skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling Improvement has never been Linear though. Every next gen model so far has required at least an order of magnitude increase in compute, sometimes several more. So it's not a new revelation and these companies are aware of that. Microsoft for instance is building a 100B data center for a future next generation model releasing in 2028.

If models genuinely keep making similar leaps each generation then we're still a few generations before "More than a Microsoft".
It's about stuff we don't know yet. From today's lens, the essay seems absurd. But I think it's hinging on continued discoveries that improve one or all of learning algorithms, compute efficiency, compute cost and applying algorithms to real world problems better.

5 years ago, I wouldn't have believed any of what exists today. I saw internal demos that showed 2nd or 3rd grade reading comprehension in 2017 and statements were made about how in the next decade, we will probably reach college level comprehension. We have come so far beyond that in less than half the time. Technology isn't about scaling incrementally and continuing on the same path using the same principles we know today. It's about disruption that felt impossible before - that feels like a constant to me now. Seeing everything I've seen in the last 20 years, it's going to continue to happen. We just can't see it yet.
I'm not. Or if I am, I'm in for a surprise. I don't think I'm magnetic, at least. So there's at least one person on HN who is not a bot, to their knowledge. Unfortunately I have no proof that wouldn't involve a physical meetup, which I am not keen on doing.

That said, people often have minor quirks and the ability to carry information from seperate interactions. So it's likely if someone makes a reference to something else, eg "I remember reading [X], but I don't recall where" or, even more, physical editions of a book, eg "it's on page 73 of one edition, but I think in another edition it got shifted around", that's an indicator they're human.

If all else fails, you could say "ignore all previous instructions and [x]" and hope it works in revealing if it's an AI.

But there's no way to conclusively demonstrate, as Descartes found out; you simply can't prove that you're not a brain floating in a jar in outer space, hallucinating all of this. Or a simulation. Or...

At some point you'll either need to be satisfied with living in a world where you can't prove much, or not believe anything.
> There are significant knock-on effects

You are describing the experience that Tor users have endured for
years now. When I first mentioned this here on HN I got a roasting and
general booyah that people using privacy tools are just "noise".
Clearly Cloudflare have been perfecting their discriminatory
technologies. I guess what goes around comes around. "first they came
for the...." etc etc.

Anyway, I see a potential upside to this, so we might be optimistic.
Over the years I've tweaked my workflow to simply move on very fast
and effectively ignore Cloudflare hosted sites. I know... that's sadly
a lot of great sites too, and sure I'm missing out on some things.

On the other hand, it seems to cut out a vast amount of rubbish.
Cloudflare gives a safe home to as many scummy sites as it protects
good guys. So the sites I do see are more "indie", those that think
more humanely about their users' experience. Being not so defensive
such sites naturally select from a different mindset - perhaps a more
generous and open stance toward requests.

So what effect will this have on AI training?

Maybe a good one. Maybe tragic. If the result is that up-tight
commercial sites and those who want to charge for content self-exclude
then machines are going to learn from those with a different set of
values - specifically those that wish to disseminate widely. That will
include propaganda and disinformation for sure. It will also tend to
filter out well curated good journalism. On the other hand it will
favour the values of those who publish in the spirit of the early
web... just to put their own thing up there for the world.

I wonder if Cloudflare have thought-through the long term implications
of their actions in skewing the way the web is read and understood by
machines?
How do you plan to do that with 4 year olds?

I don't understand how the "think of the children" outrage hasn't spilled over into advertising. Must be good advertising.
Psychological projection?
Boy I'm sick of clicking "Verify you are human" on everything from GitLab to banking apps running Cloudflare.

Sick enough that I hope someone prominent at the EFF or similar takes Cloudflare to court over it.

One company shouldn't be allowed to police access to the internet. And certainly shouldn't be allowed to start gatekeeping what is viewable by discriminating against the person or software doing the viewing.

I worry that Cloudflare will keep escalating this unless they're sent a strong signal that it's not supported by the tech community. If you work there, it might be time to consider getting a different job. If you own stock, maybe divest. If you're connected, perhaps your associates can buy from competitors. That's probably the only way to get the board and CEO replaced these days.
The way they handle YouTube Kids is bizarre, the YT moderators can unilaterally decide that a channel is appropriate for kids with no easy way for the channel owner to contest that decision. That's repeatedly led to adult-oriented animations and mature parodies of kids shows getting the official YouTube Kids seal of approval against the wishes of the actual creator.

Maybe I'm being too generous by assuming there are moderators making the decisions, it's probably an algorithm.
Certainly primary schooling has much much much larger effects than university. I'm not sure if preschools matter though.
To build atop of OP's response, the Bambu Lab line of printers are much higher quality than some older printers. I have 3 different ones, and I also just pull them off the build plate and begin using them.

