skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate the effort but these demos have really quickly become so boring. If you can design an entire website with the AI tools, it appears its almost certainly a website you don't need to create in the first place. Either it has already essentially been made by somebody who actually understood and cared about the code, or it's such a trivial mix of stuff you're better off making a squarespace site or whatever. At least that is hardened and tested as a product.

Like, we should maybe give pause to the fact that this is at least the 20th demo specifically about "making a website." If this technology is so powerful, saves so much time, democratizes the profession so much, etc why are the demos all the same? Either people are unimaginative, which they are not, or perhaps this is pretty much what we can get from this in general.

Coding involve care and inspiration, and should not necessarily be reinventing the wheel again and again, even if youre getting the AI to do the reinvention for you.

But beyond any principled thoughts, just not seeing the returns here that people are trying to get me to see. Lots of laymen have been making wonderful websites for 30 years. Its cool the computer knows what css people have been using for those decades, but it only makes brittle uninspired things that only incidentally work.

I'd really like to know, beyond the hype, if any serious engineers have actually used this stuff for an extended amount of time. Ive tried and tried to use it and convince myself its helping me, but it just leads to so much frustration with the hallucinations and misunderstandings and schizophrenic comprehension of its own context..
AI-Generated Images Are Tricky to Spot
Costs for hosting a static site or something with minimal computation is down to 0 at this point using any one of a dozen cloud/edge providers, so it's hard to compete with them on the basis of cost. The arguments for self hosting are really about having full control over your service stack.
Turns out the left doesn’t need to ban books. They just rewrite them.
I think they mean something like a next.js or a meteor.js project.
For what it's worth, the large "players" already seem to have this capability. They've forced pretty much everyone to roll out captchas, waf-level throttling, proof of work interstitials, and behavior-based fingerprinting.

While my immediate response was the same as yours, I think this actually won't really change much in the way of bad actors.

It's unfortunate, but basic controls (such as throttling, etc) are pretty much a floor-required feature - one way to avoid this burden is to do things like use 3rd party idp (aka google login). I'm not happy with the state of things but I don't think headless will particularly contribute to a material increase in abuse cases.
That is a fantastic doc. It's thoughtful and kind hearted. it puts the focus and responsibility for work right where it needs to be. You could almost say, it's just express the vision and delegate. But the devil is in the details, and there is a deep fear details are what kills you. This actually provides a path to responsibly delegate those details.

Great great write up. Obviously it's about making a tv show, but pretty much all of that is applicable to any leader.
How exactly is it just "barely" democratic?
Integrate Background Knowledge from Language into Decision-Making Problems
This is a strange line of thought. I mean, yes we'll get a whole bunch of bullcrap posts from people not involved, but effectively you're instead reducing the conversation to "Lets give the artist their 15 minutes of neo-luddism".

Artists are not the first group to fall under the hammer of technology and automation, and they will not be the last. I'm sure most blacksmiths thought themselves artists that worked hard to master a craft after years of work, and now a press stamps out that same work in seconds. This is hitting people hard now because things we think of as distinctly human are now being accomplished by machines (though was this not true in the past?).

There are discussions for artists here, but there are plenty more for all of society. Jobs will get replaced and change in form at an ever increasing rate due to technology if trends keep up. Will the rate of technology change job requirements faster than humans can retrain? If it does what are nations and societies going to do about this. Much like the AI safety issues, we need to answer these large scale issues now before artists and programmers are stabbing each other in the streets for breadcrumbs while multitrillionares that own the technology live like gods.
The trigger word was “memoir”
It's worth noting that this does also work on signed types, so it can be a kind of handy idiom to see

while (N --> 0) { ... }

and know it will execute N times no matter the details of the type of N.
I think they might mean AssistiveTouch.
It's a database of practically everything ever said on the internet, no? I am coming to the conclusion that maybe for most people, simply getting a glimpse at a large database is a mind-blowing view of the abyss. Google deliberately doesn't let you mainline the data they collect.

There is that quote about quantity having a quality all its own.
Currently, anti-war movement would be stupid in US. Anti-war movement can work if war is pointless in political best interests, like Vietnam War or Afghanistan.

If Russia is allowed to run wild in Eastern Europe and China on the Pacific, then the core of American social contract would be endangered. You cannot be advocating against wars without providing a solution to aggressive authoritarian countries that want to take over US hegemony. US needs to be ready defending it position even if there is risk of nuclear war. If anything, US was too soft in last two decades. Obama Russia reset was a mistake and Trump clumsy trade war with China was too weak and too late.
Sure, would be very happy to. Send it where?
I am going to message you on Keybase.
...searching for that missing "D"
One pretty easy (I didn't know the name at that time) example is, a still person in front of a moving train (at station for example). E.g. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPpyrCMhwN_/?igshid=NmE0MzVhZDY=
ITT: many egotistical developers that claim or "know" their code is "better" than chatGPT.

meanwhile a post not too long ago was upvoted quite high which claimed that it's anyway impossible to prove / disprove code is "clean" or not - because it's all subjective anyway
> Many high-speed trains in the world are coming from France or Germany.

