skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK Home Office loses attempt to keep legal battle with Apple secret
I disagree. We add complexity largely (but not exclusively) because they fix problems. The entire point of a web browser exists to solve the very complex problem "How do we run arbitrary code on client hardware in a way that's safe for all parties?"
Yep, this. Being aligned with an influential and well-liked manager is probably the biggest indicator of your overall career trajectory at a company.
WinRAR security flaw ignores Windows Mark of the Web security warnings
Yea, I've experienced this too with 3.7. Not always though. It has been helpful for me more often than not helpful. But yea 3.5 "felt" better to me.

Part of me thinks this is because I expected less of 3.5 and therefore interacted with it differently.

It's funny because it's unlikely that everyone interacts with these models in the same way. And that's pretty much guaranteed to give different results.

Would be interesting to see some methods come out for individuals to measure their own personal success rate/ productivity / whatever with these different models. And then have a way for people to compare them with each other so we can figure out who is working well with these models and who isn't and figure out why the difference.
Thats probably the case 99% of the time.

But that 1% is pretty important.

For example, they are dismal at math problems that aren't just slight variations of problems they've seen before.

Here's one by blackandredpenn where ChatGPT insisted the solution to problem that could be solved by high school / talented middle school students was correct, even after trying to convince it it was wrong. https://youtu.be/V0jhP7giYVY?si=sDE2a4w7WpNwp6zU&t=837

Rewind earlier to see the real answer
I'm talking about who can sign the forms that say you fulfilled the requirements of a degree. Random people cannot do that. Emeritus professors usually retain that ability.

I've served on PhD defenses where you had uncredentialed people on the committee, but who could not sign off on the degree.

This probably looks different to you if you're a student, because you typically don't see the paperwork that gets sent around afterward. But a diploma is a legal document. There is no "rubber stamping" of anything. Not if the school would like to maintain its accreditation.
The other commenter says he will not discount your experience. I, however, will discount your experience.

Your experience isn’t real. What I mean is, you’re not actually talking about your experience, you’re talking about a very small subset of it.

When things work right, the result is invisible. Nobody sees payments that come in on time, meat that isn’t rotten, chemicals that aren’t in our water supply, or roads that aren’t shoddy. The visible part is when things DON’T work right. Since this is all you can see, this is all you think it is.

We cannot imagine a time without these regulations and bureaucrats because we haven’t lived it. But, it did exist. And it was horrifying. Evil beyond the comprehensions of modern men.

We have, largely, eliminated that. However, we did it too well. Now, modern men do not understand the plight. They do not understand that companies used to knowingly sell HIV infected medicine. They do not understand that chemicals used to leave newborns with facial deformities. They do not understand that meat used to kill you. They do not understand that our elderly worked until death. They do not understand that tobacco used to plague our country. They do not understand that people used to live at work. They do not understand that union members and their family were massacred on the streets.

You’re walking a fine line. I recommend working to understand what problems these institutions solve, and then research how good they are at solving them. I assure you, it is much, much higher than you think.
> Each word/token is chosen as that which is statistically most likely to follow the previous.

The best way to predict the weather is to have a model which approximates the weather. The best way to predict the results of a physics simulation is to have a model which approximates the physical bodies in question. The best way to predict what word a human is going to write next is to have a model that approximates human thought.
One of the best shows of all time, both extremely sarcastic but so on-point at the same time. We laugh because we know it's true
AI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander
As an EV owner I just don't see the benefit in the battery swap method. I spend a lot of time monitoring my battery's health and keeping the cell balance from going too far out of line.

Maybe its short sighted of me, but I don't want some abused battery from another owner swapped into my EV. The amount of trust I'd have to place on a battery swap station to give me a battery that's just as reliable/healthy as my own managed battery is far too great. Would they just reject people who try to swap faulty battery's or just take it as an operational loss and recycle batteries that fall out of spec.

Of course a lot of this ties into future ownership/rental financial models, however the world works with everything going towards subscription in the future. If you're just subscription/leasing a car as a service the vast majority of people won't care of give a shit anyway.

As for now I own my EV and when the battery needs replacement ten years from now I expect to be able to buy another one, hopefully larger/more capable, and continue on my merry way.
Since the OP points to that article, we've moved the comments thither. Thanks!
Why would you need coordination with Adobe? Their software already reads DNG files just fine.
What Causes Am I For?
I was recently working on simple demos for Genetic Algorithms that only use basic, programming techniques.

My first one just tries to make a 64-bit bitting that is all 1's. I made random selection, roulette wheel, and tournament. Random is there as empirical proof that GA's are smarter than chance. Tournament is doing a great job.

