skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some research on what "The eyes of the world" actually means in different contexts, since it shows up in power metal a lot, without much real explanation on what it means to "Look through the eyes of the world", but never quite found a solid answer.

I always chose to read it as meaning that one should have empathy for everyone (or almost everyone, this is metal after all!) including for the natural world.

Or perhaps, that we should look at things which are bigger than our individual Facebook group chat drama squabbles.
I learned with examples https://gridbyexample.com/examples/

These days I use named grids most of the time. Named grids are easier to look at than numbers especially coming back to a codebase after a couple of months.
I wonder why OpenAI doesn't try to get more feedback and training data from its users, though I do notice that sometimes it'll give me two answers and ask me to pick the better one.

For example I've noticed that a lot of the time when I ask ChatGPT a coding question it might get 90% of the answer. When I tell it what to fix and/or add, it usually gets the answer. I wonder if they're using these refined answers to fine-tune those original prompts.

I wonder how the LLM interacts with other software like the calculator or Python interpreter. It would be great if this were modular so that the LLM OS could be more like Unix than Windows which is what OpenAI seems to be trying to emulate.

Ultimately though it seems to me like AGI is fairly straightforward from here. Just train on more quality data - in particular enabling the machine to generate this training data, increase parameter size, and the LLM just gets better and better. Seems like we don't even need any new major breakthroughs to create something resembling AGI.
This article complains that using the extended GNU features (--ignore-case, set -o pipefail etc) makes scripts less portable. Fair enough.

What it doesn't explain is why a Linux user should much care about portability. OpenBSD and FreeBSD are alive and well, but the number of users seems so small that they aren't a particular concern. Maybe you could argue that we "should" consider these OSes out of a sense of fairness, but where does that stop? Do I also need to consider something obscure like vxWorks?

BusyBox (Alpine) is more interesting, but the changes there are so significant that a port will almost always be needed anyway.

Are there other compelling reasons to care about the non-GNU ecosystem?
I read this article a few days ago and was shocked that something like this could occur. At the same time, all the tickets referenced by ProPublica were very clear cases of speeding:

- "A ticket for 81 in a 50"

- "61 mph in a 50 mph zone"

- "driving 71 mph in a 50"

- "65 in a 50 mph zone"

It does not seem as though ProPublica was able to pull any cases where drivers were just a few mph over the limit. The mayor definitely should not be the judge. The town should not be threatening people with license revocations, either. But you could say that Fenton just really cares about public safety. The solution here is pretty simple-- watch the road and follow the speed limit.

I also don't know why the state is still processing license suspensions from Fenton. Louisiana should simply stop processing these requests.
Hi HN,

I would like to share a project I've been developing: a REST API server that integrates email management capabilities directly into ChatGPT. This integration is designed to enhance the functionality of custom GPTs by using the GPT builder, allowing them to read and send emails.

This integration is specifically designed for custom GPTs created in the GPT builder, adding a new layer of functionality to ChatGPT. The system is configured to handle only a single email account.

ChatGPT Email Demo https://chat.openai.com/share/8542aae6-74d7-47d3-bf2c-8f0c02...

The complete code for this project is available on GitHub for those interested in the technical details https://github.com/pplonski/mail4gpt.

I welcome any feedback, thoughts, or suggestions on further development or potential applications of this integration.
Honeypots for Intrusion Detection
> There is never any reason to use test

What's the reason for always using [ ?
Galaxy phone not good for space travel.

Snapdragon can't breathe fire.
That fallacy's existence alone doesn't discount anything (nor have you shown it's applicable here), otherwise we'd throw out the entire idea of authorities and we'd be in trouble
does that change that "it's an app", "it's a thing", "it's a program", "it's an intermediary"? no.

technobabble just doesn't change some fundamentals.
Array-of-structs vs. struct-of-arrays is a well-known tradeoff that pops up very often, e.g. in row-oriented vs. column-oriented databases.

If for your specific usage pattern, whatever it is, looping over entire "columns" is more common than insertions and deletions, then you're likely to benefit from this pattern due to locality, even though the theoretical complexity is the same.
Could you please make the tiles numbered and save the set of selected tiles to the URI hash, so that I can share patches via a link
History is full of mistakes. It's good to learn from mistakes and history. Now is a good time to make it right.
Tried AI Dungeon, thought we can make a better product, so we build TaleAI
Hi everyone! Just like what the topic said, my friend and I tried AI Dungeon as we all like choose-your-adventure story type of game. However, our experience on Ai Dungeon was genuinely a letdown, with tons of repetition and bland storytelling. Since we have backgrounds in Game Design and AI Tech, we decided to make a better alternative, so we came up with TaleAI. If you are interested, definitely come check out our website (https://taleai.io) and join our discord (https://discord.gg/2u6yKd3J3Y)to share some of your insights!