Sadly that isn't that many. And China and Japan are doing their own. The US plans to use Japan technology (Texas). So does Indonesia.

Its just a smaller industry.
> But yeah they won't produce birdsong. There's no utility to that. I guess it's a matter of environment.

This is the crux of the issue. GPT-3 would happily learn birdsong instead of human language, just like it has learned to produce snippets of code or a sequence of chess moves or various other things found in its training data. For that reason, it's not by itself useful as a model of human cognition. Which is not to say it isn't interesting, or that studying LLMs won't lead to interesting insights into the human mind--I suspect it will!
Generally ISPs will only let you announce the same prefixes to multiple upstream ISP if you have PI address space. If you have PA address space you are probably out of luck. An ISP won't accept your prefixes if they are PA space from another ISP. At any rate you can can still use floating static routes and use a GSLB provider like Dyn to get your incoming redundancy and still not need to run BGP. In fact if you have PA address space this is your only option.
>Dogshit buildings everywhere designed by contractors to avoid skilled labor.

This seems to be the opinion of everyone on HN, but I never encounter this in real life (and do not agree with it myself). Where I live (mainly London, but I've spent a bit of time in some US cities as well) the buildings being built/applying for planning permission look pretty good. It's the ones built in the late 20th century that are hideous.
> I think pay-for-verification is going to be dominant on all real-identity social media.

Bad actors are going to be happy to pay $10/20/30/40 a month to scam people, its their job and livelihood.
And yet here we are.

It turns out that out of quality, consistency, and price all they really need is consistency.
Well, I am not going to waste time I spend in the office on working. Not after the pandemic and realizing human society can be taken away at blink of an eye. Have an hour and a half lunch, talk to teammates about their lives. Work is for home.
Usually I use a do-while loop,

unsigned char x = 0;
do {
printf("%d\n", x);
} while (++x);
Linux is really bloated these days. I am confident you could self host a decent website on OpenBSD with less than a GB of disk space and several GB of RAM. It is really incredible to me how in 2023 we are doing basically nothing that could not be done in 2013 but it takes an order of magnitude more computing power. Serving a medium size website is not really that complicated unless you are hosting a bunch of videos or whatever.

Stories like these just go to show me how much fat there is in Tech. The sector is in for a sharp reality check. You don't need 10s of gigs of RAM and 20 cores to host your blog or small business e-commerce site. But if you use the latest bullshit framework then maybe you do...
The article opens:

Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.
Let me add a very relevant anecdote of the difference between those things.

Kurento the project is Apache-2 open-source, you'll find all its source code here: https://github.com/Kurento/kurento

its website was kurento .org but the trademark of the name (and the domain) is owned by Twilio, who recently had the gesture of redirecting all accesses from this domain to their own, without prior warning. No replies to emails, or reasons stated. Not that they needed one though, as they are indeed the owners and can do whatever they want. Just a nice "contribution" they made to OSS, it seems.
> Twitter, which is now private, no longer reports its financial details publicly. The company reported last year that it owed $239 million primarily for office space and data center facilities in 2023.

> In a January lawsuit, Canary LLC, a marketing company that specializes in producing the kinds of logo-decorated items ubiquitous among Silicon Valley tech companies, claimed Twitter is behind payment on almost $400,000 for various Twitter-branded swag.

> The company’s court filings included the almost $7,000 purchase order describing a “swag gift box for Elon.” An invoice for the order included a sandblasted logo on a Japanese whisky bottle, an extra-large bomber jacket and more than $250 worth of socks.

---

For some of them, it might be a bit more personal. They aren't all "trying to get back rent on a building that Twitter previously occupied" but rather "stuff that Elon ordered."

The data center could be interesting to watch too.
not being a masterpiece in economics is not on the same scale as building an aircraft which is technically simply unfit to fly.

Sure, you can make bad bussiness decisions but this doesn't mean you cannot build proper airplanes.
> There clearly is intelligence in these models

I would say instead that there's a level of complexity in these models that blow past our uncanny valley threshold heuristics for recognizing conscious intent. We've managed to find the edge of the usefulness of that hardwired sense.

