skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this had come up on HN (or I had had that idea myself) some years ago when my mother suffered from that same cruel condition, for the last four years of her life. With her body, all her older memories and her considerable intelligence largely intact, she had multiple moments of clarity every single day, in which she fully realized the terrible and hopeless situation she was in. But of course, within seconds this thought and any decisions she might have derived from it dissolved in the black hole of her defective short-term memory. So she would not even have had the ability to take her own life to end this if she wished so.
My brother and I tried many things to improve her life somewhat, only very few of those were actually a bit succesful. Two of them were digital gadgets, which we selected to provide some benefit without or at least with just very simple interactions: The best one was an LCD "picture frame" the only feature of which was to show an infinite loop of family photos stored on its SD card - she came to really like it and have it switched on quite consistently. The second one was an MP3 speaker which had a few hours of her favorite music on an SD card as well, and which could be used largely like a radio, just by pressing its play/stop button and volume buttons. This latter one she managed to enjoy at least from time to time.
Best wishes to the author and his mom, and everyone in a similar situation.
That one of the floppy disks I had for installing VB4 got corrupted due to my idiocy was what got me into Linux and Java, perl, and PHP at the time. Still nothing as good as original VB for GUI stuff.
Exactly, I think the current crop of models is capable of solving a lot of non-first-world problems. Many of them don't need full AGI to solve, especially if we start thinking outside Silicon Valley.
Wow, you're the most passionate hater of ARC that I've seen. Your negativity seems laughably overblown to me.

Are there benchmarks that you prefer?
I simply don’t answer calls that aren’t in my contacts.
So random to read this here today. I was a student there at the time and worked with those folks. Never thought I'd hear about Squeak again. Was an honor meeting Dan Ingalls!
Not allowing embedded appearance-restricting stuff (such as image or stylesheets) is, in hindsight, what makes gopher great.

And, conversely, the popular WWW crap.
That's extremely fast on Firefox and Chrome while it comes to a crawl on Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for some reason.

EDIT: Found it. "Enhance your security on the web" option in Edge makes it significantly slower. Disabling the option fixes the performance issues.
The task plugin for Obsidian allows tracking time to completion iirc. If you're billing hourly for clients or trying to use it as a stand-in for a stop-watch it could be useful. I personally don't use it though
Multimodal embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
I think you two are talking about different things and are both correct. Facebook indeed had a login page back then, but you could use direct links to read public posts. Today it's roughly the same, but when you go to a direct link it shows a "Login Wall" that pesters you to sign up.
The lump of labor fallacy is usually covered in “basic economics” classes. There are multiplier effects from clustering of certain types of skilled workers. This increases overall demand and thus overall compensation for everyone in the market.

This is why ending the H1B program like posters propose here would be profoundly stupid - if companies can’t staff their teams here, they will staff them elsewhere, and either stop hiring here or close up shop entirely. This will lower salaries and increase unemployment in the relevant fields.

You already see this in microcosm due to real estate costs serving as a brake on internal migration, many companies have moved all net new hiring out of the Bay Area.

Now admit too many foreign workers at too low wages and you will hit diminishing returns, but we are way short of that point, especially if we can manage to curb abuses of the existing program.
Add in posting all the details online so the cops know exactly where and when to bust the rave.
How can you go from 60s psychedelic rock to 80s coporate rock? It's a pretty bizarre transformation. (Well, the explanation is very likely "money".)
I genuinely thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered that one.
> The art you like is merely the propaganda which you do not question.

I like this thought because it can be directly refuted by Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex — a highly popular piece of art that does nothing but present the audience with questions to ponder.
Faking Shaders III: Tixyland
I’ve been using it the past few days. It’s both magical and terrible. They do their own terminal management so you’re fighting env issues that make no sense. It somehow spawns a terminal that can’t find my installed version of node, so then it asks me to brew install one, but will this now screw up my system or no? It’s an uncanny valley moment where it’s close, but also not really there. Hopefully the team can quickly improve this UX and use the native terminal functionality as the foundation of how they interact with the system.
The Department of Government Efficiency is hiring
Not that convoluted really
Open source fights back: 'We won't get patent-trolled again'
Isn’t this just the expected delay from the respin of Blackwell?
Iomega zip and the 1Gb jazz drive I got for my birthday.

Downloaded vb3 from an AOL warez chat room, received hundreds of emails each with a fraction of the zip.
Yup, I use the triple-tap for smart invert.

That way when a website blinds me at night because they didn't implement dark mode, I do a quick triple-tap and magic-presto, poor man's dark mode! And after I close it, another triple-tap to go back to normal.

I'm really just waiting for the OS and browser to do "fake dark mode" whenever it detects something with a white/light background. Seems like it's about time.
I've wanted to mess around with those intel GPUs but haven't found a great source that deals with individuals/small orders.
what's the standard now for a not close election? dems have to always win the popular vote now?

