skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/118419694649... No big deal guys! Just a felony level AI Safety disaster in progress at OpenAI, better write some research papers about safety and make another GitHub Repo instead of deleting one line of text and going for a walk in beautiful San Francisco!

Philosoraptor infinite loop about (https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1184196946496331896...) if I worked there then I would delete the text in question in two minutes, but I do not care to work with people who would not have already deleted the text in question over the course of several months.
Ah, so this must be when it encountered the early borg that created Vger.

EDIT: Maybe Aliens picked it up last night and they are on their way here now because we forgot to include a golden record player.
The 13the floor is a movie for you.
> the signal itself is useful and communicates that the probe is still powered

It also tells us that ca. 1970s kit can survive past the termination shock, i.e. in interstellar space.
No. Is a human body that suffers from selected kinds of sickness for that matter? Also no.
For a document that purports to provide clarity they're sure playing fast and loose with terminology. The first one on the list should be "all postal codes are ZIP codes" because that's false but but evidently programmers believe it.
Show HN: NOS – A fast, and ergonomic PyTorch inference server
Hey HN, we built an inference server called NOS that can run a whole host of open-source AI models (LLMs, Stable Diffusion, CLIP, Whisper, Object Detection etc) all under one-roof.

You can pull and run NOS in a few lines of code - simply `pip install torch-nos`

and run `nos serve up --http`. You should now be able to talk to NOS over HTTP or gRPC (see README for examples).

NOS can run locally on your desktop (with a gaming GPU), in any cloud GPU (L4, A100s, etc) and even on CPUs (without any acceleration). We’ll soon support Apple Silicon, so you should be able to run your AI models locally on a Macbook.

Why are you building yet another inference server?

Most API server implementations today deeply couple the API framework (FastAPI, Flask) with the modeling backend (PyTorch, TF etc.) - in other words, it doesn’t let you separate the concerns for the backend (i.e. scale-out, memory-efficiency, async/batched execution etc.) from the API (auth, observability, telemetry etc.), especially if you’re looking to build a production-ready application.

Why use NOS?

We’ve tried to make it very easy for developers to add support for new models and take them to production.

Here are a few things we think developers care about:

- Simple API over gRPC or REST that supports batched requests, and streaming.
- Support any OSS model with custom runtimes with pip, conda and cuda dependencies.
- Serve multiple custom models simultaneously on a single or multi-GPU instance.
- Local execution means that you control your data, and you’re free to build NOS for domains that are more restrictive with data privacy.
- Fully containerized means that you can develop, test and deploy NOS locally, on-prem, on any cloud or AI CSP.
- Written entirely in Python, Apache-2.0 License.

Try it out! Check out one of our demos in the NOS playground (https://github.com/nos-playground) (lots of video models) and let us know what you think!
This is very cool! Thank you for sharing!
Hey Mitchell,

Best of luck in the future! I'm a nobody - but I was around in the packer days and wrote a post-processor and terraform provider for our vsphere back in the day. I don't think I'd be where I am now without those experiences. Thanks!
Are you using one of these?

https://www.alconox.com/product/alconox/

https://www.alconox.com/product/alcojet/

Their sheet says "biodegradable" so was curious about enviro impacts from your vantage
Chemistry is an amazing science and we probably need a lot more chemists....

But I'm sure glad I don't have to go near any of this stuff!

Hard to believe there's any hobby chemists out there messing with mercury and stuff, handling most of these chemicals seems like something you'd only ever do for a huge salary or if you believed your work was going to save many lives.
Two questions:

1. what would be "a good winter coat" in that environment? I'm curious b/c I once found myself in upstate NY in winter with Texas clothing and it was near-fatally inadequate.

2. I've heard the phrase "get hammered[drunk]" but not "hammering my face". Searching for that sent me down a rabbit hole, i.e.,

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hammering+my+face&t=operav&ia=web

I assume you intended the former meaning, that is, "getting drunk"?
“Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics” by Sussman bridges this gap beautifully
I would think ColdFusion (CFML) would be esoteric, but recently I was tasked to work on an ancient CFML code base for a few days and Copilot saved my bacon. I was frankly astonished at how well it knew CFML. It was like a mind reader. I'd write <cfset some_var =... and it would fill in about 15 lines of code that were exactly what I needed to have happen. How did it do so well at such an esoteric language?
There is no loss of data on either side. It's not stealing. Your argument is like saying that a picture of the Eiffel Tower is stealing.

Nothing is lost from copying.
Who Feels Satisfied About Money? (2019)
the code or the running application?

the answer to both is probably "there is no best", pick what works for you and gets out of the way. If you don't have something, pick something mainstream for the learning, community, and ecosystem
And I don't know anything about the equipment AT&T is handing out these days, it could be particularly bad. But generally speaking the equipment that ISPs are handing out these days is pretty functional for generic use.
Have you never heard of NextDNS?
Media relies on generational amnesia to recover its credibility. Go back any number of decades and the clumsy partisan propaganda will be evident, in a manner that is insistent on steering major events or their responses. Pick any decade.

