skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've heard fructose inhibits the sense of satiation after eating.

You’re pretty much on track until this. The idea that a specific subtype of sugar has slightly different effects on the body might technically be true, but it’s a small drop in the bucket when compared to the huge increase in calorie intake in general. When this idea started circulating, it seemed like a food company misinformation campaign.
Is there a technical or product novelty here? Some other curious context I'm missing? It looks just like any other landlord/renter review site with the same challenges of privacy, defamation, discoverability, etc...
The sun has more energy than that, really. Which reinforces the commenter’s point: Congress should act on making it available, fast
That’s a charitable description of the states that voted against and an uncharitable description of the ones that voted for. A less loaded description would just observe that the opposed countries were the ones where the indigenous peoples would have the greatest claims and the governments would have the greatest resources to claim.
The clear implication is not everyone nets money.
RQ-180 isn't a replacement for the Reaper.
This is a blind spot for me, do existing legal protections generally cover fake/generated content?

To be clear, the context of this thread is extremely important. I don't know how far our existing laws might go to make sure ML generated child porn is illegal and I'd personally feel much more comfortable to know that ML generation isn't some kind of legal loophole.
> Smedley had announced online that he’d gotten identity theft protection from the company Lifelock Inc. Kivimäki responded by calling Lifelock, saying he was Smedley. In audio of the call submitted at trial, the customer service representative asks Kivimäki a series of security questions, all of which he gets wrong. Nonetheless, by the end of the conversation, he has been allowed to create a new password for the account, enabling him to log in and find, among other things, Smedley’s banking details.
Transportation and storage are still issues we have to deal with today, though.

There was definitely a window, maybe fifty years ago, where widespread adoption of nuclear energy would have stopped and reversed climate change. We may have had an increase in Chernobyls with the proliferation of non-modern reactor designs, but in this hypothetical reality maybe people would have been OK with that.

The problem today is that renewables are getting too cheap and too good, and the storage problem shrinks every day. Meanwhile, it takes upwards of a decade to license and build a single reactor. France's fancy new reactors won't be online until 2040. Nuclear is just too slow.

I feel like 10 years from now it won't even be a debate or a contest, nuclear will just be the most expensive option by a country mile. Greenhouse gases will peak within the next 2 years[0]. The nuclear lobby missed their chance, which does mean we'll have to deal with some effects of climate change we could have avoided.

My feeling right now (and I kinda flip-flop every few years) is that nuclear lost and it's economically infeasible to try again. Change my mind?

0. https://climateanalytics.org/publications/when-will-global-g...
> Is it really anonymous?

> Yes! We will never give away any of your information.

For starters, they're leaking this information to Google.

After that, they're presumably subject to subpoenas. And they or an acquirer altering the agreement. And there's interpretations of "give away". And the inevitable data breaches.

I see no identification of who runs it, which doesn't seem consistent with their stated philosophy of "transparency and accountability", and might affect users' ability to hold them to their privacy assurances.
There is no such thing as a left or right modifier STATE in ANY application. All applications, including kitty track only CTRL, SHIFT, ALT, ETC modifier states. left and right alt and control are key events and can be bound in any application supporting the kitty keyboard protocol as key events. If some application tracks a left and right modifier state it has to do so manually using key press and release events, the OS does not supply it any such state.

You seem to be thoroughly confused about what is a modifier and what is a key. Left and right ctrl/alt/shift are KEYS not MODIFIERS. You can track whether they are held down or up by tracking their press and release events just like for any other key.
At a very specific task - dogfighting.
Yeah I stopped reading about halfway through.

For crying out loud hn... Out outputs is ultimately a series of 1 and/or 0....

That doesn't mean we have to carry that through to every analysis and comment.

Things are not so binary y'all. Regular life operates in the quantum or non discrete rules. Pls think on it.
Show HN: Shunting Yard Algorithm
An interesting thing about the Wason selection task is that people do a lot better when given a task that requires the exact same reasoning but involves social situations.

For example if the cards have on one side either a picture of a mug of beer or a picture of a can of soda, and the other side have a number representing the age of a person drinking that drink, and the rule they are supposed to be checking is that if someone is drinking beer they have to be at least 21 then 75% of people correctly figure out that they need to check the other side of the cards showing beer and the cards showing an age under 21.

Here's Wikipedia's article on the Wason selection task [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
Can’t you copy the text, run a macro that replaces the targets with “redacted” and export the result to pdf?
If we want to be precise (and it seems like you do):

AI = machines doing human-like tasks.

ML = machines learning to do stuff.

