skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related (for the first story in the video):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39391034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39392180
give the semantics a rest, I would love to hear a more cogent argument for why microsoft and its shareholders should get to profit from unlicensed data just because they found a way to repackage it into a helpful harmless assistant
> have it generate cartoon/simple pictures to explain a process for my software

What have you used and recommend for this? Gpt4?
"Platform" can have several different meanings and some people in this thread are picking the most evil meaning as an excuse to shit on Nvidia. It's true that Nvidia is providing the GPU, the CPU, the server, the rack, the network, the drivers, and the orchestration software to run AI training/inference. (If you want that stuff. You could just buy GPUs if you want.) It's fair to call that a platform.

Nvidia is not becoming a cloud provider (beyond a small eval environment perhaps).
Why would anyone ever use anything other than Logic Pro? /s
What you are describing is exactly how it is already enforced today. But an "incident" regarding asbestos (or other particle) inhalation might not appear until decades after exposure. Many tradespeople, automotive or otherwise, use the amount of PPE they personally are comfortable with. Construction is notoriously similar. You will see more compliance at larger organizations where there is more governance, but at smaller orgs, people often do as they please.
Because they're cool, and cool gets funded.
It could be like a loving and/or dutiful child who takes care of their elderly parents even though they are now more capable in many ways.
The roof of your car can likely survive the garage door falling on it.

Unless you're in a convertible.
> 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Ah yes. Well-known for its general view that the United States is a diktat-by-judge, and that mere laws are irrelevant.
FTA: “Because optimizations run on an E-graph only add information in the form of new annotations, the order of the optimizations does not change the result. As long as the compiler continues running optimizations until they no longer have any new matches (a process known as equality saturation), the E-graph will contain the representation that would have been produced by the optimal ordering of an equivalent sequence of traditional optimization passes […] In practice, Cranelift sets a limit on how many operations are performed on the graph to prevent it from becoming too large.”

So, in practice, the order of optimizations can change the result? How easy is it to hit that limit?
Where is the line drawn when using tools to make a song, then?
This is actually cool. It will free up human potential to do more advanced things.

There will be new jobs, that are going to be more engaging and make better use of our brains.

I am not worried about "robots", but about corporations wielding too much power.

We are probably at the last moment when oligopolies can be broken up and limits set so that corporations can't grow beyond certain size and they can't acquire other businesses.

Then we need to reform investment and pension funds, so that they collectively cannot have a controlling stake in any company.
Opening up the homepage shows me 1 (in words: ONE) item because it insists on expanding (and autoplaying) images/videos immediately. Old Reddit shows me 9 items (plus one paid ad) on that same screen.

Maybe they got rid of some rough edges, but the fundamental problem is that it tries to be Instagram. Imagine opening Hacker News one day and instead of seeing 25 headlines at a time you can only see one or two - that would really defeat a lot of the allure of the site.

New Reddit is still trash, and will forever be trash because the problem isn't some bug here or there, but a fundamental user experience design decision to make it that way.
> create a quarterly summary and survey of engineers.

Be very careful about creating performance, compliance, or progress metrics that can be followed in its wording but not in its spirit.

For example, if the developers do not like writing documents but you decide to somehow track a documentation metric per team or person, that might lead to grossly misleading "positive" progress.

Unless the developers see a value in what additional things they need to do, imposing metrics will not go well.
The C Lua interpreter takes ~150k. It's easy to extend with your own types/functions. So it makes it easy to use as a Turing complete configuration language

redis exposes a Lua scripting interface if one wants to avoid latency of executing commands back & forth over network: https://redis.io/docs/interact/programmability/eval-intro

Over the last couple weeks I've been integrating gopher-lua (a Lua implementation in Go, which then plays nice with Go types & its GC) into PeerDB for scripting data transformations. It's been easy expose stuff like decimal types to the script. It allows a program to make itself extensible
Do you think computers may have the ability to become like humans? If you do, like I do, then it is not reasonable to keep them from achieving that potential because of purely legal restrictions.
I don't really think it's a continuum. There is a continuum of abstraction among programming languages, from machine code to Java/Python/Haskell or whatever, but natural language is fundamentally different: it's ambiguous, ill-defined. Even if LLMs generate a lot of our code in the future, somebody is going to have to understand it, verify its correctness, and maintain it.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.10537.pdf

Discussed in a previous post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930663
Possibly the dis-ingenuity of vocal posters? The continuing anti-rational love of the most expensive form of entranched transport?
Still need to store the same amount of energy. A counter weight or piston also has more opportunities for uncontained failure. At least when a garage door spring fails it is still constrained by the shaft running through the middle.

