skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly as a mid-30s millennial I'm pretty "pro-Palestine" when it comes to ending the illegal (by Israeli law no less) settlements in the West bank and ending the open-air prison that is Gaza. Both of those things are just slow genocide, without even a hint of subtlety. Hell multiple authorities in the current Israeli government have made it quite clear that they'd be committing fast genocide if they were allowed. Worth remembering that a sizeable portion of Israel is of Russian origin, and Jewish or not they bring a very culturally Russian approach to problems like this.

We can all agree that the leaders of Hamas and those who committed the attacks should burn alive, but frankly the Israeli-imposed conditions in Gaza make the rise of such groups inevitable. Hell it was Netanyahu's stated strategy to "control the height of the flame" of Hamas, an implicit acknowledgement that their existence was inevitable.

And I still don't get our outsized military support for Israel. We just deployed two carrier battle groups and an Ohio class sub to their defense at the drop of a hat, no questions asked or concessions demanded. For what? Does anyone seriously think Hezbollah and some lightly armed Iranian proxy groups are an existential threat to Israel? Sure they could do serious damage, but they'd almost certainly lose in a stand-up fight.

Honestly it just doesn't make any sense to me. At best we should be imposing strict conditions for our aid to create better conditions for Palestians on the other side, and at worst we should just stay out of it. It's anecdotal but these aren't uncommon opinions among people I know. The only "unconditional support for Israel" people I've met are all over 50.
Also continuous learning. The training step is currently separate from the inference step, so new generations have to get trained instead of learning continuously. Of course continuous larningin a chatbot runs into the Microsoft Tay problem where people train it to respond offensively.
Syria is an old conflict and nothing has changed in many years. This particular tragedy has been stewing for a long time, and recently exploded. So, right now, the reaction is fairly well proportional to the rate of change.
Anthem: https://songwhip.com/thepassionateandobjectivejokerfan/dont-...
When you have thousands and thousands of engineers, and they are evaluated by how much code they produce, and they need to justify their job and continued employmwment, you end up with a 90M line codebase.
If the booster is still firing, then starship will have to have a greater acceleration than the super heavy booster in order to separate. On F9 Crew this is done by the abort system, which is able to accelerate the crew capsule away at a higher acceleration than the whole F9 stack is experiencing at the time.
Hopefully Panama will help to make it better, and there is still hope for Valhala.
NYU and Human Rights Watch Accidentally Doxxed 8k People
trust me, I have thought about it. I was enthusiastic about bitcoin early on, but I have become more and more pessimistic about it becoming a net good as time goes on. Especially this idea of it being useful for promoting green energy, especially a useful supply of green energy for the grid, just doesn't hold up much to scrutiny, especially at scale.
This is so interesting to hear. I am not Jewish, but am interested in asking my Jewish colleagues what they think about the war. But not interested--or close--enough to them to ask them about this. I think I'll search for more young Jewish perspectives around the web.

It is complex in some ways, though to be clear the nature of the assault on Gaza seems hard to justify from my view.
How do you get a gas station attendant to give you $16 worth of gas on the spot for a $1 coin. No intermediaries.
In Wilson's Odyssey (I haven't seen the new Iliad yet), the notes on translation will transform your understanding of every translation you read, and the notes on xenia (~ hospitality, but much beyond that) will transform your understanding of ancient Greek culture, including both works - I don't think you can understand the works without that knowledge.
“Likely” as defined by…?
More like stereotyping nonprofits.
Man he is stupid.

It does not take much effort to show that ads for good companies show up next to Elmo's nazi friends comments.

Apple, IBM and other companies are not leaving for the hell of it.
No one is saying they aren't fine, but Microsoft has a lot of shares, and shareholders can be very annoying. If Satya didn't make a statement there'd be dozens of Important People breathing down his neck.
I can see why, being able to give hard rules the AI can't break wouldn't just solve alignment but also solve the hallucination problem. It is the kind of breakthrough that would be worth trillions.
Do we know enough about the org’s charter to reasonably predict that case? Did the board actually do anything wrong?

