skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes... basically. Dialogue. Audible-like dialogue. Back and forth. Difference of opinion. exactly that,

> Does your inner voice have autonomy, does it want things separate from what "you" want?

...Almost. I'm aware that it's all me. All my voice. By nature of dialogue, I cn sometimes feel like there's a "me" and a "voice" sometimes. But, it's quite fluid. Which one is which can reverse. I also try to use "me" or "I" instead of "you" or "we." Feels more sane... to me.

Just imagine a person having a conversation or debate with themselves out loud. It's similar to that.
Why are all these assistants a bunch of rigid regexes and canned responses rather than just a frontend to a language model that can do/say anything?

It feels like 2010's tech that couldn't keep up.
Does this allow to run a long running task in the background so that a user can close & reopen the tab and continue seeing all the output that has been produced thus far?

This is currently being worked on in Jupyter: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/pull/15448
> The EU is clearly whining because the Chinese local market imploded, so they are now exporting more of their cars into the EU markets.

I think it's disingenuous to downplay EU's response as "whining". The automotive industry is a strategic sector, not only in terms of economy but also directly and indirectly in defense. Shifting demand from the internal market to the output of a rival and potential threat means spending their own cash financing a rival to place it in a controlling position.
> I already mentioned this to my superiors a year ago and they got me an assistant. But right after I got him, we got further rooms and another department that creates more work for me than I can support even with an assistant. I work in public service/university so I understand their hands are tied somewhat, but if it goes on like that I might just quit. And they will likely not find anybody who can (or wants to) do this combination of things for the salary it pays.

Why are you stretching to do that much work?

If you can manage your workload, then from a managers perspective your workload is correct. It’s only when work doesn’t get finished when there is a signal that your workload is too much.

Complaining about it to your manager likely won’t help. Since the most important metric (work gets done) is fine there’s no problem?

Managers keep hearing from all their employees that the workload is too high and the pay is too low. Even the people you might consider lazy are asking for raises!

If you’re too nice and let yourself be taken advantage of then you might end up with similar issues in the next place as well.
Qdrant as a library project
https://github.com/tyrchen/qdrant-lib
SVG filters default to linear color (but svg gradients etc default to srgb) so the 'SVG fe' are all linear. Color space used changes where the midpoint is so nothing else here uses linear color (unless they've decided to fudge that to match user expectations).
Make perfect sense.

Mountains/ sea: expensive deliveries, lack of infrastructure, long delivery time, easy environment to navigate, less competition.

Urban: cheap deliveries with plenty of existing infrastructure and competitors, complex and dangerous environment to navigate.
Common misconception. The Department of Defense governs all branches of the military. The Department of War only governed the Army while the Department of the Navy was a separate Cabinet-level department.
If it is really so dangerous, what are we going to do about the researchers working on it behind closed doors? They are human too, some will be corrupt, some will do all these things listed in the article. Somebody will leak some of these weights. Maybe to the public, maybe to the blackmarket.

If it too dangerous to develop these things in public, it is too dangerous to develop them in the first place.
Matcha is my favorite work drug. Caffeine is one of my favorite party drugs, especially a Club Mate (or 6, over the whole night from 11 PM to 7 AM in the morning) does the trick. The Wim Hof Method is also an amazing drug (adrenaline). It's all drugs. This just happens to be legal.

Alcohol sucks. Weed isn't great. Truffles (wherever legal), meh, over it.

n = 1, my experience

Meditation does a lot to me. It doen't to others. Aka everyone is different.

I don't recommend drugs either. If you do, make sure you do it at a decriminalized place at least. For me though, every decriminalized thing I've tried has been really helpful. One time I almost wanted to commit suicide (second psilocybin trip), so to say it's not for the faint of heart is a euphenistic understatement. Even that trip showed me I was in a very toxic relationship. To get a life scare was the right response, I'd have gone that way sober as well, what psilocybin did in a day would've taken years when sober (speaking from experience unfortunately).

