skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a few years trying to build a Xanadu-two-way-hyperlinks-but-with-Javascript kind of a thing and I eventually started to wonder, like, if you watch a lot of Ted's videos he's got this idea of a kind of potential for what computers could be like-- he often makes reference to this experience he had as a kid that motivated his work-- it kind of seems to me that with what's possible today you could make something that goes far beyond either World Wide Web or Xanadu or anything really conceived yet-- something so fluid and adaptable and humane that it becomes an real extension of the fluid way we think with all of the advantages that come from it being a, "computer interface" (ability to recall past states, discrete calculation, ect)

The real question is-- given the enormous economic potential for the creation of, "next generation" computers why isn't that we can't create groups like SRI, Xerox PARC, ARPA (..) in the modern age to create modern, "Engelbartesque" problem solving machines? Why is it that people like Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbar have issues having their ideas realized when by comparison every dogshit computer company in the world has had a metaphorical step up to plate in terms of potential for investment in broad horizon R&D projects? Apple has enough money to, "Manhattan Project" big breakthroughs (so does Google, Microsoft, Meta...) so why don't they? What holds back, "real" innovation? Why the hell can't I buy a Apple Nelson-Engelbartron at Wal-Mart? What gives Tim Cook?

It seems like whatever kind of, "held Xanadu back" is the same thing that held back the Engelbart stuff which held back the Alan Kay/Dan Ingalls Scratchland/E-Toys stuff which relatedly holds back the Seymour Papert/LOGO stuff. It seems like neoliberalism creates a kind of, "censorship by appeal to market forces" where there's so much demand for, "meh" (simulations of paper documents/office processes and video games which didn't exist commercially until the passing of the Mansfield Amendment; neat coincidence) that, "big ideas" aren't able to catch on in the nascent culture. If you look at this historically it's really rather unexceptional-- it's generally a small percentage of the total population that is, "highly literate" and this doesn't seem to be any different in the age of personal computers despite the lofty ideals that surround open source and the World Wide Web. Until you can build an, "adult Dynabook" which solves social inequality it seems like it's going to stay the same. Panem et circenses.

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

"You program computers for a living and you think this is the best design for universal problem solving machines? Do you have no imagination? No grasp of the history of these machines?!"
The chain-of-thought prompting demonstrates that the output tape can act as procedural memory.
Look out for stern opposition to Amazon's behavior in the Washington Post "Democracy Dies in Darkness"
In general, in template heavy libraries, what kills performance in debug builds is lack of inlining with optimizations turned off. And templates traditionally need to be inlinable by having their full definition in a header, so one can't even say build with optimizations on with debug info in isolation, because it has to be done where the templates are used, not in the library where they're defined (because there is no separately built library for the template). In other words, it's a real pain to get just the templates optimized while the rest of your code is not optimized for easier debugging.
I wonder the same about Americans
I think you're being deliberately obtuse as to the parent poster's point. In 2003 the military was abused to start an illegal war that many knew from the start was wrong and had ideological objections. The Iraq war had a grievous effect on morale and on our moral standing in the world. Most of us are quite willing to defend our country by force, the question is how to avoid being sent into another pet project like that. If we want the military to be respected and prestigious, we need more robust protections against what happened in 2003.
Last year I set out to work some machine learning train+eval loops for my team, but ended up writing a config language. Oops.
AGI is AI that is as good as humans on all skills. It has nothing to do with consciousness or sentience.
All large corporations are corrupt and should be considered amoral at best. This applies to VW and any other multinational megacorporation.

If they can milk you dry and get away with it, they will do so.

I'm pretty sure that the good sentiment for German engineering is rooted in smaller and more specialized goods, i.e high quality gardening tools at this point. The time when carmakers considered anything but short term profits is long gone
un as union, pr as pay raise, sl as slave labor. Just like how the Chinese dodge censorship
Ah yes, because major companies have never been misleading with patents.

> But again if AOM has full confidence that there are no patents issues then they should indemnify users so there is a guarantee it will be royalty-free.

Name something you're sure about. Would you be willing to bet your entire life savings its true? Most people would say no, regardless of how sure they are.
All they need is to agree to use "onion", "praise" and so. So much bad press for something that can be worked around so easily
Hooking up transformers into an agent AI does not seem like a daunting task given the ability to generate snippets of reasoning on demand.
Are you suggesting we should crowd fund to get the money for politicians elected by the people to actually for the people?
You clearly don’t understand when they use “gcd” to mean Chinese Communist Party
Get a capacitor that supports 700V minimum as highest applicable voltage, and a wire. Go to your socket outlet, put the capacitor in one hole, the wire in the other hole and see if you get shocked or not. Do the same (if you're still alive) with a DC source. Comeback here and let me know how the experiment went and also tell me why you skipped physics class in high-school when this was taught.
Actual paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/pathways-language-model/PaLM-...
Not today satan.
Gone are the days of huge generic dictionaries, a small tailored dictionary with a proper ruleset will pick off 3 word phrases with ease.
Yes, it's #2 everyone has a problem with. I have another rule, don't complain, and if you do, catch yourself. That stuff is contagious, especially with the small stuff that doesn't matter. It's like a plague and it will make everyone way more miserable when they probably should be, including yourself.
170V is peak to median. Peak to peak is double that (340V).

