skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I've certainly seen people get upset because they don't understand Mastodon yet

This sentence reminded me of another incident. Ben Boyter launched a service called Mastinator [0], like Mailinator, where you can create disposable fediverse accounts. The fantastic use of this is that you can anonymously follow anyone you want. However, it wasn't taken well by the people. They started sending hateful and abusive messages to Boyter. A popular user tooted [1] something like this, and do check the entire conversation:

> A site called Mastinator (https://mastinator.com) has started aggregating and republishing toots without permission. It creates accounts with your handle and follows you to get your toots (e.g., @aral@mastinator.com, which, just to make clear, is not me).

> @boyter You could, yes. But if you set up an account in my name on your instance, I would call you out for impersonating me and using my name/identity without permission.

They were angry that this service let you access their public posts without permission. It is fediverse! It is supposed to be public and federated! He also started getting hate from other people in the fedi, and many fedi instances started blocking the service. He wrote about his experience with fedi and the aftermath, which is an excellent post educating users about how ActivityPub functions. [2]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156395

[1] - https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109585159213960986

[2] - https://boyter.org/posts/mastinator-activitypub-breaking-ass...
Scheduling SSLScan with Gitlab CI
This is not my first post on the blog but my first ever on HN.
> On my laptop, which is a laptop and not a two-in-one, I touch the screen all the time.

Reminds me of https://youtu.be/VBWtcQJAtWc
Yep, I'd love for these chronically people to take a poll around school kids, say, under 14.

How many of them know anything about JK Rowling's personal life beyond "I think she's blonde and she wrote the HP books"?
Pretty much like with friends.

We both have online businesses, where we need to learn about marketing/tools/etc
We both read lots of books (classic, non-fiction, etc)
We watch TV shows, movies
We do some sports

There is always something to talk about, when we just wander around a lake we will talk about more contemplative stuff.

When we eat around the house, we will talk about the quick wins we are having, countries we want to go next, making plans for the week, the new TV show we should start, what kind of music we want to listen throughout the afternoon.
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> For instance, freeware distributed solely in binary form is libre.

Nope. That's free as in free beer.

free/libre software / open source software is free as in free speech (and often as in free beer but not always)

some people use the French/Spanish word libre in English to avoid this exact confusion caused by the world free having both meanings.

free software and open source software are defined by the FSF and the OSI, respectively, but the definition are equivalent and designate the same set of software, essentially.
The finance sector has lots of bespoke C++ code driving for example hedge funds, even real time trading and C++ coders are aging and retiring...

They certainly pay better, upfront, than a startup does.
Fairly primitive.

Missing 3,4,..N input gates, XNOR.

The next level would need sequential logic (FF's) and friends likes muxes.

After that, crossbars and tri-state buffers.

Get fancy with buffers, clocks, and visualizing propagation delay, setup and hold times.
I can see why not believing Turing Test is a useful benchmark means that you can't deduce ChatGPT is sentient from it being able to pass one. But how do you deduce it is not AGI without some other reasonable benchmark? Moreover, how can you deduce GPT-4 can't spontaneously become one even in principle without having that benchmark? Those two are the questions to the skeptics really.
How do they monetize? I never tried to register. Do they ask money to actually read the content they did not even produce themselves?

I'd expect for them to monetize on ads. And ads show up regardless of registration status.
have people not seen the videos of Gato? it's pretty mind blowing. it's ability is beyond belief, and it's not even the scaled up version, since there have been clear demonstrations that scaling improves model performance.

to me, Gato is pure proof that tranformers are waaaaaay more capable of emergent understanding than people seem to be willing to admit.

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/building-interactive-agents-in...
Designing Access Methods: The RUM Conjecture
This is awesome. Will definitely be playing with this tomorrow.
I've tried a bunch of riddles, and it often cops out and refuses to try, but you can nudge it by telling it is a riddle and trying to nudge it. Sometimes you need to lead it a bit the way you might with a human who can't find a strategy to work their way through.

This doesn't seem too different from dealing with people to me.

It might not be all that smart, but if you try leading it through riddles step by step it's if anything harder to dismiss its ability to reason and understand - spitting out an answer wholesale might just demonstrate recall. Being able to talk through the steps, and getting it when you suggest it answer a sub-problem first, is of anything more impressive to me.
>Every device (heck, every software!) will need a state of the art LLM to interact with its users.

Hm, didn't they also say that about AR/VR?
Yes, ELINT systems have been able to distinguish and classify emission signatures in high resolution for ages.
I’m mildly jealous of the 25 year old single malt that Daniel got to celebrate. https://mastodon.social/@bagder/109840957729621999
Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34739660
because being able to do "cd /var/log && zgrep errorstring *" was too convenient
In Germany, the only things I can think of off the top of my head is bicycles(wheels) and screens, which we measure in inches instead of cm.

