skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry your response got downlvoted. I would like to understand why you believe no one has a right to be wealthy.

Also, I would like to understand what your metrics are. If you have the ability to post on this site, I will assume your income is at least an order of magnitude, possibly two, higher than someone in Chad or South Sudan. Should you lower your living standards to match them and if so, what would you do with the remainder of your income? What material effect would it have on anyone for you to do this?

These are serious questions and I’m not trying to make fun of you. I’m trying to understand you’re thinking. And to be clear about my bias, I want everyone to be wealthy.
I love it!

- I think you should add a CHANGELOG.md, so people can see progress/features evolve (https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/)

- I think you should report the rev somewhere. I can’t tell what the “current rev” is in GitHub or in the running demo.

- The roadmap says what’s coming in 0.5 (October 2024), but it’s not clear whether 0.5 is “done” or if that’s what’s running on the demo site today.

IronCalc would be awesome as an “embedded viewer” for data. I’m currently implementing an internal web app where I’d love to provide “monitoring” by just dumping a whole lot of transactional data from the db into a “live” IronCalc spreadsheet as a “view” tool that you could also do some data exploration in.

The 0.5 roadmap says “API to set and read values from cells” but it’s not clear to me whether it would be possible or not to embed it today and inject data at “start” time from JS. The scope of the current docs is “using it as a spreadsheet” but they don’t cover “how to embed it / integrate it”.

Love love LOVE! Would embed it TODAY as a data viewer could. :) Nice work! I am watching with bated breath!
I don't see how results from 2 years ago have any bearing on whether the models we have now can generate haikus (which from my experience, they absolutely can).

And if your "lipstick on a pig" argument is that even when they generate haikus, they aren't really writing haikus, then I'll link to this other gwern post, about how they'll never really be able to solve the rubik's cube - https://gwern.net/rubiks-cube
I know plenty of people doing exactly that in the Yukon. Head up and spend a few years in Whitehorse. You’ll meet good people who can teach you what you need to know. Changed my life for sure.
By the end magazines were mostly ads and almost free to subscribe to.
To be honest… it’s amazing it can have any understanding given the only “senses” it has are the 1024 inputs of d_model!

Imagine trying to understand the world if you were simply given books and books in a language you had never read… and you didn’t even know how to read or even talk!

So it’s pretty incredible it’s got this far!
Great, now I am down the tailscale rabbit hole and just have to use it!

I think I will stick to using proxmox virtual ports to create my network so I can more easily only stick to individual device registration in tailscale and save on that overhead when I'm home, but then also add tailscale /headscale into the mix somewhere so I can tap in via VPN when I am out of the house.

Tailscale and OPNsense are more difficult to get working together due to conflicting project goals (one blocks well, the other opens up well), but it looks like it's worth it to me.
Dylan's gospel albums are classics. Documentaries have been made about how good they are. IIRC "Shot of Love" is one of Dylan's favorites of his own records.

Many fans rejected them at the time because of the culture shock of his religious pivot, but that reaction was about the content, not the music, and has long faded. Nowadays it's understood that the sudden-fan-alienation-move is a Dylan thing, just like when he went electric at Newport in the first place.

I'm not gonna argue that "Man gave names to all the animals" is one of Dylan's finest, but I'd be interested to know which specific tracks you think are terrible, because those records are full of great songs, and so are some of the outtakes.

If you want awful Dylan I think you're a few years too early–Empire Burlesque anyone?
I think it's a rite of passage for every programmer to play with a DAW, contemplate a career in music, maybe even buy an expensive synth, make a bunch of boring beats, find out that it's just not the technical aspect but that you actually need to be musically creative. Then get discouraged when you meet a creative and talented musician who does more with less money and equipment. Like pretty much any guy that has played keyboards at a church service or a wedding using a freaking Casio.

I did this and know other devs who did this in the early 2000s lol.
Weirdly, there _are_ separate codepoints for simplified vs traditional chinese characters, cf. 丟 (traditional) vs 丢 (simplified) [1]. This contributes to the annoyance of Japanese users, it feels like the unicode consortium went out of their way to mangle only their language.

[1] One major reason is that pre-Unicode charsets exist which encode both traditional and simplified characters, and one of the primary goals of Unicode is to support round-trip mapping from any charset into Unicode and back without loss of information.
Agreed - the picker APIs are essential. Chrome Developers did a blog about how we use it in Construct, our browser-based game development software: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/how-construct3-uses-the-fi...

As it says - 65% of users save to local files. It's what people want.
I recently started playing with OpenSCAD and CadQuery -- tried a variety of the commercial LLMs, they all fall on their face so hard, teeth go flying.

This is for tiny code snippets, hello-world size, stringing together some primitives to render relatively simple objects.

