skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A child's life is valuable each moment. There's no guarantee of security and safety for any human anywhere at any time. We can't just be paralyzed by possible negative outcomes, life requires taking risks.

(You might not want kids for some other reason, like free time, don't like kids, etc, but if you would otherwise have kids except for the dangers in the world, I'd say rethink your risk tolerance)
Electric infrastructure is not easy in Norway. You know it’s very mountainous.. right?

But Norway does have the benefit that it has relied on electricity for much of its heating for a long time. So the added load of EVs is not huge relatively speaking.

Though the surprising thing is just how easy it has been. There’s no reason to think it’d be insurmountable for other countries. We have the same rules of physics here.
Earth-1217: where every CSV file has two header rows: column names and units
> that's the decent way to behave.

That's what a multi-billionaire companies like Uber want you to think. The world has plenty of countries where people don't tip their taxi drivers and it doesn't make them indecent.
His point is overly dogmatic.

With the Russian gas dependence, shutting down supply meant industries would shut down and (with a freak winter) people might be unable to heat their homes.

If Chinese EVs become common in the EU market, it diminishes EU car manufacturing and then China does a rug pull and stops exporting to the EU.. American, Korean and Japanese EV manufacturers will fill the gap in marketshare, perhaps at a slight premium but still well below current EV prices. What horror.

And it isn’t like Volkswagen will roll over and die. They’ll just face market pressure to innovate and become more efficient.
> but they hate

You paint with a very broad brush. I have no doubt that for each aspect you list, you can indeed find an example of some extremist who hates it.

But the average regular person doesn't particularly hate any of these, they just want to live in their home in an area they like.

> You can say "they just like their neighborhoods"

I assume you have selected place(s) to live? Did you have any criteria for selecting the area?

Most people have a list of things they absolutely want, and deal breakers they won't put up with. So you find a home that meets these. This is what I mean by they like the neighborhood they selected when making that decision.

Is it at all surprising that after they selected a suitable neighborhood, they don't particularly want it to transform into something completely different that no longer meets any of their criteria?
Also note that that webpage can be somewhat out of date; for instance, see here for some recent edits to it (e.g. features Node had implemented that were marked as unavailable): https://github.com/WebAssembly/website/commits/main/
I read that Vision Pro may the "killer device" for nuclear submarine crew members.
> Courts probably aren't going to enforce any promise of money for nothing or responses prompted by obvious trickery, but they might enforce promises of discounts, and are very likely to enforce promises of rebates as the court in this case did.

But what does that matter? So someone posts on Reddit how to trick the chatbot into offering a rebate and then 75% of their customers have done it by the time they realize what's going on and now they're out of business.

> If that means companies can't use chatbots to replace customer service agents yet, so be it.

You're still not articulating any way to distinguish "customer service" from any other functioning chatbot. A general purpose chatbot will answer customer service questions, so how does this not just ban all of them?
This is disappointing. I was ready for the swath of "How I used Vision Pro to..." posts on HN, as predicted by many HN commenters.
I'm not a fan of this sort of takes. History has shown time and time again that pretty much any technological innovation is a net good, despite the protests of the luddites. Progressive creatives see this type of tech as a tool to simplify and re-adapt their process.

The post author is 16, and an aspiring animator. If their attitude is to be scared of tech, instead of being insanely curious about it, they are not on the right path to become a creative, regardless of AI.
How does evolution use synthetic data?
Pedant's note: To 'handle with kid gloves' refers to an especially soft and delicate type of leather ('kidskin', from an original and now archaic sense of 'kid' meaning a young goat), and as a figure describes especially gentle or deferential treatment.
You can buy stars
To start with, we know his name is not Josh Cahill, but Aljoscha Wendholt...
>But if the user is using X forwarding or ssh or a remote desktop, you have no idea what timezone the user is in.

Perhaps I don't care, and I want to present things from the point of view of the server's location?
That's what the above comment implies if you read it sarcastically, they might be in agreement with you!
The impact of technology like Sora on people who work in the animation and firm industry is indeed troubling. In my ideal world it leads to an explosion of creativity as people with great skill and taste use it to produce even more ambitious work - but the negative world in which those skills become undervalued and we get way more content of a much lower quality is certainly possible.

Something that worries me more at the moment is the impact this will have on people's plans.

In this post we have a 16 year old who's passionate about animation but is questioning whether it's a viable industry to join.

I've seen plenty of examples of students who planned to be computer programmers but are now having second thoughts about that career as well.

Twenty years ago there was a similar fear in programming, that all of the jobs were going to be outsourced to lower cost countries. I believe there were people who changed their career plans as a result of that fear back then as well.

I hope we don't see a huge flurry of people making life altering career decisions based on their fear of AI which they later come to regret as this shakes out in a more positive direction.

