skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, Alex Jones tells overt lies -- actual, he knew the truth to be otherwise lies, which resulted in people harassing and even attempting to kill the parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings. But this is okay with you because free speech trumps all other considerations? No consequences allowed for opening your mouth, especially instigating violence?

Nobody can make you feel empathy, nor punish you for lacking it. But I heartily disagree with your attempt to elevate it to something noble. It is not a superpower that makes you the only rational person in the room. Perhaps this is your point -- it is mental illness.
The same thing happened to my mom in her 50s after 6 hour quadruple bypass surgery. They basically kept her awake for two days doing tests every hour after her surgery. She eventually started hallucinating from lack of sleep. It just seems so inhumane.
> An LLM hardly seems like something that will lead to self-awareness.

Interesting essay enumerating reasons you may be correct: https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...
Bento Design for Websites: Benefits, Intuitiveness, and Examples
Khronos SYCL Being Updated to Increase Appeal for HPC and Scientific Computing
I'm not an apple fan (as I type on a mac that I am forced to use) but I gotta applaud their push for power efficiency. NVIDIA actually -does- have a few cards they make that really improve power efficiency but then they generally hamstring them with a lack of memory. NVIDIA is really good at making their high-end cards the only viable choice but I think that will backfire on them as people like me, that value quiet, cool and efficient over 25% faster inference start taking any viable alternative that comes out.
> the goal being to find a novel way to get neural networks to generalize from a few samples

Remove "neural networks". Most ARC competitors aren't using NNs or even machine learning. I'm fairly sure NNs aren't needed here.

> why is the MindsAI solution accepted?

I hope you're not serious. They obviously haven't broken any rule.

ARC is a benchmark. The point of a benchmark is to compare differing approaches. It's not rigged.
I think that McCartney’s performance of Wonderful Christmastime is absolutely dreadful.

The song itself is not bad. This can be demonstrated by listening to Tuxedo cover it (it’s on YouTube)
Aside from your personal attack, this is besides the point, as this is about a desktop product not a server product, which is the important difference that had to be noted in response to the post I was replying to.

Please refrain from personal attacks on this forum, it's one of the last nice places on the Internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the idea of a text first structured hyper text protocol interests you, consider taking a look at the Gemini protocol, a modern equivalent. https://geminiprotocol.net/
Rosetta Code is a great resource and uses the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
The idea that "We Built This City" is somehow worse than all the garbage pop music hits that have come out in the past 20 years is absurd. Sure, "We Built This City" is pretty cheesy, and certainly not the best example of 80s rock, but at least it's listenable, unlike the overly-compressed and Autotuned crap that modern pop is.
> ~/.cargo/

This reminds me...

STOP putting your shitty dot-directories full of a mix of config, cache and data in my god damned home directory.

Concerned that not doing this will break things? Just check if you've dumped your crap in there already and if not then put it in the right places.

Worried about confusing existing users migrating to other machines? Document the change.

Still worried? How about this: I'll put a file called opt-into-xdg-base-directory-specification inside ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config} and if you find that file you can rest assured I won't be confused.

Thanks in advance!
Unless there is an apparent idiotic move than can lead to an 'island of intelligence'
I find them amazing, it's just that printf is unreasonably good given how cheap it is.

If I had the symbols, metadata, powerful debugger engine and a polished UI, I'll take that over printf everyday, but in the average situation printf is just too strong when fighting in mud.
Ok, yes. There are other pieces of code on the internet that use a for loop or an if statement.

By that logic what you wrote was also composed that way. After all, you’ve used all words that have been used before! I bet even phrases like “that is extremely similar” and “generated from a corpus” and “unambiguously false”.

Again, I really find it hard to believe that anyone could make an argument like the one you’re making who has actually used these tools in their work for hundreds of hours, vs. for a couple minutes here or there with made up problems.
There is no security implication for running /bin/bash in a service that provides you a sandbox environment to run arbitrary shell commands in.

It is like reporting that AWS lambda is susceptible to arbitrary code execution.
Most of the comments here are going to predictably call out that "We Built This City" is not the worst song of all time and offer up an example that's ostensibly worse.

