skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The clients don't want us mucking around in their code, which is why they have their devs do the work. There are some cases where having a dev on our end could help unblock their devs, but these are pretty rare cases. In general, it's very easy for folks to use our tech, and I'm able (thanks to a couple years of CS back in the day) to help out with the vast majority of questions that come up.

In terms of changes, there aren't any material changes. We've had licensees up and running for 7 years without changing any code.
Speed limiters in cars is one such solution. It's simple to implement - we just need to make it max 130 (or whatever) km/h on highways, 80km/h on "country" roads outside of population centers and 40km/h (or whatever, even making it 50 would help tremendously) in populated areas. It doesn't need to be smart enough to understand every speed limit out there it just needs to know what zone out of 3 possible ones it's in.

Of course car lobby makes it sound like impossible task because of "think about all the edge cases" while even making the most crude system would save tens of thousands of lives and hundred of thousands of injuries per year.

As it is we can even force car manufacturers to implement max 140km/h speed limit in cars even though driving faster than that is criminal level behavior and illegal about anywhere in the world. Like we can't even force them to make the least controversial safety check imaginable already written into law because "driving a car fast boost my ego and you are not taking away my freedom to do so".
You're going into a bad, boring place for 8 hours a day. You're pissing away your precious time on earth while lying to yourself that it's a "balance" and you're happy about it.
Guile Hoot v0.2.0 Released
A particular subset of Connectivism have a philosophical belief that the mind IS a neutral net, not that it is a reductive practical model.

Hinton is one of these individuals and with no definition of what intelligence is it is an understandable of dogmatic position.

This whole problem of not being able to define what intelligence is pretty much allows us all to pick and choose.

In my mind BPP is the complexity class solvable by ANNs and it is a safe and educated guess that most likely BPP=P.

BPP being one of the largest practical complexity classes makes work in this area valuable.

But due to many reasons that I won't enumerate again AGI simply isn't possible and requires a dogmatic position to believe in for people who have even a basic understanding of how they work and the limits from the work of Gödel etc...

But many of the top scientists in history have been believers of numerology etc...

Associating math with LLMs is a useful too to avoid wasted effort by those who don't believe AGI is close, but it won't convince those who are true believers.

LLM's are very useful for searching very large dimensional spaces and for those problems that are ergotic with the Markov property they can find real answers.

But for most of what is popular in the press will almost certainly be a dead end for generalized use of the systems are not extremely error tolerant.

Unfortunately it may take another AI winter to break the hype train but I hope not.

IMHO it will have a huge impact but overconfident claims will cause real pain and misapplication for the foreseeable future.
> One thing Nvidia are much better at is supporting the whole stack - while I doubt many people are actually running much ML on 8gb mid-low end cards, it seems a hook for sales if people "could" do that, and a starting point for personal experimentation. I know multiple people who buy low end Nvidia GPUs because they "might" experiment with CUDA some time in the future.

but this is very important. Many develop locally before sending it to a cluster, especially if you only have limited credits available.
Another instance of pedestrian congestion that’s really jarring to me are serial pedestrian crossings on roads with opposing traffic lanes separated by pavement, often on intersections. It may look like this: <https://maps.app.goo.gl/ErBFC2oXV21oQ9U7A>. For some reason, the traffic lights are programmed in such a way that most of the time you need to be almost running (I’d say something like 8-10 km/h) to ever have a chance of crossing both crossings in one go, even when you start walking at the beginning of the green light. Instead you’re almost always (the durations change throughout the day) guaranteed to stop before the second light and have fun breathing in the fumes from a high-traffic road. I can’t think of it as anything but hostile to pedestrians.
Assuming that the script you download is the same as the script that curl|bash downloads.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231128113854/https://www.idont...
Amazon's Thin Client for business is an IT department's dream
Twirly prompts have sucked, for weird reasons, since the WWIV BBS days.

I guess some things never change.
Because it's easier to adjust the clock than to get employers to adjust schedules and to adjust public transit etc. accordingly.
How does the Canadian law compare to the Australian one? As I understand it, the Australian law had a lot of influence from people like Rupert Murdoch, specifically targeted "big tech" companies like Meta and Google, and didn't benefit small[er]/independent news organizations.
There's room in the market for both of these types of vehicles. Asking people who typically buy big luxury cars to 'just buy a smaller car' would be nice in theory, but isn't going to happen in practice. There are many reasons, valid or potentially invalid, to own a larger car or a truck, and often you're not going to change people's minds on that.
Read and understand the Gitlab handbook:

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
And on the next level are tires of mining trucks, like that caterpillar 797 which can carry 300+ metric tons of rocks.
How about L7->L8?
The frequency of personal names demonstrate conclusively that all accounts are wholesale fiction.

