skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool game, Cloudflare captcha brings back memories. Just like I used to solve them on my C64 during the Christmas of '92... sniff...
Right, freedoms are great. But my point is such a freedom is not very valuable to anybody else than programmers, or rich people and companies who can afford to hire them.

And even for programmers like me it is not very valuable, especially if we're talking about sw-applications like VSC as opposed to library code.
Weekly Micro Market: Typing Assistants
AIX is still highly popular in certain industries where nobody gets fired for buying IBM.

HP-UX is still being released, not sure who is using it but it must bring in enough revenue to justify support.

SCO and whoever they sold to have been dead for quite a while.
My frustration is the a/b split tests never seemed to net to anything in the long term even after confidence was reached. It made me question the entire process; but I understand the math so it’s confusing to me.
I hear a Muni bus stop nearby, and a lot of voices at 3AM, so I am guessing it's near bars, maybe Mission street. Maybe a pole near enough to an apartment fire escape to ziptie a solar panel. I wonder if the timestamps are accurate enough for me to ride my bike down mission blasting a song, and check strava for where I was at that timestamp, then spot the spotter. Just for fun of course, not to post or dox.
I had this idea yesterday. Cool.

I can't press enter to decrypt with password? I need to click with mouse? Pls fix.
Running in a race that was not professional but just “an event” ruined my will to ever do it again.

Compared to events like mud race/obstacle course.

That street running event was for people who love to compete the runners and public. Have to say I did not do well in 10km run with time 58 or 59 minutes and vibe all along when I just ran for fun to complete 10k was awful all the way. How big of a looser I am to run so slow.

In a mud races/obstacle courses I am not that bad I can finish in first half of contestants on 5k distance because I have a bit more muscle and functional strength/coordination. Bunch of obstacles for me are fun and not much trouble.

Those obstacle/mud races public and people competing are competing only “can you finish it under x time” where x is reasonable amount for a person to do that.
Yes but you are not asking them to also buy a 10k USD lidar scanner to map their homes.

The core of the argument is: you're already selling an expensive robot, don't force your customers to buy a second expensive thing.
It's time for AI companies to tackle their environmental and social challenges
I see that a lot already. “I asked ChatGPT for a list of places to visit in Vermont and we planned our road trip around that!”
This is very funny
Can it write a python function to count the letters?
Reminds me of a saying I heard while living in upstate New York as a kid:

You know you live in a small town when, if you leave your windows rolled down in your car at the supermarket, you come back out to find a bag of zucchini on your front seat.
> I think we are in the middle of a steep S-curve of technology innovation

We are? What innovation?

What do we need innovation for? What present societal problems can tech innovation possibly address? Surely none of the big ones, right? So then is it fit to call technological change - 'innovation'?

I'd agree that LLMs improve upon having to read Wikipedia for topics I'm interested in but would investing billions in Wikipedia and organizing human knowledge have produced a better outcome than relying on a magic LLM? Almost certainly, in my mind.

You see, people are pouring billions into LLMs and not Wikipedia not because it is a better product - but because they foresee a possibility of an abusive monopoly and that really excites them.

That's not innovation - that's more of the same anti-social behaviour that makes any meaningful innovation extremely difficult.
That they can't do this sort of simple question speaks volumes to the entire approach.

I don't think generative AI will ever be able to reach AGI, and most people selling LLM today pretend it is AGI
I don't think that's a super helpful description, because probably most people wouldn't call IO a datastructure.
This New Yorker piece shares skeptical takes too, though it waits until the end to include them:

Then there’s the question of what Calhoun was actually observing. The pathological behavior of his rats was, it seems, a product less of their natural tendencies than of his experimental design. “No evidence” for behavioral sinks has ever “been found in wild populations of animals—rat, mouse, or otherwise,” Dugatkin writes.

And, even if Calhoun’s experiments did reveal something real about rodents, it’s unclear what relevance this would have had for humanity. A textbook titled “Forty Studies that Changed Psychology,” by Roger R. Hock, contains a section on Calhoun’s work. It cautions, “We must always be careful in applying animal research to humans.” In 1975, the textbook reports, researchers attempted to “replicate with people some of Calhoun’s findings” by analyzing statistics like birth rates and mental-hospital admissions among New Yorkers: “No significant relationships were found between population density and any form of social pathology.”
I started to question you on the year there… you got me
History seems somewhat full of counterexamples, though? QWERTY is rather famous for not being an optimal physical interface. Steering wheels would probably be up there?

In computers, you have x86 being the poster child of ostensibly suboptimal interfaces.
Interesting concept, trick, but no.

