skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are, at the very least, heading towards a multipolar world with the US, China, and Russia as the three great powers.

US, EU, China, India.

Russia is a big country by size and resources, so it will be important, but it is a small (and getting smaller) country by population size and economy.
I'd guess that this isn't quite reciprocal, and attractive males would receive more honesty from both sexes. It's a shame that the study wasn't symmetrical.
From the paper:

> When producing full natural-language proofs on IMO-AG-30, however, GPT-4 has a success rate of 0% ...
How long until enemy soldiers wear camouflage? How long until decoy targets are set up? How long until the enemy tries to blend in with the civilian population? How long until they start wearing body armor? How long until they start looking at EXIF data on Facebook pictures and mortaring those GPS coordinates?

Yes, war is a game of cat and mouse. Notice how no exploit or countermeasure is definitive.
Right, so for the purposes of predicting what will happen on our actual planet, on which our continued existence is dependent, this is a very loose upper bound right? I'm not claiming that knowledge of where the boundary values lie is somehow epistemically unavailable. But there's some important, lower, unknown value, beyond which a bunch of very bad stuff will already happen, and learning the exact values through experience is extremely costly.

In the context of responding to this report which is saying "we have already crossed the boundaries! (and we should immediately try to course correct)" rather than squabbling about "well, do you really know the boundary on each of these factors", I think the more honest and pragmatic reframing is to say "we don't know where the boundaries are, but we're headed rapidly away from the known safe region, and we should turn back immediately."
I put a lot of effort to get out of my rural farming hometown and into a city, why would I give that up? Especially since I could buy a place on the outskirts right next to a tube station and a nature reserve.
But not nearly as in reach as modifying open source models.
My 2 yr old button-obsessed daughter loves this book so much. One of my all time favorite children books. It’s such a creative concept! I believe the guy that put it together is currently crowdfunding for an advanced engineering for babies edition.
This is a silly comment as your state-equivalent EPA standards do change with every state. The federal EPA’s standards are a minimum. Many states go above that minimum to varying degrees. California is notorious here: they’re called CalEPA. Same with workplace safety where CalOSHA is significantly more stringent than OSHA.

Not only that, but many laws change from state to state. Can you imagine trying to run a business when employment laws vary state to state? Can you imagine trying to run a business when statutes of limitation vary from state to state? Can you imagine trying to run a business where manufacturer or products liability changes from state to state? No need to imagine: it’s happening every day!
I'm one of those people that can't stand Microsoft.
I don't agree with everything Apple does, but I generally like the direction.

The best thing M$ ever did was add WSL2 to the OS. Now, if they could just get rid of the rest of the operating system, I'd consider switching back. Here are a few other things they might consider ditching if they want "my vote" - like they care:

- The registry
- File locking of every dang file (so, you know, just reboot)
- Horrible system of "installing" an app
- Warnings that pup up full screen. Where is my baseball bat?
- Backslash in filename. Backslashes are for escaping characters
- Clippy (oh, wait they already got rid of that??)
- Forced reboots twice weekly
- The entire concept of "Did you reboot it??"
Yeah, you can't do synchronous stuff on it, like you would say lambda, or what ever google calls theirs. I think calling it serverless is probably confusing to a lot of the outside world, as to them serverless is cgi-bin for the docker generation.

this form of serverless is very much batch jobs with some modern bits sprinkled in.

perhaps they should have called it serverless batch, or Batch-as-a-service, async-serverless or serverless-futures.
Great! If only I could manage which of my files stay local, and which get offloaded to iCloud I might be impressed. But it seems that iCloud likes to offload recently used files, apps and photos to make room for my massive library of old photos. It frequently makes my iPhone unusable unless I'm on wifi, and then I still have to wait for everything I want to use to re-download from iCloud.
I'm quite positive that the US will be fine given it's geographic location. It's the rest of y'all that should be sweating at the prospect.
> It's a shame Boeing killed 346 people. IT's obvious that Boeing is a bad actor.

If I recall correctly, Boeing also tried to pin the blame of their broken by design plane crashing on human error, when pilots were powerless.

Bad actor indeed.
A neural network is nothing but a heap of new abstractions from data.
If you scan the alcohol first, you can then move over to another checkout and proceed with the rest of your items if you need to wait for assistance for the alcohol
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - The Importance of Being Earnest
Oh nice thanks for the explanation.
TFA: > “Things may eventually catch up to Devon if he isn’t careful,” @Brainjuiceofficial observed, noting that Turner has been shot at before, and also robbed at an ATM while flexing a bunch of cash for a picture and wearing $500k in jewelry.

He's already been shot at. It's part of the thrill and street cred fantasy. There's almost definitely a bullet out there with his name on it already.
People who don’t want to do anything won’t be convinced by data
You'd rather look like an amateur?
A calculator that can solve any problem human could, and more? Sure.
If the alternative to the layoff was the collapse of YouTube, then “cannot afford to” applies. Otherwise, “will not afford to” applies.

