skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an article about this sometime last year.

Basically AI is the exact opposite of compression.

We take what should be a few bullet points, turn it into some overly wordy bullshit with AI, then the recipient uses AI to turn that wordy bullshit back into a few bullet points.

And it costs a ton of compute to do this.

Kind of insane. I hope society evolves to work smarter.
My model is overfitted to senior devs with domain knowledge.

I was going to hire a junior dev or two until I started talking with copilot all day. Greased lightening.

The hiring process alone would cost us more than their first year salary. Going to avoid it as much as I can.
100% - it's shortened our attention spans and ability to focus on a single thing.
More dimensions?
Exactly. Faith had been for a very long time an empty, mechanical ritual for most people. The difference now is that people don't have to pretend anymore.
Contrary to what most people on this site would say, for many, many years society has overproduced and overcompensated software developers for what they actually do. No other profession, besides maybe Law or Accounting gets higher compensation for making their work less efficient. We have frame works stacked on top of frame works when in many cases we could accomplish the same function, maybe faster 10-20 years ago, with fewer compute resources. As the field matures and becomes more efficient, which is bound to happen some day, I expect relatively static industry standards to overtake the continuous churn of abstractions with dubious value added.

Additionally I would say you can't build an economy on advertising alone. I over the past 20 years too much time and money has been invested in advertising which doesn't really make anything. I suspect many businesses purchasing online advertising are basically getting ripped off. A decade ago when search worked effectively you could find the product or service you wanted with a simple Google search. Now you get served a bunch of semi relevant or irrelevant ads cloaked as search results. So there is a big disruption opportunity for someone who can re-invent search to connect people to what they actually want. I can imagine a search or directory device that connects people and businesses to manufacturers, marketers and service providers...both sides could pay for use directly connecting the revenues of the directory operator to its performance. Even today I know in the manufacturing and engineering space I would rather look at McMaster-Carr or Grainger catalogue than Google Spam or look at the website of a still going business I know from 15-20 years ago that doesn't even show up in search results today.
Additional citation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/new-york-...
looks will be something new
Well, I broke it. I have crafted 93 different Lethal Weapon movies - sequels well into the million+ range.
But with these tools you can do much more of those things. Instead of damage control, it might move it to a whole new level.
If they can get Horse Creek out the door, I'm interested, if not, I'm not.
AIdeal: Sentience and Ideology
I bought a Quest3 a month ago, my first VR. I got the prescription lenses. Spending so much I told myself I wouldn't be the guy who tried it and then just let it rest, I'll get my money's worth. For the first two weeks I used it daily exploring all the things. I 3D printed a nice wall mount for right next to my work spot.

And for the last two weeks it has been hanging there untouched. I think it's my tummy's fault. I had mild but definite nausea that improved but didn't go away. The prospect of even a little more of that is enough for my subconscious to overrule my intention to use it.

The review says that the Q3 gives 80% of the capability of the Apple. But it would be worth a lot to me if that final 20% is enough to convince my tummy.
I'm associated with a non-profit that does robotics. We are trying to find space to grow the program. A local mall that has lots of dead storefronts is close by. We tried to talk to them about a lower lease rate and they were not interested in talking.

I asked isn't it better to get some money coming in and they said that they were able to write the space of against taxable income in the rest of the space. REIT's are weird.
I looked for it, planned for it, AND it fell in my lap. Chance of a lifetime.
I had problems with YouTube sporadically returning 404 and 500 errors for valid channel feeds yesterday. Today everything has been 100%.
"poltician + devil = democrat"
Huh, what was the training data for this model?
ngl this guy makes some greattttt websites! Always fun and informative! Thank you “Neal”
Agree. Everyone should be requesting to have their information deleted from their platform.
I cannot let this opportunity go by without quoting On Exactitude in Science by Borges in its entirety

". . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
Yeah but a socket connection to an IRC server and port will probably trigger a network monitoring firewall that a computer in the network has been compromised... A connection to arstechnica.com, the IT admin might even think "Cool, I didn't know that Bob from accounting is into tech..."
Anyone working on a libc in Rust?
> We ended up conducting 37 interviews overall, 32 of which we were able to use (we had to remove 5 because participants didn’t follow directions)

Removing interviewees because they don't follow directions seems like a good strategy. And I mean removing them as job candidates, not removing them from the study.

It's good to have something in the interview process used explicitly for weeding out people who don't follow directions. Something like "Email us your application, and put the word 'eggplant' somewhere in the subject line. We use it to filter out spam." And then literally delete any subjects that don't have "eggplant" in them.
IMO the case for something like IPFS gets worse and worse the larger proportion of clients are on battery. This makes it a really poor choice for the modern, public Web, where a whole lot of traffic comes from mobile devices.

