skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now those fora are on Discord. In the servers I'm in, I too regularly recognize people posting.
It goes beyond that. You can DMA stuff directly from a NIC into VRAM. That's probably why Nvidia acquired Mellanox a few years ago.
Apple releases Journaling suggestions API [video]
'age' is really impressive, it's helped me get a better grasp on GPG.

I'm not joking, it's genuinely user-friendly, and I certainly prefer it over GPG.

Interestingly, its simplicity makes everything about GPG suddenly make more sense.
Nah. Not everyone is an OSS zealot. If a tool works for me I don’t give a shit if it is open or closed source.
In addition to that 'akerl_ comment, Dan has explicitly said, a bunch of times, that they don't monitor "@dang". It's not a thing, but doing it creates the false impression to others that it should work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26508945
I know. I can see your confusion. Clearly we just have differing perspectives is all. It's not that big a deal.
Also apocryphal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Contemporaneous_alterna...

And it does a bad job at it, which is further evidence that it was not the design consideration. People may not have been able to run a quick perl script over a few gigabytes of English text, but they would have gotten much closer if that was the desire. I don't believe that was their goal but they were just too stupid to get it even close to right.
The first guideline is about submissions, not commenting. The second and third are not quite on-point because the commenter is not saying that the post is inappropriate per se, but that it's part of a pattern of inappropriate behavior.

I, for one, and glad that the commenter added to the conversation in this way. I can see I'm not alone, as the post was subsequently flagged (to be clear, I didn't flag it).
The problem is once you follow that prime directive, there really is not much to talk about. I also used to follow various FIRE subreddits but got bored for the same reason.
If we rewind a little bit to the mid to late 2010s, filter bubbles, recommendation systems and unreliable news being spread on social media was a big problem. It was a simpler time, but we never really solved the problem. Point is, I don’t see the existence of other problems as an excuse for LLM hallucination, and writing it off as a “people problem” really undersells how hard it is to solve people problems.
slaps forehead d’oh! My comment was boneheaded in regards to C
Weird, Microsoft's been invisible to me since the early 2000s. I don't think they could sell me anything. Their whole corporate image is just slimy. Like that one friend that wants you to set up an account on something he's got going, or wants you to join him on an investment. You can totally trust him. You'll have a site, some cloud storage, office software, the works. And the investment? Yeah dude it'll rocket any year now.

There's just a feeeew things. Yeah, we're gonna tell you when to restart, we'll update it for you. We'll tell you what you can and can't run on your own machine. We'll "protect you" by trying to keep you inside the Microsoft Store, so you can adjust to buying all of your software instead of getting anything for free. Freedom is bad!

What can Microsoft do for a programmer who self-hosts and doesn't trust proprietary software? They co-opted GitHub but that really just reduced trust in GitHub more than anything. And GitHub itself is proprietary software built on top of Git. VS Code is a laggy mess. Azure has nothing to hook me. LLMs are toys or another privacy invasion vector to "analyze". I don't trust them to store my e-mail.

Everything MS touches dies a slow death. Look at Skype.
Previously:

score: 166 date: 2022-02-21 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30411160

score: 444 date: 2020-02-07 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265197

The Algolia search totally fails to find those: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=95%25-ile%20isn%27t%20that%20g...
Just curious: can they legally sell all their assets to themselves (i.e. OpenAI nonprofit sells it to for-profit OpenAI Inc. for market price real $$$) and then use that $$$ for charitable purposes. Would this satisfy IRS by letting them retain the intellectual property rights?
In my case firefox used the OS's (Windows 10) dark mode preference.

In about:config the layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override setting was on 2 (system). Setting it to 3 (browser) turned the dark mode off.
LLMs do not lie, nor do they tell the truth. They have no goal as they are not agents.
There are bands which use SID chips/sound in their music, and they are not demoscene musicians.

