skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reasonable" is a courts / legal industry weasel word that allows them to kick the can down the road not defining explicit requirements, which is what creates so much of the unknowable liability. This might be fine if we were talking matters of a few thousand dollars, but when we're talking about hundreds of thousands or more, creating a game of life-altering hot potato. And ambiguity would be understandable if we were talking about equitably judging personal action vs another personal action, but what we're talking about here is personal action vs an existing situation that was entered voluntarily.

I do not see that it is "reasonable" to be responsible for any random uninformed person lackadaisically traversing my property as if it's some maintained event space they were invited into with a corresponding warranty of fitness. Yet the courts disagree, and so we're off to the races about what's "reasonable".

Do I need cones for a drainage ditch/brook that has been around for decades? Do I need cones for the 6-8" ruts due to driving through a part of my yard when it was waterlogged? Do I need cones or a fence for a tree that has half fallen down, resting on a neighboring tree, that I've yet to take down the rest of the way? Do I need cones for stumps of cut down trees? Do I need cones for items kept on the ground? Do I need warning signs about possible bees' nests in parts of structures? Do I need warning signs about the high number of ticks due to my letting the grass get halfway to a meadow? Beware of bear because it can hide in my overgrown bushes? These aren't unreasonable extremes, but actual concrete examples.

The world is an inherently unsafe place. We create structure that makes tiny slices of it "safe". Creating a general requirement that the nominal owner of a chunk of land is ambiguously responsible for making it completely safe, even for those who were uninvited, just devolves into putting up one big fence and "no trespassing" signs while hoping for the best. This is precisely what this thread is lamenting.

Also compensating out of a general fund would in no way require government inspections of private property. We're talking about extremely rare situations here, meaning this could be covered as-is in a statistical manner. In fact it already mostly is by private insurance, except when/until it isn't, with that reverse-lottery dynamic rearing its ugly head again.

(The wood pile example is because climbing on them is unsafe, yet looks fun. It's essentially the same type of attractive nuisance as a swimming pool)
Victory has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan.

I guess that explains the number of people being touted as "The Godfather" of AI.
I'm going to pick this nit, but are they pluckable or strummable? Sounds more like strumming.
I've listened to hours of Hinton and Yan LaCun on their tacit debate on this. And over and over I come away with Hinton explaining mathematically and conceptually whats going on in LLMs and why it's a useful simulation of intelligence and will continue to grow, also while the world backs him up.

While Yan LaCun's arguments are just 'it doesn't work that way' and 'thats not intelligence' and at point literally quoting stories of failed LLM tests that are patentently untrue today.

I dunno I find the whole thing REALLY wierd... beyond the explanation that LaCun still adheres to a really outdated form of saying we must teach AI logic explicitly for it to be intelligent.
Machine learning as a field is dead for anyone thats not truly in the academic elite. All models will be generalized/dwarfed by the performance of foundational models, which will be controlled by a small cabal of big tech companies.
I find your writing - at least in these 2 comments - amusing and insightful to read. thank you
You need to take your phone off silent.
I imagine you would have to solve some tricky scheduling issues to run an LLM on the GPU while it's also busy rendering the game. Frames need to be rendered at a more or less consistent rate no matter what, but the LLM would likely have erratic, spiky GPU utilisation depending on what the agents are doing, so you would have to throttle the LLM execution very carefully. Probably doable but I don't think there's any existing framework support for that.
I work in academia and look forward to embracing AI tools. Students motivated to learn will do great with it. Others will need AI to really push them to learn, and it's not clear to me how that will work. Many students just want to know what they have to submit to get a grade. Spending 20 minutes chatting with AI about a topic might be a good learning activity, but incentivizing that with grading will be tricky.

I've sometimes wondered when I'll get called to the Dean's office because a student died in class because breathing wasn't specifically listed as a grading requirement on the syllabus.
To be clear, by super polished I mean that something that looks like a modern consumer app is sometimes discounted.
>> A reasonable policy would probably specify...

There is no reasonable policy, not in the US. No matter what number is picked, homeowners will install anything from doll houses to razor wire to prevent their back lot becoming the next homeless encampment.
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> The key to understanding why is that it's much easier to do useful things with electricity than it is with a hunk of coal or a glob of crude oil.

What??? Try to fly a plane with electricity, or replace oil in the merchant ships that make globalisation possible... (spoil: the reason why we currently mostly depend on fossil fuels is that it's obviously a lot easier to use).
LaCun works for Meta who gives away models for free
Im with the ranchers in the case of Sutter Buttes. They pre-date the state purchase of the land, which it did without access rights, and before the state turned it into a park.

