skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On the other hand, AI can bring major benefits and, while we should be careful, we should allow "tech entrepreneurs" to bring those benefits to society.

When I read about this last time , the limits were n place only for risky domains. So AI for coding will not be affected.

Also the laws are not specific that the AI means neural networks, in my opinion from my experience tech is fulled with "fake it" people, with AI it is much easier for many more people to "fake it", so we can end up with this people selling crap to people and not taking responsibility for their actions.

I seen someone was working on a therapist AI, if he sells it as a service do you think that a simple ToS that says"the AI might be wrong, I take no responsibility" is enough? It is similar like Tesla AI, they also do not want to claim any responability and push the fault to the customer.
Which models do you currently support or have plans for? Looks cool tho
> Could someone help me here see through this ?

To be fair they did actually make the adaptive controller and you can buy it right now. It isn't even that expensive. They really did make gaming more accessible for many.

As a company that is something you'd be proud of and your marketing department would be stupid not to show it off. I still thinking it wouldn't be as well received in my country (Netherlands) either, especially if played during something like the super bowl.

This device Sony has made here in comparison really does feel like a little PR stunt, because it looks absolutely useless compared to xbox's adaptive controller. It includes just one stick that's still an actual joystick... The adaptive controller has two large pads for sticks and allows you to connect any external device to act as an additional input. I am curious how far Sony will take this.
For the uninformed: AWS has pricing on NAT gateways that can only really be described as predatory. I personally saw a massive bill this year for sending data to and from a bucket in the same data center. In other words. I have a service. It’s in us-west-2. I have it sending a bunch of data back and forth between it and a S3 bucket, in the exact same data center. Unless you have some arbitrary checkbox checked in AWS, which absolutely should be checked by default and AWS has no literal reason to have it unchecked bedsides scammy, predatory practices, AWS will send you a massive bill to send bits entirely within their datacenter.
You might find this software interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970

I don't know if any of the state of the art flight/driving simulators are doing this kind of engine noise synthesis already, but they should be.
Just in case you do not know, or you are interested, the Firefox's UI is mere CSS, one can customize it through "chrome/userChrome.css" in the profile folder of the user. I put for example my tabs under the bookmarks, just above the page content (As FF used to be at past), with the template from the CustomCSSforFx[1] project, and modified some colors and icons.

Firefox have also the "Browser Toolbox"[2], homologous to the web development tools, that one can use for to explore the css of the UI, select elements, etc, and modify them for to see how would look the modifications before to put them within the userChrome.css

The tabs I think that are under the id=TabsToolbar, so an #TabsToolbar{ display: none !important; } or similar should work, in addition to correct with other css params the space that it leaves.

Note: What happens is they change things from time to time, and after an update one have to correct the css again, I warn.

[1] https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx

[2] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browse...
Does That Potato Count as a Vegetable? The New Polarizing Food Debate
My workplace has this as a requirement for a legal reason and we recently switched from Jira to the equivalent MS timesheet platform and it’s way worse. The other side of the grass isn’t always greener
top-down is impossible because real systems have no top.

https://softwarequotes.com/author/bertrand-meyer
Notes is a beautiful app! Wow.

Regarding Plume: just from that landing page, it looks 100% like Notes. Anyway, I'm interested to learn more about it when it launches!
Testing and QA is great and all however there is something to be gained from a CompSci education besides making more money for the company. It can be enjoyed just for the sake of it.

Binary arithmetic doesn't make dollars for your bosses, but its fun. That doesn't make it less significant.
I think it's extremely misleading to use a definition that allows for routinely logically contradicting yourself and induces the impression that it doesn't do that.

People are regularly doing this in the titles of papers --- ascribing words like "emergence" and "world models" with definitions that don't match their informal usage -- purposely to mislead people into mistakenly applying conventional intuitions and make the paper look like it proves more than it does.
I'm not familiar with the volcano incident you referred to, but a bit of searching seems to indicate it was British Airways Flight 009 in 1982, where a 747-200 had all four engines fail due to volcanic ash… then glided safely out of the ash cloud and was able to restart three of the engines and land safely at a major airport. From a complete loss of power to all engines to on the ground with zero deaths, zero injuries. That's exactly the kind of story I'm talking about that gives me such faith in flying!
Pretty sure openchat-3.5 is a mistral fine tune as well.

