skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The possibly good content in this article was ruined by the fact that the author hasn’t seen AI produce anything yet, and completely dismisses AI.

His rant extends to all the big players building AI in a way that just seems anti-AI, with Altman being used because he’s topical.

In other words I can’t trust the source—even if he might have some actual insights—because he’s outed himself as a hater.

Haters hating things isn’t signal.
I don't see any contradiction in those two points. Both of them can simultaneously be true.
It's not so much allowing people to sign up for it, it's preventing companies from killing and maiming people in the interest of profit. Because that's literally what it is. There's not a big asterisk in our laws next to murder that says "oh, unless they're cool about it".
Most of the other ones in this thread?
I don't think it's wrong to pay workers according to the value they provide. It's just not normal (again, not necessarily a good thing), so use of the word "strange" is inaccurate - in addition to being a manipulative use of the word (it's pretty clear that the writer doesn't actually think it's strange, and is using the word to tug on heart strings).
> She called customer service

of which party in this problem? seems like contacting the carrier would have been more productive. contacting Googs about a delayed package seems like the wrong direction to follow. i realize this verges on victim blaming, but just trying to suggest other methods of problem solving.
That's FDA's role, to be the gatekeeper to make sure trials and experiments meet acceptable safety standards. Worth noting that FDA has allowed Neuralink to have the 2nd patient in the coming month.
Plot twist 2: it's also a marketplace for big tech compliance departments, $10,000 to reveal the insider
I got a buddy who is making an AW2-like and was exploring procedurally generated gameplay modes (including co-op), not sure if they'll use this new AI thing or not.
If you use C++23's ranges and Boost Lambda and sacrifice your better judgement, you can get it down to:

fold_left(x, 0, _1 + _2)
Experiments on prisoners are nonconsensual, so it doesn't map to cases like this.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll

Very approachable introduction to the math behind classical physics.
HN is not an advocacy platform, so manipulative comments, like boringg's, and yours, are not appreciated.
1. Bad PR and everything that comes with it (e.g. the kind of unwanted attention from politicians that's bad for business)

2. Payment fraud (which also would be a huge issue on this site if it was to ever take off).
Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone: Oldest marked object north of Carpathians
I had the same experience. A better description would be a tool to test your understanding of neural network architectures, not a tool to teach you about neural network architectures.
he asked "whats wrong" with the following things and the last example was possessing an extremely illegal narcotic in a motor-vehicle
thanks!

my name is deceptive I am a respectful denizen of this beautiful nation and I don't approve of drugs!
Brought to you by high-level decision-making involving survivors zero of domestic abuse.
Both tools look useful (although I lean toward Amber's ECMAscript syntax). I liked this comment from batsh:

> Both Bash and Batch are messy to read and tricky to write due to historical reasons. You have to spend a lot of time learning either of them and write platform-dependent code for each operating system. I have wasted lots of time in my life struggling with bizarre syntaxes and unreasonable behaviors of them, and do not want to waste any more.
"40 TOPS is way too low", I'm curious about this, from what I've read, Apple's M3 maxes out at 18 TOPS, and the newer M4 at 38 TOPS, so to me it sounds like even the entry-level Copilot+ PC is going to beat Apple's M3/M4 family. Am I misunderstanding.
They don't? Because if it's true that they used a sound-alike voice actress for the actual model, I don't see how any reasonable complaint about that could stand. You can't ban people from voice-acting who have similar voices to other celebrities. There needs to be something more to it.
I was already there when Windows 11 came along and blocked my perfectly functional 4 or 5 yr old HW from running it (even though the pre-releases ran just fine).

This "AI" bullshit is just another nail in the already nailed shut coffin.
The idea is insanely unworkable, but the PROBLEM is entirely real.

Personally, I look to the FCC and like bodies to implement the required governance norms: if you offer freemium services to people, you have an obligation to implement real-person interaction on account suspension, and a mediated access path to your effects inside the locked-down digital store.

These identities now fuel our access to governments, and public services. If you can't access your google account you can be blocked from legal documents.

I know "caveat emptor" and all that.
> if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being

I thought this when he didn't launch Worldcoin in the US but Africa, and consistently upped the ante to the point where he was offering people in the poorer parts of the continent amounts that equalled two months wages or more to scan their retinas.

Why was that necessary? It wasn't to share the VC windfall.
You mean “experimental submarine.”
Their claim hasn't been that 4o is better than 4. Just that it's faster and cheaper. So it's better than 3.5-turbo but not as good as 4, atleast from the examples I've tried out for summarization, code gen etc.
> I wonder how different each of the wikipedias are between languages.

> As a someone fluent in both languages I feel like I have access to more knowledge.