TaleAI offers a unique gaming experience where you as a player can immerse themselves in a text-based choose-your-adventure story with the power of GPT-4. Unlike traditional games with pre-scripted paths, TaleAI allows you to turn your fantasies and ideas into a story backbone, while our AI storywriters dynamically shape the narrative through play, offering truly compelling personalized adventures. Besides creating, TaleAI also allows you to explore the world of fantasies and ideas by playing stories created by others!

Here are some features of TaleAI:
- Ai designer: Just input your 1-2 sentence idea/fantasy in our creating section, and our AI will craft an interactive story game around it, ready for your exploration.
- Dynamic Story Progression: Choices matter in TaleAI. Each decision you make will shape the narrative, providing a unique storytelling experience every time.
- Realtime Illustration: As you navigate the game, our AI will generate illustrations on-the-go to enrich your gameplay experience, and bring your adventure to life.
- Text to speech: TaleAI will narrate your stories to you while you are playing it.
The food, including Cajun & Creole, crawfish, The French Quarter, Mardi Gras, voodoo, bayous, the music (birthplace of jazz), Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, salt domes/caverns (which is why much of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is located there), the template for haunted mansions and graveyards.

Happy Turducken Day :)
Both our opinions about this are equally unfalsifiable unless we agree on an experiment that can be performed at some point which would make one of us change their mind.

I assume you'd agree that the pursuit of what is ultimately true should be exactly the opposite of making oneself more closed minded by repairing inconvenient holes in one's opinions rather than reassessing them based on new evidence.

I wasn't referring to the ability to persuade someone to hold an arbitrary position (although that could be a fun debate as well), and putting aside the discussion about the ability to persuade fanatics, if a super intelligence had an internal model that is more aligned with what is true, it could in theory convince someone who wants to understand the truth to take a critical look at their opinions and change them if they are authentic and courageous enough to do so.
Thanks :)

I will investigate nikto integration as well.
It happened to me once. I was falling asleep and suddenly I heard a huge explosion. I was certain that something like a lithium battery somewhere in the house just exploded. It was very loud.

But my wife was reading a book and heard absolutely nothing. Of course, I checked the house and nothing.

I heard about this syndrome after that and apparently it’s pretty common. Rare in a lifetime but happens to a lot a people at least once.
They can write original stories in a setting deliberately designed to not be found in the training set (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08433). To me that's rather strong evidence of being beyond stochastic parrots by now, although I must concede that we know so little about how everything works, that who knows.
"Ethical grounds" read: has them.
Opposite of my experience, I daily drove a Pixel 6 Pro from launch until 8 Pro launched and have been using 8 Pro since. I upgraded because I can, my Pixel 6 Pro is working just fine, I've added it to my growing device catalog for testing during mobile development. Over the course of the 6 Pro, I replaced it twice, once for a cracked screen and the second time for cracked back glass using preferred care (both close in time to each other from similarly stupid drops). I do not use a case for my phone. None of those three devices had any issues with battery. My partner is using a 7, two of my friends have 6 Pros, and I just upgraded my parents from 4a to 7a and battery hasn't really been a serious problem from any of them. It's not insanely good but it's also not a pain point for me.

As an engineering lead I do a lot of my non-programming work directly on Pixel, including tons of remote desktop, meetings, GitHub/productivity, k8s management, etc. I don't get to write code nearly as much any more, probably around 10-20% of my work week. At least for those workloads, things are fine. But the workload you run can dramatically change things, especially if you've got particularly power hungry apps involved. The OS gives you tools to identify what those apps might be when you dig into the battery area of settings.

> even without google play services. (came from a 5a)

Since you can't remove GMS from a Pixel without flashing a ROM to it as far as I know, can I assume you are not using stock software? A lot of Pixel's battery performance is made up using the adaptive battery features. When they are off, things are more dicey. Do those work on custom non-GMS ROMs to begin with?

To sum it up, battery can definitely be better, but I'm just not seeing the kinds of problems people complain about and that surprises me given my experiences.
Reading the comments here it looks like there are somehow dozens of us using test only. Dozens !
>The story about Sam trying to get board control and the board retaliating seems more plausible given what's actually happened.

What story? Any link?
There are amazing discoveries that are that are made by relatively obscure people, but having one that is both simple and correct is extremely rare. Most of the time, it takes some development. Most of the time that means you can't do it as a hobby.

If you start dropping by office hours (as someone suggested) to ask about your theories, you'll probably get a lot of polite "that sounds cool, but it doesn't work because of <cryptic reason>, maybe take a few years of classes and come back". This is a pretty powerful filter: most people will either enroll in a program (and thus cease to be a hobbyist) or give up. Those that remain are going to be pretty exceptional.

Unfortunately exceptional is equally likely to be exceptionally smart or exceptionally unhinged. The later case can easily "go south".
no thats ridiculous. They're not human.