More precisely the math formulae is: "AC voltage" x sqrt(2) - for median. And you double that for peak-to-peak
>- “spyware” is not something non-technical understand. Just invoking spyware is going to make people think you’re crazy, not motivate them to fix the problem.

Even if you say the school is installing stuff that allows them to monitor your child instead of using the term 'spyware' that may not be too compelling, I suppose a lot of parents will reflexively think - so, that's the school's job.

Thus the need to focus on how these things have been misused in the past, maybe say it's their job to monitor your child during school hours, but after school hours it's your job.

Also note how you bought the computer, it is your property, you can use it how you wish, if they want it to be otherwise they should buy the computers for children.
Rich amateur photographers are a lot more concerned with their tools than professionals are, and about different parts of the toolset too.
Well if people would stop voting for the Rupert Murdoch private interest party things in Australia might improve. Seriously it's amazing the amount of damage that person has done to politics and the social fabric.
The day netflix starts showing ads is the day I kill my subscription to them. And I've had that subscription since they were a DVD service.
I must get aws job offers from recruiters every couple of months and they just can't seem to understand why I would turn them down.
China managed to censor 8x8 as a reference to Tienanman so I don’t think it’s enough
I’m not sure it supports the point you’re rebutting, but my immediate thought was the military. The draft, shooting deserters, press-gangs, etc.
I don't know what it is about game development that really brings out the yak shaving in people.

One time, about 8 years ago, I backed a game called Nowhere[1] by a very talented programmer. The original premise was an alien life simulator.

Well, it's been eight years, and development is still going strong!

The developer is currently working on the String implementation for the programming language he invented[2], which he's using to write the other programming language he invented[3], which is eventually going to be used to write the game.

[1] https://duangle.com/nowhere

[2] https://hg.sr.ht/~duangle/scopes

[3] https://hg.sr.ht/~duangle/tukan
> Is there data on how much real service one might be doing?

Not really ‘data’ but the last time I was in a combat zone there were mortars/rockets flying in on a daily basis, usually around chow time.

Also ‘safe’ jobs weren’t a guarantee. We were going out on a convoy mission and the reservists unit escorting us was short handed so just found a warm body to ride in the gun truck in the form of an office girl in the Air Force who had been in country three weeks and probably hadn’t touched a weapon since basic training.

Mission takes priority and if you need a body you find a body.

Also my last ‘real’ deployment was in a reserve unit and I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone. Zero discipline and we were a transportation unit so mobile enough to get into all sorts of trouble. We got out of there before things got really bad (our mission was over so they just sent us home) so there’s that.
It sounds like they are just saying its a layered approach that can be used with any codec. I'm not a fan of patented codecs, but calling it a grand conspiracy to re-patent av1 is a bit much when really all they are saying is it is independent of codec choice.
I could make an argument that most of the Western world or White guilt translates IRL to being NICE to third world countries when in fact what is needed is being KIND.
Why Christopher Alexander Still Matters
Greenspun's 10th law?
I've found https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/usb4-tb4-docks/ has a nice comparison of the many very similar (only slightly differentiated) thunderbolt 4 docks.

It notes that the Kingston, Sonnet, and others are rebrands of the Goodway DBD1100.
This isn't like [1] due to multiple independent lines of corroborating evidence, including multiple eye-witness accounts, photographic evidence, and satellite imagery from two weeks ago that corroborates this evidence.

It is fine to reserve judgement where there is no good evidence, but that's not what you're doing by comparing it to [1].

The null should be that the Kremlin is lying, especially in the context of fairly solid lines of evidence, and given their recent history of lying about everything and denying everything, even that which we can observe with our eyes (e.g. Lavrov's "We are not invading Ukraine" -- said in March).
>Maybe they were humorless prudes - though history may look back on today's outrage-fueled society as equally censorious

Hell to the yeah they will. My only question is what future historians will point at as the beginning of this era of repression.
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency (2020)
> And yet here I am, not canceling my Prime membership, because I suck.

