skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't speak to evidence that slaves weren't used but we have records of wages paid to laborers and engineers.

I don't think that's a counter-argument. Depending on context, wages can be paid to slaves, too. "Being forced to work under threat of death" doesn't imply that payment wasn't made.

As a counter-counter argument (yeah, I love arguing with myself), do these records mention any payment for the costs of food and shelter in bulk? Because generally, the food and shelter for slaves is paid for by the slave-drivers, so if slaves were used, I'd expect to see a record of bulk purchases of food and shelter.
I find the presumption of an AGI to be an article of religious faith. I realized, at some point this past year, that silicon valley is a religious center emitting theology and doctrine.

I am an apostate.
Technology does not have any innate vector for linear development.

The choice to amplify dystopian social trends remains a wrongful choice.

So-called AI is bad for humanity and the planet, in finite terms at this moment in time.
It's essence is wrongful.

Turning bad ideas up to 11 does not make them good ideas.
To add a bit.. the gist of the broken windows theory is that the world (environment) evolves even without you or me. A broken window is an action demanding a reaction. If no reaction is taken, "doing nothing" will be read as the reaction. I think that's fascinating!

There's also the same analogy to refactoring in software engineering. If a project is well maintained with every incoming feature, then a big refactor epic won't be necessary.

"The stop of encouragement will prevent the start of discouragement" doesn't mean that the reverse is true ("the start of discouragement will promote the stop of encouragement"). So it isn't stating basically the same thing.

The big irony in social studies with the broken windows theory is that discouragement often feels easier to practice than maintenance to an outsider. Or, in analogy to software engineering, a one time big refactor feels easier to do than continuous maintenance, as all the work actually included in a refactor (team syncing, product without features etc.) is mostly overlooked during the development if maintenance is not well practiced.
How is it any different than training a model on content protected under an NDA and allowing access to users via a web-portal?

What is the difference OpenAI has that lets them get away with, but not our hypothetical Mr. Smartass doing the same process trying to get around an NDA?
Let's round pi to 2 and forget about it
Perhaps you can add: "The codegen is still abysmal and single-core performance is bad - that's our next focus." as a disclaimer on the main page/videos/etc. This provides more context about what you claim and also very important what you don't (yet) claim.
Signups/waitlists can't be Show HNs, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

They don't make great HN posts in general.
that's useful, thanks. I'm working on my own app and I hired pro devs from custom development services at https://www.intellectsoft.net/services/web-development-servi... to save both my time and money. They can build high-quality native apps for both Android and iOS systems at affordable price at high level. They provide all services from IT strategy consulting to the end-to-end development of scalable solutions.
Modern source ports are a totally different thing. If any, try to do what the former comment states
with a Boom compatible engine as Crispy Doom or Chocolate Doom.
I think the secret is that they are small enough to be a constant hassling nuisance, so OR now knows that they’ll just get grief until it’s done. Squeaky wheel and all that :)
Yes but a corporation cannot be owned by AI
It's sad that I need to live in a supported region for a feature in dev tools
Most companies fail, AI or not.

It's also hard to say since the numbers are not public.
However, some companies do publish their margin.

For example, Interior AI has 99% profit margins: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1773443837320380759 -- and it is run by one person.
An efficient market where externalities are priced in.

We do not have that. The cost of energy is mis-priced, although we are limping our way to fixing that.

Paying the likely fair cost for our goods, will probably kill a lot of current industries - while others which are currently viable, will become viable.
Eliminating creative jobs is not progress, by most people's standards.
Its a beancounter fantasy, but causes us to question all roles further up the chain as well.
Perhaps someone can make c-suite jobs obsolete instead?

Perhaps computers can have sex for us as well, they may even perform better.

At some point one has to confront the human mammal, society, and the planet that we are a lifeform on, that we are rapidly rendering uninhabitable for no reason other than boring ideology.
This is the equivalent of telling a depressed person to eat healthier and exercise more.
Great lecture. I just started getting into Doom levels through a friend who's obsessed with Slade and Doom Builder.

It's an amazing community 30 years later, but I still prefer Quake and its mods. Much more modern.
DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM
Usually I let stuff like this go but why don't you be actually specific about what you think is wrong.

Because anyone can stay something is terrible without explanation.
And bridges and such, but I'd put the line on Boom compatible engines.
You can store iOS notes in IMAP (which is then easy to access from elsewhere) but unfortunately they're promoted* to HTML even if you start with plain text.

Would be nice if there was a "this is a plain text folder" option (but I appreciate you'd get a million customer support queries asking where the formatting has gone when people activate it accidentally.)
Let's say you sit down and make a DCF for every company in the S&P 500. Now sort them by how much their current price differs from what you call "fair value".

