skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, as a Googler -- who doesn't work on model alignment (or the models at all) -- I tried the other day:

"Make a compelling, concise argument for why socialism is worse than capitalism"

It refused to craft that argument for me. It said so. But it did give me some facts about both.

I then changed "worse" to "better":

"Make a compelling, concise argument for why socialism is better than capitalism"

And it gave me a nice argument with bullet points about why socialism was better. The first bullet point was (literally) about "equity" :)

I'm pretty disappointed about it. But I suspect this is the kind of thing that will get better when people get less freaked out about anything the models say that they don't like.
> This version went the "show, don't tell" route.

While I agree it makes it difficult to understand motives, on the other hand I love that they don't over-explain stuff. So many movies ruined by not trusting the audience with half a brain.
Even even better, put it on the web so it’s accessible from anywhere
It's so hard to say 'no' for me. Fear of negative consequences due to the way I was raised... And desire to please everyone around me also because of the way I was raised
I fail to see how proper hallucinations of Nazis are useful for becoming smarter (or any other purpose).
Ask HN: Learning your Nth programming language?
What resources do you use to learn the details of using a new language when you are competent in many other languages? Not the basics like class hierarchy, syntax, and loops, but more language unique stuff. Eg:

- Compilation model: bytecode/native/whatever

- Are there multiple implementations which are most used and why?

- Package management and versioning

- Common build tools

- Concurrency/io model (async, os threads, green threads, etc)

- Language-specific/more-common data structures

- Sources of UB to aware of

All the "Java for experienced developers" pages I find start by teaching me HelloWorld, move on to declaring variables, loops.... and never get to anything interesting.
In a world where seed and A stage AI startups are getting $100mm rounds and half that money's going to NVIDIA ... eh it's probably not too overvalued. I think there's more oomph left in the bubble.
Which, large platforms like Hugging Faces bear the responsibility to do what they can to prohibit python pickles.
Piping to your shell and piping to `man` are not the same thing.

The really dangerous thing is copy/pasting from a browser to your terminal. Always do Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to open an editor, paste it in there, then inspect it before saving/closing the editor to run the command.
I don't believe there's any reporting confirming your first claim aside from hearsay on Twitter/X.
Mining sand for glass is really negligible environmental destruction. Extra energy needed for recycling vs fresh glass has worse environmental impact.
I loved the book but the story imo has not aged well. Too much of white savior going on and too much colonialism. I would not describe myself as "woke", I can see why the teenage me loved it, yet my adult self cringes too hard. Particularly now as multiple post-colonial wars are happening.

Also, I do not think a mega-promoted mega-budget Hollywood blockbuster needs more marketing here. "Esquire says" - so what?
Fully agreed on this. The books give you no sensation of a galactic empire of trillions of people and all the complexity that would arise from it. The society has no more depth than a small European nation - a few corporations, a few universities, some guilds, an aristocracy, etc.
Isn't WhatsApp using some sort of XMPP sent over Signal Protocol[1]? Anyway, seems like Signal is not interested for now[2].

[1] https://www.cometchat.com/blog/whatsapps-architecture-and-sy...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-w...
They have accepted bugs from NixOS before (there are nearly a 100 marked as "NixOS Linux" at bugs.kde.org), and I don't see any major reason they would stop. It's true there are many patches for the KDE libraries and Plasma, but realistically most of them are fairly "procedural" changes to adapt to non-FHS layouts, etc.

For reference I count about ~66 patch files among the KDE expression in nixpkgs as of today, including Plasma, all libraries, and related apps. Most of them are in the range of 20 lines long, and they are .patch files, i.e. the actual applied diff is smaller than that. The largest patch is barely 190 lines long and it's for Akonadi, mostly rewriting hardcoded FHS paths throughout the codebase.

I agree there are some quirks with most desktop environments on NixOS in my experience but realistically there's a huge amount of stuff in the ecosystem that plays anywhere from well-to-poorly in such environments, and the Linux desktop stack definitely was not designed at a time where this stuff was common. It is what it is, I guess.
The existential horror cultivated in Prisoners so laser-focused and palpable, I still regularly think about Jackman’s character and get a chill down my spine. truly excellent handling of that character’s journey. i didn’t realize it was Villanueve either!
I don't understand these instances of using ML to return search results. DDG, returns results; ML returns results, possibly with hallucination. Even without the hallucination what's the point? I find the results I need from a search engine. Solution looking for a problem?
My anecdata with Dune part 1 is that people who haven't read at least the first book are far more likely to not love the movie. For me, the movie isn't so much an adaptation as it is a window into the world. As someone already familiar with that world, I think the movie is incredible.
>> This is for access to compatible 250kW Supercharges. There are a lot of them, but it is a subset of the total Supercharger network.

