skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “All our countries share similar aspirations, values and a vision of a new democratic world order”

In this post-truth world tyrants now call themselves formers of a new democratic world order. SMH.
Well, this just opened up a new phase in the captcha wars.
I really, really like this new product/API offering. Still crashes quite a bit for me and obviously makes mistakes, but shows what's possible.

For the folks who are more savvy on the Docker / Linux front...

1. Did Anthropic have to write its own "control" for the mouse and keyboard? I've tried using `xdotool` and related things in the past and they were very unreliable.

2. I don't want to dismiss the power and innovation going into this model, but...

(a) Why didn't Adept or someone else focused on RPA build this?

(b) How much of this is standard image recognition and fine-tuning a vision model to a screen, versus something more fundamental?
He is by no means god father of AI.
Some Mac Genius commented up thread claiming that because someone's grandson secretly installed Boot Camp and converted her MacBook to Windows (with dumb consequences), nobody should be able to make significant choices about how to use ~their~ I mean Apple's, computers.
At the end of the day, the fundamental dynamic here is human creativity. We are taking a tool, the LLM, and stretching it to its limit. That’s great, but that doesn’t mean we are close to AGI. It means we are AGI.
I worked for a start up that was contracted by a German doctor. We built some software for automating identifying lung lesions: a viewer app for each xray, scientific trials software, and an LLM to process data from the trials software. The result was pretty cool and probably would have moved it forward. We even held a few trials to gather data from many doctors in China. Then the doctor didn’t pay his bills and the project was shut down.

This wouldn’t have put radiologists out of work but would have made the process to diagnose much quicker maybe more affordable.
Getting Started with Rust: A Beginner's Guide to Start Learning Rust
Relativity is so hard to wrap you head around.
It is amazing how many people code without thinking about the speed of light.
The funny think, this youtube video it is on YouTube which is a social media platform
> Just about anyone working in AI right now is building a castle in someone else's kingdom.

Things are innovating so fast that even if you've convinced yourself that you own the kingdom, it seems like you're one research paper or Nvidia iteration away from having to start over.
Cool, we got the “if you don’t have anything to hide” argument out of the way early.

Now we can discuss the actual privacy implications of this news
AI Adoption in the Public Sector [pdf]
> I was disappointed to hear it may have frustrated a usually silent group.

This group isn't usually silent (far from it), they're just not usually your users.

If you're building a web app a la Notion, Figma, Google Docs, Slack, or anything similar: just ignore the "the web should just be documents that strictly use the platform" complaints. Ensure you build in the required accessibility hooks (since those don't come natively to most custom work), but your users will thank you for accommodating their specific needs better than the platform does.

If you're building a web page that mostly presents information... yeah, maybe listen to the people here.

The main thing you're seeing here is that there's a subset of developers who haven't ever really liked the idea that the web became the primary means of deploying applications.
> The biggest perpetrators were energy companies like Shell, Exxon Mobil, and Chevron, which were able to enjoy massive profits last year as demand moved away from Russian oil and gas.

> Food producers including Kraft Heinz realized their own profit surges. The war in Ukraine rocked global grain supplies and fertilizer prices, significantly increasing the cost of food, which remains sticky.

Funny, in both cases external causes made the global prices go up, so specific companies used the opportunity to increase their prices because there was less competition on the market.
I’m curious what’s exactly UN troops doing there?

And why they keep closing blind eye on the largest terrorist army in the world violating UN’s own agreements?

Also I wonder who benefits from them intentionally not moving out of harms ways and preventing israel from doing _their_ job of eliminating terrorists?

Genuine questions, not taking any sides.
To be fair, I would personally welcome for these Foundations to move to more neutral countries. RISC V foundation moved to Switzerland because of the shenanigans concerning China.
I would trust the Swiss government more to keep the spirit of Open Source/Free Software up than the US one.

Because the code is thought still owned by the devs, I do not know how much difference that would make.
Perhaps I'm being charitable but I read OP's comment in the light of what you described with context length. Batching, context length, and attention implementation vary these numbers wildly. I can fit a 6bit quant Mistral Small (22b) on a 3090 with ~10-12k context, but Qwen2VL (7b, well 8.3b if you include vision encoder) also maxes out my 3090 VRAM with an 8bit quant and ~16k context.

I do think it would be good to include some info. on "what we expect to be common deployment scenarios, and here's some sample VRAM values".

Tangentially, whenever these models get released with fine-tuning scripts (FFT and Lora) I've yet to find a model that provides accurate information on the actual amount of VRAM required to train the model. Often times it's always 8x80GB for FFT, even for a 7B model, but you can tweak the batch sizes and DeepSpeed config. to drop that down to 4x80GB, then with some tricks (8bit Adam, Activation Checkpointing), drop it down to 2x80GB.
> That's a hefty assumption, especially if you're including accuracy.

