skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the "big picture" EAs did damage when put in charge of the money FTX was doling out. They had people who'd been funding organizations that would feed, cloth, and medicate people move their funding to "existential problems" like AI and climate science. While I won't argue the value of those, vague theoreticals are arguably more commonly tacticaled than those on the ground trying to help with active issues.
In our era of meme stocks, yes it is. You can talk about fundamentals all you want, but unless you have a model that correctly models the performance of NVDA, GME, TSLA, and DJT, it's gambling.
HN really isn't the place for this conversation, but if we ever found a human whose biological sex was ambiguous using a simple checklist with maybe three tests in it, that would be a first. Woman and man are complex, female and male are not. Yes, this includes all known intersex conditions. No, there's no significant disagreement about those criteria.
So this one is 3x the size but only 7% better on MMLU? Given Moores law is mostly dead, this trend is going to make for even more extremely expensive compute for next gen AI models.
Again though, there are plenty of events that already do this and have people for handling logistics. And indeed people with temporary jobs involved.
FISA is a rubber stamp and has been abused for surveilling political opponents and journalists. It ought not to exist at all.

Just because modern republicans hate it does not mean the hate is unwarranted.
Show HN: Dendron – A Library for Building LLM Agents Using Behavior Trees
I have been exploring techniques for building larger programs with LLMs, and have found that behavior trees (from Game AI and Robotics) are a useful abstraction for building agents that use LLMs. I have collected some of the patterns I have found useful into an open-source library named Dendron (Ancient Greek for "tree").

I'm linking to the GitHub repo, and from there you can find a tutorial for building a fully local chatbot that uses text-to-speech and speech recognition. I believe that behavior trees can play a significant role in building more capable LLM agents, and I hope you find Dendron useful.
Not sure why your comment was downvoted. ^ is absolutely the right answer.

Open WebUI is functionally identical to the ChatGPT interface. You can even use it with the OpenAI APIs to have your own pay per use GPT 4. I did this.
I've never felt nauseated from VR either. Tried it as a teenager in the 90s with an old-school Lawnmower-Man-style HMD, several generations of Oculus goggles, two different commercial HMDs in immersive gaming venues, etc. I do remember feeling disoriented when first playing the original Descent in the 90s, but no nausea.

In a small (3-4 seat) plane, I got a little nervous from the sudden changes in direction, but I didn't feel nauseated then either. I've been on one of those astronaut trainer 3-axis spinning chair contraptions a few times when I was younger and didn't feel any ill effects. I thought it was a fun experience.

I have gotten a weird variation on motion sickness a few times when I was on small boats. I'd be fine on the boat itself, but a day or two later, back on land, I'd feel like the surface of the Earth was bobbing up and down the way the boat had. It went away in a few hours or less, but it was hard to do anything productive while it lasted. I still didn't feel like I was going to vomit.
It comes back to the argument: "Why are you opposed to this? Do you have something to hide?" It's easy to paint this as an easy way to catch pedophiles. It doesn't matter if this is actually true or if these arguments really hold up, by they are easy quips that can be thrown out that aren't easily dismissed with an as easy to reply quip.

Basically, the position comes down to: do you want to stop pedophiles, or do you want to make it easier for them to hide?

And yes, you can rationalize all day long about how that's not accurate and this and that, but then your arguing that most people are willing to sift through al the data instead of just going with something that at first glance seems reasonable.
> "I don't discriminate between people based on their viewpoints so you shouldn't discriminate against me for mine."

It's strange you put quotes around that -- but that's not a quote from my comment. And I didn't say it at all.

All I said was that I believe in "freedom on expression" and so I don't behave punitively toward people that hold different opinions. You chose to do what you want.

> If on the other hand you think certain groups of people shouldn't be allowed to exist with their full set of rights or in some other way, demonstrably less equal than others, well, that's not really a difference of opinion I'm prepared to entertain. You're wrong. I can't change your mind but I find your viewpoint corrosive and you yourself as a person less appealing, and so I'm disinclined to do business with you.

I wish you could see how awful this sounds to someone who doesn't believe themselves to be "moral beyond reproach" -- which you seem to. The hard line in both parties (in the US) today take such a "you agree with us or you are an evil person" approach to policy that the foundations of society feel like they are on more tenuous ground than I ever remember them being.

I hope it is just a phase. I fear for our future.
Ideas for user research when you can't talk to users
Right, this is my point. I would wager a lot of things that are hitting a minority of people still manage to have good coverage on journalists as a demographic.

I don't know that this is happening, of course. Would love to have insight into it, but articles like this certainly strengthen my belief that it is happening.
this is an absolutely outrageously stupid title. The entire world is a massive processed food advertising and marketing engine. We are pumping processed garbage hyper palatable foods full of sugar and wheat and bad oils and then advertising them to children with lovable cartoon characters. And that's just barely scraping the surface.