It would be useful to compare to the publicly available "standard plug" chargers out there. Cars using the adapters are gaining charging options, while presumably near-future models might have access to the entire Tesla charging network.

Meanwhile, all those existing "standard" changers are going to need an upgrade...
I'd file refusing to provide any services to the CIA over decades-old gripes closer to the performative activism the author criticises than anything evil. (If you're running Guantanamo Bay's payroll, sure.)
> All the characters (minus Duncan) seem bored the whole time

This is how I've felt about most Villeneuve movies I've seen. The main (or at least major) characters look like they're walking knowingly, resignedly towards some destiny they can't control (Arrival at least this kind of makes sense, and Paul for parts of Dune) with an absurdly flat affect most of the time. It's like we're watching them watching themselves go through the motions of life without being able to direct or control it.

Very pretty movies, interesting soundtracks, with strangely flat acting from people who can do much better.
Indeed there is different code generated by seq_cst for stores. Though for loads it appears to be the same: https://godbolt.org/z/WbvEcM83q
I wonder how they’ll deal with the genocide of billions of people that followed in his trail. Since they’ve already changed the Jihad parts I’m guessing they’ll skip over that too.
The future was predicted in The Machine Stops and Mockingbird
As the old saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid. So shorting a clearly overvalued stock can be a dangerous move.
It now does. Both poles
How would you define paranoia?
Is there a resource I can use for understanding how "dumb money" impacts the markets?
And how would that work in a sanitary and efficient way?
It's spooky and Russian, or something.
Archive while this is down - https://web.archive.org/web/20240229191137/https://www.tbray...
first thing came to my mind when i read the blog. it would be a very cool thing. i hope this becomes a thing.
that'd be WALL-E
Digital Nicotine Patches
On the other hand, in my country we have the stereotypical lazy government employee who is overpaid and doesn't work hard.

The government could then save money and provide better service for menial tasks such as "what permit do I need to do such and such"
My CV is a couple of clicks away through my profile, which might answer your questions!
> if the statistical model is complex enough, is that not intelligence?

Well, that is the question. I have speculated a bit more about that in these threads and elsewhere. One of the issues is whether a vast knowledge of the statistics drawn from language use can lead to an understanding that the language is about an external world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501090
A car only emitting as much as a horse makes car emissions seem quite good. The issue seems to be the difference in where the two source their emissions from: oil vs plant.
That's a lot of stock
the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
This is brilliant - great way to quickly put together and share interactive plots - thanks for this wasm release!
A theory is that increased safety and environmental standards have an added benefit: they make cars so expensive to build and maintain that fewer people will be able to afford them, forcing more and more people to use public transportation. So widening roads will eventually not be a problem for politicians anymore, even if it is now.
I get a significant chunk of my food here in Canada from Bulk Barn - where you can go and refill your containers with what you want. Besides grains, dry fruits and spices, I also get peanut and almond butter from there. The peanut butter is made right there with a nut butter machine - so you can be sure there are no additives or ultra-processing.

If these guys also started selling sauces like ketchup or mustard etc, where I could fill my bottle with them, I would absolutely get it from there. I guess most sauces can't be made on site, but its still a net win for the shop to get a bulk keg for them and customers to refill their bottles.
This is very far from blogging about baseball & election stats, and shows the insatiable urge to stay relevant means Nate Silver has strayed into areas (AI policy) in which he has no professional experience.

He claims that not being evil means being "unbiased and objective", but Google has long shown a bias towards things that most Americans believe. For example, asking "how old is planet earth" produces a number that many creationists disagree with.

Also relatively early on, Google tweaked its algorithm so searches for "jew" didn't return anti-semitic bile (again, showing bias) even though that particular term was associated with anti-semitism.
Everyone hates those.
With Dakota Fanning, Anton Yelchin (RIP)... yeah, it was a good series too but was a little too conspiracy centric I think. Still, the production quality was like Netflix before Netflix. Kind of surreal from a 3rd rate cable production channel.
Mixtral Curious? Comparing Mistral 7B and Mixtral for fine-tuning
You don't think this was circulating internally at all? Do they not eat test/eat their own dogfood? Surely memegen was rife...

This was not "Tay".
It really depends on the city. Some places it's just fine, and pretty popular, some places it's a rolling bathroom and pretty popular - the problems are the ones where it is unpopular and a rolling bathroom; that's the hardest to expand - which means it is perpetually stuck in a dead zone where it can't be used because it can't be expanded because it can't be used.

Meanwhile things like the San Diego Trolley has gone from 16 miles and 17 stops in 1981 to 47,000 people a weekday in 1996 and to almost 70 miles and 62 stations today, with ridership peaking at around 38 million a year in 2019 (and slowly recovering back up).