A fun and particularly relevant thought experiment is to imagine what the media coverage would have been for Donald Trump should he have been President during the 9/11 attacks. Would the media have sought to convene the nation around leadership, as it did, or would it have tried to remove the leadership for criminal incompetence at the least?

The MSM seeks to dictate the limits of acceptable democracy to the limits of its preferred agendas. When that effort failed, it incited and covered for eight months of pre-election riots that killed two and half dozen citizens. It then internally lashed out when a contrary voice was mistakenly printed.
Can you change a chicken into a frog, a fish or a chameleon?
> or, most likely, just not invite you back

Paper magic works with infinite combos on the basis that if you can prove them, you can "fast forward".

And someone with a draw infinite combo would definitely be welcome in some player circles (see the Jhonny definition).
Is this the start of Singularity?
I doubt it more and more these days. So many improbable things need to line up perfectly for this to happen.

There may be alien civilizations, but they might be on worlds without the adequate resources or the right type of gravity to reach escape velocity.

And there simply hasn’t been enough time in the universe for many space faring civilizations to have arisen yet. We might be really early.
Finally got the proof that time travel did exist. But I wonder many like bitcoin might be. Then the pin drop could the whole python is a future ai coming in and prevent us from optimise and squeeze them out. They need the glue language. Ai depend upon it. Hence it is all for ai.
Absolute or relative? Login wall to get past the abstract.
Last year I wrote a weird short story about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/
The Invisible College
From my experiments? Given a physical chassis with a high-level API (move one step forward, rotate head, that kind of thing), then yes. Even as early as GPT-3.5 it was starting to become possible, and with GPT-4, it's become quite easy. Someone just needs to put in the elbow grease to glue the components together and patiently wait while it does its thing.
Thank you, fixed the broken link!
How does Cruise focus on standardization by laying off the people who were writing them? Surely you've interacted with the sensors teams, or the kernel teams, or the silicon teams, or the hardware teams, or syseng, or any of the other engineering teams that saw significant cuts?
You’re saying this as if I am condescending on Japanese people.

Something tells me the people negatively reacting to my comment are those who armchair worship the idea of Japan and its cultural exports, then put Japan on a golden pedestal.

Americas the #1 economy, doesn’t mean the bottom rung of society is doing well or that it’s a desirable place to live. The economic ranking is irrelevant here.

I actually live here and my plight is with the working class people who are struggling to get by.
My guy, you are the mark.
Christ almighty can you imagine the nerves plugging the reactor in and executing its code for the first time? Does it (A) produce limitless clean energy or (B) kill every human in accordance with the secret self-generated fallback prompt.
ping needs to be reconfigured to be tolerant of the higher latency.
I started w/ an LSTM and wound up w/ a mixture of transformers, CNNs and skip connections.
Yeah exactly. And sorry I wasn't trying to disprove the study or anything, just providing the name of one of the effects they're describing.
Pretty annoyed with Adobe’s relentless greed.

They should switch to something similar to JetBrains license model.

Its absurd to pay a monthly subscription for a year and still not own a license for that version indefinitely.

Furthermore, the defaults store your art/assets in their cloud, further trying to keep you beholden to maintaining an active license.

Plain and simple greed serving their stakeholders and contempt for their paying customers.
Perhaps there is a more ideal world in which these converge because I cannot for the life of me understand why we need all of these concurrently.

Tangential, tty is also a term that can and should be left in the past.
Do you use an RSS feed for HackerNews?
Amazing this same story keeps getting reposted every other day. Slow news week? Great time to announce something you've been working on HNers!
link to non paywalled version of this https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi...

this paper also defines good looking and how to measure it with machine learning algorithms. given that look is highly subjective, any findings based on that is not very useful
Interesting! Why faulty LED bulbs in particular, does it have to do with their PWM frequency?
The DAG framing might miss the key points and attract contention.

The "law of Demeter" is a design rule that says to only work with data you directly know about - i.e., friends, but not friends of friends. It make local reasoning tractable and forces any (friendly) use to be surfaced as such, which gives a better way to assess global complexity. (By contrast, the DOM is just, well, global state, whatever the data structure.)

But who or what is "you"? In this case, the node, which is responsible for (local) data liveness; a UI as simply derived nodes from that, with cross-node validation dependencies represented as graph dependencies.

Modeling overall system activity as graph updates does provide nice separation to permit concurrent programming, with graph structure as the arbiter of conflicts, but you'll need a more specific notion of "consistency" that can distinguish the use cases this would work for.

