skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a model learns doesn’t really matter. What works works.

How it is tested and validated is what matters.

There are lots of ways to train on synthetic data, and synthetic data can have advantages as well as disadvantages over natural data.

Creative use of synthetic data is going to lead to many cases where we find it is good enough. Or even better than natural data.
That's algorithmically hard.

Ask the LLM to generate a program to solve the problem.
Yes, it’s obvious AI writing. The fact that some people can’t tell is actually scary. Eventually (soon?) none of us will be able to tell.
An SSD does not solve the problem of page fault chasing, it just makes it slightly less bad. This is fundamentally a software architecture problem.

This is solved with latency-hiding I/O schedulers, which don’t rely on cache locality for throughput.
You can build a mountain, if you do it brick by brick...
Amazing story, got sucked into watching the whole video despite not knowing much about the hobby. A random little bit stood out to me, when the president of Sony made a personal promise to fix the TV after it stopped working (a while back). Now that's dedication to quality and customer satisfaction.
That would have been very cool and historicaly interesting.
Unfortunately these are just run of the mill hypocrits:

After receiving clarification from Representative Patterson regarding library content, we reevaluated the guidelines and are pleased to have the Bible available in each of our Canyon ISD libraries.”
Hobbyist-level production of monochrome TV tubes is possible, but a big effort. Some of the early television restorers have tried.[1] Color, though, is far more complicated. A monochrome CRT just has a phosphor coating inside the glass. A color tube has photo-etched patterns of dots aligned with a metal shadow mask.

CRT rebuilding, where the neck is cut off, a new electron gun installed, and the tube re-sealed and evacuated, used to be part of the TV repair industry. That can be done in a small-scale workshop.

There's a commercial business which still restores CRTs.[2] Most of their work is restoring CRTs for old military avionics systems. But there are a few Sony and Panasonic models for which they have parts and can do restoration.

[1] http://earlytelevision.org/crt_project.html

[2] https://www.thomaselectronics.com
I’m writing a terminal emulator that solves this (and many other) common problems with the CLI. For example, one of its features is it highlights command output so you can easily see where each commands output is.

You can also collapse output too

https://github.com/lmorg/mxtty
Anthropic itself publishes a bunch of its own llm.txt files. So I guess that means something
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Even if there is AGI, someone is still going to have to talk to the AGI and explain nuances of what it should be building. Real life software engineers don't agree with each other (or the product manager), that's why we write design docs and specs and talk about details in meetings that couldn't be an email. Some people just don't want to be programmers so there'll always be someone needed to talk to the computer. How many people are needed to do that may fluctuate, but also having a computer available to do the work doesn't mean there's a computer to do it either. There are machines to dig holes, but they're expensive so unless it's a really big fence that justifies renting a machine, it's still gonna be a couple of dudes with elbow grease digging holes despite the existence of heavy equipment.
Or

# ~/.bashrc
alias p5='printf "\n\n\n\n\n"'

# run
my-command; p5

May also add 100 '-'s before or after newlines for better separation.
I am amused by the business authors who give away their book for free online, and then charge money for the shorter executive summary. $$$ Me, I've read Webster's 3rd cover to cover.
They created a touchscreen GUI in tkinter with more-than-trivial behavior to use as a frontend for input for a device they created. They were able to describe what they wanted, and in less than two hours have it working. This is someone with no software experience.

Three years ago, if I had been asked to create something like that, it would have taken me more than two hours, just because I've never used tkinter and would have to spend time reading the docs and figuring out how to make the different input boxes and laying them out properly.

I looked at the code, and no, it's not great. It's not designed "well" and isn't very extensible. But it works for him, doesn't need to be extended, and all in half a morning.
I must be damn near made out of micro plastics by now. I shouldn't stand close to the fire.
I'd be interested in seeing this measured. Probably it depends on how much abuse the plastic container receives. I don't think mine ever come in contact with something > 50°C, and the dish scraper I use isn't very pointy, but ymmv.

The reason I'm sticking with the tea-bag as the greater contributor is that I expect that the likelihood of a given region of plastic detaching and being washed into food/drink is related to:

- how closely the overall piece resembles a sphere and how large that sphere is (e.g. whiskers are likely to be knocked off, whereas the center of a sphere is unlikely to be dug out

- whether it has ever gone through this kind of treatment before

Sort of like how when eating a donut covered in powered sugar 95% of the mess happens within the first second of handling it.
> You'll still need the best of the best undergrads at the very least to solve it.

