skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this sentiment a lot on here, always with a vague intimation that it's a widespread thing. But it is just so far out of sync with the way I use search I just can't wrap my head around it.

You say 90% of you usage, but then describe the sorts of things that make up only a tiny fraction of mine. 90% of mine, maybe more, is just very quickly looking up basic facts. Was this the same actress from that other show? How many Xs to a Y? What was the exact wording of that quote and who said it? Where's that one store? I do this, I dunno, probably dozens? of times a day.

Are you saying you use it for that kind of purpose? I don't think I would trust any LLM's answers to those kinds of questions -- at least, not to exclusively handle all of them, on an ongoing basis. Even if it's only making up bullshit 5% of the time, after long enough that means I have no idea which 5% of my knowledge is wrong. Unless I'm double checking the information elsewhere, in which case what's the point?

Meanwhile Google still supplies the right answer for those simple, basic facts immediately like 99% of the time. A lot of the time right there in a snippet where I also instantly know the attribution. Even if we perfectly solved hallucination, the friction to get it from one of these chatbots is still so much higher. Harder to get to, so much slower.
I'd be interested to see usage stats, as I'll bet the discrepancy there is way larger. I have a number of non-technical friends who own a laptop, but use it once every few months, or longer, because the things they used to need it for they can now do on their phone.
To be somewhat pedantic: "touching" is a word. The extent to which it is or is not an "exact science" depends on what is meant by "touching", and by "exact science". The definition I gave of "touching" could be made arbitrarily more precise by specifying more precisely the interaction forces under consideration, and the level of precision to which one should compare their magnitudes. What you mean by "exact science" is something I cannot guess at with any useful level of precision. Whether or not any of this has any bearing on the original topic of discussion is another matter.
It’s interesting how in your other comment you’re saying “whoa whoa won’t anyone think of the illegals who are working hard to avoid deportation” and then here, “no one can force you up the ladder.”

Gymnastics to keep letting highly coercible people do dangerous jobs.
I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to submit some background artwork that is created by AI.

Man, slippery slope!!
Draftaid (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer
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Israel is the single largest recipient of foreign aid from US. Has been that way for many, many years.

The national interest should be the collective interests of citizens, you're right. I don't think that what's actually sold to us as "national interest" is that in any meaningful sense, though.

But also, those Jewish citizens of US are, well, citizens of US. It's not that it's wrong for them to also have some interests wrt Israel, but why should it be of any concern to the rest of this polity?
Interesting thread. I doubt they could tell reliably if AI tools are used though.
Times have changed, and they changed 10 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wales_summit
Seems more like contributors will continue to use AI tools but won’t specifically mention it.

Outright deny. Innocent until proven guilty, right?

No easy way to prove a commit, or piece of documentation was AI or not.

Seems more like a virtue signaling to me
That was definitely a major factor in making things suck, but I don't think it (nor LLMs) were required for the rise of annoying content-farm sites.
Hi! Tailscalar here. I posted to the OP, but just to flag this is correct. We removed our 'sso tax' a couple weeks ago from our pricing plans, and I released a blog today about it being removed entirely. Extremely happy it's gone!
Problem is, not enough city people dare to move to those areas, no matter how cheap they are. The areas' reputations precede them. I made the move from the Bay Area to a rural "red" area, but I can feel safe to do it because I'm white, straight, and appear non-threatening to the culture here. Even though I'm a flaming liberal, I can still kind of blend in. (Side note: It's amazing the kind of shit strangers will say to you out of the blue because they assume something about your politics because of your appearance.)

I wouldn't expect many of my South- and East-Asian engineering friends from the Bay Area to just YOLO and buy a house next door to me. Heck, I've asked some of them, and yes, the culture gap weighs heavily on their minds.
Your Windows box has a bad driver or something. That's an excessively long boot time even for slow hardware.
> There is not a mystery here
> Either a virus, a toxic or a brain/ear blunt trauma caused by an explosion or a strong sonar.

So, it is still a mystery.
This should be fairly de facto true. Remember your dataset is some proxy for some real (but almost surely intractable) distribution.

Now let's think about filling the space with p-balls that are bound by nearest points. So there should be no data point inside the ball. Then we've turned this problem into a sphere packing problem and we can talk about the size and volumes of those spheres.

So if we uniformally fill our real distribution with data then the average volume of those spheres decrease. If we fill but not uniformly the average ball will decrease but the largest ball will shrink slower (this case being we aren't properly covering data in that region). In either case that more you add data, the more the balls shrink. Essentially meaning the difference between data decreases. The harder question is about those under represented regions. Finding them and determining how to properly sample.

