skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If stats showed that instances of gambling related social ills increased massively after liberalization would that impact you at all? is your ideology truly consequence-free?

edit: Also yes, I would use physical violence to stop someone I cared about from destroying their lives with gambling if it would help. I would hope for the sake of your loved ones you would be willing to do the same
Oh, great. "Remove the yellow dots."

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. Also, the FBI is on their way to arrest you."
I haven't had cable for a long time so I can't say anything about the quality of the programming on the CNN channel. However, cnn.com has been full of affiliate links and barely detectable "sponsored" stories for years.
ahrefs by the looks of it
> On the other hand, why would I restrict someone's freedom to choose to make a poor decision?

Ok, let's ignore the individual. But gambling losses that lead to bankruptcy hurt creditor, for instance. Since creditors can't really easily separate out gamblers from non-gamblers, those defaults get spread across society as costs.

The linked article asserts that a large proportion of government welfare funds in Brazil are gambled away.

The linked article asserts that losses inspire domestic abuse. Consider that net winners may only win 51% of the time-- that's a lot of losses even if the individual makes out better in the long run.
Welcome giant sweeping generalizations that are unsupported by data nor stringent arguments.
CNN has been in decline since they started. ca 2000 their content was a shocking amount of what we call clickbait now with the wording and often misrepresentation we've come to expect. They've surprisingly improved but I abandoned them over 20 years ago as anything I consume because of it.
Yea... I think I'm failing to understand the Gotcha here. If you go to underscored main page; It's disclosed in a banner across the top of every underscored page.

I agree them functionally selling ad-space is annoying; but it's also exposed in clear text as such at the top of every underscored page and article.

Giant nothingburger.
This is exactly it, the longer your traces (or any sort of write I guess) between processor and memory, the longer delay you have to have for things to "settle". Additionally increasing capacitance means that it takes more effort (read, even longer) for the line to settle.

Does make me realise I don't know so much about the super low level parts of it beyond electrons and holes. One end of the wire needs to be at a lower potential to encourage electrons to flow from that side to the other. Hmmm.
When I was working at Xerox in the mid-90s all our printers were HP because ours sucked. It's a shame what happened to them.
The story is that it goes against google's guidelines and yet it continues to outrank sites that are within google's guidelines.
Yeah...Declare one person special by birth, and suddenly everyone remotely related claims they're elite too, spreading hierarchy through society...:-)

I recognize only one sovereign:...The Burger King
Systemd-ifying PostmarketOS, our immutable future, and why Alpine is cooler tha [video]
Out of curiosity, if you would like to start a new, offline-first project that needs syncing, which database would be the best candidate today?
Or just scrub the board with a bit of ferric chloride and a sponge. I've also seen a modified version of this method that might be better for larger boards that puts the board and the sponge in a ziploc bag with some etchant poured in. Use two sponges for a double sided board.

https://hackaday.com/2009/07/13/etch-pcbs-with-ferric-chlori...
IMO it does. It’s reflective of these news organizations not caring about their brand reputations and instead just looking at the $$$.

Having an entirely separate staff, with a separate website, publish content under your name without your input ought to be a five alarm fire for editorial staff. But there’s some affiliate cash up for grabs so some senior exec somewhere okayed it.

There’s a tech angle here too: if it weren’t for SEO they might we’ll be operating out of cnnunderscore.com or whatever, but the SEO juice of a page on cnn.com is too tempting to pass up.
interesting, thanks for the suggestion!
>If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out.

A very HN-centric view of the world. From my perch in journalism and publishing, elite writers absolutely loathe AI and almost uniformly agree it sucks. So to my mind the most 'competitive' spheres in writing do not use AI at all.
The problem I have with this is that when you give therapy to people with certain personality disorders, they just become better manipulators. Knowledge and understanding of ethics and empathy can make you a better person if you already have those instincts, but if you don’t, those are just systems to be exploited.

My biggest worry is that we end up with a dangerous superintelligence that everybody loves, because it knows exactly how to make every despotic and divisive choice it makes sympathetic.
I mean, you can pay someone to hold the sprayer up for you if you want. That is probably nicer when you've got soap in your hair.
Wait, which of those is libertarians?
By "reached into his own pocket," you mean he leveraged engineering resources from Twitter, and then once it became clear that Grok wasn't a competitive model, raised $6,000,000,000 in capital from VCs and sovereign wealth funds [1] to pay for the additional compute necessary?

