skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There doesn't seem to be any indication that we can make an AI that can drive, let alone do everything.
Wasn't ethanol added to replace MTBE, due to pollution concerns after MTBE replaced lead? What should we use in place of ethanol?
There is no reason to trust that Sam Altman’s definition of “good for humanity” has any other meaning than “good for Sam Altman.” Everything created by Silicon Valley since 2010 has been a net harm to society, and people who got rich from that harm, like Sam Altman, are the ones steering the ship. It seems obvious, from a distance, that this is all going to go very badly.
Both meanings were used here. There are electrical currents, and there are flows of material through the magnetic field, producing voltages that sustain currents. The JxB forces also affect the flows. It's a highly nonlinear phenomenon (magnetohydronamics, or MHD).
The prediction markets on PredictIt have the Democrats winning at 52 cents, and the Republicans at 50 cents. You should expect the election to be quite close.
Wow, that's something I hadn't thought about yet. I'm also not sure if that's true, but it'd be a satisfying, calming thought if it were. Can you perhaps elaborate?
I think you are correct. I was thrown off by the one less weekend day but I think that was relative to a 4-day work week--not the status quo. I'd still rather than the 4-day week and/or just more vacation days in general.
No, because not all parts of humanity are equally averse to having children. So as long as it is physically possible for people to have kids and survive until adulthood, natural selection will eventually reassert itself. Things could get dicey for a while until then, though?
In NL, almost zero calls. What is the difference?
We aren't making progress on anything that'd lead to "AGI robots". Online AI analysis all seems to come from lesswrong posters who think computers are magic and can do anything though.
I don't like the royal "We". I hope these things get opensourced soon because some people are in a hurry to play god with the rest of us.

Congrats to openAI for being first, but I hope they end up as a footnote in history
Not all indeed. But across a population of millions, that has a serious impact.

The US has 330 million people, and assuming a roughly equal split means you're looking at ~165 million Men and 165 million women.

Assume that 1/3 of those 165 million women are able to have kids -- they're not too young, or post-menopausal. That's ~55 million women who can have kids.

If there is even a tiny amount of issues with being over age, like that only impacts 1-4% of pregnant women, that's still anywhere form 0.5 to 2.2 million pregnancies.

2 million babies that are going to not happen, or have problems. There are US states with fewer people. Even a tiny variance here can impact large populations greatly.
Probably won’t have time to play this until next weekend. would definitely love a round up on what features are missing, relative to KSP1.
> The "executive" here is not a noun

I understand, but in this case that’s a distinction without a difference. For whom is the executive summary? For the person making the executive decision, ie the executive.

In my career, executive summaries are crafted to guide the executive to the outcome desired by the author. Perhaps that’s unique to my experience.
I haven't done it, but it's a great idea.
So a staple belief about hyperintelligence in the last couple of decades was that there would be no obvious ceiling on how smart a recursively self-improving AI could get. The assumption was that intelligence was a property of some (possibly very complex) algorithm, which could be refined without end.

But in the AI models we have now, the intelligence is an emergent property of the training data, while the algorithm is fairly simple. So my question is, to what extent is the growth in 2023-style AI capped by the availability of training data? At some point soon, we'll have fed these models with every document ever written; what's the next step up from there?
So I've been looking into ONNX to speedup inference, is there some killer feature I should look at JAX for?
I do see this a lot. e.g. “Hacker News readers hate Elon Musk yet own Tesla cars”
If global fertility rate becomes that like Japan, we'll have a halving of the population every generation. This leads to a global population of 78 million after 10 generations. Also a miserable population because each person needs to support two elderly people while before it was two people supporting one elderly. That's a 4x increase in work.
Space elevators aren't compatible with existing and planned satellites.

Edit: let me explain. The space elevator necessarily goes to the height of the geostationary orbit, ~36000 km above Earth surface, and placed on equator on the Earth. It will intersect all orbital planes of satellites, and vast majority of satellites flies below GEO. Satellites orbits are not quite predictable in practice, due to fluctuations of forces acting on satellites, so without active avoidance system - which almost all existing satellites lack and new satellites aren't planning to have - eventually satellite will collide with the elevator, at speed which seems to be rather catastrophic to both satellite and the elevator. There were many attempts to solve this problem, but I haven't seen an adequate one so far, and I rather doubt the humanity will replace the satellites with the space elevator (which won't be able to launch long-term satellites for the same reason). So, space elevator won't actually work as intended.
Most countries in the world have universal healthcare systems. How would that even work?
Actually he is making the counterargument to anti-trust, which is that integration increases efficiency and total surplus.
There is zero evidence that we will get AGI.
The big difference being at the time was seen as neutral to good, vs openai which started as questionably good to bad and had just continued to do things that show they are even worse than they say.
Hard disagreed with HN being just reddit for IT guys as well.

