skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(You inspired me to riff on this and extrapolate, so here goes...)

Great story and I can relate. In the late '20s I worked as an ML intern at a tech company. They assigned me to train the crotchety programmers on prompt engineering, but they wanted nothing to do with it. To paint a picture, these folks were hunching over IDEs using keyboards and mice to type in their code, while cursing at the compiler the whole time. An internal chat/discussion/meme forum would be open on a browser tab on their second monitor. Needless to say, my summer project was not a success! :-)

(Let's revisit this comment of mine in a decade or two, if HN still exists)
I guess this current method is not applicable to have the model explain why a given move was played as it is not planning more than one more ahead. Very cool, nonetheless.
Co-founder of Parea here, thanks for the mention!

We offer testing/evaluation in development ([1], [2]), and production ([3]). You can use pre-built evals ([4]) or create your own ([5]). Do logging ([6]) and go from trace to playground ([7]). For TypeScript & Python.

[1]: https://docs.parea.ai/evaluation/offline/experiments

[2]: https://docs.parea.ai/platform/test_hub/benchmarking

[3]: https://docs.parea.ai/evaluation/evals-in-trace

[4]: https://docs.parea.ai/evaluation/list_of_autoeval_functions

[5]: https://docs.parea.ai/evaluation/evaluation-functions/create

[6]: https://docs.parea.ai/observability/logging_and_tracing

[7]: https://docs.parea.ai/observability/open_trace_in_playground
It could possibly be that I was maybe perhaps joking?

Lets try again...

The guardian writes that ms analysts (plural) cite reports (plural)

> Microsoft analysts cite reports saying disruption by group known as Cotton Sandstorm also reached audiences in UK and Canada

Is this such report?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-i...

> Iran’s cyber-enabled influence operations also continued to grow in sophistication in this latest phase. They better disguised their sockpuppets by renaming some and changing their profile photos to appear more authentically Israeli. Meanwhile they made use of new techniques we’ve not seen from Iranian actors, including using AI as a key component to its messaging. We assess Cotton Sandstorm disrupted streaming television services in the UAE and elsewhere in December under the guise of a persona called “For Humanity.” For Humanity published videos on Telegram showing the group hacking into three online streaming services and disrupting several news channels with a fake news broadcast featuring an apparently AI generated anchor that claimed to show images of Palestinians injured and killed from Israeli military operations (Figure 7 (same as in the guardian article)). News outlets and viewers in the UAE, Canada, and the UK reported disruptions in streaming television programming, including BBC, that matched For Humanity’s claims.

> Iran’s operations worked toward four broad objectives: destabilization, retaliation, intimidation, and undermining international support for Israel. All four of these objectives also seek to undermine Israel and its supporters’ information environments to create general confusion and lack of trust.

Undermine international well deserved support for [to quote the US judge] plausible genocide? I'm kinda offended by the idea it was not my own choice to not support it. Not to worry, my government fully supports all aspects of the PG including the rejection of the convention on the Rights of the Child.

Besides lots of good reporting there is also hilarious nonsense:

> In April and November, Iran demonstrated repeated success in recruiting unwitting Israelis to engage in on-the-ground activities promoting its false operations. In one recent operation, “Tears of War,” Iranian operatives reportedly succeeded in convincing Israelis to hang branded Tears of War banners in Israeli neighborhoods featuring a seemingly Al-generated image of Netanyahu and calling for his removal from office

You know that feeling? You see your feet and hands move and you put up banners calling for some false operations you unwittingly don't support? Hate it when that happens. We should be happy they didn't have to consciously experience it.

Pretty clever how those researchers identified this among hundreds of thousands protesting against bibi.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1189627225/israel-protests-ne...
"Jim Albrecht was senior director of news ecosystem products at Google from 2017 to 2023.

The news publishing industry has always reviled new technology, whether it was radio or television, the internet or, now, generative artificial intelligence. After all, newspapers long had a monopoly on the distribution of information, and each innovation pared back the exclusiveness of that franchise."

Considering those newspapers were the ones producing the information it makes sense that they would control the distribution of it.

Personally, I would rather get the information from its source that from a middleman. Especially when the middleman is OK with the sources going out of business. How can I trust the middleman?

Google does not produce any information.^1 It has billions of dollars that it could spend to do so, but instead it collects rents.

I would like to interpret information for myself. I do not want a middleman providing me with "answers" that translate into higher profits for the middleman. There is a conflict of interest.

1. Generative "AI" will solve this problem perhaps. But it still relies on someone else to have produced the information that is the source for the model.
>> It would defeat the purpose of putting a home in an llc for anonymity.

