skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's because users actually find it easier

I have extreme doubts about that. Yes, people find these things easier when they don't understand them, but what about users who do understand? I know for a fact that when I started out programming, Scratch was very easy. But as I became better, the GUI aspects that made it simple became hindrances. I sincerely doubt there has been any research done on this at all, because it simply isn't feasible to ask someone to spend several hundred hours practising something over the course of a study.

> Now you have to look two places

Many pieces of software present more than one piece of information on the screen at once, and the only way to do this is to put that information in different locations. The idea that you need to look at both is a little silly, because you don't need to know how a document will be styled to type the text of it in.

> WYSIWYG is not preferred because it's easier to develop or maintain, it's because users actually find it easier than remembering how to invoke the exact sequence of characters in a document to get what they want

Well I am a user, and this is not true for me. My mother has always been horrible with computers, but she worked as a secretary when early document processing software came on to the scene and she managed just fine typing the commands in. "Remembering words" is not a difficult activity. You remembered many hundreds of words to write that reply and I doubt you found it challenging in the slightest. Learning words is difficult, but once you have learned them, they are easy to remember.

When I've seen professionals using software, they tend to avoid the GUI. Users remember many hundreds of key shortcuts (much harder to learn than words as they're just arbitrary letters) and do everything in their power to avoid using the GUI for anything, to the point where many people who do things such as video editing have an entire extra keyboard for entering auto-hotkey scripts. Advanced users are not only capable of learning, but actively prefer it to using a GUI.

Users who don't know the functionality of software want some simple way to have it all presented to them. But users who know what the software is capable of find this to be a drag. They already know the command they want the software to execute and so want to have the simplest possible way to communicate that desire to the program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

After nuclear war I'm going to head there.
He likely still owes them significant money, so they can keep pursuing him for that for a while. But even without his financial troubles, trying to rebuild his brand is just going to lead to endless self-debasement. James O'Keefe is still at it since Project Veritas shut down, but has little reach any more.
Ironically enough I’ve always found LLMs work best when I don’t know what I’m doing
And yet seeing the case through to the end instead of taking the first offer has seen Infowars taken from Alex Jones. I don't speak for the families, but if I were in their shoes that would be far more valuable to me than maximizing my payout.
Self-Contained Executable Programs with Deno Compile
The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002)
That's pretty hilarious. Amazing what you can do with just a well-crafted pre-recorded script.

There are some other Youtube videos where a guy writes these ChatGPT personalities, but those aren't as entertaining because the AI is basically just blurting out random thoughts rather than engaging in an actual conversation.
They seem to have the api base url hardcoded in their firmware[1]. The repo seems to have pretty clear instructions for compiling and flashing modified firmware. From there, it's just a matter of writing a decent server to implement the calls documented in BYOD/S[2] and Private API.[3]

[1]: https://github.com/usetrmnl/firmware/blob/e3db8c37990c2333ec...

[2]: https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byod-s

[3]: https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/private-api/introduction
Is this based on a study or something? I just see a graph with no references. What am I missing here?
The court system is adversarial, no doubt. It is built to be so; there's a reason what happens to a defendant is called a "trial."

But the legal defense of both Trump and Jones had every opportunity to take every rule that favors the defendant to their advantage and... They didn't. That set of 12 jurors with "pre-existing highly-biased hatred" was filtered by Jones's own representation. The evidence that Jones had evidence the rules of the Court require him to disclose that he did not disclose was revealed by his own lawyers. There are rules to this process and he either chose to ignore them or he retained incompetent representation.

Powerful men believe they don't have to play by the same rules as the rest of their fellow citizens. The system disagrees.
> I get -no exaggeration- several hundred spam mails a day

I've seen no legit spam e-mail in years, on my very old, very used, "forums and other logins I don't care about", 2005 gmail address. What provider are you using?
Strimzi is CNCF, Strimzi still has a full time team of devs in RH.
Clearly no one here has ever heard the song "Marching around the Number Wheel" by Hap Palmer. It's best on loop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75cj0FmGHM
I cannot wait for the inevitable top-down backlash banning any use of AI tools.
Standups?
How the PS5's Genuinely Clever Adaptive Triggers Work
This one, along with:

batteries, compact and capable of high load

power circuits (both in power and the size)

demand

compact electric engines capable of high torque with high load for the long enough time
InfoWars only shilled for gold sellers. Their business was entirely Vitamins/Supplement, Merch, and crazy AFAIK they never sold gold directly.
> to the same degree

You just moved the goal post. That's why I never send people like you links. No matter what links you get you'll tap dance right out of it, and pretend it's proven nothing, dispute everything, adjusting goal posts as necessary along the way. lol.
Do you really think it's feasible to maintain and execute a set of regexes for every known problem every time you need to reason about something? Welcome to the 1970s AI winter...
> I don't want to pay money & subscriptions to every site I visit because some folks don't have impulse control.