For what it's worth, I have also replaced my own garage door spring, and I really have no desire to do that again.
And, perhaps also relevantly, your compute kernel probably fits in iCache, even with VLIW instructions.
The Chinese version is boring af.
Best way is to self-host your analytics, the main thing about GDPR is not sending your data to third parties or using it for marketing/targeting purposes.

By not sending the data to third-parties, you already comply to most of the GDPR policies.
I like they refer to it as “WTF.”
One person's legitimate speech is another person's misinformation. Look at the lab leak theory for example. It was constantly called misinformation and now is more accepted. Is it misinformation? Maybe, but it is up to debate and that is the major problem. What happens the next time something like that pops up?
You're mistaking morose insipidity for tension.
A star system 3,000 light-years away is predicted to become visible soon
> Because the dose makes the poison.

This is a thought-terminating cliche, not a useful position.
I don’t think you are wrong, but I think it is both sad and pathetic. This genocide is currently on month 6, the situation gets more and more dire every day. There is an imminent famine—if not already started. We get news that Israel is using AI to conduct this genocide, that tech is flowing to Israel to conduct this genocide, that some of our industrial comrades are complicit, that some of our industrial comrades that speak up get fired[1], and now some of our industrial comrades are being targeted and becoming martyrs in this genocide.

We get all this news, but we cannot talk about it because there was a thread a couple of weeks ago which talked about journalists being targeted[2].

This is an ongoing catastrophe, and we need to have an ongoing conversation about it. When new information is reviled we need to have a conversation. As a forum popular in our industry HN needs to own up its societal responsibility. There is a lot of tech being used in this genocide, and as workers in tech, we should know our part. As long as this genocide continues, we cannot stop talking about Gaza

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644379

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603299
The "Hidden Standards" Problem in Interviews
Yeah you can?

Similar to how with stable diffusion I can ask for a creature that doesn't exist.

Most of human creativity is just evolution is existing stuff after all. Look at all fantasy creatures, they're all based in part off real animals.
People said the same thing about computers. Now a random 10 year in a third world country has all the computing power of the 1940 world combined in his pocket (I just made that stat up, but you get the point).
Was there a specific reason to user zero's instead of letter O's in their spelling of groot?
I'm pretty sure the WSE-3 chip from Cerebrus is way more powerful. It has 900,000 cores, and something like 27 petaflops of bandwidth between those cores, and shares all the memory with them, in one chip. They are developing an 8 exaflop cluster right now.

https://8968533.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8968533...
> two fused chips

Jensen's comment about being first was such a dig to Emerald Rapids.
A company might switch from Github Enterprise to Gitea Enterprise if they were fed up with GitHub Support (or lack of it) and wanted to be able to run on-prem with k8s.
MathDash: Turning Math into a Sport
Good question, and I do not know.
However, I suspect that looking at the OpenStreetMap of cycling, there are trunk cycling lines, which feed to lower car density backstreets - so certainly one can cycle the suburbs, but without the excellent ammenities of cycle-lanes on every street over 30km/h like in Holland or Belgium.
If people would just stop loading those emails up with bullshit then we wouldn't have any reason to put AI on either end of the transaction.
> Humans can't be copied.

There is no reason to believe this, and every reason to believe that humans can, in fact, be cloned/copied/whatever. It may not be an instant process like copying a file, but there is nothing innately special about the bio-computers we call brains.
The overlay that appeared with the "cheats" on it was full off inside jokes too and didn't look at all serious. One of the check boxes was labelled "Vote Putin".
Exactly, it really depends on the environment. Amazon warehouses and manufacturing facilities are already designed for robots whose form factor is far from human-like. But in the environments where humans operate, it's probably cheaper to design the robot around the human instead of having humans adapt to a robot-centric environment.
I think you just discovered what all this ml is really for, this is so good
> The AI tags are fundamentally useless.

To the extent that they allow Google to exclude AI video from training sets they’re obviously useful to Google.
Baubotanik – Building with Trees [video]
In a hypothetical near-future world, competition?
From what I see on Glassdoor they have bad, toxic management so that would explain a lot.
this is completely wrong approach.

PFAS were released into environment in massive quantities. They are now, basically, impossibly expensive to remove. Same for microplastics.

Suppose tomorrow we come up with indisputable evidence that they are toxic. Now what? Will the companies that put them into environment be able to pay for a global cleanup effort that cost more than those companies are worth? Should we allow someone to make 1 million, knowing that remediation will cost $10 billion and they won't be able to pay for it?
We could return to the productivity growth of the 1990s
So you could never edit the video?
How many jobs will this new chip replace? All the jobs? The crowd goes wild!!
I guess it is kinda something "cool" for programers.
Heat pumps, no matter the manufacturer, (anecdotally) seem to break within 1-5 years at a rate not comparable with oil or gas furnaces.
I would say there's no determinant of rock bands' success.

