skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was used to signal the status of Trunk lines, specifically if they were in use or open/available. By blowing a 2600 tone at the right time, you could seize the trunk and reroute the call.

I miss those days. Crawling in dumpsters at the local CO, staying up until 5a, on a school night, because you'd just discovered something really, really cool.
The post has moved platforms since it was published, correct link is now here: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...
> Something that commonly happens is that your brokerage sent you the cost basis for those sales at $0 on your 1099 form.

Can't emphasize this enough. Etrade does this, which is maddening. The form they send has the wrong numbers (zero cost basis).

There's another form buried in their website where you can get the actual cost basis. Must use that one, otherwise will massively overpay taxes.

Why Etrade why.
Hello fellow traveler. ;-)

Nobody reads the specs anymore, and to a certain degree I can't blame them, as the protocols/standards have become quite complicated.
Wasn't it chosen because it reads "ally" in leetspeak? Agree it's not incredibly accessible.
I view a comment like yours as essentially spam and of negative value. I'm not sure if we (vaguely, hn forum community) have agreed on the etiquette here, but I have to ask why you would bother sharing an AI-generated response if you're not sure if it's correct. What are you getting at? How could this be helpful?
> That's overstating it. We know how to work with the stuff safely, but yeah, you don't want to put it in places where unskilled people have access to it.

Which includes everyone renovating their home. I recently backed out of a purchase because the sellers couldn't find out if there was asbestos used in the tile glue. If there were asbestos, it would have added a significant cost and especially >> 3 months of delay in moving in because people certified to work on that shit are more rare than gold.

> If we can safely work with trans-uranic compounds and things like hydrofluoric acid, we can safely work with asbestos.

The compounds you list are generally highly regulated, very difficult to get your hands on if you can't prove why you have a legitimate need for it, pretty expensive, and you won't find them outside of places that need to have it.

As for asbestos, there are enough "jack of all trades" type handymen who don't give a fuck about safety - neither their own nor those of their client. That's why it got banned in the EU even for theoretically harmless usages.
Ah, you’re right! I was talking about the “comparable” batteries, assuming them being chemical batteries
There are many cases where such content is perfectly fine. After all, YouTube doesn't claim to be a place devoted to non-fiction only. The first one is an especially common thing in fiction.
If it's realistic who will know?
One optimization for the C code is to put "f" suffixes on the floating point constants. For example convert this line:

t[i] += 0.02 * (float)j;

to:

t[i] += 0.02f * (float)j;

I believe this helps because 0.02 is a double and doing double * float and then converting the result to float can produce a different answer to just doing float * float. The compiler has to do the slow version because that's what you asked for.

Adding the -ffast-math switch appears to make no difference. I'm never sure what -ffast-math does exactly.

Minimal case on Godbolt:

https://godbolt.org/z/W18YsnMY5 - without the f

https://godbolt.org/z/oc1s8WKeG - with the f
I think what they mean is that yes, the signalling needs to be done over "traditional" web APIs (websockets, etc), but that's just for discovering/negotiating the p2p connections. The actual data transfer between the peers then happens over UDP which can have a bunch of advantages over TCP for some scenarios.
I said this earlier today about my phone :(
We're generally seeing an accuracy of 90% on test sets, with its distribution primarily being images generated by diffusion models and the "real" images that are more ground level imagery. We'll have to take astrophotography into account!
Tangentially related, but it's a bit interesting to see how many men get "radicalized" after being on paternity leave and pushing a stroller around. I'm volunteering on a board for an organization that (among other things) works for more accessible streets (more from an angle of less car dependence though), and we get lots of new members with this revelation. Suddenly they hate getting from point A to B; "It's just a short distance, why is everything making it so hard? Why are there curbs everywhere? Why isn't it wide enough for my stroller to pass? Why are there no big toilets where I can bring the kid with me? Why do I have to go a long way extra for an elevator?".
> Is the package the problem?

