skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked gpt4o to output some test questions for what I'm studying.

Then I put one of the questions back into GPT to ask it to explain which of the 4 multi-choice answers was correct.

GPT said the correct answer was answer C then output something completely different than any of the four options it gave me originally.

I find GPT very useful yet at the same time it has reliability issues to the point where I wouldn't trust it without another person to look at its output and verify on important issues.

I'm not really a machine learning scientist but this unreliability seems baked into the core of how it runs as it doesn't have 'human reason' it's just word location statistics.

Maybe reliability will happen in the future?? Ir maybe it will remain like a knowledge worker drill gun instead of a screwdriver and enhance people's work.
Ticketmaster Reports Hack to the SEC
I always thought “lifestyle business” meant something else.

In this article it means “small business that supports the lifestyle of its owner/employees”

I thought it meant that it was a business that provided a non-essential usually-trendy “lifestyle goods/accessories” for its customers.
I would assume that in LA Jolla, that $2 million gets you a medium-sized house. In Manhattan, it buys you a one- or two-bedroom condo with a high condo fee.
Chinese spacecraft lands on far side of Moon to collect samples
Some are not, but others open up. There is still personal choice.
i encourage the readers of this comment thread to check out the spritely institute, especially it's blog [0].

i don't wanna spoil what it's all about, but i ensure you it's a topic (and institute!) worth diving into. i poured 10h+ just reading the blog and all the related links and projects :)

[0] https://spritely.institute/archive/
I think this comment explains it https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4130#disc...
As far as I understand (and mcharytoniuk should better confirm this), llama.cpp allows to chunk the context window of an LLM into independent blocks, such that multiple requests can be processed in a single inference. I think due to the auto-regressive nature of LLMs, you also don't have to wait for all sequences to finish to output them. As soon as one sequence finishes, you can use its "slot" in the context window for other requests.
If the author can only write this depressingly about the world they're building, maybe she should stop helping to build it?
Former abortion clinic now gives free care to women in crisis pregnancies
Just like a driver license is unnecessary because we have fully automated driving cars since 2019.

Oh wait...
If you have never used the restore mode, how can you judge whether it's usable or not?
Snowflake is blaming its own customers for using single-factor auth and that access to the affected accounts was gained through infostealers or acquired credentials. With their recent joint statement[0] together with Mandiant and CrowdStrike, they've completely removed themselves from the discussion of having had their systems breached.

I'm not a Snowflake user myself and don't really know much about their internals, but perhaps there is someone here who can clarify if this scenario can happen:

- Credentials acquired for a Ticketmaster account at Snowflake.

- Log-in effortlessly because of single-factor auth.

- Gain immediate access to a production environment and dump the database.

Because that is how it sounds for the time being. It is Ticketmaster themselves who have confirmed that the database was stolen through Snowflake.

If the process outlined above is how the DB was dumped, then what the hell? That's the most ridiculous and crazy and easily the dumbest blunder of all time, is it not?

It's either that or there are still missing details somewhere along the way.

[0]: https://community.snowflake.com/s/question/0D5VI00000Emyl00A...

[0]: https://archive.is/acJ6p

(Archive link because the original URL can show an old cached version sometimes)
That explains a lot. Fair enough, then.

They should probably look into getting an English copywriter though.
Might I introduce you to a concept called "hyperbole"?
People pay a huge price for prestige and lack of creativity.

The most cost effective solution for a lot (if not most) people would be a cheap EV.

For those occasional long trips, simply rent an ICE vehicle. For about $75 a day in most areas, you can get a mid-sized one with unlimited mileage.

Tesla and most other EVs currently being sold in the USA are not exactly *cheap*. Marketing, profit extraction and politics have a lot to do with this. This would likely change over time if market conditions warrant it.
For Android - Conversations is in a very good shape now.
This fails to account for the fact that it's people working that keeps the economy going. If AI do replace more and more workers there will be less flowing back to the economy.

At some point there won't even be companies needing AI.
I'm just wondering how Reddit managed to do that.
Do VPN companies have to register their endpoints in some kind of a VPN database so that Reddit can flag them as IP addresses coming from VPN companies? How otherwise would Reddit know that a particular IP address belongs to a VPN company?
Developing for any other platform is zero dollars in terms of hardware cost.
I think the point is that McDonald’s is literally all over the world, but that doesn’t mean the food is consistent.
And you don’t seem to understand that AI influencers are already here, and are generating far more accounts and amassing far more followers than actual people. And also actual people (including onlyfans models) who used to fake the real connection by using men (like the Tates) to type it are now using AI and bots.

The sea shift will come When people on both sides (not just the influencer side) PREFER multimodal AI to dumb texting. And then you don’t need the human model herself anymore because the AI model is far more versatile (in commercials too).

Followers and engagement is a gameable metric, so expect capitalism to slowly favor AI in everything.

If an AI model can ingest millions of publicly available videos and back up its points with the best B-roll and clips, it can also convince better than a team of 3 people. Even if its argument is bullshit. As you said, it’s not just about truth and results, it’s about follower counts and clout!

So it’s not just about losing jobs, it’s also misinformation at scale, across many accounts. Enjoy the brave new world!

I am talking about only what’s there NOW and possible with CURRENT technology.
Awakening a Sleeping Language
In Core 2 Duo days I overclocked the FSB of my E2160 Pentium CPU by 50%. This boosted the frequency from 1.8 to 2.7.

These days I am happy I got my 14700K boost to 6200 MHz on single and dual core loads and to 5600Mhz P-cores and 4400 E-cores in multi-core loads. According to benchmarks this means about 10% performance gains. But it took me a week fiddling with BIOS settings and testing.
Oh I can see how. It’s called hype marketing and it’s needed to justify the bubble they are inflating.
I have an Ikea leather sofa which is still going strong after 10+ years.
Hypothetically, If a large part of workers no longer have income how would those roles be supported? Surely there would be reduced demand that would lead to those roles disappearing as a full time position.
We keep having "anti child exploitation" measures, like all the bloody time. It's been decades by now.

And the problem keeps getting worse.

So either it's just not working whatsoever and this is useless and should stop. Or it's never really about child exploitation.

Just like "temporary measures" against terrorism which have been temporary for 30+ years now (no, it didn't start on 9/11).

Almost like it was never about terrorism.
Search better, look into SIGPLAN and IEEE papers.

Class inheritance is not a requirement for OOP languages.

I listed the OOP traits supported by Rust as a language.

Naturally you have to nitpick it to try to make a point out of nothing.

All high level languages are fancy ways to write machine code.
No, this effectively means that the corporation can do evil and will always point to its owner being non-profit as a justification for doing more evil. The corpo gets a "kind face" behind which it can do dirty deeds.

Inclusion of Pocket in Firefox is a representative example - included despite overwhelming community objections for more profit!
Same here, Go + HTMX + templ. And I'm also need npx for tailwind.

So I would like to try something like this too. Integration with templ for local CSS components would be nice.

Also agree to the single binary, wrote here https://www.inkmi.com/blog/simplicity-of-golang-systemd-depl... (with systemd instead of a container)
Yep, same for me. I was just a teenager wanting to play games and then suddenly I had to know about port forwarding.
It seems to me that most people will not be willing to lower their standard of traveling to the extent required by public transit in most places in the US, even if travel by car becomes very difficult. The gap is simply too wide.

I live in the Boston area and commute by car. My commute by car (despite the recent closure of a lane on the most heavily trafficked road on my commute, for no reason other than to not have it) is between 25 and 45 minutes. The fastest I can pull it off by public transit is an hour, with a long tail up to 1h20m or more in case of shutdowns, etc. I’d gladly take public transit if I could even meet my worst-case commute time consistently, but the worsening of my life by doubling my average commute time far outweighs the benefit of being a little greener and not having to pay attention to driving during my commute.

In other areas of the economy we wouldn’t consider inducing demand for alternative remedies by making the way average person operates worse. It becomes quite dystopian in my opinion. For instance, one could argue that too many people are seeking healthcare rather than pursuing lifestyle changes to improve their health, due to the availability of healthcare, so we should shut down hospitals. Or one could argue that the presence of housing induces demand for housing and so we should stop building new houses while providing no additional place for people to live. That will just create homelessness and/or very expensive housing. Both of these solutions will lower demand, but in a quite painful way for many people.

To me the solution which makes far more sense is to build improved public transit and people will naturally gravitate toward it, reducing demand for roads/cars, AND their quality of life will improve. For instance, if Boston expanded the MBTA with the long-sought-after urban ring project [1], my commute would reduce to perhaps 30-35 minutes by train. At that point it would be an absolute no brainer for me to switch all my commutes to public transit.

This is a rare situation where almost everyone really can win. Easier, cheaper, faster, greener travel. I don’t see why people argue for an approach where the majority of people lose.
What am I missing? We know executive’s who make shit up like this can be replaced by software instances that make shit up.
I thought the point is people want influence.
Wait, so the data transfers still happen, disrespecting the court decision?
Flying car essentially exists - it's called helicopter.

It's just uneconomical to do actual flying cars due to costs and fuel inefficiency. Flying cars will happen when if we have breakthroughs in battery technology and potentially energy generation.
> The researchers measured Sky, based on audio from demos OpenAI delivered last week, against the voices of around 600 professional actresses. They found that Johansson's voice is more similar to Sky than 98% of the other actresses.

So basically it's like they had chosen the most similar voice from 50 random actresses.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/QuasimodeSearch
Android and most of its binaries are in some way or another proprietary. Things like drivers and google play won‘t go away. It is the wrong approach, grow up.
So from the article :
2% of 600 professional actresses voices are more similar to Sky's than Scarlett Johansson's.
This means than for 3 feminine voices provided by open AI, there was about 1 in 17 chances to get a voice that similar to Johansson's without planning it.
That's not something that seems too unlikely.
>The researchers found that Sky was also reminiscent of other Hollywood stars, including Anne Hathaway and Keri Russell. The analysis of Sky often rated Hathaway and Russell as being even more similar to the AI than Johansson.

This gives the headline a slightly different meaning.
Could you go into more details about the live reload (I use air + Echo), what hot reload server do you use for templ?

And what about "embed with build tags."? I embed every build now.
If teaching people can be completed at a space time during work, I can understand why it happens more frequently in office.
What’s offensive changes from generation to generation. Blackface is a problem because racism is a problem. I can envision a future where racism against blacks is so low that blackface in itself is no longer triggering.

As an example: I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s with the feminist second wave. Women of my generation hated being called girl, for good reason! In that time, men were men, and women were considered children.

Their granddaughters don’t seem to mind the term girl at all. They didn’t suffer the same trauma their grandmothers did. Society has progressed, at least a bit.
That's a part of IKEA's appeal. Because of the consistent quality and the extensive market share, there's a lively secondary market for the furniture. At least in Europe. You simply cannot sell (or even give away) similarly priced furniture of other brands but there's demand for second hand IKEA.
Important thing drug dealers and other salesmen know: "don't get high, off your own supply" ...
I visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History once, and saw their collection of glass plant models. I wasn't very impressed, until I realized I was understanding them as a dusty collection of plants. Once I really got into my head that they were actually glass, it was amazing. Totally realistic.

https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
You could assume the writer has insider info, but that attitude is a bit outdated these days. If Anthropic does have an advantage, it isn't a very significant one. The vast majority of research is public and most, if not all, big discoveries "circulate" around the economy.

If we're looking at how competent "AI" systems will have to be in order to take over all of programming, we'll have to wait for them to topple over almost all other white collar jobs before coming to this one. You could ascribe this to the "First they came for X ... then they came for me and no one was left" viewpoint, but considering the progress we've had since 2021 and the fact that this field is way more popular and hence "stickier" and slower means progress will slow and newer ideas will have to push through waves of mediocre-but-popular and technologically-regressive-but-economically-viable ideas. It seems very unlikely that in 3 years all white-collar jobs will be replaced.

Computer hardware is gold in this new boom, and 3 years isn't a significant amount of time for hardware development (considering how consumer and enterprise hardware development goes hand-in-hand in this field). In fact, all the progess visible in 3 years has likely already been decided upon.

What most people fail to realize is that LLMs indeed are stochastic parrots, but the internet is so much more vast than they can fathom. It has data on almost EVERYTHING. ALL of that was fed into this recursive architecture that then became half-decent to talk to. To visualize a LLM, imagine a never-ending "net" of information. To reach from one point to another, LLMs can't make a straight line -- they make a sphere with its center at the starting point and when it connects, the volume is the amount of data is has to compute during training. It's a very inefficient algorithm!

Filtering and sorting and labelling data is a difficult task and is something that isn't focused on enough. The end result (training on massaged data) is given undue importance because it's easy and accessible. There simply isn't enough time in 3 years to train models or to re-filter/sort/label data that will make this author's predictions come true.

As usual, the "hard limit" for tech is human mental capacity. Most people can not learn a new language after 20. Most people are not very good at reading. Changing these stats takes centuries of good education and nutrition. 3 years is little to nothing. After losing your job (primary income stream) the biggest hurdle isn't "saving face" but rather figuring out how one's going to afford to put food on the table and pay off bills. There isn't going to be UBI in 10 years, because efficiency gains lead to major, society-wide human discontentment because of the pyramid's base becoming wider. Hoping for a near-flat structure is utopian. Thinking it'll come across without a war is even more fantastic. Taiwan's chip competence seems to be the bedrock of our modern civilization, and before getting giddy for UBI one should realize that maybe sometimes it's all just too good to be true and might come crashing down any second.
Set Up Your Own Coding Practice Server
A couple of weeks ago, a friend asked if I could teach coding. I started a livestream for about a week (only accessible to those who happened upon it—many thanks to those who helped debug and provided feedback during the process). During this time, I developed a fully functional desktop app from scratch. This app allows you to host your own server similar to LeetCode or HackerRank, where you can manage questions, test cases, and more.

The way users answer questions is a bit different. You can't paste answers, and the environment isn’t as convenient as an IDE; it feels more like coding in a notepad.

When I first started working, my goal was to create something with a positive impact on the world. Personally, I don't support a culture that's all talk and excessive criticism. Instead, I believe in taking concrete action. Whether the outcome is good or bad, at least something tangible has been achieved.

Balancing a full-time job while working on a side project is truly challenging. I hope you can check it out, leave a star, or provide some feedback on how I can improve.
Snowflake at centre of largest data breach
Tom Weir at 70: 1984 Interview Highlights How Little Has Changed in Conservation
The 1984 interview with Tom Weir, is a treasure trove of memories and insights from a man who dedicated his life to exploring and documenting the Scottish outdoors.

Tom Weir's insights from the 1980s remain remarkably relevant today. The issues he highlighted, such as environmental conservation and cultural preservation, are still pressing concerns. Today's climate change challenges and the push for sustainable living echo Weir's earlier advocacy. Moreover, the resurgence of interest in outdoor activities and heritage tourism in Scotland can be seen as a continuation of the legacy he helped build.
The most likely outcome is that nothing meaningfully changes.
However there is a whole ecosystem of clients, and they can't all be back doored. You are also free with write your own client, and many do (which is why we have so many in the first place).

Protocols, not platforms, people!
Have you seen what classifier AI can do?

Go make a protocol that fools all the AIs from every angle, that are scanning 24/7. They can get you on the metadata pattern alone, nevermind even the content.
Good luck convincing the chinese worker that made your phone of the merits of capitalism.
I don't see the connection to intentionally banking on lower quality across the board here.
>I say nearly risk free, since, for sure, the position may crash if a completely unknown Unknown appears

I would encourage you to read the books "Antifragile" and "The Black Swan" by Nassim Taleb. The risk you're running may have low probability, but also has massive effects when it does occur, and such events are responsible for a major part of both gains and losses in financial markets.

>"because there have been others before you who thought they were smarter than the rest..."

Short term trading without a latency advantage is a zero sum or negative sum game. Every opportunity your bot considers is also being considered by competing bots, with way more capital than you. Maybe you are smarter than the other market participants, but it sounds like maybe you haven't done your research on how sophisticated other bots are. It's a bit like betting on yourself in a sports competition before finding out how your skills compare to the people who regularly win those competitions. However, unlike sports where you'll be immediately trounced by a professional, you might make some good returns on small trades to start, which will make you feel comfortable putting your capital at risk, and then you'll lose it all.
You say NYC and Chicago has enough highways to fill demand so there is no congestion? I am fairly certain that isn't true, I've read so much about congestion problems in NYC at least. Adding enough roads to fill all demand leads to concrete hellscapes, that was the point, the guy I responded to thought it was reasonable to add roads until all demand was satisfied.
Rats. I thought the "Start Company" button would draw up custom incorporation papers for a company building my random nuclear reactor.
Well Android and Windows are starting to struggle with marketshare so… not everyone wants to be converted to Linux and that is a fact
They only predict arithmetic, they can’t solve it. I want to try asking for a csv file with values and formulas for an ask like this.
China has been rightly condemned for "speaking" of invading Taiwan. What would you like the world to do for this "thought crime" given no invasion has occurred? Surround the country in military bases? We've done that, has that helped defuse the situation?

China have pursued interventionist policies? You are going to need to cite that. Which African leaders did China coerce?

Your reasoning for "less publicised and less visible" doesn't make sense... couldn't the "free press" of the US shine a light on it? Taiwan has a free press...?

I think you need to understand Myanmar better, it was the military that launched the genocidal campaign, and it was the military that overthrew the democracy. Converting a state that shares a land border with China to be an ally of the US feels way more strategic than the Phillipines... or even Taiwan for that matter (sans the microchip manufacturing capacity).

"Rules based order" - Wow, straight out of "Western nations' talking points". You honestly sound like the communists quoting Mao from the little red book. Is the US following this rules based order? Seems to me China is following those rules more than the US ever did. Which rules is china breaking?

Like when the US signed the treaty that said space would not be militarised, then it created the "space force", and banned china for the ISS.
Or that it wouldn't imprison people unfairly (according to both its own constitution AND its international treaties), so it created prisons on foreign soil to imprison them unfairly.
Or that it helped establish the United Nations but then lied to them, and ignored them when it invaded Iraq... well and Pakistan... which no one even mentions.
When it established the five-eyes then used that infrastructure to spy on its own allies.

Did you mean domestically? Like how it impeached its last president twice, has since convicted him as a felon... so he can't vote? But can still run as president? That rule based system?