skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice write-up on the various techniques and styles of generative art.

I like the artificial life simulator. I did something similar here https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MftSRf
Is it a submarine if it doesn’t hide the ball? If the topic is right there in the headline, isn’t it more of an aircraft carrier rather than a submarine?
true, which it fails at anyway against a sufficiently determined actor . The FBI and other agencies seem to have no problem finding the original source of funds
Wayland is somewhat akin to DWM in Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager
Anyone doing things at great scale is buying many-gigabit connections directly. Which is also 100x cheaper than AWS.

The number above was a thousand dollars per month per 10gbps, and AWS would charge more than a hundred thousand dollars at the listed $0.05/GB price.
What I want is for Chat AI to be a fallback.

I want to say “frogblast the vent core” and the interface either parses it locally like they always have for years, or says “I don’t understand. Should I ask GPT?”

I also want it to be more about “help me get the code and show me what it means.” I love Regexr that shows you what each part of the regex does. I’d love for it to annotate what each part of the ffmpeg command does.
Cars are one of those things that make Americans think backwards, and global markets don't exist anymore when some people talk about them.

I saw a lot of commentary when they stopped importing Fiats that Americans don't want a car in that size. It's still one of the most popular cars in San Francisco, despite the fact that they haven't sold it here new in 5 years. But we don't want that kind of car. They tell us that and we don't get nice things which are popular because we don't want them..
Safety (from government).
I don’t know about Japan, but in the US, patents have to be issued to individuals and not corporations.
https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
> (lambda () t) is a list.

This is not right, and it's a very basic thing to get wrong. I don't think you understand what you're criticizing.

Even replacing the Bel name, this is not right:

> (fn () t) is a list

You _do_ have to eval it.

bel> (eval '(fn () t))
(lit clo nil () t)

I see the returned list as akin to a serialization format. It's an s-expression rather than some opaque representation that can't be printed. That seems nice, more debuggable. I don't see what makes it harder to compile than an opaque representation. You can compile it just fine, you're just carrying around the source code in say a debug segment of the image.

> (BTW, this is just speculation on your part. The word "screen" doesn't actually appear anywhere in the article.)

Look, you asked what the point of streams was. I pointed out what the metacircular source code does with streams.

If someone asks what the purpose of stdout is in Unix, it seems reasonable (and a hoary tradition) to justify it in terms of printing to screen. stdout is about much more than a screen, but "screen" is an easy answer to "why does my program need stdout?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Cash

The first paragraph of the Wikipedia page says Ethereum networks are public by default. This gives you more privacy. People may value privacy because they don't want others to know they have money and target them (kidnappers, surprise sixth cousins, etc.).
And yet we have multiple comment threads on those "needless inclusions" and none actually trying to refute it on either a scientific or a rhetorical basis, so pardon me if I consider this to be an obvious attempt at retroactive justification based on an emotional response.
The point is actual cognition. Without consciousness there can be no understanding which stunts the ability of AI and makes AGI impossible.
Hadn’t rented from Hertz in many years until last week. Made sure to fill the tank back up as high as it would go just in case. Get thru security at the airport and already had a $26 charge for fuel. Still working on getting this fixed. Funny how they can charge within 5-7 minutes but they take 5-7 business days to process a refund.
Kind of makes sense that ABC news (American Broadcasting Company) is US centric though :-)
The compensating benefits are jobs for constituents of key members of Congress and big contracts for their friends. But those are compensating benefits for the legislators specifically, not for the American people (who are paying for all of this) or the global scientific community.
I’m no expert, but that looks like asphalt.
I almost died in the Pyrenees Mountains
> Because we emphasize a clear distinction between work and private life, we strictly prohibit employees from taking their work home with them.

Wow thank you so much Keyence! I won't have to think about work in the 15 minutes of free time I get!
> But I couldn't find industrial TP either, either in person nor on-line.

Did you try the smaller corner stores? A few weeks into the shelter-in-place order in San Francisco, I started seeing the crappy single-ply commercial TP appearing on their shelves. (And throughout shelter-in-place, there was somewhat-lower-than-usual-but-nonzero amounts of paper towels.)

At that point in time, larger places like CVS/Walgreens and Safeway were usually totally out of all paper -er- cleaning(?) products... the difference in stock levels never ceased to amaze me.