But instability most of the time leads to disbanding.

Which for a band member can be just as distressing as it sounds.

Somewhat akin to an attorney getting disbarred ;)
This "color" thing is a terrible miscommunication, because the original article is about two things that don't even make sense in Rust's context:

• an architectural limitation of JavaScript which Rust doesn't have (in Rust you can wait for an async result in a sync function, or run CPU-heavy code from an async function).

• a wish that languages had implicit magic that made sync and async calls look the same, which Rust intentionally doesn't want, because implicit magic is a terrible footgun in low-level code. It can be hidden in a high-level VM language that is in charge of all I/O, syscalls, and locks. But that is counter-productive for a low-level systems language for implementing I/O drivers, kernel syscalls, and custom locking primitives.

So Rust is "purple".

In reality Rust's async is awesome for what it is: a syntax sugar for state machines, which is able to flatten an entire call tree into a single fixed-size struct.

Most other async architectures need at least one allocation per async call or per await, but Rust needs one allocation per the entire call graph with any number of async calls and awaits.
There are a lot of seething and butthurt replies to you for some reason. Imagine the above but in regards to any other piece of technology.

"I use calculators in all my calculations now, and I'm really transparent about it. For $20, I now have a pocket calculator, and can at any time whip it out and calculate a long, difficult problem - and get a correct calculation based on my inputs just a few seconds later. Is there a single reason not to use it?"

Are the concerns in the other replies consistent with their own outsourcing of willpower & mental effort to technology?
The best way to help pedestrians is to start removing cars.

The best way to do this is to install public transport and facilitate bike use.
Your reply seems like two separate things. On the former, regarding the slowing population growth, I'm with you. But the second part about how the new tech will enable a golden age of humanity, I think misses the point made in the parent post - that even at tge current stage, our technology isn't proving to do that.
The risk isn’t just what the spring does but what happens to something caught in it. Springs can release energy a lot more quickly than a counterweight which can only accelerate a 9.8m/s/s, and therefore more risky to disable.
Was curious about what happened and did some digging. Here is a PC Gamer write up [1] as the original Patreon post requires a login [2].

[1]: https://www.pcgamer.com/that-portal-64-demake-we-liked-so-mu...

[2]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-about-future-96205584

Lambert's Portal 64 work was too impressive for words, so I am truly sad that it has been halted. I was unaware that he relied on Nintendo's proprietary libraries, but I guess I should not be too surprised to see that from a project that used the name and assets from a proprietary game. The silver lining I suppose is that we know that Lambert is likely to produce great things in the future, wherever his mind and heart takes him.
If it's not open source and chromium based why even bring it up?
ForwardCom – An open forward-compatible instruction set architecture (ISA)
Maybe the rounding errors are noise that is somewhat useful in a big enough neutral net. Image generators also generate noise to work on
Roll-to-roll, high-resolution 3D printing of shape-specific particles
At this point its hard to understand the premise of conservatism. It seems to just be outrage and pretty much anything and everything.

I'll avoid suggesting the root is racism, but more and more its becoming harder to do that. Between the pretty blatant racist rants of the leader, to the embrace of far-right fundamentalists, it seems like a common thread.

As for public intrusion of private lives, even that seems hazy. Where does public intrusion end and private life start? For example are private medical choices a matter of public policy? Are the choices about which books to read at the library public or private?

In a two party system many voters can be left without a home when their preferred party swings off in a different direction. And while no voter is going to always be happy with their chosen group, the risk of homelessness goes up as the preferred choice swings away from traditional premises.

For many conservatives (small c) the current direction of Conservative Leaders (big C) is not ok. But changing allegiance is mentally traumatic.

I think your premise can be both accurate, and currently invalid. It sure doesn't seem like "minimal public intrusion" right now. If you had to decide which party represents "live and let live", which party wants personal freedoms, which party prioritizes individual choices, well, I'd argue it's not the nominally "conservative" one.
The question though is do we need to safely work with asbestos? I've seen it removed properly by professionals, but I've personally witnessed too many times of people who should know better (mostly tradesmen who are working around this stuff frequently and should have proper training) doing dumb things and exposing themselves and others (one instance needing our whole 1960s era office building vacated for decontamination). This is in a country with a complete ban on new asbestos products since the '90s and strong building regulation, so it'd be even worse in countries with weaker regulation.

And why use it? My house had a lot of asbestos-cement wall sheeting (fibro), I had much of it professionally removed and the safe plaster (for general rooms) and cellulose fibre-cement sheeting (for kitchen, bathroom) is just as good or better (the new fibre cement can be jointed nicely whereas the old asbestos cement sheeted rooms had visible seams).

