skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is a non trivial thing. Sicily is economically depressed, but what is interesting is that it is generally not culturally depressed, I mean we had geniuses like Majorana because the university of math in Catania was good once, and there are a lot of "thinkers" so you are not like alone in some island but with 5 million of people, part of which do the most desperate things and are intellectually very active. At the same time, the weather is good, the food is good, the life does not cost too much, there is a lot of history and nature. And... for people doing programming, there is the Internet, like this site. About connections with the IT system: in part I believe that in isolation you can accomplish more work, even if it is true that the group, the network, sometimes create a "chain effect", but I'm a very solitary programmer, so this setup worked for me. At the same time I don't "value" to remain where you were born: I respect a lot people that are tired form staying here and want to go away. What I miss the most is that the helathcare system in North Italy is at the same time free and among the best systems in the world. Here is decent, but not at the same level, so for serious stuff there are people going to Milan or Turin or Florence to get some procedure, and that's not cool. But, air quality is stellare compared to North, and this also is a part in the health story. Compromises...
Basically don't give your sensitive data to a third-party if you don't want prying eyes on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is cool, but the post swaps in a tiny interpreter bc it says that CPython and SpiderMonkey are both huge. It then goes on to talk about modifying the interpreter to make some specific info visible to weval, and I can imagine that those changes would be considerable for CPython or SpiderMonkey. But if we ignore those specialization sections, and just consider the material up through the "Enter weval" section ... could weval have handled CPython or SpiderMonkey (or some other real interpreter that people use regularly)? Or does the partial evaluation have some scaling behavior that explodes or bogs down with large or complex interpreters? I.e. was the tiny interpreter needed just to make the following sections compact, or does even the basic use of weval require a small input?
The reason why Altman is so intent on regulation is because he knows he has no moat if he can't persuade the government to build him one.

OpenAI has a head start, but the technology is very well understood and the only limitation to building new models is budget. Facebook is actively working to undercut them and commoditize the technology and it looks like they will succeed. OpenAI can't keep spending billions to stay ahead of the commoditization, so they need the government to pull up the drawbridge and give them that moat.

Altman himself doesn't care one iota about safety and he just pushed out the people that did. This is just a strategic play to him.
The only viable peaceful solution is Russian withdrawal, and Putin has made it clear this is off the menu.

Anything else rewards and encourages the use of invasion, profoundly encourages China to invade Taiwan, and North Korean and Iran.

It will also anyway only be a temporary peace; Putin will try again in some years time. Anyone want to trust him when he promises not to - again?

The West has been forced to spend vast amounts of money, in many ways, and millions of people have been forced to flee Ukraine and resettle in the West, and about 500,000 people have been maimed or killed.

To not win after such costs is to lose.

It also means all nations which have a threatening neighbour need their own nuclear weapons. That's in the end will lead to their use.

There is also a more personal reason.

The world has a lot of shit in it, and people generally are increasingly depressed in their normal, day to day lives, because of it. We are not happy.

Stopping Putin would bright a vast ray of hope and a vision of a decent future in our lives.
That gave me a chuckle when I saw it, it's such an iconic meme. The original video never stops being amusing, I mean really the whole scenario is so ridiculous.
The devastation comes from the gliding aspect, which allows the bombs to be deployed from out of range of air defense systems, minimizing the defensive effect for Ukraine of Russia being unable to operate freely in the air over Ukraine.
Right.

But, to the average person playing the game, what is the practical difference?

None, right?
And if those regions are given up today and peace is declared between Ukraine and Russia why would Russia not just apply the same strategy tomorrow to destabilise and then annex a big chunk of Georgia/Estonia/Moldova.
> The gotcha I didn't spot at the time is that a compiler is (I think, could be argued either way) easier to write than a partial evaluator.

I agree that this is sometimes true, but there are several, IMHO bigger, issues:

1. The partial evaluation of the interpreter might degenerate back to getting a copy of the interpreter loop (or multiple!) and not achieve any speedup, just memory overhead

2. The partial evaluator might need additional annotations on what is and is not mutable; it might need a lot of help in order to constant-fold away a key piece of data. Tuning that and getting wrong and result in #1.

3. Partially evaluating the interpreter is a pretty slow compiler. You need to do the second Futamura projection (apply the partial evaluator to an interpreter loop without the user code) in order to get a fast compiler. That means the partial evaluator needs to be in the same IR as the partial evaluator's input language.

That said, I've chatted a bit with Chris offline about this, and I think this work is really cool and promising. I might tinker with this a little in Wizard too.
This is and has been already going on.
How often do we try to do something at some office, and the answer is no - we ask why?
" because the computer says so."
We need to keep the human element, alive.
sorry, but it's just common sense
I’m building a state of the art aircraft. I won’t allow my companies slack messages answering questions from the competition
Would you care to explain how any of that supports the points you're actually making here?

