skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They care more about scaffolding being ugly and nothing about dirt, grime, trash, homeless. And don't tell me we can care about more than one thing at a time.
The legacy’s and the classics for sure
> If you allow addition, you may be tempted to think you can "just add three hours" and get 04:00:00+01:00. However, because Paris has a DST transition, you'd actually want to have 05:00:00+02:00

Since you know the offset then adding three hours should be unambiguous no? Convert to UTC, add three hours, convert back to target timezone, which would net you the correct 05:00:00+02:00.
I'd been hoping projects like wasmtime could end up looking like a Docker alternative for server side things. Do you think that's unlikely to pan out without a lot more work that doesn't seem to be happening?
It’s a bad example because it’s really not a problem. There exist good examples. When people pick that one to call out it’s a good sign they haven’t used much Apple hardware (or they’d pick a better one)
This is such a wrong take.

Even if the data is 100% synthetic, you can still hill climb to new mountains.

If you don't believe me, look at evolution.

It doesn't matter if we no longer have 100% human art as input. This is the worst these systems will ever look and feel, and they're only going to improve.

I'd be willing to do a longbets on this one.
In general, “look and feel” cannot be protected, unless they copied the original assets verbatim:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel

But IANAL either.
It's kinda like the owl with the tootsie pop:

How many cups of coffee does it take to internalize hamming distance? :-)
“Poland and the demon in democracy” https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/poland-and-the-demon-in-d...
if vs code felt as responsive as emacs or vim, i'd use it. I don't really care about 'start-up time', and if I did then using emacsclient or some such with a daemon takes care of that issue entirely.

there is no convenient way for me to 'plug-in' the responsiveness of something like vim or emacs into vs code.

to be clear : responsiveness is things like opening a context menu of any kind, switching contexts, text drawing and blanking ; just things that add up to create a quick feeling piece of software. vs code/atom/whatever and other 'larger' graphic-heavy text editors feel slow.
The web is well on its way to destroying itself, LLMs are only going to accelerate the process.
Succinctly stated and something that resonates strongly with me.

In the last internet revolution (web search), results started high quality because the inputs were high quality - bloggers and others just wanted to document and share knowledge. But over time, many interests (largely commercial) figured out how to game the system with SEO, and quality of search results has decreased as search's incentive structure led to lower quality data being indexed.

We're at the start of the LLM revolution now - models are trained on high quality inputs (which may be as rare as "low-background steel" in the future). But the models allow the mass production of lower quality outputs with errors and hallucinations; once those get fed back into new models, are we doomed to decreasing effectiveness of LLMs, just as we've seen with search? Will there be LLMO (LLM optimization) to try to get your commercial interests reflected in the next generation models?

I think we've got a few golden years of high quality LLMs before that negative feedback loop really starts to hurt like it did in search.
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> the airline accused him of asking for a free flight but the airline has posted no evidence whatsoever that he has asked for this. In all likelihood the airline is lying.

What's your basis for that "in all likelihood"? My gut says P('influencer' asking for free shit) is near 100%. Isn't getting free shit from corps the whole point of being an 'influencer'? They're like mercenary-shills.
And to do this with a component framework and tailwind you give your <Button> component some props that customize it.

With CSS you also have to worry about the cascade way too much, so while you are doing much of the same work with Tailwind, you get the nice benefit of inlining the styles which will actually apply to your component. Yes, you still have to think about organization and how to make different styles apply to variants of the main class, but it's so much easier to not also have to worry about how cascading rules might apply and constantly check different rules for specificity and overrides
Is there a "photopea for video" anyone can recommend?
Yeah I find delays make me lose my train of thought and can be frustrating. Especially once you've experienced an editor where everything is instant (kakoune).
Good content won't disappear necessarily, it could however be drowned out by BS as the author states.

Its the needle in a haystack problem, where AI is used to increase the size of the haystack, making the needle (i.e. quality content) harder to find.
Art is much less vulnerable.

Art is very heavily tagged, accurately described and filtered. Many galleries don't accept AI art at all, which means to sneak in the AI needs to be pretty much perfect.

Also, there's an enthusiastic scene of LoRAs where the makers work with small enough datasets to do manual curation.
> Just ditch it and let anyone move money around with no controls. I'm sure that would work out fine.

It did, for thousands of years. The only thing that's new is the ability to track every penny and person from cradle to grave and the incessant and ever-growing desire for those in power to control those who aren't.
If you pair program every ms counts. In video conference another half second does a huge hit.
A lot more of this to come, but unfortunately it’s inevitable because the universe affords universal learning algorithms.
When someone says bullshit about rocket science, its hard to argue because we aren't rocket scientists.