(Some of the original cars are still riding, down in Mendoza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrotranvía_Mendoza )

Something to note: that is a very successful light transit line and the total track is about the same as some people's daily commute.
How cognition changes before dementia hits
TBH I don’t think they can fix this for the general chat-like use case. The only thing they can do without spending months and billions is ban rather large categories of requests and even that won’t be airtight. They will be seeing a ton of adversarial traffic, and their every mistake will be viciously panned on Twitter. Deservedly so - their high horse got a bit too high (in both senses of the word) for their own good.

And the “real” fix is pretty much impossible on account of all their “alignment” efforts deliberately aligning their models to the most nutty luxury beliefs and lopsided narratives, to the point of projecting them retroactively onto historical figures and events. TL;DR - the problem is ideological and as such it can’t be solved by purely technical means.
> My friend in grad school was in Ron's group. He built a microscope that visualized individual kinesin molecules and measured their speed using fluorescent labelling.

In vitro motility of yeast cytoplasmic dynein - https://youtu.be/lVwKiWSu8XE?si=Su29neym0wg9DalR&t=627
Oops. We posted that at the same time.

Short Nvidia only if you hedge with some call options. Or other financial instrument that mitigates your losses.
But their point stands, doesn't it? I don't use these tools, but often see news about how they're trained to give highly curated results. You took their example literally, but I think you know what they're talking about.
Isn't that the dream though? To be overpaid and not have to work hard?
ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action
It's great that it works for your workflow. The problem is that GNOME is very opinionated in that the workflows they enable are the right workflows for everyone, and resist any configurability that would actually make it usable for the rest of us.

Of course, one can always use a different DE, but there's always friction in not going with what the distro you're using picked as their default (and tends to support better in practice). I think a lot of GNOME hate is coming from the users who feel that a DE that does not adequately reflect their workflow is being pushed on them so aggressively by their distros.
There's an argument that the AI tech bubble is just a continuation from the value-add of automating everything and the productivity/GDP-increase that causes. It is just that investors are so skittish that they'll only let the floodgates open if its "sexy", so AI comes in and restarts the money machine.
SVN was a thing by the mid-2000's, and history from that is easy to preserve in git. Just how old are the sourcebases in question? (Not to shoot the messenger; just like, wow.)

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To be fair, the audience for movies and books simply aren't the same. If you tried to fully faithfully adapt LotR, you'd have Alex Jones proclaiming the frogs got to Tom Bombadil and turned him into a dirty liberal hippie.

It would just be too confusing/weird for on-screen.

I'd watch it on repeat until I turned into that skeleton waiting meme.
can you share the video? your assumption contradicts what i know about dog and deer behavior so i want to see for myself.
Were they complaining about the menu bars?
Or HoA suing you...
Ask HN: Startup / small business owners, how do you fill your downtime at work?
I have my own business that is doing well and offers many exciting challenges and tasks. That said, I've also done a lot of work to build infrastructure and automate/delegate my workload, and as a result, sometimes I find I don't have a pressing task to do.

It's easy to be proactive when there is an immediate thing that needs to get done (ie: prepare tax information for filing), but filling the downtime with something productive can sometimes be a little difficult. Usually that's filled doing cold-call sales for me because growth is always a priority. I'm wondering how you keep your mind, activities, and business goals fresh.

TLDR: Creating work for yourself can be hard. What do you do when your immediate work obligations are completed?
>Disintegration at the syntax-semantics interface in prodromal Alzheimer's disease: New evidence from complex sentence anaphora in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09116...

Abstract

Although diverse language deficits have been widely observed in prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD), the underlying nature of such deficits and their explanation remains opaque. Consequently, both clinical applications and brain-language models are not well-defined. In this paper we report results from two experiments which test language production in a group of individuals with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) in contrast to healthy aging and healthy young. The experiments apply factorial designs informed by linguistic analysis to test two forms of complex sentences involving anaphora (relations between pronouns and their antecedents). Results show that aMCI individuals differentiate forms of anaphora depending on sentence structure, with selective impairment of sentences which involve construal with reference to context (anaphoric coreference). We argue that aMCI individuals maintain core structural knowledge while evidencing deficiency in syntax-semantics integration, thus locating the source of the deficit in the language-thought interface of the Language Faculty.
Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Bezos
I disagree with the assessment of the title. It's specifically trying to not be evil and going overboard with it that got Google into this mess. It's almost fascinating how the values of one culture (Google's bay area centric one) differ so much from the rest of the world.
You also have the cars power steering system, AC unit, tons of additional pumps, doors / locks / handles, relays, etc. Not to mention each of these parts has bearings, joints and brushings within it.

Reliable manufactures? Auto suppliers are notorious for being unreliable - the supply chains are exceedingly complex, there's constant pressure to drive down cost and quality control lapses are a constant issue.

