skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exact source is a bit convoluted, because most US law is convoluted, but is covered in multiple subsections of section 1201 of Public Law 105–304 (the technical name for DMCA). There are exceptions for things like making things interoperable and security research (kinda), but beyond that simply glancing at one of these locks can be a violation of DMCA. Sadly the document is excessivly long (60 pages plus references to other laws), and the available source PDF is so poorly formatted as to be nearly impossible to follow (nothing is aligned correctly, and subsections regularly form a very confusing pattern)
Yes, no one is disputing that animals are not as intelligent and lack the same capacity for planning that humans do, but the post you're replying to is disputing the fact that planning is done solely through internal narrative/monologue, which is easily disprovable by pointing to the examples I did. There are many more in nature.
Excluding cost of living increases, the only time that I've received a pay increase is when I've switched jobs. Every time I change jobs, I increase my minimum acceptable salary by 20%.

I don't change every two years, though. I usually go about 5. Even then, I don't change jobs for the purpose of getting a pay increase (that's just a nice side-effect), but more typically because I've learned everything that I'm going to learn from a the job and need to move to a different one in order to learn new skills (or sometimes just to work on something fresh).
No, I got it. I just didn't get it the first few times I read the sentence.
Giving each of the sisters a name changes everything.
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At this point they have a wiki or discord somewhere where they share talking points between each other.

Someone from their group is clearly thinking ahead and automating all of them out of a job :)
It is. The model.ckpt from petra-hi-small matches the official HF repo.

SHA256: 6049ae92ec8362804cb4cb8a2845be93071439da2daff9997c285f8119d7ea40
Tasks and Metatasks do I need to bake a cake, or build a cake factory?
The reason why South Africa and many intellectuals consider Israel to be an apartheid state is not because of the treatment of Arabs that were allowed to become Israeli citizens after the Nakba, but because of the occupation of the West-Bank. The West-Bank is not rightfully Israel land, but has been de facto under Israeli occupation for 50 years. The situation there is very comparable to SA Bantustans; the people there have no rights, have no nationality, and are brutally suppressed by the Israeli government and fascist settlers. Ghaza is basically an open air concentration camp.

The status quo is apartheid. The options to change that are one multicultural state, a two-state solution or genocide.
I think the person you replied to named the purpose as "giving the impression that they were doing something", which is shockingly often the case with politicians: They'll do what they believe will get them voted for again.

I don't think it is necessary to insult people as 'conspiracy nutters' on here. If you don't want to discuss something with someone, just give them a downvote and move on. No need to be uncivil.
But doesn't it feel like the larger models are seeing diminished returns compared to the smaller open models?

Feels like they will eventually converge unless some big breakthrough happens that only benefits the large models.
BirdWatch ("Community Notes") is a simple reproduction of reddit top comments on Twitter. And like u/spez, Elon just can't seem to resist hopping into the database and monkeying with things.
The difference is how Alexa was advertised vs. how the rabbit r1 was advertised.
> Or we would never have invented writing, agriculture or even basic clothing.

That's the thing. We had to invent those things. Along with counting, numbers, logic, arithmetic, and those stupid-ass annoying family tree riddles. We didn't get them in one step, it took a long time to build one on top of the previous. Generation by generation, each cohort of children growing up in a slightly more complex world than their parents, each generation taught how to navigate this complexity by their families and tribes. Learning a growing collection of facts and beliefs and life hacks.

There were no untrained people for as long as humanity existed. The minimum reproductive unit of homo sapiens is a village.
I don't think many people, Nvidia shareholders included, expect this to last forever. But you make hay when the sun is shining; if VCs will pay hand-over-fist for AI-native products, then you better damn-well make sure they can buy the most expensive solutions. If they're looking for gold, you build them gaudy excavators to work in.

That being said, Nvidia is particularly well positioned to continue reaping the reward of serving the high-performance-compute market. CUDA is yet-unparalleled, and NPUs/TPUs are still struggling to make a case for themselves. If we get another cryptocurrency-style bum-rush on number crunching computers, I don't think anyone except Nvidia will be poised to immediately benefit. General-purpose GPU compute is in short supply on consumer systems, everyone wants the cloud and the cloud wants Nvidia.
The people of PR voted against becoming a State.
Artificial intelligence is running for mayor of Cheyenne
perhaps that is true in some sense of 'most foils', but i have never in my life seen a roll of aluminum foil sold in a grocery store with petroleum-based wax on it, and i've bought grocery store aluminum foil on something like four continents

maybe you're thinking of some other use of aluminum foil which vastly outweighs common household use, and uses a different kind of foil that does come with wax on it?
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I got really bored and wondered just how quickly I could build and launch a super simple web application.

