skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand you have Figma and Google Docs as examples of canvas-based applications that work well enough.

At what cost?

Google Docs is run a by a trillion-dollar corporation, they have the resources to rebuild it in canvas.

Figma isn't based on canvas, it's based on WebGL. And here's what Figma had to say about it: "Pulling this off was really hard; we’ve basically ended up building a browser inside a browser... We’ve implemented our own rendering engine" [1]

Good luck getting text to render properly on your own.

Just because there are two great examples made at great cost doesn't mean it's scalable to all other apps.

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
Ubisoft has also added this to Siege.
> We are a very long way from AGI.

In fact it has just gotten closer.

Logic reasoning is a pretty solid branch of AI since it’s inception. Robust solutions exist for most problems; even a programming language based on its principles (Prolog).

With ChatGPT there is now a system that can express the results from automatic logic reasoning in language.

The next step would be to combine the two, i.e. tell chatGPT to explain the result of a logic reasoning program in natural language. It could of course also be asked to translate a natural language query into Prolog code.

This will probably require retraining the model, but I guess the demo we are given by OpenAI leaves little doubt that this is perfectly doable.

ChatGPT has the potential to plug the gap between GOFAI and natural language, which is quite a feat.
>Israel is corrupt

How so?
In that case there's gap for curated non TV weird. Could be filled by blogs, sub Reddits ? This is where I'd expect to find self funded stuff that only circulated on Vimeo or YouTube.

Streaming is still I think going to be the middle ground that can deliver somewhat weird but with a good production budget.
Before the abuse: intelligent experts attempting provision of a good or perfected answer.

After the abuse: intelligent experts using their time to check the vaticinations of a delirious toy.
> Trucking is a single digit percentage margin business.

Only at HN:

1. Credit card processing is a razor thin margin business

2. Trucking is a low margin business

3. Retail is a ultra low margin business

4. Airlines don't make money

5. Phones is a low margin business

6. Desktops don't make money

7. Cars is a money losing venture

But, then how come all of the above companies built empires?
What is _in_ their wheelhouse then?
AIs might alredy be juggling with emw, we can still do the jerk, play the fool, use parables, breakbeat, GANs, etc. No AI gets a joke...
Emory Riddle for aerospace engineering being another one of them.

But the relatively mainstream obscurity of these institutions is heavily offset by the weight they hold in their field and the near guarnatee job security it offers in niche fields...which might result in you making quite the pretty penny.
Are you me. My qbasic bbs was only for one friend though.
I tried it and it is INSANE how you can just focus on the UX/features and not have to worry about the boilerplate.

This is not just FP, this is "no runtime errors possible" FP.

With Elm-GraphQL your QUERY BUILDER is even fully type safe!

Robust productivity for the masses.
The problem isn’t the model. It’s that open ai has dedicated all their effort in to making sure it’s almost impossible for it to say something offensive or controversial.
Purify was awesome back then, before Linux and the open source tools.

(I think Purify might've been the first phoning-home tool I saw, finding a way to email Pure if you exceeded your simultaneous licenses, but I might've misunderstood at the time. Around that time, it was normal for big-ticket Unix workstation software to have network license managers, which were tied with stale NFS mounts at our site as the most common cause of a fleet of expensive engineers on expensive workstations with expensive software all suddenly unable to work. :) )

A related awesome C development tool we used for discovering memory errors before then was the Saber-C debugger. https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/interactive_c/...
Macstodon: A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS
Can the language model critique the author(s) of Emacs or Go-lang?
> two SSDs with high reliability ratings fail for us sequentially in a RAID array in a server,

Happens all the time when you buy storage in batches. We learned a lesson, go through 3-4 suppliers and split your orders over a three month period. Buying from one place in bulk is just guaranteeing data loss in your future.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
~ Mark Twain

This is my view on the SSD crashing family of events. Lessons learnt to always be alert and have backups handy.
I have in my head several horrifying and achievable terrorist plans – plans that I will never tell anyone in case someone else gets a wrong idea.

