skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that’s more an anxious fear than a real problem. Especially if you seek meaningful interactions and relationship building.

And if an AI is able to offer such a compelling long-term character development and online relationship and regularly offers insights and new ideas and empathy, we’re already into a deeply philosophical place about authenticity and if it really matters.

You have no idea if I’m an AI right now. If I am, would this comment suddenly become invalid? The information and idea here is what matters, no? Do you need to know much about the corporeal flesh bag mashing the buttons?

But does it even matter? Everyone online is a cat.
Isn't that just Facebook? Facebook is doing just fine.
Probably the USSR could have done better.
"Irrational fear of GMO" is basically a meme. Smart people have confidence in GMO, dumb people are paranoid about GMO. I am smart, therefore I believe in GMO.
Not sure I follow. You disagree? Why, on what basis, etc...?
It sounds like you're saying the Jeep Eagle wasn't the greatest vehicle of all time. Almost like your saying that pieces of the interior falling off at speeds greater than 55 mph wasn't a good thing. I guess this is just one of those times we will have to agree to disagree.
And where the 18 and 24 year olds don't handle it well because making someone else's vision on crunch schedules that exploit their
ignorance of workplace norms (not quite as ignorant as a 16 year old's, but still) isn't nearly as fun as creating your own stuff in your own time, they've got more paper qualifications to fall back on than "I dropped out to make computer games but couldn't hack it and don't want to do it any more"...
This is amazing. I've always wanted to go back to Commander Keen with a gamepad.
Being a professional musician is already a fraught career with low rates of success. This is even more true if you exclude people that are working with modern digital systems. Not a lot of jobs available for orchestral musicians, for example.

But there still are people making art with older techniques. There is a greater variety of art being made today than ever before in history. The development of new techniques has made art richer rather than poorer. Yes, the most commercially focused art chooses techniques based on price (far cheaper for a single person to stack synths than to pay a full orchestra) but that's okay.

Hip hop and electronic music have been creating totally new things for decades without ever touching a physical instrument. Music didn't die, it flourished.
Almost as if it's motivated by the same things as the humans who wrote the text it's trained to emulate...
AI 101: GPU vs. TPU vs. NPU
Argonne National Lab begins training 1T parameter scientific AI
Bones, ligaments and tendons... now they just need synthetic muscles! (I know there is research on that, but not sure if the current "state of the art" has performance comparable to "meat" muscles)
I remap 'both shift keys' to toggle CAPSLOCK.
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work
I hear you. You have honestly identified that the information asymmetry causes trust to be destroyed. It causes cognitive dissonance among ICs, leading to all problems.

> These days I try to project a more realistic attitude. I tell people I’ll do everything I can to be as transparent and open with everything but at the end of the day we’re still working for a company and business where the future is completely unpredictable and it’s in fact a lie to say there are no information asymmetry and cognitive dissonance between management and IC engineers. Having a well run trusting team isn’t enough and can even make it more likely for one of these situations to occur.

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This is in fact, a good way to build trust. But there's more to do in terms of being transparent and honest.

I'll give you an example. A lot of companies work like Amazon where they stack rank and pip people constantly. It causes a lot of grief among ICs. The low level EM really doesn't have a choice but to implement executive policies.

So are EMs just hapless? No. They can do a few things. When the pip/focus arrives, transparently and honestly say that you were targeted - from above. Let the blame flow upwards. Let the blame flow towards the people who are to be blamed.

No IC realistically trusts corporations any longer. But By letting the blame flow upwards and being transparent about what's cooking behind the scenes, you ARE building trust.

Your early and consistent transparency could be the way a father starts looking for another job early to feed their children. Your early and consistent transparency is how a student with a loan can prevent themselves from falling apart. It can help someone with complex immigration situations figure a way out before shit hits the wall. It can help a pregnant woman plan something towards pregnancy (especially health insurance).

Just be transparent about corporate nonsense and let the blame flow upwards. That is trustworthy.
Discord Authentication 11/6 Outage Postmortem
And meanwhile I'm using Qt/QML, that has experimental things like TrayIcon in tech preview for the last 7 years...
Why would it be bad to have videos narrated by synthetic AI voices carry a label declaring that the voice is synthetic? This isn't a censorship proposal.
It just means PostgreSQL can choose the wrong one for a specific instance, not that those are universally wrong.

"PostgreSQL chosing a suboptimal join methods (a 'join method' is Nested Join, Hash Join, Merge Join, etc., each of which is optimized for a specific situation) leads to unnecessarily high resource consumption.