Turns out, it took me about 4 hours and 15 minutes to go from idea to production (https://x.com/valhalla_dev/status/1798462230888870215)

Yes, it's simple and yes, it's stupid, but it was a fun learning opportunity, and who doesn't love making fun of internet gambl... sorry, the stock market.

I left a tip button powered by Stripe, because I did drop $20 on the domain, but if I don't make a dime on it I at least learned a bit about shipping web apps.
We're blessed with polls right before 10/7 re: "Support for Hamas." Roughly 40/60. I've seen other junk ones passed around. I don't think 10/7 or what we ended up with in Gaza was justified, a sweeping international majority agrees, and both Israel/Gaza will poll at "of course it was justified and why are people so evil as to not support us"

You transmutated "I've never seen any jokes about WCK" to "the only thing I've ever seen is links about polls" to "linking to polls isn't bad.": sure, no one would say it is. so it comes across as an attempt to claim it is unreasonable to claim that worse things go on than linking to polls.**

> has a vested interest in perpetuating the "refugee" status of millions of Palestinians who were born outside Israel

I'm familiar with this argument: sure. If that's the case, let's get rid of the UN. We'll have to find some way to get not-terrorists governing Gaza, i.e. providing for the people.

There's two choices from there.*

In my experience, one of them is consistently ruled out by people who spend time litigating the UN. And I strongly believe that is where the breaking point in international support is.

* if you exclude "kick the can down the road" and "the Palestineans without the guns should seize power from the guys with the guns, otherwise they're complicit"

**
It's just a feeling, but one informed by 1000 conversations I've had: if the strawman about poll links means "yeah, I've seen racism, but justified and rational, because the polls say a majority of Them" -- I think that's exactly the class of behavior that leads me to be a proud Zionist, it's dangerous to proscribe beliefs to a group, based on location of their housing, religion, skin color, anything. It justifies some very ugly things.
[dupe]

More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571512
Is it? Pragmatically speaking, who is going to make it end in tears? Nobody in the region really wants a war with Israel: the Arab countries got their fill of it and Iran sure doesn't want to get into an actual war. And if anyone gets any big ideas, there's always Uncle Sam (and Uncle Sam's Western allies; who, btw, include Turkey).

I understand that people want to see things put right, but we must understand what world we live in and how the cards are dealt. There are three great powers, the US, China and Russia, and Israel has a um special relation with one of them, whereas none of its enemies do. The Arab countries want to make peace and do business, Iran might like to be a regional power but has no friends in the region and the Palestinians have nothing to negotiate with and nobody to stand up for them; nobody with any clout, that is.

There is nothing and nobody that can make it all end in tears for Israel. You and others misunderstand the geopolitical situation in the Middle East: Israel can do whatever the fuck it pleases, and it does.

To be perfectly clear, it is a shitty situation, but there is no obvious way out of it.
Moissanite is... also lab grown?
This seems like a borderline tautology or at least very obvious? People rarely switch jobs for less money.
Having exact copies of the samples inside the model weights would be an extremely inefficient use of space, and also it would not generalize, unless it generated a copy so close to the original that it would violate copyright law if used, I wouldn't find it very reasonable to think that there is a memorized copy inside the model weights somewhere.
What country is it you are living in?
I don't think we will ever achieve general AI with this. While current AI is impressive, it fundamentally relies on big data and algorithms. The main limitation of big data, which affects AI as well, is the quality of the data and the resulting outputs. Who is curating the data? Who is curating the outputs? It's not magic. Overcoming this barrier may be possible, but I believe it's an issue that isn't being adequately addressed.
Don't know about other countries, but in the Bay Area a bunch of those billboards have been vandalized/edited by non-Zionist Jewish groups.

Anyway, advertising media are antithetical to debate, which presumes approximately equal access to an audience to lay out two or more competing ideas at once. You can't argue with a billboard, you can only rent another billboard, and pretty soon you have billboards everywhere. This is a garbage concept of political discourse.
The All-In podcast mentioned research on the concentration of micro plastic particles in human body. I was wondering if banning single-use plastics can somehow reduce that concentration as well.
The only real impact that I have noticed from AI is that it's been enshitifying things on the Internet more and more. And it seems like it's going to get into things not on the Internet more and more too.
I mean, when you get down to it, if you do not trust the maker of your OS, you’re kind of already in a really bad spot. If you don’t trust Microsoft/Windows, you need to not be using it. I’m not sure this feature changes any real facts about this, only the optics
> Top performers get completive raises by going to their boss with an offer letter from a competitor.