Doing financial modeling or code-base security auditing 100x better than a person is good ML and not AI at all.
Is that 14% different with solar? I’m just bringing this up, because solar is dead simple compared to engineering studies and infrastructure required to build something like a new nuclear plant. I wonder if the simplicity of solar and storage will start to change how power generation is approached.
A silent, hostile civilization that applies the astronomical levels of energy to accelerate enough mass to cause an extinction level event at the target in any reasonable amount of time would very likely cease to be a silent civilization. It imagine it would be difficult to hide an energy expenditure of that magnitude; the target may even be capable of deflecting the incoming relativistic payload with one of their own given enough lead time. Also, if there are sufficient loud, cooperating civilizations paying attention to large bursts of energy in their neighborhood, the asshole rock-chucking civilization may find multiple such relativistic payloads heading for their home relatively soon after firing theirs.
I am not really getting why people are praising the article, it is mostly autobiographical naval-gazing by the authour. I think it is an uninteresting way to explore the topic where the writer focuses on themselves than the topic.
Completely agree. I am shocked that this isn't apparent to everyone.

I am frustrated at the pure-hype tone this week took on. There are otherwise intelligent people with strong beliefs that OpenAI "has AGI". It's _ludicrous_ and embarrassing. There are people generating entire philosophies predicated on OpenAI just quietly sitting on a profound technological leap.

Even their missteps are explained as actually good. We've seen some regressions on gpt-4o performance. But that's OK, because it isn't supposed to be smarter, because of its very aggressive claims about future features, but they can distract with fearhype, never release or nerf them, and cite unverifiable safety concerns.

Google released some impressive, useful things this week. I really want to believe that oai's striking claims of simultaneous generation-leaping features, reduced cost, and wide scale will come to pass. But if that tech demo was the equivalent of a concept car that will never really see production, I'm looking for a new AI hero.
Put a morbidly obese person on a treadmill for a solid hour, and they'll likely spend a fair amount of time in zone 4-5. Walking is excellent exercise for some, not so great for others. Generalizing here is pointless.
Doesn’t the data center need to run for all the AI backed services to work?
Hi everyone. The other day I watched this very interesting video [1] and decide to take a shot at implementing it on JavaScript. I'm thinking about creating a visualization next, animating each step of the algorithm. Let me know what you think about it

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unh6aK8WMwM
Embedding Video Search: Vibes.video
Search through youtube via embedding search over frames of video, in a click-to-semantic-search interface. (Right click to play video)
An alternate, arguably more delicious solution: buy high quality roasted peanuts, put them in a food processor, jar it, and fridge it. No separation and as fresh as it gets.
To put your follow upquestion differently,

'Is 10w/h per request the marginal cost of a request? Or does it factor in the fixed energy cost of the whole facility? Does it include training costs'

I'm inclined to lean towards it including at least some fixed costs. It seems rather high to be marginal cost. I have no gut feel for training costs though.

So, assuming it does include at least some fixed cost, using it more will reduce 'cost per use' while at the same time driving up actual consumption.
Jazz facts
Ah, because given said understanding, surely it's impossible to hold a different opinion than yours.
Sorry, in the context of this tweet and my message, I was referring to "senior leadership leaving"

This sort of high level turnover isn't that uncommon. OpenAI is growing quickly and going from initial concept to hundreds of millions in revenue - this is a time of transition for a lot of startups.

You can absolutely criticize them for hypocrisy or whatever other issue, but I don't think most people should read too much into Ilya/Jan leaving.
One sentence from The Economist seems to explain more than TFA: "Microsoft reported a 31% increase in its indirect (Scope 3) emissions last year from building more data centres (including the carbon found in construction materials) as well as from semiconductors, servers and racks."

So no, it's not about lack of renewable electricity.

https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2024/05/16/bus...
This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
I spent many of my days in the woods as a kid and would get terrible poison ivy/oak (I'm not really sure which one affects me the most, if not both) every year. I felt like I have kinda had "grown out of it" as I still spend quite a bit of time in the sticks, but I get it much less or it's less serious. Until last year when I had it all over my hands for about a week and it was absolutely brutal.
Investigating the Wall Street of the South
All he does is change pi… that’s not any geometry it’s just a bug. This is basically click bait,
Not OP, and not a computer scientist. But amateur neuroscientist.

From what I understand, current models seem to have issue with planning and reasoning because they “blurt” everything out zero shot. They can’t recurrently process information.

Part of it is how we train these models, which is rapidly being experimented with and being improved.

Another part is that our brain can both consciously and unconsciously process information recurrently until we solve a problem. Especially helpful when we haven’t solved a problem before.

