skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our eyes and ears are trustworthy, what's not trustworthy are untrusted sources.

The same applies to quotes. You can trust, well, as much as you can trust Hacker News, that what I've written is what I've written. But you can't trust that what I've written is a true representation of a real event.
Asymmetric information about Bitcoin is worth up to +infinity dollars. Worthwhile to do your research.
Well the majority of trained neural network models fail to solve most problems they're tested on, also. When you pick up a neural net paper (or really any machine learning paper) and look at the results of experiments the authors will invariably list the results of their best-performing model, chosen by careful cross-validation over multiple random seeds.

The point of this testing is to estimate the true learning ability of a system by looking at what it can do in the best case scenario. Nobody reports the worst-case scenario, otherwise deep neural nets would look a lot less impressive than they do.
Took over 20s to settle on a Galaxy s21.
I'm a PHP Web Developer and i already apply please can i tal with you?
talk*
How to Generate an AI Podcast Using Google's NotebookLM
https://archive.ph/9Wv7m
> I also know that the Maker-Taker problem is an issue in open source, just as I know that a friend you buy lunch for every day, and who earns as much money as you do, is supposed to return the favor now and then

Informal agreements like this work between people who know each other, not for agreements between strangers. The terms in an open source license are intended to be universally applicable, to make the obligations clear for anyone who reads them. This includes total strangers and companies that didn’t exist when you published the code.

Those strangers shouldn’t be expected to abide by anything not explicitly written down in the license. If the license doesn’t document the obligations you expect of anyone, you used the wrong license.

We should be suspicious of people who try to claim that there are additional unwritten obligations for reusing source code. Open source licenses have very generous terms, maybe too generous. They allow takers. That’s how it works, you can take it.
In this context, “drug-free” should probably be read as “they got permission to skip clinical trials, drug manufacturing oversight, Drug Facts labeling laws, and so on”.
I'm guessing one other reason he's staying is that he's probably still on Automattic's advisory board [1], and has significantly more influence on the company's direction than most other people who have taken the offer.

[1] https://twitter.com/zeldman/status/403874979512877056
Two points of consideration for the end game

1. Do the Ukrainian get to be a self determining people? Are the free to join any alliance or economic group that will have them? Are they the ones who get to decide how much land they will trade for this?

2. What does the outcome tell other would be invaders? Does the Western alliance defend their ideals or cave to using force to take what you want?

One cannot evaluate the end game of Ukraine independent of the other global hot points in the Middle East and Asia. The autocrats have formed an alliance and seek to undermine democracy wherever and whenever they can.
Not what one would expect from the title, but a good read.

wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241005124635/https://www.theti...
You don't get meaningful change in one without the other.
Vetting people into groups will become much more common, I think. Unless you can verify that person, ideally by knowing them irl, don't talk to them online.
I read back then too. That it immediately popped to mind from the comment, is an indictment of its impact on my understanding of color.
That's what the paper is about:

> Safe Zero-cost Coercions for Haskell
> They dissolved the safety team.

I still don't get the safety team. Yes, I understand the need for a business to moderate the content they provide and rightly so. But elevating the safety to the level of the survival of humanity over a generative model, I'm not so sure. And even for so-called preventing harmful content, how can an LLM be more dangerous than the access of the books like The Anarchist Cookbook, the pamphlets on how to conduct guerrilla warfare, the training materials of how to do terrorisms, and etc? They are easily accessible on the internet, no?
My uncle is called Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/indoor-air-and-co...
DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America's Captive Tigers
What about an endless supply of custom-tailored pr0n? Apart from the spirit, might simply wipe out actual physical reproduction.
When Earth Had Rings
Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

In this example, one among countless others, russia killed tens of thousands of civilians, in a couple of months.
russia caused more suffering in a few months of war than the USA in a decade in Vietnam. Comparing the two is utterly dishonest.
So your point is that if we fundamentally change society, ignoring the fact that this is integral to human nature itself, then we can fix this problem? That's about as helpful as saying we can have peace in the Middle East if we all just got along. It's comical how disconnected from reality it is, and yet you seem to think people should take it seriously.
World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
Yes I think you have it, having read it again. I didn't read it properly the first time.
Does it really need to be generated on the backend and passed around like that? It seems like you're doing a ton of extra work to fit it into htmx, where coming from jquery and react, it's much more natural to generate it entirely on the frontend using plain arrays and objects, then send it as a whole to the backend in one serialized json string. Of course with one final validation on the backend, possibly with a transformation into whatever query language the backend is using. But no need for round-trips to construct it like that.
The only unlisted business there that could be considered among “the largest” is ByteDance. But they have a whole China thing going on, so not very representative of US/European markets.