It reminds me of the phrase: "Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine".

Maybe it will work out for the state in the long run, but it took the risk to buy land without access, with full knowledge, and cant cry foul later.
> Inequality isn't the correct term. It's poverty, drug abuse and mental illness.

Just curious where you think those last 3 things stem from.

Drug abuse and mental illness are much more prevalent in those worst off economically. Poverty (in developed countries) is almost always a result of inequality due to bad policies (lack of social safety nets).

> Crime is as much a cultural problem as anything else.

Right, part of crime is cultural, and part is economic. But culture is also determined by lack of access to economic opportunities.
Good point about all the people about to hit a mortgage renewal crisis.

For our friends in the USA: in the USA it's common to have a long-term fixed-interest mortgage. In the UK they are limited to a few years, then you have to renew. Because interest rates have risen so much in recent years, people will have to pay much higher mortgage payments when their current fixed-term ends, which is coming due fairly soon for many people. On top of that, because people's other costs have gone up more than incomes generally, that reduces their credit rating at renewal, so their payments may rise even higher than interest alone would suggest, at the same time as their ability to pay is lower than it was a few years ago.
I'd rather have no tabs at all than to use Edge.
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No, that's not what I'm getting at.

I dislike idiots of all creeds and colours.
this person just wants perplexity
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with an average U.S. new-vehicle selling price of just over $45,000 last month

So basically somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/3rd to 1/4th the price of a house + plot of land in lower cost of living areas in the US - hard pass.

Even if I were a multi-millionaire I would never pay that kind of money for a depreciating asset so I'm going to keep driving my 18 year old car.
>smart people work really hard ...

Nah, you'll be surprised at how dumb things in the real world could be; like, the nuclear briefcase password is probably 0000-0000.

Punishment and retaliation is what deters most people from going rogue. Note that by retaliation I do not mean "fear of retaliation", I mean the actual consequences that come to you from FAFO in the real world.
same with docx. We don't use any docx libraries to generate docx files from templates. we just: unzip, string replace, zip
The lazy stoner stereotype is a false myth

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19485506241245744
Why is anyone surprised? Everything you do recorded and you have no way to see or delete the data. Just like that company that ripped off the Beatles record company name has been doing for years.
And this is why a law like this wouldn’t work in low-trust societies like the US.
or have 2 gpus
> I approach this from a matter of principle. I don't recognize anyone's "right" to enjoy someone else's privately owned property or, stated more honestly, to infringe upon the property rights of others.

I also approach it from a matter of principle - I don't recognize anyone's right to truly "own" land. They didn't create it. It existed before they were born and it will exist after they die. Allowing a market in land doesn't, beyond any fringe degree, encourage the creation of new land. Disallowing a market in land does not decrease the supply of land. So by what right can a person "own" a piece of land they didn't create?

On a base level, land is what a country is. Your citizenship of a country entitles you to exist upon the land of that country. Imagine if a child were born into a country where every scrap of land was privately owned, and every land owner refused that child the right to exist upon "their" land. What is the child supposed to do?

I recognize that there are social and economic advantages to allowing people some exclusive rights of access to some land. I recognize that there are advantages to allowing some people some limited rights of monopoly when they make improvements to land. But I do not recognize that a private entity can truly "own" land, completely and in perpetuity, as if they had created it from whole cloth.
Think of it as an inner disposition.
Perl was literally reborn with "Perl Best Practices". Perl::Critic has more rules that you'd ever wish for, Perl::Tidy is the most configurable code formatter there is. This had been true for 10-15 years already. Which part do you find painful and is this your idea of "no decent tooling"?
It’s been made clear that all laws are useless unless they have 100% compliance. Hence the need the for anarchism. But while we wait for anarchism thankfully there are people like you out there vigilantly seeking to safeguard the freedoms for capital. Someday we will live in a society where we properly look after the billionaires. They have been oppressed for too long.
Quantized 6-8b models run well on consumer GPUs. My concern would be vram limits given you'll likely be expecting the card to do compute _and_ graphics.

Without a GPU I think it will likely be a poor experience, but it won't be long until you'll have to go out of your way to buy consumer hardware that doesn't integrate some kind of TPU.
In the US, I found, and still occasionally find, SCORE (Service Corp of Retired Executives) to be an extremely useful resource for guidance about this sort of stuff and more. If you're in the US as well, there's probably a SCORE chapter near you.

https://www.score.org/
And almost every thread on HN had its top-voted comments defending and praising Altman, while shrugging off Ilya et al. It was bizarre and disheartening to see that from this community, of all places.
Does PERL compile to bash? I thought it had its own interpreter. I can't figure out if you're one of those weird people that try to derail threads or if PERL is unique in a way that I never realized.
You asked the good question about why they may have acted as they did and I attempted to answer it. In hindsight based on results it may look reckless but decisions need to be judged based on that is known at the time they are made and the public reaction was not a foregone outcome. The openAI sky voice has been available since last September why was there no outrage about it back then?

