skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascists were surprisingly "progressive" in the original meaning of the word. Hitler himself was quoted saying that form follows function and if you look at the plans for their new capital, I would not call it particularly ornamented. I guess "imposing" would be a better description. It's a similar story with the more detailed blackletter fonts - "Your alleged Gothic internalization does not fit well in this age of steel and iron, glass and concrete"

It is a big mistake to conflate traditionalism/conservatism with fascism/nazism, these movements were inherently modern, even when the majority of people under them were not (as is the case in most of the world - the politically active minority creates revolutionary ideologies which are then stripped down to only the essentials by the pragmatic masses).
Come now, you can have guidelines that aren't enforceable but which you expect people to adhere to. After all, you asked them to adhere to them, and they're (hopefully) not arseholes.
I've read them and somewhat disagree. The protaganist(s) in the book almost never choose a sensible course of action for their goals, even given elapsed decades in which to make them. If I can come up with much better plans on the fly while reading, the main character surely could in decades.
There are men sitting decades in the US for drawings.
But are coding large language models in the wild trained on proprietary code bases?
Sounds reasonable at 1st glance. But is no different than thought police.

Say that a person has an immense crush on some celebrity, fantasizes about doing <unspeakable things> to said celeb, but never acts on it. Would that deserve punishment?

Imho, not. And CP material is essentially no different.

Now as for people actually abusing children, or doing so to produce such material: go ahead & do <unspeakable things> to them.

A -much- stronger argument is when someone is preparing to commit crimes: buying supplies, terrorists making bombs, someone preparing a basement as a prison cell for yet-to-be-grabbed victim, etc. Or when sharing fake images cause actual harm to those depicted.

Yeah the 'sliding slope' argument counts. But so does the distinction between fantasizing about X, vs. actually doing it.
Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts
First grey box after the intro paragraphs

https://dsit.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQa7MwGtv3lK4zc

Before attempting the I recommend reading the current proposal:

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/call-for-vi...
I don’t think John Carmack will gain much knowledge by studying a game engine.
> Turning a natural language specification into web scraping code is exactly the kind of code synthesis that current LLMs can already achieve.

I wish, I have tried. LLM's don't understand the DOM. Unless it is as simple as the address being in element id=address, an LLM is useless for generating scraping code. You are better off with an element picker and some heuristics to generate a selector / xpath query. Now there are some specialized models, I found a paper that takes the DOM tree and fits a vector to each node, but I think they are too much effort for little gain, unless someone integrates them into an open source scraping library so they are easy to use.
> as every time you make a call, the system loads a large chunk or many chunks and sends them to the model along with your prompt,

This is how RAG works.

While you can come up with work-arounds like using lesser LLMs as a pre-filtering step the fact is that if you need GPT to read the doc you need GPT to read the doc.
If your home does not have a garden in front (directly against the sidewalk), and you do not make it deeper than 60cm, and you can leave at least 1.2m of sidewalk from the edge of the removed/replaced tiles.

Still, pretty cool stuff.
Seems impossible to me, although it seems more of some sort of protection in case of legal problems should someone add AI-generated code that turns out to contain copyrighted code by someone else. They must show they're doing something against that, even if that something turns out to be probably useless.
How to Change Your Problem-Solving Mindset and Boost Creativity
I am tired of thinking about problems and trying to solve them. I have some ideas for a side hustle, but whenever I share them with my friends or family, they tend to talk negatively about it or say that the idea will not work. Now, I just want help from this community on how to think creatively and get great ideas.

I would love to hear ideas about how we can use AI, especially generative AI in any sector which is Impactful or any problems you all face.
The predominant sentiment I'm seeing in comments here is a 'what does it matter?' While at the same time in discussions here about search engine result quality inevitably the most popular comments express a decline in quality (influenced by SEO, AI, spam, among other things), along with a desire for surfacing interesting, human made content that gets buried by modern search algorithms.

On HN we see every day interesting, first page content marked with a title representing its year, sometimes dating back a decade or more. Its age isn't apparently a detracting aspect to this audience if the content is still worth sharing.

And from the article the headline figure also doesn't represent irrelevant/undesirable content either but Wikipedia references, news articles, government pages, along with less unexpectedly ephemeral things like Twitter posts.

We're lucky there is archive.org but since it's not indexed like a regular search engine the only tether to old pages are still-live links found via regular search engines/sites (including HN). Essentially unless sites continue to exist that contain links to archived content the chances of future discovery becomes slim.

My stance is if you find something interesting that you expect is worthwhile sharing try saving it in the most convenient single file page format available to you (MHTML, SingleFile, PDF), to have your own copy. For MHTML at least it also saves the original page URL in its metadata. Saving to online archives is also great but admittedly higher friction (and can sometimes result in things like IP restrictions on archive.org even when saving just a handful of pages in a row, ime).
Easier to learn than German?
Large Integers Support for WGSL
I think in this case the connotation is more with the seesaw version of wippen.