The comparison and question would be with various UI and data component systems, which handle data mapping to the back-end, cross-component aspects like themes or device constraints, user id and security, etc.: how are these higher-level concerns managed with an iterative graph structure?

Serialization is a nice sample concern, but your (attractive) approach exemplifies the issue: to make it work entails tracking some conventions/responsibilities, which are not captured by the DAG framing.

For me, frameworks work when the types basically constrain developers into doing the right thing. Local reasoning and responsibility translate directly to local code, and proof relates directly to compliance, preferably at the language level at build time.

These kind of local-reasoning models shine when the code is federated, e.g., when hosting multiple services and contributions. The whole app should just work if the participants can be validated on load/launch, and any failures should be restricted to the local nodes instead of cascading. So if you target an app requiring some specific collaborative domain (with a promising business model), this proposal might draw more attention, and you can work through issues concretely.

So perhaps target a killer app, build understandable constraints into the code, and demo key features.
Discord is actually an interesting analogy because they share apple’s overall philosophy here. Discord doesn’t absolutely firewall themselves with attestation/etc but they will absolutely ban you for using alternative clients like Discord Advanced if they notice you behaving differently from an official client on the API. Some of the things the discord advanced client can do like animated smilies or cross-server smilies are things that discord has locked away behind a paywall (with no real technical basis) and that’s in conflict with how a small minority of users want to interact with the platform.

Should discord be forced to interoperate? Bearing in mind that of course forcing them open will undercut their whole business model - but that whole model is built on gouging consumers for trivial technical features that cost nothing to implement or support.

Similarly, while there is choice in the market (just like apple and android), it still doesn’t change the network-effect problem. If my friends are on discord, and I’m left in some group sms side chat, that’s not really a substitute, right?

Now layer on 30 years of brand warrior sports-team mentality and abrasive interactions in both directions, and you’ve roughly got the iMessage problem. But of course everyone likes discord…

I mean why shouldn’t I get to use discord for free like everyone else? And I also should get the paywalled features since it’s an arbitrary and abusive paywall and the environment has been designed to tacitly funnel you into using them. Isn’t that like, super abusive?

But we like discord…
> How can the human safety risks in cleaning, and the analysis risks from residual contamination be valued less than the cost of fresh equipment made of…glass.

Because these things can cost hundreds of dollars apiece [1]. They're handmade, and many universities run their own glassblowing shops [1] so that researchers can have the instruments they need precisely tuned to whatever is required. Training to be a glassblower that can produce the required quality takes almost a decade [3], if you want more pictures on just how insanely complex a single piece can get look here [4].

[1] https://hooloodistill.com/products/borosilicate-glass-distil...

[2] https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/aatc/service/scientific-glassblowi...

[3] https://www.bath.ac.uk/case-studies/the-underrated-art-of-sc...

[4] https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/inside-scientific-glassblow...
I have seen this argument against African Americans made several times (mostly by asians). As an outsider , I cant stop thinking how shallow the argument is. Here is a counter argument. First, am not American. Am from Kenya. When kids join highschool in kenya, they need to sit a nationwide exam. Total score out of 500. For kids in Nairobi and other well established cities, they will need to get at least 400 marks out of the 500 to get a spot in a national highschool (which are the top of the top public schools) while kids from “rural” and marginalised areas, the cut off point for them can be as low as 350 marks. These are the kids who have pastoralists families that probably move constantly, or stay in areas where its too hot they only attend classes for 4 hrs a day. They most likely dont have electricity, no water etc. Its therefore only fair for their cutoff point to be different from a child who grew up in the city (like me) with access to all modern day life necessities including luxuries like private tuition.
Now back to America, would the same argument not be made for black Americans (or any other ethnic groups or even people from other “rural” regions that are marginalised to have their cut off point be different from people from well established regions? That’s what equality is all about. Being able to identify such disparities and create solutions as permanent solutions are sort after.
I was just a tad young to care when the voyager spacecraft were first launched, but I have followed the adventures of these spacecraft since the mid 80s. I remember being a little disappointed in the “Neptune all night” TV special during the flyby as the whole night they only received one photo and didn’t have time to colorize it :-D

But I have always been inspired by the ingenuity of the engineers in first designing spacecraft that have lasted so long and gone so far beyond their original mission parameters, and secondly keeping these two machines operational across so much time and distance in such a hostile environment.

Thank you Voyager team present and past; you’ve helped inspire so many young people to STEM careers, and you’ve done so with a project that shows the very best of the curious and inventive side of humanity.
>t’s really interesting that so many people are defending a corporation stealing from another company

Boo-hoo, let me play you the world's smallest violin for Apple's "suffering". Apple is the richest company in the world, it has more money than God, they can fend for themselves just fine, why should anyone shed a tear that someone is stealing from them?

