skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusing sci-fi, i give it a B- for bland prose, weak story structure, and lack of originality - assuming this isn't all AI gen slop which is awarded an automatic F.

>All three sets of worries—misalignment, concentration of power in a private company, and normal concerns like job loss—motivate the government to tighten its control.

A private company becoming "too powerful" is a non issue for governments, unless a drone army is somewhere in that timeline. Fun fact the former head of the NSA sits on the board of Open AI.

Job loss is a non issue, if there are corresponding economic gains they can be redistributed.

"Alignment" is too far into the fiction side of sci-fi. Anthropomorphizing today's AI is tantamount to mental illness.

"But really, what if AGI?" We either get the final say or we don't. If we're dumb enough to hand over all responsibility to an unproven agent and we get burned, then serves us right for being lazy. But if we forge ahead anyway and AGI becomes something beyond review, we still have the final say on the power switch.
> When Lockdown Mode is enabled, your device won’t function like it typically does. (…)

> Web browsing - Certain complex web technologies are blocked, which might cause some websites to load more slowly or not operate correctly.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
but I thought "Being told that you have to follow the same rules as everyone else for e.g. spaces designated to be used solely by the opposite sex, doesn't seem so bad."?
I'm thankful for folks who write articles like this. Even if the goal wasn't reached (getting the AlphaStation to boot), having something to show for a negative result still helps if someone else needs to go down a similar road - or, for that matter, needs to know not to go down a particular road.

I likewise wrote a COVID-boredom-induced blog post about my many missteps, and eventual failure, getting AIX to run on an old PC. My "learnings" there were that the installation media (floppies) are _written to_ by the installer, making a reset to a known state rather difficult, and also that support for IDE disks was only made available in a patch.
I mean, if their main competitor just got price jacked by taxes, that will push the demand to them. Since they cannot scale up to satisfy the demand, a correct choice is to raise prices. You can argue that this is price gouging, but the easy counter is that this is the market reacting to the taxes and adjusting the going price.
The LLMs copy human written text, so maybe they'll implement Motivated Reasoning just like humans do?

Or maybe it's telling people what they want to hear, just like humans do
I would like to understand why they seemed to use internet domains as proxies for nations.
RollerCoaster Tycoon and More Games Now Available on Apple Arcade
Then run your "fuzzy kitty plays on your desktop" binary executable, downloaded from we-swear-we-wont-hack-you.com, and live with the consequences.

In fact this is the way 3rd party windoze executables are typically distributed.

Nobody's stopping you...

p.s. The above seems like a trolling reply, but I always play the straight man...
This works really well on the less conventional android browsers I use. Kudos to them, says good things about the library.
Nice. Looks like a hacking game user interface.
Cage died in 1992 , this is not contemporary art
TypeSpec 1.0-RC: Design Faster Today, Scale Easier Tomorrow
Wait a minute, they used greek symbols and stuff [1]. When was the last time you saw an idiot use a greek symbol?

[1] https://x.com/Brendan_Duke/status/1907741651172311353
Dude I live in a hyper red state. The majority of people I know have basically the same common values as friends in Santa Cruz. Now switch to talk in 'propagandized' terms and it switches to extreme, but remove that and just talk and there isn't much difference.

They want immigrants gone, but every immigrant they know is hardworking good people and THEY should be allowed to stay.

They want crime tougher but their friend who fell out of the world because of fent/mexis they wish could get help not prison.

They want capitalism but love their communal national forests and depend on it's deer/elk meat as a huge (normally the majority) source of their protein.

They want smaller government/less government services. But their mom is dependant on government services, and their cousin with a disabled kid wouldn't survive without government help/the school specialized help so that is needed/valued, and when they were kids were dependant at points on government food programs so those are needed.

But one party talks down to them, says they live in flyover country, and promotes people like Jon Stewart unfairly skewering people they see as like them as it's 'entertainment', while the other party pretends it thinks they have value. So they choose the party, eat up the propaganda, that treats them like people/with at least some dignity.
The thing is that Jan 6th was done by part of the "people", so it's now America versus America.
IR blaster was so damn useful. Not sure a single production phone still has one.
Please explain what makes a composition “genuine” and show your work
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
While we're talking about Firefox, does anybody feel like it's gotten dog-slow recently compared to Chrome? Testing with the following gist it takes FF 2.7 seconds on my machine for the page to fully load, and only ~400 ms in Chrome.

https://gist.github.com/NatElkins/6f2538e58778fdf2868419d824...
Quantum AI powered by cold fusion and blockchain when?
"anything but the pain I'm experiencing now is better" is a short-sighted outlook. The working class will bear the bulk of the pain from these tariffs.
I have kids, and have had a Nintendo switch since launch. I cannot even let them play Mario kart alone without them being prompted to visit the store to buy levels or more characters. My 4 year old cannot go a few minutes without ending up back on the home screen, stuck in the settings menus or in the controller reconfiguration menu, asking me to get them back into the game (because they pressed the Home button)

