skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that works mathematically, but kicks the can down the road to how your original data was assembled, which was definitely with the knowledge of and usually in the belief in the usefulness of the characteristics that you're trying to extract.

The idea that the good data is secretly encoded in uncorrupted form within the bad data I think is a bad idea. It reminds me of trying to make bad mortgages into good CDOs.

> But really the purpose of RLHF is to reduce toxicity.

I don't think that's the goal, I think it's some people's goal. Those people have defined what "toxicity" means to them, and they're mistaking it for a universal. It's just a metaphor about poison, because poison is bad. It's not a coherent concept. For a business, it should be anything that drives customers away and affects profit. That can only be considered statistically: if some people think something is toxic, and other people think that not mentioning that thing is toxic, the winner is whoever improves the bottom line more or damages it less.

That's how the raw data ended up like it is in the first place.
I had forgotten that they offer the 'Elements' range where you can buy Photoshop Elements or Premiere Elements. These are stripped down versions of the full software, but they are not subscription. You pay once, you own it.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop-elements.html
> a system we use to ask questions expecting truthful answers.

yes, I still wonder how LLMs managed to generate this expectation, given that they have no innate sense of "truth" nor are they designed to return the most truthful next token.
Isn’t the US the weaker partner here?
Loss leaders taken too far, sure. They're controlling a lot of float by collecting rent for zillions of apartment complexes and then monetizing relationships with other vendors like Lyft and indirectly through rev sharing with credit card processors used by local merchants like restaurants.

From their app:

Bilt Card $0 annual fee¹, 1x points on rent, 2x travel¹, 3x dining¹, 1x other purchases¹, and no transaction fees for paying rent.

It seems like they're idiots if they're just giving away money when they're a captive platform their users cannot opt-in or -out of, because their payment customers are/should be the mega apartment management companies. It could also be that they over-expanded headcount for the amount of revenue (and lack of profits) they currently have.
Resolve is better than Premiere on its own (hence why I list premiere as having competition) but the Fusion compositing is not a comparison for After Effects, but rather for something like Nuke.

While After Effects does some compositing (and it’s decent at it but poor in comparison to Nuke/Fusion), its’ stronghold is motion graphics. There’s very little other than Cavalry to compete with it.

And with that comes the benefit of Premiere: live updates to my edit when using After Effects.
I'm curious if you've seen Ian Cooper's excellent talk, "TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM

One of his key points is that throwaway test code is only a problem if you neglect to throw it away.
Yargh, there still be some sanity left on these seas [1].

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
What's a negative development in React that was only for Vercel?
home assistant with motion eye
Fun(?) fact: it's not technically true that const can't be used in for loops:

for (const i = 0; i > 0; ) {
console.log('this is stupid');
}

let ran = false;
for (const i = 0; !ran; ran = true) {
console.log('this is also stupid');
}
Just stopped having the cravings for whiskey (and I forgot beer too) at home. I still partake in an old fashioned or a pint of beer when I'm out for dinner and drinks. But for me at home the whiskey was a different "addiction" than wine. I really do wish I could drop the wine, but it just feels different than the whiskey and beer did.
If so, that just raises the question: of what benefit is it to the banks to keep unused accounts open? The maintenance costs may be low, but they're still nonzero.
>The whole js ecosystem is insanity

This is such a lazy, grandstandy, unoriginal take.

>My controversial opinion is still the same

It's not controversial it's just tired and ignorant.
> Between 5 and 10 years is a perfectly reasonable run time for paid pro software.

Not really a reasonable run time for a career, though. What do you do after that?
Curl user survey 2024 analysis
Although it should be noted that it's not DJI drones doing that damage. They seem to be used for spotting, while more DIY-style FPV drones are the ones blowing up tanks.

Of course, those parts likely also come from sources in China. However, the software is more along the lines of FOSS like ArduPilot or PX4.
Good thing I don't have a car.
Pfft. Iran, Burkina Faso, Cambodia and Bahrain beat "Europe" handily on that metric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

Let's have those countries as our role model then? /s
Nvidia probably has a better chance of adding new suppliers than TSMC finding a new Nvidia to sell to.
Hi, I make this display:

https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

You can play your own content to it as an image, by serving it on an internet-accessible URL.

It can also render any website you point it to. (The results vary, it's a black-and-white display!)

And it has a built-in calendar app and picture frame app.
how so? The form shouldn't even submit an empty password, and just guessing the same password over and over again is not exactly going to resuilt in success on the 1 millionth attempt.
I've been on Mounjaro now for 4 months. I'm still taking it because I still want to lose weight and manage my (pre)diabetes.
> My controversial opinion is still the same

This is the most popular opinion on HN. If anything, it's controversial to say React isn't a dumpster fire
You don’t need to determine the internal representation as long as you’re dealing with opaque types and invoking rust functions on it.