"[And unlike virtually every other DBMS, PostgreSQL doesn't support specifying which method is used for a particular join. So even if it happen relatively infrequently, it's very difficult to correct a situation where it does choose the wrong one.]"
y'all need to revert some things, the subdivision modifier is fucked with creasing now, it just spikes everything out and it's retarded

another thing is the modifier tab, no one wants to click like 2 drop down menus just to apply a single modifier or search then type it in vs just 1 drop down and access to everything, just add a sideways scroll bar to it to add the extra new shit or down and up too this shit is ass

so far all the new shit i've seen has been horrible
Imagine the shameful tone when a private browser window opens
I'd like to see if they still get these results if they use people who are acclimated to these drugs before-hand. The first time taking any drug always hits the hardest and it's possible these people were just too high.
The last place I worked had some JSON columns and doing lots of JSON operations tended to eat up all the Postgres CPU (the servers were generally 16-32 cores)
Yeah but that stuff was mostly pointless garbage before the advent of AI. Content farms, apps for endlessly generating variations of the same content, low wage and Mechanical Turk jobs etc etc.

Maybe AI will speed up the process of making this stuff either ignored or unacceptable. Things gotta get worse before they get better...
It's so weird how much better these games looked in my memory (e.g., Dune 2, C&C). I guess when the graphics were so primitive, your imagination filled in the rest. When I look at them now, I realize that units were just a handful of pixels. Then again, I'm looking at it on a 6k 30" LCD screen, when back then I had an 18" CRT.
Sometimes it's better to do things in the application instead of caking it in an sql query.

An example would be a subquery that yields a large temp table, only to be pruned down to a single row.

Your choice is to either have understanding of the query optimizer and formulate a query that forces the subquery with a smaller temp table first, or you can bring it back to the application. Either approach works, but in once case you need to have deep-ish understanding of the optimizer and SQL, and in the other not so much (at the cost of an RTT.)
Ths idea is, we wouldn't be "depending on the caller": the constructor itself would indicate failure instead of producing an object if the data is invalid, so the caller can't mess up without completely violating the abstraction.

So we would still be doing the validation "at the interface". It's just that the interface would be split into two separate functions, one checking for qualification and another operating on qualified employees.

Also, an alternative would be to push the for loop down into the interface, so that it enumerates each employee, immediately filters them for qualification, and then performs whatever other work is needed for paying out. (It could even include a caller hook to perform additional filtering before paying out.)
But it sounds like you actually did lie to them, perhaps more than once. That's the problem.

I've been through acquisitions, I've been on teams where 90% of the team was culled and the manager knew about it months and months in advance. In none of those situations did I feel betrayal or like the manager was a liar. Do you know why? Because they never lied. Nothing in the article that I read indicates you need to tell your team everything you know, or that you need to paint a rosy red picture of things when that may not be the case.
> Terrorism as far as we can see is basically incredibly ineffective for inspiring any sort of changes

I think that deserves a qualification: terrorism can be very effective against an occupying force and when it has the backing of the local population. But terrorism in its 20th century sense of "propaganda of the deed" has indeed shown very ineffective time and again.

I recall an anarchist revolutionary in the early 20th century assassinating a factory owner or somesuch thinking that his act of violence would spur the combative union workers into revolutionary action only to find out that they would turn on him instead. On the other hand there are plenty of documented successes at guerilla warfare - of course always contingent on wide support from the local civilians they were trying to liberate. Likewise, the bombing campaigns in WW2 did little to break the spirit of the civilian population and at worst only radicalized them.
There's plenty of pirates who care about preserving artwork and liner notes! It's not everything, sure, but it's a lot.
The Biggest Questions: Is it possible to understand someone else's mind?
Hook it up to GPTs based on GPT-7, build the theme park... frankly, yeah, Westworld seems way, way more achievable in the short term than it seemed when I watched it way back when.

That said, while 3D printing like this may advance and be useful, I think more normal humanoid robots that are covered in a human layer is much more likely.
You don’t have imagine a slippery slope. Collectively we’ve been doing it for most of our history.
A significant portion of the the laws and regulations on the books today are “letting the government decide which financial decisions are worse than others.”

Gambling has in most societies throughout history been recognized as particularly pernicious. Early data from our recent experiments with loosening regulations seems to provide evidence that gambling produces significant externalities that need to be dealt with through some non-market means.
Is for/if faster since loops get started right away where ifs need to check conditionals constantly on top of whatever action they are supposed to execute?
> My original comment was framed to indicate the interest was hyper efficient at scale deployment in specific environments

No, it wasn't. If that was your intent, you should go reread it to see why everyone else sees you making a clearly false claim that does not contribute to the discussion.

> If you're building a large area solar farm to ship power to Singapore would you keep a panel after 20 years or door stop it?

That's gonna depend on land value, non-panel infrastructure costs and replacement costs. If replacement costs are high then and land value and other infrastructure costs are low, then solar farms will be expanded and replacement will be delayed. If the opposite then you'll see existing panels replaced sooner.

