skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition of harm is buried low in the bill, here's the list:

(A) The creation or use of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon in a manner that results in mass casualties.
(B) At least five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) of damage through cyberattacks on critical infrastructure via a single incident or multiple related incidents.
(C) At least five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) of damage by an artificial intelligence model that autonomously engages in conduct that would violate the Penal Code if undertaken by a human.
(D) Other threats to public safety and security that are of comparable severity to the harms described in paragraphs (A) to (C), inclusive.

That means AI for drug discovery and materials science development, AI for managing electricity grids and broadband traffic, AI in the financial and health services sectors, etc. Then there's the military-industrial side, which this legislation might not even touch if only federal contracts are involved. Classified military AI development seems reckless, hasn't anyone seen War Games?

https://technologymagazine.com/top10/top-10-military-technol...

At least with open source, the capabilities are more immediately visible.
Failure: Is it a threat or an opportunity to learn?
I want to introduce the first really unlimited export leads database where you can download unlimited emails/phones without hidden limits or fair use policies. If you are doing email marketing this is a valuable tool for you.
Very interesting tool that has similar filters to Apollo but is much more affordable.
How did you send the mail?
Spoiled by grep:

cat words \
| grep -E '^(da[^y]|d[^a]y|[^d]ay|[^d][^a][^y])$' \
| grep -E '^(ma[^y]|m[^a]y|[^m]ay|[^m][^a][^y])$' \
| grep -E '^(bu[^y]|b[^u]y|[^b]uy|[^b][^u][^y])$' \
| grep -E '^(s[^a][^y]|[^s]a[^y]|[^s][^a]y)$' \
| grep -E '^(d[^u][^e]|[^d]u[^e]|[^d][^u]e)$' \
| grep -E '^(t[^e][^n]|[^t]e[^n]|[^t][^e]n)$'
I think Auctions exist explicitly to potentially buy or sell an Item with a delta on it's Market Value? I.e. Buyers want the chance to buy below and sellers to sell above. Neither really wants to engage in the transaction at all in the reverse situation or even in the "Market Value" case. You would just make a direct sale and avoid the hassle of an auction.
Any idea why this is not on the front page? 103 points in an hour seems more than sufficient.
"is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?"

This is just a matter of syntax, right? So could it be determined by a stack machine? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Perl is not context free!

https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393

As just a guess, this question maps to the Halting Problem. (EDIT: That would have to be the question where the input is a programming language, not just for Perl. That question has been answered empirically.)
And yet you expect to pull social security some day right? Clearly that makes you an ardent communist right?
I’m less concerned about how trained professionals use LLMs than I am about untrained folks using them to be a DIY doctor/lawyer.

Luckily doctoring has the safeguard that you will need a professional to get drugs/treatments, but there isn't as much of a safety net for lawyering
You are supposed to deskew (and de-warp if the image isn't flat) images before running through tesseract. There are other tools for doing that.
I love it when people spend the time and energy to reverse engineer a circuit board and figure out the pin outs without a manual. It’s not easy, so kudos!
Google was so impactful in redefining work environment in the 2000s that people have now a very hard time getting over them being now just another old school big corporation. I remember in the early 2010s the aura Google had here on HN was crazy, I guess 10 years are still not enough to destroy that image.
Do you mean same-finger bigrams? I can't think of how same-letter bigrams could have an effect on layout preference.
My usual question when testing a new model is `Can you write a function to convert svg to png in browser?` I dunno why, it's just become this.

This model is by far the most human like, most models just give me a method which do this, but this one made a html file, allowing me an option to pick a svg using file picker, a new .js file included in the script.

Even wrote a detailed explaination, additional notes, when this wont work, the output was very well structured.
Good luck! I hope to see many competitors in this space because hegemony in this space would inhibit the software industry as a whole. Figure out your differentiators and figure what copilot sucks at. Succeeding here can be done.
While it is probably a waste of resources, dictatorships are famous for having wasteful duplicated efforts: dictators need their people to constantly be competing with each other, and to split favor so that no one ever becomes strong enough to pose a threat to the Big Man himself. That is the whole reason for the GRU-KGB split in the first place!
> having duplicate capabilities for it is a waste.

This is a feature, not a bug. This is how a system of checks and balances works in authoritarian countries - the entire security apparatus is duplicated several times over lest one agency becomes too powerful or indispensable. KGB/Ministry of the Interior/Military kept each other in check for much of the later part of the Soviet Union's existence.
He couldn't have come up with a more french name? /s
My hypothesis right now is that if you know Kubernetes there's no "good" reason to not choose Kubernetes even if it's "overkill". You get a lot of flexibility this way but it's potentially a huge upfront cost with many options for shooting yourself in the foot. Understanding how to configure it without getting overwhelmed currently takes a lot of experience.