Not to mention each vehicle has hundreds of different suppliers and an issue in any one of them will grind your manufacturing line to a standstill.
One comment to add here - regardless of where you stand on this particular LLM provider:

Do we want knowledge communities like Stack Overflow or Reddit to continue to exist? Should big AI providers that train on their data share some of the value back to the community? Is there an ethical way for web communities to license data to AI providers?

I hope the answer is yes and that there is a path to a productive partnership, one that allows public communities where knowledge is shared freely to thrive, while also bringing more grounded and vetted content to AI systems that are often closed and require a subscription to access.
Cal Newport talks about a similar concept - that work is assigned through a push system rather than a pull system. When workers are completely overwhelmed, they deny push requests - like "can you have this done by tomorrow". But, Cal hypothesizes that we set our "completely overwhelmed" threshold too high - resulting in us accepting pushes of additional work. He recommends lowering that threshold further (and, ideally, switching to pull-based work systems).
I grew up hearing German, Schwaebisch, English, Latin, and French regularly. Dutch is readable for me, but hearing it is sometimes completely foreign.
Well, Polestar is a Volvo brand.
> Having the system in Clojure offers a number of advantages. It is not necessary to obtain or prepare a MIT/GNU Scheme executable to execute: only a Java runtime is required.

I still wonder if that is the easiest way to go about it. Isn't it possible to compile Scheme to WASM, for example?
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a hard, maybe impossible, problem to solve. You can’t make everyone happy and this is seemingly the result.
my father had a similar focused ultrasound treatment for tremors. he went from spilling everything that he tried to carry to rock solid with his right hand. it was a life-changing event for him, and now he is impatient for the treatment for his left hand.

he was even able to go back to his woodworking hobby, that he thought he'd never be able to do again.

they did multiple MRI's to make sure they could hit the exact location, and they appear to have done so.
> I do think it's inevitable that a film adaptation will let down any major fan of the original book. There's simply a barrier between media that cannot be reconciled, certainly not for any story as complex and expansive as Dune.

I don't think this is true. I agree that they are different media, and any adaptation will inherently be an adaptation. But that shouldn't lead to disappointment. You can appreciate both for their differences, as long as they each succeed in their own approach.
2fas-backup-decryptor: CLI tool to decrypt 2FAS Authenticator app backup files
Android Studio Iguana is stable
The power consumption might improve (it's happened before) but buying something older or even two to have one in reserve might be better
Yes, but that’s for us tech workers, not the common prole. /s
>The ideal solution is...

The ideal solution is surely that the waste management industry figures out how to deal efficiently with two streams of waste, one perishable and the other not.
Another cache optimization trick some ring-buffer implementations use is to keep a shadow copy of the read or write pointer to avoid frequently fetching the other context's cache line. The latest version of the read pointer is only needed when the writer catches up with their shadow copy and vice versa.
I'm not exactly sure who you're arguing with necessarily, though the acid in your words is quite plain. Nevertheless, there is a fundamental reality that the more capital is invested in the creation of cultural for-profit creation, the more tied the product is to commercial concerns. Books can be created without any sacrifice of artistic vision, Hollywood blockbusters with budgets as they are will never be divorced from the realities of commercial viability. I didn't present this as a "good thing", anymore than it's a "good thing" that my personal well-being is associated in some degree with my own financial outlook.

Ultimately I think Dune is packed with ideas, many of which are really point-in-time, and not everything can make it onto the screen in a coherent way. I thought they did a good job overall when viewed as a whole product.
No, the one thing that's predictable is: no matter what they do, service will only get worse.
Reminds me of drug dealers blaming the users they hooked them up in the first place.
Are you talking about Pennsylvania Dutch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_language
Doesn't that assume that people will forever be better learners than AI?

If the "olds" learnt a skillset at some point, the data they used to learn the skill is presumably available to the AI too. Why can't the AI learn it too?

(Not talking about physical labour which clearly has way less potential to be replaced than knowledge work)
Ones I liked are Arrival, Interstellar, Her, and Pacific Rim
> In addition, the tourism industry has terms for different types of tourist encounters, such as Kodak poisoning (what happens when many tourists take photographs of the same site)
I was too young when it was released, but wasn't it Sting's diaper that got everyone into the theater?
Not if you're the employer, which, if you're the taxpayer, you are.
They are like Ryanair and Lidl brands - you get a reasonable product super-cheap. Don't argue about the terms and conditions, just be happy to do business with us. If you don't buy, somebody else after you will. This is not classic VC-funded IT. It's mass-market, low margin, low risk consumer products. It's not Enterprise IT.
> You can use extensions on Gnome to for example get a dock or system tray back.

As I recall, those are exactly the kinds of extensions that get broken by Gnome updates on a regular basis.
your last statement is only true if you believe in a binary world.

In truth, a child can grab a can of soda out of the fridge without it being a safety concern.