skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know about any place where expressing eurosceptic views would get you called "far right", let alone a Nazi.

I think elsewhere online this may happen.

Also, some public broadcasters use the "far right" word group suspiciously often, almost as if it was some kind of effort to softly suggest to people how not to vote, but I must be imagining things, because they would never do that:)
(I could be wrong here. Please correct me if that's the case.)

I think the comment you're replying to means exactly what you're saying, which is that it will find solutions which are "easy" to find for the optimizer, and therefore solutions which are simple to achieve through the convergence of some optimizer.
I enjoy "working" on ideas. I will always enjoy working on ideas. I don't work in AI specifically but did purchase "The Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky and followed OpenCYC.

I read this story and thought that the author is too close to subject. I'm sure what he is working on is impressive but the real trick with technology is having it work in the real world.

Outside of large rent seeking business plans what practicalities will this provide for the everyday human?

The best I can see coming from AI is that large corporations phone systems may start to provide quality responses. I feel that training AI on the internet is not as productive as it may seem. The internet is an artificial environment almost entirely dominated by commercial content. I'm not surprised AI can appear quite smart in those confines.

The stumbling block I see is the integration with the outside world. This is domain with sentient creatures with unique ideas.
Yes agree every bare metal server probably beats EBS but a lot of manual work needed then.
Hitler conquered several countries in under a year and there were no signs of that slowing down, Russia has been at a stand still in Ukraine for over 2 years now. Current war is closer to ww1 than ww2.
Banning sale of alcohol in gas stations would not be unreasonable.
Reading about the actual Mickey Finn was interesting but the other stories of unsafe eating out in old Chicago were fascinating.
I think you are misrepresengin Goetz slightly. He said "OOP was necessary in the time of Monoliths because they erect clear boundaries".
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Well, it started with:

"So we had them replaced, at a fair price, by a small local business. Which is something that modern capitalism is trying to make impossible"

And then there was lot of blah-blah-blah about small local business which thanks to those "modern capitalism" is possible and exists. But what is "fair price" is still unknown from whose point of view it is fair.

So, let use the same style (it is the style, yeah):

If you want to rise popularity of your blog in many modern capitalism countries, always start any blog record with any form of modern capitalism blaming :)
There are definitely outliers for every type of diet out there. For me, the closer I stick to meat and eggs, the better I feel.

I think it comes down to me just texting negatively to so many things. Legumes, wheat and cranberries in particular. Now that everything seems to have soy in it it's hard.

I have a hard time sticking to restrictions and every time I pay for it. I've also had really bad side effects to most Medicaid I'd ever been on.

My metabolism is pretty much destroyed now. I wish I could tell myself 25-30 years ago to ignore the general advice and just eat more eggs and ruminant meat.

This is my own anecdotal reality. It's also a large part of why I push back against veganism. I can totally see a world where near is outlawed or so highly restricted it's prohibitively costly.

The irony of seeing highly processed foods pressed so hard for maximized profits the past couple years. It's gone up more than animal products in price relatively speaking.
Yep. People who can’t drive is big chunk of the population, which people who can drive just don’t see. Estimates are around 30%.
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Computers can stop time because they don’t have to execute instructions. In a sense this is an example of what that affords.

Think of a physical message on a piece of paper. The paper is on fire. You can still see the text, but it’s too late to put out the fire.

If you have good memory, you can figuratively stop time at that instant and memorize the contents of the paper. With a computer, the message is already “burned” on the server, but the frozen instant in front of you can be extended indefinitely.
There are an awful lot of currently employed people who are neither remotely entertaining nor creative-minded enough to fill a more behind-the-scenes role for someone who is (assuming jobs like that even exist in this hypothetical near-future massive employment shift).
This is typical Microsoft logic. And 'logic' should be quoted, because Microsoft has the most stupid texts in their products. They make translation errors, grammatical errors, use incomprehensible and stupid comments.
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Counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, and Rust (2021)
You can still legally leave the EU. But this draconian law has not passed yet and has been up many times before, most likely it wont pass.
Alternatively: placing finger on the peak of Olympus Mons on Martian map

"I am not here now". I'm not seeing the problem.

There are a lot of philosophy 'problems' like this, which leads me to think philosophers lead blessed, problem-free lives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40512752
That is simply not true. The same families that were wealthy before the Nazi time (say Quandt, Flick, Krupp, ...) made a killing during the Nazi time and retained and expanded their fortune after Nazi Germany was no more.

It is absolutely not the case that everyone started with 50 Marks and quickly the people who are good with money came back to the top. The same people simply stayed on top throughout.

