skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that I'd still rather use a search engine over a small set of sites than ChatGPT for exactly the reasons you suggest and others. But I don't see ChatGPT as having a lot of utility beyond functioning as a search interface for credulous dummies. I mean if I were literally developing a chatbot then clearly its a pretty interesting technology (assuming its problems can be tamed or censored somehow), but beyond that I don't really get it.
I disagree that LLMs are overhyped, but it's very subjective. Are current LLMs a few steps from AGI? No. Will LLMs change the computing landscape? Yes, I believe they will.

ChatGPT, without any major changes, is already the best tool out there for answering programming questions. Nothing else comes close. I can ask it to provide code for combining two APIs and it will give useful and clean output. No need to trudge through documentation, SEO-hacked articles, or 10 different Stack Overflow answers. Output quality will only improve from here. Does it sometimes make mistakes? Yes. There are also mistakes in many of the top SO answers, especially as your questions become more obscure.

Aside from programming, how many other fields are there where LLMs will become an indispensable tool? I have a PhD and ChatGPT can write a more coherent paragraph on my thesis topic than most people in my field. It does this in seconds. If you give a human enough time, they will be able to do better than ChatGPT. The problem is, we're already producing more science within niche scientific fields than most scientists could ever read. As an information summary tool, I think LLMs will be revolutionary. LLMs can help individuals leverage knowledge in a way that's impossible today and has been impossible for the last 30 years since the explosion in the number of scientific publications.
That is what no one at all wants.

Tesla seems to be taking the big ball of ML approach, and that relies on a model that can practically think, and that in turn means you're essentially waiting on AGI. Which is ridiculous.

Instead you break down the problem that is driving. Throw pieces of ML at specific problems, like traffic light classifiers, but have a much more structured approach to the high level decisions that are made.

The benefit of this is that you gain clear introspection into why your vehicle is making the decisions it makes, and a direct way to influence them other than "throw in more data and hope next time it makes the right decision!"

The latter is how you kill people, and it's what Tesla has been doing so far.

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Hint for other readers: Please read the comment if you want to write a reply to it.

Literally nothing was said about people wanting a car you can just get into, but of course the first reply didn't make it 2 sentences in before jumping to completely orthogonal conclusions to anything that was even remotely implied in this comment.

It just gets exhausting to have a conversation about a topic like this if you have to repeat every point 10 times over.
steel prices are probably not a significant component of racking prices; scrap steel costs 50¢ a kg

the numbers they gave make the pv module prices seem slightly higher than the cited racking prices (15¢ per watt) but it's a little hard to be sure because of the numerous kinds of watts involved
Heh, quite a few 60" LED TV's in there, with starting bid price of US$50. ;)
For sure. I definitely can't speak to how well it would work at scale.
Just for privacy, otherwise the public master key acts as a unique personal id. While there'd be no reason to publish this information, the service can still get hacked, sell your data, or just have a parent company looking for accounts in common among their services.
Really great insights here so far! I can see that indeed the idea of unblocking your team, improve workflows, focus on writing documentation and working on things that matter to and further the company's business plan and mission are really key ingredients and, I believe I've been doing that for the better part of last year so I'm really glad to see that my own personal path and experience is aligned with a lot of the ideas I've read here!! Really amazing insights!!
So what happens in cases like these?

Looks like RustDesk doesn't have a Copyright notice or copyright info in the license or source code. This codebase comes along and has no attribution information to make it obvious that it is indeed a fork of RustDesk.

Is the copyright implicit, and is HopToDesk in legal violation for not making it apparent?
Why does the article talk about client complexity, then say Postgres can be used for everything, but then not address client complexity. Does Postgres have a nifty server-side rendering pipeline that could replace front-end complexity?
A fair assessment, but at the end of the day it is all just a stream of bits, bits packed into a into a structure, how do you know the structure?, how do you know how wide each part is? or bits packed into an array of encoded bytes. what is the encoding? how do you parse it?

The array of encoded bytes despite it's complexity overhead has an advantage in that is lays on the human visible side of computing, that part of computers designed for the human to use. I have to admit more often than not I prefer to eat the overhead and have an interface that I can see.
For low-middle class, yes. For upper middle class+, it depends.
I use keys as my default way of login but I have 'phishable' backup methods (OTP codes or backup codes).