I have parents, who used to be both addicts. I didn't inherit their addiction, it seems. I do have their genes. It makes me hypothesize that genetic inheritability is less of a factor. I've not been raised by them and because of it my socio-economic-status is completely different. Though, if I look at social media, I'd argue that is my addiction. I think starting late (even with alcohol) and getting a university education really helps. It also helps my social circle is scared of any form of drugs (other than caffeine) and it's hard for me to find a good setting.

I'm in favor of drug legalization over 30.

Wim Hof, meditation, music, running, dancing, dreaming, lucid dreaming (dream journal!) and being sleep deprived

Those are all good analogues for any form of drugs. I'm playing around with starting a startup over this and contributing the money towards comparative research between these states of consciousness versus actual drug states. Feel free to email if you're up for talking about that.
> This security issue would allow the Chinese government to track them

Thank god that only the Chinese do it. Imagine what the reaction will be if someone finds out that the US or the Canadian or the UK government does it. /s
It's always been like that, at least for 10 years - this is nothing to do with Brexit.
Cool, thanks! I wonder how many of those can run well on a Raspberry Pi.
For every friend I made, there was a horrible troll or toxic clique. Also, I’m just not a huge fan of compulsively talking to internet friends in general. I know that’s controversial for some, but it feels more like validation for myself and someone to talk at when it’s by text, rather than someone to talk with. I’m doing it right now even in this message. Basically it’s hard to not just constantly grandstand with little emotional attachment
Do you have a link to any implementations for this?
> Always funny to see that furries are ahead of weeaboos in the war for the best open source nsfw generator

That's hilarious.

It'd be funny if they had a rivalry going and it resulted in better open source tooling.
MANPADS means Man-Portable Air Defense System. Javelin is an anti-tank weapon, not an air defense weapon.

And the main advantage for Javelin over an FPV drone is that a Javelin is fire-and-forget; you don’t need to steer the missile yourself. It will attack the weaker top armor automatically.
Glad to hear it was transient and Kagi is on top of fixing it. Apparently quite a few reading HN use Kagi. I've been happy with it so far and I'm glad that there's an actually usable and actually feature-superior alternative to Google.
Title should read "Open Source AI is Uniquely Dangerous to to OpenAI and Googles shareholder interests"
Exactly this, an important part of the origin of the tank was the tractor made by the Holt company, which today is Caterpillar. The first German and French tanks in WWI were modified Holt tractors, and the unmodified machines saw widespread use for pulling artillery guns.

The reason for Caterpillar pivoting towards construction equipment after WWI is that they had essentially only made military equipment during the war, so their equipment gradually shifted towards larger and heavier machines. When peace came, their products were too heavy to be used as farm equipment, but perfect for construction.
Impressive work. Thanks!
You remember something by putting some effort into working with it, and so writing down the content from blackboard is just such work.

It is a bit similar to reading a wide-format newspaper than reading text on your smart-phone. larger area lets you see more at the same time, you don't have to go back to previous page so often.
It all depends on what sort of party you want. Sharing whisky around a fire with some old friends is a great way to relax.
A related idea: "Win32 (via wine) Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624
Agreed. The UX was pleasant, but the gamification felt slimy, and the surfeit of throw-every-topic-at-the-wall push notifications really turned me off.

(Actually, I turned _them_ off, and promptly forgot about the app over a year ago.)
That's exactly why this situation feels a little weird. Usually Amazon usually just lets things like this slide.[1]

Amazon initially didn't take the product down from its site after being informed of these results, saying it had documentation supporting its safety, according to the Journal. Later Amazon did remove the product, saying it would ask for more documentation from the company it had used to test it.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-le...
Does anyone use it actually?
Ok, this kind of makes sense. By holding a stock, you're increasing demand. Future fund raising for the company will benefit. I think.
It doesn’t matter how good the technology is. It matters how well they can productize it.
Hollywood decided to fight piracy by making movies so bad that no one would enjoy watching anymore.

