skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably worthless as a solution, but it seems to me like a good quantitative tool to start fining at a realistic cost. I.e. VWs fines for emissions falsifications were at best based on first estimating with fantasy offset costs instead of a hypothetical build out cost.
Presumably because they are of a previous location of the art’s installation. The article is written in future tense, so it stands to reason that there are no (interesting) pictures of the new installation yet.
Europeans did not become wealthy from plunder and trade. That's preposterous. In fact, their monarchies were assassinated (Russian), overthrown (French), or otherwise forced into the twilight (UK) by non-European influences, starting in the 17th-18th century. The common Christian religions were brought to heel during the same time.
Not far off, some days i would say.

Yes it's a wrapper with opted-out sentry and vercel analitycs, just like self-host package.
Nor is it how I work, I think that's normal enough. I do have an idea of what I'm going to say before I say it, I think that's closer to what they meant. I think and speak in increments of ideas, not words.
Don't have faith in LLMs. don't trust them.

treat them like a new hire - you've got to take some time to judge what their capabilities are, how they're going to fit into your workflow, and how you can make their output useful. they're going to be bad at some things, and they're going to be good at some things. and maybe they're not going to be a good fit at all. but sometimes they will be really helpful, and ignoring that and deciding to do everything yourself instead is going to make you less productive in the long run.
Funny, given I've heard from multiple infosec people, that they believe telegram is a honeypot.
Coming to think of it, recent ML is just a scaled up version of Infosys, Wipro, etc. Shit quality answers for enterprises, now accessible for the masses.
What model were you using? What prompt did you use?

You can learn to trust it for some tasks that it's reliably good at.

But for the most part, you don't trust it - you read through it and check it.
Well then, there's even less reason to pay the rent Stack Overflow was wanting.
Related reading "I’m living in a carbon bubble. Literally."[0] which has a lot of great basic charts and graphs on everyday data related to CO2. Information in this reading that is relevant to 4000 PPM on the Space Station

-Typical CO2 concentrations can reach 4000 ppm in a car
-"On the International Space Station, the odds of a crew member reporting a headache double for every 1300 ppm increase in CO2 concentration [Law 2014]."
-Nearly every cognitive function go "down" in score when CO2 PPM levels go from 1k to 2.5k. The exceptions are Focused Activity Cognitive Score goes UP and information search stays about the same. Not shown are effects over 2.5k.

Important to note the Space Station is at a different pressure and has no gravitational effects on airflow compared to where many of the studies were done on Earth.

I do not work nor have studied in a CO2 related field but gained a fascination with how we overlook it in daily life (like many here) and have since purchased CO2 measuring devices and read various studies. I think missing from my notes here is a link to NASA done research on the effects of CO2 on astronauts on the space station.

[0]https://medium.com/@joeljean/im-living-in-a-carbon-bubble-li...
Master the art of sending "getting pulled into another call - have to drop" chats
If 15 years of technological progress can’t find it cost effective to fit more than 256gb of solid state storage in a $1000 device, then what are we even doing here?

A 1 TB consumer-oriented SSD is about $50 today. At Apple’s manufacturing scale, do you have any doubt that the cost to them is nearly negligible?
> forcing Apple to allow external billing platforms

The courts order is far less than what was being mooted in legislation, and killed those bills better than a lobbyist ever could have.
The Nix moderation team is woke and they're purging non-woke people from Nix.
Well, yes, but you didn’t, did you.

Come on, it does not take long consideration to appreciate how this can be interesting, even if the technical requirements aren’t interesting in themselves.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297027
> Why 1/30th?
> Latency will be far more than that due to speed of light.

1/30th of 1s is almost exactly the round-trip time from NYC to Dublin (Wolfram Alpha says 17ms one-way).
A internal network boundary is probably worth it for heavy jobs, since you usually don't want it to interfere with serving web requests (no matter the tech).

You probably already know what I would say to each of those examples.

> Rails timing out after 30s while allocating 500MB of memory (mostly) in ActiveRecord to compute 5MB of JSON to return to an API caller.

I can make a JS or Go program perform the same way. In fact the exact same thing happened in my shop with Go/Gorm. The key question is: how do you compute the 5mb of JSON? The devil is in those details. We changed the way we computed ours, and the issue was gone.

> 90% of request latency of ~10s spent waiting for downstream services to respond to requests. Most of these could be fired off concurrently (ie `Promise.all` in node). 9s/10s this Rails worker is sitting around doing nothing and eating up ~300MB of memory.

This sounds broken. Why is the worker doing nothing for 9 out of 10s? But like I said earlier, there are a bunch of ways to use HTTP1.1 pipelining to run them concurrently. (https://github.com/excon/excon and https://github.com/HoneyryderChuck/httpx support it, but you can also do that with Net::HTTP I believe) And you can still start threads, which are still concurrent while blocking on IO.