On most reddit subs, you get banned/flagged/downvoted for simply disagreeing with the hivemind of a given subreddit, your tone doesn't matter.

On HN, I found the exact inverse, you can bring up dissenting points with no issues, at worst you are going to get downvoted (but even that doesn't happen as much as one would expect), as long as you stay polite and reasonable. But if you are being inflammatory or act like an asshole, even if your opinion aligns perfectly with the hivemind of a given comment section, you are getting downvoted/flagged (often by the same people who would agree with your point otherwise).

That alone makes the quality of discussion and the entire interaction with HN community massively different from reddit, and for the better.
Real time Google maps satellite view
Thank you! I'll definitely save this entire discussion here as a PDF and save it in the 'projects archive'. Amazing comments!
And this still has no bearings on the original thing claimed that Microsoft was found to be anti competitive for bundling IE. Not bundling IE was never part of the consent decree. No one ever said there was going to have to be a separate “IE company Inc”.

Job first came back to prominence with the iMac, then really took off because of the iPod. Microsoft didn’t fail in the music player market for lack of trying, they had multiple failures - first Plays4Sure and then the Zune. It was execution failure. The same with the phone.

Microsoft was never able to compete with an integrated player like Apple except for the Mac.
The truth is it's complicated, because modern ICEs are complicated.

> Most cars on the road today, including those that aren't Flex Fuel, can run somewhere between E30 and E50 with no problems whatsoever.

That's straight up not true if we define "run" as "run as well as on E10" (granted I wish it was so I could save money on having to upgrade fueling for my cars).

With the huge focus on MPG manufacturers generally aren't overbuilding their fueling systems: My 4 series will "run" on E30 with a stock tune, but logging AFRs and fuel rail pressure will show it's a dangerous game where the ECU is pulling a ton of timing as the fuel system struggles to keep up.

Even with a tune, E20 is the maximum the fueling system can maintain without straight up running out of fueling and going into limp mode under heavy load

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The more balanced truth is: ethanol for vehicles is a complicated topic, because modern ICEs are complicated beasts.

Cars are designed to not break down on E10, but you will find some people argue (imo validly) that part of why car reliability dipped around the turn of the century was all the changes needed to support that kind of flexibility. Materials changed, engine management got more complicated (the fact that a car will run at all on E30 while clearly exceeding its fueling limits is a testament to that), etc.

Ethanol can be better for sure, my car is a million times more enjoyable on a simple E20 blend than California's awful 91 blend, but at the end of the day, ethanol fuel is a bit of a farce (and again, I'm someone who'd have a terrible day if we actually stopped producing it).

We're having the public pay to prop up our energy independence, and producing more emissions along the way. E85 prices don't reflect the difference in energy content, and the cost at the production side to make E10 blends. Gas would be cheaper for most people if we didn't have that requirement, hence why in times of economic need we've suspended the requirement.

Ironically the people who I personally see benefit most from E85 are people who are well off enough to use it for a performance boost, or businesses taking advantage of how much artificially cheaper E85 is. Average people get the short end of the stick and few to none of the benefits.
ChatGPT is almost as good as a pretty mediocre human at some tasks. I would not say it's even close to "much better than the average."
Tensilica Xtensa.
This post makes me extremely hopeful. It's great to see optimism and caution hand in hand like this -- a full acknowledgment of the potential for good and the potential for harm, and some clear principles as to how to navigate that. Very curious to see how they flush out the "training should be audited" bit in the future.
I haven't seen numbers that back that evolution over the years.

This article [0] from 2018 suggests an uptick, but it justifies it as "a deal to get paid for Google search traffic in parts of Europe" - so, actual market expansion.

I'm not saying you're wrong, only that I haven't seen evidence that you're not.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-firef...
> The biggest beneficiary of cartels are competitors that are outside the cartel.

This is just... obviously wrong. If this were true, nobody would ever join a cartel, since membership is voluntary. All antitrust legislation and enforcement would be rendered entirely moot, because nobody would ever collude to fix prices.
Hard delete without recourse is a horrible user experience for most.
That's a poor justification for the current regulatory regime in which ethanol in gas is mandated. If MTBE or TEL then they should be banned. If regular gasoline doesn't have enough octane, it should be up to the market to figure out which octane booster should be used, rather than the government enforcing use of ethanol by decree.
When I click on trash it says "Items in trash are deleted forever after 30 days", so I don't really understand this complaint. Trash is a feature that most users have come to expect in file management systems.

