skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, that's a reasonable distinction. I agree with you.

I think the reason this discussion is frequently had, is that people will read the manifesto, recognize that it discusses some interesting issues in a self-consistent way, and want to discuss those ideas without simultaneously heading off semi-veiled accusations of "are you going to blow stuff up now too?".

In fact, I would argue that considering that the Unabomber manifesto has been inspiration to at least two very intelligent people as they commit targeted murder against strangers, there is something interesting and unusual about that corpus of ideas compared to other writings by other figures.

I'm unaware of any highly educated people who have become similarly radicalized after reading Mein Kampf. Something is uniquely appealing about Kaczynski's writings.
The point is that euopean americans perform strongly compared to europeans, asian americans perform strongly among asians, and black americans perform strongly compared to majority-black countries. Each demographic as the top of demographic peers internationally.
> they're able to understand and be understood sufficiently

Communication isn't all or nothing. The more expressive power you have, the wider the scope of ideas you can communicate. It may be minimally sufficient to be able to communicate "me hungry" or "that crazy", but more is probably still better.
The government has had a very hard time classifying what type of crime drug dealing is. First they said it was a tax crime (well before that, an import or tariff crime). Then the 10th amendment was basically gutted, and it became a crime where all the facts could be identical to a pharmacy dispensing a script, but sans paying for a DEA license.

It is definitely a very strange one. The classical liberalism argument is that the most prominent aspect remains essentially a financial crime of failure to pay the licensing tax.
Probably only because we reported it better.
Only since the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Before that, it was common to not be able to get insurance with pre-existing conditions at all without being covered by your employer. And even sometimes your employer’s plan had a waiting period for pre-existing conditions. I got stuck without insurance for a long time after college (being able to stay on your parents’ plan after graduation is also an ACA provision) and still have nightmares about it.
> I make it a point to treat my projects as "top-shelf" professional-grade shipping software, as opposed to the "hobby-grade" that I see from many folks I know that write non-commercial software.

What are the practical differences in the end result?

My mind leapt to documentation, but I bet you meant more than that.
What the hell? This seems almost purposefully written to destroy the one industry where ordinary people could get good salaries. It doesn't even make any sense whatsoever, just a straight "fuck you" regulation?
Did the test collect any data on the demographics of the takers, so that we can check whether the drop is within-group, or whether it’s just artifact of changing composition? For all we know, this might be just a case of Simpson paradox, where each subgroup actually improved, but the overall score distribution shifted downwards due to school children population growing more and more immigrant, after years of mass immigration. While US has excellent education, and immigrant children in America do better than their counterparts in their countries of origin, they don’t do as well as the modal group of white Americans, so as the composition changes, and the whites become less of a statistically dominating factor, the scores are expected to go down, even as the education quality improves.
For reference, Aaronson is widely regarded as one of the foremost members of the field.

Try "I don't understand this claim"?
Most vanguard classical mutual funds are share classes of an underlying ETF, and can be lent.

Last I checked (which to be fair was like a year or so ago), vanguard didn't take a cut for securities lending. It does however boost the fund's performance

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
I used the OpenAI collab tool yesterday for a couple of hours.

I was trying to write a technical document.

Very clunky user experience. The AI felt like an annoying collaborator who took control when I was trying to do my job and didn’t obey when I asked it to do stuff and the basic markdown editing options were missing.

Switched to another non AI editor and got the job done quick.

Having said that, I like the idea and would use, but I do not want to ask AI to do find and replace. If they can flesh this out and improve it and make it "writer first, AI second" instead of "AI first" then it might be worth using.
no that's not a good comparison for MWI, it's more continuous
The profile is different. Fighter pilots have sustained g-force in a vertical direction, draining blood from the brain. Formula 1 drivers have lateral and forward/backward acceleration, which will have different physiological effects. The other sports are probably different again. Not sure if anything has a similar profile to jets.
It matters because of entropy. How many people can society carry before it suddenly can’t? Civilization doesn’t persist from inertia.
Welcome back to the project!

I love to see original creators continue to work on their projects until the very end, e.g. Linus and D. Richard Hipp of sqlite. I think this produces the best quality software over the long term.
As far as I can tell it's a problem with CGI at all. Whether you're using precise physics models or learned embeddings from watching videos, reproducing certain physical events is computationally very hard, whereas recording them just requires a camera (and of course setting up the physical world to produce what you're filming, or getting very lucky). The behind the scenes from House of the Dragon has a very good discussion of this from the art directors. After a decade and a half of specializing in it, they have yet to find any convincing way to create fire other than to actually create fire and film it. This isn't a limitation of AI and it has nothing to do with intelligence. A human can't convincingly animate fire, either. It seems to me that discussions like this from the optimist side always miss this distinction and it's part of why I think Ben Affleck was absolutely correct that AI can't replace filmmaking. Regardless of the underlying approach, computationally reproducing what the world gives you for free is simply very hard, maybe impossible. The best rendering systems out there come nowhere close to true photorealism over arbitrary scenarios and probably never will.
>homer’s wine dark sea

easily imaginable for the sea at sunset.
This was somewhat interesting, but it would also be interesting to look at long-term impact. Short term you may not have certain skills, but do you make those up in the business world and end up getting back to where you were at after a number of years, or is the downside somehow permanent?

