skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing will bring those people back. If that’s the only goal, then banning is also frivolous.

It’s also unclear whether there is a similar safe alternative, so banning one type of product might just shift the problem to a new toxic and dangerous material.

The only solution is to enforce safety regulations and/or come up with better ones. At one time, when I decided I’d sand a wall in my house, I ended up attaching a vacuum cleaner to my sander so that the dust wouldn’t go everywhere. Wearing the filter mask was also extremely uncomfortable, so it might be worth to design better breathing PPEs that are more human-friendly to drive acceptance up.
And when civilians do get slaughtered by an autonomous system, the subtext of the media treatment will be the usual: "Regrettable, even tragic, but... unavoidable. The exigencies of warfare."
It’s like banning chemical products because they are causing death if not handled properly. We would not have an industrialised world if we went that way.
His dog did it after eating the CS homework.
It doesn’t help when the affected workers are easy and cheap to replace.
On a reasonably large project, you accumulate sufficient dependencies that you end up doing all of that.
I have a work server with 384GB of RAM, some swap on spinning rust, and a fairly old installation of Linux, and it has certainly had times when it has taken hours for the kernel OOM killer to sort the thing out. earlyoom was one of the first things I installed on it. I think the more RAM you have, the worse the OOM behaviour. I also think that recent versions of Linux are much better at this than they used to be.
We patch our dependencies.

This adds a diff to your repo, not an entire fork of the dependency.

A package manager like pnpm will install the package as usual, then apply your patch over the top.

https://pnpm.io/cli/patch
A lot of manual workers ignore protective equipment even after training and while constantly supervised
It's a complex tool with lots of hard to discover features. Training can be more efficient than watching youtubers use it since you can ask questions
You're right in that it probably would be nice to have a civilized opt-out button like Google. But that's not hard to add (especially hypothetically if this site becomes successful). In my mind, total opposite of OpenAI thieving bulk data and giving 0 back to anybody.
The toxic (but cheaper) stuff will be manufactured offshore
Depending on the work, it may be more valuable than coding ability even. You need people with the right ideas that can win arguments. Without that you can only build garbage.
If he was as opinionated and aggressive in the podcast as he is in this writing he has to live with it.
> civilization-altering trajectory

On which planet? Because i don't see any of it. AI should have made my console monkey job obsolete, by yesterday.
I mean you can poke around and read the manual/watch YouTube videos and discover things, or you could just have an expert in the thing interactively teach you how to use the program and its features. It's not about needing training, it's about optimizing time spent learning an advanced tool and all its features.
ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet into Plumbing
"It makes sense that the press release uses the phrase “global news content”—content is an ugly but useful word for understanding exactly what’s happening here. At its core, generative AI cannot distinguish original journalism from any other bit of writing; to the machine, it’s all slop pushed through the pipes and splattered out the other end. For this reason, the deal is notable not just for media wonks, but because it says something about the future of the internet—in particular, the vision that OpenAI has for it."

"The shift to news via chatbot feels ironic when you consider what generative AI has wrought elsewhere: Old-school search engines such as Google have been flooded with supercharged, optimized spam and are struggling to handle it, while sites such as CNET and Gizmodo have published deeply flawed synthetic writing in a desperate bid to stay competitive. ChatGPT is becoming more capable at the same time that its underlying technology is destroying much of the web as we’ve known it."

Garbage in, garbage out.
> more efficient than watching youtubers

That isn't really saying much. "Watching YouTubers" doesn't really seem like a way to learn how to do something, it seems like a way to waste some time and pretend you're one of the cool kids.

I can't be the only person who remembers when people learnt how to use a program by using it?
When my previous company introduced them I pointed out that despite several studies, not one could conclude that OKRs had any positive effect and that the only famous "success" case, Google, didn't prove at all that Google was successful due to them but arguably, despite them.

Let's just say that I didn't won any popularity awards there for being the rational one.
>For example, I believe that early on the narrator speaks about his mother 'going to Heaven'

>Of course if that explanation never comes, and the detail is critical to the plot

it's the matrix. Siri's mum ends up in a data centre somewhere with her conscious mind having every whim sated while her unconscious is running vampire Facebook or whatever
From horizontal to vertical is a huge deal though. The US might have a load of space but plenty of others countries would massively benefit from converting land used for farming into land used for housing where possible.