> That's a legitimate desire, and I think we should make privacy and the motives behind it available to everyone, not only those who can afford the expense and effort to set up and maintain an LLC.

I'm on the fence about that. Why should someone not be able to determine who owns a particular piece of property?
It's not a bad name, but personally when I first heard the name Bard I chuckled because LLMs had already come under so much criticism for their tendency to embellish the truth or say stuff that is just straight up false but sounds cool.
They are essentially union busters.
I have my phone set to Dot Not Disturb except for explicit contacts
Managing the account lifecycle in account-per-tenant SaaS environments on AWS
I guess I don't understand how a bunch of dead people resulting from the insurrection can be classified as anything other than dead. In what way do they not count? Does it excuse anything or make it ok if we parsed 'deadly' so narrowly as to not include the suicides and strokes?

Fundamentally you & yours don't want to say 'deadly' because it sounds bad. Guess what, it is! You own that.
Technology reducing distance kinda changes the game though.
Not surprisingly, KDE already has a backup program named kbackup: https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/kbackup/
This is such an incredibly put of touch take. Nobody cares about saving the world 100 years from now when its a decision between having the money to make rent or not this month. We on HN are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the normal experience. Its fine to make your proclamations about what a far-seeing moral superman you are, but that choice costs you nothing on the scale of what it would cost someone making the median income.
I was waiting by the door for an Amazon package recently that was out for delivery and I got a phone call from an unknown number. I answered it and the guy said "Hi, I'm calling from Amazon delivery." and they almost had me. He then said some bullshit about needing me to log into some random URL and a laughed and hung up on him.

The timing was essential, though.
I find it quite rare for systems to reject the + these days. One notable exception is my credit union, whose Web 1.0 system turned it into a space. The most annoying thing about this practice is if you're telling it to a human, they are very confused about your email address having their company's name in it. I occasionally get "do you work here or something?" Every once in a while I'm talking to someone (example: elementary school secretary) who gives me a vibe that they're going to be really thrown off by this and I just make up a three letter unique code for a suffix since I can still search for whoever sent me that first to see what the suffix means.

On the stripping of the + and suffix, yeah, bad actors who recognize your scheme can do that, but spamming is about quantity, not quality, so they just aren't going to put in the effort.
> Chrome is actually good

I'd like to take issue with this statement...its spyware, and its atrocious to modify. You can't slim down a chrome browser, and it can force you to do whatever it wants to...

It's actually really, really bad...
I think researchgate tried to do that, but I don't know how successful they've been.
llama.cpp already has OpenAI compatible API.

It takes literally one line to install it (git clone and then make).

It takes one line to run the server as mentioned on their examples/server README.

./server -m <model> <any additional arguments like mmlock>
> App Store rightly does not ban apps on stretches of imagination.

Apple has removed the app: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/a-fake-app-masquerading-as...
If I put myself in the position of an employee, yeah, that the deal didn't went through does sucks, but at the same time, am I supposed to feel sorry for Adobe and their world domination goals being thwarted by regulatory agencies? it seems to me that if big tech had their way, they would follow the old MS path of buy and kill and just be the sole providers of whatever product they are selling.

Monopoly is good for business but it sucks for customers!
Not using an abstraction at all and avoiding the technical debt it causes.
This is not a criticism on standardized testing per se. But the methodology could use a serious upgrade in the 21st century.
Can someone detail the differences between this and runas plz?
One way might be to list a number that you monitor as their "emergency contact" but list a virtual or other no-pick-up-policy number for all other forms.

The only issue is that a friend once listed me as their emergency contact for a gym membership, but then the gym made telemarketing calls to me with it. There should be federal law protecting emergency contact numbers from being shared or used for any reason except an emergency.

Alternative method might be to set up a Twilio workflow that says "Press 1 to reach me" and only forward to your actual phone after that. That will probably eliminate all the robocallers but not the human telemarketers
That's a local phone number in the US. It's 10 digits nationally. More internationally.
Hopefully this person doesn't have the "wrong" ideological opinions [1]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/brendan-eich-steps-down-...
Wow this rates right up there with thieves in the ex-USSR ripping up copper cabling along railroad tracks and elsewhere.

File under "weird crimes of theft in sclerotic economies".
> The whole simulation hypothesis seems like a new way to introduce theological concepts with modern tech. Cannot be disproved, cannot be verified.