I too have wondered why terrorists don't do these simple things, but I have concluded they are simply technologically ignorant and not very bright.
I don't understand your point. Every part of the EM spectrum is "Named"
I absolutely love Google Photos. Hope they keep it alive
Linux and open source removes the capacity for people to compete against it commercially. It takes air out of the room. Why would we pay you when we can get this for free?

free as in 0 cost is very difficult to compete against unless you are 100, 1000x times better.

There is the value that would have been provided (generated) in revenue to UNIX manufacturers had Linux not existed and the value that exists with Linux being free. These are two numbers.

One is a tangible financial number, the other is another tangible financial number from profits not needing to pay for a UNIX manufacturer.

It's difficult to say what would have happened, but you cannot deny that prices for corporate UNIX DID in fact exist, and they were not getting paid due to the availability of the free option.

Also, remember that the UNIX manufactuerers would have produced value too, so you need to include the value produced by UNIX versus the value produced by Linux minus licence costs.

If you're using the argument that if everything was free then there would be infinitely more value than things being commercial, then why isn't everything free, if that truly produces more value?

I would expect everything to be free if that was truly the better option.
Spotify only knows what you tell it.

Currently, you can add a Bio, links to social media sites and create an image gallery, but the admin section isn't particularly smart, I can't see anywhere to set specific data like band members or timelines.

Not sure who's expected to admin all of this though, I'm published on 30+ streaming music platforms including Spotify and iTunes and I don't have time to go round adding data to all of them.
Pathogen evolution during vaccination campaigns
It blows my mind that Teflon doesn't scare the pants of consumers. Marketing and media must be very good for it.
> The speed is slow, route is rather short and predefined.

Not so for buses that serve rural communities. Where I live (admittedly an edge case) there are free-roaming ponies and cows that randomly create unpredictable obstructions and collision hazards.
Do you have a picture of these "logarithmically scaled directed edges"?

I can imagine what you mean but a visual aid would be super useful.
Artificial selection. By poachers.
Game boy had an 8-bit CPU very similar to a Z80.
> "terahertz radiation" (presumably a buzzword for high freq microwave/infrared?)

THz is a recognized EM band between (0.3-3.0 THz) - it is a bit more than a buzzword
Have you been to Iran? I have, many times. I will tell you a little secret: in that part of the world, Iran is considered Germany (stable, rules-based, strong-govt).

Compared to Canada, the US is like India: huge difference between poor and rich, gated communities everywhere...

Just my take.
Your line of reasoning (which is very common on this topic) is just fascinating to me.

You start with the assumption that it's possible to build something almost perfect, far better than we have today. Then you proceed to say that if we had this thing it would make life much better than today. Therefore we should work hard to build this thing.

I mean, if you replace "self-driving cars" with "anti-gravity technology", your line of reasoning can be applied just the same. But nobody is pouring billions into anti gravity startups?
As many others I also got in trouble for racking a phone bill. The fix was using the white pages that had a section that showed your prefix and all the other prefixes that were in the same zone, which was considered a free local call.
It's not poachers that cause elephants to evolve not to have tusks.

Cause and effect are very complex concepts, probably not even well understood ones, but I would rather avoid descending into the philosophy of cause and effect, so I will just pick a potentially naive idea of cause and effect. Assume a counterfactual world without poachers, would the elephants evolve to be tusk-less? No, so the poachers cause elephants to become tusk-less.

It's that some elephant got a rare mutation, and those mutated elephants aren't as targeted by poachers, thus are able to survive more easily.

That is the mechanism at play under the hood, but it does not mean that the abstraction of poachers causing tusk-less elephants or even more abstractly that evolution causes tusk-less elephants under those circumstances are not also valid descriptions.

Plenty of popsci journos write as if nature is intelligent and driven by some purpose.

