skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never liked Live despite trying to get into it a few times. I prefer the Reaper/FL Studio combo.
Tax on fuel reflects the externalities to the whole of society, and arguably it is not high enough.

So exempting tax (equivalently not charging for externalities) is indeed a subsidy, a transfer of wealth from government (and so society) to the airline operators.
Why would I be stupid enough to give some random system access to my email? Come on. Whether it is "AI" or not is irrelevant. The same fundamental issue would be present even if the system was just a bunch of if/then statements.
This is such a huge yikes but points to the dev for apologizing I guess. It's good technical work no matter how you cut it.
What's your point, though?

The author has apologized for this rather tasteless joke which he didn't expect to blow up as much as it did and has moved on.

Doesn't change anything about the projects tech and this recent achievement (of a one-man pet-project mind you)
People like you having the certainty your freedom to casually engage in these types of topics that may be critical of powerful entities won't result in a form of specific targeting that gives a legally accepted pathway to finding out your private information. Or something.
There’s plenty of languages with vast standard libraries and which also have 3rd party libraries that offer the same feature as something in stdlib but more enhanced against a specific metric.

You see it in Go, Python, .NET, etc.
If Google could generate optimized versions of Chrome that it would automatically choose from that would be nice
If we cannot reproduce research results, due to missing the data, parameters, or code, or whatever else, is it not cargo culting, to take that research result and blindly believe it and build on top of it? If I remember correctly, Feynman stated in the same video, that one should actually reconstruct or reproduce the experimental results we rely on.
>>It doesn’t literally explicitly contain regulations regarding air travel, because it did not exist in the 1700s.

If only the founders would have thought of that problem and included a method for which the constitution could be amended to grant additional powers to the federal government should the people and the states desire it...

But no it is easier to just invent new powers by continual reinterpretation of the documents than actually amending the document as required
>Neither details of the PhotoDNA algorithm nor an implementation is officially available to the public, but the algorithm has been reverse-engineered based on public documents

Sounds totally trustworthy
Solar started in truly tiny markets, like for satellites.

It moved to slightly less tiny markets, like ocean buoys, remote radio repeaters, and eventually off-grid homes.

At each point, there were small markets for which it made sense.

During this time, PV started showing it had good experience effects, with costs declining about 20% per doubling of cumulative production. This empirical experience curve (which has actually gotten better recently) was the basis for additional funding, to drive the technology down the curve.

Nuclear has not shown good experience effects. There is no small niche market for NuScale's reactors. There's nothing to drive it down some supposed experience curve, and no reason to think the curve would be favorable.
Man, if philosophy can't take (an admittedly popular) guy saying rather milquetoast things about philosophy (whether right or wrong), the discipline is in worse shape than I thought. Philosophy should be capable of defending itself, it shouldn't need to rely on deferential treatment and a widespread presumption of value.

Philosophy doesn't deserve deference or respect simply because it's an academic discipline. We've been far too deferential to questionable disciplines and their practitioners, and the academy is in bad shape because of it. Disciplines should be constantly challenged and expected to offer full throated defenses of their merits. If philosophy wants to be valued, it needs to actively demonstrate it's value. if the only thing it can do is get defensive when someone says something negative publicly about it, we might as well just shut it all down now because there's truly nothing left.
Especially with the rise of the idea of "GPT stores" to share custom GPTs, this becomes an even bigger issue with those kinds of integrations.

One potential mitigation might be to require them to expose all "prompt" data and similar context as plain source users can see (which would effectively kill off commercialization, but allow users to see what the model was promoted to do).

We'll soon see attacks like SSRF/CSRF and similar play out in terms of asking a model to make a POST request containing user data, or rendering arbitrary JS (or putting arbitrary code into code a user is asking to have written).

I don't know if forcing the full prompt and context to be visible and open for scrutiny would help entirely, but it feels like it ought to start things off by at least helping users look for absolutely blatant issues in the prompting.
World model might be a too big word here. When we talk of a world model (in the context of AI motels), we refer to its understanding of the world, at least in the context we trained it. But what I see is just a visualization of the output in a fashion similar to a chess board. A stronger evidence would be a for example a map of the next move, which will show whether it truly understood the game’s rules. If it show probability larger than zero on illegal board fields, it will show us why it sometimes makes illegal moves. And obviously, it didn’t fully understand the rules of the game.
There are articles that claim Arena is bigger, but Arena's outdoor areas actually wrap around- you can't walk from city to city, only fast travel.
Here's what you're not getting: nobody asked about that.

You cannot say to someone who doesn't like hot dogs, e.g., "What makes hot dogs gross?" and then when someone explains why, respond, "I disagree." That makes no sense. You asked for the information, they gave it to you, so the only possible way that "I disagree" fits at that place in the conversation is if you're saying that you disagree that that's their reason. To respond "I disagree" in the sense that you don't share their taste is to fundamentally change the subject to try to have a different conversation. And it's not interesting, besides.

