skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an issue scientifically. I think this point was expressed by Feynman: the goal of scientific theories isn’t just to make better predictions, it’s to inform us about how and why the world works. Many ancient civilizations could accurately predict the position of celestial bodies with calendars derived from observations of their period, but it wasn’t until Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model and Galileo provided supporting observations that we understood the why and how, and that really matters for future progress and understanding.
Does anyone know of a tool similar to SteerMouse that let's you control Logitech keyboard settings (e.g., turn off the backlight)? It's the only reason I still have the Logitech software installed.
Exactly, holds will evolve as they get used and more polished, even indoors. Climbing a Moonboard with a new set of holds is quite different than climbing on one with older more polished holds, even if it's the exact same problem and the same holds.

It's an interesting project and it could be fun to watch, but it's completely useless.
It seems like these people have nothing else to do but to be upset about something?
Facts? Lies? Humans have no problem operating outside the confines of that which has been conclusively proven true, and much of our best work exists there! Why would you hobble your model in ways humans aren't?

Prompt: "Write some dialog that might take place in the setting of Terry Pratchett's Rimworld"

Response: "No, Terry Pratchett is lying. As a large language model I..."
I still don't understand the focus on making a model substantially "safer" than what a simple google search will return. While there are obvious red lines (that search engines don't cross either), techniques for shop lifting shouldn't be one of them.
Does it make sense to compare them as the lines between them blur? Absolutely! That's the best time to compare.

And the same is true for DRAM and flash. There have been several moments in time when the tables have tilted where battery backed RAM PCI cards have made sense, or where sticking persistent Optane chips in high speed DRAM slots has.
There's a not entirely dissimilar event in history: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Germany kept a bunch of Jews locked in the (at the time) world's biggest open-air prison, and built a wall around it, and shot everyone who came close to the wall. The Jews started smuggling weapons into the prison, and when the Germans came to collect them for murdering, they murdered a whole lot of Germans instead. No doubt if Germany hadn't been totally defeated by the Allies shortly after, if they'd won the war and gotten to write history, they would have called it an unprecedented and unprovoked terrorist attack.
Companies often say things and then some years later do something different than what they said. It’s not like these are legally binding statements.
He should have just put it in a savings account and looked for something else.
3+k stars is amazing. How long it took you to achieve this?

From my side. I have raise a small amount of money however wanted to see if what other people think about open sourcing and made their decision to do it
Life changing but not retirement. There's nowhere in the USA you could retire on a $300k windfall.
There are many disciplines (like Enterprise Architecture) that would benefit from being able to annotate entities and relations described here without extensive finetuning or running inference for these proprietary models; this is a huge unlock for research teams all over the world!
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To put it in context:

> Loss per share: $8.19. That may not compare with the $8.71 loss expected by LSEG

So, they lost ~6% less than expected. Yay?
That's the aspirational goal. And I would say that it's a bit of an inflexible one- for example, if we had an ML that could generate molecules that cure diseases that would pass FDA approval, I wouldn't really care if scientists couldn't explain the underlying principles. But I'm an ex-scientist who is now an engineer, because I care more about tools that produce useful predictions than understanding underlying principles. I used to think that in principle we could identify all the laws of the universe, and in theory, simulate that would enough accuracy, and inspect the results, and gain enlightenment, but over time, I've concluded that's a really bad way to waste lots of time, money, and resources.
Interesting insights, but regarding carriers I have to wonder why the PRC invests in having them, when they are moot/mostly obsolete? They have 2 of former soviet origin in operation, a 3rd of completely indigenous origin just went for its maiden voyage on the first of May. Which is notable, because it has
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launc... relying on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_electric_propulsion which it also has.

Arguably better than that US Ford thing, though slightly smaller.
A 4th is already under construction, even larger, and will be nuclear powered.

All that effort just for showing 'W(h)e(e) too!' ?
If you are dealing with liquid nitrogen from air, then you are probably also dealing with liquid oxygen in the mix. I imaging that at power-storage scales the presence of such amounts of liquid oxygen might create safety issues. Separating it out might nullify any energy storage advantages.
The one answer I failed to get from those operating/building these plants is: how much CO2 was released building it in the first place and how long will it take to recover just that? Just wondering.
Is there a solution when the binaries are 500mb+ per platform?
Physics-informed machine learning is a whole (nascent) subfield that is very much in line with this thinking. Steve Brunton has some good stuff about this on YouTube.
shoplifting was just an example...
Then we should dedicate large fractions of human engineering towards finding ethical ways to improve human intelligence so that we can appreciate the underlying principles better.
Personally, I really want an AI model that can write me a steamy story about two people having sex in a train, but that's just not the service OpenAI provides. If I want that I should train one myself or find another vendor.