4 swing states were decided by a 1% difference. this election was close.
You don’t value polling, ok. No use continuing to go back and forth about it. Instead, maybe you’ll feel like responding to one of the other commenters that replied to you about prediction markets…
> There's a lot of weird revisionism when it comes to judging 1980s music (eg [1]).

Disclaimer, I grew up in the 90s and became an adult around 9/11.

All 80s pop music is terrible with the exception of Thriller. There was an over reliance on cheesy synths and reverbed drum machines, (and cocaine) and almost none of it is redeemable 30 years later. To me, it all sounds dated and bad. If you grew up in the 80s it probably sounds good.

Pop producers and technology finally reached a point in the 90s where electronic synths and drum machines sound cohesive and more natural.
Previous docker-compose was a separate program, written in Python if I remember correctly, people usually preferred to them as v1. Later docker incorporated it into the docker binary itself as a subcommand so that’s v2
So if you squint, chess can be considered a formal system. Let’s plug ZFC or PA into gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct along with an interesting theorem and see what happens, no?
Don't seed banks need regular refreshing?
Isn't that Tenacious D's whole premise?
Jezebel wrote an article in 2013 about feeding the trolls until the explode [1]. I disagree today, and it seems quaint. IRL, professional trolls, the Proud Boys, come to my town (Portland) to stir up shit every few years. Do we ignore them? Or do we subscribe to "broken window theory": if they get an inch they'll take a mile? I have a tough time with this, both responses seem correct and wrong at the same time, but there's no way to tell which is working.

[1] https://www.jezebel.com/dont-ignore-the-trolls-feed-them-unt...
> That's not how it's being received

If you don't need the feature, and don't like the feature, and you have to dig through accessibility settings to enable it, then it's a strong indication that the feature probably wasn't built for you

If you're curious about who this was built for, look up iPhone Switch Control [1] and you'll see how people with mobility issues otherwise use a touchscreen

[1](https://youtu.be/HBo2BZ-Zzwg?t=119)
This just tells me you have never worked on anything difficult or something you are passionate in your job
> I would rather a world where scammers odds at making a living at this are so poor they won't bother

Then what's stopping the scammers from finding another "evil" job that makes money? You have to remember that humans tend to not enjoy accomplishing thievery and the scammers most often do this out of necessity. Of course there are big call center operators who truly are terrible people, but this conclusion is true for the bulk of their workforce.
80% of republicans believe 2020 was stolen.
It's an awesomely inspirational vision, but within 2 minutes of trying it out I found it's lacking a lot of little features (at least on the web build)... e.g:

Ampersands in button labels don't create an accelerator (e.g. &Go does not underline the G).

In true VB6 you could plop down a Label control and just start typing to change it's contents. Here you have to focus on the input field first (and you can't just click the "Caption" heading, you have to click within the input column). To maintain fidelity, one of the rows in the Properties grid should always be highlighted when a control is selected on the GUI designer (for Labels this defaulted to Caption, and I believe for controls without a specified default it defaulted to Name).

When switching to a different control with a property matching the name of the currently selected one, VB6 would maintain the selection on that property. This made it quick and easy to update for example the Tag property a bunch of controls in sequence with minimal clicks.

Obviously the menus for Debugging, Save, Help, Add-ins, etc. are missing implementation.

A working Build button that spits out an "exectuable" that runs in the browser would be killer!

My nitpicks are born out of love ;-).
How often did you check?
Taste moved towards elaborate, deeply styled designs that communicated branding and away from familiar widgets that didn't call attention to themselves as all.

It turned out that focusing on a splashy and idiosyncratic brand not only excited prospective new users but inhibited them from going elsewhere since it made transitions more awkward and frustrating. That made more money, more easily, than focusing on user efficiency and feature distinctions as had been the trend before then.

The technology then trailed behind this fashion and invested its complexity budget in style customizability, animations and type rendering enhancements, etc and gave up on trying to encourage a standard design language that publishers and users could both build fluency in.
Yeah, GDPR is tedious. Not expensive nor even onerous.
You may be interested in the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973).
I think self-consistency is a critical feature of LLMs or any AI that's currently missing. It's one of the core attributes of truth [1], in addition to the order and relationship of statements corresponding to the order and relationship of things in the world. I wonder if some kind of hierarchical language diffusion model would be a way to implement this -- where text is not produced sequentially, but instead hierarchically, with self-consistency checks at each level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_theory_of_truth
I tend to avoid stuff by journalists and prefer stuff by researchers writing about their own field for this reason. Journalists often seek narrarive.