The idea that some evil influencer sect are inappropriately schilling blueberries is one of the most perverse counter tactics I can possibly imagine by said industry.
Right, and I believe only Atlas was capable of leaps and flips.
Cutting Stock Problem
US FAA issues ground stop advisory for Alaska Airlines
Who paid you to say this???
Ontario Power Generation is experimenting with Spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyjYIgnsIeY

This one is actually pretty interesting cause handling big breakers is quite hazardous.
UAE government unit denies cloud seeding took place before Dubai floods
> …they can tax you to death if you build a service that competes with their API right…

I'm curious why that'd be a concern, since building a service that effectively just resells an API isn't a viable business model.
> Is google a scam as they scripted the gemini video?

That video was more of a fraud than a scam, but I think we're just splitting hairs at that point.
Does it matter when the purpose is to demonstrate a crack in WebGPU?
It would be really annoying to look for a new browser, because most of them are chrome based at this point, but that’d do it.
I guess, the broad definition is just someone who's good at selling their thoughts to other people. Maybe it's because they have a popular podcast, or maybe they were a former head of state.

There's no general reason I should inherently trust these people aren't being biased by third parties.
I totally agree -- I picked the latest version for each major version using the semver interpretation of the version numbers, which is not how PostgreSQL has traditionally done major version numbers (i.e., PG 8.2 and 8.1 are different major versions, but I interpreted the version numbers as if they were minor versions).

The main reason I did this was to reduce the number of versions I had to test, but I agree a more complete analysis would test each (true) major version.
Because the sensation of being part of a subversive mission fulfills the need of purpose for the revolutionary mind. Good follow up questions are how long did that mindset took to become so influential and from who and where did it came from?

For them, this will be like a trophy among their revolutionary peers.
A simple, inexpensive way to make carbon atoms bind together
Ollama runs locally. What's the best option for calling the new Mixtral model on someone else's server programmatically?
The neocons are all part of democratic apparatus now. Once it became known that they were not going to get war profiteering under Trump, they switched wagons. Democratic party is the party of neocons now.
The teachers who are struggling are mostly those who choose to live in high-cost areas. For example, the total tuition price at CSU Bakersfield to go from being a high school graduate to having a teaching credential in 6 years is about $38K. The starting annual salary for a public school teacher in Bakersfield is $59K. And that's with summers off when they can do other work. Average rent for a small apartment in an unfashionable neighborhood is something like $20K. It's totally possible to make student loan payments without struggling. There won't be a lot of luxuries, but they can have a middle-class lifestyle with a solid career path.

We should do more to increase low-income housing availability in certain areas, but that's largely a separate issue.
Oh god, I couldn't deal with having that in my floor; that tile would definitely be getting replaced.
They did stress that one advantage of electric motors over hydraulics is better mobility. On the other hand, the motors probably do not yet have the power to make jumps and the like.
>What makes concurrency so hard?

AanTythinANgY canTI happeME!n
Yes, very strong T-1000 vibes – the way it keeps reversing "front" and "back" almost feels like a deliberate reference to that moment in Terminator 2.
Are the disk formats the same in all 3 drives?
Oh hell no. We celebrated when I finally got my 36"(?) Sony Triniton WEGA out of the house. It was so heavy it took 2 strong people to move. It was enormous and hot. The image quality was great, but quickly eclipsed by LCDs. But the weight. It just made it impossible to move.
Tesla pushes for $56B pay deal for Elon Musk 20240417_1621BST
Network policies are not the right abstraction (for developers)
Bearing in mind we're talking about bullying here, which interventions are going to trample your fundamental civil rights?

Unless we're going with a reductio ad absurdum panopticon solution, I can't think of any way in which more robust interventions in bullying would be a bad thing.
Get on the First Page of Google Fast
Transitioning from Engineers to Founders (+ the mistakes we made along the way)
As a counterpoint, when you change the insides, no one notices: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...

>And with Calc, that’s exactly what happened: Massive technical improvements. No visual improvement. And nobody noticed. In fact, the complaints just keep coming. “Look at Calc, same as it always was.”
It would be great if easy lending went away. College prices are what they are because they know lenders will lend tens of thousands of unsecured money to just about anyone. So, the market can bear high tuition costs. If suddenly the average student could only bear to pay $5000 instead of $50,000, what do you think will happen to the price tag?

Colleges are not stupid. They will adjust their prices to soak up whatever money is available to them.
How on Earth can the board justify that level of compensation now? They just laid off >10% of their staff.
These days with Apple Silicon, RAM is a part of the SoC. It's not even soldered on, it's a part of the chip. Although TBF, they also offer insane memory bandwidths.
While there is a lot more HBM (or UMA if you're a Mac system) you need to run these LLM models, my overarching point is that at this point most systems don't have RAM constraints for most of the software you need to run and as a result, RAM becomes less of a selling point except in very specialized instances like graphic design or 3D rendering work.