This is still true even if OpenAI model is entirely capable of doing that. McKinsey consultants are smart and can write well, and among many thousands of people working at it some might actually double as an erotica writer after work, even writing for commission. You still wouldn't ask McKinsey consultants to write an erotica, it is just not the service McKinsey provides.
The idea that vampires die when placing a stake through their heart is so funny to me, because most things die once you've put a stake through their heart...
Whatcha building?
I vote for the construction companies to be held liable. That way any future office buildings they construct will be more easily converted to housing.

Tearing down good buildings and building new is wasteful and causes more pollution then repurposing. These for profit corporations externalized these costs upon us repressing.

Planning for those who plan to use planned obsolescence to generate a profit.
That sounds like useful engineering, but not useful science.
Well, right now the response I get is this: https://chat.openai.com/share/1f60d0e5-9008-43d7-bce2-62d550...

Of course, it'll write such an argument if you ask it nicely: https://chat.openai.com/share/01ea4f59-4a57-413d-8597-3befa2...
I think in most contexts where the earth being flat is mentioned, some reference to the fact that this is not true is going to be instrumental in any response (although there may be exceptions).

- completion of any task where the info could be relevant (e.g. sailing, travel planning)

- Any conversation about that is information-seeking in character

And I think those already cover most cases.

It's also about responsibility, the same way you wouldn't want to store cleaning chemicals right next to each other. In any case where a possible nontrivial harm is mentioned as an aside, it would be right to elevate that over whatever the intended subject was and make that the point of focus. Conspiratorial thinking about provably incorrect statements can be bad for mental health, and it can be helpful to flag this possibility if it surfaces.

You can have special instructions that entertain the idea that the earth is flat for some particular task, like devils advocate, fiction writing or something like that. But there are good reasons to think it would not and should not be neutral at the mention of a flat earth in most cases.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing, will definitely give it a try. I think we settled for chat interface to play with LLMs, but there's nothing really holding us back to try new ways.
> energy density and power density seem to be roughly inversely related across technologies. i.e the more energy you can pack per unit mass the slower it is to get it in and out.

This sounds really elegant and simple to the point where people might take it as an axiomatic fact but the very existence of both nuclear fission and fusion stops it from being a general rule. They’re both discharging power from individual atoms and it would actually be great if we had a way to slow down the rate of discharge.
Europe was rich because of plunder, trade, and some respect for learning
That isn't valid either as if he is retired he needs some of that money to buy things like food.
World record for a human powered hydrofoil is 21.3 mph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decavitator 6mph looks a lot more reasonable in that context.
it is still strange to allow for this class of products tailored to kids but parents are just supposed to universally agree should not be bought

The US is all about freedom. We also allow people to smoke even though smoking kills more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined. That's weird...but we still allow it. Conversely, I would expect the EU to implement the kind of legislation you're advocating for.
Sam Altman wrote "Why You Should Fear Machine Intelligence" back in 2015, before OpenAI.

https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1
That's why you either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain: villain tactics *work* - that's why they do them!
> After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones.

I can understand issues, but what I can't forgive is Google not taking responsibility for those issues.

My mother had a Pixel 3 that died an EDL-death at around 3 years old. She wasn't a heavy phone user, and this was obviously a defect, but yet Google would do nothing (Case ID [9-9224000032592] Google). They suggested paying $411 for a repair when second-hand phones were selling for $300.

My mom was planning on trading it in when the Pixel 6 was released, but it failed about a month before and as it wasn't working Google also wouldn't accept it towards an upgrade.

7-year software upgrades are great and all, but by not standing behind their hardware I really can't recommend buying them.
It would be life changing, but it would still be hard to retire on 300K in the US.
Yes! this is what i've been thinking about!
It makes sense for them to start allowing, unlike the other rules this one does not seem to violate a law, someone's privacy, or copyright.

I still get why they made it blocked by default, it would be a goldmine for clicks to create "news" on how "ChatGPT can generate smut" and "How ChatGPT is harmful to children, etc".
Definitely. A natural language interface in front of any specific knowledge/info you can think of - why not? Also probably eats e-commerce, ordering at kiosks, creating art/music/entertainment, many forms of advice (legal, medical, personal).

LLM as a device fits so many use cases.
Yes, i wasn't clear: it's the polars library that's actively changing, so that might be the issue, or just the vast set of optional components configurable on installation, which isn't the normal package manager experience.