(I also hope we don't see people who genuinely DO regret their career decisions if AI turns out to have the negative impact that many people fear today.)
All you're doing is making assumptions about the intent of the airline, based on nothing. Of course intent matters, who knows exactly why they posted his passport.

You also have no more information on the actions or intent of the youtuber than anyone, but you're defending him as the victim here, based solely on his questionable claims in the context of his fabulist videos.
You know I've read a lot here on HN about AI and our future. I'd like to hear more from the folks actually in the AI industry the researchers and developers implementing LLMs, diffusion models, etc.

Will high quality training data be needed for incremental improvements?

What is the upper bound of improvements, and what is it contingent on? Compute, training data, etc.
Would you say this applies to macOS too? And why or why not?
For crewed missions, wouldn't the low trust lead to very large transit times anyway, in a Mars mission scenario?
As tone deaf as if… it was written by a machine? This will be increasingly more difficult to tell as time goes on.
Outsource it to a firm dedicated just to mail, like MXRoute.
My preferred alt frontend for HN is https://hckrnews.com

I use it in "Top 20" mode. It helps me keep up with the bigger stories just by checking in once a day. Loads super fast, has worked great for many years now.
can you explain what type of headaches your would expect?

in Denmark we have had the issue that some companies issues loans solely based on social security numbers. however, the root issue is that lenders did not verify identity, and I am quite sure that companies malpracticing like this are liable themselves.

mean while, AFAIK, in Sweden social security numbers are public info - that it probably what we should aim for.
You are assuming facts not in evidence or provably false per public IRS 990 forms:

1. Mitchell was not as far as I know removed.

2. She has extracted over $20M gross pay including bonuses for the last several years. I’ll do the exact math later.

Let’s see how much her comp goes down in this year’s IRS Form 990, which will come out at the earliest in late 2025.

3. Mozilla has a ton of cash in the bank while Brave is still building a new business model. To say I’m doing better in any financial sense is cheeky. If you use Brave, thanks for your support.

Last thing: Mozilla will take years to die, and it could perdure as an NGO, even after Firefox. Don’t assume it will die quickly. We are all dying, in this world.
I'm in "I just want to watch the world burn" mode over this right now, to be honest. If all that's left on the open internet is SEO spam, and all the chatbots can train on is SEO spam, then so be it. We didn't deserve to have nice things.
What demographic explosion? In most developed countries at least there is a baby bust. Populations are rapidly aging.
I like organizers, but strongly dislike upgraded components like this. I am a wood-component-purist for board games, because I identify other player's positions quickly by looking at what they have. Elaborate, diverse, and confusing components are very difficult to discern. I don't mind metal coins, but why does each game need its own metal set? One nice set could work for many games.

I think pimped up components work best for couples or multi-player solitaire games, which I don't do often.

I will use poker chips over paper money, but this is for practical reasons.
Yes. You have made an excellent point.

ELIZA replies to almost everything with questions. So ELIZA is constantly prompting you to do the work required to continue the conversation.
Arc Roam – Minimal multiplayer physics game
As a triangle move carefully to finish line with all rings collected. Abstract version of ElastoMania or X-Moto.
> What purpose would publishing a photograph someone's passport serve in exposing extortion?

It would tie the name to the picture of the known extorter, so that he may be refused service.

The same thing is done is some supermarkets for people caught stealing: their picture is put on a wall of shame for all to see.

If they believe it's defamation, they can try to use the supermarket, which will then release the video evidence.

It helps keeping people honest without filling the courts with shoplifters.
Note that this page doesn't currently include instructions from WasmGC which is starting to become supported in some engines; that spec can be found here: https://webassembly.github.io/gc/core/syntax/instructions.ht...
Are you asking me or the OP?
Neovim with Lazyvim is pretty good out of the box. In the old days, both Emacs and (Neo)vim although highly extensible, well, it was hard to configure and set up for the things you wanted to do.

Now, we have Spacemacs, Doom Emacs and Neovim with Lazy, Packer etc., so I really can have a 1st class "IDE" without needing to learn LISP or Vimscript (or Lua). So you do need a little bit of that to be able to edit the package.el or init.lua, but it's pretty much uncomment or cut & paste.

If you're looking for a (Neo)vi(m) tutorial, try this:

https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-wi...
whoops, duh you're right
I never said that I approve of these tactics. Quite the opposite.

I meant it as a warning: the KYC system will be used against you. If you commit a crime (or even rock the boat too much), expect these records to be combed over and leveraged against you. At the very least, authorities will likely obtain a search warrant and systematically attempt to destroy your life.
Training on self generated data is not necessarily such a problem, see how successful alphazero/muzero is when it is only trained on self play.

