skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at my CVS. They have one checkout clerk, and if there are more than 3 people standing in line, it can take 10+ minutes to checkout. With self-checkout, I'm in and out in 30 seconds. Presumably, they'd add more checkout clerks if they remove the self-checkout, but I wouldn't count on it
MixCloud has higher quality streaming for the free service, but they don't have the same social aspects to it (comment at timestamps within a track/set, start threads, etc.)
> "excess people"

More excess credentials than people. Someone with an MBA can easily be employed in a job that doesn’t make use of that MBA.

Also, nothing says those people can’t find a management/consulting job in 1 or even 5 years. That delay would still discourage people from getting an MBA.
That's a fine argument, but not relevant for when you're in an editor -- and modern TUI apps disable XON/XOFF for that reason.
In ancient times, IBM stood for "I've Been Moved". Luckily the late 20th century Silicon Valley model was to keep the same house and commute to a new job instead.
> US military must be the ones possessing and in control of the most advanced AI technology.

Except that in this case they aren't possessing or in control of it. They're just writing checks to a third party to use what they possess and control.

I do think that once we have real AI the government should be all over that, but I don't see much need for them getting too worked up over a chatbot with a tendency to outright lie. I'd certainly hope that they don't use OpenAI's questionable product for anything important or anything that would have a meaningful impact on people's lives. I wish that for every company actually, but when it comes to where bombs drop or who drones kill its really important to keep humans involved and to make sure your information is accurate.
I gotta say, I was driven on residential streets/stroads from home to restaurant by a Tesla 3 (using vision alone I think? it was fairly recent) in absolutely POURING rain and I was blown away by how good it was. I think it's hard to get a handle on how good this stuff is because it's such a politically charged field now but I have a hard time believing the folks that say it's never gonna happen, or at least not soon, because of technical reasons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm on team ban cars and replace every stroad with a light rail corridor and bike paths, but I think self driving cars will be fine in some number of years once the haters calm down. Hard for me to believe we can't achieve better than the average shitty driver level of safety.
But is Apple Inc “the company” that runs the App Store? Apple Inc doesn’t make profits that’s the Ireland Apple.
Why it's easier to have more: despite the darkness and thick head that make it look and feel so, well, stout, Guinness is actually fairly light in calories and alcohol content, at just 4.2%.
absolutely this. for most services i WANT to be able to recover access with only my email address. if i forget the password for a service, then most likely i also lost whatever additional security codes i have been told to save somewhere.

i have half a dozen backups of all the ssh keys i use because i am scared to loose them. the chance that someone gets access to one of those backups is probably more likely than them breaking into my email. ok, they would still have to find the password for the ssh keys. my point is that the risk to loose something that i can't keep in my head is greater than such a breakin. when i set up 2FA for github or gitlab i am going to plaster that 2FA app on as many devices as i possibly can to mitigate the risk that i would loose one of those devices which could permanently lock me out.

how likely is it that an attacker can take over my email?

they would have to break into my laptop, and take over my browser and break into my mail server. or they would have to spoof the DNS for my email domain.

are there any threats i am missing?
Did you read TFA? These aren't Guinness World Records.
"Developers may apply for an entitlement to provide a link in their app to a website the developer owns or maintains responsibility for in order to purchase such items."

https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/16/apple-revises-us-app-store-ru...
> and that regime is more than enough to make a profitable taxi service

Waymo isn’t profitable and has been a massive money loser over the past several years. See “Other Bets” in Alphabet’s earnings. Where does this claim come from?
So do your regular drives just not include any tree lined roads, or have they done some mapping to fix phantom braking in your area?

And that’s a serious question, because the stress of trying to anticipate the next phantom brake event completely defeats the purpose in my mind. I’d much rather just drive myself.
I enjoyed reading this and think it makes some important points. There's an important way in which I mostly agree with it.

However, in some important ways it's missing the point, and illustrates the importance of utility and not just probability.

Maybe discovering the truth about whether COVID was or was not a lab leak shouldn't shift your posterior of it occurring again. But given the costs of the outcome, the per-unit-probability weight of that shift is arguably pretty big. How much you should learn from something probably depends on the benefits and costs of everything? That's a very non-probabilistic judgment.

I generally agree with the idea that there's a level at which whether or not it was a lab leak probably doesn't matter at all: it already tragically happened, it should maybe be a wake up call to the plausibility of it even if it wasn't what happened this time, there are other problems with the lab leak discussion, and so forth. But at another level it very much does matter: there's arguably a moral responsibility possibily attached to it, and a slight change in probabilities might have enormous utility costs, if the outcomes are bad enough (like basically threatening the world order).
More like a Milwaukee drill you have on loan that can be swapped out for a manual screwdriver without warning.
It's unfortunately also not great for translation. Language changes fast enough that training on content that went out of copyright is old data.
IMO that's a terrible thought experiment given the situation.

