skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can talk a lot about this, since this is the space I've spent a lot in experimenting.

So I'm a researcher in vision generation and haven't read too much about LLM detection but am aware of the error rates you mention. I have questions...

What I'm absolutely surprised by is the use of perplexity for detection. Why would you target perplexity? LMs are minimizing NLL/entropy. Then instruct based models are even more tuning in that direction such that the you're minimizing the cross-entropy as compared to human output (or at least human desired output). Which makes it obvious that it would flag generic or common patterns as AI generated. But I'm just absolutely baffled that this is the main metric being used, and in the case of this paper, the only metric. It also gives a very easy way to fool these detectors since it would suggest just throwing in a random word or spelling mistakes would throw off detection given that such actions clearly increase perplexity. To me this sounds like using a GAN's detector to identify outputs of GANs (the whole training method is about trying to fool the detector!) (Obviously I'm also not buying the zero-shot claim).
> well below the CO2 production level to avoid warming

The warming already happened and will continue to worsen.

We must reduce atmospheric CO2 to below 350ppm to stop, and hopefully reverse, the warming.

We need green fuels to hit net zero. And once the remaining use cases are decarbonized, we'll pump those fuels into the ground for net negative.
Seriously? I have at least ten major projects on my wishlist that all meet those criteria and aren’t getting worked on, because time is finite. The question is not how to find something useful to do, it’s how to agree on what the most useful choice is.
At the very least it's guaranteed to be innovative and compelling to the CCP.
> We tell a country you can no longer use our toys.

Great Firewall would like a word…
When I was learning C many years ago I was warned that some compilers don't support boolean short circuiting and thus you had to be careful with it.
I love how the general tone is "information is free!" unless of course when the one benefitting from it is China, in which case everyone suddenly gets out their magnifying glasses and GPL licenses.

For what it's worth in practical terms, I can't tell you if everyone in China complies with every license, but Huawei is one of the largest contributors to the linux kernel and several open source projects.

https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
I just added another tweet with the caveat others mentioned. (It was not an intentional omission)

It’s still not a nuance that most people trying to identify AI will respect even if they know it. Given that constraint, I really doubt the accuracy metrics as well.
The assignment operator `=` can never appear in a valid Python expression, so `{a=3, b=2}` should be distinguishable from `{a: 3, b: 2}`. (So does JS, where `{[a]: 3, [b]: 2}` would evaluate a and b.)
Is Brazil the only country with rainforests still standing?

Anyway, we should be working on artificially "hardened" cellulose. As well as ivory-like calcium-carbonate. I never heard about anybody working on those, but they clearly are in demand.
GM announced several months ago that their newest infotainment system, developed in partnership with Google, will not support CarPlay. Other manufacturers could start to go in the same direction. If Apple is committed to the in-vehicle interface, their own car ensures that they have a vehicle to display it in.
Hahaha. I've never seen this standards page before. I work in Australia's building industry so I find this page particularly enjoyable.

Thank you for sharing the page and your sharp wit with me.
I think that individual pilots fly one type or the other, even if the airline operates multiple types. Flying is flying to a certain extent but the details, procedures, checklists, and emergency memory items are different particularly between Airbus and Boeing. I doubt there are many/any pilots that are hopping back and forth between 737s and A320s day to day.
The average person has 0 idea Netflix has made any changes at all :/
Others' willingness to co-operate and share is not a valid reason for stealing.
I've been exploring the hybrid of multimodal models like GPT-4 Vision for image analysis, and GPT-4 Turbo for generating written content based on those image descriptions.

Here we're showing a use case for building a tool with Graphlit for apartment managers, and generating an instant inspection report purely from uploaded images.
eBay has raised fees and not invested in the platform.

I used to sell tons of stuff on eBay but with the fees and poor support I’ve had better luck with Facebook marketplace lately.

eBay buyers don’t pay and they used to at least give unpaid time strikes, they don’t care now.
I don't understand what you're balking at. I didn't see anyone imply that the complexity of life going up leads to "us". The complexity of life does trend up. Nothing you mentioned refutes that.
> some pretty obvious and reasonable lines we could draw here

I agree. The problem is we have, on one hand, the police absolutists, and on the other hand, people who want to express their outrage more than do anything real. Neither bothers educating themselves on the legal merits of the other side’s. Both turn the Third Party Doctrine into a totem.

The Third Party Doctrine was created by Congress. Barring SCOTUS overturning half a century of law (again), that means the Congress must remake it. The lack of a popular alternative directly leads to the Doctrine’s persistence. We could draw these lines. But we don’t because we’re too busy expressing conniptions.
Don't be ridiculous. They can easily mitigate the birthrate issue by bringing in lots of immigrants. Billions of people would absolutely love to live in China! /s
It's not clear whether this will be Android API compatible? If it's not, I'm sure it'll be successful given the size of the local market, but it's going to create a real schism for services – will Netflix produce a HarmonyOS app? Maybe that won't be a problem, but it'll probably further cement the separate Chinese ecosystem on the web, and create more work for local companies who will now need to support 3 mobile platforms.

