skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Editing to add, I actually think we'll see a new class of Drivers License, one that allows you to operate semi autonomous vehicles, and one that allows you to operate fully manual vehicles with a higher level of continuous written and on the road testing required to hold it. Which is a reasonable and non discriminatory solution to the problem.

I hard disagree. I think it’ll follow a path more like gun ownership (not trying to wade into that here though). In rural and low density areas, people believe guns provide safety, while in dense urban areas, people believe guns add risk. In low density areas, people will need to drive themselves (I doubt as many people would buy self driving cars vs use as a taxi, roads will be less well mapped, etc ), while urban areas with increased risk of driving accidents will want to restrict access of roads from humans.

This urban/rural divide doesn’t make for good licensure policy. People who depend on driving themselves are less “sophisticated” - they won’t want to spend more time getting a license, because they live farther away, they’re less likely to take drivers classes, etc. We already see states with smaller urban population have easier driver’s license standards and age requirements. Pride in vehicle ownership and car culture is already geographic simply because urban residents are less likely to own a car. So rural-leaning elected officials will want to keep human-driving easy to access.
It’s actually better than the H100 by a mile in some inference workloads, but in others falls behind.
Yes, if you don’t want your software and services to be ad-funded, then you have to pay for them. I thought that was sort of obvious.
Love stuff like this. Tangentially I'm working on useful language models without taking the LLM approach:

Next-token prediction:
https://github.com/bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction

Good for auto-complete, spellcheck, etc.

AI chatbot:
https://github.com/bennyschmidt/llimo

Good for domain-specific conversational chat with instant responses that doesn't hallucinate.
>Apple used metal on MacBooks long before people jumped on the environment bandwagon.

Huh? My country (the US) jumped on the environment bandwagon in the 1970s.
Oh! How is the Koba scrolling performance? I want to scroll my articles, not page them.
I think you're drawing the right distinction. It's likely state action if a city or county literally delegated beat-cop duties to citizens with smartphones.

I'm more afraid of the slippery slope. I'm less confident courts find state action if a government is merely encouraging private citizens to supply evidence via a bounty system. Even if it's plain that this citizen-provided evidence is horribly biased, a court might say that the prosecuting entity has the responsibility to sift through the bias, and this responsibility is the difference between the state (the government) and non-state (the citizen who happens to submit only footage of people of a certain race).

But eventually the flow of money effectively deputizes the citizen, replacing beat-cop budgets with crowd-source bounties, and years of abuse pass before the courts acknowledge that it's actually been state action for quite a while.

(Interesting reading: Yick Wo v. Hopkins, which established that a fairly written law can still violate constitutional rights if the administration of that law is unjust. The City of San Francisco required permits for laundries, which is fine, but in actuality they never granted permits for people of Chinese descent. The US Supreme Court said nope. I could see similar reasoning applying here.)
> How it works: https://kagi.com/small-web

I tried to access it. It displays a different web page in a frame, which has an invalid certificate (among other things, it is expired and is for the wrong domain name), and then when I bypass the certificate error, I get a 404 error.
I recently heard a discussion of such bans on NPR (I'm not sure which program because I was listening on the car radio during a short trip). They talked to some high school students who were under such bans and most thought it was for the best.

One student did raise a good point though. She said that when she's trying to concentrate like when reading something challenging she would listen to music on her phone via headphones to block distractions. Now that she can't do that she's finding it harder to concentrate.

I wonder if stand-alone music players might make a comeback among students?
did an oil industry write this?
I don't know exactly when 'X denoting (QUOTE X) appeared, but I can see that it is described in a paper about the Lisp 2 system, from 1966. So it is at least 9 years before the B and NB languages evolved into C. The Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual from around 1962 doesn't mention it yet, using (QUOTE ...) for all occurrences of quote.
the 1st Art of our Constitution is exactly this:
"Art. 1º A República Federativa do Brasil, formada pela união indissolúvel dos Estados e Municípios e do Distrito Federal, constitui-se em Estado Democrático de Direito e tem como fundamentos:

I - a soberania;

II - a cidadania;

******III - a dignidade da pessoa humana;**** (The dignity of human being being assured)

Then it comes the Art 5:

Art. 5º Todos são iguais perante a lei, sem distinção de qualquer natureza, garantindo-se aos brasileiros e aos estrangeiros residentes no País a inviolabilidade do direito à vida, ''''''à liberdade'''''' (freedom, not only speech), à igualdade, à segurança e à propriedade, nos termos seguintes:

[...]

IV - é livre a manifestação do pensamento, sendo vedado o anonimato.
V - é assegurado o direito de resposta, proporcional ao agravo, além da indenização por dano material, moral ou à imagem; [...]