LLMs do not store enough content or with enough accuracy to even close to a virtual library. Unlike, say, Google and the Wayback Machine, the former of which stores enough to show snippets from the pages it's presenting to you as search results (and they got sued for that in certain categories of result), and the latter is straight up an archive of all the sites it crawls.

Furthermore, the "percentage" in question for OpenAI is "once we've paid off our investors, all of it goes to benefitting humanity one way or another" — the parent company is a not-for-profit.

> Does that make what I'm doing okay? Should all those authors deprived of royalties on their work now, even deprived of publishing opportunities as legitimate sales collapse, understand my token contribution to UBI as fair compensation for what I'm taking from them?

Here's a different question for you: If a generative AI is trained only on out-of-copyright novels and open-licensed modern works, and then still deprives everyone of all publishing opportunities forever as in this thought experiment it's better and cheaper than any human novelist, is that any more, or any less fair on literally any person on the planet? The outcomes are the same.

I'm sure someone's already thought of making such a model, it's just a question of if they raised enough money to train such a model.

> OpenAI's product relies on a technical means of laundering intellectual property that seems tailor-made to dodge a body of existing copyright law designed by people who could not possibly have conceived of what modern genAI is capable of

You may have noticed from the version number that they're on versions 3 and 4. When version 2 came out in 2019, they said:

"""Our model, called GPT-2 (a successor to GPT), was trained simply to predict the next word in 40GB of Internet text. Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model."""

They were mocked for this: https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...

Even here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306542

Indeed, they are still mocked for suggesting their models may carry any risk at all. Of any kind. There are plenty of people who want to rush forward with this and think OpenAI are needlessly slow and cautious.

You may also have noticed their CEO gave testimony in the US Congress, and that the people asking him questions were surprised he said (to paraphrase) "regulate us specifically — not the open source models, they're not good enough yet — us".

To the extent that any GenAI can pose an economic threat to a creative job, it has to be better than a human in that same job. For now, IMO, they're assistant-level, not economic-threat-level. And when they get to economic-threat-level (which in fairness could be next month or next year), they'll be that threat even if none of your IP ever entered their training runs.
I wonder how the OpenAI employees feel about this after their full throated support for reinstating Altman and the shuffling of the previous board.
I've had the nagging feeling that a third party agent has corrupted my code bases with senseless bugs. Changing hash histories and everything (I have taught git internals.) I don't think it was AI, I think it was a leet kit of some kind.

Maybe sometimes over caffeinated and sleep deprived ;p

I've definitely been hacked before (even once found a pirate warez board on company servers.)

That's the thing with wtf. It's wtf.
Most of the US population lives on the coast, which is quite temperate generally.

I suspect large portions of North America will be easily serviceable by robotaxi.
I think your second point helps make sense of my problem with the not 1, but 2 threshold articulated.

> if it happens twice in a row, yeah, that’s weird, I would update some stuff

Why? Why is one event not an “update”, but 2 is? Shouldn’t each data point change your assumption proportional to the assumed chance and period of observation?

That seems more true to the author’s belief framework, but it wouldn’t make as as spicy a title.
Same here, but in my notes app. Been doing it for years.

And if I may expand a little, not just for crappy Google, I also create alternative local knowledge bases at work.

I can't find anything at work. Everything is spread out across chat, Wikis, SharePoint, email. All having different owners, content may at any time disappear or move, there's constant authorization headaches.

Whenever I come across something useful that I expect to be of some future use, I make a local copy. File, web page, wiki, anything. Because our information systems are a massive failure.
Incredible that literally hundreds of people were apparently in the same situation - none of them had any paper trail of money being moved into their accounts, no unexplained wealth, no extravagant spending… All of them just that the computer said so!

I guess part of then problem is that the justice system takes every case in isolation, but the legal system really needs some mechanism where there’s a “hang on, something is wrong here” after the first few…

First change in this case specifically is probably stopping the archaic convention of the post office making their own prosecutions in the UK…
> overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority.

This seems like a non-falsifiable claim about the future, even if it can be argued for rationally with regard to the past.

Have you ever been somewhere that you needed to defend this belief rationally, or does it appear to you as self-evident?

I think we can evaluate how far the discourse is fallen by the reflex to attempt to hide questions that the hegemon's apologists don't like instead of answering them.

Perhaps this bullying attitude is one of the many reasons that most of the world does not feel that it's better off today with American hegemony.
Maybe the senior devs just don't find it as useful as junior devs do. Or maybe the senior devs are better at picking apart the code being generated and finding the flaws.

