing. Manufacturing colonialism.
As a Jew, please let me note: these people are extremists. They are not representative of the majority of supporters of Israel around the world. They are not representative of the viewpoints of many Jews. And even in Israel their views are highly controversial, and actively opposed by large segments of the population. (Look up the recent protests if you want proof.)

So please don’t assume, as many people do, that all Jews everywhere — or all Israel-supporters — subscribe to these same views. Many of us disagree with them as vehemently as you do.
What's scary is that there are people living in the west that not only admire but also support the type of violence this dude's ideology promotes. Truly scary times ahead knowing that essentially war has been declared upon us and there are active (or in training) combatants living among us which truly believe we deserve nothing but vengeance. The sad part is they find plenty of useful idiots among us to defend them.
Thanks! It's more fun than waiting a minute for the AI to finish without any feedback.
*wink*

$code = @'
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Microsoft.Win32;

namespace Background
{
public class Setter {
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
private static extern int SystemParametersInfo(int uAction, int uParm, string lpvParam, int fuWinIni);
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError =true)]
private static extern int SetSysColors(int cElements, int[] lpaElements, int[] lpRgbValues);
public const int UpdateIniFile = 0x01;
public const int SendWinIniChange = 0x02;
public const int SetDesktopBackground = 0x0014;
public const int COLOR_DESKTOP = 1;
public int[] first = {COLOR_DESKTOP};

public static void RemoveWallPaper() {
SystemParametersInfo( SetDesktopBackground, 0, "", SendWinIniChange | UpdateIniFile );
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Control Panel\\Desktop", true);
key.SetValue(@"WallPaper", 0);
key.Close();
}

public static void SetBackground(byte r, byte g, byte b) {
RemoveWallPaper();
System.Drawing.Color color= System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(r,g,b);
int[] elements = {COLOR_DESKTOP};
int[] colors = { System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToWin32(color) };
SetSysColors(elements.Length, elements, colors);
RegistryKey key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Control Panel\\Colors", true);
key.SetValue(@"Background", string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", color.R, color.G, color.B));
key.Close();
}
}
}
'@

$null = Add-Type -TypeDefinition $code -ReferencedAssemblies System.Drawing.dll -PassThru

Function Set-OSDesktopColor {
param (
$r,$g,$b
)

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}
Lmao I remember the bounty for COFEE was up so high.. and it was super anti-climactic when it finally showed up. Nobody was impressed
I can help you create an account if you need.
Probably just similar style. Most print illustration at this time were still using woodcuts, negative images carved out, stamped with ink and used in the printing press: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut
more examples are available on the app account: https://twitter.com/tldraw
Yep and this is a key and major point driving the whole AI craze. The hyper capitalist consumer society in which all sense of value has been strictly translated to "what's the immediate output" is prerequisite to the love of these tools. If all you care about is the destination, not the journey, if you are nothing but a consumer, generative AI is fantastic. Infinite monkeys are just as good as Shakespeare if they can produce the output of Shakespeare. What this perspective misses is that, at least historically, the things we value as human beings are actually not just outputs but something much richer and deeper than that. The crazed embrace of AI is just a marked shift toward an even deeper philosophical bankruptcy and pure focus on materialism.
> I also frankly worry about how my kids are going to make money.

Then seriously start thinking about which politicians are going to support a future where fewer and fewer jobs are being done by humans. UBI, healthcare for everyone, access to housing etc are all things that can and should be done already. The more that work is automated away, the more crucial these become.