Fitting.
Fortran is still a heavily used language in engineering applications, in my experience. I have the sense that quite a few programmers think that only systems geared for web development actually exist. This is a very narrow and false view.
I wonder if https://shoelace.style/ is what @ch33zer is looking for? Web components often seem overlooked in this crazy dash complicated js frameworks.
Agreed. It's not just about smiley faces. I use all the little caution signs, clocks, hourglasses etc in UI design all the time. Easiest way to get icons in places they are a pain to put.
I absolutely disagree.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg289...

You can see here in one of Satoshi's last posts that he envisaged that bitcoin users would likely prefer to keep the block size small, and why.

He later replies in that thread stating that fees for block space would be "expensive":

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28959#msg289...
Adding onto your point, attacking civilian merchant shipping in international waters is piracy, and one of the most ancient traditions of international law is that pirates are considered hostis humani generis—enemies of mankind. Any nation that cares to do so has the traditional legal right to dispose of pirates by any means necessary.
When you say "semantically maps" do you mean that somebody somewhere coded such a "fact" into the training set? Or how is the mapping specified? If the training texts say "Current year is 2023" it would be wrong already :-)
Perhaps. Mostly.
It doesn't really have anything to do with being a "text generator". GPT-4 sounds like a bland robot butler because that's exactly what post-training reinforcement learning make it sound like. It's intentional.
This looks like the future. Nice! If I already have an app that uses firebase, do you have some migration guidlines? Perhaps a tutorial for migration? That would help.
Show HN: A variant of Conway's Game of Life in color you can run on your phone
Given the recent interest in Conway's Game of Life, I thought I'd share a variant with 2 tweaks to the rules:

* All live cells have a color

* When a cell is born it randomly takes on the color of one of its (3) parents.

To try it out:

1. Download LÖVE for your device from https://love2d.org (~5MB and open source). (iOS requires building from source on a Mac, or installing the third-party Love2D Studio: https://love2d-studio.marknoteapp.com)

2. Download my Lua Carousel from https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel (~100KB). It includes all its source code and can be edited live on a computer as it runs.

3. Copy the ~100 lines of code from the bottom of https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/651711/new-version-after-9-days and paste them into Lua Carousel.
Computer chip maker announces furloughs after $72M from feds
Perhaps this lazy seller should have used another LLM to validate first LLMs output?
A kamikaze drone that guides itself? That’s called a missile, we invented those decades ago.
Astro is real fun and can deliver ultra-performance. https://astro.build/
>I understood the GP's comment to refer to the state of the second grad student. How useful is K-means clustering without knowing K in advance?

There are several heuristics for this. Googling I see that the elbow method, average sillhouette method and gap statistic method is the most used.

I think you could play around with your own heuristics as well. Simple KDE plots showing the amount of peaks. Maybe, say the variance between clusters should be greater than the variance inside any cluster could maybe work. (Edit: this seems to be the main point of the average sillhouette method).
Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow?

Training someone for three months and then firing them after a couple weeks of real work, during what I assume is a normally slow period, doesn’t look good. It looks incompetent to hire people that aren’t needed and it’s a huge dick move to gaslight them by saying it’s for performance if it wasn’t.

Why not just be upfront? If the market changed and the front lines need to take the hit because the wealthy won’t, at least have the courtesy of leaving those employees with their confidence intact.

Not cool IMO and I’ve always been bullish on Clouflare.
A digital clock for desktop written in Rust
Send a pull request...
"Privacy Pass: upgrading to the latest protocol version"
Its not happening now, but I don't think its reasonable to expect that food shortages won't be a norm in the coming years if there isn't serious political change in the world.
> I can't remember a single class where a professor actually walked us through the process of figuring something out.

I'm sad for you. All my professors did that in every lecture. I'd copy it down in a spiral notebook as he'd describe it step by step. Later, when reviewing the notes, it would bring back the lecture in my head.