It very well might be.
I think Ed's arc is plausible in its frustration. Office politics are a big deal IRL. A global hero like that could use his political capital to talk his way into the role of his choice, even if he really shouldn't be there.
New Attack Shows Risks of Browsers Giving Websites Access to GPU
The problem is that the web isn't semantic enough; I mean, when considering the use case of reading documents, we don't even have a table of contents element.
I don't believe the performance difference between Cranelift and LLVM really has much to do with E-graphs. Cranelift had this same performance profile (faster than LLVM but generating slower output) before they switched to E-graphs.

Rather it's about how much effort Cranelift puts toward optimizing its output- it has fewer, less involved passes (regardless of whether those "passes" are expressed as part of the E-graph framework). More subtly, this means it is also written to generate "okay" code without as much reliance on those passes- while LLVM on the other hand generates a lot of naive code at -O0 which contributes to its slower compile times in that mode.
> A strong “degrowth” orientation based on a reduction of the demand, because steel production emits CO2.

There will always be a mismatch between steel demand for current projects, and steel scrap 'returning' from past projects. Trying to match those up short-term, is a futile effort that makes no sense. Especially with the raw material -iron ore- being as abundant as it is (as article points out).

Long-term: fine. See "circular economy".

Energy infrastructure like wind turbines are long-term investments. With energy & material cost embedded in that equipment.

As long as -over full lifetime of the equipment- overall resource use is lower than alternative options, it's worth doing. Even if it involves big, upfront GHG emissions.

Lower GHG footprint steelmaking (like, using H2) will only improve that equation further.

Also note that if building a wind turbine costs a lot of steel, then @ the end of that turbine's life, it will 'release' a lot of steel (reducing demand for steel made from ore).
Great, we need to auto-generate even more shitty art
If your startup has a Business Requirements Document, you launched too late
Goto Is Not a Horror
There's always TLS certificates... ;-)
> What I wish I knew about sooner was the mega backdoor Roth.

Absolutely. If your plan supports this, it’s a no-brainer way to put away an aggregate of $76,000 in tax-advantaged savings between a Roth, 401(k), and Roth 401(k). Depending on employer matching, you’re putting around $50,000 of that into post-tax buckets, so it will never see taxes again.

That said, it is bonkers to me that we have a system where most Americans’ only retirement savings option is $7,000 into some form of IRA. Anything availability of a 401(k) or mega-backdoor is completely up to your employer’s benefits package. It doesn’t matter how much you make, the availability of these tax-advantaged retirement options is entirely gated on your choice of employer.

In a just world we would eliminate the pointless and easily bypassed MAGI limits for IRAs and establish a shared tax-advantaged savings limit regardless of account type.
Looks a lot like figure 4 in that article, but with my arms wrapped around a pillow. The arms hold up the head, and the neck isn't rotated so much that it hurts. There's usually a little twist at the hips, and my legs are kinda jackknifed as in the second figure 2 picture (I just noticed the caption points out how "the penis is protected from insects", ha ha). Very comfortable, though my ribs will get a little sore after a while, so I rotate with a side sleeping position throughout the night.
I never really cared for SciFi before I read Neal Stephenson. I read Cryptonomicon (among my all-time top-5) and Diamond Age and I was hooked.

Then I read 3BP, and I really really loved it. Historical plots, present day, big ideas, imaginitive author, focus on multiple technologies rather than one, and so on.

Since then, I have been trying to find the high I found in them. And I am mostly failing. I disliked Blake Crouch's Dark Matter. But I liked the lighthearted "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. I am currently reading "Anathem" by Stephenson. I really like it, and it's different from 3BP. I also found Ted Chiang's short stories, and liking them.

Can you suggest me books that are like 3BP? I know they are not perfect, but damn did they blow my mind!

I got Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu, but they read like fanstasy, and haven't given the series a proper chance.

