skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussion yesterday [0] (56 points, 56 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417837
It is really odd to me that people put any value on current AI platforms. Not only is the field advancing so fast that next year ChatGPT might be worthless we also have the ability to train from existing model for a fraction of the cost.
Legally the customer has no relationship with the carrier.

They did not choose how the package would be shipped, which carrier would be used, or pay the carrier to ship it.

All of those decisions and the payment to the carrier were made by the seller (Google), not the customer. Thus Google had all responsibility in ensuring the shipment reached the customer.

If Google had failed to pay the carrier the correct shipping cost, or had packed the box poorly such that the item was damaged in transit, would it be the customer's fault?

Similarly, if the carrier mishandled the package and it was lost or arrived damaged, would it be the customer's fault?

The customer deals with the seller whom they paid, not with third-parties. If the seller took the money they ensure the customer gets what they paid for or they lose reputation and go out of business.
Intelligence is our word for that thing we do. Whatever it is, it is defined as intelligence. We might not understand it very well but it is still what we refer to as intelligence, and it exists; it's that thing we do.
California Senate Passes SB1047
I would not call it a business.

People ‘invested’ in his antics and his BS, and will soon reap the benefits.
I've never encountered that particular format before, and based on that, I'll question the claim of "most common", but even still, I could understand what was meant.
They always want more so they can parallel construct cases without having to reveal those backdoors.
I don't think that there even needs to be competition (although that works best) - you can make do with two other things: motivated citizens, and a non-corrupt government.

Laissez-faire capitalism doesn't work - that's pretty much obvious to everyone, and most people then take the next mental step of realizing that things sufficiently close to laissez-faire capitalism don't work, either.

The next realization is then "well, how do you stop yourself from sliding into something "sufficiently close"?" and the easiest answer is through carefully-controlled government regulation motivated by an active populace and a non-corrupt government.

Communism advocates, as can be seen in this thread, strategically ignore the fact that the same reasons that we're seeing capitalism "failing" (as this failure is incomparably better than anything seen in communist countries like the USSR and China), which are apathetic citizens and a corrupt government, are necessary preconditions for a socialist/communist model to even have a chance at succeeding - because, of course, they are either shockingly ignorant of history, or they think that they'll be the ones to come out on top and be the leaders of the new authoritarian government.
GIFs up to 20MB on Reddit on most subs, but videos only on certain subs.
I was just posting about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40437018.

If you read that and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
These seem to only filter by tags/keywords. Feeds are a lot more powerful than that.

That's what I meant with:

>> "It's hard to explain because it sounds like tags or saved searches if you're trying to relate it to the more common model of social media."

For example: a feed that's something like a "For You" timeline without the commercial incentives to make it bad (it's empty without an account because it has nothing to work with): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tenurhgjptubkk5zf5qhi3og/fe...

It's not just blunt filtering. Feeds can (and do) apply machine learning, take input from your interactions, and generally do all the things a first-party timeline can do.
> But there’s a catch: the advanced capabilities of these NPUs are tightly tethered to Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem.

Why? If anything, hardware acceleration should make it easier to run AI locally.
Science fairs always have hints of fraud around them. Many of the children putting out incredibly advanced research, beyond their capacity, are benefiting from their parents’ expertise, or friends of family, or access to labs, and such. It’s not talked about much but has been an issue for decades.

As a side note, the criticism around this incident seems to have some racial tones. It’s weird to see tweets referring to participants as the “Indian guy” and “Chinese guy”. Or is that just me?
This is not the case.
“ A voice, or other distinctive uncopyrightable features, is deemed as part of someone's identity who is famous for that feature and is thus controllable against unauthorized use. Impersonation of a voice, or similarly distinctive feature, must be granted permission by the original artist for a public impersonation, even for copyrighted materials.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I was a finalist at the 2017 ISEF and it was quite an experience. A lot of super smart kids there and we all had fun living it up in Los Angeles.

There was a stark contrast between those of us who had designed our projects completely ourselves, and those who had significant mentors/lab affiliations. No hate to high schoolers getting valuable STEM experience at local universities, but Regeneron should do more to differentiate between these different projects.
I wrote an earlier reply to someone about how all I learned from the several mandatory ethics courses is that the people who cheat tend to be winners even after their punishment, if any.

I bet that even after all this, that kid will still be better off having cheated than not.
and i dont like how it's inconsistent that echo is not using the $ syntax (which makes sense internally, as it's a built-in, rather than executing the $echo command).

