skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really baffles me that even extremely knowledgeable insiders like this end up buying the AGI hype. LLMs are extremely novel and have lots of groundbreaking applications, but this idea that we are headed directly into fantasy sci-fi A.I. is completely bonkers.

It's one thing to push this kind of hype to get people talking about A.I. if you're trying to capitalize on this space. It's something else entirely to swallow your own marketing BS as if it were gospel.

But let's face it, this guy probably isn't serious, he's just spewing more hype upon departing OpenAI looking for the next tech company to hire him.
That's a fantastic explanation. +1.
The development work comes in stopping repeated abuse. Eg. A block of up addresses known to be bad should not be able to repeatedly sign up for new accounts after a ban. You may need to add catchas for users which have certain criteria met. Call pumping needs to be constantly re-scripted to stop bad phone companies tricking your systems into sending SMS to expensive numbers (Twitter turned off all SMS two factor auth to stop this which is telling of the gap they left here).
This specific thread is about children. Children might also want to drink alcohol but we have laws against that.

If there's a need to provably ensure kids are not being influenced by algorithm, I think my solution works. Making social media less engaging for children is something I'm fine with. Adults can have whatever experience they want.
Instruction manuals make it easy to game it but people can still game it without an instruction manual. This seems similar to the idea of security through obscurity. The same argument could be made about linux, right?

Letting people see into it could make it easier for people to learn how to game the system but it could also make the system harder to game in the first place.
A blurry photo of the legendary USB Cart of Death
An income of 1,000,000 is well above the 99th percentile of household income in California.
Seconding Framework - mine's not very old, so I can't speak to longevity, but their mission is aligned with my values and I've been pretty happy with it so far.
Book Excerpt: Beyond the Code, Setting You Up for Success as a Software Engineer
You need to rotate your display to portrait mode. ;-P

Serious point: a secondary 1080P display in portrait orientation is actually quite fabulous. Documentation gets parked on the secondary display. Line lengths remain readable, and you get lots of vertical space.
Interestingly you can change the `.gif` to `.mp4` and you get a video _with_ audio.
Simple and minimalist => Requires npm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is like saying people buy baldur's gate because you can undress your characters or make them date

Consumers don't want pornography in their games, they're completely different products: visual novels are closer to a slideshow than a game

People buy good games and they consume pornography, conflating the two doesn't help us analyse the market.

That said, I agree there is probably more money in pornography than in making indie games (which explains the explosion of the genre)
1. You are not a lawmaker.

2. Seeking out expertise is a paragon of making wise choices. Seeking out moneyed interests is not.
> you either pay as an employee or as a consumer.

I think you stopped reading, or at least comprehending what you were reading, early.
the degrees are conferred by the highest authority at the university, the board of regents/trustees. the only reason they would rescind a degree would be evidence of academic fraud/plagiarism in the course of earning the credits for the degree.
If this goes to court (it almost certainly won't, OpenAI has enough money to 100x Johansson's net worth without blinking, unless she's principled enough to establish legal precedent) then we'd see on the order of years, not days.
Thanks for sharing! It's encouraging to see the authors actively improving their models post-publication. Exciting to witness science in action!
I always assumed the way to map these models would be by ablation, the same way we map the animal brain.

Damage part X of the network and see what happens. If the subject loses the ability to do Y, then X is responsible for Y.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
The masses kept it cheap. Now these film labs have to make 2020s rent and not 1990s rent with the few people dropping stuff off each day, forcing prices to increase substantially.
No argument here, it definitely required some effort. I'm also listening to the plays in audiobook format, which presents its own unique challenges (e.g. deciphering which character is speaking).
One example is Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) - supports GIFs up to 2 MB, but not videos.
another solution is to distribute the task of drive maintenance. see storj for example.
that's a lot of words to put in my mouth. laugh away, it won't do you any good.
I've played through this game twice I loved it so much. It's a great podcast game, too.
I was mildly surprised when the article quoted a senior at the bank framing the situation as a feeble, lone teller vs a well-oiled theft industry - as if the teller doesn't have resources of a multi-billion-dollar corporation - perhaps they don't and it was an inadvertent confession. In that case, we don't need a "fraud czar", we need laws that make fraud the banks' problem by forcing them to make clients whole when the bank is defrauded by misrepresentation.
Yeah, I have a friend that bought a Framework laptop and he's said a lot of good things about it. My Macbook was expensive enough to where I'm hoping to get another couple years out of it, which I actually think will work out great, because that'll give a bit of time to further increase Linux compatibility on the Frameworks.

I sort of refuse to use any Linux other than NixOS at this point, so I might have to wait a little longer to get everything, but I think I'm ok with that.
I do a lot of 3D modeling. Part of that requires creating views of your object that you can jump back and forth between. I’d never considered the analogy of a bookmark, thanks for that!