People are defending others stealing from Apple because Apple has a history of stealing from other companies and developers as well, so it's just karma.

Though you'll have to enlighten me what exactly it is they are stealing from Apple since Apple doesn't charge money for iMessage for there to be any theft or loss of revenue for them. Unless your definition of theft is "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR?!"
The issue is that ‘any organic residue’ includes any food you might happen to put on it afterwards, if any trace of the solution is left. Or, for that matter, it includes your entire body. This is an exceedingly bad idea unless you enjoy your food bursting into flames, then burning a hole through your stomach if you eat it.
Launch velocity was estimated at 66km/s. 11 of that would be burned climbing out of Earth's gravity well leaving us with a velocity of 55 km/s relative to Earth. It will take another 42 km/s to escape the solar system, so that would be a velocity of 13 km/s at escape. Voyager 1 is traveling at 17 km/s, so would either be ahead of it or will catch it eventually.

But this doesn't account for the earth's orbit at 30 km/s. So depending on the launch orientation to orbit, the manhole cover could either still be in orbit around the sun, or have a velocity of up to 43 km/s at escape. So it's possible, if it didn't get vaporized, that is.
As someone who's done the opposite ... gone from physics to coding ... I'd suggest the first thing to do is question your premise. What exactly does "getting into physics" mean for you? What actually comes to your mind if you imagine tasks a physicist might perform ? Which of those do you think you could do as a programmer, and which have you got no idea about how to approach ?
Such a questioning approach is typical for physics. Why are things the way they are? What predictions can one make ? etc....

Or do you even mean "physics" in the sense the word is used in computer game development ?
Which is "largely" (an over broad term) mechanics; how things move, flow, deform under external forces.

Can you give us more details? That would help with giving you pointers.
Pretty cool and intuitive. I think translation would be more natural between the thumb and index finger, as if you were closing around to pinch the squiggle.

Also, look at the many JS drawing samples out there - it's very simple to smooth out the lines - either by adding a small delay to calculate the curves on the fly, or by snapping to the curve when the line stops.
How to Prepare a Successful Application Migration Project
> It was more LOC than the modules being tested/certified.

So much code. I hope they had a QAQA team to test all that.
And I installed it on my work laptop.

What an idiot. I am.
I barely have a horse in this race, but I think what I'd like to see is more apps that behave like 'npm config' or 'git config' where you can imperatively change one configuration value.

I take your image as the FROM for my own Dockerfile, tweak a few settings, maybe alter the CMD, and then run my image instead of trying to do some sort of ad absurdum variation on a Twelve Factor App.
The problem I see with this argument is that there are plenty of fabs making trailing-edge devices, some of which aren't even that old. It even seems to be part of the established path for countries and locations more generally that seek to bootstrap a semiconductor industry of their own. They get started with the simplest and coarsest nodes, then go finer step by step. Even TSMC got their start that way. So it seems like a pretty robust industry to me, I'm not seeing the argument for a crisis.
I use sendmail on a couple of servers. Started them in the late 90s with FreeBSD and it was easier to just keep moving the sendmail configs as I upgraded the servers. What I have works and works well for what I'm doing, though I have an idea someday I'll move over to Postfix...
Wow.

Popsci can be kinda clickbaity too, but CNN's title is just shameless.
This seems to be the new paper mentioned:

https://openai.com/research/weak-to-strong-generalization

> [...] humans will need to supervise AI systems much smarter than them. We study a simple analogy: can small models supervise large models?
This guy here has a good solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643347

Itm similar to science fiction where time loops resolve through circumstance. If you go back in time to stop your birth you will inevitably instigate your birth instead of creating a paradox.

I'm this case if you try to freeze time by going into the black hole the black hole will inevitably be destroyed before you can get close enough to it to encounter the singularity.
Unbounded automatic combos can be any colors. One of the simplest is:

Aether Flash - Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, Aether Flash deals 2 damage to it.

Polyraptor - Creature - 5/5

Whenever Polyraptor is dealt damage, create a token that's a copy of Polyraptor.
Had you told me that something with the capabilities of GPT-4 or Mixtral 8x7B "will arrive within 10 years" back in 2013, I'd have said you were smoking something. It seems that while the current LLM boom is under way, it's quite silly to underestimate how far this wave can go, even if it ends up not being superintelligence. Ignore at your own peril.
I'm saying it's very likely that the business has exactly zero tolerance for the detector missing those signs while there are known, unresolved issues. They can't have something happen when they "knew it could happen".

After "resolving" the issue, then they can resume tolerating the normal probabilities.

In the US, it might be more of a precaution. In Europe, it could be more of a legal obligation. Either way, I doubt engineering has a say in the matter.
Samuel Hartlib
This is one of the few good use cases for a blockchain outside of crypto
That post is awesome. Thank you for sharing! There are some truly brilliant humans on this planet with us.