If we have cheap billion token context windows, 99% of your use cases aren't going to hit anywhere close to that limit and as a result, your models will "just run"
> Can't enjoy a meal because it is overpriced.

This is my problem precisely with food
That's not the model this post is about. You used the base model, not trained for tasks. (The instruct model is probably not on ollama yet.)
I see. Sorry the AI world had me paranoid for a second.
They also ignore making the mold, so I guess that evens it out? Mold tools are very expensive and commit you to a lot of design constraints as well as lock you in to minimum production cycles that make sense. I agree its not fair, thought.

Given the costs, I'm surprised they didn't do more printers, too.
Store bought blueberries are fine. Frozen blueberries are fine. It's food, worry about things that matter.
They did say it’s for commercial use. Probably for warehouses and such where sadly backflipping is not relevant
Unless there's absolutely no alternative, and it's something I desperately need, I basically won't buy anything that says "call for pricing" or some such, because I interpret that as "call so one of our trained liars (i.e., salesmen) can figure out how hard we can screw you".

In many cases I'd even pay a premium to avoid talking to one of those people.
See also https://youtu.be/PDjleq0PJX0?t=2645
A friend of mine once had to pull all of the brown M&Ms out of a bowl for a band. I can't say that they thought it was worth it, but we also followed all of the other rules in that contract when booking that band. We hired a different band the next year because that was a real nuisance.
There's always been a place for the occasional self-help or inspirational article on HN. I think there's probably a bit less of it than there used to be.

If you see good articles on /newest that are languishing, please upvote them!

...and if there's a really good one that hasn't had attention, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can consider putting it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). Especially if it's not an article you have any personal connection to—we'll appreciate the nomination a lot more if it's motivated by curiosity rather than self-promotion.
Very often it just seems to be a rat race to have the most "trendy" UI. I'm not sure how it works internally, but trends change all the time and I think it would be in the best interest of a company like Google or Meta to have a "modern" style.
Ah, quick and painless then
Appears to be a software issue,

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/faa-grounds-all-al... ("FAA grounds all Alaska Airlines flights nationwide because of computer issues")

- "The airline told CBS News Bay Area it experienced an issue while performing an upgrade to its system that calculates weight and balance, and a ground stop all Alaska and Horizon flights was instituted at about 7:50 a.m. PT."
This 2023 incident around founder Nick Bostrom may have something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom#1996_email_contro...

From the wikipedia article:

> In January 2023, Bostrom issued an apology for a 1996 email where he had stated that he thought "Blacks are more stupid than whites", and where he also used the word "niggers" in a description of how he thought this statement might be perceived by others. The apology, posted on his website, stated that "the invocation of a racial slur was repulsive" and that he "completely repudiate[d] this disgusting email". In his apology, he wrote “I think it is deeply unfair that unequal access to education, nutrients and basic healthcare leads to inequality in social outcomes, including sometimes disparities in skills and cognitive capacity.”

Edit: also adding the second paragraph from Wikipedia to avoid accusations of smearing:

> In January 2023, Oxford University told The Daily Beast, "The University and Faculty of Philosophy is currently investigating the matter but condemns in the strongest terms possible the views this particular academic expressed in his communications." In August 2023, the investigation concluded (according to a letter Bostrom posted on his website) that "we do not consider [Bostrom] to be a racist or that [he holds] racist views, and we consider that the apology [he] posted in January 2023 was sincere."

Another member of this institute was effective altruist William MacAskill, who has appeared in media in 2023 in this context: "Sam Bankman-Fried and Will MacAskill weren't just philosophical allies. They were old friends."

https://time.com/6262810/sam-bankman-fried-effective-altruis...

From the OP:

> In late 2023, the Faculty of Philosophy decided that the contracts of the remaining FHI staff would not be renewed. On 16 April 2024, the Institute was closed down.

I'm just speculating, but it stands to reason that the Institute became a PR net negative for Oxford (or this specific Faculty).
Huh, interesting read. Hadn't heard of it. Sort of reminds me of an algorithms/sorting methods class I took a long time ago.
I wonder if lessons from CS/algorithms could be cross-applied to it? Or the reverse.
is this different than their "large" model
I've had to train people on basic programming.

I've experienced two outcomes.

The first where they outright did it wrong, imagine someone not understanding basics like variables and parameters, so they just hard code everything and copy and paste all over the place.

The manager said this was fine, since it made our metrics look better, and I ultimately left over this.

In another case, they basically all listened to me and I got to lead a few initiatives. I did have to help out every now and then, but they caught on quickly.

