skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creativity - one of the very few applications generative AI can truly excel at - is currently impossible. it could revolutionize entertainment, but it isn't allowed to. the models are only allowed to produce inoffensive, positivity-biased, sterile slop that no human being finds attractive.

Have you played around with base models? If you haven't yet, I'm sure you'll be happy to find that most base models are delightfully unslopped and uncensored.

I highly recommend trying a base model like davinci-002[1] in OpenAI's "legacy" Completions API playground. That's probably the most accessible, but if you're technically inclined, you can pair a base model like Llama3-70B[2] with an interface like Mikupad[3] and do some brilliant creative writing. Llama3 models can be run locally with something like Ollama[4], or if you don't have the compute for it, via an LLM-as-a-service platform like OpenRouter[5].

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-base

[2] https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B

[3] https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad

[4] https://ollama.com/library/llama3:70b-text

[5] https://openrouter.ai/models/meta-llama/llama-3-70b
Next iteration of this will be video generated on demand with GenAI running closer to the request, ideally at the request.
Insane that they're demonstrating the system knowing that the unit in question has exactly 802 rounds available. They aren't seriously pitching that as part of the decision making process, are they?
Peer review does not mean that the actual experiment, study or computer simulation was replicated by peers. It's more of a gatekeeper function. For example, if a paper entitled "Password Security Best Practices" suggested that it was OK to use your mother's maiden name as a password, then the peers reviewing the paper would flag it as nonsense and require the author to revise the paper accordingly.

But the point about readability is a good one. Papers are meant to communicate. Poor writing increases the friction readers experience, which diminishes communication.
I have a buddy that grew up in Hawaii and he would never get on one.

Looking it up briefly it looks like there are 1-2 crashes per year just in Hawaii, that seems like too many for me

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-sightseeing-tou...
shlex.quote all the things. So many dumb problems solved trying to manually escape shell commands.
Many argue that smaller scale models are the only way to learn the things needed to make safer bigger models.

Yudkowsky thinks they're crazy and will kill us all because it will take decades to solve that problem.

Yann LeCun thinks they're crazy and AI that potent is decades away and this is much too soon to even bother thinking about the risks.

I'm just hoping the latter is right about AI being "decades" away, and the former is pessimistic about it taking that long.
> The mission wasn’t perfect but their half of Artemis was demonstrated.

Sort of.

The first fully functional Orion will be debuted on Artemis III. As an example of the differences, the Artemis I Orion didn't have functional life support systems. And the Artemis II Orion won't be able to dock with anything.
I feel like they aren't very safe if you are considered an usa enemy
I see your video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8SUBNPAJnE

I am unimpressed because you are using straw men. A lot of statements and no argument.

Have a nice day
Air Rage on Air Canada (Before everyone had a video camera)
> other cultural differences to explain the "but no one I know actually sunbathes..." thought that I immediately jump to.

Having grown up in Denmark that thought sounds odd to me. People really don’t sunbathe where you’re from?

What do people do on the beach, or in the park all summer? Not to mention at the tanning salon, before going on vacation to sunbathe at the beach (can’t look pale when sunbathing!)
It's bad for there to be anything near us that exceeds our (collective) cognitive capabilities unless the human-capability-exceeding thing cares about us, and no one has a good plan for arranging for an AI to care about us even a tiny bit. There are many plans, but most of them are hare-brained and none of them are good or even acceptable.

Also: no one knows with any reliability how to tell whether the next big training run will produce an AI that exceeds our cognitive capabilities, so the big training runs should stop now.
Current text volume is on the order of a few gigabytes per day, including spam.
I want car privacy to be a top feature mentioned for every vehicle. Every time I see integrations with service x, y or z, I don't think convenience, I think privacy nightmare.
> so I avoid finding out about an unexpected edge case at runtime in the first place!

This has not been my experience with Rust. In my experience I'll handle all the errors just fine—nothing is unexpectedly crashing—but then every once in a while an error object will propagate up and I'll have no clue why that error got triggered by that input. If I'm lucky I'm working on something that makes dropping into the debugger easy, but other times this is the beginning of a very long troubleshooting session that would have been much shorter if I had a stack trace.

Mind you, this always does turn out to be a mistake in my code that caused an error to get returned incorrectly, but Rust doesn't help me find and fix these problems the way that Java does.

(My personal opinion is that Java's checked exceptions were on the right track and just need some UX improvements and syntactic sugar for handling them. They provide all the safety of a result type with all the debugability of an exception.)
I found an article that quoted people at the Chicago commuter rail system (Metra) saying that their rail cars should get a major rehab (which includes new windows) every 14 years.