When someone says bullshit about mass manufacturing of cars, its hard to argue because we aren't mechanical engineers.

When someone says bullshit about running a website... guess what? Hacker News is full of programmers, venture capitalists, and website owners. Suddenly Elon Musk is speaking our language and what we see from Twitter is... uggghhhh....

Elon Musk hasn't changed much. All that's really happened is that he moved back into a proper technology discussion in a subject people around here are deeply familiar with. The standard levels of bullshit he spouts are insufficient when the audience here has a much deeper understanding of online advertisements, bots, user engagement, UI issues, and the like.
It matters if the pre-money valuation at which the new shares are issued is inaccurate.

You own 10% of a company that was valued in the last round of funding at 10 million dollars. You have put in significant amount of work since and company has raised a lot more revenue. The fair market value is now at a 100 million dollars, but the existing shareholders put in another 90 million dollars at the same pre-money valuation as last round, diluting every existing share down by 90%. Congrats you now own only 1% of the company and just got robbed of over 8 million dollars. (Fair value of your stock went from 10% of 100 million = 10 million to 1% of 190 million = 1.9 million).
Cryptography can make content you create marked. But how would you use it to mark content other (non cooperative) people make?
I once watched a Nobel prize winner present. His presentation was a Word document, and he presented by scrolling down. For bonus points you could do the same with `less`.
Very good discussion there.

“I am 68 years old, on the opposite spectrum of life’s journey. At your age, I had the same passion to be a writer. But when personal computers became available just a few years later, that passion changed to becoming a computer programmer. I’ve been doing that ever since.

My point is:

Don’t lose your passion. Learn everything you can about this new technology and figure out how to use it to make your dream come true.

Be open to life’s changes. It may seem like nothing will ever change your mind, but no one knows the future. People change, the world changes, and as unbelievable as it may sound, you may one day become passionate about something else.

When Sam Altman announced the new GPTs and Assistants technologies, everybody who had been developing RAG applications for the previous year freaked out. I didn’t. I, as a RAG (sometimes called “Wrapper”) developer saw it as a unique opportunity. And so far, I haven’t been wrong.

So, SORA might just be your opportunity. Use it to CREATE and show that love in every piece you create.”
Not always, a few companies like Getty Images are using their internal stock photo libraries to train models rather than slurping up the entire internet. They are uniquely positioned to take that path though, having already been in the stock photo business for decades before AI took off, and for everyone else it's a sisyphean task to manually curate a complete representative dataset that they can be sure isn't contaminated with AI images.
> Did you understand my posting?

Yes. Yes we did. You said “Think about what would happen, if XX% of the passengers get food poisoning.” Which kinda implies that you think it would have somehow disastrous consequences on the plane. While in reality symptomps often don’t appear fast enough for that.

You also said “Airplane food is probably one of the safest in the world from this perspective.” for which you provided no source. Is this something you speculate? Or know as a fact?

You also said “it was caused by food from the lounge in the airport in Addis Ababa”. And it is quite right pointing it out that you have almost no way you can be certain about that.

> I never said I got it on a plane.

Nobody says that you said that. We are talking about people who say they got it on the plane because that is what the influencer in question did.
The nightly builds got word wrap a few weeks ago, not been released yet afaik, but will be in the next one.
I think its neat proof of concept, but I struggle to see any case where this would be particularly useful. Or rather when this would be more handy than what sqlite cli already offers.

like is this really meaningful improvement

$ tail -n 3 Chinook_Sqlite.sqlite/Album.tsv

over this?

$ sqlite3 -tabs Chinook_Sqlite.sqlite 'select * from Album' | tail -n 3
> Privacy is not an absolute right.

This is meaningless.
It's more about learning to use the tool fluently.
The author doesn't say they prefer derivative works (e.g. works using a library) to be open source, only that they want modifications to the library to be open source
> You're not even sure this is a copyright issue in the US yet…

We are sure that OpenAI is building its business on copyrighted content, under the defense that to do otherwise is "impossible."

The courts have not decided whether this is "fair use". However, the four factors make it pretty clear.
Do you have a source for that claim? Norwegian statistics does not agree with you here:

https://www.ssb.no/transport-og-reiseliv/landtransport/stati...

https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/2023/06/30/gjennomsnittlig....

Cars seem to be driven less, per person, not more.

Population is increasing. So maybe there are more cars on the road in total? But that’s a a nearly irrelevant measure in this discussion.

It also goes directly against my personal experience, and the policies in the big cities makes it nearly impossible to drive more.

