skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a friend who builds and rides “personal mobility” vehicles, like electric skateboards, scooters, etc. He lives up on a hill in SF and says that for his vehicles with regenerative brakes he doesn’t charge them beyond 90%. He says that they’re too small to meaningfully add the power “wasting” circuitry, so leaving the house and going downhill at the beginning of a journey would exceed 100% charge.

Anyways, it’s totally possible that they’re using some power wasting technique, but they could also start the day uncharged.
Because you can search for what connector testing machines look like, and they all look like they'll just destroy the connector if it isn't aligned correctly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdIdEbr9wQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GkDnQlesUM
> FTL

I wrote explicitly about a subluminal warp-drive at 1/100 percent of light speed. There is no hint in my text of alternative theories. On contrary I cite Bobrick and Gianni Martire:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e

There was a continuous string of serious publications since Alcubierre's work. There is no need that this warpdrive accommodate living beings, it could be a nanoprobe. What's important is to start somewhere.

At some time engineers must enter the arena and discuss how to make a real warpdrive.
compare raja koduri to brian krzanich

the former went on garden leave for 6 months (actually even before the Vega launch) to make a movie with his brother, and then resigned to “spend more time with his family”, before popping up again a month later at intel. That’s what it looks like when they want you to go away but they don’t want to make a big scene over it.

the latter fucked up so badly the board found a reason to kick him out without a golden parachute etc, despite the official reason (dating another employee) being something that was widely known for years, other than being a technical no-no/bad idea in general. he wasn’t kicked out because of that, he was kicked out for the combination of endless fab woes, spectre/meltdown, and bad business/product decisions that let AMD get the traction to become a serious competitor again. That’s what it looks like when the board is absolutely furious and pushes whatever buttons inflict the most pain on you.

Ironic that it’s a bit of an auto-antonym (auto-antoidiom?), it’s ceremonious when they want you to go away quietly and it’s unceremonious when they publicly kick your ass to the curb so hard you’ve got boot marks for a week.
It's certainly a big step up from the dystopia we're living in now.

You don't actually think those radicalized GamerGate/MAGA incels should inflict themselves on real live women do you??! Gross.

Obviously you don't have "showdead: yes" or you'd know how common and pathetic they were. They even openly admit in public that they'd land in jail if they had to deal with real women. It's cheap simple practical effective rape prevention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329762

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>Like "real" girlfriends are not manipulative and do not extract money. AI chatbots are way cheaper and will not land you in a jail. Also far less toxic and without mental health issues!

Preventing them from reproducing by giving them AI girlfriends is significantly more humane and less homicidal than Trump's wildly successful policy of killing them off them by convincing them to inject bleach, stick ultraviolet flashlights up their ass, eat horse dewormer pills, attend superspreading rallies, and not get vaccinated, wear masks, or self isolate. He killed off a hell of a lot more of his followers than he built miles of wall.

Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties...

A SPOONFUL OF CLOROX - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDPzbLFeP4

"Love without evidence is stalking." -Tim Minchin

Thank You God - Tim Minchin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeWPScnolo

https://genius.com/Tim-minchin-thank-you-god-annotated

And if that isn't inspirational enough for you:

Tim Minchin - Dark Side (Awesome Version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQmJ_vxHB4
There were in fact concerns about normal people having access to strong cryptography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
And yet we've survived Emacs.
If you use a more modern terminal you can also use stuff like:

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
https://github.com/BigJk/imeji
As ceejayoz said, "Death". The system WillPostForFood mentioned is indeed, as he said, extremely limited.

In the very first missions with only two astronauts, the shuttle had ejection seats. They were removed when more than two people flew at a time, because a) it is not possible to add more, and b) crew ride on two decks, not one.

After the loss of Challenger serious consideration was given to designing some sort of escape capsule for the entire crew, but it was decided that the weight and practicality considerations were not worth it.

The bottom line is that it is impossible to design any practical means of high-speed travel that can cover all eventualities. A century of extensive experience has led to air travel being the safest way to travel on average, but there are still fatalities. Maybe once we have a century of experience with Starship and its descendants we'll be able to say the same about space travel.
Go is repeating the billion dollar mistake? (2009)
Regarding recent discussion about null-safety in Go (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425), here is a thread from Go forum in the pre-1.0 days where a user tries to highlight the problem and suggests a solution.