I genuinely don’t understand. You have already argued that despite shitty conditions at Amazon, some people are desperate enough for money that the alternative (making less with better working conditions) is even worse. So if enough people cancelled their Amazon subscriptions that they had to scale back operations, wouldn’t those people be worse off than they are now?
It's a pretty reliable indicador of disuse.
Yeah, I have a Razer Core X eGPU that works really great
I think video games already do this; video game AI existed before deep learning, it just used things like decision trees and MCMC.
I agree it's super weird, doesn't feel in the spirit of HN to me.
I think part of it might be learning how to ask good questions. I wrote a terrible terrible C compiler for a class. But I learned so much about the choices between doing things the slow but probably correct way, vs the cool but hard way, or even the jaunt into esoteric decisions. This more than anything else in my career taught me how to evaluate random software.
As a professional, or even serious hobbyist, I think it's a good idea to dive deep, build one yourself. Really get a feel for the tradeoffs and hassles of different choices.

Even if nothing goes anywhere, it'll improve your craft.
This article makes me feel very good about almost always being several years behind the edge when it comes to hardware.

By the time I get around to using these devices, hopefully this kind of crap will get shaken out, and I'll have a nice stable of salvage accessories to choose from.

For now, I'll stick to my (also salvaged) MBP with regular USB, audio jacks, MagSafe, HDMI, SD card reader, and an extra millimeter or two of thickness. :)
You know what doesn't have ads? Pirated content.
Thank you! We're pretty excited about it too.

Though, I do want to be clear for readers, Seamless Concurrency [0] isn't fully implemented yet, we've only just started to play with its first building block, the region borrow checker. It's promising, but I don't want to get anyone's hopes up too early.

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/seamless-fearless-structured-concu...
The difference is the original goal of writing a game was frivolous anyway, so it doesn't matter if it gets done. Whereas if you have a book contract, writing LaTeX instead is a bit irresponsible.
Is this really that new? Its basically just using 2 codecs as a hack to get around the fact that hardware is hard to change and thus hard to make improvements to. So instead use one hardware implemented codec that is fixed, and a software one that can be more easily improved.

Surely someone has done that before?
Unless you grow it right on the square :-) And use the approach lights to boost the plants. Talk about efficiency!
I've been buying exclusively laser printers for myself and my family for 20 years now and contrary to the experiences described in this thread, I have had no issues whether the brand is HP, Brother or Samsung.

The trick is that I exclusively install and use them as network printers. CUPS always works like a charm and I can print from windows, mac and my phones as well. Occasionally on linux I have to reach for foomatic drivers, but it's rare. I haven't plugged a USB cable into a printer since the 90s.

Current brother model has been going strong for 4 years now.
I don't even need a small printer. What is the HP LaserJet 4M of today? That can sustain being the daily driver in a computer lab, survive a couple of million pages and has an at least half-reliable PS engine?
The difference is how good a $50 eighth will get you these days.

Back in the day we'd pay 40 generally, regardless of it being mids or some good stuff. But the good stuff wasn't "take your choice of 97 different strains", that's for sure!
I live between Israel and Colombia and you can buy more than an oz of pretty good weed for $44 in Colombia (more if you buy from a friend), and in Tel Aviv it's way crazier, you just go to a weed themed telegram channel based on whatever city you are in and they deliver it to you after you send them your info. A good 1/8th will be usually 50-100 dollars depending on deals
The Australian Government also has controlled substances laws, you’d just be prosecuted under those if it was federal land.
WebCompat Tale: Touching Clickable Things
Based on comments, I am apparently in the minority in that I could not care less what my kid's school does to my kid's school computer. I understand that the OP purchased their own computer, but that seems immaterial--Schools give/loan free ones, so there is always the option to just use a school computer and not sign in with your personal chromebook.

Am I just not paranoid? Am I not paranoid ENOUGH? I just don't see the big deal--my kids are at school, in classrooms, for 30 hours a week. Their time online doing school work seems like the least concerning thing as far as being under the control of school.
Definitely not in California. They've been copping 1/8's at $20-$25 for the past couple decades.
why do companies HAVE to get more subscribers?

can't companies continue to exist on the number of subscribers that they have?

can they not reduce costs -- while continuing to service that # of subscribers -- to generate better returns for their shareholders? would such actions cause shareholder/investor revolt?

why?

> the slow down of subscriber growth at Netflix is pretty clear and will require a response from the business

how far does this go? when google or amazon or netflix or whomever has an active user account for almost all human beings on the planet, what then?

why DOES a business need to respond when their subscriber growth has passed the nadir for given market(s) at given tiers when the ROI for that business at those tiers and market volume is ~20% per quarter?

are those returns not enough? if the company (Netflix) could keep existing revenues at existing customer volumes while also reducing their infrastructure/delivery costs, would that not be enough??

would they NEED more customers?

why?
I was pretty impressed by it managing to use fermat's theorem on pythagorean primes.
I've been living and breathing this project for over two years. From an "is the project healthy" perspective, your explanation of what you interpret from these analytics makes no sense to me. I suspect there's some pre-existing bias as well. (I.E. yes, Next is a very popular front-end React framework and it's been around for a few more years.)