For me, the main thing is that using the keys by default make my accounts more secure and I would only use the phishable methods in case of emergency (if my house goes up in flames with my keys, computer, mobile, etc). One important thing for me was to remove my mobile number for SMS OTP or password reset, as sim cloning is a posibility.

And a password manager is still indispensable as most sites don't accept hardware keys at all.
Yep, there was 'diesel-gate' back in the early-mid 2010s and even today the way the company overlooks the behavior of the Chinese government is also very unsavory (a problem Elon has as well)
> I just couldn't stand the obnoxiousness of Elon and he has gotten orders of magnitude worse since then

For the same reason, I call him now - eww-Lawn!
Agree with this and I also haven’t paid for FSD. Except at some point Tesla offered FSD along with a computer upgrade for about $1500. I took the deal. But I didn’t pay for FSD when I switched to Model Y. Interestingly, I’ve been able to turn on the FSD even though I didn’t pay for it.
That's unrelated. It's about what people use, not what a company decided is a good fit for an extremely domain-specific part of a system. Most people have no idea what MINIX is.
Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak to the press
A "canopy" is typically a flimsy bit of cloth that would collapse under a meter of snow. What you need is eaves, sloped to the side so that the inevitable avalanches don't pile over the bottom steps. That adds cost and complexity to the build, and often makes for a dreary fortress look.
https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?k=physical%20scientis...

If you're already in the field you'd likely have to take a pay cut, but the federal government is always interested in research physical scientists and will snatch up anyone who knows the physics and also knows ML.
> Twitter, Reddit etc are very good watchdogs of R malfeasance,

In theory, that's true, but in practice, I see them as the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

If you treat literally everything as the world's biggest scandal, you're going to be ignored or drowned out if you actually do find a dangerous scandal because there's literally zero shift in tone.
From the views of ISO, JPEG Committees, no, they are not patent encumbered.

From the view of AOM members or supporters, yes they are or at least not clear.
It can reproduce a statistically plausible paragraph, certainly. But there is a great deal more to research than producing statistically plausible paragraphs. It doesn't _understand_ anything!

I've actually worked on a project where there have been attempts to use GPT like models to summarize scientific results and the problem is it gets shit wrong all the time! You have to be an expert to separate the wheat from the chaff. It operates like a mendacious search engine pretending to be a person.
Oh huh, I didn't know that was a thing. Exactly what I wanted.
How come GPT can seem brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?
check my reply to the other comment
Lack of syscall stability isn’t a showstopper, it just means that the functions invoking the syscall need to be versioned according to uname(). The uname() call itself can be done via direct syscall if you’re confident that its ABI won’t change; or, if you want to be extra sure, you can use the libc wrapper for uname() and then munmap() the C runtime to replace it with whatever. Either way requires the maintainer to be proactive with implementing code paths for upstream upcoming kernel versions before they are mainlined.

OpenBSD will make the above approach impossible, because with mimmutable(), libc will not be unmappable.
Also I don't wear Hugo Boss because they made the uniforms for the SS.

And... Hugo Boss suits make me look like a wardrobe on legs... and are too expensive... but for sure the SS thing.
Does it have ads between opening new document tabs, like mobile text editors? :D
As long as you have good interfaces in your code to make it possible to swap out Postgres to more specialized components when needed, I think it’s a good idea.

Saving ops resources by managing fewer services when getting started is a good idea, until scale necessitates dedicated technologies for certain components.
Why not the battle tested celery?
"You probably don't need as many back-end services as you think you do" isn't quite as good a title.
I like the discussion, but this article 'feels' like more Luddite goalpost moving, and is reflective of a continuous sentiment I feel strains so much of the conversation around intelligence, agentism, and ai going on today.

I think that because we lack a coherent understanding of what it means to be intelligent at an individual level, as well as what it means to be an individual, we're missing much of the point of what's happening right now. The new line in the sand always seems to be justified based on an argument whose lyrics rhyme with identity, individual, self, etc. It seems like there will be no accepting of a thing that may have intelligence if there is no discernable individual involved. Chomsky is basically making the same arguments right now.

I think we'll see something that we can't distinguish from hard advanced general intelligence, prob in the next 3-5 years, and probably still have not made any real advancement into understanding what it means to be intelligent or what it means to be an individual.
I disagree and think this is a very controversial opinion.

Playing around with it last night convinced me that LLM's are a huge, game changing technology. I was trying to decide which material to use for an upcoming project. The model doesn't use the internet without some hacking, so I had it write a program in python using the tkinter UI kit.