I think it is interesting because the user valiantly tries to argue his case but is repeatedly misunderstood (by a core dev, even) and in my view the proposal is not taken seriously. A little example of how small moments from history can have huge implications later on.

Choice quote: "It's a bit too soon to tell whether this will actually be a problem".
And if all the "tech people" pay a fixed charge for YouTube regardless of how much they actually use it, they'll remove ads entirely, right?

Get real. Fuck ads. Nobody should ever have to deal with them.
I don't have an answer for you, because I haven't found it myself.

I have been struggling with burnout for a while now, but I was unable to really put my finger on what was wrong. Maybe it was the job, maybe it was the management, the colleagues, maybe it was the lack of autonomy, maybe it was /me/, etc. I changed jobs a few times, tried my hand at another function in my line of business, became an independent contractor, etc.

Not any of it did anything to relieve the nagging feeling. The mortgage, the family, my progressing age had locked my mind in thinking that the only way out was incremental change, tweaking my career here and there.

But that line of thinking was perhaps too small, and I now believe that this business is just not for me. It has been quite cathartic to at least imagine myself going into another profession entirely, even though carrying out such a transition is anything but straightforward.
Isn't this a military thing? "Honorable discharge" or something like that? Bunch of people at a ceremony, maybe a speech about the person's contribution, they get given a medal, family is there in their nicest clothes?
Startups challenge culture of the Japanese salaryman
Strangely the outdoor swimming pools in Berlin are unique for a completely different reason. The one or two of them I visited were unique in that the patrons were frisked for weapons on the way in!
Thank you Meow, looks interesting I'm reading now...
Every world changing realization can look trivial from the other side. Understanding that people who don't have the amount of experience we have in our domain need to go through their own internal theory building process is both why it is so rare to find good teachers and what this epiphany is about.

> The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum.

Until something changes and you need someone with a sound theory of the system to work out in a timely manner why it stopped working and how to get it working again. Bonus points for figuring out that this will happen again and that "running code" is not the product, the ability to keep the system running and evolving by changing code efficiently is.
But chatgpt has no knowledge of the format of your file. Unless you provide the output of an ffprobe as part of your prompt. Like if the source is a dvd, there are all sort of ratio issues, deinterlacing, how you deal with subtitles, etc.
My definition of capitalism is the accepted one. The problem I find is that most people who defend capitalism don't know what it is. Most people will reach for some definition relating to markets or supply and demand. All of those things existed before capitalism and are unrelated to it.

Previously we had feudalism. Monarchs ruled, typically through the divine right of kings, which was really just military might. Monarchs would have one or more levels of vassals who owned land in exchange for providing troops, food and/or resources to their feudal lord of king. At the bottom were serfs who needed to eat. Lords owned the land . In exchange for use of the land, serfs would grow food and provide food (and possibly military service) to their lords.

In Marxist terms, the lords exploited the excess value of labor.

By the end of the fedual era, produce was often sold and the serf owed his or her lord a payment, which was basically taxation.

Capitalism is the exact same system except that instead of lords and kings we have capital owners. They fulfil the same function: exploiting and extracting the surplus value of labor. "Profit" is surplus labor value.

There is no value without labor.
I doubt you’d say that if one run of compiling the code would cost you $400M.
It's impossible to tell from the aerial perspective but the side of the pool with those stairs is extremely shallow (you would probably scrape your face on the bottom floor). This is basically the children's zone. There's usually a red barrier chain across the pool at the second to last column.

>I'm guessing the outside lines are more popular in this pool.

You guessed right. The inner lanes are preferred by the casual swimmers.
I think there are elements we agree on (liability), but I don't think it's about any real safety concern or anything beyond just "we are not sure we cannot break the law on privacy and data collection/advertising with our AI...so we are going to pretend we are trying", and this just seems like it's Meta just stopping the pretending, but naturally just my opinion which is open to change.

that's more my point, but yes, I can see that maybe I came off as too disagreeable

edit: In other words, my contention with Meta's statements and your analysis is mostly that I don't really think "safety" is Meta's concern -- the knife analogy I think isn't even necessary (the models are already neutered in this regard as I see it), I think instead it's that they likely know the models will violate many regulations and also privacy laws, and they're trying to seed the idea that they built their AI implementation responsibly and any violation is just a "hallucination".