Or are you thinking it would be a kind of power play from investors to say, “nah, we want it to be profit driven.”
Absolutely spot on. When someone is used to an unsafe environment, eating the marshmallow immediately is a perfectly rational behavior.
SpaceX and NASA were extremely clear what the definition of success for this flight was.

It was a resounding success.
You're right, I over-edited my post and skipped the final proofread. It needs an "impedes" somewhere in there.

Ice cream was an arbitrary choice, I could well have said French fries, or something unrelated to dietary choices.
I might try something like this indexing method
Online Advertisements with LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges
I previously said that if the launch works through staging, SpaceX fans would declare it a success. Personally, that seems like a pretty low bar compared to things like Saturn V and even STS, both of which launched successfully to orbit the first time.
“My baby took his first steps today”

“I don't know why you're celebrating their failure to stay standing.”
Apple Says It Will Improve Green vs Blue Texting Experience
Everything about us all is buzzwords with no meaning

From my reference frame your language is no more interesting than mine

I know the effort to memorize language norms and propagate them makes you feel important but from my reference frame none of you are
Because they want to find the code paths before deploying the code. Surely they have error logging or tracing and can see why it panics.

I tried this with a medium sized project and some unexpected code that could panic 3 functions away from the nil.
Well we have the Canaveral National Seashore to enjoy today, which was constituted from the undeveloped portion of the space program reservation. Otherwise, that area today might be a wall of hirise condos instead of a pristine coastal barrier island.
Ww2 Japan was bombed by the United States and thousands died after they launched a surprise attack which killed thousands of Americans including hundreds of civilians.

Palestine launched a surprise attack killing thousands and now they face the same thing.
Most companies don't pay that, step 1 is identifying the companies that do and focusing your efforts on them exclusively. This will depend on where you live, or on your remote opportunities.

Step 2 is gaining the skills they are looking for. Appropriate language/framework/skill/experience they optimize for.

Step 3 is to prepare for their interview process, which is often quite involved. But they pay well, so when they say jump, you jump.

I'm not saying you'll find $600k as a normal pay, that's quite out of touch unless you're in Silicon Valley (and even then). But you'll find (much) higher than market salary.
Your opinion is wrong though. I'm sorry you can't see that. Not all opinions are right.
On X I went through and blocked a bunch of popular accounts that I previously had no real attraction to
but was fine with seeing in my “For You” page every now and then, after they went full pro-Israel (Growing Daniel, Eigenrobot, some others probably).

After that the feed was generally pro-Palestinian. But I also just grew sick of seeing all the war in general and logged out of X on all my devices and deleted the credentials from my password manager. I feel better off without it.
clearly there's value in the secret if you're making them sign a noncompete.

The proposal is just to ask firms to put money where their mouths are.
The least isreal supporting senator in the USA is coincidentally the only ethnically Jewish one as well, Bernie Sanders.

The Jewish left has always been isreal skeptic, including the Jewish left within isreal.
The problem is that China is the biggest market in the world and western auto makers sell more cars in China than in their respective home markets.
Protectionism will only benefit Chinese car makers. I mean, BYD would love to have a captive 27 million car a year market by themselves.
to the struggle SWEs who exaggerate your salary on HN and are upvoting this comment to the top: please stop and think for a second
You can ask ChatGPT to solve maths problems which are not in its training data, and it will answer an astonishing amount of them correctly.