I asked it to create a UI with input boxes for material, weight of material, price and loss due to wastage. The program takes all of those inputs and converts the material into grams from KG, pounds, ounces. It then calculates the price per gram and takes a loss percentage (estimate given by user). It then writes a text file and saves it to a directory.

I literally pasted the code into VS code and had to change Tkinter to tkinter. Hit run and it worked flawlessly. I have NEVER used tkinter and it took about 30 minutes from start to finish.

This morning, I asked my 9th grade son what he is learning in 9th grade biology. He told me he is learning cellular endocytosis. I asked chapGPT to explain endocytosis like I was a 5 year old and read it to him... he says; "Ask it to explain it like a scientist now." After that he said it was a really good and we started asking it all kinds of biology questions.

I happen to agree that search will be the first thing disrupted. However, I think simply saying "search" doesn't come close to capturing how deep this will change the way we think, use and progress in terms of the way we define "search" right now.
Advertising claims are in fact regulated. There just isn't a lot of enforcement but, at normal companies, legal teams are very conservative about making claims in advertising and marketing materials. If I claim our product is better than Brand X, you'd better believe legal is going to want to see the evidence and probably qualify the statement.
> Use Postgres with TimescaleDB as a data warehouse.

How does this stack compare to Snowflake or Redshift?
a common misconception: per german traffic law flashing lights is a valid way to notify the car in front of you of your intent to overtake. of-course does not apply when both cars are in leftmost lane, there it is a punishable offence (drängeln)
The elephant in the room is that this just isn’t feasible for “normal” (non-IT) people, and those people are usually the ones who need strong protections, as they’re the ones with bad habits like choosing bad passwords, reusing passwords, forgetting them, etc.
This whole idea is so incredibly dumb.

This is the problem with unfathomably rich authoritarian rulers with unchecked power. They don't have people pushing back on their grandiose and insane ideas.

A great example of this is Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat.
Or maybe you are mixing up cause and effect: Greek politicians demanded hefty bribes to do business in the first place.

Yes, Germany is a real winner in bailing out Greek and all the southern European economies than cannot pay their bills. You are aware that exporting stuff to countries that take a loan and don’t pay it back is like not exactly “beneficial”.

Greek should never have been in the EU in the first place. They lied about their financial situation and deliberately stole money from their European neighbors.
You'd think more people would have got that, wouldn't you?
Cool, thanks for that!

I guess its using the same principle as -
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-culti...

Edit: Oh it seems to use underground pipes air is pumped through, neat

Will watch the video properly soon.
"Queer" is a vague identity with political connotations, by which I mean, the gay people who call themselves "queer" tend to be a lot more woke-leftist than the gay people who don't call themselves "queer". It's absolutely an idea and a constructed identity. The facts of the matter are things like sexual preferences and behaviors, but you don't inherently need to construct an identity around them. On the other hand, sometimes you need to be aware that even if you don't identify yourself, you will be identified by others, which you're going to have to deal with.
Not the parent commenter, though one thing is to support a feature that is somehow spread across some browser families and/or versions and another thing is to support a feature that is mostly unavailable on clients. It is probably not worth it form an economical point of view once you factor in the time spent developing/maintaining the feature plus (for this case) the additional required storage.
Tesla has been getting dragged for years for this stuff? It’d be way weirder if Man Does Bad Thing #2 should actually quiet Man Does Bad Thing #1.

He made himself the star, decided to be the villain, and reaps the reward of said villainy. Yes, everything is tainted by everything.
Does re-encoding JPEGs as JPEG XL really unlock anything new? The answer is likely no. So this case is not useful to optimize for.

As for people's photo albums. The iPhone is already storing new images in HEIF, so JPEGs are becoming less relevant with each passing day. And of course, you can still view the old images perfectly fine as JPEGs.
Looking through their site, Capacitor doesn't appear to support desktop apps. Their docs recommend using Electron instead.

https://capacitorjs.com/docs/main/deployment/desktop-app
I said "stuff you already know", there is no point in repeating vocabulary which you already know. Some words or phrases are easier to learn, others are harder.

Duolingo has no way to only work on your weekness. It's more time effective to put them on a piece of paper and to go through them a couple of times.
Wow, the last time I read about it, I thought it was just a wild idea. Now they're moving dirt.
There's real scarcity. There are only so many five letter words with a strong relevance to the internet, and only so many tlds. Only one entity can control example.org at a time, so there you go.