You can run Kubernetes for cheap on a single node and it seems you can configure it so that you only need to care about the configuration when you need flexibility. I think.

I get a similar feeling to how it was to set up a react project before you had create-react-app like tools. There's a lack of plug and play options that works for most use cases.

Then again I might just be sort of rationalising the amount of time I've spent on it on a personal project that doesn't really require it.
So, part of the trickiness here is that there's a few different moving pieces that have to cooperate for success to happen.

There needs to be a great UX to elicit context from the human. For anything larger than trivial tasks, expecting the AI to read our minds is not a fruitful strategy.

Then there needs to be steerability — it's not just enough to get the human to cough up context, you have to get the human to correct the models' understanding of the current state and the job to be done. How do you do that in a way that feels natural.

Finally, all this needs to be defensive against model misses — what happens when the suggestion is wrong? Sure, in the future the models will be better and correct more often. But right now, we need to design for falliability, and make it cheap to ignore when it's wrong.

All of those together add up to a complex challenge that has nothing to do with the prompting, the backend, the model, etcetc. Figuring out a good UX is EXACTLY how we make it a useful tool — because in our experience, the better a job we do at capturing context and making it steerable, the more it integrates that thinking you stopped to do, but should have had some rigorous UX to trigger.
They are focused on RAG / agent systems and have lots of docs / tutorials to that effort
> I presume no one is building new motherboards for those processors either

That's actually far from the truth, LGA2011 is quite popular as a budged gaming system precicely because CPUs are so cheap on the 2nd hand market.

https://aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-X99.html
You should open on a PC/Mac and scan with your phone. Intended as a prototype to validate that you are physically on a spot when scanning.
Efficient GPU Usage in Cloud Services: Is Pay-per-Use Feasible?
Do others feel that a significant amount of time on a rented GPU-based instance is spent not utilizing the GPU? Often, the time is consumed debugging code, which mainly involves the CPU rather than the GPU. This leads to paying for GPU time that isn’t actually being used. Are there any cloud providers that offer a pay-per-use model specifically for GPU usage, rather than paying for the entire instance? Is this an issue for anyone else?
There's a lot of beautiful photos of distant nebulas and galaxies — but if I understand correctly, astronomers actually construct 3d data. Is there a place where I can view these 3d models of different space objects?
fake news ... i love how people always blame dejoy even tho he is one of the better PMG's we've had... and then right wingers somehow enter the picture? I've been working at usps in tech for 15 years...this has nothing to do with dejoy or right wingeres and .com has existed for a very long time as the main external facing website for customers
If you're sticking to statistics, the right answer is we don't know enough. The general rule of thumb I've seen is that you want to see n * p >= ~20 to be able to accurately assess the probability.

For the difficulty of evolution of life, we have a total N of 1-5 of life-could-have-evolved, depending on how optimistic or pessimistic you want to be about life's chances (could life have evolved on Venus? Mars? Titan? Europa? any other moons I'm forgetting about).

At this point, the statistics says more about your priors than they do about actual data, since there's not enough data to actually do any statistics on.
This simply cannot be overstated: to be paralyzed into inaction is nonetheless yet another action. The curse of choice is common to us all. To quote my mentor (and the actual fatherly mentor of Tony Robbins) Jim Rohn: "To wish it away is to wish your life away."
Man, its knowledge is insane.

I run a dying forum. I first prompted with "Who is <creator pseudonym> at <my website>?" and it gave me a very endearing, weirdly knowledgeable bio of myself and my contributions to the forum including various innovations I made in the space back in the day. It summarized my role on my own forum better than I could have ever written it.

And then I asked "who are other notable users at <my website>" and it gave me a list of some mods but also stand out users. It knew the types of posts they wrote and the subforums they spent time in. And without a single hallucination.
I even got a lot on a 4th floor balcony. Hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, ladybugs, etc. I just put out some flowering plants from the region
Since the invasion of Ukraine I think it's pretty clear to everyone involved (and many have been making it publicly and loudly clear) that appeasement doesn't work with Putin. So if any of the Baltics gets invaded for whatever reason, you can bet that a majority of NATO members will join to defend (even traitors in some countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria will definitely will try their best to stop their country from joining).
> the issue is that work done by humans is not quantifiable and comparable at scale.

If the company as a whole can buy human work per hour, perhaps so could the intra-company free market.

Imagine a company that hires people for "minimum wage + bonus". Internally, the company consists of projects; each of them can 'hire' any willing employee currently not assigned on a project; and if an employee is not 'hired' by any project for 6 months in a row, the employee gets fired by the company.

Maybe even more interesting would be a system where for each N months worked on a project you gain 1 month outside projects, and if you accumulate enough such months, you could try starting a new project within the company.
> I thought it wasn't a big issue until I saw how hard one side fought to keep the name "master".

