skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm.. I dunno.

Not implicating anything in particular, other than that biology is ridiculously complex. I can only speak from personal experience.

Before I transitioned, I noticed there was a pattern in my life where cis lesbians were interested in me, I've even dated a lesbian cis girl _as a boy_ when I was about 15 or something like that.

Biology is very strange.

I personally use the word "soul" for this kind of stuff. But that's nonsensical in the end.
This is kind of an interesting thought that more mirrors how Docker uses OverlayFS to track changes to the entire file system. No need for new file APIs.
Absolutely understand! Inflation economy and all, it's very helpful to know what suits peoples needs. Let me put some more work into the conversation modules and I'll lower the price starting February.
Which browsers are you testing with? AFAIK, the proposal is not final and the impl is pretty much non existent. https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
And that's how you lose good developers
Not only that, but the POSIX file API also assumes that NFS is a thing but NFS breaks half the important guarantees of a file system. I don’t know if it’s a baby and bath water situation, but NFS just seems like a whole bunch of problems. It’s like having eval in a programming language.
Is this a joke (I'm asking in seriousness)? Don't matter how they "advertise themselves", it's a hookup app. There aren't even any features (like forums or public postings) that would be necessary to call themselves a "community app".
> If you know what you need and can clearly articulate it well enough, there really is no limit to what you can build with proper instructions, provided the solution is in its training data and you have a good enough BS detector.

In other words: you must already know how to do what you are asking the LLM to do.

In other words: it may make sense if typing speed is your bottleneck and you are dealing with repetitive tasks that have well been solved many times (i.e., you want an advanced autocomplete).

This basically makes it useless for me. Typing speed is not a bottleneck, I automate or abstract away repetition, and I seek novel tasks that have not yet been well solved—or I just reuse those existing solutions (maybe even contributing to respective OSS projects).

The cases where something new is needed in areas that I don’t know well it completely failed me. NB: I never actually used it myself, I only gave into a suggestion by a friend (whom LLM reportedly helps) to use his LLM wrangling skills in a thorny case.
I finished calculating my taxes for 2024. Roughly speaking 20k more than I had already paid was on the line. It looks like the amount I prepaid in 2024 will cover it though.

That being said it was a particularly gut wrenching 2 days going over the numbers / figuring things out as I waited to collect the W2's and other forms.

I can't imagine how dealing with $80 million USD and 75~ people's job would feel.

I recall an article recently about organized crime gangs infiltrating the USPS. I wonder if this is the case here? [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/XBlQJ
The point I'm trying to make is that the details of any specific hiring process aren't really germane to the overall discussion. Hiring disparity is a metric that's measured at a much higher level than any individual organization.
Is this your email: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36157877 ?
The comment is talking like Texas is a bastion of energy, when they've made the news multiple years in a row about how entire cities collapse over what most states would consider trivial amounts of snow. It is hard to be a world leader in energy and to also have a wiki on your recurring energy crisis issues.
In writing that, I thought it was pretty self evident. I ask this in seriousness, not snark: have you spent a lot of time around toddlers? My kid is currently a toddler, and while the intelligence curve she's rapidly climbing is impressive, she is unintelligent relative to an adult.

I don't think I've come across any evidence suggesting that the human brain has changed the last 2000 years. After all, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built 4600 years ago. That construction required fairly advanced engineering. That's sort of beside the point though.

To go back to my original comment, there is some distinction to be made between knowledge and intelligence. Even those should probably be decomposed into further salient attributes. And modern LLMs seem to capture some of those attributes, but do not yet strike me as "intelligent" in the way the average human is intelligent, but the average dog is not.

I don't know, maybe I am conflating sentience or consciousness or embodiment or something else with intelligence.
What aspects of NFS do you think break half of the important guarantees of a file system?
When the first person does it, it's hacking/testing. If lots of people do it, it's cargo-culting and riding coattails.
I wonder if their devices are pwnd. Those "deep scans" on their mobile and laptop are not very reassuring. But it might also be that some endpoint at Amazon is breached.
The C++ compiler is required to perform this silent conversion according to the standard: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/implicit_conversi...
Cosmological data suggest the universe has become 'messier and more complicated'
I agree the multimodal stuff is amazing. I'm seriously impressed with the new Gemini 2.0 family of models and can't wait until the full multimodal capabilities are in general release.

In terms of the HeyGen vid, it's passable, but that was something I literally whipped up in 10 minutes. You can make ones that are much, much better if you invest in creating better training material. The voice and video model in this case only used the one 3-minute source video.

Funny you mention the "people zoo" thing. That's actually part of a sci-fi story I've been trying to write since I was in my teens. Roughed out here: https://youtu.be/2KLdaVs_ugw
AuthormetriX: Automated Calculation of Authors' Non-Inflationary Credit
> Whether a good is fungible is a a subjective thing.