Our companies moved to a new office, and that office was built without any attached parking. I don’t think you’re allowed to build new building with lots of parking in the city centre anymore. We have some parking spots in a nearby parking garage but it’s a 5min walk away. Meanwhile there’s a brand new huge bike garage in the new building. With bike repair and bike washing equipment. I didn’t use to bike to work, it’s a bit on the long side at 30min each way. But I have started doing it after I got an E-bike. Many coworkers do the same. Young coworkers seem to delay buying their first car longer than I did. Many even bike in winter (I’m not there yet)

Traffic on the highway is also not getting worse. It’s actually been fairly smooth ever since the pandemic. I suspect an increase in home office has helped, along with the gradual shift towards more biking and public transportation.
The Googles, Microsoft, Apples, and Amazon's of the world with access to 'real' humans are the ones with a leg up here. They already have the telemetry, now it's about effectively training models with it.
IMHO the advancements in technology related with industries in which the end product is digital (movies, animation, texts, programs, etc.,) instead of fundamental spatial services like automation of food productions, cleaning, garbage collection, house building, etc., is a direct consequence of physical space being a luxury around the world, with housing and renting prices skyrocketing.

The Garage Culture is a privilege of few.

Most working-class people are accepting to live into small boxes without space for even a table destined to drawing, reading and studying. Instead, they soon will use virtual desktops inside cheap Chinese Apple Vision Pros clones. Life will get harder and unhealthier.

While designers and some scientists know the importance of physical areas for developing certain activities, most people don't and are subjecting themselves and their children to sad living conditions.

edit: typo ("de" -> "the")
no, it doesnt.

not to be an asshole but i could stop reading carefully after your first sentence

when you claim something exists you should also let people confirm it by what principle and what problems. but you didn't include anything but words. when you really define those words you will find issues. mindfulness isn't real and a mind can't be puried by your (lack of) means. it's a scam.

nor is nirvana attained and nor did you attain the real nirvana

the nirvana you heard about was admitted to have been made up for people who werent ready for the real truth about it
The French are largely of Celtic descent, with some Frankish admixture in some regions, in others, practically none. Except in Gascony and the Pyrenees where they're Basque in descent, Gascon being of the same etymology as Basque.

People of Frankish descent are mainly found in the Rhinelands, which does include a bit of France, but is mostly located in modern Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks
Clearly we need more money laundering controls then. (/s)
Vague titles are bad news 99% of the time.

I say 99 not 100 because a certain VP in my org chart likes to schedule meetings called "News and updates" which is actually very innocent. Maybe he's playing the long con.
Humans train on self-generated data all the time, but compared to today's LLMs, humans have superior reasoning ability, which enables them to separate good from bad data. Humans can confirm many things for themselves if need be and our social hierarchies crystallize authority figures which perform curation for others. On top of that humans have a lifetime of experience with the real world, while LLMs rely only on reports of what the real world is like.

All in all LLMs being more gullible than your average 6 year old is really not helping. Humans will have to (continue to) curate the data we train LLMs on.
I wouldn't consider 'not handling leap seconds' as a pitfall. If you need to account for leap seconds, you're probably not going to use a general-purpose datetime library.

Unix time ignores leap seconds, so does RFC 5545 (iCal), and most modern libraries (Chrono, Temporal, NodaTime).
You're defending a corporation that has doxxed a YouTuber for posting a critical review. This is censorship, plain and simple, whether or not the corporation in question intended it to be an attack.

Even if it was an accident, which seems unlikely, wouldn't that vindicate the YouTuber's faux drama? See, this airline is so incompetently run that, when they complained about me, they made up shit and posted my passport instead of actual proof!
> So why then, if the rights and responsibilities of the corporation are legally distinct, and the law enforces a separation of intent and personalities, should the right of the individual get through to the corporation?

Because the two things have separate purposes.

In one case the corporation will commonly have multiple owners or have employees other than the owner(s), and then an owner isn't fully in control of all of the corporation's actions and so shouldn't have personal responsibility for everything it does.

In the other case the corporation wants to do something, which may not be the will of all of its owners and employees, but is the will of some of its owners or employees, who each individually have the right to it, so why shouldn't the corporation?

> Sole proprietorships, partnerships, and general associations do not have this separation. The rights and responsibilities are the same. So of course the rights of the owners should be available to their entity.