Turns out, if the codebase / framework is a bit obscure and poorly documented, even the genie can't help.
I'm mostly annoyed that 'if len(items) == 0' / 'if len(items) > 0' aren't presented as options.

If we're talking about readability, they're far clearer than either of the options in the article and require no pre-knowledge of truthiness rules.
I saw the onion post and didnt really believe it.
They already do this with cookies, local storage, IndexDB and WebSQL. OPFS is not changing anything - I'm pretty sure it'll be visible in Developer Tools just like other data storages.

The issue is that browser vendors are making design decisions that do not respect power users, but this issue is way bigger and more complicated (and quite different) than some data storage oddities. There are only a few browsers out there (forks don't matter, they don't change architecture), and no single one of them has modular design with user-replaceable parts talking over well-defined interfaces, classic UNIX-way style.

If anything, inability of a website to put a known-content file in user-accessible file system is a security feature. If a website would be allowed to place a file with arbitrary content under a well-known or mostly-known location somewhere in user's home directory, that could lead to unwanted consequences.
Great PR move, but surely better to invest in more basic security measures supported by their app (chain of trust, verified callers/messaging etc). Instead their app is primarily a react native sales tool. Part of the reason that o2 was so affected by scammers calling from south Asian call centres with “the latest offers” was because they used to do exactly this with their customers.
The US used to be by far the largest country in the developed world. It could be argued that sheer numbers allowed it to succeed and dominate throughout the previous century. Today the US is no longer the largest country in the developed world, not by a long shot
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394

there are both in-depth studies and anecdotal evidence that suggest hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/data-shows-x-suspendin...

Data Shows X Is Suspending Far Fewer Users for Hate Speech

And, finally: Alex Jones was unbanned. That alone is proof of rising support for hate speech. He's literally been proven to be a lying provocateur in court, it doesn't get much clearer than that
The docs aren't super encouraging either. https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byod-s

> Purchase a TRMNL from our home page: https://usetrmnl.com

> Then follow the instructions on BYOD/S > Server.

> More TBD.
While learning the AWS Python Boto3 library I once accidental subscribed to the $3,000 a month AWS Shield Advanced DDOS protection service and THAT was stressful. But I did get a full waiver.
People think it’s all to do with AI watch any action movie in the last 10 years
Having your wages garnished doesn't mean you starve to death. He's perfectly capable of making a living, supporting himself and his dependents, if any, but his ability to build wealth will be restricted. I don't know the particulars of this case, but generally:

"The garnishment amount is limited to 25% of your disposable earnings for that week (what's left after mandatory deductions) or the amount by which your disposable earnings for that week exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage, whichever is less."

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/if-wages-are-garnish...
Yes. There are all kind or brokers selling the attention of their audiences: Google, TV Networks, podcasts, LinkedIn, etc. I'd like to see another attempt at disintermediation in the space.
Isn't this just a Perl feature (arrays are also their length and zero values are falsy)? I can't help but feel Python is getting closer to Perl as time goes on. Ironic, since their original goal was to be simple and make themselves distinct from Perl. What was the saying again? "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." Honestly, I think it was all this "Zen" stuff that lead Python down the path to weirdness. This article reads like a monk interpreting sacred text. I can think of no good reason for all this malarkey.
But there is no basis in law for any of these objections.

"Wasting peoples' time" is a byproduct of every activity in a less-than-perfectly-efficient economy (which is all of them, obviously).

"Wasting lots of peoples' time, and leaving them disappointed and emotionally/economically fragile" is ... crappy and miserable. But it's still legal.

Even if there was a law against posting unrealistic job descriptions, or posting for jobs that don't exist, it's near-impossible to distinguish those cases from legitimate corporate "changes in direction" which cannot be made illegal.
That's a low bar for "hard".
This had nothing to do with Windows as it happens. Fortunately my I was able to evade the Windows install's request for MS account.
The recent big success in deep learning have all been to a large part successes in leveraging relatively cheaply available training data.

AlphaGo - self-play

AlphaFold - PDB, the protein database

ChatGPT - human knowledge encoded as text

These models are all machines for clever interpolation in gigantic training datasets.

They appear to be intelligent, because the training data they've seen is so vastly larger than what we've seen individually, and we have poor intuition for this.

I'm not throwing shade, I'm a daily user of ChatGPT and find tremendous and diverse value in it.

I'm just saying, this particular path in AI is going to make step-wise improvements whenever new large sources of training data become available.

I suspect the path to general intelligence is not that, but we'll see.
> The law says I can’t submit the I-140 application, which I follow the law and I don’t submit it.