It’s a continuum, but not particularly subjective. The degree to which something is an equivalent good depends on how people treat the item in question.

They may both be religious books but I doubt you’d find many people ambivalent if they are buying a Bible or Quran. They evaluate a used car based on mileage, but people are far more picky about content.
Classic false dilemma[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
How Can We Deal with P-hacking?
> flat keys are easier to make, but aesthetically, the keys with functions on the key itself are more appealing.

flat keys are easier, beveled keys are more beautiful . It's ok to say it
That's a pretty bizarre take on this dialog. But, you do you.
If your shell scripts/libraries are a little more complex, resholve can also help package them a little more reliably.

(I'd say it's overkill for your example here, but it blocks on missing dependencies and can support tricky cases such as modular shell libraries that expect different implementations of the same command.)
You're projecting, I don't have Reddit. A baseless ad hominem attack, how surprising for a Republican.
Oh sorry I didn't explain: they're interactive PostScript scripts for the NeWS window system, so they don't actually print, they animate on the screen! The "pause" yields the light weight PostScript thread and lets the rest of the window system tasks run, and NeWS had an object oriented programming system that was used to implement the user interface toolkit, window managements, interactive from ends, and even entire applications written in object oriented PostSCript. NeWS is long obsolete, but you can run it in a Sun emulator!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

For example, here's a heavily commented demo application called PizzaTool:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...

Source code:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/pizzatool.txt

It uses an iterated feedback pixel warping technique kind of like melt.ps, to spin the pizza rotationally, which melts the cheese and pizza toppings, instead of melting the screen by simply blitting random rectangles vertically like melt.ps -- note the randomization of the rotation to "dither" the rotation and smooth out the artifacts you'd get by always rotating it exactly the same amount:

% Spin the pizza around a bit.
%
/Spin { % - => -
gsave
/size self send % w h
2 div exch 2 div exch % w/2 h/2
2 copy translate
SpinAngle random add rotate
neg exch neg exch translate %
self imagecanvas
grestore
} def

It animates rotating a bitmap around its center again and again as fast as you "spin" it with the mouse, plus a little jitter, so the jaggies of the rotation (not anti-aliased, 8 bit pixels, nearest neighbor sampling) give it a "cooked" effect!

It measures the size of the pizza canvas, translates to the center, rotates around the middle, then translates back to the corner of the image, then blits it with rotation and clipping to the round pizza window.
Can MacOS natively scan QR codes?
Your comment is so bizarre.

You're saying that air-quality sensors at a location is "manual" reporting? That's your critique? What's manual about it? It sounds like an automated, objective sensor. Even if it were manual, the premise is that China is asking other nations not to release its air data. A 2012 article shows this has been happening for some time. Further, you need to elaborate what your point is (and answer "so what?") about gas measuring satellites.

> and you ignore the fact that China isn't a closed country, it's one routinely visited by internationals

How am I ignoring that? When did I say they were a closed country? Even more bizarre, you're introducing a strange claim that China isn't closed when China routinely scores terribly (worst category) on censorship and freedom of the press [0].

Here's another source [1]

> “China is making great efforts to improve the accuracy of its emissions inventories,” says Yuli Shan of Birmingham University in the U.K., who has tracked its data for years. But he notes that an assessment of China’s fossil-fuel emissions by the European Commission’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research found 23 percent more than recorded in the country’s U.N. submission for the same year.

You're welcome to provide resources that refute my argument, and I'll review.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country#Table

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/features/undercounted-emissions-un-cli...
I know that it's not semver, but the notice about the language itself not being stable yet is on the website.
I summon QR Exodia!
"Undocumented workers" can't vote. This shit was completely made up by the right.
New Model Y – Tesla
Protein aggregates gum up 'master regulator' of autism-linked genes
Long pressing still doesn't work for me. Perhaps because I turned off some features related to image intelligence.
Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL
Is it the ADHD or the treatment for ADHD that correlates with shorter life?
As far as I can tell, the training is still going pretty well.

Once humans learn enough, they are able to start coming up with and evaluating their own ideas.

This ability isn't 100% apparent with current public AI models, but I strongly suspect that this is happening behind the scenes.

Certainly researchers are already using AI extensively to improve AI, and that really has the potential to go exponential.
>He would likely be more intelligent than a toddler

I think you are falling into the trap of "we have technology and are therefore smarter." I would expect an average Roman senator could formulate far better speeches off the top of his head than 99% of modern people, and also in excess of anything an LLM is capable of. And that's supposed to be an LLM's specialty, there's no comparison when it comes to organizing actual projects like construction or campaigns.
Disco it , currently Nordstrom catalog is LLM searchable

https://www.ddisco.com/
Yup, all the software except the blobs for the SoC, display FW, and trackpad FW (since it's COTS) are open source! If I wanted to have those open-source, the entire machine would take a huge performance hit. I think of striking a balance.