Would I pay for a premium domain name? Probably not. They might make sense for some uses though. I'd rather them be available at a public price than through someone who bought as many five letter words as they could and then sells them privately.
Yes, and it is half-decent.

Still bloated and complex IMHO.
There's many ways - traditional banking being the route I took. Initial sunk-cost was $350k, interest rates were low, and my loan amount was small all things considered. I had most of the cash on hand and collateral in the form of a house. I did all the building and excavation myself, the only things I subbed out were plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and some drywall because I really don't like drywall.

Also fortunate because the last few years has seen a huge run-up and appreciation in property in my area specifically where the median house price 10 years ago was around $250k, it's now just under a million for a run-of-the-mill 4 bed, 2 bath, 2200sqft home. The buyer was a small investment company from out-of-state which is really unfortunate because I was hoping to sell to someone local but given the offer they made me, no one could match or even come close.
I view self-driving cars (along with drones, ubiquitous encryption, and distributed manufacturing) as "post-WW3 technologies". The same way that atomic energy, computers, jet engines, and interstate highways were "post-WW2 technologies". These are things that could be done with current technology, but the current state of infrastructure & societal organization makes them uneconomical, and no single private firm has the market power needed to force through the social changes needed to drive adoption. However, they give a huge advantage to one side in wartime, where you are deliberately trying to kill people rather than avoid killing people. That gives the side who uses them the ability to win the war, which then gives them the political power to force through the societal & infrastructure changes needed for mass adoption. The war also gives the general populace widespread exposure to the new technologies, which makes them less scary to the winning side and drives political support for rearranging society to benefit from them (they still remain scary to the losing side, but they'll be dead).

We're at peace now, which makes self-driving cars kind of a non-starter. But that's not guaranteed to hold forever, even in the near future, nor is it even true in many places of the globe (witness Russia/Ukraine). It also may not be the point - remember that self-driving cars initially came out of a DARPA grant.

A lot of the technical problems with self-driving cars are easier to solve with widespread infrastructure changes. For example, you solve construction by mandating that construction diversions use smart traffic cones with a small transmitter that coordinates with the other cones in the area to signal which lane has priority, and then broadcasts that to oncoming self-driving cars. You solve pedestrians by having a proper street/road split [1], where pedestrians are banned from roads and cars are banned from streets. Heck, you can make the whole problem a lot simpler just by banning non-self-driving cars from roads.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad
Hard to know whether a metal gasket would work here, but it's extremely unlikely as you need tight tolerances and high clamping force. Rubber is used here probably because those things are absent, and there is probably movement involved. Other commenter has the right idea, you can probably make a new gasket.
So like a basic linter.
Is there an easy way to just save the chat transcript in plain text?
this strangely resembles the fictional city of rabi'ah, in deus ex mankind divided [0]

[0]: https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Rabi%27ah
They didn't though. One can still have the difference between putting in the bare minimum 40 hours per week or put in their best effort 40 hours per week.
I'm well aware of the explanations that this project is infeasible and not based on logic. But it still seems to me that digging foundations across the entire footprint is spreading development resources more thinly than a standard development would?

Can someone better-versed in the economics of large development projects explain to me why this isn't being pursued in a more risk-reducing fashion, with a smaller section being built top-to-bottom to demonstrate its viability?
He said at the semi unveiling in 2017 that they could already do autonomous truck convoys. No they couldn't. That's fraud.
Thank you for this interesting insight I haven't seen before.

Are there any datasets out there that provide the full edit stream of a human from idea to final refinement, that a model could be trained on?
The argument is being taken out of context. Not saying that FSD is flawless. But Tesla isn't calling it a failure. They are saying it's not yet achieved. And it's a perfectly sane legal argument. Again, this does not mean Tesla is right here, just that the title is a misrepresentation of their argument.
> This could be as basic as a three column table (guid, doc, clock), the clock being a global Lamport

This would be achievable, but also perhaps quite strict - we're dictating a table structure rather than working with existing CRDT libs. That said, we could probably do this today, without any mods/extensions

> querying/indexing

Yeah, there is nothing in this implementation for that

> Without the ability to index properties, or do ad-hock queries, on the documents there is little reason to to the merging in-DB

One benefit is the ability to send "directly" to the database, but I agree that lack of additional features in the current form outweighs this benefit

> a serialised JSON

This is how we might do it with with "Realtime as an authority" approach (and is the most likely approach tbh).