We should be striving for a “Jetsons future” where complaining about a long work day means being in the office for two hours.
interesting,,,

you say it's "peoples"... but this made me realize it is also entire animal species... most mammalian animals alive today are either human or death, most exceptions are famous species......
A lot of methods of expressing software ideas are also very inefficient. The actual interesting part, the entropy, is very small. In the demo it’s literally two sliders controlling two CSS attributes which is not a lot of bits of entropy in a UI specification. With an appropriate UI specification language, that would be, what, three lines of code? Needing to manage Web UI boilerplate is where the difficulty is.
Large Language Models Can Strategically Deceive Their Users Under Pressure
Serverless development experience for embedded computer vision
I found this OSS tool interesting since it abstracts pretty much all the plumbing required to set up a computer vision pipeline.
>There are other choices we can make in our society that are not 100% driven by economics Then, the world awoke to environmentalism and a huge number of regulations were passed to clean-up

You're forgetting the massive off-shoring of dirty environmentally damaging manufacturing and mining that has moved from the wealthy countries to Asia and Africa, and allowed said rich countries to become 'clean' while still having access to cheap stuff and not be economically affected by the move to green.

It's a trick that doesn't work as well with organic farming.
And it's quite a thing that criticizing this gets you labeled as a racist, even though the thing you are criticizing is actual literal full blown racism.
> but it looks the same to me as it always has. It's never been that user friendly for those not logged in.

You used to be able to see context, not just a single tweet. If that doesn't make a difference to you in cases like this I don't know what to tell you.
In the information theoretic sense. (Increasing information entropy.)
What would happen if an existing LLM were trained with the ability to emit a backspace token? (Would that even be possible?)
It's just markdown files.
I use obsidian with vimwiki for quick notes in hierarchical markdow file structure, using git for sync.
Im german, had the second worst grade in english when i graduated. Feel free to be more precise than a hashtag :P
Genocide for a genocide makes the world what?
Right. I think we'll end up seeing models that iterate on larger parts of autoregressive generations before presenting them to the user. It's just more compute, i.e. the bitter lesson.
It is the actual plot from a Black Mirror episode.
Have you or a close loved one ever had clinical depression? Diagnosed by a professional which required help? It's a very strange take if you ever had any personal and direct contact with it, it's not only caused by "modern technological society" even though it's pretty aggravated by it.
Lossy compression decreases information entropy by definition.
I thought that too. I think the point there was that you don’t have to push this notion as afar as in/out of functions: that just flipping them within a function can be beneficial.
Totally. 3D geometry is hard and when you're coding there are a bunch of different ways a minor error can mean absolutely nothing appears on the screen. Just learning about those different failure modes takes a while.

The other thing I find (but maybe this is the same with node-based approaches too!) is that there are a bunch of arbitrary coin-flip choices you have to make when doing 3D (e.g. left-handed versus right-handed coordinates). At a fundamental level it doesn't matter which choice you make, but your decisions have to be consistent, otherwise things can get flipped around, or often just vanish entirely. The sneakiest problem is when you unknowingly make two wrong choices, and they mostly cancel out except for some weird edge cases that happen to exercise the exposed code path.
That's the "Be Right Back" Black Mirror episode from 2013.
I'd rather read ChatGPT's sources to be honest.
Also https://www.avianz.net/
> SynthID embeds a watermark into AI-generated audio content that’s inaudible to the human ear and doesn’t compromise the listening experience. It does this by converting the audio wave into a two-dimensional visualization that shows how the spectrum of frequencies in a sound evolves over time. This novel method is unlike anything that exists today, especially in the context of audio.

Is this a unique or boolean watermark (==ai_generated)? Sounds like it would be amazing to have for regular YouTube uploads to prove authorship and deal with reuploads/content theft.
I'll add more examples in the repo. Here's a quick sample: https://codepen.io/Abi-Raja/pen/poGdaZp (replica of https://canvasapp.com)
Right, what will happen is, everyone will start charging at Tesla chargers, and the other companies will consolidate until they can convince people they are reliable enough to try.
I'll add more examples in the repo. Here's a quick example: https://codepen.io/Abi-Raja/pen/poGdaZp (replica of https://canvasapp.com)
GPT-SW3 released today, Swedish 40B GPT model
> Thankfully audience doesn't care because they need to worship a human in the end

Not the HN audience. Luckily in the background there will be a machine or a even better, a company that can be worshipped!
Kotlin Coroutines runtime in 400 lines