skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That bonus package was approved on planet Earth. Elon met the requirements for the bonus and is entitled to it.
Wow, can you share more details please or create issue? ˆ-ˆ
But is just bug, that's normal for open-source projects :)
I think the biggest threat is that LLMs will bore us to death with their lengthy never ending blabbering
Slightly longer term, I think the real threat is from synthetic biology + AI.
SBIRs can be useful, but they can also be a trap where a company just keeps going after SBIRs and never takes the technology to market.
A video to drive this home, with examples from pop songs: https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ
Make sure your phone isn’t on mute. On iPhone, the mute button. I was raising the volume to no avail.

Edit: I don’t know why I’m being downvoted, the mute button is very unintuitive. YouTube will play on a web page with mute on, but this page won’t.
Most likely scenario: school boards buy it, then use it to justify cutting the number of teachers.
I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to build up your own data generators for Rails models (or other entities).
Honestly I'm just tired of churn in the React world. React router is now on what v7? Please I just want something stable where the api doesn't break every 2 years.
The risk is AI laundering the rest of America’s middle class wealth to the 1% resulting in falling healthcare outcomes, education outcomes, and life expectancies, and much worse working conditions for all industries.

We’ve seen a huge shift of wealth in the last twenty years in no small part passing through and at the insistence of Venture Capital and Private Equity. AI will be used to again accelerate this with more layoffs more outsourcing and lower quality services captured.
>It doesn't matter _why_ Pu-238 is unavailable

Why not exactly? Because we used to buy it from Russia because we stopped making it ourselves?

Anyways they reference here that it's expected to finally increase production to a reasonable amount soon.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238
ethics and legality are completely different things, this case isn't black and white at all.

if you're just talking ethically though, i still find it shady. it would be like asking Gaudi to design a new building, then when he says no, finding Bob who can replicate Gaudi's style really well. there, it's legal, and you could say it's ethically fine because Bob should have freedom to profit from his skill. But it feels gross
Don't use it, I guess. You can disable almost everything on Firefox.
Yeah, I know him. Fwiw I think onshape’s UI is much better than solidworks.
A couple thoughts...

First, clearly you had a crappy experience. And that sucks. There are probably many others with bad stories as well. I'm deeply involved with my kids education and can only imagine how much that sucked.

Second, we can't solve everything at once. Hungry kids, bad parenting, all that will take time, and may never be resolved. I wish it could be, but honestly, it will take time - probably a long, long time.

Third, he's building for the future. Richer schools (both private and public) will get this first, typical schools will get it next, and poor schools (both administratively poor and monetarily poor) will get it eventually. This is where that great quote applies - "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed" - and boy will it apply to education. So much so that some parents will feel like they are left in the stone age by comparison.

Fourth, an anecdote. I do volunteer work for an education-related non profit. I learned during covid that HISD (Houston school district) couldn't easily move to online learning because 30% of their students did not have internet access at home. Thirty percent!!! I was blown away. Still am. But it's gotten much better, and we've evolved. Does it still suck? Yes, undoubtedly (HISD was taken over by the state, if that tells you how big their problems are). So I know this will not be evenly distributed because of this experience.
Isn't it the case that her own family was convinced?
The threat basically boils down to runaway destructive swarms which destroy infrastructure or poison the atmosphere etc.

Imagine an AI agent which manipulates exposed SCADA systems. That could be incredibly destructive!
Instead they transitioned to outsourced IT management or something to that effect I think?
It feels silly to focus on robots destroying humanity as the risk of AI, instead of the more obvious and imminent general enshittification of society and everything downstream of further wealth inequality.

But it also feels silly that if we did need protection from robots destroying humanity, that it should be performed by the companies creating the robots.
The Stanford startup looks AMAZING for five years, and then, after getting hundreds of millions in investment, they realize they are only making tens of thousands in revenue, everyone starts fighting, friendships and money are lost.

Meanwhile, the slow growing MIT company discovers a tangential product while developing their technology. They release the pivot product which slowly grows revenue. They build under revenue, never take investment money, and share revenues. Everyone gets rich and stays friends, and the VCs get nothing.
I disapprove of her views because they were provably false, yet she still espouses them. Yes, I do extend this universally. I won't take advice on orbital mechanics from someone who thinks the earth is flat either.

If that's 'puritanical Maoist cancel culture' so be it. You told on yourself with that phrase. This isn't a good faith discussion, and I'm out.
Are you referring to the pricing?
I'm not familiar with the specific laws that are relevant here, but I have trouble buying the argument that this constitutes a "likeness" when Johansson was in no way involved in its creation, other than by providing inspiration.