> trying to extract out Authorization to a centralized service (so that other extracted services don't have to call into the monolith in order to make authorization decisions) is a major pain as the monolith now has to make calls out to the centralized auth system to in order to make authz decisions.

This seems unrelated to Rails. Not sure why monolith can't continue handling authorization.
Neuralink has previously discussed their implantations in monkeys, in which they claim implantations for > 1 year with increasing performance (e.g., in their deep dive on youtube [1]). That would seem to indicate that this wasn't seen in animal studies (maybe just a matter of degree). Figure 04 they have in the article suggests a steady state may have been reached with respect to some factors, but I guess they could continue to improve things on the model side while still experiencing degradation if the improvements outpace the effect of degradation. Since this doesn't seem to impact safety, it doesn't seem like a follow-up surgery would be needed as long as the device continues to be useful; if it essentially became a brick then the patient would probably want it removed (which requires another surgery). They've never talked about any surgeries for "maintenance" before, and given the size of the threads, I doubt the same previously implanted ones could be reinserted.

1. Neuralink Show and Tell, Fall 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YreDYmXTYi4)
To get wider audience? Don’t know why they want that. Some audio data collecting?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the Future of AI [video]
Hm, I wonder if a ultrasonic nebulizer can be used for that.
My wife and I rented the double subnado things last time we were out of town diving. Seems that fits the pretty rich and lazy market much better.
> What scope is enough? What tests are enough?

How each candidate answers each question themselves tells you about them.
Where is the distributed part in all this? Looks like a typical runtime to me?
You might not have an internal monologue. A lot of us don't, and the ones that do are equally shocked every time they find out. For what it's worth, I'm in the same boat—can form sentences, but why would I? It'd slow me down.

People who don't have inner monologues tend to assume that all that stuff is some form of analogy or metaphor. It's not. It's entirely literal.
Wired, using the subsea fiber cables, your still stuck at a 60 ms RTT minimum from NYC to Dublin. Add in video transcoding time and a more realistic estimate of the networks on either side, and you're looking at latency closer to 200-400 ms. WiFi over this distance actually isn't a significant contributor to latency.
You shouldn't! We're not trying to "sell" any rewrite from JNI to FFM. Since FFM is both significantly easier to use and offers better performance, most people would choose to write new interop code with FFM; that is an easy sell. But that's not to say that these benefits justify a rewrite of existing code, and we have no plan to remove JNI. JNI and FFM can coexist in same program (and even in the same class). However, we are about to place the same protections on JNI as those we have on FFM to ensure that Java programs are free of undefined behaviour by default, and that modules that may introduce undefined behaviour are clearly acknowledged by the application so that the application owners may give them closer scrutiny if they wish [1].

To elaborate just a bit more on what I wrote in my previous comment, to get a straightforward interop with C you need to place certain restrictions on the runtime which limit your ability to implement certain abstractions such as moving GCs and user-mode threads. Because native interop requires special care anyway due to native memory management, which makes it significantly more complex than ordinary code and so less suitable for direct exposure to application developers -- so it's best done by experts in the area -- and on top of that native calls in Java aren't common, we decided not to sacrifice the runtime in favour of more direct interop. As a result, native interop is somewhat more elaborate to code, but as it requires some special expertise and so should be hidden away from application developers anyway, we decided it's better to place the extra burden on the experts doing the interop rather than trade off runtime capabilities and performance. We think this is the better tradeoff for Java. Consequently, we have both compacting collectors and no performance penalty for native calls on virtual threads. Other languages made whatever tradeoffs they thought were right for them, but they did very clearly sacrifice something.

[1]: https://openjdk.org/jeps/472
Apple, I fixed it for you
Privacy can actually be reduced with on-device ai too. Now, without actually sending any data to iCloud apple can still have a general idea of what you’re doing. Imagine a state has a law that makes certain subjects illegal to discuss. They could compel apple to have their local AI detect that content and then to broadcast a ping in the AirTags network about the user and their location. No internet connection required on the target.
then perhaps you should tell it to lie to you, no?

Prepend that to your prompt perhaps. Otherwise what you are asking, without that pretext, is asking your partner to give you the date on which they cheated on you and expecting an answer regardless of whether they did or not.
He worked for two other companies.

But they (perhaps) were a low bar.
Thanks!

> Are there keyboard shortcuts for all the operations shown?