I suspect the most challenging distinction for people is going to be: even if we do grant that a LLM had developed a kind of mind, our interactions with it are not actual communication with that mind. Human words are labels to organize sensory data and our experiences. The tokens an LLM works with have no meaning to it.
Its interesting that while Moore's law saturated many years ago there is still no parallel programming style that hits some sweet spot between productivity and performance for multicore cpus (and thus gets more adopted for mainstream development)

Its not clear if this means there is not such "optimum" or simply it is not something anybody cares about

people focused a lot on gpus but thats not easy either
Your narrative sounds fairly standard to me, but I'm in my 30s and can't relate at all. My experience of life has been completely different. I suppose it's like a bell curve and stereotyping lives can only capture some people's experience
I never thought it was part of the code of conduct. I thought it was the answer to the business plan question before they decided on advertising or maybe their motto.
Your comment reminds me of Ahmed Chalabi who the Washington establishment was so keen on propping up as having keen insight into what the people of Iraq were really thinking. Turns out he had keen insight into his ambitions and what Washington wanted to hear. That was a completely different thing that what the people of Iraq really thought.
Mr Lebowski is responsible for all micturations in this fair city. Send him an invoice for repairs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCgeaNfcw-w
logic it is good at. math isn't logic as weird as that sounds

it's trained on code which follows logical rules

if I'm wrong here please correct me
I have an iPhone 6 and a SE (2020) and I can tell the difference. The SE feels like my Mac's (2020) touchpad.
I can't find it, but someone already did a Python module that plugs into GPT-3 and automatically generates functions on the fly as you call them - and then the same for methods on the returned values etc.
It's interesting if combined with the insight that a lot of founders were simply lucky, regardless of what they tell themselves and others about why they succeeded
The AT&T Unix is probably "the" Unix, if there is one, but the name got sold eventually to The Open Group which licenses it to compliant systems.

So it's now a bit more like x86 (family of similar products that work somewhat similarly, though x86 doesn't need a license any more) rather than Pentium (a product or range from a specific company).
To be fair a lot of students don't bother to read books school assigns as textsx because the way schools run things actually reading, engaging, and thinking about it is a disadvantage. There are certain themes and points your teachers want you to mention in your answers and any analysis outside of that will be considered "incorrect" or given lower marks, even if they relate to the text and the theme being studied.
That's up to you but I think I'd be very concerned about my part in publishing what later went on to incite acts of hatred. I believe Matilda does not promote anything like that, but it's only by considering it in context that I would have thought to look for it and make that determination. Caring about it doesn't automatically mean wanting to see the work censored, or worse, silently modified. But personally if I saw a problem like that I wouldn't want to be involved in the publication or promotion of it.
> I only found "complete on/complete off" one

Docker has a `DOCKER-USER` chain where the user can inject their own rules before docker's rules are run.

But even then, the user flat out should not be using `-p` unless they want to expose the service outside of the machine. That is the well documented networking model of docker. Docker also includes a network abstraction that should have been used here to give access to other services that need it and isolate it from the things that don't.
The web has moved to client rendering. But we still host the data on the server! Why?
Thanks, fixed the title.
Well, no, it can't do jack. NATO also has the Global Hawk drone flying in the Black Sea, keeping tabs on Russian vessels and feeding intel to Ukraine. Pretty sure Russia would love to soot it down, which they have the capability to do, but shooting down NATO assets is not a good 4-D chess move for them at this point.
A fragment of a low orbit collision can't end up in a higher circular orbit, because the old orbit and new orbit inevitably intersect at the point/height of the collision, so in the best/worst case the new (more energetic) orbit's perigee/low point (which is the one that matters for the drag and deorbiting - and small fragments deorbit faster than large satellites) happens to be exactly is at the height of the collision and only it's apogee is raised; and in every other case the new orbit has a much higher apogee but the perigee is even lower, which means that the fragment deorbits on its own even faster.

So no, if satellite swarms are in orbits low enough to deorbit on their own within some years (e.g. 550km for Starlink), then a mass collision doesn't result in a Kessler syndrome as the resulting debris is effectively self-clearing. Doing the same at twice the height (e.g. 1100km original Starlink plan) would have that risk though.
Informally, it means a methodical and well organized explanation starting from a top level overview then steadily increasing the level of detail until the subject has been fully explained, all while assuming as little prior knowledge as possible from the reader.
> I think even marriages and careers are like this. I think being able to begin again might be a skill in itself.

It's definitely a skill and one that I don't presently have. I think it takes creativity and a positive outlook to reinvent, or begin again.
Anywhere to download the original image? Be a cool wallpaper :)
I think the problem with this is the C compiler has to find a solution which work with all the architectures it is expected to support. It order to achieve this, it must generalize in some areas and have flexibility in others. C programmers are required to be familiar with both the specifics of the architectures they are building for and the idiosyncrasies of their complier. I always assumed most other compiled languages were like this since I started with C and moved to x86 assembly from there. However, the more I read about people disliking C for this reason, the more I believe this may not be the case.