- Can I write comments about some bookmarks?

- Can I tag bookmarks?

- I cannot self-host it, hence you have to sync things between devices, which is stupid

- Can it automatically do import / export?

- Can it support multiple users?

I am using my own bookmarking system, which solves these issues for me, but again, it is not a jack of all trades. I do not see your aunt running it in portainer. I am still developing it, so it is not super stable. Even with these shortcomings this is how I consume internet now.

It is "bookmarking system" x "rss reader" x "simple search engine"

Link:

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
That is enlightening.

Without being aware of the etymology I've still had a lifetime feeling since childhood that it is very fragile for some reason that is hard to pinpoint or bring into focus very easily.

Really is about the same feeling as when you know something is hype or BS and for that reason more subject to collapse like a house of cards.
Yes, I agree, for these small models it's wasted potential to be closed source, they can only be used effectively if they are open.

EDIT: HN is rate-limiting me so I will reply here: In my opinion 1B and 3B truly shine on edge devices, if not than it's not worth the effort, you can have much better models for already dirt cheap using an API.
The point is that it’s trivial (or should be). Not that it’s interesting.

It’s certainly interesting that they can’t answer it properly, though.
I struggled with the wording there and got it wrong.
I didn't intend to imply incompetence or anything negative.
Some folks have made choices to commit to things and take up responsibilities requiring stable, location-based employment.
"Couldn't get jobs" should be taken to encompass anyone that is subject to labor market friction of any sort.
> Tech folks love sentiments like this because it entirely emotionally places the onus on the people getting ripped off by big tech companies for being ripped off.

This, times a million. Add to that the ancient quote from Plato(?) criticizing writing or the other ancient quote complaining about the irresponsibility of the youth, unthinkingly deployed to attempt to delegitimize any kind of critique of nearly anything.

The technology industry seems to be overflowing with so-called "rational" people who mainly seem to use use whatever intelligence they have to rationalize away responsibility for whatever problems their beloved technology has caused. It's a really stupid and obnoxious pattern; and once you see it, it's hard to not see if everywhere and be annoyed.

I think one element of it is naked greed (especially from the entrepreneurs) but I think another big part is a kind of stuntedness and parochialism that's often fueled by overconfidence (because of success in software engineering, forming an identify around "being smart" etc).
I was surprised to learn that this is different from the similar-looking Pineberry [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineberry
I'll bite.

This paper doesn't show anything beyond an anesthetic's possible effect on microtubules, assuming it's reproducible. I see nothing about ruling out other pathways that may also affect consciousness. That big leap from MT to consciousness is still there, for which there are plenty of solid criticisms [0] by other respected scientists.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...
I would say peer review is guaranteed to have major problems either with researchers writing what their peers will approve and reviewers being afraid to diverge from the party lines.
Yes, Monads are about as difficult as compiling a kernel (run `make`).
One thing I'm not clear on is how much of this is cause and how much effect: that is, does NVidia cheerleading for something make it more popular with the tech press and then everyone else too? There are definitely large parts of the tech press that serve more as stenographers than as skeptical reporters, and so I'm not sure how much is NVidia picking the right next big thing and how much is NVidia announcing the next big thing to the rest of us?
SDF is a book I've been meaning to revisit, appreciate having an explanation of one of the problems written out here: a lack of super-concrete examples in the book did make it a little tough for me to penetrate on my previous (less mature) foray.
A fun listen is this episode from If Books Could Kill about The Population Bomb which covers some of the absurdities of the study like the fact that if the numbers panned out "the body heat of all the people would exceed the melting point of iron".

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/11875391-the-pop...
mine ran the cloudfare check successfully, and then just sat there. and sat there. and sat there. then after some ~15 seconds, it refreshed to i guess what is the game with a few prompts already in the window.

the cloudflare check did not ask me to solve anything, to locate anything, or any of that nonsense. it just said success. not really sure what it was checking
Verizon outage has service down across California and US
Discussion (although a few days pre-emptive) (78 points, 26 days ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443347
People have tried it on codebases, https://x.com/rseroter/status/1836519803802259732
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.

All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.