[1] https://x.ai/blog/series-b
The one that keeps making major, scary mistakes?
The mushroom thing is almost certainly true. There's tons of trash AI generated foraging books being published to Amazon. Atomic Shrimp has a video on it.
Depends on the use case, while you care about it when writing software for use on modern systems, low level programming on something where you can have unrestricted access to, for example, all of its 1024 bytes of address space at once can be fun too

But of course appreciating this doesn't equal "hating memory safety"
This is going to sound nuts, but I think CEOs like Altman have more in common with historical monarchs than modern Democratic leaders. In a Democracy, there's more transparency into the degree to which everything the President/PM does is actually delegated out. Joe Biden may be the Commander in Chief, but just watch a political military thriller and you'll see that culturally, we understand the role of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in having the actual depth of knowledge the President lacks.

But CEOs often practice a form of charismatic leadership whereby you have to project having more knowledge than you actually do. That is because their leadership is both less democratic and less secure than their counterparts. You've got to be constantly maneuvering against challenges to your legitimacy.

I think it has something to do with the Gemeinschaft–Gesellschaft dichotomy from German sociology. You might think that a tech company would be the quintessential form of Gesellschaft, but in reality, the community of tech CEOs and VCs is far more like a social club than it is like a rational, contractual relationship.
Nobody (well the market) expected Nvidia's revenue to start growing exponentially, though. Now it's forecasted to grow by at least 20% per year for the next 3 years. So presumably everything above that is not priced in.
>> So they’re not dead in the water yet but everyone suspects LLMs will eat search.

I think LLMs are acting as a store of knowledge that can answer questions. To the extent search can be replaced by asking an oracle, I agree. But search requires scoring the relevance of web pages and returning relevant results to the user. I don't see LLMs evaluating web sites like that, nor do I see them keeping up to date with news and other timely information. So I see search taking a small hit but not in significant danger from LLMs.
Ah, I see, I definitely missed your point. Yeah, that's a very good thought. I can even picture this becoming another cultural crevasse, like climate change did, much to the detriment of nuanced discussion.

Ah, well. If only killing god was so easy!
If this winter comes, the sudden availability of cheap used enterprise GPUs is going to be a major boon for hobbyist AI training. We will all have warm homes and sky high electricity bills
There certainly has been some goal post moving over the past few months. A lot of the people in here have some kind of psychological block when it comes to technology that may potentially replace them one day.
That's where certification (Articles 42 and 43) will come in useful.
Seph (author) also has a reference implementation in Typescript: https://github.com/josephg/eg-walker-reference

I've stated before that I think the main thing holding back collaborative text / sequence CRDTs is integration with a production database.

Eg-walker looks interesting because it might lend itself to be integrated into a database because the operations are immutable and only appended. However, to demonstrate the effectiveness of these algorithms library authors (see Yjs, DiamondTypes, etc) build stand-alone data structures (usually specialized search trees) that most databases already provide.

Personally, I've been trying to adapt a Piece Table[1] to be collaborative and stored in Triplit[2] which runs on both client and server and already implements logical clocks but I might see how well I can adapt this algorithm instead!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
2. https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit
> What if SWEs get 50% more efficient and they fire half?

This is kinda ironic in a thread that's basically about the AI hype landscape, but you've just reduced the amount of SWE "power" your example organization has there by 25%.
I saw a black cat this morning I'm pretty sure was her.
And Slow Horses on Apple TV+
Yon don't ask a neurosurgeon how to build an house, just like you don't ask a plane pilot how to drill a tunnel. Expertise is localized. And the most important thing is that humans learn.
With a lot of storage. But also, they have streams of realtime-ish data for other planes, weather, ships, etc that feed into the simulated world.
Funny thing is that people will also ask AI to __read__ stuff for them and summarize it.

So everything an AI writes will eventually be nothing more than some kind of internal representation.
> why they ever thought they had a chance to win consistently

> isn't risk taking a part of most people's lives?

Do you not see how these things are different? Leaving the house contains a risk of an accident, but the "you don't stand a chance of winning" certainly does not apply.

Many comments in this thread seem blind to this nuance, yet I wonder how one can go through life without understanding that not all risks are the same. I imagine one would die pretty fast.
Life is short and I like creating things. AI is not part of how I write, or code, or make pixel art, or compose. It's very important to me that whatever I make represents some sort of creative impulse or want, and is reflective of me as a person and my life and experiences to that point.

If other people want to hit enter, watch as reams of text are generated, and then slap their name on it, I can't stop them. But deep inside they know their creative lives are shallow and I'll never know the same.
> Food, gambling, etc. are all backed by hordes of brilliant well paid people trying to get you to ruin your life so they make money. On the other side is just regular people like us stressed out trying to survive.

