skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work with someone up until the point I realized they were so distant from any form of reality that they couldn't distinguish between fact or fiction.

Naturally, they are now the head of AI where they work.
EU cookie directive predates GDPR. Notices have long been required by that regulation for use of non-essential cookies.
Bronze Age cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China
That is a ridiculous exaggeration. Yes, like in every walk of life, fraud happens. However, the extreme success of academic science shows that most of it is real, honest, work.
I came just to learn what it means to 'Slack' a room. I was disappointed.
I'm not sure that "humans will still dominate work performed in uncontrolled environments" leaves much opportunity for the majority of humanity.
> At that time, MINIX had a proprietary license

Thanks, I didn't remember that but now that you say it that sounds right. Still, I think it was one of the few ways students at the time could inspect the code of a complete OS, modify it, recompile it, and run their changes, all on the PC that many of them had at home or in classrooms.
This is nice to see. I often came across opposite sentiment here. "Dev time is precious, user is OK with un-performant/etc. software."
This would be another example of open source. Not from such a large company but a good reference including code, data, weights, etc.

https://allenai.org/olmo
If advertising was for my benefit it would be optional. It’s not.
“Average joe”. Humanity evolves slowly over long periods. The average joe today is far more educated than one from 200 years ago.
Reminds me of this tweet that calls out the problem of the popular position "science is real"

"Science isn’t real - that’s terrible epistemology. It’s a process or method to generate and verify hypotheses and provisional knowledge, using replicable experiments and measurements. We don’t really know the real - we just have some current non-falsified theories and explanations that fit data decently, till we get better ones. The “science is real” crowd generally haven’t done much science and take it on faith."

[1] https://x.com/rao_hacker_one/status/1811295722760982939
All we need is a bunch of potatoes, but don't figure to have a healthy stock of ketchup on board.
Links for the lazy: PMOD at Digilent [1] and Wikipedia [2]. There are a lot of modules using it!

[1]: https://digilent.com/reference/pmod/start
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pmod_Interface
> mathematical and astronomical research, the most fraud-free areas of academics. There's no money to be made

So we're systemically safeguarding the quality of astronomy research, by setting up a gradient (at MIT: restaurant catering for business talks, pizza for CS, stale cookies for astronomy) to draw off some flavors of participants and thus concentrate others?
this is a complete non-sequitur. the US social security budget does not go to one person or a small group of oligarchs
The older I get the more sympathy I have for people who claim they didn't become traditionally successful due to adhering to ethical principles.

I used to think that was just cope. But now I've been in a few situations where there's fairly clear opportunities to profit from shady behavior, and seen colleagues that I formerly respected jump at the chance.

Thanks for not being a fraud.
Or his 50th anniversary video

https://youtu.be/0YmSxTIvs_M?si=rJmzh_1XJ_UsaQTf
there is a git repo that claims to do it. They might have it for you.
You’ve used a poll from the height of the misinformation about the ULEZ, this was when vox pops were decrying it from ULEZ compliant cars!

In reality the expansion always had broad support, and normalised earlier this year in advance of the mayoral election: https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/support-for-ulez-has...

Would love to know more about this low emission zone that your dad is suffering with. What’s the new route he has to take?

Though there is only one low emission zone that’s been in place “for two years” — London’s. Maybe you mean a clean air zone? Or Glasgow’s that was implemented last year?
Rome wasn't built in a day? Humans are also creatures of habit.
Why did you create this? Kids playing their music too loud for your liking? Couldn't you just... talk to them about it?
Weird and cool
Pretty rad! Thx!
I've got close to 400 hours clocked in VR.

MS Flight Sim makes me sick, as does any driving game or any game where locomotion involves the view moving without associated real-world movement unless teleportation is used.

I can play Beat Saber, PokerStars VR, Zombie Training Simulator, Gorn, etc., for literally hours at a time and feel fine.