I started tech when I was 18 and left tech at 23 to get a degree in Psychology. On the one hand, I came back to tech and never did Psychology, and am pretty sure my degree in Psych never directly impacted my career, but it did probably open up doors to management for me as my communication skills increased in ways it probably wouldn't have if I had stayed in Tech.

In fact this is what we really want to measure isn't it? Not are you ready for your first job out of college, but did you gain skill that make you a better all around worker.
Nope. It's $52B total in cash and tax credits from the government.

The $250B is the total capital from CHIPS and private investment. The other ~$200B is coming from private sector investments.

This is why the Big Fund is so big - it's been tough to raise private capital in China after the 2015-16 market crash so governments (central, provincial, and local) have had to step in to provide capital.

And if we're honest, the truly successful Chinese companies at the global scale (BYD, ByteDance, Tencent, PDD/Temu, Shein) always took private capital, and as such were able to outcompete state funded alternatives.
Avast antivirus owner Gen Digital acquires MoneyLion in $1B deal
If you've got big fingers you need quite a lot of skills to type on your phone even when you are looking.
Indeed, I would not be surprised if OpenAI one day admits that the `o1` model uses the last hidden layer (or some other intermediate layer) to feed the "thought process" that you can watch as it "thinks" about the answer. I suspect that they may take the last hidden layer and feed it back into the front of the `o1` model while also feeding a separate, likely much smaller LLM that generates the "thought process" as language tokens.

In this manner, the model makes use of the rich semantic information encoded at the last hidden layer while informing the user via an extraction of that hidden layer specifically tuned to generate human-legible concepts such as, "I'm considering the impact of converting the units from kilograms to pounds," or whatever.
It’s diet that causes weight loss.

The drug didn’t kill diet, just took a shortcut. Killing appetite takes out diet without the pesky business of forming good habits.

Which is why people who go off the drug balloon back up.
Ha, fair

If you're also using a other direct indexing service, or doing a bunch of manual stock trades yourself, then RIP your time :(
This only works if you're the gate keeper to a feature shipping. If the role is flipped, meaning you need to convince the gate keeper, good luck getting them to read your minutes. And it doesn't necessarily need to be a toxic relationship, they're just busy and you need to do the work to get them where you want them.
Hey Simon! However early you think it is, I can guarantee it is even earlier =)

If this is just a standard sqlite database that you are trying to open, though, I'd have expected it to work.
You mean how jujutsu uses the same git repo and you can use jj while other people you collaborate use git?

Yeah they're doing that.
Aren’t matrix calculations a perfect field for quantum computing? i.e. AI would progress extremely fast, wouldn’t it?
Interesting to see Google there. They have LevelDB.
But to emphasize one quote from the blog: "the new experiment doesn’t add anything new to this old debate" about multiverse interpretations vs. something else. An equally viable and perhaps conceptually simpler interpretation of the experiment is that the qubits are temporarily put in a 'superposition' of many different bitstrings, some operations are performed, and then measurement collapses this superposition back into a single definite bitstring. No multiverse required.
This is great! I had long ago started a similar project to parse HN job ads month after month looking for the ones that just stay the same each month, which might suggest the company is probably "fishing" instead of "hiring". But it never really got off the ground. This platform seems more than capable of doing that kind of analysis and more. Great work.
The legal situation has completely changed since then. By now, we have court cases punishing companies for ignoring the dnt signal. And with the gdpr there is a legal framework that makes this signal powerful anyway.

Removing this feature now is completely the wrong move. Instead Mozilla should have invested money to use the courts to make the signal be respected, where it isn't already.

For me, this signals that finally, Mozilla has completely crossed the line. I will look into forks now that retain the signal.
1) being obsessed is not offensive

2) being offended for others only increases the issue, as it becomes political
this is a codename, and if the project is to be successful, we don't expect to keep it.
I think one of Patrick's points is that the real cost to the bank for providing these services to crypto companies is more than the entire profits of the crypto companies. So there is no mutually agreeable meeting point.
Yes he also won the French one after memorising the dictionary in nine weeks!
Me and my old school friends always attributed this to playing sports with timers.
My rule is to only correct things if I am sure it will impact the audience's ability to deduce my intended meaning.
absolutely not.