As for the tricks used to make both 24 bytes, it’s NonNull within String that Option then detects and knows it can represent transparently without any enum tags. For what it’s worth you can do similar tricks in c++ using zero-sized types and tags to declare nullable state (in fact std::option already knows to do this for pointer types if I recall correctly)
Micronics SLS nylon 3D printer makes electronic circuits [video]
What's particularly neat is it allows electric circuits across a three-dimensional surface then just a plane.
It is not true that "cotton . . . was a necessity to fuel the industrialization of textile production in England".

England produced so much wool that it exported most of it (to other European countries). Flax was also very common.

Factories full of steam-powered machines were going to replace the existing arrangement in which most households on farms and in villages manually spun their own yarn and wove their own cloth with or without access to cheap cotton.
Find a new job, or if you like the job you have just ignore it. Or if you want to get fired start explaining concepts to your boss.
I understand that, and I think it's a fair point, but there is also the issue of leadership.

E.g. there are tons of Republican "elites" who know that the whole "stop the steal" stuff and falsehoods around Trump winning in 2020 are complete, total, and utter bullshit. We know this because they've said it! My favorite example is when Liz Cheney wrote in her book that Republican Rep Mark Green said, as he was signing electoral vote objection sheets on Jan 6, "The things we do for The Orange Jesus." (In transparency, Green later denied this).

My point is its one thing to do what your constituents desire. Its another thing to propagate lies and bullshit because you think that will help you gain power, even if your constituents do love those lies and bullshit. I'd also point out that there have been a number of conservative and Republican leaders (not many, but some) who actually have some honor and have called out these lies, which has usually forced them to retire or leave the party.
Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple all already have custom accelerators, though some only for inference.
Uranium is mined by in-situ leaching. You don't have to move any rock (well a little, but astronomically less than for traditional mining). It's not at all similar to rare-earth mining.
I'm not sure what it means but a lot of people on this forum have a strong tendency to denigrate human beings whenever people bring up that LLMs kind of suck. I think this undersells what humans are capable of and distracts from the discussion about what LLMs can do. I'm really tired of this discussion immediately getting sidetracked into some philosophical quagmire about the nature of thinking and the mind when someone is trying to bring up a point about LLMs themselves. When this Apple Intelligence feature comes out, I won't have a tiny human in my phone telling me things, I'll have a ChatGPT api call. LLMs are being integrated into these systems, not human beings. When someone talks about other systems, like search engines, nobody talks about how they compare to humans. It's weird that we're dead set on making the comparison with these systems in particular. Maybe that's down to poorly chosen names for things like artificial intelligence and neural networks inviting the comparison.
> It seems their attitudes changed soon after, perhaps due to their almost total market dominance,

I'm pretty sure Adobe went for subscription model as one of the earliest big companies and then the trend bloomed all around us - especially on mobile devices.

Few years ago my friend had issues with her computer after being forced to upgrade from Win7 to 10 - it was something drivers related. She reinstalled 7 but couldn't activate her CS anymore because servers for that particular version were no more active. She could use crack and activate the software but she didn't want to risk issues if she'd face the visit from Polish tax office (which is permitted to check legality of software in business). Purchasing new license was out of the question because Adobe already introduced subscription at that point and she, as a single-person company couldn't afford it in expenses. A colleague suggested her Affinity and she gladly switched.
Toon Boom’s domination really is very regional. But that’s one reason I list flash as having competitors.

In Canada, you’ll find a lot of the larger shops use toon boom and the smaller shops use Flash/Animate.

When you move out to Asia, the balance changes quite a bit the other way but you also see a lot more players in the form of OpenToonz etc entering. Especially on the anime front.
> It's not controversial it's just tired and ignorant

Tired maybe but not ignorant since I helped to maintain two React SPAs for 6 years now so I'm pretty aware how bad it is.
I recommend watching this:

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...

Only shows you bulbs can be made well and last long. But those are not for you. (Assuming most readers here are not Saudi)
Writing a Run Book Can Be Your First Iterative Step
There is more than one breed of dog/wolf (just like there are horses). And I think the evidence is pretty clear that, yes, they are ideal.

Weird comment.
These magnetic rays you keep talking about. I don't think they're going to keep us warm or grow the plants when theres no sunlight.
Those options don't exist for books in their lending programme though.

Example: https://archive.org/details/introducingpytho0000luba
It's a bit silly IMO, but USB PD EPR _can_ support 24v and 48v- for charging laptops, I believe. The day I see a server rack with a pair of USBCs plugged into it is a far day off I hope though.
Honestly, cancelling Adobe after getting my kids school account shadow billed for 6 months was a nightmare and obscenely difficult. I really think Adobe has gone full vulture on their users and they need a change of leadership of a breakup.

