skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you want others to read your work, you cannot simply publish it and assume others will find (and cite) it. You need to sell it.

The LLM's will read it. Currently they will not cite it, but there is some work on linking knowledge representations with source material. If this could remove the need to sell it, I think academia would be much better off. The best researchers are not necessarily the best presenters.
Civil nuclear power is dead in the west. What value does IP that will never be used have? Why not give it to the chinese and see what they can come up with?
Probably a "fun safe math" compiler flags joke.
There seems to be more dimensions to it though. Trivially, a dog and a human might be on one axis, but you can't rank differently intelligent humans along that same axis. The average dog, while strictly and obviously not as intelligent as a human is not impaired, they function at their fullest. While as humans go further down and away from mainline human intelligence become obviously impaired.

We seem to have a notion that intelligence has multiple dimensions to it, so it's more likely that human intelligence exists as some kind of probabilistic gradient on a hyperplane in a high-dimensional space, and sampling from that plane yields any possible human intelligence profile, while sampling away from that space yields something decidedly not human. Other animals thus must be similar hyperplanes, perhaps in their own space, and likely not intersecting with humans at all.
Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner
My fiancé and I are getting married next year and have started to think about how we’ll structure our finances together.

How do you structure your day to day spending? Do you have a joint checking/savings/credit card setup, keep things separate or a hybrid approach? We’re based in the US and want optimize for simplicity.
I wonder if they track the stat normalized by car-mile? That would at least account for them scenario you bring up
>Evidence?

Their behavior spanning decades and their belief in Leviticus 20:13 as morally correct. If they were allowed to they would do much worse.

>The pink-and-blue color scheme has a particular ideological implication.

There's no ideology involved.

>It has nothing to do with who the client is!

It irrefutably does.

>The important distinction

There is none.

>did not refuse to service the wedding because the people being married were homosexual in their sexual orientation; he refused to service it because the people being married were of the same sex

There's no distinction, it's the same thing. Mental gymnastics to justify his behaviour.

It's simply making excuses for someone who believes in Leviticus 20:13 to exclude gay people in any way they legally can.

Would a white nationalist bakery owner that refuses to bake a cake for a black couple celebrating their wedding also be justified and morally righteous to you?
It's more fraught when there is only one (or a few) platform(s) to build on, and the platform makers are completing with all the layers above as well. One might even call it a violating the public trust. (Since the public may otherwise not be able to resist an oligopoly that owns the means of production.)

For makers above the platform layer, it's like trying to build on sand -- or the sarlacc monster slowly digesting everything above it.
Theyve lifted a billion people out of poverty in the last 80 years. You need energy to do that
Late correction: I meant wirecard, not wireguard!
I think part of the point is to find that problematic software, and contribute patches to make it work (or whatever you do for closed source software). In my mind this is a board to legitimise early adopters' requests, so that they can say "hey, this doesn't run on this very real laptop from a brand that you may have heard of".

I think this is a crucial step on the way to getting an actually good experience on RISC-V based platforms.
Usually it's salesmen who want Slow New Stuff, users want fast interoperable software. And to force them install one electron app per site they need to be nagged by "we don't like your browser" error pages.
The Long Division Benchmark
Amazing! But it doesn't do lip sync?
The military runs on PowerPoint.
> things like chain-of-thought/reasoning perform way worse in structured responses

That is fairly well establish to be not true.
This kind of stuff is part of what makes framework laptops so dang compelling. Same case, monitor and everything, just a different mainboard.
Sure. And a furniture store near me while I was growing up had a "going out of business" sale for over 15 years. There are plenty of people who aren't paying attention to these sorts of things, and there are plenty of sketchy businesses that take advantage of that.

I have a sort of life rule about being sold to -- if anyone is saying/implying that I need to make a purchasing decision quickly, my decision will always be to not make the purchase. There's no such thing as "act now or you lose" in the wider marketplace.
> it had so much real, transformative value, that it spread out with zero marketing

IMHO, in retrospect, the failure gradient of early LLMs is underappreciated in driving adoption.

Windows 95 failure: blue screen with inscrutable error code. Everyone noticed that.

LLM failure: run-around non-answer (user shrugs and tries again) or confident and plausible incorrect answer (user doesn't recognize this without research).

Essentially, the ways in which LLMs didn't work were the most hidden and hardest to discover failure mode.

Which was perfectly tuned for the "I'm going to try this thing for 5 minutes and be amazed" first impression.

Which allowed subsequent generations to backfill the capability gaps.

Tl;dr - We shouldn't underappreciate quiet-failing as a product adoption driver.
He's called Jumpman in the operator's manual, but I'm not aware of any official material intended for the general public that uses that name.
> any meaningful increase in use

The weird thing is that Amtrak already seems to get plenty of use. The way people talked about it, I assumed all the trains would be near empty, but no, the few times I've ridden it they've all been pretty decently filled up. I've even seen them sell out on the website sometimes.