I've heard this before, and I don't know your background so for sure will not judge. But I think it is best to consider this story that you have been told as propaganda.
We work with LLMs on a daily basis to solve business use cases. From our work, LLMs seem to be nowhere close to being able to independently solve end-to-end business processes, in every use case they need excessive hand holding (output validation, manual review etc.). I often find myself thinking that a use case would be solved faster and cheaper using other ML approaches.

LLMs for replacing work in its entirety seems to be a stretch of the imagination at this point, unless an academic breakthrough that goes beyond the current approach is discovered, which typically has an unknown timeline.

I just don't see how companies like Anthropic/OpenAI are drawing these conclusions given the current state.
Do you think that Fennel adds enough value on top of Lua to justify the extra compilation step?

I mean it is valid to use it for the fun of it, just wondering. Lua is already more or less a Scheme clothed in a more conventional syntax. On top of that the fact that Lua already has excellent metaprogramming capabilities kind of negates the typical advantage of using a lisp-style syntax. So what is Fennel bringing to the table?
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>Would be really interesting to see some actual stats about this though.

Drew DeVault did some tests on this subject and published the results here:

https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html
So just by scaling more they think they will get to AGI? My guess is that it will need something new, maybe a new Nobel prize worthy discovery. It will be interesting to see how history will view the LLMs of today.
So it seems like what they call tables are in fact maps or dicts. "Symbol tables".

I initially raised my eyebrows since what actual tables would have brought would be joins on non unique keys and multiple columns.

That would have unlocked more versatile "table programming" as in SQL, pandas, R and to some degree Excel.

The real benefit of "table programming" is that it is default distributable. All operations are atomic and immutable.

(I also lost some interest in Lua after -4 downvotes).
Computers are just a tool considering the computer more than tool is distorting the relationship between user and tool.
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This argument is more thought provoking than people may think.

What we see is a shift of power. Electronic communications started out as private enterprises, then mostly taken over by states because of the need centralization, and now almost completely taken over by private enterprises one layer above. Governments are still trying to make sense of what happened and find their role in this new world.

Platforms are centralization at work, and it's not that far fetched to think that states could do a better job than Twitter or Facebook. Platforms have immense power. After all, we mostly agree that Facebook very literally facilitating genocide was not good for society. What we disagree on is how much they knew and how much was circumstantial.

There is also this idea that jurisdictions matter for platforms. The Chinese connections with Tiktok owners are problematic since we know for a fact that they have the power to influence elections. The American ownership of Facebook is not similarly problematic, largely because the CIA and other institutions interests mostly align with ours.

It would not surprise me if the Saudi money financing Twitter/X would turn out to be just as important as the financing of 9/11.

In light of that, it should not be surprising that EU states wants to play the game too, even if it will have very little practical effect.
yes if you had read my next sentence, I did call out that feature from Raivo as being redundant...
There are pharma reps all over doctors offices. They're definitely aware.

People are generally over medicated and the drug pricing has nothing to do with actual costs for either research or production. Similarly for advertising highly processed "food".
> And no, way too concise to be GPT imo

That is funny, it was GPT4 over the video transcript
"Our product is so awesome, it'll even put me out of work".

Sure. Not like you have an economic reason to advance this point of view to drive sales to Anthropic over other LLM providers.
Outperform GPT-3 with Karpathy's llm.c using just 1/3 training tokens
My tinfoil hat theory is that: A big chunk of the real reason these laws are being enacted is to protect the porn and OF model (and not to protect real victims of sexual violence, that's secondary in their minds). With AGI, automation, etc, a lot of people's "value" is in simply being attractive / unique and one-of-a-kind. So these laws are being put out to protect that value from being destroyed and commoditized. I think "TPTB" see that what little human value is going to be left soon is in people (mainly women) selling their own bodies and their goal is in protecting feminist "empowerment" ideologies from being shattered (like men's labor was).

I.e. what's the point of OF models or porn actors if any "stunt double" or AI can do the deed, and you realistically put someone else's face on, or any face to your choosing/liking. Industry disrupted, value ruined, and yet again automation and AI taking over more of humanity's value.
How do we know or how can one prove the voice was not trained on audio from her movies?
I think you are using LLMs exactly right. The corporations need LLMs to be extra special to support valuations.
I think immediacy is key here. A bad sofa that falls apart after five years of use is a delayed loss (that fallacy has to have be discovered already). A small investment, prospects of gambling it and the inability to see through seem to play a role so lottery (poor people's tax) comes to mind.