Computers, like Google Translate, are pretty good these days for something like Wikipedia articles.
Or they downvoted you for being unconstructive and obtuse.
You have some very confused ideas about risk and the concept of voluntary behavior.
>The Justice Department filed the case last year with Virginia and other states, alleging Google was stifling competition for advertising technology. The government has said Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite.

Google should be broken up.
Yeah, that's more or less the math. My average is 6 seconds per question, so the mix is somewhat more older material.
Do you consider the civilization series popular? It seems people put up with that.
U.S. Military Laser Weapon Programs Are Facing a Reality Check
Attempting to encourage participation in the defense industries....a proof of concept laser pod for F-16's?
I saw a brain surgeon talking about something like this. Evidently the brain moves around a lot more than most people think and with the implantation there will be inflammation that is likely to increase/decrease over time causing location and detachment issues.
If you are ever building a platform and have control over everything, one thing that can make problems like this easier to find is to not use regular intervals like 5/15/30/60 minutes everywhere.

At some point you'll have a weird problem, or a load spike that shows up at regular intervals. If all of your intervals are 5/15/30 minutes, you will have 2 things running every 15 minutes and 3 things running every 30 minutes, you won't necessarily know which one causes the issue.

If you use (co)prime numbers, say, 5/7/11/13/17/19 as intervals: One, you won't have a thundering herd of tasks all running at the exact same time every few minutes, and two, when someone notices a weird issue that happens every 17 minutes, you will know exactly what the cause is.
For instance, the much narrower circle of experts. Usually if you do need Fortran, it means you're going to run numerical code on a huge cluster with RAM in terabytes and cores in the thousands, so the developers you're looking for should understand parallelization very well (and how modern Fortran does it), know words like MPI and Slurm, etc. Beside that, knowledge of the common numerical methods and libraries is expected. This is a relatively unusual setup. Few job listings mention it.

If you just want some highly parallel numerical code, but a GPU with several tens of gigs of RAM would suffice, you just take Numpy, or PyTorch, or other such library, wrapped into Python. You suddenly have a wide circle of developers, plethora of references, and no lower chances to publish in a prestigious journal than if you'd taken Fortran :)
Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy with the framing of this talk, and much less sure about my proposed solutions. :)
UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots
I have two kids. The case is not curious at all.
My hunch around childhood is we’re doing better with young kids (due to awareness around this stuff). But we don’t give teenagers the independence they need to develop.
Probably true. The new win64 API will have just one entry point:

LPSTR do_thing(LPSTR prompt);

E.g.:

if (do_thing("get a mutex or whatever it's called") == do_thing("What's the happy return code for getting a mutex?") { ... }
I'll consider it a dead end when RealThunder declares it so. The most recent release was in April.
>Our thinking is that you can lay a base quickly, and then iterate on that to work on the details of your game

I'm not an AI engineer, but my understanding with current AI advances is that it is very good at "laying a base" and very bad at "iterate on that". Many models are essentially throw out 90% of the previous iteration and grabbing something else for the next prompt.

I am a dev, and usually it isn't as hard to "lay a base", from a technical perspective. There's plenty of mock assets to work with, and then later on we can use a early design mesh to fine tune. I don't necessarily need an "orc" to work out the posing and animations for a game unless I'm doing facial animations.

But hey, there's 2000 dev pipelines for every 1000 studios, so this isn't to discredit you. Just hoping to give another perspective on how some approach game dev.
I like my framework laptop, and while my particular main board seems to have issues, their support seems good.

I started getting weird boot issues recently, and after doing some heavy diagnosis, they are sending me a replacement mainboard, I'll replace it, and send my broken one back.

Granted it is within warranty, and it was a week of back and forth with their support.

But it is miles above dell consumer support, that I had to send my laptop off multiple times (going without for months) and then they don't even fix it.
A relevant good book, which I recently read, is "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class."

https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Memoir-Foster-Family-Social/...
https://archive.is/h6f3W
You can consent to be murdered but that doesn't make the company murdering you free and clear to murder you.
> Imagine how different the UK would feel if Google, Microsoft and Facebook were all founded here.

Or if ARM and DeepMind remained UK-owned and based, and simply took smart venture capital and grew themselves independently, instead of selling to foreign owners.
The old Internet also had a relatively technical barrier to entry, which automatically weeded out large chunks of population. When the friction is brought down to zero and everyone goes in, the MBAs twiddle their fingers thinking how to exploit every last corner for profit and the whole thing goes to hell. Result: the current Internet. Wait until "AI" enters the picture.
>> and gun control bills

> You mean stripping Americans of their constitutional rights.

Not that I disagree with you, but when posters like modriano engage in political/partisan commentary on HN, I find it more productive to merely downvote and flag their comments rather than replying and getting engaged in a war.