You've got it exactly backwards. The reason you don't have to pay subscriptions is because of people with poor impulse control. If ads were less effective (e.g. the low impulse control people didn't exit), more sites would require subscriptions because the ad inventory would not be able to cover costs.
Hacker News, the only place you're likely to encounter the author of one of your favorite childhood video games spitting poetry in your comments about piracy. What a good website.
> It’s exactly the sort of community which can potentially outperform whole large fields, because of the median researcher problem. On the other hand, that does not mean that those fields are going to recognize LessWrong as a thought-leader or whatever.

Oooooh, now I see what's going on here. The good ol' "the reason no one listens to us because we're too smart for them".

Unfortunately, the fact that some smart people was ignored by their peers doesn't mean that "being ignored" suddenly becomes evidence for your thoughts being "beyond the median". It could also be that it's just not that groundbreaking.

(Disclaimer: I've only read a few LessWrong articles over years and I don't have that strong opinion of their community. Mostly basing this comment on just this post.)
Absolutely poetic.

Dude tried a career in journalism.

Had a crazy theory that a school shooting was fake.

School shooting wasn't fake.

Dude doesn't say "I'm sorry, my bad, I'm retiring from journalism", but goes down fighting.

Looks good to me.
Obviously, the worst song of all time is "The Most Unwanted Song" by Dave Soldier.
I don't think this is sufficient to make a Trump vote logical - if you've paid any attention at all to how the Republicans and Democrats operate, the expectation value of a Republican presidency is much lower than a Democrat one, for most people, under any reasonable utility function.

It really is as simple: if you feel bad, vote for the other guy. (Which is also how [REDACTED BY MODERATOR] got elected)
If this is just a PR stunt, imagine what they're cooking up behind the scenes: AI reps to answer actual customer calls. No more paying a horde of $10/hr meat slaves in some call center! You know some execs creamed themselves over this already.
Curves that look exponential in virtually all cases turn out to be logarithmic.

Certain OpenAI insiders must have known this for a while, hence Ilya Sutskever's new company in Israel
Good to see it stated so clearly! I don't know if I agree that we "voluntarily" did it, it seems like more of a situation where you give people one option and say "pick". We are at fault for not saying "no", though. But otherwise, straight down the line.
> devs working on developing deep learning systems (but not genAI)

Catchy job title.
Ollama's default quantization is q4_0 which is quite bad, but you can go to ollama's model page to see all the quantizations they have available, you can do e.g. "ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q8_0" which will need ~35G + space for context
Just ignore that part then? You don't have to stop reading the rest of the (very good) article lol.
Step through debuggers and tracers are two different dimensions of debugging, and not directly comparable.
Terence Tao: A little bit of math can go a long way
> It's also usable via docker-compose

Is that "docker-compose" (with a dash) or "docker compose" (with a space)?
Sure, there's going to be a lot of automation that can be built using current GPT-4 level LLMs, even if they don't get much better from here.

However, this is better thought of as "business logic scripting/automation", not the magic employee-replacing AGI that would be the revolution some people are expecting. Maybe you can now build a slightly less shitty automated telephone response system to piss your customers off with.
Got im
Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank
"A freedom-preserving proposal for distributing wealth in a post-AI society"
Red hat consumers have been refunded? Where?
ChatGPT for macOS now works with third-party apps, including Apple's Xcode
> Question for the group here: do we honestly feel like we've exhausted the options for delivering value on top of the current generation of LLMs?

Certainly not.

But technology is all about stacks. Each layer strives to improve, right up through UX and business value. The uses for 1µm chips had not been exhausted in 1989 when the 486 shipped in 800nm. 250nm still had tons of unexplored uses when the Pentium 4 shipped on 90nm.

Talking about scaling at the the model level is like talking about transistor density for silicon: it's interesting, and relevant, and we should care... but it is not the sole determinent of what use cases can be build and what user value there is.
> Advertising is showing you products and services that exist.

If advertising actually stopped there, I would have no objection against it.
Feynman said that his students struggled with a reverse problem: how to know that "harnew", an important part in QM equations that the lecturer talks about, actually stands for hν.
To be fair, if your code is multithreaded and sensitive to pauses, it becomes harder to debug with a debugger.

Ultimately, if you have a good logging setup and kinda know where the issue is a quick log message could be faster than debugging if all you want to do is look a variable value.
No goal posts were moved - my first comment asked for the same level of proof regarding CNN's actions that we have for Jones' actions here. Perhaps it wasn't crystal clear or perfectly spelled out, but I did say, "There's a litany of footage" of Jones and asked for "a litany of footage" of CNN doing what you claimed. That was me essentially asking for the same level of proof. "To the same degree" is just a different way of saying that same thing.