It would be great if a reporter truly took meta to task on what they mean by safety and what specifically they are trying to protect people from; I have little hope this will happen.
They're the board of a non-profit not a Fortune 500 company. Everyone should just chill.
Linux is American software. How would they support it? They do have their own Linux distributions and derivatives. But contributing might be problematic, both from sending side (you're helping Americans, you're traitor) and from receiving side (can't accept contributions from Russians, might contain backdoors or might violate sanctions, not safe).
yes.

ads represent (to me) psychological coercion, exploitative capitalism, fear-mongering, and generally the worst cultural and psychological trends packed into dense snippets of trash.

very few of the things I actually use and adore were ever advertised to me in any way other than by trusted word-of-mouth, and the results of that are staggeringly better-fit than anything i've ever encountered on the web.

and that isn't even talking over the ads shown for wars and efforts I don't support, ads that are vehicles for malware, or ads that are vehicles for either propaganda from a state agency or somewhat radical organizations.

Most videos on YT are simply not worth my trading of values for the exposure to the trash. The transition from "creator place" to "media moat" isn't something I appreciate nor am I willing to participate in.

simply put : Ad-blockers simply enable me to stay in a better place mentally. The moment they started getting iffy on YT I tried to disable them and got a bunch of war-gore imagery thrown in my face from some NGO relief group begging for money in the midst of a hobby machinery video, these types of ads and abusive imagery are simply inappropriate, and I won't let the media be held hostage against me for the sake of collecting a toll or else being exposed to it : I just won't participate on that side of the net.
But, but... what company will that guy from Quora go on to ruin next, if he's kicked off the OpenAI board now?
a multimodal llm is a general purpose device to churn sensor inputs into a sequence of close to optimal decisions. the 'language' part is there to reduce the friction of the interface with humans, it's not an inherent limitation of the llm. not too farfetched to imagine a scenario where you point to a guy in a crowd and tell a drone to go get him, and the drone figures out a close to optimal sequence of decisions to make it so.
I don’t know anything about them, ChatGPT figures it all out for me. I just say if it needs to lower quality or resolution, keep original, remove audio, keep subtitles etc
As the user above points out, this is ideal insertions, and not necessarily representative of the kinds of situations it is likely to encounter.
Not seeing the sexism. I think the AI safety community is a little early and notoriety therein probably isn’t sufficient to qualify somebody to direct an $80 bn company.
But then I'd have to install an entire browser compared to just installing an extension. And I'd have to use Brave...
I'm new, but this is looking quite interesting. I've been looking for something like this e.g. music theory or instruments. Some kind of spaced repetition for reading staff, building chords, maybe even chords and notes on a guitar. I'll have to set this up somewhere and play with the editor some.
Parking an aircraft carrier 2km from your shores counts I guess?
Thanks Chris,

That's something similar that I have in mind. I think that somehow it's a bad idea to refer to Startrek, as discussions always shift to this old TV series which still has numerous fans.

I say this because I went to the first and second "100YSS" symposiums, and from the second event it was clear that despite DARPA's $500,000 funding, it would go nowhere. It's really sad that DARPA's money got wasted as it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Year_Starship
The final codebase, yes. But ML is not like traditional software engineering. There is a 99% failure rate, so you are forgetting 100s of hours that go into: (1) surveying literature to find that one thing that will give you a boost in performance, (2) hundreds of notebooks in trying various experiments, (3) hundreds of tweaks and hacks with everything from data pre-processing, to fine-tuning and alignment, to tearing up flash attention, (4) beta and user testing, (5) making all this run efficiently on the underlying infra hardware - by means of distillation, quantization, and various other means, (6) actually pipelining all this into something that can be served at hyperscale
I think GPT-4V could probably make high level decisions about what actions to take.

Not really practical at the moment of course since you can't put 8 A100s on a drone.
expert?! can’t do math why should suggest weapon instructions better? at the first hallucination you explode on the spot
Israel-Hamas War: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [video]
LED it's more power efficiencient . However, there are LED light bulbs that have some kind of filter that makes it more ambient and astronomy friendly. Normal white LEDs are a nightmare for astronomy, because his light spectrum it's hard to block with any kind of "anti light pollution" filters.
Its an exploration on the fact that not everything has a math equation that can be applied to it.