Ok, so I hope you admit that OAI could manually solve them now?

> Open AI didn't have any hand in providing problem

And you know this exactly how?

> I stopped arguing with you a couple responses ago

sure, of course, lmao
This piece was less about robotics and more about creating cool scenery.
More likely it'll be normalised until we all start to think of it as normal and start to write like that ourselves.
Ask people on the street what the worst crime is and a lot of them will mention pedophilia.
This didn't even register to the old men who wrote the Bible 2k years ago.

If someone wrote a Bible today it would probably get mentioned in one of the sins.
SCOTUS has ruled multiple times that Congress has the authority to determine policy that they believe best fulfills this part of the clause.
Brominated Flame Retardants?! It's pretty widely accepted that these are highly toxic. The question regulators have been looking at [1] is how dangerous they are when used in domestic furniture, curtains, etc, where children might be exposed and it might be present in household dust. At least when used in these products, the presence of BFRs hopefully does more good than harm, by preventing fires.

But nobody ever thought anyone would actually be crazy enough to put BFRs in kitchen utensils, where perfectly good, and cheap, alternatives exist!

[1] https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...
In my opinion, all of the arguments are simple and none really analyze AI in depth. They focus on single outcomes, rather than talk about how AI might change society in detail. They single out AI as a separate technology, rather than talk about the existing effects of advanced technology and how AI is a force multiplier for these effects.

Unfortunately, the effects of advanced technology is not so simple and biases are present throughout society because technological development is tied to sustenance and thus biases arise to protect people from congitive dissonance.

Stronger arguments against AI have already been raised by several authors such as David Skrbina ("The Metaphysics of Technology") and Jacques Ellul ("The Technological Society").

In other words, by isolating AI, the issue is very unclear. Only by understanding it as an apex technology amongst advanced technology is it possible to understand its risks.
It's important to base life decisions on very real technological change. We don't know what the change will be, but it's coming. At the very least, that suggests more diverse skills.

We're all usually (but not always) better off, with more productivity, eventually, but in the meantime, jobs do disappear. Robotics did not fully displace machinists and factory workers, but single-skilled people in Detroit did not do well. The loom, the steam engine... all of them displaced often highly-trained often low-skilled artisans.
Neat! Missed that one earlier this month, good to see.
I'm surprised Texas schools weren't already using the American Bible, where Jesus is white, loves guns and money, and is obsessed with gay people.
I think that's you. I just dump all my code in the open, without feeling any obligation.
Non-tesla infra has gotten a lot better over the past couple years, at least according to this one YouTube EV road trip I watched recently: https://youtu.be/ouPiwt5hxXQ
Discussion (221 points, 3 days ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457213
They help realize business outcomes.
Ask HN: Can you monetize an eBook reader?
I’ve been working on an eVook reader specialized for people learning a second language, to help myself learn french. I think other people might be interested in it so I’ll probably make it public at some point but I suspect the average person isn’t technically inclined enough to download ePubs and manage them themselves.

It would be great to be able to have an ebook store but that sounds like it would involve a very complicated licensing situation.

I was thinking instead that I could have deals with sites like royal road (or directly with authors on the site) which feels like it would be easier since the average author on those sites would probably be more willing to deal with a random person like me. What do you all think?
Remention: Help SaaS grow with in-app rewards
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I've always found the litmus test of choice for measuring lag is NES Punch-out - your performance in that game is heavily dependent on lightning fast reaction time and any additional latency towards the later stages will 100% get you KO'd.
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British soldiers successfully test drone killer radiowave weapon for first time
I have a Tesla and my interaction with the local service center has been pretty much as good as my prior interactions with a trusted mechanic.

The dealer model is just regulatory capture. It's a dumb middle man that provides no value beyond what the manufacturer can do. It's only there because dealers tend to be over represented in state and federal officials. So, of course, they keep and create regulations which penalize direct sales.
Surely it depends on the sitting distance? I have 2 27" 19:10 screens next to each other and do not need to move my head to see all parts of the screen.
Papa told mama and laura told nick...
Waterpik with the large tank, a quarter full of Listerine, and a regular pik. Use a second pik to keep the tiny cover tilted open, to keep pressure up.
1. Know how to shoot a film within a budget

2. Limit the building of sets

3. Shoot in Hungary and get loads of tax credits

4. Also shoot outside the US to get around union requirements

5. Don't pay a salary to many members of the crew, including the director

6. ???

