skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aliasing in sound is usually painfully untolerable. It does not seem to be like that in graphics.

It's tolerable in graphics in many cases, but becomes painfully obvious when the spatial frequency of some model approaches the pixel grid's frequency, and you get very distracting Moiré patterns.

edit:

But I guess in 3D rendering you deal with this differently, probably. You probably don't want to spend resources on painting model details that are half a pixel in size, so they get entirely culled, instead of causing any Moiré problems.
I’m not GP, nor using PHP, but can highly recommend WagtailCMS:

https://wagtail.org/

It’s based on Python/Django and has an excellent developer and user experience. They pay a lot of attention to detail, including a block-based content editor, similar to Gutenberg, and first class accessibility support.
Does it work for citizens only, or legal residence also applies?

Btw, I'm not sure you should show a cookie banner if you're not tracking people. But you must be more knowledgeable than me.
That cost includes paying all of the staff (guards, admin, medical, social workers, etc) and maintaining the building(s) and infrastructure, I’m surprised it’s only $100k a year.
wrong. i was extremely concerned in 2018 and left many comments almost identical to this one back then. this was based off of the first gtp samples that openai released to the public. there was no hype or guru bs back then. i believed it because it was obvious. it was obvious then and it is still obvious today.
When you're writing, how are you "missing out" if you're not using chatgpt??? I don't even understand how this can be unless what you're writing is already unnecessary such that you shouldn't need to write it in the first place.
I think I was misunderstood.

I do not mean H0(H1(m0)+H1(m1)) nor H1(m0)+H(m1) but Reinman(x={0,1000})(H0(m(x)))

Where there are 1000 hashes. So H0 must be broken one thousand times, then it does not matter that some attack exists to reduce the security 1000 times because the attack must be performed 1000 times. You could easily nest these so that F(y)=Reinman(x={0,y})(H0(m(y))) and take G(z)=Reinman(y={1,z})(F(y))

So that G(3) e.g. would produce 6 hashes of strength H0. No hash is taking another hash as a function, but the message itself here provides security - you must not just find a duplicate for one hash, but all 6 simultaneously. I wonder if the increased complexity might easily defeat most attacks on H0.
is this peak ai?
There’s not enough time in the day to go on a full bore research project about every sentence I read, so it’s not physically possible to be “fully diligent.”

The best we can hope for is prioritizing which things are worth checking. But even that gets harder because you go looking for sources and now those are increasingly likely to be LLM spam.
My understanding is that a court case is more likely to succeed for the plaintiff but that’s what I hear about about more abusive companies; many companies prefer arbitration because they can choose arbitrators who tend to favor the business. That’s why I’m curious about Valve’s change here.

I have no idea about costs other than I hear that small claims court is reasonably affordable. There are also attorney costs, of course, but I think you’d hire an attorney for arbitration anyway.

Edit:

FMecha pointed out Valve v. Zaiger and, sure enough:

> Valve says that Zaiger has “targeted Valve and Steam users . . . because the arbitration clause in the SSA is ‘favorable' to Steam users in that Valve agrees to pay the fees and costs associated with arbitration.”

https://casetext.com/case/valve-corp-v-zaiger-llc
You sound like you've never worked with multiple vendors essentially needing the same thing but want different things.
The term "climate change" was used in research even back in the 50s. It isn't some new invention.
Unfortunately, people with predispositions like that are even more drawn to marijuana (and other drugs). It's a form of self-medication-- that sometimes goes wrong.
The older I get the more I hate gambling. When i was younger I tended to think "hey it's their choice" but i've realized how unfair our society is in terms of things like this.

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.

This isn't some "freedom" issue, it's an incredibly huge power asymmetry and I think "we the people" need protection from these forces
dont forget google wasnt like this at the beginning. OpenAI or competition WILL incorporate ADS into the equation and at the end we will have moved away from google to reproduce the same model
> The quality of test cases are comparable to what a human would produce.

This has actually been a problem for me. I spent a lot of time getting good at writing tests and learning the best approaches to testing things. Most devs I've worked with treat tests as second-class citizens. They either try to treat them like production code and over-abstract everything, which makes the tests difficult to navigate, or they dump a bunch of crap in a file, ignore any conventions or standards, and write superfluous test cases that don't provide any value (if I see one more "it renders successfully" test in a React project, I'm going to lose it).

The tests generated by these LLMs is comparable in quality to what most humans have produced, which isn't saying much. Getting good at testing isn't like getting good at most things. It's sort of thankless, and when I point out issues in the quality of the tests, I imagine I'm getting some eye rolls. Who cares, they're just tests, at least we have them, right? But it's code you have to read and maintain, and it will break, and you'll have to fix it. I'm not saying I'm a testing wizard or anything like that. But I really sympathize with the author, because there's a lot of crappy test code coming out of these LLMs.