So they asked her and she turned them down. But guess what, they can get a pretty good result without even involving her. It turns out that her "talent" for the voice from the movie Her is in fact not so unique and valuable because it can be reasonably well replicated by other people, so why shouldn't a company be able to choose an alternative like that? A person should not have an exclusive claim to the rights of all voices that sound remotely like theirs.
Plants signal NASA satellites with waning 'glow' ahead of flash drought
capitalism at its finest
That's not user friendly or works on all OS (eg: firefox -P). There are also other issues with Firefox profiles. For example, on macOS, using different profiles mess up Firefox's icons on the dock and profiles always open behind the current Firefox window.

There's no way around this. Profile support on Firefox is bad and it's a shame because they've had them for years.
I'm not sure if this paper corresponds to limits on what it can answer with a single or few tokens, but also the limits where LLM itself is allowed to produce more tokens (chain of thought) as well as use tools (coding) to solve problems?
Putin thought the war was only going to be for a few days - according to research by the think tank RUSI, when Vladimir Putin began his invasion, he expected to take control of Ukraine within 10 days https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-Putin-lost-in-10-days. He couldn't pull out of the war subsequently in fear of losing control and face. Xi is an idiot, but even he can see his potential downfall, given Russia's failure.
I simply think you're going to have a hard time skipping technical interviews. Every employer will want to see what you're capable of; if they have two candidates and one of them turns down a tech interview, the other candidate is almost certainly getting the job.
In modern day usage, I would never refer to an electric motor as an electric engine or just engine, but I don't know why. Maybe just because I have never heard nor seen it used referred to as electric engine. So it just sounds/feels weird to say/type it. That is the opposite from definitely referring to an ICE as a motor.

English is just weird.
Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer
Coming after Salesforce, a bold move!
What are you suggesting? That OpenAI chose the voice of "Sky" a year ago because she resembled Scarlett Johansson, and then decided to actually contact Scarlett Johansson?
Great session by Anmol and Kingsley. Curious what other questions and topics people are curious about in regards to IfC?
> A rifle or a bucket of water ends AGI threats.

“Can we just turn it off?"

"It has thought of that. It will not give you a sign that makes you want to turn it off before it is too late to do that."

https://youtu.be/_8q9bjNHeSo?si=a7PAHtiuDIAL2uQD&t=4817
I would love to see a space advocate's response to this, mostly so I can disregard it because they are heathens on the wrong side of a holy war, but also because this is the only argument I've ever heard one way or another which seems to boil down to anything more than opinion.
there is credible evidence that is worth looking at, but its not yet proven or shown to india

India says Canada has offered no evidence it was involved in death of Sikh separatist. India says that Canada has shared no evidence to back up its allegation that the Indian government was involved in the death of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada last year, despite recent arrests in the crime

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/10/hardee...
Newly independent states electing their resistance movement to government is quite common actually and seldomly a major issue (relatively to pre-independence). In recent history we had FLN in Algeria and ANC in South Africa. In Northern Ireland Sinn Féin just got elected to government without issues, and they are likely to win a major electoral victories in the Republic of Ireland as well, nobody is worried about that.

An independent Palestine will likely have democratic institutions which protects tyrannical movements from misusing their powers. Most resistance movements obey these structures as long as they are fair.

Now if Israel continues their interference (which is very likely) we may expect violence to continue regardless of how the Palestinian government is composed. This happened after Irish independence (which saw British interference in Norther Ireland) despite Sinn Féin not entering government.
Works for me on iOS 17.4.1, iPhone 15 Pro.
That might be true outside the US; I believe that the standard of living has gone down in the US, due in large part to the pandemic, followed by rampant inflation.

The shift away from manufacturing jobs to service jobs also played a role, along with the population boom in major cities.

The cities/countries with the highest standards of living all seemingly exist in Europe.

EDIT To Add: look at the revolting against McDonald's to see my point. Taking your family to mcdonalds used to be something you didn't really need to think about. Not anymore.
"Actively hostile" meaning what?
What would the dark energy value weakening do to something like Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology? Seems like it should falsify that idea, as C3 depended on a point where there was nothing left but photons that could never meet causing the end of time and a boundary for another big bang. (If my impression is correct.)
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The appellate court ruled that the voice of someone famous as a singer is distinctive to their person and image and therefore, as a part of their identity, it is unlawful to imitate their voice without express consent and approval."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
They seem readily available until you try to actually order them. Everywhere that sell electronic components has an entry for them still but has no actual stock.
I don't think there is anyone or anything on earth more suitable for selecting a partner of my specification than me.
> Suicide rates are not at all-time highs, they were much higher during the World Wars and Great Depression.

