skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I don’t see the problem as absurd. As a freelancer I need to focus on the problems the customer will pay for. I don’t write code for free or in my spare time anymore, I used to years ago. i feel comfortable working with the constraints imposed, I think of that as a valuable skill, not a handicap.
I meant what's impossible about making electricity from nuclear/renewable sources and then powering electric heaters with that electricity?
Full-Stack Development with Ionic and Nitric
That was not an example of low risk, responsible drug use - "There is more stupidity in the universe than hydrogen"
Sean Carroll produces a great deal of content for people that want a bit more rigorous explanation rather than the leaky metaphors of most popsci. He often delves into equations and technical details, but keeps it at a level mostly understandable for someone who has basic scientific understanding, but isn't a professional/academic. I spend many hours every month listening to him and recommend his content every chance I get.
This is just corporate virtue signaling.
No, there’s not.

The evolutionary process is pretty adept at rigorously excluding most personality and physical variants out of all the available options. Pretending otherwise is naive ahistorical nonsense.
Military medics may soon carry a new freeze-dried blood plasma
For 1, tbh I don't know the rules. technically it was a regular model and can store some data. Or maybe they simply suspected it's a usb disk.

And 2 was true. But it was after weeks, and of course I didn't wait until then to reset my account credentials.
They did make it sound like a lot of work. Having done it a few times, I found it easier to write in a word processor. I prefer LibreOffice. I’ve also written in Markdown and HTML, but, for me, a word processor was easier because of the other items they mentioned needing. You can add front matter and Table of Contents easily in a word processor like LibreOffice.

In fact, I have a very short book about my step-by-step process on how to format and publish your own book with LibreOffice.

I recently wrote a blog post giving the cliff notes version of the book in a couple pages but I seem to have accidentally deleted it. I need to go dig it up.
You're making this weird assumption that the only use of AI is to literally write the story for you, but 1) that's wrong and 2) nobody is actually suggesting or encouraging that for NaNoWriMo.
Ask HN: When to Outsource?
As a software engineer turned CTO, I often face the dilemma of whether to outsource or not. After some reflection and experience, I’ve came up with a framework that helps guide my decisions:

I only outsource when I have no idea how to do something or know exactly what I need.

No idea <—- [Outsource] ———— [Nop]———— [Outsource] —- > Know exactly

This framework helps manage expectations—when you have no clue what to expect, any outcome can be seen as positive. On the other hand, if you know exactly how something should work, you can define precise requirements and select the right solution. It’s the situations in between, where you’re somewhat familiar but not entirely confident, that I find it’s usually better to handle things internally.

I find this approach helpful in many situations, from deciding whether to outsource a project to choosing between building software or using an off-the-shelf, or even deciding when to ask GPT to create a solution.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any rules for when to outsource?
Clearly content from back when Someone’s Funny Website existed. Those were the days.
Ideally, yes.

Practically though, there could be problems if the research interferes with a big industry, or disrupts 'well established practices'. Or if it damages the professional reputations of important people, or clashes with 'belief perseverance', or makes powerful people look bad, or makes the university likely to lose funding, or goes against the current cancellation third rail, etc, etc.

There's no shortage of historical examples: tobacco health research, Semmelweis, plate tectonics (!), lockdown cost benefit analyses, etc.

There was very little 'science' in outlawing cannabis research for decades. Same goes for MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, etc, all with massive therapeutic potential that has been held back for decades by politics & industry.
Why does this matter? You can find all of these books in any library outside the school or order them online.
Would a single sentence saying who/what anthropic is be too much effort? Neither the GitHub organization page (https://github.com/anthropics) or their docs web site (https://docs.anthropic.com/en/home) provide that. I don't know about their main web site (https://anthropic.com/) as my employer blocks their web site.
>It's not specific to language models at all - which was the thesis of your whole argument.

I didn't say that it's unique to LMs. My argument is that saying "my LM is a transformer" is misleading because "transformer" in the context of LMs means a very specific architecture. You're deliberately misusing terms, probably to draw attention to your project.

>OpenAI specifically famously used African workers on very low wages to tag a bunch of data

Did they tag Polish parts of speech too? Or Ancient Greek? ChatGPT constructs grammatically correct Ancient Greek. I thought they tagged "harmful/non-harmful", not parts of speech?

>ChatGPT uses text-embedding-ada

[Citation needed]

NanoGPT, for example, learns embeddings together with the rest of the network so, as I said, manual tagging is not required.

Anyway, looking forward to hearing news about your image generation project. Any news?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/solar-power-free-...

By the end of this year, the world will be deploying 660GW of solar annually. Within 18 months, that figure rises to 1TW/year (based on current manufacturing ramp trajectories).