But in a racing game, as soon as the car starts moving, even at only 5 mph, I get nauseous. Same in MS Flight Sim. I don't have to be doing crazy maneuvers to feel sick, just taxiing makes me sick.

This is pretty much the norm for most people. If virtual world movement matches real world movement, you're fine. But as soon as there's a mismatch, that's where motion sickness begins.

One of these days, I'll try taking motion sickness medication beforehand and see if it helps.
Funnily enough, bitcoin mining still uses at least about 3x more power that AI at the moment, while providing less value imo. AI power use is also dwarfed by other industries even in computing. We should still consider whether it's worth it, but most research and development on LLMs in corporate right now seems to be focused on making them more efficient, and therefore both cheaper and less power intensive, to run. There's also stuff like Apple intelligence that is moving it out to edge devices with much more efficient chips.

I'm still a big critic of AI generally but they're definitely not as bad as crypto which is shocking.
A little device I created for dice rolling on the go. Included is everything you need to create your own, PCB design, C software and 3D printed case design.
Yes, but it requires said imaginary window.

Underground just requires LEDs and solar panels. Both of which we can make quite cheaply.
I place the lottery in the same category. Punitive on those who least likely can afford it.
I feel sorry for the young hopeful data scientists who got into the field when doing data science was still interesting and 95% of their jobs hadn't turned over into tuning the latest LLM to poorly accomplish some random task an executive thought up.

I know a few of them and once they started riding the hype curve for real, the luster wore off and they're all absolutely miserable in their jobs and trying to look for exits. The fun stuff, the novel DL architectures, coming up with clever ways to balance datasets or label things...it's all just dried up.

It's even worse than the last time I saw people sadly taking the stairs down the other end of the hype cycle when bioinformatics didn't explode into the bioeconomy that had been promised or when blockchain wasn't the revolution in corporate practices that CIOs everywhere had been sold on.

We'll end up with this junk everywhere eventually, and it'll continue to commoditize, and that's why I'm very bearish on companies trying to make LLMs their sole business driver.

AI is a feature, not the product.
From the article, I believe the effects of the radiation are what's being tested. Which is an important thing to know if we want to put people on Mars as it also has a huge amount of radiation and food is heavy to transport.

If we can grow plants above ground, that can free up resources for an underground colony.
Do you have a source for that? It sounds interesting and I want to learn more, as I was not aware of anything like this happening.
That's wrong. Chip design and Moore's law have nothing to do with each other.
Yes, here is the MEGA65 video from The 8-Bit Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qHdTKjPXww.
And you have to at least double any Musk time estimate.
Honestly, it would still be popular today, even alongside the internet, if it hadn't been replaced by the non-entity that was "digital teletext".
An Argentine lake the size of New York City disappears
> it's unclear to me that AGI is that goal.

Ironically, much of the observed behaviour is instrumentally convergent for most of the suggested ultimate goals.

Trying to make a safe and aligned AGI or a statutory government monopoly would both get about half the things we've seen.

The other half is stuff which is collectively mutually exclusive on all goals, but humans aren't perfect logical spheres in a vacuum, so it could still be basically any of them.
Other than turning down the speaker, what possible reason could I have to know that it's "too loud"? This reminds me of smart refrigerators that can notify me when the door is ajar. I'd rather have it constructed so that it just closes automatically. This is the general philosophy anyway. I know that something could be physically obstructing the door. But in that case, I'm more likely to notice a physical alarm than I am to see the notification on some tech device.

In that spirit, it seems better to have a speaker that can't be set higher than the "approved" maximum. If this thing is measuring actual sound level rather than set volume, a slow release limiter, either in software or hardware would just make it automatically correct without the whole notification cycle thing.
"Next year" in Musk years means they have at least 6 years to get it right.

Snark aside, SpaceX may be thinking of MREs instead of growing food.
I'm surprised that people are surprised by science being done in non-scientific ways.

I got a taste of this in my high school honors biology class. I decided to do a survey of redwing blackbirds in my town. I had a great time, there was a cemetery across the street from my house with a big pond, where 6-8 males hung out. I was excited when later in the season several females also arrived and took up residence.

