skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What he did was really not that difficult

I don't know about that, he probably had to scout the area and find a line of sight. Also he got a bunch of bombs from somewhere
> Or take a look at any undergraduate text in mathematics. How many of them will mention recent research in mathematics from the last couple decades? I’ve never seen it. Now take an undergraduate text in biology and you’ll still find quite a few citations to modern research.

That’s because, in the natural sciences, a lot of what was considered knowledge long ago has been found out to be incorrect.

If you study Galen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen) or Hippocrates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates), or Newton’s works on alchemy, you aren’t studying medicine or chemistry, but the history thereof.

On the other hand, look at the Pythagorean theorem. There has been a bit of chipping at its corners when non-Euclidean geometry was discovered/invented, but it remains true in large branches of mathematics.

And this isn’t a matter of centuries. A lot of genetics work that predates the discovery of the structure of DNA isn’t worth studying anymore.

> At what point can we still say with a straight face that it makes sense to pour millions of dollars into mathematics research when its only objective seems reaching the next highest peak of hyper-specialization?

Luckily, lots of mathematics research is fairly cheap. As Alfréd Rényi said (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfréd_Rényi#Quotations) it runs on coffee.
The default is to outpace your need. Imagine if we evolved to somehow hunt just enough meat. There’d be some of us with less efficient systems for controlling that behavior that end up starving while they think they are bringing in enough food. Thats no good for reproductive fitness. Overshooting on the other hand is good.

Another factor, symbiotic relationships tend take much longer to evolve that carefully balanced relationship between symbiont and symbiont. Parasitic relationships tend to evolve sooner and its also not uncommon the parasite overshoots and kills off its own host.
I was reading an article, some time ago, about Amazon Indians that actually like rotten meat. Apparently, it is quite nutritious, doesn't hurt them (maybe acquired immunity?), and is probably fairly easy to digest (it's halfway there, already).

Scavenging spoiled meat is a fairly classic natural trait, and even apex predators won't pass up an easy snack.
> I hadn't realized that it was well settled that scraping from youtube isn't legitimate. How ironic that would be. Does that mean that google search results aren't legal? You get full images back from that and google makes money on those results.

Scraping for LLMs should be illegitimate, and self-serving analogies to human learning should be rejected. Whatever precedent that allows for search should definitely not apply to LLMs, because LLMs have different characteristics: the traditional search is more like movie review, it borrows from the movie but in the process directs you to the creator's business (where he can profit); while the LLM is like a pirated copy of the movie, whose point to keep you away from the creator's business (so someone else can profit). At their core LLMs are exploitative in a way search is not.

> Is there a real legal precedence that has set a clear line here?

When circumstances change, the law can change to achieve a just result.

Software engineers seem to like to mis-imagine the law like physics: unchanging, and if you can figure out some loophole to achieve something you get to do it forever. But that's wrong, and the law can and should change.
I believe this is in dispute among sources.
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Wasn't familar with the "Reid Technique" so I had to look it up. One of the opening wikipedia paragraphs is just perfect.

>In 1955 in Lincoln, Nebraska, John E. Reid helped gain a confession from a suspect, Darrel Parker, for Parker's wife's murder. This case established Reid's reputation and popularized his technique.[3] Parker recanted his confession the next day, but it was admitted to evidence at his trial. He was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison. He was later determined to be innocent, after another man confessed and was found to have been the perpetrator. Parker sued the state for wrongful conviction; it paid him $500,000 in compensation.[4]
No one is proposing that. Using a mouthwash (that may or may not have alcohol in it) is distinctly different and has different expected results than consuming alcohol.
No, while it may have been fun to be a generalist in Euler's era, that wasn't bothersome to me. To be clear, the issues I found in academia had little to do with math specifically, and affected academia broadly. The usual issues you've likely heard about dwindling ability to make a comfortable career of it without a great deal of luck.
Sobriety tests are notorious for being very subjective and not having well defined criteria and cops failing people even if they aren't drunk. The subjectivity in the test is a feature that allows cops to justify their arrests or uses of force.

Obviously once you hit a certain point of drunkness obviously maybe a test like walking in a line can demonstrate something useful. But so would a breathalyzer. The false positives is the problem because they're being used to illegitimately subject innocent people to criminal charges.
Polygraphs can be used as evidence, but you would have to be a moron to submit to one, and refusing one cannot be used as evidence of guilt.
Cost cutting is usually driven by pricing pressure, and cheaper products are better.
Hopefully running local S2T + LLM and native app with data fully stored on device. I can’t imagine anyone would be happy shipping their private personal thoughts to a cloud LLM + unknown backend service provider, especially because running this stuff locally is well within the realm of possibility these days.
Bummer, I had no idea about that. But I guess that, at least for turn-based games, it wouldn't be super annoying if you manage to split the logic (F#) from the UI glue (C#), right?