I guess they just lose so much money per passenger that there's no point in adding more capacity, but I do wonder why they don't just add a few more cars onto the train... (possibly ironic given the title, I know)
https://archive.is/PdqOh
Here's one of the most simple practical examples that proves to me cats are conscious. When my cat sleeps in my bed occasionally I accidetanlly kick or bump into her in the dark. Instead of fleeing, hissing or attacking me she lets out a very unique earnest meow that clearly means 'hey I'm here' and she goes back to sleep like nothing happened. She clearly understands my motivation wasn't to harm her. She clearly understands we share a common motivation of sleeping in the comfy bed. She clearly understands a concept of the future where she lets me know her position and expects me not to accidentally bother her again. If I continue to bother he she will simply get up and move just far enough away to avoid further trouble.
Thank you! -- and thank you to the others who shared!
Top 10 GenAI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims a Third of the Time
It also helps if a lot of the most successful people are young (eg sports and entertainment) It helps further the illusion that success is readily available.
The MPs suspected of treason are Liberals and the author of this article (Andrew Coyne) is a Conservative.
Then they found a way how to (ab)use amd64 MMU to do more or less the same thing that they had custom CPU architecture for (ie. GC barriers in hardware).
HTML already allows a lot of HTMX functionality with just 166 bytes of JS glue code, see HTMZ: https://leanrada.com/htmz

You can make tabs, accordions, carousels, modals, popovers and even Pure HTML Out-Of-Order Streaming (PHOOOS) using only HTML & CSS: https://kodus.pl
To be fair, Lord Rasengan is a sovereign head of the Joseon Empire cybernation according to their own bio, so Sam was just conducting international relations for openAI's next country to exploit. Be careful you don't anger Lord Rasengan; they could throw you in internet jail.
(2022)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31351542
I've got a laptop that the kids spilled some milk on. For the first time ever (in my experience), removing the keyboard and cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol made things worse. But there are no spare keyboard assemblies available from the manufacturer or elsewhere, and eBay only has buy-it-now options for parts-donor laptops at prices exactly equal to flawless laptops.

So now I have a perfectly fine (actually really nice) laptop with a malfunctioning keyboard that insists on constantly inserting phantom keypresses. My thought was to use the 3D printer at the library to create a new topcase and turn the thing into a SFF PC. Oh, well, except for that one thing: the power button is part of the keyboard assembly. So the whole thing is just e-waste now.
There’s a professor at St. Andrew’s, Kevin Lalland I think, who has done a lot of work on imitation. His theory is that that imitation is generally useful but without high enough copying fidelity culture won’t develop.

For example monkeys have been known to exhibit fashion trends (hanging a bit of grass out of their ear). But these trends fizzle out over time. Before more behaviors can be layered on top.

I think you’re right about those factors creating a good environment for this to happen and I bet they’re sufficient but not necessary. Too bad we don’t have another example :)
It’s not super practical yet, a lot of software won’t run on it and they even write in the article that processing power wise it will probably be worse than their x86 counterparts.
As they write in the article, the point is to make developing for RISC-V more accessible so that it can find wider adoption and get over those hurdles at some point to become more mainstream.
If you want simplicity, go for a joint checking and savings, if there's a personal goal to be saved for by one of you, see if your bank offers 'vaults' that we can squirrel money away until you can purchase the camera or car part or whatever it is. Keeping most things in one place generally maximizes simplicity.
Most HEPA Air Purifiers Are a Scam (There's a Better Option) [video]
Elevator Desks in Prague, 1937
I've used this approach for slides and websites. Any time I see a great design, I'll take a screenshot and save it in a folder called "PowerPoint/Web Ideas". I'll even include some shots from typography style music videos. Then whenever I have some free time and am bored, I'll try to recreate it in PowerPoint.

Most of the designs are TOO MUCH for teaching slides, but its fun practice since making slides is sort of my job. But the practice gives me a better understanding of what I can do with presentations, building templates, messing with color theory, etc. There's a science/art to making a good lecture presentation and I'm enjoying the artistic expression, while still being educational task.
They put engines in the middle and at the end to avoid running out of knuckle capacity. It works most of the time, except all those engines pushing and pulling tends to increase the chance of derailment.
how did you arrive at that conclusion? i feel like there's still just an element of "it's this way because it is this way" to this argument. the entire point of the article and the discussion is the fact that we perhaps assume our experience to be unique when it's not.

it could be just as possible that animals experience consciousness in the exact way we do but simply have different innate motivations and interests that lead us to believe they're making decisions with less awareness than we do. it's making the assumption that the human approach to living and existing is the correct approach and then everything around us is "below it."