Additionally it means that farming can happen on the edges of towns and cities rather than in the wops, ie fewer huge delivery trucks moving produce around; it can essentially be grown down the road.
screen shots, and youtube 'shorts' with fat mouse pointers are assistive, especially if the learner has 2 screens for shadowing. It can also be done with dual windows for single screens. I have dual 34" screens and often have many panels, screens are so cheap these days. Dual phones also work on a smaller scale with secondary connectivity via WiFi and sim, etc
I don't remember her ever saying she actually has experience with the browser, just that she knows it. She could have just used UNIX in general and only read a lot about the file browser, or perhaps briefly tried then incredibly slow version.

It's not even too much of a stretch to imagine she has never seen the file browser, but is able to figure it out on like one can with modern GUI apps.
I wonder why those parts are not made in the desired shape already with no need to cut or sand in place.
Any Aussies to confirm this isn’t some sort of lobbying stunt?

It does not make much sense to me that engineered stone would be much worse than natural stone on the regard of silicosis, and I highly doubt the natural stone industry is any more compliant in protection equipment and worker safety.

This sort of smells like natural stone industry fighting back to recover ground they lost to the engineered stuff, but being on the opposite side of the World it’s impossible for me to understand this beyond conspiracy theorizing.
Rare Earth Hypothesis
We would also have a much sicker world if we didnt ban things. For better or for worse (often for worse in my opinion) Australia is king of banning things and treating its citizens as children. However when it comes to workplace safety I tend to be in favour because workers often get pressured into unsafe behaviour by time or by bosses.
Unfortunately, this is the end point for most large companies.

It starts with "when hiring, we need to expand our candidate base to be more diverse" which is a laudable goal. Then it becomes "our employee distribution should reflect the underlying population" which also sounds reasonable on its face. When that doesn't actually happen, then quotas get set, which is a huge gray area. When quotas aren't met, then hiring managers get told "do not put white males up for consideration". I have personally experienced this on multiple occasions as a hiring manager.
This just seems silly to bother to defend? I followed the link to 'ridiculed on Twitter' expecting it to be horrible, 'oh yeah well I guess if you feel that personally attacked of course you'll think you have to do something'.. but it's not really? It's just someone pointing it out and yeah it's kind of funny in hindsight? Have a laugh and move on?
I'm more saddened by the state of hardware. It's amazing and very practical and basically perfect for everyday use... But it was a lot cooler back then.

WebGL file management doesn't seem to hard to implement, I'm guessing it would be a weekend project to make a demo, now that one doesn't actually need math to draw 3D stuff.
7 days later, it's still there, unchanged.
In the case of a serious attack, the blacklist should be every token. You can still handle this quite nicely with JWT by rotating the previous verification key. Depends on systems and configuration, this can be as easy as changing the HMAC private key or push a new RSA key to every verifier.
Agreed - most people don't realise, but even if you don't have any swap, all your executable code is effectively treated exactly the same way as swap (except it's read-only and needed more often).

I'd love a setting on Linux to tell it to treat executable pages memory-mapped from disc as Really Important and never evict them. It'd have to come with a suitable warning that if you set this then you get exactly what you deserve, but TBH it probably is what most people actually think is happening already and want.
This is why I like to watch YouTube tutorials sometimes, especially when I’m new to a certain topic. They show every step clearly. The author can’t forget to mention a piece of information because he’s doing it in real time. Too often with written tutorials there’s one or more steps missing, that are obvious to the author but not necessarily to someone new to the subject.
I personally think it is possible to get a grasp of how many ML models learn, if you can get the intuition behind it - without the formal math knowledge, but only up to a certain point.

From my time in college studying this, you had approximately four types of students:

1) Those that didn't understand how models worked, and lacked the math to theoretically understand the models (dropped out class after a couple of weeks)

2) Those that understood (intuitively) how the models worked, but lacked the math to read and formalize models. Lots of students from the CS program fell under this group - but I think that is due to CS programs here having less math requirements than traditional engineering and science majors.

3) Those that understood how the models worked, and had the math knowledge. This was the majority of students.

4) Those that did not understand the models, but had the math knowledge.

Of these, 2-3 were the most common types of students. In the rare occasion, you had type 4 students. They would have no problem with deriving formulas, or proving stuff - but they'd more or less freeze up or start to stumble when asked to explain how the models worked, on a blackboard.

With that said, if someone has any ambition of doing ML research, I think math prereqs are a must. Hell, even people with good (graduate level) math skills can have a hard time reading papers, as there are so many different fields/branches of math involved. Lots and lots of inconsistent math notation, overloading, and all that.

There's a lot of contrived "mathiness" in papers, even where simple diagrams will do the trick. If your paper doesn't include a certain amount of equations / math, people aren't taking it serious...so some authors will just spam their papers with somewhat related equations, using whatever notation they're most comfortable with.
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They're great mathematicians, too.
Interesting article.