Next idea is student loans. For maybe 15 loans with different rates, what payment plan knocks them all out the fastest? I'm fixing the payment size with a payment plan being a list of numbers representing which loan to apply the payment to (or 0 for no payment). Each step is (a) apply payment, (b) advance all loans with interest, and (c) see if the total is zero. Fitness will be interesting given I need to optimize for minimal principle and payments.

I found some other easy examples people did online that beginners might want to recreate. They include trying to get from point A to B with bananas at random places (avoid falling), best combo of items in your backpack for travel, and ants finding the best path to get the most food in a 2D map. I'll try to dig up the links later if someone wants them. Otherwise, those descriptions alone might be a starting point.
We've moved the comments hither.
> This will probably mean you have some revenue and some sense of where PMF might lay or some kind of brand/pedigree.

> Do not underestimate the value of YC brand and being able to present on Demo Day gives you

Except to get into YC you also need to have very good traction and a plan to 10x that quickly

The two exceptions to that I’ve seen are: 1) you’ve had a good exit before, 2) you graduated from Stanford, Yale, Harvard, or similar

So for people with neither of the above, finding 10-20 angels might actually be more doable than getting into YC. Although, once you’ve done that, YC is a lot more likely to take you in
I think it’s probably for the better… but it’s a bit hard for me to judge. I don’t know much about the project, and didn’t understand those details, so I don’t know how important they were, or whether there is a better way to address the issues with what was there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hiringcafe | https://hiring.cafe/ (not mine, but I've chatted with folks its worked for)

Know when to rest, not to quit. Take whatever job you can now while continuing to look for your next role.

> What helped you push through when it felt like the system failed you?

Grit and nihilism. No one is coming to save us.
Tesla doesn't need a fandom, it needs customers, and sales data shows they're lacking that and losing more every day.
Why Not Inquire Together More?
Graphics Programming like it's 2000: An introduction to Playstation 2 graphics
That’s the object level story that is obvious. The declining capabilities of the US government are not as obvious
It's like watching a toddler throw a fit. No idea how to self control, only knows how to scream and act out louder, take it out on everyone else.
ChatGPT is often wrong, so this is meaningless unless you go and find the actual source.
If you use putty there's a way to log all output, including terminal control codes. This lets you see exactly what was happening, eg characters being deleted and the screen being wiped, and other things caused by eg curses. It's probably possible to write a playback function for this.
Direct link to the paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1176
Also...

> granted by Adobe to individuals and organizations that desire to develop, market, and/or distribute hardware and software that reads and/or writes image files compliant with the DNG Specification.

If I use it for something it's not images because I want to create a DNG file that's a DNG file and a Gameboy ROM at the same time. Or if I'm a security researcher testing non compliant files. Or if I'm not a great developer or haven't had enough time to make my library perfectly compliant with the specification... Will I be sued for breaking the license?
Hard to define something that science has yet to formally outline, and is largely still in the realm of religion.
Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days
Of course, you're right. Neural networks mimic exactly that after all. I'm certain we'll see an ML model developed someday that fully mimics the human brain. But my point is an LLM isn't that; it's a language model only. I know it can seem intelligent sometimes, but it's important to understand what it's actually doing and not ascribe feelings to it that don't exist in reality.

Too many people these days are forgetting this key point and putting a dangerous amount of faith in ChatGPT etc. as a result. I've seen DOCTORS using ChatGPT for diagnosis. Ignorance is scary.
Openly and fairly regulated capitalism, yes.
On the contrary, I don't want political _nonsense_. What loss would it be if we couldn't discuss politics under the same guidelines[1] we use for other HN discussions. Places like Reddit allow chaotic non-thoughtful one-liner slogan/meme discourse. If we manage to discuss politics according to HN guidelines, I don't know where else you'd find this level of thoughtful discourse on the internet. It does stress-test this site, but so far it's been able to handle it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> fireworks, cannons, jellyfish squeezing water out to accelerate, no sudies of orbits from moons and planets, no chemistry experiments, no inspiration from thousands of years of flamethrowers

Fireworks, cannons, chemistry experiments and flamethrowers are all human inventions

And yes, exactly! We studied orbits of moons and planets. We studied animals like Jellyfish. We choose to observe the world, we extracted data, we experimented, we saw what worked, refined, improved, and succeeded

LLMs are not capable of observing anything. They can only regurgitate and remix the information they are fed by humans! By us, because we can observe

An LLM trained on 100% wrong information will always return wrong information for anything you ask it.