At least, I have a very hard time associating ‘tegel’ and the sexual version of ‘wippen’.
Can you be more specific? That's a big document and I couldn't find such a comparison quickly reading through.

Though this is interesting in the introduction: "The increase in internet sexual offending has been paralleled by a decrease in the number of reported child sexual abuse cases, and a decrease in violent crime more broadly"
One positive side of immediate mode is that the code becomes a lot more straight forward. You only see that loop function, so it's very nice if you need a POC, or if it's going to be ran on embedded.
Bert is a national treasure. We need more Bert in our lives!
I have a theory why people end up with wildly different estimates...

Given the model is probabilistic and does many things in parallel, its output can be understood as a mixture, e.g. 30% trash, 60% rehashed training material, 10% reasoning.

People probe model in different ways, they see different results, and they make different conclusions.

E.g. somebody who assumes AI should have impeccable logic will find "trash" content (e.g. incorrectly retrieved memory) and will declare that the whole AI thing is overhyped bullshit.

Other people might call model a "stochastic parrot" as they recognize it basically just interpolates between parts of the training material.

Finally, people who want to probe reasoning capabilities might find it among the trash. E.g. people found that LLMs can evaluate non-trivial Python code as long as it sends intermediate results to output: https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1600388425651453953

I interpret "feel the AGI" (Ilya Sutskever slogan, now repeated by Jan Leike) as a focus on these capabilities, rather than on mistakes it makes. E.g. if we go from 0.1% reasoning to 1% reasoning it's a 10x gain in capabilities, while to an outsider it might look like "it's 99% trash".

In any case, I'd rather trust intuition of people like Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. They aren't trying to sell something, and overhyping the tech is not in their interest.

Regarding "missing something really critical", it's obvious that human learning is much more efficient than NN learning. So there's some algorithm people are missing. But is it really required for AGI?

And regarding "It cannot reason" - I've seen LLMs doing rather complex stuff which is almost certainly not in the training set, what is it if not reasoning? It's hard to take "it cannot reason" seriously from people
I said easily five, not easily ten. I was alluding to it in embryo with the comment that it’s likely been longer.

If you meant that remark/objection in good faith then thank you for the opportunity to clarify.

If not, the thank you for hanging a concrete example of the kind of shit I’m alluding to (though at the extremely mild end of the range) directly off the claim.
Do you expect a huge marketing campaign from BigCSAM focused on convincing pedophiles that only real CSAM proves their husband/wife truly cares about them?
There seems to be confusion in replies, but this math seems correct to me (assuming I understood the article correctly):

18 + (18/3) = 24
Hmm, Japan can learn from that. At least I’d very much enjoy if they learned from it.
Sadly that’s from the different times, when morality was worth something. Saying such things would be considered childishly naive in modern world.
And we know that laws themselves are outdated, especially as demonstrated genre, about whistleblowers.
Didn’t realize you were here so let me be clear that I did overall find the paper so approachable that I could implement it with only a couple of outside pointers (also a little clever impl optimization around storing p if you’re curious). The above should be read more as “even this well-written simplified paper is not necessarily trivial to understand for practicians”. So more of a general point around academic obscurity.

> But yes, our theorems can be reworked to estimate the confidence/error rate

I think that’s useful for practical implications. Also, for practical use, how does one decide the tradeoff between delta and epsilon? Perhaps it’s covered elsewhere, but I have a hard time intuiting their relationship.
Just use utf-8 everywhere. Yes, even on Windows http://utf8everywhere.org/

Full Unicode support is very hard. The best I've seen is in Raku. You can leave without it completely e.g. Zig.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2024.05.17-194636/https://www.washingtonp...
If you play it, though, expect something that's not a challenge but more just an interesting presentation of some ideas.
> Apple, Google, and Meta can spend 10s or 100s of billions of dollars to build AI tools

If money was the only issue, why did Google fail in Chat, why did Apple fail with Siri, Meta failed with Metaverse.
A look at the S3 documentation shows that there is a fairly ludicrous amount of functionality atop the basic Hadoopiness of it all. The .pdf User Guide weighs in at a svelte 3,374 pages.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Welcom...
Ilya's case is different. He thought the engineers would win in a dispute with Sam at board level.

That has proven to be a mistake
The whole site is full of this stuff. You can be “wipper van de maand” (shagger of the month), there’s “wiptips”, and

> Bij het NK Tegelwippen hebben we nogal wat affiniteit met de bloemetjes en de bijtjes (snap je ‘m?)

which loosely translates to “We at NK Tegelwippen are rather fond of the birds and the bees (get it?)”