If it is Android compatible, those issues will go away and I could see this taking off externally. Huawei phones are popular in many countries (not the US) as they're cheap and reasonable quality for the price, even if they have had scandal after scandal. Many consumers won't really care about the backstory.

Edit: sounds from other comments like it will not be Android API compatible.
I don't see anything about the dodecahedrons being signed or stamped or branded in any way, so I can't buy them being a resume. Seems like if it were your personal proof of employability, and you cared a lot about it not being stolen, the first thing you'd put some mark on it to indicate it was yours. And then there's the fact that some of them have been found buried in coin hoards, which doesn't make sense (why would you collect a craftsman's portfolio piece and store it with your treasure?).
Certainly, endurance events have been a thing for a while. This new flavor is closer to military bootcamp and extreme shared struggle. Have to be broken down to be built back up. It is a natural outcome of questioning self, seeking community and bonding experiences in the current zeitgeist, and the evaporation of traditional third spaces where men might come together traditionally.
I have no forceful opinion on these things but surely those "brave spaces" sound much better than those "safe spaces".
I ran into this issue with two different vending machines this past weekend with a particular ¥500 coin. I thought it was because the coin was pretty tarnished in one spot - but I just checked and sure enough it is one of the new coins.

Apparently this has been an issue for a while now, and fairly common, but this is the first time that I can recall running into it.
> they used to be so good and there is no real pro-sumer alternative

This is the problem of it all. Unfortunately there really isn't. Hopefully they can get back on track.
You had me at "Breakin'". That owner is the coolest guy in your hometown. LOL
American business and management is highly focused on investors --- not workers.

Workers are expected to produce more --- but without receiving significantly more in return.

Bottom line: Hard work mostly just creates more hard work. So why bother to work hard?
> There is no mechanism that actively explores various pathways for making entropy increase faster.

Dark matter?
America is doing just fine.

The past five years were enough to teach the West to pull out of China and move manufacturing and investment dollars to India, Vietnam, and Mexico.

Mexico is going to be the near-shoring super hub for America, and Texas is going to be an incredible beneficiary of that switch. Many analysts are saying this will push Texas GDP over that of California.

China didn't have enough time to develop a strong domestic consumer base, and now it's seeing a pull back from international buyers as it simultaneously has to contend with massive economic issues at home.

America, meanwhile, has a ten-plus year lead on semiconductors and the burgeoning AI field. It basically got to reap the upside of cheap Chinese manufacturing while it lasted and keep all the best for itself. Now it's actively re-configuring the world's supply chains. You can see America making big changes to worldwide shipping and energy, too. Even OPEC is powerless to control pricing now. And as an added bonus, America feels re-invigorated by competition and is pushing itself to work harder.

I wouldn't shed a single tear for America. It got exactly what it wanted and is moving on from the relationship.
Actually, if the problem is concentrating the carbon, the current artificial methods are much more efficient than plants. Just like the current artificial methods for collecting solar energy are much more efficient than plants.

The one thing people are missing is a low waste method for converting the concentrated CO2 and energy into something useful.
What about the opposite? Any content, once published/distributed/broadcast in the US, that is not made readily available to the public going forward loses copyright protection. This includes revisions.

* A film, TV show, sound recording, book, or any other copyrighted content must, once made available for public purchase, always remain available. If the only streaming service willing to pay to stream your movie has the smallest market share, too bad; the market has spoken on the value of your content. An ebook can fulfill this purpose for a print book; streaming can fulfill this purpose for a theatrical or physical-media film. But it must be available to maintain copyright.

* As michael1999 suggested, compulsory licensing should apply; if Netflix wants to pay the same amount of money as the above-mentioned small market-share streaming service for the film, Netflix must be allowed to do so. The film's rights owner can demand more, raising the price for all, but if every outlet refuses, the film immediately goes into public domain. This process is reversible, but it would set a ceiling to prevent the owner from setting a ridiculously high price to prevent its availability.

* If a Blu-ray of a film or TV show has excised or modified scenes for whatever reason, and the original isn't also made available (whether on a different "theatrical cut" release, or as a different cut on the same disc), the entire original version immediately goes into public domain.

* If NBC posts Saturday Night Live skits on YouTube that have removed "problematic" scenes[1] without explaining the differences—a diff file, basically—the entire original skit loses copyright protection.