You can listen to the voices side by side:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cwy6wz/comment/l4...

And here is voice of another actress ( Rashida Jones ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385414AVZcA

This test is not blind but YOU tell me which you think is similar to the openAI sky voice?

> And they failed with an actor who sued Disney shortly after they paid her $20 million to make a movie.

OpenAI did not fail. They suspended the sky voice and backed down not to further anger a segment of the public who views much of what OpenAI does in a negative light. Given the voice test above do you seriously think OpenAI would lose in court? Would that matter to the segment of population that is already outraged by AI? How are journalists and news companies affected by AI? How might their reporting be biased?
> OpenAI’s GPT-4, for example, cannot be reliably prevented from hacking secure computer systems,

If someone can hack your system, regardless of whether that someone is an LLM, I don't think it's accurate to call it "secure".
My last car didn't have cruise control. When I bought it, I didn't even realize it at the time because... what 2013 model doesn't have cruise control? Anyway, if it weren't for a wreck that totaled it (with 3 payments left), I'd certainly be driving it today. It had 55K miles on it, AC worked, and I replaced the radio with an Android Auto device.

I replaced it with a 2019 with about the same amount of miles on it and every single feature I wanted in 2021 and have put 5K miles on it since. The best part is that after an argument with my insurance company over used car prices, the difference between what they gave me for my wreck and what I bought the first car for was $500.

Buying a brand new car to me is not much different than buying a designer bag or a pair of Jordans... you aren't paying for the utility, you're paying to be seen with the item. And then 2 months after the newness has worn off and everyone you know has seen you with the item, you're still stuck with the payments.
Ruby just simply isn’t the glue language winner because of the heavy emphasis on rails.

From a systems perspective, I had to switch to python because it has pyroute2, which supports rtnl, devlink, ethtool and more.

I would have thought ruby had a full-fledged netlink library right now considering the stability of chef and puppet.

But all I could find was this from 8 years ago: https://github.com/BytemarkHosting/netlinkrb

I started off with ruby for systems glue but now I have a mix of python and ruby. I wish it was all ruby but the lack of updated “glue gems” and the prevalence of updated “glue eggs” means python really is the “glue language winner”.
He said if you're a student interested in building the next generation of AI systems not to work on LLMs. Which is different than telling no one to study or work on them.

He's been pretty consistent in saying that he doesn't think they're the future because they lack a world model.
That also works but approximately zero gamers have two discrete GPUs. You can't even rely on users to have an integrated GPU and a discrete GPU, there's a lot of systems which only have one or the other.
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Not in modern times.

The terms harken back from the day of circuit switched networks but now that we have heavily transitioned to packets, bands are an artificial construct on top of packets and applying the term isn’t very clear cut.

The main property of in-band data in the circuit-switched network days is that you could inject commands into your data stream. If we apply that criteria that to a modern protocol, even if you mix metadata and data in the same “band,” if your data can never be interpreted as commands then “out of band” makes an apt description.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_data
When the phone apps come out, these "you have to have a separate device" arguments will simply die out.
>“WhatsApp has no backdoors and we have no evidence of vulnerabilities in how WhatsApp works,” said Meta spokesperson Christina LoNigro.

Phew. I feel safer already.
The biggest roadblock is not running the model on the user's machine, that's barely an issue with 7B models on a gaming PC. The difficulty is in getting the NPC to take interesting actions with a tangible effect on the game world as a result of their conversation with the player.
“Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

Truer words have never been sung.
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It's hard to believe recording media on browser is still challenging in 2024 so I had to write a post. It's a good read for anyone interested in learning from our experience or just laughing at the recurring struggles of web development.

From dealing with fragmented media formats to finding the perfect encoding solution, it was a challenge to get the right user experience to support media recording on Hexus demos!

We dive into the technical details, sharing our approach to solve the cross-browser compatibility nightmare. If you've ever struggled with multimedia on the web, you'll definitely relate.

Let us know your thoughts on the approach!
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It's what I call "argument by edge case".

Because of this one story, people pretend that any change to the contrary is basically impossible in perpetuity in the future, because "precedent exists".