reading the article you see that there isn't even a clear understanding of what denotes consciousness, so it seems weird to just say "well whatever it is, it isn't that" based on the arbitrary desire to set our species apart from others.
World-first research dissects an AI's mind, and starts editing its thoughts
Show HN: AI Pitch Deck Generator
Wanna share a new micro-tool I built: pitch deck generator

How to works?
1. Add startup details
2. Generate your deck
2. Edit slides
3. Turn it instantly in a link on Papermark
4. Share and track views ( on each page)

Design inspired by Midday deck which has over 17k views and amazing UI.
also part of paying attention to other talks...I always make a reference to one or two talks that just happened or one that I know will be coming up.

It's one more point of context for the audience, and people always love it when others talk about them.
Generating audio for video: using video and text prompts to generate soundtracks
Congress Should Preempt State AI Safety Legislation
> allegedly being able to detect if a woman is cis or trans with 99 per cent accuracy.

Big ol' [citation needed] on that.
You are spot on about Adobe's products not having adequate alternatives. I see a lot of new artists online saying to use Affinity or Gimp, but they do not compare. Even Blender lovers, myself included, who have embraced the open source alternative would be shocked to see what features they are missing compared to the top tier tools like Maya.

I'm curious why certain categories of software receive little to no competition, while others see a lot. I feel that Silicon Valley's focus on social media oriented smartphone apps has drained a lot of the talent and capital that could have been working on alternatives to Microsoft Office, Adobe's suite, Maya's 3D, etc.

Procreate is an excellent example of a young team coming in and dominating the tablet art tool market. For a measly $12 you own procreate forever, and it is easily the most functional art tool on the iPad. I don't know why we haven't seen similar attempts at Adobe's dominance anywhere else.
Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools
This seems essentially an announcement of an SDK that is a lot like older stuff from Numenta–is that wrong? I remember playing around with their stuff a few years ago. Is there something new?

Related to all this: In light of the recent AI Spring ("Attention is all you need" era), is anyone finding ML/AI slowly converging with our understanding of neurology or are we drifting to a different model where 'True AI' won't be found in emulating our own brains? It seems the latter. Our weird and wonderful brains were brewed under evolutionary constraints that have produced remarkable amounts of redundancy, because, well... a brain is incredibly precious to the body its operating within. I don't know if building an AI computer needs to be burdened with concepts born of those constraints?
Hella good music creation, with virtually unlimited tracks and exotic synths running in real time
> He repeatedly admitted to refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple. He would bake cakes for straight couples without a problem. Gay couples? Nope.

No. What he refused to do was bake a cake for the specific event of a marriage between two people of the same sex. There is no inherent law of nature forcing someone of a particular sexual orientation to marry someone of a particular sex. Who you marry is a choice; Phillips's religious beliefs tell him that he should not approve of some of those possible choices, and he has a right to hold those beliefs (and you or I have a right to disagree with them).
Whats the alternative, remove MPs randomly when suspected / accused, reveal their names? Yeah, no problems with that either I can foresee.
I read the article, but didn't come out much wiser. Apparently it is still not clear how big of a threat a potential future Kessler syndrome is.
Tetris: Heavenly Scrolls (1989)
I've never heard of such a thing in a community of two thousand people. Sounds like your local processing plant needed some serious work.
> a utilization of 0.90

> So we went from a latency of 1 second to 0.091 seconds which is an 11 times improvement.

There's your problem -- you should never allow unbounded queue growth at high utilization. Going from 80% to 90% utilization doubles your average wait times. We could similarly make this number arbitrarily large by pushing that utilization closer to 1, e.g. "We halved service time at 99.99% utilization and saw a 10000x improvement". But that's not interesting, as your users will complain that your service is unusable under heavy load far before you get to that point.

The typical "fix" is to add load shedding (e.g. based on queue length) combined with some intelligent backoff logic at the client (to reduce congestion), and call it a day. This has its own downsides, e.g. increased latency for everyone in cases of overload. Or, if your configured queue length is too large, you get bufferbloat.

(I have seen an argument for using LIFO instead of FIFO, which achieves much more predictable median performance at the expense of causing unbounded badness in the worst case. For this, your client needs to set deadlines, which it should probably be doing anyways.)
I once implemented factorial in a for-fun from-scratch BigNum library (with techniques to speed it up such as collecting prime factors together and multiplying in the order from smallest to largest), and I noticed that computing the factorial of a number like 100000 was faster, than converting the result to decimal for displaying the result

So avoiding that conversion can be a use case for using base 10 directly. But there are other use cases where you want it to be binary, the base conversion problem will always be there (unless humanity collectively decides to abandon base 10 and move on to base 16)
Which of course should be considered a violation of copyright law, but who's going to stand up for the public domain?
Wait, there are no bridges over or tunnels under the rail tracks in a big city? What kind of twisted planning is this?
Perhaps the effect of the fundamental physical constants like c, Plancks constant, and the permittivity of free space? They are macro in that their effects permeate all of existence without variation, but they give rise to the behavior of all particles

On the other hand, you could argue that they’re not “real” and therefore not macro
That's slowly being solved by ETCS to allow more interoperability, besides even within Germany there are drastic differences between city-wide, regional and long range services.