Note: I love analytics. I just think this is, well, weird reasoning from the face of it.

I'll counter with this — here are the metrics I focus on as a measure of "is our open source project healthy"?

- How many unique contributors are there per release? && Is the number growing, steady, or decreasing?

- How many new contributors are there on a monthly basis && Is the number growing, steady, or decreasing?

tl;dr:

Redwood is healthy
Yep, it's hard to see how Cerebras will ever have much of an ecosystem, since hardware makers are traditionally not very good at building and maintaining one by themselves. But they're probably aiming at very specialized customers only.

Geohot is right about the AI accelerator market's problems, and a competitive 4-digit-dollars device is a great idea even if his initial strategy was way off. Although you could say almost the same thing about the high-performance CPU and GPU duopolies (Apple's chips don't count due to their proprietary OS lock-in, although I wish Asahi Linux luck at fixing that).

[edit] And beyond that, you have TSMC dominating the next-gen fab market, too.
Yep, they are the top of the dung heap.
Most philosophers don’t think the simulation argument is a particularly good one. It’s more of a Twitter meme, not a serious metaphysical theory.

Furthermore, the problems posed by the simulation argument are not significantly different than similar things in the past, e.g. Descartes’ demon.

I think Baudrillard’s work is a far more fruitful approach to this topic, as it addresses the media/entertainment nature of our “simulated” reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
All you need is links
> Environmentalist Stewart Brand summarized how the Malthusian predictions of The Population Bomb and The Limits to Growth failed to materialize due to radical changes in fertility: "The theory’s Malthusian premise has been proven wrong since 1963, when the rate of population growth reached a frightening 2 percent a year but then began dropping."

The fertility reduction in industrialized societies is a common "debunking" of Malthusianism, but it's dangerously short-sighted. Like antibiotics, industrial societies select for that part of the population that can multiply despite the change in environment. Total fertility falls at first, until the resistant strain grows to a significant fraction of the population.
Did your company adapt to remote work with in-office culture?

What do you think could help make it easier to reduce/eliminate meetings in a remote environment?
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization
> I cannot imagine anyone here seriously defending this unless you’re just looking to be a contrarian.

HN has a large libertarian base who are against regulated unions. They are seen as bad government interference in the free enterprise system. I don't want to start an argument but there's a lot of economics science that supports that belief.
Yep. Programming is really hard.

The idea that anyone can "learn to code" is a work of fiction. Nobody says that anyone can learn to do surgery, become a fighter pilot or become a barrister. I couldn't do those jobs. And lots of people couldn't do my job.

Telling people that effort is the only thing stopping them getting a 6 figure software engineering salary does real harm. Its notable that most people who say this aren't themselves programmers.

Its even true amongst programmers. I've struggled to learn modern deep learning. And lots of people here on HN struggle with "leetcode problems" - which is the exact sort of work I can't get enough of.

We aren't made the same. Software has been a highly in-demand skill for the last 2 decades, and I bet it'll stay that way for at least the rest of my life. Well, at least until AI gets good enough.
Here in Europa we have a requirement for companies and institutions to provide what is called a "privacy policy" which explain to the user, in common language, which personal data is processed, for what, by whom and why. Many lawyers are doing these wrong and try to sell an unintelligible mess of legal text, while the law actually demands that the user can easily understand it. The european laws are especially serious about that, if the users are children. A school in europa would need to explain GoGuardian both to the children and the parents. Things like "monitoring all browser history, social network activity, logging all keystrokes, accessing all files and remotely enabling cameras and microphones" should raise some eyebrows and have parents ask unpleasant follow up questions. Also the "for what and why" parts are enforceable limits, any undisclosed processing is illegal.

In contrast, Illinois has pretty much no data privacy laws at all, with PIPA being one of the worst globally. Talking to the school, local and regional governance about data privacy concerns can help, but US citizens need to think bigger and amend the constitution with a right to data privacy. Surveillance Capitalism is already deeply entrenched in schools, showing an EULA is a start as it creates awareness, but misses the bigger problem. The tech companies selling to these schools will claim that a friendly teacher sometimes looks what the children are doing, as they should, and then collect every bit of data they can access. They will claim their big brother algorithms will help teachers support pupils with their individual problems, that they improve education and enable students, and yet society isn't becoming enlightened, it is turning into a dystopia of surveillance capitalism and gamified control.

There is something wrong at a fundamental level, the USA was the bastion of liberal philosophy, individualism and human rights, and yet it is now at the forefront of data enabled neo-authoritarianism.