skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a very flawed line of reasoning to compare very early days nuclear science to an AI system that has already scaled up substantially.

Regarding computing technology, I think the positive feedback you're describing happened with chip design and vlsi stuff, eg. better computers help design the next generation of chips or help lead to materials breakthroughs. I'm willing to believe LLMs have a macro effect on knowledge work in a similar way search engines, but as you said, it remains to be seen whether the models can feed back into their own development. From what I can tell, gpu speed and efficiency along with better data sets are the most important inputs for these things. Maybe synthetic data works out, who knows.
But Bayesian priors also have to be adjusted when you know there's a profit motive. With a lot of money at stake, the people seeing $$$ from AI have an incentive to develop, focus on, and advance low-risk arguments. No argument is total; what aspects are they cherry-picking?

I trust AI VCs to make good arguments less than AI researchers.
The Cloud Isn't the Answer to All IT Problems–At Least for Now
Have they ever implied this would apply to accrued causes of action though?

Would like a laywer to correct me if wrong, but these terms would only apply to any future events, not to the hacks that happened under the previous terms, for which they've already accrued the right to sue in a court (or whatever those terms said) regarding that hack, and 23andMe hasn't really implied otherwise just by updating its terms?

If they wanted that, they'd have to have explicitly included language like "by continuing to use our services after this notice, you covenant not to sue in court for any prior causes of action" or the like?
You might be able to sell it (not sure, probably depends on what it was officially being sold for), but it wouldn't be legal for it to transmit unless it fell under some FCC approved license or statute (e.g. Part 15).
I agree it’s unstoppable (except by YouTube multiplying the amount they pay creators), but there are actually two avenues already available:

1. YouTube could force creators to add their own “sponsored ad” tags

2. SponsorBlock uses crowd-sourced timestamps to determine when the sponsored sections are

In both cases they could be filtered out trivially
Crash snap page on my samsung s21
The real question might be... are we, as carbon based lifeforms, bootstrapping silicon based life
My 2010 BMW has excellent infotainment software. Better than any new car I have driven (all rentals).

Navigation is easily controlled with the iDrive knob. Previous destinations are sorted in reverse chronological order. New destinations are easy to enter. Adding destinations works as expected (insert/append). When the fuel gauge reaches 1/8 of a tank the car prompts to add a gas station on the route which can be accepted with a single button press of the main iDrive knob. When a trip is in progress I can search on the route by category for points of interest like rest stops. It picks up traffic information over AM radio and uses that information when routing.

Similarly pleasant experience when operating the radio/built in mp3 player. Everything can be done with iDrive but there are also dedicated buttons on the steering wheel and dashboard.

Climate control is managed by physical knobs.

Bluetooth calling is supported but Bluetooth audio (music) is not.

Overall an excellent experience. It's obviously dated and a little slow but completely serviceable even today. The system is completely self-contained so it does need map updates from time to time. OTA updates, even on wifi would be nice.

From a design perspective I have no complaints at all, it is well integrated with the car and otherwise stays out of the way. A helpful tool.
The point is whether the artistic output is prosocial or antisocial. Different aspects can be different levels of one or the other: art, commentary, critique, education are all important. Reproducing awful antisocial behaviors without the attendant critique on those behaviors leads people to normalize and ultimately adopt those behaviors. We are social animals and time and time again it's proven that it doesn't matter if we're "socializing" with real people or fictional characters, we want to be part of a perceived in-group and so will act in ways that make us think we'll be liked by those whose gaze matters to us. Sitcoms are especially capable of stirring up these feelings since there is immediate social feedback (laughtrack) to the behaviors seen on screen.
> you are just shifting the problem to a computer.

