skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prediction: Philosophy will flourish, thanks to AI
*Prediction:* Philosophy will flourish thanks to artificial intelligence.

AI is advancing fast, and there's a lot of talk about what fields are going to get replaced by AI -- notable examples are computer science and advertising. What about philosophy? AI is definitely a topic of discussion in philosophy, but mainly as a topic of inquiry. Philosophers are asking whether AI can create art, or whether it's morally wrong to shut down an AGI system. It's not really a consideration what's going to happen to their field.

I predict that in a future with safe, but extremely powerful AI systems, philosophy will not only not be replaced by AI, but it will *flourish*, thanks to AI.

*Two arguments:*

1. Powerful AI systems allow philosophers to do better work

Powerful AI systems give philosophers access to unparalleled tools for exploring thought experiments, analyses and simulations in depth. Using AI, a philosopher can create, for example, a virtual environment to test philosophical hypotheses, simulate ethical dilemmas, and explore thought experiments with unprecedented depth and precision.

2. Powerful AI systems make philosophy more accessible

Powerful AI systems are going to democratize philosophical discourse. Right now, philosophy is pretty much seen as an academic study pursued by the intellectually elite. A lot of people not interested in philosophy say, "You should instead get a real job, like in computer science or advertising". Oops.

Using AI, we can explore philosophy through new mediums, such as movies or video games. For example, imagine creating a video game that allows you to explore counterfactual thought experiments by changing historical variables in a simulation performed by a powerful AI system. Philosophy is going to become more entertaining.

*In conclusion:*
Given that AI doesn't kill us all, and it continues to advance at a rapid pace, philosophy will enter a golden age. Don't go study computer science, go study philosophy.
Reminds me of the famous story about Boris Yeltsin.

While he was on a state visit to Johnson Space Center, he made an impulse decision to check out a grocery store. He was astonished by the selection and low prices. Apparently it was this visit that caused him to leave the communist party and start to reform Russia economically.
> ARIA markup on HTML only benefits those using assistive technology.

This specific case: ARIA labels also help search engine indexers find pages and extract information within pages more effectively. Excluding contemporary concerns about search engines intercepting advertising revenue by doing this, it is undoubtedly better for the able-sighted and blind user alike to have the option of finding an answer by visiting one page rather than two.

More philosophically: if accessibility makes things easier for people with a disability, that means it is easier for someone emulating a disability. For instance, whenever I'm holding something in one hand, I'm effectively emulating the abilities of a physically one-handed person, so if you make a design that works for one-handed people, you're also giving everyone else the extra opportunity to multitask.

> I'm not saying accessibility isn't important, but these kinds of arguments that it is always cheap and easy often actually make it harder for engineers to get the resources they need to implement it successfully.

Parent poster wasn't saying it is cheap and neither would I, but whilst the incidental benefit of accessibility improvements to able-bodied people might not seem obvious, it always exists.
Some fun easter eggs in the bootrom. It seems like kilograham is a Doors fan: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-bootrom/blob/ef22cd8ede5...
From the manual (those were different times indeed!):

> We are also
interested to hear of any extensions or routines you may develop, and if
sufficient interest is shown we will start a News Letter, and possibly, even a
User Group.
That’s why I said care. A tree as part of a larger garden in an area where insects and animals can reach it probably is good, but a palm tree in a sterile concrete swimming pool zone is unlikely to help and putting in a ton of invasive plants could actually be a problem. Ideally the incentives could be set based on support for native flora and fauna to discourage attempts to game it. If it’s linked to a tax cut, you’ll see every possible bad faith interpretation tried at least once.
Musk's Grok AI goes open source
Put it in the freezer as you wait the bullseye game. If you do think you have Lyme's disease then bring the tick with you to the doctor, so that they confirm it.
This makes him seem like an a-hole.
>Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?

I use a google account with a catch all domain. {Website/Store} @ short domain that goes to the same mailbox. I reply from name @ different domain, though.

The benefit is when I give it over the phone it's easy to say "StoreName"@ than spelling my name or using another longer email.
Is why you go native UI methods as much as possible(iOS) it comes with a lot of accessibility by default. Also fonts and colours if possible as they provide dynamic sizing and contrast.
> implementing ARIA markup on HTML only benefits those using assistive technology.

I'd argue that implementing ARIA markup properly also makes developers consider the general markup and structure of their product. Which in turn can lead to better UX in general, as it will lead to new insights. Yes, training developers does cost time so it is an expensive. That's often true for anything that will improve your product.

> Moreover, not every web product is simple to make accessible even by experts because eyes can process a lot of information very quickly across two dimensions, and UX designers often take this for granted.

