skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm demanding more/better code-completion style AI for sure. It's an invaluable part of my workflow now and I'm happy paying a monthly fee for the service.
Dex does not need an underlying OS. Your conflating features. Dex simply requires a monitor. No computer.
My Framework laptop took 2.423s after starting userspace to be "done", without me making any effort on that. (Measurements for the part before that aren't useful on this setup because my initrd waits for user input passphrase.)

It's simply not rocket science.
iOS App Launch Timeline 2024, Red Tape Review from Local App to TestFlight
You have to admit using AI to steal stuff wholesale is a disruptive technology.
Agreed, I'd have it an option that's off by default (i.e. default topbar shows no karma), even. But you can probably bug the person who makes the phone app.

Of course, the purist solution is the one upthread - use the regular website on your phone and misclick 'hide' until there's no avoiding doing whatever chore you're avoiding after all.
The author of that article also makes the data and code for some of the interactive data visualizations available via Observable notebooks: https://observablehq.com/@climatelab/map-temperature-forecas...
If we didn't lean our lesson when Google's AI search results were laughed at, I am not convinced we are ever going too.

I mean I guess this one is far more, "get in legal trouble with this huge company", territory. But still. There have been enough AI flops, poorly conceived, and dangerous things over the last year... feels like no one with any decision making power cares anymore.
That's the point, no? Ukraine isn't NATO. Ukraine can't do NATO doctrine. So Ukraine also can't win against Russia if they're this behind on artillery supply. This is an issue for Ukraine. It's not for NATO. But we aren't talking about NATO, we're talking about Ukraine's ability to fight back.
Seems like a prudent insurance policy given the "almost there" strains and infections we have seen recently.
Yeah. Public pressure might actually work against Google, but it’s unlikely to work against the NSA so easily.
Pretty sure people said the same about fiber internet in the 2000's.
Generally speaking, transient buffers today, in performance sensitive code in NET, follow the pattern of

T[]? toReturn = null;
var buffer = length <= threshold
? stackalloc T[threshold]
: (toReturn = ArrayPool<T>.Shared.Rent(length));
/* logic */
if (toReturn != null) ArrayPool<T>.Shared.Return(toReturn);

either directly or via a buffer-like type that does it behind the scenes.

ArrayPool<T>.Shared is generally well-behaved in terms of GC, and small lengths will not even hit it, being practically free.

The amortized cost of this is substantially lower than allocating such arrays and then throwing them away: stackalloc, particularly for short lengths, is so cheap it might as well be noise, which is cheaper than still fast array alloc for short length, and as the length passes the threshold to avoid excessive stack pressure, it becomes faster to retrieve pre-allocated array from a threadlocal bucket within shared array pool.
> It's high time we had a GPLv3 web browser

Then write one.

Perhaps BSD in its anarchic freedom is compelling to the kinds of people who decide to do something crazy like building a brand new browser engine from scratch, and GPLv3 with its detailed rules and regulations is compelling to people who like to talk about how they wish the world had more software licensed under GPLv3.

Open source isn’t handed down from God, it starts with one person deciding to type mkdir.
PXE is one layer higher than what you're thinking of. The old-school analog to HTTP in this case is TFTP, and it sucks.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't Lisp the original version of this?
That’s great, but what’s your businesses card like?
I question that you’re actually an 3D artist. I’m an artist (as is my partner) and we both agree this looks better than most examples..but it still looks incredibly lackluster, poorly colored, and texturally continues to have weird uncanny smoothness to it that is distracting/obviously generated.

I don’t have time to leave a longer reply, and I still need to read over their entire white paper later tonight, but I’m surprised to see someone who claims to be an artist be convinced that this is “incredible”.
Does this work with .pdf files? i.e. attacker uploads evil.pdf
Not giving academics FU money is going to backfire.
People also said the same thing about NFTs, and they were correct.