Machinae Supremacy comes to mind [0]. I esp. selected a song which their SID tunes are very audible. Normally they do it way more subtly.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFVnwR5C07I
How was that fake?
"Nothing in the real world will use it instead of a fpga or custom silicon."

That's a bold claim and pretty wrong.
Ah, I thought you meant the speed of parsing the payload didn't matter (scanf performance was also discussed).
Yes, parsing the format string in printf or scanf isn't a big deal.
More like basically every electronics product uses AC. It’s a two sided market problem - there’s no demand because there’s no supply and no supply because there’s no demand.

The security aspects are solvable through various standards (eg we have LAN over power lines and coax already and they layer encryption on top to build the mesh while balancing UX). The security concerns may be the #1 concern for you but has nothing to do with market adoption.
How many current phones have a headphone jack? When I upgraded from my Pixel 4a to the 6a (both running Graphene OS) I never noticed that the headphone jack was "missing" because I use a Bose bluetooth headset. And when I want to route the audio through my car speakers? Oh... I have a USB-C pigtail splitter which allows for power to be passed through another UBS-C port and connection to the car audio system through a 3.5mm TRS connector.

Seriously: who needs a headphone jack anymore?
Really excellent work
Google Gemi-lie
If you learn a keyboard layout where the home row is actually the most common keys you use, you will not have to be encouraged to use the home row. You just will. I know, because I have, and I never "tried" to use the home row.

People don't hunt and peck after years of keyboard use because of the keyboard; they do it because of the keyboard layout.

If you want to prove I'm wrong, go learn Dvorak or Colemak and show me that once you're comfortable you still hunt and peck. You won't be, because it wouldn't even make sense. Or, less effort, find a hunt & peck Dvorak or Colemak user who is definitely at the "comfortable" phase.
The duck is indeed made of a material that is less dense. Namely water and air.

If you go to such technical routes your definition is wrong too. It doesn't float because it contains air. If you poke in the head of the duck it will sink. Even though at all times it contains air.
The acceleration is very impressive, such that when you drag race ICE cars, you will win every time.
The subtle art of not giving a fuck
Talking about music Shazam fails to identify, I have a bee in my bonnet about a piece of violin that I found in several trailers [1] [2]. Sounds like Ray Davies but can't find the tune anywhere.

[1] https://youtu.be/md9M1KPP9no?t=82

[2] https://youtu.be/R4OIZJljMWA?t=3
I buy almost exclusively from Mouser and Digikey for this exact reason. They are both very active about ensuring that what they sell is what they say it is.

I'm sure that even they get scammed from time to time, but I've never had a problem with my orders (or at least, none that I've noticed). Their prices are higher, but I consider their markup well-earned.
or tells you everything about other countries' failures.
Do you have an actual quote? I've listened to him talk a lot, and this feels like a misquote or misinterpretation. (I'm not saying it's not true; I just don't see Sam saying he personally likes power)
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Micro Machines, made by Codemasters who also made the Game Genie and the Aladdin Deck Enhancer. They made a few other standalone NES games, but the Aladdin Deck Enhancer is very cool and quite affordable to pick up still.
People on social media are absolutely 100% posting things deliberately to fuck with people. They are actively seeking to confuse people, cause chaos, divisiveness, and other ill intended purposes. Unless you're saying that the LLM developers are actively doing the same thing, I don't think comparing what people find on the socials vs getting back as a response from a chatBot is a logical comparison at all
I’m not sure I’d agree that what they showed will never be possible and in fact my whole point is that I think Google can most likely deliver on that in this specific case. Chalk it up to my experience in the space, but from what I can see it looks like something Google can actually execute on (unlike many areas where they fail on product regularly).

I would agree completely that it’s not ready for consumers the way it was displayed, which is my point.

I do want to add that I believe that the right way to do these types of new product rollout is not with these giant public announcements.

In fact, I think generally speaking the “right” way to do something like this demonstrates only things that are possible robustly. However that’s not the market that Google lives in. They’re capitalists trying to make as much money as possible. I’m simply evaluating that what they’re showing I think is absolutely technically possible and I think Google can deliver it even if its not ready today.