Also, "turn off history" - which seems to be what this complaint is about - is just a public feature of the Chat app built into gmail.
What a crap article. It's a low quality click bait, with half a page essay into "creative" article. Half a page of purely subjective language of someone that has never seen the actual product.
Thank you, all credit goes to Branko Matic's fantastic Kirby theme 'ZeroOne" :-)

https://www.thezero.club/demo/one/
Aggressive Attack on PyPI Attempting to Deliver Rust Executable
But I can remember last Thursday!
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

~Eric Schmidt

lol
Interesting! I'm not familiar with chatbots, but this kind of does seem like a sort of autocomplete in the sense that this is a fulfillment of the request in the vein of the lowest common denominator storytelling. While this story is not about what Maria can 'see', it is very much about the sighted world or (imho, problematically) about the lack of sight as a detriment. It's a feel-good story that sounds nice to most sighted people who think that a story about someone who can't see and a story simply about the trait of not seeing are the same.

To illustrate what I mean, do you think it's likely/possible ChatGPT ever comes up with a story about a person who goes to the grocery store, examining produce for ripeness, chatting with another parent about parenting, then going home and feeding their child? None of those things require sight, so it would fit the prompt as long as it portray the person as being able to see.
I actually agree with you. But if we did, we would not be able to control it.
7% of them?
"Except you can't kill someone with encryption."
You can damn sure wreck their lives without it though. Lets say a generally good guy is thinking about running for office. He has a encrypted chat with some old friends where they occasionally make off color jokes about whatever protected class happens to be in favor at the time, gay, trans, black, whatever.

He runs for office and the people in power simply pull up his chat logs, accuse him of being a racist and thats it for him. This is just one obvious example but there are millions. He is in an open marriage, gay, a swinger, satanist, you name it, it will be used against him.

Its a way for the government in power to stay in power.
FWIW if you live in place with boating and you might be able to find REC-90 for sale, which is Ethanol free.
Feed all documents, audio, images, video, 3d models, and all life experiences to a single model that understands how to interpret and synthesize all of these things. Then see if you still need to ask the question.
You'll get a solid 20-30lb/ft gain on a GM or Ford V8 with E85.
If you've been in turn kicked, stabbed, and shot, then deciding somebody using a water pistol against you is "the last straw" is absurd and idiotic, even if technically correct (it came, after all, last in chronological order)
Once it is out there it can be rehosted on the clear net since model weights can't be copyrighted (unless they intentionally over train on some copyrighted snippets they own maybe).
The trouble with Treblle?
Sure. I've known nurses that worked 3-day weeks and nurses that worked one week on and one week off.

I don't feel they're especially "entitled."

The argument that one group should suffer because other groups do is a strange one to me. I don't see software engineers asking that we guarantee that other professions work worse hours than we do.
A lot of talk about protecting humanity, but barely a whisper about the rights of AGI which - by definition - will be sentient beings which will require equivalent rights.

The earlier we understand and make that central to our development of it the better for both us and the new human beings we create to join us.
I don’t see anything in the quoted passage that limits it to non-digital writing systems.
> I get one life why would I waste it doing something I don’t want to do for a future I won’t even see?

> [...] If you have a blanket expectation for other people to live their lives according to your ideologies (even if it makes them unhappy), perhaps take a second to consider what you’re asking of them.

Rhetorical question: are you also one of those childless types who objects to your taxes paying to fund public schools?

Everything you consume or enjoy in your self-centered, hedonistic life is only available to you because others did things they didn't want to do for beneficiaries they'd never see. Even retirement is a pipe dream-- not everyone lives to see theirs. But we all do our part in the meantime. Except you, for some reason.

Your outlook is tone-deaf and antisocial (and not in the cool/edgy way), hence the lack of popularity. You'd be more popular were you to brag about making your living stealing candy from children and selling it back to them.
This is a total flamebait. I am no tesla owner or musk fan by any means. The implication of this article is that surely there is no possible explanation for Tesla employees carefully driving the cybertruck over a curb onto a landscaped lawn into a parking spot besides it being totally useless for any offroading. This is pretty nonsensical, imo.
> Though, Chevy V8s can see solid torque gains over 4000 RPMs.

The gains will come in well before that
> First, how do you not have a 'you're posting too fast' cooldown with all the posts you are making on this thread?

I dunno, I definitely have some posts where I have to wait for the reply link to show up to write a reply.

> if I go get a $50 meal my server very much can adjust my bill 'I removed X', 'I comped Y' happens all the time.

And usually behind the scenes they got a supervisor or manager approval for doing such a thing, or will probably have to explain the deviance from normal pricing later.

> If I go to a matress store/furniture store the sales person very much has the ability to lower my price arbitrarily on items way more expensive than a Playstation.

Most times that I've negotiated pricing for things (cars, mattresses, etc.) outside of private party the final price was subject to some kind of supervisor/manager approval. I can't think of a single time where the final sale for some negotiated price didn't have some approval process to it.