All you have provided is conjecture - "They're doing it!".
It's incredible how, unlike the first Trump presidency, nobody is trying to convince anyone that a Trump presidency will be bad. It's as if all relevant information has already been shared and there is no point in repeating it. Instead they just shift all their money to the stock market and Tesla, and/or leave the state or country.
How am I supposed to make informed decisions without the research? How is a doctor supposed to choose and present options without it?
Moores law became less of a prediction and more of a product road map as time went on. It helped coordinate investment and expectations across the entire industry so everyone involved had the same understanding of timelines and benchmarks. I fully believe more investment would’ve ‘bent the curve’ of the trend line but everyone was making money and there wasn’t a clear benefit to pushing the edge further.
I tend to ignore insults, and instead steel-man anyone's legitimate ideas, if they are even remotely close to having any.
Hey look, it's Gordon Moore visiting us from 2005! :)
No.

The scaling laws may be dead. Does this mean the end of LLM advances? Absolutely not.

There are many different ways to improve LLM capabilities. Everyone was mostly focused on the scaling laws because that worked extremely well (actually surprising most of the researchers).

But if you're keeping an eye on the scientific papers coming out about AI, you've seen the astounding amount of research going on with some very good results, that'll probably take at least several months to trickle down to production systems. Thousands of extremely bright people in AI labs all across the world are working on finding the next trick that boosts AI.

One random example is test-time compute: just give the AI more time to think. This is basically what O1 does. A recent research paper suggests using it is roughly equivalent to an order of magnitude more parameters, performance wise. (source for the curious: https://lnkd.in/duDST65P)

Another example that sounds bonkers but apparently works is quantization: reducing the precision of each parameter to 1.58 bits (ie only using values -1, 0, 1). This uses 10x less space for the same parameter count (compared to standard 16-bit format), and since AI operatons are actually memory limited, directly corresponds to 10x decrease in costs: https://lnkd.in/ddvuzaYp

(Quite apart from improvements like these, we shouldn't forget that not all AIs are LLMs. There's been tremendous advance in AI systems for image, audio and video generation, interpretation and munipulation and they also don't show signs of stopping, and there's possibility that a new or hybrid architecture for the textual AI might be developed).

AI winter is a long way off.
> level of investment and profit they are looking for can only be justified by creating AGI

What are you basing this on?

IT outsourcing is a $500+ billion industry. If OpenAI et al can run even a 10% margin, that business alone justifies their valuation.
I don't know man, it's not like the dude caused the Sandy Hook massacre, just take this win and let the victims rest in peace. Let the Onion do it's things and cut ties.
Anything that makes the web platform more powerful is a good thing. The web is a secure, sandboxed platform, but it's also an open platform. Screw Apple and their extortions, develop web apps instead.
I mean yeah, you can use it as a proxy, but if your concern is rate limiting, the Tor network is unlikely to help you, most websites will blast you with CAPTCHAs.
we're adding more docs on running your own server soon, which will include 1-click deploy starter projects that Just Work.

if you think about it, we are incentivized to do this. no subscription fees means the more you ping our server, the lower our margin. but for now we're wrapping up fulfilling all pre-orders, scaling, etc typical new product issues.

even without BYOS (bring your own server) docs however, it's already possible to point TRMNL to your own stack if you 1) fork our OSS firmware + b) have some experience with e-ink.
Decoding the Cauzin Softstrip: a case study in extracting info from old media
Yes but they arent very autonomous. They can answer questions very well but can’t use that information to further goals. Thats what openai seems to be implying >> very smart and agentic AI
Is it though? Like it might be valuable to you, but i doubt its valuable to anyone else in a phone call situation and both parties need to find value to make a sale.

Like if you are interested in the convo then you should be paying the other person as you are getting value from the convo.

What's the situation where you don't care about the convo but for the right price you could care, and the other party also thinks that price is reasonable? Like maybe if someone is trying to recruit you i guess, but the situations where that is true seem very few and far between (and we already have a system for that, where traditionally someone offers to buy you a meal in exchange for listening)
AI generates a world that is language mapped by word pointing to another word like we did?
You really don't need models to fit into GPU's anymore for inference, e.g. llama.cpp is pretty good at partial GPU offload and I've gotten pretty fast results with only being able to fit ~30% of a model in VRAM and the rest in DDR5.
Lenny was the OG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrkDOt_IfM
I was just googling to see if there's any Emscripten/WASM implementation of OpenMP. The emscripten github issue [1] has a link to this "simpleomp" [2][3] where