Do I think it’s supremely ethical the way that they did it? No I don’t.
I'm in the top 15 bf4 tankers in the US. I run a very unique loadout that's very specific to my PTFO playstyle and the most common threats I deal with. It has glaring weaknesses that few ever exploit, but if you knew the game and actually tried to counter me, you absolutely could.

Sometimes, the .001% have simply found their particular niche in the ecosystem
The problem is not with the model, but with its portrayal in the marketing materials. It's not even the fact that it lied, which is actually realistic. The problem is the lie was not called out as such. A better demo would have had the user note the issue and give the model the opportunity to correct itself.
For sure! Just be sure to include a spoiler warning :)
That is not the core issue, it is one of the many issues. Tesla cars will not arrive in Sweden, will not be repaired, parts will bot be delivered.
> I literally had never had any form of Chinese ... They had the best Crab Rangoon

What the hell is that stuff? I lived most of my life in Asia, but went to a Chinese buffet on a visit to the USA. Crab Rangoon sounded exciting... but it was full of cream cheese or something? Absolutely shocking. I'm very confident that's not a Chinese (or Burmese) dish.
> how did she get a board seat on OpenAI?

She's the leading academic on the issue of AI safety. It's really ridiculous people don't even know her name and say random things about her, not realizing she's a rock star in her field.

Her leaving the board is a tremendous loss for OpenAI, about as terrible as Ilya leaving the board. These are two giants of AI currently.
Stability is apparently up for sale, hence the recent steady stream of releases
This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-4...

It's not just a glut of "bad games." There are a number of specific things big companies such as Atari did that made them more vulnerable to this crash than they otherwise would have been.
True. I know a couple people who work with soundtracks professionally for TV, and the crazy thing is that "writing songs fast" is a totally different skill in itself, so it's not enough to be an amazing player with decades of experience, or even an amazing songwriter, it's a different superpower that impresses other musicians too.

Those super-fast soundtrack/jingle composers, session musicians and professional songwriters have this "little bag of tricks" in their heads that they use to move fast and iterate. They know intricacies of the styles they work with, like chord progressions, rhythms, song structures, arrangement conventions and cliche lines. Then, the chord progression often "suggests" a melody (meaning: some notes sound more natural over different chords), and melodies often also "suggests" some lyrics. And they also know the rules well enough to be able to break them.

Naturally, to make something "beautiful" takes more than "speed" and "familiarity with the genre". But it is really cool to see people able to do things fast. I wonder if we could apply this to coding... I guess it's not too different from people able to do game jams, or hackatons.
This space is so confusing when it comes to licenses.

“Zephyr” is MIT, but “Stability Zephyr” is non commercial. They could have at least used a different name.

“Inspired” in all but license it would seem
> If you think these things aren’t fair or suck, then you should try to move out of the leet coder path and get on the capital owner or business operator side.

Or… unionize. Y’know, hack the corporation.
Most people in the fanfiction community recognize that it's probably not strictly allowed under copyright. However, the community response has generally been to do it anyway and try to respect the wishes of the author. Hence why you won't find Interview with a Vampire fanfiction on the major sites.

If anything, I think that severely hinders the pro-AI argument if fanfiction made by human authors are also bound by copyright.

ETA: I just tested it out and you can totally create Interview with a Vampire fanfiction with Bing Compose. That presumably is subject to at least as strong copyright as human authors and is thus a copyright violation.
Yeah but the point is what amount of work a game dev is able to do. The current level of games were just impossible back then or it would require a huge number of teams just to do something quite trivial today.
Congrats you have a different use case to GP.
> but of course our lives are finite and we have to make choices that might limit our development of any skill.