Another quick trick you can use to convince yourself if thinking about basis vectors (this won't be robust btw but a good starting point). In high dimensions the likelihood that two randomly sampled vectors are orthogonal is almost certainly true. So then we think of drawing basis vectors (independent vectors that span our space). So as we fill in data, we initially are very likely to have vectors (or data) that are independent in some way. But as we add more, the likelihood that they are orthogonal decreases. Of course your basis vectors don't need to be orthogonal but that's more semantics because we can always work in a space where that's true.
The nazis literally did kill many jews on sight, what are you talking about?

You've been bleating about a genocide for 75 years and yet over those 75 the population you claim is being destroy has had absolutely explosive growth. You have no idea what genocide means, and continuing to claim that is slanderous and disrespectful!
They also have x-rays of the individual works. Those seem to have been done in a separate process from the visible photos. Click on the camera icon next to a piece and there is then an additional selection for x-ray view.
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NPM Package for ReExt React Components Library Exfiltrates Git Credentials
Note how you have a perfectly sensible and not very alarming explanation of an ant mill?

That’s what we’re lacking here. That’s the point.
I believe the way to avoid SAR here is to file for an LLC, then create a business account, then pay yourself whatever wage via direct deposit for 1099/W-2/capital divestment payments. I'm not saying that you should have to do that, but I believe it's the best way to avoid SAR.
From which point on? After login? I guess a fair comparison would need the exact same reference point before the OS is involved, e.g. once post is done or you pressed the power button.
It's not that kind of intelligence that matters. Don't think in terms of being good at chess, poetry, or multiplying numbers in your head. Think wheel, writing, domestication, agriculture, petrochemical engineering, nuclear weapons, computers, genetic engineering.

Our intelligence is what allows us to acquire and improve new adaptations without having to change our own genetics. We're able to change living environments and adapt to them multiple times in a single life span, and we went from basic language to walking on the Moon much faster than evolution is able to make meaningful changes through natural selection. It takes however many million years for a species to grow fur to adapt to cold climate; it took a spear for us to adapt by stealing other animals' fur, and couple hundred years to figure out how to make synthetic ones at scale. In that time, we adapted to almost every environment on the planet.

Intelligence very much is the driving force behind humanity.

EDIT: and we're also beating natural selection from the other end - modern medicine allows many people to live and reproduce, who without it would've died from genetic diseases. We're very good at denying the "fitness" criteria nature uses.
no, they are simply malicious.
Shutting down discussion of a topic that otherwise has merits because you got offended by the idea is how we got here.

If you don’t like it you’re not forced to offer a valid rebuttal. You have the option to disagree or not. But taking the easy way out by shutting down the conversation just makes the situation worse for everybody. Nobody was on a high horse until you went there.
The article's answer to that:

> Górny wrote that it was unlikely that the project could detect these contributions, or that it would want to actively pursue finding them. The point, he said, is to make a statement that they are undesirable.

> In an emailed response to questions, Górny said that Gentoo is relying on trust in its contributors to adhere to the policy rather than trying to police contributions [...] "our primary goal is to make it clear what's acceptable and what's not, and politely ask our contributors to respect that"
Is the `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` in the CTE necessary? Granted my understanding of Postgres row-level locking and their interaction with CTEs may be a bit lacking, but according to the docs[1]:

The sub-statements in WITH are executed concurrently with each other and with the main query. Therefore, when using data-modifying statements in WITH, the order in which the specified updates actually happen is unpredictable. All the statements are executed with the same snapshot (see Chapter 13), so they cannot “see” one another's effects on the target tables.

1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-with.html#QU...
and then other parts of skin know not to grow hair at all!
Thanks I wasn't aware of either DRAIN or BtrBlocks. CLP is very cool. Honestly I'm not sure what a good query experience looks like. I really enjoy the flexibility of mapreduce because there are no "unsolvable" problem--if a high level DSL like Hive or Pig gets in the way you just drop down a level to Spark or streaming Python mapreduce or whatever. So ultimately rather than a "DSL for logs" I'd rather have more like a "programming model for logs". I don't know what this looks like in 2024, hopefully not still actually hadoop/EMR.
The comments here are trending towards "stop cramming 'AI' into everything". I am curious how the end-user consumer (versus 'AI' for enterprise/business) differ in experience and use. We are in the beginning of this AI-fication, and it seems deep learning models are doing really well and that DL can predictably scale [1.]; therefore, do we have to wait a bit for really life-changing AI for the end-user consumer?

I can see AI in enterprise/business being extremely useful in different industries, but at the same time, is the current 'AI' actually good/useful for the end-user consumer?