Serving things that are mostly or nigh-exclusively used by machines connected to the power grid (and, ideally, great and consistent Internet connections) is a much better use case.
Macaroons are a cookie[1], Macarons are a French dessert[2].

I have a pet peeve about this mix-up in particular, and they seem to have mixed them up, calling the French thing macaroons.

1: https://www.savoryexperiments.com/almond-coconut-macaroons/

2: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/french-macarons/
> the cost cannot be more than $8,800 to build

Coincidentally that's just about the total value of the 2 year contract plus fees.

($299.95 + $19.95) * 24 + 500 + 500 = 8677.6

That's an expensive two years of internet service.
Real "dog ate my homework" moment. Morally, it's more tasteful than outright denials at least.
I'm not sure quite how relevant it is to Neiman's work, but this is a pretty interesting blog post on decentralized web apps, and the tradeoffs with using various versions of IPFS in the browser: https://blog.ipfs.tech/dapps-ipfs/
This feels like arguing against a straw man. I don't think anyone generally says that a brain can't change once you're an adult. If that were the case you wouldn't be able to learn anything at all. Clearly we all can learn as adults so there is neuroplasticity as adults.

The general argument that I hear which is true (from all I've seen and read) is that neuroplasticity is greatly reduced in adults as compared to children. There is a period in early childhood where brains are incredibly flexible and adaptable, and as they age they continuously lose that ability until the majority of it has been lost by adulthood.

It doesn't mean there is zero in adulthood, just that it is very small compared to childhood.

I think you're arguing against something nobody really says.
I have zero problem with people using AI to write or create. I think that's great.

But I don't like it when people start a sentence "Well, I asked ChatGPT what it thought, and . . ." If I wanted to know that, I'd ask ChatGPT. Just give me your human views (and if they are partially informed by ChatGPT, that's fine).
Honestly, I believe Spotify would offer me more accurate recommendations if they relied solely on AI, without human input. Their current DJ features, although supposedly based on my previous listening habits, often suggest popular songs I don't listen to, tracks supposedly reminiscent of my school days that I've never heard before, and genres that I'm not interested in.
> If you don’t want to have what an AI generates then don’t use it.

The author is writing about sort of AI outputs that other people and organizations are passing to him: chatbots, generated emails, phony presence at a meeting, and so on. Those use cases are a bit more like relatives who send their DNA to untrustworthy companies for analysis: you personally saying no for your own use doesn't actually mitigate or even affect the negative externalities imposed upon you by widespread general use.

I do agree that, for many use cases, personally opting out of junk generative AI is sufficient. But I'm not looking forward to the world flooded by low quality AI outputs that become impossible to avoid sifting through in all areas of life.
Needs a dark mode.
I think it’s more about the author criticizing AI content being of low quality. IRL there are many cases I don’t see them distinguishable between human generated or AI generated.
Ground-Launched Asraam Achieving 90% Hit Rate in Ukraine
I think society in The Far Side is built more out of, like, Looney Tunes cartoons and B movies from the 50s. Everybody is a stereotype: scientists in lab coats and glasses, "tough guys" in white t-shirts and pompadours, ladies with beehive hairdos. His cities, his houses, his restaurants, they all default to "stereotypically about 1955". It's easy to draw and it's easy to parse as a reader.
I also got Dandelion + Engine = Helicopter, along these same lines.
I have that comic (text included) on a t shirt. Sometimes people ask me about it, and I will explain it in an excruciating amount of detail for my entertainment. Sometimes they will try to out-do me and respond by pretending to be confused by my explanation, but my tolerance for playing the fool is incredibly high so I can keep it up for quite some time and they inevitably give up first.
The open vocabulary aspect seems important. Word2vec would never let me make "Pirate Pope Wars".
The low-level transport is one of the final components we're working on prior to launch - we previously hoped to use something off-the-shelf but on close examination nothing fit our requirements.

We handle congestion by specifying a global maximum upload rate for the peer, which will be a fraction of the peer's total available bandwidth - the goal being to avoid congestion. In the future we'll likely use an isotonic regression to determine the relationship between upstream bandwidth usage and packet loss, so that we can adaptively choose an appropriate maximum rate.

This is a more detailed explanation of the transport protocol, it's quite a bit simpler than ECN but we'll refine it over time: [1]

At a higher level a peer's resource usage will be proportional to the number of connected peers, and so the peer will adaptively add or remove connections to stay under resource usage limits (which includes bandwidth).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core/blob/186770521_port_...
Yep, at first i tried to make geometric arrangements out of multiple items too.

Water surrounded by 5 fire in a circle - ish - did absolutely nothing.

Only by checking the HN comments i figured out you have to combine items.
“Yes… I believe there’s a question there in the back”

https://www.cardcow.com/images/set856/card00130_fr.jpg
Previous to this job I chanced into another opportunity where myself and two other devs were tasked with building a whole new company/product. The third dev completely ruined it. He was a complete asshole and couldn't help but rake our other colleague over the coals on a daily basis. Life is too short to deal with Adderall burn outs.
That is not correct.