This is a key point in Four Thousand Weeks (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54785515). For our hobbies, it'd be totally fine (and even preferable) to not worry about percentiles at all.
Nickel also down in price
That's a tricky one though since the question is, is the air inside of the rubber duck part of the material that makes it? If you removed the air it definitely wouldn't look the same or be considered a rubber duck. I gave it to the bot since when taking ALL the material that makes it a rubber duck, it is less dense than water.
Blogspam, perfected.
Agree, then the question becomes how will this issue play out?

Maybe AI correctness will be similar to automobile safety. It didn’t take long for both to be recognized as fundamental issues with new transformative technologies.

In both cases there seems to be no silver bullet. Mitigations and precautions will continue to evolve, with varying degrees of effectiveness. Public opinion and legislation will play some role.

Tragically accidents will happen and there will be a cost to pay, which so far has been much higher and more grave for transportation.
There is a possibility of dataset contamination on the competitive programming benchmark. A nice discussion on the page where AlphaCode2 was solving the problems https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123035

Problem showed in the video was reused in a recent competition (so could have been available in the dataset).
EDIT: never mind, I missed the exact wording about being "made of a material..." which is definitely false then. Thanks for the correction below.

Preserving the original comment so the replies make sense:

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I think it's a stretch to say that's false.

In a conversational human context, saying it's made of rubber implies it's a rubber shell with air inside.

It floats because it's rubber [with air] as opposed to being a ceramic figurine or painted metal.

I can imagine most non-physicist humans saying it floats because it's rubber.

By analogy, we talk about houses being "made of wood" when everybody knows they're made of plenty of other materials too. But the context is instead of brick or stone or concrete. It's not false to say a house is made of wood.
Yeah, derative works in this case afaik was always be meant as "we can generate thumbnails etc" and not "we will train our AI with it". I am pretty sure this is illegal in many countries...
> Humans do most of their thinking non-verbally and we need to figure out how to get these models to think non-verbally too.

That's a very interesting point, both technically and philosophically.

Where Gemini is "multi-modal" from training, how close do you think that gets? Do we know enough about neurology to identical a native language in which we think? (not rhetorical questions, I'm really wondering)
I'm really considering Fairphone 5 as an Upgrade to my Pixel 3a with Graphene OS. Hardware seems fine (5g, Wifi 6e, reasonable SoC, MicroSD, etc.) but the absolute terrible state of Fairphone Software and their abhorrent record on dealing with security issues is really putting me off. So I'm waiting for Lineage OS to officially support it, hoping that they get this done better.
Tesla is free to not sign a CBA, and union members are free to not serve Tesla. Swedish labor market is very free (as in unencumbered by laws and government intervention).
If there isn't, there really should be. I bet that would be an excellent business to be in.
Maybe I did not say it plainly enough.

These one man shops deliver to Chinese firms (Like Huawei) hardware designs, firmware source and also other misc. software. All in one go, on contract under the auspice of "outsourcing R&D". Wayyyy too much for one person to deliver on, especially for a small office which is mostly closed.

I am not sure if I am mixing up anecdotes, but my source has mentioned that the materials provided often contain the same firmware bugs as a similar competitor's product does.
Love the idea of visualizing news stories by means of AI-generated art. Great execution as well. I can see this actually work in a lot of spaces.
The rumor I heard was that the higher voltage resulted in lower switch lifetimes. Any truth to that?
Accelerometers as an Instrument [video]
I'm currently working with some relatively obscure but open source stuff (JupyterLite and Pyodide) and ChatGPT 4 confidently hallucinates APIs and config options when I ask it for help.

With more mainstream libraries it's pretty good though
Because your users have agreed to terms of service that don't mention analyzing the images to train an AI model.
Yep, I have my Wireguard client connect when I am off my network and I split DNS so I can continue to use my ad blocker when off my network and on the macro network. For that it is perfect.
Somewhere I saw a clip of David Duchovny revealing the never-before-heard lyrics of the X-Files theme song:

The X-Files is a show
With music by Mark Snow
The X-Files is a show
With music by Mark Snow
...
Yeah, and ads on Google search have the teeniest, tiniest little "ad" chip on them, a long progression of making ads more in-your-face and less well-distinguished.