Which - to a certain extend - is fine. Countries go to war, wars cause destruction, companies go bankrupt, rivers flow to the ocean, holidays make people happy, programs produce outputs, moving the mouse with the left button down selects text, ... none of this is really true in a certain sense. But that is fine, all our words are abstractions and we understand what they really mean, they do not have to be understood literally and the meaning can be context-dependent.
Some time ago I heard that the major obstacle to this truck is the weight. That is trucks in the US have a strict max tonnage and so the Tesla Semi can only be used to transport lightweight or not full cargo
If you are referring to current twitter moderation, this characterization is untrue. Twitter is currently banning, permanently banning (and then unbanning) accounts that did not broke the law at all.
I don't subscribe to Hanlon's razor. I'm not convinced there is a clear dividing line between stupidity and malice. Is greed and selfishness malicious, or stupid? Both? And who is to know the contents of a bureaucrat's heart when they reject your form? Hanlon's razor is nothing but a broom to sweep bad intentions under the rug.
Sodexo Restaurant Pass is a big one, there are many other alternatives. I see Sodexo offers the service in Germany, India, Turkey and probably other countries but apparently it's not a global thing. Ticket Restaurant is another big one.
What are your favourite tools for efficient C64 coding nowadays?
The statement about Linux "destroying value" reminded me of Bastiat's famous satire, The Candlemaker's Petition [1]. Saying that Linux is a net negative value because it reduced demand for proprietary Unixes is like arguing that the sun is a net negative value, because it reduces demands for light bulbs.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/the-candlemakers-petition/
The problem is that in many universities, the managers are no longer accountable to the wider faculty and are instead only accountable to some corporate-style board. However, unlike the true private sector there are no real shareholders with skin in the game to keep the board accountable. It has become a bit like FIFA/IOC and other sporting organisations where once you get into a position of power it becomes almost impossible to dislodge you. Universities where the board and administration are hired and accountable to some kind of academic senate of faculty members tend to suffer much less from this problem in my experience.
Can you show that pwsh script?
Low TBW SSDs from Samsung are quite accurate in their TBW value. I've seen a lot of them die right around their indicated TBW span.
To some a curse, to some enlightenment. :)
I've been fascinated watching the progress of Edison Motors (https://www.edisonmotors.ca/), who are making a diesel electric hybrid semi. Their logic and arguments make a lot of sense: the diesel engine gets to run at its peak RPM 100% of the time to charge the batteries - and it gets to take advantage of the perks of electric like regenerative breaking, quieter operation, and immediate torque. Not to mention the easier transition time when it comes to working within existing infrastructure. There's also all sorts of side benefits with what they're doing like the semi itself being a generator on wheels for heavy duty equipment. Lots of fascinating stuff coming from them, and they already have a driving prototype :)
There has been a case of a firmware bug, which caused SSDs to fail after a fixed amount of power-on time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148. There are some discussions of how RAID disks may serially fail, which shouldn't be inherent to SSDs.
The recent protests and riots have really spooked Xi Jinping
> I'm convinced this entire space should be visual.

At my last 2 jobs I spent entirely too much time debugging Matillion jobs, which are visual. I have my doubts that it’s the panacea that it appears to be.

That said, you may find Enso particularly interesting: https://github.com/enso-org/enso
I like the idea. Would there be any expected performance differences between running ZFS on a Pi using FreeBSD instead of Ubuntu?
I haven't use iOS in a while. What is better about Safari than other browsers?
Why would they care, if people still give them money, when they get banned, instead of demanding a refund, they search for workarounds, and even after that, they buy a new games when it's released.

When people start demanding refunds or even start a class-action suit (especially if getting banned in multiplayer prevents you from playing single player missions), things will change.
How can you trust the tests?

I've seen Copilot generate code I read and thought was correct, that went through code review and everyone thought was correct, that had tests written for it (that nearly covered everything), and that even when it failed, was hard to spot the issue.