The fact that we have trained it on examples of human-produced maths texts (rather than through interacting with the world over several millennia) seems like more of an implementation detail and not piece of evidence about whether it has “understood” or not.
SpaceX's Starship Explodes
Publish the timestamps of all votes for the top 10 most upvoted stories. Then the community can create scatterplots showing the acceleration of each story's score:

(def allstories ()
"All visible loaded stories"
(keep cansee (vals items*)))

(def mostvoted (n (o stories (allstories)))
"N most upvoted stories"
(bestn n (compare > len:!votes) stories))

(def votetimes (s)
"The timestamp of each vote, in ascending order"
(sort < (map car s!votes)))

; save vote timestamps for top 10 most upvoted stories

; each line contains the story id followed by a list of timestamps

(w/outfile o "storyvotes.txt"
(w/stdout o
(each s (mostvoted 10)
(apply prs s!id (votetimes s))
(prn))))

; paste storyvotes.txt to https://gist.github.com/ and post the url here

Note that this prints the timestamp of all votes, whereas each story's score is vote count minus sockpuppet votes.

If you don't want to reveal the timestamps of every vote, you could randomly drop K timestamps for each story, where K is the vote count minus the score. (E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128 has 4338 points, and you'll only reveal 4338 timestamps.) Since there are thousands of votes, this won't skew the scatterplot much.
Many here would have said it's a complicated both sides issue (such as framing it as terrorists vs colonizers) and that neither side can be supported, given their current stances evident in this thread. Do you condemn the Viet Cong? Did their choice to use violence justify America's violence against them?
I walked through the website and I admit, I still have no clue how CAI technically implements this concept. How does it work for audio media?
The irony is that a money-fuelled war for AI talent is all the more likely to lead to unsafe AI. If OpenAI had remained the dominant leader, it could have very well set the standards for safety. But now if new competitors with equally good funding emerge, they won’t have the luxury of sitting on any breakthrough models.
IIRC, they rely on EDNS in the request, which gives some origin subnet information in the request.
Never saw a single protest when Obama was dropping a bomb every 20 seconds in 2016. I guess the noble peace prize made it okay.
If they account for more details, sure. They usually are.

Take the comment originally responded to. Hamas is more of an underdog than Palestine, yet the public opinion we're discussing here is pro-palestinian, not pro-hamas.
Except objectively they stated ahead of time that a success would be stage separation, everything else is gravy. I had this same argument on HN after IFT-1. Folks were trying to argue that it was a failure because it blew up before orbit, when Elon was saying the whole time that just getting off the pad would be a success.
Several language have "fixed the null problem" after the fact, though usually as an opt-in e.g. typescript, C#.

The problem with Go (for this specific issue, there are lots of problems with Go) is that they have wedded themselves extremely strongly to zero-defaulting, it's absolutely ubiquitous and considered a virtue.

But without null you can't 0-init a pointer, so it's incompatible with null-safety.

I think C# pretty much left the idea of everything having a default behind when they decided to fix nulls. Though obviously the better alternative is to have opt-in defaulting instead.
Yes, or no?
Isn't it rather infantile to refer to diesel locomotives as choo-choos?

Anyway, there is plenty of precedent. Choo-choo - real steam locomotive - bans started over 100 years ago. "In 1903 state legislators passed a law banning steam locomotives from Manhattan after June 30, 1908", quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufman_Act.

The Kaufman Act "required that by January 1, 1926, all railroad traffic in New York City, Mount Vernon and Yonkers[16] must be converted to electrical traction (which, at the moment, was the only viable alternative to steam)." [ibid]

After it went into force, the RR companies got a permanent injunction, due to the Interstate Commerce Clause.

"The State Assembly amended the Act to comply with the concerns raised in the ruling, extended penalty deadline for another five years, and allowed use of diesel locomotives along with electric ones." [ibid]

Wikipedia also says "The city of Baltimore enacted a similar law, Ordinance 746–748, in June 1929."

So it seems totally legit if Sacramento wants to ban diesels before they reach the end of life.
I’m aware that they are very useful as an empty threat.

However, the reality here is not likely that a sandwich shop employee would have to “threaten to take an employer to court”.