In none of art 5 parts it says the freedom of thought and of expression is Absolute, on contrary, i let here for you guys translate yourselves the paragraph V... It's not censorship when you comit a crime, you lose your freedom when you comit a crime (depend on the aggravation of course, its penalty dosimetry)
I wake up to Mark Cuban every morning on Bloomberg pumping Gemini AI. These AI companies are going all out.

Cuban is also a big crypto pumper.
San Diego dropped most of their red light cameras in 2013, this article from the mayor talks about the perception issues: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2013/02/01/san-diego-dr...

From what I recall, the real reason was that Lockheed owned and operated the cameras, took a cut of revenue, and was found to be changing the settings to issue more tickets.
Run Apple's MobileCLIP on mobile devices
In practice, abstractions hide their underlying details
To be fair though, you typically end up doing that process even when you remain within the OpenAI ecosystem, because they're putting out new (cheaper) models.

For example, a couple weeks ago I migrated a few game mechanics from GPT-4-Turbo to GPT-4o and it caused significant enough issues that I needed to revert them all until I could go back and retune all the prompts, which ended up taking 2-3 days. That's probably about as much time as it would have taken to tune prompts for any other model, especially since I'm using an API that standardizes format/structure across whatever model I select (as simple as a dropdown) and lets me just focus on prompt messages independent of which LLM they're going to.
The first stop is for the crosswalk. (I might do this even when the light is green if there is a pedestrian in the crosswalk since never hitting a pedestrian is a rule of mine.) If I see a pedestrian in or approaching the crosswalk I wait here until they are completely cleared. Then I slowly roll forward for the second stop. This is the stop I use to check for approaching motor traffic. I have better visibility now because there's no longer a lifted F150 blocking my view to the left. Assuming I do notice an approaching vehicle I'm supposed to what? Drive into it? I would love to be in court accused of failing to run a red light into active cross traffic.

Anyway, you can drive however you want. I've been driving like this for over 30 years all across the United States and I have never been pulled over, cited, rear ended, or even, as far as I can recall, honked at while pulling this particular maneuver so I think some of the risks you are imagining may be overblown.
The greatest threat to any AI platform is the AI itself. I think people put to much reliance on the information generated and don't test or scrutinize the data provided. Right at this given moment it is much better are correcting grammar like an advanced spell checker, but as long as context is missing or the ability for the AI to visualize the information in a contextualized manner it just is limited to spitting out information it consumes and while that is good enough in most cases it doesn't raise the floor any higher on what companies want it to do which is replace human labor. Also the lack of foresight of giving over a business entirely to AI is also a massive problem as your employees are typically also your customers and largest word of mouth advertisers. I've worked on many products I've self promoted because I was excited for by which my own team and partnered teams worked on. You can't make AI ethusiastic about your products like employees. But don't get me wrong, AI is here for the future and it will help us all achieve our business goals, but for a business to be dependent on AI and campaigning that will only doom it.
>Same as humans

Hard disagree. LLMs are very accurately described by the "stochastic parrot" analogy that gets thrown around a lot. They do not "think" like humans at all, even if we use the word "think" because it's convenient.
I've replied elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41414019
Fantastic community and active Slack. Two of us from East Lansing attended their annual CF Camp North of Munich last year and had a fabulous time. Lucee is stronger in Europe but gaining in popularity in the U.S.
I don't think you mean "you" as in me specifically, but in case that is what you meant I'm of course not banning anything and I'm not even advocating for that. I was predicting what I think will happen with self-driving cars and the privacy implications if that does to come to pass (still a big if).

As for urban vs. rural, I feel like rural will benefit just as much from self-driving as urban. I won't detail why, but it's pretty much the same reasons as urban. Economics will have to be better if it's going to be corporate-controlled cars, but, really, if Elon's right (huge if) and you can successfully have autonomy with a Model 3-level of hardware, then rural America may very well have widespread autonomous car access in the next couple of years.

Motorcyles? Great point. Not sure how that will shake out. RV's? Seems like a fantastic opportunity for autonomy. Sit in the captain's seat, beer in hand, actually watch the scenery as you drive on by. In fact I think the market for RV's will grow if folks don't have to drive them themselves because there are likely many people who wouldn't be comfortable driving an RV due to its size, but if it drives itself it could open up a whole new audience.

As for pedestrians, do you think pedestrians are being restricted more and more as the years go on? I see the opposite in both urban and rural areas in the US. Genuinely curious how your experience is different and where. I tend to think autonomous cars will make walking more pleasant. No more worrying about a car clipping you making a right turn, or a car driving unnecessarily fast and losing control, or a drunk driver losing control. All of those things may go away with autonomy (I say "may" because we're millions if not billions of miles away from anyone saying definitively that self-driving is safer/better/etc. In my limited experience riding in Waymos, though, I am incredibly optimistic about the technology. And I really look forward to us figuring out the privacy implications and other negatives that could come along with it because I think the benefits are so enormous that it'll be a massive shame if the tech does not work out long term).
Kia kaha!
> But maybe we don't do that, either?