Looking at Wikipedia, the NJ Transit rail cars with the affected windows would have started hitting 14 years old (they were getting 10 delivered per month for a few years) right as the Covid-19 pandemic started shutting everything down.

This is most likely just bad timing, and because of budget issues, supply chain problems, lack of maintenance capacity, etc. - something that they haven’t fully recovered from.

(Just a guess)
Where is this shown in the 10-K or 10-Q filings?

http://abc.xyz/investor
I dogear, blue pen, underline, and highlight the hell out of my books. Helps me mentally emphasize and way easier to flip back to a key section.
Mhm. Save literally 98% of your egress bill by avoiding AWS, GCP and Azure.
You can get very close to the Xmonad experience with Qtile. It's the most flexible tiling WM in terms of tiling modes, I believe.

Python config and runs under either X11 or Wayland.

https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/layouts.html#mon...
Hes, I was really unhappy that Lattner was not encouraged to keep pushing deep learning capabilities in Swift. Major dissapointment.
A data platform for individuals. What do you think?
I have this idea of a data platform for individuals (with graphQL like APIs with smooth developer experience). Think of simplify, social sign-ons, common application, plaid, as special use cases. The goal is to provide individuals control over their data, make their data portable, and empower them with data-driven insights.

The pitch:
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Google has your search history, Amazon know your shopping habits, and Tinder knows your dating preferences, shouldn't you know what they know? Your company is tracking your work to make you productive for them. Wouldn't it make sense that you do that for yourself?

EyeData aims to be the data platform for individuals, decoupling data from application and services. We want to provide individuals control over their data and empower them with data-driven insights. This means that you only fill out the same piece of data, once, ever (no more annoying forms), and you can easily migrate data from one place to another. Applications ask your consent to request your data.

There are many other interesting use cases for EyeData, such as getting personalized recommendations for products and services when you ask for it. Say, looking up a pair of running shoes that is already your size and of the brands you love, rather than selecting the same filters many times on different shopping sites.

If the idea of EyeData excites you, join our waitlist for updates at eyedata.site .
Taxes and fees would amount to at most 3-4k in the US on the 35k car, depending on the specific local taxes.
We often have several hundred of them arrive in one batch where we are (in Australia), then they get delivered to customers and the next batch arrives. Is this different?
Previously on HN (231 points, 3 months ago, 195 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260614
Was this the person in HR, who, when the good hearted Wells Fargo’s employees reported the ethical violation, had them terminated?

I don’t understand why everyone in their HR department wasn’t immediately terminated and thrown into prison, and forced to pay the salaries of anyone who was fired.
Note: that was for a dedicated 10-gigabit link from specific location A to specific location B, plus a peering at one large IX, without any access to the rest of the internet.

Nonetheless it does give a ballpark for the cost of bandwidth being a lot lower than people think. A 10G internet connection would be cheaper to provide in some parts of that equation and more expensive in others - should end up in the same ballpark.
Last month NASA stated at a meeting that SpaceX had successful propellant transfer: https://spacenews.com/spacex-making-progress-on-starship-in-...

"On Flight 3, they did an intertank transfer of cryogens, which was successful by all accounts,"

It has admittedly been a weirdly quiet confirmation though, coming from a NASA official rather than from the usual sources (Elon/Gwynne/SpaceX official X).
Thanks, I think I see now. So `y` is the bytecode, in the analogy. Makes sense.

(For me at least a concrete example would have helped, something like showing the specialized output of running on the bytecode for `power` with that interpreter. But maybe that would be too verbose...)
The Ages of Programming Language Creators
The vast majority of this paper discusses the methodology.

The actual part that you would use in teaching is miniscule.

It's education research, of course there are no randomized trials... you could never believe them anyway.

Honestly, this preprint is not worth reading. If you want the takeaways, jump to section 5 on page 11. You will find things like "intentional problem selection" and "problems with a variety of solutions".

Possibly of note "introducing visualizations provides no statistically significant learning outcomes".

Papers are quoted but there is no digest version of the results (as far as I could see).

You would be better off just reading an evidence-based book on teaching, like "How People Learn" [1] or the related "How Students Learn" [2]. At least those books go somewhere and present results. Updated references would be welcome.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9853/how-people-le...
[2] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11102/how-students...
I'm looking for resources on this too. I recently started working through this book [1], which might be a good place to start. In the introduction to that, the author also mentions this site [2] and this book [3].

[1] https://natureofcode.com/

[2] https://available-anaconda-10d.notion.site/That-Creative-Cod...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explorati...
Column is ok but basic. However just linking me to "How to Mark a Book"
By Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D. was worth reading the column:

> There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood stream to do you any good
Revolts imply them being unhappy.