The key is that you need some kind of external indicator that tells you which generated examples are good and which are bad. In the case of alphazero you get that by simulating games and seeing who wins, in the case of LLMs you will be only taking the generations that are 'successful', e.g. which HN posts get upvoted.
my machine must be faster than yours. I have both. I can't tell the difference
WTH Is Disease X?
I live at the coast too.

I think they're remarkable. I think it's pretty cool how they pick up mollusks and clams and such, drop them from high on the rocks and sidewall to break them open to eat. Clever.
Yes, genetically and linguistically the Germanic rulers haven't tipped the scale to their side in France.

But OTOH the name "France" is unequivocally Frankish (Germanic) and thus not something that Obelix, a Gaul from ~2070 years, ago would identify with.
I've found Mark Smith, a.k.a. 'The Man in Seat 61'[1], to be a very reliable travel blogger/vlogger. His information on railways across Europe is up-to-date, detailed and stays away from such melodramatic exaggeration as you describe. It's usually easier to get the timetables from his site than it is from the travel company!

I'm not affiliated with him in any way; I post it here just as a reminder that honest travel journalism still exists if you know where to find it.

[1]: https://www.seat61.com
That means that for the 9 people interviewed that returned the devices, Bloomberg would have had to contact 900 AVP buyers just to find those 9 (1%). Either that, or the ratio is off.
Are we sampling reality, or are we sampling the photograph?
That is because Apple is abusing the power they have as a gatekeeper. That's the problem with centralized power: shift all power to one central place and suddenly the power gets abused.
Haskell is Useless (2011) [video]
That was already the case. Try to find trustworthy consumer reviews on Google in the last 5 years
With a mixture of experts approach it’s not incest, we intentionally split the training data to add diversity. Incest is bad because the errors compound on themselves, but this isn’t a problem when the AI parents don’t share the same DNA (problem space.)

I see it this way, maybe there’s no new ‘knowledge’ but the AI can apply our collective knowledge better than we can. Within that set of knowledge there are surely discoveries never yet realized based on by the fusion of ideas.

Pre-AI we rely on individuals Einstein, Bohr, and Oppenheimer and their associations and studies of each others’ work. With AI, we can fuse the corpus of scientific discoveries into a single entity that we each can communicate with. Maybe the AI lacks the spark of creativity needed to make discovery, but put today’s Einstein in front of it and what would he ask? How much boost would it give him?

Einstein said - “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
Twilio runs into the exact same text deliverability issues in the USA that everyone is experiencing, there is no reason to pay them a premium when they have no ability to influence. Whether or not your text is caught by AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or US Cellular's spam filtering.

Avoid sending SHAFT content and shortened URLs if you don't want to get your text messages. Black hold or banned. S.H.A.F.T. is an acronym that stands for Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco
A lot of developers would be ecstatic to have a tools allowance and the ability to use whatever laptop they buy on the corporate network.
Do you have some reason to think that will happen?
Hill-climbing requires some measure to optimize. current technology uses 'how well can you predict real text' as this measure. If you change the text you try to predict, it changes the measure you are optimizing. It is far from obvious that this will still improve the actual performance.
> Major private media corporations in poland were already closely aligned with PiS

Actually... it was quite the opposite. The vast majority of private media were not pro-PiS. The problem only concerned public media, financed from the state budget
My hope is that AI making random shovelware dirt cheap will increase the value of code that has been composed more poetically and less prosaically.
Jesus Christ. If all I did was read hackernews comments I would think that these magical algorithms which have the potential for massive positive change don't exist and that the world is coming to and end.

I get it, engineering trains us to look for failure modes, but my god try to have a little amazement at the progress.

FFS.
For a full list of proposals you can check https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals
Evolution has a clearly defined fitness function (number of offspring that are produced). What is the fitness function for generated art?
I can read my own writings without overfitting the neurons in my brain. The key I think is contextualization, something LLMs are great at already. The open question is how to utilize that contextualization ability during training.

The argument that LLMs can’t possibly scale because of data contamination falls apart the moment we discover a method to incorporate context-learning into the training loop.
What does me telling LLMs to write articles for "best vacuum cleaners 2024" and putting it on the Internet have to do with the ability of LLMs to improve themselves? Humans write those kinds of articles for the Internet as it is, and yet humans are the ones designing and improving LLMs now.
Depending on the game, large clickable “goldish” coins are awesome.

Some games are better with ones that stack, others with ones that kind of heap.

“Pieces of eight” can be ordered from the usual places.
That's such a bizarre, ahistorical take. Regardless of anything that Sam Altman does, living conditions for children in developed countries will remain far better than what most people have experienced since the origin of our species.
Chapter 5: Humans learn that not only are they not special, they are pretty low on the spectrum of what they thought was special.
Yet almost all of it still works.
The comparison is only valid if AI ends up being monopolized. A continuously evolving ecosystem on the other hand has a better chance of adapting to those pressures. I am sure there are search engines that don’t index the SEO crap, but I don’t remember the names, and they have other flaws.

