skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they can fix in an update, they can take away in another update.

The only safe solution is competition between multiple service providers. If third-party clients are dead... looks like even more of a reason to switch to alternatives like Mastodon?
No, there was a time that all space was hot, and we know from microwave background radiation that it is homogenous. So it’s not just “galaxies are far from each other”, it would take “space time is discontinuous somewhere and this discontinuity is just on the edge of our observable universe”. There is also no older light that can ever reach us, as the amount of universe that is observable is actually decreasing (beyond that, CMB will always be the oldest light as it predates any astronomical object formation). Anyways, CMB really constraints the age/homogeneity of the early universe.
> And you should understand that most of its limitations are an inherent mathematical and fundamental limitation, it is logically impossible to do better on most of its limitations

You can do exact real arithmetic. But this is only done by people who prove theorems with computers - or by the Android calculator! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_analysis

Other alternatives (also niche) are exact rational arithmetic, computer algebra, arbitrary precision arithmetic.

Fixed point sometimes gets used instead of floats because some operations lose no precision over them, but most operations still do.
That's exactly what artificial intelligence means...

There is a secondary definition of AI that says basically an AI is anything that we haven't yet figured out how to do. Once we figure out how to do it, it ceases to be AI.

Indeed, terms can and do have multiple meanings, but I'm not sure that secondary definition fits the topic of discussion.
My seats have been treated twice in 11 years and are in much better shape than those.

Anyway, the 3 other videos showed a general lack of quality in assembly and material. However you look at it, Tesla doesnt look like a quality brand anymore.

(I know Tesla is very popular on HN and I fully expect my post to be down voted and eventually flagged)
Photons do not "diminish" in energy except via red shifting (where does the energy go? into the expansion of the universe!).

Light scatters, gets absorbed and re-emitted, it's true, but if distances don't change then the universe would still be much brighter than it is today.
What absolutely blew my mind about this article is how it considers being in debt a norm. An unspeakable rule of sorts to not even try to manage your finances and save up and all that. Like wtf? How the hell do you function in society if you can't afford groceries and have to buy them on credit? The even more perplexing thing, to me, is why it's so common among Americans to pay for things with credit cards when they have enough money in their account. I'm almost 30 and I've never had a single credit card in my life. Being constantly indebted to someone like that would be a nightmare for me.
Discriminatory actions that redress a preexisting bias aren’t legally discrimination.

Setting a “no hiring men” policy is not allowed. Setting a “no hiring more than 50% men until women are 50% of total workers in the area being hired into” is approximately allowed, though there are nuances in how that can be defined that an employment lawyer would care to advise you on.

There are one or two relevant Supreme Court cases confirming the specific details and caveats around this, but

(I’m not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.)
Kinda? This let's you remotely steal inertia from rotating black hole pairs or inertia from a black hole traveling towards you.
I think people both give ChatGPT too much credit and too little credit at the same time.

In my day to day life, I can’t think of a single thing that ChatGPT does better than a search engine and I can better judge the trustworthiness of the sources.

On the other hand, it does a great job writing working Python code based on plain language requirements. It does at least as well as a junior dev for run of the mill scripting.

No most development is not reversing a binary tree while juggling two bowling balls and riding a unicycle on a tightrope.
pls name a company, I want a job at that company
ChatGPT prompt: Devise an economic policy that would lead to the elimination of the advertising industry. Include a list of wealthy persons and companies who would benefit from it so that I may solicit bribes... err, "political donations" from them to support my 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2805576-1982-Exxon-M...
> ChatGPT is ~2400GB of weights

Pretty sure it is just the GPT3 DaVinci model, which is 175B parameters, so approximately 700GB, or about half that at half precision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media#Definition_and_fe...
none of them did. even azureus
In the future internet, every paragraph will begin with "As a Large Language Model" or "It is not appropriate to"
I (Mostly) agree with you here:

> Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun too.

I'd agree on the first three, I'm not a huge fan of unit tests though. They seem like something a "good programmer" should do but to me it's in in the CYA lane, not programming.

> Refactoring, rewriting, sprint, agile, rearchitecting things etc aren't that fun.

I actually like refactoring code. To me it's like pruning a garden, moving stuff around to fit better. It also helps me on longer running projects to fix up crap that I wrote months/years ago. I'm always growing as a developer, and fixing foundations so they don't end up a cobbled mess is actually a pride point for me.

Agile / Sprints / Pre-Future proofing / API contract writing? Pure overhead for me. My current job is a ridiculous amount of meetings. I get like 15-20 hours of meetings weekly in my position.

