skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure this is problematic for society although I'm not concerned about what you are mentioning. I remember as a kid noticing how in looney tunes wile e coyote could run off the cliff a few steps and thinking maybe there's a way to do that. Or kids arguing about whether it was possible to perform a sonic boom like in street fighter. Or jumping off the playground with an umbrella etc
That how we define "all" logically but not linguistically. For instance, linguistically we would consider this inconsistent: "all 10-foot men have black hair AND all 10-foot men have blonde hair" yet it is true, logically, if there are no 10-foot tall men. The translation of the English word "all" should be something something like: |Q| > 0 ∧ ∀x∈Q, x is ...
It's a no brainer. But most banks are very slow dinosaurs. You could have a specific, API available account where you keep funds, and whatever happens they cannot access your whole account, just that specific, digital API enabled part. There is no risk using these. You opened it, you allocated funds, if you F it up, it's your fault.

They could even check how able you are by making you fill forms, like they do it if you want to buy risky stocks.
It's a capacity related constraint, not a legal one.
Reminds me of the new Coca Cola Christmas ad which is equally off-putting.
Wish it was just generative AI for me.

You don't have the same paranoia with LLM? So often I find myself getting a third of the way into reading an article or blog post and think: "wait a minute...".

LLM tone is so specific and unrealistic that it completely disengages me as a reader.
You can normalize data in order to isolate the effects of a given variable. Essentially, you just change the question from 'Are android users more likely to default on a loan?' to 'Given that all other factors are roughly equal, are android users significantly more likely to default on a loan' and then you do some complex math I don't understand to determine whether income disparities are actually a factor or if the model phone you own affects your likelihood of repaying a loan without regard to your income.
my dad told me about this customer that had a server that made automatic backups each Sunday night. The backup script would backup all the data then eject the tape so the manager could put it in the vault and rotate in the other one from the vault.

When the hard drive failed, they restored the customer to the latest backup. Which was the tape still sitting in the tape drive in the server. It was from the first Sunday night after the system was installed years ago
In the late 1990s there was a fun geek webcomic called "After Y2K" that imagined a very different world caused by a huge disaster. I didn't expect anything other than what actually happened, but a lot of people actually believed some of this stuff.

https://www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/aftery2kmai...

I did an email interview with a major publication in Brazil about the Y2K issue and carefully explained what would and what would not be a problem and how the most serious issues had been fixed at a significant cost. They ignored everything I said and only posted "Mainframe computers will be with us for a long time, says Jecel" in a way that made it sound like a threat. The rest of the article had the typical horror scenarios. They wasted an opportunity to be able to gloat about being right.

Robert Cringely's "Y2K: The Winter of our Disconnect?" was about the only voice of reason in the media back then and he got angry emails saying thing like "the blood of all those who died due to his misinformation would be on his head".
> For instance, that ladybug looks pretty natural, but there's a little glitch in there that an unwitting observer, who's never seen a ladybug move before, may mistake as being normal. And maybe it is! And maybe it isn't?

Well, none of the existing animation movies follow exact laws of physics.
Through my own experiences I feel that if the parents allow them to have cereal as a starter, then the choice between Frosted Flakes and Cinnamon Toast Crunch will be up to the kid.

Personally I came from a family that never had cereal for breakfast, so that advertising never affected me -- it's not like I'd ever have it.
Ugh.

I have a 25 year-old preamp that I made from what were at the time premium quality Burr-Brown opamps and it's better made than this thing appears to be. And as of yesterday, it still sounds awesome. OK, the input pots are getting a bit "crackly" but that's an easy fix.

No idea what the sound quality on this unit is like, but for $25k I'd expect far better build quality!
The reporting on that was a bid muddy with Google and Unisuper officially saying different things in different places. Regardless, calling it "more like turning off all their VM's" sounds like heavily downplaying the reality. The downtime alone confirms it was way more than that.

From their joint statement [0]:

> when the deletion of UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription occurred, it caused deletion across both of these geographies.

> an extensive recovery of our Private Cloud which includes hundreds of virtual machines, databases and applications.

> UniSuper had backups in place with an additional service provider. These backups have minimised data loss

Strangely enough on this last point a Google blog post [1] says:

> This incident did not impact: The customer’s data backups stored in Google Cloud Storage (GCS) in the same region.

[0] https://www.unisuper.com.au/about-us/media-centre/2024/a-joi...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...
"Let’s do an experiment to make the VGA signal horizontal blur visible. I plugged my laptop to an LCD monitor with both HDMI and VGA cables and compared the results. This basically simulates a high quality CRT display and low quality VGA cable."

