skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bad" can also apply to results or execution (performance, in/competence), not just intent.
I found making a white - purple - red - white triangle over and over pleasing.
Last paragraph made me laugh

At least you did something cool with your screen time!
but did Shakespeare ever get a subsidy? /s
I think it is one of the strongest points, but am pretty strongly against the stronger embodiments of land tax. I think most people would find the sun tax outrageous, and put it in a similar category to taxing people for the work they dont do, or for the air they breathe.

The common factor here is common expectation that taxes are applied to profit in the commercial sphere, or barring that, they are use taxes for public infrastructure.
Distorting the old Chinese proverb, “The best time to stop taking Sam Altman at his word was the first time he opened his mouth. The second best time is now”. We’ve known he’s a scammer for a long time.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
OP is original poster (or post), to which we are not referring.
Do you mean GnuPG? I'm not sure if PGP (the software) still exists.

I agree that the world is definitely better with widespread OpenPGP support in it, and I'm grateful for the role GnuPG played in that, but gpg could definitely use some fresh paint in terms of usability.
GP != OP; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8363646
What a wonderful article. I love step by step reverse engineering break downs.

I did not expect to read about tracking in such a seemingly self-contained product. Paranoia level successfully raised. Never trust their silly "terms" and "policies" documents, they can change without your knowledge and the company will gaslight you about it. Never trust their proprietary software, reverse engineer it and implement a free software replacement.
I dislike the term "prompt engineer," particularly if you're not setting up systems on a technical level. And it's still artistic, without necessarily making prompters artists. Because the process is one closer to curation rather than creation, I like to think of prompters as "curators". You're reaching into latent space (a collective visual history), pulling out a collapsed possibility, and deciding if it fits your needs or not.
The end is super-human reasoning along with super-human intuition, based on humanity knowledge.
YouTube still uses thumbs up!
> Make your platforms safer with one HTTP request. Stop wasting time on manual moderation.

Is this try to say but not say switching to AI increases safety?
Very cool research topic, doing language analytics on telegram channels is a pretty interesting case study for modern war propaganda.

That being said, I think the theoretical framework presented here is flawed. Many political scholars would say that the definition of politics is the process of defining ingroups and outgroups. Fundamental to understanding political group dynamics is analyzing power, which a major component is the capacity for violence. This research provides a "Model of Othering" which, when properly understood, is really just synonym for political rhetoric. There are a lot of subtle moral presuppositions being made throughout this research that doesn't seem appropriate for a serious scholarly analysis.

This might also be getting a bit too far off topic, but it also strikes me as fairly tone def to be publishing research comparing Russian war rhetoric to Nazi Germany when politicians from both of America's own political parties are currently calling Iran a "terrorist country".
I would say "be opinionated". Building something non-native that works on every platform looks like crap on every platform. And nothing is slower than the average Electron pile. I would say stack but pile seems more appropriate.
Wow I haven't seen that graph before. It's very striking. It certainly shows Covid was not "just the flu"
looks like https://www.hohenloher.com/en/products/fly-one/ this, though it looks as though the CERN images might be on a movable ceiling mounted track.
I don't know about other regions, but in the US console-specific RF adapters were available separately up to the Dreamcast/PS2/GameCube/Xbox generation, i.e. until HD over HDMI became the prevailing standard (Wii notwithstanding).

For the RF switch part, Nintendo actually recycled the NES design for all of them. It's kind of funny seeing that chunky gray box next to a GameCube logo.
During hurricane Helene our area (Raleigh, NC) received a tornado warning that told people to “TAKE SHELTER” causing people to panic. My wife and kids were hiding in our pantry. My parents were at a medical center and they were moved to a stairwell for “safety reasons”. It’s impossible to predict exactly where a tornado will occur (or if one will occur.) I’m all for being diligent, but telling an entire regional area to take shelter over this will eventually cause people to stop taking these things seriously. I was on a work call at the time and basically just paid attention to the weather but didn’t (IMO) overreact.
I have gone all the way through this, #21584. What a tremendous resource.
> But no modern programmer would ever come up with the solution of addressing x and y positions by setting timers to wake at the times when the point in the scan-line or the scan-line in the frame was reached

I would say it’s only fairly recently we stopped needing to do this - when we moved to graphics mode operation systems (oh god I say fairly recently but thinking now it’s probably close to 30 years ago yikes). I’m thinking Garmin app developer may still need to do it
Would you be willing to share how you're using it?

I keep hearing from people who find these enormous benefits from LLMs. I've been liking them as a search engine (especially finding things buried in bad documentation), but can't seem to find the life-changing part.
> Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics.