My point is that we should not implicitly frame layoffs as “cannot afford” without having evidence or claims to support that. If YouTube cannot afford 100 engineers, YouTube’s profitability at all hinges on $50mil/year of expenses, which is a rounding error to the overall business operating it.

It is highly unlikely that the future of YouTube hinges on the absence of these 100 engineers, given the financial and megacorp contexts available to us. Thus, usage of the “cannot afford” framing in this case comes across as an unsupported argument that YouTube is in severe financial distress.

If that distress is real, let’s hear more about it! If the layoffs were due to dire circumstances around funding and runway, that’s material and interesting news — and would explain why the corporation had no choice (“can’t afford”) in the matter.
Communism is missing in their graph and is at all time high.

I am tired of the attept to use climate change and other metric to push us toward a totalitarian world government. People are waking up to it.

There is no global warming catastrophe.

Solar is on an expodential path, so is EV and other initiatives.

I am way more concerned about the risk of nuclear war (US proxy war created by the democrats), the creation of other virus in labs and the contamination of everything with BPA and forever chemical.

Tech is mostly good, so is freedom and free entreprise.
I just read the entire Chapter 3 of your O'Reilly book "TinyML" and LOVED how you've made the big-picture of ML training and inference approachable.

I will likely not read any further (since this isn't my area of expertise), but am grateful for the knowledge gained from that chapter. Thank you for putting in the time and energy in sharing this. Much appreciated!
Maybe it's vanishingly unlikely one has unknown deficits.

One problem with daily recommended/minimum/maximum doses is that they come without bandwidths. What's high for person X maybe dangerously low for Y. Knowing your optimal levels is basically impossible to know. And perhaps there is no such thing, maybe there are multitudes of optima, and maybe it person specific bandwidths are enormous as well. It seems evolutionary likely that we can deal well with huge variety.
Not a lot of humans do
Also: It would be wise to verify their professional references. Diligent VCs will check them when you start pitching, and your co-founder's poor references will hinder you from raising capital.
> Replying wherever the email app happens to leave the cursor .. It's antisocial, stupid, and makes the experience much worse for everyone.

Bottom posting is even more antisocial if your recipient is likely to be using a client that always opens the email with only the top visible.

I agree that bottom posting is best but your ire should be directed at the makers of the mail clients not the users.
Surprised how many people support patents at the cost of our health.
Every example I saw of Gay’s plagiarism actually directly cited the work she pulled from, she just didn’t put quotations around them. There was no way you’d read the passages and not understand where the ideas came from, you’d just have thought Gay rephrased them, which she didn’t.

Maybe there were other more egregious examples I didn’t see, but that seems like an editing or style error more than what I’d consider plagiarism.

(Obviously students, who are being assessed directly on the writing itself, have very rigid requirements they need to meet)
Cutting consumption because the price went up doesn’t necessarily mean the difference in consumption is waste. If you keep increasing the cost of energy, eventually people are going to freeze to death in their homes because they won’t be able to afford the heat. That doesn’t mean the energy required to keep them alive was wasted; it just means they couldn’t afford it anymore.

Germany is heading into a recession because the high cost of energy is destroying their manufacturing sector. They aren’t just making the same amount of stuff with less energy; they’re making less stuff and becoming a poorer country.
I have two toddlers and it has sucked more than it hasn’t (~7 years). ymmv, n=1, all that jazz. Roughly 8-17% of the population regrets having kids (depending on study [1]), and a substantial cohort simply doesn’t want them [2], so it’s not for everyone.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294566/

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...
Holocene is a geologic epoch. It started at the end of last ice age. It contains human civilization but is not human civilization. Civilization, climate, and biosphere are all separate but related things. If you want to talk about maintaining them, each one has a name, or if you want a name for all them, come up with something new.

The Holocene requires no maintenance beyond defining out the end. People are talking new epoch, Anthropocene, to include changes from global warming.
Lo que Ana dice de Juana dice mas de Ana que de Juana. Which means, that says a lot more about you than it does about the platforms.
Although I am still in awe of OpenAI's achievements and greatly respect many people there, they claim the record for the company that has most rapidly fallen from my own personal grace.

When they were founded, I was hopeful that the capped profit structure could be a way of preventing enshittification, where the winnings of these mega successful companies are more equally distributed between shareholders, employees, and the public.

Instead, they seem to have basically betrayed all of those founding principles. Now they're just another tech company.
I wanted to try this, but the dialog said I need a Google account to use it and I don't have one.
I backed both books, and both times there were some production issues—this time around, with two _switches_ instead of two buttons (so four possible states, more complex hardware, etc.), the production timeline has extended a few extra times.

