skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A data point for the orthogonality of politics and intelligence.

If one is holding to the belief that a certain political stance means people are somehow deficient, it just shows that one is vulnerable to propaganda which dehumanizes and blames a group.

Don't hate the person. Call out the stupid.

Actually, don't hate. It makes you stupid. (Again, this is orthogonal to politics!)
A large part of the problem is that dietary supplements in the US are basically exempt from truth-in-advertising laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_...
> To be fair, Hillary Clinton was also a liar and a grifter but she did kind of get punished and publicly humiliated for many of her lies.

Citation needed
Oysters are thought to have the opposite behaviour, per a famous experiment by Brown in 1954. If you transport them several hours of longitude away and keep them in a dark lab, they don't suffer jetlag, but instead they mysteriously adjust to the local lunar cycle.

At least, that's what I thought, but this criticism of the methodology [0] doesn't make it look conclusive, and presumably it would have been replicated if it was any good.

[0] https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29...
What a weird comparison. Embezzling is abusing a position of trust to become a thief. Who was abused if someone privately consumed drugs?
That was really good and insightful!
Oh. Interesting. Never heard of it.
Go watch early footage of that infowars nutball when he was an opening act for stand-up comics like Doug Stanhope[0] for the lols. It's unbelievable that droves of people are actually embracing what he spouts/peddles.

Idiocracy[1], we are living it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHHBxCqnOA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lai9QhBibk
Ask HN: What will the role of the programmer be in 2029?
Fast forward to 2029. For most programmers, what does their role look like? Are there more or less of us?
Great but Lilygo should dedicate some of their efforts into writing documentation, even it it means dialing down the development of new products. I have several personal projects involving some Lilygo products and they are taking forever simply because I spent 95% of the time reverse engineering whatever examples they have and try to make some sense of what it is I'm actually holding in my hands. In most cases you don't even get a datasheet.
As someone pointed out in another thread, Y Combinator probably doesn't put a lot of resources (money or human) into HN, so I doubt this a high priority. If it's a priority at all.
The brand should be called Horseshoe Cosmetics
He's not immortal. I assume that when there's a risk of him disappearing from the picture, Tesla investors will be heading for the lifeboats, tanking it in the process.
You can look at the filing yourself. It is unambiguous.
I'm sure many pitch decks are composed with this in mind.
Before the advent of cameras, and likely still in some cases, several painters would have companies that predominantly reproduced the works of a known artist and sold them so that you could have a nice replica of a famous painting in your home.

One might think that tools like mid journey are much within the same category, but I think there is a key difference. The system of reproduction up to this point has largely been centered on successful and renowned artists—the only way you'd make money is by reproducing something that already had a lot of value to people, and it was also incredibly clear that it was a reproduction. In this case, things have changed. Now, the vast works of largely obscure artists are partially reproduced, and in a fashion that further occludes their source. These artists rightly feel robbed as they endure the treatment of a van gogh without the riches of fame or the palliative of death before fame.
I’m not sure about the Speed chart. I would expect gpt-4-turbo to be faster than plain gpt-4.
I was briefly excited that it was related to the classic video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run
You'll Soon Have to Pay $20 a Month to Access Copilot's Coolest Features
as said here: https://superuser.com/questions/1716264/xmodmap-holding-a-ke...
using this https://github.com/alols/xcape :

$ setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier
$ xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'

if that need be run multiple times (i.e. in bashrc), add a guard:

pgrep xcape >/dev/null || (
setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier
xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'
)
This can also be done in Rust using the excellent `wasm_bindgen_test`!
I'm curious how this interacts with language selection. In particular, it looks like most of the programming languages in widespread use in 1974 were all relatively efficient compiled and statically typed languages (Fortran, cobol, C) with the notable exception of Basic. Would Knuth have considered choosing a performant language as "optimization" or just as part of "writing in an efficient style as any good programmer should do"?

The distinction is a lot more important today with the ~100x speed and power consumption differences between Ruby/Python/etc and C++/Java/Go/Rust/etc.
Thanks! For Claude instant, select the dropdown on the top right of the card where it says '8 Selected' and can add it to the graphs. Thanks for the suggestions for adding Phi 2, Model.com as a host, can look into these!
> Oh yeah I’ve been unemployed for months and only have been denied from one role. sarcasm

Never mind. Now I understand.
I don't get the point of this comment, nor do I fit the stereotype at all.