When I read about the developer breadcrumbs my eyes lit up; the creation of these views is necessary but also kind of sucks. I would love to be able to say: “show me front elevation of kitchen, looking at rear of building, with fov set to allow me to see the full counter and pantry”.

I’m new at this 3D modeling thing in the grand scheme of things, and self taught, but I spend an inordinate amount of time getting to the state described above.
New Phi-3 Models (3B, 7B,14B), including 128k vision with impressive MMLU scores
I recently tried reading Long Way to a Small Angry Planet since a few people on HN recommended it.

Its pretty terrible. The first few chapters involve the main character literally walking onto a ship, and then tons of exposition about how her alien teamates are all alien in their own individualistic ways that in no way contribute to an over arching story.

You learn nothing about the world, no intrigue, characters are superficially interesting, and to top it all off, the writing is teen fiction bad. (The book screams of Mary Sue.)

I've been burned by HN book recommendations before. If you enjoyed the level of giddy writing shown in The Martian, Gödel, Escher, Bach, then you will probably like the giddy writing of this book.
Not just Microsoft, but all of Silicon Valley has a huge problem with end-user consent. If "The Software Industry" was a nightclub, it would be full of creepy guys hitting on women with "Do you want to dance? [Yes | Ask Me Again Later]"
> > The following are among the deadliest incidents reported between 16 and 19 May (emphasis added).

On May 20th Israeli jets struck around 70 targets, according to the Israeli military on Twitter. Their post admitted hitting targets across Gaza, including Jabalia, Central Gaza, and Rafah. At least 85 people were killed and 200 injured in total on May 20th.

If May 20th was a uniquely bad day with noticeably more strikes than before, and wouldn’t be repeated for months, if ever, than you could argue the strikes are limited. However, May 20th was not unique, it followed the same patterns as May 16th, May 17th, May 18th, and May 19th. May 21st looks like it is also gonna have as many strikes, and destruction:

Between midnight on May 21st and 7 AM, reported a residential building in Rafa being destroyed, killing at least 8, and 3 Palestinians being killed in an explosion Jabalia. Jabalia is still under intense shelling, in particular al-Awda Hospital where these 3 were stuck and unable to evacuate. Bait Lahia in Northern Gaza is also under heavy artillery shelling, including the gates of Kamil Adwan Hospital, which was also raided last December. Around 2 PM footage was released of the aftermath of another airstrike in Gaza City, where a residential home belonging to the Shobaki family was targeted and completely destroyed. A child no older than 2 year old was martyred in that airstrike.

No, the strikes are not “limited” by any definition of limited. Yesterday I went on a Wikipedia stroll to see examples of other urban warfare, and nowhere do we see this pattern of dozens of strikes, day after day, with 2-3 mass casualty events every day. Where several houses are leveled every single day. This very much describes e.g. the siege of Aleppo during the worst days of the fighting, in the neighborhoods which were worst affected.
> Imagine how different the UK would feel if Google, Microsoft and Facebook were all founded here.

It wouldn't be the UK, I think. As a UK resident, who reads quite a lot of US business stuff, and who lived in South Africa for a few years, the culture is just totally different in both compared to the UK. I don't know if it's the frontier mentality still ongoing from them being relatively recent countries, but there's definitely something.
Aluminum foil HVAC tape- super awesome tape for sealing air leaks. It is somewhat rigid and formable at the same time. With the way it is formable, it tends to stay in place better than a lot of other tapes when put into strange shapes.
dang said they tell established users when and why they're banned. It seems like most bans are public after a warning after a pattern.
With a little imagination we can pull that string quite far.

If TikTok can change public opinion then they must have speech right? How do they have speech without speaking? They have speech by filtering and weighing things a specific way. If you can speak without speaking then how does Section 230 come into play? If platforms can speak and have opinions and affect public opinion then whey do they get Section 230 protections? Should the algorithms be open sourced and transparent (or banned) since they have so much power?

It raises a lot of questions that we have put off answering. I think the (distant) relevance of Section 230 makes big tech scared to talk about it since that's their cash-cow.
Getting negative vibes from the name. Cadmium's a nasty substance. I mean, you wouldn't call an augmented reality app ARsenic, would you? Constructive, I hope, criticism.
I love doing this kind of stuff - it's endlessly engrossing to me. Lately I've been trying to find previously undiscovered cheat codes in 1990s console games - there are lots that never made it into the magazines! (Findings are on 32bits.substack.com).

The availability of the Ghidra reverse engineering tool suite, has made this a very accessible hobby if you have any sort of knowledge of low level languages.
> Another passenger said the aircraft suddenly started "tilting up” and “shaking".

> "[...] very suddenly there was a very dramatic drop [...]"