(Luckily, I happened to have enough household-grade TP to last me until household-grade stuff started appearing on those shelves again.)
Artemis is probably the best evidence moon-landing conspiracists have ever had.
I believe in the laws of physics, but I recognize they are no where materially in the universe. Ergo, non-physical realms exist. Consciousness might be there. Certain matter arrangements are able to interface with it.
Most of it's really for developers IMO, but the biggest gains users is better multi-monitor handling, better security potential (so apps can't spy on each other) and the the upcoming support for HDR which will never happen on xorg.
The increasing availability of digital text in diverse languages and scripts presents a significant challenge for natural language processing (NLP). Multilingual pre-trained language models (mPLMs) often struggle to handle transliterated data effectively, leading to performance degradation. Addressing this issue is crucial for improving cross-lingual transfer learning and ensuring accurate NLP applications across various languages and scripts, which is essential for global communication and information processing.
> Companies that rhyme with Bilbo

I’m coming up with nothing except Volvo, so I’m assuming that’s a typo.
> If you want to know a better approximation of their true cost just look at their non-unlimited plans: 20TB/month included for free; 1€/TB (excl VAT) after that.

I will point out that this is still about 50x-80x cheaper than Amazon. Not far off the claim of 100x.
> so AFAIK the only evidence is the lack of reported incidents

Thank you. That's exactly what I wanted to hear from you. The link you provided is in no way, shape or form actual evidence of what you're suggesting.

> From a business perspective, lying about such a thing would have virtually zero upside but unimaginably massive downside.

What are users going to do? Buy a Surface tablet and a Samsung phone?

> It's a great Apple-hater fantasy, though.

I just dipped my toe into the Apple waters again and bought an m1 air a year or so go. I'm currently shopping for a used iPhone.

I don't have brand loyalty and I use what works, and it just so happens that Apple has been making stuff that works pretty well in my opinion recently. But I'm under no illusion that I can trust them.
I am pretty convinced that coding my handwriting could be considered a one-way hash; there is no way to decipher what the hell I was trying to say when reading it.
As far as the US is concerned, TC is legal. It is illegal if used to facilitate a fraud or launder its proceeds.
> We need to stop insuring regular healthcare, and go back to insuring catestrophic healthcare.

Good point. In NZ we are covered for accidents, infections, heart attacks, etc.

But get lung cancer from smoking and you are paying yourself. It's not perfect, but sets priorities to live healthy.
Its such a grift. It honestly is pretty gross to see so many otherwise intelligent people fall into the trap laid by these people.

Its cult-like not just in the unshakeable belief of its adherents but in the fact that its architects are high level grifters who stand to make many many fortunes.
Econ 201: the principal-agent problem [1]. Musk likely can’t concede prices while negotiating a multibillion-dollar pay package.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_prob...
Semi-related, but TIL the Raspberry Pi Foundation enabling large corporate customers to secure-boot lock the Pis they're embedding in their juice dispensers and whatnot.

Nothing like being a supposed open source darling and helping corporations deny people the right to use hardware they purchase, the way they want to - and helping contribute to e-waste, because there will be millions of Pis that nobody can use for anything other than the IoT banana dispenser they were integrated into...
Because it is an excerpt from a 2018 book.
There were proposals for Medicare for all, but unfortunately one of America’s scars from the Cold War is that any government program meant to help people is branded “socialism” which at that point you might as well have a Karl Marx tramp stamp.
> Why do consumers have no recourse against companies that steal from them?

Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company.

But in this case, the article makes it clear that the people were able to get the charges reversed by talking to Hertz. It wasn't necessarily convenient, but the funds were returned when a human saw the mistake.

> If I made charges to someone's card for services that weren't rendered, I'd probably go to jail.

If you entered into an agreement with someone to do business and then accidentally charged them the wrong amount, you would not go to jail. That's what happened here, as annoying as it is.

I know this is HN and we're supposed to get our pitchforks out any time a company makes a mistake, but your analogy doesn't hold. Legally, intentional theft is a higher bar than a mistake. You're right that you'd be in trouble if you just started charging random people's credit cards fraudulently, but you're not going to jail if you're doing business with someone and you occasionally make a mistake about the amount when it's time to bill them. (FYI: Billing mistakes happen all the time at scale)

If you could prove that someone in Hertz was diabolically masterminding a scheme to knowingly milk money from customers by charging EV drivers for gas, you could have a case. But if Hertz is just accidentally charging a couple people here and there for gas (as appears to be the case from the article) then that's not "stealing". It's just a mistake.
In general "AI Safety" is about human extinction.

"AI Ethics/Ethical AI/Data Ethics" are the kind of things people talk about when they are looking at things like bias or broad unemployment.

This isn't 100% the case, especially since the "AI Safety" people have started talking to people outside their own circle and have realized that many of their concerns aren't realistic.
What about the public? I feel talking about the layperson has been absent in many AI safety conversations - i.e., the general public that maybe has heard of "chat-jippity" but doesn't know much else.

There's a twitter account documenting all the crazy AI generated images that go viral on facebook - https://x.com/FacebookAIslop (warning the pinned tweet is nsfw)
It's unclear to me how much of that is botted activities, but there are clearly at least some amount of older, less tech savvy people that are believing these are real. We need to focus on the present too, not just hypothetical futures.
Just wait until a model outputs escape characters that totally hose your terminal. That's the end game right there. That or a zero day worm/virus.
Cached with what? The $0 cost hardware you gave to the ISP for free? You expect every ISP is just going to give you free CDN services?
I can't imagine someone being able to write one without being flamed on all sides because there are so many guilty parties including the potential users themselves.