But I couldn't even tell you how many cm to an inch. I just know how big a 40" TV or a 28" bike is.
There main counterargument from the basic systems engineering pov is that having logic in the frontend bumps the system to another tier of complexity and hairiness as a distributed system running over a unreliable network.

The language preference thing is there too but mitigated by lots of nicer languages that can target JS since 10+ years ago, like ClojureScript, Elm, TypeScript etc.
When will we be frequently using the term A.S. for artificial stupidity?
Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary
I have a feeling that no matter what the outcome is here, it's not going to be satisfying.

One extreme is AI is allowed to spit out copyrighted code verbatim as long as it technically goes through an AI first. Of course that defeats all open-source languages by adding a backdoor around them.

The other extreme is that AI is not allowed to spit out a single line of copyrighted code, in which case we'll have endless lawsuits to figure out if CodeGPT used a GPL-licensed fast inverse square root or if it used the public-domain fast inverse square root.

I think we'll land somewhere in the middle: If an AI regurgitates a "substantial" number of lines of code, then it's creators can be held liable (a.k.a. the "we'll know it when we see it" standard.)
Rust is definitely the worst language for this, writing curl in C++ would unlock memory and type safety while not throwing 30 years of language design out the window.
You are framing this almost as an assault. I think if someone slapped me while I was trying show them something at work I’d probably avoid helping that person again.
Interesting ! One newbie question, how does ibis differ from sqlalchemy ?
What happens when you underpay and under-invest in people from cradle to grave: they don't start families, they aren't happy, aren't employed, aren't buying things, and don't have much to celebrate. Instead, it's budget booze and handles of Gallo.
I hate to break this to you: Reading in bed on a laptop while laying down is not a "common use case".
> I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it too

Do you really mean iPhone 10, i.e. iPhone X, or iPhone 1? The former are very much still in support. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/supported-models-iphe...

I'm no Apple apologist, but their long-term device support puts all others in the segment to shame...
On top of that, medium just isn’t a site that matters much to me. I am not interested in exploring medium to find the interesting articles they are boosting. For me medium is just a place that hosts articles that I find through reddit or HN or mastodon. The best thing it can do is let me read that one article and get out of the way. It doesn’t need features, it doesn’t need recommendations, it just needs to not be annoying to read, it needs to not try to engage me.

But the investors will never let it just be that, there’s too much money involved.
This sounds terrible.

I'd be happy with a Firefox that didn't have stupid UI mistakes like making it impossible to tell which tab is selected. Or which didn't lose all my tabs in a crash. Getting the basics right matters.
If only the email standard had a flag you could set in an email that tells the user's client "do not enable the reply-all button".
> When I started the business, I thought the money was in the software, not the hardware.

That can happen. I had a business where I set out to develop hardware product A, and then realized I needed product B to be able to make A work. Five years later the business was about product B and A never got off the ground at all.

Reminds me of when I bought my first surface mount assembly line from this guy who deals in used manufacturing equipment. We had a nice conversation as the equipment was delivered and installed. He had downsized the business from some 50 employees to just him and a couple of assistants. He could not be happier.

At one point he said: You know, a business is like a living, breathing life form that tells you what to do every day, not the other way around.

BTW, I still think that businesses that can create a hardware + software lock can be excellent.

Generic hardware is trouble, just ask anyone who thought they'd design a cool new 3D printer only to have it cloned by someone in China before their Kickstarter campaign was over (this actually happened at least once, I met the poor fellow). If the hardware is connected to useful non-trivial software and services, the barrier to entry is significantly higher.
No argument. But how do they make money without these measures? Also Reddit has never been a huge moneymaker, the vast majority of their labor—moderators—work for nothing.
> it's quite possible, that this is a necessary prerequisite, side effect, or consequence of conscious intelligence.

I can’t wait for AI psychologists. AIs hired to make AIs talk about their reasonings because they are stuck in feedback loops. AIs having to be debugged. AIs being too selfish or too generous or too insecure that they keep deflating what they try to say despite being of extremely high value. AIs suddenly cracking nonsense when we need them the most under high pressure. I’m persuaded all these are required aspects of general organic intelligence.
They log shit ton of user data as well (visitors and creators). My advise is to use a private frontend like scribe[0].

0. https://scribe.rip
I don't want to spend the time to clean your greasy finger marks off my screen.

It's easier for you to not touch. If you REALLY want to poke, use some kind of tool to do it instead of smushing your finger on the screen.
Find work that interest you, meets your financial needs, but is otherwise easy, so it frees up your time, then use that time to actually figure out what you want to do.