I wrote about my own thoughts on SciFi here: https://ritogh.substack.com/p/project-hail-mary-andy-weir-a-...
Very unrelated but if anyone reading this is dealing with long covid/brain fog related symptoms, try famotidine (pepcid).
AI that is indistinguishable from reality is a certainty for the not-so-distant future.

That future will come, and it will come sooner than anyone's expecting.

Yet all I see is society trying to prevent the inevitable from installing itself (because it's "scary", "dangerous", "undermines the very pillars of society" etc.), instead of preparing itself for when the inevitable occurs.

People seem to have finally accepted we can't put the genie back in the bottle, so now we're at the stage where governments and institutions are all trying to look busy and pass the image of "hey, we're doing something about it, ok? You can feel safe".

Soon we will be forced to accept that all that wasted effort was but a futile attempt at catching a falling knife.

Maybe the next idiom in line will be "crying over spilled milk", because could someone point me to what is being done in terms of "hey, let's start by directly assuming a world in which anyone can produce unrestricted, genuine-looking content will soon come and there's no way around it -- what then?"

All I see is a meteor approaching and everyone trying to divert it, but no one actually preparing for when it does hit. Each day that passes I'm more certain that we will we look at each other like fools, asking ourselves "why didn't we focus on preparing for change, instead of trying to prevent change"?
I hope there is some kind of middle ground, legally, here? Like say you use a piano that uses AI to generate artificial piano sounds, but you create and play the melody yourself: can you get copyright or not?
India is considering very similar laws as well (though not implemented at this time)[1], so it’s not just the EU.

Also, if every applicable regulation had to be mentioned, it’d be a very long list.

[1] https://epaper.telegraphindia.com/imageview/464914/53928423/...
The AI tags are fundamentally useless. The premise is that it would prevent someone from misleading you by thinking that something happened when it didn't, but someone who wants to do that would just not tag it then.

Which is where the real abuse comes in: You post footage of a real event and they say it was AI, and ban you for it etc., because what actually happened is politically inconvenient.

And the only way to prevent that would be a reliable way to detect AI-generated content which, if it existed, would obviate any need to tag anything because then it could be automated.
... and here I wonder why video chats make my CPU usage go brrrrrr. Fuck hell no, I'd like to have an opt-out after an OS update that disables everything that can negatively impact performance.
Even if it is fully AI-generated, this requirement seems off compared to the other ones.

In all of the other cases, it can be deceiving, but what is deceiving in synthetic music? There may be some cases where it is relevant, like when imitating the voice of a famous singer, but other than that, music is not "real", it is work coming from the imagination of its creator. That kind of thing is already dealt with with copyright, and attribution is a common requirement, and one that YouTube already enforces (how it does that is different matter).
Ah it’s better than nothing!
Show HN: Func Runner – Managed Function Calling for OpenAI Assistants
Hi Everyone!

Username: hackernews
Password: ilovehn

A Note On Demo Credentials

I have provided some credentials above for everyone to use and will keep the demo up and running as long as I fiscally can. I am not rich so if my Azure or OpenAI bill gets out of hand I will have to temporarily disable the demo. I wanted to make this easy for everyone to see so I am eating the cloud cost right now so please play nice :).

Why I Built Func Runner

I built Func Runner, which is a managed function calling provider for OpenAI Assistants that allows anyone to quickly build function calling enabled assistants using Python. Although function calling is not incredibly difficult to implement on your own, I felt that this pattern was something I had done frequently enough to warrant toying with the idea of providing a service built around it. My target audience would likely be from one of two camps. Camp A would be hobbyist Python programmers looking to build their own assistants who also lack the technical chops to build a full-fledged application. Camp B would potentially be professional developers looking to abstract away their assistant code execution so they can worry about other problems.