Researchers can still be wrong, but usually less belligerently so. The academic publication process and the science it prodices, for all its flaws, generally forces researchers towards more nuanced and continent positions.
Define “real world” and how it differs from actual data used to compute the prevailing wage.
Having seen bit rot in action, I totally buy this explanation. Some PhD did this on their spare time and then left and when it didn't work in the gpt-4.0 training branch, it just got commented out by someone else and then forgotten.
It's not about maps, it's about operational design domain.

The requirements for a self-driving vehicle on highways is very different from urban and and very different from sub-urban. Multiply that with how different countries and cities have very different looking roads, e.g. narrow windy roads in London vs wide straight roads in Phoenix.

I agree it's not going to be an location-by-location rollout (other than for regulatory reasons). But I do think Tesla will find that their product "just works" in some places, and doesn't work at all in others - at least for a time. I don't think Tesla would sit on their hands and say "it's not ready yet" until they'd cracked everything. If it's safe to take a nap on Highways and not safe in an urban area then I think they'll just start selling that.
Not sure if it’s still the case but extraordinary ability green cards used to be surprisingly easy to get for software engineers! Get your name on a patent (not as hard as you think, companies love adding to their IP portfolio), get accepted to do a couple of conference talks, and you’re most of the way there. Or so I was told a few years ago by someone trying this route.
You write these once (or zero time) by using a scaffolding template, a generator, or snippets.
Anything goes as long as it is useful for the user.

Funny example: If they chose not to accept your spying cookies you get to set a cookie to store that choice.
DarkReader works pretty well for my needs. It has an iOS Safari Extension.

[1] https://darkreader.org/
I understand this perspective but a BEAM thread can die and respawn in microseconds but this solution involves booting a whole Linux kernel. The cost of the crash domain matters. Similarly, thread-per-request webservers are a somewhat reasonable architecture on unix but awful on Windows. Why? Windows processes are more expensive to spawn and destroy than unix ones.
I can't speak to Interface Builder, but in VB 6 Hooking resize was SO easy, and the math you do inside it was so easy, too. It took maybe 5 minutes to do almost any layout.

It was frankly, a shock to see how easy this model was and then see the monstrosity that came to pass for HTML and CSS positioning. Baffling.

Everything you just listed was easy in VB 6 IMHO (well, touch wasn't a thing exactly).
> Also the specific chess notation being prompted actually matters

Couldn't this be evidence that it is using an engine? Maybe if you use the wrong notation it relies on the ANN rather than calling to the engine.

Likewise:

- The sensitivity to game history is interesting, but is it actually true that other chess engines only look at current board state? Regardless, maybe it's not an existing chess engine! I would think OpenAI has some custom chess engine built as a side project, PoC, etc. In particular this engine might be neural and trained on actual games rather than board positions, which could explain dependency on past moves. Note that the engine is not actually very good. Does AlphaZero depend on move history? (Genuine question, I am not sure. But it does seem likely.)

- I think the illegal moves can be explained similarly to why gpt-o1 sometimes screws up easy computations despite having access to Python: an LLM having access to a tool does not guarantee it always uses that tool.

I realize there are holes in the argument, but I genuinely don't think these holes are as big as the "why is gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct so much better at chess than gpt-4?"
They are almost certainly tokenized in most LLM multi-modal models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Multimoda...
The NBER study you linked seems to say that WFH saves workers 2 hours per week not that it increases their at-work productivity. It goes on to say that they claim to work more but it doesn’t say they actually get more done as a result.
Having an obviously AI-generated header image on your blog post was cool two years ago, but now it is passé and marks you as behind the trends.

This is true only because publicly-accessible models have been severely nerfed (out of sheer panic, one assumes), making their output immediately recognizable and instantly clichéd.

Dall-E 2, for instance, was much better when it first came out, compared to the current incarnation that has obviously been tweaked to discourage generating anything that resembles contemporary artists' output, and to render everything else in annoying telltale shades of orange and blue.

Eventually better models will appear, or be leaked, and then you won't be able to tell if a given image was generated by AI or not.
I would think this would use the attention detection stuff that’s part of Face ID and lights your face with infrared instead of just using the standard selfie camera.
You're absolutely right.

You can also even just observe the following litmus test of democratic legitimacy: what percentage of people have even heard of Ursula von der Leyen (or most of her predecessors) before her appointment to the most powerful position in the EU? Contrast that with their country's president or prime minister and you will see why one is democratically legitimate and the other is not.
Phil Collins and Sting both went from hard-rocking tunes to elevator music with very little warning. It’s hard to believe Sting went from The Police to the sublime Bring On The Night to Fields of Gold.
> The H1B laws are harder to enforce than most laws -- or so it would seem to me

Most laws are like this. Do you know criminality laws require intent and yet we do fine without mind reading devices.

