skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not wanting your race to be replaced

Great replacement and white genocide are white nationalist far-right conspiracy theories. If you believe this is happening, you are the intellectual equivalent of a flat-earther. Should we pay attention to flat-earthers? Are their opinions on astronomy, rocketry, climate, and other sciences worth anyone's time? Should we give them a platform?

> In the words of scholar Andrew Fergus Wilson, whereas the islamophobic Great Replacement theory can be distinguished from the parallel antisemitic white genocide conspiracy theory, "they share the same terms of reference and both are ideologically aligned with the so-called '14 words' of David Lane ["We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"]." In 2021, the Anti-Defamation League wrote that "since many white supremacists, particularly those in the United States, blame Jews for non-white immigration to the U.S.", the Great Replacement theory has been increasingly associated with antisemitism and conflated with the white genocide conspiracy theory. Scholar Kathleen Belew has argued that the Great Replacement theory "allows an opportunism in selecting enemies", but "also follows the central motivating logic, which is to protect the thing on the inside [i.e. the preservation and birth rate of the white race], regardless of the enemy on the outside."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theo...

> wanting border laws to be enforced

Border laws are enforced.

> and not wanting your children to be groomed into cutting off their body parts.

This doesn't happen. In fact, the only form of gender-affirming surgery that any doctor will perform on under-18 year olds is male gender affirming surgery on overweight boys to remove their manboobs.

> You are definitely sane and your entire family is definitely insane.

You sound brave, why don't you tell us what your username means :) You're one to stand by your values, after all, aren't you?
We can’t buy these or the Toyota Hilux in the USA bc of political reasons. American Automakers are not competitive anymore…so we need tariffs apparently. Ford would rather one spend 60k on a full sized pickup and finance it at an ungodly high interest rate.
What truly sets Haskell apart is how much the language shoehorns you into being an architecture and abstraction astronaut
It's not enough for a search but it's enough to knock on the door and ask.
Nope. The Shuttle was a catastrophic strategic blunder. Why do you think NASA is so adamant on chasing a second vehicle to go to the ISS when A) The ISS is nearly over; and B) Space X's vehicle is awesome?

Because of the Shuttle. Initially, and they actually did it for a couple of years, EVERY satellite launched into orbit by the US was supposed to use the Shuttle. Inevitably, when the Shuttle proved inadequate at all its jobs, they had to revert back to rockets. That's not a failure of materials science. That's a strategic mistake that could have been avoided.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get past the "Load new commander?" screen. I've checked all the Help/Settings keybinds, and nothing tells me what to do. I've pressed every key combination imaginable, and nothing happens. It's infuriating, most emulators have some documentation on "enter" or "action" keys, but not this piece of shit.
This article doesn't touch on what I consider to be the central feature of Haskell: it is lazily (more precisely non-strictly) evaluated. A lot of the other aspects of it, such as monadic IO, follow from that decision.
Sometimes I do a little test: I tell about something I know wrong. One example would be: "X does this and does that, right? If not then it would be absurd. Could you give some examples of X?", where X is false or not applicable.

It already happened that a chat bot would correct me. But often not.
Is this actually available in the app in the same way they are demoing it here? I see the model is available to be selected, but the interface doesn't quite seem to allow me to use it in the way I see here.
LineageOS is the perfect minimal smartphone for non-tech savvy folk
one of the most magnificent books ever written
How do you prevent such company to end up like Boeing?
and no mention of hallucinations. I hope it was improved.
Will i be downvoted if i say natural selection is at work?
It sounds so ... clumsy.
Sure, but the point wasn't about the costs, it was about the capability of a trained model.
See also https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15740-f18/www/p... and Gharachorloo's thesis paper.
It's an implementation of an ISO-standardised Lisp, pretty much a cleaned up and streamlined ISO alternative to ANSI Common Lisp and the Scheme:s. Aims to be industrially relevant rather than academic, the object system is somewhat simpler than CLOS. More here: http://islisp.org/

The GraalVM is a tool used, among other things, to produce native binaries, and Truffle a programming language for implementing programming languages on Graal.

One could expect pretty good performance, possibly at the price of somewhat slow compilation.
It's been 8 years and I still don't have my autonomous car.

Meanwhile I've been using ChatGPT at work for _more than a year_ and it's been tremendously helpful to me.

This is not hype, this is not about how AI will change our lives in the future. It's there right here, right now.
The emphasis on multimodal made me wonder if it was capable of creating audio as output, so I asked it to make me a drum beat. It did so, but in text form. I asked it to convert it to audio. It thought for a while and eventually said it didn’t seem like `simpleaudio` was installed in its environment. Huh, interesting, never seen a response like that before. It clearly made an attempt to carry out my instructions but failed due to technical limitations of its backend. What else can I make it do? I asked it to install `simpleaudio`. It tried but failed with a connection error, presumably due to a firewall rule.