Some of what you're spamming seems to directly undermine your claims, eg.:

> Another finding is that SLC (single level cell), the most costly drives, are NOT more reliable than MLC drives. And while the newest high density 3D-TLC (triple level cell) drives have the highest overall replacement rate, the difference is likely not caused by the 3D-TLC technology
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's great, I'm just trying to eat very healthy
So it's a pretty simple wrapper of LLM model in use (currently gpt-4o), it does not add much technical stuff in it.

It does not use database for any "random search", but yes, columns.ai is a data analytics tool that allows you to connect supported live data sources like Google Spreadsheet, Airtable, Notion Database to create visual stories.

The analytics engine is home built (https://github.com/varchar-io/nebula) but it is not a database. And I don't use LLM agents, just build logic how to purify data returned by LLM, and fit them into an optimized visualization.

Hope I answered your question!
Given the catastrophe risk involved in their use, there is much to be alarmed at simply to consider the possibilities of accident use - miscommunication, false alarms, broken technology, etc.

It takes more than one thing going wrong at the same time, for an accident to happen, but that happens - that's why we have car accidents - only here we're talking about a potentially civilization/climate ending accident.

Better not to be in that situation in the first place.
> Wasn't Apple a serious factor in getting both popular?

I don’t think so, especially for BT.

> And IIRC they were also the first one to have a Bluetooth stack that didn't outright suck

Bluetooth already was well adopted on non smart mobile phones (feature phones) and then cars primarily for headsets but also OBEX - (2002-2003) long before anyone cared much about desktop use for peripherals, let alone Apple.
Apple had nothing to do with popularizing Bluetooth.

For USB, it is more nuanced but I think usually overstated. Apple is still a minority in desktop marketshare, but in the 90s even though they were recovering with the iMac, they had basically come from the brink. I don’t think they had the market pull people take for granted now.

Intel and VIA were already sticking USB controllers into their Pentium/AMD chipsets “for free”, the ports were inevitably showing up on every bargain basement Wintel PCs. The numbers just dwarf anything Apple was doing even if they adopted early. It’s also not like Apple had market power to compel anybody like Microsoft to do anything like they would a few years later.
(Further evidence would be the glut of cheap USB accessories in BRIC countries where Apple had essentially 0% market share in those days).

A few years later Apple would make FireWire commonplace on a number of peripheral classes for a short while.
While we are at it, making email that implements MX2 HIPPA, bank, etc compliant by default so medical/bank services can send you medical notifications and communications directly to your email instead of telling you to login to your account to see a message about your next doctors appointment or test result.
What happened to "when you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product.". Here people are clearly paying, and yet, slowly that is being eroded as well.
Microsoft Blocks Russian Corporate Clients from Cloud Services, Vendor Says
I don’t know about their glide kits but the lancet drone has camera based guidance and uses a nvidia sbc.
Does it count as a public disclosure if you disclose an invention to a slack AI?

The Wikipedia definition says: “a communication to one or more members of the public”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_disclosure
> In this, the year 2025, minijack MIDI is now fairly common, but in the 90’s it was all DIN, all the time
Yeah, not mobile friendly UI. because the visualizer really needs some space to render, so overall I didn't pursue to optimize it for mobile.

Anything is clickable and styleable on the canvas though.
> I feel like the gig economy (things like Fiverr)

Predictably this is already happening, it doesn't take much browsing in categories such as tattoo design to spot the hallmarks of AI generated artwork. To add insult to injury they often pretend they aren't using AI, so they can up-charge for more intricate artwork that would take more effort if they weren't really just adding more synonyms for "detailed" to their Midjourney prompt.

Fiverr does have a dedicated category for AI art, but they don't seem to be making any effort whatsoever to keep AI art out of every other category, so it's pointless.
So, we are paying for Slack and we are the product?
Trusting is a problem, to be honest, mostly for fun. If you want to trustable source, feel free to copy text paragraph and let it parse for you, there is another mode for that.
If anything it's the opposite. Western military leaders have been shocked by how the Russians keep making the same avoidable errors over and over, and how long their cycle times are to adapt. Even today they don't really have a unified joint staff capable of gathering lessons learned and rapidly turning those into formal doctrine changes.

But they do have the advantage of greater manpower and enormous equipment stockpiles, which compensates for a multitude of errors.
I’ve been working with Clojure for the past 8 years, and while I can vouch for it, I wouldn’t say it has _all_ the Lispy goodness of CL:

- it lacks a robust debugger (where you can step, redefine, continue…)

- it uses the GC of the host VM

- can’t save interpreter images

- is designed to be a hosted language, meaning many implementation details are left to the host VM (JVM or JS)

- type checking

- performance

Also, wouldn’t call CL abandonware, since it’s a standardized language. Abandonware by my definition is all the Python 2 or JS code that you can’t run on a current implementation.
A dyson swarm is just a bunch of satellites, each harnessing energy from a the same star around which they are more or less are situated (what they do with that energy is up to them). They harvest a proportion of the star's energy anywhere on the range between 0 (non-inclusive) and 100% (inclusive). Your description is one possible end state of a Dyson swarm, and itself includes a subjective measure (what you consider dramatic might not be what I consider dramatic).