Say you train an LLM with the knowledge that fire can burn underwater. It "thinks" that the step by step instructions for building a fire is to pile wood and then pour water on the wood. It has no conflicting information in its model. It cannot go try to build a fire this way and observe that it is wrong. It is a parrot. It repeats the information that you give it. At best it can find some relationships between data points that humans haven't realized might
be related

A human could easily go attempt this, realize it doesn't work, and learn from the experience. Humans are not simply parrots. We are capable of exploring our surroundings and internalizing things without needing someone else to tell us how everything works

> That is, nobody taught humans to split the atom and then humans literally parotted the mechanism and did it, but you attempting to present splitting the atom as a thing which appeared out of nowhere and not remixing any existing concepts is, in your terms, absolute drivel

Building on the work of other humans is not parroting

You outlined the absolute genius of humanity building from first principles all the way to splitting the atom and you still think we're just parroting,

I think we disagree what parroting is entirely.
This is my general opinion with regards to bureaucracy in Germany. All the data is most likely already there and all the technical challenges have been solved in the meantime. Why do I have to do the runaround from office to office, when they are physically connected by a piece if wire (aka the internet).

There is a reason why we have so much bureaucracy in Germany (1. because we like it) and second because it is supposed to provide trust, trust that every company I deal with is legit, trust that the system knows who is participating. Without trust nobody would make business or business would be very hard, because you would have to price in the risk of not having trust.
I'd like to read that random promotion paper. I wonder how high up they actually implemented this strategy, because the idea of the CEO just being the person that chosen at random more than anyone else is hilarious to me.
It might have changed since I last had to deal with this (I hope!) but excel, at least ~5 years ago, was storing cell contents as they appear in the function box in the UI. As in, `1,23` is 1 and 23/100 when read in fr-CA, and this would apply to the function names as well. So `=SOMME(...)`. Excel is smart enough to pick up on a locale flag in the file format, but obviously it then shows you a dialog asking you to convert it, needing the language pack.

I also won't assume that we were making "good" excel documents. It's possible we were shipping badly made exports haha
Yeah, but it's not standardised because its output is so close to "bare metal", it's wrapped into a standardised format a few steps later when a JPG/HEIC/... is created.

Supporting DNG means that those few steps later it should be standardised into ANOTHER RAW-equivalent. A format which happens to be patented and comes with a license and legal implications.

Among them the right for Adobe to every method you used to make this conversion from your proprietary bare-metal sensor-data. This is not trivial, because if you're a vendor working on sensor-tech you wouldn't want to be required to share all your processing with Adobe for free...
Care to share any of this good evidence?
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I have it placed below the keyboard, like in a laptop. I don't see how the right or left side placement is good for hand travel time. If I don't mind that, I would have used a mouse.
Yep, I refuse to pay for Ford's navigation. As of now neither carplay, nor android auto, can turn on battery preconditioning in my van. I've been monitoring the battery heater state in an app just in case it starts working in a future update. Recently an update finally allowed carplay to read my E-Transit's SOC when connected.

It would be nice if I could figure out some way to just force it on with a switch/aftermarket module talking to the canbus.
No one knows how to make a pencil.

--Milton Friedman
The algorithms for getting a useable image from a Foveon sensor are very non trivial from what I understand - the different layers don’t separate light perfectly into red, green, and blue bands, so there is some fancy cross layer processing you need to do.
Describing the mechanics of nervous impulses != describing consciousness.
At first I thought it was running offline in browser which would have been very impressive. It does not.
Can Congress, in principle, stop this idiocy?
> Technically speaking, implementing DNG would be another development activity on top of a RAW export,

What are you talking about? Canon could implement DNG instead of CR3. It's not that hard. Both of these formats are referred to as "RAW".
What’s about sharing documents which is still it’s primary purpose. And most of the current complexity stems from the sprawling JS API surface. We know how to sandbox software (VM and malware analysis,…), browser’s complexity is mostly corporate driven.
I think when I was around 12-13 or so, a new Latin teacher (fairly young - not long out of university) had our class reading Catullus.

I'm sure you can imagine the reaction of a roomful of teenage boys reading Latin poetry that iirc involved quite a lot of masturbation...
I'm not sure you understand Marx. The author probably has read Marx during their philosophy training.

'cost centre' does not mean a place that a capitalist is unable to perform exploitation. A cost center in Marxist terms can be understood as a department that participates in the money-commodity-money' (MCM') flow but doesn't directly complete the circuit to M'.

