skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yikes, that's a grim story.

Yeah, the injury stats are way higher than death. I just couldn't find a fast way to disambiguate serious injuries from not-so-serious-but-we-still-care injuries from the sort of bite that really just merits a fake apology and everyone gets on with their lives.

At the other extreme, I've had first-hand knowledge of a case where someone taunted a dog repeatedly over many months (stupid kid, stupid dog-owners, lots of mistakes were made), eventually the kid got bit, didn't even need stitches, but they called animal control.

So. Non-fatal dog-attacks have a very wide range of impact, and I had no idea how to disentangle those.

Oh, after all that writing I just did, I went back and re-read your source. In 2022 there were 17,500 home insurance claims related to dog bites, at an average cost of $64k. That sounds like a pretty reasonable proxy for serious injury due to injuries from dog bites from pets, the sort of pets that could plausibly have been inappropriately not-on-leash (remember we're discussing whether or not it's "incredibly dangerous and irresponsible" to ever have your dog unrestrained).
I keep seeing people say this because the site is still running, but here's some very clear examples:

* Ron Desantis Campaign Kick-off Twitter Spaces - crashed.

* Elon interviews DJT in Twitter Spaces - crashed.

* No more moderator team, not as much effort against bots - advertisers fleeing because they don't want their brands associated with such content.
No matter how much conservatives preach the will of the free market, when the free market gets in the way of exploiting the working class, they are happy to let the law tell Americans where they can or can't work, or what kind of work they are allowed to do.

There's seems to be a conservative judge in Texas for just about any regressive thing you need.
> often tailbacks are the result of delays happening off the highway system.

Only if there is something seriously wrong with the road system. A highway ought to have higher throughput than any surface road. What you describe is not normal or nominal
I just put stuff places on my drives anywhere I want. What's the big issue? Open my computer and just put stuff places
I love this idea! And also I like how it implies dispensing with the wrong notion that I care about every so-called notification and thus that I have “unread” notifs.
Hah. The judge even said that even if the FTC had the jurisdiction and authority to do this, it still "had not justified" it.

Not only do you need to have the jurisdiction and authority, but some random judge can decide you haven't justified it to her liking and block it anyway.
Interstate, vs. intrastate, commerce.

Historically (IANAL, etc.), if it didn't cross a state line, then it was not Congress' business.
In a "right-to-live" country, you would only have to pay taxes if the presidential candidate you voted for won.
There's also no mass marketing campaign for sticking forks in electrical sockets in case anyone was wondering.
Yes but you still need the journal's stamp of approval for your CV - in my past life having the paper on biorxiv did not count towards anything.

The number of papers per year in the top 20% of journals in the field was one of two metrics they assessed my career progression by (along with grant money). As long as universities and funders require similar journal-based KPIs we will not make any progress.
Maybe this is actually a good thing. Check a few of the cves they found and if it's things like this, you're dealing with a clown. I'd feel ashamed requesting to get a cve assigned for something like that.
Do you know nothing about the history of the east coast? Do you ACTUALLY think everyone who lived there before 1900 was a subsistence farmer?
We are talking about the police, right, and how they get no say whatsoever in deciding what to enforce, yes?
> We don't have a "real AI" at all. Where's Skynet, where's HAL-9000? Where are the cute robotic butlers from the "I, Robot" movie?

You shouldn’t use science fiction as your reference point. It’s like saying “where is my flying car?” (Helicopters exist)
The IKEA cafeteria in South Philly is the best place to see a really good view of the SS United States, because of the proximity, the angle, and the cafeteria's gorgeous floor to ceiling glass windows.

It's a really unique place to eat because of this strange and wonderful view, yet it's not some sort of expensive rooftop bar, it's just the cheap cafeteria of a mass market chain furniture store.

It's one of those weird little gems that give you a country-club-of-the-proletariat feeling, like the Randall's Island golf driving range or the Roosevelt Island tram in Manhattan. There's just something really nice about something that's really grand and really free, that makes you feel like it's cool and respectable to be an ordinary schmuck.

I'm going over there this weekend and enjoying some meatballs and coffee and maybe picking up yet another BILLY bookcase.
With all due respect, I don't think you know what this thread is about.
Video by that guy. Again.

Am I honestly the only one who wants to see a video of him getting punched in the face? He really needs to be punched in the face.
I don't agree with this. The US government needs to encourage an economic structure that is best for US citizens. The company is not looking to save other jobs, but rather to increase their profits for stakeholders. Other industries are highly regulated, such as Medicine, Law, or otherwise have tariffs that combat against this. This is also a slap in the face to the US citizens that bailed out the company previously.