I do expect that in a couple of decades we will see solar panel reconditioning and recycling becoming increasingly important.
It is quite clear that many UNIX folks that only care about a POSIX like experience, have long migrated to OS X as their daily driver.

Exactly because of this migration, did Microsoft see an business opportunity to come up with WSL, and be an alternative to Apple's offerings.

Being one of those UNIX folks, that has long made use of Virtual Box and VMWare, instead of wasting time dual booting.

Crostini is a good example of GNU/Linux desktop still not being there, and I quote,

"

- Cameras aren't yet supported.

- Android devices are supported over USB, but other devices aren't yet supported.

- Android Emulators aren't yet supported.

- Hardware acceleration isn't yet supported, including GPU and video decode.

- ChromeVox is supported for the default Terminal app, but not yet for other Linux apps.

"

Taken from https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439
Yes and then he peed the bed and slapped Nancy pelosi’s ass
A sensitive choice - procedurally generated content should be disclosed, not only by youtube but also twitter, reddit, and most important news websites.
Yeah, exactly. I take modafinil, and it doesn't make me smarter in the sense of "fluid" intelligence, it just gives me the ability to last longer on mental tasks.

I used to be completely mentally exhausted after a single meeting, modafinil fixes that for me. It makes me smarter in the sense of "crystallized" intelligence as a consequence of accumulating more knowledge, experience, mental models etc.

There's also the problem of getting used to the drug. When I first started taking it, there were various side effects (including perceived worsened short term memory), which subsided with time.
Quest of Python
Short challenges and exercises for practicing Python programming language.
I remember there was analogous project, that used inflatable muscles. It was at least 10 years ago, and at the time seemed like something from science fiction, but it was a real thing.
Oh, everyone's done it, but humans have a lot more ways to consciously or unconsciously reach an entirely incorrect conclusion, and more ways of testing it too.
TEDxUofT 2014: Computing the Climate [video]
You can never reach a high proficiency of playing a musical instrument if you have another career. It takes an insane amount of practice.
Hey, Steve here from tldraw. This is a toy project with a horrible security pattern, sorry. If you want to run it locally or check out the source, it's here: https://github.com/tldraw/draw-a-ui. You can also see a bunch of other examples at https://twitter.com/tldraw.

Happy to answer any questions about tldraw/this project. It's definitely not putting anyone out of work, but it's a blast to play with. Here's a more complicated example of what you can get it to do: https://twitter.com/tldraw/status/1725083976392437894
That’s still on the GP and the general public health policy of Australia. If I go to my GP with a cold here in the Netherlands, there is a snowball’s chance in hell that I get prescribed antibiotics.
Maybe the solution isn't to mitigate hallucinations, but to make them more interesting. In an single LLM response hallucinations are misleading, but in a generative adversarial network of LLMs they could be intuitive leaps. I'd wonder whether there's limited value in effort to optimize against them. When human language models hallucinate, we attribute it to things like jealousy, conceit, anger, and negative emotions. Not saying LLMs have them, but in an agggregated group of them, evolving a characterization of each others hallucinations could be analogous.
Apple: "Bing-Chilling"
Spiraling fresh zucchini is legit I just did this recently and will be doing it again
Right, didn't know what those hands reminded me of (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvXU5R-xWs&t=33s), thanks for the hint!
I would love to train a LLM on everything I've written and everything I believe and give it agency to continue after my death. How long might I live on then.

The tricky part being the agency. How to continue and persist itself. Survive the demise of servers and hosting providers.
It already comes with a certified UNIX.
The sad thing is that it took the agency longer to grant the launch license than for SpaceX to rebuild the damaged launch tower, manufacture, install and test the water deluge system, and prepare the second rocket for launch.
mIRC is very powerful, but most '90s, Windows power-users needed some explanation of how to use it, whereas Slack's design language makes it install-and-play for even basic users.

Mobile design isn't just a response to the limitations of its hardware; as technologies become more prevalent, intuitiveness to increasingly inexperienced users has to be prioritised over everything else and this is a major trend that dates right back to the beginning of the computer industry.

Usability is much better today than it was in the past; it's just no longer targeted at us.
Could that be similar to how most people have a few bugs in the first draft of their code; particularly when writing from memory (e.g. during a whiteboard interview)? For example, I always have to lookup whether the function is Array.every or Array.some in JavaScript. That doesn't seem too different than making up a library to me.
“or bad things will happen.”
I didn’t know that threatening LLMs worked that well. :D
I challenge you to define “misleading”

Synthetic is at least relatively straight forward to categorize; it’s not based on the content but on the production process & output.