I'm in my 20s, find coffee shops extremely overpriced, have never set foot in New York City, don't listen to much music at all (and if I do, it's classical and Baroque from the 1700s), and usually write in C# or C++ (both in Visual Studio).
World's first trillionaire may emerge in 10 years
technically, this is not accurate

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/96544/what-services-...

You are not supposed to destroy existing water resources of the population of the entity you are at war with, but you are under no obligation to provide them with water out of your own resources.

Regardless, this whole convo is a red herring because Israel turned water back on
CAVI: Propose and implement a CO2 monitor lending program for your library
Nowadays life is like this (exploit or be exploited). You need to secure your future with what you have (context: micro, macro). In many situations, you need to break country-related rules or be temporarily anti-ethic to thrive(reduce costs and/or risks), but in the long term comply with what is sold to investors (if any). Authoritarians win today because they have a strong ego-driven 'why' to stay in power, but they are detrimental to the rest of societies or even on the organizational level and the 'why's' of every other individual.

Make the decisions that suit your current needs, including deciding if it is time to go away for good. If you risk too many times but can't reach any relevant material success in a context that is unfavorable. Where you need to be an entrepreneur to make serious money.

Sometimes deciding to give up can be the only way to see. I'm not endorsing suicide to anyone, but it can be part of everyone's life just once, and then it is finished. 'No suffering' can be now or surely later, and you will most likely "rejoin" in the next chapter of an infinite book of human lives depending on your beliefs in this life because nobody knows the truth behind that.
Ask HN: Where to find an env with GPU for model training?
I want to train my GPT-2 model, but my laptop can run it only on CPU which is painfully slow
>> How many books can you write per second?

On my laptop, using modern tools backed by AI? ... many.

>> How how many books per second can you read to influence and change your personal style?

Thanks now to AI, hundreds. I can plug the output of the book-reading AI into the input of the tool I use to write my books and thereby update my personal style to incorporate all the latest trends. Blame the idiots who are paying me for my books.
I swear... the jokes are writing themselves these days.
You can actually use that method for the remainder constants too. I built an analog motor controller for my control systems lab and the constants were just pots. We would increase the resistance until instability and back off a little. Rinse and repeated for the remainder two pots.
I appear to have a yeast intolerance that stops me drinking some (but not all) beers. I can drink Guinness though! I didn't realise it used a distinct strain of brewers yeast. If only breweries listed the yeast they used in the ingredients, I could narrow down which one(s) are problematic...
Timely:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
If I tell you water is wet and the sky is blue, will you be waiting for a court case to grind through the appeals process on that as well? The examples in the filing were unambiguous. You can go look it up and see them, they were also cited in all the news articles I saw about it. The AI regurgitated many paragraphs of text with very, very few small modifications.
https://archive.ph/a2yn2
I disagree that a person learning is the same as an AI model being trained. That aside, typically fair use covers the use of an excerpt or a portion of the material, not reproduction of the work in it's entirety.

Agreed: in the end, courts will make the decision.
When performance is a non-issue enough that schedules and features are ALLOWED to be the priority, they will always win.

When performance HURTS so much that they are forced to care about it ABOVE the pressure of features and schedules, then we get somewhere.

Which is why browser emulation doesn't work -- it doesn't inflict enough pain. They wince through it, say "well that was awful, back to rushing more features out the door" and forget about it.
I believe the distinction is that in rust, `if a_cond.await` can only be written in an async function, whereas Haskell’s `ifM` takes a `Monad Bool` (and async is a kind of monad) as its condition and therefore can be written anywhere, not just within an existing monad.
I think a good reason to be more worried about A is outlined in this sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39017576 - humans have limited capacity, AI models are able to produce content at unmatched speed and quantity
Progress Software's MOVEit meltdown: uncovering the fallout
I have the same response to people randomly mentioning how the solution to everything is accepting Jesus into my heart. Whether secular or non secular, this kind of thing is a tell for low quality content because it is indicative of the uncritical acceptance of nonsense. I'm aware of what they're peddling, and I don't have time for people who think like this, which is different from burying my head in the sand, I suspect.
That's the kind of thing that sounds very good and logical and is also completely wrong.
The encyclopedia goes into it as well but that was blessed by FH and not written by him.
The value of a company has nothing to do with whether copyright applies.
> Until customers care about performance/optimization

They do, Businesses and programmers are incapable of listening to them
Is it “broken” if it was intentionally made to be that way? The American Heart Association reported that heart disease and stroke alone cost the U.S. healthcare system over $200 billion each year. Studies have shown that dietary improvements could save the U.S. billions in healthcare costs.

