skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Territorial Defence forces in Ukraine, an example of government backed reserves/semi-trained forces with equipment far beyond the oversimplification of "rifles".

I don't think this is true. They were formed at the day of invasion (or few days before) with those who voluntarily enlisted(very many people), they received some old AK with bullets, and then moved to frontline to dig tranches, and that's what stopped advancements, because it is still extremely difficult to clear infantry which dug into the ground.

> A bunch of untrained sport shooters and hunters

A bunch is not, but in US number of gun owners is not "a bunch".

> but its a shining example of a civilian group with access to arms being completely unable to stop a superior local force from driving over them multiple times when they have the desire and political backing.

Sure, superior in tech and numbers force can "run over" aka walk on the streets, while being regularly shot from the windows in urban area, and it was with 5x superiority in population. Now imagine dictator tries with say 100k loyalists establish his rule in country with 350M population?
I think if you take a few moments to read carefully.

You'll see that AI companies, including openai, are generally not competing on accuracy benchmarks.

For example, here are the benchmarks on which open ai seem to be trying to compete.

MMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding,

MATH: Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset,

GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark,

DROP: A Reading Comprehension Benchmark Requiring Discrete Reasoning Over Paragraphs,

MGSM: Multilingual Grade School Math Benchmark (MGSM), Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners,

HumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code,
Obama and Biden implied the same thing when it came to their favorite electric car companies, with many public visits to their plants, championing American-made electric cars and blatantly ignoring Tesla because they refused to unionize. So, the Trump team is just setting the record straight that Tesla is America's best electric car company (by far), and we should all be proud of it rather than trying to tear it down.
So I agree with you, but to be fair it is neat, and I think academia should be allowed to try things with little to no *immediate* commercial value. Being "neat" is enough IMO if there's enough resources to go around.

In the long run, yeah this *exact* application is sort of pointless. I expected to see the lens parameters factored into the process. It's not. This would mean that everything is not only dimensionally inaccurate since there's no reference measurement, but also proportionally inaccurate to other things in the scene. You can actually see the effect of that on the "flower car" example. (the entire shape of the car is warped) Let alone the fact that the entire scene that can't be seen in the original photo is made up.

Maybe someone would use this to make game assets? But you'd need to fix them up a ton before using them. Other sibling comments make the point that there's no wireframes... so we can assume the polygon count here is insane.

Either way... it's just neat.
This is well established. You can argue all you want but you're wrong.
I’m gonna give this a very charitable read by saying that while I find the ways that the treatment of burn victims was advanced by abhorrent means, we as a society have still benefited from those means.

> So once the model is created there isn't a good reason to encumber it by how it was created.

I am trying to be very specific here. I assume no untoward motivations from the parent commenter. I am not intending to cast aspersions. Whoever wrote this, I feel no ill will for you and this is not meant as a personal slight.

And I will be very clear, this statement as written could probably be defended because of the “by how it was created” clause.

However, “So once the model is created there isn’t a good reason to encumber it” is so… fucking I don’t even know, because what the actual fuck?

I apologize for the profanity, I really do. But, really? Are you fucking kidding me?

These models should not exist. Ever. By any means. Do not pass Go. Go directly to jail.

I understand the engineering brain enough to contemplate abstract concepts with detachment. That’s all I think happened here. But holy fuck, please pause and consider things a bit.
I'm not sure what one has to do with the other nor why it would be an issue prohibiting a discussion. We might disagree about what your agenda is, but surely everyone has an "agenda". Were your responses not what you wanted to express to me?

I just find that an obtuse response that completely looks past the post its responding to without even acknowledging that fact is a bit disingenuous but, I guess feel free to convince me otherwise if you'd like. I see a lot of your posts in this thread arguing how things will be okay and we aren't in a constitutional crisis yet but that doesn't seem to be a great response to the point that it looks like Trump is driving imminently towards one. Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
Legal life hack: You can absolutely sue people in many situations, even if they conspicuously post a sign that says "we don't take responsibility for our actions".
Yes. That’s what he does.
back in the 80s I got into a DEC system by doing roughly the same thing to an application running on VMS. basically you when it interrogated the terminal you could overflow it and drop into the command line.
So I should just look past some people wanting homophobic or sexist or racist in the name of class consciousness? Nah
> It seems like the author in fact did do this.

It doesn't seem like that to me. At one point in the article: "There are also a few issues [...] Let’s fix with the prompt" and then a prompt that is referring the previous message. Almost all prompts after that seem to depend on the context before them.