Separate issue, but also very worthwhile:

* Streaming services must make all data regarding their content available in some standardized format. Consumers should be able to use one application to access all content they have access to. The creator of SmartTube (a very nice YouTube-compatible player) should be able to add the appropriate API support to search for and play Netflix/Prime Video/Disney+/Paramount+ content.

EDIT: The above applies to software, too. Legalize abandonware!

[1] Something I understand already happens
My local credit union is getting rid of them. I was kicked out last year, and they told me the branches that still have them probably won't for long.
Probably the same type of surveys that I did for Nexon as a teenager in exchange for Nexon bucks.
The better analogy would be the Lisa. It’s reasonably powerful but more expensive than they want it to be. The next version will probably lose some features but be less expensive. The Macintosh to the AVP’s Lisa.
Looking at how churches collect tithes, I wonder if He already has
> You can't "centrally plan" your way out of young people not wanting to reproduce.

Sure you can. China has plenty of experience in adjusting the birthrate via hefty government intervention.
> Huawei phones are popular in many countries (not the US) as they're cheap and reasonable quality for the price, even if they have had scandal after scandal. Many consumers won't really care about the backstory.

Sounds like they’re cheap in price but high in cost.
> The iPad was initially just a bigger iPod. It wasn't that much of a leap.

wrong ancestry. iPad from Newton.
What Can We Hear in Space?
You are incorrect. There are two categories of intelligence agencies in the US as a matter of law, with significantly different legal authority and structure.

Intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI, et al are non-military. NSA is explicitly a military agency and operates under military authority. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the Director of military agencies is always an active military flag officer. It isn't just a superficial distinction, they operate quite differently.
If I'm reading this correctly, it's not making any particular claim with respect to text labeled human generated. What it's saying is that if it claims the text is machine generated, it's highly likely that it actually is.
When I was working on a pet project to teach myself how to build a scoring model based on analysis of images on mobile I went down a whole rabbit hole on how to detect where the image is in a photo to draw a box around it and then compress to 500x500.

In reality, if I'm using a phone,I can just create a square frame for the user to center the image in and then compress.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the one you don't get to till after you slog through the harder approach. I'm glad I learned a bit about image processing with Pytorch along the way.
Was at Convex and then HP (and then Convey) and worked quite hard porting/optimizing numerical/scientific apps for the I2. Eventually, I think performance for some apps was ok, I mean considering a 900 Mhz clock and all.
> run games at 720p - Skyrim, Dishonered, the Mass Effects

720p and games that are 12+ years old or are deliberately low poly. That's not the most ringing of endorsements.
Your hypothetical isn't actually happening.

Power generation dedicated to green fuel production is already being built in places that aren't readily connected to grids.

Further, we already curtail, for lack of demand and storage. More so over time. Better to use that excess power. Like for making green fuels.
This was just the push I needed to delete my account. Now to find alternative paths to support the folks I like.
HarmonyOS will not support Android apps accordingly to the latest news. So, know you have to "only" build thousands of apps to be on par with iOS and Android. I'm pretty sure there will be at least major China apps like TikTok and WeChat. Will there be Google Maps? Messenger? Probably not in the nearest time. Might end up in the same place as BadaOS, webOS, Windows Phone OS and others.
Paramount, Starz, any of them do the same thing.
> I have Chinese family members that grew up under literally starvation conditions, only to grow up to find themselves multimillionaires.

The CCP was literally why they were starving in the first place
Can you point me to some at home tests?
Minus all the complicated implementation details, this is possible.

It's called a credit freeze: https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze
Not legitimate at all, since the Houthis were doing this before the Gaza war, and they themselves are laying siege to Ta'izz.
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Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 Lost Nose Wheel Before Takeoff, FAA Says
They said "languages" for a reason. There are quite a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant#Languages_with...
> I love chatGPT because it obviates stuffy academic writing. Who needs it. Be clear and direct, that’s valuable!

The goal of a paper, I thought, is thinking and not writing. Without outside help (including the AI), clear and direct thinking is what leads to clear and direct writing. What is being achieved here?
Why Distributed Systems Fail?
weird, i'm blocked by @garrytan. Wonder what i did to tick him off.. i've never interacted with him.
> What part of their comment was "pseudoscience"?

Is hypernatremia a cause of Meniere’s?
An article with nothing but anonymous sources that links to at least two other articles with nothing but anonymous sources.

This used to be called gossip and would have merited a single sentence but not in the news section.
This whole thread is classic overthinking. Advertising isn’t a binary good/bad morality thing. It is in many ways subjective. There have been times an ad helped me learn about something that solved a problem or need I have. There have been times where an ad was pushing something that I personally (subjectively) consider to be useless junk.