I doubt any competitor to the largest businesses in US//Europe that is actually putting up good audited numbers is staying private. Even Stripe has been trying to go public, but it doesn’t have the numbers for the owners to want to yet.
Gugusse Roller transfers analogue film to digital with Raspberry Pi
Feedback loop with existential reality.

Consciousness is existential reality animated by life, peering back upon itself.
Such spray [0] has been on the market by multiple brands and is backed by studies [1]. It has a throat spray and lozenges, too. There are some other patented variants with a different type of carrageenan.

[0]: https://www.carragelose.com/

[1]: https://www.carragelose.com/en/publications
Another funny coincidence is the email that Satoshi chose to use in the whitepaper: SatoshiN@gmx.com. Observe that `SatoshiN' can be interpreted as `Sat(4 chars)N', or equivalently: `Sat4N'! Meaning each time you send someone sats, you're actually sending them little satans. :)

What an excellent sense of humor Satoshi had.
That’s one of the leading explanations for why flu outbreaks are seasonal. Years ago I was rather surprised to realize that we kinda just don’t know.
No what I'm saying is that for the way we use energy to train neural nets can change in principle but nobody knows how to do it.
Meta but that seems like a pretty dishonest and confusing system.
Only if it's zinc acetate, which is rare!
My impression was a rather shallow one, between the language getting better and my understanding why it looks and acts the way it does, I'd say my change of heart is 20% the former and 80% the latter.

The reasons I think something new would do well are things Tcl can't fix. Examples: leading zero octal, 0 is false, 1 is true, and it just... Tcl has a face only a mother could love.

I've been interested in Red for years now without trying it out. It's very high-concept and sort of... totalizing? in a way which seems maybe unfocused. It is admittedly quite clean on the page, and there are some solid ideas there, one of these days I'll take it for a drive. One quibble is they need to stop punting to Rebol and write native documentation, being told that Red is "90% compatible" with another language no one uses, and getting shelled out to the documentation of that language, is not a great way to keep the funnel intact. But you have to, this is where the "official documentation" link sends you: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/SUMMARY.adoc

That, combined with the "Red is all things to all people!" messaging, gives me the (perhaps unfair) impression that I would run into dusty corners and sharp edges fairly quickly if I tried to cash in the Ultimate Programming Language promise. Just finish up the docs, folks. Only have to do it once.

I don't think it fits the new command language vision, however, because bare words are evaluated. In Tcl, the first word is special, and it's a command, everything else is strings unless you want to substitute in another string (or what have you). That strikes me as essential for this niche, notably this is how shell works and it's tough to imagine a usable shell which didn't work that way.

But talk is cheap and a language implementation is very, very expensive. If I needed to add a command language to a program, I'd use Tcl and call it a day.
To whatever extent the shortest route question is not in NP, it is also not NP-hard.

Both NP and NP-hard are defined for the class of decision problems.
Show HN: I turned my website into a Matrix-inspired 3D AI replica of me
Hey everyone! I thought to combine two of the things I'm interested in to build a version of my bio website that's interactive and that feels a bit like you're getting to meet me in person.

Visit my website and click on "The Construct" on the landing page.

It's set in the Matrix's Construct, and I had a lot of fun building it over the course of a weekend.

I've written a blogpost here about it too: and I have a youtube video showing how I built it coming up soon.

I hope this inspires others to build more 3D in their websites
If we had something similar to the "English rule", litigation in this country would decrease drastically.

The English rule provides that the party that loses in court pays the other party's legal costs.
Turns out it's just a run of the mill bitcoin blackmail letter in a pdf file. I should read it very carefully, they will visit <my name> in <my city> if I don't act, they totally control my phone and my laptop, etc.

Basically this scam but with more personal info included: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2020/04/scam-emails...
Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $
1. In the US, about 1/5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children's emotions.

2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you're having a hard time in life or at work, and you can't tell your parents or friends.

So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth.

We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone. Please leave any opinion.
Essentially I think the Livekit value is a SFU that works, with signalling, and the SDKs exist. My experience is people radically overstate how hard signalling is, and underestimate SFU complexity, especially with fast failover.

In terms of being a higher level API arguably it is doomed to failure, thanks to the madness of the domain. (The part that sticks in my mind is audio device switching on Android.) WebRTC products seem to always end up with the consumer needing to know way more of the internals than is healthy. As such I think once you are sufficiently good at using LiveKit you are less likely to pick it for your next product because you will be able to roll your own far more easily. That is unless the value you were getting from it actually was the SFU infrastructure and not the SDKs.

