skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You will own nothing and be happy."

And broke. And not actually happy.
Shhh, don't tell them! ;-)
I was going to point out my Panasonic W1030 word processor as probably even more impressive since it's not even really a PC.

But then I found specs and its dictionary uses 384kB [1]. Then again it's from the latter 80s, maybe previous word processors attempted more constrained spellcheckers.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/kx-w1000-service-manual/KX-W1000...
What is "the infamous NYC nuke question"?
>How do you think Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk were in a position to found OpenAI in the first place?

Wage theft, embezzlement of public funds, socially destructive practices, immoral and downright dangerous behaviors, lies and being children of already wealthy and well connected individuals ?

Capitalism didn't give you OpenAI. Money and talented people working on it gave you OpenAI (hint: none of the people you listed did any work). Whether it comes from sociopath n°2354 as closed source, or a well funded public institution as open research (which, you know, we could have funded if the previously listed sociopaths paid taxes and contributed to society), people being paid did the work.
Actually more worrying is if (some) humans are in control of the AI, but using it to control all the other humans.

Or using the threat of AI to influence people's thoughts and actions ...
> why isn't there a company that provides payment services that offers expensive software in return for a proportion of revenue?

I can think of few reasons:

0. For small to medium size companies this will be a financial logistics nightmare. Sending portion of your revenue to some other country will be difficult.

1. For larger companies, they will just pay rather than doing the revenue dance.

2. Companies that pay expect first class support, they will not pay for ad-hoc support system. Providing timely and quality software support is very hard.
Really nice article. Curious, are there more folks running Debian Unstable as daily driver?
Micro-ops aren’t simpler than the AMD64 instructions, the complexity is about the same. For instance, the following instruction

vfmadd231ps ymm3, ymm1, YMMWORD PTR [rax-256]

does quite a few things (memory load, and 8-wide fused multiply+accumulate), yet it decodes into a single micro-op.

Most AMD64 instructions decode into a single micro-op. Moreover, there’s a thing called “macro-ops fusion”, when two AMD64 instructions are fused into a single micro-op. For example, scalar comparison + conditional jump instructions are typically fused when decoding.
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a great sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”

—from “Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib” by the Princess Irulan

Dune, Frank Herbert
Could this be used to emulate Kubernetes on a serverless environment? Pretty cool if this is possible.
AHI really doesn't mean anything besides the trivial: the density of apneas and hypopneas (relative to the applied definition of both) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsr.13066
The few people that know the actual nitty gritty details are probably not inclined, incentivized, or permitted to reveal them, so speculation is all we have.

The 10,000ft view: they are capped profit at 100x investment; Microsoft has invested $10 billion; 100x $10 billion = $1 trillion; therefore, OpenAI is a for-profit company until they earn a trillion dollars for Microsoft, and then they’re a non-profit after that.
I'm sure they did work hard and the product is innovative from my understanding of the definition of the word but oh boy does the whole "ethics" theater manage to infuriate me...
Open source is problematic, free software as advised by the fsf is the way to go.
I played (and greatly enjoyed) the games, but haven't seen the show, so I don't know how big this arcade scene is, but sometimes it amazes me how much work goes into constructing sets for large TV/Movie productions. I dabble in arcade restoration, so I'm aware of how much of a time and money suck it can be, and to think about how much work would go into just this one scene of one episode shows how easy it is for them to spend millions of dollars per episode on a big show these days.
As did Frederic Tudor. His bet was similarly unprofitable in its first few iterations, but now you can buy ice by the tonne in New Delhi.

I don’t mind when rich people make huge bets with money that’s within their control.
I'm an aimless curious person, I like to enter new domains and grab the low hanging fruits where I can add value with "code".
Font metrics are really easy because they are all square. I wrote a rendering engine on top of Pillow for vertically oriented Japanese text and people are often impressed that I did, but it was not hard at all -- the one thing wrong with it is that it doesn't do a great job of rendering the occasional Roman character which shows up in the proper names that I set (e.g. the second season of the Sailor Moon anime is written as "セーラームーンR" in Japanese)

Kerning for Serifed Roman characters is devilishly hard, enough that a lot of people have given up on using serif display fonts because they never look right. I thought the problem wasn't so bad 20 years ago and I don't know if I should blame a patent troll or if I am just pickier than I was.
Good advice.

RE key 1 ("keep it simple"), I'd like to add to extend this to tools. You don't need to learn tmux, vim, docker, kubernetes, CI/CD etc. in order to create useful things. Just use whatever you're comfortable with at the moment (including the mouse!), and don't ever feel that "real programmers" use some fancy and/or nerdy tools.
How many days have you left?
> The fact is US cities are not built for anything besides cars (with the exception of NY and maybe a few tiny downtown areas where hardly anyone lives).

They were though, and it's a big shame that changed. I seem to recall Los Angeles had the largest streetcar system in the country.
There was no movement of this goalpost.
> Wouldn't a fresh look at things, essentially a "clean room" implementation offer the possibility of a novel approach to a thing or two, as opposed to making the same tool, just different?