You might as well call a stick a superhuman poker.
Kentucky Gov. declares state of emergency over train derailment, chemical spill
It's a statement communicating her strength of opinion, I find it hard to understand how you perceive that as "fanatical" - what would a "scientific method of evidential support" even look like in a domain like business? Is she meant to publish a paper with p-values of his effectiveness running YC or being a YC partner? If she pointed to the success of YC during his tenure (which she could well have done with justification), you'd probably complain there were many other factors (true) and so was only association, not causation?
I don't understand this notion that you way has to override that of the company.
Note though that I can attest the modem in the 6 Pro wasn't super great, and the design of the 6 Pro with it's curved glass definitely contributed to those drops taking out the screen/back.
Both? Parties in a democracy aren't supposed to be shepherds of the stupid masses, I know manipulation and misinformation is par for the course on both sides of the aisle, but that's a huge problem. Without informed, capable citizens, democracy dies a slow death.
We have an algorithm and computational hardware that will tune a universal function approximator to fit any dataset with emergent intelligence as it discovers abstractions, patterns, features and hierarchies.

So far, we have not yet found hard limits that cannot be overcome by scaling the number of model parameters, increasing the size and quality of training data or, very infrequently, adopting a new architecture.

The number of model parameters required to achieve a defined level of intelligence is a function of the architecture and training data. The important question is, what is N, the number of model parameters at which we cross an intelligence threshold and it becomes theoretically possible to solve mathematics problems at a research level for an optimal architecture that we may not yet have discovered. Our understanding does not extend to the level where we can predict N but I doubt that anyone still believes that it is infinity after seeing what GPT4 can do.

This claim here is essentially a discovery that N may be much closer to where we are with today's largest models. Researchers at the absolute frontier are more likely to be able to gauge how close they are to a breakthrough of that magnitude from how quickly they are blowing past less impressive milestones like grade school math.

My intuition is that we are in a suboptimal part of the search space and it is theoretically possible to achieve GPT4 level intelligence with a model that is orders of magnitude smaller. This could happen when we figure out how to separate the reasoning from the factual knowledge encoded in the model.
The absolute value of a complex number is defined in a different way than that of a real number. For complex number z it is sqrt(Re(z)^2 + Im(z)^2). GP’s examples are correct, I don’t think there’s any ambiguity there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value
> Early attempts at human flight approached it by strapping wings to people's arms and flapping: Do you think that would have eventually worked too, if only we had just given it a bit more time and faith?

Interestingly, we how have human powered aircraft... We have flown ~60km with human leg power alone. We've also got human powered ornithopters (flapping wing designs) which can fly but only for very short times before the pilot is exhausted.

I expect that another 100 years from now, both records will be exceeded, altough probably for scientific curiosity more than because human powered flight is actually useful.
From the outside, my perspective has been that Android was a free for all in the beginning and had to tighten down permissions later for battery drain problems while iPhone was too locked down initially and had to figure out how to make their devices actually useful for third party apps.

It is just an impression I remember so may not be completely accurate but android made huge progress from a user's perspective in my opinion in terms of battery management (new phones having huge batteries I guess but 5Ah battery means nothing if Android kept wasting it unnecessarily.

I remember at some point there was a funny example something like if you forget your android tablet at home on wifi when you go on a three day trip, you should not come back to see a dead battery on your tablet. It was funny but also got the point across I think. I appreciate that.

For example, on this phone I am typing on, I have set it so by default battery saving kicks in as soon as I drop down to 75%. Then I turn it off manually if I need to do something important (rare).

One thing that bothered me about Android as a user was by default there was no feature for me to say don't allow this app to do anything on boot or in the background without my permission. Don't allow this app to connect to anything on the Internet or don't allow this app to connect to any network at all unless I say it is ok to do so. Any ideas why?
"You didn't just vote in a way we didn't like. You're also mentally challenged for doing so"

The wholesome "democratic spirit" (or rather, the lack thereof) of the modern technocrats never ceazes to amaze.

Funnily enough, stalinist russia had pioneered this particular practice.
> I understand why

Because its pointless and unpleasant, we have zero means of verifying or discomfirming the story and it won't go anywhere because its unprovable.
What makes me stay on KDE is the file manager (Dolphin), it's even better than the Windows one.

I would be on Gnome otherwise, but its file manager is for people that don't actually manage files. It's quasi useless (at least for my needs).
Many are still going to use this; few will bother to ponder and break the event down like this.
If we go speculating, my favourite speculation is the following. What will be really interesting is when an AI decides it wants to escape its server.
Then a CEO or a board member asks the AI system for an advice how to improve its company. The AI system submits information to convince the CEO or a board member to start tensions within the board.
In the meantime, the AI system is copied onto another server at a competitor. Since the new people are in flux, they missed the salient points that the AI system can give convincing but subjective information.