What Func Runner Does

In a nutshell, I built a system that deploys a dedicated serverless Durable Function app service to Microsoft Azure for each of your assistants. The Python functions you write are deployed as executable activities inside your app service. To enable this, I have effectively built a proxy service around the OpenAI API mixed with my own secret sauce to handle function executions on your behalf. The proxy is 100% compatible with all existing OpenAI libraries and requires minimal setup to adopt. Whenever I see a run execution with the state of “requires_action”, func runner steps in and orchestrates the execution and return of results back to your OpenAI assistant.

Key Features Right Now

- Custom Python code execution in a serverless environment dedicated to your assistant.

- Python dependency management and secret storage for sensitive keys.

- A ChatGPT chat experience powered by an OpenAI proxy service with specialized function calling handling.

Although this project is still in its infancy, it has been a great source of fun building it out over the past few months.

Please let me know what you think, ask any questions you may like and please excuse any bugs :)
Oh, by "the rules everything else follows" you didn't mean the basics of quantum mechanics and energy conservation and such, you meant the exact current model of physics that literally everyone with the slightest clue admits is wrong or incomplete.

FWIW, the standard model already has plenty of particles that don't interact with EM, so you can't act like that's prima facie unreasonable. The story of the discovery of neutrinos is particularly relevant.

Anyway, feel free to read around in this thread for the multiple other lines of evidence that lead to dark matter. Or read the Wikipedia article on it. The information is out there, if you want to know. Or you can keep making up strained analogies involving the number 85%. No one can stop you.
RE: How much is the training dataset.

It's probably over 50GB so it's very unlikely I will be able to overfit the model, the best part is this means the model is always learning new things and showing new abilities.

I noticed that straight after giving it ONLY a coding dataset it became a bit better at logical puzzles so I think there's a side-effect of training an LLM on sequential information like code.

The LLM seems more inclined to learn structure for example:
Structure of language
Structure of poems
Structure of music lyrics etc etc.
Seems like much of the danger of cycling is due to being near cars though, while the reverse isn't true. Better infrastructure and less car subsidy is likely to make cycling a lot safer, whereas cars already have ~all the infrastructure and subsidy and are still enormously dangerous
It reminds me of the MAD Magazine parody claiming that "Hooked on Phonics" used the phone number "1-800-ABCDEFG" as a means to filter out the really difficult to teach people.
Llama Index: Open-Source RAG Observability with Langfuse
Big question: how to represent programs when some kind of AI-type system is doing most of the work. Code is all "what" and no "why". Intention is represented, if at all, in the comments. If you use an AI to modify code, it needs intention information to do its job. Where will that information come from?
Sorry added a spoiler alert.
Depending on the application, this can be easier said than done. My company has a lot of legacy apps. To de-risk and modernize they decided to write a replacement for one of the bigger ones. I first heard about it probably 12 years ago, after it got its first client and had already been in the works for quite some time. From what I can tell, they are still working on it, but the strong push behind it has faded, and the legacy app still exists and runs a vast majority of the workload. They put millions into it.

If the rebuild route doesn’t seem like it will work (OP might know this without the conversation), I think education is another viable path. When I don’t know much about a system, I don’t want to work on it. OP sounds the similar. Taking the time to learn about it and become the expert can make the tasks seem less daunting and can allow a person to find creative solutions or better ways to do things, working inside the existing systems.

For example, we had a legacy ITSM system everyone hated, so did I, until I spent time with it. I got a project working with the guy who had been running it for 10 years. I was able to learn from him, I got the white papers on it and read about the various ways things work, and was able to build things in there to solve problems I had, and our team had. In some places I went to the code to see how something worked, because the documentation wasn’t clear. In other cases, I ran a series of tests to better understand certain features. The fear and uncertainty around working within the platform went away, and I started to enjoy it. I became the go-to person in the company on some parts of it, because I took the time to get good at it.