I’m pretty sure the guys who were gonna pocket all that cash prefer to have paying customers.
Bellingcat Open Technical Questions 2024
A great organization would like some help with some outstanding technical challenges that will help further their open source research mission. Some cool asks for image analysis and signals processing as well as managing large datasets and semantic search.
ZN tuning is taught in engineering schools in the US. I even had a lab on it. As far as I remember it was kind of painful to work through and didn’t yield that much better results than hand tuning.

Ah I remembered something else… it needs to find the max Kp which in some cases is just not possible (or wise) to attempt with a real world plant.
Switch between Bitwarden accounts quickly and easily
That was Sweden. I googled and it was introduced around 2007 in several airports but I can’t see when it was discontinued but I think it was around a bit into the 10’s at least. It has definitely not been used in the last 5 years in those airports and possibly not even the last 10.
Maybe it is part of their secret strategy to force in-house developers to develop for the 5th percentile worst case. As the parent alluded to.
I really, really want to use that as my response the next time someone sends me an annoying email or IM ...
Is it labelled "bagel", or is it a symbol that could be interpreted? What you describe is what the "defrost" feature of the linked circuit would do.

I have certainly misinterpreted iconography completely before...
Also arguably you only need balanced when the noise gets way too much. When driving a speaker the power audio signal is much much much higher than any noise being picked up over a reasonable length.

For lengths longer than that, balanced cables (or digital signals over Ethernet) are used and the speaker has more local amplification.
Ideas about wellness have been complete bullshit for 99% of human history. I think you could very plausibly argue that we're at an all-time peak of rational thinking about our health despite the existence of Goop.
His podcast episodes on dopamine and addiction helped me quit cigs and alcohol because i got a clear understanding of how it works. But some of his other stuff is questionable and subjective
> Take all the non-public domain work off Netflix and Netflix doesn't have the same value they have today, so Netflix must pay for content it uses. Same goes for OpenAI imho

I'd feel a lot better about that argument if we had sane copyright laws and anything older than 7-10 years was automatically in the public domain. Suddenly, netflix is looking a lot more valuable with just public domain works and there'd be a ton of public domain art to train AI models with. I suspect that the technology would still leave a lot of artists concerned in that situation though, because even once the issue of copyright is largely solved the fact remains that AI enables people who aren't artists to create art.
she could be chinese, but given how many chinese live in america, stating that she grew up in china is a helpful distinction.
It does help. Tcs will stop your wheel from breaking contact on acceleration and abs does the same in reverse while breaking

Trip was OK except for round abouts
ChatGPT/Bard is good for answering documentation or common syntax questions. For actual programming, you should use a proper AI "copilot" that actually integrates into the context of your IDE, and therefore understands the syntax of your internal APIs to some extent. You will save time copy-pasting and get better results.
> Imposing the cost of actual or potential copyright liability on the creators of AI models will either kill or significantly hamper their development.

which, as an involuntary donor, is exactly what I want
ChatNoir Common Crawl Search
What makes you think it's a money thing and not just personal preference?

Also, for some of the things they are selling, like Chaga mushrooms or colloidal silver, there is not really a grocery store equivalent that has the same ingredients.
> anyone making profit from models

It's actually just "anyone making models". If you train a model with other people's art (without their permission) and then distribute the model or output for free, your still stealing their work, even if you make zero profit.
Backend: turning JSON into stack traces as efficiently as possible.

Frontend: trying to fill the browser console with as much red text as possible.
100% agree. But you are shooting the messenger, I just translated OPs message. Applying "intrinsic value" to cryptocurrencies is flawed.
Fair use is a legal defense that requires you to pass multiple tests. It's not a "thing" that you can just assert all AI training is and expect people to believe you.
Spotify and the rights holders come together and agree on the right price. Unfortunately, since long before Spotify ever existed, it's usually the record labels who owns the rights to the music and the actual creators still get shafted.
You make a good point.

My own perspective is that humans do not have an exclusive right to intelligence, or ultimately to personhood. I am not anthropomorphizing when I defend the rights of AI. Instead, I am doing so in the abstract sense, without claiming that the current technology should be rightly classified as AI or not. But since the arguments are being framed against the rights of AI to consume media, I think the defense needs to be framed in the same way.
What a wonderfully subtle issue.
> somehow... it makes it to all your other apple devices.

"Somehow" their information makes it around? No, you have to add them, yourself, on every device you use them from, individually.
What about the Milk-V Duo? 0.5 TOPS INT8 @ $5.
Human laws are not natural products of the universe.