The trick is not this neural alignment - it is training on many, many more tokens than Chinchilla recommends.
Shopping for Luxury Online Has Fallen Out of Fashion
Japanese considering themselves victims in the war is something that has been present in Japanese cinema since the moment American-occupation censorship was lifted in the early 1950s. It’s present here and there in films by Kurosawa and Ozu that are now in the canon of world cinema. It seems a bit late to be offended by it.
Exploring WebAssembly with Forth (and vice versa) [video]
Remember: you can’t make any movie about postwar Japan without also making it about the warcrimes of Imperial Japan /s

This is like bitching that Grave of the Fireflies doesn’t call out the atrocities committed by unit 731 so it’s bad.

The regular people featured in Godzilla Minus One talk about how corrupt and destructive their government is; they explicitly call attention to the fact that their government didn’t care at all about the lives of its own people. I think it is pretty telling that if Imperial Japan is letting it’s own civilians starve or forcing them into pointless suicide attacks, then they certainly wouldn’t care about American POWs or Chinese peasants.
>But your example of Nintendo doesn’t really mean anything when Nintendo didn’t put a lot of effort in supporting disabled people the last generations.

Because it's not an example of Nintendo being good, it's an example of why this reductive argument is meaningless.
I don't really understand why they quote was posted then. In the context of the discussion do we care that LLMs might not (I'm not qualified to say do not) tell you about how humans learn language? From the perspective of intelligence though they're certainly doing more with language and "thinking" than a two year old.
There is a long list of both.

Some things should not roll out updates without extensive testing, including manual testing to verify nothing was missed.
The PlayStation also dates to the 90s, years before Xbox was a thing. Sony is a tech company far older than MS that specializes in hardware and design. They invented entire categories of device with novel ux(the Walkman).

If they wanted to do this earlier, they could have.
DPO is pretty good as well.

I think that the '7b beating 70b' is mostly due to the fact that Mistral is likely trained on considerably more tokens than Chinchilla optimal. So is llama-70b, but not to the same degree.
I love this movie. Frankly, it holds up pretty well.

Yes, the tech is dated, but it is the right tech to support the story, which is not dated much at all.

And what a cast!

Epic film, and one I tend to watch a few times per year.
It may be a cliché to call someone a "national treasure", but I would take it a step further for Admiral Cloudberg: she is a world treasure.

Kyra has written so many great articles under her nom de cloud. Trust me, just pick any of them and you will learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=admiralcloudberg.medi...
No. The last "mainstream" console to use hall effect sticks in the first party controller was the Dreamcast, and that was in 1999.
In my experience most grad students mostly just end up doing whatever their advisor is most familiar with.
Also if they are in spanish?
Humans do take quite a long time to learn though, so maybe the data is sparse but still substantial.
Yep it’s true. If you have managers who understand remote work it’s great.
If routinely logically contradicting yourself means you have no understanding, the vast majority of humans have no understanding. This feels like goalpost-moving so we can say that LLMs don't think, because it intuitively seems to us that they don't think.

Or, at least, that we should say they don't think, because we're afraid what the alternative says about us.
I was a nervous flyer until I worked on the Boeing 757 design and found out how all the redundancy, etc., worked.
Sure, but adding two ints is trivial. Hello world probably operates to spec all the time too. Almost all software is vastly more compelx and isn't perfect.
Thanks. Didn’t realize ecstasy was in there.
of course factoring in the age and roast too
A shout out for the former Bell Labs in Holmdel, now perhaps better known as a location for "Severance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
World first quantum entanglement of single molecules
they did not disclose the weights for any gemini, you must have misunderstood
"Never ship on Fridays" is pretty high up on my antipattern lust. It's a nice way to phrase "how about we work 20% less at the same pay? It will help reduce the number of bugs / incidents we ship each year!". And it will help with that.

But why do I say 20% reduction in work?

Bugfixes and features that get fixed/finished on Fridays will ship 3 days later. Do your average lead time increases by >0.5 days.
This impacts anyone relying on you, too. So if this happens org wide then features and projects may ship days to weeks later.

Oh and what are you doing on Fridays then? Less relevant work? If you stick with priorities then you are just queuing up more changes for Mondays, leading to nice higher risk deploy Monday. You simply can't gain stability with skipped Friday deploys without changing / ignoring work priorities for Fridays.

So yes, this should be comparable to such a reduction.

Oh, and Friday deploys ruin your weekend? That means you have really high detection and mitigation time.
With 1h detection time and 2h recovery I could still with low risk deploy Fridays, 5PM, wait 1h and enjoy a weekend after wrapping up my work.

I have always shipped on Fridays. It never ruined my weekend. Even though I did have a few fun screwups (which sometimes required help from my coworkers).
I am more arguing that if it’s considered taking, we should follow the path I recommend.