I was so relieved when the Figma acquisition fell through — the only serious competitor to their ecosystem almost died in that deal.
I make this eink smart screen:
https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

If you build a small website that shows your status message, you could then point the smart screen to it and it will display your away message.
> I wonder if this augurs a larger shift in artistic taste.

People have distorted/blurred/abstracted images from the start with 'Vaseline on the lens' to airbrushing to modern concerns about 4k showing too much detail. Popular art wants to remove the detail and portray the subject as better-than.
This is definitely over the line.

cc @dang?
Not after RLHF tuning, due to the 'flattened logits' phenomenon (which is the logit-level version of the mode collapse OP documents at higher levels). All the temperature settings wind up yielding pretty much the same output, until you ramp it up so high that it falls apart completely. Completely unlike the base models where you can productively tune the temperature or use very high temperatures with some screening.
Enovix is putting next gen batteries into production. They've been through FAT and SAT... so you know it's real. I'm also an investor, but like the tech.
Unconvincing tbh. Research papers have shown that heartrate can be tracked from cameras with well under 4k resolution. Doing it with DJI's excellent camera tech should be quite easy.

As far as US infrastructure, google street view and bing maps seem to be a bigger information disclosure threat but I guess they do blur out faces.
"This gives us the best performance characteristics when you're following best practices (i.e. hoist data fetches to Server Components or route loaders), at the expense of making an already bad pattern a bit worse." [1]

Their rational was pretty solid in the PR, but seems they overestimated how ready the community is to embrace newer best practices and they are back tracking.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/26380
https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdc...

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Rocky Linux 9.3
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Hello, Brendan!

I don't personally see much of a distinction between "asshole" and "asshat" in this context, and I think the intent of your reply was pretty clear. Nor do I begrudge the comment--it comes with the territory of choosing such a username. But if you believe my characterization of that exchange to be false, my apologies. The link to the original reply was posted almost immediately after my comment, and so the context is there for all to see. I summarized it in a way that I thought would be entertaining to the audience.
The article says that React was about to make a change, the community pointed out it had bad trade-offs, and React backed off. What does that have to do with Vercel? Where's the problem with React here?
High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models
Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds
I would argue gaming does not equal business.

I was just suggesting that something like this could be offered alongside existing models, and so offer a cheaper alternative to people who only want to edit a few files per month.

>Can you imagine not being able to open or save your file because the servers are overloaded?

This happens all the time in business since the world moved to the cloud. Microsoft is down? No opening or saving office files, say goodbye to email. Amazon down? Your website is now not currently taking customer orders.
Well, still a subjective take.

Heavy use of interactivity is hard. React makes it maintainable. It was hell before.

I've been working with React (and RN) since it came out and I've had nothing but good experiences, especially compared to the previous decade before React.

My motto is local-first, the more stuff the client does, the cheaper it is to scale and less bridging between the server you have to do.

Move everything to the client, especially the database. Let the database do the syncing. Plus you get offline and undo/redo basically for free. Pagination? Fuggetaboutit.
It has a question mark.

Claims don't have question marks.
I've been tempted to buy this one more than once: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5paper-esp32-development-...
Well said.

> Otherwise when you zoom out and look at the whole energy system, you're just "digging a hole and filling it back in again" (I mean this both thermodynamically and economically), plus adding unavoidable inefficiency losses at every step. So in reality the entire chain would be generating negative net energy for society. Such a futile energy system isn't a workable solution, obviously.

That is true in the abstract but there is yet more nuance that is important to consider.

Capturing co2 doesn't have to consume as much energy as is released when it's emitted. Although, many methods, like everything revolving around trees and biomass do have this negative net energy property. There are chemical ones that don't if I'm not mistaken[1].

There is also the unreliability of most renewable energy sources. While we haven't solved all the energy storage problems. There might still be periods where it would be somewhat sensible to use surplus renewable energy to capture carbon, while a low-wind, low-sun place is powered by fossil fuels.

We do of course want to shut all of them down ASAP, but the optimal ordering might not be as strict as you imply. I agree with your broader point though. There is a lot of potential for energy waste if carbon capture is prematurely applied aggressively.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-ic...
The biggest (by quite a margin still) is the Novo Nordisk foundation, but it is not really a new one. And its setup is rather different compared to OpenAI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk_Foundation
I’m sure Americans are dying healthy and happy at young age. Crunching the numbers until the fit the narrative aside, the chocolates are horrible too.
Struggling to understand in which context the US is the weaker partner.