Literally everything that does not require a US stamp or certification is being outsourced. Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, non-software architecture, customer support, project management, and even accounting. This is not good for the US as a country. American workers are not competitive right now, unfortunately, considering the high cost of living and strength of the dollar. Also, American workers will find it hard to get a work visa in a very low cost of living country if they do wish to pursue a career where their field has been outsourced.
>I would like these vehicles to be sent to the landfill immediately.

So you'll never have anything delivered anymore nor have a contractor be able to show up and work on anything. How will that work with your plan?
No one person can create enough libraries to maintain an entire ecosystem (although the guy who made this transformer library is pretty close), so even if the person you responded to did create a few libraries, their problem wouldn’t be solved.
Good catch, shows what I know.

Could be a good feature: have the reminder titles even if it's only in-app.
Yes and no. Hype over ‘API wrapper’ projects and startups will crash a bit, I think.

On the other hand we are no where near approaching hard limits on LLMs. When LLMs start to be trained for smaller subject areas with massive hand curated examples for solving problems, then they will reach expert performance in those narrow tech areas. These specialized models will be combined in general purpose MoEs.

Then new approaches beyond LLMs, RL, etc. will be discovered, perfected, made more efficient.

Seriously, any hard limits are far into the future.
Local instance of Llama 3.1 8B

Q: How many N's are there in Normation?
A: There are 2 N's in the word "Normation".
Q: Confidence level?
A: A more precise question! After rechecking, I can confirm that there is indeed 2 N's in the word "Normation". Confidence level: 100%

Q: How many N's are there in the string "Normation"?
A: There are 2 N's in the string "Normation".

On several regenerations, at some point it gives:
A: There are 3 N's in the word "Normation".
Q: Confidence level?
A: A slight challenge! After re-checking, I see that there are actually 2 N's in the word "Normation".
And then she even said that even if the regulator did have statutory authority, she wasn't sufficiently convinced.

Which is to the opposite side of the spectrum... "even if you have the authority, I can just say "I'm not convinced by the argument that you don't owe me, so I'll still block it"."
Hurrah for these guys! Even a modest win could mean untold resources available.

Many hurdles remain. Projecting enough energy-generating capacity to do ore refining, smelting and so on (megawatts not milliwatts). Moving significant mass of valuable resources into accessible orbit. Solving the dust problem (it doesn't blow away or drop away outside a significant gravity field in space, it just hangs around, fouling everything).

Then, there's using the resultant material. Either try to drop it down to Earth where existing factories want it. Or develop an entire space-based industrial complex to use the material. Neither has a quick solution.

I favor, use the material right where it's extracted. The most valuable place to have metal is in orbit - it costs thousands of dollars per kg to boost anything to orbit. You have something in orbit - leave it there! Use it to develop further space-based industry!

We may find ourselves in some years hence with two economies - dirtside, and space-based. With entirely different cost profiles and entirely separate from each other!
To my understanding "garden leave" wasn't disallowed, you can _pay_ people to not work for a competitor, but you can't enforce limitations on their employment if you aren't paying them.
Have you tried using the shortcut for turning copilot on/off? I know what you mean and in those cases I just turn it off for a second and type freely, then turn it back on.
> right-to-work laws simply say

It's not that simple. Right-to-work laws say that even if you don't join the union, you can't be left out of the benefits that the union negotiates with the boss. "Right-to-benefit-from-the-union-without-paying-dues" doesn't sound as fair as "right-to-work" though.
Find the occasional spark of brilliance someplace where others aren't looking?
>I'm not sure what you think the alternative is.

We could start by making people who choose rural or suburban life pay the costs of such a life rather than foisting them on everyone else. Roads should either be toll roads or entirely paid for by gas taxes and vehicle registration costs. Gas taxes should have to include the cost of removing the pollutants from the environment.
Indeed. I would rather all browsers just disable it by default with not even the popup asking if I want it. If I install a webapp as a PWA then maybe ask me. Otherwise? Website operators are on crack if they think I want them to be able to spam my desktop multiple times a day even months or years after I visited them!
You can still buy them (though for non-industrial use is not clear why you wouldn't buy a cheaper Zero or a 2/3 for similar money).

The Pi 1 A+ is currently ~£20 including taxes: https://www.rapidonline.com/raspberry-pi-model-a-75-1131?src...
I had a project involving HF last year, and boy was it obtuse to the non-AI expert.
Forum shopping at its best, glad Texas is setting a great example here, showing that if you have enough money you can do everything.
The point is that these problems will follow the same growth trajectory as every other tech bug. In other words, they will go away eventually.

But the Rubicon is still crossed. There is a general purpose computer system that understands human language and can write real sounding human language. That's a sea change.
Emacs? (I don't have any WinUI 3 machines so can't verify, but does support GTK and AppKit if built with such support).
Garden leave non-competes were allowed under the FTC's rule.
> don't believe LLMs will get any better than this without a new major breakthrough, but this is already better than using Google search

I mean .. every single org is invested in that research right now
Getting rid of non-compete agreements is just allowing American workers have jobs without ridiculous demands from their employers that they abandon their entire livelihoods for a decade after working for them for a few months.