For now yes, what would you like to be added?
This isn't the place for that kind of comment.
"There was no one there to tell you what to do. In the military, there was a change of command." With all due respect - in close to 30 years being a contractor and now executive, I've essentially never had anyone telling me what to do. When you're decent at your job - this is how people roll.
That same amount of pain in the ass gaming made spam and terrible quality answers equally discouraged. Given the volume of at least decent content on stack overflow, I'd say the game worked. Somebody could try to make it better with a competitor but it would be a hard thing to succeed at.
I also worked at SpaceX - they are not efficient. They refuse to buy software or use cloud solutions, their existing software systems have immense bloat, and their infrastructure is held together by 1 overworked IT guy, and if he left half the factories at the company would shut down overnight.
Positive-sum rarely exists in this world.. after all, one's wealth determines their influence over others. Both sides might gain but this usually means others lose.

In this case, contributors might lose attribution. SO might lose traffic but they'll be compensated. Contributors won't so eventually there might be no reason to contribute anymore..
No, in the developed countries we have a mix of socialism and capitalism. Pure capitalism has produced only fortune for the rich and misery for the population.
Super cool! I would love to see a ring of these leading to all different countries. Really interesting way to connect countries together.
They probably do not mean people form entire sentences before expressing them, I am not aware of anybody doing that. I assume it refers to people first coming up with a global outline of what they want to say before they start speaking.
Neuralink cofounder launches new neurotech startup – and they're hiring
This is a conversation with a /former/ employee
Would you consider zoom call with someone on the other side of an ocean "realtime"?

If so, I don't see how this is any different. If not, that's a pretty narrow definition of realtime given the context.
I don't know if OP meant "trust" as in free from security errors or bugs. I often struggle with "how is this a useful tool?". Fixing bugs in someone else's code seems like more a time sink than just writing the code myself.

I assume everyone else must be working on projects/languages that have far more representation in the training set, but for me, especially working in Rust, even trying to write interfaces into C libraries, I would constantly find myself dealing with hallucinated parameters or function calls, incorrectly implemented functions or just broken code.

At the very least if I do it myself, I'll have some intuition about how the code works.
I dont get how you can release something under anything other than all rights reserved without identification. We need to be able to persecute you in case you are not the author. Or is it that i may republish anything under any license?? It could be that the platform licences it in the toss but with cc are they not obligated to make it available without obstructie?
In a way, I've been using Google tools to improving my english for a while now. A while back I was way more active on youtube, recording videos of my projects speaking english. I would then see the auto generated captions to see if the model had some trouble understanding what I was saying. Most of the time it was ok. Since I saw the model misunderstanding native english speakers as well.
IDEs used to be very capable development environments. They could do magical things (by today's standards) because they understood the structure of the language as well as available resources. The current batch of AI doesn't seem to take this into consideration, whether out of laziness, incompetence, or some strategic or cynical view.
When you realize “safety” applies to brand safety and not human safety, the motivation behind model lobotomies make sense.
OP is correct, 1/30 s is a good ballpark theoretical lower bound.

Assuming travel across the earth surface, light in a vacuum take about 14ms to cross the distances. Times two for round trip that’s about 1/30 s.

Of course we don’t have anywhere near ideal conditions there (at a minimum, light in fiber is already slower, closer to 40ms round trip in that case, and of course network infrastructure adds orders of magnitude), but it’s a good limit.
Title does not match article, article does not match the research, and the scientist making the claim is saying something that, if true, would require absolutely rewriting everything about evo-devo biology.

I believe the article was really written to publicize the scientist's book, "The Master Builder", https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/books/review/the-good-vir...

The only counterexample to the mainstream position that I can think of is not chimeric individuals (which are remarkable, but mainly a case for how accomodating of variation the existing biological systems are) but maternal factors- components in the egg cell that are not DNA, but contribute greatly to the phenotype of the embryo and resulting individual.

Really the complaint is about the gene-centric view put forward by many- see The Selfish Gene for the best argument for the gene-centric (rahter than "genome-centric") view.
Good for you, one of the chosen few in your country. But then again you have to endure living in the US :-)
I have 6 weeks paid vacation (besides the public holidays), 5 extra family care days, unlimited (paid) child sick leave, paid own sick leave, work from home (2-3 days a week), great free public health care, free uni education for my children (and they get paid to go). I can't be fired without 6 months notice. And a 37 hour work week, and a clean conscience knowing that all workers have comparable work life. I have nothing to complain about.
The author is doing marketing their own online reputation.

This feels like a LinkedIn post where someone toots their own horn by talking about how much they learned at awesome previous employers. It’s a LinkedIn Post that escaped to Business Insider.
I agree with you. The question, for me, is what are they defending against. Are they worried that people will get dangerous information from their model that they couldn't get from searching on, say, google? Probably not.

Maybe their biggest concern is that someone will post the question and answer on the internet and OpenAI gets bad rep. If the question is phrased in a "nice" way (such as "I'm a store owner") they can have plausible deniability.