In my estimation, given the context around AI-generated content and general fakery, this video was deceptive. The only impressive thing about the video (to me) was how snappy and fluid it seemed to be, presumably processing video in real time. None of that was real. It's borderline fraudulent.
Depending on how good you are at programming, LLMs would probably have some good feedback.
The motor is a critical component, to have 14 duds in a row is even worse than natural failure at a few thousand hours.

Again, that's a lemon.
No, because you put the parent directory in CDPATH. If I have funstuff/blogs/pics, funstuff/blogs/foods, funstuff/blogs/cats, etc., I put funstuff/blogs in CDPATH and now cd cats just works. If I created a pile of symlinks, I would have to individually create one symlink each for ~/pics, ~/foods, ~/cats, etc. And also type cd ~/cats.
they prefer to give industries the opportunity to increase their political donations and let the issue slide rather than take action to fix it.
"Breaking Through: My Life in Science", a memoir by Katalin Karikó.
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding [0]

[0] https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-...
I think atomic bombs is a good analogy for why it's alarming, actually. Humanity had a great and brief time putting radium in all sorts of things until they realized that it was doing something that penetrated deeply into and through the body at a micro scale.

Humanity has also had a great time making different kinds of plastics, only to discover that they are also penetrating our body at a microscopic scale.

While we don't have the smoking gun yet (i.e. radium jaw), it's at least scary to me, because platics are so pervasive across the population that if a smoking gun DOES emerge, it might be too late. I think the article itself brings up another good example: asbestos.

I get all the jokes about dihydrogen monoxide killing people who breathe it, i.e. drowning, but this is fundamentally different, because we are discovering a thing that is interacting with our bodies in a way that was not historically present throughout evolution. Presumably if we'd evolved in the mist of nano plastics there wouldn't be much cause for worry, because a priori we'd have survived and thrived in its presence.
Our 8 meter mirror is essentially the same as others 16 meter mirrors.
* Operators And Things – a fascinating account of a woman's journey through (and out of) schizophrenia. Also, some very interesting insight into toxic office politics.

* Philosophical Investigations – I've wanted to read and understand Wittgenstein's PI for a while now. This year I've made a serious effort and it has been very worthwhile. Best read with a companion text (I used Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations).
Tailscale is needed if you require site to site connectivity via something like Starlink.

I may be putting my ignorance on display here, but I recently completed a site-to-site network between two farms in rural America, no other ISP can serve these farms, and they needed to communicate cow data between the different farms. Tailscale did the majority of the heavy lifting thankfully, and we were able to get them all sorted out.

I could not get Wireguard to work, and that may be down to my limitations in networking, but I was sucessful with tailscale, so make of that as you will.
> I tend to agree that with enough time and _appropriate_ training anyone can become quite competent at anything

It's something I don't believe. There's no evidence for it, but that would also be really hard to obtain. You'll get better with training, practice, exercise, but quite competent is a level very many people won't be able to manage.

Physical competence is an obvious case. Roughly half the population is too young or too old to become e.g. a "quite competent" marathon runner, has ailments, handicaps, etc. An even larger part simply is not tall enough to reach beyond than absolute amateur level in certain sports (basketball, volleyball). And the differences don't magically stop at the blood-brain barrier.

I agree that more than 5% of the population could achieve the level currently held by the top 5%, but it's not a lot more.
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. It was super straightforward.
CSS Wrapped: 2023
"Significant societal change" doesn't always have to come from getting masses of people onboard. It can also happen, and often does happen, by people entrusted with power to make decisions even in the absence of complete information.

One heuristic such a person might use would be, "gee, are we really going to take the position that if you pollute so quickly and so widespread that it becomes nearly impossible to demonstrate specific harm, that you can just keep on doing that?"