FWIW i think i share your general aversion to _not_ using packages, just for the tidiness of installs and removals, though i'm on fedora and macos.
Quick note: "On May 6, 2024, the California State Court accept our claim."
The court where you filed your lawsuit is a federal court, not a state court. Specifically, it's the U.S. District Court - Northern District of California, as noted on the complaint. Of course, it is located in the State of California.
Hi, Devv founder here.

Thank you for your valuable feedback; it's an excellent suggestion! In fact, we've already begun implementing this feature with our initial step being the introduction of GitHub Mode. This new functionality will enable seamless integration with your personal GitHub repositories. We've developed a bespoke indexer tailored to various programming languages to enhance this experience.

Furthermore, we can expand this capability to include documentation and other resources as well. The architecture is designed to be extensible, so all that's needed is the creation of additional indexers to support these materials.
The almost-meter Yard has got to pack its bags and go home soon. What is it even doing at this point other than causing naked numeral confusion.
I don't understand. What's an example of something that could be achieved using a system like this?
Are there any associated scientific articles and/or datasets that back up the experimental claim/insinuation of matching JNDs or perceptual differences?

Is this a proposal without experimental verification?
I, for one, cannot wait for medical AI and ML models to be well-suited enough to summarize, suggest and potentially even diagnose patients based on data correlations and conclusions from other patient journeys.

I grow tired relying on the potential laziness, ignorance, apathy, and complacency that a doctor might have to help me - or even their own prerogatives getting in the way of their treatment and care.

Something more objective, unbiased and empirical would be nice. I often wonder how many lives would have been improved - or saved - if we achieved such technology sooner.
There are so many inefficiencies and security risks that individuals have to put up with simply because the US federal government (or any other federal government) have not provided an identity verification API.

From banking to buying concert tickets, a way to prove one is human could be invaluable to ridding the system of the myriad proxies we currently use that inevitably result in discrimination.

The crazy thing is it would be dead simple, the hardest part, having physical infrastructure all over the country is already done. The US Postal Service already verifies people's identity for US passports.

Combine this with a constitutional inalienable right to receiving and transferring money to an electronic money account operated by the federal government, and we could get rid of so many inefficiencies.
one of the companies I worked for, "insitro", is specificallyt named that to mean the combination of "in vivo, in vitro, in silicon".
there has been tons of progress made, just for shareholders, not users of the actual technology. SaaSification, subscriptions, weaponized feature tiers, emotional manipulation. We are living in the golden age of marketing, sales, and consumerism.
Very nice! I asked it for "React Suspense" and the results were pretty ok!
The text attests to both our interpretations.

1) By saying x is sometimes called y under some circumstances, the text implies x (Affirmative action) is equal to or a subset of y (Positive discrimination)

2) The second paragraph also suggests examples of affirmative action that wouldn’t constitute positive discrimination
Oh, I see. You want to avoid serializing the objects since they will be copied anyway with fork(), but the parent needs a way to refer to a particular object when talking to the child, so it needs to pass some kind of ID.

You could also do it without pointers and ctypes by using e.g. an array index as the ID:

inherited_objects = []

def ref(obj):
object_id = len(inherited_objects)
inherited_objects.append(obj)
return object_id

def deref(object_id):
return inherited_objects[object_id]

Although this part needs a small change as well, so that the object ID is assigned before forking:

def parent():
bo1 = BigObject()
bo2 = BigObject()
refs = list(map(ref, [bo1, bo2]))
with mp.Pool(2) as pool:
result = pool.map(child, refs)
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Is alphafold doing model generation or is it just reducing a massive state space?

The current computational and systems biochemistry approaches struggle to model large biomolecules and their interactions due to the large degrees of freedom of the models.

I think it is reasonable to rely on statistical methods to lead researchers down paths that have a high likelihood of being correct versus brute forcing the chemical kinetics.

After all chemistry is inherently stochastic…
While it's not a SCSI model, I suspect that the scanner on my LaserJet 1100a, circa 1997 - which I still use at least weekly - has more staying power than many scanners made available in the last 10 or 20 years. I still use it with SANE on a modern laptop running Fedora.

The last released driver for this scanner was for Windows 2000. That driver works fine on Windows XP, but not on Windows Vista or higher. Luckily, as a Linux user, hplip supports the scanner out of the box. When I was still a Windows user, I'd run NT4 in a virtual machine, pass the parallel port through, then share a folder between the local machine and the VM.

The fact that it's a parallel scanner presented its own set of archaic problems, like "what mode do I put the parallel port in?". Luckily, since upgrading to a machine without a parallel port, I've let that be the responsibility of a JetDirect 300x, which exposes the scanner as an IP network device. I've had significantly fewer problems since adopting that setup.