This really boils down to being at a company that doesn't have technically knowledgeable management, and being on projects without a dedicated architect.
> I also lament the poverty of philosophical debate when American refute preposterous positions held by these post modern Christians and think they have refuted the whole of human religion as bunk. All the while calling themselves Atheist with capital A.

Can you give a name or an example? I read a lot of athiest stuff and I've never encountered that (from a respected source at least, not from random people on facebook). Sure a lot of the writing focuses on modern Christianity, but that's a population thing and nobody I know of pretends like there isn't religion outside of that (in fact many of them specifically mention that they're going to focus mostly on Christianity but that there are plenty of other things out there). It would be largely a waste of time debunking Zeus and Jupiter in the 21st century
>If dating sites were actually trying to help their customers, they would do this; someone would have worked on it; there would be an internal lore about what was learned from these attempts. The absence of any of this shows that it just isn't a priority, and that's enough.

Or maybe the absence of it shows that the problem is much harder than it sounds.

> One problem with modern dating is that people don't have a potential partner's reputation to go on as much as they used to. Relationships formed "through friends" have declined significantly, in tandem with a decline in friendships themselves. But this decline in friendships also poses a problem for any word-of-mouth dating site marketing strategy. People who have lots of friends are probably the least likely to benefit from dating apps, but they're the most likely to hear about the hypothetical "good dating app".

This is correct, but good luck implementing this in a business while having to tip toe around claims of discrimination, quite possibly getting entangled with the law.
> I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.

The trick is finding a company that's not wrong.

Early-stage startups typically qualify, but they're also typically short-lived; they usually either go under or else grow into the same sort of "wrong company" one's trying to avoid.

A small business that's been around awhile, with a stable customer base and no ambitions for growth, is probably ideal - but good luck getting such a company to hire you. You might have better luck picking up multiple such companies as an independent consultant.

A different ideal (or so I've found) would be a company that's large but dysfunctional, or to be an "analyst" or somesuch in a department that's sufficiently large and autonomous to get away with having "shadow IT" (and a lax enough corporate IT department to not interfere).
Well, operator overloads won't be invoked unless you literally write the operators. They can be surprising nevertheless, as the commenter above rightfully expressed. And RAII/constructors/destructors can be surprising and annoying, too. It means buying into a framework, giving up control. This can be a good thing, but it can be hard to control, and be hard to debug, too.

alloca() vs stack variables is something different, it's dynamic vs static allocation. You can literally see (ignoring optimization to make this point) all the stack variables that are part of the stack frame. It's in plain sight, very explicit and obvious to the eye. While calls to operator overloads and ctors/dtors are not visible in the plain syntax (type resolution is needed), and in case of virtual methods they might not even be resolved until runtime.

So please don't make me angry, this was a really weak refutal. Statements like this are why I am sometimes more critical at C++ than it maybe deserves.
"HST-only. 0 day warez"

Same here, I can't bear to part with the Darth Vader of modems.
Aging may be driven by DNA damage-induced changes to the epigenome
Ask HN: How to combine B2C and B2B product with single subscription layer
For example a simple SaaS product (Figma, Trello, whatever). It serves both individual customers that pay with an "online" method (a credit card) and business/corporate clients that pay using an "offline" method (a wire transfer, a check, etc).

How do you unify the "subscription status" of the user with both methods?

The only thing I can think of is we must write an intermediate layer that is updated by both, the Payment provider (Stripe) and the Sales team manually.

But it does feel a little bit reinventing the wheel. Is there any good pattern already in place for these things?
Also happening in Italy, so I guess it's not only about US gov.

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tesla-abbatte-listini-model-...
Imagine each of those people is an employee at the same company, and they each command a salary of say 100k. How much more productive do you need to make them for it to become worth it? If you 3x their productivity, they are now doing the job of 3 people, you just saved 200k _per year_.

To tie that back to your comment -- imagine its for a team of 40 users but the company would ideally like them to be a team of 400 users. Yet because of the software being created, those 40 people are doing the work of 400.

You can extend that line of thinking pretty far -- and going down that line of thought is when I realized how valuable programming is. When you build the right things you are literally creating value with everything you ship, and it adds up over time.
Addresses in Scotland use a slash to separate flat number from street number; e.g. 15/4 West Wallaby Way is equivalent to Building 15, Flat4, West Wallaby Way.

I've had multiple websites tell me that my address isn't valid, and some delivery companies remove the number after the slash so the delivery driver knows which building, but not which flat.
I hear about antibiotics in meat constantly, but all of the biggest meat suppliers I know don't use them. For example, Perdue and Tyson both don't raise chicken with antibiotics. So where are antibiotics being used?