On the contrary, I’m unsure how you think we don’t have the clean power for this, not even accounting for the power you can generate from the syngas that is a byproduct of the process. The process is not energy positive, but it’s also not wildly net negative due to the energy content of the matter being gasified.

> Plasma gasification uses around 800 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power per ton of municipal solid waste (MSW).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01968...
The makefile is a good idea to combine it all. How to you generate the TOC?
That’s more or less what I use it for — keeping sessions alive. I don’t use 90% of the features. vim does splits, and there’s ctrl-Z to background it and get a shell.

I know I could get more out of tmux but haven’t really needed to. I use it with the default config. I have learned from experience that the less I try to customize my environment the less non-billable time I waste trying to get that working and maintaining it.
Could not your friend (or you) use Copilot or ChatGPT for such code?
This is "news" about a reddit thread from yesterday. Someone went on a spiel about alpha and beta and neurodivergent or whatever and he said "interesting observation." So now he supports polygamous social structure ruled by the strongest or some such nonsense.

There was an interesting observation in the spiel once you throw away all the bullshit about testosterone and what not: most people follow the tribe instead of thinking for themselves. This isn't some novel idea, is well studied and well supported by science, so much so that marketing firms pay good money to give people the impression that a lot of people think or like something because if others believe that they'll go along with it. That's the scientific fact that underlies Reddit valuation as a company, and it was interesting watching the target marks parrot what they heard earlier that day in response to the post that spurned the existence of this article also doing the same.
As someone looking for a job. Oof.
Child pornography is not speech. Copyrights also aren't related to free speech as far as I'm aware, that's intellectual property law.

I don't have a problem with libel, no. People could say what they want about me, its not my problem unless the courts and jury allow a case against me with no evidence.

Anything one says can't incite suicide. As terrible as it is that is a decision made by the person who committed suicide. I've lost a close childhood friend and a close family member to suicide, it was their chose alone and I would never put burden that on someone else.
> If you want to analyze it algorithmically, you probably need to start looking at topology or something so that you can correctly relate musical structures in a way that is resistant to transposition.

Here's some alternative keyboard layouts that explore that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard

https://www.lumatone.io/
I wouldn’t say there was no effort. Sony made it the flagship announcement of their summer games presentation, and it apparently has its own dedicated episode in the anthology series by Amazon and the Love Death Robots showrunners coming out in December. They had betas. Even other majorly botched games have had literally orders of magnitude more players at launch. At the time of this announcement, there were 24 total players in the game on Steam, which, assuming all were in a game, is literally only enough to fill two lobbies. It really is an unprecedented failure.

My guess is that the show is their Hail Mary. They are sending out refunds now given the absolutely calamitous release, and are banking that the episode in December will drum up enough interest that if they release it as a free to play game at the same time they might have a better shot at getting some kind of player base.
How quickly do you think we can cool the Earth off to stop crop failure issues from propagating even faster, assuming we've not already trigger some pretty decent feedback loops?
Typo of "codebase" as codebae: This is also the reason why the higher context window doesn’t matter. Even if you could feed your whole codebase into an LLM, you’d still face the same problem of missing the structural relationships of the codebae.
>I've wondered if there is some sort of feedback loop where western culture associates hallucination with possession, while other cultures may see hallucinations in a more positive light, or even as a sign that you are some sort of shaman.

Yes, it's called Christianity.
I don't know. I'm pretty sure if I traced his work and passed it off as my own, just with maybe a few tweaks, I'd get in some kind of trouble with someone.

And in my opinion (which is unfortunately more controversial than I think it should be) what LLMs do is far more akin to tracing than inspired creative expression. And I think intent is relevant here. Someone using an LLM to create a product in Frank Miller's style, trained on Frank Miller's work, isn't merely trying to create something inspired by his style, so much as create a Frank Miller product without having to pay Frank Miller.
Sure, it costs more, and everyone agrees on that. Where we disagree is whether it provides more VALUE. The LTV says that it does by definition, because labor = value, and therefore more labor = more value.

You may choose to disagree. Just as modern economists disagree with the LTV.
Do you mind sharing what note taking app it was? I've heard Scrivener alot.
When you start a co-op, just like any other bootstrapped business, you're staking your livelihood, but you're forgoing most of the upside. You also need several other people to agree with you. This screens out most of the risk, which is why they're perceived as working well. This works out great if you're lucky enough to be employed by one, but not great for people who need a job immediately.
But is that not a place? Our civilization has become infinite… “all the available options” is an enormous category that in some societies does include quite literally everyone.

(I suggest reading the piece – the author deals with whether or not the underlying hypothesis is true versus useful early on.)
I think LLMs are cool and that research should be focused on sample efficiency, building public copyright free datasets, and on recognizing and moving beyond the limits of LLMs. These systems are often very half-baked, and I am more interested in seeing research that moves to new ways of machine thinking than I am in dumping more and more GPUs in to this promising but incomplete technology.