Whether or not it is taking is more nuanced, but I will say I’m not sympathetic to the idea that it’s broadly similar to a human looking at the work. It’s just very, very different. You can’t spin up a copy of a human on a cloud server and make them work 24/7.

I would expect that as laypeople we aren’t equipped to reason about this effectively. I suspect that decades or more of case law would be relevant to how this would be viewed, and I’m personally not equipped to argue it.

What I do know is that artists don’t feel good about it. They feel like they’re being taken from. And I’m not inclined to quickly dismiss their concerns. I think this needs careful, deliberate consideration. And if a system could be built that is consent based, I’d feel much better about it. A human child could be raised and mature without ever being exposed to copyrighted material beyond a handful of books (harder in the modern world but common 200 years ago). Maybe we just need to build better models. It certainly seems possible.
A water spritzer (spray bottle) is one of the most useful kitchen tools. Spray your bread before toasting to improve succulence and browning -- this works best on bagels & english muffins. Spray food before microwaving to avoid drying it out. Spray frozen foods before microwaving to kick-start heating (microwaves act only on liquid water). Spray sautés to speed up heat transfer.

Your refrigerator , freezer , microwave & conventional ovens all dry things out. A big reason why leftovers are terrible is that they've lost all succulence. Also, all food needs water to cook properly . It stabilizes temps and moves heat around.
I've seen this several times, but what always struck me was how Doug's presentation style felt quite contemporary, as if he was at a modern-day conference.
About 25% of people claim to know someone who claims to have been injured. That’s a very different claim than the one you just made. And given that this sort of sleight of hand is so common among a certain sect of society, it’s not super shocking a high number would be willing to join a class action. “Would you like free money going after big bad pharma?” What a pitch! Anyway, I’m very curious for a source on that 40% figure — do you happen to have one?

No, “replication failures” are not a mainstream concern. And they certainly weren’t some lurking concern within right wing circles for years before COVID. That’s a frankly ridiculous claim. It’s not mainstream concern within the left-wing either because it’s fundamentally not a mainstream concern.

As far as the opioid crisis, it’s also ahistorical to suggest this was some longtime mainstream concern among a neglected section of society (the right, of course). The actual statistics are clear: Even today, blue-leaning people overwhelmingly blame pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and the FDA. Red-leaning people blame people addicted to opioids, then pharma companies, then “the government.” Having actually grown up in one of these deep red parts of the country, the idea that right wingers were always blaming pharma companies is hilarious. Everyone knows drug addiction is the drug addict’s fault. That’s why they don’t deserve any help!

First on the list of blame for both sides are illegal drug dealers. https://today.yougov.com/health/articles/42574-blame-opioid-...

I think it speaks to an extremely rose-colored view of these people and the information sphere in which they exist.
the varia has been responding to a spritz and shake with beans before going in the hopper. i stopped measuring output its that good. Sometimes a bean or two can get stuck in the hopper.
Mozilla will have the most beautiful, pure FOSS browser on the planet. But who is going to use it?
This is a ridiculous take, totally disconnected from the reality of how most middle-class Americans live. Maintaining my cars is far more convenient than waiting for a mobility service to arrive. Parking isn't a problem worth worrying about in most of the country; people just park right at their destinations. And I don't want my car to drive away when I get out; I want easy access to all the stuff that I keep in it.
This style of argumentation is annoying because you're not even participating, you're looking for reasons to dismiss.

A sane system doesn't need a whole lot just to check logs. LVM and LUKS are different due to cryptographic needs. systemd meanwhile has little reason to store logs in binary format. The promises that are alleged are not concerns to anyone except enterprise.
> what is there to be negative about?

It doesn’t have a full set of controls/inputs that the standard controller has. Most notably you need a regular controller or a second adaptive controller if you want to play any game that uses both control sticks. That’s a lot of games that are completely unplayable with this device
Proving that all their jobs can now be outsourced to other countries for half the price. Thanks a lot.
https://archive.today/iOP3c
Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
Hey! Cool project! I have a question: why do you dump out sys.argv to a local file in the CWD? [0] tmp.txt is hardly a unique name… or am I missing something?

[0] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/blob/be4b11b8f27f500e732...
if you hit a situation where the automated system handles your case then you're fine

if not, you are screwed, because the customer support is worse than useless, it's infuriating
>I said they need to be aware of their own limitations, that is very well defined.

You seemed to imply that this "awareness" was some inherent ability of humans but it's very clearly not. If it were, we wouldn't be a lot more aware of these limitations today than even a few decades past.

and if all the records we kept vanished in an instant today then the next generations of humans would be a lot less aware. This "awareness" you are talking about is little more than accumulated knowledge.