This was before the days of videotape, but I still regret not taping the lectures with a cassette recorder.
Brilliant summary. Still not sure why the NIAAA couldn’t fund this themselves though? Just from the name, it seems like the only trial they should be interested in. I don’t understand why NIAAA employees would go out and pitch this to industry, I can understand why industry might try and lobby their way in there when they got wind of it happening. Just seems like there’s something missing from the story there.
Go sleep it off, sock puppet of the original "droll"-sayer account.

That's not what droll means. That's not what irony means. But you have pedantic nailed. As well as un-funny "sarcasm", the word you were probably struggling after . . .
Standard backpropagation is an outdated optimization algorithm for ANNs. (2012)
> see this issue filed by Josh Triplett

Check who you are replying to ;)
He's asking for a component library not a framework like astro
ieee has lost any semblance of trustworthiness.
Edge case: Actor Dick Van Dyke quit a heavy drinking habit in his mid 40s. He quit smoking cigarettes at 75. He's 98 this year. See also, George Burns. It must be the acting.
That's a good phrase to remember in terms of bulk-checking my own AI-generated content.
Maybe I'm getting old and nostalgic, but in my times I really enjoyed reading Linux howtos. That's how you discovered stuff. Then man pages for the more uncommon options. Everything was preinstalled you just had to spend some time reading it.

I'm not sure I like this modern idea where everything has to come to you without any effort.
Sorry to be pedantic, but there’s nothing “zero copy” in a computer. Every single operation copies a bunch of things around.

Performance in computing is about managing the copy granularity by trying to align cohesiveness of space and time (optimal batching) which also relies on end-to-end analysis not just one step in the computation (whether a specific operation is a copy, virtual copy /cow/, move or virtual move by reference etc.). Avoiding a copy has time costs, such as indirection and incidental coupling. You trade space for time. Sometimes that’s smart sometimes not.

We have countless stories about how removing poor caching and going brute force speeds up an app.

Specifically for serialization and storage we also have increasingly more examples of how storing something compressed and calculating it on demand from compressed storage is faster than avoiding a copy on it because of how heterogenous memory bandwidth to compute bandwidth is over time (i.e. slow IO fast compute).

For example it’s often better to pack data into varints or compress sequences by delta rather than naively store them inRAM as long as they’re read roughly in sequence or groups.

Avoiding a copy and transform feels nice, but often isn’t. It should be only applied when specific uses show compute is the bottleneck.

Premature optimization yadda yadda.
If you have aphantasia, you can't "see it in your minds eye", but that does not mean I can't imagine what it looks like.

I know the distinction both from comparing with dreams, where I do see, and with a single experience during meditation (which I've tried many times but so far failed to replicate). They're nothing alike what it is to "imagine" for me.
My experince: 15 years ago (on 32 bit x86 linux) it run most of the windows programs fine (office, age of empires, photoshop).
1 year ago: installed on a x86_64 linux, will not run x86 32 bit windows programs wuthout 32 linux libraries. On x86 linux with 32bit programs it will need additional programs from Microsoft (msvc runtime ?) to be able to run some program (total commander ?). I just gave up.
I kinda wish the browsers error page would do this.

I want it to give a brief summary of:

* Was the TCP connection established.

* Was an ICMP error sent back (ie. Connection refused)

* Is the host pingable

* Is any other host pingable.

* Does the local machine have an IP address.

* What did the DNS response look like.

Etc.