People have different tastes. That's expected.

Stating that you personally think it is worth the price—especially in this context, as if it's some kind of retort—is just annoying. It isn't illuminating; that you don't share the same opinion is utterly unsurprising and didn't need saying, and it provides no special insight.
https://archive.ph/ksNOy
(the) Gnorp Apologue: a Rust-written, strategic idle game
The Tensor Network
fwiw this link looks interesting, everyone

https://github.com/neuml/txtai
That's a very good point. Thanks for that!
My wife calculates and submits our taxes (here in the US). It typically takes her 40 to 60 hours to complete, and that's after spending around $100 USD on tax preparation software to make it easier.

To be fair, our taxes are more complex than many people's (I live in a different state than my employer and we have some stock market investments), but it's still ABSURDLY difficult.

And I'm not counting the time needed to respond to Federal or State follow-ups 9 months later where they question the values we provided. That happens to us about every 2-3 years. So far it has only once found a minor error on our part.
Fail to see how this is the "answer" for the Linux desktop. "Compatibility" is the third keyword yet, no Libreoffice, Chromium, Flatpak and a barely up-to-date Firefox ESR 91.

Also for the main page, "Security updates are nearly instant" fell like a big lie.

I also noted that the KDE GUI doesn't start in Gnome Box, but does in Virtualbox.
Thanks for linking the actual post—it was a great read. I'm not an ML expert, but the author really made it easy to follow their experiment's method and results.
It's almost as if basic economics is a real thing? Increasing the cost shifts the market equilibrium quantity to the left.
Let me introduce you to this relatively new concept: Too Big To Fail.
They weren't going to make the reactors themselves. I believe Fluor was going to do that. Fluor spun them off in a SPAC a couple of years ago. SPACs are kind of a red flag, aren't they?
Isn't this the browser that had some weird stuff in the source code?
The biggest dissonance for me comes when an administrative backend or line-of-business application is given the sparse whitespace treatment with all the functionality hidden behind opaque submenus and mysterious hieroglyphs.

This seems to be a misguided attempt to apply, to power user interfaces, UX principles that were intended to ease & maximise casual visitor engagement for brochureware or B2C commerce.

What I actually want for these interfaces is high information density and a visible palette of clearly labelled action buttons. And there are way too many product managers that think dropping a bit of table padding, with a "dense mode" toggle, is the answer.
It's a bad idea to give an LLM more access/permissions than you'd give the unhinged local bum who bounces between lucidity and speaking in tongues.
Google’s Go has telemetry?
Is there an online version?

Did you have problems with the fonts? (A few years ago, we had problem with the strange letter in Spanish like ñ or á.)

Looking at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_script there are 13 vowels and more than 30 consonats (and some conjuncts!). Does this make the game more difficult?
> Broughton sat behind the bar and put his feet up against the beer case. Inevitably, someone asked for a beer. Glaring, Broughton handed one over. “Don’t get used to that,” he said.

Am I right to guess that this is because weak alcohol, like beer, is a hot commodity?
It's called psychology breh
Yes that giant truck hole opened by Wickard that has become a catch all that means the federal government can regulated anything

However the actual wording is "to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States", the original intent to was to give power to congress to regulate how commerce is conducted between the states, i.e prevent the coastal states from having tariffs against the internal states, and prevent the internal states from having export taxes on gains, etc etc etc

The original intent was not to allow the congress regulate individual commercial transactions by citizens that happen to cross state lines.
I am. I am 100% on board with accelerating all scientific trends and achieving full scale utilization of all solar radiation at every scale of conceivable reality, current and future. The goal is to achieve godhood and I can get it done for a mere $80B with a patented and trademarked architecture called "panoptic computronium cathedral"™.
If anything, the fact that they could keep the economy and innovation going while a large portion of the population was fighting a war makes it even more impressive.
The detail I could get from them comparing TVs and Vaccumes really impressed me.
Why would attach an AI assistant to other systems you depend on? Because… that’s how technologies become useful?
The US government. They have a vested interest in maintaining a nuclear supply chain and skills base to share with the military.

It's the reason why there has been such a huge pro nuclear PR offensive in the last 10 years. Consent needs to be manufactured for lavishing nuclear power with subsidies. E.g. in order to justify giving Bill Gates's startup a dumptruck full of taxpayer money people have to be positively predisposed to nuclear power.

The most ironic and fucked up part of the nuclear-military industrial complex's PR offensive was when they tried to shame environmentalists for being anti nuclear power and tried to shame Germany for trailblazing a highly effective green energy policy. The environment is of no concern to them.
This app is not scraping from LinkedIn. It's using Google Custom Search API.
Would something like this [1] be the function equivalent (not type equivalent) written in rust?

