skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intentionally lying to sell ads at the expense of innocent people being targeted and harassed over years is probably not covered by free speech rights in the US.

And if you want to turn this into an argument about the necessary evils of a society practicing free speech, I'll just say that even if it were "covered", I'm not interested in that "right" existing in that form. Though I'm pretty sure willful lies that result in actual, predictable harm is not protected speech.

Don't even know what your last sentences are about. Are you suggesting a conspiracy of some sort?
Data point: liquid nitrogen is cheaper than milk.
Is uvx just part of uv? I keep a few python packages around via pipx (itself via homebrew) but am a big fan of uv for python projects… Do I just need to install uv globally (via brew?) to do this? Is there a mechanism to also have the installed utils available in my PATH (so I can invoke them without a uvx prefix)?
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FWIW, I wrote an EPUB (well, it was called OEBPS at the time) reader that rendered pretty much all of the format ~21 years ago (including all of XHTML and CSS) and it had very decent performance. I seem to recall that someone tried it on the One Laptop Per Child XO and it was... well, slow, but it worked.

So it's possible :)
Some people have convinced themselves they can disrupt anything.
The way comparative advantage works, even if an AGI is better than me at Task A and Task B, if it is better at Task A than Task B, it'll do Task A and I'll do Task B.

I think a lot of people confuse AGI with infinite AGI.
It was a Reddit-like atheist fedora comment, it’s not deserving of more.
I was talking about the 2010 passage of the ACA, not the 2017 repeal attempt. The 2010 legislation was written by Democrats. Moreover, since as you mention, the Republican repeal attempt failed, it can't truly be said that Republicans have "gutted" the ACA. It is true that for some (dumb) reason the ACA gave significant power to the states, which has been abused by Republican governors and legislatures, but that was entirely the choice of the Democrats who wrote the ACA.
Thank you for sharing that information about aluminum and brass cookware; I wasn’t aware of those details before.

The study you referenced does confirm the findings for aluminum and brass, but it also notes that no stainless steel cookware tested released enough lead to exceed childhood or adult Interim Reference Levels (IRLs). The testing involved placing vinegar—an acidic substance—and leaving it there for 24 hours, yet even under these conditions, stainless steel did not surpass IRL thresholds for lead.

I think what you are saying here is that avoidance of lead even below threshold is important and that plastic or silicone could have even lower amounts of lead in it. Which is fair and I think important to realize there is no perfect answer here.
You can install to your path with 'uv tool install'.

uvx is just an alias for 'uv tool run'.
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Even if so, that's still showing awareness of what his critics are critical of.

Now, can you make a falsifiable prediction: what would a narcissist do that a normal person would not, such that you can tell if he's engaging in a narcissist process rather that what your own link also says is a perfectly normal and healthy behaviour?
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I’m pretty sure it is the eternal fate of Russian physicists to have worked out the math, but to not have the funding or engineering to implement a thing, right? So, I guess that fact, at least, doesn’t tell us much of anything.
Wasn't he fired for questionable reasons? I thought everyone wanted him back, and that's why he was able to return. It was, as I remember, just the board that wanted him out.

I imagine if he was doing something truly nefarious, opinions might have been different, but I have no idea what kind of cult of personality he has at that company, so I might be wrong here.
Magnus is literally ~50 ELO above Gukesh. Do you have any concept of how much that is at the very top?

EDIT: Just to preempt: This is not say that Gukesh doesn't have a very bright future or couldn't surpass Magnus' top rating. Gukesh could definitely do that... but currently neither Gukesh or Ding are even particularly close to Magnus' (current!) level.
I've been a software engineer for 40+ years now. I still remember the one time I wrote firmware for a cable-driven robot hand. It's such a rush to type a command on a keyboard, and something on the bench next to you goes "wrrrrp!".
The Department of Defence is already very interested in that capability
The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike was in part to prevent screenplays being written entirely by generative AI.

So no I don’t think this will happen either. Authors may use use AI them selves as one tool in their tool box as they write their script, but we will not see entire production screen plays being written by generative AI set for theatrical release. The industry will simply not allow that to happen. At most you can have AI write a screen play for your own amusement, not for publication.
I assume someone accidentally hit their yubikey while logged into the CMS.
Amazing. They developed a dragon fly sized UAV that flew at 3 meters/second and could be guided by a laser in the 1970s!
We have a comm network there - several satellites serve as comm relays. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/the-mars-rel...

They just aren't GPS satellites. At some point we'll likely get some there, but it's a) a good amount of payload and b) not something we've really needed there so far.
I'm going to favorite this thread and come back with a comment in 10 years. I think it will be fun to revisit this conversation.

If you really don't think that this line of research and development is leading to AGI then I think you are being hopelessly myopic.