I think “AI” will eventually have more consumer facing uses, but the current crop is incapable of telling truth from fiction which severely limits the appeal to Google’s main user base. OpenAI is riding on hope and it feels like Google is chasing after that application to avoid looking like they are behind, but it’s not clear that actual customer demand is looking for Google to offer such half baked technology.
I want to know how they trap the scientists in that crystal.
You can download Servo right now and use it as a browser: https://servo.org/download/

It is just extremely rough. It is in a far less-usable state than Ladybird even is and very prone to crashing.
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And once again a big tech company proves that as soon as their "principes" are put to the test they will abandon them almost instantly.

When buying some wind energy was easy and wasn't really a trade-off they were quick to use big phrases like being "committed to the planet" and such. Commitments seem to be rather "flexible" with these companies.
i set it to c++20 on purpose, i just didn't know the feature existed (and didn't know that my clang didn't support that feature; i'm a little uncertain as to whether my clang is an outdated version without full c++20 support, or whether gcc is implementing a proposed extension that didn't actually make it in)
And that's still somewhat true. I'm up at our cottage right now, where we have 300mbps cable internet. The upstream is paltry (10mbps), but I haven't really felt it impacting my work (and my kids are still able to stream everything they'd like, too). Sure, I miss the 5gbps symmetrical we have at home, but in reality there's not a huge real impact.
Sure, it does have some benefits. Like lower energy consumption, I hear good things about JavaScriptCore (Safari's JS engine), that said, so many of the features are missing, and one part is it encroaching on the iOS apps territory.
It might be, if you are writing low-level-ish code in C#, particularly one that uses its SIMD abstraction, this is something you do care about as it is relevant to extracting maximum instruction-level parallelism from modern deep and wide CPU cores.

Pretty much the same knowledge that applies to C/C++/Rust applies to C# in such scenarios, save for swapping auto-vectorization consideration with the one for simpler usage of Vector128/256/512<T> (which, in turns, applies to the use of intrinsics in both the former and the latter).
How would DuckDB know which *.gz are in that folder? Is there a directory listing?
> How would you describe the behavior of Character.AI's millions of users if not demand?

"Disturbing"?
You should try BAR.

In so many ways it feels like the perfect modern-day TA.
...don't forget about Zero-K! https://store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/
There are royal academies in each Spanish speaking country. Is a very old institution that creates diplomatic links and a help net between countries on everything related with the Spanish dictionary. They solve doubts for free, or publish American Vocabulary dictionaries (so American people can understand other American people).

If you want to understand Spanish this is the best resource available

https://www.rae.es/

Not all people in this academy descend from the Borbons. Not all people there are from Spain. All are voted by their peers based in their perceived merits. Is a meritocracy, not a monarchy.

Some people appreciate the fact that there are experts on Spanish language trying to help everybody. Other will keep saying the equivalent to "Experts thing that are better than me" or "Death to conquerors. Mine is better, Murica!!". Everybody has their own choice, but the reward is ending with a language that nobody will understand. A very silly prize.
What do experts suggest to identify and prove that Spyware is installed on a phone?
meaningless stat in the grand scheme of things. eventually, it will all transition to nuclear/solar. the question is does it move the needle in a meaningful way right now. so much hand wringing about carbon emissions only for germany to end up burning coal again.
Does eating at night increase mortality risk?
Double checking my memory here. Didn't it go from Phoenix to Firebird to Firefox?
Impeding content blockers like uBlock Origin.
San Francisco couples are using tech tools to optimize marriage
You cannot seriously think that you need 1:1 parity missile-to-shell in that paradigm. The overall result from the conflict is that the soviet doctrine underperfomed, with especially abysmal results for the IADS part of it.
OP does not (seemingly) claim that tinygrad can't compute hessians, only that a first-order optimization method was the only thing tried.