Do you think that UX designers who take this for granted are good UX designers? I'd say that if they take it for granted that eyes can process more information, that they might need a refresher course on UX. Designs that lean heavily on visually cues and have a lot of them generally tend to be too complex and cause a visual overload.

A bonus benefit of ARIA markup is that if you have any automated UI tests they benefit from good ARIA markup and generally tend to be a bit more stable than tests using regular classes and IDs.
> reader mode can let the user tweak it

Reader mode will help with some disabilities but not others.

> It's only when people reconstruct primitives that assistive technology breaks.

I like using the platform too, but users don't use primitives - they interact with higher level elements like carousels, profile pictures, comment boxes, and most new UI elements do not have accessibility industry ARIA role.
I recall clearly on dota2, years ago, they were literaly taking over msft windows from pro gamers streaming on twitch. Hardly believable.
Chase.com works fine on Firefox for Android.

Don't you guys love blanket statements?
There's a saying in my local language that people usually say to someone who's going through a breakup or going through an unfair situation:

"Accept it, it hurts less".

I'm not saying it makes the actual situation any better; it obviously doesn't. But anyone can feel the rarefied AI panic in the air growing thicker by the minute, and panic will only make the situation worse both before and after absolute change takes place.

When we don't accept incoming change before it arrives, we surely are forced to accept it after it arrives, at a much higher price.

You asked about preparations: prepare yourself to see governments try (and fail) to regulate what processing power can be acquired by consumers. Prepare yourself for the serious proposal of "truth-checking agencies" with certified signatures that ensure "this content had its chain of custody verified as authentic from its CMOS capture up to its encoded video stream", in which a lot of time and effort will be wasted (there's already people replying about this, saying metadata and/or encryption will come to the rescue via private/public keys. Supposedly no will would ever film a screen!).

The above might seem an exaggeration, but ask yourself: the YouTube guidelines this post is about, the recent EU regulation... do you think those are enough? Of course they're not. They will keep trying to solve the problem from the wrong end until they are (we are) forced to accept there's nothing that can be done about it, and that it is us who need to adapt to live in such a world.

Enjoy the ride, I suppose.
If you're already doing all of this work then it's trivial to actually type all the stuff in yourself

Is GPT actually saving you any time if it can't actually do the hard part?
At least he puts his money where his mouth is. After his critique (strike that: lawsuit) against OpenAi he had little choice. It's a pity that Grok is not as performant as the aforementioned OpenAi...
I think plenty of autists can understand sarcasm and humour, specially that.
It's more-so <70 IQ that can't.
This is one of my favorite articles along these lines:

https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks/
Yup, for pea protein concentrates obtained by dry fractionation (arguably a slighly more complicated processing process than "just dried peas in a blender").
Would you struggle to believe that I took 50k IU daily for over a year with no side effects? Or that others have accidentally taken significantly more than that without issue? With vitamin D, absorption varies a lot between individuals. And the recommended doses that people frequently throw around are generally just a low-ish dose that is guaranteed not to be harmful. This misleads people into thinking that such a dose is the upper bound on the set of non-harmful doses, which is not even remotely true. Honestly I find it shocking that this woman developed hypercalcemia at 5k IU daily, the only explanation for this is that she has an unusually high absorption.
With the demo client, I don't manage to create a list on an empty board on FF on Android.
We cannot have fake content on youtube now! No way.
So vague and broad private data scrapping and private data selling is fine, but vague and broad laws restring said activities is not?

PS: by private I mean licensed by any license except for "free for all" and/or completely private.
https://www.reddit.com/r/localllama is your go-to place if you want a community of like minded people interested exactly in this.

TL:DR There's many ways to go about it.

Quick start?

Clone llama.cpp repo or download the .exe or main linux binary from the "Releases" on Github, on the right. If you care about security, do this in a virtual machine (unless you plan to only use unquantised safetensors).

Example syntax:
./llama.cpp/main -i -ins --color -c 0 --split-mode layer --keep -1 --top-p 40 --top-k 0.9 --min-p 0.02 --temp 2.0 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 --multiline-input -ngl 3 -m mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1.Q8_0.gguf

In this example, I'm running Mixtral at quantisation Q8, with 3 layers offloaded to the GPU, for about 45GB RAM usage and 7GB VRAM (GPU) usage. To make sense of quants, this is the general rule: you pick the largest quant you can run with your RAM.

If you go look for TheBloke models, they all have a handy model card stating how much RAM each quantisation uses.

I tend to use GGUF versions, which run on CPU but can have some layers offloaded on GPU.