(I never got around to that point though, I usually start making games as libraries and then get nerd sniped into reading about game theory for the AI before I make them playable for humans.)
If you can run this using ollama, then you should be able to use https://www.continue.dev/ with both IntelliJ and VSCode. Haven’t tried this model yet - but overall this plugin works well.
That's so much money for what I think is pretty much a race that's already been won.

I think he could donate a fourth of it a month and the result would be the same.

The rest? He could donate to me (:
I have seen these too and although I'm certain there are bad interviewers out there, I have to say I gained a lot of respect for the detectives who conduct those interviews. They are much better than I could ever be at remaining dispassionate, curious, and above all, extremely patient.

The bottom line is that these interviews are all recorded and the police are well aware that if they make a misstep and if the defense has a competent lawyer, they may inadvertently set a thief, killer, or rapist free if they are not extremely careful in their questioning and processes.
When I'm asked about my thoughts around AI/LLMs, I tell everyone I see it as the same sort of rapid aid that the ubiquitous existence of Google brought to those working in a wide swath of fields. Instead of having printed and limited reference materials available, we suddenly had a MASSIVE trove of information available with amazing indexing and search capabilities. This allowed for more rapid development, creativity, and answers to esoteric questions we would have spent massive amounts of time working through individually.

LLMs are bringing the same thing, at a much different level, to the playing field. LLMs aren't perfect (and neither was what we had before) but it accelerates our ability to deliver in a way that many technological innovations have before us.

They will NOT replace us, at least not for the foreseeable future; however, the incremental shift on access to information, closer-to-done status, and creative inspiration (developers, administrators, writers, and artists alike) will cause a massive shift in how we work day to day.
That are better for someone else.
Hey thanks!

It was really the team that pulled it all together.
The contribution limit for an individual directly to a candidate's campaign is only $3,300 https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate.... I think the limit should raised a lot or removed entirely, since it just encourages people to contribute to PACs instead.
It's all weaponization. Bring up worse uses when appropriate, but don't make this a competition to dismiss smaller misuse.
Undoubtedly new areas of creativity will be explored but a list with only good is missing the balancing 'bad' examples. Auto-complete is turning into auto-suggest and it is changing what I would have written. Even spellcheckers are starting to force a specific form of grammar which is, arguably, guiding how language is changing. The argument here isn't that this is good or bad, but that this outside influence is so strong that it is pruning out large areas of creativity. These things aren't just removing the mundane to speed up creative work, they are enforcing a style at a low-level which is hard to overcome. I personally am turning most of that off now because I want to maintain my own voice, but I don't know how long that will be a viable option.
If the annotations help explain the cultural context and references to current events and recent history, this is the kind of resource I've wished for when reading pre-modern literature. Even just explaining the classical allusions will go a long way to making the modern reader more comfortable with the text.
A House Cat Came to a Remote Island in 1894–A Year Later a Species Was Extinct
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The "logical conclusion" is frankly a bad extrapolation as hinted by the number of times 'magical' appears in it. A magical fully-automated self-maintaining and repairing factory isn't a very good model for the real world even with advances.

We've already seen how over-invested LLMs have gotten relative to their financial returns. A magical AI box with optimal business decisions is even more fantastical - computibility isn't there, and the resulting homogeneity of a 'perfect' approach in business strategy would by game theory promote decisions counter to the prevalent strategies.

The more likely result in a dynamic world is a market crash in the domain of factories as everyone and their dog tries to get in on the "free easy money, last chance to get rich!". The end profit margins would be tight indeed and collapsed values of good.

Not to mention the whole value of money is that it can get you other goods and services while shielding you from the logistical hellscape of trying to DYI. If everything is being auto-produced anyway then currency isn't even desirable a commodity, now is it?
The other day someone asked me "why do we expect all software to be free?", and I think Blender is responsible for keeping my expectations so high. I love using Blender; I love reading about its new updates and learning how new features work. Trying the Eevee renderer for the first time, compositing multiple scenes with audio, tuning my render settings for the first big animation... all of these experiences were so life-affirming to me. Truly hard to believe that I've felt so much joy from a little exe installer I got from the internet for free.

Go use Blender. It's a recommendation I can make without reservation or concern about Cloud-connected Launchers or subscription service deals later down the line. It's software so good that not paying for it is a surreal human experience.
Link is down.

Reading Shakespeare in high school put me off it for life. I had to look it up just now to check if he's "Elizabethan". I knew what most of the words meant, just not in that order. I couldn't make sense of what was happening in the plot, or even the smaller scale of individual lines. I never thought I was particularly bad (or good) at English, but all my classmates seemed to understand it. I just could not.