> The bitfield stuff in C would be fantastic if it weren't fundamentally broken

Bitfields in C can be manageable. Each compiler has it's own set of rules for how it prefers to arrange and pack them. Despite them not always being intuitive, I use them regularly since they are so succinct. If you are concerned about faithful and predictable ordering you generally just have a test program which uses known values to verify your layout as part of your build configuration or test battery.

> ... some Microsoft compilers ...

I've used many C compilers but I have always avoided microsoft ones, going so far to carry a floppy disc with my own when working in the lab at school.
> I love trains -- but planes are usually a better solution than high-speed trains.

Sure if you think its a good idea to blow lots of carbon in the air and a punch of emissions with led all over the continent.

Trains absolutely make sense in the waste majority cases in Europe.

And having high speed dedicated lanes also has the additional benefit of removing capacity from older lines and allowing more regional and more cargo.

Building trains, both conventional and high speed is a huge win.

P.S:

The current lead in terms of electric viable plains I would say is Heart Aerospace from Sweden.
I zone out at work all day waiting for people to bring me problems, then when I get home and finish my chores and get the kid to bed I get to work on actual work projects with measurable progress.

To be clear, I'm showing up to be seen and available.
Headed chrome adds a huge amount of overhead, and can also be fingerprinted more easily. This is a lot more declarative and makes it easier to run an abuse farm. Although, per my other comment, I don't see Headless as a tool that will particularly move the needle on abuse cases.
For context, fastlane is “a tool for iOS and Android developers to automate tedious tasks like generating screenshots, dealing with provisioning profiles, and releasing your application.”

https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane

Google seems to have acquired(?) it in 2017: https://krausefx.com/blog/fastlane-is-joining-google
I would guess this means they hired the lead developer(s) and funded a team to work on the project.
well. the classic is:+-

int * p = malloc( sizeof(int) );

which is horrible in either language, but is legal c, but not c++
> “optimizing for the first derivative” played well with this approach

That's... still linear?
If the concept of non-linearity is supposed to add anything to this article, arguably this should be at least the second derivative!
I'll see your anecdote and raise you a few productive companies that have RTO policies:

- Apple: https://www.fastcompany.com/90781330/apple-return-to-office-...

- Amazon: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/17/amazon-employees-asked-to-be...

- Microsoft: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/technology/microsoft-rto....

Why should your anecdote be stronger than this?
I think Matrix is getting peer-to-peer delivery so that will require offline composing, I think. I'm with you on search!
ChatGPT won't be free forever.

Whatever LLM search stuff comes along will only be free as long as it brings in ad revenue. Which involves making the models fundamentally worse most likely. Or they'll use it to collect personal data. Probably both.

Computationally, GPT is wildly expensive. This idea people have that it's gonna be used all over the place for all sorts of tiny tasks, as if it's just another REST API, is nuts. Unless something fundamentally new comes along that makes these models much cheaper, adoption is likely going to end up much more limited than people expect. Or siloed off into expensive business-facing products.
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which it has every right to do, considering this treaty is especially important to one of its member states (ireland).
The term to search for is aphantasia[0], although as far as I understand that refers to people who are born without mental imagery (as opposed to your case, where you had it and then lost it)

A quick search turns up "Charcot–Wilbrand syndrome"[1]:

a patient loses the power to conjure up visual images or memories, and furthermore, ceases to dream during his sleeping hours

but it seems to be related to patients with some kind of brain damage.

Personally, my ability to visualize is heavily affected by my habits, particularly sleep, diet and exercise. Have you had any lifestyle changes recently that might explain changes in your cognitive performance?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot%E2%80%93Wilbrand_syndr...
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Can you please provide a (credible or somehow representative) source claiming that the primary purpose and intent of the American legal system and government was the subjugation of minorities.
You can also check out CapRover, similar self-hosted PaaS like Coolify but simpler to set up and manage in my opinion:
https://caprover.com/
This is an accounting method that's different from the traditional ones. That's not to say it's wrong. It's just interesting.

However, "customer acquisition cost" seems to imply that that customer is now "yours" and he'll keep buying without any more spending from you. That assumption is questionable. Maybe he's just on loan to you, and fickle as all hell. Did Uber "acquire" me just because I used them a few times?

Traditional accounting is "fixed cost" plus "variable cost." You build your factory (fixed cost), and then produce widgets (variable cost). For a long time, you're amortizing the fixed costs, and eventually the price of the widgets is all profit, assuming the factory still runs.

In that method, every customer is a random draw from a raffle, and you have no guarantees that the customer will keep buying. They may, but they may not. You have to keep getting new ones to even keep your base stable.