Obviously all that lot should probably be under a 'stats for nerds' title.
I think they might be looking in something more similar to Magic Transit, but that depends on how they set up their infrastructure.
I think that quote confuses intellectual immersion with sensory immersion. Those are separate things. Yes, you can be immersed in a chess game or a good book or a PacMan game, but it's not the same as having a VR headset on?
Reading an article on a phone is something I'd only do if I had no alternative and really wanted to read it.
We'll accept LLMs being poisoned this way just as we now mostly shrug if we are aware of extended online surveillance and manipulation and know that powerful companies and governments are not acting in our interest. Future AI will surely offer wonderful new ways of escapism, we'll be fine.
The European Union created their Combined Charging System (CCS) standard and has been enforcing it since around 2014. I think Tesla's charging infrastructure in Europe has been forced to comply with that standard since it's inception as a precondition to apply for subsidies.

The US followed suite and has also forced support for CCS when applying for subsidy programs to grow Tesla's charging network.

https://qz.com/the-white-house-is-trying-to-persuade-tesla-t...
> unsecured (sometimes called open-source) AI systems.

I disagree with the author calling open-source AI models as Unsecured AI models.
Consider asking in the sipr0n discord decap-commission channel: https://discord.gg/qyne7GZk
I love seeing all of these new local-first libraries and tools popping up! I just wish they were around when I started my app several years ago :-(

I use pouchdb / couchdb right now and I think my biggest issue at the moment is the amount of time it takes to sync up the app when you open it. It's possible to load the app straight from local data, but then it might be out of sync which could be jarring / confusing for the user.

Is this named after a triple store (e.g EAV) like in datomic? If so this is looking very close to my dream database.
The idea is nice, but I wouldn't subscribe - simply not worth it. Consider one-time payments or some kind of pay-per-usage model instead.

The Succession characters usage is clever, kudos.
https://archive.ph/ydtgL
I don't see why; the recommendations in the article are generic regulatory-capture plays, and this person has not really demonstrated a specific mastery of AI. Other versions of his resume list him as the Research Manager for "Social Impact" and almost all of his publications are for commercial media. In other words, writing these articles is basically his job.

This is in essence a sociologist's take on AI, which is why it doesn't bother to define "AI", demands international treaties which would violate American constitutional rights, and contains outright nonsense like "educating all suppliers of custom nucleic acids...about best practices" (as though someone in that business doesn't already know).
Yes, people do, to varying degrees. Up to and including near picture perfect clarity, though most people have far less clearer images.

Only 2-4% or so see nothing at all.
I have an idea to make any documentation rendered in HTML to be processed. You could then have an application that could parse it, digest it, store it for offline access and have some kind of notification mechanism to let you know it changes.
Mid-journey indeed!
Are there benches on this vs say OpenSSL on Graviton and Apple M chips? I would be curious how big the difference is vs whatever NEON optimizations are in OpenSSL (and friends) already.
I built something a little different but might strike a chord with Artifact users: https://chiefofstaffhq.com. Would love feedback.
It looks like an affiliate link that's submitted here regularly by this account.
> or write a series of inflammatory text messages designed to make voters in swing states more angry about immigration

This statement is especially scary, because it implies that being against immigration is a political position that society must not allow at any cost. I bet other inflamatory text messages are allowed, as long as they benefit a certain political side.
Accelerationism, at its finest.
As a backend developer who previously used bootstrap, it has been a delight to discover tailwind: https://tailwindcss.com/
I can't say I've ever used one click purchase or next day delivery, but I'd argue prime is a great example of enshittification, not a positive customer experience. The service is effectively subsidized by the USPS and the customer probably shouldn't pay a dime.
Cheers thanks for the feedback!
"3DTV" didn't stretch that far.

"3d printing" certainly did. "3d printed food! 3d printed houses! 3d printed surgery!" and on and on.

of course the reality is interesting and fun, but consider. as a species we have yet to individualize 2d printing in a reliable, commodity way. Adding a whole other dimension to the problem space is going to take time to make it work.
I also still use Bootstrap. After adjusting it via the .scss files, it looks custom. Tailwind keeps popping up on my radar, but Bootstrap's utility classes are good enough for now.

I even exchanged the bit of Vue.js functionality with htmx.

And I use a bit of Alpine.js and vanilla JavaScript here and there, but it's very minimal.