My opinion when clicking: definitely yes, they're super helpful to see in a glance what it's supposed to look like and where I'm supposed to click

My opinion after clicking: rarely, because you'd need to capture them in every language/region and recapture them after any significant UI change and make sure it's small enough for users to see who need 400% zoom or are viewing it on a phone screen and you need the text equivalent anyway for blind people

That's not what the author wrote, just my takeaway. The author has recommendations for how to make screenshots work for you, but even with automated screenshot grabbing, it feels like you can count the number of UI updates that can happen until the page doesn't match the textual description anymore (or the URL changes, or the button ID changes so the screenshot grabber can't find the page anymore altogether) on one hand, if not half a hand, so you need to check them all manually after every update anyhow

They're still good for marketing material such as a readme file or project website. I love screenshots because they show features more clearly than the text description and you can see at a glance how easy they'll be to use and whether the offered options match your requirements. That's just a handful of representative screencaps though, not an extensive set that needs to match precisely with a user's steps, so much more maintainable
On Today's GenAI Stack
Hey HN!

We've been hands-on with GenAI app development and wanted to share the essentials of what makes them tick. This blog post is a no-nonsense breakdown of the key components needed for a successful GenAI system.

What's your take on this? Are there additional elements you consider vital in your GenAI projects?
Internet existed before it was commercialized up the wazoo. The way I see it, if all the so-called platforms (Google, Facebook, etc) went bankrupt tomorrow, the internet as a whole would be better, not worse.
The latest LLMs are remarkable, but I think the AI Doomer claims are still a reach. My prediction is that the current AI boom will fizzle out into a handful of useful products and a lot of smoke from VC cash. Where are the moon bases? Supersonic jets? Asteroid mines? Self driving cars? We’ve gotten over excited so many times in the past.
>The economy certainly did not, nor did people's livelihoods

?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Austria
"For that matter, hardly anyone predicted the staggering, civilization-altering trajectory of neural network performance from roughly 2012 onwards."

Whether the trajectory will be civilization-altering is yet to be seen. Let me put it this way: I have serious doubts.
Lone pawn, as in doing directly for the strong person at the top (owners family?) what the top would never dare to order through the regular chain of command would not be quite as impossible.
> He seems to have thought someone was going to discover a revolutionary “key” to AI. That didn’t happen; you might say I was right to be skeptical of it.

Transformer architecture happened, that is key for neural networks to build up context dependent reasoning, we wouldn't have gotten to where we are today without it.

Without it scaling neural networks doesn't add much value, since without being able to separate out contexts they fail to develop a large amount of separate skills within the same model.

So yes, a very important key was found, it wasn't just scaling that got us here.
I wonder if it's just something you've become aware of recently. Certainly unfair housing and poverty have plagued the city its entire existence, and were always hotbed topics in living memory.

If by immigration, you mean the refugee crisis, that's a pan-European affair.

Another commenter here said:

> I think it's the revelation that a shared culture and experience whose existence you took for granted really never existed. You feel untethered.

I think that may have happened to you.
She didn't need to know IRIX if she knew some other flavor of Unix, she was probably savvy enough to use man and access documentation if needed.

The point is though most mock the scene as though the software they show was entirely fictional and made up, when it was in fact real and was in fact still UNIX.
Fun how capitalism makes us think of what would be “acceptable deaths” so an industry could continue to generate profits.
Yudkowsky is obviously extremely smart, but something about his approach causes me to put up psychic walls against everything he says.

To see Aaronson say things like "2%" from within the walls of OpenAI is beyond sobering.
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This looks really nice. Your screenshots and features text are slick. They really make me want to try it.
> Any Aussies to confirm this isn’t some sort of lobbying stunt?

Yeah there was a recent visit by rock-rich Croatian foreign ministry that heavy handed its small Aussie counterparts and pressured them on banning a whole industry :)
These are super helpful, thanks
Scott shouldn’t be hard on himself at all for opinions stated 15 years ago. Even over short time spans of a few years, I change my perspective quite a bit.

In the 1980s I was lucky enough to stumble into the opportunity of serving on a DARPA neural networks tools panel for a year and getting lucky applying a simple backprop model to a show-stopper problem for a bomb detector my company designed and built for the FAA. Bonus time!

Decades went by, and then deep learning really changed my view of AI and technology (I managed a deep learning team at Capital One, and it was a thrill to see DL applications there).

