skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the number if plays it takes to game this out is making my head creak. my paycheck expires in a week so i have to spend it immediately on food and utilities. i have no job security so i'm always terrified. but everyone has to spend their money asap so job security is increased. however there aren't enough people to service all of the needs because savings would have created a buffer if it existed, but now we have too much demand and way too little supply. so people start stealing and killing from each other and the whole world descends into chaos.

let me go prompt DeathByAi.gg with this scenario.
Google snippets falsely claimed eating glass has health benefits
Do you know when they're using an app on their phone while driving though? Because safety is the crux of the issue, and human drivers are notoriously terrible at driving. Having lost a friend on the first of the year to a driver who didn't stop, human drivers are drunk, distracted, and falling asleep at the wheel. They're not in "beta" only because they're not computer programs. That doesn't mean they're not absolute menaces though.
Yes, we plan to add Shopify, Klaviyo and many more integrations soon!
HPy: The Future of Python Native Extensions (EuroPython 2023) [video]
I wonder how said watermarks will survive lossy audio compression since a big part of lossy audio compression is to remove parts of the signal humans can't hear and won't notice is gone.
For some values of “we”
I don't think this is the right conclusion. It's more: people with no expertise and hidden agendas should be forced to behave in line with the best available evidence unless there are no other recourses for them. People with expertise, using the standards of high-quality data gathering and analysis, should be exploring alternative hypotheses. Galileo, Kepler, Newton et. al. all fell in the latter camp. COVID denial and flat earthism is an example of the former.

This really just boils down to saying: there is a rigorous evidence-based standard for updating our best available knowledge, and people who don't know how to adhere to that standard should be disqualified from recommending deviation (they are of course welcome to believe and do unto themselves as they wish, they just shouldn't be allowed from promoting it unless they have solid evidence for their claims).
The more popular term where you will find a lot more hits on google is “iPad kid”
It’s just too impractical. As a business I won’t accept expiring money, unless when it’s paid to me it converts into real money. But if that’s the case then everyone will either have their own “business” or be friends with someone with one in order to convert it to real cash. People already easily avoid the restrictions on foodstamps / SNAP by purchasing and reselling for cash. An interesting idea but totally unworkable.
If you have 10 "assistants" who are smarter than you, what are you actually doing that would take more than 5 minutes of your time? How could you convince yourself you're still necessary in that situation?
AI chemist synthesizes catalyst for oxygen production from Martian meteorites
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume if Valve never made Steam, they'd have made Half-life 3 do you disagree? Businesses tend to focus on what moves the bottom line most dramatically.
My guess would be that Musk thinks they did some cajoling to get the ads to appear. That X probably has some sort of surface-level systems in place to avoid the problem, but that it falls apart for, say, your ad-friendly account follows a borderline ad-friendly account, and that likes or retweets ad-unfriendly content, so that content now appears in views further down the line that don't get filtered correctly.

But the point of media matters' article is that this still fails the test. It doesn't matter how contrived the situation is, because the scale of Twitter and Musk's actions to greatly increase ad-unfriendly posters have created a more advertiser-hostile environment.

There's also the issue of the ad-unfriendly accounts themselves. If I only follow ad-unfriendly accounts, then my timeline will only be ad-unfriendly content, so there is nowhere for ads to be placed except next to that content. Or else you just can't show an ad for that provider next to me, and I bet that conflicts in a hard and unpredictable way with a bunch of ad targeting heuristics and mechanisms in Twitter.
Is this sarcasm? The burden is on the person with the supposed claim to show they are trustworthy and reputable. What you're saying is basically "coin shows heads 50% of the time, therefore it's 50% chance they're an insider".
Odds are you’re right
It is always cheaper to buy off a team that has developed internal knowledge and cohesion with higher salaries than invest in a few years of forming such a team. Same with a junior who have been mentored and trained. Regardless of whether the previous employer was shitty or not.

If you make companies unable to protect something, they will stop investing in building it. I don’t blame you, people almost never think about second order consequences for things they propose. But banning non-compete and non-solicitation will mean that companies will be much less willing to invest into their teams and non-senior employees.
It's good enough for NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/white-sands/dest...

We've crashed production probes into Mars, we've burned astronauts alive, we've had the supposedly "safe" options like Boeing's Starliner have fundamental problems even making it to orbit. Space has always been this way.

Starship's more akin to taking the Bell X-1 up for a spin than flying a 787 around, for the time being. Problems are expected at this point in the program, or we'd be sending people on them already.
You need to think deeper.

There are levels of sophistication in "imitation". It follows a gradient. At the low end of this gradient is a bad imitation.

At the high end of this gradient is a perfect imitation. Completely indistinguishable from what it's imitating.