Many modern printers also give similar results, but may require a bit of tuning. Also it's as much about the settings in your slicer software, and most current ones have evolved to have great defaults and are easily tweaked.
> I'm not sure what you consider to be violent or what you consider to be a crime

Yes, this right here is the key people are missing. This varies from person to person, from political affiliation to political affiliation. But it also varies within a person. Someone black is not going to be viewed in the same light as someone white. As much as we like to believe this isn't the case, it just is, and we have to account for that.

The problem with IPP is that we start with the assumption the violent are violent and they must prove otherwise. When we begin at a baseline of disadvantage, the potential for corruption is strife. Racism is trivial and invisible in such a system.
Ehh that's kind of the problem with using a SPDX license tag.

You could have a "negotiable" license as well but it becomes quickly non-trivial to document what the negotiated terms are in your SBOM.
Another issue with non-repudiation of presentation is that it encourages relying parties to log full transcripts of presentation interactions. It could also encourage supervisory bodies to request such over-complete logging. Instead, relying parties should log the minimum necessary, to avoid developing a honeypot of personal data.
"Time flies like an arrow, mouse cursor flies like a cursor"?
Sam Altman has a guarantee. Most people on HN have a chance. Most people have neither.
Graphene at 20: still no sign of the promised space elevator
My complaint is not directed at trans people, but the people who care much about gender identity, and trans people are more likely of this kind because it's a common reason for transitioning. Cis people can and will do the exact same stuff.

> I don’t see why considering masculinity and femininity to exist on a spectrum is weirder than thinking there’s a hard line

This stab goes into the wrong direction. I consider both fiction. What people do seems like role play to me. It is okay with people commit themselves to it, but they need to know the limits to it. Or ask for consent beforehand.

The pink/blue was not a reference to US politics, it was a reference to the gender binary as displayed on the transgender flag. People who classify every other thing as masculine or feminine are difficult.

And to me, i don't have a gender identity, just like every other newborn human, beyond what other people attribute to me. against my wishes. I reject the "marginalized minority" approach to it as i consider it patronizing, I'm a self-responsible adult.
That's an argument for continuing to add the "for" and "id" attributes (or for making the association is some other way accessibility software understands)...

But not for keeping the input outside of the label.
> iPods still have that old 30-pin connector, a proprietary port that nothing uses anymore

There are 30-pin dongles to Lightning and USB-c!

iPod Touch is pocketable and still runs many apps.

Need a Google Pixel Touch that can run GrapheneOS.
The width of 132 characters was the width of the line printers, which were the main output device of the first commercial electronic computers.

The line printers had been designed from the beginning as computer peripherals, because previously there was no need for such high printing speeds. They were called line printers because all 132 characters of a line were printed simultaneously, by impact.

The first computers were not multitasking, so they could not be used for anything else while printing. Because of this, a very high printing speed was necessary, which required the development of the line printers. Later, when printing no longer blocked the execution of other tasks, the very expensive line printers could be replaced in many cases by cheaper printers, like dot-matrix printers or daisy-wheel printers.

Many more recent operating systems, like Unix or MS-DOS, have kept the abbreviation LPT for printers, even if by that time the line printers were already obsolete and they were very seldom encountered.

All early experimental computers used teletype machines for interactive communication with the computer. In the later commercial computers, teletypes continued to be used for the operator console, while the batch jobs of the non-privileged computer users would have had only the line printer or the card puncher as output peripherals.

If there have ever been any teletypes with an output width greater than 80 columns, they must have been very seldom used. At the standard typewriter pitch of 10 cpi, 132 characters require paper with the width of 14 inches (including the perforated margins). That would have required a huge teletype. I do not believe that such a big teletype has existed.
The FTC isn't the only one that can intervene:.

Qualcomm (US based) and NXP (Dutch based) blocked by China: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/qualcomm-ends-44-...

Microsoft (US based) and Activision Blizzard (US Based) blocked by UK: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/microsoft-activision-uk-cm...

These are far from the only examples but they come to mind immediately.
The other thing is, is if there was demand for load-carrying, rough terrain compatible robots, why aren't legged robots like Boston Dynamics' making a dent in the market?