Overall, it is cute and neat, but i find that if you are looking to write bash scripts that require this level of programming, you'd be better off writing it in python, or perl. Only in very austere environments can this be utilized, but the requirement of having `bc` installed means you must also have the ability to run package installation, so might as well run the package installation for a full on programming language!
> “well that’s how my parents did it and I’m fine.”

Broadly speaking, I've noticed a couple of different responses to going through an extended bad experience over which one has no control (for example, a shitty childhood).

Upon reaching adulthood, one response is to say, "Wow, that really sucked, I will take steps to avoid ever having to experience that again, nor visit it on my children/partner/loved ones".

Another (probably more common) response is to say, "I survived and I'm ok, it must not have been that bad. Maybe it even made me stronger/tougher/more worldly/etc".

Needless (I hope?) to say, people who tend towards the latter attitude are far more likely to repeat the same mistakes that they previously suffered from. Unfortunately this kind of attitude also seems to frequently be tightly interwoven with identity, making it all but impossible to dislodge. Thus the cycle repeats.
>it's obvious to everyone involved that "just having a highly skilled human review every case" is completely impractical (not just "too expensive for the company to want to pay for it").

It's not obvious to me. These are trillion dollar companies and it's not like the appeals process doesn't take weeks to begin with (too long, but I digress). On top of all that you gotta keep in mind that some influencers are literally making the company money. To have them take weeks over a false negative is unaccetptable.

So yeah, get a proper review team, make sure they know the actual message that got them banned instead of needing to scour an account, give them a proper minute to review and decide.
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The extension trick works in all sorts of place. And in reverse too. You can often upload an animated GIF to sites that don't support it by just changing the extension to .jpg or .png.
And then you have stale bot on GitHub closing issues for no activity in like 3 months -_-
The Reddit post had a link to a Washington Post article. And what you think the substance of your comment was is unclear.

Most people don't use ChatGPT. Many people who use ChatGPT don't use voice generation. OpenAI's September update didn't have a demo watched by millions unless I missed something. Altman hyped the May update with references to Her. Some people thought the recent voice generation changes made the Sky voice sound more like Johansson. Some people gave OpenAI the benefit of the doubt before Johansson revealed they asked her twice. And what do you believe it would prove otherwise?
I flagged the submission because it's flamebait. It's not intellectually rewarding. It's not suitable for HN. HN is not an advocacy platform.
Another Patriot Phone?

Just look at their About Us page and leave knowing less than before.

Just another grift, in my opinion.
Sure. I have friends who believe that all national boundaries are immoral, that free immigration and equal citizenship is everyone's global birthright. I get that! I can't engage with it (any more than I can engage meaningfully with my anarcho-abolitionist friends), but I can recognize it as a coherent ideal even if my own premises prevent me from recognizing it as a practical plan. And, of course, I can be wrong about all this stuff.

I think the only thing I'd put on the table here past just recognizing that we're working from incompatible premises (at least, when we get past a Palestinian state and self-determination, and probably Netanyahu in a prison cell somewhere) is to try to stay cognizant of whether the standards you're setting for Israel are the same as those of other countries or other people or other ethnicities or whatever. because there's a whole grim history of people pretty much everywhere in the world singling Jewish people out as moral "others". But if you're being consistent about stuff, I don't have much to push back on.
Is this legal ?
This writing style is very difficult for me to follow.
Enterprises are going to LOVE being (even more) beholden to Microsoft for this. Recall is going to give them a scrubbable, searchable timeline of nearly everything every employee does with their PC, making goldbrickers and troublemakers even easier to identify and punish. Don't think this will happen? Microsoft Office already has bossware built in, with nice dashboards and reports available to your manager showing what you're doing with Microsoft Office for how long. Building this in at the OS level will make Fred Taylor cum in his grave.
What We're Working on in Firefox
I feel dense for advocating for jpegli to everyone and then totally forgetting to replace it in my export chain myself. The tools you quote should be the only ones used in 2024. Everything else should be scorched.
>Not every decision can be positive for every customer every time.

sometimes would be a good first step.

> It requires someone to champion it, and to make a good enough case that others will join and for stakeholders to be convinced.

well we're screwed then. of course shareholders don't understand the need for moderation, nor keeping a satisfied userbase.
This version is much better, and captures the juvinality of it all.
> The solution is not to create a fictional avatar that "borrows" the non-consenting person's visual appearance.

That's exactly what was done when Jeffrey Weissman replaced Crispin Glover in Back to the Future Part II.
> receiving what was probably the worst Neuralink implant that anyone would get

Yeah let's hope that they figure out how to design them to have a track record of literally any of the recipients not dying
Yeah the control thing is BS, we have to stop doing that because suppression leads to all sorts of problems.

Anxiety, depression, inexpression.