I asked it to run a loop that writes “hello” every ten seconds. Wow, not only did it do so, it’s streaming the stdout to me.

LLMs have always had various forms of injection attacks, ways to force them to reveal their prompts, etc. but this one seems deliberately designed to run arbitrary code, including infinite loops.

Alas, I doubt I can get it to mine enough bitcoin to pay for a ChatGPT subscription,

https://x.com/sethholladay/status/1790233978290516453
(Submission title has a typo that article has not: languaUge models)
I believe X

The study shows ～X

I am never wrong

Therefore, the study must be wrong.
Calling social media a "public square," isn't a valid analogy, and is an impossible ideal to live up to.

Nothing about it works the same way an actual public square does.

It's a coliseum.
What does abating that trend look like? Most AI safety proposals I hear fall into the categories of a) we need to stop developing this technology or b) we need laws that entrench the richest and most powerful organizations in the world as the sole proprietors of this technology. Neighther of those actually sound better than people being paranoid weirdos about trusting text/video/voice. I think that's kinda where we need to be as a culture: these things are not trustworthy, they were only ever good as a rough heuristic, and now that ship has sailed. We have just finished a transition to treating the digital world as part of our "real" world, but it's time to step that back. Using the internet to interact with known trusted parties will still work fine, provided that some authentication can be shared out-of-band offline. Meeting people and discovering businesses and such? There will be more fakes and scams than real opportunities by orders of magnitude, and as technology progresses our filtering will only get worse. We need to roll back to "don't trust anything online, don't share your identity or payment information online" outside of, as mentioned, out-of-band verified parties. You can still message your friends and family, do online banking and commerce, but you can't initiate a relationship with a person or business online without some kind of trusted recommendation.
That's the next big problem. And there need to be mechanisms to ensure that the network is not poisoned with undesirable input.
US and AU governments can fuck right off with this gestapo horseshit.

Also, don't follow random people you meet on social media or appear in photographs with them because a few people will be watchlisted, and there is no logic to the proliferation of watchlists and their taint will cause you problems for the rest of your life.
I think we’re slowly getting there, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
I’ve used it for a couple of hours to help with coding and it feels very similar to gpt4: still makes erroneous and inconsistent suggestions. Not calling it 4.5 was the right call. It is much faster though.

The expectations for gpt5 are sky high. I think we will see a similar jump as 3.5 -> 4.
Moving the goalposts directly after someone scores a goal.
And the annoying thing is that on some phones (like Samsung phones recently, twice), the Play System updates get blocked for months on end. Worse, people who buy a new device are often stuck on ancient versions.

I recently tried an Android phone again for a few months, and the update/security situation is still a mess. E.g. Samsung does monthly updates on more premium phones. But a former flagship like the S22 would sometimes only get the update near the end of the month, even before the S24 is out. Having a phone with known CVEs for the better part of a month is… meh.

For some vendors, like Samsung, things are much better than a decade ago, but it’s still a far cry from Apple rolling out updates to all models simultaneously.
Not true for neurons, some heart cells, skeletal muscle cells (muscle fibers), red blood, etc

That's a lot of indispensable cells that do not reproduce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_muscle#Skeletal_muscl...
What are you talking about? It's an index. The data starts proportional at 100%. Says so on the scale. Did you not read the page? 0 would imply there is no dev jobs anywhere in the country. The industry could go through the worst crash of all time and still get nowhere near that value. Saying it's not at zero contains no useful information. 70% of normal operations is pretty dire for switching jobs compared to ordinary expectations is the point I was obviously making.
Yep, and in a lot of fields things only get to the “fun” stage after much perspiration and effort. I’d say nearly all fields that are of practical utility are that way if you’re trying to make a dent in them.
I am not up to date in various lakes. Is this read-only? Are you able to init a lake from scratch?

What's the model to feed such a lake from some queue?
Is January 2023 not quite old?

You will run into energy issues very fast with this as soon as you do anything reasonable with it.

Like removing weeds, watering, fertilize, ...
Nobody here ever got a Theranos blood test.

Almost everyone here has used at least one LLM for fun or for work.