We're not fans of public domain, which is one of the things that led us to create libSQL in the first place.

It is MIT.
I don't think it's a useful way to frame it. Model training is very compute-intensive. Generation isn't. You can run it on locally on consumer hardware. It's just not very monetizable, so we're converging on a black-box "in the cloud" approach.

If we're focusing on energy consumption, using an LLM to generate a newspaper article probably uses less energy than a living journalist would use. The morning commute alone is probably "worth" a dozen articles.

The problem is different. First, that journalist is still alive and consuming resources, just out of a job. Second, because you now have a very cheap way to generate an infinite number of articles, and there are commercial incentives to do so, the "dead internet theory" has a good chance of coming true.
Look at the mortgage and credit card markets.

Most lenders don't discriminate via pricing - they accept or deny individual applications. The market discriminates via pricing, as higher-cost providers are willing to loan to customers who pose more significant credit risks.
Hehehe,

Reading between the lines. Redis is Hurting, Valkey is making a real difference at pulling the customers away. Elastic and OpenSearch were in similar situation, so Elastic went on to change license back to (more restrictive) Open Source License.

Redis went different route by bringing Redis founder back. I wonder if they go back on their license change next or do they think Redis founder endorsing license change, despite his previous promises of Redis being Open Source forever is enough ? Time will tell.
While I don’t have a dog in this race:

> …who pays?

The status quo today is

- ProPublica’s donors

- the family trust of 22 year olds in Columbia Journalism School. Don’t take this too literally. Journalism school is a metonym for paying your dues.

- the husbands and wives of the older journalists

- millions of Boomers paying just four publications that are diversifying into media companies with video games and recipe lists, so not really journalism alone

Should journalism be philanthropic? It’s an interesting question. I’m not worried about AI writers as long as parents keep paying their kids’ rent to break into writing, and as long as New York and Los Angeles remain attractive places for young people to live. My point is that there is a status quo where journalism is already essentially a charity, so anything is possible, it is totally incorrect to characterize journalism as profit motivated, because if it were it would have been gone long ago, and it isn’t for lack of free labor, because most journalism is done for free.
Looks like you can only use it with 4o at the moment, and not yet with o1 models. I might stick to o1 for editing jobs for the time being.
This shit is sick and the divide will only expand with GOP desire to privati$e public education.
I was looking for a reference but I am afraid it is lost in some news group in the distant past but my understanding is that all of Meta Kernel was written directly on an HP calculator.
The short version of my name is one letter away from "Alexa". You can imagine how many comments and jokes about Amazon's AI assistant I've been party to for the past decade. Although it may be hard for you to believe I actually don't really care, much as you probably don't care about the hot dogs bearing your name that you see when you walk down the cold aisle in the grocery store. Should they instead call the anthropomorphized AI assistant something like "W'rkncacnter" to preclude the possibility of name collisions (chaotic entities imprisoned in alien stars notwithstanding)?
> I'll translate the quote to your native language for you

that's very presumptious of you

> Here's a news report

are you saying that CNN knows about the conditions and preferences of Ukrainians better than Ukrainians in Kiyv?

"You might want to stop taking [CNN] as your news source."
Cool to see more attention getting paid to AI code review and not just code-gen:

> Review code: ChatGPT provides inline suggestions to improve your code.
i mean, that would be excellent, but that's not what children will use the internet for when unsupervised and immature. there's nothing wrong with accessing educational texts or using computers as classroom/teaching aids.

kids under a certain age should not have an internet-connected dopamine dispenser in their pocket as it is incredibly detrimental to their development.
> show their QR code to vendors who scan it to charge their account.

That sounds _brilliant_ -- being able to show a physical QR code card rather than dig out the phone sounds like it would help a lot with preventing damage/loss of phones.
be careful with that, though. In a lot of ways it is still slower.

The goal with that was just to demonstrate that there's nothing really there that is fundamentally slower, and the perf is already on par in the areas where we spent cycles on.
Also often over looked is that this slop will then be scraped and fed into the next model. They will start to degrade further over time.
Feels a bit like we are going full circle: From an interface that contains a document that the AI will complete or modify to a chat interface, to an interface that contains a document that the AI will modify.

Obviously this is a lot more refined than the rather simple playground interface of GPT3.5 that they eventually discontinued. But it feels a lot like going back to the roots, with the benefit of many of the lessons learned over the last two years.
The example is incorrect. On the paragraph where the elves (dwarves??) get the clothes, it is specified no cut pieces are left out for work, but the subsequent summary is the elves settle to work?