A dead post makes quite the impression, as this sort of political commentary just generally defeats the quality of discourse on HN (which, you must admit, is much better than many other platforms, and I'd like to try to preserve it as long as possible).
> The team responsible for the account suspensions / content takedowns / etc on the other hand will have the numbers to show that they're doing a good job

I think it should be evident by the number of cases we see posted about on HN alone that they are not doing a good job. Or, I guess maybe they're doing a good job based on the metrics they were given, but I wouldn't consider it a good job in the sense of living in a fair society where negative actions taken against people (by governments or by private entities) should have a reasonable appeal process involving real humans.

My view is that if even one person loses an account who shouldn't have, and there is either no process to appeal and fix it, or the process ends up not giving that person their account back, they're not doing a good job, full stop. I know that's an incredibly high bar, but I don't care. The loss of many of these types of accounts can cause real financial and emotional harm to people, and that's just not ok.
> there are talks

Media murmuring isn't anything legally binding. Russia have plenty of leverage to sue for peace. Namely that this is a war of attrition and Russia has plenty of cannon fodder, exhausting Ukraine in the long run. If it means no more lives lost and the territory returns to pre-war borders, Ukraine would certainly sign without issuing debt.

But the Russian leadership has decided that it wants to usurp territory and be the villian, in full understanding of the consequences. After WWI, Germany had to pay ~550 billion dollars after being turned to rubble. That amount compounded with the depression generated enough unrest and bitterness to give Hitler a willing audience.

There really is no equivalence here.
Predator prey relationships are not chaotic…
I'm not sure myself. I didn't want this to be the second comment on the submission so I'll say it now: I got TimeCube vibes from this.
Can they make that claim if SJ voice exists in the training data before fine tuning? We don’t know what they train on
Value != price. There is a long legal tradition of the difference, and judges tend to not look favorably on such tactics.

Even if the price is less than 250, I don’t think it’s hard to argue that a long-extant social account with many followers is worth far more
What is disrespectful about gp's comment? It's okay to disagree with decisions made by even the most dedicated maintainers; I've switched to software (forks, or similar projects) many times on principle - I respect JetBrains, but disagreed with an awful decision they made that was a stain and made me question their judgement and avoid their otherwise excellent IDEs whenever possible. I haven't bought any personal licenses from them since - is that disrespectful in your books?

I hope iTerm moves this functionality into a plugin with the next version.
Since MAC address ranges are allocated to different vendors, Google and Apple could choose to not report the locations of certain vendors’ devices, such as Starlink or known transportation APs.
All of the animals that Neuralink killed would beg to differ.
Some even have showers on the plane so you can freshen up before arrival on a long transcontinental flight. Imagine hitting turbulence like this in the shower.
Yeah its pretty gross that the left is against ranked choice and it also somewhat validates the whole Trumpist "uniparty" conspiracy theory. I do think its coming in the future as most younger people I know are totally supportive of it if I bring it up with them. I also think it would increase voter turnout in younger demographics as well.

All in all I think its important that we as a society bring more people into the political conversation. I want conservatives and liberals in the same room disagreeing more. I think that would help more than any other single thing.
> (many of whom don't actually directly pay anything)

They are paying, though, with their habits and user data. That's not direct payment, but I don't think the distinction matters. Someone with a Google or Facebook account does pay. Not in currency, certainly, but having those people on the platform is certainly valuable to Google and Facebook, because they monetize their presence in other ways.
> the exits of UK startups are probably more acquisitional and trans-oceanic.

The US tends to purchase successful New Zealand startups oi reckon. Is it the same pattern in the UK?

I suspect there's a few major reasons:

(1) NZ startups seem to get acquired so that they can sell their products/services into the US market. NZ companies often struggle to market to the US. Similarly Rocket Lab moved to the US. However our local ebay competitor (TradeMe) was bought for a few billion by the UK based Apax Partners.

(2) NZ doesn't have the capital markets to buy successful businesses so we sell the family silver to overseas buyers.

(3) NZ government taxes owner's dividends (of the most successful businesses) at 39%. NZ's capital gain tax is 0% so owners usually have a financial incentive to sell their businesses.

For startups, our taxation system demotivates founders. Building or growing a business usually does not reward enough for the risks. A shame because NZ needs the foreign income.
When I was a mid-level dev, the overly complicated code I wrote came about because I read an article on e.g. Ruby metaprogramming, got excited, wondered why we didn't use reflection more, and found a place where I could apply it. Perhaps you thought about job security, but that seems like part of your personal journey and isn't tied to seniority. I was just inexperienced and a touch arrogant, as mid-level engineers must be.