Jesus ("Yeshua") was the single most common name among Jews of the time, with numerous examples noted in Josephus. Yet, they have no account of their puppet encountering a single example in a year's wandering the region.
You freeze them? How do you then slice them to eat?
We're (probably) rapidly shifting to a reality where your biggest value will be Agentifying as many things as you can.

Even if it's mediocre, it's basically free, and has almost no costs.

Compare that to the incalculable potential switching costs of us meatbags and our many non-linearities.
Taming the Rhizome
Drafting Patents for AI
Literally the only 4min of this movie that I watched. Worth it.
> Subscribe to unlock this article

TBH, fits a bit to Kissinger.
Couldn't agree more. How about this -- I think we've already reached AGI. Let me know if this tracks: Pick a set of tasks that can be considered AGI tasks. Provided the task sequences can be compared as closer to AGI or further from AGI, we can create a reward model using the same techniques as were used by ChatGPT via RLHF. Thus, for any definition of AGI that is meaningful and selectable, even if subjectively selectable or arbitrarily preferential, we can create a reward model for it.

You might say, well thats not AGI, AGI must also do such and such. Well, we can get arbitrarily close to that definition as well via RLHF.

Another objection might be: well, if thats the definition of AGI, that seems really underwhelming compared to the hype train. This says nothing about autonomy, sentience, free will -- exactly. Those concepts can or should be orthogonal to doing productive work.l, IMHO.

So, there it is. We can now make a reward model for folding socks, and use gradient descent with RL to do the motion planning.

Maybe thats AGI and maybe its not, but I'd really love it if we had a golden period between now and total enshittification that involved laundry folding robots.
Maybe so, could of done royalty google-fu before hand but still, my anger is more focused at today's subscription models and my point still stands where you own nothing in return.

I don't use Spotify, nor any subscription model for that matter. If I can't own it, then oh well. This goes for consumer products too.
yeah, it's depressing to start working at dark and stop working at dark. What a waste of life.
To me avocado's are the tuna of fruits, a pinch of salt goes a long way
Classic suit brain.
`docker system prune --force --all --volumes` and they're gone.
I often get asked how I think about product development as a Google Product Manager focused on AI products. Traditional advice is to find a user problem, then solve it - but when it comes to developing AI first products, I find a different approach is best.
> stop pretending that reading "both sides" of everything

Nobody is doing that. They’re distinguish immoral and even illegal acts from the violation of a particular statute.

> imperialism

Another word you don’t understand. Hint: spoils. Iraq was imperialist. Laos was not.
Absolutely not — he vested founder's shares just like me. And then I continued to work with no salary and no additional vesting for years after that. Also, I was working full-time while he was working nights/weekends.

Perhaps don't assume the worst?
Any IM service not operated by a major tech company that the news organization wouldn't also want to collect compensation from is going see such a small number of referrals, who cares? Same goes for the number of people who are going to take the time to hack around it. Who cares?
U.S. stops helping Big Tech spot foreign meddling amid GOP legal threats
It's just survivorship bias though. There's also boatloads of startups that had crap product and just died right away, and we don't talk about them.
This is what I was getting at in the last sentence of my comment. The reason it's a government action rather than a collective action is that way it prevents defections, aka scabbing.
We learned this lesson the hard way when China stole a ton of military members' personal info.
IMHO the hard part with a startup is you don't want to build something that works sustainably at scale. You want to build something that could plausibly morph into something that is sustainable at scale.
Time zones are geopolitical artifacts just like borders, laws, currencies, etc. They can't really be "permanent"...
You can (and in some cases should) also rewrite and simplify code written in a plattform independent high-level language. And even Forth has re-usable parts not written in assembler (though re-use and generality aren't Chuck's thing).
I never thought that was an open question (given the space we're talking about)...

The one that seemed more open and therefore more interesting: do you need a non-technical co-founder?
240tok/s is crazy
Blindsight by Peter Watts carries a similar theme and has vampires!
For the ivy leagues universities: Tolerating a little bit of antisemitism demonstrations makes up for tolerating some over representation in admission acceptance rates (Maybe they hope ?).
KyberSwap hacker demands complete control over Kyber company
This is one of the wildest unfolding stories I've seen in a while. DeFi hacks happen all the time, but this time the hacker is demanding to take control over the day-to-day operations of the entire org.
Have someone call you on Signal. Missed calls galore. Also texts. It just dozez all the time (despite having been configured in Android to not let it sleep) and texts come late and calls get missed.
Would this work for having proxmox modes across multiple datacenters? IIRC it was sensitive to latency

I don't really use the HA features of proxmox that often, mostly just for migrating vms across hosts. But I had been thinking of re-installing some of my remote servers with proxmox and hooking them up to the same cluster so that I could potentially shut off all of the servers in my basement and run everything from a remote location, then migrate the vms back later.
GL-MT3000
The issue with AMD (and frankly AWS' custom accelerators) is more on the software side usually. ROCM is getting better but still lags far behind CUDA in adoption and often performance.