Most H1Bs are in software and wages in software have been rising along with number of people in software engineering over the long term.
> What does "for that analysis"

To understand how customer's shop on my website. Heatmaps, view port, device type, screen resolution, frequency of browsing, where their mouse hovers the most, page dwell time, etc.

These are impossible tasks for most website operators to do themselves.

> For this you do need consent, if you transfer PII. If you don't want a banner you can replace it with a simple checkbox during the checkout process. Not only less hostile, but also more transparent than a banner.

Or... you can just ignore the EU because the EU doesn't matter. You know, like I originally asserted?

> If you don't want a banner you can replace it with a simple checkbox during the checkout process

This is the sort of mindset that crafted this poorly designed regulation in the first place. Most website operators are not going to willingly add a barrier at the final step of a conversion.

If you are going to use my property and resources - it's my rules or don't come. Pretty simple...
Yeah, the expectation for the immediate answer is definitely results, especially for the later stages. Another possible improvement: every 2 steps, show the current board state and repeat the moves still to be processed, before analysing the final position.
Ironically, you're attacking someone who is neither a Trump apologist nor voter. There are more than 2 uniform perspectives in the global stage of ideas. I imagine it's easier to argue with an imaginary Trump supporter (like you spent most of your comment doing) than engage civilly with the questions I posed you. Maybe you could use a break from the comments sections...
The company that dominates the browser market also makes billions off of tracking people. That might be part of the problem.
100%. Also The really difficult work is usually a lot more than 40-50 hours a week
In the process of developing my tool, there are only 5 models (the first 5 in my models dropdown list) that I would use as a writing aide. If you used any other model, it really is a crapshoot with how bad they can be.
Data privacy is an instructive example of what happens in a more free-for-all situation. If there were stringent protections in place, the data broker industry wouldn't exist.
Seriously stop. He’s a decorated combat veteran with 20 years in the military and two Ivy League degrees.
Gopher was a much more highly structured format. Even if they'd included inline images, they didn't really have a day 0 formatting or layout language that allowed for nesting. There were other locked in choices too, like using a 8 bit value for file type.
That just makes it more likely to sample less likely outcomes from the same distribution. No real novelty.
Tbh while and after watching the video, I wasn't sure if the whole thing isn't just a parody of AI companies.
vi was originally the visual-by-default run mode of ed. And EDLIN on MS-DOS (and maybe CP/M too? don't remember) was based on ed too. That's why EDLIN and vi have similar command sets.
Presumably the money would go to the telecom company, I think. Still very good for trolls though.
I assume LLMs will be fairly average at chess for the same reason it cant count Rs in Strawberry - it's reflecting the training set and not using any underlying logic? Granted my understanding of LLMs is not very sophisticated, but I would be surprised if the Reward Models used were able to distinguish high quality moves vs subpar moves...
> lawfare is the most effective tool

Wow, I didn't expect you to openly admit you're in favor of lawfare, especially based on wealth discrimination; but after reading that stark confession in the first sentence it saved me some time, because I didn't keep reading past that.
Yes, this was Mummenschanz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTYScKgEus
Yeah we refuse the ethics-twisting of suits; that much is certain.
I miss the autistic reporter. That guy was my favorite.
I thought so too, but even more rejections coming through today.

Looking for any intermediate
/senior role in any stack.

I’m based in NZ so there’s barely any jobs
Lawyers file cases they can win to establish legal precedent.

The 1st amendment doesn't protect all forms of speech. Shouting Fire in a theater, sedition, inciting mobs, entrapment, accessory to a crime (by encouraging someone to do it). None of these are covered in the 1st Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
10 PRINT “WE REMEMBER KURTZ”
20 GOTO 10
I remember one of the early "breakthroughs" for LLMs in chess was that if it could actually play legal moves(!) In all of these games are the models always playing legal moves? I don't think the article says. The fact that an LLM can even reliably play legal moves, 20+ moves into a chess game is somewhat remarkable. It needs to have an accurate representation of the board state even though it was only trained on next token prediction.
Funnily enough, that’s what the UNIX™ certification is, in some—much too limited for your purposes—sense :) See also Raymond Chen’s story of buying one of everything[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34...
> I suspect the coming administration would find a way to do the same thing even if it was in Germany or France. I suspect if the extreme right parties there ever win, they will find a way to achieve this too.

Possibly. They’d need majority control of the legislature (not merely the sort of plurality control that seems within the bounds of possibility on some countries) and control of the courts. They’d also potentially need to be able to change the constitution; in most countries the Lisbon treaty is either implicitly or explicitly above local law. They’d need to be ready to face sanctions from the EU. I think Germany in particular also has some regulation of the civil service actually in the constitution. But ultimately, yeah, if the far right successfully took over the government (rather than just leading a coalition or something) they could probably do this; the Nazis did, after all.
Link to the product without the skimresources.com/fave.co tracking: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-ex-docking-station