skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I see what you mean. In this case, as the passenger in question is a known vlogger, I would suspect it is probably unnecessary (he is not shy about either his picture or his name on YouTube).

In general though, do you really think the 'name and shame' approach is appropriate across borders? As this Josh Cahill discovered, some countries don't have any laws that would give you any justification to start legal action, and suing an airline from East Timor in Germany is going to be difficult both in showing standing and, if you win, actually managing to extract the damages from the defendant.

Personally, I think naming and shaming is only effective when the community is small enough for people to recognize the names, and, more importantly, only justifiable where there is no existing authority that the community submits to. In this case, the airline voluntary submits to the authority of IATA, so any attempt at naming and shaming is an attempt to bypass that authority.
"and illegally" is strangely missing from the title
Is anybody else finding Intellij more and more getting in the way in an obtrusive manner? Code completion suggestions are getting worse, formatting ability is basically none existent if your statement is missing a comma or a lambda, it keeps reindexing my local maven repo, code completions are slow to appear... I was a huge fan of their products but now I'm getting more and more annoyed. Maybe I'm getting old?

Several times I have been on the brink of trying out spacevim for java development , out of pure frustration but the amount of config and tweaking needed scares me. I don't need much, lightning fast auto complete, auto import and Google code formatter integration. One of these weekends I'll bite the bullet I think and set it all up.
This assumed by the way that the speed goes to infinity, which is untrue. But the result would most likely be indistinguishable from instantaneous from the point of view of the developer.
There's an old saying - prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child. Young people usually adapt to life's changes better than old people.

The future contains AIs like SORA and Gemini 1.5. Gripe about it if you want - but that won't change anything. So why be grim about it? There are so many opportunities to use these new tools to make new things that have never existed before. Obviously there's a danger society itself crumbles, but if not - well, what an exciting transition to live through.

I look forward to being an old man and getting to tell the stories of what life was like when movies and software were made entirely by hand. What fun.
I don't get it. Why?

The entire point of life is to reproduce. Every moment in history has technological changes. Your fear is driving you to make poor decisions. Having children is a biologically good decision.
This is one of those gems that remind me of the old internet, and a great reminder that these things are still around!
There are many dimensions where improvements are happening - speed increase, size reduction, precision, context length, using external computation (function calling), using formal systems, hybrid setups, multi-modality etc. If you look at short history of what's happening - we're not seeing below 50% improvements over those relatively short periods of time. We had gpt1 just five and a half years ago. We now have open weight models orders of magnitude better. We know we're feeding models with tons of redundancy and low quality inputs, we know synthetic data can improve and lower training cost dramatically. We know we're not near anything optimal. We'll see orders of magnitude size reductions in coming years etc. Humans don't represent any kind of intelligence ceiling - it can be surpassed and if it can be surpassed and we know humans alone produce well above 50% improvements - it will get better and getting better.

Saying that models will get attracted to bullshit local maximum is similar fallacy to saying that wikipedia will be full of rubbish when it was created. Forces are set up in a way that creates improvements that accumulate, humans don't represent any ceiling and unlike humans models have near zero replication cost, especially time wise.
Well, for now, anyway. I went to college in the 70’s. What strikes me is, once obviously wrong hallucinations are eliminated, LLM’s will do exactly what untalented liberal arts students did with their time, but with some useful stuff tacked on.
This. I wish I was either at the start or end of my life. In the middle is the worst imho. We've gained knowledge for years and built lifes around it and the value of that knowledge is now being threatened. It's depressing.

It feels like it's too late to switch plans and careers (and even if I do, what would that be?). At the same time I have another 30-40 years to live, a family, 20 more years of mortgage etc. so the technology has real consequences for a long time of my life, I can't get excited about it.
Yeah, and I'd also add that the total # of bugs in an application will always be greater than the total # of 'known' bugs. Tracking down and fixing the oddball bugs usually prevents a larger set of related issues from popping up later.
I'm old enough that I remember musicians panicking about synthesizers and samplers in the 1980s. And there are probably fewer working drummers today than in 1970. But without that tech we wouldn't have hip hop or house, which would be a huge cultural loss.

AI graphic/video art hasn't found its Marley Marl yet, but I believe she's out there and is going to do stuff that will blow our minds.
They can make easier "safe" vs "taste good" decisions.

I mean, make no mistake. Most food served in airlines, as long as you are not flying Turkish Business Class :-), tastes like shit. But it is safe shit.
It would be nice if every human at the wheel of an LLM or image generator were putting that much care into their craft, but that's just not what's happening. You just need to look at places like DeviantArt which are now overrun with users who joined 6 months ago and already have submissions in the thousands, it's simply not possible that they are putting any care into what they're spraying out. Much of the time they're posting numerous functionality identical images, probably generated from the same prompt with a different seed.