With LLMs, we can do that rudimentary with recurrent prompting. In a way, it can see the steps it has tried, re-evaluate and come up with a new try.

But it’s not innate yet, where models can “think” about a complex problem until it solved it.

Also- According to some theories around consciousness, this is when consciousness will really emerge (integrated information theory).

I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to solve this recurrent processing issue in the next few years.
> I can see how the switch to closed source could be annoying to some, but it definitely doesn’t rise to the level of “unethical” IMO.

Sure it does. Particularly for a company that claims to be a responsible steward of a technology that could pose existential risk to humans. If you can't even do a simple thing like keep your promises, how can I possibly trust you as a steward of a potential existential risk?

> WRT to Altman’s ousting and return, I still haven’t seen any evidence of compromised ethics on his part.

I commented on this in a number of previous HN threads and don't want to rehash it all here. (And btw, I also commented that I didn't think the people who ousted Altman showed very good ethics or judgment either. I didn't think anybody came out of that whole brouhaha looking good.) But just the fact that it happened at all should be a red flag. Again, these are people who claim to be stewards of a technology that they say can pose an existential risk. You'd expect them to at least be able to cooperate with each other like responsible adults.

> A supermajority of OpenAIs employees, people who I’d venture to guess have a far better handle on Altmans ethics than you or I

They might well know Altman's ethics better than we do, and be perfectly fine with them, because their own ethics are just as bad. They're getting paid well and the fact that core promises of the company were broken is simply Not Their Problem.
I'm pretty sure someone's already doing it...
Are you capable of being manipulated through text? How about an AI trained to generate text that will extract exactly the desired response from you? An advertiser's wet dream.
The linked article was published before sentencing in his trial. The verdict has now been issued.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/finnish-h...
There wasn't ever a ChatGPT or Perplexity.ai moment for most technical tasks.

I'm always evaluating these models to make sure that the people I interview remotely for my company don't cheat. There are certain questions the models are good with, but they will often produce very predictable answers (a lot of lists for open-ended questions). On the other hand, for many specific technical questions, they will predictably give wrong answers. Perplexity.ai will fail to find some of the same content that Google would if they indexed the same blog or documentation. Both ChatGPT and Perplexity are horrendous at reasoning within day-to-day knowledge of any senior knowledge worker, there just aren't enough parameters. Therefore, they often can't help with questions in that context.
They absolutely do. The freezer section of a supermarket in Japan is full of frozen kara-age, tempura, croquettes, fried spring rolls etc so that the overworked housewife can just reheat them quickly in the morning and pop them in the bentos for their kids/husbands along with a generous heaping of white rice.

Portions are way smaller though.
In Australia we have https://www.shitrentals.org/
> I wonder, what are they like? What could we learn from them?

Of course I wonder these same things. But when the consequences of becoming known to the wrong civilization are inevitable destruction, what are your alternatives?

We very nearly killed ourselves (we still might!) with nuclear weapons because we thought the other side might shoot first. This is that taken to an even further extreme: we won’t even know if we’ve been shot at until it’s far too late to do anything about it. We likely wouldn’t ever even know who sent the damn thing in the first place.

The balance of things is that silent civilizations with caveman-level technology are more than capable of wiping out noisy and naïve technologically-advanced civilizations.

You can wonder all you like about who and what these beings are and what wonders they must know of, and absolutely none of that will matter when a tungsten rod turns the planet into a fireball because you made the mistake of sending up a signal flare without having any idea that it was safe to do so.

One in a thousand civilizations could be paranoid enough to sterilize other spacefaring civilizations and it would be reason enough to be very, very quiet.
They are also forbidding fossil fuel derived fertilizers and heavy machinery used to produce cheap food.

BRICS is allowed to build coal plants to replace the industry that dies in the west. This Marxist climate justice is like how DEI achieve equity, redistribution of outcomes, to favored activist groups or in this case the communist CCPs rule.

For communists like the greens it’s about destroying the west to put their oligarchic tyranny in place by destroying middle class economic independence, the issue never happened the revolution did.
I did the same thing except it was a barbed wire fence, cut my neck, shoulder and stomach up- had to get stitched up by my friend’s mom but worked out okay.
There are limited resources in the world. The bulk of the resources should go to the bulk of the users. It’s a feature that rare configurations are less tested
Those systems should get built out because they make sense to build out. Having a company feeling justified in releasing tons of extra co2 in the process seems like it nullifies some of the good the plant would bring.
Machine Learning is a newer term than AI. AI has been used for decades.
Here is a fun thought/question: Could it be that (using rss) only one of the two parties needs to remember/have login credentials for the other to be able to obtain them?
I remember playing on the Texas State capitol lawn at night with a bunch of UT students.
We're not (for now) limited by how much energy the sun puts out. We're limited by how much of that energy we can usefully capture. There's a limited number of solar panels, wind turbines, and water turbines (plus all necessary accessories like inverters and transformers) being manufactured each day.
It isn't necessary that "this AI [have capabilities] that a human can never have".