- GDP [0]

- Total wealth [1]

- Military

- Demographics (US - growing, China - aging and shrinking)

- Soft power

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/

[1] [https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/glo...]
... that could replace GPS

That's the implied application, which is wrong.
To test against real 3rd-party http API from time to time, and to generate mocks automatically for the same tests, you could use VCR https://pypi.org/project/vcrpy/
What is intelligent life? Portia Spiders and GPT
The lightnote is so cool, and the design is perfection
>Isn’t the whole reason the lawsuit started because the Internet Archive went above an own-to-loan ratio of 1?

No. The lawsuit was about CDL as a whole, and there's plenty of evidence showing publishers were preparing for it even without the COVID emergency library. If the lawsuit was just over the emergency library, I doubt IA would still be fighting.
I mean, the carrot in the short term would be to raise public opposition to the bill. And possibly reduce support for the politicians pushing for the ban.

I've got a DJI drone and I've always been worried of some OTA software update essentially making the device useless. I've got a separate iPhone 8 that I don't connect to WiFi any more that I use only to control the drone. Though honestly my fear was more that the FAA would add dumber regulations and push them on DJI to enforce, which they seem to have already done quite a bit.
A lot of homeless people in the US are basically dependent on their "Obamaphone" highly subsidized cell phones just to maintain access to basic resources like shelters and state provided aid. So of course, in all those "homeless camp sweeps" (read: homeless harassment campaigns) their phones and anything else they own tend to get thrown in a dumpster. They lose access to their support network, their state advocate, their resources etc.

But too bad apparently, how dare people who aren't legally allowed to be anywhere, be somewhere.
this belongs in major newspapers and media outlets. some PR campaign to get this message out there should prove fruitful. you can hire someone and just have them suggest articles to magazines and papers, who are always looking for content anyway. it's topical, urgent, convincing, and it comes from an authority in the field, so it checks all the boxes IMHO
Not every company, just the ones with military relevance. But for the purposes of a national security discussion, the situation that is being planned for is not the current-state peacetime -- it is the after the fact contingency.
I don't mind writing react but Vue and Nuxt are saner choices if you want great out of the box performance.
American Express asks you (or at least used to) if you want to allow recurring billing when canceling.
there are a few places where riding relatively close to the edge is inevitable, although you can probably bring yourself to slow down and concentrate for those moments. Still the cycle tour operators (who operate with considerably better than average equipment and professionalism) have non-zero death tolls, so it's not just drunk drivers trying to pass each other.

Still, I reckon Death Road is probably a fair bit safer than the mines in Potosi, or Potosi/Sucre taxi ride at the speed the locals like to drive at, Andes night buses in the less reliable bus companies or deciding to visit a mountaintype viewpoint by wandering through one of the local districts with a camera (Bolivia definitely didn't feel like the worst part of Latin America for that though...). Roads being blocked by angry protestors is a characteristically Bolivian thing too, although they're not at all interested in tourists so unless you're determined to pass the only real danger is to your schedule.

now the time I actually did ride a bike off a cliff was a nice smooth road in Ecuador (I went a little too close to a drain which wasn't particularly close to the edge, went over the handlebars, landed inelegantly on the road and was a little surprised to find no bike behind me... had fun retrieving it from the tree it was caught in a couple of feet below the edge)
Vi-Su – Video summarization with key screenshots
Hey HN!

I have been working on this app for the last weeks, as adding screenshots to video summaries help me remembering better the content (and also makes it more engaging to read the summary). And I could not find any video summarisation app that does that.

It basically creates visual video summaries (hence vi-su) with text and screenshots of the videos. GPT4 is used in the backend to generate the summary and select the screenshots to include.

I find it particularly useful for educational videos like courses, tutorials, conference talks, and documentaries where visuals matter.

The app is still in development, so there may be some quirks, but I’d now love to hear some feedback and suggestions for improvement. Thanks to try it out and share your thoughts!
> it makes it a massive pain in the ass for any price-conscious users to decide whether it's worth paying for.

The goal would be to dissociate the software from the price/value. It happens when people are enticed to get loyalty points for things like grocery purchases. No one would move if the deal was "save 30cents" but they would for "and get 300 bonus points!" (See McDonald's or every other loyalty system).
Entire ecosystems have been created around inflated point value too.

Adobe should just call them "Adobe points" and make it essentially a digital currency that can also be used for stock photos, etc too. Or maybe even for cloud computing for fast render farms of your increasingly complex video/3Dworks. Heck, it could be blockchain based too (AdobeCoin?)

They're already trying the kind of "buffet" model with their cloud subs. Maybe they can shift to a credit system to encourage other users.
The original word is really just descriptive of the unpleasant side of optimization you see in commerce.

Walmart finding the minimum product quality they can sell is no different than Facebook finding the maximum number of Advertisements people will tolerate.