Nah we already exceeded WW2.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-...

> but available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.

>U.S. suicides steadily rose from the early 2000s until 2018, when the national rate hit its highest level since 1941.

I guess we still haven't exceeded the Great Depression rates but it's really not that hard of a target
Your engine definition is interesting as we have phrases like database engine and other software based uses of the word.
/s?

GP's point (and I agree) is that an evil actor could, in principle, do those things already (and a much more intelligent one, while we're at it).

And yet, it doesn't happen. Why? Because reality is not a "winner takes all" game. Actions carry consequences and other factors limit the extent of damage any actor could do.

It is way more threatening to human life that there exists, today, a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons all around the world.
I actually can't get past using Excel as a Gantt sheet
> Many people, I hazard to guess most, base their behavior on some sort of pile of moral ideas and/or general bonhomie

How do you then explain every company out there being hostile to their customers and constantly pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable, or even things like wage theft which is surprisingly common? Or is there a double-standard here, where individuals are supposed to act in good faith but companies are not just allowed to be assholes, but rewarded for doing so by the market and lack of adequate law enforcement actions?

It's true that morality and good-faith behavior has mostly kept things working well, but it's clear that morals and good faith alone isn't good enough since there are entities that abuse the system so laws and enforcement should be there. If it's not, then I'm not going to be particularly angry about the little guys acting antisocially when the entire economic system is encouraging & rewarding it.

Look at it from an IT security perspective: it's great that most users are acting in good faith and are not trying to exploit your system, but you still need to plan for the worst and make sure your system can survive hostile encounters. The same should apply to our legal system.
I don’t have any proof. I’m just taking it as a given that this is what they’re doing because those sites are still engaging in cloaking despite Google making it clear they have a policy against cloaking.
>How do you dispute what prior employers said about you?

Are they not doing that already? Even with all the current processes, employers are taking a chance. If a candidate profile is good, can't they take the same chance without all those processes?
honest question, what's wrong with the CIC?
It would be intensive but it's very doable. You could use koboldcpp or something like that with an exposed endpoint just on the local machine and use that. You'll likely run into issues with GPU vendors and ensuring that you've got the right software versions running, but with some checking, it should be viable. Maybe include a fallback in case the system can't produce results in a timely manner.
Citi Missed a Fat Finger
Very specific question: when tests fail due to a single example, you suggest creating a specific assertion with the given seed.

I imagine the seed is used to generate data and depending on the order of your generators, it produces different results.

For example, in:

PBT.assert(seed = ..) do
PBT.property(PBT.integer, PBT.string) ...
end

Would changing the order of parameters to `property` change the actual test case?
The difference is compounding, unstable systems.

In much simpler form, it's similar to the "Where will this satellite in a decaying orbit land?"

The difficulty is not the approximation: the difficulty is that whether drag begins to increase at t=x or t=x+30sec (based on orientation when it first encounters atmosphere) cascades throughout the rest of the equations and dramatically changes the results.
Not saying this phenomenon of having connections isn't true, but also, kinda unrelated to the issue here, no?

This kid plagiarized & had serious research misconduct. The fact that he has connections via his sister & dad is not the problem imo.
Actually almost nobody got replaced by a computer. People retired and nobody new was hired. For others, roles shifted in a minor way.

If AI ever replaces white collar jobs then that will be at an unprecedented scale and with essentially nowhere to shift to.

But so far it doesn‘t seem to happen.
> There are murderers in Finland, lol.

What is "lol" about that?
You missed the part about “every county should do this”. The free rider problem is an issue. Also, my proposal is different than an income tax. A person who accumulates great wealth from within a country should not be allowed to transfer it to another country without a major tax on it.
Which can also make camping and hiking in those areas far more dangerous. If a rescue team have hike in 20 miles to get you without any motorized vehicles and can't get a chopper into those remote areas? They shouldn't be remote, they should just be left completely inaccessible.