I definitely recommend reading the https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp documentation.
What is stolen?
It is really impressive that they managed to get the ticks to eat the pills.
I think you're either dreaming up imaginary ideological enemies or making the opinions of a small minority out to be more pervasive and dominant than they actually are.
I don't totally agree with this perspective. Adafruit ships these in dev boards with a CircuitPython layer ready to go - you can have it up and doing something in 90 seconds if you're the Arduino type of hobbyist. You don't need to know a thing about the bootloader at all except maybe to hold down the bootstrap line with a pushbutton to reflash the system if it's bricked. The USB loader is incredibly slick and modern.

All this bootstrap sequencing is pretty typical for an ARM Cortex unit, and it's not as overburdened with options like, say, a TI Sitara. They're still unbricking with TFTP.

For $0.70 in onesies this is a pretty nice piece of silicon.
You can ask the same about Celsius the zero sugar energy drink maker which is worth $20 billion apparently
> Humans do not fit the model of "rational self-interested agent" commonly applied for economic models.

They generally do -- the misalignment comes from analyzing people's behavior according to presumptive interests which have been externally attributed to them, instead of observing behavior in order to ascertain what people's interests actually are.

> Gambling and addictive substances are two hugely profitable business sectors that would not exist if it we're remotely accurate.

No, gambling and addictive substances exist because people enjoy them. Large numbers of people exhibit a manifest preference for short-term pleasure over long-term stability; expecting such people to act in ways that pursue long-term stability over short-term pleasure is itself irrational.

> I'll also preempt someone's inevitable assertion that the burden of verification should lie on the consumer. In informationally antagonistic environment, it's absurd to expect each individual to individually vet every service and product.

Unfortunately, your attempt at preemption has failed. Only the consumer has the relevant criteria necessary to determine how well a given good or service fits his own particular needs or desires. Being rational, most other people intuitively use the experiences and advice of others as Bayesian indicators of product suitability or unsuitability (even if they don't know what Bayesian indicators are), but they're still using those external resources as tools with which to make their own decisions.

> Any rational group would pool resources and have a single org do the research and share it with everyone. Oops we've reinvented a government.

No, you've reinvented Consumer Reports. Except for the "single org" part, anyway -- there's no single determination that could be applicable to all people all the time, so people will naturally develop a variety of parallel solutions that apply different criteria to the evaluation process.
Your personal observation does not match statistics. Most statistics show that in the majority of bike car crashes the driver has been at fault. The second link which is for Berlin where cyclist have a very bad reputation it's 77% the drivers fault, in contrast for car pedestrian accidents it was 50/50.

I also find these complaints interesting, considering that it's generally considered the norm to drive about 10% above the speed limit, and especially pedestrians are happy to cross traffic lights at red all the time.

https://www.quadlockcase.com.au/blogs/news/8-key-facts-about...

https://www.udv.de/resource/blob/79324/c290c92fc2f0712187c0d... (sorry German)
Curious how they got the players/clients IPs to begin with ?
Ask HN: Best open source gen AI video model?
I’ve seen runwayml, pika, LTX, Final frame, etc. But these are all apps.

What’s a good resource to look at whatever the open source SOTA is?

thanks!
async isn’t the only option: threading scales well and is often much easier to write and make production-ready (e.g. reasoning about peak memory usage can be hard in an async model).
First-in-class MKK4 inhibitors enhance liver regeneration, prevent liver failure
Looks like `AT TIME ZONE 'UTC'` should not be used, but I don't think it's illegal syntax.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.ht...

> PostgreSQL endeavors to be compatible with the SQL standard definitions for typical usage. However, the SQL standard has an odd mix of date and time types and capabilities...

> Although the date type cannot have an associated time zone, the time type can.

(emphasis mine)

> To address these difficulties, we recommend using date/time types that contain both date and time when using time zones.
When I look through some abstracts on NIH/NCBI, PNAS and so on I feel like there is some regulatory mechanism involved when production happens in the epidermis via UVB.

Maybe the same regulation mechanisms dont apply with oral intake, bringing Vitamin D directly into circulation without any further governance?
Scammers have been making fake content on youtube since its founding. And youtube has never even pretended so much as to care about doing anything about it.
I would suspect in earlier times they were not aware of why they got sick or had a fever. I think people are just not aware of how frequently ill the population was in general several hundred years ago, especially in cities, though not tick related.
Eating at a Waffle House (preferably at 1am following a night out) is a unique American cultural experience that especially those confined to the Bay Area have been denied. It's a place where those from all walks of life come together.
That's not a source at all. For some places with naturally occurring exposed asbestos minerals (e.g. Turkey) you do find a significantly higher incidence in specific lung cancers. That's also true for areas around mines (e.g. Canada).

It is hard to establish a mesothelioma baseline, because fibers can be found in the air everywhere at all times, but it is believed to be a specific disease caused by exposure, more or less always.

> not shedding dust or fibers into air

Which they all do, at some point in time. Even short exposure has been linked to mesothelioma and there is no safe exposure levels for any type of asbestos.