The most likely scenario is that the hiring manager doesn’t even realize that boilerplate is in their employment agreement. The second most likely is that the employer grumbles about the employee leaving and that’s as far as it goes.
... and possibly with futures. A clay tablet promising delivery of grain.
Yeah this cult of CEOs is weird.

It's such a small cohort that when someone doesn't completely blow it, they're immediately deemed as geniuses.

Give someone billions of dollars and hundreds of brilliant engineers, researchers and many will make it work. But only a few ever get the chance, so this happens.

They don't do any of the work. They just take the credit.
Fair enough, that seems premature. Transformers are clearly already exceeding human intelligence in some specific ways, going back to AlphaGo. It's almost as clear that related techniques are capable of approaching AGI in the 'G' (general) sense. What's needed now is refinement rather than revolution.

Being able to emit code to solve problems it couldn't otherwise handle is a huge deal, maybe an adequate definition of intelligence in itself. Parrots don't write Python.
Would a solution like mixing address the issue with acceptable tradeoffs ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12264
Doesn’t have to be PoE cameras. I use wifi cameras too, pretty much any camera with rtsp/onvif would work.

Chances are, a single switch is more cost effective than multiple injectors. But you also need Ethernet routed throughout your house. One alternative is to have the G.hn (powerline) adapter with PoE. This way, you can be both network and power with one plug without wiring your house.
Everyone I speak to who have have been building on top of OpenAI - and I don’t mean just stupid chat apps - feel like the rug has just been pulled out from under them.

If as it seems, dev day was the last straw, what does that say to all the devs?
It often comes down to auteur theory.

Unless someone is truly well versed in the production of something, they latch on to the most public facing aspect of that production and the person at the highest level of authority (to them, even though directors and CEOs often have to answer to others as well)

That’s not to say they don’t have an outsized individual effect, but it’s rare their greatness is solo
The world has devolved into juvenile takes.
Tiktok has a very real algorithm problem that pushes terrorism & antisemitism to millions of people. They have started to crack down since the Osama thing, but prior to that tiktok refused to remove hate and calls for violence from their platform.
These seem easy to game, and would just generate a (pure dead-weight) industry of money persistence optimization. Alternatively, people would ditch their <expiring currency> and buy <some other country's more stable currency> instead.

The whole thing sounds incredibly dumb.
A couple other recent blog posts on the topic:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/expiring-money-p...

https://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/expiring-money-p...
I was able to win consistently by alternate winking. It's extremely uncomfortable to continuously wink at a stranger for five minutes, but it's an unbeatable meta.
I agree with Hinton, although a lot hinges on your definition of "understand."

I think to best wrap your head around this stuff, you should look to the commonalities of LLM's, image, generators, and even things like Alpha Zero and how it learned to play Go.

Alpha Zero is kind of the extreme in terms of not imitating anything that humans have done. It learns to play the game simply by playing itself -- and what they found is that there isn't really a limit to how good it can get. There may be some theoretical limit of a "perfect" Go player, or maybe not, but it will continue to converge towards perfection by continuing to train. And it can go far beyond what the best human Go player can ever do. Even though very smart humans have spent their lifetimes deeply studying the game, and Alpha Zero had to learn everything from scratch.

One other thing to take into consideration, is that to play the game of Go you can't just think of the next move. You have to think far forward in the game -- even though technically all it's doing is picking the next move, it is doing so using a model that has obviously looked forward more than just one move. And that model is obviously very sophisticated, and if you are going to say that it doesn't understand the game of Go, I would argue that you have a very, oddly restricted definition of the word, understand, and one that isn't particularly useful.

Likewise, with large language models, while on the surface, they may be just predicting the next word one after another, to do so effectively they have to be planning ahead. As Hinton says, there is no real limit to how sophisticated they can get. When training, it is never going to be 100% accurate in predicting text it hasn't trained on, but it can continue to get closer and closer to 100% the more it trains. And the closer it gets, the more sophisticated model it needs. In the sense that Alpha Zero needs to "understand" the game of Go to play effectively, the large language model needs to understand "the world" to get better at predicting.
If that's the outcome, I suspect OpenAI will have another wave of resignations as the folks aligned to Sutskever would walk away, too, and take with them their expertise.
This was a severely constrained version with limited public record, so paint me skeptical.