Explain what you mean by that? I mean, out here in the real world, we are burning things for energy.

Are you talking about some theoretic magical world that doesn't exist?

Because in the real world burning plastic for energy reduces CO2 emissions.
Nope, I'm Brazilian and this is "censorship at all"!
I'm going to bring up a point here that no one else is making because they mistakenly believe this to be about taxation.

So firstly I use this strategy. I am not anywhere near $300M in net worth but anyone can do this with a few hundred K in stock and a margins account at IBKR.

Anyway, the reason has nothing to do with tax and everything to do with cash. Cash is dangerous. Once you have cash, the value can decline. On the other hand equity in actual companies is always going to have value. Companies like coca cola, Johnson Johnson, etc provide necessary things. They will always have cash flow regardless of how the dollar is doing. Equity is a huge inflation hedge. For me personally I was unaffected by inflation because stock prices inflated as revenues increase anyway. Cash is dangerous.

If you sell equity, it can be difficult to buy back in. Instead it's better to borrow. The equity will eventually go up and you can borrow more. Also, borrowing is instant, whereas selling is volatile as huge dumps of shares can easily manipulate the price on the open market.

Either way, you de-risk not being exposed to equity, which is a valuable store of income. Cash is an extremely dangerous way to store value, in my view, and I'm guessing many of these people.
I have a couple pairs of Fjallraven Vidda Pros, and they have double knees with an opening to slip a foam pad inside (which they also sell). Carhartt has a similar method with their work jeans. I’m sure this could be DIY’d as well for the sewing-machine-inclined.
It boiled down to X not taking down accounts associated with individuals with outstanding warrants who were inciting violence. Brazilian law requires X to do so.
What a lazy puff piece. Oh yeah I’m sure the guy obsessed with selling defense tech to border patrol and donating to fascists is actually a really nice guy
That affects the infotainment computer only so driving is unaffected. You just wont be able to check your speed etc. But yeah, it's way too common of a mistake.
I like the idea, but these tasks seem incomprehensible. I looked at some near me, and one is about traffic lights at an intersection that doesn't have traffic lights, and the others just say "Highway not on ground and no tunnel, bridge or covered tags" under "Instructions" but they're not highways or roads at all (though I guess they are on the ground).
> I think this plays out where it becomes a luxury to drive oneself. Over the next 10-15 years it looks like self driving will continue to advance and will likely become safer than the alternative.

I think this is a long way away and will vary geographically.

For a long time, self driving cars will be more expensive because they’ll have expensive sensors on it. Not many people will want a $100K self driving car instead of a $30k Camry. This means the cost-per-mile goes up unless utilization rate goes up. The most effective way to do that is make it a Taxi.

The natural result of self-driving-taxis is that the people least likely to take a taxi but most dependent on a car (rural Americans) will drive themselves still and those cars will be cheaper because they’re sensor free. That will never be a luxury product.

In urban environments though, the poorest people will continue to own cars but be slowly priced out by insurance. But maybe insurance won’t go up for manual cars, but down for self driving cars. They’ve already priced the cost of manual driving, which won’t get more dangerous as less cars are human. States might try to protect them, but I think politicians and citizens will be persuaded by “safety” over “poor people need to afford transportation”.
> There also won't be any discussion of replacing the C-suite with LLM assistants at a fraction of the cost - the compute cost must be less than all the 8-figure yearly payouts.

Well, what's her show like? Covering why popular but terrible ideas are terrible is a thing, but I have no idea if it's her sort of thing.

> Maybe LLM assitants would also be vastly more reliable managers of pension funds, too? I'd be surprised to hear a word mentioned about that.

Various forms of passive fund are already a thing, and AIUI do approximately as well as most actively managed funds.

From what I understand, things unique to pension funds are that they tend to have too little money put into them in the first place, and that they have regulatory constraints about sticking to safe (and therefore lower-performing) investments.
Huge difference between stochastic (processes, ODEs, PDEs, etc) and category theory. One makes money every day and the other is only good for writing papers.
It’s probably just an attempt at cheap PR?
Some day the penny will drop that this is what your brain is doing too.
Both are wrong. A more unassuming way of phrasing it would be "how did they rule out X", and of course the better response is to take the most generous interpretation and provide and informative response to the spirit of that generous interpretation.
For context this guy is affiliated with the EFF (not that that's bad, just thought this was relevant)
> Still, transforming plastic into fuel is not an emissions reduction compared to renewable energy sources.

And? Is that news to anyway? Your earlier point is the correct one: In a world where hydrocarbons are burned for energy, burning plastic the best possible way to deal with plastic.