It depends. Ads aren’t inherently good or evil. Step back from dogma for a second.
> I don't know why South Korea ended up with coin sizes that are almost exactly the same as heavily-used coins in two of their closest economic partners

Easy to find coin mechanisms, and it increases the value of their currency, since the coins are useful outside the economy. ;)
I only found out about narrowboats recently from [1] (found at [2]), and they sound so nice!

I've wanted a tiny house or a skoolie, and I think if I was in Britain, I'd go for a narrowboat just as easily.

[1]: https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2024/01/09/battlestation-2024/

[2]: https://lobste.rs/s/jrh1od/lobsters_battlestations_screensho...
> > IMHO, handling it well would mean recalling and replacing the defective mainboards (so long as they’re in warranty).

> No other laptop manufacturer would have done that.
> That's why they are seen as good in the community's eyes.

Yep.

We're not aiming for _perfect_ here. Framework just has to be better than the abysmally low bar set by (almost) every other laptop maker.
Trained Professional > hacker news commenter
I think DrMiaow is referring to how the APIs and SDK could become more “open” over time in the sense that more functionality is exposed to developers.

One example is that right now Apple makes a distinction between Immersive (AR, digital objects superimposed in the real world) and Fully Immersive (VR, fully digital, real world is no longer visible).

In Fully Immersive mode, a developer gets full control over the entire screen and can draw using a custom rendering engine on top of Metal.

But in Immersive mode, RealityKit handles all rendering, and you’re restricted to whichever rendering features RealityKit exposes. There is some support for custom shaders, but it’s quite limited.

Unity solves this issue using PolySpatial, which translates Unity’s scene representation to RealityKit.

In that sense I can imagine (or hope) that Apple opens up the platform more. Similar to how it added the AppStore to the iPhone after one generation.

But it will, unless some drastic internal push and change in direction happens, remain iPadOS-like.
19.6’,limited by a bridge outside Chicago. Several routes require a maximum 15’ height and others are 17’. https://www.greatloop.org/great-loop-information/great-loop-...

I’ve been utterly fascinated by this since I learned about it a few months ago. It seems like a very approachable but still serious adventure and achievement once done.
You're talking about discouraging people from having children, which is (relatively) easy. There's yet to be a government that's figured out how to make any parent want to waste 18 years of their life raising a child that they don't otherwise want. You can't punish someone into raising a kid. You can fairly easily make the punishment great enough to discourage them.
I'm thinking that it's a fundamental legal right to not have to read anything written by an LLM. In other words, machine-generated text shouldn't be legally binding in any way...mostly because there's infinite amounts of it.

And it should be illegal to return machine-generate text in response to a discovery request.

Request: "Disclose all documents written between apr 1 and apr 12 regarding topics x,y,z."

Response: "There are 12 billion documents matching those parameters. Here they are."
I hate everything about our anarcho-tyranical state.
Although, funnily enough, we don't use kernel to mean 'core' in the idiom 'kernel of truth.'
Not for long, likely.
Yes samurai vs normal sudoku, different ranges of difficulty, different sets of puzzles, and a purpose built printables site.
It’s always baffled me how the regard that the average Englishman holds for itinerant folk is wrapped in a big if statement:

if (boat)
… # All good
else:
raise TravellerAlert()
> It's an interesting case-study on how society reacts to outliers

And sadly, as you experienced, that reaction is often negative.

I've done quite a few things in my life that are "not normal", and the negative responses are utterly incredible. It would appear the more miserable a person is in their life, the more they want to lash out at someone doing something different to try and get away from that miserable. Almost like they want you to stay trapped in the miserable because they themselves feel trapped, and they feel cheated knowing someone else has (or is trying to) escape.

I find this shockingly true in Australia (where I'm from, but have not lived for almost 20 years). The national pastime is winging (complaining), but if you change your life to do something else, people will very quickly put you down and tell you to get right back into line. I always have a strong feeling that society says it's unacceptable for adults to just "play" or "have fun" for the sake of having fun. Everyone expects you to grow up and get a miserable job and be miserable like everyone else, and if you do anything that looks even remotely fun you'll be cut down like a tall poppy
That’s called lying. But it’s not theft.
The internet connection is not so stable on the yacht
The Farmer is Turkey's best friend. Turkey believes so because every day Farmer gives Turkey food, lots of food. Farmer also keeps the Turkey warm and safe from predators. Turkey predicts that the Farmer will keep on being his best friend also tomorrow. Until one day, around Thanksgiving, the prediction goes wrong, awfully wrong.
Ask HN: Does (or why does) anyone use MapReduce anymore?
Excluding the Hadoop ecosystem, I see some references to MapReduce in other database and analysis tools (e.g., MatLab). My perception was that Spark completely superseded MapReduce. Are there just different implementations of MapReduce and the one that Hadoop implemented was replaced by Spark?
The original commenter was explicit that they liked the theory, not that they were willing to make things up to support it. Those are two completely different things.