Also, as a quasi-newton method, L-BFGS does not require explicit (pre-)computation of the hessian (it implicitly iteratively estimates its inverse in an online manner).
The Queen's Doll's House
Wow, it would make so much more sense. Humans could be doing processing for AI when they are asleep in virtual world and what they consider their waking hours with free will would be actually a dream so they can regenerate. AI would be syncing their dreams and providing structure to maintain illusion that it's a real world.
> Companies want to hire people that do things, not question everything ...

In fairness, following your stated requirements; no one would ever be hired.

There's a direct contradiction such that it can never be true.

Hint: Descartes Rule of Method
I don't think it's right to characterize this as a hit piece. They're reporting on a document Google published, using Google's numbers and framing. If Google didn't want people to talk about their carbon consumption they would presumably not have published this report.
No, that is convergent evolution. A more apt comparison would be selection of secondary sexual traits that no longer correspond to fitness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signified_and_signifier
Gen AI takes over finance: The leading applications and their challenges
Bias toward new topics is why it's called news. Otherwise, we'd have to call it olds.
Consumers ask for AI all the time. Their requests sound like this:

- "Google search is drowned by SEO, I can't find anything anymore"
- "Wow all these ads suck"
- "Ugh my social media is full of hucksters and bots"
- "My job applications all go into a black hole"
- "LoL gmail can't even find emails I know are there"
- "Ffs stop autocorrecting to duck"
- "Oh wow we can't even say 'vagina' anymore because The Algorithm"
- "Support doesn't even read my message, why do I bother"
- "I can't keep up with all my inboxes"
- "This meeting should've been an email"
- "The press release makes no sense, can someone translate corporatespeak?"
- "Ecomm sites are awful why can't I just find what I'm looking for?"

etc.

We already use AI for all sorts of things. This will only accelerate. Half the things that used to be AI aren't even called AI anymore. That's because "AI" is a marketing label. When a technology becomes mundane, it ceases to be called AI and we find something new.
The Statute of Limitations might make "in perpetuity" mean a few years.

I doubt you could sue the previous owner's insurance policy.
The future for self driving cars are closed roads where only driverless cars are allowed.

The ethical issues when a driverless car kills someone cannot be solved in a reasonable way.

The question is which city/country will be the first to implement roads for driverless cars only ?
We read the underlying paper while crying because we know one of our family members will come up to us talking about the incredible new world changing discovery
Firefox user here... if you can do good on tree style tabs like the Sidebery add-on, let us know!
They said they were an "AI-first company" :)
I see the current gold rush of AI the same way I saw crypto-currencies. Even if originally there were people that believed in the concept it became just a snake-oil sellers business.

The parallelism is made even more relevant by its hungry use of electricity.

There is a future for AI but it is not what we see companies developing right now. Chat-bots are more dystopian and problematic than useful. AI future (and present) is on analyzing big chunks of data about chemical bounds, traffic-flow, astronomical observations, etc.

But all that really useful AI is not attracting the kind of investment that flashy consumer-oriented chat-bots are getting.
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Hi, I'm Ole. Looking for a job in the U.S., do have a job authorization. The bulk of my experience is in Python and SQL in data engineering and generic backend. However occasionally I've used Scala and Rust on my job and in my free time it's all about Haskell and Nix.
It strikes me reading this, that edited archives of author's works is an antiquated concept. I can understand that back in the 1800s (or even the 1930s) having a giant box of paper would have been daunting to sort out, prepare for publication and then release. But in 2024? It seems ridiculous. Dump it all in SQLite and put it onto the Internet. Let AI sort it out.

I really wish a lot of antique content was available this way. I like to watch YouTube channels like Esoterica [1] and often he will lament that scholarly editions of ancient works are either unavailable or only available with much effort at exorbitant prices. We are living in a time where I should be able to have access to the entire Nag Hammadi library as high quality images that I can feed into an LLM for casual analysis. Imagine the entire Vatican Library available in a format similar to The Pile.