For instance there was a 5 minute limit.

From the article:

Simultaneous tests as specified by Alan Turing
Each judge was involved in five parallel tests - so 10 conversations
30 judges took part
In total 300 conversations
In each five minutes a judge was communicating with both a human and a machine
Each of the five machines took part in 30 tests
To ensure accuracy of results, Test was independently adjudicated by Professor John Barnden, University of Birmingham, formerly head of British AI Society

5 tests in 5 minutes that's just 1 minute each. In 1 minute it would be challenging to figure out you're not talking to ELIZA.
More accurate title: "Non-simple streetlight hack could protect cameras and telescopes from urban light pollution, but still annoy anyone outside just trying to look at the stars"
Maybe she used a trust and circumvented all of this, who knows?
Ullage motors as they were on Saturn V (and in most other cases) are solid fueled. Making them incompatible with reuse. SpaceX emphasize reusable systems even when not recoverable because that allows for testing of the exact flight hardware (eg mechanical separation systems over explosive bolts).

A reusable approach would involve some form of gas thruster, so might as well just try hot staging.
They’ve announced that it will be on display along with others of the artist’s works starting in 2025.
Coding Is Hard
Have been feeling very frustrated this past week working on something. Started wondering if I am dumb or is this actually hard. Decided to write a simple quick blog post on it -
> ... Tera Term https://github.com/TeraTermProject/osdn-download/releases

Surprised to find that Tera Term is still actively supported and has recent releases.

I knew it as a nice and simple term emulator from quite some years back. Though Windows only still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)
at least because one is one is cared more about by the media than the other. The Syrian stuff has always been a "side story" even though it's been terrible and ongoing for some time.

The Syrian stuff really started during a different media era.
> This is why working for any company that isn’t public is an equity gamble.

That's a cynical take on work. I assume most people have other motivations since work is basically a prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR1jzExZ9T0
It could have done both though. It could have explicitly nullable types like Kotlin/C#. Or sum types like zig/rust/Swift. That wouldn’t make the language more complex to learn.
presumably the noncompete wouldn't apply then, if the two companies were not competing, and then you wouldn't need to pay them at all.
That is just space hardware porn.
Ummm, most board members have some form of Microsoft connections, so for any hidden non-profit shareholders to fire any number of the board remains dubious, at best.
Note that Signal decided not to use that:

> Unfortunately, for a reasonably large user base, this strategy doesn’t work because the bloom filters themselves are too large to transmit to mobile clients. For 10 million TextSecure users, a bloom filter like this would be ~40MB, requested from the server 116 times a second if every client refreshes it once a day.

They decided to run computations inside a 'secure' hardware environment instead (SGX specifically) so that they can't get access to the computation themselves but it also doesn't need to be run client side. I assume you meant the former thing, but the approach they actually use is fundamentally different from homomorphic encryption / PIR.
Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control
The last time that Israel was seriously threatened by the Arab countries was in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Anyone old enough to remember that clearly is also old enough to retire. Since then the pattern has been that Israel retaliates massively to losses of a handful of people — until October 7 at least. If your understanding of the situation starts in medias res like that it's practically impossible to have sympathy for the Israeli argument that they live under the constant threat of destruction.
> while the world remains hands-off

The world is not hands-off right now. Or specifically, there's a number of countries involved in effectively helping Israel's aggression.
A lot of people would disagree with this. I don't want to talk ill of anybody here but maybe you should keep an eye on both projects' GitHub issues for a while.

As for a great terminal from (IMO) a genuine nice guy, try wezterm.

(I do infact pick open source software based on how they respond to issues since I am likely to spend time interacting with them.)