Once we transition to a different world we can do something else, but until then we should burn plastic.
I mean the problem of plastic waste is kinda solved, we just decided that we didn't like the solution, landfills. The best thing you can do for your waste is live somewhere that has well-managed landfills and ensure your trash goes there.

There's not really anything in the way of grass-roots waste reduction that scales. I'm not really offered a choice between product and product-without-plastic. My trash is filled every week with all manner of plastic I didn't ask for. I would be over the moon if I could go to the grocery store and all the plastic was aluminum, paper, and glass— (bonus if I could return the containers) but that decision is made by the bean counters.

I'd throw whatever little weight I had behind legislation to make it so but at least at the state level it would never pass. The single-use plastic bag ban was met with a reaction at the same level as if the people for it killed everyone's dog.
> it is much better are correcting grammar

Mmmhm
I just bought an Asus Chromebook and it has Debian linux kind of built in. I can apt-get install GUI apps. The employee logs in with their company account (we are a GSuite shop). Vendor-support means there are no driver concerns.

As a company, I would rather employees work in the same environment as the destination of the software.

I can understand Mac workstations and Linux deployment environments, but I can't really understand having Windows workstations with Linux deployment environments. Is it because Windows has better enterprise device management tools?
Your making the claim that all of the secret censorship decrees issues by Alexandre de Moraes are related to the protests after the election in 2023, they are not.
> produced nine books

Mmm. Nine books in five years plus doing tons of other stuff? I don’t know anything about the specifics of this situation but have seen enough of the publishing industry and of the influencer/executive/thought-leader side of it that I can assure you the normal way someone in those positions writes nine books in five years is by writing zero books. “Producing” is the right term indeed… maybe. Usually they outsource that to one company or another as well (or start a company for it and have someone else run the company, too—I’ve seen this, lol). They provide an outline and final say on each chapter.
Wow, I'm actually really interested in how you did that. Did the differences between chunks correspond to changes in word/token frequencies? Or did you embed the logs into some other space first? This is a pretty nifty idea; the only analyses I've ran on production logs were just simple SQL queries.
And, next release, they'll have had been trained on one more example of an answer for that sort of question ;)
This is what I’m skeptical of, because my experience with LLMs doesn’t align with this description at all. Even if a response is good, I will typically give it follow up prompts to get more details, or answer other questions that the (potentially high quality) response raised. If the response is bad I might try some follow ups to see if it improves. In either case, I’m submitting a prompt, I might accept the answer immediately, give up immediately, accept the answer after further prompting, or give up after further prompting.

With my own use there is no correlation between the number of prompts I submit, and the quality of the responses given. If this is the metric OpenAI is using to perform crowdsourced RLHF, then the reinforcement is going to be garbage.
That is a single application that could be developed. What got developed was an entire lending, borrowing and decentralized exchange ecosystem. I found it pretty fascinating to learn about.
Not a "big" shareholder but the largest shareholder and chairman of its board.
It does, you just have to add in: not revealing location information or new contact details.
There's no shortage of land for landfill. Burying it and letting it decay for centuries is a perfectly valid option. It doesn't feel good, but you can then cover that land and use it for parks and other productive uses. In fact, when the alternative is burning the plastic, it's actually a form of carbon sequestration.

That's not to say burying plastic is a good thing. It's obviously better to not have used single-use plastic in the first place.
Genuinely curios. What happens?
Houston is Harris county.
K8s is just a complicated confusing poorly documented thing for running containers. Database server processes running in a container is totally fine. Not really different than running said processes on a bare kernel like it's 2010.
If you do a full lifecycle analysis on the part plastic usually wins. Even if you recycle the metal, you can burn the plastic (which is the environmentally best way to handle it) and get back virtually all the energy embodied in it.

Using a metal part, when plastic will do, just costs extra energy.

Obviously some things need to be metal for strength, I'm talking about when that's not necessary.
Yeah I read it like: all these people are peas from the same pod.
Bill Gates' financial interest would depend on what % of his assets are invested in Microsoft, not what % of Microsoft his investments represent.
This is like someone turned the volume down in my brain. I had not seen this, very cool.
For local use, this Python library can generate SVGs with QR codes: https://github.com/lincolnloop/python-qrcode
Larger blocks are also perfect for scripts and tools for personal use, in this case you can just check if it works or not, Claude 3.5 Sonnet usually does not disappoint.
*Another tip is to stay in the sun. The data on sun exposure has largely reversed over the last decade; sun exposure is positively correlated with improved health outcomes, but should be done in moderation as to prevent skin issues.
Your post isn't providing any argument, you're just providing statement after statement of a position that is pretty well known (no emergent behavior, just pattern matching) and pretty popular here on hackernews. Maybe the link provides all the good stuff, but I'd suggest you at least provide some flavor of what your arguments are.