Libgen works with anonymizers.
Night agent came out this year and is 10 episodes. I didn’t check but assuming it’s 1hr/ep that’s 80million viewers. Wow

Ps. Checking a popular torrent site and roughly adding up the download count for all the season rips and adding a representative number from some of the individual episodes. Then multiplying that by 10 because there are other public torrent sites and many private ones we get 60k x 10. Even if you do x 20 it’s roughly 1 million. Out out 80 million that’s just 1-2%
I've tried Android Auto a couple of times and it was much worse than the BMW's iDrive for navigation and for the entertainment. Perhaps different consumers have different preferences?
The kids seem to think its about $75 million in terms of the marginal cost of ship+booster. https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/17z01rj/h...
I really really hate using YouTube to watch the movies I purchased.

Specifically, finding them.

Feels like a bizarre problem to have with a Google app.
Interview: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney after Google antitrust win
Both Friends and TBBT are popular with (American) English learners.
Following on: hypercubes are an intuitive & useful representation:

Each vertex of an n-dimensional hypercube represents one of the possible binary numbers of length n, each edge represents a bit flip, and all edges in the same direction represent the same bit flip.

I worked on an image which displays this relationship.[0] Focus on the labeled vertices and see how the edges relate to changes in the binary representation

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snake_in_the_box.svg
Based on the synopsis, I expected to NOT like Breaking Bad, but Bryan Cranston's performance was superb. I will never be able to see another Los Pollos Hermanos with a straight face again.
My personal opinion? Israel’s trying to prosecute its genocide slowly enough that it won’t be noticed / stopped. But if you’re looking for some more expansive reading on the subject you can start here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_lawn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
I discovered Cog a couple of years ago and I use it on dozens of my own projects now. It's a really neat thing to have around.

One trick I use a lot is including the output of the "--help" command in the README files for CLI tools that I release.

Here's an example: https://github.com/simonw/ospeak/blob/main/README.md#ospeak-...

View source on that file and you'll see this:

## ospeak --help

<!-- [[[cog
import cog
from ospeak import cli
from click.testing import CliRunner
runner = CliRunner()
result = runner.invoke(cli.cli, ["--help"])
help = result.output.replace("Usage: cli", "Usage: ospeak")
cog.out(
"```\n{}\n```".format(help)
)
]]] -->
```
Usage: ospeak [OPTIONS] [TEXT]

CLI tool for running text through OpenAI Text to speech

Set the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable to your OpenAI API key to avoid
using the --token option every time.

Example usage:

ospeak "Everyone deserves a pelican" --voice alloy -x 1.5

Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
-v, --voice [alloy|echo|fable|onyx|nova|shimmer|all]
Voice to use
-o, --output FILE Save audio to this file on disk
-x, --speed FLOAT RANGE Speed of the voice [0.25<=x<=4.0]
-s, --speak Speak the text even when saving to a file
--token TEXT OpenAI API key
--help Show this message and exit.

```
<!-- [[[end]]] -->

I can now run "cog -r README.md" any time I want to update that block of text in the README.

I also have this line in my GitHub Actions test.yml workflow: https://github.com/simonw/ospeak/blob/73a449d3f006737e72e7a0...

cog --check README.md

That way my tests will fail if I make a change to the help and forget to update the README.

I like reflecting my help output in my documentation mainly because it's a useful way to review if the help makes sense without having to actually run the command.

I maintain these much larger pages using Cog in a similar way:

- https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/cli-reference.html

- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli-reference.ht...

- https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/help.html

I wrote a bit more about this pattern here: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/cog-to-update-help-in-r...
Whenever I read about anything self-hosted, it's always about not being reliant on a single third party to provide the services you need. If you control the software and the data, you can easily move everything from one cloud provide to another or to your own hardware. Whether or not you own the hardware has no bearing on this.
This is an incredibly myopic take bordering on arrogance. The infotainment system of a vehicle needs (as in, is mandated) to be as safety compliant as the rest of the vehicle's software so your steering doesn't lock out when the display crashes. Writing software for safety critical systems is not a task most developers are familiar with.
The financial services sector has gone from 6% of the workforce to 12% over the past few decades. Despite automation of everything routine. There's a lot of fat to cut there.
I just tried this out and published a site for "Fractional CTO Services" at: https://soloist.ai/amarkota

Would you hire me based on this AI-generated content? Disclosure: those aren't my reviews!
Loads: blood, brain, (mouse) gastruloids, and many others.

