skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The art part is actually pretty nice, because everyone can see directly if the generated art fits their taste, and back-and-forth with the bot to get what you want is actually pretty funny.

It gets frustrating sometimes, but overall it's decent as a creative activity, and because people don't expect art to be knowledge.
Is it hard to figure out why?

It's cheap and easy.
I love it! I also built a math focused website. Schools can use it to host Math-A-Thons, which is a type of fundraiser where students answer math problems online and solicit donations to support their school. I made all the math problems available to play for free outside of the platform, as well as guides that help the students answer the problems:

https://www.forourschool.org/math-games
https://www.forourschool.org/math-guides

Yay Math!!
I remember when the cigarette companies used to hire people to stand on street corners and just give them away (little three-cigarette packs) to encourage people to start or switch brands. Teenagers never have money so this was a great way to get them.

I didn't smoke but I used to accept them and then give them to my smoker friends.
Vaping already looks conspicuously ridiculous. Nobody ever looked cool vaping.
"Superalignment" sounds so much cooler than "output moderation".
I'm siding with you here. The same is happening at Google, but they definitely have momentum from past decades, so even if they go "full Boeing", there's a long way to fall.

Meanwhile, OpenAI (and the rest of the folks riding the hype train) will soon enter the trough. They're not diversified and I'm not sure that they can keep running at a loss in this post-ZIRP world.
It's kind of both. For some strange reason I watched that movie again recently. I guess they were supposed to be the distilled version of whatever was considered bad in society in the 90s: hyper-masculinity, smoking, oil tankers, guns, religion (they went on "crusades", the leader was "The Deacon") etc.
Ask HN: How should I improve my product?
I developed a saas software (https://www.chatpapers.ai), aim to improve reading experience, which has two main features: chat with pdfs & generate mind maps.
The question is: Most of my users are interested in mind map generation but not chat with pdfs, many of them type commands in the input area (which is designed to ask questions about the pdf) and try to generate a mind map according to their commands, but this feature has not been developed. How should I improve it?

I have 3 options:

1. Add intent detection to the chat module, support both mind map generation with commands & retrieve information from the pdf in a same input box, which may increase the latency and take wrong actions.

2. Remove the chat with pdf feature and turn the product to mind map generation, which mignt strange because the product name is chatpapers.

3. Design a new product to focus on mind map generation, and keep this product as it is.

Which could be better? Or any other suggestions?
I don't think that ever happens in training, at least in the image domain. The classifier can always can find some subtle clue.
It's a racket. It might not be as common today, but I remember when there were lots of people whose career was based on their SAP expertise, and the reason they got hired was that no one else could deal with that crap if anything went wrong. Once a lot of those people get into big companies, their career is based on preventing their employer from dumping SAP (or equivalent) for something better. So, it's like they have agents inside all the large companies that use their stuff.
> Much like how people now prefer streaming services over cable, these subscriptions may cost nearly the same as leasing or owning a car some months, but they’ll provide a better experience than owning a car, especially if cities prioritize mobility options over private cars.

Except now that they've won the war, the streaming services are merrily raising prices, adding advertisements, and enshittifying in various other ways.
Yes, not openai's.
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This is literally everyone's job. It's the whole point of society. Everyone is "fundamentally unsafe", and we all rely on each other.
CO2: slow, decades, centuries

AI: fast, month to years and exponential

Nuclear: risky but has been with us for 70 years already

Conclusion: climate change is not a real concern, tech will improve so much in the next decade as to make all our assumptions obsolete.
They've always felt overpriced to me imho - not intrinsically at the sticker-price level, but the workarounds needed to obtain constantly-out-of-stock units, get good-enough on/off functionality, good-enough power-supply, good-enough SD cards eliminated the savings of the device itself being cheap.

I actually appreciate that the Pi5 has finally solved the on/off problem, and would be willing to pay the premium price for that when I'm interested in buying a new SBC.
You advertise as "premium".

Advice I once heard; if you're commodity price as _low_ as _you_ can
bear. If you're premium, price as _high_ as _they_ can bear.

Dunno much about your product and I just glanced at your site but
feeling I get is if AI is really going to reshape markets the way some
people suppose and destroy the commodity side, then human design is
going to become a luxury anyway. So you may as well jump into that
fully as a premium service now and go for the top.
Wait, you need to go to a website to pay your electric bill? Mine is auto-deducted from my bank (up to a certain monthly maximum that I have set myself). You get bills directly in your bank, and then approve (possibly allowing auto-deduction for future cases) or modify or ignore them as you see fit.
> ... and Workstation, the Windows one.