Human beings are made to be happy, sad, very happy , very sad and swing like a pendulum between such states
As the field advances, so will ChatGPT, Copilot, gemini etc. They will upgrade as the field upgrades.

Just like people instinctively go to google for a search due good experiences with their search results in the past, new habits will be formed and people will use gemini, chatgpt, copilot etc.

So I wouldn't say any of these new AI platforms will be rendered worthless due to advancements in the field.
Back in my CL days I loved Slimv. It had its warts, but was miles beyond having a shell with a REPL open. I imagine it has only gotten better since (I haven't touched lisp in almost 10 years now). That said, I never gave Emacs a serious shake so I was probably missing out quite a lot on what a good interactive experience could be.
There's no "insiders" going on here. HN very intentionally doesn't favor VC stories, and it's really easy to see that because you can easily find stories and comments that are critical of VCs and YC alumni...they just have to be intellectually rewarding.

This story is not. This story is boring drama. HN is not an advocacy platform.

> Agreed, I mean "incredible" and not in the good way. Someone needs to take this to Twitter / X or another platform that isn't insider controlled.

Please do. We don't want these kinds of stories (or comments) here.
> The suggestions to "just stop" (translation: "just lose") are actually serious.

Lose? You mean retreat to their own pre-war borders? To lose would be if they actually had to pay reparations or lost territory of their own. As I said, this would not be how the negotiations play out as Russia has the numbers to keep the war going as long as it wants.

But sure. Tell me what would be lost in Russia ending the war?

> Think about how everyone expected Russians to take to the streets and overthrow Putin back in 2022.

Who is going to try and overthrow the leader who disappears people? Everyone saw what happened to Prigozhin when he dissented. And of course, there are plenty of pro-war nationalists that would take Putin's place should he ever die. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here, or how it progresses your narrative of Russia as the victim in the conflict it started – at the economic and human cost to its own people – to take Ukraine territory.
I wonder whether using a switch that didn't have the third normally-closed terminal might have been another option. It then wouldn't have needed to be grounded at all.
I was confused by Amber Smalltalk's pivot. Turns out it is just a newer language deciding to use the same name as an existing one. The domain is almost exactly the same as well.

https://amber-lang.net/
As a leftist, I really liked the essay and the theory. I think understanding that our morality is roooted in our social relations can be empowering, because we control those.

But I hate the title of the book "It's OK to be cynical". Because in my view, the theory argues against cynicism (as present in fatalistic conservative naturalism and capitalist realism). I think the title will be misunderstood, just like "The Selfish Gene" was (IMHO this theory has potential to be a similar hit). So I don't think this is a defense of cynicism any more that selfish gene is a defense of selfishness.
Pay up: London demands 'stubborn' Australia settle $1,500 debt
The something more is intent.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
You can’t deny that the momentum is moving in the direction of system on a chip designs. Apple showed the industry how beneficial this design is for performance and power efficiency. Plus it’s better for their bottom line. It’s a win for nearly everyone except for those who care about custom builds or component upgrades.
I hope the documentation is updated.
Yes, you can change it, but the default is stupid.

> But I'm almost certain this has been a thing since like, Windows 7

Well, that only underscores my point on the zero will to fix things.
Surprised the author didn't coin "fauxltruism".
The submission is getting flagged by non-mod users (including by me) because it's not suitable for HN. It's clearly in the "Off-Topic" section of the site guidelines[1]:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How to try it?

Or wait till v1?
This article deserves a huge [citation needed] since Microsoft said these features are provided locally. I understand that in general Windows 11 loves phoning home but that's not enough to condemn the new Copilot features.
Error wrapping is by far my favorite go language feature.
> What is a technique/library that can take an image of a 3d environment/drawing of a room and detect a rough mesh highlighting ground, walls, barriers ?

Well just in case it wasn't obvious, Toon3D, the project being discussed, is doing that. Part of the workflow is asking the user to indicate correspondences between geometry in different images, and each image is processed individually to create blocks of geometry you can toggle on or off visually.

Older projects:

https://github.com/sniklaus/3d-ken-burns

https://github.com/vt-vl-lab/3d-photo-inpainting

I believe there are some NeRF variants that do something like this from a single image as well, but I haven't personally tried any.
Definitely racial tones. Asian countries are frequently accused of copying, cheating, and stealing intellectual property from others, so it matches what people assume about members of those races.
>> Most of these smart young people wanted to go and work at companies like McKinsey, Goldman Sachs or Google.

>> "The vast majority of our smart, technical graduates take “safe” jobs at prestigious employers. I am trying to figure out why that is."