That's exactly what the comment is saying. People see AI do 80% of a task and assume development speed will follow a linear trend and the last 20% will get done relatively quickly. The reality is the last 20% is hard-to-impossible. Prime example is self-driving vehicles, which have been 80% done and 5 years away for the past 15 years. (It actually looks further than 5 years away now that we know throwing more training data at the problem doesn't fix it.)
Meh, if they were really doing favors for governments they'd do something to nerf VPN software for places like China. I'm pretty sure this was created to serve Apple's intere$t$ first and foremost
The audited part is going to be tough to meet because it's a very niche skill people generally won't do constantly for free.
OP is being facetious, the "last 20%" is a common saying implying that you've back-loaded the hard part of a task.
Calendar slot negotiations.
Acoustic stimulation enhances plant growth-promoting fungi activity
It is. But the article doesn't talk about hijacking its behaviour.
> Computer-driven live music performance was very much a thing long before 1991. The 'computers' in question were Analog sequencers using control voltages, and things like the LinnDrum providing click tracks to trigger sync. Roland expanded on this with the release of their TR-808 drum machine and sequencer in 1980, utilising a precursor to MIDI known colloquially as DIN-Sync or Sync24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_sync

On one level, I'm absolutely onboard with this perspective. On the other hand I think this is bending the definition a little bit too far. What we're specifically discussing here is using general purpose portable computers as part of a live performance.

The Fairlight CMI falls into an interesting middle ground because, at least in theory, you could probably have created and run general purpose software applications on it. Would have made a pretty wild (and ludicrously overpriced) word processor or spreadsheet station. But, of course, the software it ran was all geared towards music production, and is a very direct forerunner of the kinds of music production software that would become increasingly available for general purpose computers.

Definitely a wild and innovative time.
Thanks for the links. Unfortunately, the telegraph is not a serious source of information (visit the frontpage anytime for proof). The other video is even worse.

I personally wait until CNN publishes such information. It is the only Israel biased news source I deem above fakenews.
>This is not an open market like taxis vs Uber

Interesting choice of example. In most places taxis are/weren't an "open market" either but had various laws preventing newcomers from providing taxi rides. In many places what Uber did was illegal. Various locales either banned Uber, changed the laws to allow them, or simply didn't enforce the laws that made them illegal.
I don’t have to imagine, I do it every day. I sell my services for the most amount of money I think I can get.

Of course, if I am selling services or goods with lots of repeat business, it might behoove me to not piss off the customers and hence incentivize me to keep my price lower (which is still optimizing for the most money I think I can get, just over the long term rather than short term). If I am selling land or a business, then I am maximizing for that specific transaction, even if my profit margin is 100,000%.

When you get a job offer, and you respond back with a request for an additional $20k per year or whatever, that is doing the same thing.

> make a fair profit

What is fair is an opinion. For people living in huts, a 1,000 sq ft Soviet style apartment bloc with plumbing is unfair. And for people living in Soviet style apartment blocs, a modern 5 over 1 apartment building is unfair. And then you might find a detached single family home unfair. And then you might find a 3k sq ft home unfair.

And so on and so forth.
Zappa even took his Synclavier on the road in 1988. You can hear it all over the albums from that tour. It was almost certainly the most expanded (and expensive) unit on the planet. By 1991 it had an astounding 768MB of RAM.

Speaking of Synclavier, Kraftwerk's crashed live in 1991... https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kraftwerk/1991/philipshalle-d...
The idea is to keep it in C++ and do new development in an hypothetical Safe C++. That would ideally be significantly simpler than interface with rust or rewrite.

There is of course the "small" matter that Safe C++ doesn't exist yet, but Google analysis showing that requiring only new code to be safe is good enough, is a strong reason for developing a Safe C++.
Like it or not (I don't!), primaries are internal functions of membership organizations. The law has found this again and again. In these contests, it is the party delegates who are given the right to choose the party nominee.
Interesting that this is the top comment at the time I'm reading this, while the article isn't at all about hijacking CTRL+F.
No I was comparing the deliberate targeting of civilians.
My Macbook Pro has a power key: in the top right, next to F12. I'm generally not a fan of them either although, in this case, it doesn't really cause me any problems.
Ask HN: Do you think AI avatars can substitute sales representatives?
Hey everyone! I think you've seen multiple startups creating virtual talking AI avatars. Do you think they can be used as sales team?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!
We moved to passbolt and we are happy with it.
This is not putting people out of a job, this is changing their jobs. As always, workforce will adapt. Just like all previous tech, this is trying to improve efficiency. LLM can't do "anything" on a computer that's a misunderstanding of the tech but they can already interface with screen/keyboard.