A similar argument can be made with healthcare (especially the US insurance system). There is all sorts of information asymmetry, not only from available treatments/procedures, but then also providers

Kenneth Arrow wrote about this (in 1963), "Uncertainty and the welfare economics of health care" (see §II. generally, and perhaps §II. B. specifically):

* https://assets.aeaweb.org/asset-server/files/9442.pdf

Some disagree with the above assessment:

* https://archive.is/q1nSN / http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/liberals...
> why would I restrict someone's freedom to choose to make a poor decision?

Because there's a societal cost that goes beyond just the individual
Wow buddy. I guess we could say the dollar amount you were willing to forego is the price of your sense of superiority.
Ha-ha. Hee-hee.

Is the relationship between academia, the media and intelligence agencies ongoing?
Show HN: Practise pronounciation of foreign languages and get an accuracy score
In beginner mode, you can follow your guide to learn simple phrases. In intermediate mode, you converse freely with 3PO on travel topics (backed by chatgpt-4o-mini)

Your speech will be assessed on accuracy to provide feedback so you can get better at it.

https://3po.evergreen-labs.org

3PO's practice mode supports:

Arabic (Egypt) ar-EG
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) ar-SA
Catalan ca-ES
Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) zh-HK
Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) zh-CN
Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin, Traditional) zh-TW
Danish (Denmark) da-DK
Dutch (Netherlands) nl-NL
English (Australia) en-AU
English (Canada) en-CA
English (India) en-IN
English (United Kingdom) en-GB
English (United States) en-US
Finnish (Finland) fi-FI
French (Canada) fr-CA
French (France) fr-FR
German (Germany) de-DE
Hindi (India) hi-IN
Italian (Italy) it-IT
Japanese (Japan) ja-JP
Korean (Korea) ko-KR
Malay (Malaysia) ms-MY
Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) nb-NO
Polish (Poland) pl-PL
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT
Russian (Russia) ru-RU
Spanish (Mexico) es-MX
Spanish (Spain) es-ES
Swedish (Sweden) sv-SE
Tamil (India) ta-IN
Thai (Thailand) th-TH
Vietnamese (Vietnam) vi-VN
I’m not the biggest AI fanboy, but AI is the solution to this. You’re right that the population is about to peak, and we’ll stop adding biological brains that can come up with new things, but if we crack real AGI then we’ll have many more orders of magnitude of mechanical brains that can do the same.
No. The most effective way to remove HDD noise is to remove HDDs and add SSDs. I don't have any HDDs since 2016.

P.S. I also talked to a customer in the past who stored their backups in an SSD-only Ceph cluster. They were citing higher reliability of SSDs and higher density, which was important because they had very limited physical space in the datacenter. In other words, traditional 3.5" HDDs would not have allowed them to store that much data in that many rack units.
I was just listening to a podcast that did a season about her [1]. It's kind of in an audiobook style, with some guesses about dialog, which makes it pretty engaging to listen to beyond just that the story itself is interesting.

If you're interested in it, they also did a season on Duško Popov [2] (supposedly the spy that was the inspiration for 007), and one on Aimen_Dean who was an MI6 spy in Al-Qaeda, which includes an interview with him at the end.

[1] https://wondery.com/shows/the-spy-who/season/3/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimen_Dean
Let's start with a multimodal[1] LLM that doesn't fail vacuously simple out-of-distribution counting problems.

I need to be convinced that an LLM is smarter than a honeybee before I am willing to even consider that it might be as smart as a human child. Honeybees are smart enough to understand what numbers are. Transformer LLMs are not. In general GPT and Claude are both dramatically dumber than honeybees when it comes to deep and mysterious cognitive abilities like planning and quantitative reasoning, even if they are better than honeybees at human subject knowledge and symbolic mathematics. It is sensible to evaluate Claude compared to other human knowledge tools, like an encyclopedia or Mathematica, based on the LLM benchmarks or "demonstrated LLM abilities." But those do not measure intelligence. To measure intelligence we need make the LLM as ignorant as possible so it relies on its own wits, like cognitive scientists do with bees and rats. (There is a general sickness in computer science where one poorly-reasoned thought experiment from Alan Turing somehow outweighs decades of real experiments from modern scientists.)

[1] People dishonestly claim LLMs fail at counting because of minor tokenization issues, but

a) they can count just fine if your prompt tells them how, so tokenization is obviously not a problem

b) they are even worse at counting if you ask them to count things in images, so I think tokenization is irrelevant!
I've never used gRPC before, but from what I can tell, ConnectRPC tries to be compatible with it.

https://connectrpc.com/docs/go/grpc-compatibility/

It might not be super simple.
Good interaction, I agree :)
Its particularly comical because many of the recommendations, including from the US government, for identifying fake or untrustworthy news sites include factors that would indicate CNN's site is fake.

