skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was right there with you until you mentioned Searle. :-)

The Chinese room argument is bad in that it hides an assumption of mind/body dualism. If you believe that humans have "souls" and other things do not, then you have a qualitative difference between a human or a machine. On the other hand, if you are a materialist then you are faced with the problem that humans don't have much understanding of semantics either. We're all chemical processes and it's hard for those to get much into semantics.

But then, the difference between LLMs and humans becomes quantitative, sort of, and since I cannot say that LLMs and humans are qualitatively different, the only argument I can find is that in my experience, LLMs have never responded in a way that leads me to believe that they are anything other than a statistical model of language. Humans, on the other hand, are not a statistical model of language.
In theory the board is the collective experience, social, and financial capital to run a company.

I was once on a board so I have limit experience although the dynamics are all there as with any collective of voting and non-voting.

In my case, the board members each had spouses, which of course had no voting rights but because we are human - data leaks, information passes brains, words get spoken and when it came time for decisions - the spouses had influence if not veto over their respective board members.

While MS may not have a vote - they can frown, wink, and nod to their hearts delight.

Also, the board generally governs in private and then makes public announcements. The time between those events is where power is used.
The video goes into why that's the wrong mindset. If you're looking for people who "believe in your vision", there's a good chance you're looking for an employee, not a cofounder. Strong candidates have their own vision, and strong teams build something out of everyone's vision.

It can still be the case that one person has an awesome idea that everybody else in the company signs off on. But chances are, everybody on the team is going to have to make some room for other people's ideas and takes on things.
> This is, I believe, an accessibility feature.

Unless you are deaf, then you get no feedback. There are buttons near me that don't always trigger when I touch them, but I know to listen for the feedback. (these are touch, not push buttons) Of course they are not universal, there are a lot of buttons around me that give no feedback at all.
I think the amount of technical expertise needed varies by field. I work in a small biotech startup. In this space, you aren't going to get anywhere without deep technical knowledge.
I don't think it's about the audience, but the company type. If someone is starting (random example) a food company based on their superior hot-sauce recipe and existing retail relationships, they probably don't need a technical co-founder. If someone is starting a company that "uses AI" to craft and target hot sauce recommendations, but doens't really know what that means and assumes they can get a shop to code them an app, that's going to be a problem. I think the latter case is what this is usually about. Many (most) business owners don't have technical co-founders and are fine, not so in tech.
Looks like this may be due to crowdstrike, which I also have installed on this machine: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/14#issuecom...
The additional link is indeed very useful, however, with one exception, it is limited to inference, ie code for evaluating a model using somebody else’s trained model weights. The original link has code for training (which can also be used for inference, of course.) Inference is super important, of course, so it makes a lot of sense to put effort to make it work well on all kinds of hardware; the papers typically focus on training and only then evaluating/validating a new model.
I don't care whether they hate pedestrians; I merely want them to not kill pedestrians.
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Easy backups via snapshotting is quick to say, but has an outsized benefit IME. My go-to approach for keeping many of my machines up to date is now scheduled apt get update; apt get upgrade and relying on scheduled backups in the unlikely event that goes awry. I don't have to worry about package interdependencies across machines.

For major upgrades, I may go a step further and do a manual snapshot before upgrading and then decide whether or not to commit (usually) or rollback (easy, when needed).

The (emotional) security provided by this is nice, as is the time-savings (after initial time expense to learn and setup the base proxmox infrastructure).
guess what? 99% of the apps are not github, neither shopify. You add to your pipeline some automation with https://github.com/fastruby/next_rails and you are done. I'm maintaing a rails app from 2006, with more than 1000 LC (excluding the 2k specs and views) and we are running on rails 7.1. We had one critical moment around rails 5.2 , but after that we managed to keep our stack always up to date.
This is also the case in many parts of the US. I've experienced this in WA and MN.
Judging by how many believe procedural text generators are viable programmers, i’d say a lot of hn users arent technical.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20231128002043/https://www.theat...
Looks sleek. Looking forward to giving it a spin.
That's interesting, I'm currently working on an idea that assumes the opposite. Having built specialized models for years, the cost of having a data science team clean the data and build a model is pretty high, and it can take quite a while (especially if part of the project is setting up the data collection).

For prototyping and for smaller use cases, it makes a lot of sense to use a much more general model. Obviously this doesn't apply to things like medicine, etc. But for much more general things like: check if someone is on the train-tracks, or number of people currently queuing in a certain area, or if there's a fight in a stadium; I think multi-modal models are going to take over. Not because they're efficient, or particularly fast; but because it'll be quick to implement, test, and iterate on.