Edit: why is this downvoted?
Ha, I got a Snoop Dogg picture (guessed correctly)
The Fenix developer has said his app was suspended from Twitter for rule violations https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903
At least from the perspective of the English profs/teachers I had, actually generating words was a black box not requiring instruction or introspection. Editing and structuring, sure, but the nuts and bolts of how you turn a blank page into a nonblank page... that wasn't really discussed much.
Households had way less furniture in general, then, too, and yeah, some of it was makeshift or rough-built and probably didn't make it to today.

Office furniture seems to have been incredibly well-built, though, by modern standards. Kinda like how office and government buildings used to be built a lot better. Institutions seem to have cared a lot more about that kind of thing back then. They built desks for ordinary low-paid clerks or typists like they expected the office to still be running, and still using that same desk, in 200 years.

[EDIT] Also, part of what makes older furniture seem so nice is that excellent-quality wood was abundant. It seems so nice because they used wood that'd be ultra-expensive luxury-grade today, for, like, interior structural parts you never even see. Same story for houses. I've seen wooden support beams that'd be almost impossible to find at any price, today, the quality's so high and the piece is so large. Floor underlayment (again, not even intended to be seen) so knot-free it'd probably be used for veneer, now. That kind of thing.
There is still significant stigma against online dating in many communities.

Its still quite common for couples to come up with an agreed upon lie about how they met lol.
I thought this trilogy was full of fresh takes. For one thing, it’s written from a Chinese pov, so things like the cultural revolution and appeal of authoritarianism are big themes. Second, it’s full of dry humor. It’s hysterical when aliens’ super weapon doesn’t work, over and over again. Third, it toys with issues in the philosophy of science, like how how our view of reality can change because of long periods of comfort or difficulty, or just boredom too, even though reality hasn’t changed at all. I would read more of these if he wrote them.
I presume that OpenAI is already running cgpt against itself. The discussion should already be incomprehensible to humans
In my opinion, that's in the realm of "you can only delay it". Sure, you can treat real numbers via purely logical deductions like a human mathematician would, but at some point someone's going to ask, "so, where is the number on this plot?" and that's when it's time to pay the fiddler.

Same for arbitrary-precision calculations like big rationals. That just gives you as much precision as your computer can fit in memory. You will still run out of precision, just later rather then sooner.
This kind of thing is really common in the DIY synthesizer world. Here's a great resource: http://www.openmusiclabs.com/learning/digital/input-matrix-s...
I find several every year. Most people simply don't see compiler bugs because they don't test (and most of the time don't need to) their compilers extensively enough (by testing I mean they must build, run the generated binaries, and compare the output ).
> Don't you feel that these evidences just make a case from models checked in small scales and tell the whole universe what it should do?

Yes, we like to think that the laws of physics we can deduce locally are global. That could be wrong, for sure. But consider that we understand the physics of our solar system (which has a star), and we see other stars in the skies which... implies that at least as much of our local physics that makes stars possible also applies where we see those stars.
Exactly, that's my point. I'd rather listen to a "good enough" local band performing live than some "World's best" recorded performance.
You’re being insincere. Let me guess, you’d say a can opener is artificial intelligence compared to a pocket knife?

That’s not the way anyone uses the term.
the final book has the most infuriating, idiotic and worst character I've read in scifi. She repeatedly makes the worst possible choice, literally is responsible first for humanity being enslaved and then being wiped out, before making sure the entire bloody universe is wiped out, and at each stage is not only forgiven, but never questioned, celebrated by everyone else, and given even more power.
Fenix and Twitteriffic developer have also confirmed their apps have been suspended
What If Tesla Is Just a Car Company?
it is here, and as it grows, much of the pain of drug resistance won't be chaos and screaming in the streets. It won't happen all at once. It will increasingly impact people getting routine procedures, or otherwise minor injuries. Someone who got a wisdom tooth removed or a a deep cut stitched up may find it doesn't heal, and there is no longer a magic pill available to clear an infection.
It has been a challenging economic problem. There are poor/complicated incentives for R&D or venture investment into this area.
Could what we consider persuasive change in the next 20 years? What if today's techniques are considered too crass and only perfectly crafted words by ai, finetuned with empathy for the person you are trying to persuade, is the only thing that works anymore?
Supporting industries losing economies of scale drives up costs. If you have fewer tailors, local cloth suppliers become insolvent. This leads to the few tailors having to import cloth and increase prices.
Factual reporting always has background, though. The bottom 1/2 to 2/3 of the article will be descriptive context, like what $SUBJECT did in a previous similar situation. I don't think the current AIs are up to the task of figuring out which accessory bits of information are most pertinent, and in what order.
Goes to show the huge differences in different countries for energy costs. Our electricity is $0.11kw/h and natural gas is $0.08 so with 300% efficiency vs. gas air furnace which is probably 50% efficient (so much heat gets lost in leaky ducting). Our heat pumps will have paid for themselves in ~5 years conservatively, and we also get to cool the house which we could not do before.