Master craftsman? Master mold? Master copy? Head Master... Just because this word was used in relation to slavery doesn't curtail its use in language, removing it only serves to focus its "power".

Also, thats not how language works. At all. It is never how language worked. An Australian and an American are going to have a very different reaction to the word cunt.

Candidly, the erasing of words from language for any reason is very 1984, it's a book you might want to read, its a good primer to understanding how control of language is one of the features of fascism. You should probably read up on how linguistic purity was part and parcel of Italian and to a lesser degree German control of the people.
Re: Tourism -- I'm not sure 20% is a "relatively small" amount.

Also it has alot of other impacts such as bringing in foreign investment, new skills, and so on.
Special vs general. Quantum field theory is special relativistic and quantum mechanical. The grand unified theory stuff is about uniting general relativity and quantum mechanics.
I agree about China's partners. Russia may have some legacy technology to contribute, the others are lightweights. That aspect of the program is mainly about politics.

The Chinese space program however looks serious enough. Some recent press:

https://thediplomat.com/2023/10/long-march-9-rocket-will-be-...

https://www.space.com/china-names-spacecraft-astronaut-moon-...

https://spacenews.com/china-to-debut-large-reusable-rockets-...
their generation was also told that getting a “big screen TV” was a status symbol, so picture size (not quality) is the only/primary metric
Gpt2-chatbot: mysterious strong model on the LMSys Chatbot Arena
Thank you! Although it wasn't the loveletter I was thinking of, but you are right: it was probably this, because it also plays some music and it is covered in the paper. There was an instance on the web, so those who could not make it to the installation could also experience it. According to alpha60.de, there was a Group Exhibition "Love Letters", Gallery Gabriele Senn in Vienna from 12.05.2023 to 28.07.2023.
I think it was this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110723063000/http://alpha60.de... but the jar never loads from the archive. This is what I am after!
More that bodies respond to stress of all forms and people who have a failing business might push themselves beyond reasonable healthy limits to avoid that outcome, leaving them in a situation where their finances are wrecked just in time for all the chickens they stored up not getting enough sleep, pulling a double shift, working through the pain, etc. to come home to roost.
Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary
In my mind it came from the French non plus, meaning neither. Often heard when responding "me neither", as the "me" would be a very short syllable at the beginning of the response. I can imagine people hearing "non plus" and seeing uninterested or unfazed people uttering it, sharing lack of enthusiasm with someone else.
I think it's more typical to low-pass (i.e. blur) the image and then use a line-detection algorithm like the Hough transform. Properly deskewed text should have prominent horizontal white lines.
Absolutely incredible job. If I hadn't seen the blog post, I would've believed that it came out-of-the-box like this.
> This was my first time soldering DFN packages and they’re tiny! Because I don’t have a microscope or anything to visually inspect my soldering and these components were mostly just handling power anyway I just checked for shorts between power and ground and tried to take close-ups using my phone to see if I could spot any shorts. The technique that ended up working well for me to solder on these DFN packages without a stencil is to put what can only be described as way too much solder paste on the pads and then pushing the IC in the pool of solder, when the solder melts from the heat of my hot air station the IC will float on top and then I push down on it with tweezers and all excess solder will squeeze out and bead up, hopefully landing somewhere on the solder mask, where I can pick it up later once it’s solid.

This is positively an insane methodology for soldering. Fun, but insane.

I actually can imagine that it works, strangely enough. But I don't think you'd get much consistent reliability with this. More like it'd work often enough that its good for one-off projects.
Who in Europe is investing the most in artificial intelligence?
(2010)

Obvious thought: Is it also easier to walk if you're chewing gum (vs. not chewing gum)? Because if so, then a traditional insult might need updating.
> Discord gives the right answer.

People on Discord give the right answer (if the people with the specific knowledge feel like it and are online at the time).
While I agree that the book lending is only a small portion of the value provided by the IA, it makes sense that they're making a stand here. Losing this battle would establish precedent that format-shifting legally aquired copies of media is not protected under fair use, which would be disastrous to preservation efforts of all kinds going forward.
Direct democracies also have their own issues of easily manipulating people to vote against their own best interest because get this, the Average Joe with voting rights is actually incredibly stupid. See Brexit, Austria's denuclearization, etc.