With things like inferentia, although the performance numbers they have reported are really impressive-- in practice, model compilation is super finnicky. I'd love to see how seamless they can make usage of trainium.
same but I didn't expect anything different from a TWM for a game that relies on floating windows
> being part of the war cabinet and directing which villages to bomb on a map is somehow not commanding the military?

Not in the way the Conventions define it. (Kissinger absolutely violated international law. He should have been prosecuted. But not as a war criminal.)
How Planet Earth gets made, and how Netflix shows you what to watch
In my experience, each message with the 1106 preview model costs me about $0.006, which is acceptable. Most importantly, the API is higher availability (no "you have reached your message limit") and I feel more comfortable using proprietary data with it, as data sent through the API won't be used to train the model.

Now, if the chat gets very long or is heavy on high-token strings (especially code), those costs can balloon up to the 9-12 cent region. I think this is because chatgpt-web loads all the prior messages in the chat into the context window, so if you create a new chat for each question you can lower costs substantially. Most often I don't need much prior context in my chat questions anyway, as I use ChatGPT more like StackOverflow than a conversation buddy.

Also, it's a lot easier to run company subscriptions this way, as we don't have to provision a new card for each person to use the web version. I believe there is an Enterprise version of ChatGPT, but chatgpt-web is functionally equivalent and I'm sure it costs less.
How did we get to this? WTF happened? To treat another human being like this. The pathetic little weasels cannot even straight out tell someone they’re fired. They have to play this humiliating game of pretending you can affect the outcome and that there’s something wrong with you. Satanic.
Hey, author of the blog post here. It's mentioned in the blog post, but one of the intentions of this repo is that it's more of a "tutorial" than it is a library/framework. My hope is that people will copy-paste and modify it for their own needs :)

Code can also be found here: https://github.com/pytorch-labs/gpt-fast

And a twitter thread summary here: https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1730293330213531844
I'm shopping around for a B48 powered car, and there have been instances of stretched chains at like 180000km.

It's worse in B47, which carries over the same timing parts as N47 and it's generally acknowledged it's best to replace the chain at 120000km there.

6cyls seem to fare better, my guess is the pulling forces on the chain are spaced more evenly.
I've been using & contributing to Lightrail (https://github.com/lightrail-ai/lightrail). Each instance comes with a local vectorDB and integrates with apps like Chrome & VSCode, so I can read in content like my notes, emails, etc. It doesn't support self-hosted LLMs yet unfortunately!
Yep, the standard playbook on this stuff is to table it for 6 months, at which point you reintroduce. Repeat ad infinitum until it passes. If at any point there's a crisis that can be used, reintroduce immediately.
Most modern companies ARE tech / it companies but either don't know it or don't accept it.

It's easy to run services on the internet when you don't know what you are doing wrong...
I missed it, what was infamous about it?
I suppose I could have included other "relevant" sections of the bill. But there's a reason I linked to the full text.

> "Making available of news content
(2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

(a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

(b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content."

So not only is there no qualifier saying that content needs to be reproduced, but (b) specifically says that "facilitating" access BY ANY MEANS counts as "making available."
Nobody asked if he was “deeply involved.” Nobody is even contesting that he acted illegally. Solely that he was a war criminal, which has a specific legal meaning.

War criminal is the new RICO. Except the latter doesn’t lose legitimacy when the public mis-uses it.
Ask HN: Where would you go (within USA) for a few months to re-base?
I’m pretty burned out as a swe and I’m finding it hard to focus on my own projects and interests after working all day.

I have lived in cities for so long and feel cramped/stuck if that makes sense.

I would like to take a few months and go live somewhere new where I might get a new perspective.

For some background I feel that I’ve gotten to a point where thankfully I’m not worried about getting another job again.

I’m good at what I do and I am looking for something actually challenging but my mind just needs a break to find the capacity to do that.

Any ideas? Where could I go and recalibrate without worrying about rent, whether someone smashed my car window, or other stuff like that.
Seems a good place to ask a question I’ve been asking myself for a long time, and couldn’t figure out the answer to: why do lonely crosswalks not immediately turn the lights red for the cars when you push the button? Or at least, after a very short delay (< 3 seconds).