In my businesses, I've had employees do this a couple of times. Both times my response was "you should take that offer". Also both times, if they'd asked for a pay increase equal to what the offer represented, they probably would have gotten it.

Coming to me with an offer letter in an attempt to get a pay raise is a thing that I think speaks very poorly of the person. It's an attempt to extort me, their current employer, and it's showing great disrespect for the company they got the offer letter from (because the employee is basically just using that employer and wasting their time).
I also highly doubt anyone who signed agreements to have their music included in the Free Music Archive would have been OK with this. The particular type of license was important to contributors and there's a difference between allowing for rebroadcast without paying royalties and allowing for derivative works... I don't really care to argue the point, but it's why there were so many different types of licenses for the original FMA. This just glosses over all that.
I do not need to read a junk article like that because I already know how a LAM would work. It will turn an intent into an action. If you have been following anything about agents and LAM in general you would know this. Here is a good podcast giving a primer on what they do and how they work: https://changelog.com/practicalai/254 - granted you can’t expect the general public to know the “magic” but we are supposedly more technical here - and I’ll stress that my original point was against singling out rabbit when the alternatives do EXACTLY the same thing, and they promise no less
deep eutectic systems seem a lot more likely to help with synthesizing organic plastics than with synthesizing glass
Eh, I haven't seen it. Maybe my company is a mess. Usually they think they know what they’re doing and can contribute on delivering individual tasks. But it seems they lack the background on the strategy, business acumen, and reasoning behind the technical architecture. So yeah, they're productive in the role, but they probably haven't learned enough of value to significantly grow and bring thought leadership to their next role. Especially regarding longterm implementations of their designs/actions since theyre just onto the next thing.
Elon Musk's X has lost its only PR employee
Sentry is in a similar boat, it's (almost) open source, and you need a very beefy machine to even start all the necessary services, it's not a simple set up by any means if you want a comparable experience to the real thing...

And still, people do get that done, and it is great that you have the self hosting option if you don't like their pricing (or if they ever go suddenly bankrupt, compromising your business).
What if European citizens want this feature? Do they not get a choice?
That's long been a problem with relatively rural universities. If one spouse gets a tenured or tenure-track position, in a lot of cases there aren't great options for the partner.
$40 per bag here, too little to worry about
Recent and related:

xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40294650 - May 2024 (73 comments)
There's a term for it: Illusion of competence.

It probably happens most frequently in math. And people usually first realize it when they're sitting in the exam room and have to actually apply what they think looked so easy on YouTube. I may or may not speak from personal experience
Yeah but it’s a useful metric - if everyone in France dedicated all their productive output for this entire year, they could swap that output for a company of a few thousand people that makes microchips.
Why? You proved you're competent to the potential suitor by obtaining an offer. They got some valuable quality candidate interviewing experience which can be difficult to achieve, and you got a rock solid tangible improvement in your work QoL, even if the target ultimately didn't achieve their hopeful hire. Possibly they got some data that (to them) implies they should have offered more money. Win win. I would say a win for all of us because "more money".
> It's not illegal for me to read an NYT article and write my own summary of the article's contents on my blog. This has been true forever and has forever been a staple in new content creation.

It’s not that clear-cut. It falls into the “Fair use doctrine”The cose 107 of the US copyright law states that the resolutiodepends on>

> (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Another thing we need to consider is that the law was redacted with the human mind limitations as a unconcious factor, (i.e not many people would be able to recite War and peace verbatim from memory). This just brings up the fact that copyright law needs a complete re-think.
Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)
You wouldn't download an analogy.

Went there just for you :)
Related:

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26110796 - Feb 2021 (23 comments)

The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824472 - Aug 2018 (14 comments)
> Which Israeli defense contractors build airplanes and tanks?

Neither do the North Koreans [1][2]? (Caveats [3][4].)

America dropping Israel simply means it finds a new supplier. Russia is out of the picture, given its dependence on Iran, but China and India would be more than willing to supply.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army_Air_For...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_North_Korea

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokpung-ho

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava
That sounds really interesting, but web searching mostly brings up very old research. Do you have a link for any of the up-to-date work on automating the base?
True about founding before SpaceX. But wasn't it just a think tank for a while?
Yeah but the growth happens over months - the shorting will be done in a couple of intense days.
I guess it's a stopgap solution so that more of the hours get paid at least, though I agree the problem is unofficial overtime issues should be solved to begin with.
In my experience it's always challenging for people who struggle with focus and motivation to have conversations about it with people who don't have those issues, even when everyone involved means well.