> In ncnn project, we implement a minimal openmp runtime for webassembly target

> It only works for #pragma omp parallel for num_threads(N)

[1] https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/13892

[2] https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/blob/master/src/simpleomp.h

[3] https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/blob/master/src/simpleomp.cp...
Yeah, disability can be frustrating. But good on Apple for giving people some options here.
Double-blinking for tapping seems the most obvious. Closing your eyes for a second for tap-and-hold (and a second time to release, when necessary, e.g. for drag and drop).
I would respectfully ask for early feedbacks from the community. I am a solo enterpreneur and took ~6 months to stitch multiple tech components together ranging from Data, LLMs, Servers, cloud services, front-end etc.
Key features:

1. Unlimited free chat without any sign-up or log-in

2. Ask questions to structured database in natural language e.g "Top companies in genetic research based on market cap". It currently has 120+ metrics for all the companies.

3. Quick response to any question(Target of <5 secs)

4. Tables and charts for relevant stocks

5. Access to 200k+ SEC filings(10k,10q,earnings etc) for top 1000 companies in US for last 5 years and 100+ financial books

6. Prompt library on Discover page to get started
> The platform which Dylan was originally designed for, the Newton had no C to begin with.

These platforms had no development tools. The firmware and software runtimes were created outside. I would guess that there definitely C was involved for much of the firmware and that an on device Dylan runtime had C and assembler code.
And, as I've noted a couple of times in this thread, how many times have we heard that Moore's law is dead and compute has hit a wall?
> Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean

When I see "X", I think X Window System.

I saw your comment and thought, "I bet this guy is a Windows user." I was right! LOL.

https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=autho...
Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit
Great, now all that is missing is a decent packaging system for Python.
Learn Go with tests: Pointers and errors
I too can invent numbers.

My invented numbers say there's no meaningful difference in line counts between statically typed and dynamically typed languages.

So how will we prove any of us wrong?
I love the way our SWE jobs are evolving. AI eating the simple stuff, generating more code but with harder to detect bugs... I'm serious, it feels that we can move faster with these tools but perhaps have to operate differently.

We are a long ways from automating our jobs away, instead our expertise evolves.

I suspect doctors go through a similar evolution as surgical methods are updated.

I would love to read or participate in the discussion of how to be strategic in this new world. Specifically, how to best utilize code generating tools as a SWE. I suppose I can wait a couple of years for new school SWEs to teach me, unless anyone is aware of content on this?
You don't. The whole point is that you can no longer sign anything. Microsoft signs for you.

And of course the signature means "this user can push to github" and nothing more.
OK, thank you for the reply. The product looks great. I will roll the dice seeing the OSS firmware. Thanks!
I am comfortable using a debugger, but println debugging is easy, fast, and disproportionately effective for most of my debugging in practice.

I reach for a “real” debugger when necessary, but that’s less than 5% of the time.
Import Cycles in Golang: How to Deal with Them
Nice, thank you for investigating.
Gemini prompts user to die. Sentience?
The other HN submission on this was flagged.

https://g.co/gemini/share/6d141b742a13 < final message here

Was Blake Lemoine right about Google's AI?
Google removes EU-based news content as part of 'time-limited test'
Just...boring.
That's indeed a good idea, we definitely share the same thought process as you, because we built AntiPhish.AI exactly in the way you described it. It is a Chrome extension specifically for gmail inbox security, it gives red flags when it see any scam attempts.

About the privacy concerns, we gave a lot of thought about it as well, for now we just pass everything to openai and leave nothing in our system, but in the future we think the best way to handle privacy is open source AntiPhish.AI so that everyone can self-host their own anti-phishing solution.
They sadly do not pop a shell.
1. Skipping some optimizations to build faster.

2. Conditionally compiling some code like logging (not sure if matters for typical Rust projects, but for embedded C projects it's typical).

3. Conditionally compiling assertions to catch more bugs.

I'm using logs, because debugger breaks hardware. Very rarely do I need to reach debugger. Even when hard exception occurs, usually enough info is logged to find out the root cause of the bug.
It's a real voice. Probably with some splicing, but I don't know how much. Gwern admits he isn't that good at speaking, and I believe him. He also says he isn't all that smart. Presumably that's highly relative.
Its broken with alias but what's this about the podman-socket? Do you know where I can take a look at that?
OK, I get that satire is hard, but is there really nobody capable of it besides The Onion?

This article was based on a decade-old meme when it was written. That meme didn't particularly need elaboration in 2016, and here in 2024 it has been completely forgotten.

I don't think of GQ as being a great literary magazine, but I thought it had at least some pretension to it. This is weak internet-grade satire.
I heard as many names for the "\partial" symbol as I had math professors in university. At least they all wrote them the same.
A real person’s, not the real person being interviewed.