The cost of building a specialized model, and keeping it up to date, will far exceed the cost of an LVM in most niche use cases.
That may be more of a personality conflict. There's no more important choice than who you co-found with, and both parties should have high regard for each other's value to the business.
> It's theoretically possible that Senators representing a minority of voters could block an amendment, but it doesn't actually split that way in practice. Biden carried 25.5 states (excluding DC) which exactly reflects his 51% of the popular vote. Obama in 2008 carried 28.5 states (57%) with 53% of the popular vote.

That's useful info. (I'm assuming accuracy.)
> If this is an explicit rule attached to every sale, then by purchasing a copyrighted work, you're consenting to that part of the agreement, yes? And if not, then how is this an explicit rule?

First, breaking a law isn't by itself unethical. You can argue otherwise if you like, but a) it opens up a whole slew of absurdities (e.g. exploiting a software bug on a slot machine for profit is unethical IFF it's on a network that crosses a state line - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Kane), and b) you'd be abandoning everything you've said up til this point.

Second, copyright law is not a rule that is "attached to every sale," whatever that means. (If it were, you could get around it by shoplifting!) You need to stop blurring the lines between legal rules and ethical rules, because it's led you to confuse the difference between agreeing to a rule and being subject to it. So, let's make that explicit. I'm subject to copyright law. Doesn't matter if I agree to it or consent to it (it's not even clear what consenting to a law means), I'm subject to it regardless.

Now, you can certainly argue that there are ethical laws that we are all subject to as well. But, you are not arguing that! (correct me if I'm wrong, of course) You are arguing that there is an ethical law against piracy that pirates have agreed to, without wanting to, and I'm telling you, that's not a thing that can happen. You can't agree to something against your will.

So, you gotta make a choice to make this whole line of reasoning coherent. This ethical agreement not to pirate stuff, is this something that pirates can refuse? If so, I think they very clearly are refusing it, and if not, you cannot meaningfully claim that they agreed to it.
Invincible is just one of many books showcasing Lem's profound understanding of AI and its limitations servicing the mankind.

I recommend Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the collection of short stories, many of which paint AI as a true reflection of human intelligence with its flaws, quirks, instincts. From AI crashing a starship during a landing to an android "dying" rock climbing.

There is also a preface he wrote to his book called Golem XIV which gives reader a historical overview of the evolution of AI. Golem is of course the name of the model and XIV is its version, just like ChatGPT 4, but many iteration later. Lem describes how each iteration was more and more expensive to build, but more and more intelligent and useful. Until it became more intelligent than men and... lost all interest in affairs of our kind. As always, he was on point.
If history is any guide, they will claim action, but secretly sign "pink contracts" protecting high dollar scammers and spammers.

Color me skeptical.
I don't have a study at hand to provide, but I've lived in a major US city for 17 years and when this topic inevitably comes up for debate in public forums, somebody asks why we can't just force these people to go into the shelters or housing that already exist. Most of the time, local governments have their hands tied.
We legislate lots of things without consensus with 51-49 majorities.

People in the past had a very different time environment. I used to have 1 watch. Now I have a dozen different clocks in my apartment.

We also did not interact with other time zones nearly as much.
I was answering to this complaint: "my issue is when the model is coupled with the app".

In this specific case there is an option for you that addresses this complaint, where the model isn't coupled with the app.
Note that this technique and its results are unrelated to the infamous "spiral" ControlNet images a couple months back: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/dream...

Per the code, the technique is based off of DeepFloyd-IF, which is not as easy to run as a Stable Diffusion variant.
> Unfortunately, with access to neither the Chrome source code

I mean, you basically do! You can just go check out the chromium source.
I also find it worthwhile to always store with the seed, even in guac
There have been multiple ads/posts recently from companies citing YC__ looking for a technical cofounder.

So, is this post correlated?
In fact I just tested this and I can give a simpler query to Google and get the correct result than ChatGPT.

If I search “onion avocado store” on Google it immediately pulls up articles explaining the chemical benefit of the storing method.

The same query on ChatGPT causes it to query me for more information about what I’m asking. Obviously it’s designed for conversational queries more so than Google which is another reason why simple queries like this are not superior on ChatGPT.
A hundred years ago, spare tires were also carried in a somewhat more visible and easy to access location. I'm sure "symmetry" was a consideration in having two as well.
I am using chromium to print web pages to pdf, and I have some images that will crash chrome's to pdf process, I found nothing wrong with this images, the metadata is fine (nothing weird in it). The other bad thing it does not reproduce n my dev machine only on the production server , so nothing I can do, in rare cases an image will always crash crhomium, I find it, open it and re-export it and then it works.
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FxSound is now open-source
FxSound (formerly DFX Audio Enhancer) is sound booster and EQ for Windows. We've gotten over 50M downloads in the 20+ years we've been making this software. Last year we decided to make FxSound completely free and unrestricted, and now we're making FxSound open-source under the GPL 3.0 license.