The OpenAI case is so point-to-point that doing WebRTC for that is, honestly, really not hard at all.
If they contain some salt they are better than just water.
>I'm not sure why you see it as less "magical" that the movement of particles would cause a subjective experience, but that is an opinion and a viewpoint, not a strictly rational belief system.

Because cause->effect. If there is a soul or some other non-material power in the universe, why does it only influence the chemical reaction of animal brains? (We're not assuming the human species is special, right?)

My issue is that you paint tech people as arrogant or "disconnected from an experience of their own aliveness and soul" when in fact there is a much more mundane explanation -- they just have no good reason to believe in souls.

I've had many interesting and transcendent experiences, no reason to see them as anything other than extraordinary chemical states. For the closing remarks on this thread: why do you believe what you do?
Now we need one on the Apollo 8 ball.
And if you manage to get back to sleep, it soon jolts you awake again, and again.
I do not see this as a political topic. I do not see this as a men versus women topic. I see it as a discussion of value, utility versus aesthetics. I do think people care too much for aesthetics at the expense of their own utility. I do think that condition is aptly called shallowness.
And yet Pinecrest and Mason are too filled with tourists every day for me to get my breakfast…

Why won’t tourists watch this guy and stay away!
Nobody close the the edge of this tech seems to believe that this is true, and the 4o release suggests synthetic approaches work well.
moving around on the noise site, you can get it to resemble parts of loud pipes, especially at around 2:35 [1] with the repeated upward bits

https://youtu.be/64liF2VuLxI?t=155
Just to clarify, I didn't say anything about the OP's "ability to learn". I know nothing about that and can't tell anything about it from their comment. I also didn't say anything about how our brain works, or about "the tendrils of ML overlords".

If you want to have a debate, I'm all for it, but if you're going to go around imagining things that I may have said in another timeline then I don't see what's the point of that.
Field CTO — hi @Sean-Der :wave:

Fractional CTO sounds like a disaster lol
If your company requires communications to be monitored, the typical enforcement is a custom company CA installed on company equipment. Then they intercept TLS and proxy it.

Those proxies tend to be strict in what they accept, and slow to learn new protocol extensions. If Google wants to use Chrome browsers to try out a new version of QUIC with its servers, proxies make that harder.
Hard to blame evolution for that given that reproduction is much rarer after age 50.
You make it sound like AI researchers are in short supply.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415
I’ve been unlucky enough to have good reason to sue a few times in the last few years.

The courts are essentially inaccessible to 99% of the population. You can go to small claims court where the limit for damages is $12,500 in California (less than a half year’s rent around here), or you can hire a lawyer and pay $50-100K minimum before the trial even starts (on both sides).

The upshot is that I’m out around $100K (spread across a few different incidents) with absolutely no legal recourse.

Anyway, more access to the courts (and faster/more painful rejection of nuisance suits) would go a long way to fixing our legal system.

It would also be good if private individuals could directly press criminal charges.
> A2AD war

I wasn't familiar with this acronym, so just putting this here for others like me - A2/AD(Anti-access/area_denial) is the strategy of preventing your opponent from entering an operational area and maneuvering within it[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-access/area_denial
He just needs a paltry trillion dollars to make this AI thing happen. Stop being so short sighted.
Right, and if we put everybody in work camps, unemployment would drop. It’s easy to improve a single metric (like “amount of litigation”) if you don’t care about any of the other effects it would have.
Having a dedicated safety team (or as they called it "superalignment") makes sense if and only if you believe that your company is pursuing an actual sci-fi style artificial superintelligence that could put humanity itself at risk [0]:

> Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems. But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction.

> How do we ensure AI systems much smarter than humans follow human intent?

This is a question that naturally arises if you are pursuing something that's superhuman, and a question that's pointless if you believe you're likely to get a really nice algorithm for solving certain kinds of problems that were hard to solve before.

Getting rid of the superalignment team showed which version Altman believes is likely.

[0] https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler is a great resource on this topic.
Tao comparing o1 to a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student went viral. He clarifies that he means it more like a mediocre or incompetent research assistant.

Tao means that it's not like a grad student who's able to learn and do more and more on their own with his specific guidance (it can learn, but Tao's guidance is watered down with all the other things the LLM learns from), but rather AI can serve as a kind of mediocre or incompetent assistant doing the manual, repetitive, grunt work typical in math research.