The entire linux install is OSS, the keyboard is in ZMK, and the EC firmware is written in Arduino.
The value of an attack vector is not negated by there being other ways to achieve it.

This particular vector has the strength of being able to manipulate things other than URLs; QR codes support WiFi credentials, contact details, call, text (with content), email (with content), calendar events. Additionally, many app specific URIs never leave the device.

It has the significant downside of being plainly visible as a possibility to those in the know.

However, I suspect it may still be desirable to do this on the device rather than the server.

The other properties it varies are the obvious lack of reliance on a server. The improved "transparency" of showing the target URL for trust. The removal of the need for an internet connection.

But for an implementer I'd imagine the most beneficial upside is not needing to manage a timing-attack, and gaining additional targetting accuracy in the common case of a picture. There may also be organisational complexity reduction in pushing all the decisioning to the display/camera system.

Its fun to think about, with the significant weakness in both its visibility and its probabilistic nature I wouldn't expect widespread use.
Sounds to me like you want a search engine, not an LLM.
> your cloud account gets taken down or compromised

In risk assessment this risk should be resolved as „avoid“, because loosing DNS will be the secondary concern. Data is even more important. I agree that domains should be registered elsewhere and it’s good idea to have the backup of the zone.
Implementing Chip-8 Instructions
OpenAI's models in my experience are just as good at coding now. But it may depend a lot on the language and task? I'm not sure. I haven't been writing a ton of code lately.
Unpopular opinion: I really dislike the tron-like head and tail lights trending, and also touchscreen only centre
To a first approximation all breakthroughs are ignored for years until someone else steals them.

Transformers weren't scaled at google because it would eat their ad business. We could have had current level AI in 2020 if they'd been serious about it. They weren't and everyone who worked on it left when the gold rush started without having done anything meaningful in google.

Computer vision, which is the field I've been working on the past few months, is even worse.

Perverts in their basements are getting better than sota image recognition so their wifus have realistic vaginas, and writing tutorials which provide more working insights than any scientific paper.

This isn't a new thing. I dropped out of my PhD working on something similar to AlexNet in 2009 because everyone thought I should just use gradient boosted decision trees like everyone else at the time. I couldn't get $10,000 grant to buy a machine to run the training on.

It isn't just me. Yann LeCun's networks were running the postal service, but he couldn't get a paper published anywhere because it wasn't a hot area to publish in.

But, yeah. Tell me more about how great Western academia is.
That sounds about right to me.
While deeply dismaying on multiple levels Trump was outspent in election budgets. While there are many things to damn voters for being mere puppets is a worse overly-reductive explanation than that the majority are just bad people.
But where is the farthest sheep from the center of London?
Considering 2008 was inflamed by the Community Reinvestment Act, regulation that forced banks at gunpoint to lend to borrowers who were very likely to be delinquent, I'd say your comment is revisionism at best.

Calling it deregulation when it was kicked off by a regulation that forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford it is a very questionable position.
Mike Oldfield has stated that the conditions at the Manor were so precarious at the time, he had to learn to use the tape recorder and mixer almost by himself because the engineer was never there. Since there were so many instruments on the recordings and the mixer was not automated, it took several people doing acrobatics to operate the faders and dials real-time to mix down the tracks for the album. Therefore possibly those Morse code signals were picked up because an instrument was not properly gain staged before being recorded.
I'm still thrilled/terrified by uranium glass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass
I find this kind of useful, unless it gets too restricted.
Absolutely had a net positive outcome. Was also a self boosting prat. The Sinclair electric car summed him up in many ways: overpromised and under delivered time after time.

But the zx80 and spectrum, bootstrapped thousands into computers in the home. BBC micro came one year after, absolute beast of a product by comparison. The acorn atom which proceeded it was meh (i had one)
Librem 5 is a well-documented scam. Some people have gotten phones but Purism has made most people wait for years with no delivery. The ship date always sounds just a couple of months out and they keep pushing it out. If you ask for a refund, they'll try to bullshit you various ways. It's been a couple of years since I washed my hands of them and had my bank force them to refund me. But I waited almost 2 years myself. When I did research, I found people who had been waiting for 5 years. The only people reliably getting the phones were social media influencers. I'm not about to try to order another one.
I've been working on an free open-source macOS app for just that - https://nottawa.app Hoping to release in the next couple months!

The UI has been greatly improved since I took the original demo on the site, the real thing is MUCH better now. Same base idea - chain together shaders, videos, or webcams and then drive their parameters via an audio signal, BPM, oscillator, MIDI board, or manual sliders.