People rave about Shakespeare, so I'm sure there is something there. I wish I could have been able to get that.
> I did get backlash from candidates when I posted on reddt...

Probably the same will happen here

> If you wanna give brutal non biased hard core feedback

It's pretty simple, people don't want to be interviewed by AI (maybe zoomers do?). Even if interviewers want to use something like this, it will not work well out for them because the good talent will not tolerate such practices. Also given the known issues with hallucinations / summarization / omission, I would not yet trust AI with something as important as hiring.

I already walk away from any process that does not start with at least a short call as the first notable engagement point.

> non-coder ... using ChatGPT to code my SaaS .... but i keep getting stuck in some critical stuff - like Websockets and OpenAI Integration

The connection is clear if you remove the words in the middle. The technology is not at a point where it can create full applications. There are reliably too many bugs in the generate code
> if this results in lower insurance for those who are deemed to be healthier due to exercises, then it's a good outcome.

in reality, it'll result in higher insurance for those who are deemed unhealthy, or simply at risk. As someone said already, maybe joggers suddenly get lower premiums and bikers (especially in biker unfriendly cities) get higher ones. Maybe you end up paying even more if you bench more at a gym than the "recommended amount". Maybe they collaborate with certain fitness companies and will charge you less if you click an affiliate link to buy this health product.

The possibilities here are endless, and this is just for one aspect of life. This can in theory work with a benevolent leadership, but that ship sailed decades ago.
Not shipping until January 28 2025 anyway.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/curiosity-p...

You can just buy an "Icicle" PolarFire SoC dev board (available since late 2021) and ignore the FPGA part. It's the same thing, pin compatible, same RISC-V CPUs at the same speed, and comes from the factory with the FPGA programmed to connect the CPU cores to the peripherals and boot Linux out of the box.

https://mou.sr/44SLfUe

Obviously, it's more expensive, as it contains a 250k LE FPGA, with the bare chip selling for $400 - $500 all by itself.
Google DeepMind Barkour: Open-source quadruped robot
For running LLMs, I think most people just dive into https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ and start reading.

Not sure what the equivalent is for image generation; it's either https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/ or one of the related subreddits it links to.

Sadly, I've yet to find anyone doing "daily ML-hobbyist news" content creation, summarizing the types of articles that appear on these subreddits. (Which is a surprise to me, as it's really easy to find e.g. "daily homelab news" content creators. Please, someone, start a "daily ML-hobbyist news" blog/channel! Given that the target audience would essentially be "people who will get an itch to buy a better GPU soon", the CPM you'd earn on ad impressions would be really high...)

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That being said, just to get you started, here's a few things to know at present about "what you can run locally":

1. Most models (of the architectures people care about today) will probably fit on a GPU which has something like 1.5x the VRAM of the model's parameter-weights size. So e.g. a "7B" (7 billion parameter-weights) model, will fit on a GPU that has 12GB of VRAM. (You can potentially squeeze even tighter if you have a machine with integrated graphics + dedicated GPU, and you're using the integrated graphics as graphics, leaving the GPU's VRAM free to only hold the model.)

2. There are models that come in all sorts of sizes. Many open-source ML models are huge (70B, 120B, 144B — things you'd need datacenter-class GPUs to run), but then versions of these same models get released which have been heavily cut down (pruned and/or quantized), to force them to fit into smaller VRAM sizes. There are 5B, 3B, 1B, even 0.5B models (although the last two are usually special-purpose models.)

3. Surprisingly, depending on your use-case, smaller models (or small quants of larger models) can "mostly" work perfectly well! They just have more edge-cases where something will send them off the rails spiralling into nonsense — so they're less reliable than their larger cousins. You might have to give them more prompting, and try regenerating their output from the same prompt several times, to get good results.

4. Apple Silicon Macs have a GPU and TPU that read from/write to the same unified memory that the CPU does. While this makes these devices slower for inference than "real" GPUs with dedicated VRAM, it means that if you happen to own a Mac with 16GB of RAM, then you own something that can run 7B models. AS Macs are, oddly enough, the "cheapest" things you can buy in terms of model-capacity-per-dollar. (Unlike a "real" GPU, they won't be especially quick and won't have any capacity for concurrent model inference, so you'd never use one as a server backing an Inference-as-a-Service business. But for home use? No real downsides.)
They announce the model is on HuggingFace but don't link to it. Here it is: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/mamba-codestral-7B-v0.1
> How is it possible that this team blew off backup functionality for a product that is targeted at low skill end users?