As one example, Yann LeCun's vision of a system called JEPA [1] is interesting to me. It may not be the solution we need, but this type of thinking - taking what we have learned and exploring new architectures that may have even better real world performance - is what interests me.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-yann-lecun-ai-model-video-jo...
We weren't planning on it. It's not very clean or transferrable. We really hacked it together. We'd have to do a ton of work to make it useful for anyone.
What did he use as a wiki?
I do personally disagree with this definition. Free speech was always intended to protect the right to say whatever you want. The expansion of what falls under free speech is dangerous and, as made clear today, leads to arguments that erode what was originally meant to be a fundamental right.
What about passkeys? I think it's possible to sign into a passkey-supporting site with just the physical credential and its PIN.
"Would you like to stroll your baby outside? I want people to get the full experience out of this conference."

According to response from the organizer, the offer here was to help the mom get the full experience by offering her accommodations so that she doesn't have to miss any part of the presentation despite having her child with her.
Mine is 185. I am very fond of blue skies.
Global data center industry to emit 2.5B tons of CO2 through 2030
To the question "Does that ring true?", it's a perfectly fine response.
What are you expecting the people who write the books to get?

Do you agree that if an author sold 43,958 copies, then it's fine for OpenAI to purchase one, so that the author sold 43,959? But also fine for OpenAI to ingest scanned used copies that are loaned to it? The same way it's fine for me to read a friend's book, or all of a friend's books, that they loan me, and the author doesn't get anything additional? The same way it's fine for me to go the library and the author doesn't get paid anything extra?

Or are you trying to invent some new principle where OpenAI has to pay some new ongoing fee? And if so, on what basis?

(And no, my example still stands entirely. It's from the perspective of somebody who learned from books, and they are getting paid, the same way people pay OpenAI to use ChatGPT. It's not from the perspective of authors, because again -- they make no additional money when somebody goes to the library to read their book that the library already purchased.)
This looks amazing! Going to run it on my develop cluster!
Except the internal structure is randomly seeded for each instance.

Or do you think fingerprints are the most random thing in humans?

There may be general patterns from above, but the actual details vary immensely when you zoom in.

Large populations may still roughly conform to a normal curve, but the volume under the deviations is still huge. And the dispersion is immense.
That's a good question and it seems like it's difficult to separate from people's ideological ideas about whether they are good or bad.

My hometown in Oregon had a cooperative, Burley, that made bike stuff like trailers and tandems and some clothing. Word was that it was kind of dysfunctional because of how democratic it was even if all the people cared deeply. I think they finally ended up selling out to some outfit who scrapped everything but the trailers.
Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox
Hi! I'm Marcell, and I'm working on FetchFox (https://fetchfoxai.com). It's a Chrome extension that lets you use AI to scrape any website for any data. I'd love to get your feedback.

Here's a quick demo showing how you can use it to scrape leads from an auto dealer directory. What's cool is that it scrapes non-uniform pages, which is quite hard to do with "traditional" scrapers: https://youtu.be/wPbyPSFsqzA

A little background: I've written lots and lots of scrapers over the last 10+ years. They're fun to write when they work, but the internet has changed in ways that make them harder to write. One change has been the increasing complexity of web pages due to SPAs and obfuscated CSS/HTML.

I started experimenting with using ChatGPT to parse pages, and it's surprisingly effective. It can take the raw text and/or HTML of a page, and answer most scraping requests. And in addition to traditional scraping thigns like pulling out prices, it can extract subjective data, like summarizing the tone of an article.

As an example, I used FetchFox to scrape Hacker News comment threads. I asked it for the number of comments, and also for a summary of the topic and tone of the articles. Here are the results: https://fetchfoxai.com/s/cSXpBs3qBG . You can see the prompt I used for this scrape here: https://imgur.com/uBQRIYv

Right now, the tool does a "two step" scrape. It starts with an initial page, (like LinkedIn) and looks for specific types of links on that page, (like links to software engineer profiles). It does this using an LLM, which receives a list of links from the page, and looks for the relevant ones.

Then, it queues up each link for an individual scrape. It directs Chrome to visit the pages, get the text/HTML, and then analyze it using an LLM.

There are options for how fast/slow to do the scrape. Some sites (like HN) are friendly, and you can scrape them very fast. For example here's me scraping Amazon with 50 tabs: https://x.com/ortutay/status/1824344168350822434 . Other sites (like LinkedIn) have strong anti-scraping measures, so it's better to use the "1 foreground tab" option. This is slower, but it gives better results on those sites.