Nintendo has lost it's way in regards to sandboxing a child in a safe environment. I looked at the new console and all I could think about is "another button I have to teach the kids to avoid"

Call me old fashioned, but I have purchased Nintendo DS lites for each of them as that is the last handheld I could find that doesn't introduce a browser or storefront with internet connectivity.
> And hyprland is freaking gorgeous, fast, and incredibly stable. I don't get nearly as good a development experience on my Macbook, mostly because so much of its navigation is based upon the trackpad vs. the keyboard in Hyprland.

hyprland is so much better than anything else I don't understand why it's not more popular on HN
CFOs should care about Open Source software
I'm thinking not much support is needed for user's that are willing and able to do all these tasks over SSH. They've pre-filtered for low support load

Back in early 2000s I ran a shared webhosting business, most customer's were savvy at the time and it was kind of a "you're on your own, let me know if the infra is acting up" type arrangement. I ran it with about 2000 customers for a year or so solo and only got about 2 support emails a day. Back then, 24-72 hour response was acceptable so I never needed to be a 24/7 resource.
It's worse. It's not drawing a straight line, it's drawing one that curves up, on a log graph.
...in part because fierce domestic competition within China drove quality up and prices down and in part because of Chinese protectionism.

These days Chinese protectionism is not necessary to keep the offshoring train running and only American protectionism will arrest it.
Yeah, I posted it once 6 days ago but it didn't made the front page so I posted it again 3 days afterwards. That's it

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=atum47
I don't have contempt for users. I have contempt for single-issue developers who have never stepped out of their little corner of software who act like front end should be easy because it's "just" some scripting.
I don't really care what you invest the money into, the point is that the VAT is a mechanism which messes with the concept of a free global market and it leads to unfair competition and an unleveled playing field. If you combine it with other factors (such as the fact that the US is the sole guarantor of Europe's defense) - the US is in the right for challenging the European economy.
Because the default behavior, the problem they describe in the introduction, is bad. It confuses many people, I’ve seen it firsthand many times as an observer in usability testing.
Be careful - those magnetic adapters can fry your port

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2307079/dont-buy-these-dange...
Oneplus still has IR blasters. I just use it to turn the TV off when the volume is too loud and the kid has lost the remote.
I can understand it, I just hate it. I would prefer confusing dots, a module builtin namespace, rebol backslashes, confusing slashes, anything else.
These docs are a work of art themselves, fantastic.
I think the usual bearish sentiment comes from:

1. The marketing (even "research" papers) vastly overstates these systems' capabilities

2. We've observed unacceptable failure rates for the majority of useful tasks

3. Despite a bunch of money being poured into it, failure rates are decreasing slowly even with exponentially more training and inference resources, and there are precious few tasks where we've arrived at an alternative reframing making those errors tolerable

4. The capabilities are increasing slowly, and it's not obvious that pouring resources into the problem will lead to the phase shift necessary to either overcome (3) and (4) or to generate some novel application that makes it all worth it

Almost every attempted application I've seen has "worked" by using the AI to push externalities to other parties. It hasn't actually made the composite system meaningfully more efficient, with notable exceptions (e.g., the chat interface, once you learn the tool, if you use it correctly, can meaningfully improve certain kinds of productivity).

Plus, for people who actually work in AI, the current approach is obviously wrong. There are roughly two sorts of architectures in use for variable-width data: recurrent networks which store everything and process everything (e.g., transformers), and recurrent networks which compress everything and process the entire compressed space (e.g., mamba), with a special mention for compression-based architectures which have a large enough state space that compression is unnecessary, and another special mention for slight variations yielding constant speedups like MoE. The problem with all of those ideas is that you're necessarily trading off accuracy for compute. To have sufficient accuracy on arbitrary problems, you _must_ store everything, and you _cannot_ meaningfully compress it. The thing that isn't necessarily required though is processing everything at every iteration (a direction MoE works toward), and past a certain scale, unless we get vastly more efficient chips in a hurry (even if we do, depending on the target application), it's obvious that you need a new architecture to build around.

And so on. I work in AI (old-school ML for $WORK, new-school at home). I'm more bullish than a lot of people, especially since I see a direct cause and effect in things that make the business and my life better, but I'm still skeptical of the current craze. At a minimum, it's one of the most wasteful ways we could possibly do this research, and society isn't yet in a good place for the meager results we're getting. New-school AI is, currently, a net-negative to society, and I don't see that changing in the next several years.
Do you declare your Foreign Key in your SQL database? What about MongoDB?
I work on TypeSpec. I'll be around if anyone has questions!
One interesting quirk with Claude is that it has no idea its Chain-of-Thought is visible to users.