I do see your concern about using synthesis to assist with language barriers, but we should be able to distinguish between an actual human video with synthetic narration and the floods of terrible synthetic voice over non-human slide shows & “borrowed” content.
One of the things that got me interested in Benn Jordan and his music was the fact that he was uploading his own albums onto What.CD
One of my very favorite pieces of visual art is just some text painted on a canvas taken from a review of some of the artist's other work. It probably took her maybe ten minutes to put together.

You have to care to put in effort, but effort isn't the core of art.

So what if humans make a lot of not especially interesting art. More art is good! You can choose what you connect with.
> than get someone into power who will just build some decent apartment blocks.

That's because they want a house, with a garden, and at least one car so that they can have a "bbq with some friends on sundays" like they've seen on countless ads and movies. Everything else is secondary in western urbanism. Have you seen the architecture of modern suburb houses? Commie blocks could pass for Art Deco in comparison.
hey I'm Lu from tldraw, I worked on some of this.

The point of this demo is to experiment with new ways of interacting with an LLM. I'm very tired of typing into text boxes, when a quick scribble, or "back-of-the-envelope" drawing would communicate my thoughts better.

It worked a lot better than I expected! If you give it a try, let me know how it goes for you! And please feel free to check out the source code: https://github.com/tldraw/draw-a-ui/
> a huge proportion of grain grown now goes to feed animals.

That doesn't mean that humans want to eat those grains, even if they were to consume the same kinds of grains.

You've probably noticed that human-grade grains are considerably more expensive. It is in the interest of the farmer to produce those higher quality grains for the sake of profitability, but sometimes the Mother Nature just doesn't play nice.

Sometimes all you can produce is animal-grade food. Being able to also capture those calories helps feed the large and growing human population.
Seems like you nailed it.
What.CD was so amazing.
I could not believe it was gone. It still sucks.
> I think more normal humanoid robots that are covered in a human layer is much more likely.

In Westworld the first versions of the hosts were exactly that, and progressed to the more... fleshy... kind later on.
Not replacing, augmenting. Try to find ways to use the new tools to become more productive than other engineers. Help evolve integration and deployment frameworks to handle the snippets from LLMs in the context of larger projects with a minimum of glue.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some old ideas come back to life like encapsulation concepts from enterprise software development. But this time we let LLMs deal with the boilerplate code needed to use and connect them.
What other way is there to access "copy" (Ctrl-C)? I feel like this stems from the belief that the keyboard is secondary to the mouse. So the official way is to right click and select copy from the menu? When was the last time you actually saw someone do that?

You could go the other way and say all the letters on your keyboard are shortcuts for entering the characters specific to your language. After all, there are far more characters in unicode for all the languages in the world and there is no shortcut for those. In Emacs I could do absolutely everything via M-x commands, even typing: e.g. M-x "insert-char" "LATIN SMALL LETTER J".

OK, this is becoming a bit silly. My main point really was that by adopting a keyboard-driven workflow you no longer think of the keyboard as "shortcuts", it just becomes the way to do it and, yeah, I definitely think Ctrl-C counts as that.
Sounding like someone isn't just having the same timbre of voice, it's cadence, accent, diction (both definitions). I'm skeptical how much two unrelated people could just happen to sound alike, especially if one of them is famous for their voice. Compare Larry David's natural speaking voice to how he speaks when impersonating Bernie Sanders. Those are two men from the same time and place and background, and there's still quite a gulf.

Now perhaps you could just happen to sound like a famous actor who isn't well known for their voice, like John krasinski or something, who does voice over ads but isn't super distinct. That would probably be fine but you're still going to have to slog through the world of voice talent auditions
I think they're referring to the video on the github page where it does the generation for YouTube: https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code
0.001% is only 17 doublings away from the whole job.
Often people who have made their identity about a thing make claims about the thing like this
Nuclear is not option. It's very expensive, slow to plan, build and operate, quite dangerous in operation and waste it creates and political risky, now that russia has a major control of nuclear fuel. Fusion is not even usable in the near future. And even the benefits are not good enough to justify all those problems. There is no single solution for our problem. We need a dozen of them to reshape the world, and at no phase has nuclear a place, because it will always take to long and too much money.
First Oink then What.cd
I think Max Tegmark said there's 3 main camps of people talking about AI:

1. The people who think AI won't really work (at least in some fundamental way - it might make some stochastic melody but it won't have any creative spark to it).

2. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be great.

3. The people who think AI will be able to do everything better than humans (in every possible way, at least as far as a mere human can tell) and that this will be terrible.
Think if I wanted to earn a living as a voiceover artist who happened to sound like a very famous actor I'd rather advertise my USP and pay royalties on the much higher earnings than only pick up business from companies that make hiring decisions based on random chance or YouTube comments ...
> Confabulation
oink and what.cd were the best music discovery methods ever devised and that remains true today
Effect of Dietary Sodium on Blood Pressure: A Crossover Trial