I suppose there is some shred of truth in there, but it seems like a defeatist attitude and a convenient excuse to do nothing even when the status quo is bad. (not all precedents are good)
I've been on smoothe flights where the sign was kept on practically the whole time. Unfortunately I suspect some pilots forget about it, and I have observed that the public have gotten used to getting up to use the bathroom even when the sign is on (excluding takeoff and landing). I haven't flown enough to notice a pattern with specific routes or airlines.
It's part of posix and should be available anywhere a posix like environment is offered.
It is weird if you look from top down view like organized “Queens English”.

Truth is people just made stuff -bottom up- if some phrase was used it just spread out or not.

It is that even rather close neighbors might use different names or phrases for the same thing or same names for different things.

Even if at school you learn a generic version.
Rumor has it that HN accs are ranked by mentions of Lisp, if you fall too low you risk 'problems' from The Powers That Be.
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> People treat vector search like magic pixie dust but the reality is that it's not that great unless you heavily tune your models to your use cases

I believe that what most people miss is that embeddings are the product of the model.

Embeddings have been getting so much better with the new models and so embedding-based search improved too.

Embeddings are coordinates in a world representation that "organizes" information so that location in that world matters and serve as a way to differentiate meaning.

In other worlds, word2vec was a simple and poor world representation. OpenAI embeddings are an astounding world representations coordinates.
If you have good contacts to Gadaffi and the Libyans, you might get it from them.
Fun fact: the French word engin still retains its original meaning of contrivance, contraption. But we still translate "search engine," which refers to this archaic English meaning, as moteur de recherche ("search motor").
Many people seem to feel the same way: https://medium.com/@woyera/6-reasons-why-langchain-sucks-b6c...
you didnt answer the question about what "the damage" is. It is a simple question.

Instead, you evaded it and tried to redirect the topic.
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I mean, this is what universities used to be, in some cases still are. Reasons universities are going to be better than you is that they have a tighter filter.

The "every job seeker" who "jumps in" is in practice bottom of the barrel- that's why they are seeking. How are you going to make them more attractive than any of the certificate/upskill/bootcamp/yadda yadda things that already exist.

Moving a little higher up the abstraction tree, either you are taking responsibility for the work/person or you are not. If you are, then you are a contracting agency. If you are not, you are a body shop. These are both just cattle businesses. Employers are not finding their staff through those commodity channels.

That said, the hiring market is so broken for all sides a good sounding pitch that ignores the reasons for the breakage can probably get traction. But absent a strategy- like top of market consultancy as a service- or bottom market consolidate federal work programs/grants/yadda yadda into a single place- it doesn't seem like the legs will run that long.
> I agree because there's still some morality left. But morality itself can change, and if deviance is normalized by lack of enforcement we might very well end up in a situation where nobody thinks twice about shoplifting

That’s a strong claim, but is there any scientific basis for claiming that enforcement creates morality? Anecdotally I see morality police in super religious communities and all it seems to enforce is the appearance of morality but actually people are chafing against it and subverting it all the time - if anything the repression seems to create higher incidence of violent and sexual crimes. As for police, I haven’t checked recently but the number of police officers and the amount of crime that occurs seems to be fairly uncorrelated which is not supporting the hypothesis that more enforcement = better morality and less crime.

One place I saw this play is out is in the Bahamas where you and super rich white people putting up huge fences claiming that the locals had a culture of theft - if it’s accessible steal it - when the simpler, but more uncomfortable truth, seemed to be that poverty and inequality creates resentment and the amount of inequality was quite extreme.

> Why? Are you saying stealing a 3£ chocolate bar is bad, but doing the same in software via a hidden fee or some arcane clause in the ToS that nobody read (and thus did not agree to) is acceptable? In both cases someone is out 3£.

I agree both are unacceptable but legally one form is an acceptable way to do business. White collar crime is something totally different by the way - it’s about individual actions like embezzlement or corruption. Corporate behavior is a whole other category. A major difference of corporate misbehavior is that companies generally exhibit a very sociopathic behavior so they engage in that pure calculus you talk about and moral hazards are extremely real (largely because the market is allowed to reward sociopaths). People at the individual level however don’t operate that way though - aside from where the brain is broken and there’s a compulsive act formed for theft or crime (often due to formative experiences during childhood), most people just don’t want to hurt each other but that desire is weak vs self preservation and preservation of your family. And what starts out as preservation can spiral downward into trying to give yourself the life you think you want (that nice jacket or nice tv).
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If it's a 'myth', then why have I met so many lazy stoners in my life.