>robotics to be "completely solved" by 2020

There are some incredible advances happening _right now_ in robotics largely due to advances in AI. Obviously 2020 was not exactly correct, but also we had COVID which kind of messed up everything in the business world. And arguing that something didn't happen in 2020 but instead happened in 2025 or 2030, is sort of being pedantic isn't it?

Being a pessimist makes you sound smart and world-weary, but you are just so wrong.
For in person with unknown people I think large gatherings can break down the fear wall as people can assess before commiting.

For most hn users offering something virtual would be more more inline with expectations and removes those local barriers.
> For current standards of what intelligence means, we'd better hope we don't get ASI in the next decade or two, because if and when that happens then "humans need not apply" — and by extension, foundational assumptions of economics may just stop holding true.

I'm not sure that we need superintelligence for that to be the case - it may depend on whether you include physical ability in the definition of intelligence.

At the point that we have an AI that's capable of every task that say a 110 IQ human is, including manipulating objects in the physical world, then basically everyone is unemployed unless they're cheaper than the AI.
Ah, I think I see.

For that issue, I think that as any medium ages, it transforms from "explore" to "exploit", which is also why films have a lot more sequels and reboots.

So, if you want more range, explore new media: games, youtube, etc.
I studied journalism as an undergraduate

Objectivity is impossible

These two statements are at opposition with one another.

I was a journalist for 20 years, and any entry-level reporter can put together a completely objective story. It happens thousands of times a day. Unless you somehow derive bias in stories like "A woman died when her car hit a brick wall on Main Street."

Saying objectivity is not possible is just an internet-age excuse for mental laziness.
I'd bet that the first room temperature superconductor does not "change the world immensely."

Resistive losses are just one of very many attributes of a conductor. Others important attributes include:

- current capacity (will you need humongously thick wires to match charge carried by aluminum or copper?)

- ductility (can it be formed into wires cheaply?)

- cost (does CapEx outweigh electricity savings? is it expensive enough that people will cut and steal it?)

- weight (can it hang from power poles? can it be transported on the backs of trucks?)

- temperature sensitivity (does it crack at low temperature? melt at high temperature? change electrical properties depending on the weather? stop conducting on hot days?)

- chemical stability (will it oxidize over a 50-year lifecycle?)

- toxicity (will kids be poisoned if they touch it / eat it?)

- machinability (can it be formed into tiny wires? can it be patterned onto chips?)

- electromigration resistance (will the material break down over time from carrying charge?)

- tensile strength (can it be hung from power poles at their current spacing? would we need to rip out all power poles across the planet? would we need more expensive underground lines?)

- abundance in the Earth's crust (will the price skyrocket if we suddenly need to produce an annual megaton to replace the world's powerlines?)

- geographic concentration (are the primary deposits concentrated in a single country, introducing potential supply chain and geosecurity risks?)

- etc.

It's very likely that the first material which does better on resistivity is going to do worse on these other dimensions. Resistivity is rarely the number one criterion in selecting conductors, from power lines to computer chips.

One of the reason incumbent technologies are difficult to replace is that they win on criteria that are less salient to potential innovators. Aluminum is a common metal for power lines not because it has the lowest resistivity, but because it's by far the best we've got when evaluating this whole portfolio of needs.
GPS uses a lot more than three satellites (you need at least four a fair bit above the horizon to be able to navigate), and they have to be in different orbits. Earthbound GPS also uses a network of base stations at known locations to figure out the satellites' locations.
my favorite was letterman's non-sequitur: "How 'bout some defective Pentium salsa to go with those defective Pentium chips?"
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Finding one example of him being wrong still kinda supports his point, don't you think?
Have you tried Maia? I haven't myself (there isn't one in my ballpark level yet), but supposedly it plays more human due to being trained mostly on human play, not engine evaluations or self-play.
This obviously goes without saying. In fact, I'm not sure how implementing a system like Germany or Japan has would impact this at all.
It's not neccessarily a resource thing, but also, maybe primarily, a priorities thing. If they don't value stability now, they will probably use extra resources to build new features faster, at the same level of quality.
Weirdly, AIM was a great social media application. Anyone on AIM was on because they wanted to talk. I actually miss AIM a good amount, now you can reach anyone but you're always interrupting their life.
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Last night I went to a local tech event and met 4-5 other people who mentioned hacker news, none of which know about meethn or don't see the point because local events to your usual location are already organised by some benevolent person.

If you list socials on meet.hn, I assume it means you are pro-social and open to meeting up. I see it as being more useful if travelling, an excuse to reach out and meet new people in a new place.