This is so wrong. CRTs have unique properties that can not really be replicated on an LCD monitor. You can get something similar with a really high refresh OLED panel, but that needs to be verified.
That's so satisfying! I want to try the same, it would make for a good blog post lol
...with the obvious caveat that the distribution of responses isn't the same

Elaborating slightly, retrying till the schema is adhered to has a different distribution from greedily selecting tokens adhering to the schema.

The simplest toy example I can come up with for that property is a universe of answers "aa", "ab", "bc", all of which the model is equally likely to output for a given prompt with normal auto-regressive invocations. The schema, in regex, is ".[bc]". Retry-till-success produces "ab" 1/2 of the time and "bc" the other half. Greedily adhering to the schema produces "ab" 2/3 of the time and "bc" the remaining third.

Last I checked large-scale LLMs, it was a problem in the wild for large string fields. They tend to want to finish the string with ellipses (this creating an incorrect response), but when they made that mistake they'd tend to truncate the entire json record and generate something that doesn't adhere to the schema. Retry-till-success has a high successful parse rate. Greedily adhering to the schema converts those ellipses errors into syntactically correct garbage.

Other such bugs can be much harder to quantify (model explainability is hard), but I'd be cautious employing the technique without a lot of case studies for your particular problem domain.
Can you explain the mistake (of people taking the standardized tests)? I don't understand it from the message, and the Wikipedia article seems to detail exactly the "normal, smart" switching solution.
There is one notable example that I'm aware of, but it really is a cognitive deficiency.

The contrapositive is a rule that says that "A => B" is the same as "not B => not A". This is very confusing to people, and few can follow verbally why it works.

But here is a fun experiment. People are presented with a selection of envelopes, all face down, and are asked to verify the fact that, "All unstamped envelopes are small." They immediately begin turning over the large envelopes, then have trouble explaining their (correct) reasoning!

Here is a correct implication process for their actions.

"All unstamped envelopes are small." => "unstamped envelope => small envelope" => "not small envelope => not unstamped" => "large envelope => stamped"

At which point it is easier to just check the large envelopes!
The USA was a "middle class" society not long ago. Now it's increasingly just "class" and soon "ass".
The bar for entry is surprisingly low, you just need to brush up on intro abstract algebra. I recommend the following:

1. Kaye, LaFlamme, and Mosca - An Introduction to Quantum Computing

2. Nielsen and Chuang - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (The Standard reference source)

3. Andrew Childs's notes here [1]. Closest to the state-of-the-art, at least circa ~3 years ago.

[1] - https://www.cs.umd.edu/~amchilds/qa/
That stops working when its not obviously rhetorical.

Someone else in the thread mentioned: 'All my kids are in high school'. If you said this to a stranger with no other context, they will 100% think that you have kids. There is no possibility that you meant, 'I am asserting that in the set of my children, each element satisfies the property of being in high school'
I grew up watching Looney Tunes interpretation of physics and turned out just fine.
If anyone's interested in a more hands-on approach towards learning how to build patches from basic oscillators, etc., I can highly recommend Syntorial.

https://www.syntorial.com
I imagine in that scenario the engineering team can develop inter-dimensional travel, then travel to a universe in which that command was never executed. They bring the data back and restore the database.
The Syrian prison at the heart of Assad's police state
Between omnipresent cgi in movies and tv, animation, and video game physics (all of which are human-coded approximations of real physics, often intentionally distorted for various reasons), that ship has long since sailed.
Did you try staring on your IP packets while sending the requests?
And as AI oversaturates the cliched average, creators will have to get further and further away from the average to differentiate themselves. If you pour a lot of work into your creation you want to make it clear that it isn't some cliched AI drivel.
Their ToS forbids not just the crypto mining (that was extremely reasonable to ban ten years ago, but it's moot today) but also some arbitrary financial technologies they don't like.

So beware of their ToS.
EC was, first and foremost, an easy way to bolt the (already-agreed for the House) 3/5 Compromise onto presidential elections.
I don't think you can reduce it to this. Even on the showcase videos on the home page I can see weird artifacts, like the red car in the video of the guy walking through a market. The car is driving on a pedestrian walkway (through pedestrians), and just suddenly disappears from one frame to another.
Documentation, training, and relative ease of acquisition and installation are properties of the git ecosystem that are hard to replicate outside of an organization with a business case like Google.

That's the setup for: Who are the intended users and in what context will they use it?

If it's just you or you and your employees, selling no github can be straightforward. If it's your boss and some other teams, it's gonna be harder. Good luck.
That cat skateboarding off the path cut out just when it was getting interesting.