It's not as exciting as a breakthrough as it sounds though. One lab was rich enough to buy the existing tech to sequence it all, and the analytical pipelines are mature enough to do the clustering and lineage tracing for you. Overcoming the batch effects and integrating the different data into each other is still a legitimate struggle, so props to them on that.

Essentially, this a "FIRST!" kind of post, without much science behind it, but it does allow others to tease out new development pathways from the same data, and it acts as a control dataset for others who study mutants which usually have a gene or two knocked out.

The knockouts are where the real science is, but I'm possibly gatekeeping in those last two paragraphs there.
Tesla is the exception here: they seem to have mastered making a car software experience that doesn’t suck, and they don’t even support CarPlay. But Tesla is a tech/software company that happens to make cars (of dubious build quality), I don’t think conventional automakers can replicate that.
I read purchased ebooks with DRM stripped in Calibre on a jailbroken Kindle with KOreader.
> Mr Andreessen’s manifesto is a Nicene creed for the cult of progress: the words “we believe” appear no less than 113 times in the text. His list of the “patron saints” of techno-optimism begins with Based Beff Jezos, the social-media persona of a former Google engineer who claims to have founded “effective accelerationism”, a self-described “meta-religion” which puts its faith in the “technocapital Singularity”.

What is bullshit?
I think you're missing the joke. If truck drivers could actually put up a sign saying they are not liable for any debris falling from their vehicle, and have it be a valid defense in court. Then they would just put up a sign saying they are not liable for any black eyes given when they see debris falling off a truck.

They're taking the unrealistic expectation of the truck driver's sign protecting them from doing something illegal and flipping it. In other words "If you coul just put up your own sign and get legal protection to break my windshield, then I could just as easily put up a sign giving me legal protection to break your nose."
> many already lived in their homeland of Israel decades or more before modern Israel was founded

He actually devotes a lot of time in the podcast to this. Don't judge by a one-paragraph blurb.
Show HN: GPT-V and OCR for Screen Control
Was looking at the Bolt EUV or the new Blazer, but I need CarPlay
> Why couldn't deep neural nets scale to AGI

Speaking as a former cognitive neuroscientist, our current NN models are large, but simpler in design relative to biological brains. I personally suspect that matters, and that AI researchers will need more heterogeneous designs to make that qualitative leap.
That’s good to know. spez really dropped a bollock on this.
Sure, but when 99% of buyers walk into a dealer to actually buy a vehicle, they're told, and they're negotiating, and their budget is all entirely based on monthly payments.

To a degree it doesn't even matter what the MSRP actually is... because of interest and financing and all the rest virtually nobody winds up paying that amount. (excluding cash buyers of course, which I'm assuming is a very, very low percentage of buyers).

The car could be $40k or $80k, it simply doesn't matter and the buyer doesn't even care. If they can't afford the monthlies, they won't buy. If they can, they will.
This is a good articulation of something I've noticed more and more recently with Google News. I used to feel like I was getting a broad overview of the news of the day by browsing it... Increasingly it feels like a filter bubble constructed just for me, which is unsettling and not that useful to me. I suppose it's time to seek out other sources of news aggregation.
Performance Testing with K6: The New Top Dog for Load Testing and CI Pipelines
It's mainly useful for automating chunks of documentation.

Markdown files on GitHub for example don't support any form of templating language - but Cog is a template language which can be hidden away in <!-- comments --> in your Markdown, and then executed using a separate command:

cog -r README.md

So it's a templating language for files that don't usually support templating languages, but that do support comments.
I think Arabic has loads of these sorts of words. Need someone who speaks Arabic to explain them though.

