skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone working in this space, I think standards and standard governance are important, but just as important are the economics. Right now, tech is largely dominated by platforms designed to extract resources in various ways, and to redistribute those resources to investors. To create a public interest internet, we will have to find a dwindling sense of collective and individual responsibility to our collective interests, and that includes recognising the very real and pressing economic implications of technofeudalism. That then means putting resources into digital public infrastructure, through pressure on our collectively held assets, such as pension funds and government procurement.
I don't think the previous commenter is confused at all.

For example, the Catholic Church established its Index of Prohibited Books way back in 1560, and it remained in effect until 1966.

(this is not a criticism of the Catholic Church specifically, mind you... most faiths had similar restrictions, and many still do).
If they didn't spend so much money on renewables they could have used it on the grid.

Some of the dumb enviromental laws didn't help either. It could be pretty hard to clear trees from a legal perspective, which made maintenance more expensive and time consuming, leading to grid degradation.
Interesting. It sounds like you're referring to Garmin's "Safety" plan, which in the States is $15 per month, and the unlimited plan is $65. Meanwhile, Starlink starts at $120 per month.
A scapegoat? Who is the problem then, if not them? No one is suggesting shutting them down either - the proposal is to hold them accountable for enacting policies they know harm children. Who in their right mind would be against that except a meta astroturfer? It would help your argument a lot more if you didn't resort to ridiculous hyperbole like this.
That's why you get paid to do it. If it was fun people would do it for free. Go work in another trade if you don't like IT. You're in a business that's usually regarded as one of the most comfortable. Have you tried a physically or mentally exhausting job? One with risk of bodily harm or death?
You're right, I read it again and I missed the ending the first time.
I don't think anyone is claiming this:

> Furthermore, the idea that screens are a special type of stimuli that can directly bypass the senses and act like a dopaminergic drug to increase incentive salience (wanting) without there being intrinsic pleasure to the stimuli is absurd and unsupported magical thinking.

Or at least it's not the damning point you're making it out to be. I think there is an issue with smartphones, attention, and development, but I don't claim that screens are anything other than an audiovisual medium. Nor do I think they need to increase specifically "incentive salience without intrinsic pleasure" to be a problem.

Do you not see gambling addiction as an issue in real life? Do you not see massively decreased attention statistics as an issue in real life? It feels like you're arguing against a position that is both incorrect and irrelevant, when the rest of us are talking about things that are obviously an issue in real life, regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with this approach.

Do you not struggle with anything like what is being discussed here, or see it in others?
If a new filtration system, designed without any real intent to capture microplastics, can stop half of them, then it doesn't seem ridiculous to think that the human race can come up with solutions that would further reduce that number when actually trying to do so.
I left a well-paying job that was toxic, but I got to build interesting and challenging things with a lot of freedom. I took a 30% pay cut to join a smaller company that was known for its great culture and owner. One of the best decisions of my life.

8 years later, just last month, I closed on buying that second company from the founder.

Obviously, no one knows the future or could plan this stuff out, but in my experience, prioritizing your overall life over purely your financial life is worth it. We have a weird obsession with "more money, more good", and I haven't found that to be inherently true. It's true to a point, but like a bell-curve, there's a downturn and diminishing returns at some point. And that point is different for everyone.
Does Waymo drive like a grandma? What’s the speed compared to a human driver in the same trip?
"The Real World" Created Modern Reality TV
> I'm speaking from experience, kids today are smooth-brained idiots that don't understand how to do some of the most basic things in life, nor do they have any desire to learn. I'm not some screeching, out of touch boomer, I'm someone who is in my mid-20s who has grown up floating in this shit-tank, and I'm so tied of watching people around me being preyed on by predatory algorithms.

Well said, and I concur. I think we are precisely the right age to have seen a decent amount of the transition, too.
This is awesome! On an unrelated note, anyone have good resources for converting chrome extensions to Safari?

I found this and will try it later if no one has a better suggestion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/10meyn5/how_to_conv...
Thanks for sharing the link, but no agenta is not a library that can help with getting structured outputs from LLMs (at least not in the way discussed in the parent comment). It's a prompt management, evaluation and observability platform for LLM apps.
How people get access to the premium models is typically to sign up[1] for an account and pay a subscription. GPT-4o is significantly different from original GPT-4 which is again very significantly different from GPT-3.5. This is all moving fast.

So if you don't want to pay for a subscription I think you can get some free use of anthropic's most capable model (Opus) - I don't know the status of what you can get for free from openai.

The opinion of AI reddit is only really going to get you so far because the capabilities of the models are wildly different for different use cases, so you really need to be able to try it out for yourself and see if it can do what you need it to do.