For street crossings with multiple directions and multiple lights, that behavior makes sense. You’re waiting for the next pre-programmed phase that syncs you up with other parts of the crossing. For large roads it might make sense, you don’t want to interrupt the flow of the traffic that is expected to hit a green light down the road at current speed.

But for the lonely crossing light in front of the school building in a small street, why do I have to wait 20 seconds after pushing it, every single time?
He was actually more explicit elsewhere. Lem's book Imaginary Magnitude consists of a collection of prefaces to nonexistent books. One of them is for "Juan Rambellais et al., A History of Bitic Literature, Volume I". The "bitic" literature consists of novels written by, well, language models. You would feed in the combined work of Tolstoy, and out comes a new "Tolstoy" novel.

When I first read this "preface" twenty years ago, the idea seemed implausible to me: How could a system write novels only by being fed other novels, and without simultaneously being a general intelligence? Surely novel writing is AGI-complete!
We are not innovating on the core product, which has remained static for many years. Instead, we are pushing adoption through our licensing partnerships. We now have over 250k students using our reading tech through education platforms that we work with. Building more of these partnerships, based on the data we have gathered from our existing partners, is the focus.
I had to play a few games to understand the rules, but I'm wining most games. How good is the bot?

It's strange that you can make a few moves in each turn. With 1 move the strategy is too easy. Which is the standard lenght of the turns?
You're wrong - there's not "a lot of avenues" for the trades to make "well over 100k or 200k."

Median pay (2022) from the U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.

Welders: $47,540 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/welders-cutters-solderers...

Plumbers: $60,090 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...

Electricians: $60,240 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...

In the past Hacker News comments also claimed truckers were very highly paid

Heavy and Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers: $49,920 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/h...

We can compare those numbers to

Software Developer: $124,200 per year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Maybe some individual plumbers are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they are an extreme outlier. The other question is how many hours are they working a week to make that much? I'm guessing you either have to work lots of overtime or be a business owner.

I have a lot of friends and family in the trade and the trucking industry. I made more than every single one of them and they all work more hours than me. The one friend I have that makes "almost $100k/year" works almost every weekend to make that.
So if I just put a link on my blog to a source news article I have to pay for the pleasure?
> My anxieties over email match yours.

A solid intermediate solution is to have your own domain and host your own email server for incoming email. Then google/microsoft/yahoo/et.al. will never be able to lock you out of receiving important email.

You can still use a third party to relay outgoing email if you're worried about deliverability like in your example. But you'll never get locked out of receiving.
Deterministic IMU Error Modeling
Here's a map of the earliest sunset time: https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2018-12-... . There are parts of the US which have sunsets before 4:30, including some major population centers, but I don't know if I'd call them "large parts".
>I hate the non-native UI

As in, the fact that it's not built using native Mac OS elements unlike Sketch? If so, is this because it's slow even when opening one file, or just because it's not native code?

>I hate that copying from Figma creates something in the pasteboard that most apps won't allow to paste

That's probably because it's a vector and ensuring cross-app compatibility frankly isn't something that Figma (or any other program like Sketch) will place high on their todo list because designers generally stay in 1 tool.

For your last point, the only time I've had Figma open in the browser and then not open the tab in the desktop app was when I got a new work computer and I hadn't set the auto open in the app functionality yet.

Also, I'm really, really curious as to why people on your dev team go Figma --> Affinity Designer --> Sketch just to get assets. Are you looking for elements like spacing and color hex codes, or are you looking to export those assets into something like Jira so you have screenshots? Figma should be able to do all of those things in app, however I will say that if you only have view access and want to export something, someone with edit access will have to set something to be exported.
> now some cars don't even come with the little donut wheels

Those cars come with “run flat” tires, which supposedly allow you to drive a few miles without damaging the wheel when the tire is flat. After which, instead of patching the tire, it must be discarded. Quite the advancement.
It's basically a coordination problem. Workplaces, schools, stores...
[Advocates for the homeless] worry that cities will buy bare-bones, cheaper models, place them in remote parts of town, and criminalize those who refuse to go.

[Tiny homes] may provide cities with the legal authority to then clear out any remaining tent encampments: Funk told me she can determine “exactly how many units you need in order to make it illegal to sleep on the streets within the city limits in San Francisco.”

"Advocates for the homeless are worried cities might abuse this; cities and tiny home sellers, meanwhile, are openly salivating to abuse it"? This seems less like a, uh, "big bet" and more like yet another excuse to waste money and harass the homeless.