skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I managed several people for few years. I knew the ends and outs of everything. I can tell them what to do and how to do it. I preferred to let them do it on their own and be there to help them when they fail. No one ever came to me for help without getting the help they needed. My team told me I was the best manager in the world. But I wasn't happy being a manager. It was boring. I required me checking on them often. I loved my work, it bothered me to watch people struggling to work in job they didn't like. I wanted to do the work. No one could do it as good as me. I didn't want to get bogged down with administrative tasks. On top of that, I didn't have the authority to make decisions even as a manager. I was basically a baby sitter for people that didn't need baby sitter. So I let go of my manager position and I am happy. I knew some people could do better but I can't make them do it. I want them to do it without me asking. Just as I do.
This is partially why I think the crop of 'new' sites like Post.news, Hive Social, Gas App etc are all flash-in-the-pan stuff that will die off like Clubhouse did.

For one thing, there are too many apps already, no one wants to create another login. And secondly, as you said, people do not want "Twitter, but better". They want Twitter to go back to what it was pre-2016, and that's not possible, that bell cannot be un-rung.
Which half? Because I’ve seen both sides criticize the police when it’s convenient and then support them when it benefits their side.
lenin by victor sebestyen
Ugh, no way! Those people create messes that need to be cleaned up and don’t follow directions. The WORST
What amazes me is the software running the banking accounts. Whenever I go to an ATM machine, and I get the receipt, I never for a moment think they can be wrong by even one cent. Because they've never been wrong. From time to time you hear of a case where someone found a million dollars in their account, but this gets to be reported in newspaper. And to be honest I don't even remember how many years ago I read such a story.

I imagine there are tens of millions of people accessing their bank accounts every single day. A bank like Chase or Bank or America, or Wells Fargo probably processes millions of transactions per second. With essentially zero errors. Meaning 99.99999999% correctness, with too many nines to count.

How is that possible?

Not to mention, these guy are probably under hundreds of hacker attacks per day.
Why the heck are they trying to prevent creating original content?
Spot the Ball
When is one 'ready' to make original contributions to mathematics?
I’ll preface this by saying that I have no problems with fauci and so I’m definitely not the target market for this book.

I wonder, though, what would make a person want to read a book about someone that they hate? I can’t imagine a more useless use of my time than that. Even if the book was true (which I highly doubt given some of the other notable books by the same author “Profiles of the Vaccine injured”, “A letter to liberals”, and “The Wuhan Coverup”), what do you gain? Sounds like concentrated rage-fuel to me…
There are tons of people hoarding flaws and exploits for ever piece of software imaginable (Apple included), often these people only work at the binary level and consequently having source code isn't that useful to them. The source code however is useful to users of and contributors to the projects, and to some types of security researchers that focus on open source.

Using software means you will always be subject to security issues and privacy invasions, because programmers are human. Sticking with Apple just means you're still subject to privacy invasions and cannot fix them if you are allowed to find them, but going to Ubuntu means you can at least discover them or hear about them from other folks and patch them out.

Debian definitely has myriad privacy issues (link below), mostly inherited from all the open source software out there. It also has a strong culture of fixing those issues, including basic things like locally installed documentation loading images or JavaScript from the web. More help fixing them is needed though. The only official telemetry we (I'm a member) have is popularity-contest, which is opt-in and that will never change. There is also the hw-probe tool, for optionally submitting to the external Linux Hardware database site. The hw-probe tool isn't well integrated into the Debian installer/etc but if it were, it would be optional.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
https://popcon.debian.org/
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database

If you're really worried about this stuff, I strongly suggest you look at QubesOS, it uses Xen VMs for compartmentalisation, both for security and privacy. It splits up your digital life into one VM per area, with temporary VMs for dealing with unsafe documents and stuff. The split is up to you and you can run whatever you want inside each VM, including Debian.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
>same as my parents and theirs, which really suggests a genetic component

Were you raised by your parents?
Yes, the FBI grabbed, then opened the boxes after judge #1 said that they should not open the boxes. In fact not only did the FBI open the boxes and inspect their contents, they co-mingled the contents of all the boxes such that the boxes original contents could not be determined. Then they reached out to US Vault customers, and asked them to step forward and identify their items. Knowing that the FBI presumed guilt and not innocence, 400 of these customers filed a suit instead.

Judge #2 ruled in favor of the FBI. The Plaintiff is appealing to the 9th circuit.
Unfortunately, it's because they can 'engage' their audience better with Discord's features, than they can on an old-school message board system like Discourse.
> Guns, Germs and Steel is basically a modern eugenicist theory, racist and dumb.