If an imitation is perfect than is it really an imitation?

If I progressively make my imitation more and more accurate am I progressively building an imitation or am I progressively building the real thing?

See what's going on here? You fell for a play on words. It's a common trope. Sometimes language and vocabulary actually tricks the brain into thinking in a certain direction. This word "imitation" is clouding your thoughts.

Think about it. A half built house can easily be called an imitation of a real house.
It also requires decent morality Living in close quarters is impossible if someone insists on smoking fentanyl and using their Bluetooth speaker at 11.
> One paper I used showed how X-rays can be analyzed without exposing the X-ray data itself.

Is there any hope of getting the performance to the point where something like that would be feasible? I’d imagine the raw data itself would be so big that the performance for anything non trivial would be unworkable.
I think states should regulate the employee relationship a little more than they do. There should be standard contracts and the idea that a job listing is for a standard contract. If they offer you a job, it's for that contract. If they want to deviate, they either have to state up front what the additional terms are and compensation for them, or negotiate it after the offer is accepted. Contracts are not fair if people can't start from an equal footing.
That’s assuming a) AI-generated tracks were copyrightable in the first place, and b) watermarks are copy-protection mechanisms

Neither a nor b are true so it’s probably fine.
Even normal money expires via something other than inflation. I have a bunch of CHF that can only be exchanged at the Swiss national bank now. No idea if I’ll ever be able to do that.
So the externally provided metaprompt doesn’t establish a goal that generation works toward?
Imo the brand is the most meaningful piece here. To many people ChatGPT is AI. Even if LLM's continue to be commodified, the brand recognition will probably give them a lead until someone else can do something fundamentally new and exciting with the technology.
No I would not say that at all. Microsoft has gone through how many Desktop APIs for Windows at this point? At least a dozen I'd think.
Plex, Jellyfin, LibreELEC, Kodi... those are the best solutions for those wanting to manage their own destiny and TV experience.

You can run them on practically anything and there are Tiny PCs, stick-form-factor Raspberry Pi devices (like CM4 TV Stick), and other silent small boxes you can attach to a TV for a thin client interface or just a shared media library / TV experience.

It'd be nice if Amazon, Apple, Netflix, et all had integrations though, besides wrapping a browser window.
I believe this flight used the old Raptor engines, and not the new simplified ones.
I still call them “Maibatsu Monstrosity” because my senior year roommate played a lot of GTA 3, and I can still hear that silly radio ad in my head.
The go version NilAway isn’t as good as the java version NullAway yet. But the team working on it is very responsive and eager to improve.

For java projects I think NullAway has gotten so good that it really takes the steam out of the Kotlin proponents. Hopefully NilAway will get there too.
Don't package managers solve this? Maybe I'm in a bubble, but I was under the impression that good package managers existed for all major desktop OSes. Surely Windows and MacOS aren't still in a situation where apps are expected to regularly check for updates and upgrade themselves, right?
Show HN: Combining Google Trends, OpenAI ChatGPT, and DALL-E to Create Daily Art
Once a day (via a GitHub Action running in the repo), this project queries Google Trends and then uses OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E to produce unique artwork relevant to today.

The full log of daily artwork can be seen in this repo's README. Under each art piece is the description produced by ChatGPT and the top Google Trends used to seed the topic.

Yesterday, it decided to produce an interesting piece titled 'The Sudden Departure of Sam Altman'.
Something occasionally seems to go wrong in web services even on Linux; for example the Amazon music web application is just so laggy in my combination of Linux and Firefox.

I’m not sure where the problem is, it could be anywhere between my window manager to the extensions I have installed, but it is too much of a pain to explore all that. Instead I switched to Pandora and then buy albums if I really like them, which works fine.
Cheaper to operate, which over an entire city's worth of street lamps is very material. Sodium-vapor lights eventually need to be replaced (as do LEDs), so why not replace them with a modern technology that's cheaper to operate?
Most people are pretty unintelligent. GPT-4 is already better at most of knowledge work than 50% of human population, it’s not a very high bar.
It is not?
Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship across individuals andcountries
Is it really that easy? I don't know but imagine Amazon has a bug bounty program for that.
Yet another reason to use local LLMs.
Renting akiya: A backdoor into Japan's abandoned homes
I’m not the parent poster, I’m just tryin go to grab this opportunity that I “met” someone so familiar with GTK :)

Could you please share your opinion on the toolkit, and its relation to others? Also, I heard that there were quite a lot of tech debt in GTK3 and part of the reason why GTK4 came as a bigger update is to fix those — what would you say, was it successful? Or is there still some legacy decisions that harm the project somewhat?
That's a dealbreaker for me.

regardless of how we feel about "victims," in the ancient world they had no sympathy at all. The thought didn't even occur to them.
Call me crazy, but this should really not be the responsibility of the average consumer to keep track of.
Yes, I don't doubt you'll have customers. From the docs, I just don't see a compelling advantage Etcha has over existing tools that justifies the cost.