Edit: grammar
Look what happened in Mexico and California and many other places after criminalizing them.

They are not the same thing. One causes huge amounts of murder and violence, and the other is simply people destroying their own selves, as is their right.

Almost all of the gun crime in the US is the direct result of the prohibitions on the sale and manufacture of drugs.
thank you for correcting human error
I'm trying to imagine how it can actually take up time. There are so many tools for getting media, watching media, and organizing media that it is basically all automated away at this point. The Media Hoarder metadata thread this week rightfully gave the author crap because he refused to say whether his tool worked with the common organization ways or required you to ruin the organization of your library just to get a few stats.

The only tool I can think of where I feel like I'm wasting time is Calibre. The EBook community really dropped the ball by letting one weird guy and his quirks determine the entire organization of the ecosystem because he wrote a really good conversion tool. Luckily books take up so little space it's fine to copy them into Calibre and duplicate them back to a different organization method.
Any stealership shouldn’t be able to lookup information about any active/sold car. These interactions need to have consent (authorization) from car owner. These authorizations should be short lived and can be revoked at any time.

Any of this sound familiar? Yea that’s because it’s a flow (oauth) used by many companies to control access to assets.

Car companies are just not meant to do tech. So common shit like this is ignored.

If these car manufacturers can barely shit out barely usable “infotainment” systems. Why the fuck are they diving into remote access technology?
you mean the opposite way?

article gives proof why 4 implies 7 (thus magma with eq4 always agrees with eq7)
The goal is to underprice risk to drive out competition then grow to a point where you are too big to fail. All the while you collect bonuses as the leader of this scammy enterprise. You bank on events that happen every 50 or 100 years not happening before you grow so big you get bailed out when they do.
Right? Here in the Netherlands, Teletext is still very much alive and has several millions of users per week. [1]

In fact, at the end of 2023 our public broadcaster rewrote the Teletext backend system using modern programming practices to keep it running into the future. [2] Before that it was running on software from the 80's.

[1] https://over.nos.nl/nieuws/teletekst-kan-weer-jaren-vooruit-...
[2] https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...
> Waymo alone services tens of thousands of autonomous rides per month (edit: see sibling comment, I was out of date, it's currently hundreds of thousands of rides per month -- but see, increasingly)

But they aren't particularly autonomous, there's a fleet of humans watching the Waymos carefully and frequently intervening for the case where every 10-20 miles or so the system makes a stupid decision that needs human intervention: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/03/technology/zo...

I think Waymo only releases the "critical" intervention rate, which is quite low. But for Cruise the non-critical interventions was every 5 miles and I suspect Waymos are similar. It appears that Waymos are way too easily confused and left to their own devices make awful decisions about passing emergency vehicles, etc.

Which is in fact consistent with what self-driving skeptics were saying all the way back in 2010: deep learning could get you 95% of the way there but it will take many decades - probably centuries! - before we actually have real self-driving cars. The remote human operators will work for robotaxis and buses but not for Teslas.

(Not to mention the problems that will start when robotaxis get old and in need of automotive maintenance, but the system didn't have any transmission problem scenarios in its training data. At no time in my life has my human intelligence been more taxed than when I had a tire blowout on the interstate while driving an overloaded truck.)
I can confirm that. I was playing OnceHuman and was mid-fight when a modal dialog from Steam just grabbed focus.
> Gambling is generally against the law in South Korea, but any esports players or personnel who get caught fixing matches

"Don't get high on your own supply" is a law that covers much of Asia's stance on gambling. Macau has stricter gambling laws for citizens than tourists, for example.
Hinton says that superintelligence is still 20 years away, and even then he only gives his prediction a 50% chance. A far cry from the few year claim. You must be doing that "strawberry" thing again? To us humans, A-l-t-m-a-n is not H-i-n-t-o-n.
Larger? On my system libtcl8.6.so is 1.7 megabytes and liblua5.1.so is 192 kilobytes. It's not even close. Lua uses libraries / modules based on where you tell the interpreter they are located, so that's on you.

Set package.path and package.cpath correctly.
no, the original comment was correct
Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links
> He extensively talks a ton about pedophilia. He for sure is a pedo.

I'm not sure why there is any doubt, "child nudity" is literally filed under "Some things I like" on his website. Not sure anyone needs any further evidence.
This is actually pretty useful in some usecases. One very good example is Simon Tatham's "Coroutines in C" (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html) to resume execution in a function after the point it returned from in the earlier call.