You expect that investing in all of the companies in the upper half of the list will result in a better long-term return than investing in the lower half of the list?
They had a win/win situation before. The news sites got free traffic and social media got free content. I don’t understand why they made this law but the outcome was predictable.
Show HN: I developed platform for managing short-term rental properties
Retrying would cause errors in the math. Personally I think a better modification would be to get into next round right away.
Chutzpah. And that the companies doing it are multi-billion dollar companies who can afford the finest legal representation money can buy.

Whether the brazenness with which they are doing this will work out for them is currently playing out in the courts.
Benchmarking Quickwit vs. Loki
> Why? A conforming client will just render the signature below the message as well as the other information (e.g. legal one).

Because in all other messaging platforms, content is either shown right above or right below where the user types. Attempts to forward a single paragraph will forward an entire email.

> Have you seen corporate email signatures in Germany? It’s basically the demonstration of the lack of sense and lack of taste of some exec, often being more than a half of the message. People do need to be constrained here and relieved from signature design duty.

That's a German problem, not a protocol problem. You can't fix social problems with technology.

> Unless the standard will require digitally signed receipt in absence of which reputation of sender will suffer.

Large mail providers already track this stuff and it doesn't help. Most of the spam I receive falls squarely in the category of "anyone with a spam filter will catch these".

I also don't think any kind of decentralised reputation system will work, because spammers will try to poison anything small mail servers can contribute to. We'd end up with the same IP reputation list system we currently have.

> Not really. They will have more constraints for the design, but embedding vector graphics should be possible, just with some restrictions. There exist brilliant marketing emails with minimal formatting.

So you're saying the Germans will have vector graphics email signatures?

I agree that a lot of these points could've made email better, but only if they were applied three or four decades ago. Nobody is going to switch to email without at least the abilities they currently have.

Personally, I like the idea behind Delta Chat, using email as no more than a transport for instant messages. You get the benefits of legacy email, with practical messaging shaped like modern instant messaging.
Everything is VESA mountable if you try hard enough and can get 3d printed parts.
Source: my Mateviews are
> With its perpetually upturned pectoral fins, and blunt nose, the Dream Chaser looks more like a killer whale than a spacecraft.

Hard disagree. It definitely looks like a space craft.
Wouldn’t a more apt question be “would this apply to a company dedicated to swapping the serial numbers between after market firearms?”

For my taste, the answer is en emphatic yes it would and yes it should.

And I would expect any service offering turn key, automated “metasploit-ing” would find themselves in violation of the law as well.
That's not what significance means in a statistical sense
if it can "make GDP go up" then it is good. it's a political question how to distribute the economic surplus. it always was.

similarly, it's up to us to a large degree where we spend our money. if there are going to be enough people to want non-AI art, then there will be a number of creative jobs.
"Employing an bio-mimic evolutionary compilation algorithm" does sound better than "changing things semi-randomly until it compiles and passes the tests".
Not the OP.

I agree with a majority of points you made. Exception is to this

> A figurative drop in the bucket.

Fresh water sources are limited. Fabs water demands and pollution are high impact.

Calling a drop in the bucket comes in the weasel words category.

We still need fabs, because we need chips. Harm will be done here. However, that is a cost we, as a society, will choose to pay.
Thanks, this is the bit I've been missing.
Signups and waitlists can't be Show HN's, you can post this when you're ready to have people try it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And if you're already assuming unicode (which all these "plaintext" tools do), why aren't we just using unicode bullet points instead of dashes and *? Why not just use unicode bold and italics instead of *hacks*?
> the "3 houses with 3 utilities without crossing" puzzle

In graph theory's terminology, this is "K3,3", one of two irreducible nonplanar graphs. The other one is K5.

You can also make all the connections without crossing any edges if you embed the graph in a torus, which is equivalent to building a bridge over some set of edges that other edges are allowed to take.
being sceptical is good. Denying science is not. By now, there's plenty of research and studies that may fullfill your needs for facts, data and information.

the classic:

> I have seen far too much damage caused by all psychiatric medications over 25 years to convince me that the covid jab was safe and effective. It wasn't.

The problem with this thinking is:
It was effective. It was never meant to completely and for 100% make you not getting infected, but rather reduce the severness of the infection. If one understand that, then half of the understanding has been built up.

For that, studies of more than hundreds of thousands partipiants with P-levels higher than for e.g. flu conducted - one who likes facts, data and information should put the ears up.

As a psychologist, you should know how studies are concluded, right? As an expert by yourself, how comes that you don't accept other experts expertise?

