skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI models shit out some truly creepy and uncanny language. I know the point is coming that we truly can't spot it, but at least right now it's obvious from a mile away.
> It does not plausibly pass for a typo because no typical editing glitch will
leave a '.' character there.

I would certainly attribute that to a typo if I was reviewing the code.
Go's error handling is very much not perfect. There's no reason for it not to have a bunch of syntax sugar for extremely common patterns.

See all the syntax sugar C# has for handling nullable types. That could easily be done for error handling as well. Or see Odin which has the exact same error handling mechanism as Go but with proper constructs to make it painless.
No guarantee but you can add legal language in the license text specific to your code associated with the license that restricts use of the OSS for training models, using code in running models, etc.
What a fascinating article, reality is sometimes remarkably and amusingly counterintuitive. I would've never guessed a culture would accept counterfeit currency en masse.

If a 1000 shilling note is only worth 4 US cents, does buying stuff require a small mountain of bills?

Here are some costs for food in Somalia (USD):

Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) 0.86$
Rice (white), (1 lb) $0.54
Eggs (regular) (12) $2.37
Local Cheese (1 lb) $2.19

So, not exactly dirt cheap, paying in 4 cent increments.. imagine if you carried around only nickels, a backpack may be needed just to carry the cash. What if you want to buy a car, motorcycle, or bicycle? Where would you even store all that cash, haha.

One thing I don't fully understand, TFA says a 1000 shilling note is worth $0.04USD (meaning, $1USD would equal 25000 shillings), but when I searched for the exchange rate online, everywhere says $1USD converts to about 575 SOS (Somalian Shillings). Can anyone here enlighten me about what's going on with the shillings?

Edit: Thank you @roywiggins for explaining! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944411
Ask HN: Is Slack getting worse for anyone else?
Like many companies we're using Slack for our internal communication and despite its flaws so far we liked the experience. Recently however it seems like the quality is deteriorating. We're encountering weird issues that didn't happen before. Some examples:

- chat doesn't scroll correctly when clicking on a message link

- microphone doesn't work in a huddle even when the correct device is selected

- screen sharing in huddles asks for system permissions even though they were already granted

- screen sharing sometimes just does not work (participants see black screen or the feed freezes), turning it off and on fixes the problem

- a few more that I don't remember off the top of my head

Anyone else experiencing this? Personally at this point I would like them to just keep Slack as is and don't break anything. The app is perfectly fine and doesn't need constant "improvements".
When you look an an elite school, a huge fraction of professors have parents as professors. If the system was going to be made fair maybe 70% of the people who are getting those jobs today would have to be told, starting grad school, that they were automatically disqualified from getting a job in academia to give somebody else a chance.

Women do have real problems but it's also a fact that doubling the applicant pool doubles the number of professor's kids that the system wants to hire and makes it harder for outsiders to get in.
Writing maketh the 10x Developer. More so the 10x development team
This isn't quite how I understand the expansion of the universe. The interesting thing is it affects space itself, so the more distance between objects, the more space there is to expand. This does try to pull stuff apart, but it's quite slow so it doesn't take much to overcome it. Even gravity (the weakest force) is enough to keep stars and galaxy clusters bound together. Atoms are way to small to be affected.

This changes if you allow Dark Energy to vary with time, but the paragraph in the article assumes it's constant.

> If the work of dark energy were constant over time, it would eventually push all the stars and galaxies so far apart that even atoms could be torn asunder...
I started appreciating the design and build quality of commie blocks only after living in "the West" for a while.
The prevalence of poor quality, cramped (and very expensive) housing in many of Europe's wealthiest cities is really disregarded, I think.
You realize you can just go there and blow them up (ot shoot them up american style), right? Why the need for all the high tech?
> I was mostly trying to say something along the lines of "solving NP-hard problems isn't good gameplay"

Consider that Tetris is NP-hard. :) Giving the player optimization problems is one of the fundamental pillars of game design. For many, it's more fun to make a deck of cards in Magic or Hearthstone than to actually play the deck against an opponent.
Agreed.

Go forces you to think about failure just as much as success, and I find that fantastic for building robust software.

Errors happen, so you're forced to do something when they do. Errors aren't exceptional.

But more importantly to me, Go forces you to think about what a caller to your function might want to know about what went wrong. Errors in modern Go are for communication, not an explosion of "something bad happened, abort!"

A long time ago, errors in Go were very basic -- essentially just strings 99% of the time, and I think that's where some of the hate comes from. In the early days, I think it was deserved.

But nowadays, with the Go errors package (error chaining), errors are extremely powerful.