Likewise SEO incentivizes mass production of low quality LLM text, because they "quality" they are optimizing for is impressions, not actual quality.
That's not a dynamic solution, the information is all static and local without any active MTU probing. Nothing about the other two probing methods changes the above steps in the one-way scenario, so why do you say they wouldn't work with one-way routes?
Nearly everyone I've encountered with overall positive/optimistic views on the probable impacts of "this technology" seems to be wildly out of touch with the state of human sociocultural systems, the actual ("situation on the ground") nature of their fellow primates, the kind of decisions that the people/companies who get to make those decisions are actually making, what these technologies are capable of automating, and the second/third/etc order effects of automating same.

It's complex, it's "unpredictable", but it is 100% clear that this is absolutely not something this species is actually ready to utilize.

Believing otherwise is sort of naive to the point of being delusional, now.
Of course it's not going to improve on itself. That's what you all are here for - happily interacting with LLM's. Doing the finetuning and improving it with yet another dose of humanity, albeit with more direct interaction this time.

And everybody's asking what AI is going to be and can do for them, all the while freely working for it. Don't ask what AI can do for you, just do for AI what is asked of you.
I don’t know if the airline is lying or not, but the evidence for the airline lying is that the airline claimed Cahill demanded $50k which is “too rich” for an airline so he would never have asked for that much.

I just want to point out the ridiculousness of saying $50k is too rich for a company flying planes which require 10s of millions of dollars as an upfront investment followed by 8-$10k per plane in fuel costs alone.

So basically $50k isn’t even the fuel cost for flying a single plane from NY to LA.

Of course, it’s ridiculous that the airline posted a copy of the passport and not the messages, which is the strongest evidence that they’re lying, not that the $50k demand is too ridiculous.
The Worst of the Deadly Sins
a few years ago, there was this forum for bootstrapped founders running small-ish, profitable, and mature internet businesses -- a spiritual successor to the Joel on Software's forum.

it's been offline for a while, but the read-only archive is still accessible: https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
The reason pine beetle infestations have exploded is because Canadian winters are no longer reliably cold enough to kill them off.
Yeah but there was a metric crapton of suffering in those crises. Well, except rock music and nuclear energy.
That's why they wrote "state the actual timezone" and not "state the actual UTC offset."

Actual timezone would mean "2025-01-01 16:00:00 Europe/Berlin," not just "2025-01-01 16:00:00 +01:00."
Fuck NSO Group.
That’s a good point, I didn’t consider it this way.
When cats are scared they hide. In an actual emergency I need to be able to grab my cat. This isn't so great if my cat hides by tucking herself behind the washing machine. If she instead thinks hiding under the table is a legitimate hiding spot I can quickly grab her when it is actually needed.

Training is simple. Be good at finding cats. When cat is in good hiding place, always make it known that you know and if they go to a place that is annoying to get to, extract them. Make the process annoying or uncomfortable (not harmful) so they have a bad association with it. But we also need positive reinforcement. When an easy to extract spot is used, pretend you can't find them. Make an excuse to call them. Make a big display. Walk around the house, calling them. Walk right past where they are and even get close. Cats naturally play hide and seek as a game, so we're just doing this.

Basically you are inverting the reward function on the hide and seek game.
You missed the word "statically" in the post you commented on.

Dynamically linked libs rarely contribute heavily to binary bloat
I thought everything was a power function.
> thinks that you can directly judge something's benefit to humanity based on the IPO it could have

This is a deliberately cynical perspective along the tiresome ‘evil tech MBA overlord’ trope.
Are payment processors hiding behind KYC & AML laws? Do they even need to provide justification?
Not just real world data from videos. AI models need feedback from many sources: humans, code execution, web search, simulations, games, robotics, math verification, or from actual experiments in the real world. All of these are environments that can take the output of a model and do some processing and return feedback. The model can learn and search for solutions, creating its own training data as a RL agent.

Since all deployed models produce some kind of effect and feedback from the world there is an opportunity there to collect data targeted on the current level of the model, the most useful kind of data. That's why I think AI will be ok even with the proliferation of bots online. It's not 100% pure synthetic data in a loop, it is a agent-environment loop.

tl;dr Models learn better from their own experiences, not ours.
Won't be as impressive, "first as tragedy, then as farce" remember
Can we kill all frontier AI research now? Then we won't even need the apocalypse switches.
Author here—

This is a conscious decision, I'll explicitly address this in the FAQ soon.