I eagerly wrote up my results in a paper. I thought I did "A" level work but was distressed when the teacher gave me B- or C+. She said "My husband and I are birdwatchers who have published papers on redwing mating habits in the area, and we haven't seen any females this year. Neither did one of your classmates who watched redwings in her neighborhood." While she did not directly in writing accuse me of fraud, she strongly implied it.

I told her to grab her binoculars and hang out at the cemetery one morning. She declined, as she was a published authority and didn't need to actually observe with her own eyes. IIRC I had photos but they were from faraway with a Kodak Instamatic (this was the mid-'80s), so she didn't accept those as evidence.

I often wonder if my life would have gone in a different direction if I had a science teacher who actually followed the scientific method of direct observation! It didn't come easy to me, but I was very interested in science before this showed me clearly that science is just another human endeavor, replete with bias, ego, horseshit, perverse incentives, and gatekeeping.
Kind of the opposite. I had heard of it happening, so looked for evidence, and found that HN post asking for evidence, with that random post seemingly the only bit supplied.
I think the keyword here is "helping". Then you have other industries, creative industries, copy-writing, human resource and customer support where LLMs are making thing worse, way worse.

Writing of LLMs a being useless isn't wrong and unproductive, but assuming that they are universally applicable, or that they can function without supervision is also very wrong and potentially dangerous.
But he has such force of will.
reminds me of why the lucky stiff's hoodwink.d project, in a good way
there should be robot for that
Magicleap also had plenty of smart money behind them. It ceased to be a useful signal for me then.
Then hiring the uninteresting gel seems preferable.
Espresso (at any dosage) is an acquired taste!
> People still use voicemails?

In the context of a job where you're heavily using phones in the first place, yes.
On the one hand, we've got, "Pirating something because we find copyright law to be restrictive and/or corporate pricing to be excessive". On the other, we've got, "Massively wealthy people vacuuming up our creative output to further their own wealth".

And you're trying to suggest that these two are the same?

Edit: I don't mind downvotes, karma means nothing, but I do appreciate when folk speak up and say why I might be wrong. :)
Great that you posted this. I told my story of riding metro with my son, but only after this one un-stuck my brain to think of other locations in my city we could ride to, for almost nothing.

Funnily, when I was in Helsinki, I did ride couple of trams to the terminus. But in my brain, this was stored in another department, "urban research going to the fringe". Not "going out with the kid".
Kitchen staff were canaries in the coal mine (2022)
I’d rather we pump and dump new technologies and investment in renewables, scale out compute, and all the transferable benefits for the investment than NFTs.

I’m kind of curious where it all leads to. There’s a non zero chance it’s amazing given what is in my hands today is already amazing compared to what was in my hands 3 years ago.

I don’t think the choice is like AI or curing cancer. I think it’s more like Doge coin and meme stocks or whatever finance fad.
> Less cameras per-capita than the US.

I think comparison to density with regards to land mass and not number of people would be a more relevant comparison.
Differently, though.

MSFS 2020 only streams terrain data from the cloud. It sounds like MSFS 2024 will stream the entire rendered video feed, similar to other cloud gaming services.
> Academic scientists' careers are driven by publishing, citations and impact. Arguably some have figured how to game the system to advance their careers. Science be damned.

I’ve talked to multiple professors about this and I think it’s not because they don’t care about science. They just care more about their career. And I don’t blame them. It’s a slippery slope and once you notice other people who start beating you, then it’s very hard to stay on the righteous pad[note]. Heck I even myself in the PhD have written things I don’t agree with. But at some point you have to pick your battles. You cannot fight every point.

In the end I also don’t think they care that much about science. Political parties often push certain ideas more or less depending on their beliefs. And scientist know this since they will often write their own ideas such that it sounds like it solves a problem for the government. If you think about it, it’s kind of a miracle that sometimes something good is produced from all this mess. There is some beauty to that.