But I think a very important caveat missing from the article and all of the comments here is that Blender/VH1 never said it was the worse song of all time. They said it was the most "awesomely bad" song of all time. To which I 100% agree with. Its not worst songs, its good catchy songs that are also objectively bad. And I think "awesomely bad" is just a great way to title it. We can all agree "We Built This City" is a catchy ear worm you can rock out to in the car, it lifts my spirits whenever it gets played. It stands on the pantheon of terrible but awesome hits like "Ice Ice Baby", "She Bangs", and the Ghostbusters theme song.

Nobody is saying you shouldn't listen to "We Built This City". Its a guilty pleasure. Crank that mother up on your car ride home alone and rock the fuck out.
This!

I want my kids to do the same but are really unclear as to how this is done today without BASIC. I am not psyched about tools that help you merely build platformers with WYSIWYG.

Any ideas?
You have your spellchecker set wrong: you need to set it to US English, not UK English.
I’m not OP, but my worry is about the false positives. I have real inbound calls and emails getting detected as spam all the time. Luckily my VoIP provider has a spam box I can look in, but at this point I just have to go through them every so often to make sure I’m not missing anything important.

If the telecoms can perfectly predict the telemarketers, then I’d love it. But in practice how often is this going to block people I know from calling me? Probably not never, and then we just have to give up on phones as a reliable method of communication.
Awesome! Yeah, I had an OpenSource Hardware project blow up on a tech site overnight before I was ready to launch and it was really weird navigating the next ~two months before it was actually ready to ship.

I'm excited to follow along with your progress, and to embed it into something fun when it's ready for embedding :)

Thanks for adding the changelog today! That will make it super easy for everyone to follow the progress.

Cheers!
There are loads of examples of this, e.g. ∀ and ∃, but iota is a really poor choice.
How does the tapping happen by accident?
It is amazing how well iOS supports these accessibility features but doesn't consider blocking video autoplay on websites, something that is incredibly distracting for people with ADHD.
He wasn’t, but the court of public opinion has a much lower barrier of evidence than criminal court.
You don't go abroad and "import talent", but rather hire the intern that just graduated or have someone apply with a high recommendation from a high performer and now your in an H1B situation. They aren't posting the job on physical boards in india hoping to snag someone to come to the US (At least for FAANG).
Sure, but how do you train a smarter model that can use tools, without first having a less smart model that can use tools? This is just part of the progress. I don't think anyone claims this is the endgame.
Right wing media has been making people feel bad for 25 years straight now. They radicalized an entire generation and made them fear brown people and Democrats. Despite the fact none of it's reality-based. It's not working out too great for the country!

Elon Musk continuously and publicly falling for the dumbest shit imaginable really should be the final nail in the coffin of his reputation.
Sorry, I was 'aware' that quotes worked as a negation operator.
Felt like I was watching Silicon Valley.
Oh most (if not all) of the stuff I linked was made with TrenchBroom[0], but yeah, regardless haha

[0] https://trenchbroom.github.io/
But humans aren’t either. We have to install programs in people for even basic mathematical and analytical tasks. This takes about 12 years, and is pretty ineffective.
That's got nothing on "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats. Ugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM4okRvCg2g
I thought the same thing until this month. Look at my other comment. About to possibly be made redundant which seemed impossible to me a year ago.
I don't think it's perfect, but I truly don't think it's bad. I had a few experiences that I didn't like and so I walked away. And I don't think there's a reasonable way to regulate what makes SWE interviews bad.
Python’s “truthiness” is a cutesy feature that is just an excuse for bugs in your code. It’s opaque/ too magic, exhibits poor readability and endless confusion.

Indeed. Relying on truthiness has always felt very un-Pythonic to me, not least because it contradicts several principles in the Zen of Python:

• Explicit is better than implicit.

• Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.

• There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it.
Indeed, if thinking about AI polluting the data and replacing humans. However, it also seems likely in the near term that training will go to the source because of this, that increasingly humans will directly train AI's, as the robotics and self driving car systems are doing, instead of training off the indirect data people create (watching someone paint rather than scanning paintings). So in essence we'll be training our replacements to take our tasks/jobs. Small tasks at first, but increasing in complexity over time. Someday no one may know how to drive a car anymore (or be allowed to for safety). Later on no one may know how to write computer code (or be allowed to for security reasons). Learning in each area mastered by AI will stop and never progress further, unless AI can truly become creative. Or perhaps (fewer and fewer) people will only work on new problems that require creativity. There are long term risks to humanities adaptability in this scenario. People would probably take those risks for the short term gains.
And unlike modern pop (not sure about Taylor Swift), it doesn't use Autotune or have extreme compression.
> why are so many experts so worried about AGI?