Um, run that by me again? It’s been a while since I read it but doesn’t the book specifically argue that the Europeans conquered the Americas because of geographic factors rather than because of race? Do I have the main thrust of the book completely backwards?
You're right I did. Good call out. It's so easy to stereotype.
I wonder how much confusion is around people thinking "authentication" when saying or hearing "encryption"
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. David Graeber
You're not thinking like an air traveler who is just short on air miles to stay in the freqent flyer club. Flying isn't about convenience or speed you know. It's about being a big shot who flys places and has the platinum club card to show for it.
As an emudev, I think this project is great. Especially since GB development is usually the most common introductory system.

That being said, this might be better built as a general purpose framework to all emucores (exodus, unicorn or mame/mess would be a good starting point target). I could see this used for testing and CI/CD, not to mention general validation and debugging.
Prompt: What industries will be most impacted by generative AI, and how?

ChatGPT: Generative AI has the potential to impact many different industries, and the specific ways in which it will impact each industry will depend on the specific applications of the technology and the needs of the industry. However, some industries that are likely to be heavily impacted by generative AI include:

* Media and entertainment: Generative AI can be used to create new and unique content, such as music, images, and videos. This could have a major impact on industries such as music, film, and television, as well as the broader creative arts.

* Advertising and marketing: Generative AI can be used to create personalized and targeted ads and marketing materials. This could improve the effectiveness of advertising and lead to more personalized and engaging marketing campaigns.

* Retail and e-commerce: Generative AI can be used to generate product recommendations and personalized shopping experiences. This could improve the customer experience and increase sales for retailers and e-commerce companies.

* Healthcare: Generative AI can be used to generate personalized treatment plans and predict medical outcomes. This could improve the quality of healthcare and lead to better patient outcomes.

Overall, generative AI has the potential to impact many different industries, and the specific ways in which it will do so will depend on the needs and goals of each industry.
I'm still waiting for the video game.
> The biggest thing that brings me back to windows is that Linux _still_ completely halts when hitting low memory situations.

Had this issue on a low-memory laptop but it got better after I enabled zram. A leak will eventually exhaust memory, but I guess it should compress well depending on the leak.

But it is not a complete solution (once exhaustion is reached it a freeze would probably still happen) and not very user-friendly either.
Pretty sure you can get that same level of knowledge from smoking bathtub meth and watching YouTube videos at 19x speed.
I'd be quite interested to hear the Radix Projects governance plans to prevent a future single point of failure again. Not being able to contact the bill payer on the last project isn't helplessness, it's a failure of the created organizational structures to have planned redundancy, succession and legal accountability.
I thought they were funded by perfectly counterfeiting US dollars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar

I note that when I searched DDG for “north korea counterfeit dollar” it listed several sites offering to sell super dollars in bulk. That’s… ballsy.
Yeah that seemed odd to me as well. An odd angle and distance but I’m sure they had their reasons
>On a side note it feels like each command takes longer to process than the previous - almost like it is re-doing everything for each command (and that is how it keeps state).

That's because it's probably redoing everything.
But that's probably to keep the implementation simple. They are probably just appending the new input and re-running the whole network.

The typical data dependency structure in a transformer architecture is the following :

outputt0 outputt1 outputt2 outputt3 | outputt4

featL4t0 featL4t1 featL4t2 featL4t3 | featL4t4

featL3t0 featL3t1 featL3t2 featL3t3 | featL3t4

featL2t0 featL2t1 featL2t2 featL2t3 | featL2t4

featL1t0 featL1t1 featL1t2 featL1t3 | featL1t4

input_t0 input_t1 input_t2 input_t3 | input_t4

The features at layer Li at time tj only depends on the features of the layer L(i-1) at times t<=tj.

If you append some new input at the next time t4 and recompute everything from scratch it doesn't change any feature values for time < t4.

To compute the features and output at time t4 you need all the values of the previous times for all layers.

The alternative to recomputing would be preserving the previously generated features, and incrementally building the last chunk by stitching it to the previous features. If you have your AI assistant running locally that something you can do, but when you are serving plenty of different sessions, you will quickly run out of memory.

With simple transformers, the time horizon of the transformer used to be limited because the attention of the transformer was scaling quadratically (in compute), but they are probably using an attention that scale in O(n*log(n)) something like the Reformer, which allows them to handle very long sequence for cheap, and probably explain the boost in performance compared to previous GPTs.
Descartes’ Daughter
Gridbox Is Shutting Down
It's just as likely they're having a mental health crisis of some sort (in my experience this is generally why people on the Internet go nonresponsive), I'd really encourage people not to call the cops on people in a situation they can't understand or get eyes on. It can make a bad situation much, much worse.