Nose tipping up, followed by steep drop. Sounds like the plane stalled.
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This interesting theory might help explain: reasoning is a social activity humans evolved to save time and cognitive load via division of labor. It requires negative feedback.

1. An individual's reasoning workload is reduced by forming a bias. The gaps left by this bias can be filled with others' reasoning. For example if Gail focuses on why a business idea is good and Bob focuses on why that same idea is bad, they reduced the total amount of reasoning required by 50%.

2. If strong reasons are always prepared for everything, effort is wasted when others are easy to convince. So people start with minimal effort, producing weak reasons (why the business idea is good or bad). Gail and Bob keep responding to each other's reasons with stronger reasons only until necessary. After reaching consensus further reasoning is not required.

Source: https://youtu.be/_ArVh3Cj9rw?t=969
Another vote for The Power Broker. A fascinating, if daunting, book.
Quoting that as a relevant case law is completely ridiculous.

Did you even look at the Ford commercial? https://youtu.be/hxShNrpdVRs

Having someone sing in the exact same style as another singer is totally different from what OpenAI did with their voice AI (having a female actor speak in a flirty tone).

It makes sense with music but you're setting a really dangerous precedent if you can't even hire a voice actor who sounds similar for speaking.
I honestly think if you asked the average Brit on the street what an engineer was, they'd say "it's someone who MOTs your car".
The extent to which LLMs are comparable to how collections of neurons work is really quite limited.
And it's extensible.
Btw, socialist camp (mostly Soviets, East Germans, and Bulgarians) practiced stealing R&D from the West to such an extent that we all really should praise capitalism for being development force for both sides of the Cold War.
(I'm the in-house AI engineer at Braindump.)

Yeah, this is definitely something we're considering. The majority of us are programmers and have similar feelings about the joy of programming. The two things I'd say we've discovered along the way are that:

1. People who aren't programmers can build games with this, and that's worthwhile in itself (giving this to a non-programmer and watching them realise an idea they have is delightful!)

2. Working over concepts, not code, allows for much faster iteration and experimentation. I'm a fast programmer, but nothing compares to clicking somewhere, saying "do this", and being able to play around with it within a minute.

We're still navigating the boundary between traditional game making (including programming) and AI-infused game making; I hope we'll find a happy balance that keeps everyone empowered and happy :)
A weak response and no response ever are different.
Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Review: Low-cost, high-speed, The wait was worth it
Recently on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40352474
> if Philip II was so smart, why was it Alexander who became Lord of Asia and not him? … So much for the pragmatic genius.

Phillip II went from captive in Thebes to overlord of Greece. In Ancient Greece where there were many small city-states this involved a lot of gaining control 1 by 1, via diplomacy and war. This takes a long, long time. About 23 years, as it turns out.

> Did Philip even have the ambition or desire needed to conquer Persia?

Of course he did. He founded a pan-Hellenic league and installed himself as its leader. The League of Corinth’s first act was to declare war against Persia. He had a large Macedonian force already in Asia Minor when he died. The invasion of Persia was already underway when Phillip died.

> Would he have had the tolerance needed to actually rule these areas that Alexander demonstrated (i.e. marrying Roxane despite it upsetting "old guard" generals, keeping in place a lot of the local government structures/making deals with people like Porus) or would he have insisted on violent rule that would have created conditions ripe for rebellion?

Marrying someone to establish an alliance was a day one strategy for Phillip II. Macedonian royalty were expected to have multiple wives. Phillip never insisted on brutality when he could have his way peacefully. Considering Alexander was the one who leveled Thebes I don’t really think setting up a wise, peaceful son vs violent, foolish father archetype is accurate.
Was it F-you money for most employees, though? Sure, it was a 60% premium over the current stock price, in CUC stock which promptly dropped after the announcement.

So I suppose if you were sitting on 300k in equity it was now worth 480k, but it's not like going from illiquid paper wealth to a liquidity event...and given the company's growth trajectory it seemed likely at the time that it would get there in a year or two on its own, without a (risky) acquisition.

Dunno, doesn't seem like a slam-dunk case of F-you money to me.
The statement that this can be implemented with a quantum algorithm is a bit ambiguous. If you look in detail, the problem is only formulated on the quantum computer while the optimization routine which essential solves the problem is left to a classical computer. There are some notions of quantum gradients. But I wouldn’t know how it applies to such problems
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agree - what's more, the author is really talking about blaze, where everything "just works" because there are massive dedicated resources maintaining it. He literally admits that he likes the copy-pasta-no-think-about-it:

> Surprisingly, I didn’t need to fiddle with blaze, nor did I have to understand how it worked. I could copy some build targets and edit the dependency list, and the build worked as expected.

Sure, systems that just work are great, until they break.

bazel on the other hand, not so much. Heaven help you if it doesn't support your use-cases - you will wish you had Google to maintain your build.
Commenting before I've read this latest installment, I'm expecting nothing short of fun technical details and some interesting insights.