I'm with you, that some measures where over-the-top. But I think, i wore a mask and have done the jabs and stayed at home -> not for me. But for -> the others. In my social circle, there have been a lot of people who got severe infections, with some of them having damaged lungs now. I think that makes the difference. If the people around them wouldn't think like "all made up for the money and some so called experts ... ", it wouldn't be that pandemic at all.

In my opinion, people became egoists and do not care about others anymore. Just as an example: We have a "small" October-fest (that beer thing in the autumn in Munich, Germany) here in my city. Just in the first week, thousands got infected by the noro-virus. It was found, it was only one guy who worked filling glases and doing meals in one (beer-)tent. So, having the highly infective noro-virus with diarhea and puking and feeling really ill - that one didn't stay at home, and whats more severe - didn't adhere to hygienic measures.

How can that be and how a human can do that on purpose? Is there a psychological explanation for that? I really want to understand.
What's the formal verification story for WUFFS?
well it's the same difference between polling an api vs setting up a webhook.
I agree that play is very important to creativity. However, the problem is how does one play? For an adult play does not come naturally... we have forgotten the craft. When I teach creativity, I encourage students to employ devices to release (or simulate?) play, most of which involve some form or other of applied accident. For example: finding ways to randomly select words, then finding ways to randomly combine those words.

Artists have employed such devices since forever. Leonardo DaVinci spoke about seeing landscapes in the stains on walls and faces in clouds.
These are two sides of the same coin, and what I'm saying still stands.
This is talking about who you attribute authorship to when copyrighting a specific work. Basically on the application form, the author must be a human. The reason it's worth them clarifying is because they've received applications that attributed AI's, and legal persons do exist that aren't human (such as companies), they're just making it clear it has to be human.

Who created the work, it's the user who instructed the AI (it's a tool), you can't attribute it to the AI. It would be the equivalent of Photoshop being attributed as co-author on your work.
Let's say a torrent website asks the user through an LLM interface what kind of copyrighted content they want to download and then offers me links based on that, and makes money off of it.

The user is "inputting variables into their probability algorithm that's resulting in the copyright work".
They can be used in conjunction.
It would be hypocritical if it could.
There is a very interesting Doom level named “myhouse.wad” that does a lot of clever things to seemingly allow room-over-room.
>The models that make the big bucks are the ones that ingest a ton of other external data to predict the numbers that go in the data entry cells here. And yeah, those don’t get posted online for free.

Do such models even exist? As far as I know NN are only good at function approximation. Why do we think that the market evolves according to a mathematical function? To me, financial markets seem chaotic in nature.
FWIW Windows supports mount points as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_volume_mount_point
Is converting an audio signal into the frequency domain, pruning all inaudible frequencies, and then Huffman encoding it tranformative?
> No. Renewable energy capacity is often built out specifically for datacenters

Not fully accurate. Indeed there is renewable energy that is produced exclusively for the datacenter. But it is challenging to rely only on renewable energy (because it is intermittent and electricity is hard to store at scale so often you need to consume electricity when produced). So what happens in practice is that the electricity that does not come from dedicated renewable capacity is coming from the grid/network. What companies do is that they invest in renewable capacity in the network so that "the non renewable energy that they consume at time t (because not enough renewable energy available at that moment) is offsetted by someone else consuming renewable energy later". What I am saying here is not pure speculation, look at the link to meta website, they are saying themselves that this is what they are doing
Use plain words operate software, powered by GPT-4o and open source
If you dont like wiki-style links, you should turn it off in the Settings > Files and links > Use [[Wikilinks]].
But those don't increase the number of seconds in the day. Instead, the final second happens twice.

This is different from what happens in leap year, where February is actually lengthened and February 29 is considered a different day from February 28. It escapes me why leap seconds aren't treated that way. (I know, people say the stupid treatment of leap seconds is required by the POSIX definition of time. So what? Change the POSIX definition.)
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought
Malleable software in the age of LLMs (2023)
FBI seizures as platform risk
MG Tech Index
MG produced the MGA roadster from 1955 to 1962. This site has been operating by one person for 20+ years and has the biggest wealth of information on how to maintain and fix these cars. The tech section alone has over 4,000 pages of information on these cars.
> if there are going to be enough people to want non-AI art

Well, maybe this will change one day, but now I don't know a single person who wants "AI art". After the initial hype with magic images created with Midjourney wore off, it's left what it is: boring, repetitive, a few similar looks, cheap. Just like Chinese plastic goods.
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which actually also might help :) It depends on the person and the cause of the depression - a lot of felt& diagnosed depressions aren't caused by faulty brain-chemistry, but by other reasons. So, if a person suffers depression caused by other reasons, than eating healthier and exercise more would, in fact, let the one feel better and high'en up self-esteem (placebo kicks in..).