Many people here have paid for it.
How does monadic IO follow from laziness?
y'know, the GDPR has known a Right To Be Forgotten since 2018, and yet in Discord there's no way to delete your messages in bulk (instead they're being pseudonymized upon account deletion)
And/or Google Play System updates, which are a separate thing and usually needs to be triggered by hand to get it timely.
Those walnuts look suspiciously as they were already weakened. There's a way to open walnuts without breaking them by gently inserting a knife with round tip in the weak point where the two shells join on the upper side then rotating it, and it looks like they used the trick to weaken at least a couple walnuts in that bowl.
Did you have the cashiers face in frame?
tangential. when i was learning to program BASIC, one of advices that i got is to number your lines with 10 increment. 10, 20, 30 etc, so later you don't need to rewrite a lot when you need to insert some line. Yes you had to number your lines. I didn't question why though.
Interesting, I'm curious if anyone will add support for milling. Being able to lay down coarse layers and refine just the external surfaces seems like a path to fast prints with fine surface finish all on one machine.
Failsafe design. Safe, reliable, automatic, unattended shutdown. Nothing more can be done because people are their own worst enemy. Incompetence and dissolution is the ultimate end product of every organization whose members not bound by ideology or harsh punishment as the incumbents grift away what remains on the inevitable way down and the incentive structures crumble or the money simply runs out.
Dependabot-core is now open source with an MIT license
You shouldn't draw conclusions about the law from a blog post that only aims to provide a convenient overview.
The problem with this kind of criticism of any AI-related technology is that it is an unfalsifiable argument akin to saying that it can't be "proper" intelligence unless God breathed a soul into the machine.

The method is irrelevant. The output is what matters.

This is like a bunch of intelligent robots arguing that "mere meat" cannot possibly be intelligent!

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
It could be added. Still wouldn't sound as good as what we have here. Audio is Audio and Text is Text and no amount of metadata we can practically provide will replace the information present in sound.

You can't exactly metadata your way out of this (skip to 11:50)

https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw?si=yN7al6N3C7vCemhL
This name sounds like an effective way to get sued by OpenAI. Good luck with that.
Yes!

Impressive advancements right?
Qualcomm hyped these CPUs since years showing results in benchmarks. We still don't have laptops with Snapdragon X Elite but meanwhile competition is releasing improved chips, see M4.

I wonder if it won't be a little late when the laptops will be finally available to consumers.
This is true. But only to a point where mimicking and more broadly speaking, statistically imitating data, are understood in a more generalized way.

LLMs statistically imitates texts of real world. To achieve certain threshold of accuracy, it turns out they need to imitate the underlying Turing machine/program/logic that runs in our brains to understand/react properly to texts by ourselves. That is no longer in the realm of the old school data-as-data statistics I would say.
i totally agree that was what it was designed for
It's good for creating similar boilerplate but otherwise generates crap that will waste your time.
Does it need those things if it can just tap into artifacts generated by humans who did spend that hour?
But we still can't order a reactor on Amazon...
This, and F19 Stealth Fighter. I lost so much time in to them :)
I've taken to paste everything in kate or notepad first, then recopying it and dropping it to the final destination. Happy to hear a big software package moving to better defaults. Hopefully a lot of others follow their example.
people are scared and it shows :)
Not my problem, bro.
>to me, this is nothing crazy (yet)

The "yet" is carrying a lot of weight in that statement. It is now five years since the launch of GPT-2, three years since the launch of GPT-3 and less than 18 months since the launch of ChatGPT. I cannot think of any technology that has improved so much in such a short space of time.

We might hit an inflection point and see that rate of improvement stall, but we might not; we're not really sure where that point might lie, because there's likely to still be a reasonable amount of low-hanging fruit regarding algorithmic and hardware efficiency. If OpenAI and their peers can maintain a reasonable rate of improvement for just a few more years, then we're looking at a truly transformational technology, something like the internet that will have vast repercussions that we can't begin to predict.

The whole LLM thing might be a nothingburger, but how much are we willing to gamble on that outcome?
There is also:

* StealthChanger: https://github.com/DraftShift/StealthChanger

* TapChanger: https://github.com/viesturz/tapchanger

Looking forward to when I can just buy an LDO kit of one of these :D I'm not a fan of mmu/ercf.

Would love to see an open source AMS in the meantime. Just something where i can store multiple rolls of filament and autofeed a single roll before the print. For convenience.
This car would not even have been road worthy in the US or Europe in the 1990s.

It's easy to make cheap cars when you leave out several decades of safety features.
When I was twenty years old I bought a red Vespa. Suddenly I started to see them everywhere.
> This deal is half-baked, at best.

You're being generous. :-)

To be clear I have no objection to the nuclear aspect if handly well, it's the entire debacle from start to end that's on the nose .. I don't accept the case for hugely expensive nuclear subs over the pre existing French order (which had other, albeit lesser, issues).

In an entirely unrelated aside; see: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/14/scott-morrison-memoir-r...
Any time I see engineering time spent on splitting/sharding test suites, I can't help but wonder if access to a single beefier runner (e.g. 64+ cpus) would have alleviated all that work. Also always find the duplicated setup time a bit wasteful on resources.
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A Mixture of Experts model is still one behemoth neural network and believing otherwise is just a common misconception on term.