For context, “wippen” means “to flip <something> over” and “to hop on a seesaw” but it’s also polite slang for having sex.
Well, I think it’s mostly in comparison to the rest of the salaries, which have been mostly stagnant as far as I’m aware.
Similar story in the UK: https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...

Standard neoliberal bullshit coupled with a lack of imagination as to how things like local-loop unbundling might be used to create a competitive market. The UK is now in a fairly good position re broadband, but it could be so much better.
Monolith: Deconstructing the undeconstructable basic building blocks of reality
> Big tech is going to eat these guys

Like what Apple did with Siri?
I failed to find any evidence that this person is an OpenAI employee, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I use a corded electric blower (it's also the motor for a shop vac). It works very well for the driveway, blowing out the garage and, for the very rare times I've done it, leaves on grass.
Some of the better websites at least make an effort to archive old content. e.g. here's CNN and BBC websites with coverage from the 9/11 attacks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/americas/20...

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/index.html

Don't expect many of the links to work properly, but it's still interesting to see what the web used to look like.
It's wild to think what goes into making a life happen. It's so alien, and so complex that it's hard to even realize where "the person" starts compared to the rest of the world. That video is just mind bending.
How do you know it's not bodies of willing adult pornographic actors that merely appear child-like?

Why would you swap faces when you already had the pictures, if not to hide the adult facial features?
While I understand the concepts of derivatives and tainted code, this AI/human-dichotomy is not as good as that reasoning requires it to be. Every statement of code I commit is in fact a derivative of work that potentially had an incompatible license.
If you need/want that you have no business being a software engineer. In my opinion at least.
Bakfiets is Dutch/Flemish for cargo bike.
https://michaelwest.com.au/david-mcbride-sentencing-reserved...

Odgers says the Army command was involved with “window dressing” which he suspected involved criminality; that is “command was undertaking improper investigations done for PR purposes, and he found that repellant and believed that he needed this to be properly investigated”.
My layman, super naive understanding is that an HIV vaccine could also help an HIV-positive person (with a well-managed HIV infection), because it dampens transmission from infected to uninfected cells.
I am in Denon’s HEOS ecosystem because I bought a Denon home theatre receiver and then a few smart speakers.

Denon changed the HEOS app recently, I don’t think it was a disaster but I don’t think it was a real improvement either. A while back I wrote a desktop client for HEOS using Python’s tk bindings, it was ugly as hell but it did work. I ought to get it out of mothballs.
In the same way a lot of the other rules on that list are. How are they going to know you are familiar with the code you are committing? How are they going to know it is tested?

Sometimes rules are established to set up a common community base line. You are trusted to follow them in good faith. If over time, through code review, questioning or testing, it shows you aren't following the rules then you can't claim you didn't know it wasn't okay.
The amazing thing is that 30 years ago there were cross platform toolkits like Neuron Data and the toolkit under OpenOffice(called StarOffice originally), and yet today the options are still fragmented and imperfect.

We have far better compilers and even languages for cross-platform work, so it should be easier by now.
The great thing about the internet is you can look people up, and you can read the indictments.

He has an unusual name. The current indictment is on the internet. And so is an indictment from 2002.
If you think that people prefer real to artificial anything only because of marketing, you may be acoustic.
I use it mostly exclusively (I've even developed a Python library for it, https://github.com/skorokithakis/ez-openai), because it does RAG and function calling out of the box. It's pretty convenient, even if OpenAI's APIs are generally a trash fire.
Likely the people who downvoted have no experience with the legal part of stock related discussions/tools (implied expectations/suggestions, etc), there is a reason why you see "not a financial advice" and other legal texts presented in videos discussing stocks.

Also there is no real company / person mentioned as an owner at least on the website so the privacy policy is kind of a "trust me bro".
> A canonical list of references from a leading figure would be appreciated by many.

That confirms the opposite, no?
I would die for my principles, so it stands to reason that I would go to prison for them.

I have this quote painted on one of my favorite possessions. I live by the quote, I'd die by it. I don't consider that childishly naive.

Naive would be thinking that taking a more Malcom X approach won't lead to death and prison as well.
Google was never trying to write PDF reader from scratch so they never "gave up".

They just bought foxit code to save years of development when they wanted to ship PDF reader in Chrome.

Your comment about "the only viewer that is semi-correct" is also wildly off the mark.

Parsing correctly written PDF files is hard but multiple engines can do it correctly.