It's even entirely possible for both things to be true, eg, for someone to have a medical crisis in their family, which leads to a series of desperate decisions including misappropriating the funds (I recall a former HN user who did a Kickstarter that ended this way, where they had an issue paying rent and a mental health crisis while they were trying to deliver on their Kickstarter - I don't think they've been active online since, further isolating them from their community and support network). Would law enforcement help that situation? Absolutely not, even if the money was recovered it probably wouldn't be worth it.
There’s some truth to that sentiment about a bleak and grayer horizon. Now I shop in tech while looking over my shoulder waiting to get mugged by some shady dark patterns and outright user hostility. It’s not friendly solve my problems territory but a menacing gauntlet of wolves waiting to feast on the next unsuspecting prey to leak all their user data back to some awful place. It’s a bit hyperbolic but that’s the color of the feelings wandering around some new tech product. I just experienced this tonight shopping for a barcode scanner and having no clue how they operate and wondering what beastly proprietary software will have to be installed and worrying about all the security junk surrounding that. Turns out they’re not too bad, basically many can go into a keyboard mode.
I think ChatGPT is cool, but there was GPT3 playground before hand where you could get some pretty amazing output. Is the main difference changing the UI to be a chat based interaction?
> it feels like each command takes longer to process than the previous
The more the tokens increase, the slower the attention level becomes.
according to the video's description:

"This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. [...] Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent."

hopefully the magic is still somewhat intact ;^)
It worked fine for day 1, but for day 2-3 I wasn't able to get it to work (though I didn't try very hard)
My 2021 day 23 runs in 5 milliseconds for both parts using A* with a custom heuristic: https://github.com/orlp/aoc2021/blob/master/src/bin/day23.rs
No, it’s talking about changing industries.

And I don’t get the feeling that it can generate data, in the sense that usually means. More importantly, what it does generate we can’t trust to be accurate…
I really loved Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Too often sci-fi feels cold, and detached with characters that feel akin to chess pieces moved in complicated schemes. His stories, even if they are sketches instead of paintings, exhibit a far more heartfelt, human ethos. The characters are real people with wants and unfulfilled wishes. The subjects are both technology but also mortality, fate, raising children, loss. It's sci-fi, but also just good short story writing.

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories by Raphael Bob-Waksberg is another good set of short stories, more absurd and about love, but equally fun. If you liked the funny-sad combo of Bojack Horseman (which Bob-Waksberg created), you'll probably like this.
Personally, I've had more trouble understanding the PPU behavior than i did about the cpu instructions and timings.

I'd mostly been going off of The Ultimate Game Boy Talk[0] and the pandocs[1]. In trying to quickly dig up some resources now, I found what at first glance looks like a good blog series[2], so I might take some time to squint at them soon.

If any HNer has other good resources describing it, I'd be thrilled. It's been a couple years since I've hacked on my own emulator, and I got through implementing quite a bit of the behavior. As I recall, I was able to get serial output from the test roms, which was pretty cool. I put it down after getting frustrated trying to render the screen.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI&t=2957s

[1] http://bgb.bircd.org/pandocs.htm#videodisplay

[2] https://blog.tigris.fr/2019/09/15/writing-an-emulator-the-fi...
And I'll thank you for not running in the hall.

Where the hell do people get off?
See this. I suspect it's installed by default on Ubuntu.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/run-mailcap...
No?

We should build more reactors.
I actually have a W520 that I'd like to continue to use. (That keyboard, plus a surprisingly decent display panel for Lenovo.)

I hadn't heard of this problem, so thanks for the heads up! I'll be very planful and sparing in my BIOS config access/writes.

I think CoreBoot has made it to some if not all of the -20 series. I wonder whether it would make any difference, although I can't see how if you're still writing to that storage.
Where does Tesla advertise itself at all?
The hardest unsolved problem is document compatibility. It's not enough to have a cool tool -- you need to be able to interchange data with existing users of Excel and other workflows. This was an important piece during Excel's journey to overtake Lotus 1-2-3.

We (https://sheetjs.com/) have been looking into document compatibility for 10 years (celebrating our 10 year birthday this week!), and our eponymous open source project https://github.com/sheetjs/sheetjs is used by companies large and small. It's not a particularly glamorous subject and doesn't tend to electrify people in the same way as build tools or frameworks.

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There are ways to improve upon the space, but the problem is that the world has changed. Excel was designed to be the "center of the universe", a creative substrate that bypassed org security policies and enabled extremely flexible line of business tools. Excel was designed to be used by one user at a time, with fundamental inconsistencies blocked at the UI level (for example, try entering a bad custom number format). This made sense 20 years ago, but it doesn't make as much sense now.