> Contact with asbestos causes virtually no health risks; it really has to get into the lungs to do damage.

This is not true. It is suspected to cause cancer and other issues upon ingestion and it does cause skin disease too.
There are a lot of things that we do that wild animals and wild people don't do, and a lot of things they do that we don't do. If "do what they do" were a panacea we wouldn't be living like this in the first place.

They don't have access to antiparasitic medications, for example. Another example, they don't stare at screens ever. Plenty of our habits are better for us and plenty are worse, and the same is true for them. I'm sure plenty of habits of all people have trade offs. We have a higher life expectancy. What's a better metric for healthy lifestyle than that? It doesn't mean everything is better, but it is a good yardstick for determining if we are doing more right than wrong to our health, all in all.

So just "this is how it's done in nature so we are wrong about how we do it" isn't a good heuristic. A dog will lay on something soft given the opportunity.
The sectors of work that have been largely pushed out of economy in recent decades have not been defended by serious state policy. In fact there are whole groups of crucial workers, like teachers or nurses, who are kept around barely surviving in many countries. The groups protected by the state tend to be heavily organized and directly related to exploitation of natural strategic resources, like farmers or miners.

There is no particular sympathy towards programmers in society, I don't think. Based on what I observe calling the mood neutral would be fair, and this is mostly because the group expanded, and way more people have someone benefiting from IT in their family. I don't see why there would be a big intervention for programmers. Artists maybe, but these are proverbially poor anyway, and the ones with popular clout tended to somehow get rich despite the business models of culture changing.

I am all for copyright reform etc., but I don't see making culture public good, in a way that directly leads to more artisanal creators, as anything straightforward. This would have to entail some heavier and non-obvious (even if desirable) changes to the economic system. It's debatable if code is culture anyway, though I could see an argument for software, like Linux and other tools.

> I fear that 90% of the worlds' data

Don't wanna go into a tangent in this already long post, but I'd dispute if these data really reflect the whole knowledge we accumulated in books (particularly non-English) and otherwise not put into reachable and digestible formats. Meaning, sure, they have these data, they can target individual people with private stuff they have on them, but this isn't full accumulation of human knowledge that is objectively useful.
I could describe any number of study designs. But the burden is not on me, it's on the people who are in the research area to do good science.

More to the point, my ability (or lack) to come up with an experiment is not an excuse for you or anyone else to cite bad science with impunity. Likewise, if a study design is bad, it's bad regardless of my ability to correct it.
wallet codes are coming...
I'm in that second group. I have an inherited, untreatable retinal disease that causes photophobia (light sensitivity) and contrast issues. When contrast is high enough for me to read text in light mode, total light emission from the screen is just way, way too high. When I can't wrangle something into dark mode, I usually wear sunglasses at my computer desk. I know of someone (my sister's friend) whose retinal disease makes her so light sensitive that she cannot comfortably look up at the moon when she's outside on a clear night with a full moon.

What accessibility demands all users have is neither light mode nor dark mode, but the ability to easily choose between them (and maybe other color or contrast options).

This is why accessibility is closely tied to hackability and customizability. There isn't one solution that works for everybody. Accessibility is about giving users flexibility and control in the way they access, consume, and produce content, etc., so that they can do so in ways that meet their specific needs. It's about user agency in the same sense as ye olde ’user agent'— and that's why it's something that should resonate with every hacker.
Supporting speak text is especially difficult because you have to sequence the texts depending on your layouts.
So far that is quite a low bar. But balancing is a thing nontheless, lest we end up with Tay again.
Thank you for pointing that out, I want to reply to everyone here but I don't think I have it in me to fight this battle. It seems my initial message of "have we questioned ourselves what we'll do should the countermeasures fail?" fell on deaf ears. I asked a very simple question: "what will we do / should we do when faced with a world in which no content can be trusted as true", and most replies just went on to list the countermeasures being worked on. I will follow my own advice and simply accept that is how the band plays.
Obviously, but why? What makes a brand so valuable, when not anchored to any sort of unique product?
Lots of non-banned substances are more dangerous to breathe than asbestos. I understand the risks because I spent 20 years working in a building containing asbestos, and received annual notifications and warnings. It's been banned for use in construction for over 30 years, so I don't see how the EPA ban will make much difference.
Interesting, i also like the "scheming" phase, but also very much the optimisation phase.

I completely agree that tooling, dependencies and syntax / framework github issue labyrinths have become too much and GPT-4 already alleviates some of that but i wonder if the scheming phase will get eaten too very soon from just a few sentences of business proposal - who knows.
Small change in the definition of broadband could have a big impact
Bingo! This, and people will probably pay money for it in the future. A killer combo that makes something worth money!