And of course English does.
I’m just glad this exists! Very Wright Brothers vibe.
> Tesla absolutely refuses for some reason.

That reason might be the $10/mo they get people to pay for live traffic, satellite maps, and access to music streaming.
I don’t have connectivity problems in my BMW, but sometimes have my GPS location 100 meters off, and will try to turn on and off Bluetooth to fix that. It sometimes works.
See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623182

The clever thing about Cog is that it's a templating language which is designed to be hidden in comments inside files (such as Markdown) that don't usually support an embedded templating language.
Tesla software experience far outshines CarPlay and Android Auto.
This may well be a serious issue, but it's hard to tell because this article is atrociously written.
A smaller impulse to rotate the whole thing, so that tanks are on different sides relative to the center of rotation, may be easier. At least the system will have as much time as needed to do the pumping after the spin-up. Then another impulse would stop the rotation.
Obliterated was universally panned by critics. But so have many shows which were panned in their era, and are now considered classics.

So would you recommend watching it?
Luckily they aren't our vendor. But I agree completely.
23andMe DNA kits make great x-mas gifts. 50% off!
I always thought YT missed a major opportunity: let users submit corrections to the subtitles (probably by clicking on the words it got wrong).

It would have made the experience so much better for everyone who uses subtitles.
It's easier when you have seen all the series a few times over.
Software costs money to develop, and is largely given away for free as a loss leader in today’s market.

I know you’re probably trying to focus specifically on cost to provide the software and not the cost before that (which I’d argue is flawed) but you’re also then missing out on the support cost etc… from there on out.
In my opinion, it shouldn't be up to the whims of companies to decide who they share your private data with if they don't have your explicit permission, or a valid warrant, subpoena or court order, to do so.
Tell HN: Anthropic's Claude Instant price cut by ~half [pdf]
I noticed Anthropic updated their prices, but haven't seen this posted anywhere.

Claude Instant is now 10% of Claude 2's pricing: $0.80 per million input tokens, and $2.40 per million completion tokens (down from I think $1.63 and $5.51 respectively).
I am pretty sure Amazon was giving me ads based on books on my kindle that I did not buy through Amazon, so you also would have to pay attention not to connect to any network even if you acquire books by other means.
There's just a lot of depression rn.
Well put!

Donald Schön’s work on this topic is really enlightening. It’s not just that there’s knowledge in the heads of people that can’t be linguistically expressed well, but also that expression of it requires interaction with a specific situation.

This is also represents a massive gap for AI systems to become actual in-the-world problems solvers.
I think the X/Twitter iOS app and the reddit app are guilty of this. I find myself way too often typing something out, then barely touching the edge of my phone, and my entire comment is gone.
Its one of my favorite sci fi that none of my friends have read.
- Floatplane

- DTube (“Decentralized Tube”)
I want abandonware in my car. Don't include alpha-grade software in a mid-five-figure product. If you can't get it right don't ship it.

The navigation/infotainment space is a thoroughly solved domain. We don't need biweekly OTA updates to add the latest trendy thing. I don't want controls moving around or menus changing based on a perverted engagement metric.

BMW "pathced" several mechanical features of my car. This is called a "recall". Auto manufacturers try to avoid them.
get printed books (or pdfs), distill your own water, grow your own food (if you can)
I assume naming rights would cost a certain amount per year.... Not be something you can buy and then potentially resell later for more money.
Wow. I didn’t know the .NET version still supported that. I remember it from VBA code in Excel and VB6 stuff way back when.

I guess if I’m forced to support an “ignore all errors” feature, doing implicit try/catches in the IL is as elegant as it’s gonna get without having to maintain custom IL to support VB of all things.