I'm a senior dev at a python shop and I almost never find the solutions GPT4 gives in Python to be very good. However, I've been learning some C# lately in my free time and I find those solutions to be pretty good. I have a feeling I find the C# solutions higher quality, because I'm not experienced enough to see the problems.
I remember watching the king of Kong documentary. Was pretty good. Will say that after reading the article I am slightly perplexed. Billy sued because Twin galaxies was presented with a photo of him using a different joy stick? Basically saying he didn't play on a stock system, so he sued for libel, didn't win or lose and just settled?
> The Palestinian Authority needs to reform

she said, dismissively.
Unfortunate behavior in an apocalypse-proof distributed filesystem.
Imagine good error messages, with hints for mitigation and maybe smart retry w/ mitigations applied.
"They are not weapons, they are enhanced tools for war."
How is waymo doing with snow covered roads?
Apple's App Store policies now let US developers link to outside payments
I am working on a new music platform. It is a travesty that SoundCloud and other artist-friendly platforms like Bandcamp are struggling and can't survive. Having used Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music (iTunes), YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Qobuz, etc over the past 20+ years, it seems like without a new approach we'll continue to lose choices in how we search for, discover, listen to, and interface with music - I can't tell you how many times I've ended up in dead-end-inducing discovery and recommendation experiences in the aformentioned services. I'm not optimistic that the big players in digital streaming can get out of their own way and do anything to make stark improvements to the way listeners experience music, let alone provide anything new to artists, unsigned artists, labels, playlist creators, DJ's, or people who own and operate music venues that aren't owned or controlled by giant corporations. And this is at a time when there is more music being created, recorded, and released than ever before (120,000 new tracks get published a day and 43 million new tracks were published in 2023 alone)(1).

The music project that I have been working on aims to bring together a musical audio pre-trained language model, natural language inputs, and a novel interface that deconstructs what you hear into visualizations and user controls. The idea is to allow you to dramatically improve personalization of music search, discovery, and curation by allowing interactivity with the individual parts of music, also known as stems in music theory and music mastering.

The overarching challenge that music streaming services and more broadly media streaming services have, is building a sustainable business on somebody else's art...you have to (rightly) pay licensing costs. This is a major (and ever changing) business risk and one of the larger challenges when I think about launching a new music streaming platform. MTV discovered this in the mid 80's when margins for music and music video licensing became flat, Netflix / Apple / Amazon / etc know this which is why they invested in developing their own content in house.

If anybody is passionate about working on something new in streaming music let me know - I could really use help developing the music audio PLM prototype.

(1) https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/there-are-now-120000-...
+ malpractice insurance
Based on the recent Twitter post, let’s just cut out the human controlled robot and have the human do it.
I'm $ure they feel okay about it
afaik "edge" nearly always means taking place on the device a user is interacting with. no server involved except perhaps as authentication etc. but there is probably some other situation where "edge" could mean local infra or caching.
Waymo seems to work the same in pretty heavy rain as a clear day in SF. They're testing snow a lot more now, no idea how good it is yet.
Billy has spent his entire life litigating anyone who calls out his blatant cheating, and spending an incredible amount of court resources to bully anyone who challenges him, it's disgusting.
Of course a laptop with case, screen, battery etc costs more than a bare SBC.

The Milk-V Mars, with very similar performance to this (see other comments for JH7110 vs TH1520), starts from $39 with 2 GB RAM (and 4 GB or 8 GB options) and of course quad core 1.5 GHz dual-issue CPU. That's around 8x the compute performance of the 1 GB MangoPi MQ-pro, for $10 more. Or, for more bare-bones, the Mars CM is $34.
When you're not working a project, what are you doing (to generate business)?
Big user experience gap between self checkout in The Netherlands, Albert Hein, vs Walmart/King Soopers etc.
Ask HN: Has anyone implemented reranking with llamaindex chatengine?
Looking at ChatEngine by LLamaIndex, it looks high level. I understand how cross encoder models work, and how to use them at a granular level (simply filter/rearrange chunks before llm call) in RAG, but I don't see any mention of reranking in the chatengine docs. It's a bit hard to follow -- has anyone here does this successfully; ideally you'd want to just pass a reranker 'strategy' into the chat engine or service context but I'm finding it hard to find examples.
As a liberal raised during the backlash to the Iraq War, my attitude towards the Military Industrial Complex has really changed in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan. Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East and even possibly South America, and I really don’t think we have the luxury to say “weapons bad, let’s not build any”.