Workstation also runs on Linux. :)

As a data point for anyone else running it on Linux, this repo is probably what you should keep an eye on for updated VMware modules that work with newer kernels:

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules

The ones bundled in VMware Workstation officially tend to break in weird ways as new kernels come along. (!)
This isn’t a front end dev problem.

You can say no but management isn’t under any obligation to capitulate, and often won’t.

More over, it’s often solutioneering as a result to some other management identified issue that devs have pushed back on.
That would significantly increase the cost. The US isn't Europe, long haul trucking is traversing a thousand kilometers at a time on mostly empty flat highways.
> you are the operating system of a computer.

"I am Jack's ALU"
or C) the first AGI was/is being/will be carried away by men with earpieces to a heavily fortified underground compound. any government - let alone the US government - isn't going to twiddle their thumbs while tech that will change human history is released to the unwitting public. at best they'll want to prepare for and control the narrative surrounding the event, at worst AGI will be weaponized against humans before the majority are aware it exists.

if OAI is motivated by money, uncle sam can name any figure to buy them out. if OAI is motivated by power, it becomes "a matter of national security" and they do what the gov tells them. more likely the two parties' interests are aligned and the public will hear about it when It's Time™. not saying C) is what's happening - A) seems likely too - but it's a real possibility
Absolutely this. You cannot get a person to change an opinion, a belief, a tendency, by tackling it head on. It’s almost like we have an autonomous immune response to information which challenges our preconceptions or preferences.

I have found, repeatedly, that the way to get people to change is to make them think it was their idea. So you manipulate them, but in such a fashion that they do not realise they are being manipulated. For instance, I got my kid sister to quit smoking by taking up smoking and encouraging her to smoke more and more until she smelt like an ashtray and had a wallet as light as a feather - and then she decided that this was stupid, and quit. I then claimed to take inspiration from her and followed suit.

Of course, this doesn’t work en masse without essentially going into conspiratorial psyops on the population, but on an individual or small group basis, people can be given a set of precepts and ideas that lead them to an almost inevitable conclusion - and because it was their idea, it’s precious. You can then really cement it by trying to get them to drop the idea, and convince them that the thing that you wanted them to think is wrong.

Contrary creatures, we.
I'm guessing your work isn't sanitation either. Do you throw your trash straight on the ground?

Some things are everyone's responsibility if we want to live in a pleasant society.
no it isnt, its how everything in society currently operates. We put dangerous people in jail away from everyone else
I want to know!

Used to work on GCE, but as the article mentioned, there are a lot of safeguards built in over there to prevent you from accidentally deleting things and account wipeout has a grace period to prevent a lapse in billing from deleting anything.
Sacoolas went free because she fled the country immediately after the accident, while making specious claims of diplomatic immunity.

By the time it got to trial, Sacoolas was already beyond the reach of law. The only decision the judge faced was whether to further the controversy or brush it under the rug.
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I have schizophrenia. I have struggled with nicotine addiction since high school. In 2015 I had three heart attacks in a month, even though I was only 28 and seemed physically fit. Two weeks ago I had a minor stroke.

It is not just me and it is not just the smoking: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2020/08/19/physically-he...

We have known for many years that people who suffer from schizophrenia die younger than expected, as much as 20 years younger than the general population. This appears unfair, and it was the inspiration of this work. Most people thought that this added risk of death was mostly due to the higher prevalence in schizophrenia of smoking, obesity and to other lifestyle differences.

For this reason, we recruited 40 patients with schizophrenia and an equal number of healthy controls, and scanned their hearts using a state-of-the-art approach, called cardiac magnetic resonance. This was performed at the state-of-the-art Robert Steiner MRI unit.

[...] Surprisingly, in our study we found that even after matching patients and healthy controls for age, sex, ethnicity and body mass index (BMI, deriving from height and weight); and after excluding any participants with any medical conditions, and other risk factors for heart disease, people with schizophrenia show hearts that are smaller and chunkier than controls. These changes are similar to those found in aging.