There are also at least a couple connections from Germany to Basel, so I don't think the last point is entirely correct.
Most conferences I've attended are so boring that I'd take an engaging speaker saying nothing over a poor speaker presenting something of consequence.

There's really nothing I like about attending conferences and probably 1 in 100 speakers are both engaging and presenting something of value. The vast majority of them seem to be there to promote their latest book. Yet my employer seems to think they are important.
In the most polite way, fuck off.
I am in a similar boat - When I was an engineer at Intel during the Windows NT days, I used SoftICE every day... but over time I have evolved into using less debugger tools and more emulation/simulation tools to find problems.. and even just more time 'thinking' about the code paths and what could go wrong.
That's why it's so great to hear they aren't doing well. The delicious schadenfreude.
What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? (2023)
Thank you. The vaults idea is cool, it would be nice to have some discretionary money for small personal projects.
Oh yes, because treasonous politicians in other countries are a valid topic of discussion for HN.
Updates since then?

Ashton Kutcher resigns from anti-child sex abuse non-profit over Masterson note (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37529422
I'd love to learn more about Europe being more reliant on trucks for delivery than the US. Got any references handy?
Fire is rad but I don’t see how it explains modern civilization.

If most animals are operating on a calorie deficit and fixing this can lead to larger brains then why haven’t domesticated animals evolved towards our level of intelligence?
I have a fun Seveneves story. One of the professors on my doctoral committee missed my preliminary orals because he was reading Seveneves and lost track of time.
I've never understood this.

Even assuming that someone is a high-functioning autistic person - now what? As far as I know, there is no course of treatment that can cure it.

Is it just about wanting a label for one of many reasons (to find a tribe, evade responsibility, get accommodations of one form or another, etc)

Don't know anything about the topic and am kind of curious.
The article says otherwise.

> But surely the Opposition will raise hell? Don’t count on it. On the day after the committee’s report was released, the Conservatives asked 24 questions in Question Period. Not one was about the report, or its allegations. (On Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on the government to release the names – after it had become clear it wouldn’t.) Possibly this might reflect a suspicion that some of its own partisans might be involved. Didn’t the committee say it had seen “considerable evidence that Parliamentarians across all parties and groups are potential targets for interference activities”?

> Doesn’t its report also note – again confirming previous media reports – that two recent Conservative leadership races have been subject to interference by China, and one by India?

> Here again, however, we are likely to face an all-party conspiracy of silence. None of the parties has shown the slightest willingness to have its internal elections vetted by independent regulators – just as none is likely to be too keen to look into what some of its MPs might have been up to. In time, they may hope, the public will get bored, and the media will move on. And in this regard they are probably right.
There are a lot of different layers here. Sure, it's not hard at all to set up a federated matrix instance. Doing it so it's as secure as keeping something in a locked house though, that's actually a pretty tricky skill. I'll grant that it's not necessarily harder than safe cooking, but it's a lot easier to find someone who can teach you safe cooking.

Now, another layer is that while I have a healthy distrust of corporations like Apple or Facebook, I actually think that it's virtually impossible to match the level of security they provide. And it's not a prison, it's a nice, clean cafeteria, with pretty good food which is practically free. The food could be better but I would much rather spend my time making home cooked meals than securing a server.
I agree it is this,

I also think people and society also give themselves way too much credit for their successes. There's plenty of smart hardworking people out there who continue to contribute but never stumble upon a unicorn.
To a large extent its luck, a much larger contributor than people realize.
All you can do is to play the game, consistently contribute and work hard on R&D and products and you improve your odds of stumbling upon success. But it's never guaranteed.
There isn't one EU country willing to say no to complying with this legislation?
I'm with you. I'm saying this should be the goal, but i know it's a utopy. A dystopian cyberpunk future is more likely, in my experience with this planet.
There’s a place for DRM and similar protections, I don’t think they’re going anywhere.

But I’m still hopeful that phone, email, web, voip, videochat, photo and video editing, location, maps, document sync, etc, will one day work seamlessly on FOSS devices.

I do think that the apps will have to be recreated as FOSS, existing apps will always be antagonistic because they get a lot of revenue from being able to control how/when/where the software is run.