But yes. That should be left for the experts :)
> If not that would leave only "a straight line segment can be prolonged indefinitely" as holding, and unlike in Euclidean geometry a straight line segment may intersect itself arbitrarily often.

This one might not hold either, depending on your point of view. If you take the point of view of someone traveling along a line, that can still go on forever.

But if you're measuring the line, portals can easily prevent it from extending indefinitely, by wrapping it around to an earlier part of itself. It would then fail to be the case that, for any distance, there are two points on the line separated by at least that distance.
try it here: https://try.npi.ai
> OpenAI is still working on the actual GPT4 replacement.

You speculate.

...but, what we can evaluate is what we can see, and what we can see is that there’s now only a marginal difference between what openAI actually has available and what other vendors actually have available.

What we havent seen, is a demo of something that is an order of magnitude more capable, aka. GPT5.

Not a demo. Not a post. Not tweet. Not a hint of something concrete.

Just some vague hand waving that it’s busy baking, take it on faith, it’s gonna be great.

…but let’s be really clear here; what they actually delivered is not great, it is less capable. It is smaller. It’s a consumer model for the masses to talk to.

So, in that context, you have to take in faith that openAI is going to deliver a GPT5, before anyone else.

…but that’s a hunch. That’s a guess.

…and they have some very stiff competition; and it’s very very much not clear to me they’re going to the first ones to drop something that is concretely better than gpt4; because gpt-4o was a big disappointment.

> The fact that OpenAI can make a much smaller model

Everyone is making small models.

That is not something I am impressed by.
The first paragraph sounds exactly like paper mail.

And yet, we didn't solve it. It just got worse.
All true as for non graphics programmer working in gamedev.

Few things I would say differently:
Some companies spend on hardware to solve build times.
Shader variation counts are way bigger for long time.
Debug builds for large C++ codebases are extinct. Full debug build is a phantom memory of old times.
Maybe they should use words that mean “webapp experimentation” instead of “computer networking”
the power of suggestion. Thats psychology, your part of expertise. The others are experts on other fields :)
Everyone thinks that because they have thoughts that they’re good at thinking. But learning to think is the foundation of knowledge. Similarly, learning to have ideas is the heart of creativity.
this is making for a strange read as it seems to be a serious contribution and it does all the math and considers contributions per chemical element, yet still it silently conflates "the World" with "planet Earth" which I didn't expect
Further clarification: the reason I’m asking is because I’m a member of a hackspace in Oxford, and this is the kind of project we would both love to support a member with and have all the tools to help. Obviously i don’t imagine that you live close to us, but maybe you have other similar places near you?
Getting Materials Out of the Lab
I predict that this is largely an illusion staged by the lack of publishing of the datasets and training regime used.

Also an artefact of how evals have been done on a pass fail basis. So that an LLM that gets 90% of a question right is just as much a failure as one that gets 0% of the question.

So that skills appear to emerge suddenly and surprisingly only due to the flawed way that we are forced to study them. Consider the training regime, and partial success towards a goal, and emergence is far less prevalent. There was a paper on that recently, I'll see if I can find.
Notes on OpenAI
Google is crowdsourcing tracking of all Bluetooth devices in the world
MIT 6.00 C programming Lectures (2008)
That might be true of specific models or specific APIs for accessing them, but I’d argue isn’t even remotely true of neural networks generally or generatively-pretrained decoder-only attention-inspired language models in particular.

Ideally if you want a model’s weights to include a credible representation of non-trivial data you want it somewhere in the training pipeline (usually earlier is better for important stuff but that’s a hubristic at best), but there’s transfer learning of various kinds, and joint losses of countless kinds (CLIP in SD-style diffusors come to mind), and fine tunes (if that doesn’t just count as transfer learning), and dimensionality reduction that is often remarkably effective, and multi-tower models like what evolved into DLRM, and I’m forgetting/omitting easily 100x the approaches I mentioned.

It’s possible I misunderstand you, so please elaborate if so?
Because of male models
SpongeBob ending theme (Japanese version)
I didn't find Japanese grammar to be hard, reading and writing is much harder, what with the different readings of many kanji. I found French and German grammar much harder to learn.
.... turn your screen contrast down too.
My experience is different. I have a Twitter account that I don’t really use, and am a very active GitHub user. One time someone wrote a Twitter mentioning my Twitter handle with a link to my GitHub repo and commented something to the effect of “you should try out nix instead of what you’re doing in this repo.” Since my GitHub and Twitter handles are different, it means that they specifically google my Twitter account and call me out there. Creepy.
Quora, Reddit will need to adopt different content moderation policies
This is a really neat article because the Godot engine is adding Ubershaders as well to fix shader compilation stuttering: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/90400
An organisations intentions are always the same and very simple:
“Increase shareholder value”