The things you are going to regret not doing are things that you have interest in, but otherwise have no motivation to do because work is taking up your time/energy (both mental and physical). You aren't going to regret working at more "boring" job if it gives you the ability to do those things.
Ralph Nader launches another newspaper, for Winsted CT
Well, I'm looking at AI as an artist. The first notable thing I see is that I can pick out where all the refeferences come from and I find that boring. They are often not adapted to each other, there are obvious scale discrepancies and poor to little perspective. Cohesiveness is missing. Also by the arguments that I have seen, there is a very poor understanding of how artists work and develop their art. Artists transform materials, not existing art. Some artists may copy others but developing your own style is considered the gateway to making your best art. Art has many forms with a large portion of them being three dimensional. AI is a greatly limited tool that can statistically gather and render already existing imagery into a 2 dimensional format. It can be used as a tool to make art if the user has the skill to direct it with the proper prompts, but to equate that with how humans learn to create is to truly misunderstand the human process.
Doesn't mean it worked. One can _attempt_ to create a decoy, especially if they have little knowledge of how radiation is transmitted into the environment. On South Park, Randy Marsh, a geologist with a Ph.D., puts his nuts in the microwave to get just enough cancer that he can qualify for medical marijuana. [0]

People often say "nuke" when referring to using a microwave.

I tried growing marijuana with CFL lights in my dorm room. When the cops showed up, I ate the biggest of the 3 plants, a few inches tall, right in front of them.

[0] https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Randy_Marsh
In the market that we’ve had these past few years, it’s reasonable performance.

Me, I just buy and hold on undervalued companies that make sausage machines rather than sausages, have been for a decade, and I’ve seen an overall gain of 38,000%. No leverage, as my strategy occasionally entails watching everything slowly decline 20% during from time to time — but I bought equities in businesses that I believed had legs at the time, and continue to do so for the same reason.
Did you miss the part in the presentation were they rambled on for about 30mins how their implementation doesn't make these pesky little mistakes their competition does?
Very nice article. While reading it, I was thinking of a Bertrand Russell quote: "...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
DCS World is a multi and single player combat simulator platform for the PC made by Eagle Dynamics, which features modules such as the A-10C, F-16, F/A-18 and the F-14. The platform is free, the modules' pricing is reflective of the development work gone in to them - and requires a lot of time to learn. Great fun.
Interesting, how the laser tech is coming from companies based in europe.
Ralph Nader's monthly print newspaper launched in 2022
The worse thing than rewriting curl in Rust, would be to rewrite it in C++.

Leave it in C, or if you really have to, choose a safe language for the next 25 years. C++ ain't it.
You don't need to care about this as a user. That's my point. People at HN complain about elm things that won't affect you.
What's better for newsletter+blog? Substack or Beehiiv?
I am a freelance researcher/author/teacher.

I am considering starting a newsletter+blog on one of the platforms created just for this purpose. Main goals would be to give much more visibility than today to all my activities, not just the newsletter, and of course make some extra money if possible.

After some research, Substack and Beehiiv seem the best candidates, but I am not sure yet, and there may be others.

Ideally, I would need a platform that:

0. supports paid subscriptions

1. supports comments

2. has no *fixed* costs

3. allows *migrating* every post to a personal blog, after a month or so, leaving in the platform just a message like "this post is now available <here>

4. lets me say below each post or email "I also do other stuff, and you can support that other with donations"

IIUC, ONLY Substack checks the first 3 marks, but (even AFTER reading their Publisher Agreement) I am not sure if it allows n. 4 or not.

Every feedback is welcome, including pointers to other platforms that I may have missed!

Thanks!
CBME (Competency-based medical education) in India
> How can you effectively double orgs of this size over a 2 year period?

That's the cool part - you can't.
I imagine the point is that what happens in the US isn't some inevitable state of things, it's the choices of US citizens, and they could look abroad to see counterexamples to their assumptions.
Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem
Seems Daniel got you already covered, albeit it's more co-existence, as you can select a rust based backend for curl:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/02/01/curl-with-rust/
1 - "cumulative number of layoffs in past two months alone is going to hit 1 million employees" The state itself created this situation with the inflation since the end of Bretton Woods (specially the inflation during 2020-2021). If you give booze to an alcoholic he will get drunk and afterwards he will have a hangover.

2 - "Shouldn't the government intervene to prevent social crisis?" - Despite warning from people like Hayke and Mises, people tried to do all sorts of state-controlled economies (Germany, USSR, modern USA, etc). It didn't work. Better to drink lots of water, take a rest, and not get drunk next time.
God I miss Asheron's Call.