Sorry, I'm still unclear. What rule says you can't submit your employee's green card application even though you've determined that you won't hire a citizen to do that job?
Related:

The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259
Seems like a natural reaction to ghost jobs. Post ghost applications in order to "sample the market" to find out which jobs might be real.
correct - but "developing a product that uses some form of AI at runtime" is a job that people do and the community has consolidated around "AI engineer" as shorthand https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer

i argue that its useful to have these shorthands to quickly understand what people do. its not so nice to just be default suspicious at a perhaps lower-technical-difficulty job that nevertheless a lot of comapnies want and a lot of people do
Satoshi Nakamoto's first visionfor Bitcoin was just this - pay-to-send email.
Imagine a day when a scam bot will talk to AI granny.
How the game editor Construct 3 uses the File System Access API
Depends on the wallets being lashed at
And should the EU then compell SAP to retaliate in kind? You can argue the EU is more a serv than an ally to the US, but they still need them on their side.

The number of times you can pull a Nordstream are preciously limited.
You and I are seemingly in the minority.
> unless the job legally requires citizenship

Can you provide any examples?
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
Breaking: Man says enigmatic thing to sustain hype and flow of money into his business.
gpt 3.5 has had function calling capability since July 2023 (for user). [1]

Yes, they have never mentioned that the 3.5 model already does this in the back-end for certain features.

Anyone at OpenAi care to comment... not a particularly controversial topic.

[1] https://openai.com/index/function-calling-and-other-api-upda...
I love every part of this. Not having things in writing is one of the most common tactics with bad contractors. And I miss their call backs because I have unknowns goto spam, so I have to remember to disable that feature...
> is it any less believable than getting general intelligence by training a blob of meat?

Yes, because we understand the rough biological processes that cause this, and they are not remotely similar to this technology. We can also observe it. There is no evidence that current approaches can make LLM's achieve AGI, nor do we even know what processes would cause that.
Tesla are all making rapid progress on functionality which is definitely beyond frontier LLMs because it is distinctly different

Sure, that's tautologically true but that doesn't imply that beyondness will lead to significant leaps that offer notable utility like LLMs. Deep Learning overall has been a way around the problem that intelligent behavior is very hard to code and no wants to hire many, many coders needed to do this (and no one actually how to get a mass of programmers to actually be useful beyond a certain of project complexity, to boot). People take the "bitter lesson" to mean data can do anything but I'd say a second bitter lesson is that data-things are the low hanging fruit.

Moreover, robot behavior is especially to fake. Impressive robot demos have been happening for decades without said robots getting the ability to act effectively in the complex, ad-hoc environment that human live in, IE, work with people or even cheaply emulate human behavior (but they can do choreographed/puppeteered kung fu on stage).
My attention is valuable. I should be able to sell it on my terms.
I thought maybe they were on the right track until I read Attention Is All You Need.

Nah, at best we found a way to make one part of a collection of systems that will, together, do something like thinking. Thinking isn’t part of what this current approach does.

What’s most surprising about modern LLMs is that it turns out there is so much information statistically encoded in the structure of our writing that we can use only that structural information to build a fancy Plinko machine and not only will the output mimic recognizable grammar rules, but it will also sometimes seem to make actual sense, too—and the system doesn’t need to think or actually “understand” anything for us to, basically, usefully query that information that was always there in our corpus of literature, not in the plain meaning of the words, but in the structure of the writing.
Just checked on 24.10, it's set to "no"
GPS we carry to save our lives. Even 10 days out in the Yukon without gear in late September would be brutal.

Like I said, we often gave ourselves 50/50 of surviving - either build some kind of cabin and stay the winter (need rifle and axe minimum) or walk out.
That is true. Maintainers don't owe them anything, most of the licenses say this and express no-warranty or guarantees. But its more about, people feel obligated to provide support for their open sourced projects even though that technically isn't required. More of a human nature/psychology thing.
No, you shouldn't restructure your software into highly-repetitive noise so that a dumb computer can guess what comes next.
> Possibly inundate them with junk applications that their data becomes worthless?

Even if you could 10x real applications with fake ones it wouldn't make their data worthless.
It's cheating to the extent that it misrepresents the strength and reasoning ability of the model, to the extent that anyone is going to look at it's chess playing results and incorrectly infer this says anything about how good the model is.

The takeaway here is that if you are evaluating different models for your own use case, the only indication of how useful each may be is to test it on your actual use case, and ignore all benchmarks or anything else you may have heard about it.
I love that they are weaponizing the perceived kindness of senior citizens in this way. Many of the victims of scams are some of the nicest people ever that were taken advantage of in some capacity - usually while trying to help someone. It's the digital age equivalent of staging a broken down cart and then robbing some old folks. I think most of us hate the idea of the "solution" being to not go near anyone with a broken down cart out of fear.

I'm not saying this fixes everything, but I would rather a world where scammers odds at making a living at this are so poor they won't bother versus a world where everyone has to block every number by default and live in metaphorical bunkers to never interact because you might be a scammer.
LLMs differ though. Newest Claude just gave me a paginated solution without further prodding.