Did you consider having an open beta? It might allow the ecosystem to develop while still enabling you to charge for the product later down the line.

At my last job at a bank you most likely know of, getting any kind of product is a multi-month painful bureaucratic process. So engineers tend to live off the land with the stuff they can get for free, despite funds not being an issue.
Uh... so is it autistic people or non-autistic people who lack consciousness? (Generally autistic people emulate other autistic people better and non-autists emulate non-autists better)

> given enough interrogation and testing you would encounter an out-of-training case that it would fail.

This is also the case with regular humans.
Sure. I’m not a computer scientist so I’m using ollama[1] along with a number of the most popular models[2].

It publishes a REST API on localhost and you can make use of “Modelfiles”, which are modeled on Dockerfile, to create customized models (ala GPTs).[3]

It took 10 minutes to get all this working — most of it waiting for model downloads. I had working code and Modelfiles in another 20 minutes after that. I also have it (with the llama uncensored model) hooked into my Raycast.

Switching models on the fly is pretty seamless.

If for some reason my links go over anyone’s heads, there’s a number of thorough and approachable ollama walkthroughs on YouTube.

1. https://ollama.ai/

2. https://ollama.ai/library

3. https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama
Thank you for the insider insight, HN is a great community space.
That's not what I'm trying to say.
I think e-car shipments has been growing faster still, but they have not been getting more expensive.

Eg this says the e-bikes YoY growth has been only 10% ish and forecasted to continue that way: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1261084/global-e-bike-ma...
If money expired ID be living lavishly instead of in an RV and hoarding cash
People reading your comment would think that Goyal was actually super hostile to the user but the thread you linked doesn't seem nowhere as hostile as you claim it to be.

Truth is, Calibre is a hard project to run, the man has been doing it himself, and he is super responsive and helpful in forums.

Every thread about Calibre a has a comment like this shitting on Goyal based on one or two of his comments, and then there are some comments that talk about how helpful he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32052669
>Watermarking tools like SynthID are seen as an important safeguard against some of the harms of generative AI.

Except the lack of watermark doesn't necessarily exclude the possibility of ai generation.
You don't know which ones are tired drivers, which ones have bald tires or worn break pads, or a million other possible dangers. And you don't know which ones are 16 (or "in beta" as you described it).
Since there is enough private investment available, why spend public money?
Why is that preferable over a message attesting “over 21” signed by the DMV?

The hard parts here are retrofitting society to use a digital ID and how to prove that the human in front of you is attached to that digital ID.

The solutions there all seem like dystopias where now instead of a bouncer looking at your ID for a few seconds, technology is taking pictures of you everywhere and can log that with location and time trivially.
Every single paper straw I have encountered has been anything but waterproof.
Well the technical term is "suborbital", which literally means "below orbital". (It's the energy that's below orbital, not the height...)
For every value of we. "I understand the internals of GPT" is the fastest way to demonstrate you have no idea what you're talking about.
Here's what I don't understand.

There clearly were tensions between the for and not-for growth factions, but the Dev Day is being cited as a 'last straw'. It was a product launch.

Ilya, and the board, should have been well aware of what was being released on that day for months. They should have at the very least been privy to the plan, if not outright sanctioned it. Seems like before launch would have been the time to draw a line in the sand.

Did they have a 'look at themselves in the mirror' moment after the announcements or something?
I don't think I've ever been in a circumstance where I would have had any interest in moving to another company with an entire team. I admittedly haven't moved jobs a lot but I don't really imagine it's especially common that everyone on a team would be ready to jump ship and come to terms doing the same type of job with a new employer, likely in a different location. I'm sure it happens but I can't believe it's the norm.
The Heat Is on NASA's "Flawless" Heat Shield Demo Passes the Test
Of different ways to evaluate translation, whether or not the translator had an agenda against the protagonist of the work they’re translating is a strange criticism. Personally, I became a fan of Wilson after reading her Euripides, I think it was Trojan women or something. I didn’t know why, but I just really enjoyed reading it. I think her popularity is that she makes the poetry come alive. I don’t know if style is the right word but something like that. Translation is always a set of compromises. Better to have more translations, and for translations to be varied in their goals and methods. Her translations make reading enjoyable for me. She wouldn’t be the translation I would choose for other purposes, but to sit down and enjoy the reading, I like her a lot.
We already do in orbit refueling for the ISS. Those are different propellants and smaller volumes, but we know how to pump liquids in zero-G. Cryogenics are no harder to pump, the only difficulty is storage.
I don't think a pure Go program can core dump, unless you use Cgo (wrongly) or unsafe. It can only panic.
Aware or not, "you can go somewhere else" is not a valid excuse from being regulated - that rests solely on whether what is being done is deemed fair play by people. E.g. hanging the price of gas mid pump is not considered fair play and is regulated regardless if people can go to the other gas station in town and deal with whatever weird operations they have instead.