I had a character named Sal Monella, and I ran around the various major hubs trading people a single Fried Egg.

Good times.
The US economic system by my eyes has changed quite a bit in 240 years. The dissolution of slavery was a pretty big milestone, for example. There's distinctly different eras defined by very different laws, such as the gilded age or the era of the train baron.

I guess if you want to call that entire 240 years "capitalism" and use that as evidence that it's, ah, more sustainable than other strategies, well that's fine, but that means free market capitalism has no mechanism preventing things like slavery or company towns. In fact it seems it continually fails to provide for anyone other than capital holders until another philosophy enters the picture, such as government regulation or worker's unions.

You say freedom requires vigilance, what's that mean? When the only way to eat was to work in a company town and scrape together barely the means to a living, everyone is vigilantly aware of how shitty the situation is, so then what? History teaches us the "and then what" is strike followed by reactionary state violence followed by bloody revolution, so there's your case history of devolution to violence.
I had to read it multiple times before I understood why it was a test of understanding. It is a riddle.
IR35 scared a lot of employers away from individual freelancers. The fear is that HMRC could audit you, retroactively declare you a worker and then demand national insurance contributions from the employer. They're happier working with a company that [supposedly] insulates them from this.

And cover. I know the companies I have long term contracts with are petrified of the day they might have to find a replacement. It might not be true in practice but they believe a third party management layer gives them cover, and at a lower cost than hiring two of me at once.
My old android phones are repurposed as web camera and single purpose devices (e.g. the local sports complex expects that everyone, including kids, has their smartphone (obviously), so I just installed their stupid app on the old phones for this; they stay turned off otherwise).
My favorite of those is a former press secretary Jen Psaki tried to retort a perfectly good question from a reporter asking if the White House will send much needed coronavirus tests to American households:

"Should we just send one to every American?" Psaki shot back, her voice dripping with sarcasm. [0]

Twitter dragged her so hard it was/wasn't even funny, and the next day the White House did just that. Thanks lady!

[0] https://theintercept.com/2021/12/21/anger-jen-psaki-helped-a...
I'll agree; we're just getting to the "Substacks writing about writing Substacks" phase now. Up until now all those people were on Medium.
I still hum the drudge dance sometimes. It melds together with YTV "short circuitz" reels as well (this one in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScvIbcNV38k)
Scam masters are the most useless position I've seen in my life.
This is absolutely a fair argument with the current state of self-driving, however, if there were a better UX communicating what the car was doing, AND you were more used to it, AND it's 15 years down the road and self-driving is seen as more reliable, I wonder if you'd have the same feeling.

Let's check back in 15 years.
I work in a language with hygienic macros and in zig, and zigs way is simpler and more constrained.
There's a lot of things like that out there where science fails to actually capture what is going on.

You can miss out on a good portion of life and wisdom by only ever looking at "the science" (atheistic or otherwise)
Sort of.

It is not so much as a scam as a business opportunity that got filled because management tends to be non technical. If you have technical managers who actually can write documents or technical program managers/system engineers who can talk with customers in more detail, you don't need scrum or scrum masters.

Non technical managers are the ones that are actually waste time being essentially human APIs between product managers and developers, and use scrum masters to actually do the "engineering" with getting work planned, done, and tracked.
Trying to drag the content horizontally causes it to attempt to scroll then immediately rebound. On its own this is a strange stylistic decision, but coupled with the sidebar position being fixed it just looks sloppy.

This isn't mobile only, on desktop the center content can be scrolled horizontally and it overlaps very oddly with the side content there too.

All in all it feels like a rushed job.
My friend from asia arrived in the UK to study in 2011 and her school recommended all their students to a nearby high street bank. No difficulty opening an account with a passport and letter from the school.

There was almost certainly something crooked though: The account had a monthly fee, but almost anyone can get an account with no fees if they know about them.
>Their job will be to create the solution/product even if they're not writing code.

Yep.

You can make a good argument that today, any technical profession doesn't have to know as much because of existing software in most any given sector, whether its CAD software with built in stress/CFD analysis for mechanical parts, or frameworks for actual software development that are larger building blocks then pure code.

In the same way, future software engineers will likely be using generative software based on models like GPT that can take plaintext English and translate it into code. There will still be knowledge required of which model to run, what the parameters do, how to tweak the output, e.t.c

Of course, in the further future (although exponentially less time), those engineers will no longer be needed because there will be general models trained on all of their work as well. But really though, at that point, we wouldn't be that far from AGI.
Doesn't @refalldecls do this?
Right. I don’t see why human-level AI is the criteria for AGI. I think we can have weak AGI, potentially long before we have strong AGI. We need clear benchmarks, otherwise it turns into theology.
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