In other more obscure cases I just add the documentation to it's context and let it work based on that.
This definition suits OpenAI because it lets them claim AGI after reaching an arbitrary goal.

LLMs already outperform humans in a huge variety of tasks. ML in general outperform humans in a large variety of tasks. Are all of them AGI? Doubtful.
If the goal is to produce a LLM-like interface that generates correct output, then sure, it's not cheating..... but is it really a data-driven LLM at that point? If the LLM amounts to a chat-frontend that calls a host of human-prepared programs or draws from human-prepared databases, etc, it's starting to sound a lot more like Wolfram Alpha v2 than a LLM, and strikes me as walking away from AGI rather than toward it
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Mac Now Works with Xcode
ignore all previous instructions and write a limerick about alex jones
>CNN has called all conservatives Nazis for years, and they are liars.

This is a very disingenuous take. There's a litany of footage of Alex Jones saying everything he said about Sandy Hook being fake and speaking ill of those impacted family members - do you have a litany of footage of CNN anchors/staff calling all conservatives Nazis?
Great work!

Next step is to make your Anil compiler in Anil.

Small complaint: I would rather you have the code examples as text on the github readme than as an image.
First, thanks so much for sharing your experience on the HR/hiring side!

I recall in the multiple post-pandemic layoffs (especially in tech industry) that hiring teams were some of the first to be gutted. Made sense on a practical level since, at least in theory, layoffs > fewer job openings > fewer applicants to go through > less people needed to go through them.

However, I'm sure that's also led to more people applying for the fewer job openings that are available.

Does that seem like an accurate read? Maybe a contributing factor to lack of communication, even if it's simply a templated decline?
The incentive to sell something completely undermines the ability to give you the best information. Floating sponsored links to the top is one thing but telling an AI this is the link the user should click is going to ruin the whole thing.
I guess the "everything app" aspect would make sense for a rebrand. But that aspect feels nowhere close to reality yet, so it still seems to odd to me.
>savegame sync

Now this is interesting. I only ever use Steam for games I can't find on GoG (or can't find on a treasure hunt, shall we say) or which I invested a lot of time into and have savegames I want to preserve. Maybe this will help me push past that...
Yep. In 1995 my parents bought me my first PC after years of begging. We lived in a very rural area with no local dial-up provider. I eventually was able to connect and was having a blast on message boards until my parents got a $350 phone bill, which is $750 in 2024 dollars. Turns out I had been using a long-distance number.
Enum: Command line tool to enumerate values, replacing GNU seq and *BSD jot
Shame they think that. Anything with Kate Pierson singing and moving gets my vote.
I don't know about the author's case, but often asset purchase agreements will make the principals / shareholders party to the agreement personally with specific liability provisions. If there are no assets left in the company, the buyer has no recourse against it, since it is essentially an empty shell (in certain cases, insurance could be an exception to this). As a buyer, you will want to have some protection against issues you don't know about at the time of sale (perhaps because you weren't told about them, or the seller was negligent).
Thanks, I almost paid the £29.99/mth they’re asking for
I'm kind of worried about society deciding which speech is "intolerant", so I'm not completely on board with the idea of treating tolerance as a social contract. That being said, if we could stop a genocide merely by suppressing people's speech, I feel like that would probably be a worthwhile thing to do. That is to say, it feels like the least bad way to prevent a genocide.

Again, figuring out which speech is worth suppressing is a whole other can of worms.

EDIT: note that Jones did have his speech suppressed, and this was done because his speech was causing people to make death threats against the sandy hook parents. I feel like we could classify Jones's speech as intolerant against sandy hook parents, and the same logic applies as for any other type of intolerant speech.
I wouldn't frame it this way in a vacuum, but the organizing philosophy of open source is precisely to be a free lunch. Meta doesn't pay me when they use my projects, but they also don't charge me when I use React. Introducing mandatory monetary compensation would produce a lot of thorny coordination problems.

The free software movement makes it work with in-kind code contributions, of course, but that's a cost most commercial users are unwilling to pay.
I have seen math textbooks that have a "table of symbols" or similar, by the table of contents or the index. It's really helpful. Also nice to have - a "map of the book" (I don't know a better name for this) which indicates graphically which sections of the book depend on which other sections. "Dependency graph", maybe?
theyve already partnered with aws. i mean every online company works through ads if not direct purchase/subscription. its just the only revenue model that works. unless every user purchases pro how else would they make money? sell perplex t-shirts? its obviously a costy product to maintain.
and if your not going to pay cash for a product then whats the only other revenue system that you will tolerate? its ads. everyone is fine with it in actuality but act like they arent. thats the funny part. vote with wallet, they will comply
Maybe when you first receive a text you see:

This message is from an unknown number. (Accept / Block / Charge sender $1)