For insulation etc., fibreglass, rockwool, etc. can work just as well, maybe you need slightly thicker insulation but who really cares?

There are safer alternatives for basically every application of asbestos, so why bother using something that is dangerous at every step (mining, transport, processing, manufacture, modifications (drilling, cutting, etc.), disposal) instead of alternatives?
Keeping factories compatible with humans is probably something you'll want for a while. Another funny thing to think about is that this AI is based on mimicry of human behavior so it's almost fundamental to the process.
Is this in any way related to figure one?

Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691886 5 days ago, 112 comments)

Because the robot in the video looks very similar to the figure 01, but maybe this is just a coincidence.
the inclusion of `bufPrint` in the standard library is really nice, you can just give it a pointer to an array. If you want to make a string on the stack in Rust you have to pull in something with a `Writer` trait like `ArrayVec` and use `write!`.
These transitions also enable new forms of mass killing until society figures out the new equilibrium. The genocidal regimes of the 20th century wouldn't have been possible without multiple technologies (train lines to orchestrate, long-distance mass media to bind a group of people around a single narrative). We may have to go through another wave of mass death or dictatorship enabled by AI. It's hard enough to escape a dictatorship as is, but when they get their hands on the asymmetric power of robots and AI surveillance, they're probably impossible to remove.
Mesothelioma from household exposure is very rare, nearly all cases come from industrial exposure, involving chronic exposure to concentrations of airborne particles millions of times higher than you would ever find in a residential setting, even during a renovation that disturbs asbestos.

I looked into this when I discovered some old asbestos paper in my basement that I had abated by professionals (which I always recommend). I was freaking out about my family being exposed to the fibers for years before that, so I went digging for hard numbers. To my surprise, there is almost zero good quantitative data on the risk of mesothelioma from residential asbestos exposure. The best info we have suggests about a doubling of the risk of MM from residential exposure, from about 1 per million person-years to 2.5 per million person years:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

> However, the chief interest from this study will be in the more than doubling of risk of mesothelioma in men who had lived in an affected house, compared with unexposed males (SIR 2·54, 95% CI 1·02–5·24). ... The background incidence of mesothelioma without exposure to asbestos is very low (highly age-dependent and roughly one case per million person-years), so any rise would be indicative of previous asbestos exposure

Other studies indicate that home renovations that disturb asbestos could increase the risk by about a factor of 5 from baseline, which sounds high until you realize that it means about 5 per million person-years. The base rate is very low! And there is no such thing as zero exposure to asbestos: there are a couple fibers, on average, in every liter of air you breathe. Everybody is constantly exposed to a very small amount of these fibers, and it's not the case that it gives everybody MM:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721955/#:~:tex....

So the bottom line is: get your asbestos abated by professionals, but don't freak out if you have been living with the stuff. It's not the same as being an asbestos miner, your risk is higher but still very low.
Is the reason to trust the company more (or perhaps less) today than this 2022 article demonstrates its trustworthiness?
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase is funded by customers, not investors. Anything in there that's creepy, but not obviously intentionally creepy, is more a reflection on the viewer than the image :P
> Notably, "unintentional fall" is the #1 cause of emergency department visits for adults

Yes. Until it happens to you, it seems like someone else's problem. I say this as someone who found himself staring at the sky with a concussion and whiplash after the ladder decided to walk out from under me on my concrete walkway. (I'll admit that it was probably my error, but I'll never really know since the ladder took a trip too). Now all trips up the ladder are treated with the gravity my younger self disregarded.

I'll add that it's very disconcerting to be unable to move or breathe as everything fades out...
the ability to turn a simple machine learning model into a press release that promises the world
youngun, this is why line numbers always increase by 10
No idea why you got downvoted. Unusual, yes, but not a bad thing.
It's easy: you dig a deep shaft under the garage and put the counterweight in there.

Of course, there may be some cost issues with this solution...
>but trying to centralize critical thinking will have far more disastrous results

No. Having sources of trust is the basis of managing complexity. When you turned the tap water on and bought a piece of meat at the butcher you didn't yourself verify whether its healthy right? You trust the medicine you buy contains exactly what is says on the label and didn't take a chemistry class. That's centralized trust. You rely on it ten thousand times a day implicitly.

There need to be measures to make sure media content is trustworthy, because the smartest person on the earth doesn't have enough resources to critically judge 1% of what they're exposed to every day. It is simply a question of information processing.

It's a mathematical necessity. Information that is collectively processed constantly goes up, individiual bandwith does not, therefore you need more division of labor, efficieny and higher forms of social organisation.