Yes. We've been through this again and again. Technology does not follow potential. It follows incentive. (Also, “all of physics”? Wtf is he smoking?)

> It’s much more pleasant fantasizing about a benevolent future AI, one that fixes the problems wrought by climate change, than dwelling upon the phenomenal energy and water consumption of actually existing AI today.

I mean, everything good in life uses energy, that’s not AIs fault per se. However, we should absolutely evaluate tech anchored in the present, not the future. Especially with something we understand so poorly like emergent properties of AI. Even when there’s an expectation of rapid changes, the present is a much better proxy than yet-another sociopath with a god-complex whose job is to be a hype-man. Everyone’s predictions are garbage. At least the present is real.
I sort of wish there was a filter for my life that would ignore everything AI (stories about AI, people talking about AI and of course content generated by AI).

The world has become a less trustworthy place for a lot of reasons and AI is only making it worse, not better.
Nobody is taking Sam Altman at his word lol, these ideas about intelligence have been believed for a long time in the tech world and the guy is just the best at monetizing them. People are pursuing this path because of a general conviction in these ideas of themselves, I guess to people like Atlantic writers Sam Altman is the first time they've encountered them but it really has nothing to do with Sam Altman.
This is how I look at things. I’ll let other people dance on the bleeding edge. I know enough to get my job done and if I spend the time to bring something new into the fold, I want it to be worth my time, being used for the next 5-10 years, not 5-10 months.

Chasing trends in web dev looks exhausting.
I don't think they will ever release it considering it's likely much worse than flux.
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> It saddens me how easily someone with money and influence can elevate themselves to a quasi religious figure.

If so many people wouldn't fall for claims without any proof, religions themselves would not exist.
Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Image Generation via Next-Resolution Prediction
Autoregressive Transformers scale and learn much better/faster when trained to predict the "next-resolution"/"next-scale", i.e start very small and gradually scale up the resolution and size vs being trained to predict the next image token/patch.

Related:
VAR-CLIP: Text-to-Image Generator with Visual Auto-Regressive Modeling - https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01181

STAR: Scale-wise Text-to-image generation via Auto-Regressive representations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10797
It will spit out a rootfs, or even a block image for a disk, which might make it _look_ like a single application. You will probably update your system by flashing that entire rootfs/image to your target device as if it was one application.

However, it is still Linux under the hood, so there is a kernel + whatever other applications you want running on there, all as separate processes.

You may also be thinking of busybox, which bakes an implementation of most of gnu coreutils into one file to save space. Many symlinks are often created to that sesame file, and when invoked the process can check what name it was invoked with to determine its behavior.
If you ask this question - you fundamentally don’t understand the essence of engineering.

Software developers are a variant of engineers.

Coding or ai or whatever is just a tool at hand, one of many possible to reach a goal.

If any algorithm can take over the “engineering” core - good question. But we’re not even close to understand that question fully, let alone asking and answering it.
Any evidence of that?

Have you seen the current US political system? Or Hawk Tua?
> Nobody knows.

I suspect it's a little different. AI models are still made of math and geometric structures. Like mathematicians, researchers are developing intuitions about where the future opportunities and constraints might be. It's just highly abstract, and until someone writes the beautiful Nautilus Mag article that helps a normie see the landscape they're navigating, we outsiders see it as total magic and unknowable.

But Altman has direct access to the folks intuiting through it (likely not validated intuitions, but still insight)

That's not to say I believe him. Motivations are very tangled and meta here
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I would say LLMs are much less “produce a perfect part from nothing” and more “cut down a tree and get a the part you ask for, for a random model of car”
It feels to me like you have approached this with a wrong mindset, like you focused too much on finishing the whole process.

With LFS you must put substantial amount of value into the journey itself. It's not about copy-pasting commands, it's about trying to actually understand what and, more importantly, why your are doing each step. My recollection is that LFS docs were good in helping with that. Or maybe it was coming from reading docs of the actual components as I went along? I don't remember, probably some mix of both.

I did set LFS system up once, I think it was 2001 or 2002. I specifically remember that it took many days (due to compilation times), was very interesting, and at the end I was putting final touches to my mutt and slrn configs. With a vague memory that I had some TODO for mutt that I didn't finish, still lingering in my mind, apparently! :)

All in all, great and satisfying learning experience.

I would not use such system as a daily driver, though. I think it's good only if you have time and want to learn. I'm curious if someone here is brave enough to have different approach.
>one of the most valued markets ... is based on a stack that is available to anyone

The sophisticated investors are not betting on future increasing valuations based on current LLMs or the next incremental iterations of it. That's a "static" perspective based on what outsiders currently see as a specific product or tech stack.