The problem then is people these days, IMHO are far more reckless and stupid and will try and prove Mother Nature wrong by attempting to go into these areas to get internet cred from Tik Tok and other platforms. Perfect example is the people who go to Longs Peak and attempt the Keyhole Route thinking its a well traveled hike and easy.
Maybe a dumb question, but I think anyone reading this question would know a good answer for me. If I have a big pile of PDFs and wanted to get an LLM to be really good at answering questions about what's in all those PDFs, would it be best for me to try running this locally? "Best" in this case would be I would want to get the best/smartest answers from my questions about these PDFs. They're all full-text PDFs, studies and results on a specific genetic condition that I'd like to understand better by asking something smart questions.
To her role.

Not to her.

Quite a difference.
That's why I used the word compromise. I'm aware of the imperfect nature of my decision but I find it preferable to Android with custom roms.

I say this as someone with roughly 10 years experience of using custom roms before giving it up.
I'm hopeful that the CSS prefers-reduced-data media feature[1] may one day help introduce this sort of thing. Sadly not yet supported by any browser except behind flags

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
I've recently discovered Lua Parsing Expression Grammars (LPEG)[1]. They are built on a different approach to parsing and are much more capable than conventional regexes, able to handle recursive sequences, able to include code, have debugging utilities, are often much more performant than regexes and they are an absolute delight to work with. It also has a module called re [2] which uses a similar syntax to regexes.

1: https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

2: https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/re.html
API tutorial: Find nearby charging stations based on EV's state of charge
Oh, I guess I'm not touching it then.
Recent and related:

Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363273 - May 2024 (391 comments)

Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128 - May 2024 (781 comments)
Old software has had use, discussion, support, and resources that are usually still easily available. New software may have to reinvent a lot of wheels, so the barrier to entry may be higher despite the language's features. Choosing one over the other is all dependent on the problem that's being solved
Love to see this - a miracle! We used it to partially homeschool a kid in math, then he graduated to SAT prep for himself, etc. Totally free. What a gift to the world.
I disagree, a tight belt will cause the least amount of injury. Look at fall arrest systems.

If you're harness is loose, or your line is slack without an energy absorber, it'll break your back when you fall!
> What is the actual threat of AI?

Our parents and grandparents getting scammed by deepfakes seems like a very real threat. Not only do anecdotes abound (plus FBI's database of reports) but the elderly were already vulnerable to these scams since before the telephone was invented. LLMs and all the voice cloning tech really turns up scammers' psychological weapons to 11 and scale up processes that were previously very manual.

> AGI taking over the world? Does no one realize that without people going out every day and doing work the world ends in a week... Does no one remember when we had the spate of transformer shootings? A rifle or a bucket of water ends AGI threats

This isn't a real threat and I think most people are missing the more practical threat: someone - either a nation state or a small group of well resourced individuals - hitting an industrial singularity, allowing them to rapidly scale up self-improving robotics and automation to the point where their only limit is their ability to acquire raw materials. I think by definition, long before we hit an AI singularity with runaway super intelligence that can take over the world, we'll have a much dumber AI capable of maximizing killer paperclips for their human overlords to take over the world (that's my plan anyway :-)).

I don't think we're anywhere near the latter yet, but the language in the OpenAI blogpost announcing Sora points in that direction. The first step to an AI that can orchestrate a factory is learning the physical world through video. Once an AI model can follow instructions and directly control a robotic arm via camera, we'll be entering the next stage of the industrial revolution.
42 columns, eh?
You are not alone. My wife and I managed to attain that dream in the last year. 20 heavily wooded acres, each of the "neighbors" lots range in size from 10 to 40 acres. Being able to go entire days without seeing a rando is every bit of what you think it might be like and I strongly encourage you to make the move as early in life as you possibly can. large acreage frequently takes significant investments in time and labor to get into a configuration that suits you, don't wait until you're so old that that work pushes the limits of your physical abilities. Best of luck to you!
There are a few retro computing youtubers that have done it. There are reproduction motherboards available.
The brevity and grandiosity is not for marketing the idea, it is so the idea can be attacked. I don't want to waste my working hours building a factory out of the wrong materials. If I've made a mistake, I want to know.

If the idea is truly good, the products built on the idea should do just fine.
I had an almost identical start to programming.

I didn’t have any OPL manual but there were a few short examples in the regular user guide somewhere. I can’t count how many times I read those few pages trying to glean more secrets about OPL!
You don't need a "compromised app" if the escape codes are in a file you cat.
DeepL, a European rival to Google Translate, rides AI hype to a $2B valuation
> Awk is nonstandardized, different in different environments.

Awk has been standardized in posix since 1985.
> Meatgrinder hasn't exactly worked for Russia yet.

The point is that delaying the war would have made things even worse than they presently are. 2022 wasn't a good time for a war, but it was a better time than any subsequent year.