I don't think it helped that the core protocols were so minimal though or that the reference implementation was really just that. Both GNOME and KDE went their own way on building their own compositors and I think that was sad :(
They should turn the M4 into the ultimate terminal and use the high speed to seamlessly control any number of back end computers doing the heat-intensive processing.
Strict liability for errors.
I've always been wondering, could you build connectors like this by CNCing the metal parts and 3d-printing the insulation? (Maybe add in some metal bending, but maybe that could be done manually using hand tools?) In this case, there actually seems to be a market for thousands of these connectors, but for many other connectors the market is... a couple dozen or so. Note: I have very little knowledge in this field.
How can I reach out to you about this?
I'm this close to carefully going through the Karpathy series so that my non-tech friends will take me seriously when I say the 'terminator' situation is absolutely not on the visible horizon.
When people suggest owning an EV for daily use and renting a gas car for occasional long trips, this is exactly why that's not a attractive idea for most people. Even in the best case scenario, renting a car is a time-consuming hassle and you have to navigate high pressure tactics on buying upgrades, fuel, insurance, etc.
Is there a correlation vs causation error here? Diet and exercise were not controlled.

Asian culture avoids sun exposure and sometimes exercise yet are healthier than their Western counterparts who have an unhealthy diet high in fats and sugar in addition to a sedentary lifestyle.
https://silodrome.com/lockheed-sr-71-blackbird-owners-worksh...
Ctrl-F baseball doesn't show any results for me. Has the original article been updated?

In any case, to the extent that you're pointing out that it's another tricky case of how to distribute responsibility for bad stuff, I agree. Other examples range from electricity (clearly has good uses, bad results are mostly by accident), through littering (how much is Coca Cola's fault, how much is the end user's) to guns (only have "bad" uses -- but you probably still want your own country's military to have them).

I don't know of any way to allocate responsibility in these cases that doesn't ultimately amount to pure subjective opinion. Does anyone know of a more objective approach?
I agree, because when I see people talk in popular media/blog posts/etc. about "AI Safety" I generally see it in reference to 4 very different areas:

1. AI that becomes so powerful it decides to turn against humanity, Terminator-style.

2. AI will serve to strongly reinforce existing societal biases from its training data.

3. AI can be used for wide-scale misinformation campaigns, making it difficult for most people to tell fact from fiction.

4. AI will fundamentally "break capitalism" given that it will make most of humanity's labor obsolete, and most people get nearly all of their income from their labor, and we haven't yet figured out realistically how to have a "post capitalist" society.

My issue is that when "the big guns" (I mean OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.) talk about AI safety, they are usually always talking about #1 or #2, maybe #3, and hardly ever #4. I think that the most harmful, realistic negative effects are actually the reverse, with #4 being the most likely and already beginning to happen in some areas, and #3 already happening pre-AI and just getting "supercharged" in an AI world.
Wonder if these were due to software bugs
I leased one and have been loving it. It's a great car if your not road tripping. The lease price really helps too.
There are many facets to teaching, the explanation of an aspect, to query students to assess how they understand that aspect. This can be spot tests where one aspect is asked what is it etc, often in a short interval in the last few minutes prior to end of that period. They can also be weekly/monthly/end of semester. These will vary, with end of a semester being a 1-2 hour detailed question set to which the student answers question by question, the weekly/monthly = lesser length/detail.
At each stage the student is asked to show how he has learned each of the listed test questions and the teacher later assesses the answers and gives the student points on each question so that at the end a summation will give an indication of the degree of mastery - students are often then instructed on the deficient areas.
Obviously the students can hire an expert to take their exam, as a group hire, or each student hiring his own expert to sit the exam for them. LOL - this and other schemes have been tried and they are part of the education burden. At University of Toronto exams are closely watched, with photo ID needed for just this reason. Dozens of 'ringers', taking exams for students, have been discovered. It is often hard to correctly ID students from various ethnic back grounds when the invigilator is from a different ethic/racial back ground who is not famiiar with the students back ground. The students search for the best possible 'ringer' to minimize the risk of discovery.
In summation - all aspect of teaching involve assessing the student as well as the teacher. Anything that reduces how well a student studies or engages in diversions - such as games played in class, or passes data between students to allow a correct answer to be given to a teacher that is not from the student's own knowledge base is a form of fraud. The student bears the cost of the fraud when he fails his exams = the money/time spent are wasted. He may get his degree, and then his patients suffer, if he is a doctor/dentist, or a house fire if he is a bad electrician granted his ticket by fraud.
AI is in a good position to teach topics, as well as to test how well topics have been mastered and to also pose detailed exams for students on a case by case basis, with a detailed back ground knowledge of that student's past work so he/she can be examined in exhaustive detail - detail normal examiners could not do due to time constraints. This area is in rapid expansion as we speak because costs and time restraints in teaching are causing large deficiencies in student bodies, to such a degree that student scores are falling steadily, ad the field is ripe for a revolution.
Unrelated to this thread and completely OT - I feel like you've just touched a live wire that I haven't seen a lot of conversation yet wrt. LLMs.