Instead, you have to believe in a "dynamic" landscape where OpenAI the organization of employees can build future groundbreaking models that are not LLMs but other AI architectures and products entirely. The so-called "moat" in this thinking would be the "OpenAI team to keep inventing new ideas beyond LLM". The moat is not the LLM itself.

Yes, if everyone focuses LLMs, it does look like Meta's free Llama models will render OpenAI worthless. (E.g. famous memo : https://www.google.com/search?q=We+have+no+Moat%2C+and+Neith...)

As an analogy, imagine that in the 1980s, Microsoft's IPO and valuation looks irrational since "writing programming code on the Intel x86 stack" is not a big secret. That stock analysis would then logically continue saying "Anybody can write x86 software such as Lotus, Borland, etc." But the lesson learned was that the moat was never the "Intel x86 stack"; the moat was really the whole Microsoft team.

That said, if OpenAI doesn't have any future amazing ideas, their valuation will crash.
I promise you there are and your country is better for it.
The others other us and we other the others.

What a stupid world.
To deal with bots that are increasingly good at evading bot detection and to track user data, made possible because we let an ad and tracking company control the technology for over ninety percent of browsers.
The time to stop taking him seriously was when he started his "fear AI, give me the monopoly" campaign.
Zune never took off because Apple unveiled iPhone soon after.

When all the news and talks are about this iPod killer from Microsoft and then Apple themselves release a truly groundbreaking iPod killer themselves, you look foolish. Zune really got done in by marketing.
I can answer that: I've used plenty of apps the past decade that tried to do this and each and every app "felt wrong". You know it within seconds that an app is not using native UI. There is always some basic interaction missing or just not working. Be it something simple like swiping navigation from the side of the screen or text fields that just do not work as expected.
I tried replacing myself (coding hat) and it was pretty underwhelming. Some day maybe.
> How would the car industry change if someone made a 3D printer that could make any part, including custom parts, with just electricity and air?

The invention would never see the light of day. If someone were to invent Star Trek replicators, they'd be buried along with their invention. Best Case it would be quickly captured by the ownership class and only be allowed to be used by officially blessed manufacturing companies, and not any individuals. They will have learned their lesson from AI and what it does to scarcity. Western [correction: all of] society is hopelessly locked into and dependent on manufacturing scarcity, and the idea that people have to pay for things. The wealthy and powerful will never allow free abundance of physical goods in the hands of the little people.
There have been several AI short film festivals, as well as several AI music videos that have been produced. The caveats are that quality varies, the best ones simply employ solid production in general (good editing, strong directorial vision, etc), and I don't know that anything feature length is out or even in the works.
Does anybody have a example video instead of thousands words because I quite can't imagine what is he talking about
That is very expensive. Offices all around the country with personnel. We are going to have to fund them instead of gripe about them to get that to happen.
Projects get funding just like at any other public-funded science institutions: with a lot of scrutiny and advocacy, if you think these 153'000 CHF ($178'000):

https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/kt-fund/projects/novel...

...is too much money, then I'm glad: you probably don't have cancer!
What Kind of Pencil Do You Use? [pdf]
Antarctica Turn Green
Tax, recording of births and deaths, court appearances, product information, delivery of goods and services in the event of payment for said goods and services, driver education...
I dunno, magically fabricating a part is fundamentally different than magically deciding where and when to do so.

AI can magically decide where to put small pieces of code. Its not a leap to imagine that it will later be good at knowing where to put large pieces of code.

I don't think it'll get there any time soon, but the boundary is less crisp than your metaphor makes it.
Let's do a simple calculation that seeks to explain why Arabian men might have up to 4 wives.

Assume: in ancient Arabia, life was very harsh; tribes survived by raiding each other; 100% of adult men would go on a raid; women do not fight; fighting was brutal and merciless; casualties were high; no male prisoners were taken; wounded were killed; then ...

The first raid is inconclusive and 20% of men die on both sides. Now there are 100:80 women to men.

The second raid is also inconclusive, with the same casualties. The ratio is now 100:64.

The third raid is a rout, a total victory. The victors again lose 20%, but all the losing tribe's men are killed, and all their women are taken.

The victors now have more territory, more camels, more date palms and more wells.

The female to male ratio is 100+100:51

Of course, you can reduce the casualty rate and increase the number of raids, but something like that could be quite close to historical reality.
> Possibly only for MIDI format sound files.