My point is that instead of doing that, revise the original initially message so the very first response from the LLM doesn't contain any errors, because (in my experience) that's way easier and faster than trying to correct errors by adding more messages, since they all (even O1 Pro) seem to lose track of what's important in the conversation really fast.
The new insight then is if you do things then bad things will happen?
>Parent's comment was the sarcastic observation that if employers ought to be able to verify workers' commutes, they could justifiably also want to monitor other aspects of workers' lives outside of work that have a significant impact on productivity.

Was it? Where did you get that idea?

Based on their posting history (and I did check before replying just to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding), that they were absolutely serious is most likely.

>The argument is valid whilst being entirely dystopian. There is a level of trust, or at least tolerance, between employer and employee that must be accommodated in society; otherwise there is no choice but brutally invasive surveillance of all workers.

Absolutely, and I never said anything different. In fact, the bit GP quoted and replied to was:

>A fair point, but there are some circumstances where both employee and
employer may need to justify/document such circumstances -- but on the whole,
you're spot on.

Their response was orthogonal to my point. Which made me wonder why. And so I asked.

Keep an eye on my userid. If you don't like what I have to say, I strongly suggest you don't read my comments.

Have a great day!

Edit: Removed poorly supported assertions.
I just tried it for the first time and it was a pretty cool experience. Will definitely be using this more. Thanks for the tip!
What, you mean microscopic fine-print inside the period at the end of the contract doesn't count? A contract of my immortal soul for a nickel would be unconscionably unenforceable? Everything I learned from Looney Tunes was a lie!? :p

P.S. I fear that a large number of people do believe that reality matches dramatizations. If I had my 'druthers, some basic How Contracts Work would be part of the US high-school curriculum, along with Debts, Compound Interest, and Taxes.
Nvidia is targeting AI specific or fastest single core performance . While Ampere are targeting general Web CPU usage which is larger number of core per socket. The two are very different. I would have like Nvidia to enter this space as well but they seems to be focusing on everything AI related at the moment.

Or there are some specific workload on web that their CPU benefits and get filtered across ( DB hosting for example ) rather than going into a separate market for general usage.
They probably jumped the gun on the feature toggle. The article says it's included in the free plan. I quoted it above.
I do not read it that way at all. The Goldsmith decision mainly turns on the idea that an artist protections include that for derivative works. Warhol produced a work that does substantially the same things as Goldsmith's, ie, is a picture that can be viewed.

When talking about parody, they note that the usage as the foundation for parody is always substantially different from the original and thereby allowed, even if it would otherwise infringe. LLMs are always substantially different from the original, too.

If I want to write software that draws that picture exactly, the code would not be a copyright violation. It is text and cannot be printed in a magazine as a picture. If I used it to print a picture that was a derivative work and sold that, it might be.

A large language model has no intersection with the picture or, for that matter, anything that it absorbs. It is possible that someone might figure out how to prompt it to do exactly the same picture as Goldsmith did but fairly unlikely.

Unless you could show that this was easy, common and part of the intent of the LLM creator, I can see no possibility that it is infringing.
Where is my superconductor based CPUs preferably at room temperature.
> Which somehow affects Go library developers stance on compaitbility and breaking things. The code written 10 years ago perfectly compiles and work on latest Go version, and it's such a wonderful experience.

I'm assuming you mean against go stdlib? Because sure as hell that's not my experience upgrading random go dependencies. Mostly use go in the Kubernetes/cloud ecosystem and upgrading the dependencies is an extremely painful exercise as most libraries seem to keep renaming and shuffling their APIs.
Perhaps that's why I've met so many engineers from these normal countries in my own, abnormally wealthy one.

In fact, they've told me so, in so many words.
I very much agree here. I've had the best luck when there is as little as possible config in CI as possible:

- mise for lang config

- direnv for environment loading

- op for secret injection

- justfile for lint, build, etc

Here's a template repo that I've been working on that has all of this implemented:

https://github.com/iloveitaly/python-starter-template

It's more complex than I would like it to be, but it's consistent and avoids having to deal with GHA too much.

I've also found having a GHA playground is helpful:

https://github.com/iloveitaly/github-action-playground
Compared to OpenAI, who seem keen to maintain the mindshare of everyone, IMO Anthropic are far more considered about their audience. They released a report recently on who who was using AI professionally and it was something like 40% developers, and single digit percentage for basically every other profession. I think they’re focusing on the professional use cases.
I can only speak for myself but I took 4 times a year or more off. Three of those times I spent backpacking and traveling in Australia, NZ and South-East Asia, and I spent time doing something else such as fruit-picking and working as a Dive Master and scuba diving for half a year. (Best times really)

Getting back to work was as simple as making a few phone calls essentially and exploring my network. Granted, it was a different time (decades ago) and I didn't look for a mega corp job that requires arduous interview process.