7. The Brutalist!
> Final note, inflation helps encourage people to use their money and keep the economy moving.

The government offers inflation protected securities, matching inflation plus some usually minimal interest.
Your original claim was "retain value". I think that was good wording - gold isn't a "make money" asset; it's a "don't lose it all" asset.

Comparing its investment performance to TIPS is therefore moving the goalposts from "retains value" to "grows fast". (Or am I taking the words in your first post as being more precise than they were intended?)
...something that continues to impress me.
Since you don't own an EV, you probably haven't noticed how much better they've got in the past year. There's been a huge improvement, and many of them are now considerably faster than Tesla chargers, especially if you have an 800v car.
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iirc, they basically avoided fancy routing algos and just let the robot haphazardly wander the space (and determined that the room was clean after a set number of activations for each bumper sensor)
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It’s still not great. I drove I5 North for the holidays and at one stop there was an hour+ long wait at Electrify America. Only 3/4 stalls working and a queue 5 or 6 deep to charge. At the same stop there were 12+ Tesla chargers and no issue with wait and not fully occupied
The authors' focus here seems to be on considering AI as something with its own goals and intent, however there's another category of risk which is much closer: What humans will do to humans using AI as a tool.

Consider the difference between "I worry inventing nuclear bombs will make us extinct" versus "I worry inventing the Hypermind from the book Don't Create The Torment Nexus will make us extinct." The former doesn't have agency.
https://archive.ph/j8jwp
Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover
There was a different study earlier this year on hacker news about the storage items - cling wrap and plastic containers, those materials all leach into food at different rates depending upon the temperature, acidity of food, and length of exposure contact - hotter and more acidic and longer means more leaching. It's non-zero but the danger level is anyone's guess at this point.
If your career moves forward thanks to recruiters who seek out resumes that fit the standard mold... I'd say that track is just fine to get derailed from. Will a year off change who you hear from, and what you do? Of course! Isn't that the point? Jump the tracks, do something new, and find a direction that inspires you.
72Hz is already a huge improvement in flicker from 60Hz though, and certainly maintains excellent motion quality.
TL;DR about spherical harmonics: It is what you use instead of Fourier transforms if what you transform is on the surface of a sphere.

My experience is from cosmology (CMB) where they are heavily used just like Fourier transforms, I think they are also used in meteorology.
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Hard agree.

I’ve been chatting to my partners about this, and we aren’t planning to deploy anything net new on WordPress indefinitely.

In one respect it’s a shame to give Matt that power. On the other hand, I can’t control that he’s showing his ass, and I’m not risking my business or client deliverables on an unstable ecosystem.
It's not the devs in the sense of the coders, but more the senior managers and directors. I.e the Altmans and Nadellas. Software devs will be mid-tier just as today.

Institutional and social media will become more sophisticated in shaping public opinion. It will be bolstering the political party or parties that support AI. Oligarchy will be more entrenched.

There may be a superabundance of circuses in the form of AI-generated content, but not of bread, because of the profit motives elsewhere in the economy and the need for more energy to produce more things. I'm not convinced we'll make the energy, it will be some significant multiple of the energy devoted to the AI itself to have much impact. People will still work at least as much as they do today, except for a slightly enlarged plutocracy.

If there are more people in the world, living standards will barely budge. For example, robots replacing doctors and surgeons completely will only happen if the profit generated by them is great, and if they are plentiful there will not be as much profit. So not really any greater availability of medical care, and fewer humans earning bread from medicine.

There will be interesting culture clashes, because different places will apply it at different rates to different priorities. What do you think the real priorities will be for Saudi Arabia to adopt? How long would it take for Egypt to adopt, and for what purpose? Kazakhstan? Libya? Pakistan?
Crushing was probably not the only danger you were in there - even if the thing would have just fallen and imploded next to you, that could have been pretty dangerous as well...
The fact that you believe conspiracies are real, of course. Duh. Every Smart Person knows that powerful people never conspire. Also the definition of 'conspiracy' given in Black's Law Dictionary is a fiction; there is no such thing as conspiracies. At all.

/s
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I doubt it, because it is a style that people who’re bad at writing already use. Like, our magical robot overlords did not make it up wholesale; plenty examples of that particular sort of stylistic suck were already out there.