That sounds to me like the perfect target market for blowing off backup functionality. That market doesn't demand that functionality. Backups are something that a more technically-literate purchaser might demand.
>Oh we have quite a bit of racism in Europe too,

Just mention Romanians and Europeans can pretty quickly get a sense of how racism works in the US
Not even Open AI, which arguably has the resources to programmatically "look" at images and know if they are okay, wants to do image hosting. That should give you pause. What do their lawyers know that you don't?
All I get when I open the link is a white brwoser window.

Latest Chrome on Ubuntu 23.10.
AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast
replying to sibling @dotancohen, they melt, and they suffer from thermal expansion and compression
Looking through the Quickstart docs, they have an API that can generate code. However, I don't think they have a way to do "Day 2" code editing.

Also, doesn't seem to have a freemium tier...need to start paying even before trying it out ?

"Our API is currently available through La Plateforme. You need to activate payments on your account to enable your API keys."
It's no more victim blaming than being honest about what happens to people who visit Singapore with pot.
Not specifically, but they will follow the absurd path of asking you leading questions until you convince yourself that you were abducted by aliens, and then being quacks will decide that their methodology couldn't be wrong, and so they validate your own invented beliefs no matter how stupid.

If it keeps you coming back for another session, they'll keep doing it, even if they know the whole process is bullshit.
How many employees do you have, or is it all yourself?
Okay that live preview of ray traced "sun" lighting is impressive. Trying to get a well lit scene is not a trivial thing, and if it's that easy going forward that's going to be awesome.
Yup. And I don't think I would care too much about the actual domain, because, well, it would be a throwaway domain. It could be some random characters even. Which means you could possibly buy very cheap domain names in bulk, and re-sell them with low retail price, and profit the difference. The temp email service that you would provide "for free" would be the reason to buy from you.
- https://www.x-rayaudio.com/

- https://youtu.be/XMCCYnDvpJQ
At this point Firefox is just a brand for Mozilla to do with as they please. All the talk about a non-Chrome browser with defacto privacy features was just bait to get loyal followers and later on down the road sell them something. Seems ads is just their newest offering.
Lol, love that
Although I agree that news media quality is not always great (really depends from one publisher to another), I would not really qualify random people on Twitter as "news coverage".
In a caste system, your "worth" is decided at birth based on what caste system you are born into, and your opportunities and relationships are determined by that.

The US has some of the highest rates of interracial marriages, relationships, etc. in the world. Mobility in America is driven by socioeconomic class, not race, and gender plays a heavy role in educational success in some races (more than race itself), but not others, for various historical reasons.

In order to cast U.S. racial relations into a type "caste" system, you'd have to stretch the definition of caste so thin that it wouldn't have any meaning.
I don't see why he'd let such a technicality stand in his way, when actually losing the vote last time around was not enough to persuade him that he couldn't be president anymore.
February 1, 1971. I arrived in Manhattan from South America. On one of the streets (I forget which) there were several official-looking parking signs that read "Do Not Even THINK of Parking Here". Every time I've visited Manhattan since then I've looked for another one of those - never found another one.
Another theory-- there are lots of places in Africa where people cannot live due to disease (without modern medicine). This creates refuges for wildlife.
The butt wiping robot may be called a bidet combined with air drying.
Humans do it today with steaks. 'aged' steaks are basically rotting. They are tender.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
it prevents development on the human side while accumulating power for a small group of elites that won't share it with anyone else, but who constantly uses it to start new wars

you can already curate a list of future enemies, its not impossible. you can even do it at large scales, this isn't new tech introduced via ai
There is that --- the guy who made the pstill.app had a "project akira" demonstrating some of the (potential) security issues.
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
See also https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1328897.1328474
13 comments, and exactly zero of them refer to the actual article content. Come on, HN, you're better than this!
> I feel like this hints that there is collaboration between them and Theia folks

The Typefox homepage says:

> Software tools we have created: Sprotty, Langium, Theia
I’m very curious about your last sentence. Are you basing this on the fifth amendment, or something else.
Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms [pdf]
Fingerprints, DNA, shoe imprints, & other forensic evidence are circumstantial. Evidence is legally either circumstantial or testimonial, there's no other category. Most cases are a lot of testimonial evidence all pointing to the same person!
Just because the definition is based on 1000 of the base unit doesn't mean the prefixes start being weird.
Supremacy sure, but not its existence, more like the opposite: Ancestry DNA tests wouldn't work if there was no basis for it.
I don't think that anyone before, in or after Roman times would run gold wire like that through the holes. Why scratch up the work? Why abrade away gold flakes? Is there gold residue on the artifacts? It would've been noted.
SpaceX NASA contracts are not subsidies, right?