I do kinda miss VB6 though. I wish RAD was still a thing in desktop applications.
Marooned in Realtime is incredible, one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read. The combination of the wildly imaginative SF elements with the detective novel structure grounding it works so incredibly well.
Lol what. I have a bot that processes ~50 videos a day, burning in translated whisper-generated subtitles. It also translates images using Tesseract, then overlaying texts in-place. I once thought of exporting frames as images to maybe do this for video too, I actually did not even start to think FFMPEG would have tesseract support on top of everything.

Later on though I've realized the quality of tesseract's OCR on arbitrary media is often quite bad. Google translates detection and replacement is so much ahead my current image system I'd think I would just somehow reutilize that for my app, either thru public API or browser emulation ...
Paul Graham has an essay that touches on that

http://www.paulgraham.com/re.html

>And not only did everyone get the same thing, they got it at the same time. It's difficult to imagine now, but every night tens of millions of families would sit down together in front of their TV set watching the same show, at the same time, as their next door neighbors. What happens now with the Super Bowl used to happen every night. We were literally in sync.

I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone who experienced that sameness compared to today's more fragmented media on if they think it changed anything from a social point of view. Shared experiences and interests are fertile ground for building relationships and it sounds like everyone generally shared a lot more.
The judgement from the court of appeal in French overturns a previous ruling that the suit was not admissible.
A friend of mine has a 2022 Cadillac something. I was actually very impressed with it. Comfortable, quiet, no-nonsense self-driving capability. Seemed like a fine car. If GM can build similar no-nonsense infotainment software they will be fine.
In those specific usecases that it implements.

Also navigation makes idiotic moves lately.
This would mean it's strictly an implementation detail then? Since any state can be turned into configuration / construction / just make infinite views, each one customized to show one state.
Thanks for your response. Yeah, I don't see why to beat around the bush - I'm looking for ideas! And I figure people can dump something they'd like built but maybe don't have the time/effort to do. Doesn't need to be anything huge or important, just some starting point that ideally does something useful for someone.

Regarding yours, I think that's really cool but probably not within my purview :) Still appreciated though. Doing some basic research I played around with Dall E and Midjourney, but found them very hard to "guide" in such a way. Though I'm sure something more relevant and powerful is on the horizon.
I don’t think he has sixty years. Doesn’t it cost a billion dollars a year to service the debt? I wouldn’t be surprised if X loses a billion dollars the first year and significantly more the next.
Who knew that degrading trust in a platform, welcoming hate speech and acting like an all-around asshat would alienate advertisers. It’s not like those people are brand conscious or anything.
You should write to your federal and state legislators to have subscription software banned in automobiles.
This looks really cool! I'd love to get into more systems-design AoC problems rather than DSA puzzles for a change.

feedback: I was a bit confused as to why the answer to the first week was prefilled, was that intentional? Also, the buttons 1-6 aren't working for me (I'm on 2021 M1 Pro w/ Firefox 120.0.1)
Related:

Cog: Use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19566384 - April 2019 (72 comments)
Is this a concern to EU citizens? Seems to be one of the reasons the GDPR exits.
IIRC, AC controls are only available through the touchscreen, not through any physical dials or buttons.

(In my Honda, I operate AC by touch - I remember the physical button layout for the essentials like rear window heating, and the knobs have a grove that can be read by fingers without looking).
Uh, what? If my infotainment system is capable of influencing my steering or any safety-critical function then malpractice has been committed. Infotainment needs only read (one-way) capability on the vehicle.
A Challenger of SQLite
This is not correct. The main infotainment system is not considered safety critical. There are some functions such as rear view camera that are but often this is handled by a real time os that overlays the video on top of the infotainment output. The infotainment system crashing will not take down your steering or braking.
It's the gravel kit

No other 737 got the gravel kit
I don't want to be rude but if Tesla UX is not intuitive to you, you are not safe to navigate a motor vehicle.
What a silly thing to write. It's not a very self-improving computer system if it doesn't simplify itself, is it?