Since then when changing jobs and interviewing I've only ever been asked once about those "gaps" in my resume and I said that I took time off to travel and explore and was greeted with enthusiasm only.
> The standard of care is more conservative than doing whatever you can find a study saying might help

or may be not aggressive enough to prevent deadly decease. The point is that you can't know if doctor did some real high quality research, or just made some superficial decision, and there is no clear way to held him accountable for being lazy or uneducated.
He didn't say at at all it justified.

As someone not familiar with the case, I personally did find it pertinent information.
I would be shocked if it were not found everywhere.
Gun-Handling Judge Posts a Novel YouTube Dissent in Second Amendment Case
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I highlight Loki problems, so potential users are aware of them when choosing log management system. It is Loki's developers business to decide what to do next - to fix these problems or continue hiding them, so users discover them the hard way.
And trains have to reliably get people to their destination on time.

Regardless, my point is that the optimal amount of delay for profit and passenger satisfaction is not the same.

Ever since I’ve seen Japan’s trains drive perfectly as long as it’s not raining, on segments as short as 2 minutes apart, its become abundantly clear to me that delay is not an inherent property of any rail system.
Sure, I mean it wont be the case for all websites but there have been times this site was behind Amazons CDN and I know how to contact dang. It will vary from website to website. Some companies hide behind their CDN which is a red flag telling me to avoid that site. If they are a reputable company there will be a way to reach someone. People here often bring up Google as an example of not being able to reach a human and I refer back to my example of a red flag. If a website is not excluding their "Contact Us" from the AI trap that is either incompetence or malfeasance.
https://archive.ph/Q2bLp
The interesting complication in that distinction is radiation mutation breeding which we have been using for nearly 100 years. An accelerated "natural" mutation mechanism?

I think that main alarming aspects of GMOs are the business models it enables more than direct risks.

Though there are ecosystem risks, we don't seem to weight those risks heavily with any of our land use and ecosystem modification so I find it hard to hold them against GMOs specifically.
Rusty String Formatting in PHP
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I don't think it's weird to like a piece of software and have that lead you to work at the company that builds the software and also to develop an educational course about that software.
Do you have an example of at least one entry level job an AI can do? What is the evidence that AI do such job?
Ah, for "Crew-9"...is this a reference to "Plan 9 From Outer Space"?
It's a sliding scale based on what you consider "generally intelligent" but they're getting smaller and smaller. This 27b model is comparable to 400b models not much over a year ago. But we'll start to see limits on how far that can go, maybe soon.

You can try different sizes of gemma3 models, though. The biggest one can answer a lot of things factually, while the smallest one is a hilarious hallucination factory, and the others are different levels in between.
> then explained how they are in fact not meaningfully distinct beyond a superficial level

Which part of the comment did this? I don't see it.

The second line you quoted definitely doesn't do that. It talks about the environmental/pollution factor being small, but the environmental/pollution factor is not why they said the toys are meaningfully distinct. The factors making them meaningfully distinct don't get elaborated on at all, let alone elaborated on in a way that contradicts the original claim.
> The government of British Columbia filed legislation Thursday that would permit the province to levy tolls on vehicles between the Lower 48 and Alaska.

It was nice of them to exclude Hawaii.
It was great to finally have a normalized, standardized world view to bounce my own concepts off. It was like an advice column in an old magazine, but infinitely big. In my early 20s I must have spent entire days on there.
I guess LLMs are the modern, ultra personalized version of that. Internet average, westernized culture, infinite supply, instantly.

That's a really interesting way to put it and actually made me look back at my own heavily internet-influenced upbringing. Setting healthy personal boundaries? Mindfulness for emotional management? Elevated respect for all types of people and ways of life beyond what my parents were exposed to? Yes. These were not automatically taught to me by my inherited culture or family. I would not have heard about them in a transformative way without the internet. Maybe passively, as something "those weird rich people" do, but not enough to become embedded in my mental operating system. Not to disparage the old culture. I still borrow a lot from it, but yeah I like westernized internet average culture.
Why and how am I getting downvoting for asking this question? I thought HN was non-toxic…
Seems like there's been a recent exodus of YC partners all looking to pursue their own interests. I wonder if partner coverage in YC will be consistent as before, given that the ones who left are heavyweights:

- Michael Seibel leaving for working on government
- Eric Migi leaving to restart Pebble
- Surbhi Sarna and Nate Smith leaving to start Collate
I'd be more worried if there was a whole bunch of carbon dioxide.
You're correct but all that is true on average. There will be specific people - maybe a large number of them - for whom this is extremely painful. We can celebrate the former but let's not sweep the latter under the rug.
In Microsoft Azure the HT-off feature has had a bunch of previews that all quietly disappeared without ever becoming generally available. I'm guessing management noticed that this capability would eat into Microsoft SQL Server (and Windows Server) licensing revenue.