The current crop of SaaS companies effectively monetize access to the data. They aren't incentivized to make it easy to export metadata back to Excel -- they want to keep you using the software. This runs at odds with the data portability and freedom that is needed for a successful replacement.

Whatever will replace Excel won't be a facsimile of the current tooling (what Google and Apple are trying to do), nor will it be a siloed experience (what the myriad of SaaS apps are trying to do).
Agreed. I can't help but feel that many current social media platforms are on step 3 right now.
If nuclear used fewer raw materials nuke plants wouldn't be huge - huge - capital projects, wouldn't take years to come online, and wouldn't have huge cleanup costs.

If the money spent on nukes had been spent on renewables and on developing storage we wouldn't have these problems.

This was predictable decades ago.

The reality is that nukes are a political solution to a political problem. It's nice that they sometimes generate energy for a while, but there is no sense in which they've ever been a rational economic choice.
I agree, I made the beginnings of an NES emulator a while ago and just never implemented sound. It didn't seem worth it for how much work it would be, and as you say debugging seems really hard. I remember there being a bunch of test roms folks had made for video and cpu things but not really for sound.

Also I'm not sure if this is the same for Gameboy but I remember for NES implementing sound also required you to do more work in the CPU/PPU to keep track of the exact timing to make sure things started at the right time, the right data was there at the right time, etc.
I mean no offense to those having a mental health crisis, it happens (I have had one myself), but that also doesn't mean a non profit should have its funds walked off with (regardless of why). I've reported non profits to the IRS in the US when it appeared they might not be entirely above board, and I never felt like I was "calling the cops" in the same way I would where they're going to break down someone's front door; it's asking people who are tasked with oversight to do their job.

Unequivocally, I hope this person gets whatever help they need if they need help, regardless of the outcome of this non profit.
Missing one step: introduce entropy.

A lot of human knowledge comes from "accidents" - i.e. the Newton under the tree parable, or from Fleming accidentally discovering Penicillin. It's not inconceivable that some entropy + this massive network could actually come up with novel ideas.

Though it still has no way to perform physical experiments, so it's limited in that way.
Wow, they really did make a video game of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMqpMn201Q
Credible proof to you = random twits from nobodies?

Well, I think we've identified the issue. Please don't look up flat earth tweets, it will break you heart.
Best is subjective, but...

- Travel, Alan de Botton: This got me thinking more than anything else that I read this year
- The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester: I read a lot of scifi and fantasy, but this was the standout for the surprising (and in retrospect, obvious) twist. The other interesting aspect was that this was written in the 50s, and you can see how their idea of 'the future' is rooted in the tech of the time

Of more interest to this crowd is probably
- Math Girls and Math Girls Talk About Trigonometry, Hiroshi Yuki: Brilliant!

And finally,
- Lords of the Deccan, Anirudh Kanisetti: More relevant to people from the Indian Subcontinent, I suppose.

My (still to be updated) list of books I read this year: https://shrirang.karandikar.org/reading-in-2022/
On Bullshit [1] is a great piece to regularly read to remind ourselves what bullshit is.

[1] https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on...
Also, substituting this worked amazingly well:

> I want you to act as a menu driven mainframe computer terminal from a 1980s movie.

Typing ‘games’ got me access to a submenu including a chess game that, while the computer wasn’t apparently willing to play, still evinced an impressive ability to render a chessboard and modify it according to the moves I played.
> Wasabi also noted that the way the remote URLs are configured, there are only 65,535 combinations to try, "which a computer can run through pretty quick.")
- From the ars article

It's a bit confusing, but I think they what they are implying is that there is a total of 65,535 possible keys. Devices may be assigned one of those randomly. The URL must send the key and some sort of device ID. It's possible that if you know the device ID, it would only take 65,535 attempts to gain access to the stream.
No, it has probably created more jobs at this point.
Ugh I wish I hadn't checked. There's very little chance I'll get a raise but my salary has effectively gone backwards, significantly.
I had a laptop w/ a NEC V30 (an Ultralite PC-17-02[0]) and I recall it being a very peppy machine even compared to my father's 286. I did some assembly coding on it and I liked having the 286 PUSHA/POPA instructions. I didn't know about the 8080 emulation mode that it has, too, and it kinda makes me wish I had one to play with now.

I had absolutely no idea re: the LinnDrum being a PC. That's really cool. I've never seen one in the flesh, but now I'm wondering if anybody has done conservation of the firmware. It would be a lot of fun to look at the code.

[0] http://old.chuma.org/ultralite/index.shtml
> The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient.

Excellent way to avoid engaging with an idea you might find disagreeable, a tip of a straw hat to you
Found the guy who hasn’t had a bad experience with cops.
I take it you've never hired legal counsel before