Good libraries will often return an error structure that provides more context than a stack trace would, e.g. os.LinkError: https://pkg.go.dev/os#LinkError

tl;dr if you're writing "if err != nil { return err }", you're holding it wrong.
Oh, a chip. Must be foolproof, right? ;-)
Oh, I see, yes. The F# style is more powerful than the Go style, and can express the Go style if you choose. That’s a pretty good argument that it is superior, but Go might not be able to grow to adopt it
I lived in one for more than 20 years and no, oh god no, they don't. If anything, I actually like the way it looks from the outside (now that I don't have to live there), at least in summer, at least in the memories of the summer in a country I can't even visit now. Maybe not even the building itself, but the surounding area. For me it has some weird charm, it's a unique, one in a kind commie block that I can tell from other commieblocks of the same series.

It's not the form that sucks (they don't have any), it's the build quality, the amount of indoor space -- everything is min-maxed to the limit and then still underdelivered even against soviet-grade cheapness (two bedroom, 55 sqm for a family with five kids on a peak of soviet glory).

And they also look bad on photos and in winter, when the greenery is gone and all you see is gray aged concrete, but hej, everything there looks depressing in winter to me.
If you’re a healthcare founder thinking about payers & the US insurance system, this is a must listen.
Yes. A lot of people get confused about goalposts because we had one idea for gauging or measuring intelligence (Turing test), and that idea turned out to be wrong. We don't know how to define intelligence, but we know it when we see it. ChatGPT has fooled a lot of people, but that is nothing new.
Post-2025 Windows 10 updates for businesses start at $61 per PC
No, money is the ability to marshal goods and services which in any system with legal representation will lead to better outcomes for you.
Is there a non paywall version of this article?
Yes, Cheerios and Band Aids are examples of brands that are pretty much equal to Jesus in terms of popularity, trust, and good perception among the public.
What a throwback! Only now am I realizing that Xvid is the OSS counterpart to Divx.

This is one part of 2000s tech I'm happy to have mostly forgotten about.
feels relevant looking over their list of discontinued architectures.

each was made by teams sure they were going to be the next big thing in some market space...
The data volume is actually not that different once you account for all senses and how many years it takes for a human to become useful. The interesting thing would be how the human brain filters out the unimportant information as it develops.
Oh that’s neat! I’m not sure if it didn’t exist or if I didn’t find this last time. Looks like this would address the problem.
Sure, you can do that just as much as you can do "try! some_func()" in other languages.

But it's obvious that you're doing something naughty when you do.
I think a better way to phrase this is that judges should be punished in instances of gross negligence or malfeasance. An innocent person going to prison or early release in which a criminal commits another crime, on its own, does not necessarily imply this.
> Google having so many private photos in Google Photos must be a goldmine for them.

While true, it's META who has won that arm's race long ago in my view; hell, they just disclosed that they have private access to DMs to Netflixh [0] in a lawsuit.

If you don;t think they are training their own models on this data over all their platforms you have to be a complete idiot o: Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp.

That is a much larger treasure trove given the sheer scale of people on those platforms, Google is limited to mainly Android users and those who use it's suite on PC (relatively small compared to social media users), which excludes most Mac users.

The thing they don't tell you about this dark underbelly of AI is just like the (meta)data that is for sale to 3rd parties, it's tiered price structure wherein Mac users are often the premium tier de to their more 'affluent' status and likelihood of impulsive in app purchases.

This is why I think META already won the AI race, they opensource Llama and have the a massive treasure trove of data to refine and train when they see what the OSS community creates that is of actual value: ChatGPT/DALL-e runs at a loss for MS/OpenAI. But if anyone can monetize this gold rush it will be META.

And perhaps more critically from an infrastructure POV, Llamma now runs better on CPU [1] rather than GPU, which means they won't have to be constrained or price pinched on GPUs like Microsoft, Google, Amazon likely will due to demand constraints from Nvidia (see ETH mining craze during COVID). They can focus on optimizing their data centers with more free cash flow which meant they can have a bigger footprint for when they finally figure out how to properly monetize this AI bubble, because it is is a bubble, from now until then.

I think Zuck learned from Libra that staying out of the limelight during a bubble is critical if he wants to undo the Metaverse money-pit/losses.

0: https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/facebook-allowed-ne...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39890262
I believe they're refering to the big rip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
I never claimed it was robust (I made this project in an hour after a beer), just that it worked.

Mana costs both on the card and on the rules text (e.g. Ward 2 should be Ward {2}) seem to be an issue and I'm curious as to why. I may have to experiment more with few-shot examples.
How many matches do you think there are for "In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for a new artificial intelligence based anti-terrorism project"?
Not true. There's plenty of easy ways to update the weights if you want to do that.

You could for example DPO based on another LLM's evalution of how a conversation is going, or you could use whether the conversation keeps going.
I was in jersey city and our building literally shaked. It was very scary to say the least.
It depends on the scenario. For example, for concept-seeking queries, vectors tend to do better (less likely to be an overlap in words between query and content), whereas for keyword searches (a product name, a serial number, project codenames, etc.) BM25 + keywords does much better. If your workload is all concept-seeking queries, it's reasonable that keywords don't add much.