So if a landlord who doesn't bother to incorporate because the building is their only asset of consequence, or temporarily transfers the building to a natural person in the event of a problematic tenant, then as a result they should be able to challenge landlord-tenant laws on the basis of freedom of religion or freedom of association? It seems like this is just an excuse and the reason you might want these laws has nothing to do with whether the business has incorporated or not.
No. It doesn't apply "equally" to the Ant-Man 3 and Citizen Kane.
Who pays for the scaffolding today? My assumption would be the building owners would pay, to avoid paying for fixing the building itself, and it would a one time expense for the most part.

The items you suggest (daylighting, speed control measures, etc) would be costs the city would need to take care of, and require ongoing monthly costs. The power for the street lights, the staff to maintain the lights and do the extra speed control measures, depending on the speed control measures you’re thinking about, it could also mean civil engineers, construction crews, etc. All of this sounds very expensive.
This is a good example and I pondered it while writing the comment you replied to.

But my conclusion in this case is:

If there is some issue with breaking changes that prevents updating, or a deliberate decision for a certain version for a certain reason, it should be explained in a README and in the former case, the package manager should point out the conflicting dependencies in case you try to update.
According to this list, even its current state, the Nevada Gigafactory has the most floorspace of any warehouse in the world (5.3 million ft², followed by Boeing with 4.3 million ft²). Not entirely unimpressive.

https://www.avantauk.com/top-14-largest-warehouses-in-the-wo...
Why should it be (1/2)*i improvement rate ? It could be 1/i ? I don't understand this argument.
If LLM needs so much babysitting then singularity is certainly not going to happen.
Ya anyone that tells you crypto solves the problems of bad actors is delusional or pawning a bill of goods.
Needle in the haystack. Quality content is the needle, SEO spam is the hay. AI is the hay making machine.

Besides curation from a trusted source, what other solutions are there to prevent drowning in hay?
The Internet is a pull model. I can go to Gwern's website directly and not care that most other websites have crap on them.

People choose to use push models for content through meta properties, tiktok, and aggregators like reddit and HN, but nothing is forcing them to. If they push enough bad content, people won't keep using them. Already happened with Facebook and Reddit predecessors, probably happening to Reddit now.

It doesn't matter how big the haystack is when you have the ability to go directly to the needle.
I know this comparison has been made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

That Michigan PhD student dump was by an unauthorized third party and was shut down. But was the pricing reasonable? Are admins of old school message boards sitting on now valuable DB dumps of activity on the board in the form of millions of messages?
Thats what I said. I'm also just waxing on how hard the business is. If there are 1000 pokemon clones available it does whether you want to admit it or not dilute the value of their IP franchise.

If there is pokemon at $50 and mokemon at $20 lots of parents that spend for their kids are just going to pick the cheaper option.

Nintendo as I was saying, has made strong commitments to maintaining the quality and accessibility of their products. In a business this competitive I and you don't really know where the appropriate line is from litigation bully to just staying in business as far as law goes.
> longer they will use trains

There isn't really any data backing up this claim.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/e...

Planes are much popular and this data seems to include commuters so the proportion of people travelling medium to long distances by train is much lower (and most medium/intercity travel is obviously usually done by car and not trains..)

Amongst other significant issues (e.g. cross border travel) high-speed trains tend to be quite expensive, so unless you're travelling alone a car is usually cheaper.
Have you actually used an LLM? GPT-4 is (well was before turbo) an anti-bullshit machine.

You could ask it any question, ”why does my hair look dead if using a hairdryer” and it actually gave an on-point 100% relevant no-bullshit answer. Try googling that, it’s a million seo spam results, none which answer the question
I'm slightly surprised that the passenger here (Josh Cahill) did not mention applying for a new passport. Although the stored biometric and encrypted information is clearly not accessible with merely a photograph, the passport number itself is sufficiently private to cause severe headaches if published publically!

With this in mind, it appears to me even more important to foster a norm of contactless identity verification at border controls. Ideally, you should never have to let your passport leave your person, and there would be international agreements to make custody of a non-citizen's passport illegal.
House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes
I think bullshit generation is a side effect of any new accelerating technology, not a specific type of new accelerating technology. When we learned to write things down it accelerated our society and our bullshit generation. When we learned to send information electronically it accelerated our society and our bullshit generation. The article already mentions the internet but neglects to mention that is already mostly bullshit prior to LLMs. We still find ways to extract the growing value and move on to the next innovation despite the growing bullshit though.
My kid tips 20% (my card) - her rides to college are short so there is an issue here with trips being cancelled by the drivers, so it is an incentive to get a trip from a regular.
You are spot-on (I think) with the point that identify and reputation will become much more important. I hope this will end up with system that help cultivate and verify reputation. I fear however that the identity leg is much easier to tackle.
IDMask – Encryption and Obfuscation of Database IDs