Non-compete agreements are extraordinarily anti-worker, and fundamentally anti-free-market. If you leave your job, you should be allowed to find another similar job without your former employer suing you for having a career.

>What comes next?

Actual workers rights in America, hopefully.
The way I read it the judge said it was too broad.
A very large number of things that are federally illegal are also illegal under state law. States have their own courts, sentencing, etc, and often want to bring cases under their own laws.
> Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world?

Movie plot threats:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/movie-plot_th...
Also state vs federal have different abilities to regulate, states aren't bound by the constitutional limits in the Articles just the Bill of Rights and Amendments.
Finding talent
Sometimes speech-to-text machine learning models give very good results, however I think the key is that:

1. It's overwhelmingly more useful than the [no text] it was replacing, particularly for the deaf or if you want to search for keywords in a video.

2. When it fails, it tends to do so in ways that trigger human suspicion and oversight.

Those aren't necessarily true of some of the things people are shoehorning LLMs into these days, which is why I'm a lost more pessimistic about that technology.
No amount of reflectors will help you when the guy who kills you only notices you as a bump he felt after looking up from the phone. Just put concrete down on the bike lane divider.
Companies already have patents, lots of them, why do they need non-competes to protect "their ideas"?
Hype is relative to your circle, where you are getting your info, and how the algorithm targets you with info that interests you. So yes, the hype is tiring for that Economist journalist, but for many they have not even heard or used it, and then there is everyone in between. As for myself there is hype but tongue seem justified based on how good the LLMs are currently
Well, it's even worse. In this case the judge said that even if the agency had the power, she didn't feel sufficiently convinced by their argument (to act within their power) and would block it anyway.
The university could make them binding and difficult to rollback if they wanted.
What the judge said according to the article:

The rule “is arbitrary and capricious because it is unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation”

California’s experience can be used to show that the rule is not capricious or unreasonably broad. The act establishing the FTC gave it broad powers and it does have the authority to do what it did. However, it is clear that the Supreme Court is going in a direction to greatly reduce regulatory authority. This ruling will likely stand but it shouldn’t.
Well somehow that's the opposite of what happened when Roald Dahl books were updated for political correctness.

"Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed.

Puffin Books, the company which publishes Dahl novels, updated the electronic novels, in which Augustus Gloop is no longer described as fat or Mrs Twit as fearfully ugly, on devices such as the Amazon Kindle."

https://archive.ph/20230302163549/https://www.thetimes.co.uk...
My big takeaway is that Google has a Common Lisp Style Guide. Makes you wonder what they use Common Lisp for.
No, because they're confined to completely separate tracks, which they don't share with pedestrians or bikes at all. In fact, when the two meet, we call it a "train crossing" and have special "cross guards" to keep pedestrians, bikes, and other vehicles well away from the train. Otherwise, we generally try to keep the tracks away from other modes of transit, by either putting them in tunnels ("subways") or elevating the tracks, or just not putting them near roads to begin with and giving them special right-of-way.

None of this resembles the way we treat cars at all.
I remember as a junior dev getting a call at around 3am from Indian tech support about a failed deploy I had been heading. I stressed myself about it so much and only later reflecting back do I realize nobody but me cared.

Also funny that the culprit was posthog since I have some past experience with it.
Humans >> Data
What are the cool Zed features? Also genuinely interested.
Exactly, if you don't know what you're asking for, how it reads or how it tells the story you're trying to convey. You will just have a well written piece of text that doesn't make sense in the context of what you're trying to say.
There's no moral valence to price discrimination on enterprise security features.
The given examples seem pretty poor. An email disappearing from a list doesn’t tell me it was archived. Maybe it was deleted, maybe I accidentally hit some button and I’m not sure what happened.

The toast makes it clear.
First symbol on the third line: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Basic_in...
It’s crazy these individuals are forgiven.
Being able to ask a question in human language and get back an answer is the single most useful thing that LLMs have to offer.

The obvious challenge here is "how do I ensure it can answer questions about this information that wasn't included in its training data?"

RAG is the best answer we have to that. Done well it can work great.

(Actually doing it well is surprisingly difficult - getting a basic implementation of RAG up and running is a couple of hours of hacking, making it production ready against whatever weird things people might throw at it can take months.)
It is in fact reasonable to charge more for vehicles suitable for commercial fleets and applications than for commuter vehicles.
"Link to the ruling ... (...though this PDF is kinda horrible, since it seems to somehow not be searchable at all, but it's the only one I've found in like 7 different news sites, all but one of which can't cite their sources...)"

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68463428/211/ryan-llc-v...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68463428/212/ryan-llc-v...
This presents an incredible opportunity. The problems are known. The solutions somewhat. Now make a business selling the solution.
> Learning from tech's grandmaster.