The beta link on the site isn't really worth trying yet - if you're interested in getting on the TestFlight just shoot me a message at joe@nottawa.app. Would love some HN feedback :)
Oh dang, I just emailed you saying that! Sorry for the noise :(
Friendly heads up that some thumbnail in your landing page are not loading. Specifically the ones that link to the sample resumes for a given title. The one for CTO and the one for compliance coordinator failed to load.
when I was a kid, I had a unique gift for numbers and breaking them down into primes that led me to somehow competing on the county level for these weird speed-math challenges that were popular when I was young. I remember using a lot of tricks. Being able to quickly break down a number into primes by rote memorization was a thing I specifically remember being trained on. There are a lot of number tricks out there that you can train and speed yourself up. this made me quite successful in certain games of chance and odds based games that require quick mental arithmetic when I was younger. Some of it requires mathematical insight, for sure, to derive insight that leads to more speed - but arithmetic can be trained for sure.
That's called innovation, something the current AIs aren't capable of.
> If you keep losing data to power losses or crashes, perhaps fix the cause of that? It doesn't make sense to try to work around it.

Ponder this notion for a moment: there are problems within one's control and problems outside of one's control.

For example, we can't control the weather. If it snows three feet overnight you simply have to deal with the fact that you're not getting to work today.

Since we can't simply stop hardware from failing, we have to deal with the fact that hardware fails. Your seventeen redundant UPSes might experience a one in a trillion cascade failure. It might take the utility ten minutes longer to restore your power than you have onsite generation.

This is not a class of problem we can control or prevent. We fix these problems by building systems which withstand failures. You can't just will electrons out of the wall socket, but you can build a better disk or FS that corrupts less data when the electrons stop.
you buy the "cancel" button of your favorite framework. Everyone can still use it, because otherwise it would be a disaster and probably the OSS licence allows using it anyway.

One year later another person buys you the button for $2. I guess the maintainer gets a cut, hopefully nobody forked the project because the maintainer decided to retire.

Isn't it better if the second person just donate the $2 to the maintainer?
I’ll fix both. Sorry for that.
Dose, scan, repeat: Tracking the neurological effects of oral contraceptives
Another angle is that they might use it to scrape more content for internal use. That’s on top of the training data that the user interactions generate. Which I was your point, I believe.
Do people with "Copilot+ PCs" get benefits running stuff like this from the much-vaunted AI coprocessors in for e.g. Snapdragon X Elite chips?
The Sunshine logo was (1) not multicolor, and (2) with sufficiently different lettering than the usual style.
Yeah but if your dithering is noticable in the first place you're doing it wrong.
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Weird this came up moments after I archived my Facebook account. I am just shy of 20
years on there but Meta is just too bad. Looking forward to what’s next.
Sales won't be helped by this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elo...

Europe really won't like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl_RNDMSA

And competitors will take advantage: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-politics-sales-opportuni...

Musk is doing too much brand damage to Tesla and he's a pigeon CEO anyhow: https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...

It's time for him to leave the business.
That was not what I said. Industry isn't defined by being a marketable activity.
not really a bundler without a dev server that you can just set to an entry point, and css support
You might be conflating knowledge with intelligence. Remember that modern humans benefit from the discovery and dissemination of 100,000 years of human learning. For example, most of us take arithmetic for granted. We might even consider someone who does not know arithmetic to be "dumb". Same goes for algebra, trig, calc, diffeq, etc etc. But those are all "knowledge" (i.e. a trained skill), not necessarily "intelligence". Math was discovered, in fits and starts, over 1000s of years across the globe by 10s or 100s of thousands of individuals, each contributing their drop to the stream whose current carries us along. Same goes for all other areas of human knowledge.

To my awareness, there is nothing in the fossil record to suggest that an anatomically modern human (Homo sapiens), which may have first emerged as much as 500,000 years ago, would be distinguishable from currently living humans. Here's a thought experiment: We have a time machine. We travel back 500k years and abduct a pair of Homo sapiens (male and female). We transport them forward in time to our present. We cause them to breed and produce offspring. During gestation, they live in a modern environment (nutrition, shelter, etc.). At birth we take the newborn infant and give it to a modern, contemporaneous couple to raise. Is there is reason to believe it (the infant) would not emerge as a normal, modern adult?

If there is no reason, what does that imply about intelligence? Is knowledge separable from it? Or is knowledge a necessary component of it? Or is knowledge itself "intelligence"? For my part, I think it is a distinct attribute, but I assign a low probability to that belief.
I was disapointed that a paper on space time ergodicity failed to reference the 1948 paper on The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline.

This is just typical physicists not acknowledging chemists behaviour that I had hoped we'd grown out of.