In ten, up-to-date maps of each region, Marshall explains in clear and engaging prose the complex geo-political strategies of these key parts of the globe. What does it mean that Russia must have a navy, but also has frozen ports six months a year? How does this affect Putin’s treatment of Ukraine? How is China’s future constrained by its geography? Why will Europe never be united? Why will America never be invaded? Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavors, Prisoners of Geography is the critical guide to one of the major (and most often overlooked) determining factors in world history.
The parties who need fast money movement the most are criminals.
OK, my previous comment was clumsy (and I concede that most of the software on the machine I'm using to write this is open source). What I meant to do with my previous comment was point out that my interlocutor seems to believe that the situation in software is just terrible, which implies that if things had gone different, it could be a lot better. But I'm not able to imagine a realistic evolution in which software ends up in a much better place than the current status quo.
The fact that LLMs are usually trained on tokens and not on characters, doesn't really speak about what generative AI is going to reach or not.

>most people selling LLM today pretend it is AGI

Who are these "most people"?
The embedded world awaits you:

https://microengineer.eu/2018/05/01/diy-night-clock-projecto...

Weather Station using LilyGo T-Display S3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VntDY9Mg7T0

https://github.com/goat-hill/bitclock

https://www.hackster.io/lmarzen/esp32-e-paper-weather-displa...
Outside the extremes there is a significant overlap, though.

Historically, outside of race/religion/ethnicity based slavery (where slaves were generally kidnapped foreigners/outsiders or their descendants), it was a generally a continuum. Most societies were extremely hierarchical so there were various different tiers of unfree individuals who had different rights (or none at all if you were at the bottom) rather than some extremely clear boundary (like in North America). e.g. chattel slavery coexisted just fine with various types of serfdom in Early medieval Europe.

In many societies even "voluntary" slavery wasn't that uncommon because people were forced to chose between starving to death and giving up their (and usually their descendants) liberty.
The one thing that GMRS has going for it in preventing this is limited range.

It's easy to be an anonymous a-hole on CB because there's a decent chance you're far away (like, perhaps even continents away) from the person you're talking to.

Unless you have a very high-up repeater and legal limit transceiver, you're unlikely to be able to talk to someone beyond your metro area in GMRS. More likely than not you'll see the person you're talking to at least once a month. This strikes "anonymity" from what I like to call the Greater RF F*kwad Theory, wherein Ordinary person + audience + anonymity = f*kwad.
> they should never have the option to get off meds

(I have Schizoaffective Disorder)

The meds do not work and they have horrible and even deadly side effects. To say I should never be allowed to stop them denies me of my agency and would force me to endure a life of misery. I am no longer on medications and better than I have ever been. I am rare. Even psychiatrists do not like this idea.

We could open up psychiatric institutions again like they were when my mother was in one. It was great for her. Now we have these prisons they call psychiatric hospitals run by fro profit companies. (Just google Holly Hill Hospital in Raleigh, NC for an example.)

What we need is better research that is not dominated by funding from Corporations. All funding should come from the Government.
Ask a medical researcher with domain knowledge, not someone on HN.
> It's thought the food neophobia simply comes from centuries of us trying to kill them.

This must have been the issue my toddler was having too.
A "high income" is relative. They might actually have a well-calibrated expectation for what "high" means based on being close to people who don't have high incomes---that is, being in the top 25% should be high by any measure, but in plenty of US cities, even being in the top 25% is no guarantee that you'll be able to afford a mortgage as well as other very important expenses like childcare, paying off student loan debt, caring for extended family, etc, etc. You could look at a situation like this and tell someone to "just change something" or be patient, but the reality is simply much more complicated. People who are struggling to deal with these scenarios are the ones who are best equipped to assess them, not people looking in from the outside.
Good catch. Thanks for posting the video.
What about acceleration times? :-)

0-5 vs 0-10 should be slightly different
Take in mind that it needs water. Is not a Mediterranean fruit.
Love this experiment.

Has it ever been duplicated?

I'd like to see if Universe 25 was an outlier. Since it is so often cited in any number of different prediction of a dystopian future. Would be good if there was some follow up.
if you were anything like me on a C64 and BASIC, the error is >98% chance of a typo being in the DATA lines.
What AI tool can make PPT with one click?
Microsoft Lifts Hood on Windows Recall's Security Guardrails
Cool! I love how this written and how powerful that whole approach feels for teaching/learning.
The issue isn't the nominal size of the context window which is easy to objectively measure, but effective use of the context window, which is harder to measure precisely, but a big issue: it doesn't matter how much stuff you can throw at the model if it effectively ignores most of it past a certain point.
personally I prefer wheat.
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean? Do you assume we implemented the same approach for shared memory communication like described in the blog post?

If that’s the case, I want to reassure you that we don’t use locks. Quite the contrary, we use lock-free[1] algorithm to implement the queues. We cannot use locks for the reason you mentioned and also for cases when an application dies while holding the lock. This would result in a deadlock and cannot be used in a safety critical environment. Btw, there are already cars out there which are using a predecessor of iceoryx to distribute camera data in an ECU.