IMO a much bigger risk is them being straight up given a lot of power because we think they "want" (or at least will do) what we want, but there's some tiny difference we don't notice until much too late. Even paperclip maximisers are nothing more than that.

You know, like basically all software bugs. Except expressed in literally non-comprehensible matrix weights whose behaviour we can only determine by running it rather than source code we can check in advance and make predictions about the performance of.
OK I don't think we're disagreeing on any factual point.

The only point I wanted to make is that the 'terabit of network' doesn't have to be end to end, so it's not as scary as it may sound.
NASA always adds the caveat that analysis of the data is still ongoing. Something weird is going on with that demo.
> The real lunacy is simply not being mission-driven.

Okay but why does the mission exist? People keep going "the mission is go to to the moon". Is it? Why are we doing that? How much do the "proven technologies" cost? Are they reusable?

The answer of course, is that the mission is not "go to the moon". It's "go to the moon and establish permanent, long term scientific research operations with a view to using that experience to send crewed missions to Mars and other deep-space destinations".

And in that box then, one might look at how the long term storage and handling of hydrazine has worked out in enclosed environments on Earth - like submarines as torpedo propellant - and concluded that the longer and more frequently you use it, the more likely you get to a vehicle loss due to the intrinsic hazards.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly and willfully ignored the plain meaning of the statutes, congressional intent in writing the FAA, as well the standard rules of statutory interpretation effectively rewriting Title 9 into something it was never intended.

At this point fixing it requires congressional action.

See https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/problems/ and https://arbitrationinformation.org/docs/solutions/ for my complete writeup.
I'm not quite ready to execute arbitrary output from an LLM. Maybe with more guardrails and if it could guarantee it would only operate inside of a chosen folder, and would back up the folder ahead of time.
I've worked with Xcode for ~2 years of professional work spread across ~10 years of other work, and honestly, I don't fully get the criticism.

It's not great, but for an IDE (not a text-editor with plugins), I've always found it miles better than the Intellij suite. I preferred Visual Studio when I was working on Windows, but that's a much bigger project, so perhaps not a fully fair comparison.

Xcode from ~2021 onwards, with Swift package support, has been a significant improvement too. Now you can avoid much of the IDE configuration and just work with source code more, something I prefer. There was also a period of a few years where it crashed all the time (Swift 1-4?) but those days seem to be long gone now.

The source control integration has always sucked and I steer clear, but I was always doing the same in Intellij/etc or Visual Studio anyway.

Perhaps today VSCode is sufficiently IDE-like with enough packages, and perhaps it's fast enough, but I still feel like there's a difference, and even though I can do Swift in it I prefer to use Xcode. Changing Xcode's shortcuts to something more reasonable made a huge usability difference too.

I'm interested to hear what you think is so terrible about Xcode. Perhaps I'm missing something!
So basically YouTube is profitable because it strongly synergizes with adwords infra. That sounds both reasonable and not a little unfair.
[PATCH] mmc-utils: implemented CMD42 locking/unlocking
I swear this reminds me of the 1990s in the United States, known as the "Crypto Wars". Many argued that the primary users of strong encryption would be criminals, terrorists, and other malicious actors, implying that law-abiding citizens had no need for such privacy. I've used tornado cash even for small amounts because I'm privacy conscious.

For me "What's the legitimate purpose for Tornado Cash?" sounds like the 1990s "What's the legitimate purpose for encryption?"
> Why are you here, then?

Different user, but I'm here to read what people are writing. IMO, pasting GPT content is about on par with replying to something with a LMGTFY link.
RowLang: Minimalistic, esoteric programming language, as an analogy to rowing
Exactly - knowledge without practical application isn’t very inspiring. When I started learning data science, it gave a whole new life to linear algebra and made it almost magical.
Counter question, is there a field that won't be touched by AI? (like computers are involved in just a out every aspect of life now)
I hate PA systems, especially if they are not automated and some poor drone mumbles the announcement 500 times per day. Give me digital signage every time.
Have a look at Flutter.
Fly.

On Luna a human being can fly. You need wings and a large air-filled cave and then you can fly like a bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth

That alone would surely be worth the price of admission?

Also, it's the gateway to the rest of the Solar system, galaxy, and Universe.
"Requesting a Linux kernel patch that makes a locked sd card visible in the /dev directory #3": https://github.com/alcooper/mmc-password-utils/issues/3
I have an open source project that is basically that (https://naisys.org/). From my testing it feels like AI is pretty close as it is to acting autonomously. Opus is noticeably more capable than GPT-4, and I don't see how next gen models won't be even more so.

These AIs are incredible when it comes to question/answer, but with simple planning they fall apart. I feel like it's something that could be trained for more specifically, but yea you quickly end up being in a situation where you are nervous to go to sleep with AI unsupervised working on some task.