It's all much harder once you target child-proof design, especially since things like page lamination get tricky! It's been fun to watch and learn from (though I'm certain less fun on the production side) as someone who tracks a lot of hardware projects.
The Shaping of Higher Education in the United States, 1890 to 1940 (1999) [pdf]
> Is there really a difference between a human flooding the market using AI and a human flooding the market using a printing press?

Yes. A printing press only floods the market with copies. An AI floods the market with new derivative works.

A human producing a single creative work and then flooding the market with copies leaves lots of room for other humans to produce their own novel work. An AI flooding the market with new derivative works leaves no such room.

I work with DNNs a lot professionally and remain a proponent of the technology, but what OpenAI et al are doing is highly exploitative and scummy. It’s also damaging their social licence and may end up setting the field back.
Apple Changes App Store Policy. Critics Call Moves 'Outrageous.'
Yeah, and it's a terrible system, because it effectively paywalls anything remotely resembling justice.
Not a youtuber but i am aggressively degoogling. I imagine other people are doing it too. The regression in quality of google’s products is noticeable and frustrating. Even search results are unreliable as of lately. Search for one term and you get results for another. Email works in the sense the you get and send email but search broken. Google drive search too. I suspect they are experimenting with ai behind the scenes, otherwise i cant explain the sudden spike in unreliability.

Then there are features. Almost every product seems to suffer from the eagerness of mediocre managers to leave their mark. And sure they do, products are loaded with silly features no wants.

All in all google is now a mediocre company making mediocre products.
also in sports, you have a league (multi-billion dollar advertising business) and league-controlled referees who are inconsistent and may or may not have a narrative they are trying to push (aka, so-and-so team will do better advertising/TV ratings if they make it deeper into the playoffs)

how do you account for inconsistent/bad calls/missed calls when there is zero accountability? you can only review some things sometimes, and supposedly "new york" is watching in a booth to tell the refs "bad call/good call", yet announcers + players + coaches all disagree with refs on calls all the time that 100% affect the outcome of the game

i personally don't think the NFL + NBA is to be trusted. i don't want to sound like some crackpot conspiracy theorist but i feel like there's enough evidence that... it's not a serious product. it's entertainment first and foremost.

i don't know what corporate boardroom focus group research was done to identify the fact that viewers respond well to something they hate (bad calls), but... boy, they sure are not trying to use technology to remove them from the game
With communist central planning the world lost about as many people to starvation and murder by their own governments as were killed in WW2 in an actual enormous war. It might be worth letting people make their own decisions rather than forcing them to be what you want them to be.
My point is that there’s no scientific way to demonstrate that one has made a choice vs that outcome being determined (perhaps probabilistically) or being random. We can’t “go back” and do it a different way to demonstrate we’ve actually chosen.

We don’t understand what it means to be intelligent in the way people generally mean, and we don’t understand (scientifically) what it means to choose. So we can’t use choice to usefully define intelligence.
This is insane, I can't believe they are still experimenting like this.
They were programming language professors. They most definitely had an interest in both programming and academia.
I thought his song "long live heather" was okay in which he rapped about selling fentanyl-laced drugs to the homeless population https://youtu.be/e9pFGESCc6o
One of the first things people thought when they detected pulsars is that they were attempts by aliens to communicate across lightyears.

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/history.cfm
This is what it is to be in a multipolar world though.

I agree with your implication. The military forces of Russia are not paper tigers. Don't believe the hype. But at the same time, you don't want to fight proxy wars? Ok. Great. Then don't screw with other nations. If they hadn't messed with Ukraine, they wouldn't be fighting a proxy war.

The system works, again, because each of the major powers are comfortably confident in their ability to destroy the other 3. There is therefore, nothing to stop us from fighting a proxy war with Russia, because Russia will never use hard power to do anything about it. Unless Russia is suicidal, and they aren't, they will not escalate to a direct conflict with us.
What's your company and how can you get experience in this kind of engineering?
You are half right. He was chief creative officer at both Walt Disney and Pixar Animation at the time he went on leave.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/11/21/d...
in that case it might depend on the outcome of arguments on the internet, since the ai was fed on something.
Because the implications if its true (it is) mean the entire system has to change to fix it and that’s impossible for most people to handle even conceptually
Proving propositions has been computer work for several decades.

This is not a pure LLM. Search algorithms are obviously incredibly powerful at solving search problems. The LLM contribution is an "intuitive" way to optimize the search.
Great to see more work in this space. What differentiates from Sportmonks?
It's the first step on the path. Each incremental step is easy, and feels harmless. At first your drone only scouts. Then it gets used for actionable reconnaissance so a live feed is added. Then it's used for targeting so a laser designator is added. Then it's already there so it might as well launch the missiles.