Being the policeman of the world absolutely sucks. War absolutely sucks. But one of the best ways to prevent China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc from saying “might make right, let’s take this land and these resources from our neighbors, since no one can stop us” is for the US to say, “no, we will stop you and we have the will and the tools to easily do it.”
"Armoured core 6 can't beat pca enforcer walton"

People actually discussing how they did this is the only real answer, generic websites with pictures and descriptions of his weapons never help.
I have a few random thoughts:

- Everything you wrote sounds perfectly fine to me. And I'm often more interested in talking about changing diapers than about Amazing Spectacular Things.

- This might be over the top, in which case just discard it, but if you feel something is missing, and you like reading, maybe check some practical philosophy? It might as well turn out you already have everything you need, or that what you need is not what you think you need.

- I'm a bit over 40 and last year I started doing karaoke, completely by accident (someone suggested it, I went, and stayed). I don't have "musical genes", so you probably wouldn't like to get my signed record :))--but I really enjoy the whole thing. At some point I noticed that some songs sounded better than before, and it gave me some motivation to work on them. And suddenly I have a completely unexpected hobby. My point here is that a hobby can emerge in a completely unexpected way, at any time in your life.
App Store payments are independent of customer service for the app itself. App developers would have to provide that either way.

App Store refunds are not that different from credit card chargebacks. They mostly happen automatically, with some automatic abuse mitigation as well as a mechanism for the developers to report abuse.

With Stripe, foreign exchange is an extra 1%. The rest of those are taken care of as part of the 3% fee. It doesn't cost that much to process payments.

The one nice thing about the App Store is the centralized recurring subscription management. Seems like a nice juicy low-hanging fruit for Strip to disrupt now that they're allowed to.
Its not self driving though. I have to pay attention when using it. Tesla doesn't have a Level 3 or higher cars on the road.
> If the healthcare I receive includes GP visits needed to get a referral to a specialist to satisfy my insurance co, or extra tests to convince them that a procedure is necessary, is that "value" that I received?

Do you think all of those tests are irrelevant? Who sent you to the specialist, if not your primary care provider?

What do you think health care value actually is? It appears you don’t think it includes actual care or diagnosis.
That's the crux of the problem: Current antitrust laws don't really capture it.

The EU realized that and just passed a huge new law/regulatory framework to address it, and presumably the US will be closely watching this space.
It is due to the same reason why we get phishing emails and junk mail. The platform is incentivized to get views; it is not incentivized to promote quality content. Those who post the content can spam because it costs them nothing. The platform is happy with all the spam, click bait, and scams.

Is there a better way? I am hoping for a virtual public square that is organized like the US public TV stations. Run by free speech true believers and paid for by a mix of user fees and donations.
Don't you want to be with a partner that "wants you to have everything" also? Even if we don't take that literally, I think a healthy relationship has both parties honestly sharing their desires with each other. If you "just do something to make your partner happy," knowing it makes you less happy, isn't that being dishonest? I just struggle to understand how you don't see the relationship as one sided if one person is making sacrifices for the other and that value isn't reciprocated. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
The beautiful thing is even if it fails spectacularly to follow instructions you can canonically just chalk it up to GlaDOS being GlaDOS!
In their defense, the article says this:

> Despite these kinds of arguments, in 2020, the Guinness Book of World Records reinstated Mitchell's record scores, saying it was "defer[ing] to the original contemporaneous adjudication" rather than relying on Twin Galaxies' updated findings
>Cruise (the self driving company, not OP) was killed by an overzealous CEO, not by their chosen technique. Waymo drives great in SF.

Cruise is dead regardless of how you spin it. And Waymo will continue to piddle around SF with their $500,000 frankenstein cars until eternity.

Meanwhile Tesla and Comma (both pure vision) are the only operational L3 systems being used every day by regular people to drive millions of miles. The legacy manufacturers will end up licensing one or the other, a la Android/iOS.
This process doesn't just reverse the digits (leaving a palindrome unchanged) - first you sort the digits (which does change a palindrome), then reverse them.
The linked article perfectly explains it though no?
San Francisco seems pretty tricky: narrow streets, heavy pedestrian traffic, fog, hills, street cars, etc
Fuck yeah. Nobody steals resources except us.
Which is literally impossible to answer, because we don't have access to counterfactual statistics.
I don't think Optimus will be nearly capable enough to even replace the least motivated checkout attendant in the next decade at least.

Groceries and such are some of the trickest bits to handle (especially since another human is stowing them on the belt this way and that, in piles or spread out), and a robot what could handle a conveyor at Aldi even 1/100th the speed of an employee would be a mind-boggling result.
My point is not about the precise definition of copyright, it's about how AI systems undermine the rights of creators.