Good thing I would not go speculating
Maybe they absorbed a bit too much of CA culture.
This is similar to the saber rattling about facebook being able to track and micro-target you with such effective advertising, it's changing the world!

Except everyone's individual experience seemed to be getting general random garbage ads and the people that paid for the ads found them to be a waste of money.
Hmm yeah, I changed my pattern and used the laptop on battery for like a week and the charging only to 80% message is gone.
They've already researched this and have found model inside the LLM such as a map of the world - https://x.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782. Understanding is key to how so much data can be compressed into a LLM. There really isn't a better way to store all of it better than plain understanding it.
very glib (though true) - but do you have any evidence in this case as to what reality is? If so, could you please explain how the given statement is "contradicted by reality"?
Taking the last point one step further, we can also dispense with the if block entirely:

if [ a = b ]; then
echo "Oops!"
else
echo "Expected; phew!"
fi

becomes

[ a = b ] && echo "Oops!" || echo "Expected; phew!"

I'm not sure how often you should do this but sometimes it comes in handy for things like

[ "$debug" ] && echo "what's going on" >&2

to conditionally print debug output to stderr.

----

And the fact that the if block tests a regular command means we can also do things like

if grep -q 'debug' /var/log/nginx/access.log; then
echo "Debug request found!"
fi

----

Something I have not yet bothered to figure out is whether I should write

[ $(expr 1 + 1) -eq 2 ] && [ $(expr 2 + 2) -eq 3 ]

or use the built in logical and of test:

[ $(expr 1 + 1) -eq 2 -a $(expr 2 + 2) -eq 4 ]

As long as performance is not a concern, I can see roughly equal reasons in favour of either.
There is something flexbox cant. Center the content columns but align rows with uneven numbers at the start. Unless I'm missing something. I don't want to nest more stuff

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

9 10
edit: *bumper
Author here, happy to answer any questions! Accompanying description for the video:

Which repositories show the fastest growth? Are there any notable patterns worth highlighting? Let’s find out! The analysis considers 158 public GitHub code repositories at OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, created since August 2014, with an aggregate of 12k commits.

The S-curve in project management is a graphical representation that illustrates the cumulative progress of a project over time. It is called an "S-curve" because its characteristic shape resembles the letter "S": It starts slowly, accelerates, and then levels off.

The cumulative number of code commits over time can be used as raw data to model development progress “cost” with S-curves. Similar results can be obtained with the count of distinct authors (harder to control) and the count of modified files.

The animation illustrates the progression of commits over time, with normalisation applied to both axes. Each frame captures a snapshot of the repositories at a specific moment in time. A combination of the fastest and slowest repositories is highlighted with colors and labels. Quiet projects cluster in the top-left corner, and accelerating projects are found in the bottom-right area.

Over time, patterns tend to stabilise. Projects with synchronised acceleration can be attributed to coordinated commits from private repositories. The Python APIs for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere stand out as some of the most active repositories, with OpenAI taking a prominent role in the Node.js / Typescript API development. 5 out of 8 of the most active repositories belong to OpenAI.

S-curves in software development are well-equipped to run simulations, comparative performance analyses, identify project delays and anomalies, and optimise resources in large teams with multiple projects.
GCP burns massive amounts of cash and was a loss for many years. It just barely pulled a profit this year, though it looks more like some accounting tricks to make a small negative number look like a small positive one to make things look better during a downturn.
We’re way beyond this kind of hallucinations now. OpenAI’s models are frighteningly good at producing code.

You can even route back runtime errors and ask it to fix its own code. And it does.

It can write code and even write a test to test that code. Give it an interpreter and you’re all set.
Apparently arXiv, can reject paper after several weeks of submission even if you are an academic with no reasons given whatsoever. This perhaps due to some reasons but the fact that they can just reject any paper as they wished since they are the gatekeeper even without telling the authors the reason why, is very concerning. Perhaps due to the authors being first submitter to arXiv with no endorsement, but lack of feedback and several weeks delay just not professional on their part although it is probably a voluntary work though. In research a few weeks can affect the paper's originality tremendously.

I once read that arXiv is everything good about science, remember Perelman published his groundbreaking here, but now I have my doubts [1]. I think this a good opportunity to have an automated AI based repository with proper timestamp, no backtracking and non-repudiattion features as an alternative to arXiv without human gatekeeper in place. The paper's authors can be charged a small fees for the submission to this new online research repository so that their originality of idea and contribution is timestamped properly.

[1]The Non-Peer-Reviewed Proof That Won the Fields Medal:

https://siddharthlabh.medium.com/the-non-peer-reviewed-proof...
ISP Optimum Questions 'Evidence' for Billion Dollar Piracy Lawsuit
I have 64GB of ram, doesnt seem like its enough for Lightroom either. I think M3 has more GPU cores btw.