If you look at the table in the section "3. Hybrid Retrieval brings out the best of Keyword and Vector Search" of that article, we shared there the significant variability of metrics as a function of query types.
there WAS one follow-up so far this morning, currently being reported as a 2.0.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma7c...
Had to go to ChatGPT for help. It appears that you need to know how many tiles to stitch. I was hoping to have that dynamically determined. Not sure if loopback will help.

CGPT said: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=1,tile=3x1" -frames:v 1 output_stitched.png

Gemini: ffmpeg -i input_video.mp4 -vf "fps=1,scale=220:-1" -c:v png output.png
When the universe was dense, gravity dominated. As it expands, dark energy gets more and more important. From Ars Technica's article:

"If dark matter gives rise to the gravity that holds the universe together, then dark energy is the counter-force pushing the universe apart. Very early in the universe’s existence, dark matter dominated. Everything was closer together, so its density was higher than that of the dark energy, and its gravitational pull was stronger so the early galaxies could form. But as the universe continued to expand, the dark matter density, and hence the gravitational pull, decreased until it was less than that of the dark energy. So instead of the expected slowdown in the expansion rate, the now-dominant dark energy began pushing the universe apart at ever-faster rates."
Depends if the expansion is accelerating or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyXTQ9do-c
If the end result is ai chat agents that anyone in the world can access for free, that seems like an absolutely wonderful thing
There's also tooling you can run that scans for such code and points it out to you. I've seen people integrate such tools in their CI/CD as well.
As long as you waive your right to a speedy trial and you don't post bail you can be held without trial basically forever in the United States.
Probably because:

1. ffmpeg exposes all of its options through the CLI, and there are a lot of options. So it's probably always going to be completely undiscoverable. It really needs a GUI to be usable, but that's a project in itself (I guess the project is Handbrake).

2. They probably didn't put a lot of work into the UX of the CLI since it's an open source project.

3. Backwards compatibility.
That's really not true for the type of game the OP is talking about. Think Second Life et al, where most of the content is dynamically streamed and rendered in real time
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop [video]
It's the usual path of that kind of app. Remember AOL instant messenger? ICQ? WebEx? Go2Meeting?

When an app like that starts it is in a honeymoon period where they know they have to fix all of those little bugs to get people to adopt it. Once all your friends (or co-workers) are on it and the company is a household name they know it is hard to switch so they quit fixing those little problems.

It almost always gets so bad in the long term that a competitor eats their lunch but it usually takes about ten years.
No, I was talking about average salaries because we were comparing salaries.

> government from Poland to Romania to Bulgaria has provided statistics proving otherwise

Can you please stop being obtuse? That's not particularly entertaining at this point..

> earns around $18k-20k a year

The average salary in Poland AFTER TAX is around $17k, GROSS is almost $24k. I'm not sure why are you fixated about this. That average income is tangential to the whole discussion fact is you certainly can't find any software developers/etc. for $8k primarily because that's actually below any minimum wage in any EU country besides Bulgaria. You would really struggle to hire anyone even remotely decent for $20k as well.
I've set it up this way: I've told Claude that whenever he doesn't know how to answer, he can ask ChatGPT instead. I've set up ChatGPT the same way, he can ask Claude if needed.

Now they always find an answer. Problem solved.
Another great book from P.K. Dick and a watershed piece of animation from Richard Linklater. Unforgettable.
Minnesota Republicans introduce legislation inspired by chemtrails conspiracy
Yea well there is you answer. Most wealth is not money.
No thats bad leaders with good staying power.
Well you are logically (and biblically) consistent which I appreciate. But I think many if not most Jews today would take a huge issue being tied to Israel’s actions, bad or good. Especially those who don’t live there or are even against the state. Yours is a very religious opinion and I think the large number of atheistic or secular Jews in the West would completely disagree. I completely understand it from a religious perspective though.
Considering the cover photo for the article is a small mountain of bills, that appears to be the way.
Maybe I spoke too soon about Adobe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39926201&goto=threads%...
> Also. No matter how bullish you are on the potential of AI, it's horrifying and categorically unethical to use them to decide who to kill. It creates the possibility of atrocity with no accountability.

No it doesn't. That was always a possibility. Atrocity with no accountability long predates AI, and the ethics of "using them to decide who to kill" are isomorphic with the ethics of using a dice roll to decide who to kill.

In this case, the people you could choose to hold accountable is everybody who planned, built, or activated the machine made of a Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man mounting a chaingun, designed to spray bullets indiscriminately in all directions. The fact that no human trigger finger is actually on the trigger does not AT ALL defuse ethical considerations, does not exculpate anybody. We kill with machines in every military, but it's human decisions all the way down no matter how long ago a human last physically touched the munition.