Many of these likely fall apart just split seconds after
There's some of that but it produces some cool stuff too. I mean you have these new virtual worlds like this that didn't exist before https://youtu.be/y_4Kv_Xy7vs?t=13

The video there is kind of a combination of human design and AI which produces something beyond that which either would come up with on their own.
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It might be true for "Creators" etc. but there were things that I always wanted paintings of but I have no talent, time, tools or anything really.

When I first got access to dalle (in '22) the first thing I tried was to get an impressionist style painting of the way I always imagined Bob Dylan's 'Mr. Tambourine Man' I regenerated it multiple times and I got something I was very happy with! I didn't put it on social media, didn't try to make money off it, it's for me .

If you enjoy "art" (nice pictures, paintings, videos now I guess) You can create it yourself! I think people are missing that aspect of it, use it to make yourself happy, make pictures you want to look at!
I feel like announcing a new product in the same vein as your main product as an established company is almost always a bad idea. If you're going to improve your product, don't announce the improvements 6-12 months ahead of time and grow the hype to unmanageable levels, just announce a great product and tell them it's available starting today.
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All my smartphones had been Samsung, and then I bought a Pixel just to get GrapheneOS and for me it's a way nicer experience, so I'm curious what the rough edges are that you experience?
A little worried how young children watching these videos may develop inaccurate impressions of physics in nature.

Pretty sure cartoons and actions movies do that already, until youtube videos of attempted stunts show what reality looks like.
Half decent approximations work a lot better in generating the equivalent of a stock illustrations of a powerpoint slide.

Actual long form art like a movie works because it includes many well informed choices that work together as a whole.

There seems to be a large gap between generating a few seconds of video vaguely like one's notion, and trying to create 90 minutes that are related and meaningful.

Which doesn't mean that you can't build from this starting place build more robust tools. But if you think that this is a large, hard amount of work, it certainly could call into question optisimitic projections from people who don't even seem to notice that there is work need at all.
I did. Thanks for the clarification.
Its a metaphor
If you want to emulate a CRT you have to emulate a specific CRT with a specific input. You can't have a general CRT emulation because they all look a bit different.
Bosch REAX used compressed air cylinders to drop the blade without damaging it. They got sued into oblivion by SawStop because SawStop was somehow granted a patent on the idea of stopping a blade quickly. As a side fact, the Bosch sensor electronics weren't done properly and could sometimes be affected by BlueTooth.

The whole "releasing our patent" is simply SawStop's way of trying to lock out the competition. All their competitors (including Bosch) have said that it will take several years before they could develop an alternative product leaving them in violation.

Finally, the regulation SawStop is trying to force doesn't even solve the injury problems for a few reasons.

The biggest is that CPSC does NOT affect commercial saws. As it turns out, hobbyists don't have as many injuries as you might think because they don't use their saws all the time and they have a very healthy respect for them (there are exceptions of course). Most serious injuries happen because the guy at the commercial shop has become too complacent and made a mistake after a long day at work. This ruling does nothing to change that situation.

You also can't fix stupid. If blade guards and riving knives are left on saws, the chances of injury are incredibly low, but people choose to remove one or both of these. They'll also turn off the safety features and do something they shouldn't. SawStop safety is over-represented because the people who spend the extra money for one are already predisposed to take safety seriously.

This leads to the price issue. Table saw prices will go up from $220 up to a minimum of $600 or more. This increases the risk of someone not having that much money and then turning their circular saw upside down making an incredibly dangerous table saw without a blade guard, riving knife, or even a parallel fence massively increasing the baseline risk for injury.

I love the idea of SawStop and I think it's an amazing safety device, but after reading the arguments on all sides, I think we should leave the current saws situation alone and instead simply require each saw manufacturer to offer at least one AIM model in their product lineup by 2032 or so (while maybe getting the courts to fix up the colossal screwups they made with the SawStop patents). This will give them time to develop alternatives and maybe drive down prices over time until it finally (hopefully) makes economic sense to only sell AIM devices.
Good question! The whole magic of quantum computation versus parallel computation is that the “universe” probabilities interfere with each other so that wrong answers cancel each other out. So I suppose the wrong ”universes” still exist somewhere. But it’s a whole lot less confusing if you view QC as taking place in one universe which is fundamentally probabilistic.
HunYuan released by Tencent [1] is much better than Sora. It's 100% open source, is compatible with fine tuning, ComfyUI, control nets, and is receiving lots of active development.

That's not the only open video model, either. Lightricks' LTX, Genmo's Mochi, and Black Forest Labs' upcoming models will all be open source video foundation models.

Sora is commoditized like Dall-E at this point.

Video will be dominated by players like Flux and Stable Diffusion.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/
Corollary: I couldn't create an original visual piece of art to save my life, so prompting is infinitely better than what I could do myself (or am willing to invest time in building skills). The gen-AI bubble isn't going to burst. Pareto always wins.
Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Failing to create a shared_ptr
Does this actually prove that antimatter necessarily exists?