You overestimate the innovations abilities of big tech companies. They'll buy a lot of companies designing robots that are putting nuts and bolts together, or diagnostics, that's a great opportunity.
> Government intervention would only be useful in that case if the government had some non-public information on what the supply and demand for doctors will be by the end of the training program. But if they had that information they could just publish it instead of trying to prohibit people from going to medical school, and people could decide for themselves if they still want to go given what the job market is expected to look like by the end of the training program.

To the extent that the government has some non-public information, they cannot always reveal it directly. Sometimes this backfires, e.g. the UK politicians blaming the EU for all the things the UK politicians wanted to do anyway but needed a scapegoat for.

Most of the people beginning this training have only just reached adulthood, and have no reason to be politically sophisticated. I sure wasn't, at that age.

Even if the government was completely open and honest, market are not efficient unless P == NP.

> More to the point, nobody actually knows this exactly, not even the government, but given the choice between too many doctors and not enough, the first one is obviously better. If you have too many doctors then some of them can become researchers etc. If you don't have enough, people die.

Yes, when resources are effectively unbounded. Even more than that, I would even argue that (owing to what I've heard on the grapevine in the UK about overtime) training more doctors and nurses would lower the cost to the taxpayer.

But resources are not unbounded, and governments have other priorities besides this. What else can be bought for the cost of a doctor? Sometimes those other things are also measured in lives, other times they're measured in the economic cost that could pay for two doctors.
Thanks...this seems to be caused by the JS injected by CloudFlare. I will ask them to fix their code. You are able to see the game anyway, right?
> I predict most AI developers will be out of a job soon.

Once AI developers will be out of a job everyone will be out of every job. If not then the AI developers still have a job to work on those jobs which hasn't been automated yet.

> Just about anyone working in AI right now is building a castle in someone else's kingdom.

This doesn't ring true to me. When do you feel we should circle back to this prediction? Ten years? Fifteen?

Can you formulate your thesis in a form we can verify in the future? (long bets style perhaps)
I think this is the one benefit of recent "AI" advancements, it accelerates the downfall with even cheaper garbage. death to the internet, long live the internet
We are in the self-referential whirlpool of AI complaints at this point; interesting. Soon AI will be provably Turing complete at preemptively ruining particular ways of life.

Upshot of the article: we don't have enough radiologists because Geoffrey Hinton said in 2011 they wouldn't be needed.

Hinton have had an impact on people choosing radiology, I don't really know. But, in the US, demographers and old-guard types in the medical profession made a REALLY bad call much more than ten years ago, and cut the number of med school students they were calling for, and we all are living with the consequences.

If you're going to complain about Hinton you should at least normalize for the lack of doctors in other fields that he didn't call out as well. Boomers are consuming a LOTT of medical, and in the US we have knock-on effects from the opioid crisis. It was not a good idea to cut the physician recruitment and enrollment when they did, whether they did for principled reasons (We only need so many and this way we'll have the best), or for ... less principled ones (A legion of cheap young doctors competing for our jobs doesn't sound that great to the physician's board at this research hospital).
Programmatically what can a developer do with this?

I see that there is a method and an object to see if its enabled or not. And there is a way to get the whole fragment which can be parsed.

Are there methods to see whether some text in the fragment was actually highlighted or not? Are there methods to programmatically select text?

Could there be a way to, for example, draw a rectangle around the highlighted section, to get the coordinates of the text, to read out the selected text, to store what words people select and link to etc

Maybe it's an external link about headline news and the news title got changed by the editor. Maybe the developer may want to change the selection to the edited title so the user isn't surprised. Maybe its a multi lingual blog post and the user links using another language... etc etc
>> He does this to justify that we can define a norm over C

Yeah, but computing z* really involves taking apart the complex number and fiddling with the real coefficient of the imaginary part. zz* looks like an operation in C, but it's kind of not.
DIYOAJFTSOI, dude! (Don't invent your own acronyms just for the sake of it)
I think you’re trying too hard to squash a nuanced post into some fan binary where you’re either for or against Apple, starting with making a strong claim which the person you’re replying to never made.
Oh, it's not obvious at all from the UI, but the left-most column is a link to the video of the run: https://www.speedrun.com/2048/runs/zxwdol8m
Keep pushing your line, can’t wait for new packet of sanctions.
We might be past peak "bulk" social media, where people would be public, more or less, with their posts/videos. Now everything is closing and many people have "group chats" as they realize that free-for-all chatting/posting doesn't work.
Point #1 was my biggest turn off. Numbers 2 and 3 are good points too.
Only if you're unwilling to understand why. I'm neutral so far and the BBC article conveniently doesn't give any details on why the offer was rejected. It's perfect for painting the people on strike in a bad light.
It's not hard to find people who are germ theory truthers. They have alternative "explanations" for why nobody gets polio or smallpox anymore.
I don't use LLMs that often, but I recently used Claude Sonnet and was more impressed than I was with Chat GPT for similar AWS CDK questions.