I was able to move to the gum and patch, but I am very high-functioning. People sicker than me have less options. Smoking is very bad for everyone, including people for schizophrenia. We do not in any way benefit from terrible heart/lung damage in exchange for minor cognitive clarity - our hearts need all they help they can get. I have no tolerance for this sort of ignorant paternalism, and I'm ignoring your bad-faith question about "actively target them" because that's not what I said.
Here's a paradox. If people assume you are alarmist and discount everything you say -- "Oh, you way we need 100. I assume therefore that we only need 20. Here are 20." -- you need to be alarmist to get them to react appropriately. Then they attribute your exaggeration to your own deficiency, not your reaction to theirs.

Anyway, that's a general observation, not a claim that any particular position is alarmist.
The HN bias isn't against Amazon's hourly workers; it's about recognizing that they exist in the first place. When I say "Amazon Employee", what does that typically mean here? Because I bet that it's 10 people stacking boxes or driving a truck to every 1 person who sits behind a desk at home.
Btw, we are nature, so you are right. We are the problem.
if the ai is the product, and the product isnt trustable, isnt that a product issue??
Giving you the benefit of the doubt you're not trolling, it seems you're laboring under the belief that, say, "2C of warming" means it'll always be 2C hotter where people live.

It does not. It means the mean will be at +2C. At this level of warming, we'd see crazy +15C / -15C swings regularly in many areas, often in a matter of days. It means plants that have started growing in earnest suddenly are in the midst of serious frost, killing them (something we're already seeing in my country in the EU, regularly). It means potentially many climate tripwires being triggered, too.

+2C is hell for tens, possibly hundreds of millions of people. And we're likely not stopping there.
It’s a risk assessment like any other. Probability/impact.

My wife ultimately lost her life to metastatic melanoma, which was believed to be in remission. Had there been a way to detect the proteins associated with the mets that developed ahead of symptoms, the odds are she we be alive and thriving.

In other scenarios, say most prostate cancers, early knowledge has low or negative benefits.
LLMs are gigantic curves fitted to civilizational scale datasets. LLM predictions are based on this. A language model is a mathematical construct and can only be as intelligent as that Algebra book sitting on your shelf.
That seems like something a special purpose model would be a lot better and faster at. Why use something that needs text as input and output? It would be slow and unreliable. If you need reaction time dependent decisions like collision avoidance or evasion for example then you can literally hard wire those in circuits that are faster than any other option.
Evidence points in this direction, though.

Different methods of therapy appear to be equally effective despite having theoretical foundations which are conflicting with each other. The common aspect between different therapies seems to be "having someone to talk to", so I'm inclined to believe that really is what's behind the success.
We exist, therefore it is proven.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, check Maddox recent 3 hour video (!) on how he was allegedly stalked for years on end by Masterson and his crew. It's a wild ride.
Deus Ex has quake controls but you need to focus a little before aiming. Then, later you get upgrades and laser reticles allowing you to shoot near instantly.
This is one of those occasions where Apple is really on the hook to offer some sort of technical explanation of what’s going on here. It’s entered the realm of a trust issue.
I would go even further - open specs and mass recycle billions of chips and boards of any obsolete mobile device (Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple....).
Two possible takes on "natural":

1. They may mean "in nature", that is, not inside a building, and not even in a city (both of which would tend to give higher numbers).

2. They may mean "using something in nature as a measuring method" - in this case, Antarctic ice.

I agree that it's a confusing/misleading term.
> For languages with nominal typing and primitives you need to box the type yes.

But the compiler can elide the box for you. Haskell and Idris do this.

Haskell's newtype gives a nominal wrapper around a type without (further) boxing at at runtime. It is erased at compile time. Haskell does box their primitives, but via optimization they are used unboxed in some cases (like inside the body of a function). This technique could be applied to a language that doesn't box its primitives.

Idris also does this for any type that is shaped like a newtype (one data constructor, one argument). In that case, both on the scheme and javascript backend, a newtyped Int are represented as "bare" numbers. E.g. with:

type Foo = MkFoo Int

a `MkFoo 5` value is just `5` in the generated javascript or scheme code.
The crime of the "dangerous people" in OP's statement was loneliness and suggestibility.
I think public traffic is much more similar to cable TV with its fixed schedule than a car that mirrors on-demand streaming. This is why in truth few people like to use public traffic if there is another feasible choice.