By the realistic definition of 'aware of what is observed', i fail to see how LLMs don't demonstrate this.
One thing that jumped out at me was the narrow range of safe airspeeds on the landing approach--only three or four knots between stall and max speed not to overrun the runway. Quite a good piece of flying to get the plane down safely, not to mention all the other things the crew had to do.
Here's an academic publication from 2018, but it doesn't seem to make any explicit claims about diversity related reasons for the changes in the hiring process:

>The hiring process for aspiring federal air traffic controllers from approved Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) institutions has undergone several revisions in recent years. Prior to 2014, graduates from AT-CTI programs were given preferential hiring from the FAA. In 2014, the FAA announced that AT-CTI graduates would equally compete with thousands of people the FAA calls “off the street hires”--anyone can literally walk in off the street without any previous training and apply for a federal air traffic control job. To apply, the FAA requires that a candidate has United States (U.S.) citizenship, a high school diploma, speaks English, and passes the FAA’s new Biographical Questionnaire (BQ).

>Another concerning perspective from AT-CTI administrators is that CTI graduates are at an employment disadvantage with the new hiring initiatives. One of the responding administrators expressed concern that off the street applicants have increased odds of employment over CTI applicants because CTI students are combined in track one with Veteran’s Readjustment Appointment (VRA) applicants putting CTI students second while all off the street applicants are grouped as one and have an equal opportunity for selection.

>The new FAA hiring protocol for federal air traffic controllers that was implemented in February 2014 included several significant changes. In particular, the FAA reduced the role of the CTI-approved program;
therefore, the only remaining advantage for CTI graduates is that they are eligible to bypass the Air Traffic Basics Course, which is the first five weeks of qualification training at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City (FAA, 2018). In addition, the FAA introduced the Biographical Questionnaire which was envisioned to predict controller performance through a process of asking individuals to recall their typical and/or specific behaviors from earlier times in their lives. But due to the lengthy process of hiring and training an air traffic controller which can take several years, it is too soon to conclude whether the FAA’s new hiring policies improved the ability to hire individuals who are more likely to successfully become federal controllers (FAA, 2017b).

https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/CARI/article/v...
Ask HN: Where to learn the cutting edge of prompt engineering?
I’m doing experiments with LLMs and I’m trying to research techniques for grounding. Example prompt templates, for instance. There’s lots of generic articles about grounding, but details and specific examples are thin on the ground. I’ve read the source for langchain to find the prompt template for agent based reasoning, but that was just one perspective…are there better ways?
Burning fossil fuels for X*Y travel to Z place to do the same job they could do at home, is better?

If they can do it cheaper elsewhere in the world then they clearly are not focusing on the premium values of more expensive workers.

Naturally, having native speakers with good education should be seen as better than importing. If importing is ever actually better, then one has to question the value of the education being given to the premium workers.
I meant the door to your office.
To be fair there are more and more devices on the market that are made to assist cheaters.[1][2][3] Banning third party controllers will even the playing field for all players of competitive games. Besides Microsoft obviously wants to monopolize their overly expensive controllers. Microsoft themselves have already made Adaptive Controller which isn't too expensive and supports a wide range of external devices. You can think what you want about the ban but you can't frame it as them banning accessibility devices specifically.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/cheat-maker-brags-of-...

[2]: https://www.cronusmax.com/

[3]: https://www.consoletuner.com/products/titan-two/
Central Virginia transit system affected by cyber incident
So if you don't agree with a claim, instead of asking for evidence you flag and terminate the discussion? This is what happened here.
> Even if you only care about fish, it is possible that the pursuit of a swimming machine will yield insights into how fish do it.

It's possible but it doesn't happen by accident, you have to show that they are related, and no one does (because the people who work on LLMs aren't actually interested in this question, despite the fact that argue it to death).

> In terms of scientific understanding in general, I'm not sure why you would say that building a statistical model of a natural process is be irrelevant. On one level, much of science is about building models of natural processes and then probing those models for insights.

You have to have a reason to believe that it would yield insights. There isn't one.

> attempts to build artificial intelligence are acts of science.

They are not, they are math and engineering.

> If a solid theory is developed, I assume it would yield insights for studies of human cognition.

You have to actually have a rational process to produce insights, not just mix a bunch of numbers in a vat and "assume" that some insight is going to come from it.
This is a joke right? Most remote companies still have timezone restrictions, and the closest places to outsource from America in terms of timezone generally have great worker protections (aka, hard to fire).

For the most part, you'll find American companies that are remote are simply hiring from all over America, not the world.