The issue is how those capabilities (possibly shared, possibly not shared between some humans and AI) are deployed and to what ends.

There's also a speed question. Maybe AI will never be able to do things human cannot, but it seems likely that for the sorts of things most AI-excited folk are excited about, it will be faster than a human most of the time.
If there's a negative review about 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and the same guy lived there for the last four years, the landlord will have a pretty good idea about who's writing the bad reviews.

They can evict the tenant in a retaliatory manner, or if what they wrote qualifies as libelous, take them to court easily.

So the incentive to write fake reviews to steer competition away is just not there.

This doesn't mean that there won't be fake reviews, just that worrying about fake reviews of this particular sort doesn't make much sense.
We're about as close to AGI as we are to developing superluminal space flight and working time machines.
PRC is attempting to optimize large compute clusters near renewables via "East Data West Computing" / "Eastern Data, Western Computing". Peak coal is expected in the next few years, new "cleaner" plants mainly replacing old plants. But there's is very much ongoing project to colocate computing/data closer to renewables. If choice is between coal + bottleneck AI, they'd chose coal. But with renewable projected to be 15-30% cheaper than coal in coming years, especially with PRC indigenous semi nodes behind (more power ineffecient per unit of compute), they'd go with renewables + shuttling data around.
I messed with this yesterday a little bit, it's pretty cool. Waiting for more native types and some IO and then I'm really going to play with it.
It's very easy to be "carbon neutral" when all you do is to write software. I doubt they would be this public if they were in a heavy industrial field, for example. Now that they're in the datacenter business things will be different.
I just played 2 games on wordfeud and wow it is both amazing and sad how little I need to be satisfied and how hard it is to find such an app. Anyways, I uninstalled scrabble and am invested in this one.
I had the same reaction as the comment you are replying to.

I read the first comment quite literally. That there is over 900 GW of power that currently exists but just needs to be “hooked up”. i.e. a solar farm that is built, but through some bureaucracy there’s no line running from it to the grid.

With the context of the reply, that is not the case. Most of the cited 900GW isn’t even built yet. This seems like an important distinction when considering the scope of work needing to be done.
Are you implying that he is adjusting his reading list to fake competence? Thomas Wolf has the second highest number of commits on HuggingFace/transformers. He is clearly competent & deeply technical

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/
Another reason not to confine your civilisation to one planet, or to planets generally.

Much harder to wipe out a civilisation that's dispersed among hundreds or thousands of smaller space colonies. Especially if many of those colonies are hidden in an asteroid belt of millions of rocks.
I first heard about this solution a few years ago from a tree service owner who said he was allergic but cured his allergy by eating young leaves. (One of his new workers had just gotten exposed for the first time and his reaction was so bad he had to be taken the the ER.) Living on the California central coast, poison oak shows up on my property every year. Two or three times in the last couple of decades I've managed to make contact and get a rash, but it seemed to be less severe with each exposure. (I do remember my mother saying my sister would have a much worse reaction then me when playing outdoors as kids.) As an adult, I'm not sure if I'm building up immunity, or just getting better at avoiding prolonged contact.
For typical projects you just need a handful. In other programming languages that means code generation or macro hell. So it is nice that it’s built into the language to do it properly, even if you only use it for those few things.
The fact that you cannot perceive the harms, or that they are not yet apparent, does not mean they do not exist.

Look at Facebook and other social media: at first we all thought it was great and then we realized it's a giant depression machine, and all it's really good for is giving young girls eating disorders.

But since we're on the topic, the immediate casualties seem to be the livelihoods of authors and artists, on whose content the LLMs were trained and who received no compensation.

And now every publisher is inundated with infinite ChatGPT-created books. We won't get into the climate impact of wasting all that compute just to create a better phishing-email generator.
Some of us looked at it and decided the results were so bad it was a net loss to even try, but it was just so cool...
> a critique of modernism positing the that "melancholy" and disaffection are inevitable end-states, moral relativism and existential crisis finding their origin in the (historical) moment that language comes to be understood as referential, and arbitrary.

Excellent, I no longer need to plan on therapy. It's merely my understanding of language. Phew.