I am not interested in car models at all but I like owning a car, even in a city. It solves a lot of problems and I believe a development to less individual traffic is an illusion. Mabybe it happens due to economic reasons, but otherwise it will stay as it is. Even with combustion cars should EV prove to expensive. Any market regulation would quickly evaporate as well and maybe just kill the local industry.
"fundamentally unsafe people" is probably the grossest thing I've read on here in years.
It probably all started with somebody in a yacht flushing their toilet in that part of the sea.

I can imagine somebody is sharpening up their harpoons somewhere.
Yes, I'm looking forwards to being able to choose from the Pi 6 Power, the Pi 6 Pure, the Pi 6 Play, and the Pi 6 5G, each product being actually a completely different product with completely different branding depending on which continent you're shopping in, and with the process being reshuffled annually.
I don't know anything about marine regulations, but on land you generally only have a breaker or fuse on one side of a transformer (usually the "powered" side).

If you're in US, the mains transformer feeding your residential service almost certainly has no overcurrent protection on the secondary, it has a fuse on the primary.
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fully differentiable means it doesn't need colmap?
> The faking of emotions

HEH. In previous versions, when it told jokes, were those fake jokes?
how do you know that is actually currently their true goal. it appears to me that the goal has shifted, and the people that cared about the original goal are leaving.
Qualcomm has very good linux support. All linux stuff is open-source now. Apple did not even help the community.

What are you crying about?

In addition, we did not even experience windows on arm on this new chip.

Cry harder. You are looking for monopoly, a linux monopoly. I am happy that windows exists. I do t understand so much of windows hate.
That's what I meant, once you apply what happens in practice to the theory. It's a response to a comment about ego and cults so I tried to be as political as I can... which just isn't sufficient. My entire premise is that this subject is something familiar and controversial in a new guise so there is going to be a lot of knee-jerk reactions as soon as you bring up something that looks like a pain-point.

For reference, I think most of us are '10x' in a particular field and that is our talent. Society-in-scarcity rewards talents unequally so we get status and ego resulting in a host of dark patterns. I think AI can ease scarcity so I keep betting on this horse for solving the real problem, which is ego.
I'd love to see this with THPS2 and 3, some games I love but not with the 'modern' graphics (PSP/DC and up).
It is code, so it is the most flexible that can exist. You can call the code with an application that includes it, you can make your own server with your own API although that isn't really useful if the server is going to be local anyway (most of these thing deal with private data, you don't want a central entity managing private data). You can call a process from another process, I don't see what's stopping you.

Perhaps if you have an example of what you want to build I can understand how woob doesn't fit what you want to do
Yes and no, with the 8bits and probably 16bits like the C64, NES, etc you really want cycle accuracy and emulating something like the PS2 really well would probably need a fair bit of accuracy.

HOWEVER.. writing an recompiler (not feasible for 8bits due to the amount of self-mod code) you could probably insert pattern checks to detect writes to DMA-starting locations,etc (thinking back to our PS2 games) and transform it to safe sequences without accurate timing for most games that really only would be happy with some extra cycles.
Direct link to the relevant paragraph: https://web.archive.org/web/20120123085307/http://homepage.m...
For some reason the coal companies are against this -- go figure.
It’s implying that this is the case for many people, not all. Which it is, in my experience. Particularly since the advice you gave:

> then you should get another therapist

Seems to be fairly ubiquitous. “Find a therapist you like”/“shop around”/etc. leads a lot of people to find people who will tell them what they want to hear. Sometimes what people want to hear is how to practice CBT - but in that case, such people are probably going to be using AI to work on CBT.
Emojis can be done properly. Infrequent use with good contextual positioning can break a person's preoccupation and direct their attention when it counts.

Poor utilization of emojis, put simply, is using them all the time in ways that don't actually enhance the attention or meaning of the surrounding text.

The problem with emojis is people like them too much, and I have little faith that they would be used wisely by most programmers if some influential figure like Uncle Bub Martin told everyone to start using emojis for all the things.
I think you’d be surprised how powerful and how much control rss has. As far as social media integration, most of us RSS users just don’t care about that at all.
We may not be responsible for people's behaviors but it's certainly not going to get better if nobody do anything about it.
So you can get seven years more of nocebo effect, anxiety, stress and worry?
> When you get your own browser you can do whatever you want but while you are living in my house under my rules I get to copy/paste whenever I goddamn feel like it.

Any company that blocks copy paste on their website is stupid and I hate them.
So, what do Ilya and Jan know that we don't know?
Cursing windows is a classic fashion. Come on, be happy that the os exits and maintained.