I think Python and JavaScript are learnable within a month. Wouldn't say the same for Java or C#. Personally I still don't touch the most difficult languages, Rust, C++...
I'm not so sure they're separate, or at least that they should be treated as such. Either way, it's a shame that this isn't standardised, regardless of the language spoken. Likewise units of measurement (weight, distance, time etc.).
The YouTube app now has incognito mode, which shouldn’t affect your recommendations.
People have the right to be and to raise bullies as long as their behaviour is nonviolent. As tasteless as it is, there is no law against socially excluding and humiliating people. Nor should there be.
I went to WSU actually and I used to ride the Idaho-Washington bike trail all the time! Miss the scenery out there, its lovely. I've done a bit of overnight bike trips, one that was like 150 miles and on the coast, but never anything quite this long and certainly not as harsh as eastern washington. But still, might be a bucket list item for me, its probably easier than my bucket list of hiking the PCT.
Sometimes my mind is blown away with how some people come up with these kind of saving ideas
They might not immediately recognize "Higgs field" per se, but lots of people have heard of the "Higgs boson" due to all the press about its discovery at CERN. Most of them heard in the next sentence that it has something to do with giving particles mass. I'd guess the vast majority of public who is broadly interested in science has heard of it.
Craigslist is famously old school. But if I go to an online retailer of any scale and the site looks like something out of the late 90s, I'm going to be suspicious that nothing (including security practices) has been updated in the last 20 years.

Other things like non-monetized blogs can stand being retro.
Common Lisp hasn't seen any language updates since 1994 and yet people here keep talking about it.
That page seems to save that almost all of the data except places IS OdBL and requires attributing OpenStreetMap?

OSM POI data is definitely severely lacking a lot of regions -- so it makes sense why they'd source that from somewhere else. It's also pretty cool that meta and microsoft's POI data is now open -- from look at it, it has the opposite problem of OSM: there are a lot of businesses in it that don't exist anymore or whose info isn't totally accurate -- but it's very usable for certain use cases (and, funnily enough, could certainly form the starting point for a clean up effort -- that COULD then be stuck in OSM and licensed under OdBL).
Tangential, but are there any really good integrations with authenticator apps/autofill like the way iPhone autofills SMS codes?

I know SMS is less secure but the UX of autofill on e.g. iPhone at least is so much nicer than having to pop out of my browser/app, open an authenticator app etc.
Well a good developer would have choice who to work for, no?
There are post processing steps in injection molding. As you can see in the video, parts come off with gates on them that need to be removed. In the case of these printed parts, you can wash 1000 in one 10 minute cycle.

A full accounting and comparison of cost and time including post processing, in a general way that applies to many parts, is tough to do well.
Can't wait for 8x22B to make it to Groq! Having an LLM at near GPT-4 performance with Groq speed would be incredible, especially for real-time voice chat.
Was this mentality imported by said immigrants or home-grown?
The Linux Foundation was a natural home for the new OSS project - there's no Linux dependency on Redis.
My recommendation (although I am not a programmer by trade, and the quality of my code readily reveals this) would be to start by writing some small tools that fix problems you encounter in your day-to-day. Having a catalog of existing repos will give you much more credibility as an unknown and it will give you an opportunity to develop your documentation and code hygiene skills.

Once you have some nice repos under your belt, start looking at issues within repos you are interested in and give it a crack. Good luck and thanks for your interest in helping FOSS!
Because people never ever in history got up to do other stuff when commercials came on. Everyone has been "stealing programming" forever.

Ads are a gamble, you bet your money that showing me a dumb clip will make me want your product. Guess what, you lost.
On an unrelated note - my HN client UI breaks since the domain name is long xD
Funny how the ubiquity of AI generated artwork plus the shitty quality of phone videos has made people to think that "high quality + depth of field = fake".

However if you look closely the robot does have scuffs and scratches on it so I think it's real.
Reminds me of the street camera live feed type things. Are these live feeds? I wasn't able to see. Neat Project :)
> Complex numbers! I didn't expect complex numbers to have a deeper relation to quantum mechanics.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean?

Why are complex numbers “unexpected”?

So much of contemporary physics is about distillation. You care more about things like consistency and simplicity over readability.

Our current methods of solving these equations, vector calculus, requires certain operations, specifically, square roots and derivatives.

To be able to utilize the well studied methods of linear algebra we need to make ample use of the Pythagorean theorem that ultimately uses a square root. To ensure that our model works in all domains we have to use a form of the square root that allows negative numbers. Complex numbers.

It’s why we use e^(iHt/h_bar) in the Schrödinger equation. Rather than see it as “nature works by using exponentiation!” I see it as “exponentiation is ‘stable’ in the face of complex derivatives”, ie the derivative of the exponential function is the exponential function f(x)=e^x == f’(x)=e^x. So this formulation simplifies our calculations.

These things can be calculated with any coordinate and numbering system, the ones we choose just help make the problems more tractable for us.
Uri Berliner Resignation Letter
You mean JCL?