> pace of fraud

Isn't it if the stakes are high more eyes are watching and thus quality control works (better)?
I'm at a loss for scenarios that would raise the bar for the sofa game. A shabby sofa could signal something about the owner that might be indirectly relevant to the mating success. But on the other hand there seems to be a niche for that market where low quality fits quite well.
You can almost see the (slightly) richer information hidden behind this lazy LLM summary they are passing off as a blog post.
yes.. that is correct (also worked there 2000-01). Bertelsmann offered 1B to settle the suit with the Labels (including the ones Bertelsmann owned, somewhat ironically) so the subscription service that we were building could go live, but this was rejected out of hand. After that, it was an existential moment for the entire Industry.. until Steve Jobs pitched what Apple had been working on (iTunes). My personal recollection was that probably at no other time would the Music Industry agree to the terms that Jobs wanted for the iTunes service, but there literally were no other viable options at the time so they agreed. you know the rest.
[1] Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d...

[2] Documentary: "The Great Hack" (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4736550/
If course there are differences between different administrations. Unfortunately, the best I can hope for is one that I agree with even 60% of the time.

And even then, some issues are far more important and foundational than others.
Yea I dunno.

I had to do me expenses this morning and one task is to split out the bill into Room, Taxes and Dinning. I asked gpt-4o to handle and it was a few dollars short. I then asked it to check and be careful and it produced A/B alternative response where A was actually correct when it figured out it's calculation was short of the provided total in the bill.

It could not be trusted to get it right first time and hence I had to do the calcs as well as check it's response - so rather than making me more productive it made me worse.

A rule based system might have been better or perhaps loading the data into a DB or data frame and getting it to produce the SQL and run that instead.

Either way this simple task could not be solved by the best LLM model out there.
In case you didn't know, the court retroactively voided these agreements. EU-US data transfers have been illegal for around 25 years or so thanks to that. People can sue you and win, even though the data protection authorities don't do much.
Most of my family use my brother's Matrix server, but it's the Element app that makes it appealing to us all. Client side scanning could be enforced in the app, regardless of the server's protections.
Yeah I agree it looks like a bodge to get Trump for violating campaign finance laws which the court didn't have jurisdiction to do. I'm guessing it may get overturned for that reason.
Color me skeptical.

The people making these decisions are not gonna cut their own jobs first, even if that made the most sense.
Appreciate Kotlin and others pushing it there.
Uh, sort of? Genetic variants are like gambles or conjectures. You can spew a lot of them out, let most of them die, and adapt quickly - that's the low-quality (and modern-sounding) r-strategy. It's not that the variants necessarily lack quality (here meaning fitness), it's just that you aren't banking on it, you aren't investing in them individually.
The next bus is loud, uncomfortable, slow, filled with other people you don't want to share space with, stops every 2 minutes, and doesn't go where you want. The bus is run by a government that doesn't care what you want, and probably is either more expensive than you want, or basically "free".

Transit systems need to be about twice as fast, comfortable and convenient as car options to be competitive, and in the US political and operating environment of the last 100 years, it's not happening. Suburbs broke two major rent-seeking dominances-- urban property owners AND transit unions. Together those actors preserve a terrible experience and the path to a car-free future is doubtful precisely because it would require overcoming those social groups in addition to solving major technical and capital problems.
In Poland, women are probably more often the victim than men, but in U.S., reported statistics are very surprising.

> men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sexual-victimizat...
La Madrina: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/anne-gould-hauberg...

(the link being by way of Chihuly/Pilchuck; her father spent 5 years at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_de_Paris which probably didn't hurt...)

EDIT: https://linotagliapietra.com/artwork/tasmania is an excellent material shadow of Hesse's glass bead game. The reticello uses cane laid down upon independent axes, a wedge product of canes if you will, and then this work layers those in the remaining spatial dimension —alongside the bubble as neutral element? or dreamtime?— to produce an aesthetic effect evoking its namesake.

If we were playing the gbg with textual quotations instead of murrine, one might almost imagine this work as proceeding in a Hegelian manner: the first axis of cane as thesis, the second axis as antithesis, and the perpendicular excursion as synthesis?
In this highly dimensional chaos, every outcome is almost as likely. From 'civil war' to 'everyone is chilling at the beach all day', from 'we have robot servants' to 'we are the robot's slaves (possibly without us even realizing)', from 'all prices go to zero' to 'there are robot cars with guns patrolling the streets'.

You can get in a spiral of more and more fear and hopelessness and anxiety, and you can of course go up a solarpunk stairwell.

My advice is to relax and take advantage of what AI can do right now, don't think too much about the future, we have reached the steep part of the S curve, so tomorrow is yesterday as Terrance McKenna says.

I spent most of my free time studying, because now chatgpt allows me to study any subject and I can ask it stupid questions when I don't understand something in a lecture. I literally take a screenshot (with youtube captions enabled) and ask it to clarify, and then watch the video again.