Now I am witnessing the same sort of transformations driven by attention based LLMs. It is interesting how differently people now view pros/cons/dangers/this-shit-will-save-the-world possibilities of AI. Short anecdote: last week my wife and I had friends for dinner. Our friends, a husband and wife team who have decades of success writing and producing content for movies and now streaming. I gave them a fairly deep demo of what ChatGPT Pro could do for fleshing out story ideas, generating images for movie posters and other content, etc. The husband was thrilled at the possibility of now being able to produce some of his previously tabled projects inexpensively. His wife had the opposite view, that this would cause many Hollywood jobs to be lost, and other valid worries. Normally our friends seem aligned in their views, but not in this instance.
> You could make a case for adding screenshots as a means of applying cost back-pressure against unnecessary UI changes.

Totally agree. As for localization, if you localize your documentation, of course, the screenshots should be in the correct locale.

However, it may be a problem when there are elements you don't control. Native UI toolkits make the appearance match that of the system. And while I think it is a good thing (I hate the modern trend where no effort is done on integration with the host system), it means that your screenshots may not match, for example if the user, doesn't use the same Windows version as you do. It is particularly true on Linux desktops where each distro has its own theme.
Ah, visual anagrams, that was exactly the idea I had for a project that would allow me to learn. I hadn't dared looking if it already existed. I will try to pretend it doesn't and try to find my own way...
#2 is interesting to me. My computer engineering degree had me do enough math classes that it only took a few extra classes to get a minor in math, so CS students not having the math background is interesting to me. Must be different curriculums.
She was the granddaughter of a billionaire so it's not unreasonable to imagine she may indeed have had access to high end hardware. "No expense spared".
> Have you used twitter before the musk takeover?

Yes.

> Much less spam accounts below every single post like how it used to be.

No, they're still there. They're even more there on popular posts.

A strange thing is that they never seem to ban the onlyfans bots, but they do hide them under "more replies" - so if you habitually expand that, you just keep seeing the same ones everywhere.

> but in this case it's a bit surprising how nothing concrete has actually changed even with 80% reduction in staffing

That's not too surprising, because what the other people were doing was changing stuff. So now they're gone, things won't change, ever.
Its one of the things enabled by "dev mode" in the control panel.
Don't forget that many of us normalized scraping others' work, getting rid of the license, generating stuff based on these works and labeling them originals or "new", thinking that generative models are pulling these things out of thin air.

Also, same people learnt to get angry on anyone who points out that there's most probably a license violation happened during the process, and these angry people believe that everything is fair use (if you're powerful enough).
> I've never used that ISS thing, but isn't starting someone on a VR app with locomotion a bad idea for the sake of VR sickness? I've been paranoid about it since I gave it to myself first messing with VR. I've since gained "VR legs", but that experience is burned into my memory.

Good question. VR sickness isn't so much of an issue because:

+ they only spend max 5 minutes on it (it's more a demo than a long term gaming session

+ the motion is controlled by the player. So they can go as intensive or chilled as they like

> You can still use that? I loved it back when I had such poor internet that it didn't work right (the beta option to change perspective (scale/zoom) was mindblowing), but heard google were shutting it down. Closest I got to an alternative is "wander" which is just street view, no 3d models.

This was a Steam VR application rather than via the web browser. That said, I haven't been on it in recent months so Google might have shutdown whatever APIs the desktop application hit.
what is AI/ML skills?
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NatWest Direct Access API
Is that an Ex Machina reference at the end?
Yes. Because it'll help people understand Workflows when compatibility breaks.

Just like it is good to document the bill of materials / runtimes required for running a system.
It has become clear that the defining route to riches this century is to persuade the already powerful of a huge threat to the status quo, then claim that you offer the way to control it, and ideally turn it into a mechanism for further entrenching established interests.

It may have always been this way and I am just getting old.
3D interfaces so far usually mean you navigate a 3D model of some digital space which appears to you behind a 2D screen accessible with a keyboard and a mouse which are 3D physical objects in your 3D real world (keyboard,video,mouse).

3D interfaces are quit different without the 2D screen barrier and either your are inside the experience (VR) or the experience is outside around you (MR/AR).
Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. To Malign U.S., Report Finds
My assumption would be that it's because it wouldn't make for a great game, it would be "quite good generally, with some huge obvious blunders here and there", but I don't know for sure.
To be fair, none of those are ultimately a matter of "can't" so much as "don't really want to." When we got a billionaire who wanted serious space colonization, we got SpaceX, which is currently working on a moon lander that qualifies as a base in its own right. And of course, we had supersonic jets, there just wasn't enough demand. People want cheap flights more than super-fast flights.

We often get excited about these things, but society usually doesn't. That may be one way in which the current AI boom is different.