A function that has a parameter of ints but will only yield numbers within a certain range? I guess I'm really confused by the Scala example you posted but really trying to understand.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/convert/trait.TryFrom.html
A buddy of mine got the exact same "recruiter" cold-call message. Luckily we sniffed out the scam but I can totally understand why someone wouldn't pick up on it.
HTTP, websockets, MQTT, ... plus the kitchen sink it seems:

- JSON parsing
- DNS, DHCP and NTP clients
- SOCKS5 proxy support
- DBUS client and server
- Threadpools
- SSH
- JPEG and PNG decoding
- HTML and CSS parsing
- DOM layout and rendering to a frame buffer
- OTA update client
- GPIO, i2c, PWM, SPI
- SSH server
- ACME client
- ...
Required power should essentially be a constant per unit length, can easily have 1 motor per kilometer or city-block.

And for my dumb idea of the day: 'just' use solar panels as the walking surface as use that to power the slidewalk.
Is there a browser that doesn't crash when I have 50 tabs open?
Two physicists who correctly predicted the mass of Higgs boson [video]
> Things are rarely as good as they seem, but they are rarely as bad as they seem either

What you're describing is called "normalcy bias" or "negative panic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

During an unfolding crisis or disaster, 80% of people minimize genuine threat indicators and consistently underestimate the probability and consequences of the disaster.

Most people tend to cherry-pick the positive indicators to pay attention to, while ignoring or minimizing the negative indicators.

For the referenced article, a reasonable person who is not operating under normalcy bias might contradict the author's evidence, logic and assertions with different evidence, logic and assertions.

But to just dismiss all of it with a wave of the hand and a one-sentence heuristic is the very essence of normalcy bias.
>The use of assembly in the drawing core resulting in a ~10x sprite drawing speed improvement over the C++

Wow that's a chunky improvement over an already fast lang
Thank you. I hate these "slideshows" that amount to nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse to shove more ads in your face.
>makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy

Obviously, obviously not.
As far as I know, there is no "union" for military officers and pay only went up 5.2% this year (about equal with inflation). Are you thinking of police officers?
Most of these problems are artificially created by governments via regulations and their support of corporations and their monopolies.
Just like SQL injection, you want to wrap your prompts up or prevent them from user access.
You can't trust an AI to tell you how to cook a steak without hallucinating. You'd have to be mad to let one use the stove!
> And noone knows why

Everyone knows why! Its called "Schuldenbremse". (And Schroeders liberalisation, and 16 years of CDU surely didnt help either)
There is a trivial way to have custom key comparisons: write a function that returns the key you want. You can implement equals() using some kind of serialization, or using a lookup table of references - whatever you want!

Of course, Records and Tuples would greatly simplify the process.
Navajo Nation's objection to human remains on the moon prompts WH meeting
Yes, however the visible prompt is only a small part of the big picture, because you don't know what's going on in the backend to augment the responses.
how would you make it different?

Have smarter users. If your package breaks because it depends on trivial code which got deleted, you shouldn't have depended on that in the first place.

Preventing people from deleting their code -- always, or even just sometimes -- was never the right solution.
Nowadays the reduction of the increase of military spending is called 'budget cuts'. Not the actual budget reduction, just increasing the budget slower than in previous budget somehow is a 'cut'. That's the reality we live in now.
I have a mild enough case I didn’t get diagnosed until grad school and my long term memory is great. I’d crush history tests growing up and struggled more with math due to misreading problems and making sign errors or similar mistakes.

I did have a biology teacher that marked me down because I “didn’t look like I was paying attention” in class because I didn’t look like how most people focus on a lecture, but I retained as much info as anyone.
The link is broken -- think what you meant to point to was https://wellfound.com/jobs/2885275-lead-platform-engineer
The Legend of the Selmer Mark VI
I'd pay for the Italian tax agency to work properly and tell you what you have to pay, while it's the opposite now
Got to ride one of those in the Bat'a building in Zlin, Czech Republic. Supposedly that version had some sort of safety mechanism to keep you from crushing your arm off if you didn't have it tucked inside, but I didn't dare test it. We called it a "Mario elevator" due to the obvious similarities with the elevators in the original Super Mario Bros.
It is widely known that the Supreme Court has been since at least FDR (if not longer) been derelict in their duty to limit the power of congress by ensuring laws fall into only the powers listed in Article 1 section 8 are accepted as constitutional.

Under the current "living document" doctrine adopted by the court the power of the federal government is limitless, and there really is not need for Section 8 of Article 1 as to them "Necessary and Proper Clause" makes everything congress deems " Necessary and Proper Clause" to be constitution, a moronic interpretation of the Constitution who's entire purpose was to limit federal power.