Your description of it as a megastructure might explain some of the confusion: it wouldn't be a structure, but rather a formation of satellites not physically connected to each other.

How do you build a swarm of satellites? Well, first you make 1 satellite, then you make another... :)
OK, let me rewrite it:

> Any body of academic thought whose paradigmatic communication medium is video rather than text is prima facie suspect. Might you please link a written statement of the salient position(s) of any one of these gentlemen?

> Academic content is usually in text, not video. Do you have links to written work from them?

Shorter and the exact same meaning. Also doesn't sound like you've been perusing your thesaurus all day.
Just because the bad data and the right data tell the same story doesn't preclude the fact that the original post can and does lead to bad assumptions in many other examples.

I expect better from the otherwise number accurate crowd here.

The level of butthurt in down d00ts and replies is telling.
Wasn’t there a big discussion on HN when Slack changed their privacy policy to say that they will steal all private conversations and use them for AI and some such?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383978.
That's an odd question, a democratically elected government is supposed to have the power to regulate, and they're supposed to exercise that privilege in a way that benefits their constituents - but that's a different debate.

Corporations, meanwhile, are not supposed to wield disproportionate power over the laws and regulations. Separate issues.
Others have recommended ArchiveBox, I will recommend using any bookmarking tool that fires off a web request to the Wayback Machine to archive a page when you create the bookmark.
> What’s stopping Ukraine and its allies from building these?

Ukraine and its allies have much smaller stores of large, outdated dumb bombs to refit, and Ukraine has a much smaller Air Force with which to deploy them, so it makes little sense for Ukraine and its allies to build this particular solution (the West has purpose developed – or already modified – glide bombs, but, again, Ukraine’s smaller air force and not having the exact planes on which those are integrate is a bit of a barrier, though the second part is relatively easily overcome.)

> Let’s say you start pounding blocks down in the major cities in southwest Russia and see how they feel after that

Neither Ukraine nor, even moreso, its allies are interested in pounding city blocks in Southwest Russia indiscriminately. OTOH, military bases, oil infrastructure, etc. are a bit of a different story, but they are finding ways to do that without glide bombs.
The massive increase is still 1/500 chance per year.
Cool project, I'm eagerly waiting for a jpegxl decoder to be written in wuffs so that Google won't have any reason not to support the format...

I would be glad to have a try but the language specification and documentation is almost non existent.
Slack itself isn’t “the public” and if you disclosed on a public channel, the fact that it was via Slack would be immaterial.
I don't believe that Bessel beam is a workaround for the diffraction limit in the far-field. That diffraction limit is a universal law for any optical system with a finite-size aperture (i.e. the size of the focusing mirror array). To the extent you're approximating a Bessel beam in the real, physical world, we're still stuck with finite apertures, so it's the same law.
As someone who's been engaged in this topic (the nature of reality and consciousness) over the past 3 years, it's very surprising to see this comment on HN. As I've suggested in a past comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36465928), this can potentially be one of the most transformative rabbit hole anyone can ever hope to enter.

It's been fascinating to observe the dichotomy between researchers who work on explaining consciousness, starting from a physicalist/materialist perspective, slowly being convinced away from that intuition with iron clad arguments, while laypeople lean further into it, deluded by what they perceive to be signs of it from recent AI progress.

Among former materialist academics that I expect to see publications from a more affirmed idealist position in the next 5 years, I count David Chalmers and Christof Koch. Perhaps Anil Seth too.
I'm kind of late to this post, but really awesome initiative and well executed project! Thank you for bringing this to people!

I tested it a bit and it seems pretty decent, although for some really niche theoretical questions it wasn't successful in retrieving the answers I wanted even if alot of the results were really good in other aspects. It could simply be because the answer is not available anywhere in hackernews.

I'm wondering if someone were to build a similar project but for other sites, what would your advice be? For instance what technical difficulties did you stumble on that you think would be good to be aware of?

Thanks in advance and once again congratulations on the project!
I appreciate that's what you believe, but you're simply wrong on this one. Ask around your own social circle.
Ukraine is not fighting because "The West" won't let them stop; they're fighting because they know what will happen to them if they do stop. Russian soldiers are brutal occupiers. Russian officials have been deporting lots of children from the territory they've occupied.

That is, I can't see Ukraine trying to negotiate some kind of peace-for-land deal. Apart from anything else, any land Russia occupied as part of such a deal would be used to launch a new attack once they've reconstituted their forces.