The relevant example code is;

int function(void) {
static int i, state = 0;
switch (state) {
case 0: goto LABEL0;
case 1: goto LABEL1;
}
LABEL0: /* start of function */
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
state = 1; /* so we will come back to LABEL1 */
return i;
LABEL1:; /* resume control straight after the return */
}
}

becomes;

int function(void) {
static int i, state = 0;
switch (state) {
case 0: /* start of function */
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
state = 1; /* so we will come back to "case 1"*/
return i;
case 1:; /* resume control straight after the return */
}
}
}
This is the one thing I really miss in the transition to WFH: the two built in times a day where I couldn't work, but I could think about work- the commute. It doesn't need to be walking.
That's pretty neat, I'll definitely try it out!
Can you explain more? not a huge sports guy but isn't this an entirely different thing? I've been looking at that situation (from a distance) as messy but overall good to see people compensated for their labor and the physical risks they take on
The word toxin does not appear once in the original study. At most it has claims of "unknown toxicity" which is.. technically correct but very misleading.

Study only says that yes, we tend to consume some of whatever we use for food storage.
You would know if you had purchased expensive clothes before. Due to autoimmune issues and a change of diet, I lost a lot of weight and could not afford retail clothes. I found a $300-retail shirt for ~$5 at a thrift in LA, and because my skin had become more sensitive, I noticed a huge difference compared to the cheap dress shirts that I had worn before. It's even more dramatic with nice wool. Perhaps an equivalent question is whether air conditioning is worth the price. Yes, if you can afford it, and it's not even close. And don't even get me started on knives...
Explore Python's 3.13 new and modern interactive interpreter, also known as a REPL
It is lost in a sense that you had no idea about such possibility and you did not know to search it in the first hand, while I believe that in this case LLM brought it up as a side note.
- it won't work.

- ok it works, but it won't be useful.

- ok it's useful, but it won't scale.

- ok it scales, but it won't make any money.

- ok it makes money, but it's not going to last.

etc etc
We are still using couchdb for user profile synchronisations. Basically user details and data from mobile synched to the cloud. In our application users do not interact between one another. So basically we use db per user model. This gives us synchronisation between mobile/web clients. Pity that there is no up to date mobile library for couchDB and we depend on an old one.
>But what about when you've spent months just blindly accepting" what the AI tells you?

Pour one out to the machine spirit and get your laptop a purity seal.
The issue is that his bias creates bad reporting. There is always bias as you mentioned, but his is so bad that it clouds his judgement. There are many users who use Mozilla's products not because they are superior (though I think firefox is), but because they have a great mission. In fact, anyone supporting open source does it because of the mission, not the quality of the product. In most cases, proprietary products are better.

Mozilla is not just a tech company, and far right individuals like Lunduke can't understand that because their bias clouds their reasoning.

Lunduke's reasoning is so clouded, he is a climate denier. That enough should disqualify him as a serious person.
not necessarily, but it's not less creative and inventive than what I believe most programmers are doing most of the time. there are relatively few people who invent new patterns (and they actually might be overrepresented on this website). the rest learns and applies those patterns.
> With current tech there is, there can not be anything novel.

I wasn't talking about current tech, which is obviously not at human levels of intelligence yet. I would still say that our progress in the last 100 years, and the last 50 in particular, has been astonishing. What's preposterous is expecting that we can crack a problem we've been thinking about for millennia in just 100 years.

Do you honestly think that once we're able to build AI that _fully_ mimics humans by every measurement we have, that we'll care whether or not it's biological? That was my question, and "no" was my answer. Whether we can do this without understanding how biological intelligence works is another matter.

Also, AI doesn't even need to fully mimic our intelligence to be useful, as we've seen with the current tech. Dismissing it because of this is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
This is an _amazing_ book, and one which I am currently working through --- I was reading one chapter, thinking as deeply as I could on it, then re-writing my current project using the lessons from it.

Currently on Chapter 11 (Design it Twice), so will probably just finish, then work on a top--bottom re-write (switching from a current model which has a minimal Python core for variables only, and the balance is in OpenSCAD to a new implementation where everything possible is in Python, allowing usage from there via OpenPythonSCAD: https://pythonscad.org/ )
Yeah first start is such a terrible experience. 2-3 splash screens all taking forever. Compared to modern consoles where you can just suspend and go. Once it gets going it’s a non issue but fists start up is a couple minutes which is aggravating
Sports betting sites generally have margins well under 10%. That's not expensive IMO.
I remark that it's the "several equations -> several equations" that's undecidable

this project focuses only on "1 eq -> 1 eq", so it's even more of a gray area
There's no Kia-specific crime wave in Canada as far as I know (I live there). But there's absolutely a general crime wave of car thefts in Canada, and it's quite plausibly tied to recent policy choices. Of course the effect of policy is going to be additive to the effect of blunders like Kia's. But there's good reason to think it has enough impact on its own to be worth discussing.
Plus it’s not even defined what superhuman AI means. A calculator sure looked superhuman when it was invented. And it is!