FYI, I find this line of reasoning to be unconvincing both logically and by counter-example ("why are so many experts so worried about the Y2K bug?")

Personally, I don't find AI foom or AI doom predictions to be probable but I do think there are more convincing arguments for your position than you're making here.
What's your point? Your comment doesn't really address anything relevant regarding the US's goals and positioning to achieve them.

For instance, if the US wants to to secure its networks and be able to respond effectively to hacking threats from its geopolitical rivals, it may have to invest proportionally more of its human resources in infosec to remain competitive. I see no good reason why it can't do that.

Also, noting that one reason China may be ahead in infosec is because it may have many more people working in that area was to rebut claims that "China is ahead in infosec" was "fearmongering."

In short, China having a larger population may be one reason why they're ahead, but that why is not very relevant to decisions about what to do about it.
Indeed. As concerning as this appointment is the US should worry more about where Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock are appointed.
Is "memetic" a word that is widely known, or is it like a shibboleth for a specific subgroup of very online libertarian types?
All they are asking for is super high IQ and a more than 80 hours per week commitment.
I'm not quite so pessimistic: just as often, we have concepts splitting in twain to show new distinctions.

Btw, the article gets it right and starts with 'Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer.'

Headlines are seldom decided by the writers.
I worked for a company that was prototyping a ground-up rewrite of their flagship product in VB, while a team of Visual C++ programmers was building the "real" version. It was basically an industry-specific CRUD application.

I probably don't even need to finish this story, because you know what happened: We knocked out a fully functional application in VB while the C++ programmers struggled to replicate it with a less-rich environment. Back then VC++ lacked numerous controls that were available in VB.

The app connected to the database with ODBC and it was easy. Management saw that and said WTF are we building this other thing for, and asked the C++ to join the VB effort and finish the product. They turned their noses up at it, and were all summarily fired. I was put in charge of design and continued working with a team of contractors to finish the app.

I was pretty young and learned a couple of obvious lessons there.

And oh yeah, I actually started my professional programming career writing complicated macros in Word. If I ever meet the guy who approved WordBasic, I will buy him a drink. A word processor with a freaking GUI builder in it! I wrote a macro that could parse and rewrite thousands of SQL modules when a bunch of table structures changed.

I lived in Word. What a great product it was, and what a sorry state it's in now.
If I recall, that question required naming the value that would be produced, not just articulating some speculation about what it might be.

I was taken aback, so I went to the interviewer: how am I supposed to answer this, is it a trick question about undefined behavior? The compiler is allowed to just flag that with a diagnostic and even terminate after that.

He was like, what do you mean, undefined? It's just straightforward: what is the value? He had no idea what undefined means, or what is a language standard.
The Network Serves Us
This is not what society needed. This is literally a South Park plotline. But maybe stuff like this will just slowly cause dating apps to fade into irrelevance and force people to find better ways to meet others. So maybe there's an upside?
Embedded is only on one of the graphs, qq
A lot of what's in that diagram is product management. That's good. Without strong product management you don't really know what you want to create, so no amount of excellence in project management is going to help make the thing you should have wanted.

You might take a look at Real Options Analysis as inspiration for how to integrate product management and product investment decisions with implementation choices along the way to a product.
Sora was just one of the many…
90s toolkits had "layout managers" to avoid hardcoding widget locations and sizes. Might need to extend a feature or two but probably could have been done without starting from scratch.
You're right; its easy enough with Cloudflare Workers. They have a sample that is pretty decent:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/basic-aut...
What's wrong with Ghostbusters? It was a perfect song to go with the movie.

On its own, it's probably not something I'd want to listen to much, but while watching the movie, it was fantastic, just like the rest of the movie.

It's much like any soundtrack music. The music by Howard Shore on Lord of the Rings probably isn't something you want to listen to by itself while you're jogging or whatever, but in the movie it's a perfect complement.
Granite Gold Sealer

I wasn't able to find the exact chemical, but the ingredients list from their website lists: "Fluorinated Polymer" which is another word for PFAS.

https://granitegoldse1.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/...
For new mothers, they want to check that they're still alive and haven't started silently bleeding out, in which case they soon won't be alive.
In Minnesota, the Office of the Revisor of Statutes does this. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/. I have to imagine most states have a similar function. The point being that it is a public agency and its work product should be accessible to the public.
> How exactly is another company selling a similar product at a much lower price point good for the company?