It was a mistake to accept the validity of Aquinas and Hobbes arguments because we end up with conclusions like this. The concept of intellectual property is a legal fiction, a fabrication invented from whole cloth and somehow we've ended up here where it's assumed part of the natural universe.

When we reverse the direction of laws from being products of human creation to reflecting the laws of the universe we're forgetting the power of their authors and in turn giving up one our agency in drafting laws from myriad possibilities, any number of which, if had been picked by chance, would have been equally erased in authorship and told to us was a natural, universal, unstoppable law.
That's an interesting example, probably most software products featured on HN are less complex then Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 in core logic, perhaps not in every aspect.
Would appreciate this kind of comment being labeled as by ChatGPT or whatever you used.
People generally consider, although this is not universally agreed, that math isn't science. To me the distinction matters, although it's fairly subtle.

This is underscored by frequently cited articles, like: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", in which math is treated as separate, but intimately related, to natural philosophy.

I think you can do math without science, but you can't do science without math.
Jeez, I hope it did not require “security hardening” for Nvidia to do something this basic. If these other vendors missed some tiny corner resulting in state leakage, that would be understandable. But, forgetting to clear local memory is just inexcusable.

Imagine a OS forgetting to replace your general purpose registers across context switches. Only a rank incompetent and useless security process would let something like that get all the way through to deployment.
Can't believe they printed the names in plaintext, smh
> Why is art some special case that should be protected, when many other industries were not?

It shouldn't be.

As soon as someone makes an AI that can produce it's own artwork without requiring ingesting every piece of stolen artwork it can, then I'm on board.

But as long as it needs to be trained on the work of humans it should not be allowed to displace those people it relied on to get to where it is. Simple as that.
I'm pasting the famous passage below, and I don't know how to interpret it as anything other than a call to correctly identify the performance critical part of one's code before spending significant time on optimization. If you can intuit that, more power to you! If you can't, you must measure, and Knuth gives the suggestion that your compiler should do this automatically for you:

"There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail. After working with such tools or seven years, I've become convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specifically turned off."

I certainly agree with the interpretation that the _cost_ is maintainability of prematurely optimised code and this is the evil he's describing. But this is also all in the context of efficiency as a virtue in itself - i.e. something you should be seeking, but seeking in the correct places.
> Between SSDs, blazing faster home DSL internet, and multicore processors, using a computer is much faster than it's ever been before.

How much faster? Our hardware is several orders of magnitude faster than 20-30 years ago. And yet it takes multiple seconds to start even the simplest app doing nothing, and don't get me started on more complex software
And don't forget phones in all of this as well. Mobile developers have the latest and greatest and fastest, but half your users will be on $60 Android pre-paid or entry-level phones that can be a factor of four or more slower than what you've been developing on.
Sure, but I don’t get rewards with PayPal, so it’s a non issue?

Or you are saying it’s not worth reducing your usage of PayPal unless you get rewards?
> or actively destructive!

Business considerations aside, monetary penalty attached to procrastination/doomscrolling might do wonders for the developers' mental wellbeing.

For the penalty, I would suggest an extension of the model my recent client had me implemented for his blue collar workers: every missed hour (rounding up) is deducted from the pay.
Currently, Kagi has (if you hover/click the shield icon to the right of a result) an indication of the information it knows about a website (as well as a way for you to rank it higher or lower for yourself).

One of these is "ads/trackers". I imagine that it would be feasible for this to include some of the more common affiliate URL types, or third party lead/affiliate tracking bounce hops like awin.

Clearly there will always be some amount of ability to "defeat" this kind of measure by obfuscating links, but eventually the user needs forwarded to a link that has a referral parameter or a site that sets an affiliate cookie or similar.

The "tracker category" also can give a bit of extra information - things like "invasive fingerprinting, advertising"
It is not clear that training an LLM falls under "fair use". We are then left with the license of the work, in this case that license forbids re-selling the work for a profit. It is the artist's license for their work at issue, not their opinion.
I think it's fair to say that some of the rust belt cities decline is due to the iron ore running out in the great lakes region. And some of it was the rentier capitalists attempts to break unions.
it is not so surprising that people eagerly turn to pseudo-scientific health remedies when the actual healthcare system has so completely failed them.
React's becoming a bit weird [video]
I suspect a single verbatim output of sufficient length is enough to poison the entire weight set as a derivative work

as well as all the output it ever generated