At higher levels, the reason I don't write code like that is because I've been burnt too many times by the new hotness. It is slightly about job security, but only because I fully expect that any crazy shit I fling out today will eventually hit the fan and come back to me, probably at 3am during on-call.
Tillywork: Open-Source Work Management
I suspect naming it after a substance that's poisonous to humans isn't an issue for most average users, and for the users who are even aware what cadmium is, might just improve memory retention when trying to think of the name again further in the future.

Personally, I think it's a catchy name.
Thank you so much, both ways worked.
This seems really really easy to honeypot for a security team at one of these companies
Small anecdote but I asked an SQL query and GPT4o got it wrong. It didn't work when I ran it. Pasted the same question into GPT4 and it got it right.
The authors wrote a client to ask Apple’s WiFi Positioning API for the locations of random AP addresses. Enough of the random addresses were known to Apple’s location database that it returned real location data. Apple’s API also returns the addresses and locations of 400+ other nearby APs. That enables iOS devices to do faster and offline content geolocation in the same region.

> Apple’s API will return the geolocations of up to 400 hundred more BSSIDs that are nearby the one requested. It then uses approximately eight of those BSSIDs to work out the user’s location based on known landmarks.

> In essence, Google’s WPS computes the user’s location and shares it with the device. Apple’s WPS gives its devices a large enough amount of data about the location of known access points in the area that the devices can do that estimation on their own.
It's UEFI and Debian works.
> Also the clothes industry!

Compare Bangladesh: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

Bangladesh has seen enormous economic growth in the past few decades, largely on the back of textile 'sweatshops' and also ship breaking. Real average Bangladeshis are better off as a result.

Granted, they went from 'dirt poor' to 'poor'. But that's still an enormous improvement. And more of a (relative) improvement than most other countries during the same time; and more of an improvement than in almost all other places throughout history.
How much better is that than safari export-to-pdf and spotlight?
So maybe an obvious question but just to be clear, if you pass your own user ID you can track that particular user's flow across multiple sessions/days/etc?
> so they must have understood

If you aren't adding to the discussion (e.g., by being obtuse) that's reason enough for a downvote. And underneath it all you're quite brashly making a false equivalence.
Curated Notebooks
> I did quantum country a while back and I sometimes needed more than an hour to get through all the questions in a single practice session.

That's very interesting! The review sessions cap at 50 questions, so that means well over a minute for each. Our design intent is that if you can't remember in a few seconds, you should mark it as forgotten, view the answer, and move on. The marginal benefit from exerting marginal effort to remember on your own from point is not high. But your comment suggests that it would be helpful for the interface to do something to suggest the tempo we have in mind. Thank you for sharing.
"uses 20% ocean-bound-plastic"

Yep someone is literally standing next to a river with a net catching chip bag wrappers and drink bottles and sending them back to the computer factory.
>The patronizing "Oh you silly plebs, we know what we're doing" line is unlikely to get any traction in a developer community where second-guessing and challenging established designs, decisions from SMEs with decades of experience is common.

Sounds like you need to start working with smarter people. I used to think this way, until I started working with smart people.

Now I still question every decision, but I have experts that I believe will have answers worth listening to.

The answers these days are rarely, we know what we're doing, and much more common to be; we tried that but it didn't work because [reason]. Complaints without suggestions or requests are normally ignored.
Altman tweeted the name of a film Johansson stared in in association with this launch.
Why? It's another user agent. Curl does the same thing, as does chrome and firefox
> It'd take me over 10 minutes simply to add those 40 cards.
> But if he's referring only to reviewing, it's believable.

Yes, referring just to reviewing. Adding takes much more than ten minutes, as you say. And so, in practice, I don't saturate this capacity most days.
[...] if you don't know the answer, say 'I don't know' [...]
Ever heard of euthanasia?
Right, my reaction was initially to be a bit horrified, but then I kinda smiled a bit. It's absurd, and awful, but so funny.
> He was about to try to resell them (along with huge bales of clothes), [...]

Regardless of what else is happening, reselling the clothes as is seems to be the best form of 'recycling' to me. Or rather 'reuse'.

> 4. Most of the garments travel around the world as waste - not exactly good for the environment.

As long as they travel by boat, the cost for that is minuscule. Both in terms of dollars and in terms of emissions.

(Yes, the ocean shipping industry burns a lot in absolute terms, but per kg of moved goods it is very, very efficient.)
Tesla is the Tesla of China.

Musk pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Musk says "China rocks" while the US is full of "complacency and entitlement": https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

Musk called California's covid measures "fascist": https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But praised China because "Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

And Musk advocates for Taiwan's submission to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
you know, now that you mention this, i think i have heard of this exact problem before, perhaps from the late 90s; the "full stop on a line by itself" itched a bit, probably for that reason as well.
Obsidian is a bit closer to an unstructured TreeBase than this single file TreeBase imo.