Moving the heat around the house requires doors to be open and thoughtful placement of the head units which have fans in them to push the air around. It is certainly not ideal but we are comfortable.
Will reliance on LLMs neuter our minds the same way that reliance on machinery has withered our bodies.
> dominated by loud simple

Writing this after simplified ideas in first paragraph sound strange.
It's because they are close together in the factory farm. I don't think you need to consult what veterinarians say - seeing photos of how animals are treated should be enough for you to just stop consuming meat (if you "think about the wellbeing of the animals").

Consider watching Earthlings (2005) - http://www.nationearth.com/ - I'd say a must watch film for anyone who cares about animals.
The British civil war and the then rejection of Cromwell and what they stod for was probably a significant factor in so many puritans leaving for the American colonies.
That HumbleBundle hasn't tried this already speaks volumes for the feasibility of it, IMO...
those are quite niche languages though, most people use compilers which are much more widely used.
Thomas, Heinrich, and Golo would have sympathized with poor old Spider, I'm sure.
Hyperion is literature and art, besides having just as many mind blowing scifi ideas. Its easily my favorite.
> you’d say a can opener is artificial intelligence compared to a pocket knife?

No. In that case the intelligence is applied by the user. A can opener could be a component in a larger AI system. An AI needs to be aware (in the artificial sense) of its surroundings.

Edit: I forgot that AI can openers do exist. The can opener I own is of the dumb machine kind and I hadn't fully considered what else might use that term. Yes, those are an AI.

> That’s not the way anyone uses the term.

Except when they do. Indeed, the "an AI is anything we haven't figured out yet" definition is about as common, but doesn't seem to be the definition that fits the topic at hand.

A third definition where AI is defined as an ANN seems to be emerging in popular culture, but again that doesn't really fit the topic at hand as a lot of the job-replacing intelligences are not based on ANNs.
I am not sure why you're attacking me, instead of what I'm saying, but you can't use "rolling blackout" as a description for "some power lines were downed by the wind". Rolling blackouts are bad, but they are initiated by the power companies when the grid is under stress from an imbalance between production and consumption. Lines affected by trees and other natural elements have nothing to do with that, and these natural occurrences won't change if we switch to 100% electric or not.
Common story with platforms, isn't it? It's like a huge magnet drawing everyone to Windows or Intel.

I wonder how much is end user driven, and how much is intermediary driven though. Is it that the customers are only comfortable with one item in each category, or is it the middle men who prefer to sell things that are all connected by the same platform?
> just got hosed

It's a car; a depreciating asset. I think people got way too attached to the idea that cars were going up in value. In this case, they tried to curb demand by increasing prices when everyone seems to have been doing the same. Countless dealerships added BS overhead as supply was so low last year. That's all changing.
No clue. I never used them.

My role here was writing snarky comments in Skymall catalogs to unwind on my Friday night redeye flights home. (I used to fly a lot for work)
They could function as consumers too.
Theorem provers and calculators exist, and we don’t consider them intelligent, so those in and of themselves are not sufficient to argue for intelligence.

Conversely, neither of the two are prerequisites for human intelligence either since the overwhelming majority of humans is simply not able to do either, but we generally don’t consider them “not intelligent”.

So me, it seems plausible that with the right prompt, a language model will be able to do addition.
> Future games with newer interpreters shipped with this same code instead of simply checking for overflow.

That's the real punchline here, but well, game development has always been a mess. Automated testing of any kind is still rare, as far as I know.
Yes, but it's not pragmatic or intuitive to use the && operator as a stand in for an inline if statement in non-JSX-land. Doing this is something of an ugly anti-pattern, `let foo = bar > 12 && "there are dozens of us!"`. The fact that it works as an inline if for JSX is almost an accident that has now been abused into convention.
Leptos v0.1: Full-stack, isomorphic Rust web framework
Haha, its true but I feel like GP's thought stops way short of Heidegger's. Products we buy being a little worse because of the necessities of capitalism (or whatever you'd rather say) is small change compared to the very essence of Being getting enframed into total occlusion.

That is, I don't know if I would say getting frustrated by an automated voice system is the same thing as a hammer breaking for your given Dasein, but one could make the argument I bet.
Hey, I'm getting into using these images more and more. I'm a bit gunshy of all the work that goes into midjourney. Do you know of any good tutorials on how to use it?
That Atlantic is part of the "main stream media".