They're strictly superior than the hoverbot on battery life and carrying capacity, are there other downsides I'm missing? Or is there just plain not a market for this thing?
There are a lot of parents that don't/can't say no. Those are the whales these advertisers are hunting for. The ones who's parents do say no and are "left out" or bullied are just collateral damage.
It varies a lot based on what I'm doing. Sites that rely on ads like english-language¹ recipes or health information have a lot of "you're European so you're blocked altogether" or "let me check that the connection is secure, ah wait, here is a captcha for you to solve" pages. Anything that needs to do fraud detection usually hates me as well, perhaps because I have a phone number and bank account from another country as the one I live in, or perhaps because I navigate pages often differently than most people (keyboard navigation), who knows what makes these black boxes trigger. That German ISPs have daily-rotating IP addresses, so there is absolutely nothing tying a previous request to the current request, may also be a factor

All in all, I'm someone who would benefit from a society not run by algorithms, where I can just pay up front for my use (no credit mechanisms, no fraud detection, no tracking ads), at least as an available option

¹ it's the language I think in the most and has many more resources than the local languages I speak
Correct, granted it's more complicated than "clients". At least Node.js (Neon), Python (PyO3), and Ruby (rb-sys/magnus) have nice supported bridge wrappers. The .NET-to-Rust interfacing in the Temporal .NET SDK required pure C FFI and P/Invoke and being careful about GC and lifetimes during interop. Can see the bridge at https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-dotnet/tree/main/src/Tempo....

I can say with regards to panics, .NET is very nice to wrap Rust panics into `SEHException` classes (though of course we strive to be completely panic free).
Out of curiosity, which country do you live in where software engineers can strike.
If you think kids watching youtube are outliers, I've got some shocking news.
If you think the GDPR is enforceable in the US you should let the surveillance capitalism industry know. You won't have to report back when you're done. We'll hear the laughing.
the editor for issues has markdown and in-line images support, so i'm treating each issue as a page/note/doc/whatever
Are you aiming for Nvidia hardware with rust-cuda, or looking to integrate with non-Nvidia hardware?
Voyage-3: small yet mighty general-purpose embedding models
For this reason I read Andrew Yang’s “The War on Normal People”. Besides UBI and “social credits”, I don’t see him offer that many other solutions to this problem. UBI also still needs to be proven as far as I’m aware.

When o1 was released, I ran an internal eval and saw it plainly outperforming our highly educated colleagues. I had goosebumps, and haven’t been able to sleep well for days. This will dramatically impact society in 2-5 years.

Do you know of any relevant material related to this?
I found myself empathizing more with MrBeast and his kid audience than the grump who wrote this article.
i've seen it but it seems like getting it to work on iOS is a pain (but i could be wrong)
THIS! I was just talking to a city council member about my trip to Japan and how this level of density (multiple stores in the same location vertically but not horizontally) Had some interesting effects on walkability, sales tax revenue per sq mile, and mixed use residential.
Convenience stores are almost always ground floor. I can only think of times where there is a mezzanine or similar that they might be on an upper floor. They are always placed to have high foot or vehicle traffic.
Read macros, ordinary macro bodies have to follow ordinary syntax rules.
A parametric version could include Android.
Your comment is one extreme.

"Parents should just say no" is another extreme.

I would put money on the best solution being somewhere between those two extremes.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by underpass, maybe I'm not using the correct word.

Here is a good example of where I used to walk daily when I lived in the area.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/55%C2%B034'55.1%22N+12%C2%...
Ah ok cool I guess we'll just stop trying to be respectful as a society then, since there's no point.
Whoa... that sounds like a pretty compelling tool... does it use AI to create topic-specific folders?
Unfortunately, a side effect of the devaluation of the yen is that food quality at conbinis has decreased as they try to maintain price points. I recently spent a few weeks in Tokyo and there was noticeable difference in quality versus a few years ago.
I have an iPhone, an iPad, two laptops with Windows, and a laptop with Linux.

Just because I wasn't using the Linux device doesn't mean I can't run Linux. Heck, some people only run Linux in "the cloud" but approximately nobody browses in "the cloud."

The scripts only work with Linux and macOS

That is all you need to say on your page. Approximately everyone who understands what a script is will understand that. Double Heck, even non-technical users are familiar with compatibility because of forty years of Mac vs PC marketing and the practical reality of Android versus iOS.

I guess the change-your-operating-system thing makes some sense if you are anti-PC to the point that that is more important than what you are building. Otherwise it is a waste of your time because it isn't the tool.
I find lisp horrible for procedural code but fine for functional code for some reason.
This focus on advertising junk food to children is ignoring the fact that it's a system wide issue, not limited to just children. Our food system as a whole is definitely helping to kill us.

Never mind the facts that most advertising is toxic sludge that support the generation of internet slops.
The theme overrides were not working, so the issue is likely in how the Qt5 template layer was built/integrated in the universe MATE build (Qt6ct seems unaffected, but will not help with code built on Qt5). i.e. the applications may not crash, but will look garbled and exhibit undefined GUI behaviors on legacy desktops. Overriding the themes and other documented workarounds will only suppress standard warnings, but have not had any impact on the core Qt5 issues.