Well Europe pays significantly less than US and if one wants to make any amount of significant (for Europe, lame for US) money, one's gotta work for prestigious US employers. Starting a business requires capital so here we have it: Europe has less money and to get them, the usual route is work for US.
Docker is at least sandboxed by default and requires sudo password to run commands.
I am not sure it shows the null hypothesis either, unless I am missing something because it was not chance or sampling error.
That's not only scientific fraud, it's real felony fraud.

Maybe community service equivalent to 50,000.00 at federal minimum wage would sort him out.
If you are willing to go to extraordinary lengths, then yes any programming language can be written in a declarative style, at least some part of the program. Some parts of a Java or PHP program can be written declaratively.

In the Nix language context however, they mean declarative and functional like Prolog.

There is also Guix which uses Scheme to declare dependencies, and Scheme is not a declarative language. Scheme is a functional language, but it can be easily written in a declarative style.
I guess it depends on what percentage of account suspensions are due to actual bad behavior on the part of the user and what percentage are false positives. My wild guess is the vast majority of account suspensions at a BigTech company are false positives of an overly-aggressive algorithm, so having an insider reactivate accounts is going to be a net-positive, even if a few actual bad accounts are reactivated.
You identify that in fact humans have literally evolved to be cooperative and socially helpful, but you decide this is just "machievallian" and a trick of some kind?

Perhaps it just means that humans are in fact fundamentally and essentially cooperative and kind, because in fact natural selection has pressured us to evolve to be so? (This was Kropotkin's 19th century argument [1] )

The idea that if it's the result of evolution than it's necessarily somehow not "honest" is a weird moralistic narrative that puts the cart before the horse, having already decided that if humans are a product of evolution (whihc of course we are), then that has to mean we're selfish, so any discovery of anything to the contrary just definitionally has to be dishonest.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...
How many years old are open source GPU drivers, again?
What are you attempting to say with "scare quotes" and conspiratorial nods to The Consensus?
The REPL can be much more than a prompt where you execute code. In fact with many editors you can evaluate blocks of lisp code directly. Networked REPL's are amazing, specially when you're fixing code on machines that are difficult to physically access, like in space. The ability to query the current value of a symbol (function, macro, variable, record) and replace it at runtime without clobbering the runtime state is a great boon to the development process.

Also Common Lisp and a few Schemes allow you to interpret and compile a symbol's value (to speed up execution).
Quick note to the creators: the website looks almost exactly like every other "here try this cool command-line utility so we can hook you and start charging a service fee for it" startup website and I instantly distrusted it. The design communicates that you're selling a product, not providing an open-source utility.

That said, very interesting syntax. I agree with others about the $...$ being kind of odd, but other than that this is really cool.
>the mismatch in values between people who'd make this kind of site and people who'd find this kind of site awful

enemy of my enemy is a friend. If I cared enough to properly appeal a bad ban, I care less about the ethics of how I get unbanned and more about just getting unbanned.

You're already convinced the company that banned you is unfair and uncaring. Why would you care about exploiting the weaknesses?
The real problem is that SMTP is a "plain-text" protocol that includes in-band signaling. It literally happened because SMTP defined "a line that only contains a single period in it" as a control sequence and not a literal line that only contains a single period in it.

SMTP is an example of an unnecessarily complex design, and the implementation bugs reflect it. SMTP shouldn't be hard for someone to correctly implement by themselves (even though I agree that people shouldn't be re-inventing the wheel).
You do want to ground it or EMI can come to bite you. If that long bit of wire is left floating it can act like an antenna. (SPST switches exist but they actively chose not to use one)
I think that this does fill a niche. You can still compile to bash outside of this austere environment, and run the scripts within it. And python isn't very ergonomic for running external shell commands (or, say accessing environment variables), the syntax for doing so in amber looks much neater.
I imagine this would just lead to it being more closely concealed.
It's not literally the electricity that's the problem. It's also the billions in GPUs, and the teams of people fine tuning with reinforcement learning.

Unlike most software projects that came before, Big AI Projects require a level of funding and coordination that can't be overcome with "more volunteers". It requires coordination and deep pockets - not for writing the code but for training it.
Interestingly, I am moving more towards plain text notes because they are easier to ingest for LLMs.
Everything else being equal, you almost always win when buying a house in inflationary times. Even if you pay a high initial rate you can always refinance to a lower one later. If rates stay higher for longer than anticipated your income is most likely rising as well. In either scenario your debt service expense is trending down as a percentage of your nominal income, and your asset is trending up with inflation.
When you're cooking, you're not thousands of feet in the air in tight quarters traveling hundreds of miles per hour through the atmosphere in a however many ton vessel filled with flammable fuel.