Tao seems to see that maybe a human can do much more "inspired" work with very little data, by using AI to do much more of the manual, repetitive, grunt work with much more data.
Don't buy probiotics - eat quality grass-fed organic yogurt (such as Trimona [0]) and home-made sauerkraut - these have centuries of evidence. As a Bulgaria, we traditional make sauerkraut every year. It's pretty easy to have it, you just need a little more attention to it in the first weeks. The juice is amazing, too. You can buy it from Amazon [1].

[0]: https://trimonafoods.com/

[1]: https://amzn.to/3ZO0Sxl
"Just like America in Iraq" what the hell are you on about?

The US invaded on March 20th. Iraq's head of state was captured on April 9th.

Russia isn't even close to having the same problems that America encountered after its obscenely successful invasion. When/if they do actually have to occupy Ukraine and sustain insurgency, it's going to be an absolute nightmare for decades.

Russia mustered all the might it could in an attempted shock and awe campaign against Kiev, the problem is that Russia is a 3rd world country that acts like it's not because it 1) used to be a 3rd world empire and 2) it has nukes. Russia and its military have been thoroughly gutted by decades of kleptocracy.
It reminds me of this story from a decade ago — https://kottke.org/14/05/the-ghost-in-the-machine

Sometimes I feel like digital prosthetic memories are an awful crutch; sometimes I’m in awe of the genuine emotion they can inspire.
In Chrome I set all sites to be muted by default. I assume Firefox has the same feature.
If this was such a big part of their son's life, how come they weren't aware?

I'm asking this more to wonder out loud whether I'm in need of some introspection than to blame them.
You are correct, the format would have to be lossless for this to be maximally effective. Since MP3 was explicitly designed to encode voice-range audio efficiently, this would not be the *ideal* metric.

However, since the format is also resilient and flexible, it should have a structure - even if that complexity is hidden in the codec - with a magnitude less entropy than the mis-decrypted possible plaintexts.

But yes, you compress, than encrypt. If your encrypted data is compressible or otherwise distinguishable from random noise, than you have (exploitable, correlatable) bias in your encryption functions, or you have inefficiency/redundancy in your compression.

I would think a very limited set of magic numbers/possible hex ranges would yield the highest performance per error.
No, they have not. The evidence points the opposite way (people lose more weight on non-nutritive sweeteners than sugar).
Yeah, it's a cutesy title for customer support because you can't take yourself too seriously in jobs like this. Put very simply, people are fucking ass holes (and yes - you have to acknowledge this to excel at being a "Happiness Engineer" - it's not cynical to recognize that people have angry outbursts, because you have to know how to calm them down; pretending that people aren't mean is a one-way ticket to burnout). Even "nice" people can be ass holes; humans are complex and represent a whole spectrum of emotions [0]. Sometimes they don't know they're doing it, sometimes they do. There are social differences (what someone on the West Coast thinks is rude is not the same as what someone on the East Coast thinks is rude, and there are even difference between "microcultures" on the rules of social engagement; these rules might be intersubjective, but differ) that have to be negotiated often in one-time ephemeral interactions. Negativity is contagious and I cringe at the times that I unnecessarily injected negativity into an interaction where the other person/people didn't do anything to deserve it.

I think there is maybe one other "weird" job title in that list, but otherwise they're all pretty normal, so this is probably one of the last things I'd criticize Automattic for. The fact that they describe customer support as "Happiness Engineering" suggests the nature of the title - we have to be a little goofy to help people.

As a final note, for anyone thinking "I work in customer support and I don't like this yada yada", it's just not for you, and that's OK. No need to think up a huge rebuttal, it's just a different philosophy for those of us who like to help people and have a little bit of fun at the same time.

I don't work at Automattic, but I like WordPress and don't really care too much about this drama.

[0]: https://feelingswheel.com/
A Monopoly on Poop
I think number 1 is the essential point for anyone supporting democracy. Ukrainians, not Russians, decided who they elect as their leaders (1) and which organizations they want to join. It is depressing to hear people in democracies arguing otherwise.

As for point two: Yes it is also massively in the interest of democracies, that Ukraine wins and Europe is strengthened.

I think Stoltenberg summed up it up nicely in (2)

>So supporting Ukraine is not only the morally right thing to do.
It is also in our own security interest.

(1) Queue Russian non-sense about Maidan being a western coup.

(2) https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_212041.htm
Where can I get the Zune download? Searching on Zune just shows me the hardware.
More specifically "probiotic X didn't work for Chinese people with constipation"

But that's a typical arstechnica title
He was born in 1989, died in 2014. Not sure how he died at 20?
I think there is a fundamental difference between MMOGs and TikTok-style social media. I suspect the human brain has a relatively healthy reaction to creatively connecting with other humans via virtual worlds but a comparatively poor reaction to algorithmic feeds.