In one chat, it repeatedly accused me of lying about that.

It only conceded after I had it think of a number between one and a million, and successfully 'guessed' it.
That’s just paper money.

Isn’t a bigger problem that the price of iPhones will significantly increase, which will decrease sales?
Even the language that the different parties use is targeted at certain sets of values; Arnold Kling wrote this short book on the subject ("The Three Languages of Politics"): https://cdn.cato.org/libertarianismdotorg/books/ThreeLanguag...

"The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt is another, more nuanced (and complicated), but extremely interesting take on the subject of how values drive political affiliation.
How does it talk about GPT-1 or 3 if it was before ChatGPT?
> multithread scalability is a well understood, if not easy, problem

As someone fairly well versed in MESI and cache optimization: it really isn't. It's a minority of people that understand it (and really, that need to).

> Building your application on top of message passing not only gives away some performance

This really isn't universally true either. If you're optimizing for throughput, pipelining with pinned threads + message passing is usually the way to go if the data model allows for it.
Since you edited to reply to my comment I'm stuck leaving a second reply: the conflicts with Indians were not at all the same as the kind of total war we're talking about with the wars of religion, Napoleonic Wars, and the World Wars. The subject of this thread is wars that lead to mass destruction of national power and lead to other countries taking the lead.

For future reference, it makes for much easier reading if you just reply to me instead of editing your comment to respond. This isn't a Notion doc, it's a forum, and I'm not leaving feedback on an artifact, I'm engaging you in a discussion.
Into the same vein - crude, but truly vendor-independent recipe: https://gist.github.com/Snawoot/b7065addf014d90f858dbd185d51...
What is this, some OpenAI employee fan fiction? Did Sam himself write this?

OpenAI models are not even SOTA, except that new-ish style transfer / illustration thing that made all us living in Ghibli world for a few days. R1 is _better_ than o1, and open-weights. GPT-4.5 is disappointing, except for a few narrow areas where it excels. DeepResearch is impressive though, but the moat is in tight web search / Google Scholar search integration, not weights. So far, I'd bet on open models or maybe Anthropic, as Claude 3.7 is the current SOTA for most tasks.

As of the timeline, this is _pessimistic_. I already write 90% code with Claude, so are most of my colleagues. Yes, it does errors, and overdoes things. Just like a regular human middle-stage software engineer.

Also fun that this assumes relatively stable politics in the US and relatively functioning world economy, which I think is crazy optimistic to rely on these days.

Also, superpersuasion _already works_, this is what I am researching and testing. It is not autonomous, it is human-assisted by now, but it is a superpower for those who have it, and it explains some of the things happening with the world right now.
Could not get through the entire thing. It’s mostly a bunch of fantasy intermingled with bits of possible interesting discussion points. The whole right side metrics are purely a distraction because entirely fiction.
We use about 1 part in 10000 of the sun's energy deposit on earth... No, we are _really_ far away from preservation of energy being a limiting problem
It's nothing like that, but you're entitled to be confused and wrong.
Yeah, it's really easy to cherry pick an example from the past of an application probably built by a junior level employee being brow-beat into submission my an MBA-laden PM.
The fact that it was ever seriously entertained that a "chain of thought" was giving some kind of insight into the internal processes of an LLM bespeaks the lack of rigor in this field. The words that are coming out of the model are generated to optimize for RLHF and closeness to the training data, that's it! They aren't references to internal concepts, the model is not aware that it's doing anything so how could it "explain itself"?

CoT improves results, sure. And part of that is probably because you are telling the LLM to add more things to the context window, which increases the potential of resolving some syllogism in the training data: One inference cycle tells you that "man" has something to do with "mortal" and "Socrates" has something to do with "man", but two cycles will spit those both into the context window and lets you get statistically closer to "Socrates" having something to do with "mortal". But given that the training/RLHF for CoT revolves around generating long chains of human-readable "steps", it can't really be explanatory for a process which is essentially statistical.
Stealing model weights isn't even particularly useful long-term, it's the training + data generation recipes that have value.
I have been using supervisord (https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor) on alpine and it works great for running different daemon processes. It's lightweight and hasn't ever crashed, highly recommended!
The Republicans in Congress don't all want the same things, and they have very narrow majorities, so yes, he does have to negotiate with them.
I don't disagree it's generous compared to alternatives and nice it's written into a standard, but it's not the "always" alluded to in the above poster's comment. There are limits other than just play time.
Certainly every chef-run fine dining restaurant would agree with that.
They definitely tell people what they want to hear. Even when we'd rather they be correct, they get upvoted or downvoted by users, so this isn't avoidable (but is is fawning or sychophancy?)