We, as humans always had the curiosity of where we do come from, what “force” moves the world and where we go , as some new concepts emerge we try to solve those questions with them, be it the stars, the steam machine, electricity and computers. This is simply because we don’t know what we don’t know.
Computer time isn't that expensive; I'm relatively certain that the calls I get are either fully driven by voice recognition, or by someone in the third world or in prison, pressing buttons that activate pre-recorded statements by a script.

The former is cheap enough that yes, they would engage for 15 minutes. The latter are smart enough to understand what's going on so that they'd hang up.
Don't use langchain, just make the calls?

Its what I ended up doing.
My favourite short story of Ballard's is "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" (1982) [1]. It manages to be superb sci-fi while also showing several of Ballard's favourite topics — in particular, architecture and religion.

Another favourite is "A Question of Re-Entry" (1963), set in the Amazonian rainforest, and a kind of postcolonialist retelling of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".

In googling a source for that story, I found that it was turned into a radio play [2] in 1988 by the Canadian CBC, along with several other stories [3].

[1] https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

[2] https://www.jgballard.ca/vanishing_point/cbc_drama/re-entry....

[3] https://www.jgballard.ca/vanishing_point/jgb_vanishingpoint....
Thank you. Great video. I added info for pets. I also emailed the speaker to invite his help.
Fig'mewtons
I feel bad that the employees didn't get to go from a cool startup to a huge payday, but they still get to work at the cool startup and us customers don't have to deal with Adobe's awful behavior in our UI design program.
It also depends on how old you are and how bad your presbyopia is (the condition where it's hard to flex your lenses and so change focus from near to far). Progressives are great if you do have this condition - I have a Costco membership largely to get cheaper glasses for this reason...
> Pakistan has temporarily suspended mobile phone network

And not the fixed one?
To clarify, this is referring to the 30x500 Academy: “What if I launch a product that nobody wants to buy?”

https://30x500.com/academy/
> Apple has more money than they can spend, but you can only get so much done within a given timespan.

This applies to attempts to do things that take around six months and can't be compressed into one second by hiring 16 million programmers for one second, not attempts to do things that take around six months in around six months.

> Plus, they probably don't want to add the necessary API. The law says to treat other apps equally, not to provide the user with a good experience.

This is the actual reason, and thereby the criticism.
If I am wrong I will be happy to correct my comment. Unfortunately a downvote does not provide much information.
My favorite web-based SQL editor and browser: https://www.adminer.org

Single PHP file. Super simple setup and configuration.
This is far worse than the "you can just re-skin safari" on iOS nonsense. Blink is just another tool to force cash cow $$updates$$ onto users they didn't want or need.
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277767

Except in parts of Canada. This just came across HN earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39277767
A CEO willing to take a modest compensation package (only enough to be middle-class comfortable, like Mozilla's engineers should be) might be signal that they're really aligned with the non-profit mission.

People often say you need to pay the big bucks to get a good funding-raiser, but bringing in money isn't the only job of the CEO there.
This used to be a comforting thought whenever computers beat humans in chess, but I think that time has passed. The paper mentions AlphaZero [1], which has beaten AlphaGo, which beat Lee Sedol back in 2016 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
Book Banning Goes Digital
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1am25j5/house_panel_... (old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1am25j5/house_panel_oks_ban_on_book_bans/kpin1p7/)
Where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=770063236767&w=93sBaX6Zaoz...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
The lay definition of sentience involves the ability to respond to stimuli, as you point out, but people involved with animal rights activism use the term sentience to refer to the capacity to suffer, which implies a sense of self.

Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge- reasoning, problem solving, etc. This is readily observed in many experiments with octopuses.
Skimmed some of the articles, particularly those nearer to my field. Seems like a generally good set of informal notes.

Random comments:

>when the states evolve in time and the observables don’t we are using Liouville’s picture; when the observables evolve in time and the states don’t we are using Hamilton’s picture.

I have never heard this terminology, I have only heard Schrodinger's picture vs. Heisenberg's picture.

>This means that, very unlike on a Riemannian manifold, a symplectic manifold has no local geometry, so there’s no symplectic analogue of anything like curvature.