Grandmaster of what, Checkers?
> They certainly wouldn't be happy about increased regulatory burden.

And many of us aren't happy about the number of pedestrian deaths caused by these behemoths. Which one should we prioritize?
Importantly for anyone who dislikes ads: seems to support Firefox too
> Yeah… this was a pretty obvious power grab by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats.

The judicial takeover here (and more broadly in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo) was performed by unelected bureaucrats with lifetime tenure.
As a developer I learned a long time ago that if I didn't understand how something worked, I shouldn't use it in production code. I can barely follow this scenario, I don't understand how AI does what it does (I think even the people who invented it don't really understand how it works) so it's something I would never bake into anything I create.
There are a ton of federal agencies that have the power to make regulations and then enforce them. This power is specifically delegated by Congress. It’s hard to imagine a functioning government without this. For example, Congress recognizes it is not a subject matter expert at radio signals, so it delegates the technical details of regulating the electromagnetic spectrum to the FCC. Same thing for the FDA. Congress isn’t an expert on how clinical trials should be designed so it delegates that to the FDA. A huge one is the DEA, which can both determine how drugs are scheduled and can also enforce it. Congress has the power to overrule the agency when it sees fit.
10-years is very unreasonable. I can see maybe 1 year or 2 years working for a direct competitor, but 10! Especially contracting. How can you expect to make a living at all?
MacOS and phones do this well, the toast is up for what feels like enough time to read it, but if you didn’t catch it, you can slide open the notifications ui and see all the previous ones for as long as you want.
> Self-driving was pretty bad a year ago

The threshold for acceptable self-driving is genuine effort from the automated system to avoid accidents as we can't punish it for bad driving. And I want auditable proof of that.

> Image generators now exceed 99.9% of humans in painting/drawing abilities.

I'm pretty sure the amount of people that can draw is less than that. And they can beat image generators by a mile as those generators are mostly doing automated matte painting. Yes copy-paste is faster than typing, but that's not write a novel.

> Text generators are decent...but I'd say they write better than 90% of humans.

Humans use language to communicate. And while there are bad communicators, I think lots of people are doing ok on that front. Text generators can be perfect syntax-wise, but the intent has to come from someone. And the produced text's quality is proportional to the amount of intent that it produces (that's why corporate language is so bland).

> Video generators are in their infancy - we get decent quality, but absolutely mental imagery.*

See Image Generator section, but in motion.

> Reasoning is the weakest point, in my opinion... If they can figure out reasoning

That's the 1-billion dollar question.
sure

here's an example of a question and explanation which aligns to Australian Curriculum elaboration AC9M9A01_E4 explaining why frac{3^4}{3^4}=1, and 3^{4-4}=3^0

https://chatgpt.com/share/89c26d4f-2d8f-4043-acd7-f1c2be48c2...

to further elaborate why 3^0=1 https://chatgpt.com/share/9ca34c7f-49df-40ba-a9ef-cd21286392...

This is a relatively high level explanation. With proper prompting (which, sorry I don't have on hand right now) the explanation can be tailored to the target year level (Year 9 in this case) with exercises, additional examples and a quiz to test knowledge.

This is just the first example I have on hand and is just barely scratching the surface of what can be done.

The tools I'm building are aligned to the Austrlian Curriculum and as someone with a lot of classroom experience I can tell you that this kind of tailored content, explanations, exercises etc are a literal godsend for teachers regardless of experience level.

Bear in mind that the teacher with a 4 year undergrad in their specialist area and a Masters in teaching can use these initial explanations as a launching pad for generating tailored content for their class and even tailored content for individual students (either higher or lower level depending on student needs). The reason I mention this is because there is a lot of hand-wringing about hallucinations. To which my response is:

- After spending a lot of effort vetting the correctness of responses for a K-12 context hallucinations are not an issue. The training corpus is so saturated with correct data that this is not an issue in practice.

- In the unlikely scenario of hallucination, the response is vetted by a trained teacher who can quickly edit and adjust responses to suit their needs
Looks more like a snake than a dog...
'Star Wars: The Acolyte' has been canceled
The net negative migration from California to other states might indicate otherwise. My wife and I are currently contemplating moving to California. I'm comparing cost of living (housing, taxes, transpo, food, etc.). Using real data, it currently pencils out to >40% increase in our expenses. Pretty tough sell.

Edit: to the replies– It's not just housing. Granted, housing is a big chunk of the budget. But it's everything else too. My grocery bill would go up 33%. My state income tax would go from zero to 8%. Gas is, on average, 43% more expensive. And I'm not looking at moving to the Bay Area. I'm looking at moving to Fresno.
It’s always a “power grab” when giving rights to workers. But it’s “free market” when removing workers rights.