The lack of accountability starts to occur when a journalist embraces headlines like "AI Made Decisions About Who To Target", rather than using scarequotes and agency - "IDF-run AI system 'Made Decisions' about who to target". The IDF are the actors in this construction, the AI system is just a tool. The lack of accountability continues in the political sphere where no war crime investigation takes place, no red line is instituted, no Geopolitical Consequences arise. It finalizes in the polity when no liberal / humanist vigilante takes revenge into their own hands, no 4chah/kiwifarms investigation doxes their family, no airline pilot diverts to the Hague, we just sort of embrace treating atrocity-committers humanely because we're lazy cowards.
Despite all the hoopla around AGI, the sheer amount of data required really makes human learning all the more impressive.

Gödel probably consumed a miniscule fraction of what these systems have seen. And look what he came up with!
The article keeps automatically reloading as I’m reading, even in reader mode. Every time it reloads, it scrolls back up to the top. After 3 times I gave up, have no idea what Kronos is and why they arrested the guy
Some say bog mode is harder to exit than vi.
>The bill has no chance of becoming law under a DFL trifecta and is highly unlikely to even receive a hearing. But the support of multiple Republican members, including a member of leadership, gives a sense of how the party might govern were it to return to power.

To be clear this bill has NO chance. Republicans in the Minnesota legislature have no power at all.

I just found it interesting that a bill this wild / outside science would even get introduced.
Guys, calm down, it is actually an ok pun joke. “Toll”, get it?
I created a site that simplifies meeting with busy friends
Seems like this judgement is discussing a procedural error from the prosecution, not that he didn't try to meet a 12-year-old girl in the back of her uncle's van to rape her.

But who knows, maybe he'll return to the thread and explain what he thought he was doing when arrested in that police sting and what all those emails, texts and phone calls he exchanged with undercover investigators were about, if not that.
I've been following CHERI for years. I'm a fan of runtime mitigations in hardware, better process isolation, and capability models. This couples nicely with an obsession of mine, which is the integration of formal methods into system and firmware development.

That being said, CHERI has a long way to go before it makes it to any production system. ARM Morello has certainly breathed new life into it, as has its current push toward a RISC-V ISA. Going from R&D to synthesis on production hardware is a significant leap.

It has inspired innovation in hardware much as seL4 and similar projects have inspired innovation in the formal methods field. For that, I'm grateful.
That's fun. How many times will they go back and forth? Do you ever get infinite loops?
Is OpenBSD used in industry, in critical systems, etc.? If so, what are some examples of its use? Truly interested to know.
Thats a very... charitable reading.
No, actually I was misunderstanding your sarcasm. Sorry about that.
There's an example right in the article?
Query any ducking thing: Postgres, parquet, JSON, CSV, and Sheets
> 46 hypotheses for the intrusion

The criticism here doesn't seem warranted. At an early stage of investigation, it seems prudent to iterate all possibilities, including grey swan events. This then allows to them to scale the investigation and delegate to various experts to address each hypothesis.
Guess they incorporated a lot of HN training data. :)
I've recently watched for the first time Neon Genesis Evangelion (+ The End of...), and powerful (and a bit painful) art like this seems to be a good slap in the face to get out of at least some of the versions of that bog - I'm a bit sad that I didn't watch it years earlier when I was stuck in some bogs...

(Another commenter there mentions a quote recommending books - great literature I'm pretty sure in that context, not "self help" books... I guess I should hurry up and read Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being already ?)
To be fair, this is horribly written error handling. These errors should be wrapped to add the specific context that the caller might want in order to handle the error.
I think it speaks to a lack of practical empathy. Society has costs, and people need different things from that society, which often changes over time. "I don't want my taxes doing to [schools|mental hospitals|Roads|Elderly care]" statements ignore the things people DO get benefits from, or might if their circumstances change.
Still hoping for micro-black holes as the solution as the early universe density must have been enough for some to form. Also, where's the anti-matter gone?
Not sure this is a good conjecture. The main reasons are 1) AI’s are expected to have incredible range that the average human does not 2) humans actually do take in enormous amounts of data but it happens over the course of many years and most of it is audio/visual/tactile/experience.

We already see that if you want to focus on a narrow skillset you can use a much smaller model and training set. But right now it is a race because everyone wants to be the one true generalized intelligence model.
The author scrounged together enough time, energy, and motivation to write the article. This suggests that they got out of the bog; at least for a little while :shrug:
Asthma: Scientists find new cause of lung damage
I imagine some people would also derive more pleasure from knowing they're eating the last of a particular species, or walking on a floor made from the last of a particular irreplaceable forest, or racing a car that is the car that was raced in historical race of ages past, or even winning a rai stone in a game of backgammon. All exclusive experiences.
Seen that way they should tear down the bridge and build one with high clearance.