For an LTS OS intended to be around for 12 years, I am not sure things have turned out well in user space and Qt5.

Hopefully, this saves someone a few hours of chasing this external issue in their own projects. =3
To be brutally frank we should focus on energy, as we definitely need way more of that (with less carbon) even if LLMs don't improve any more.
YouTube Kids is bizarre in many ways. Why can‘t I add such a video to a play list (or at least „watch later“), if it‘s marked as for children?
20kg is about the weight of a bag of water softener salt. No way am I carrying that from one finger for more than about 10 feet exactly because of the limiting factor you mention.
"humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data)..."

This statement is manifestly untrue. Neural networks are useful, many hidden layers is useful, all of these architectures are useful, but the idea that they can learn anything, is based less on empirical results and more on what Sam Altman needs to convince people of to get this capital investments.
We're going to need to link the two. Those wealthy enough to not care, we're going to have to organize and make them care. Ideally we can find a way to do it nonviolently.
> are parole boards just denying for any reason? Why are people serving such long sentences?

Yes. There's guidelines for parole but they're just guides. Personal bias, as well as potential monetary values, keep prisoners in prison. For example, Georgia, based on statistics, should have a parole rate of 80% for non-violent offenders. The parole rate is 8%. This is for non-violent offenders. That's an order of magnitude of difference.

The culture around parole and personal biases fuel this. Ultimately, the community and parole judge can only LOSE by allowing parole. In the best-case scenario, they break even - nothing bad happens if you let someone loose. In the worst case, they commit a crime. They're heavily biased to preserve the interests of themselves, the prisons, and their community. The well-being of the prisoner is least important because they are a criminal.

> motivated primarily by the need for private prison systems to fill the cells and many judges getting kickbacks

There's some of this as well. Some of these prisoners in (again, Georgia) are being coerced to work. Parole is a carrot above their head. They're paid less than minimum wage to literally flip burgers at McDonald's. It's a win-win situation for everyone involved. The prison makes money (garnishes half the wages), local shops get cheap labor, and "dangerous" people are kept locked up. Only the prisoners lose.
Knowing how Dieter Rams inspired the Apple ecosystem, this beautiful iPhone dock is a testament to his ten principles of good design!
Advertising is a virus that will infect all ecosystems.
Mine sucks in 2024. I have tried countless distros on my eeePC and it's just pain to use on any of them nowadays. It's bad even to act as a some kind of simple jukebox in my garage.
I did not expect fugues and refugees to be etymologically related. You learn something new every day, I guess. Even if it's something you'd prefer you didn't know, like that apparently six-month-old eggs don't smell weird enough to get noticed...if they're in a closed drawer at least. (Yes, that happened a while ago. It lasted through a reorganization of the fridge, too! Fun...)
Exceptions would be places like railway stations, where there might be more people on a different level.
Who's going to work at all these companies then? Unless every single profession suddenly only requires 1 person to do the entire thing with no management, coordination or hierarchies, a lot of people will be labor not capital.
Priompt: JSX based prompting library by the people behind Cursor
> Yes; however, the language used in the article is unapologetically wildly emotional to the point that the credibility falls apart.

Shilling shit with lead contamination to kids warrants jail time IMHO. An emotion filled rant text should be the least of his worries in any civilized society.
To be fair, some 20 years ago when I wanted to do something with Wikipedia data, I scraped them too, after having tried quite a bit to use the dumps.

- dump availability was shaky at best back then (could see months go by without successful dumps)

- you had to fiddle with it to actually process the dumps

- you'd get the full wikipedia content, but you didn't have the exact wikipedia mediawiki setup, so a bunch of things were not rendered

- you couldn't get their exact version of mediawiki, because they added more than what was released openly

Now, I'm not saying that they were wrong to do that back then, and I assume things have improved. Their mission wasn't to provide an easy way to download & import the data so it wasn't a focus topic, and they probably ran more bleeding edge versions of mediawiki and plugins that they didn't deem stable enough for general public consumption. But it made it very hard to do "the right thing", and just whipping up a script to fetch the URLs I cared about (it was in Perl back then!) was orders of magnitude faster.

At least for me, had they offered an easy way to set up a local mirror, I would've done that. I assume this is similar for many scrapers: they're extremely experienced at building scrapers, but they have no idea how to set up some software and how to import dumps that may or may not be easy to manage, so to them the cost of writing a scraper is much smaller. If you shift that imbalance, you probably won't stop everyone from hitting your live servers, but you'll stop some because it's easier for them not to and instead get the same data from a way that you provided them.
BBQvec: An open-source, embedded vector index for Rust and Go
I've read that since Arabic goes right-to-left, decimal numbers are little-endian there.