(I am semi-convinced that the only job that’ll really be impacted by LLMs is estate agent copywriters, because estate agents already love that awful style.)
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Too bad no Wang Labs manuals were saved. They were quite nice, came in binders and easy to replace pages. Even the PCs were like that.

I had a few but they went into the trash when I moved.
I implore you to

(a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and

(b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur
Better, on your subjective opinion. Better in terms of measurable results? Obviously not. Telling people that soda is bad is an abject failure.
That is why I added the second Mouser link for the retaining clip, which is frequently missing from old stock. It takes a screwdriver to unclip it, plenty secure for transportation.
https://archive.ph/a1nu4
Today I learned that carefully preserving an artefact that neither its owner nor anyone else in its origin country wanted = “colonizers stealing.”
Hey I play chess too. Not a very good player though. But to be honest, I enjoy playing with people who are not serious because I do think an overabundance of knowledge makes the game too mechanical. Just my personal experience, but I think the risk of cheaters who use programs and the overmechanization of chess is not worth becoming a better player. (And in fact, I think MOST people can gain satisfaction by improving just by studying books and playing. But I do think that a few who don't have access to opponents benefit from a chess-playing computer).
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> Ever broke one?

Yes, drop one from a few feet, and the immense weight will do the work for you.
> You think the beliefs of Turing and Nobel prize winners like Bengio, Hinton or Hasabis are not more important than yours or mine?

Correct. Beliefs are beliefs. Because a Nobel prize believes in a god does not make that god more likely to exist.

The moment we start having scientific evidence that it will happen, then it stops being a belief. But at that point you don't need to mention those names anymore: you can just show the evidence.

I don't know, you don't know, they don't know. Believe what you want, just realise that it is a belief.
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> The sign bit has much more defined semantics regardless.

But which of those semantics do we need for conveying which of two states something is in?

If the Linux kernel recommended a more rich type for expressing the result of a syscall, compilers would find a way to express that portably.

Or they wouldn't recommend it. Or compilers wouldn't make it portable. Or libc implementors won't use it. Or lots of other possibilities. And we keep living in the world where we kill a process (often init) when we forget to check a syscall result, and pass fd-or-error somewhere that takes an fd, because those things are both integers.
i have to laugh at their proposition that Bonds built the modern world... that was slavery buddy, all that stolen labor funded the markets of the world.
Anyone else find the reporting of the location unnecessarily obfuscated?

> in the Texas panhandle
> in the sprawling rural district
> in the west Texas district

Only several paragraphs in do we find in a quote the actual location: Canyon ISD.

Then I have to go to maps to find that Canyon is a tiny town (pop ~15k) outside of Amarillo, TX.

I'm FROM Texas and couldn't figure out where they were talking about until halfway through the article.
But the refresh rate needs to match the frame rate to get the best motion quality. If you display the same frames multiple times you'll get ghost images trailing the motion. Lots of games are locked to lower frame rates, and there's barely any 72fps video.
Related (in reverse order):

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437201 - Dec 2024 (112 comments)

A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400008 - Dec 2024 (176 comments)

Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996156 - Oct 2024 (845 comments)
This was mentioned in "Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away"[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Power-Knowing-When-Walk/dp/B09PV...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decabromodiphenyl_ether

> In 2004, ATSDR wrote "Nothing definite is known about the health effects of PBDEs in people. Practically all of the available information is from studies of laboratory animals. Animal studies indicate that commercial decaBDE mixtures are generally much less toxic than the products containing lower brominated PBDEs. DecaBDE is expected to have relatively little effect on the health of humans."

But I'm sure you're right. After all, history tells us that if someone is widely accepted to be a witch, they must be a witch.
And even then, they weren’t that cheap, or at least good ones weren’t. Even with the benefit of mass production, this one cost $40k in today’s money.
You should be able to emulate close to CRT beam scanout + phosphor decay given high enough refresh rates.

Eg. given a 30 Hz (60i) retro signal, a 480 Hz display has 16 full screen refreshes for each input frame, while a 960 Hz display has 32. 480 Hz already exists, and 960 Hz are expected by end of the decade.

You essentially draw the frame over and over with progressive darkening of individual scan lines to emulate phosphor decay.

In practice, you'd want to emulate the full beam scanout and not even wait for full input frames in order to reduce input lag.

Mr. Blurbuster himself has been pitching this idea for awhile, as part of the software stack needed once we have 960+ Hz displays to finally get CRT level motion clarity. For example:

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6984