So any negotiation would be between "The West" and Russia, over Ukraine's heads. And that is the only kind of negotiation that Putin will countenance; he's been very clear that he thinks Ukraine is not a country, it's people are no more than ill-educated Russians, and its leaders are nazis.

Of course, Russia has negotiated with real nazis before; but it's pretty seditious to mention that in public in Russia nowadays.
> Wasn't Apple a serious factor in getting both popular?

USB was invented by Intel. Yes, Apple going all in on USB on the iMac was a huge push for USB which had still been languishing on the PC side, slowly adopted but poorly used. However, someone had to invent it. Bluetooth was more about Intel's influence, they weren't nearly as instrumental as they were with USB.
Google Is About to Change Everything–and Hopes You Won't Find Out
I always click Y-axis to modify the axis range, usually modify low-value to 0
and it looks better - https://columns.ai/chatgpt/uUN2oYp7Yusstk
Being noticed isn't the same as changing anything. They may have lowered their expectations, but I think they mostly want to actually change things.

(Though like anything else with a lot of young people, some of them just want to get laid, and it works for that.)
Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies: A User-Centric Study on Evaluat
You don’t think you are but you are. There’s a connection between your poor reasoning and your belief that “A.I.” is analogous to human thinking. You don’t understand LLMs or human cognition, therefore you have an ignorant opinion.
> I want to be clear about what Bel is and isn't. Although it has a lot
more features than McCarthy's 1960 Lisp, it's still only the product
of the formal phase. This is not a language you can use to program
computers, just as the Lisp in the 1960 paper wasn't. Mainly because,
like McCarthy's Lisp, it is not at all concerned with efficiency.
When I define append in Bel, I'm saying what append means, not trying
to provide an efficient implementation of it.

That doesn't seem to be their goal.
Intriguing post.

Wonder if mere IQ is the right metric.

Intelligence is nothing without experience, so we should probably aim to define certain level of intelligence applied to a certain knowledge base.

Further, there is depth and breadth of this knowledge which may define a type (specialist vs generalist) and level (shallow vs deep) of expertise, respectively.

I’d expect the nature of the data used to train a model would be reflected in the cost per unit of work: more proprietary the data, more expensive it would presumably be.

But assuming for a moment we can use IQ as the metric. I wonder what HN thinks what’s the level of IQ-equivalence of the state of art GPT-4o model.
The 6502 has T states at least breaking instructions on memory access boundaries.
>without giving it to the government?

At least the [elected] government is under the responsibility of its citizens, while corporations are only responsible to their shareholders.
‘"An ML engineer at Slack says they don’t use messages to train LLM models," Orosz wrote. "My response is that the current terms allow them to do so. I’ll believe this is the policy when it’s in the policy. A blog post is not the privacy policy: every serious company knows this."’

I really wish this advice was followed to the letter. I’m sick and tired of trying to read into policies on AI training (or AI anything these days) that is pure blog posts on how the service works and what the data protections are. Even from Microsoft no less! Even their “documentation” has a bad habit of referring to half-decisions alluded to in a blog post, saying this is how it works, just trust us, interpret this policy vaguely because we interpret it vaguely. None of the cloud vendors will just sit down with you and sign a contract saying what they will or will not do, they all default to as minimal responsibility as possible. And then they have the guts to jump in on regulation - there’s zero components of the current way these giants do business in AI that is amenable to regulation, at least not in a way that helps you unless you’re an uber-enterprise.
genius, haha~
> Partitioning off a small section of the drive feels very 160 GB SCSI "Let's only use the outer sectors".

In that it was very reliable at accomplishing the goal?
Fingers crossed. Ive come to the slow realization that marketing might be an unjustifiable rot that only makes money through pervasive negative externalities — at least when it’s become so extensive that “brand” advertising is a thing. Would a future of commerce that looks more like eBay / early Amazon than Google really be that sad?

Obviously, this is rough for people who have invested time and money into that profession. Luckily most of them are smart, diligent professionals, so the optimist side of me hopes there will always be a need for such people in our struggles against suffering. For one, we could certainly use a few more teachers…
The framework of materialism posits that there’s a physical universe and consciousness is an emergent property of physical processes. This view is so prevalent in the western world it’s hard to imagine how it could be anything else.

As an alternative, imagine that consciousness is primary. After all, any evidence that you have about the material world happens as an appearance within consciousness. (See “brain in a vat” and related thought experiments for the legitimacy of this idea).

In this alternative model, the concept of replicating consciousness with material processes doesn’t make any sense because consciousness is primary.

To be clear I’m not making any assertions about which model is correct. Instead I’m suggesting that the model you choose is axiomatic - taken as given as opposed to inferred from evidence. And starting with the latter model means artificial replication of consciousness isn’t even a logical proposition.