We've seen plenty about media literacy / verifying news over the years of course, but the time and surface area considerations will change exponentially if people can start generating fake news with an AI (especially audio and video).

And I think it's too naive to go straight from there to the Dead Internet Theory, because that's like switching from "believing everything you read on the Internet" to "disbelieving everything you read on the Internet" (which is necessarily wrong with the opposite percentage margin).

For this thread, I'm inclined to believe the original comment(er). I'm not going to look it up, look up the username, ask an AI, or really care all that much about the debate, because I'm not directly interested in the outcome.

I _am_ interested that, in my own mind, the original comment lost an enormous amount of credibility when the author then reached for ChatGPT to defend the claim. So the only thing I can do without sinking a large amount of time into looking for sources is to leave this thread thinking "I don't know, maybe I'll actually look it up one day, and evaluate it properly when it becomes relevant to me (probably never)". And maybe that's a better outcome than my initial "yeah seems like a legit HN comment" anyway.

EDIT: There's a second level issue too where the people using AI to generate "facts" won't themselves know whether they're generating true or false information - presumably(?) not the case in this thread.
I'll posit single-payer is much closer to a true fix than you give credit for.

A significant fraction of the additional cost in the US is due to all the administrative overhead that comes with negotiating prices with thousands of insurance providers, as well as dealing with not only primary insurance, but secondary, tertiary, and sometimes even quaternary insurance providers for any given patient. And, as mentioned elsewhere, it gets multiplexed over each doctor involved in your care, since each may work with a unique subset of insurance providers.
Fwiw the sun exposure data was a questionnaire that asked women if they sunbathe never, a little, or a lot.
Well, for starters, the tornado cash contract is on the US OFAC sanction list...
There is also the danger of garnering resentment by plagiarizing LLM nonsense output to fill 78.36% of your page on ethical boundary assertions.

Have a nice day. =)
Try uploading at that rate for a few months non-stop and see how long your residential ISP will continue doing business with you.
The earth’s shadow has nothing to do with moon phases and only affects our view during a lunar eclipse.

I always thought the dark side of the moon meant from earths’ view: we can see the light side (even when it’s dark) but we can’t see the dark side (even when it’s light)
Please accept my thanks to you and the rest of the team --- my Newton MessagePad 110 was one of my most favourite tools--- could you please convince Apple to make an iPhone which supports an Apple Pencil?

It pretty much got me through college, allowing me to balance class schedules and multiple part-time jobs, as well as coordinating a family and tracking my daughter's schedule --- at one point in time I was taking notes in it for Art History (w/ little sketches of each painting/sculpture/building) and faxing them to the secretary for the art department for a learning disabled student --- turned out that that student was then photocopying them for everyone in the dorms to use (this only came out when the professor was asking why everyone's grades were better on average than previous years).

Still kind of sad Apple hasn't made a replacement....
So, outdoorsy people live longer because of the other health benefits of outdoorsy lifestyle, but are risking more skin cancer? But the risk of skin cancer isn't enough to outweigh the benefits?
I'm glad you enjoy anime girls but surely you can see why it's different than a project's logo?

One is directly related to the project, the other isn't. It's not even contextually related.
Discussion [0] (806 points, 1 year ago, 371 comments) and addressed by John Nagle [1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34179426
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34180239
Doing absolutely nothing is not optimal
I had a vehicle with a mikuni solex carb. It was easier to swap it with a Weber than it was to fix the carb.
Yes, a local ABC news station in Los Angeles writes news articles assuming an American context for their overwhelmingly American audience.

The article also explicitly says it has been available in Europe for four years.
I have cantaloupe/honeydew but no problem with avocado or latex so I don't suspect a connection here. Raw bell peppers sometimes bother me.

Allergies are often funny, at least for me. Exposed to a single allergen usually results in no reaction. But many, many small exposures to diverse allergens adds up and can trigger a disproportionate response.

I have a friend who's food-related allergies (non-anaphylactic) disappeared after removing carpet flooring in their home.
It wasn't a mistake. It was a pretend mistake.
I'm assuming this is a correlation with other healthy habits, and not specifically a thing that UV exposure does?
They're saying what SHOULD happen, not what DOES happen.
Even more useful once your MIDI files are organized.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVYtkh-LO4