MoE are attempts at sparsity, only activating a set number of neurons/weights at a time. They're not separate models stitched together. They're not an Ensemble. I blame the name at this point.
> Delta Force Land Warrior

There's a name I've not heard in a long time. I loved that game so much, the engine and gameplay was ahead of its time (or felt that way). It was sad to see NovaLogic fall behind in the years that followed.
Yeah, I mean you can come up with some nonsense to make anything “true” but books generally don’t have encryption or compression and are some of the best communication technology ever. Among a whole bunch of others. The original assertion that communication technologies without both(!) those things are “toys” is just weird nonsense.

[edit] downvoting will not make this:

> Communication technologies without both [encryption and compression] are no more than toys.

Anything but a stupendously and obviously incorrect claim.

How about street signs? Letters? Newspapers? PA systems FFS? All toys I guess.
Ah yes, the civilized legal system where everyone is breaking the law all the time, so the law gets selectively enforced and used as a weapon on people the police don’t like. But the police are never ever assholes so there’s no problems?
I tried this as a student but then found that the actual useful part of a lecture is a tiny percentage and that it was just better to take advantage of the teachet’s office hour to ask questions well in advance of the class
I was envisioning a future where we've done away with the notion of data ownership. In such a world the idea that we would:

> have all of OpenAI's data for free

Doesn't really fit. Perhaps OpenAI might successfully prevent us from accessing it, but it wouldn't be "theirs" and we couldn't "have" it.

I'm not sure what kind of conversations we will be having instead, but I expect they'll be more productive than worrying about ownership of something you can't touch.
It's funny that the herculean effort of porting NES to Z80 was done twice, completely separately - once for ZX Spectrum and once for MSX. I think the 6502 versions all share the bulk of the logic code (even the NES version).
Verilator: Open-Source SystemVerilog simulator and lint system
I think part of the issue is how we learn differently. For some students the lecture is important, for others it’s a time where your mind wanders and then you’re sort of “left behind” because you didn’t pay attention. So it’s likely always going to be a complicated mix of things where you can’t really get it right for every student if you sort of follow traditional learning.

I’m an external examiner for CS students as a side gig. Now that I’ve been one for 8 years, it’s a relatively easy task for me because I’ve been through their curriculum twice every year. I remember the first time, however, and how I subsequently decided I’d better refresh my own… I’m not sure if learning is the right word here, but my own “what I had been taught in CS”. I did so with edx.orc where I took a few Harvard and MIT courses on CS. What struck me about those courses was just how good the video lectures were for me. I have ADHD and bipolar type 2, and I can honestly say I didn’t really do well with CS lectures when I attended university. But these video lectures were so good, that it honestly taught me the first year of introduction and parts of the later courses in a couple of weeks. Sure… I had the foundation with me, but it also made me wonder if you couldn’t just use these lectures everywhere English speaking. Now, I don’t mean to disrespect my own professors but they were terrible at lecturing by comparison. Which isn’t too weird I guess, I imagine it’s natural for some of the top universities in the world to have some of the best lecturers. In this modern age, we can frankly share these awesome video lectures. Lectures you can pause, rewind a bit, rewatch and so on. All the things I would’ve personally benefited from immensely. Then you could have your local professors do the active learning and so on.

I know it’s not likely to happen, but it should.
All electromagnetic radiation that encounters some conductive material induces (tiny) currents. Cells are full of conductive materials.

"Low-frequency electric fields influence the human body just as they influence any other material made up of charged particles"

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/rad...
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If you did partition all core resources between SMT threads, it seems like the end result would be exactly what was called "rentable units" above, i.e. you could convert a high-performance core into two lower-performance cores. Then again, it cannot be easy to ensure that there are no remaining side channels whatsoever.
Laziness requires immutability to work well, and that means you need to represent mutations such as IO operations in an immutable cover like the IO monad.
I'd prefer a culture with a little self-discipline and self-control. Not using 150 horses where five, or none, will do.

Let's use the oil, sure, but treat it like we need it to last 200 years, not 20.

If you take an audit view, you can see that some of what we burn - perhaps a third - is essential to modern quality of life. Making sure people have access to enough nutritious food, and access to semiconductors, satellites and antibiotics. Very hard to replace this stuff, and we're screwed if and when it runs out.

Another third or so is used valuably but inefficiently. Transport and food choices where you'd need to get the job done, but could get it done on a lot less. Heating/cooling large and poorly insulated buildings. People with desk jobs driving trucks for a commute which a hatchback or light motorcycle could do. Beef, so much beef. Can't substitute any of these to zero, but some pretty significant reductions are possible with little more than self-discipline.

And then there's a third that's just sheer waste. The majority of long-haul flights taken add a negligible amount to quality of life or human experience relative to what they burn. Basically everything the super-rich does, their lives are no happier, wiser, longer or better than the just plain rich (or even the upper reaches of the middle-class, in well-off social democratic countries), but their consumption footprints are proportionally huge.
There are rumours about organ harvesting from China, driven by those "when money is no object".