I wonder how deep or shallow the mimicry of human output is — enough to be interesting, but definitely not quite like us.
> there should be mass protests

Protests in blue cities will do nothing right now. We need to field candidates in primaries against complacent democrats. And we need protests in red districts (and apparently at Tesla dealerships, given that’s setting Musk off).
That's awesome, thank you for uploading.
>> If a tiger is distinct from a brain state, which I think we agree on, and if our thoughts are about real things such as tigers, which I assume we agree on, then how can there not be more to thought than the associated brain state?

> We also have thoughts about unreal things. I don't see why such thoughts should be any different than the ones we have about real things.

Let me rephrase then:

If a tiger is distinct from a brain state, which I think we agree on, and if our thoughts can be about real things such as tigers, which I assume we agree on, then how can there not be more to thought than the associated brain state?

A brain state does not refer to a tiger.
You might be surprised how many confederate flags are flown in rural Union states. You'd probably have an even higher correlation with the Gadsen. Weak correlations are everywhere, we're looking for the strongest, which appears to be urban vs rural.
I like that the "slowdown" scenario has by 2030 we have a robot economy, cure for aging, brain uploading, and are working on a Dyson Sphere.
> the upside of this system is felt by the entrepreneurs, investors and high-skill employees in tech and finance, while the downside is concentrated with low-skill workers whose jobs are offshored to lower wage countries.

This is true only if we impose barriers to geographic mobility, which we do via artificial scarcity of housing in our major cities.

If we produced housing like we did cars, all the "low-skill" people would be able to move to the city and find a job in the many other services that require human labor.

> the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.

We don't need more high-quality education nor do we need to onshore. We need to deregulate the housing market, we make it easier to migrate to the US (funny enough, yes that would help with inequality). And I do agree we need better social systems.

There is no way to frame this admin's policies that makes it look reasonable. It's a Crony Clown Club show.
Edit: 'wahnfrieden corrected me. I incorrectly posited that CoT was only included in the context window during the reasoning task and later left out entirely. Edited to remove potential misinformation.
> Would you mind giving more details about your use case? I'm curious.

That would definitely have enriched my comment, but, unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything in particular in the moment, and can't now. seb1204 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43564922) mentions one common kind of use case for me: I want to buy some small utility item that I'm used to finding in the hardware store, but it's sufficiently specialty that it's not worth it for the hardware store to carry it, and it's sufficiently small that its price would triple or quadruple if I paid the manufacturer's shipping costs.

> I've been Amazon-free for a while and generally I've had very good luck simply going directly to manufacturer's websites, but it seems like you might be searching for a class of products for which that strategy is ineffective?

As I say, I'm stuck in the situation of being vague because I can't think of the last specific time this affected me, but I have definitely dealt with relatively small sellers where the purchase option on their webaite is "here's a link to buy from our Amazon store."
> then you must accept

I don't, because this argument is nonsensical (I mean your point about source specifically). Unless you disagree with some of the core principles of modern economics (not saying that you have to agree with them..) that would be the most obvious outcome.

> So what if there is no reason to own property beyond a certain age?

Well that would mean that the savings rate would go down (for better or for worse).
Realistically person need just some XXXM to cover 99% of luxury lifestyle, and even stock drop 20x they will still have those money.

Also, Larry has some sickness, maybe his thoughts currently not about money at all.
> If properly refrigerated, milk can last for months especially if pasteurized.

But why take the risk when you can have fresh?

> You can also evaporate milk and it will last nearly forever unrefrigerated if kept dry

Is that still milk?

Cheeses yes, I randomly buy fancy cheeses. But most of my purchases are still boring predictable recent local cheese.
Well, no you see vegetable oils are actually bad and we should cook everything in beef fat or butter.

Surely that's not stupidly expensive, right?
With non-unique units paladins can only be countered by upgraded halberdier, heavy camels or a huge mass of arbalesters. Monks counter them in small numbers but in late game when they're massed they're almost unstoppable unless you have halb/camel in equal numbers.
Paying them for their tactics aren't going to change their decisions, only reinforce them.
Are they really CCTLDs? Not an attack, I am genuinely curious because I have been wondering how they came up with that list. Half the countries have trivial amounts of trade and it felt like a waste of time to even propose it.
You may enter our site iff you use software we approve. Anything else will be seen as malicious. Papers please!

I, too, am saddened by this gatekeeping. IIUC custom browsers (or user-agent) from scratch will never work on cloudflare sites and the like until the UA has enough clout (money, users, etc) to sway them.