Perhaps the only enlightening comment I have ever heard about the tautological 1-form/symplectic approach to Hamiltonian mechanics.
Maybe you don't need to explain it that way? Maybe it's enough to say: It's a website, you can pin it to your homescreen, it will open in fullscreen mode ...
They literally call it "ChatGPT 4" (with a colored 4) in the app though
Houses are not airtight, even the absolute best, newest ones. The average house has a lot of air exchange with the outside world. It would not take long to be quite dead in the middle of a wildfire.
The creation of new personhood, the attachment of legal rights to what was previously a non-person, is a very dangerous game. It sounds in both abortion and animal rights. If a non-sentient river can be a person, why not a whale? Why not the wild animals that use this river? As living beings one would assume they were due more rights than the river.
Not if you can't have civil unrest. This has been happening in Russia for like every election cycle, and people do try to protest, but those protests are being quickly suppressed, each year more and more violently.
Is this a rhetorical question formulated by a near-self-aware A.I.?
'A race against time': Taiwan strives to root out China's spies
Can you write out the detailed arguments as to how that would be a net benefit?
https://docs.parea.ai/observability/logging_and_tracing isn't open-source for LLM monitoring but the evaluation metrics to assess LLM app quality are: https://github.com/parea-ai/parea-sdk-py
Just noting that USB 2.0/3.0 support no longer requires the extension pack, and the list of features [1] that require the extension pack has been gradually decreasing. It may not be as necessary as it once was.

[1]: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing
Meters, seconds, joules, etc, are torsors.
Where exactly do you suppose philosophy went wrong? In any case I've heard this assertion from Neil deGrasse Tyson for years; it's philistine. The phrasing of the assertion totally gives away its limits: what is the real world, and who else but a philosopher is equipped to even ask that question? Then the question then becomes its opposite: where have the natural scientists gone who are interested in the real world?
Opensource project so you can find evidence of foul play . Prove it or it is bs
That's not how chess works. The move that follow aren't usually decisive unless you don't know how to play the game and make enormous mistakes.

Anyone that knows how to play can beat a GM with a big enough advantage at the end of the game (which is what's reflected in the win probability).
The merger with Adobe may be gone, but the rent-seeking is still there. The plans are generous – if you work all by yourself. If you get hooked on it and want to work with one other person, it jumps to $24/mo ($480/yr) for the two of you if you need more than 3 boards.
well, there's no such thing as a true shortage without price controls.

I am quite surprised that anyone believes there is a labor shortage. are you a mega-corp CEO perhaps?
Sort of but it seems a bit of a cheat.

Neural networks are universal approximators. Choose a function and get enough data from it and you can approximate it very closely and maybe exactly. If initially creating function F required algorithm Y ("search" or whatever), you can do your approximation to F and then say "Look F without Y" and for all we know, the approximation might be doing things internally that are actually nearly identical to the initial F.
FigmaBalls
It'd be so cool if all our phones & laptops could have globally-unique addresses and talk to one another directly in a big global mesh.

You'd still need cables and satellites to deal with rural areas and to cross oceans, but you couldn't really switch that off.

Free speech would go through the roof!
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If you really give it some gusto ("baaaaaaahuhhd") nobody will confuse them :-)
Well if you look at the US it's not like anyone can honestly say that the internet has had a very positive impact on the democratic process ...
It's an obituary of a co-worker/employee, right after his painful drawn out death. It's not a professional biography or a profile. It's ostensibly intended to comfort the bereaved. I truly don't understand a worldview where instead of a) not writing anything at all or b) saying something like "While I strongly disagreed with his religious beliefs, but as a co-worker and employee of many years, he was....", something like this was written.

In case it's not clear, the vitriol was solely based on his being an unapologetic Christian. Not at any overt acts as an employee.
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I travel a fair bit and have TSA Precheck. It’s very far from spotty.

It’s not so much about what you do in line as it is about the line — it’s way way shorter than the normal line. I get through TSA Precheck lines in under 10 minutes whereas a normal line can take an hour when it’s busy.

Plus Precheck lines have a higher proportion of business travelers who know what they’re doing and know the dance to get through the line quickly (3-1-1, pockets emptied to tray, no water). Infrequent travelers are usually the biggest causes of a slow line because they’re unfamiliar with the routine.

Precheck lines also don’t require you to take off shoes or take laptops out of bag. Even if you are flagged for secondary, you just have to step through the full body scanner. It literally takes 3 mins.

I get TSA Precheck as part of the Nexus program and I definitely see its value.
Figmartians
We don’t know if it’s using implicit search either. While it would be interesting if the network was doing some internal search, it’s also possible it has just memorized the evaluations from 10M games and is performing some function of the similarity of the input to those previously seen.
> It is commonly held that Thoreau faked it.

That's pretty cynical and just a way to discard his (and others') beliefs. No human is independent categorically, but he did become much more independent in his beliefs and actions than most people. He might have done his laundry at his mom's house (or whatever facts people trot out to diminish him), but he did hike and paddle through the wilderness, and take deeply unpopular stands against war and other things. He is an admirable person who is worthy of paying attention to, and even emulating to achieve independent thought.
Figgots.