A quick look at the website or wikipedia article would have immediately told you that this is completely wrong. Besides, "MIDI format sound file" is an oxymoron: you either have a MIDI file or a sound file.
What's the difference what tool is used to police speech? I fail to see any difference in goodness between this and any conceivable alternative..
It's not politicians and media being embroiled in scandal that is surprising. It's that they still have their jobs. Politicians used to resign after scandal and reporters got fired. Now they get promoted
AI still has some problems
Adapted from a recent post on social media:

Sitting in my lounge in <European Country>, and I ask Siri to turn off the dining room light. She responds, from the HomePod in front of me, that this is done.

The dining room light is not off.

I repeat the instruction. It claims the light is off. It is not.

Finally, I open the home app and press the button. The light goes off.

Then I get a text from my friend, 2000km away in <Town in England>: Is someone trying to do something with dining room lights?

Yeah ... the AI revolution will not happen soon, because to call AI thick as pig 5#17 is to be insulting to pig 5#17.
Ask HN: Is it acceptable to refuse to answer a question in a tech interview?
Maybe the question sounds suspiciously useful to the company?
Microsoft’s decisions on windows will always be very funny. Push a gloriously designed tablet UI onto everybody, face backlash because nobody was buying windows tablets so it was tacky on desktop, come out with good windows tablets finally (or hybrid ones) but change the UI to a compromise that neither desktop or tablet users enjoy.
Ask HN: How did you improve your ability to do deep work?
I'm a HN lurker, twitter addict, insta reel addict etc. etc. (On a new account because my old one is connected to my IRL identity)

I used to do many hours of work a day, and I am not able to do that anymore. I can do max an hour when before I used to do four or five without any issues. This has happened in the last two years when due to lifestyle changes (more commute time, old job where I had a lot of free time to see my phone) that I have spent a lot of time. Now with a new job, I have noticed that I'm always reaching for my phone after facing any roadblocks, and just not able to maintain concentration for a long time like I used to.

People who were in this situation what have you done? I have quit twitter/X, deleted instagram from my phone and blocked both using cold turkey on my laptop. Are there any other ways?
I think LLM technology, not necessarily all of CNN, has plateaued. We've used up all the human discourse, so there's nothing to train it on.

It's like fossil fuels. They took billions of years to create and centuries to consume. We can't just create more.

Another problem is that the data sets are becoming contaminated, creating a reinforcement cycle that makes LLMs trained on more recent data worse.

My thoughts are that it won't get any better with this method of just brute-forcing data into a model like everyone's been doing. There needs to be some significant scientific innovations. But all anybody is doing is throwing money at copying the major players and applying some distinguishing flavor.
The 5th circuit's loose attitude about deception is why all Elon's Xs live in Texas, or will soon.

It's not trivial. "Mere puffery" has netted Tesla about $1B in FSD revenue.
> a human brain definitely counts as "general intelligence", that implemented in silicon is enough to get basically all the things promised by AGI: if that's done at the 20 watts per brain that biology manages, then all of humanity can be simulated within the power envelope of the USA electrical grid… three times over.

So far the only thing that has been proven is we can get low entropy from all the low entropy we've published on the internet. Will it get to a point where models can give us more low entropy than what is present in the training data? Categorically: no.
Dinosaurs have been a mozilla thing since before Firefox and Chromium existed, the whole brand was build around a dinosaur before Firefox.
Godot is doing fine. Most of the community is on their side, and they've gotten donations and support in solidarity for their stance. Development continues unabated.

Meanwhile the only thing Redot has accomplished to date is an angy logo.

Something tells me those "actual devs" weren't contributing anything of value, if at all.
Well they should've picked a more "global" target then, not people who can get them caught.
A bubble doesn't necessarily imply no underlying worth. The dot-com bubble hit legendary proportions, and the same underlying technology (the Internet) now underpins the whole civilization. There is clearly something there, but a bubble has inflated the expectations beyond reason, and the deflation will not be kind on any player still left playing (in the sense of AI winter), not even the actually-valuable companies that found profitable niches.
It is and has been for a while, but most of the more flashy and exciting developments in ML and AI don't have very much applicability to LHC event processing. To be able to state any kind of finding about some aspect of physics based on the scattering of particles in the accelerator and their decays in the detector, you need to take the background of all events and make multivariate discriminants on the data in order to enrich your signal as much as possible while throwing as little as possible away. This requires you to have a rigorous and verifiable statistical "paper trail" from start to finish, so you can say with confidence intervals how much signal and background you ought to have, vs how much you measure in your data after processing it. An overly broad black box doesn't really work for this kind of introspection.
Here's a fun one I just made for you. Slightly inspired by OP https://claude.site/artifacts/698c26f4-2f60-428b-8ae0-ac7a29... Took about 15mins of prompting and iteration. Need to press start audio and then drag your mouse around.

The prompting is more interesting than the end result though, in my opinion.