Another analogy is breeding and racial biology which used to be all the hype (including in academia). The fact that humans could create dogs from wolves, looked almost limitless with the right (wrong) glasses. What we didn’t know is that wolf had a ton of genes that played a magic trick where a diversity we couldn’t perceive was there all along, in the genetic material, and it we just helped make it visible. Ie a game of diminishing returns.

Concretely for AI, it has shown us that pattern matching and generation are closely related (well I have a feeling this wasn’t surprising to neuro-scientists). And also that they’re more or less domain agnostic. However, we don’t know whether pattern matching alone is “sufficient”, and if not, what exactly and how hard “the rest” is. Ai to me feels like a person who had a stroke, concussion or some severe brain injury, it can appear impressively able in a local context, but they forgot their name and how they got there. They’re just absent.
If I buy a book, that does not give me the right to print 100 copies of the book and sell them. Indeed if I buy a lawnmower, that does not give me the right to make 100 identical copies and sell them. The right to manufacture something is not a fundamental part of purchasing an individual item.
>I remember the sea of excrement overtaking genuine human written content on the Internet around mid 2010s.

Things have not changed much really. This was true since the dawn of man-kind (and woman-kind from the man-kind rib of course) even before there writings was invented, in the form of gossip.

The internet/AI now carries on the torch of our ancestral inner calling, lol.
Wow, this an excellent follow-up. You shared so many interesting questions. I too want to know the answers! How about you post these as a comment to their blog post? It might spur them to write a follow-up and dive into more details and nuance.
Funny how it's technology that outmaneuvered capitalism to lift people out of poverty, but technology is being outmaneuvered by capitalism to endanger the future with AI.

Methinks capitalism is just a bogeyman you ascribe anything you don't like to.
It's not that black-and-white. Notwithstanding Moses' ruthlessness and whether some changes were for the worse, the book does not paint the past as rosy, pristine and superior. There are also many figures highlighted, each appearing dynamic and full of character with their own interests. It becomes a kind of general history book in a way, with Moses at the center of it.
My gas powered venting dryer in the US, while massively less efficient than my recirculating condenser electric dryer in Europe, seems to get way less hot and damages my clothing less.

I think there is just much less airflow in the efficient ones? Not sure. I’ve washed the identical make/model clothes many many times in both places, as I split my time between the two.
I'm not sure I'd call them misleading because they didn't say the money was gone, just that it was spent (not implying it didn't come back). The fact that that much money was bet at all for an aid program is astonishing and unfortunate. Sure, not all of that money was lost, but I'd call any of those returned "winnings" an investment by the sports betting companies to secure clients for life.
Limiting it to a licensed location, instead of app or website, and requiring cash instead of credit would likely be sufficient.
> There’s tons more cool stuff that CouchDB does and its being used in mission critical infrastructure that you’re relying on every day :)

If you could share a bit on those I think the community would be extremely interested. There was that CERN thing a decade ago, if it's still true or there are other actors with similar amounts of data, there would be fewer comments about not finding CouchDB useful
It reads exactly like that to me.

I have an HP Business Printer at home: A Laserjet M477fdw. It's brilliant and I've had it for years at this point. I also use non-HP toner. However, I have never connected it to the internet. Ever.

Since day one, I set a static IP and prevented internet access simply by removing the gateway IP (I've recently upgraded my router and blocked internet access entirely). I also use a driver from 2021.

I genuinely cannot see a need at all to connect it to the internet, let alone allow AI to have access to it.

It honestly reeks of middle-management scrabbling to find a reason to spend budget on AI! In fact, now that I think about it, this is as asinine as the Logitech subscription mouse![0]

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea...
Derek Lowe on AI and Biology
I wear the exact same outfit every day, and I have many identical copies of it, so I have a ton of experience with how it functions when cleaned differently.
There are inefficiencies that make certain bets positive EV if you are smart enough. It's usually a combination of playing in a weird way and having some insight that the maker of the game (the oddsmaker) didn't see. Gambling establishments don't mind because there are few enough of these and they will ban you if you take too much money from them.

Winning sports betting players often go on to set odds.
> It's a tech problem, tech a solution to it,

Except it's not - it's a business problem. SKG would essentially ban the use of Oracle as an example. Or it would likely kill games like Rock band which have licensed audio. You might be ok with that, but why are your preferences more important than mine.

> This is merely an issue to begin with for companies that are absolutely massive, like Sony or Activision. Smaller developers just don't do stuff like that in general

This is a naive viewpoint IMO. Another way of looking at it is that only large companies will be able to conform and this will squeeze out the possibility of small developers having multiplayer games. This sort of red-tape stifles innovation.
No, no, no. Do NOT touch my content. I don't care how bad you think it is. Do not modify it. Ever. Printers are such a crap already. Now to actually have to very carefully check if the glorious super intelligent machine changed some numbers (hello xeror) is not something I want.