Having youtube and chatgpt is godsend. Having access to Andrej Karpathy and Richard Feynman,
Leonard Susskind and Carl Jung, you can even hear Erwin Schrödinger himself speak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwR1ztUXtU .. what a time to be alive!

There is a saying: its never as good or as bad as it seems.
I interpreted it more as the default reverse string search (C-r "substring")
In my middle age, I've been involved in some pretty grand world saving endeavors in my time. Multimillion dollar humanitarian programmes, that sort of thing.

The things I've done I've been most proud of and happy with have typically had nothing to do with all that.

It's amazing how awry attempts to "help" go. Ever been involved in delivering non-potable water to a school? I have. Or covering up fraud? Or sat in a meeting thinking of the most expensive way to solve a problem because you need to spend that cash in the next three months?

Most projects are just shit and would probably have been more effective being delivered by a helicopter lobbing cash out over the target area.

I'm most proud of where I've been able to help people I know in simple, practical ways. Helping friends practice for interviews, checking their CVs, helping people get the confidence to do cool stuff themselves.

Honestly, looking back on it all though, it's been creative stuff that's made me happiest.

I'm with the folks in the thread that encourage less grand goals.
Nonsense. Whatsapp owns both endpoints. They could know perfectly well what you write, when you write it, to whom, and anything their heart desires by way of their analytics. The messages themselves contains no business value to them. They could send it by carrier pigeon for all they care as long as the client is their product.
My first education was in industrial design, there designers usually have pride in avoiding needless complexity and material waste.

Even if I do web services I try to do so with as little moving parts as needed and with huge reliance on trusted and standardized solutions. If see any addition of complexity as a cost that needs to be weighed against the benefits you hope it brings you will automatically end up with a lean and fast application.
List of albums with tracks hidden in the pregap
> leads me to think philosophers lead blessed, problem-free lives.

I agree, perhaps with the qualification of 'eventually', having been both of these people:

1) someone born dirt poor who had to spend every waking moment to feed myself
2) someone who can pontificate in comment sections

As my life became more blessed I could afford more philosophy.

Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach wander philosophically.

Playing with ourselves. Man plans, god laughs. Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. I could go on.
Ask HN: Bucket Monitoring
Hi HN-ers,

I previously developed a bucket monitoring service in-house that I had dreamt of eventually productizing but was never sure.

I’m curious if they are already solutions out there that you use and would love to learn more about what you use it for, what do you love about it and what don’t you love about it. Any feedback would be great!
I dunno, it may not be capable of sufficiently advanced sociopathy.
We're also seeing increasing numbers of talented engineers getting tired of the culture of bureaucracy & ideology over shipping quality, leading many to quit Google.
At least it'd be accurate for a Venus mission!
As we go about moving LLM enabled products into production we definitely see a bunch of what is being spoken about resonate. We also see the below as areas which need to be expanded upon for developers building in the space to take products to production :

I would love to see this article also expand to touch upon things like :
- data management - (tooling, frameworks, open vs closed data management, labelling & annotations)
- inference as a pipeline - frameworks for breaking down model inference into smaller tasks & combining outputs (do DAG's have a role to play here?)
- prompts - areas like caching, management, versioning, evaluations
- model observability - tokens, costs, latency, drift?
- evals for multimodality - how do we tackle evals here which in turn can go into loops e.g. quality of audio, speech or visual outputs
The thing I laugh about is the ignorance of these pieces of the first reason people organized and built the bases of law and economies- to control what we now call real estate. RE is the basis and reasons for nation states, militaries, assets and the whole financial system- from which this person expects there to issue UBI. Jobs only exist when that whole system is stable.

There is and always will be better and worse property around this unique globe. This will be exacerbated by climate challenges. An AI enhanced country will simply take control of desirable property of another weaker state, with predictable outcomes for the humans
involved. The assumption that "we" will just get past that transition is a rich one, that is, one only a rich person can make.
You probably haven't thought deeply about the problems. Usually they expose some issue with our concepts or assumptions. Things we take to be obvious and simple aren't always on careful reflection.
The same kind of thing for Android, PEP 738: https://peps.python.org/pep-0738/

Supporting a mostly open source OS that's not locked down seems reasonable. Supporting iOS seems a bit strange.

The currently supported platforms: https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/platforms.html
The problem is that you're talking of massively freeloading social an environmental costs of humongous size onto other people and places. Sure, "flatpack sawdust and glue" furniture made by slave labour while destroying rainforests and dumping toxic waste is cheap for you and right now... But that can't last and won't last.
Can't relate to the fan noise issue at all - my intel variant is essentially silent.