For hard realtime systems we have a wait-free queue. This gives even more guarantees. Lock-free algorithms often have a CAS loop (compare and swap), which in theory can lead to starvation but it's practically unlikely as long as your system does not run at 100% CPU utilization all the time. As a young company, we cannot open source everything immediately, so the wait-free queue will be part of a commercial support package, together with more sophisticated tooling, like teased in the blog post.

Regarding memory guarantees. There are essentially the same guarantees like what you have when sharing an Arc<T> via a Rust channel. After publishing the producer releases the ownership to the subscriber and they have read-only access for as long as they hold the sample. When the sample is dropped by all subscriber, it will be released back to the shared memory allocator.

Btw, we also have an event signalling mechanism to not poll the queue but wait until the producer signals that new data is available. But this requires a context switch and it is up to the user to decide if it is desired to have.

[1]: https://www.baeldung.com/lock-free-programming
What specifically do you find worrisome about his rationale? It mostly seems like he's asking for evidence-based policy that views AI as a potential risk regardless of the funding or size of the model, because this doesn't actually correlate with any actual evidence of risk.

I can't tell what direction your disagreement goes. Are you worried that he still feels that AI needs to be regulated at all, or do you think that AI needs to be regulated regardless of empirical evidence of harm?
looks great. similarly this is why i love ‘go mod tidy’. just use the thing and let the package manager sort it out after the fact.
Perhaps we don't agree on what 'agile' means.
You and I can go back and forth on how the other is wrong by providing various internet links. I'll start:

"Mobile devices, the researchers conclude, listen to conversations through microphones and create personalized ads based on what the person wants or has done." [1]

"This passive listening ensures the virtual assistants are ready to help you with a task when needed. However, depending on the developer, voice tech apps may also use your conversation data to recommend ads and content. For instance, Google uses Assistant conversation data to personalize ad and content recommendations. Others, like Apple’s Siri, claim not to use conversation data to build marketing profiles or curate ads." [2]

But this exercise will actually produce less fruitful results because it's possible to prove anything via the online "research" nowadays. So let's try a different tack- thinking for ourselves.

FAANG are extremely notorious brokers of data. Everything about you and your browsing behavior is collected. I hope we can agree on this. Then why on earth would your conclusion be "they don't broker or process our audio data"? You'll have to have something better than it would consume battery life or would leave an identifiable trail of bytes, both of which could be mitigated by some clever programming.

Much better to have the hypothesis (hence "pretty sure") that they do, and then scrutinize. Until something definitive comes out that they absolutely do not, it's much more solid ground than a conclusion that you can simply trust these large corporations.

[1] https://dobetter.esade.edu/en/phone-listening-personalized-a...
[2] https://us.norton.com/blog/how-to/is-my-phone-listening-to-m....
If you ever go after 3) sign me up.

The most inexplicable miss by VCs (YC included)is the lack of interest in funding climate change remediation. Billions of people to help and billions of dollars to be made. E.g.: Could funding protection of Tuvalu’s dry land and status as a nation pay dividends through licensing/leasing fishing rights?

Such things are an area for innovation, and tech could be a part of it, but isn’t.
I founded a Web App for productivity and looking for feedback
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It can be used for

todo list
project management
Something like Notion, Trello, Todoist and Asana.

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tables
notes
images
comments
share access to chosen tables to other people
It was publicly launched in late 2022 and I would love to hear thoughts from people about it.

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What’s so bad about html/template?
Musk's $44B Twitter now valued at just $9.4B as X
All it speaks to is that tokenization is weird and introduces artifacts to LLM performance. Counting letters is a trivial task when you're staring at words on a screen. It's much harder when you're perceiving vectors based on parts of words. The fact that LLMs find certain things easier/harder than humans is completely unsurprising, and there are much more interesting benchmarks to use to compare one LLM to another.
> Original YC would not reject founders over their current product strategy and because they haven't figured out the right way to structure their business--haven't put together the "proof" that they could be on track to be a unicorn, etc.

Imagine you ran a startup accelerator that didn't invest in a particular business model or product, but instead invested in a team of founders you thought had the potential to produce something great, even if it takes a few pivots.

Now imagine you didn't want to invest in a given company. Would your rejection letter say you disliked the founders, as people?

Of course not, you want to be on friendly terms, just in case. Far safer to just be "unconvinced" about their "product strategy" in its "current form".