A hard one to define is a common recommendation is that a legit news site will look and feel professional. A more specific one is that a fake news site will be filled with a large number of ads. That doesn't even touch on the other factors like unbiased articles that share both sides of an issue.
It doesn't matter how elite you think you are if the newspaper, magazine, or publishing company you write for can make more money from hiring people at a fraction of your cost and having them use AI to match or eclipse your professional output.

At some point the competition will be less about "does this look like the most skilled human writer wrote this?" and more about "did the AI guided by a human for a fraction of the cost of a skilled human writer output something acceptably good for people to read it between giant ads on our website / watch the TTS video on YouTube and sit through the ads and sponsors?", and I'm sorry to say, skilled human writers are at a distinct disadvantage here because they have professional standards and self respect.
That is basically the idea behind https://lobste.rs/ . There's approximately zero spam or other bad behavior.

You can look at the full user tree (https://lobste.rs/users) and see if there's anyone you know who might be willing to invite you to join.
The photo on the story looks like Altman is leaving with a backpack full of money?
> No thank you, I can protect myself.

Said every smoker of tobacco. :)
>> I'd rather see them at rest stops.

Agreed. But again, taking a pee isn't a long enough break to charge on a long trip. I'm assuming people will charge at home without the middleman fees, and only need public charging stations on long trips. You certainly can take a longer break a rest stop, I just tend to have longer stops for food.
One might argue that gambling being illegal doesn’t protect anyone from it. As a former professional poker player who started off in illegal games, I can tell you, there’s plenty of gambling both legal and illegal available in most places.

The line at the gas station of people buying scratchoffs and lottery tickets is proof.

The part we likely need protection from is the marketing.
Yes. VHS-decode is an attempt to get the signal direct from the tape for high quality transfer. It is basically just using the heads on the vcr to pick up the raw signal and the software then decodes it.

There are some high end vcrs that can do a better job (according to those who have them.) but they are getting old and even broken ones can go for a couple hundred on ebay.

For home movies it isn't worth it since the starting quality probably isn't that great. I've messed around with it for a couple movies that were only released on VHS.
Which is also why it made good sense for TSMC to dismiss Altman. Some software/crypto/podcast/AI-hype bro shows up and asks for 36 fabs to be build, with no plan for monetizing them. Intel is struggling with their fab business as is, it's a difficult business to be in. Asking for 36 fabs, worth 7 trillion dollars is just absurd. Even if TSMC got the money up front, they'd still be holding those fabs and paying for their upkeep or dismantlement when/if OpenAIs predictions turn out to be wrong.

It's just an insane risk to take on.
Maybe the board was right to kick him out
> Why do you say people have to do it?

Gotta eat, yo
Send them to the Victorville Film Archive care of film buff Gregg Turkington.
In my experience, AI for coding is having a rather stupid very junior dev at your beck and call but who can produce the results instantly. It's just often very mediocre and getting it fixed often takes longer than writing it on your own.
On addition to thinking about "how much better could tech be" I insist we begin thinking abt "how much simpler and more peacefully could we live?"

Why extract so many resources to run gambling and adtech servers? Why doom infants abroad to mining? Why invade international boundaries to get their resources?
Reminds me of the way the way the author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" takes care of his leather gloves and they stay with him on the order of decades.
CS50 is not the same course as introductory C course, so you have some more advantages than just having a live conversation. It is hard to advice anything without knowing what topics are you going to show on 24 sessions, how many students are there in classroon and with living far from US therefore not knowing anything about your culture.

Probably one of decent ideas is to implement a version control system early, so the student is going to have a working one before the code becomes too hard for one person without even a version control system. In my studentship we used to write text editors and we used to learn a lot about bits and bytes and some big old computers but what matters more IMO is all kinds of free and open-source tooling for text.
Where do you think people should get news? Most of the non-mainstream news is somehow worse and finding knowledgeable direct sources isn't really practical for people.
These are interesting points. It’s worth noting that in the 90’s, the US won the cold war, and also the same generation has been in charge since then. Why change things?

The next crop of leaders will likely be much younger, and you’ll see new ideas.
Is anyone else burned out of these headlines?

Doing X for fun and profit
Everything we knew about X is wrong
I did X for $timespan and Y happened
Also posted a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466
In case you're interested in what was discussed before on this topic.
This is why I come to HN, for nuggets like this. This is improving my life as I listen. Thanks for sharing!
Apparently, investors do not see the loss of several leading engineers and the “missing” GPT-5 as a reason not to invest. Maybe they do have moat.
And you probably weren’t even listening to Rhythm Nation![0]

0 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...
They are smart enough to know that none of this will happen, and will have cashed out long before it all crashes and burns
Misleading OP.

This is not news from this week. Last week or even older.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/openai-to...
I used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more.

Bad turn of phrase, I guess.