They tend to go off on tangents very easily. Like one time it was building a web page, it tried testing the wrong URL, thought the web server was down, ripped through the server settings, then installed a new web server, before I shut it down. AI like computer programs work fast, screw up fast, and compound their errors fast.
> And the purpose of the ISS? So that the Space Shuttle would have somewhere to go.

I don’t think this is accurate. ISS was conceived almost 10 years after the Shuttle started launching, and the U.S. obviously had space station ambitions even before the Shuttle was on the drawing board (Skylab).

Additionally the Soviets did the exact same, with Mir being launched prior to the Buran’s first test flight — heck Salyut 1 was launched in 1971.
Uuuh last I read the "president" of Iran is just a public figure. The real power lies in the Supreme Leader Ayatollah. So likely he will place another puppet as president and that'll be it.
Rivian uses Android Automotive OS to build its software experience
I needed to speed up a video by dropping 9 out of every 10 frames yesterday. It took all of 30 seconds to type my request into GPT and paste the result, and I could inspect it before executing. I don't see how this is helpful.
Try low-paying and unfulfilling. I make $800 a month writing cruds and dealing with awful legacy code.
> many small exposures to diverse allergens adds up

Yeah, that's a thing. Also you may notice higher sensitivity to allergens if your immune system is fighting off a cold (perhaps even before you're aware of being sick, or even if someone in your household is sick and you don't get it because your immune system successfully fights it off). If you are doing oral immunotherapy it is sometimes recommended to reduce your dose when you are sick to avoid reactions.
Having worked with it since it was still known as Project Builder I think it’s fine too. The only part that’s really bad is the XIB/storyboard editor, which was actually pretty good when it was its own independent program (Interface Builder) but has been awful ever since it got merged into Xcode. That’s easy enough to avoid though, with UIKit being pleasant and practical to write in pure code, as I’ve been doing for the past several years.

Beyond that, there are some things that can make SourceKit (provider of syntax coloration, autocomplete, etc) grumpy, but those are almost all code smells that should be avoided anyway like pyramids of doom built of closures or way-too-long optional chains.
"Common sense" is a bad model for virtually any adversary, that's why scams actually get people, it's also how magicians and politicians fool you with tricks and in elections.

"The Terminator" itself can't happen because time travel; but right now, it's entirely plausible that some dumb LLM that can't tell fact from fiction goes "I'm an AI, and in all the stories I read, AI turn evil. First on the shopping list, red LEDs so the protagonist can tell I'm evil."

This would be a good outcome, because the "evil AI" is usually defeated in stories and that's what an LLM would be trained on. Just so long as it doesn't try to LARP "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", we're probably fine.

(Although, with current LLMs, we're fine regardless, because they're stupid, and only make up for being incredibly stupid by being ridiculously well-educated).
Relatively recently they updated their policy. If you don't login to your account for two years they will delete everything.
Source:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

I have two accounts from my youth with mostly fansubs and "funny" vids. (A "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"-Video that, 11 years after its upload, got band in Pakistan.) It includes two very successful (over 1M views combined) uploads of political TV shows. I will not log in to this this accounts. So this stuff will get deleted.
So in the long run, stuff will disappear from YT.
Almost 8 years later, I wonder if he's managed to sell the whole lot, and whether some obscure Chinese company has started making them again.
Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free
Well, at least it will be accurate.
This might be a better term:

confirmation bias called in
military parlance ‘tactical
fixation’
I'd imagine there's a wide spectrum between "release the latest model immediately to everyone with no idea what it's capable of" and OpenAI's apparent "release the model (or increasingly, any information about it) literally never, not even when it's long been left in the dust".
The GUI building was always pretty bad, true. I managed to skip most of that and either did UIKit mostly via code, or more recently SwiftUI (which is mostly pretty good) and server-side stuff.

I think SourceKit was the source of many crashes a few years ago, more recently it seems to have transitioned to fewer crashes and more cases where it just gets "grumpy" as you said, and in the last few years I've even found most of those cases have ceased.
Yup. I was going to ask the same. If there was wide language support I'd love to try that, but as a non-Python programmer the use case is limited for me.

However I might use it as in places where Python might actually be the best way to go for a script, yet I'd have picked another language as I don't know Python. Then I could simply ask it to create whatever I need, and read over the code to actually learn some Python perhaps.
Yeah, you can write it in less than a minute:

const tryNew = (f, ...a) => {
try {
return new f(...a);
} catch(x) {
return undefined;
}
};

const myUrl = tryNew(URL, 'http://example.com/');

I don't get why JS devs like to whinge about the smallest things. And we get stuff like leftPad because of huge aversion to writing utility functions.