As I commented elsewhere, this is completely in line with industry standards (iCal, Unix time) and other modern libraries. I don't (yet) see any reason to deviate.
I thought it was just a couple of years ago when we started moving away from the age-old "three bullet points" formula to the "one slide per HUGE Helvetica word" template so beloved by TED talks.

So I obviously can't say a lot about the style preferences, last presentations I held just used the company style.

But hooh, that font section couldn't get any more generic, even mentioning Calibri. No hints at what font characteristics you're looking for, or good examples of that (I'd say that you're better off with something that has a lot of weights, and if it isn't already condensed/compressed, at least one option for that)
The third-largest exporter of television is not who you might expect
We should be clear that it isn't ALL of corporate IT that is on board with this, or probably even the majority. Its the windows sysadmins that have to deal with non-technical end users, and are constantly being hounded about trivial shit like people clicking on phishing emails and that sort of thing. In fairness to the windows people, you probably wouldn't believe just how awful the majority of workers are with computers. So it's understandable why windows sysadmins become hyper paranoid and irrational in a lot of cases. The low pay doesn't help either. Windows sysadmin is usually a lower tier job within IT and is the most likely to suffer cost cutting and be forced to "outsource" security work to a pile of rotten security software. It's also entry level, and so sometimes they are only marginally better with computers than their end users.

Ideally, most programmers should be in IT or have some kind of alignment with IT and able to give some pushback about this during CAB for instance, and/or get some exceptions but that is increasingly difficult the more 'agile' an organization becomes and the more it seeks to silo infrastructure people from application people. A good IT department imo is one that doesn't do this and retains a more traditional culture where programmers are part of IT and able to actually influence the technical direction of the company, not just be treated like a product factory for business units.

Just from personal experience working as a programmer on the infrastructure side...complaining about windows sysadmins was the favorite past time of probably the majority of higher tier IT employees. It makes our jobs incredibly difficult for the same reason it makes application developers jobs difficult.
Currently I use Fastmail to host my own domain, and then for every new service I save the account in 1Password using service@service.mydomain.com

It's a bit extreme, but surprisingly little extra effort. That said, most of the accounts I create are throwaway.

For phone numbers I have an old, unused Google voice number I give out. It's a real number, but never checked, except for once every 90? days, to keep it active.

I'd love it if OnePassword integrated with something like https://randomuser.me to generate a new profile for every awful service that needs an account to work.
I like this idea very much. Is this similar to human moderation of training data?
Are we talking about data being shared across services or spammers? Spammers play by different rules because they can just generate infinite email addresses on the fly and not have to worry about storing them unless they get a hit. I would consider that a different vector than your legitimate email address being shared.

In my experience, a private email domain is a neon sign for spammers. I would never recommend a private domain for privacy or anti-spam reasons.
Call it what it is: Fidesz is an arm of the Putin regime.
LLMs are being trained on a smaller and smaller percentage of human prose. Right now it seems like code is the best source for the bulk of an LLM's diet, but it's also looking likely that synthetic math text will be even better. The structured reasoning of code and math seems to be what actually makes these big LLMs "smart." Once you've trained a smart LLM, it seems to take a relatively small amount of hand-curated human prose to fine tune it into talking like a human. Unfortunately this article feels like the wishful thinking of someone who is afraid of the changes LLMs are bringing and hasn't done much research.
> I want to find an answer to my search query.

And sometimes the answer is behind a paywall. It's not spam at all. On the contrary, spam is always free.
With mandatory transfers of all technology and giving up 51% ownership of the forced joint ventures?
same thing with any feed forward network too. They are all piece-wise linear in respect to inputs.

Layers reduce resource requirements and make some patterns easier or even practical to find, but any ANN that is a FNN supervised learning could be represented as a parametric linear regression.

Unsupervised learning, that tends to use clustering is harder to visualize but is the same thing.

You still have ANNs, which have binary output, which can be viewed through the lens of deciders. They have to have unique successor and predecessor functions.

Really this is just set shattering that relates to a finite VC dimensionality being required for something to be PAC learnable.

But the title of this is confusing the map for the territory. It isn't that 'Everything is a linear model' but that linear models are the preferred, most practical form.

The efforts to leverage spikey neutral networks, which is a more realistic model of cortical neurons, and which have continuous output (or more correctly the computable reals) tend to run into problems like riddled basins.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02160

Obviously setting rectified linear unit at 0 = 1 resolves to differentiation problem, but many functions may not be so simple

Perhaps a useful lens is how TSP with a discreet Euclidean metric is in NP-complete while the continuous version is in NP-hard.