[note] I’m not talking about blatant fraud here but about the smaller things like accepting comments from a reviewer which you know are incorrect, or using a methodology that is the status quo but you know is highly problematic.
Perhaps he uses an earpiece connected to an LLM.
I have no clue how you extrapolated all that from my claim that free public services aren't free and are, in fact, paid for by taxpayers.
> Ideally, you'd seal a lava tube and put in air and you could live in it with the plants being natural oxygenators.

We've tried that on earth and it doesn't really work. You need a lot of plants and a wide variety of plants.

Living on the moon is a fantasy. It won't happen in any of our lifetimes. Mars is an even greater fantasy.
"since users cannot exit from the app to the home screen while the alarm is going off."

i hope they can dial 911 or hit the link to security cams.
We (developers and tech managers) really need to hold the line on this terminology. This is a full actual open source LLM. The usual “open inference” model is not.
That would be my bet. He's a CEO, I've not once heard it suggested that he's also a researcher (though according to Wikipedia he's a Stanford CompSci dropout). Quite rare to be competent at both CEO-things and the stuff you're hiring people to do.
It seems like a stretch to conclude that it "exposes America's weaknesses". The weaknesses that the article cites are well known: we're deeply divided and our legislature is nearly useless. Of course we're prone to disinformation.

I genuinely doubt that Tiktok is as potent as the government claims it is, while believing that it's not exactly great for us. I think China's "silence" says "Yeah, it was cool while it lasted, but we really don't care all that much. You just look dumb". Which, yeah, fair, but we knew that.
Sounds like you may want a Commodore 64? Preferably equipped with an Ultimate 1541.

Or if that it is too limited, go for the Amiga. It is more modifiable.

As a sidenote, I got my Mega65 just the other day. Been waiting almost a year for it :)
Oh, good callout!

The document is open source:
https://github.com/ssoready/docs/pull/55
> Serious mode off. When will we get Yao in the Linux kernel?

As soon as someone pays me long enough to get it there. :)

I only have 3 hours max a day (usually only 2) to work on Yao. And I have other projects I want to do as well.

But if someone paid, I sure could find the desire to work on it.
And even if organic food is healthier, it's definitely better to eat non-organic vegetables over no vegetables.

I eat some meals that are healthy, and some that aren't. None of them are organic.
The New Yorker gets high tier freelancers, other outlets get dogshit freelancers. It’s the same underlying model.
> There's also a proposed Alzheimer's therapy called cerebrolysin, a peptide mixture derived from porcine brain tissue. An Austrian company (Ever) has run some small inconclusive trials on it in human patients and distributes it to Russia and other countries (it's not approved in the US or the EU). But the eight Masliah papers that make the case for its therapeutic effects are all full of doctored images, too.

> cerebrolysin

This was discussed here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239161
Security bugs are a distinct kind of defect and can't be reasoned about the same was as ordinary bugs, because ordinary bugs don't have intentional adversaries driving them. It makes sense to accept the risk of some kinds of bugs in ways you generally can't with security bugs (without some other mitigation in place).
I can guarantee you he is competent.
What if you could look inside your AI? Understanding and steering Llama 3
It's common wisdom that you "don't bite the hand that feeds you".
Hopefully there are multiple organizations with different funding sources who aren’t beholden to each other, so they can fill whatever gaps in coverage they see. That would be a better outcome than everyone refusing journalism as a career because you will always have a conflict of interest with whoever is paying you.
5 unmanned mission in the 2026 launch window, manned mission to follow in 2028 if the unmanned are successful is the most recent statement (though some reports garbled that into all 6 happening by 2026.)
I used to have issues walking up during university, leaving my phone on the other side of the room, taking it and turning it off and falling asleep again without memory if it.