Unless someone has experienced both dynamics, it's very hard for each to put themselves in the shoes of the other, because we're talking about brain chemistry.

No one with severe ADHD symptoms really knows what it's like to have a calm mind for an entire day, let alone most days (and what that means for one's career and social life). They can reason that such a thing is possible, but that's different from really grasping the experience.

Same for the other way around - you can reason that ADHD is a real and often debilitating condition because you see its effects, but you still might have trouble believing they're not also just a little lazy.
But the 4080 Super which is faster than the 4080 is $999...
One of the options is to use the mirrors to boil off the atmosphere, the other is to keep the sunlight away for so long the atmosphere almost entirely condenses and can then be paved over; either way, it was a long wait.
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:/ ok, fair I guess, difficult to argue on _expectations_, but you, me and the next (informed) guy know this is a scam by any stretch of the imagination. I really would like to save even a single person those $200.
"More than half a million people in the UK have inflammatory bowel disease, the two main forms of which are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, with at least 7 million affected globally" - either "at least" is doing a lot of work, or something is going on in the UK.
I’ve observed the same. I do often wonder how much of this is strategy vs being in the right place at the right time as a talented individual. If you’re on a rocket ship, the incentive is to stay and ride that train.

I think past a point (roughly ~senior SWE level) it becomes hard to develop deeper expertise in a series of two year stints.
Well, I was at my last job for 10 years :)

To be honest, none of the stuff I've worked on I've gotten comfortable within a year. At Oxide I feel like I understand maybe 30-40% of the stack at the moment after 18 months?
This is how the Urbit address scheme works, btw: https://urbit.org/blog/the-urbit-address-space
You'll get wildly different answers depending on who you ask. Most ex-Googlers appreciate Bazel. Folks used to ergonomic single-language builds dislike it.

In my experience, Bazel works best when:

- You have a monorepo.

- You have one engineer who knows it in and out and can stay current.

- You use several languages well-supported by Bazel (Protobuf, Go, Java, Kotlin).

The benefits are a single way to build and run all tests and binaries across all languages. Bazel CI providers (BuildBuddy, EngFlow) are much nicer than YAML engineering in other CI systems.

I have an old comment that's still representative of my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831555
Boys Get Everything, Except the Thing That's Most Worth Having
While that is true, for correctness appends should supplant updates. On HN, many users (like myself) have posted comments for over a decade. Suppose I changed my username from "bjourne" to "SpongeBob"... Should the comments I wrote in 2010 show up as having been authored by "SpongeBob" or "bjourne"? I'd strongly argue in favor of the latter since the former would constitute falsifying history. The "change" in username should be viewed as the creation of a new personae rather than a "change".
>That became much harder to accomplish when the Gaza Strip decided to elect Hamas to lead its government in 2006-07.

Which Israel can't be blamed for enough.

Let's just leave this place filled with insurgents without any coordination with the authority. I wonder what will happen.
This doesn't seem like a very hard problem to fix. Maker of these kiosks just doesn't give a damn.
> It would be very interesting if LLMs were no longer static.

Little bit of a nightmare too. Instructions keep piling up for you that you no longer openly can access and remove
Yes but also no.

Yes, in that there are DB technologies not built in a fashion where records are stored in a sorted order of some fashion. No, in that they are very much not common technologies. Most databases, relational, non-relational, etc have some form of a B-Tree at their core somewhere.
> I wonder how many packet sniffers record exact extremely-accurate timestamps

Accuracy is hard to judge, but tcpdump/wireshark usually show 6 digits after the decimal. It's gotta be close enough within the bounds of usual jitter on a packet switched network.
> How are those guys not treated as some hostile foreign power

Americans’ views of the Israeli people are broadly positive [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/30/how-ameri... 64%
please see the introduction to statistical methods linked above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590633
Gaming Gravity
Sure, I guess you could play it back and forth like your sibling comment implies, that seems risky though (you might end up with no offers).

Also why do I want to stay with the cheap people? They proved to be unable to deliver market rates for my efforts unless I make a big scene about it. I don't like to do business with people like that.
- Reasonable assumption would be from now moving forward. Last release was gpt-4o.

No, it is not reasonable to start with a minor release. Only if you want to stretch things to fit a narrative. Which we are free to disagree.

If you check other comments, I have talked about what I believe are their capacities and social impact. Downgrading it and calling the next major releases a marketing stunt is a opinion that we are fine to disagree, no?