[1.] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00409
what's the state of the art in quantization methods these days that one might apply to a model like LLama 3? Any particular literature to read?
Of course priorities differ across methods. Rather than saving space or speeding up calculations, I'm simply interested in static quantization where integer weights multiply integer activations (like 8-bit integers).
(as for motivation, such quantization enables proving correct execution of inference in sublinear time, at least asymptotically. i'm talking of ZK tech)
Cool, but it could be better if some of the paintings didn't have so much light reflected from the roof, like in room 12. Maybe the camera should have been higher?
There are some cases where you can kind of tell but yea it’s a crap shoot. Any it’s all based on intuition.

Artwork, yea it’s kind of easy - “kid in photo has 10 fingers on one hand”. But for text, especially code or technical documentation.

I honestly wouldn’t be able to tell.
Fries fried in canola oil is very different than fries fried in tallow.

The author seems to suggest that it’s all the same because “of course fries are junk food” but there is a significant health difference if you recognize that reusing seed oils at high frying temps over and over again degrades the oil in a way that is not the same as with saturated fats.
In the US sports gambling is creating utter chaos in young adults. What a ridiculous thing that we allowed such ads everywhere now.
Google Cloud Managed Prometheus is fully down
If you look at prominent "pro-Russian separatist" commanders in Eastern Ukraine back in 2014, the vast majority of them were Russians who came there from the outside, not locals. Igor "Strelkov" Girkin being the most prominent example, and particularly relevant since he, by his own admission, was the one who shifted gears from civil unrest to outright war by occupying Slavyansk and Kramatorsk with his unit.
Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour
It’s amazing seeing everyone collectively trust every company over and over again only to get burned over and over again. I can’t wait for Meta to suddenly lock down newer versions after they’ve received enough help from everyone else, just so that developers can go omg who could’ve ever predicted this?
A lot of actual research is being done on how gut microbiota affects inflammation, disease, immune system. Obviously health is a complicated subject that includes genetics and environment.
And the content industry will grow ever more addictive and profitable, with content curated and customized specifically for your psyche. The very industry Meta happens to be the one to benefit from its growth most among all tech giants.
I imagine that it is not onerously expensive to run, and it's a good way for larger companies to look like they care by throwing a few nickels their way.

Further, I imagine that for some cities, the potential increase in tourism from having clean waters might be worth the investment.
I think Dane Maxwell is one of the best at doing this.

He published a PDF guide here: https://thefoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Intro-t...

And there are many examples of him doing idea extraction online. While you can do IE via email/chat, phone calls or even in-person meetings are most effective.

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- Instead of quantity, go for quality. You just need a few good idea extraction sessions. (You may have to cold-call 100's of contacts before that first good session, though...)
This behavior was also observed in New York Cab drivers in the paper LABOR SUPPLY OF NEW YORK CITY CABDRIVERS:
ONE DAY AT A TIME

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/NYCCabdriv...

> ... Our interpretation of these ndings is that cabdrivers (at least inexperi-
enced ones): (i) make labor supply decisions “one day at a time” instead of inter-
temporally substituting labor and leisure across multiple days, and (ii) set a loose
daily income target and quit working once they reach that target
The interconnect and network topology is also a big component of the hardware where you can't "fake The Real Thing" in practice.
You can often get fairly confident in program correctness for toy problem runs by scaling 1-~40 ranks on your local machine, but you can't tell much about the performance until you start running on a real distributed system where you can see how much your communication pattern stresses the cluster.

Or if you run into bugs / crashes that needs 1000s of processes or a full scale problem instance to reproduce, god help you and your SLURM queue times.
That was really cool.

It gave me a riddle for the first digit, but I repeated the riddle back to her which she took as the correct answer.

Then a 20 questions quiz for the second digit which was cool, then a series of clues for the last digit, the last of which was "the last digit is the sum of X and y".

Really fun conversational flow.
Solving complex problems often means piecing together parts of a research to obtain an understanding of the issue. This any AI can't do. Chatbots are ok for trivial stuff.
That helps the community too as every restaurant has a better chance to hit their own goal. Obviously this only works in a place with a population who all know each other.
You are only new once.

But I expect starting a journal like this, waiting for a list to grow, is also a great path to resensitizing oneself to all the potentially useful problems to solve.

Writing down something and then waiting is such an immediate, low effort/immediate reward (my list got longer!), but long-term high-payoff act, I think it can be easily relearned with a systematic practice like this.