1. RSS waning

2. Probably wouldn't use email

3. (don't care)

4. would be more practical as a simple browser addon (meetHN / country flag) or userscript (maybe there's a userscript to addon tool given it's probably a few lines of JS)

5. This idea could be more interesting if it added some kind of meshed chat or something - the community you have made from my perspective appears to be HN people who are pro-social and open to connection (whats the point otherwise). http://news.meet.hn could become a new default if it added more value than just some visibility of meetHN users - without aa value add to make it sticky it will fade away and be forgotten, an aside micro community makes this more interesting... but moderation... hmm, warnings, blacklist .. could become unmaintainable so the value-add has to be enough to warrant it

6. Not sure this would be useful as people near each other already have tech events and communities with moderation and organization apparatus facilitated by tech group organizer people and the moderation aspect would be more distributed?

The amount of signups suggests there's something here, I'm inclined to think more as a distributed group of people with a shared interest open to connection. Seems like a subcommunity type deal, and 5 makes the most sense to me, proxy site that adds enough value to warrant using it, layered subcommunity is a cool idea
“The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.” — Paul Tournier
This is pretty egregious, but I agree that assuming noble intent is the way to maintain civil discussion. No need to call him a liar - just downvote.
Empathy Makes Us Cruel and Crazy
Can you expand on your spreadsheet analogy?

I think Joel Spolsky explained the main Office moat well here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...

> ... it might take you weeks to change your page layout algorithm to accommodate it. If you don’t, customers will open their Word files in your clone and all the pages will be messed up.

Basically, people who use Office have extremely specific expectations. (I've seen people try a single keyboard shortcut, see that it doesn't work in a web-based application, and declare that whole thing "doesn't work".) Reimplementing all that stuff is really time consuming. There's also a strong network effect - if your company uses Office, you'll probably use it too.

On the other hand, people don't have extremely specific expectations for LLMs because 1) they're fairly new and 2) they're almost always nondeterministic anyway. They don't care so much about using the same one as everyone they know or work with, because there's no network aspect of the product.

I don't think the moats are similar.
This guy is outright scary. He gives me the chills.
LLMs love to sum things. up. On the one hand, this. On the other hand, that! It is very important. Challenges!
Wow that is magic! I just installed uv because of your comment.
So… not much? If anything, people drive electric scooters around here. Those seem to hit the sweet spot.
From Musk's email:

"Frankly, what surprises me is that the AI community is taking this long to figure out concepts. It doesn’t sound super hard. High-level linking of a large number of deep nets sounds like the right approach or at least a key part of the right approach."

Genuine question I've always had is, are these charlatans conscious of how full of shit they are, or are they really high on their own stuff?

Also it grinds my gears when they pull out probabilities out of their asses:

"The probability of DeepMind creating a deep mind increases every year. Maybe it doesn’t get past 50% in 2 to 3 years, but it likely moves past 10%. That doesn’t sound crazy to me, given their resources."
Well lots of these limit the applications but something could have these limitations and still be a commercial success in some valuable niche fields.
I sure was hoping for a response to this. Ah well.
>"A woman died when her car hit a brick wall on Main Street."

Except no reporter would write this single sentence as a story.

Please present an example story which is both realistic (could be published or broadcast as is) and also completely objective.
No worries. I just thought you were trying to connect starlink to a fish tank and wanted to know more.
I think even if it's only usable in niche scenarios it would still be a commercial success. Superconductors are useful even when they're hard to use, as seen with existing cold temperature superconductors which a room temperature one could certainly replace and become a commercial success in doing so. With that said, you're likely correct that the first attempt won't catch on for mass adoption.
It was still a creative stroke of genius. The shit acting along with the shit cinemotography was preceded by a brilliant marketing campaign where you expected this lack of skill by the film makers.

In music you also have plenty of artists that have no clue how to play their instruments, or progress their songs, but the music is nonetheless amazing.

Skill is not the only quality of art. A brilliant artist works with their limitation to produce work which is better than the sum of its part. It will take AI the luck of ten billion universes before it produces anything like that.
anyone get the Bing search DocumentConverter working? It keeps getting me null results
Gaze-LLE: Gaze Target Estimation via Large-Scale Learned Encoders
I’m neither an Elon fanboy nor a hater. But I do wonder both what he possesses and is possessed by to have created not just a successful company, but era-defining companies plural.
I imagine that's what he's doing. He's willing to put a lot of company money into getting the city on Mars started, because if he's first there, he's gonna set himself (or his dynasty?) up to make hundreds of billions of dollars. Being effectively in control of your own planet? Neat. Scary too.
Did you see: https://naya.tech/
Define everyone. I was delighted when they fired him. I don't believe he has humanity's best interest at heart.
Kennedy is a crackpot. He thrives on being perceived as anti-establishment so I doubt any evidence that 5G radiation is harmless would convince him. He still believes vaccines cause autism, for example.
Came to add my input as a NZer but yeah, this sums it up.