It only works when gen pop is well educated and highly inteligent and not influenceable with fake news off social media.
Is that any different that the media or cancel culture?
With what isolation level?
I was thinking fish or frogs. I’d imagine little fish are easier? Do they just live on the “wildlife” or do you feed them ?
Yeah the licensing is often the stumbling block, unless you can just run some bog-standard linux on it. It sounds like this might be custom enough that it would be difficult (but I daresay we'll see a post in 5 years from someone getting part of it running after finding it on the side of the road).
I was thinking this too. These cosmic objects look solid from afar, but they could be just slightly more dense than the surrounding space on average.
Crazy how many galaxies are in that one photo (in the background).
https://archive.ph/2024.04.27-080452/https://www.nytimes.com...
Very impressive

Prompt:

> there are 3 black blocks on top of an block that we don't know the color of and beneath them there is a blue block. We remove all blocks and shuffle the blocks with one additional green block, then put them back on top of each other. the yellow block is on top of blue block. What color is the block we don't know the color of? only answer in one word. the color of block we didn't know the color of initially

ChatGPT 4: Green

Claude3 Opus: Green

GPT2-Chatbot: Yellow
Yes, exactly this. A second chance is a safety net, available mostly to those with the circumstances or resources to deploy it. One helpful circumstance being youth (plenty of time), while an obvious resource is personal or, more likely for the younger, parental wealth.

Attitudes to risk taking are similar, e.g. your fear of high wire walking depends hugely on whether you have a safety line or not. Wealthy kids might pride them themselves on taking chances where the reality is that in their whole existence they have never been exposed to the possibility of paying the price for failure.
There are quite a few defined benefit pension funds and 401k/IRAs that depend on the publicly listed businesses’s continuous long term price increases to meet people’s goals of being able to use their “assets” to buy the quality of life they want in retirement.

Certainly does not seem like the “short term” needful to me. US tech stocks are basically carrying a large portion of politically active US voters past the finish line.
The boilerplate can be a bit ugly, but you can invoke CLI tools from python just fine.

The result is not particularly "pythonic" but I think it beats a pure bash script if there's non-trivial business logic.
Man impersonated law enforcement, sought to investigate own crimes, police say
The last 5% recursively turns into 95% of a new whole 100 and so ad nauseum. But one time it will fold...
How are you using regex to end the while loop? Are you detecting a specific substring or is it something more complex?
I will choose Safari over Chrome any day. My main browser is Firefox, with Safari second. I don't have Chrome installed on any of my devices, and will stay away from it until the unfortunate day when Chrome is finally exactly synonymous with the Web.

What I want from my iPad is to be able to dual-boot into macOS. Everything else are small steps with the intent of postponing the ability to run a full-blown OS on the device.

Incidentally, you can run Chrome on the iPad if it can run macOS.
“1. Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it.

2. In fact, users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to.”

— <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...>
I may be wrong, but every time you do a check-in you are giving your information and they record it, and you have to show the same document at boarding time.

This doesn't mean that it must be the same document that you used to enter or exit the country though, although depending on the destination the airline may require proof that you can enter the destination country, like a visa or a passport, because having a passenger refused entry may be an hassle for them.

You can use a document to exit the departure country, another for the airline (with the caveat above) and another one for the destination, even with different names on them.
No. The specification mandated by HIPAA law is x12 837 and 835 documents. They are awful.
I think they're intentionally tying it all together because they know that the "emergency library" was a heap of shit (you can't argue you can digitally lend the same document multiple times simultaneously, it makes no sense).

They're basically holding the Internet Archive hostage to try to force this thing through.
But what's giving it it's seemingly clear cutoff boundary? I have trouble imagining anything in the nothingness of space taking the role of the forces that shape our atmospheric clouds. It feels a bit as if it was some arbitrary artistic decision like that 2001 slit scan or the Solaris ocean. Then on the other hand of course it's amongst the few most "artistic" ones picked from all those super tiny projection viewports we have taken from the sphere of view directions, so perhaps we should not be all that surprised. It's not quite the level of unlikely discovering a planet populated by mattresses would be.
> I can imagine the same thing with laws. Preload a city's, county's etc. entire set of laws and for a sentencing, upload a defendant's criminal history report, plea, and other info then the DA/judge/whoever can ask questions to the AI legal advisor just like the doctor does with patient docs.

This has been tried already, and it hasn't worked out well so far for NYC [0]. RAG can helps avoid complete hallucinations but it can't eliminate them altogether, and as others have noted the failure mode for LLMs when they're wrong is that they're confidently wrong. You can't distinguish between confident-and-accurate bot legal advice and confident-but-wrong bot legal advice, so a savvy user would just avoid the bot legal advice at all.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-i...
I'd be interested to see how this does on Nicholas Carlini's benchmark:

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/my-benchmark-for-l...

I've tried out some of my own little test prompts, but most of those are tricky rather than practical. At least for my inputs, it doesn't seem to do better than other top models, but I'm hesitant to draw conclusions before seeing outputs on more realistic tasks. It does feel like it's at least in the ballpark of GPT-4/Claude/etc. Even if it's not actually GPT-4.5 or whatever, it's still an interesting mystery what this model is and where it came from.
If the IA is a single point of failure, better we learn that now instead of later.
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