IP addresses are intangible property and, at this scale, their cost would probably be amortized over a period of e.g. 20 years.

For accounting (and tax purposes), it's not one big up-front cost where everything that follows is pure profit.

Just because costs happen before income, it doesn't follow that all the income is profit. You have to look at things over the expected useful time frame of property.
I've also got a few where it just mashes adjectives together; so far I've found Time Poseidon, Rainbow Steam Robocloud and Broken Unicorn, among other similar ones.
This is just gonna be a list of first discoveries.
Ice Piranhaconda, Jackie Chan in Pirate Of The Caribbean 4, Jackie Chan vs. Piranhaconda, Chest Piranhaconda, Pirates Of The Caribbean 4, Jackie Chan vs. Sharknado, Jackie Chan vs. Sharknado 2, Jackie Chan vs. Sharknado 3, Jackie Chan vs. Sharknado 4, Fire Alexa, Ghostbusters 14,15,29,30,60,120,240, (I'm stopping Ghostbusters now), Fire Ahab, Ghostbuster Pan, Stinky Gold, Ghost Whale, Fido, Ghost Narwhal, Superdogman, Superdogman and the Super Justice League, Stinkfly,Super Apple Pie Man,Superstump, Iphone Peice, Captain Piece, and Captain America Piece
I'm sure a BitTorrent gateway can exist, but I'm wondering why it doesn't seem to "be a thing." I've never seen one used, nor do I see an obvious public one when searching. Whereas IPFS gateways are so mainstream that even Cloudflare runs a public one.
I see what you are saying in isolation, but in the midst of the hearing, it read and sounded like an apology. The context is pretty damning.
The point is that most people just aren't that engaged with politics, period. Most people who aren't voting aren't complaining about who is getting voted in.
I really shouldn't be the one to doubt, considering the size we've seen computers go from and to. But is it even possible to fit all that in that size? Like as I understand optics limits a lot about how far the screen has to be, even with the use of lenses. And it wouldn't be fully passthrough if they use the Google glass like approach as I understand?
Isn't the reason for lack of associativity/commutivity is that you're doing operations (addition/subtraction) that have them, and then snapping the result to the closest one of fixed number of points in your output dictionary? The addition is fine, loss of information is in the final conversion.
Nickelodean was incredibly prescient 30 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTYTtafjNo
Care to post an invite code? I see your stuff via nitter, no DMs
What would the right answer be?
Couldn't build up to doesn't mean they didn't exist... it took me a while to make a "Sandwich". But after spending enough (too much) time with it, I was able to construct some things that show it's not disappointingly finite:

* "Bollygraff"

* "Teen Mom 12"

* "Hackimus Prime"

* "Billionaire King + Sushi Burger Venus" (sic)

One potentially frustrating part is that some things turn out to be black holes... for example, combine "Trump" with anything and it tends to return "Trump". There are also plenty of loops, and some that refuse to combine at all.
While Apple couldnt have used PS/2 mini-DIN connector, they could have adopted electrical signaling and protocol as it was reused from 1984 AT keyboards.
One domain I have had for over 20 years was originally purchased with GoDaddy. I then transferred to Google Domains when that opened up for supposedly better integration with Google Workspace. Now Google Domains is closing up and transferring to Squarespace but I just received an email that they do not support Dynamic DNS (DDNS) so now I'm looking to transfer my domain again.

I was thinking about going back to GoDaddy because their customer service was nice in helping me resolve a DNS entry issue. Namecheap appears to have good reviews here but I was also looking into https://porkbun.com but they do not appear to have DDNS.
The winners will be the entities that control the best models. It's not a matter of mindset.
Agreed. If the resource usage can be optimized further, it'll be feasible to train specialist models both on-prem and from scratch. That would sidestep the liability and privacy issues of current cloud-based offerings.

Google's search appliances did the same thing before they were retired. Hospitals were especially keen on them. They eliminated HIPAA risks because data never left the hospital intranet, but then Google eliminated the product line in favor of cloud offerings.
What if you ignore LLMs specifically? I think that's the point that the GP was making. Do you believe it's mathematically impossible for any artificial machine to "reason"? Or just LLMs?
Yeah this is what I use as well. The arbitary quantization is just great, as is everything else.

Its not easy to install though, and big dGPU only.
I've found "Muddy", "Zombie", and "Frat Party" to work as universal affixes too. e.g. I'm up to "Muddy Werejesus + Muddy Zombie Jesus Frat Party" (the single phrase includes the plus sign). At this point the UI refuses to mix additional ingredients.
The exact price doesn't matter. The point is, it's wrong to conflate profits with income. You need to subtract costs before you can declare that Amazon "makes" a particular amount of money.