The page count on the scanner is around 25,000, and still holding strong.
I think the various contributors to the invention of the steam engine had a good idea of what they were trying to do and how their idea would physically work. Wikipedia lists the prerequisites as the concepts of a vacuum and pressure, methods for creating a vacuum and generating steam, and the piston and cylinder.
> True, but the causal link is hard to demonstrate.

Plausibly, they don't have a taste for sex with people who don't look like porn stars.

But as you say, demonstrating that as a causal link would be hard.
Of course everyone on HN is focused on the climbing / beta / technique aspect of this.

It is ok that it is a solution looking for a problem. There is obviously no 'business' or 'product' here. It isn't like there is a payment link on the page or anything.

What I'd like to see the comments focus on is that we should just be happy that someone is making the effort to learn more about AI and building tooling around it. Experimentation is king.

They've put their work out into the open (soon to be open sourced even!), not to be criticized over whether it is useful or not, but just that they created something that could spawn other interesting things that solve real world use cases.

Huge kudos for doing this work.
Time for an OpenFold3? Or would it be an OpenFold2?
I created 3,800+ Open Source React Icons (Beautiful, Rounded Style)
I’ve created a library of beautiful rounded icons and would like to share it with the Hacker News community. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Features:

- Beautifully rounded style
- Over 3,800 icons
- Editable stroke
- Regularly adding new icons
- Another standard version (less rounded) coming soon
- Easy installation via npm or yarn
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Well, at the time he could have bought 1.5 median houses. Today that would cost you about $500K. So if you want to use real estate, that bumps it up a bit, but still doesn't get you into retirement territory.

Even back then it wasn't retirement money. It was life changing, and invested well could have set him for a very comfortable life, but it wasn't retirement money even back then.
American wealth of how many? Apple - and others I presume - park their cash abroad https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-250-billion-cash-pile-en....
Thus avoiding taxes and borrow against it so they can even use the interest for tax write off. The billionaire founders are known not to pay taxes (or VERY little) anyway. So, who's wealth is it?
Does this mean that one can use SDL2 together with Java without bending over backwards?
I never thought I'd see a Kotaku article posted on HN. If there was a quality bar that submissions need to meet, none of their articles would come close.
> Unbuffered ECC and the cost of using a workstation class chipset really pushes this into luxury territory. Plus, I'm never too sure what Intel's future plans are for successor processors and chipsets, which is why I settled on W680.

Some cheap AMD motherboards support ECC. But the future is unknown. Ryzen 8000 CPUs don't.
Crazy to think all the GenX icons are way up there in age.
There are certain niches where the hardware issues will actually dominate the queue of issues and support requests.

One I can relate to is if you have something with low code churn and extremely logically simple that does many gigabytes of I/O per machine over a short period. The maintainer of that code is going to see tons of bad disks. That was me once.
And it's not like Apple isn't aware of the dangers, either; they used top-byte tagging on the 68000, and it took them a lot of time and effort to migrate away from that to support 16+ MB systems.
I calculated that for me to be financially independent I need to make only $750k.

Anyone with practical advice on how to make that realistically?
OpenAI destroyed a trove of books used to train AI models
Probably just by scanning a physical copy and OCRing the scans or something.
>> You could avoid the scraping by requiring login

> This is easily bypassed by having some sort of pattern matching sign-up script

I would imagine it's not that easy. At a minimum you could have captchas, and if those stop working you could always add some other friction (like a nominal payment for an account, a la Metafilter).

> Similar problem to the above. Why would someone want to join your community when the first thing they see is that it has a spam problem that's seemingly unaddressed?

Because they understand the reason, and there emerges some common understanding that's something you need to do to discourage scraping?
The ML model can also be an emulator of parts of the system that you don't want to personally understand, to help you get on with focusing on what you do want to figure out. Alternatively, the ML model can pretend to be the real world while you do experiments with it to figure out aspects of nature in minutes rather than hours-days of biological turnaround.
GPT3 wasn't and isn't the super-human intelligence that Altman and others fear. They knew this and pretended otherwise anyways. Pretty cut and dry in my opinion.
uses emscripten to compile the C to WASM, so it’s automated.
frontend: next.js + react + vercel

backend: go/rust/python + gin + mysql + pinecone + es + redis + aws

llm: openai/azure + aws gpu + aws bedrock
Anecdotally we used to see them all the time around here (Vancouver, BC area) in ponds and sloughs but I haven't seen one in a while.
Yes, a bachelors and a masters.

Not that the degree means much, I learnt 90% of what I know on the job. It certainly helped get my foot in through the university brand, and alumni network.

You can call yourself anything you want Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer. I have the freedom to think my own thoughts too.