The first two parts were a really fun introduction into many aspects of how a text editor works, there's so much you don't even think about as a user of text editors, but Mihhail had to take care of.

I think my favourite takeaways were the bits of UI polish and thoughtfulness that are sprinkled through both pieces, and probably the third too.

Nice work Mihhail, you clearly care about not just making and selling a product, but making a wonderful experience out of something 'mundane' like a text editor. It takes a lot of care to go beyond just 'making it work' to 'making it work thoughtfully'!
> The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.

Counterpoint: The law to ban tiktok was languishing after the US government got complete access to tiktok moderation, only still pushed by local anti-China grandstanders who ran on it when the government was busy extorting tiktok in order to get that access. The reason it passed now was to suppress the speech of Americans talking about the leveling of Gaza.

> All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok

Because an anti-tiktok law is a bill of attainder and completely unconstitutional (as I was once downvoted into oblivion for mentioning.) Generalizing the bill passes that constitutional hurdle, and if upheld allows the state to end-run around the 1st Amendment and ban speech at will. The bill would be useless if it didn't silence Americans, and all people will do after a tiktok ban is migrate to another speech platform. It's important to be able to silence speech everywhere.

> tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.

The US doesn't care about tiktok, and has full access to ban whatever it likes. The US cares about silencing you.
fixed that one too! thanks!
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The best conversations I've had online have been on phpBB forums which would be destroyed by this algorithm.
> A stop gap to all the work the browser devs and standards bodies had to do to figure out what worked.

We now exactly what works. UI didn't suddenly appear in 2024 out of nowhere.

What you need are actual tools to build UIs, and not a hodge-podge of hacks thrown in together with no long-term planning, and aimed at displaying only text and a couple of images.

Just giving the ability to get an element's size without causing a full-page re-flow and re-layout would give much more power to UIs than any number of relative sizes and container queries.
maybe, just maybe, the other reading of it that actually makes sense is the one that made sense:

I want to use EVM tokens and smart contracts over Tor or on Whonix/Tails, instead of only bitcoin or monero
>there are too many people on this Earth and the population numbers are propped up by our usage of plastics.

Thomas Malthus or Club of Rome much?
Just out of curiosity, why do you think that would be worse?

I don’t personally think it’s a helpful restriction but I’m curious what problems you believe it would cause.
Restyle, a good CSS-in-JS library for React
Ondsel is FreeCAD without the sadistic UX.
Apart from the fact that there is no such thing as AI (it's artificial all right but far from intelligence), this might be the next cryptocurrency, i.e. huge energy waste for no perceptible gain. Except this time there are way more suckers and a hype wave the likes of which we haven't seen since the web 1.0 bubble.
Show HN: Canvas and chat UI for automating tasks
Hi community,

We’re excited to announce the launch of our automation platform: https://kili.so

LLMs will enable us to automate many repetitive tasks. We are passionate about bringing this tech to everyone through the right interface.

Conversational interfaces are great to think through problems, but don't cut it for complex tasks. Canvas' are great to think through complex tasks but can be difficult to wrangle with. We're combining the best of both. We want to ensure the interface is minimal and has the ability to support the user whenever they feel stuck.

A few technical notes for the community:
- The canvas and the chat assistant share the same state. The assistant can zoom in and out of tasks. The assistant can also take actions (e.g. adding a step to a task)
- There is an execution environment built in so you can test tasks from within the app
- We support connections to other business apps and services. For now, these apps and services need to be “available” as an integration Kili. We expect to over come this and allow users to connect to any API of their choice.
- Once your task is up and running, we make it easy to execute it via email, on a schedule or in bulk.

Our priorities for the next few weeks:
1. The product still feels technical. We are going to work on making it simpler.
2. We want the assistant to be even more proactive. For example, it should automatically propose how steps should be connected.

We're excited to see what you build and welcome any feedback you have!
> Film is so damn expensive these days too!

It's no longer a mass produced item, so the same thing that makes a phone cheap is not available in the film business.
The promise that New York doesn't hinge on the existence of a single industry?
Using the singular sound as a verb is unusual, it is a little bit of a joke, but it checks out.
Email Server Setup Script
Optimize Voice AI Performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270586
post author here, thanks to both of these commenters for pointing out this issues with the intentionally bad date. I'll make note of this and update the post.
A kid famously built a neutron emitter in his suburban shed in the 90s[1]. His goal was to build a breeder reactor.

I don't personally know how to do these things either. I know how to program computers, and could teach that. My point is that I am a small component of a vast, distributed system of knowledge that is very hard to destroy. It doesn't seem practical to kill every nuclear physicist and destroy every copy of every document that describes nuclear physics. I don't see how climate change could do this.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn