skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's less about the NSA having AI capabilities and more the inverse - the NSA having access to people's chatGPT queries. Especially if we fast-forward a few years I suspect people are going to be "confiding" a ton in LLMs so the NSA is going to have a lot of useful data to harvest. (This is in general regardless of them hiring an ex-spook BTW; I imagine it's going to be just like what they do with email, phone calls and general web traffic, namely slurping up all the data permanently in their giant datacenters and running all kinds of analysis on it)
It helped me to wake up a little
I believe that stat is meant to be read as: 69.4% of people are between the ages of 15-64, and of those 504,637,819 are male and 476,146,909 female (51.5% male).
>I thought, along the same lines as you, "maybe if you burn 165 or 170 or something in the first non-zero term, then you could burn less on the 14 turn and still land."

That's not exactly what I was thinking.

Clearly that won't work, because just by changing the least significant digit (ie adding 1e-8 lb/s) in step t=70 seconds, you "blow past" the soft landing window, in part due to the bug.

Evidently the move played at t=70 seconds is, in effect, too 'course-grained' to effectively target the (small) soft landing window. By shifting your "subtract 1e-8 lb/s" move (ie playing 199.99999999 lb/s) later and later in the burn, you effectively make it more and more fine-grained (for a minimum fuel penalty) until you can achieve that soft landing.

Thanks again. I'm not sure who's right, but it's certainly a very stimulating problem!
I dig it :)
Not being able to have kids because you can't afford one parent to quit, isn't.
We’ll fund solving this as long as the committees agree with the goal. We just want standard tracing implementations.

(Speaking on behalf of Sentry)
The game is tiny. It does not even have any graphics. It would be an impressive feat to fit even 10 bugs in there, and still have it seem like a functioning game.
Probably any wealthy peoples kids would fit that bill.
Self-evaluation might be good enough in some domains? Then the AI is doing repeated self-evaluation, trying things out to find a response that scores higher according to its self metric.
What does idempotent mean? (2019)
> Suppose you have some strange coin - you've tossed it 10 times, and every time it lands on heads. How would you describe this information to someone? You wouldn't say HHHHHHHHH. You would just say "10 tosses, all heads" - bam! You've just compressed some data!

There appears to be some lossy compression on that string of "H"s.
Vanguard vote helped pass Tesla CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/vangua...

> "given the strong alignment of executive pay with shareholder returns since 2018 and the benefits the board asserted related to the motivational value for the CEO in preserving the original deal,"

But since 2021, not so good.

It peaked at 402.83 in 2021 and has been downhill since then. $178 today. That's about 3 years of decline, with a market turning towards hybrids, in general decline, and increasing competition, so much so that Chinese cars are embargoed.

It’s down some 30% this year.

Plans to grow to the stratosphere with AI, robotaxis and robotics.
You’re right. Did some googling and it seems I’m wrong.

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/doomscrolling-impact...

> 53% of Gen Z “doomscroll” and 31% of adults in general do so.

Now I understand how Facebook/Twitter are worth so much. This is crazy
This works, I corroborate.

The problem is not a lack of will or capability to sleep for 8 hours a day. It's usually the lack of ability to allocate 8 hours, because of various commitments and other circumstances.

(It's like telling a poor guy to start saving some money. While it's technically absolutely correct, the problem is usually not the lack of the desire to have savings.)
Accusations of Mass Non-Payment Grow Against Scale AI's Subsidiary, Outlier AI
With dstack you can either utilize multiple affordable cloud GPU providers at once to get the cheapest GPU offer or also use an own cluster of on-prem servers. Dstack supports both altogether.
Disclaimer: I’m a core contributor to dstack
I noticed that GPT-4o is much more competent in analyzing photos of various aircraft and answering questions about aerial photos than GPT-4.

I thought that my finding was coincidental, sample size of 1 and pure bias. Maybe it isn't, maybe it really got much better.
> They're retreating for now, but make no mistake that Recall will slowly trickle back into Windows under another name.

Not even that. It's still coming, under the same name, just not as soon for everyone.
Employment law?
;-p
Why do you have to trust a third party?

It’s end to end encrypted, and with tail lock enabled, nodes can not be added without user’s permission.
Seems to me like most wealthy parents don't want their kids to drop out of college lol
As the story reports, this was basic pilot error; the FO initiated a descent and cut power back too far.
There is no slippery slope here. Harm was actual, demonstrated, and a direct result of the speech. No subjectivity in this case, and in fact a cast-iron proof that absolute free speech would lead to very nasty outcomes.
Most people browsing HN would survive 1 - 2 months without food. 24 hours is nothing. Your pot belly has a spare 50,000 calories.
I’m not sure if I’m missing something here, but I am able to build my app and run it on my iOS device without going through the AppStore or TestFlight. Is what you are trying to do something different?
"Objectively" is very strong, but I'd love a tool like this.

Except it's so thoroughly invasive and ripe for abuse that I can't imagine ever using something like this that isn't open source and thoroughly vetted. And I think your very valid points are stemming from that -- MS's implementation was hamfisted and halfassed, and people don't trust them even if they do it correctly. But those are issues with the implementation and the implementer, in my mind. Not the conceptual feature.
Loneliness is a significant societal issue. AI companions can address some needs...
> The critical thing that limits CO2 capture by plants through photosynthesis is water

In the ocean, where most photosynthesis occurs, it's definitely not water.

I believe it's iron. I think there have been a few small-scale experiments involving "fertilizing" the ocean by spraying iron compounds on the surface.
So... we agree that not all speech is suitable at all time with all audiences?
A generally fair critique, but this article was incredibly well-sourced and cited abundant first-person evidence. 40M women looking for “Dan” is non-trivial.

AI companions have been around for a couple years now, so we’re past it being pure novelty (though clearly that’s a driver of growth). “AI girlfriends” were a great early use case for social interaction when AI companies were first targeted to (mainly) cis men. From what we’ve seen in research, a guy’s cognitive function measurably degrades when sex is on the menu. A crappy AI could get the job done.

With female brains the research generally shows that they require a socially sophisticated interaction (“responsive emotional support”) so this level of adoption is significant evidence of progress in LLMs and fine tuning.

anecdotally, this hit a note I’ve heard regularly from my mid-career female friends - dating men is a drain. It’s quite the cultural statement that an LLM outperforms most men on how to be present for a conversation with their date.

Important to note that regular consumers of AI companions actually rely on them mostly as a synthetic partner/friend.

There’s two things striking about this trend:

1. AI companions for women is more socially acceptable.

2. The mother of the women (who served as the focus of this story) said “if she’s happy, I’m happy.”
That’s powerful. That’s a core value for many parents.

It’s fair to attack the hype, just thought it might be useful for others to see there is underlying technical progress & social adoption reflected here.
It's not spun, you're just being overly literal. They're not talking about pure elemental titanium, alloy is implicit here. And even if it were a matter of pure titanium, passing off an alloy as that would also make it counterfeit.
If by "change the kernel" you mean pick the backup one in the boot menu, that should almost never been needed but tech support can walk you through it.

If you mean something else, you never need to do that as a normal user.

Hardware just not working happens on other operating systems too, it just sucks. But normal people aren't swapping out important parts so at most some USB thingy doesn't work.
UW is no slouch - it usually in the top 10 universities for research output any given year and their computer science program is a juggernaut. It's hard to compete with Berkley on name recognition, but young talent isn't an issue in Seattle.
Free will does exist, deterministic agency exists, and reasoning that determinism removes moral responsibility is an error. What doesn't exist is this metaphysical type of god-like beyond-universe agency that people obsess over for no obvious reason.
Security is a mindset and some people don't have it.

I used to work for a company that made a rather popular database for mobile applications. An easy API to store data on your phone and have it synced to a server with no effort on the developers part.

Two of my co-workers spent a few weeks making a nice looking chat application which worked by syncing messages from many users to different devices, and they wanted to publish it as a demo. Until somebody else pointed out that there was no security at all. The server just accepts the latest state from the client. This was fine for most of the current use cases, but for chat basically meant that any client could rewrite the entire history and the server would just say "thanks!" on next sync and distribute the changes to everyone else. These were adult humans with degrees from respectable institutions, and this hadn't crossed their minds at all.

Basically, I think a combination of Hanlon's razor and nobody wanting to be a naysayer is a perfectly adequate explanation for this Recall thing. I think it's obvious that a lot of people would like their computer to work like that, and I can see them wanting to get it out without having listened to any internal criticism (if they even have a culture that allows that).
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan won't cover popular weight-loss drugs
Is it ironic? Right now it's getting too hot so we want fewer greenhouse gasses, in the future it might be cold and we want more. I think it's less ironic and more just the intentional infant science of planet-scale climate engineering
main use case seems to be simulations in 2D, 3D or nD spaces. spaces -> spatial.
Pshaw! Trifling details.

(Focusing on the non-obvious problems might make for a more interesting and/or fantastical story.)
Doesn't go into effect until at least August, is being sued over by a business group[0], and may be dropped by a Republican administration if Biden loses the election. So: not yet, and maybe.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-ban-worker-noncompete-agree...
Reminds me of an MBA that worked for a customer. Figured out how to silently force various production tests in order to ship product faster.
I just put all 6 of the examples above into Excel as text, then used DATEVALUE to parse them. It worked correctly for all 6. However, in the immediate parent comment, you mention d/m/y format, which 3 of the examples above could not be, so perhaps the details of the issue you've encountered are more subtle (such as 2-digit years that require context to determine the century); but, at present, it looks like DATEVALUE handles this well.
You can put nodes in a Slab or a SlotMap, use keys/indexes for your next pointers, and create multiple interacting (possibly overlapping) lists that way. You have to be careful not to combine nodes from different collections, but that's also sort of true with memory allocators.
It wasn't ignored -- it got a lot of attention all right.

But then 2014 happened, and everything changed. Once you choose to ally yourself with a foreign power that is aggressively attacking the larger nation you are attempting to secede from -- as the political establishment of the ASSR did at the time -- your moral claim to independence (a key being always an assurance that you will never do harm to that nation) is instantly invalidated.

And when that foreign power you are seeking to ally with also happens to be the one that genocided a large chunk of your indigenous population -- not centuries ago; but in living memory -- that claim is nullified even further.
If Jupiter was a failed star, it failed big time.

"Although Jupiter would need to be about 75 times more massive to fuse hydrogen and become a star,[66] its diameter is sufficient as the smallest red dwarf may be only slightly larger in radius than Saturn."

It got as big as it could be, though.

"Theoretical models indicate that if Jupiter had over 40% more mass, the interior would be so compressed that its volume would decrease despite the increasing amount of matter. For smaller changes in its mass, the radius would not change appreciably.[63] As a result, Jupiter is thought to have about as large a diameter as a planet of its composition and evolutionary history can achieve.[64] The process of further shrinkage with increasing mass would continue until appreciable stellar ignition was achieved"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
A.I. is notoriously bad at math
> I still wouldn't recommend Linux to most normal people.

Then I think you're making things hard on yourself. I'm a NixOS user, I know I cannot get everyone to install my specific system with all the bells and whistles. But you could walk a middle-schooler through installing Ubuntu or Fedora; it's easier than setting up an email account.

Both Windows and MacOS are slowly rolling down a hill of bloat, surveillance and unusability that will eventually push people onto something else. Modern GNOME is basically just an iPad with more obvious on-screen controls. With distros supporting Flatpak, it doesn't even matter if you misconfigure your base system since all your apps are sandboxed anyways. I think the success of the Steam Deck kinda proves that people don't care what your desktop is as long as you have recent Chrome/Firefox and let them sideload stuff.
https://archive.ph/790sy
Of course "superintelligence" is just a mythical creature at the moment, with no known path to get there, or even a specific proof of what it even means - usually it's some hand waving about capabilities that sound magical, when IQ might very well be subject to diminishing returns.
You've been downvoted with no retort.

Can anyone in the know comment if there's truth to the hypothesis?
Are you saying this is due to not having an interest in the people posting on Mastodon or due to a difficulty in using Mastodon itself?
I just bought a $1099 MacBook Air M3, I get about 10 tokens/s for a q5 quant. Doesn't even get hot, and I can take it with me on the plane. It's really easy to install ollama.
How much do you plan to pay for the product? If you're paying a few dollars per month for a consumer product, be aware that having a human answer a single inbound call or email from you can often wipe out the entire year's revenue (not just profit) the company is getting from you.

Either we all need to be willing to pay more in exchange for "premier" support being available or we need to be ok with companies trying to cut down the support load.
I literally have to "set up my computer" like 10 times a year now every time there's a seemingly "big enough" update, and it's just carefully navigating menus trying to get me to sign up for Microsoft services and trick me into switching to Edge

A couple updates ago they put a bunch of new shit on my lock screen, like stocks and news articles or something, which I disabled immediately. And then the last update made my clock disappear which I can't even be arsed to figure out if that's a setting or a bug. Just do whatever you want with my computer at this point I guess, Microsoft. I just want to play a game.
I’m not sure an “objectively great” feature exists, because “great” is such a vague and subjective term.

I think it’s more productive to discuss it in terms of the use cases and who they benefit.
Sometimes it is the loveliness of people
I find "MAGA ghoul" offensive.
Not sure how valuable that data would be to train models. I’m guessing it’s millions of routine phone conversations and text messages. Maybe a ton of satellite imagery. I wouldn’t consider that to be particularly useful to go from gpt5 to gpt6.
This is a fascinating idea - although I wish the definition of search in the LLM context was expanded a bit more. What kind of search capability strapped onto current-gen LLMs would give them superpowers?
Stanford files amicus brief in Murthy vs. Missouri
> (all in d/m/y format, mind you)

The examples you gave are in m/d/y format though, and DATEVALUE() parses your examples correctly into Jan 15th, 2024 and January 3rd, 2024.

DATEVALUE() parses ambiguous short date formats (e.g. 1/3/24) using the short date format specified in the Region settings of Windows Control Panel. So if you want to parse d/m/y format, you can try changing the settings there.
Depends on how much you like tech? Like most industries, it has ups and downs (dot com bust, 2008 recession, etc). Its just that 2012+ has been a really successful time for tech, and younger devs have never seen a 'down' cycle before.

On the other hand, I don't really know a recession/depression proof career?
Windows 11's disaster of changes had already pushed me to decide to go full linux on my PCs, this was the straw that got me to stop being lazy and actually execute on that decision.
Kids are hard to compare
> Preferring screens over real humans is objectively not good.

Wow, this is just blatant misinformation! Wait till Snopes debunks this obviously false claim. I trust the "science"!

Imagine actually interacting with real human beings and having a real community around you in 2024. I'm so glad that we as humanity figured out that you don't really need this in your life. Who knew!
Unfortunately there are folks that believe we have to use Python, and then rewrite in C, while calling those wrappers "Python" libraries, regardless of how much I would like to use JVM or CLR instead.

So if Python has taken Lisp's place in AI, I would rather that it also takes the JIT and AOT tooling as well.
Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?
What's the weirdest bug you have encountered?

For me, it occurred during university on an assignment. We were supposed to create a SOAP C# integration, and I kept receiving the same error. I spent three days trying to resolve it, finding only two pages on the internet that detailed the bug—one in Russian and one in Chinese.

When I finally asked my professor, he simply mentioned, "Oh, you just installed the wrong version."

Yeah... the wrong version. I never figured out why this was a problem.
I have heard this anecdote a few times but I don't understand it. Even ignoring error handling in Go, I feel like everything is noticeably more verbose and noisy than something like Python. A language that prioritizes readability is intriguing to me, but I just haven't experienced that with Go.

Not that I haven't seen messy Python code (I sure have). The best Go code is gonna look better than the worst Python. But on average, it seems like complicated flows can be written very elegantly and readably in Python and look ugly in Go.
Why didn't they start a streaming TV service or open a chain of fast-food restaurants? Those things are lucrative too, and also benefit from competence at handling large volumes of data.
The Vikings supposedly had a "sunstone" (cordierite crystal) that could help find the Sun through clouds or fog. I did buy a piece and wasn't able to get any good results, but my life didn't depend on it.
Which means the ball is in qualcomm's court.

There's not much Qualcomm can do about Microsoft lifting its bum to help them, but they can support a kickass Linux experience.

And why intel sits around licking Microsoft's boots. All these decades when they too could have been pushing good Linux support as a hedge against Microsoft doing exactly this I'll never know.

The second m1 dropped, amd and Intel should have been all in on pushing a well-supported Linux desktop to compete with that. They dropped the ball of course and let Microsoft just fumble away with Windows like they have been for the last decade and a half.

Implementing this hedge in these gigantic multi-billion dollar companies would have been what maybe five $10 million a year? Peanuts.
Is /usr/bin/env a standardized location?
1. The main reason I want to use otel is so I can have one sidecar for my observability, not three, each with subtly different quirks and expectations. (also the associated collection/aggregation infrastructure)

2. I honestly think the main reason otel appears so complex is the existing resources that attempt to explain the various concepts around it do a poor job and are very hand-wavey. You know the main thing that made otel "click" for me? Reading the protobuf specs. Literally nothing else explained succinctly the relationships between the different types of structure and what the possibilities with each were.
The conversation started, to which I contributed to, was about what's easiest out of the box for casual users. What are you on about?
I don't think it's that fake. There were people, researchers, that were obsessed with ELIZA back in the day. I personally have a friend who is constantly thinking about fine-tuning a model on his ex's texts to recreate chatting with her. I suspect many others are less extreme but still seek out a form of companionship they have full control over.

In the visual space, if we're honest, most of the work being done on Stable Diffusion is with the aim of creating "intimate" art. Might not be "companionship" in the family sense, but absolutely a good chunk of the Civit.ai world is, more-or-less, concerned with the mass creation of "waifus".

I don't think that we're going to have many startups succeed in this space, because I suspect the main driver is to have conversations/generate images that people don't entirely want there to be a record off/watched by a private company. But I actually suspect that the number of people using AI for companionship of some form or another is much higher than it appears.
Unfortunately it's not enough for it to just be titanium. A hard alpha inclusion in an ingot used to make turbine blades was the root cause of the deaths of 112 people aboard United Airlines 232.
I’m not sure Microsoft will ever achieve the level of trust they’d need to make things like this feature ever be acceptable. I’m sure in parts of the company they care about user trust quite a bit, but those people will never be able to counter the actions that the “maximize revenue at all costs” people take that undermine trust left and right. I don’t see them putting “build and maintain user trust” as a corporate goal that they ACTUALLY try to achieve (not just use as a corporate feel good statement), since “maximize shareholder value and revenue” will always win.
They'll need to get busy if they'll want trillion people
> anecdotally, this hit a note I’ve heard regularly from my mid-career female friends - dating men is a drain

anecdotally, the women I know married good men before mid career. maybe the "mid career" women you know waited too long to "settle down" and found the field picked clean

also, dating -men- is a drain? dating is a drain. the casual misandry in your comment is gobsmacking
Sequential Search, Correctly
A trillion people to sell something to. genial, just imagine the delivery.
Seriously, it sounds like -look at the sky, forget about down here-, propaganda to distract about all the real problems we have on the third planet.
Huawei reportedly selling beef it received as sanctions-evading payment