We have a lot of great feature requests from our community that our 1-person part-time development team can't get to alone, so we're looking for help. We'll be offering financial rewards for good contributors so long as we continue to have the financial backing from our community to afford it.
Our team is new to open-source so let us know what you think and if you have any feedback for us :)
OpenAI's products and DALL-E 3 can't really transform existing images. GPT-V lets it see images, and DALL-E 3 can make images. But they aren't directly connected.

> We'll analyse your photo, describe it in words, and generate a new image from scratch.

I've tried the same technique to get around "copyright policy" refusals, but never get anything close to what I want.
The inverse is also true. As a technical founder, and maybe even an introvert like me, you should definitely look for a non-technical co-founder who can help you with networking, etc... I found my dream co-founder through YC Co-founder match and what can I say, it's going great. We're focusing on enterprise GraphQL/API solutions (https://wundergraph.com) and I benefit from the networking and communication abilities of Stefan, while I answer all technical questions. Tldr, I highly recommend to team up with people who complement your skills.
The free and open internet died long before this link tax.
This. Signal has its userbase, sure, on Firefox level. It _is_ there but barely noticeable.
Everything goes out the window when you just want to sell an app, and don't want to build a brand
I want summer time all year. In winter it really doesn't matter if the sun rises at 8am or 9am and if it sets at 4pm or 5pm, it's depressing no matter what. But with winter time in summer, you rob working people of a chance to catch some sunlight in a meaningful intensity after work. It will just make people more depressed.
It is the seemingly prevailing train of thought even if it isn't exactly accurate. But why should that stop it from being believed?
Ask HN: Is my front page your front page?
Every so often, after reading about a novel or obscure (to me) topic elsewhere on the internet, I’ll come across the same topic being discussed here on the front page.
Does HN use my search history to influence what I see? Do we all have somewhat unique front pages? Or is this some sort of recency bias at play?
It’s always oddly jarring when it happens.

For those curious, last night I read this[0] paper and today found this[1] to be in the top spot of HN.

[0]: https://people.idsia.ch/~kowall/papers/GECCO-07.pdf

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475545
U.S. bets on small modular reactors to power a clean energy future
An agency created an AI model who earns up to $11,000 a month
As an embedded engineer I’ve never heard of this and it seems… unwise.

Yes, we avoid dynamic memory allocation but using globals for everything?

Assuming C:

For inter-file access static variables with getters/setters achieves the same thing and makes it easier to split/test

I’ve never went as far as not using local variables in functions but you could use static here too to avoid the possibility of two functions sharing the same variable.
All matters of importance in foreign policy are still universally conducted face to face, not over telecommunications.

Multiple generations of intelligence agents have hidden electronic surveillance in every nook and cranny that might be graced by a foreign dignitary. In the 70s, only a few nation-states had the resources to pull this off, but the commercialization of computer technology has brought about a world where 4K cameras and microphones are ubiquitous.
Running a food-delivery service in Nigeria is hard; Chowdeck makes it look easy
A tale as old as time. Gotta love the classic spin on the same trope of “the C suite drives the sales tho” to justify their insane salaries and bonuses. like they’d have anything to sell in the first place.
> If Apple the production company is embroiled in a series of high profile censorship missteps then it DEFINITELY impacts Apple the tech company.

Would you say that a controversy around something as high-profile as a Spidermman movie production have any impact on Sony the tech company, rather than just Sony Pictures Studios? Or, an even better example, would that be attributable to Sony the tech company in any way? Is it Kenichiro Yoshida (the current CEO) or the high-up Sony corporate pulling the strings whenever there is a conflict on a movie set of Sony Pictures Studios?

> The opaque nature of how this decision was made, the opaque nature of how any decision at Apple gets made, is also a contributing factor.

It is a movie production. It is a specific movie production crew having an argument with an actor working on the same movie over whether he approved the final draft of his speech or not. It wasn’t something coming from Apple the tech company (unless there is any evidence to the contrary, which I am yet to see).

Also, De Niro read his original unedited speech anyway, it was broadcasted just fine, and he faced no consequences for it (as he shouldn’t have). This kind of tells that none of this was about censorship and more of just about the movie production team disagreement over who approved which edit.
Don't co-found a company with an jerk.
No, none of the countries say on summer time in the plan.

Every country that is currently UTC+01:00/UTC+02:00 ends up in either UTC+01:00 or UTC+00:00.
I have played some moves with GPT-4 and they seem right to me, what does this mean? That the model switched from not understanding to understanding, from unintelligent to intelligent? I don't think so, GPT-4 is just a more intelligent model than GPT-3.5 and it does understand more.

Also in this game if I don't move the queen I force a draw, right?
Might I suggest not being "just a programmer" then?

In a startup it's extremely important for founders to wear many hats and share many burdens.