Open source AI needs to get a lot of investment for this to be mitigated. Relying on market incentives to drive development without the possibility of forking is too dangerous given the high stakes.
Worth pointing out that bribed* by PIS reporters have made the Polish "public" (in reality party owned) television into a meme by the sheer amount and ridiculousness of propaganda. What older people watched out of habit and inability to get their information online, was so bad that you could as well watch it as a monthy python episode. And one of the most shown topics was blaming literally anything on the PM that ruled 8 years ago (one who thrown then out now). They blamed from immigrants and war in Ukraine to bad weather and situation in health services. They even showed the guy with parts of his previous party logo as horns and with his face hued with red. I'm not making this stuff up.

*They were bribed with money taken from defunded children cancer treatments.
That's a feature not a bug. Now your in-email client spam filter has a much easier time tagging spam because the same exact spam message sent to three different addresses. It works great for me. I love catch-all.
Literally https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
I'm basing the reasons for why people don't want development in their neighbourhood off real-world observations; I didn't intend to be uncharitable, just realistic. To be honest, I toned back the reasoning quite a bit from some of what I've heard before.

Maybe the underlying truth is merely "I don't like change", but the actual literal reasons given by many people when blocking development in their neighbourhoods in my city are not saying they don't want change, it's far more targeted at the kinds of people who will move in. I tend to operate on the assumption that the true reasons they have for not wanting development are worse than what they will voice in public, and at least certainly not better.

> Except for house flippers, people don't care about the financial sense.

I agree that typically this isn't the issue; the person I responded to did seem to think it might be though.
I would also add that KYC laws basically make ignorance willful and consequently illegal.
Agree. I did an 6-hour/500km drive last week in my model 3, we had to charge once. Found a supercharger in the car park of the local golf course.

The anxious feeling about “will the charger work/will there be a space” is real, but the more EVs are out there, the less this is going to be a problem.

My petrol car could have done the trip without refuelling, but it would also have cost, literally, 5x the cost of charging in fuel.
The guys who’s been a computer engineer “ever since”, ie for several decades, is using that as a reason to be passionate about what you do, completely ignoring the fact that the whole worry with AI is that it will obsolete industries within years.
Firefox Relay is a handy assistant to at least stymie email tracking and is neatly integrated with the browser. The free tier gets you a few masked emails that forward to your actual inbox. You can't reply through the masked email without paying, but that might not be necessary for all.

It feels like retaining some semblance of privacy is a losing battle. Data clean rooms are industry standard now and many companies happily share their bounties with others for profit. That appears to be the future along with consolidating businesses based on data-driven insights for demographics. How are these kinds of practices still legal? When does data collection and sharing become such a glaring issue that constitutional rights can be invoked in a landmark lawsuit? Or can we expect anti-trust suits to limit companies hoarding vast repositories of data?

It feels naive to ask these questions, but they're fundamental to societal health and progress, democracy, and arguably the planet.

https://relay.firefox.com/
>Remix is funded in part by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in Budapest

Yeah that's the usual populist Fidesz propaganda then, why I'm not surprised

Edit: you can downvote me these are facts

HUF 3.5 billion from Rogán's ministry to the Lajos Batthyány Foundation, full of Fidesz members https://444.hu/2020/06/10/35-milliardot-kapott-rogan-miniszt...

Rogán's Ministry gave HUF 9.2 billion to the Lajos Batthyány Foundation in January https://hvg.hu/gazdasag/20230228_rogan_miniszterelnoki_kabin...

The Protected Society Foundation has received HUF 22 million from the Lajos Batthyány Foundation, which operates with billions of public funds, according to a report by the organisation that spreads far-right ideas https://telex.hu/belfold/2023/05/26/vedett-tarsadalom-alapit...

The Fidesz-affiliated The European Conservative aims to become a leading European news publication, and will receive the necessary support from the government through the Lajos Batthyány Foundation (BLA), worth more than HUF 1.6 billion https://index.hu/kulfold/2023/07/26/brusszel-batthyany-lajos...

etc etc etc
The very article you comment on shows an example where copilot teaches you the wrong thing. That's why you shouldn't learn with AI. AI is very useful as autocompletion, search engine, bug detector... Imagine, very pessimistically, that AI hates you and wants to sabotage you; are there still some use cases, where such an entity could help you? If so, that's the workflow where you can safely use an incompetent (rather than malevolent) AI as well.

Let's say there's some not very readable code. You don't know what it does. You ask AI what it does. It tells you. Now you read the code again and it all makes sense, and based on your experience with coding you are certain you're not misinterpreting the code because AI has mislead you. That's one example of a safe usage of AI.