It's good for the economy. And it's good for other companies, that you haven't mentioned. There's more than two companies in the market.
It's pretty convoluted, requires a ton of steps, mind-reading, and odd sequencing.*

If you share every prior, and aren't particularly concerned with being disciplined in treating conversation as proposing a logical argument (I'm not myself, people find it offputting), it probably wouldn't seem at all convoluted.

* layer chess into gpt-3.5-instruct only, but not chatgpt, not GPT-4, to defeat the naysayers when GPT-4 comes out? shrugs if the issues with that are unclear, I can lay it out more

** fwiw, at the time, pre-chatgpt, before the hype, there wasn't a huge focus on chess, nor a ton of naysayers to defeat. it would have been bizarre to put this much energy into it, modulo the scatter-brained thinking in *
We went full circle - I remember using python wrapper to run Rust on AWS Lambda.
> what were they working on ??

Moderation?
On one hand, assuming no embellishments are made: Clearly a triumph for the simplicity and effectiveness of VB.

On the other hand: A pretty good illustration of why every modern app is now a webview.
One best practice I'm aware of is to make sure no emergency plans rely on something as fragile as a tech platform, as the communication networks that such things depend on are likely to be down.
Indeed 'dictatorial power' was not quite what I meant - I did not mean that Trump or Biden demanded a certain outcome for example,

I mean that the system prosecutes these kinds of cases seemingly quite unfairly, as with Assange, or some of the maneuvers against Russell Brand, and that the actions just so happen to mesh with the interests of those in power.

People can claim that everything is OK because, court of law, etc, but to me the system is clearly not delivering correct answers.
Show HN: ChessPredict – Real-Time Move Analysis and Learning Tool for Chess.com
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I'm still of the opinion that smartphones should have page-up/page-down buttons, so that you can scroll easily with minimal finger movements while holding the phone one-handed.
The more obvious alternative is that CoT is making up for the deficiencies in tokenization, which I believe is the case.
More than graphics card one needed an an ip address for the graphical web.
There is a pretty well known essay by Joel Spolsky (which is now 24 years old!) titled "Things You Should Never Do" where he talks about the error of doing a rewrite: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... . While I don't necessarily agree with all of his positions here, and given the way most software is architected and deployed these days some of this advice is just obsolete (e.g. relatively little software is complete, client-side binaries where his advice is more relevant), I think he makes some fantastic points. This part is particularly aligned with what you are saying:

> Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.

> Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The programmer might have spent a couple of days reproducing the bug in the lab and fixing it. If it’s like a lot of bugs, the fix might be one line of code, or it might even be a couple of characters, but a lot of work and time went into those two characters.

> When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work.
Thanks, FF fork here with ubo, most lists, and medium settings enabled ... somehow this is not the case for me. I'm not being served a page with any overlays / modals, just this redirect to login page.

I know exactly what you're referring to those "content hovers". Like the substack highlight, sign up overlays on immediate visit, or upsells in shopping cart flows.
Show HN: Integry App Functions – one API for agents to take action on 300 apps
Hello fellow hackers (insert gif, you know the one)

Give a prompt to our Function Prediction API; we'll predict the app and return the function and its arguments. Use our SDK and get the user to connect their account, get the user to confirm the arguments in a UI (if needed), and execute the function.

Docs: https://integry.gitbook.io/docs/functions/overview
I agree with some of the other comments here that the prompt is limiting. The model can't do any computation without emitting tokens and limiting the numbers of tokens it can emit is going to limit the skill of the model. It's surprising that any model at all is capable of performing well with this prompt in fact.
Founder here, happy to answer questions!
Anyone whose run their own business knows you're not working for yourself.
> By the same argument you could say UK or US or any other solidly democratic is not democratic, because some commission or organisation is not directly, by the people, elected.

It's a matter of degree rather than a binary. Representative democracy is a little less democratic than direct democracy. Elections every 20 years are a bit less democratic than elections every 5 years. Having the elected representatives appoint a head of state is a bit less democratic than electing one directly. The more layers of indirection you add, the more it becomes a bureaucratic oligarchy.
There's a difference between an issue being introduced and being noticed.