For example, delivering and receiving mail does not realize profit for most companies, but is an essential part of the business. If they spend $1,000,000 on the mail department in Q1, spending $2,000,000 in Q2 is likely to waste the extra $1,000,000. But spending zero in Q2 would cripple the company. That's a cost centre.
Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse
The middle way requires an understanding of nuance that humanity seems to be unwilling to invest in.
Looks cool! One bug I found:

`curl www.google.com` works using 8.7.1 on macOS, but I get "Please enter a valid curl command" on your website.
The absolute majority of Pharo code I've written has been quite procedural and throwaway in character. It's a tool I pull up for a bit of exotic exploratory programming against some remote API or file, typically just a 'script' in whatever the window is called.

In part because it's much easier to boot a fresh image and start hacking than some python3 -m venv incantation that sometimes breaks or breaks something else. There's a lack of libraries though, and now it might be easy to just point the image to a remote git repo to import it but I'm not sure, if it isn't other languages has it easier. At least when you can just copy the algorithm into a file and put the right formula at the top and start using it.
LLMs don't approximate human thought, though. They approximate language. That's it.

Please, I'm begging you, go read some papers and watch some videos about machine learning and how LLMs actually work. It is not "thinking."

I fully realize neural networks can approximate human thought -- but we are not there yet, and when we do get there, it will be something that is not an LLM, because an LLM is not capable of that -- it's not designed to be.
> most great engineers will actively work with management to make sure they're not single points of failure!

Sure, but that is a load bearing "great" for sure. Not every company is staffed with great, selfless engineers.

I'm an engineer and I've worked at companies with engineers who actively resisted making themselves not a single point of failure because it gave them control and job security. I think it's not uncommon to have these types at companies and it really sucks when they have their management Stockholm syndromed because they make it hard for all the other "great" engineers to do their jobs.
Global Health Threat: Antibiotic-Resistant "Superbug" Spreading in Malaysia
Terms and Conditions Update: Forced Assistance for Obstinance
Climate change is only one reason for extinctions. Humans also tend to hunt a lot of things out of existence, like the dodo, that Colossal is also trying to bring back.
They could just get the government to pay the company gobs of money for conservation efforts...
Does anyone know how shadowbanning of submissions works? I submitted a direct source for this 30 minutes ago, and it's not showing up for others (both logged in and logged out) in the new section.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612672
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How to refine the asr result? Like some domain words are not recognized
Hi I am building a ASR app for recognizing the speech in realtime. But I found usually the audio model can't get some domain words or some human names. It is so common to have context for llm, but for asr model, if there is a similar solution for this?
"would likely accept", he says. Meaning: he didn't try?

If you look at the upper right corner, you'll notice that "Republique de pologne" is truncated. Same for the small prints: "OSSUE", srsly?

Originals look like this: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/POL-AO-05002/image-...
"But any trick prompt like this is going to start giving expected results once it gets well-known enough."

Which makes it difficult to fairly evaluate whether the models have actually gotten better at the feather/iron problem or if it just got enough samples of trick questions that it learned better, either naturally from the internet, or fed as part of the training data. I am fairly certain the training data has had "trick questions" like this added to it, because, I mean, why wouldn't it?

I have noticed in my playing with image AIs that they do seem more prone to getting dragged into local maxima when a human would know the prompt than the LLMs. Perhaps it's all the additional data in an image that reveals it.
We’re all just elementary particles being clumped together in energy gradients, therefore my little computer project is sentient—this is getting absurd.
Really love this. I agree with some of the comments here that adding encouragement to keep track of secret plans would be interesting— mostly from an alignment check angle.

One thing I thought of reading logs is that as we know ordering matters to llms. Could you run some analysis on how often “p1” wins vs “p8”? I think this should likely go into your Truescore Bayesian.

My follow up thought is that it would be interesting to let llms choose a name at the beginning; another angle for communication and levels the playing field a bit away from a number.
VMS was a sandbox-based OS released in the 70s that solved "how do we run arbitrary code on client hardware in a way that's safe for all parties?" Browsers are not that.

Browsers do have this component, but that's not the reason they exist.
I'm not saying it's more moral. Please don't pull this kind of shtick.
Last time I checked, NFC has a range of 3 centimeters...

Edit: can't reproduce this with my android phone, sitting 6ft away from my SDR.
90's crypto was interesting. They would just use naked RSA and block ciphers. Usually, the team would have one guy who was "smart about crypto" and he was just left to do his thing and after passing functional tests, it was accepted into the product. There was so much fun stuff to break as was it fun to try to prevent people from breaking your stuff.