[1] Somewhere like https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing/ https://claude.ai/ or similar
I asked Google's Gemini and got the following:

The text contains a logical inconsistency.

The first sentence states that Joe drove Sue to university, implying Sue is now at university.

The second sentence says Joe drank tea with Sue in the kitchen afterwards, which suggests Sue is back at home with Joe.

This creates a contradiction. It's impossible for Sue to be both at university and in the kitchen at the same time.

Then, I asked a follow-on:

But what if Joe drove home with Sue even though it doesn't say that? (It doesn't say he drove home alone either.)

To which it replied:

You're absolutely right. The text we have is ambiguous. Here's why:

* Original interpretation: We naturally assume Joe dropped Sue off and then returned home alone. This is because it's the most common scenario and aligns with the typical purpose of driving someone to a specific location (like a university).

* Alternative interpretation: As you point out, the text doesn't explicitly state Joe drove back alone. It's entirely possible he gave Sue a ride home after her university visit.

In this case, the seemingly illogical detail of drinking tea in the kitchen becomes perfectly reasonable.

This is a great example of how limited information can lead to multiple interpretations.

The next sentence or some additional context could clarify the situation. For instance:

* "Joe dropped Sue off at her dorm and then drove home alone to make himself a cup of tea." (Original interpretation)

* "After dropping Sue off, Joe drove them both back to their place and they enjoyed a cup of tea together in the kitchen." (Alternative interpretation)
Yes, and the solution in my view is to put an end to the sale of data from millions of users.

In the anarcho-capitalist mindset the only solutions are technological, but we also have governments (even if they have gotten useless regarding tech issues). But we could enforce something like having any company that has more than 1 million users to have one executive on board that's a government employee tasked with overseeing its operation. I wouldn't want something like this, it's just an example, but I'd at least expect some better discourse than putting the burden on the consumer, and basically abandoning 90% of the population that can't handle managing their own tech stack.

When doctors are found prescribing medication with severe side-effects, we don't say "just learn to medicate yourself". We still learn how to medicate ourselves, but we also ask for less corruption in the system.
> every talk is a job talk

Absolutely. A subset of the people in the audience are tenured or tenure-track academics. These folks get grants for postdocs. Moreover, they may be on a hiring committee. Even better: if you leave a favorable impression and a colleague of theirs has a job opening, they might recommend you.

Treat (academic) presentations as job talks. Good impressions open doors, not just in the immediate future but also further out than that.
Would this game be a good way to get a 10 year old into programming?
I agree with you, but I also agree with GP. Raw compute is many orders of magnitude faster, so for exactly those things you mention it's super awesome.

But for user interfaces at least, it really does feel like things are slower, or at least no faster than they were. As he mentions - at a level just within what we will tolerate.

As far as code editors - I don't know, Sublime (and Notepad!) is fast, but IntelliJ, VS Code and such still feel pretty 'heavy.' And I still sometimes have that experience of my computer not being able to keep up with my typing rate which is dumb. I don't even type fast.
I have not. I started using R due to its open source codebase and ability to audit and understand exactly what its doing under the hood—being able to see how statistical formulae were implemented in code was invaluable in understanding and interpreting a package's analytical output.
Stop thinking about words. Think about concepts. As soon as you turn words/tokens into high dimensional embeddings and start playing around with them, they stop being words.
I don't think social media addiction and other-mobile-phone-screen addiction are "entirely separate" reasons, no?
According to his GitHub profile, he's from Cedar City. Shout-out to my fellow Utahns!
> When people generally talk about consciousness, they're talking about the phenomenology of awareness in the present moment. It's not really hard to define.

People often find this line much harder to draw after they have experienced qualia that is radically different from from what they have experienced before. The most common avenues for such an experience are psychedelics or deep meditation, and the experience is often called ego death.

There is much written on people's subjective experiences, but many people would say that they have experienced qualia which was not based on either awareness or the present moment. Of course, the experience still happened within a human brain, which is known to exhibit awareness of the present moment - but the subjective experience can feel as if neither of those concepts matter, or even exist, while still feeling very real.