Does this prove that antimatter is necessary for theories of gravity to concur with other observations?

Do the observed properties of antimatter particles correspond with antimatter as the or a necessary nonuniform correction factor to theories of gravity?
You should start with the Phenomenology of Spirit
I think, canonically, Monty always knows where the prize is, and will always eliminate all doors except for one, and will never eliminate a door with the prize, and will always give you a choice to switch. There's no room for Monty's motivation.
these will be a lot less violent too ;-) for a little while at least.
I know this sounds judgmental, but this reminds me of the idiom “touch grass”. Children should be outdoors observing real life and not be consuming AI slop. You are not overthinking this, this will most likely be bad for children and everyone in the long run.
No evidence was provided also because they did not send any email or offer any kind of statement,, pdf, anything, to explain what they did. It was a purely silent delete.

And in that hackernews thread we have dozens of people relating similar stories.
bro this is a "news" site run by a startup incubator.

80% of this site is about pushing and selling stuff. blatant out of the blue spam doesn't have a place here, but discussing (and hating on) Rust is a common topic.
Is it better or just more distracting away from it's flaws and using flaws to advantage? I only see repulsive mouth movements to induce fear, face coverings to hide the uncanniness, dreamy physics sim to distract. Not so out of place in present day hollywood but never any coherence of feeling.
All my unicorns are green.
https://sciencebehindpixar.org/pipeline/rendering
I'm surprised they put in 2 legged poodles
There's big difference between cartoonishly incorrect and uncanny valley plausibly correct.
Yes, they were used to traverse mountains paths.
I wonder what makes research different than product development at a company?

Because in product development, there can be short-sighted industry decisions based on quarterly returns. I've also seen a constant need to justify outcomes based on KPIs etc, and constantly justifying your work, etc.
What if the "will of the people" is for the country to turn fascist?

Does fascism stops being fascism when it has popular approval?
>Unfortunately, many vendors remove half the settings from their interfaces and make their app killers extra aggressive (just to spite people, it seems, because battery life doesn't seem affected in my experience).

To be fair, for every well behaved background app (ie. a ssh server that's listening on a socket, which should consume basically zero power), there's probably 10 other misbehaving app that's phoning home every 30 seconds for ad/tracking/analytics purposes. Moreover, "battery life" is a metric that often shows up on reviews, so it makes sense to game this metric as hard as possible, especially since most people probably aren't running servers 24/7 on their phones.
What you are saying is totally correct.

And this applies to language / code outputs as well.

The number of times I’ve had engineers at my company type out 5 sentences and then expect a complete react webapp.

But what I’ve found in practice is using LLMs to generate the prompt with low-effort human input (eg: thumbs up/down, multiple-choice etc) is quite useful. It generates walls of text, but with metaprompting, that’s kind of the point. With this, I’ve definitely been able to get high ROI out of LLMs. I suspect the same would work for vision output.
0 stars, and no comments the last time this was posted. Maybe too good to be true?
Just be glad that you didn't go for the 2 envelopes problem which was her next. Vos Savant was wrong about that one, and few people like the real answer.

The problem is that you're presented with two envelopes with 2 real numbers inside. You randomly select one, then look, and try to guess if you got the larger number. It doesn't seem like you can do better than even, but you can!

Unfortunately everyone hates the answer. Which is that you make up a random number and pretend it is the other one. Your odds of being right are

50% + (probability of choosing between the numbers) / 2

Which can always be strictly bigger than 50%. (Though possibly by only a little amount.)

Special case. If those numbers and yours were all independently randomly chosen from the same distribution, you'll be right 2/3 of the time.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://sora.com/ above.
That's fine, but given the parameters of the problem change with the Monty Crawl variant, it's not the same problem, and doesn't invalidate the answer of the base variant.
Billion is table stakes ,
OpenAI has raised over 6 billion dollars this year alone
I think reasoning with the 100-door variation is likely to be more enlightening than encoding your assumptions into a simulation.
I've always believed that replication/scaling should be reframed as an application level concern, at a minimum to serve as a though experiment regarding what you actually need from your data providers.

The exact semantics regarding how "lively" and "safe" each domain type must be almost certainly varies type to type.

I think a lot of developers come into this thinking one big SQLite database. And for many cases that is the most correct path. But you can do a database per domain type or service, and customize the replication and performance considerations at this smaller grain. You can still do ETL magic on the other side to build composite views of everything for reporting purposes. SQLite is amazing at this kind of thing. It can really help decompose a monster problem if you're willing to throw away dogma and focus on the actual problem on hand.