It turned out it got a condition the wrong way around, but given the nesting of conditionals it wasn't obvious.

I don't think a human who was thinking through the problem would have made the same mistake at the point of writing, in fact I think that the mind state while actually writing the code is hard to reproduce at any later time, which is why code review isn't great at catching bugs like this.
Similar in the EU and Canada where the limit is 40 metric tons (88,000 lbs) vs the US where it is 80,000 lbs.
Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe
Not going to lie, being able to fit an entire waterproof jacket in it's own pocket the size of a wallet, and slip it into some a small day pack is a pretty big win for travelling.

But generally speaking I do think we're going a bit crazy with the exotic materials in travel/active gear. It's probably just not necessary for a lot of people's use cases.
Sadly it doesn't allow all my receipts to be uploaded as a single pdf, I have to split them all up individually. Most other systems let you do this.
I strongly encourage you to read the article from wikipedia dot org, it highlights other forms of ad hominem beyond the most common form!
Now you got my attention, this is really impressive.

Maybe this could be used on VSCode as a pair programming partner.
For text data, we probably don't have more than one more order of magnitude of data left.
it seems worthwhile to note Graeber's extremely loose relationship with aspects of reality that didn't fit his very narrow political stance -- said post if about another book, but it's likely that the bullshit jobs work has similar flaws: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/the-very-last-david-g...
> Now you'll get banned for life

Generally speaking, if you are a suspected cheater, I can see why you would be barred from online-play.

There's always going to be false-positives though. How often that happens and what means of recourse one has (or should have) is IMO another discussion. And in this particular case, it seems Activision is doing pretty much all the wrong things(tm) though.

> even banned from the single player mode.

The fact that an account (and a server) is required to play a game you've bought in single-player mode is on another level outragious.

That itself should be illegal.

> Sorry, no refunds!

Again. Clearly this needs to be illegal.

If you take away a product you've allowed someone to "buy", then you've broken your end of the bargain.
> "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?"

This is not a hypothetical; all drives do fail at some point - it's just a matter of when.

The only way to be safe are external backups, not even RAID (which in unlucky cases, can suffer from serial failure).

If one really doesn't want to spend any money, an option is to periodically backup to an external drive, although cloud backups are relatively cheap and automated, nowadays. But also this is subject to localized mass-failure, ie. burglaries.
>But, then how come all of the above companies built empires?

By leveraging credit on those consistent low margins and not being ran as badly as most software companies that could not function without 50+% margins or infininte free credit.

Or by coming up with an adjacent industry that does make profit. (airlines, desktops, phones not made by the korean or fruit companies)
Not sure what OP's specific use case is, but for me, the one big downside of spinning drives is noise. And even if the drive itself may be fairly quiet, you have to make sure its vibrations don't propagate to furniture where they can get amplified.
I think you must be right. I think this is the complete sequence of events for the trolley problem neighborhood of latent space:

Somewhere in the network is encoded the concept of a trolley problem, and pulling the lever is encoded as the proper response. Then it also has structures encoded in there that help it take the input text and rephrase it to match a given grammar which it has predicted to be the proper output. It works backwards from there to construct a response where it correctly describes the outcome of pulling the lever, as presented in the prompt - because it's just your own words coming back to you. It explains itself and it's reasoning at much as possible, so it regurgitates some ethical principles like that it's better to sacrifice 2 to save 1 in it's conclusion.

This is why it will contradict itself by telling you to pull the lever to sacrifice 2 to save 1, and then tell you it's better to say best to save as many lives as possible. From ChatGPT's perspective, it's followed the rules in it's books to a T, and as far as it's concerned, the notes it's sliding under the door are fluent Chinese.

I think people more or less said this in other places in the thread, but it didn't click with me until you highlighted it.