If you're the person that just goes off into a cave and emerges with beautiful code 6 weeks later and then expects everything to be great - you're wrong. There's a massive amount of foundational work to do to support a startup that technical people don't even think about.
> I mean, you basically do! You can just go check out the chromium source.

It's mentioned in the bullet points in the "trouble reproducing the bug" section that chromium wasn't affected.

> Using open-source Chromium instead of Chrome did not cause crashes, so we couldn’t see what Chrome code was failing either.
Discord suffered (suffers?) from a similar thing with gifs. It is or was common for people to post specifically crafted gifs in channels, anyone viewing the channel immediately had their client crash.

Discord client uses Electron, which is in turn Chromium.
I don't think the message is "we can't help them", I think the message is "those people need a different, additional kind of help".

I have no study that supports what I'm about to say, so anecdata and all that... but I've been working with the homeless on the street for years now. My observations with this particular area is that about 3/4ths of them have crippling psychological/emotional problems that are the primary cause of their homelessness.
They had essentially 0 revenue though. Nobody paid for streamlit cloud.

Snowflake's acquisition of Streamlit was similar to Google Cloud's acquisition of Kaggle. They bought a large community of end-users that spent money on their cloud databases.
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Nice try there with the FUD.

The CAFE regulations favoring trucks and SUVs have been around since the 1970s.

The Obama era regulations extended those rules to heavy-duty trucks and commercial vehicles, which were not previously subject to fuel economy rules.
What an interesting conflux of tech to create this bug. That's the web in 2023. I would love to know if it was a Chromium bug that got resolved, but navigating this is tough: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?can=1&q=gif...

Also, I am fully here for Gusto posting this to say "wasn't our fault" and to throw some shade at Grammarly in the process
Ouch, 5,000$ for a family of 5 to travel ~1,000 miles x 2 with lots of notice seems crazy to me, but I live near a major airport.

So for me it’s generally fly to whatever the closest major airport is then rent a car and drive the last leg. That shaves most of the driving and avoids layovers etc while adding 3-4 hours for the flight + airport.

I can see you driving up to say 15h, but even then for a 20+ hour drive you might as well drive to a major airport fly and then drive the last leg.
Yes, you need to make and sell things. They're both difficult.
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The problem here is, how do you know that your machine thinks if it doesn't think like humans?

Game AIs are functionally much better than humans but no one believes they can think, right?

Oh, but if you are arguing for AI from a specialized tool standpoint and not a general intelligence standpoint, if you are talking about "weak" AI rather than "strong" AI, then I'm right there with you. :-)
Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than gas-powered ones
1kg of petrol/gasoline is ~48MJ.

1kg of Lithim-ion battery is ~0.25MJ/kg.

Gasoline is ~192X energy dense compared to Lithium-ion batteries. Li-on is the most popular battery due to its cost and weight.

In terms of weight:

Tesla model Y = ~4,500 lbs.

F-150 lightning = ~6,500 lbs.

Rivian R1T = ~7,000 lbs.

Hummer EV = ~9,000 lbs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cybertruck = ~5,400 lbs

A human roughly weighs 160lbs (~72kg).

Buying electric trucks IMO is pretty awful for the environment and the road itself. From the energy spent mining the raw materials for that heavy of a battery, to energy spent just moving that battery. The battery weighs more than the passengers.

We're playing stupid games to win stupid prizes in the name of climate change.
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The division problem is arbitrary and irrelevant to any notion of theory of mind. If you have a better example, you can feel free to offer one. I already did so above.
If they can figure it out, they're sitting on potentially a very valuable exploit.
Your pricing is absolutely ridiculous. I ran a full image generation site (like Leonardo), so I know what it costs to run models/generate images. I'm shocked people are willing to pay you that much money. Your margins must be like 99%
> Tesla's Model Y has been recognized as one of the safest cars of 2023 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), receiving the agency's Top Safety Pick+ rating for the third year.

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1224/tesla-model-y-receive...

> Teslas on non-highways with Full Self Driving (FSD) engaged had just 0.31 accidents per million miles representing an 80% reduction in accidents compared with the average vehicle.

https://thedriven.io/2023/04/27/accident-rate-for-tesla-80-l...
IMO there really isn't one. Nobody has been able to build a business here (yet). Unfortunately the folks who have this problem (data scientists) rarely have budget internally.

Ideally these solutions bridge to engineering teams better, who DO have budget and get the best tools. But again they don't have this problem (they can build & deploy web apps)
Of course that’s how it _should_ be. After working at enough startups in very early and/or founder roles, I can tell you it’s more common than not to get treated like a second class citizen when the “business” dinners come.
I love this, thank you! If anyone else wants to open the file in VScode, the command is

code -g "$file:$linenumber"
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