In your opinion is Claude in the lead now? Or is it still really just dependent on what use case/question you are trying to solve?
Can you identify the password managers that do not implement end-to-end encryption so I can avoid them forever?
"thought experiments" like this are worse than useless, it's a way for people on the internet to discuss any hypothetical topic without actually knowing anything. You take some contrarian view and say "yes if I constructed the whole world to back into my preconceived view it could be true". It's unfalsifiable. TFA has actual facts.
And only in the title. It doesn't mention the keyboard shortcut once in the body because it's not about keyboard shortcuts, it's about "linking directly to web page content".

In addition to unrelated gripes, it's generally considered bad practice to comment only based on the title.
I'm just on the edge of understanding this but if I'm visualizing this right you're talking about a point source at the center of a sphere and a bitmap indicating where all the vectors intersect the surface. But that would mean the lengths would all be the same.

Isn't it the lengths/distances to neighbors that is the main information being stored in a vector db? Or is it just that what you're talking about only concerns the angles so the lengths are not part of the discussion?

I'm a dev but still have a lot to learn about ML :)
So you don’t know that Russians assassinated one of their own on UK soil?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
Older adults keep their cool: age may moderate emotional responses to heat
I see some speculation around the addition of the wings but does anyone know when the seagull was added to the head?
Unfortunately, not supported away from chromium derived browsers ATM: https://caniuse.com/document-policy (though given current market shares that sill means the majority of your user base is likely to have support)
>1) Being thruthful about the non-discovery, thereby suiciding their own careers

By writing this it seems like you are under the impression that no science happened until they discovered or "non-discovered" the particle. But that is of course wrong.
A chatbot just killed a teen.

While I don't think AI will be be banned wholesale from, say, interstate commerce despite it really should until the industry self regulates the moment it starts killing people in medicine there it will be banned. And it's obvious it'll kill people. For eg in radiology it'll add its bullshit to images which is just not there. And so forth. It's just a question of how and when , not if.

No dystopian novel has predicted how fucking mundane it'll be when AI begins to kill people.
It's fair to call him the "godfather of deep learning", and many people seem to confuse the two, ignoring that AI research has been going on since the 1950s.
> Radiology won't be among the first applications to be automated

Radiology and a lot of other clinical labwork is heavily outsourced already, and has been for decades [0][1].

Much of the analysis and diagnosis is already done by doctors in India and Pakistan before being returned to the hospitals in the West.

In fact, this is how Apollo Group and Fortis Health (two of India and Asia's largest health groups) expanded rapidly in the 2000s.

It's the back office teleradiology firms that are the target customers for Radiology Agents, and in some cases are funding or acquiring startups in the space already.

This has been an ongoing saga for over a decade now.

[0] - https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(04)00466-1/fulltext

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmace...
> ... auto-generated code (that many people would avoid in principle anyway)

Auto generated code is 100% enough, sometimes.
Not if you source your training data from reality.

Are you treating "the internet" as "reality" with this line of questions?

The internet is the map, don't mistake the map for the territory — it's fine as a bootstrap but not the final result, just like it's OK for a human to research a topic by reading on Wikipedia but not to use it as the only source.
Additionally I still cannot understand why they didn't make iterators safe from the very beginning. In the alias examples some iterators must alias and some not. With safe iterators the checks would be trivial, as just the base pointers need to be compared. This could be done even at compile-time, when all iterators bases are known at compile-time.

Their argument then was that iterators are just simple pointers, not a struct of two values base + cur. You don't want to pass two values in two registers, or even on the stack. Ok, but then call them iterators, call them mere pointers.
With safe iterators, you could even add the end or size, and don't need to pass begin() and end() to a function to iterate over a container or range. Same for ranges.

A iterator should have just have been a range (with a base), so all checks could be done safely, the API would look sane, and the calls could be optimized for some values to be known at compile-time. Now we have the unsafe iterators, with the aliasing mess, plus ranges, which are still unsafe and ill-designed. Thanksfully I'm not in the library working group, because I would have had heart attacks long time ago over their incompetence.

My CTL (the STL in C) uses safe iterators, and is still comparable in performance and size to C++ containers. Wrong aliasing and API usage is detected, in many cases also at compile-time.
didn't see anyone actually going into production with any of this stuff, man, this hype cycle just continues.
Some sites do: The Wayback Machine changes the url if you change the selection.