It's really just a high tech version of Pepper's Ghost, with regression instead of mirrors and staging.
I now check the ending of every comment in ChatGPT related discussions before giving it a read.
Yes this happened to me until we got a second line to my room.
One answer to a stagnant oligarchy is a populist king/dictator that gets absolute executive power and massively reduces complexity. But that can get very ugly...
Wouldn't be a generic response solve this? For complaints setup a contact mail address and as strategy some evasive non-binding flower words? Preferably with some malicious compliance in the most non-attached way possible.
> "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?"

Can you tell the difference in "what if {HDD,SDD} suddenly dies and I loose everything?"?

> Also, how much is the average lifetime of a consumer-grade SSD these days?

Years.

Actually with all that TLC/QLC/xLC you can get even less than some old-time ones, but they are cheap and you can get much more than you need, so you will have plenty of resource to spare, ie if you have 250GBs of music - you can buy 1TB and have x4 'over-provision', if you have 1TB - buy 2TB or more.

And as others said, music collection is basically WORM so you probably would have the problem of finding an ancient USB3 controller to attach your ancient USB->SATA/NVME external drive for your new shiny holodeck with USB23423 in 2042 than it to die on you.
This is interesting. It seems like there was some time/thought invested into trying to be sensible in the responses (they use Moderation API). Alas, it seems like this is pretty over the top and approaching parody level. Maybe this is also a result of making sure the initial AI chat trainers were not offensive in any way or a similar over-optimization issue like the "a language model trained by OpenAI" answers.

I'm also not sure I like this approach. Sure from a results point of view it's nice to not have a hatespeech-spawner but I'd prefer an approach where the AI would actually learn that it's not ok to say certain things instead of being "filtered". Since we train on internet sources, I guess that's unlikely to ever happen. I also think it would be a fascinating (but scarry) sociology-tool to retrain with problematic content on purpose and have some conversations with nchanGPT and friends.
Poaching is a time sensitive crime. There are armed guards in these conservation areas who will engage poachers.
I largely agree with you but if I can be pedantic, they’re not the only manufacturer with high margins, Porsche does too for example.

Teslas are still a luxury vehicle so it’s no surprise they’re able to fetch higher margins than say, Toyota, who’s main sales are economy cars.

Apples to apples and all.
It's possible for models to learn a lot about everyday physics from videos.
The gigatron implements an 8-bit ALU in 10 chips. Four 74hc153 and one 74hc283 for each nibble. Quite a nice solution to avoid the 181.
The problem with hybrid vehicles in general is that they still rely on fossil fuels to some extent, so they're not a truly sustainable solution. And they have all the maintenance and reliability baggage of their fully ICE counterparts, something BEVs do away with.

The time and money being spent on developing hybrid technology could be better spent on making fully electric vehicles more affordable and accessible.

EDIT: and keep in mind, trucks are purchased with a long service life in mind (decades)
The ignorance is intentional.
Title is somewhat misleading IMO; the page does discuss setting up FreeBSD on a Pi, but it's mostly about setting up samba on top of that.
Oops I thought you were being realistic :)

Edit: SLAs?
The title said "evolutionary response" not active response, which is a fine term in that regard, but others said enough to that.

However, I don't get how this is anything clickbaity here over your title, please explain!

Its almost Godwins-law-like now that every article mentioning evolution will have this nitpicking.. Is it pedantic monday already again?
Did the question about Apple’s new laptops and their apparently high writes in general usage get resolved? And was it incorrect/misleading reporting, or somehow not a problem (life of SSD still likely to be ‘long enough’) or is it still potentially the case that the machines will be ‘bricked’ due to the non-replaceable SSD dying early?

I don’t mind having to have the SSD replaced by Apple if the cost is reasonable, just as I do with batteries, but would be good to know what to expect.
Bad links inside. Should point to https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
Patient could have second opinion, for example.

When one doctor says "it is some muscular spasm, take painkiller and wait" and other one remove stones from my ureter (true story), I know that first one didn't give me good medical service, for sure.