I got an alarm app that required solving math questions to do more than snooze. I had set it to three digit numbers +/- another. Worked great. Until I partied a bit too hard, and had to repeatedly snooze it, because even on the bus to university, I was too hungover to figure out the answer ;)

But in general, I was very grateful for the app.
Which is why it's a good thing there's a consequence here. If they got off easy, we'd see a lot more stunts like this. Probably at some point, one of these stunts could cause irreversible damage to a painting.
I remember being able to have the live football scores over the top of any TV show. Most of the Ceefax/Teletext page would be 'transparent' with only a small box on the bottom of the screen showing the live updates.

Is it possible to do the same kind of thing with any smart TVs?
Shockley was racist and eugenicist (2022)
Tangential anecdote: When I went to a buffet as a child, I loaded up on mashed potatoes, fries, onion rings, etc. I would be told by family and friends that I was effectively wrong for choosing those foods because seafood, meat, etc., was more expensive and therefore more valuable and worth choosing.

I don't think that was a bad outcome necessarily, because I picked foods that were super unhealthy and cater to thin dopamine hits. But I do think the reasoning (value vs. health) was off as it started instilling a sense of letting perceived/imagined value reign over personal instincts and inclinations.

Reading this felt like a call to be more present, pay more attention to the small things, do things for their own sake, etc.
Click forbes.com, then hamburger icon, then scroll the list to the “advisor” or “health” news sections.

Sample sections from advisor:

- Cheap Car Insurance

- Pet Insurance

- How Much Is Pet Insurance?

- Cheap Pet Insurance

Under health, they have a sub-section “best cbd gummies”. I clicked on a few articles and they’re outsourced(?) amazon affiliate spam that claims Forbes actually tested the products.

The health section is served from forbes.com, but the navigation is different and includes a “back to forbes.com” button.

In some other parts of forbes.com they have clear disclaimers, like:

Innovation -> SAP Brand Voice | Paid program

So, they’re definitely trying to pass off the marketplace content as legitimate news sections.
Everybody who worked with it knows that S stands for Shitty.
You are not the first person in the world to own a home or drive a car. Insurance companies can offer you cost-effective insurance, because you are doing effectively the same things as many other people.

Science is largely about doing novel things and often being the first person in the world to try something. In order to understand the risks, you have to understand the actual research, as well as the personalities and personal lives of the people doing it.

Then there is the question of perverse incentives. Research fraud is not a random event but an intentional action by the people who take the insurance. If they manage to convince you to underwrite their research, they know that the consequences of getting caught will be less severe than without the insurance, making fraud more likely. Normally intentional fraud would not be covered by the policy, but here covering it would be the explicit purpose of the insurance.
> The scale of destruction from climate activists is many orders of magnitude less than the destruction of what they're railing against.

two wrongs don't make a right. "Bob shoot at me, therefore I can rape Lisa?". Sorry, but I'm not buying that BS.
Curiously enough, not a lot of those adults still find joy in the tiny things.
They've used balloons for years to send over propaganda. I lived in Seoul in the 90's and found one pamphlet on a hike.

What's new here is the scale of it, that they are sending over trash, and that it's causing problems.
They have been improving a lot, but that improvement is already plateauing and all the fundamental problems have not disappeared. AI needs another architectural breakthrough to keep up the pace of advancement.
Radiation is a serious problem. It tears apart DNA & RNA. Blocking radiation takes lots of material, hence, underground.
> Ideally, you'd seal a lava tube and put in air and you could live in it with the plants being natural oxygenators.

There's a LOT of oxygen on the Moon (basically in every rock). There's effectively no carbon. If you want to grow plants there - you need to take carbon with you (probably in the form of coal you'll burn once there to generate the CO2 needed for plants).

1 person eats about 1000 kg of food per year, which is about 500 kg of carbon. If you grow plants in a yearly cycle you need to sent half a ton of coal for every colonist. The ones born on the Moon too.
I had the same revelation when I read the transcript of one of his interviews with Lex. I found it to be so free of detail or substance that I wanted to make sure it wasn't just a one case of him having a bad day, but reading transcripts of a couple of more interviews confirmed my suspicion that he has nothing of substance to say.