These experiences often cause people to start thinking a lot more about the distinctions between consciousness, awareness, and qualia. I get that most people use 'awareness' to mean 'experiencing qualia', but I think most people using 'awareness' in that way have not experienced qualia that is bafflingly different from normal human qualia.
When the CM5 module comes out, your problems will be solved.
> The only reason why animal consciousness has been controversial

The hilarious part here is that you claim that animals must be conscious, and that humans aren't special and that only the religious would dispute this. But the only reason that we think there is a special quality to human cognition is religious, and now you're wanting to extend that to animals. I see no evidence of human consciousness in my day to day activities, and I would be hard-pressed to describe any evidence I've ever stumbled across in my half-century life. You people keep looking for a soul, even if you're reluctant to use that word. It's bizarre. Have you ever been without a consciousness, such that you can compare the two states and confirm that there is this big difference? Can you deduce consciousness from first principles? Philosophers who believe in inane bullshit like consciousness need to pull their heads out of their own asses.
Or you could just use RSS...
Going from a regular Framework mainboard with x86 to this RISC-V will be quite the drop in performance. It's really huge. You don't need to guess.
Occam's Razor says that between the model having somehow developed a persistent internal world model representation and can now reason about it - or is it just big enough in terms of training data, knobs and memory allocation that it can capture more and more language corner cases... Well likely the latter is true.
The idea that "DARPA is incompetent" because they promote hair-brained ideas, is one of their biggest ruses. Of course they're competent.

Corollary: Elon Musk https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
Another top / sell signal. NVDA's chart looks very similar to Intel, and Cisco at the peak of the 1990s during the internet boom.

Let's see how many insiders and employees start taking profits out. I would do the same given that the US is messing around with China over Taiwan.

We'll see.
The Linux of Storage
I didn't think the AI hype was overdone until I saw AAPL jump so much after announcing AI features. Looks nice, but it's not going to make anyone switch to iPhone, and there's no lock-in. iMessage must be way more valuable, and that advantage is maybe going away.
There isn't conflict in business model.
And if people can help to improve their models, they can extract better value by themselves.

Also, maybe they need to improve their brand.
Hoarding data for over a decade, maybe bringing something back now.
> I'd really love to have a device that cannot have a persistent backdoor implanted - but the very second the state of the anti-tamper measure becomes visible to user-level applications, they become an arms race between Big Money (=DRM rightsholders and big game studios) and my freedom.

The two can be reconciled by not having any privileged keys baked in by the manufacturer. It's only the manufacturers keeping records of the baked in attestation/signing key(s) that allows for remote attestation to be scaled up into treacherous computing. Otherwise if device owners could generate/load new attestation/signing keys and have them be indistinguishable from any original ones, then that same process can be emulated. This would likely require legislation to reign in manufacturers' desires to retain backdoors, but the point is that it is possible from a technical perspective.
I was operating under the assumption that the system would be wired into the boat/car's existing electrical system, which in most cases will use one or more lead-acid batteries.

Edit: a vanlifer showed up and informed me that Lithium conversions are a thing. Turns out you can have your Lithium and eat it too. Cool stuff.
I’d love to have a reason to pick up an 80’s microcomputer. I had a TI-99/4A but could never afford the peripheral expansion box. I could now though, but what would I do with it?

I had the TI but what I really wanted was an Atari 800 or Apple II. I really wish I could think of something to do with one of these. I’ve thought about getting one and writing some journaling software for it to give me a reason to sit down at the console every day or two, but then I remember how awful those old keyboards were and generally how unpleasant these machines were.

Probably best to leave my nostalgia intact and stick to modern computers.
I was wondering why the extension is so large. It includes a 500KB PNG. Perhaps the shell script was supposed to exclude it from the zip file.
One more thing you could do is put the real name of any human being with any track record of professionalism, anywhere on the website. Currently you're:

- commenting under a pseudonymous profile

- asking for emails by saying "please email me. contact at cyberscarecrow.com"

- describing yourself in your FAQ entry for "Who are you?" by writing "We are cyber security researchers, living in the UK. We built cyber scarecrow to run on our own computers and decided to share it for others to use it too."

I frequently use pseudonymous profiles for various things but they are NOT a good way to establish trust.
Trafigura Bought Oil Wrong
There's a third explanation of "Яndex" being "языковой индекс" i.e. "language-aware index". Russian language have complicated morphology with three genders and six grammatical cases, somewhat similar to Latin. Searching by an exact word-match almost never gives good results, and neither Yahoo nor AltaVista could offer any better in 1997 -- hence Yandex was built.
"Largest" is pulling a lot of weight in this instance.
https://archive.ph/hZscR
I thought Safari and Firefox were supposed to start supporting Chrome's webextensions.

I've had some luck with Firefox although there are differences. I haven't tried Safari.
I think "Block if :card_count_for_ip_address_daily: > 4" might translate to "As a customer using Stripe, obtain an IPv6 address from your mobile network operator. Do not share Wi-Fi with a group, such as by renting a house with four college buddies or by having more than two teenage children."
Functions.partial can also supply captures in that way, and is slightly more obvious (and less likely to generate linter complaints if the kwarg is mutable).
"It's not stealing because you agreed to it in our updated terms of service!"
You definitely should "annotate" arrays with their expected sizes, but if you're doing a lot of broadcasting operations it can get pretty verbose to write out those tables over and over.