What a treasure it would be to have an LLM that is trained on every single piece of philosophical, religious, political, economic, etc. writing from the earliest Sumerian clay tablets to the current copyright cut-off date.

1. https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel
It seems to me that "I'm disturbed by consumer demand for AI" is different than and contradictory to "consumers are not demanding AI".
Seems smart to fund this kind of research since it looks like it's only a matter of time until some kind of animal flu becomes a major problem for humans. We're sure not likely to stop the open-air markets, industrial farming, and environmental degradation that causes disease to flourish and spread. Here's hoping the investment pays off in lives saved!
Hacker News submit bot auto removed it. It editorializes for less clickbaity titles.
Goddamn, is that what professional news outlets sound like? It sounds like a YouTuber trying as hard as possible to sound cool or edgy. Dude, leave the coke for after the broadcast.
"Nuclear spectroscopy breakthrough could rewrite fundamental constants of nature". That's UCLA's PR department in action.
txtai has been working in the graph-vector space since 2022. Building semantic graphs with vector similarity for example. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Disclaimer: I'm the author of txtai

[1] https://neuml.hashnode.dev/introducing-the-semantic-graph

[2] https://neuml.hashnode.dev/generate-knowledge-with-semantic-...

[3] https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-knowledge-graphs-with-llm-d...

[4] https://neuml.hashnode.dev/advanced-rag-with-graph-path-trav...
The content will follow much of the recent article

https://cyberscoop.com/how-ai-will-change-democracy/

--

A problem:

> To start, I want to list some of AI’s core competences. First, it is really good as a summarizer. Second, AI is good at explaining things, teaching with infinite patience. Third, and related, AI can persuade. Propaganda is an offshoot of this. Fourth, AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. Predictions about whether turning left or right will get you to your destination faster. Predictions about whether a tumor is cancerous might improve medical diagnoses. Predictions about which word is likely to come next can help compose an email. Fifth, AI can assess. Assessing requires outside context and criteria. AI is less good at assessing, but it’s getting better. Sixth, AI can decide. A decision is a prediction plus an assessment. We are already using AI to make all sorts of decisions

As a «summarizer»?! Schneier is probably speaking of LLMs, and must have had a very different experience from mine: the summaries I read were really, really, really witless, suggesting brain deficiency in a "Turing test" scenario.

This stresses the core problem: until proper proficiency is achieved, that which matches or surpasses Professionals, irresponsible adoption will be damaging.
You can leverage SQL on top of IndexedDB by using AlaSQL (https://github.com/AlaSQL/alasql) or absurd-sql (https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql).
It turns out AI will kill us, but not in the way that the billionaires were paranoid about. Who needs guns when a planet-sized gas chamber will do?
What's new to me?

A couple year ramp in phrasing like "hit piece" used to describe mundane news.

Put another way: I see a ramp in use of hit piece for writing, where not writing, given you have the info, would be described as a cover up.
Well, Lisp macros are mentioned in a footnote at least, and yes, maybe even the oldest version of this idea.
There is SQL on top of IndexedDB: absurd-sql or AlaSQL.
Grok's ASIC is pretty efficient afaik.
Exactly. Why they gave up on the human collective neural net movie plot and replaced it with the human batteries one is beyond me. It makes no sense, humans make terrible batteries.

If the machines from the Matrix needed to use some mammals as batteries, why not just use cows instead of humans? They'd be much more complacent with living in the Matrix, grazing on virtual fields, and less likely to wise up and try to escape and rebel against the machines since they're not very intelligent and the machines would need a lot less processing power to simulate a realistic cow world than the world in 1999 for humans.

To wit, if someone has access to a lot of GPU compute, could
you please use gen-AI to re-make the Matrix but with the characters as cows, I'd pay to watch it. Would definitely beat Matrix Resurrections or whatever that cash grab turd was called.
I see that I am the only one bothered by the title. Optimizing for X is a very common expression, so I read it as "optimizing for loops" as is adding more loops instead of the correct "optimizing for-loops".