Similarly, I've noticed that all of the managed Azure SQL products lag behind on the latest CPU generations by many years. "You can just scale up at your expense and our profit!" is the response when you read about this in the forums.
That's untrue. See my comment elsewhere around here. It doesn't rely on the commercial aspect, though if it's not commercial the bar for fair use is set lower.

The argument in Warhol relies on the fact that the derivative work, ie, Warhol's painting, is substantially similar in function to the original photograph. If Warhol had used the picture as stuffing for a soft sculpture, it would not infringe.

LLM is closer to the latter than the former.
YES, this is exactly the case and why the Twitter layoffs and now the "DOGE" purge is a terrible thing (even in cases where it was totally legitimate to eliminate "waste").

"They had useless make-work jobs and sent 4 emails a week and watched TikToks the rest of the time"

So?

There's FAR too many people and nowhere near enough jobs for a large portion of people to do something that is both "real", and provides actual economic value.

Far more important that people have some form of dignity and can pay to feed their families and live a life with some material standard.

Anyone who's been in a corporate role knows there's loads of people that have a dubious utility and value--and people with "tech skills" are NOT exceptions to this rule, at all.
I 100% think the mining should go ahead even if it destroys some life!

Without destroying life we can't even eat. That's an impossible standard. We could have no mines on land either, not to mention cities or farms. When morality becomes a suicide pact, I'm out!

If the mining would destroy a large eco system forever, then I'm OK with not doing it. It's easy to have others than the mining corporation making these decisions. It's not a new problem for undersea mining.
It likely doesn't pass the constitution or will have to be subject to the Miller's test. Hence it doesn't really change much that the federal law already did.
It's very shocking to me that you would reply in the affirmative.

I think you're saying that companies who host generative AI web services, ought to be legally liable if the ephemeral generative content is illegal.

In your mind, should AI companies try and engineer protection from this huge legal risk? It seems criminally insane for a company to host an AI if they're going to be legally liable for the ephemeral daydream content. You should be shorting goog, meta and msft at the very least, because I make their models generate illegal content every night before bed
Source : https://archive.org/details/Hacking_The_Cable_Modem_2006
I had sons in high school from 2005 to 2021. What I wanted:

Prep for entry-level job in a trade at graduation
- prep that was as big a school priority -
as the prep to enroll in a 4yr college.

I didn't get what I wanted. What my sons got was 4yr college prep no matter what. Past that they could spend their elective hour in a trade class. Some of the classes had a 2yr-3yr waiting list.

Texas to the rescue:

"Your school system let you down. Here's some state sponsored religion to fix that. You're welcome."
As far as I understand it, smaller scale XFEL devices still suffer from poor aim, even though now these machines have been miniaturized to basement scales. They don’t need to be significant fractions of a kilometer anymore. This aim issue will probably be solved in the next few years. It’s an exciting time to be in X ray science, particularly anything ultrafast.
Californian water agencies have offered money to convert lawns to rock or low-water gardens for a while now.

The lawns get wrapped up in that residential water usage figure mentioned further up the chain, so it isn't a whole lot compared to Big Ag.
"so it doesn't matter what you think"

A perfectly fine, if incorrect reply, but then you have to be a dick. Why?
The AI submissiveness of courts is concerning. $500 billion promised investments are hard to argue against. Is this the new killer app for the broligarchs? Disgusting.
> but damn. Wretched

I am curious.

I know no React. I am neck deep in vanilla TS (not JS, small mercies)

What is "Wretched"?

My needs are simple (nobody at my org gives a single care about beautiful pages, it is an interface to an industrial process - big, feature-full interface, but not public nor a selling point)
> make workers less disposable without substantially affecting growth (see: European tech hubs).

Sorry, but you shot your argument in the foot with this example. The last two months of Europeans trying with great difficulty to replace US tech with local tech have shown just how little tech has grown in Europe relative to the US. Is that because of their labor laws? Unclear. But it's certainly not a shining example of success.
Well then it sounds like they'd better start a new training run, and figure out how to get it right this time. The decompression was similar enough to repro the libel multiple times. And who knows how many other people it's libeling in a similar manner.

> You can't "remove" it

Your honor, my machine here just does crimes, it's how it works. I can't just "remove" the criminality. Something something temperature.

And whose fault is this?