This might apply to another company that's using the API for a product. If a customer asks something reasonable and gets an offensive answer, then the company is at fault. If the customer does some unusual prompt engineering to get the offensive question, well, maybe it's the customer's fault.

Dunno if this would be a valid argument in court, but maybe they think it's ok in terms of PR reasons.
Show HN: I made an app to remind people who forget to join meetings
I just got tired of having people join late, so I decided to automate a simple message to remind them. There was a time when I had 5+ videocalls per day, so this was pretty handy - now I decided to productize the add-on.

Let me know what you think!
I got into Decker when it was mentioned last week in the discussion about HyperCard replacements.

I’m really wondering about packaging of decks. I really like Redbean and how its all in one file with Lua, SQLite, etc. and you just open up with a zip tool, put all the HTML and Lua code, rename it and its good to deploy.

I’m wondering if Decker is considering that kind of deployment to make it easier.
Surveillance isn't about porn or violence from video games.

It's about having power to control the population. To find people who may be a threat.
You're holding it wrong.

ChatGPT does not do your job for you.

It is an assistant - you have to do the debugging and adapting and understanding and verification and fixing.

And, ChatGPT is better at coding in programming languages that have more training material, so the more popular the languages, the more likely ChatGPT is to give a meaningful result.
The funny part is, Spring Data JPA has a quite serious take on this, in the form of query methods [0]. You create a repository interface with certain method names, and it dynamically creates an implementation that queries the columns of the underlying table, according to the name of the method.

[0] https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-m...
That sounds pretty damn efficient, although risky.
But do we really believe that a significant number of people will listen to ChatGPT's moralizing about the ethics of shoplifting* and just decide not to do it after all? Why wouldn't they just immediately turn around and Google "how to catch shoplifters" and get on with their planning?

The whole thing feels much more about protecting OpenAI from lawsuits and building up hype about how advanced their "AI" is than it does about actually keeping the world safer.

* Or any other censored activity.
That was an ad in the beginning, right?
Thanks, I'll have to check them out.
https://www.google.com/sky/ (2005)
Seriously. Usually the only way we can see images of other places is through media, which may be biased. (Even if the stories are true, the stories which are chosen may not be representative.) This is a really cool opportunity to cut through all of that and just show everyday people.

It would also be really cool if there was some kind of live translation that let people talk to each other in their native languages.
Less Is Exponentially More
Serious question, what is costlier, for a critical high-risk long-gestation operation like space travel - paying 1 IT guy to stick around, or having to go through an entire transformation/ migration/ contract a custom build when your third party cloud intrastructure inevitably goes under, or deprecates, or fails to meet your needs, etc? Granted, there is probably a better third way
I meant the bankruptcy court better sell, before it goes through another volatility cycle
That would be fun. How do you imagine the “ring”? A huge part of the appeal is that both sides can see each other.
Underhanded Dotfiles
https://archive.is/qINVD
So they're controlling the output to make ChatGPT "better". They're not making a better model to make ChatGPT better.

Isn't it a bit of a waste at this point to spend time on doing that?
I'm actually perfectly fine if StackOverflow wants to sell an answer I made to help train AI.

For me, the purpose of providing an answer is to help save others (and my future self) time, and I don't really mind if someone uses that in a private product - especially if it helps tools like ChatGPT which provide an insane amount of value given the low monthly price.
Thin-film flow controls the organization of materials and their properties
The scale might be different here, since prompting AI is much cheaper than hiring a begginer programmer. The previous loss could for instance be compensated by attribution.
Minimodem

Encode to opus:

cat foo.zip | minimodem --tx -r 300 -f out.flac

opusenc --bitrate 64 out.flac out.opus

Decode from opus:

minimodem --rx -r 300 -f out.opus > foo2.zip
Walking to Taipei Through a Google Maps Glitch
National Information Infrastructure (NII) (1991)
I run an augmented reality company with my Mom
The real-world outcomes from what I described is that it takes teams of dozens of software developers being hired to either reinvent the wheel or spend all of their time managing tech debt rather than solving actual problems.
Most Urbanized Countries 2024
Well, I much prefer people mooning each other, or, similarly, the actual happenstance of countries voting for and against each other in the Eurovision Song Contest for reasons other than musical merit, to armed conflict.
First time reading a Deep Mind PR? This is literally their modus operandi.
Another vote for The Soul of a New Machine. It's one of my favorite books.
G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars
"Rem tene, verba sequentur" (you hold the matter, then words come) is largely "how it works".

You form logical ideas as you speak, as you speak your speech develops, so the translation is from ideas to sentences. It is not clear in which phase one would mentally form a complete sentence, nor why it should be relevant. You "see something [that makes sense]", then you describe it - iteratively.