That said, yes, you definitely should at least make an attempt to clarify your broadcasting logic if you want to be able to read your own scripts in a month from now, let alone write maintainable production code.
They're not mainstream, but IBM's mainframes since Z14 have something called the Guarded Storage Facility which provides hardware assisted Java Garbage Collection[0], and Oracle's M8 has some hardware acceleration for Java "Streams"[1].

[0] https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/pause-less-garbage-collect...

[1] https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/sparc-t8-m8-server-archit...
New Boeing whistleblower alleges faulty parts 'likely installed' on planes
If they’ve already told you that they’re recording, hasn’t consent already been established? You don’t need to ask again. It’s not like they’ve gotten consent for themselves to record, but not you.
It's an idiomatic expression in slavic languages, indicating that the shape is particularly complex.
Register Allocation in the SPUR Lisp Compiler: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/13310.13337

Design Decisions in SPUR: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/papers/computer86_spur.p...

SPUR: A VLSI Multiprocessor Workstation: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-273...

Multiprocessing extensions in Spur Lisp: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/31651
At the end of the day the person coming to a public accommodation for a service or good doesn’t and shouldn’t need to know anything about the religion of the owner. Why should they? What does that have to do with me buying a muffler from their store or a bouquet of flowers?

Living in a world where we have to follow all the weird -isms of each individual proprietor (including, yes, racism) would be a social nightmare and incredibly disruptive to social order. Which it was.
> Today Apple and AWS (among a great many others) are notorious for unilaterally turning off services that people have built businesses around.

I'm curious. Can you give a few examples of such Apple services?
If you wanted to compare OpenAI models against Anthropic or Google, wouldn't the framework help a lot? Breaking APIs is more about bad framework development than frameworks in general.

I think frameworks tend to provide an escape hatch. LlamaIndex comes to mind. It seems to me that by not learning and using an existing framework, you're building your own, which is a calculated tradeoff.
A major component of solar resource maps data is the impact of weather.

Is that part of your model/long term plans or are you skipping it for some reason?
So long as those people are adults who are functional (can care for themselves), it isn't society's business to protect them from self-harm. Your sensible checks are violations of liberty. A person's right and authority over themselves being infringed is a loss of liberty. Society gets involved when their actions affect non-consenting members of society.
I don't disagree that it had promise but it has failed to live up to the hype and after 15 years, we can safely say it has failed. A tiny minority may be using it for transactions but it did not gain the actual adoption it was supposed to and never solved the problems it was supposed to. Funny thing is that it created companies like Coinbase that is the exact opposite of what De-Centralization and anonymity was supposed to be which is supposedly the biggest problem solved by Crypto.
Extracting all URLs of your sitemap.xml with JavaScript
Because we’ve done it before and it yielded segregation, embedding of (one) religion in schools, and gigantic gaps in educational attainment based on where a child happened to be born.

Is it that hard to foresee what’ll happen if Louisiana et al started teaching children that the earth is 6000 years old, evolution is a farce, the US is a Christian nation, and also don’t worry about learning much outside of our immediate local (failing) economy?
2010 VW Diesel Jetta Sportwagen.

- $10k

- Great gas mileage

- No fancy stuff

- Big enough for small little ones or hauling stuff

- All-glass roof :)
Logdy – terminal logs in web browser
What? This is as close as you’ll get to a Trump campaign platform.
ehhh there is a lot of spam and propaganda that AI can do really well. not an offload thing, a "shouldn't be happening at all" sort of thing
> non-commercial/research-only license.
A better way to talk about this is something like: given a globe of Earth, say a 50cm diameter one, finished with plate Bristol paper, the texture of the surface would not be as smooth as a perfect model of Earth at that scale.
I could tell how this website was created in Germany or by Germans, just by looking at the links of each service and see "Xing" there.
Ongoing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718983 Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2 (macrumors.com)

2024-06-18T15:31:18 (~42+ comments)
The problem is there is no way to infer the right answer to 0! given the training. You need more context to learn it. Humans need more context. If you put that at the end of every grade 1 math test no student would get it right unless they had some context.

Do grade 1 kids have AGI?
(Haha)

But seriously, all professions need to train in context to solve complex problems. You can train in adjacent realms and reason about problems but to truly perform, you need more training.

A general surgeon might be better than an electrician as a vet, but that I’d rather have a veterinary surgeon operate on my dog.

So some things are “AGI” able and other things need specific training.
They’ve done this repeatedly – WebUSB, Web Bluetooth, WebMIDI, and AMP, off the top of my head. Time and time again, Google have pushed a spec that both Mozilla and Apple reject on privacy or security grounds.