Whether there are more beneficiaries than advertisers or other mega companies is another easy one to answer: sure, people benefit more than advertisers/epic/etc by being able to use RCS (or hopefully iMessage) across platforms, as do other areas of opening up the Apple ecosystem. Does this hold in every case of opening up anything? Probably not, e.g. requiring the permissions model be allowed to have alternatives would very likely benefit shady actors a lot but the users extremely little.

Your last point is, in my opinion, the much more lively and core debate: at which point is the ecosystem opened the right amount? For me, still a bit farther than this, but not infinitely open.

As for which brand ecosystem for me: all the above. Windows for home, Linux+macOS for work, iPhone for phone, Android for tablet.
Yes, and a neat thing about indexes: sometimes it’s faster to do a sequential scan than load an index into memory.
ChatGPT is a toy, OpenAI isn't open, no one can download the models or the data, and no one can buy the chips needed to work with them. This whole thing is a joke. Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.
The point is to have a nicer API on top of these primitives, not to introduce new features into Emacs.

async/await APIs are just a fancy abstraction over an event loop and callbacks and whatnot.

Even just having "promises" would be a nice upgrade.

Maybe it's just me but I find the current functions for doing non-blocking stuff very clunky and awkward.
AI operates in a different time domain than humans. ChatGPT can't write code well, but it can write it far faster than any human alive. The moment its able to write code as well as a senior engineer, it will likely be able to do so at a speed that renders teams of 100's of engineers useless. Additionally, it will have the benefit of a single vision, as opposed to the competing visions and priorities of traditional teams.
Sorry but it's just not the same thing.

If you, as a human, do stupid things behind the wheel you are personally liable for the outcome.

Human drivers are orders of magnitude more capable AND liable than this autopilot joke.

If a machine advertised as SELF DRIVING does stupid things behind the wheel who do you hold accountable? Should this even be allowed when we know that the machine cannot handle all situations?
As a translator I have come to think of it like this- (without the need for defining what “understanding” means) the ability to translate correctly depends on the size of your context. So humans and LLMs are both on the same spectrum with different context sizes of their training set and all facts known in the universe (for a theoretical perfect human) respectively.

Doing moderately technical translations, state of the art LLMs may get it about 99% right but you find about 1 word per page where they would have needed to “zoom out” to a wider context to choose the word correctly. Often its an important word that is missed.
You can do something similar to this without giving it a problem that might be impossible.

Train the LLM on a bunch of things but avoid certain things...Things that humans already know about.

The you query the model about that thing. See if the model can come to the same conclusions humans do. You can actually do this right now with chatGPT.
Which is worse: having to send SIGKILL, or a OS bug causing your app to perform potentially dangerous undefined behaviour for 30 seconds after being sent SIGKILL?

First launch had something analogous to latter, this launch had two counts analogous to the former.
> very few civil legal disputes go to court

This is much more often going to be true because the dispute was never made in the first place, because of the risk it would entail to a low wage worker. They cannot afford—for reasons of time, money, health, education—to even threaten to take an employer to court.

Your argument sounds logical, but is unfortunately unaware of how real world pressures distort systems for recourse.
Assuming they didn't hide the noncompete clause from the employee, and assuming there's not a binding minimum wage in effect, the necessary compensation is already going to be included. Unless you believe the employee is engaging in charity work on the behalf of the employer!

What's the point of a law requiring it? Unless it's an addition to a minimum wage law and only in effect for those being paid the minimum wage...
I think the trouble is that "model" is a very general term. If you had a computer doing simulations of artillery shots back in the 50s, then it would have a "model" of the world in terms of variables tracking projectiles, but this model doesn't generalize to anything else. If a computer does image recognition from the 90s and 2000s to recognize faces, then the computer has a "model" of visual information in the world, but this model only lets it recognize faces.

ChatGPT has a model of all the text information on the internet, but it remains to be seen what the hard limits of this model are. Does this model let it do logic or predict the future well, or will no amount of training give it those abilities? Simply being good in one task doesn't imply a general ability to do everything, or even most of everything. LLM's would simply be the last advancement in a field with a lot of similar advancements.
> Plex, Jellyfin, LibreELEC, Kodi... those are the best solutions for those wanting to manage their own destiny and TV experience.

As long as one produces their own content, right?