Each step in isolation is logical and helpful and the end result makes a useful tool into an implement for killing people.
It is totally possible to have a "runs on anything" UI framework; it simply has to have bindings for every applicable platform. SDL does this, for example, in 2D Graphics. Java has a few "run anywhere" UI frameworks, and Microsoft has .Net Maui (as well as the 3rd party avalonia UI). The problem with most native frameworks, however, is they are nowhere near as flexible as HTML and CSS (which many pre-teens taught themselves as a way to customize their tumblr and myspace pages). Other frameworks, by comparison, require programming knowledge or more setup than just a text editor (usually requiring an IDE and the rest of your toolchain).

I can see native software making a comeback if it is:

1. Declarative: only software engineers like imperative UI systems

2. Flexible: some frameworks (like any of the XAML-based ones) are strongly typed and you can only combine certain XAML elements with other certain XAML elements, and will fail to compile entirely if you mess something up

3. Unopinionated: HTML, CSS, and Javascript don't require you to implement any particular paradigm for getting data on the screen; that is left up to the coder

4. Dead ass simple: the litmus test is that a 7th grader should be able to learn the basics of it on their own, and the tooling should be ideally no more complicated than a text editor

5. Totally sandboxed: You can't trust 99% of frontend devs with security

The people you need to appeal to are not hardcore software engineers, but hobbyists and newbies, since they end up being the majority of frontend devs anyways.

Honestly I think you could get pretty far with just adding declarative languages (read: XML) to existing native frameworks, like gtk and Win32.
Can’t get no fancy notes on this blue guitar

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6465755
Nit: Mblaze is lovely but it is not a TUI. It's a maildir-enabled copy of the "mh" command suite so you can manage and read your email from the command line and use your default editor.

Other than that, yes please plaintext. I don't need a shopping mall in my inbox, get off my lawn ;)
I grew up in a rural farming town, lived in a few large towns/small cities, and now live in the megalopolis of London.

Cities are great! Cities have people, energy, stuff.
Umm like i said its possible oh wait it's reality...

https://arstechnica.com/google/2024/01/google-lays-off-hundr...
Everything you just said applies to normal software. Oh no! Big Corp just started a closed fork of their open source codebase! Well, the open source version is still there. The open source community can build off of it.

You may complain that subsequent models are not iterative on the past and so having that old version doesn’t help; but then the data probably changes too so having the old data would largely leave you with the same old model.
I'm not sure I want the styling of my email to be especially noteworthy
The author of the article also rediscovered this vulnerability in June 2023.

https://eaton-works.com/2023/06/06/honda-ecommerce-hack/
My father's family was from a village which when invaded by Germans, seen half its population shot (probably worse than just shot, I imagine). Shall we go back and back and back in history, and when exactly do we stop so that the question of who's the good guy and who's the bad guy is finally forever resolved? Please tell us. And even if resolved, what then? What exactly is your proposition? Teach the bad guys your good ways? Good luck.
"I don't doubt his sincerity."

You should doubt it. This guy knows exactly what's going on but chooses to lie blatantly for profit. Same applies to oil execs, tobacco execs, fast food industry execs, US health insurance execs, chemical industry execs and many others. They know exactly that they are damaging the environment and/or killing millions of people but they prefer profit. And somehow we as a society let them get away with it.
1000 open positions? They should hire people for work/study programs, train them, pay for their education, and then they'll have a pipeline of engineers they so desire.

Unfortunately, companies think they can skip investing in their people and expect people to spend $100k+ just for the privilege of applying to some company that doesn't respect their work/life balance and wants to pay them $50k/yr to start. Hard pass.
hmm this is strange, i tried the invite and it worked for me.
If you are on fedi, @thegibson@hackers.town is part of the team.

thanks for the links, i will get in touch personally when i try ir0h :)
> The worst part is nobody in charge really cares.

I disagree with this, citation needed. _Much_ of government spending I've seen in recent years has been towards climate. Bans on plastic bags, carbon reductions, environmental tax deductions, electric cars, etc. And it shows in the data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions . US, Canada, UK, have all had large decreases in CO2 emissions the last ~20 years. That's not by accident, many of the people in charge really care. Is it enough? Who knows!

That's why it's important to vote for the ones who reflect your beliefs/world you want to live in! But you have to keep your wits about you and do your research too. It's _hard_. There's no shortcut and there are no easy answers. It's all nuanced shades of grey. But that is life!
It's a joke in the urban community that rappers rap about their crimes and confess to them, there are quite a few comedy sketches about it.
Agreed, this is certainly reasonable. 4% isn’t and shouldn’t be taken as particularly good, it just works and it’s what a lucky retiree might know about.
I've been to one of those communities recently to pick up some auction items, and the way it worked for this guy is he had a business flying people up to do stuff like survey photography and stuff, but that he was retired so he mainly went between this house-on-a-runway in Arkansas to his other house-on-a-runway outside Sedona AZ.