I don't think this is a particularly good showcase.
Canvas was releaased on October 3, 2024 - is this something different?
Here is the demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/ChenDY/NitroFusion_1step_T2I

I'm unable to get anything that looks as good as the images in the README, what's the trick for good image prompts?
>and it became a crime where all the facts could be identical to a pharmacy dispensing a script, but sans paying for a DEA license.

That describes a bunch of crimes? If you raid a drug dealer's house and kill a bunch of people in the process, you'll go to jail. If it's the police doing it with a "license" (ie. a warrant), it's suddenly fine. More banal is you driving along, following all applicable laws and causing no issues, but if you're doing it without a license or insurance, it's suddenly illegal.
I think it could be argued the problem isn't schools, but families. Or, more precisely, a large subset of families with school aged children do not value education, whether out of apathy or survival. Educational outcomes across socioeconomic strata vary greatly in the USA. Schools cannot educate kids that are not invested in their own education.

I think if you corrected for household income, the disparities between NYC and London would be significantly smaller. My hypothesis is that students from upper- and middle-class households would come out looking fine, but lower-class students would lag significantly.
If nobody wants to pay it is totally fine if they go out of business. A lot of the be things of today's internet are caused by sites being able to live off ads revenue.
That's wild. I saw this when you(?) posted it a while back and assumed no one would want this. No offense, but it doesn't make the coffee taste any better...... unless it does............?

Anyway, glad you're seeing success.
I built a Figma plugin that makes it easier to upload and host and manage images from Figma.

https://figmage.com
I don't feed documents directly to an LLM. First, extract and process the data in a structured way that maintains the hierarchy and metadata of the content (this is important!). Then convert this into a scheme that you can control — it doesn’t really matter what it is (JSON, XML, markdown). From there, feed this to the LLM in chunks. This will get you most of the way there.

There's different ways to validate, but that's why maintaining hierarchy and metadata is so important. If you track this information properly, you can cross-check responses across different LLMs!
https://archive.ph/DtZIE
https://www.keila.io

I’m building an Open Source (AGPLv3) email marketing platform with Elixir/Phoenix and it's only just crossed that MRR threshold - three years since the first version.
i have had this for a while now (a month maybe?). I wish this had o1 option. nobody uses 4o for coding anymore.
I'm not sure DH mountain bike hits the G-forces that one might encounter in a fighter jet. Maybe some instantaneous instances, but nothing sustained. I'm a mountain biker (nowhere near an elite DHer) and they don't require compression gear to keep from passing out.

Bobsled/luge might be closer, but I have no direct experience.
Ohhh yea I run into this memory issue very quickly when scraping (especially if you have a large URL dataset then it will inevitably find a website with a giant bit of markup). So I have to set timeouts and blacklist timely requests but also completely reset the (headless) browser on 2-3 requests (which is overkill but I am restricted on memory for those workers). Feel free to drop me an email sometime (should be on my HN profile)
The "Section 174" tax change always gets brought up, but wouldn't that be kind of a "tail wagging the dog" explanation? Surely, if it's worth it for a business to hire talent, then it's still worth it regardless of some esoteric tax rule. Are there actually companies sitting there in their Hiring meetings saying "Gee, we really need to expand our business and hire some engineers--if it wasn't for this tax law, we'd be hiring!"
Some of these "frameworks" are always something like "just do the right thing."

As if that is ever easy to understand.
DNT is a failure since it relies on advertiser self-regulation. We shouldn't ask them not to track us, we should make it very hard for them to do it.
IDK why we expect kids, whose brains are still being developed, to make perfectly rational decisions when adults struggle with this as well.

Is there a psychology equivalent of the spherical cow in physics?
damn =(
It's because of school privatization. Notice the sharpest declines in low performing students based on race and income. It's a disgrace. Idiocracy is booooooming.
First I should say that I agree with you fully.

However, the "5 years" timeline which yeah its crap with what they are saying. I do worry that what they are actually hoping (not paying for writers) for will actually happen. Since there is a lot of money in not paying people and pushing content that keeps people reading.

Just regurgitating information over and over again in different ways. Or taking stray quotes or whatever as the information.

I worry that the question isn't if AI is going to get better or how its going to answer some of those questions that you have when the people running the sites for news clearly already don't care and its going to happen anyways. It doesn't matter if the technology is any good or it's valuable.

Maybe at some point people will wake up and realize that the regurgitated content serves no real value, but at that point how much have we dug ourselves into this hole already.

I know that some people compare this to crypto but there is a much different acceptance level and... ease of use here that is making it actually gain traction.