The current court is set to role back some of that, I hope it does but it is unlikely they will go as far I want them to... Which includes going all the way back and reversing Wickard v. Filburn and every decision that built off that wrong.
This is a problem we're hitting as well. Hyde (Hypothetical Document Embeddings) is a zero-shot approach to it, where from the query you generate documents that would have a very small distance to the actual documents you're looking for. For question answering this would mean generating hypothetical answers. In some cases though, it can yield better results to generate hypothetical queries for each documents, question answering actually being one of them. That requires a lot of pre-processing though, which is not always possible.
Florida Is Allowed to Import Drugs from Canada in Bid to Reduce Costs
Does anyone else remember when LI had the basically illegal idea to replace users mail servers with their own, so they could scrape email content/address information? I remember hearing an interview about this on NPR, I think. They were quite pleased with themselves, too. Since that day I've always blocked them in the local firewall.
I care. I don't know how I could care more. I beat myself up (mentally and sometimes slightly physically) when I fail to accomplish tasks, because I care.

I have an issue with executive function. And I often hate myself for it. "Caring" has never helped.
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They were kindly letting you know that a commonly held misconception you had is actually not true, not airing a grievance.
Prison and even the death penalty should absolutely be considered for the bean-counting Boeing execs that deliberately drove safety into the ground for profit. The blood of innocents is on their hands, and yet they get to cheerfully cash in their stock options.

Airbus execs seem fine[1], so they'd have nothing to fear here.

[1]: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...
Modern JavaScript reminds me a lot of BASIC, Pascal and other 70s and 80s languages. Even C pre-ANSI.

We’ve been blessed in recent years that either languages are fully open source and come with a reference implementation, or a standards body governs the implementation detail. Sometimes even both.

Whereas JavaScript is really more a group of languages, each with their own implementation quirks.

ECMA was intended to bring some sanity to all of this. And it’s definitely better than it was in the JScript days of IE vs Netscape. But there isn’t anything (that I’m aware of) that defines What should be a part of the JavaScript standard library.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a libc in the JS world. Something portable and standardised.
“Don’t get used to me serving you when you can just get the drinks yourself”
> live a half life

Not sure if that was intentional, but nice.

I didn't even know there could be such a thing as a nuclear startup. How do you think they will succeed if NuScale didn't/couldn't? Or was NuScale mismanaged?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894920 (33 comments)
You don't need Kafka (2019)
Ask HN: Let's generate some startup ideas in 2024
Yes, I know this is generally a fool's errand. We've all read the essays. Let's try anyways.
Okay, by example then:

* if you just bash on the keyboard randomly until you get a result, or just copy-paste from StackOverflow, or just let an LLVM spew something, that's not programming - there's no choice.

* if you do deliberately choose something, but your choice fails to produce a meaningful result, that's not programming - there's no order.
My reading of the article is that he wasn't actually the bartender when he initially entered the bar. He says that "the only seat left was behind the bar," implying that he was just another patron of the bar. If that's the case, the attitude of "don't get used to that" is because as just another patron, it's not his job to get other people drinks.
It was called the Eiffel Tower informally even before it was built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Artists'_protest
I think if we stopped referring to these systems as AI the threat model won't seem so overhyped.
> We're architecting Adélie in pursuit of POSIX® Certification.

That's a distracting waste of effort that has little value in 2024.

(Do they need this to bid on some government or other contracts or something?)
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Yes I had a look at it, I haven't tried e5-mistral-7b-instruct yet but I'll definitely give it a go.
Is there such a leaderboard only focused on retrieval by any chance? I haven't found one so far
Not quite. In contrast to other documentaries about the same topic the author takes a lot of time with the relevant earlier origins of graphical user interfaces. Concerning Jobs and Apple the documentary doesn't follow the narrative you suppose. I didn't notice (significant) errors. Thanks for the link to the paper, which I will read.
What is your suggestion for improving it? I can accidentally publish a breaking bug in my patch release, and I might not notice.
Wow, those actually are pretty great. There goes the rest of the day...!
Thanks for your perspective. It would be good to mention some of that on the About page.

It's great that you focus on testing and stability, but incompatibilities and bugs will still creep through. There are infinite combinations of hardware, software and configuration, and realistically, you can't guarantee that an `apk upgrade` will be 100% safe every time for all users. It's in those situations that a snapshot-based rollback mechanism saves the day.

I'm not trying to diminish the value of the work you and your team are doing. All of that is commendable. I just don't think we can ignore the benefits of atomic upgrades and safe rollbacks that tools like Nix provide. All distros should have some form of this, especially those that advertise reliability as a primary feature.