Most of the book deals with unique aspects of this, but its definitely not new. Anyone who has done CFD in depth already knows this. Computing turbulence is a game of approximation, because if you want results at a certain point, you basically have to start simulating very small areas of air in parallel and their interactions with one another in terms of particle momentum, temperature, density, e.t.c. (which is pretty much how reality works).

The "science" aspect is his claim that researchers should focus on studying this phenomenon as explanation for everything in the universe, missing the fact that a) this already happens and b) in many cases, actual math is much quicker.

The more interesting thing in recent years is this concept is very key to AGI (in the sense of all knowing all powerful AI) being pretty much highly impossible.
When you can turn the switch and cut off fleet of nvidias from ChatGPT, you have a very strong influence.
Sam posted something on x that he’d “go off “.. maybe some there about the board they’re scared of coming out.

It’s one shit show over there
So performed by Fox news for increasing some billionaires' wealth?

Seems like that's where the public's trust and interests lie these days, whether they know it or not.
Uhm right. So you agree that paying to remove ads is the sensible option?
Glad to see Julia on HN. It's a great language.

That little kernel in Listing 2 sure packs a punch.
Where, pray, is the sexism?

This seems to be an instance of “if you hear the dog whistle you’re the dog”
lol... this was more like Dwight did a coup and Michael Scott was forced to.
This is absolutely not just "bad parenting". When sending children to school they are now immersed in an online culture that is wholly unaligned with their best interests. There is no "good parenting" strategy that can mitigate the immense resources being poured into subverting their attentional systems for profit. Even taking away their smart phone is no solution: that requires their social exclusion from peers (damaging in itself for child development).
I suppose it depends on the relative demands of legal vs AI ethics
We fixed the News at AGI House hackathon
We developed an app that sets common knowledge about the event and highlight contradictions and divergences of opinion.

For example this is what we got about Sam Altman getting fired:
Commonalities:
OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman
Mira Murati becomes interim CEO at OpenAI
Sam Altman responds to his firing on social media

Divergencies:
Multiple senior OpenAI researchers resign in the wake of Altman's dismissal
Investors and shareholders, including Microsoft, were caught off-guard by the firing of Altman
Sam Altman was having discussions on starting a new venture prior to his removal from OpenAI

Contradictions:
CNN reports Altman is mulling a return to OpenAI upon a revised decision by the board, while other sources mention Altman's potential new venture and decisions between the two options
There is uncertainty about whether OpenAI's direction under Altman was geared more towards cautious development or aggressive progress and commercialization, with conflicting reports about the underlying issues leading to his dismissal

Project is open-sourced. Would love to know your opinions

GitHub: https://github.com/VCasecnikovs/RAGAgainstTheMachine
Presentation: https://tome.app/musly/rag-against-the-machine-clp4wqkbm0mz5...
Ads pay for everything online? How else do you pay for everything unless you pay them directly??
I think I understand what you're saying, but this has always been simply called "capitalism". The "fake" regulators are simply a response of people with power in the system to societal attempts to fix the most egregious flaws of liberalism (laissez-faire).

You seem to be similar to naive communists, who, in the face of communism turning totalitarian, tried to "save" the idea of planned economy (for instance) by claiming that totality isn't what they wanted. Ignoring the fact that the totality was put up to prevent bad behavior of people and companies, to which the planned economy led to.

Similarly, here you complain about natural consequences of laissez-faire capitalism, without admitting that the latter is the cause.

I am not saying that good ideas in capitalism (or communism) are unsalvageable. But then you need to detail the mechanism of how to prevent the natural course of action (empirically observed) to take place.

(My personal preference would be to replace free market for labor with worker democracy, while leaving most other things up to free market. Although such a system could hardly be called capitalism anymore.)
Maybe rooms for individual study, but not meeting rooms for ~20 people. That shit costs hundreds of dollars per hour.
If you have a better way to fund sites like YouTube that doesn't involve either adverts or paying a fixed subscription I'd love to hear it!
Elon had a massive preexisting AI-compute capacity from Tesla and ann enormous training set from X. That’s very different.
Not necessarily, no.

Open source models are already being used for all kinds of nefarious purposes. Any safety controls on a model are easily stripped off once its weights are public.

Usually I love open source software. Most of my career has been spent writing open source code. But this is powerful and dangerous technology. I don’t believe that nuclear weapons should be open source and available to all either.