The extension is 100% free forever if you use your OpenAI API key. It's also free "for now" with our backend server, but if that gets overloaded or too expensive we'll have to introduce a paid plan.

Last thing, you can check out the code at https://github.com/fetchfox/fetchfox . Contributions welcome :)
Someone said "most people just go along with what they think others expect them to think, very few people actually think for themselves" and added a whole bunch of nonsense reasoning about testosterone and autism around that idea and musk said "interesting observation."
At this point in this industry and in my experience, the further up the chain you go, the more “SWE” becomes a tool in your belt rather than your career.

The problems you solve for the business are using your tool belt. Even within software, there are sales roles, people management, subject matter expertise, vendor management etc…

For those who have said similar things in my area, most of the time, the better question they ultimately had to ask themselves was “what kind of problems do I want to solve, regardless of the tools? Who do I want to help? What VERY SPECIFIC part of my job don’t haye? Are there parts of my day or events in my career that I genuinely loved?” The last couple of questions are there to help you focus on areas you want to focus less and more on, respectively. No matter the job, you’re gonna have parts you dislike and parts your like, the key is to maximize the things you like.

I don’t mean to undermine the SWE industry standards and practices as a whole, but peeling this onion away, I assure you that you’re using a hammer that can be taken to any industry and will benefit you in general knowing how to use it.
Is it? Because what I'm saying is that going up against huge competitors in the quest to find talent is a losing proposition for almost everyone. I think 2014 Netflix is, in the context of this article, on par with an Apple or a Facebook; ie. almost everyone reading this article is not 7 years into creating a very successful global streaming service off the back of a successful video rental company founded in 1997.
I know no one asked for it, but here's a slightly simplified version of this script in Python:

from itertools import count
from statistics import mean

INITIAL_PAYMENT = 5 # dollars paid if first guess is correct, minus 1 for each incorrect guess
RANGE = range(1, 101) # the range of numbers to guess from

def simulate_guess(target):
low = min(RANGE)
high = max(RANGE)
for bad_guesses in count():
match guess := (low + high) // 2:
case _ if guess < target:
low = guess + 1
case _ if guess > target:
high = guess - 1
case target:
return INITIAL_PAYMENT - bad_guesses

average_payout = mean(map(simulate_guess, RANGE))
print(f"\nExpected value per game: ${average_payout:0.2f}")
Wasn't the USSR quite open about not being communist and at best working towards "socialism" as a pathway towards communism?

Surely the USSR is an example of the pigs pulling a bait and switch rather than communism.

The failure of the USSR to achieve communism is a side show to all the variations on worker | producer collectives that didn't fall to Stalinism.
I'm not familiar with this but it seems more geared towards visually representing flow charts but it doesn't have the necessary verbosity for visual scripting. I might be wrong but I think this is only part of the puzzle. Can rules be defined such that, for example, a node port must be pointed to, or that a default value is available?

Besides the declaration of a graph, there also needs to be a way to define semantics, ie something akin to a Language Server Protocol. That way tooling can enforce validity while editing a graph.
Did Elon or Starlink blink?
Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL
I am not an expert but surely an under constrained sketch is not a completed sketch.

Does "fully constrained" mean the simplest set of constraints that yields a shape (volume/hypervolume)? Or something rather more complicated? A simple yes or no, with a pointer to a paper will do!
Just to be clear here, your issue is with the number of member states in the EU?

In other words you would be fine with Canada arresting employees of Clearview if they tried to enter the country after Canada deemed them profiting members of an organization that was breaking the law in Canada?
I am such a person. I can turn anything into an argument. I know that this makes me difficult to be around, but it's incredibly hard for me to stop being completely focused on myself. I can't just decide "from now on I'll completely change my personality for the better".

In my relationships, I not only caused lots of silly arguments, but I also attracted people who, for one reason or another, were an endless source of frustration.

When I look at relationships around me, most of them suck. There are some good ones, but they're rare, and it's absolutely essential that both parties of a relationship are chill people in general, which is rare.
I agree, that's more or less the thrust of the article (I have no idea why this comment was downvoted, too ... it's on topic and substantive! Downvotes aren't for "disagree" right?)
Eucleak: Side-Channel Attack on the Yubikey 5 Series [pdf]
Look. The LTV has been rejected by mainstream economists. And this has nothing to do with Austrian economics (which has also been rejected by mainstream economists, for different reasons.) Now of course, you may choose to disagree, and say they're all wrong! But that's the current academic consensus.

That's an asinine example. I mean what hole are they digging? If it's
the Panama Canal, that's pretty valuable.

It might be more valuable if they used construction equipment to dig it, rather than shovels. But that would mean acknowledging that "value" is different from "labor cost," which apparently is impossible for you.
You would need to have smaller agents negotiate on behalf of their functional units.