I like the continuous separation of recognition and recording, from the downstream progression: Create a map (see), take time to study it (learn), form a party of the co-concerned (lead), before running off into the forrest.
I'm confused, is this a restatement of "call the bad ones crackers not hackers" debates of a couple decades ago?
the combat in 2b2t does not look like regular minecraft either.

because of a long history of duped high value items, PvP is just simply spamming ender crystals which deals massive damage when broken, and the defense is just how many "totems of undying" you have which absorbs lethal damage.

of course all the hacked clients automate placing ender crystals, reloading totems and identifying weak/strong locations so you're following those guidance to spam damage.

a little before that there were hacked +32,767 damage swords that will insta kill you that was patched out by the server.
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Does Japan National Tax Agency also let you see other details - like parent company of the entity, or any other information? That's provided in countries like India or Vietnam in their corporate ministries/departments
The supply chain risk elephant in the room is that bad-quality LLM-derived contributions could be kept out by the same rigorous review process that keeps out bad-quality human contributions. Now where did I leave that process? I'm sure I saw it around here somewhere...
TCL's first original movie is an absurd-looking, AI-generated love story
This is what is called a spurious correlation, and it is wildly considered as a scientific mistake to call it simply "a correlation", because either the person that talks about correlation has made a mistake by not checking if it's spurious or not, or the person that talks about correlation is intellectually dishonest.

It's like saying that black skin and lion attacks are correlated: while it is true that the correlation coefficient shows a number that correspond to a correlation, proper scientists don't do that, because it is not the skin color that is intrinsically correlated with the lion attacks, but the fact that lions and victims are both present in some specific regions. It is just bad science, or even pseudo-science, to call it "correlated", because you have done half the work and stop before the end. It's a bit like providing a result without the uncertainty bands when those uncertainty bands indicate we haven't reached statistical significance: it's bad science and it is not accepted for publication.

I guess you know it, but just in case: the stupid graph where you see a growing line between skin color and IQ is because the samples are not corrected for socio-economical status, which is itself clearly correlated with IQ. It's like taking blue-eyed people who are poor and stop their education early and brown-eyed people who have been to uni and then looking at the IQ.

Additionally, the stupid naive line is not the only method to check if it is genetic. You can also compare IQ score of twins separated at birth or look at the genome of the cluster that you pretend is "genetically less intelligent" and see if in this cluster there is less variance than in any other groups. In both case, the conclusion is that the IQ score appears to not be correlated to a specific genome. So via this approach, the conclusion is that "we cannot conclude it is correlated" because there is no mechanism to explain it and it can be spurious or a fluctuation.
NVidia, AMD, Microsoft?
But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

I believe robots are currently making car parts in abundance. The robots usually are like a box with a hydraulic arm or something equivalent.

The specially and especially hard part of humanoid robots is justifying the cost and complexity of the construction by having them by "walk-on replacements" for humans and so they have failed entirely at being that.
That is a strength, not a weakness. It's valuable to see why people, even those with whom we disagree, think the way they do. There's already far too much of a tendency to expel heretics in today's society, so the fact that Lex just patiently listens to people is a breath of fresh air.
The main thing I like is that video performance is good on Linux. I can run multiple games and multiple movies at once, on multiple displays, and everything runs butter smooth.

I've spend a dozen hours over the years trying to get even a basic game and video to play smoothly on Windows. Tried different video players, tried all manners of output plugins and settings, tried boosting priorities and assigning cores, tried so much. It never works well. Even low bitrate small video stutters and lags badly, and 1080p video is unwatchably far behind all too often. Horrific disaster.

I have multiple monitors and Linux lets me actually enjoy them. Thanks Linux.

Also I booted up my desktop recent to Windows & power consumption was ~160 watts. I have done some tuning admittedly, but on Linux I can be ~102W sitting on desktop (although something went wrong a couple months ago & I can't get my gpu's mclk to go down haha, still, 120w). Thanks Linux for saving me a ton of power.
Had to look virtue signaling up:

> a pejorative neologism for the idea that an expression of a moral viewpoint is being done disingenuously

(--Wikipedia. Apparently it was a term was newly invented in 2004 and used by religions in 2010 and 2012. Then a journalist picked it up in 2015. Interesting to see a word so new that isn't a youth thing like yeet!)

How is it disingenuous to ban this, what self-interest do they have in it?
I have created an AI directory site after procrastinating for a year
I have used wordpress to create the site and currently adding the listings manually which takes about 5-8 minutes to do per listing (Automation would be great tho). The site has shown growth and now has visitors about 100 unique visits per day on average atm.

There are already great established AI directory sites but my goal is to be in the long run and catch up.

Any feedback or comment or questions I am happy to respond.

Thanks
CYA and PR.
Prisma and the Naivety of Crowds
If no one is able to tell, does it matter?
Incredibly preserved frescoes of Trojan War figures unearthed in Pompeii
Buy a Shenzhen Android phone, then. For $300, you get a stock Android phone that has all of those things.
That's actually indirectly mentioned in the article, where they talk about how the polyunsaturated fats can be turned into transfats at temps over 200C.