Or am I the only one?
May the risks come from less sleep as a consequence of night eating and not from eating itself?
Racket has a sophisticated system for dealing with phases in its macro system: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/phases.html I don't know if other schemes use a similar system.
I think you are talking about Usability here.

Usability: This button is hard to understand and/or confusing to operate.

Accessibility: I cannot operate the button AT ALL, cannot perceive it, or can only do so using advanced assistive technology tricks.
I'm pretty sure the impossibility advertised back then was also about just making a browser.
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> And here's a neural network/multi-layer perceptron with the same number of layers and nodes: One big difference to note is that there are far fewer connections between nodes in KANs compared to neural networks/MLPs.

I think it’s probably worth clarifying a little here that a Bspline is essentially a little MLP, where, at least for uniform Bsplines, the depth is equal to the polynomial degree of the spline. (That’s also the width of the first layer.)

So those two network diagrams are only superficially similar, but the KAN is actually a much bigger network if degree > 1 for the splines. I wonder if that contributed to the difficulty of training it. It is possible some of the “code smell” you noticed and got rid of is relatively important for achieving good results. I’d guess the processes for normalizing inputs and layers of a KAN need to be a bit different than for standard nets.
Did they got such high valuation 5 years ago? Genuine question.
That is reproducibility. Replicability means that the results hold for replication outside the specific circumstances of one study.
i'm going to assume that commoners like us don't have access to that telescope.
> The future for self driving cars are closed roads where only driverless cars are allowed.

This is the present in Honolulu, as of last year: a fleet of self driving cars, operating on a closed road where only driverless cars are allowed, transports over 3000 people per day. The service is called "Skyline".
We can care about two things at the same time. This isn't a "hit piece", it's reporting on Google's own 2024 environmental report.
Ctrl/Cmd + L is very useful. It also works in Windows File Explorer, Spotify Desktop, and presumably many other apps.
They hack existing Google/YouTube accounts, delete their videos and rebrand it to an Elon Musk scam. This is why they have so many users. Google is a joke.
For what it's worth, all of that really useful AI you mention(and then some!) is attracting the kind of investment you want, you just don't hear about it because it's not interesting to the average person.
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I WFH and my reasons to have ZERO reasons to go to an office are:

- being able to live in a nice natural place, with a good climate and so on, not in a dense city;

- being able to avoid wasting energy and health to commute, getting myself uselessly busy in such activities;

- having a larger market, at least a nationwide one, with more potential competition but also more offers;

- being able to evolve. Something I can't do perpetrating past models, that have had very good reasons to be in the past, where doing certain things was needed, but they have no more reasons now;

- being MORE social, IRL, separating work and life, instead of navigate a sea of unknowing humans, most of them isolated in the crowd with noise-canceling devices and macrobugs aka smartphones to better avoid the others.

I choose a technical path because I want to explore, create something new even if that's happen rarely compared to the ordinary things. Even if it's hard and demand failures and sacrifices. I do not call that individualism vs collectivism I call simply love for tech and science vs love for a certain kind of business. It's an absurd waste of time, energy, health to commute simply because financial capitalism needs to sell ready made ultra-processed food, mobile macro-bugs as status symbols and so on. It's a nonsense build big buildings that we use for less than 12h/day moving all around them for the rest of the time just to be exposed to physicals ads (that's are shop windows, not only physical ads).

That's not collectivism because the collective are the flock of sheep, while the shepherds are away and decide. Remember "in 2030 you'll nothing" means that the publisher count to own anything, witch is far from a collective society vs an individualist one.
There is reason to be cautious about every kind of endeavor where the potential for enrichment can cloud judgment. However, the possibilities opened up by technologies this radical in the magnitude of the improvements they make in specific fundamental societal functions are enormous, and for that reason, they are on the balance massively beneficial, and that includes chat bots.