You are of course correct that this gives them revenue, my point is that the article is falsely framing this entirely as profit.
Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands
No - it’s just the more you play, the more likely you are to run into novel, uncached combinations that require invoking the LLM
I routinely get downvoted on various platforms including here when I attempt to remind people of this simple and obvious fact.

EV's do not have to be spaceships.

But carmakers have a lot of difficulty envisioning a future where their BOM costs go down. They want to sell the customer a vehicle at the very limit of their purchasing ability. In fact, with the EV credit the strategy is even worse: they can now sell a customer a car that is $7500 more expensive than the customer could originally borrow/afford. Its fucked up in the extreme.

Here we are in the US quibbling over the minutiae of a $7500 tax credit; meanwhile China is getting busy building $7500 A-segment EVs. Guess how that is gonna work out
Strengths, Weaknesses, and Dangers of LLMs (For Builders)
For a long time, the hardest part about building software was the interfacing between natural language and syntactic systems. Now, ironically, that might be one of the simplest parts. This 5 minute read explains what LLMs are good (and bad) at, and why.
Doodle God works exactly this. Very satisfying, fully polished.
But it's AI.
So in other words, this is harmless unless the target was previously infected with the malware `explore.ps1`. This URL just acts as a trigger to activate the malware? Do I have that somewhat right?
Like most nifty LLM apps it's cool but fun for maybe 45 seconds.

Open source LLM's exist at the Family Feud brain stage (instinctive first pass human verbal intuition) so its depth is limited by that.
Missed this, thanks.

Everything is moving so fast!
As I understand it, the CIA operates on foreign threats. The FBI would be responsible for US citizens suspected of espionage. They do need a warrant, but they're part of the Justice department, not defense.
Human scientific curiosity isn't good for the test animals.
Yes. Though that pizza looks pretty gross.
It is only strange because you have assigned the label. But reality could be different. Just wrong pattern matching.
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Probably Won't Make a Bioweapon
There's definitely a primal fear when you're 15-20m up on a rock where you feel like you have nothing to grip onto (or you're losing your strength) and you're going to fall -- even if you rationally know you'll be 100% fine, there's something you have to battle where it just "feels wrong" and you feel some kind of fundamental risk. The feeling tends to vary though, but it's quite common.

Also, yeah, it's definitely not for everyone. I only tried it out at 39 and am finding it super fun and satisfying/rewarding, so I'm all-in, but a lot of people "nope out" due to total disinterest after trying it!
The upside of the Vision Pro for those who suffer from motion sickness is that Apple is focusing on experiences which keep the virtual viewpoint strictly attached to your physical head, unlike VR games where there usually has to be some kind of artificial locomotion to get around real life space constraints, or to move the player based on virtual outside forces (e.g. a vehicle they're piloting). The downside is that games are the main thing people have found VR to actually be good for, so Apple is kind of starting from scratch by rejecting that segment.
> GoogleNews has served me several trojans, because I'm inherently clicking on unknown links.

[Citation Needed]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I find this extremely difficult to believe. No news outlet linked to from Google News is going to send you a "trojan", or any other kind of malware.

You may have misunderstood how the malware described in the article works - simply visiting Ars would not infect you, or anyone.
As an experiment I gave ChatGPT my resume and background information and then pretended to interview it, just to see how well it would be able to conduct a mock interview. It did exceptionally well.

I'm not sure what specific questions you have in mind, but ChatGPT is almost certainly trained on a vast array of resumes and a diverse range of profiles, possibly even all of LinkedIn itself as well as other job boards. There is little to no reason why it wouldn't be able to make up an entire persona who is capable of passing most job interviews.
Dinosaur + Batman and Robin = Batman and Robinosaur
The game you mentioned was productized as "Medium: A Mind Reading Party Game." It is fun.
call it what you want
It's been a while since I've run with that configuration, but setting the variable server-use-tcp to non-nil enables it. On startup, the server creates a file with the connection details that emacsclient can consume. I think it just works if the filesystem is shared between client and server machines but command line options allows the use of a copy on the client.
> To me the first step would be to publicly recognize/accept digital consumption as an addiction

Literally anything can be an addiction. You can get addicted to getting slapped in the nuts if you’re motivated enough.

The ease with which one can become addicted to digital consumption is the problem, not the digital media itself.
CitraVR is a much bigger deal than 3DS emulation on your Meta Quest 3
A bit off topic, but do Apple Airpod Pro provide benefits to those with mild hearing loss?

I find Transparency mode with Conversation Awareness helps me hear words more clearly among groups of people, even though my hearing is fine.
About 30 years ago I interviewed to be a summer intern at Microsoft, and one of the interviewers asked a question very similar to this but regarding Excel. This is the kind of topic that never gets old for understanding a person’s curiosity and ability to dissect the potential issues.