Most annoyingly to me there is no true green party to vote for. The actual NZ green party's primary focus is on what would be labeled socialist outcomes by someone with a US perspective.
If I wrote that I am a Buddhist or that I use Tarot cards, would I also deserve a downvote? I became interested in Catholicism after 30, entirely on my own, as the only person among my friends and surroundings. The argument about cultural conditioning is misplaced, because contemporary western culture (where I live) is extremely anti-Catholic.

If I ask you whether you believe in Jesus, you'll probably say no. Do you know that he is a historical figure? Traditional Catholicism understands "faith" as a purely rational approach, not an emotional one. You examine certain issues and rationally come to a conclusion about whether they are convincing to you or not.

I simply belong to the group that is convinced of the truth of Catholicism. Most people today do not. However, most people do not approach this matter objectively but rather emotionally.
I remember she did a talk at the Long Now Foundation a while back. My take away - which could be completely wrong - was that they saw the potential to read and write memories.
Haha. I see what you did there
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Being an optimist makes you sound naive and a dreamer. There is no scientific agreement that LLMs are going to lead to AGI in the slightest—we cannot even define what consciousness is, so even if the technology would lead to actual intelligence, we lack the tools to prove that.

In terms of robotics, the progress sure is neat, but for the foreseeable time, a human bricklayer will outcompete any robot; if not on the performance dimension, then on cost or flexibility. We’re just not there yet, not by a long stretch. And that won’t change just by deceiving yourself.
Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials
He makes a note that he observed “negative resistance”.
"Basically, people who use Office have extremely specific expectations."

Interesting point, but to OP's point- This wasn't true when Office was first introduced and Office still created a domineering market share. In fact, I'd argue these moat-by-idiosyncracy features are a result of that market share. There is nothing stopping OpenAI from developing their own over time.
Implementing a simple object system from scratch in Ruby
Not if you start by dragging the title bar instead of just pressing the restore button.
Expanding, essentially the US has the worst of all possible worlds.

Most provider costs are obscured / complicated by insurers sitting in the middle of transactions.

If they weren't, providers wouldn't do some of the all-but fraudulent coding shenanigans that have become normalized. But overbilling a faceless insurer is fine.

And likewise, patients would have an incentive to shop around for the most cost effective services, instead of no one in the system being able to proactively say how much something would cost until the insurance claim is submitted and processed.
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Why do you care if your personal site is minified?
You know what? Fair enough. Carry on.
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This might be the best thing I’ve read on HN all year. Thank you for the inspiration.
I'm sort of torn between that reaction and "hey, this seems similar logistics-wise to that space solar project I'm kicking off next week"...
Just about the only open part about OpenAI is how their dirty laundry is constantly out in the open.
I suspect you can lose the skill too.

I used to be a fast reader.

I tried improving my Spanish by reading Spanish books and I would subvocalize the words.

After that I lost my fast reading skill in English.
a lot of Detroit's manufacturing these days is in Canada and Mexico.
Well said.

In as much as I enjoy the discussions on this website (hence still visiting often...), I find there to be a few weirdly almost anti-factual positions.

Elon hatred being one. The launch of the Model S as a mass market vehicle was _magical_. Like holy shit levels of wow, you can drive this thing across the US and then Europe with a charging network and it _works_ and it scales. Every EV on the market today owes its' existence to that success against the odds.

A second one that comes to mind is the continuous bias against cryptocurrency with the refrain usually being that "it's not useful" or something. Exactly backwards - all of the scams and craziness and shitcoins etc are occuring precisely because it is useful, it's an absolute game changer to have a digital asset and despite even the maximalists worrying about things like 50% attacks or bugs we're 16 years on from bitcoin.pdf and it's STILL HERE.

There are plenty of others, it's sometimes very difficult for me to fathom why the site seems to take irrational stances seemingly randomly.
I don't disagree, but I think we often look at the past through rose-colored glasses of survivorship bias. Most parenting was bad by those standards.

If you look at how children have historically been parented across a wide range of pre-industrial cultures, it's alloparenting (care by someone other than the biological parent). You had a village of extended family, neighbors, tribewomen, clan members, whatever, and they would trade off care of large groups of village children. Or the kids would just run around and make up their own games. This is actually considered fairly healthy today - it's what daycares, preschools, schools, aftercares, etc. do in an institutionalized setting, but maintained through person-to-person relationships.

The nuclear family and industrial revolution was pathological from an anthropologic POV, and brought all sorts of other pathologies into child-rearing.
Space X succeded because they basically played Elon. There are enough smart people there to realize that they needed to have Elon handlers to prevent him from tanking progress.
The point is it will be possible without a framework