If a business just allows their front of line employees to arbitrarily set prices without any kind of review, their business probably isn't going to do too well. The front of line sales people probably don't have all the information as to why the company is wanting to set the prices a certain way, and without that information they're setting prices rather arbitrarily. This could lead to some pretty massive damages to the company.

If a waiter just decides to start only charging $1 for the $5 burgers, the business is going to have a problem.
These models are trained on sequences of words, not told the letters and left to get on with it.
The scientists went too far. They wanted to make an AI that can drive, but ended up with an AI that can drivel.
AIs can drive, just not as well as humans on all axi yet. They are better than humans on some axis in fact.
Ah ha, yeah having a pre set one or two step currying setup is a lot easier sure. Just return a lambda that captures the value passed in from the first one.
One Year into the War in Ukraine
Yeah, it’s gaslighting.
This article might as well have a subtitle of "Damn, I really hate Elon and all his stupid fanboys". I think this is the line that made me roll my eyes the most:

A fun irony here is that the Cybertruck's evident frailty as a heavy-duty utility vehicle will disqualify it, absolutely, in the eyes of the median American pickup-truck buyer

The median American pickup truck buyer isn't the target audience. The audience are techies who want to drive something that doesn't look like anything else on the road while still sitting up high so they're on eye level with the aforementioned American pickups.
Peaceful reconciliation is simple: Russia gets out and stays out of Ukraine, Russia extradites those Russians who have committed war crimes, and Russia pays reparations for the rebuilding of Ukraine.

Putin can start doing that today if he's serious about peace. China should demand Putin to do these things if China is serious about peace.

But they're not serious, are they.
I'll add a recent misfortune for a peer company: https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/judge-sanctions-faceb...

Looks like the real powers in the US are losing patience with some of the low-level legal tomfoolery of big tech. About time. Nothing against the companies, but make your money by making products people love, not by playing footsie with the court system.
PRC and its banks tend to be helpful towards NK.
It's not really big data by modern standards. Something like 13M lines of logging a day and less than 1.5 GB.
The original poster was originally focused on bundling. If DOJ had said Bill Gates kicked a dog while dressing up as clippy it would have meant nothing since there was no proposed remedy or anything that came out of the consent decree that BG had to stop cosplaying as Clippy and kicking dogs.
Not just tech; we're seeing this pressure in finance too. Matt Levine joked about this recently:

> It really is wild that the SEC’s official position is now that it is illegal to “use unofficial communications to do things like cut deals, win clients or make trades.” “Conduct their communications about business matters within only official channels”! Imagine if that was really the rule! You can’t have lunch with a client and talk about business, or have beers with your colleagues and gripe about work, because that does not create a searchable archive for the SEC to review.

> Of course the SEC does not entirely mean this. Yet. But in like five years, technology — and the SEC’s interpretation of the rules — will have advanced to the point that banks will get fined if their bankers talk about business with clients on the golf course. “You should have been wearing your bank-issued virtual reality headset and recorded the conversation,” the SEC will say, or I guess “you should have played golf in your bank’s official metaverse, which records all golf conversations for compliance review, rather than on a physical golf course.” The golf course is an unofficial channel! No business allowed!
The company has the obligation and the liability if the obligation isn’t met. They should have enacted a system to ensure their obligations were met. It’s like saying “we knew we owed taxes but the employees responsible for remitting the taxes just didn’t. Oopsies”
This article is nothing but a bunch of ranting about something the author doesn't happen to like. There's zero data to back up the issues claimed, I'd say this is clickbait.
> It absolutely can

It can’t. There are many people who, if they simply scaled down their diet without otherwise modifying their nutrient intake/lifestyle, start having health problems well before they lose weight. Hot flashes, fainting, severe stomach pains, nausea.
It's not clear to me that they would be able to - look at what has happened with Dalle-2 for instance: it was cloned very quickly. Once people know that something in AI can be done, it seems it's only a matter of getting a few million dollars together to train a model.
CI is Alerting: Shifting left means doing things earlier in development
> American pickup truck driver never asks his gigantic blacked-out coal-rolling Ford F-150 Raptor

I'd love to know how a gasoline powered F-150 can roll coal.
No, every protocol does not work that way. A whole lot of protocols has no concept of multiplexing a connection or server initiated events. Since we're talking about e-mail, neither SMTP or POP3 has either of these complexities (SMTP allows client-initiated pipelining if the client sends the right greeting), but doesn't allow the server to multiplex responses or initiate anything, POP3 allows none of it at all). It's not new now, but it is moderately more complex if you're implementing a client.

I don't think it's quite as complex as suggested above, though. You just want to provide access to the socket in case the client wants to select() etc., and offer an API to send a request, a queue to read responses from that allows you to filter by request, and maybe a wrapper that sends a request and waits for a reply matching that request (while putting everything else onto the queue). Then the client can decide if it wants to pretend the protocol is mostly request/response or take proper advantage.