But it isn't that everything is linearizable, but rather that linearized problems tend to be the most practical.
I wouldn’t let my kids on the dark web, but honestly in terms of overall social harm addictive social media is far worse. I’m a bit on the fence as to whether a Tor onion browser would be more or less harmful than access to Instagram, unfiltered YouTube, or Tiktok.

They’re more likely to find toxic horrors and crime on the dark web, but the socials are more mindless and addictive and probably harmful to mental health.

Engagement driven social media is really horrible especially for kids.
This view of people seems… idealistic, given the number of people who uncritically look to Facebook or Reddit for information (and then happily parrot whatever memes they find) and the number of LLMs that do the same.

I think people are substantially worse at figuring out what is “good” data, and I think a huge number of people are/are starting to nominate LLMs as those “authority figures”. And, given that, I think there is a low ceiling for the creators of these tools to clear to make them appealing to users.
There are biological analogies you could have chosen other than adaptive hill-climbing. For instance, there's adaptive radiation, where a small population of organisms is introduced into a new environment and rapidly diversifies into new species, filling niches that weren't filled before. After the environment is mostly saturated, the populations stabilize and adaptation slows down, with gradual and relatively slow change and diversification.

Plugging LLM into this analogy would lead to a story where we're at the initial "Permian explosion" phase of evolution. New LLMs are rapidly "hill climbing" as they feed on virgin data scraped from the Internet. But as those LLMs diversify and adapt, they peter out once all niches have been filled and the fuel consumed.

Another analogy is the Petri dish, but that's an even more pessimistic analogy than adaptive radiation.
> Is the world really full of developers going crazy with frustration because they’re waiting on vs code to do something?

If programming in Rust on a medium-to-large project, you might be waiting minutes for your editor to finish checks to highlight compilation errors every time you save. That was me on a Rust project last year when I was trying to program on a 2019 macbook air with 16GB of RAM and 1.1 GHZ quad-core intel processor. Typical wait times to check what I'd written would be 30 seconds to just over a minute. It was excruciating.

I finally demanded the employer set me up with a cloud VM that I could use when working with that codebase, as the network lag with VS code opening the project remotely was so much more tolerable
It's a pretty neutral decision on the whole.

People tend to think the world needs their DNA walkin' around out there after they're dead. They don't think about what the world that the DNA's walkin' around in will be like.
The fact that internet is going to be filled with AI content is likely to happen. But for the rest I think it’s the classical bias science fiction has when predicting the future. More of the same. Or the linear transposition of the now (for a lack of better wording). Think CRT screens alongside flying cars.

One could argue that LLMs have some form of intelligence already even though I believe it falls more under “very good intuition”. Even if the internet is filled with trash, we still have (and will continue to do so I hope) a lot of content of high quality available (all the books, podcasts, videos, etc. produced up until now). If you take human intelligence, it doesn’t require the whole internet to start to get smart.
A lot of interactions with the real world and some good books/videos should be enough to get to AGI (and start the dreaded feedback loop). We just haven’t found a way to achieve it yet (AFAIK).
On par at doing what?
>I would love to hear proposals on how, at a hardware level, you would track Daylight Saving Time.

Traditionally the BIOS ignores it, and Windows on reboot detects if the clock needs to be adjusted according to the latest rules that it knows about. This failed quite often in practice.

Linux systems using tzdata are much more reliable (Windows is still very buggy with historical data), but UTC time support on non-Linux systems was flaky for a long time, leading to bad API design in languages historically.

`timegm` despite being a critical and irreplaceable function is still not in POSIX, for example (though it is widely supported in practice)
"I’m 16 years old, I’m planning to go to college to become an animator. It has been my life’s dream to become an animator and to share my artwork with people, to create, to show love in every piece I make. And now, I don’t think I’m ever going to have that future."

Is there still something we can realistically tell kids that they should invest time and effort into learning? Seems that the general idea of getting good at something you are passionate about is going away. Also in particular in the arts, the idea that humans practice for a long time to create art, show it to other people who then enjoy it will disappear. I don't think people have really thought about the deeper consequences of this. Seems that a lot of people like to immediately deflect and deny that this is any different from changes in the past, as you can see in the responses to her post.
> where every CSV file has two header rows

sigh

Why people always try to make it harder?

Name,string;Qty,units;Weight,kg;Volume,m^3;Just for the sake of it with spaces,string;No don't use comma in the header names - it doesn't make sense,string;
We are taxing more complex transactions (eg. VAT, income, profits, etc.). ie. the vector for laundering is much bigger.

no tax, no control (look at The Emirates).

However, as it gets easier and easier to accrue wealth on behalf of others, the taxing schemes are probably needed, and so is the control.