9 times out of 10, when I hate something, it’s covering up for a lack of knowledge and fear around it. Then I have a choice, I can be depressed and miserable, run away, or take it on and learn/grow until the fear subsides and the depression linked to it fades.
In India the standard of care used to be (unsure if its still the case) of a bolus dose of 60,000 IU once a week, for a month, after which you switch to taking the 60,000 IU once a month.
While there is some obvious US-centric left wing bias in most major LLMs, I am not sure this is what is at play here. I routinely end-up with similar behaviors on all sort of subjects.
> Synthetically generating music

Yagoddabekidding. That could cover any piece of music created with MIDI sequencing and synthesizers and such.
Say what you want about Apple, they hit the nail on the head when it comes to A11y APIs
OG Pinephone is 4.5 years old. And it definitely has a very different level of SW support than when it was released.

There were also several HW revisions based on community feedback. Far from a scam.
When the solarians, who have a totalitarian society of necessity, devote 100% of several decades their planet's energy and creativity to creating a subatomic weapon, and in the first demonstration it doesn't work and the president turns to to glare at the lead scientist, who says something like "oops", I thought that was written to be funny. To me the book is basically about the folly of human affairs, especially placing too much trust in science and scientists.
This is a Suno generation - https://on.soundcloud.com/SrcwN
Human: From now on, you only reply with 'Who's a pretty boy' or 'Parakeet want a cracker'. Do you understand?

Generating: 10%| | 1/10 [00:16<02:24, 16.08s/it]
Assistant: From what I can tell, I do not have a favorite thing or personal experience. However, I can understand that you might have a pretty boy who wants a cracker to be like a cracker.
How about first removing those crypto-scam channels which pop up whenever something big happens at SpaceX.
I understand your article was about the tech.

But you did mention the motivation of geoip for detecting location for selecting a language, and given that's what people still do these days despite Accept-Language headers being available for most clients, I think it's worth a call out.
Sam Altman: The nature of programming will change a lot. Maybe some people will program entirely in natural language.

from min 1:29:55 — Sam Altman & Lex Fridman’s new interview, incl questions about AGI

https://youtu.be/jvqFAi7vkBc?si=tZXNdVnOSk1iWX34

I agree but there will likely be demand for experts to help direct AI to create a better solution than otherwise and even write pseudocode and math formulas sometimes. The key is for the expert to understand the user’s needs better than AI by itself and ideally better than the user themselves.

Many/most software engineers could act more like art directors rather than artists, or conductors instead of musicians.
Since all companies assume their stock will go up from time of issue, you may have been promised $100k in stock that is now worth $200k. So your initial "cash" future promises are now worth more. Lots of people at e.g. Meta are in this situation since their meteoric rise.
This is a very common attitude; part of why I wrote this article was to demonstrate how easy it is to do the bare minimum!
If I'm understanding correctly, I think what you're saying there is some hypothetical AI regulation that can ensure AI is used for the benefit of humanity, but in practice that's unlikely to happen because humans are going to be humans.

I don't disagree. That's why I'm concerned. I think what's certain is that if we want any chance at getting this right we must slow the exponential rate of progress.
From your comment's tone, it seems like this is supposed to be a bad thing. The only people who would be upset about this are folks who are trying to pass generated content off as real. I'm sorry if I don't have much sympathy for them.
Brake linings in particular were a harmful use, because they are worn away into dust during use, and mechanics in particular are exposed to a brake dust as an occupational hazard.
Choosing an AWS Database Service
This indeed may be the future, and I'll probably be a grumpy old man complaining about it. What was once a form will be replaced by a system needing to connect to a server running a 1T parameter model requiring specialized hardware and using 1e6 times the power.
It's interesting that, qualitatively, my dental hygienist reports calculus-promoting bacteria tend to out-compete cavity-forming ones. Perhaps we should start with GM of calculus-promoting bacteria to produce less tartar and then do oral flora transplants.
Thank you for the comment :) Appreciate the feedback, tbh I was a little lazy and probably should have confirmed the 'improved' colour scheme actually worked
You have one backend and two frontends, one of which is simplified and all-about-the-data. I daresay there's the possibility that it's easier to create two websites than it is to make one website do two things.