Parsing real life PDFs is much harder then correctly implementing PDF spec because lots of PDFs are just broken. They generators create invalid PDF files and then PDF readers have to spend heroic efforts to somehow make sense of this brokenness. Adobe does it better than most because... well it would be embarrassing if they didn't. They invented the format, they make money from their tools, they were doing it the longest, they have the largest archive of broken PDFs for testing etc. It's hard to expect that e.g. an open-source project with one or two developers can match that.

I work on SumatraPDF so I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Files_(Australia)

> The documents were leaked to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) by David McBride,[3] upon and seven stories were ultimately published as a result. The documents covered a wide range of topics, however most notably it detailed multiple cases of possible unlawful killings of unarmed men and children.
This particular case is very well known and proven to be caused directly by the marketing, yes.

There is no justifiable difference like beauty, durability or function between "real" and "artificial" diamonds. Only an expert can tell, and only because the "real" ones are less perfect. And of course - both are real diamonds.
It does feel mad that we outsource so much of our national infrastructure maintenance to China.

When/if they invade Taiwan, how are we going to do anything when they have that sort of leverage over us? It was bad enough with Russias gas
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Wolfram looked at this recently on his blog.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-does-biologi...

He says it's possible for smaller games (fewer rules) but unlikely for larger ones.. IMHO anything Turing complete would have this problem.
I view this as a serious failing of the internet that we collectively should have done a better job of avoiding. In most cases I believe the content itself is in fact still available somewhere and it’s simply the link that broke. Some kind of two layer system like the DOI system used for libraries would be helpful for cases like that:

https://nuim.libguides.com/referencing/DigitalObjectIdentifi...

But it would need to handled automatically to maintain the full usefulness and convenience of URLs. Not sure how that could work though.
It's a lot harder to get PTSD when you have a pause button and nothing can actually harm you.
Brave works great on both desktop and mobile. I have to add an exception to the ad blocker roughly once a month. I guess DNS blocking may be needed if you use spyware programs outside the browser, which I don't.
Oh, now i think i know what you mean.

'a is of type one hundred intPointers' should, to be more consistent, be written as
(int*)[100] a;

I'm not even sure whether that works, never tried it.

The fact that arrays are automatically pointers is very confusing for beginners, especially multi dimension arrays are brainbenders in that respect.
> What exactly was he blowing the whistle about?

If you dig a bit deeper within your own Wikipedia link, you’ll see the actual list of issues [0].

> The documents contained at least 10 accounts of possibly unlawful killings of unarmed men and children

> of an incident in which an SAS soldier severed the hands of an Afghan insurgent for identification confirmation purposes

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Files_(Australia)
It’s kind of depressing when people do not want to listen to you because you don’t have the right title though.

Yes, I know how to optimize a database. Yes, I know how to build infra. Yes, I also know how to build a system used by 30k people daily.

Yes, I’m fairly certain that our system that serves 3k people does not need to cost us $30k/month when I could do 30k for $1000/month.

But nobody wants to hear that. They’re all secure in their little fiefdoms, and your boss will certainly not be rewarded for replacing their 30 people team with three of you.
Indeed we do ...
looks cool, shareable emulators would be very useful for me. are you planning on supporting capacitor apps?
Carmack did his thing 40 years ago; before social media was as prevalent. I'm sure if the community was as large and talkative then as they were today; you'd find many detractors.
Not surprising - even HP's support site is full of dead /broken links, you can't even locate information on 2013 era desktops and servers.
it specifically says Copilot
Altman is riding a new tech wave, and his team has a couple of years' head start. Musk's reusable rockets were conceptualized a long time ago (Tintin's Destination Moon dates back to 1953) and could have become a reality several decades ago.
How about the cost in wild-life and nature? The required area and kill count of enough wind mills to replace a single nuclear plant is absolute insanity. And idk where you live, but we just had a university leader here who had to go because the wind lobby paid her scientists off to falsify reports in favour of wind. Wind and solar have their places sure, but the future is nuclear.
"A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
It was impractical from the start; they had to pivot before a they were able to get an LLM proper out (before ~anyone had heard of them)
Should we grant them the benefit of doubt and believe it’s just poor wording?

Surely if an AI writes “foo” it’s because it’s learnt that everyone else writes that. It’s different from asking “suggest me an implementation of FFT”, and then pasting that in wholesale.

It’s similar to how research literature works. Eventually concepts like “computer” and “DNA” become so common that we don’t have to reference 1800s literature unless very pertinent to the question.
I'm sceptical of the implication that there's no downside there, even if it's a more limited use of the technology.

If it introduced a subtle mistake (e.g. wrong variable) there's a chance the programmer could miss it, but would not have made the same mistake themselves.

There's also a chance the machine-generated code might lack a bug that the programmer would have introduced if writing it themselves. Overall though, I get the impression these tools are generally harmful to code quality.

edit As ekianjo points out, they specifically mention Copilot as unacceptable.