Yes, sometimes, but if that’s what you’re going for it’s still important that you’re solving a problem that you understand well. So maybe I would be okay with someone with limited photoshop experience making an image editor, but I hope they still have a designer/artist/etc. background.
Lynx on the C64 -- Is more nostalgia possible?
Where's the catch in Linux?
It makes sense from the perspective of the “social media bait and switch”.

Intuitively you’d think that following someone indicates that you want to see their posts immediately after they post it, but the “algorithms” distort that entirely as a way of making money for the platform.

Whether it’s requiring people to pay $$ to reach more followers, or promoting “posts” (ads) from other paying accounts that you’re not following, or even promoting sticky content designed to keep users on the app a little bit longer (and thus expose them to more ads + boost their DAU count). The whole “timeline” paradigm is a lie. I mean, it’s rarely even sorted by time.
Yeah I thought it was some series of hacks with ebpf and systemd...
Yeah. The (63-nlz)/7 is part of a piece of code implementing an encoding. nlz is an int.
I am not sure I understand. How do I call android/ios camera, gallery, permission etc APIs?
Been using Dart & Flutter. Kinda leaning towards using plain old HTML & CSS inside a webview instead of learning how to work with mobile-specific widgets. Neither won't beat pure-native but at least I'd be able to make a half-decent app fast with HTML & CSS. Tauri looks enticing from that perspective but idk how polished it is vs Flutter.

Oh I'm already using Rust in backend so that wouldn't be a big deal. Wonder how well you're able to do GPU / graphics stuff inside webview though? Is WebGPU supported?
>We'll use a neural network with a single hidden layer with 3 neurons and a hyperbolic tangent nonlinearity, trained with the cross-entropy loss via stochastic gradient descent.

i gotta be super honest, this reads like a sentence written by ChatGPT.
You only say that because you are not monetizing your 20 seconds! (It is a joke)
Update. This morning I asked ChatGPT what day today was. It answered correctly. I then asked how it could know that given that its training data ends in September 2021. It said it was based on the number of days since its training data ended. I pointed out it still had no way of knowing that number of days if it had no knowledge past September 2021. It kept apologizing and repeating the same story over and over.
Nvidia announced their earnings Wednesday night, as well as some other news, and the stock jumped about $29 (about 14%) right after the stock market opened.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NVDA:NASDAQ?window=5D

ChatGPT runs on Nvidia GPUs. Stable Diffusion was created on Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia said the higher than expected sales growth was due to sales to data centers, which seems more related to deep learning than crypto-mining and the like.
Personally I wouldn’t care if this were the case (make money, that’s awesome), it’s just the hypocrisy and like open lying that bothers me.

If they’d changed name to something else and were clear about their intentions they’d be just another company which is fine.
> The levels at which sites like Youtube and Twitter control peoples perception is insane.

And do we not universally agree that this is a bad thing?
The ending looks like it says 'CIA'
> You can't use the fact that there isn't evidence of a thing happening in order to give the theory weight

I can and I will, because of the fact that there is some evidence that the Chinese Government made efforts to hide evidence around Covid 19’s origins and their history regarding uncomfortable truths.

You can not argue in good faith on grounds of evidence or no evidence if not all parties are playing open and fair. A totalitarian Government with an overarching system of controlling it‘s population and information is certainly not supporting good scientific research and discovery.
Eli Lilly to Cut Prices of Insulin Drugs by 70%
.....or how millions of college students live every day! Which....is the preferred living situation one year, and inhumane the next????
I think the moral thing is to let the guy do his job that he is lawfully doing. Buying him off night buy the person a night but doesn’t solve any problems and only lets someone feel good for doing the minimum - bribing.

If you really want to help then take the person in or get them a hotel or take them to a shelter. Help them get their vehicle back by paying fines and the payment. It’s a lot more work but solves the problem better than hassling a guy, involving police, and then bribing the guy to go away for a night.

The only person to benefit from this is the guy who gets to feel morally superior while bragging about it on the internet.
Nebullvm: Plug and play modules to optimize the performances of your AI systems
Does he refuse to reap the rewards, does he disavow the actions in a meaningful way? If not, then he's just as guilty whether he "did it" himself or not.
I know you need karma above 500 for downvote button (I have it), I am complaining about existence of this button, it should be removed for everyone, it doesn't really help anything besides silenting opposing views/opinions going against HN hivemind.
I think I'm a better engineer than a marketer.

Tbh I find even "hard" engineering easier (certainly more comfortable) than "easy" marketing because there is a correct, verifiable and testable answer.

Thanks for the feedback. For every 1 person like you who tells us there are 500 probably who just silently are turned off
Jersey City here. We're building 10,000 new apartments a year but everything is full and rents are up again this year, its probably 20-30% higher than pre-covid. The new construction has just attracted new crowds, it hasn't helped.
People switch accounts you know, I had to switch account after people set up downvote bots on my account when I had downvoted comments within minute from posting.
"I'm so proud that I got to play a strong female character who isn't a sexualised or a damsel in distress"

You picked the right quote to make my point for me.
They have no way to enforce that "no bad things" clause. In practice they provide a product with no restrictions. Unlike other AI image generators - there's no keyword filter - you can input whatever you want in there.
Not keeping promises is not the system's fault. People do it all the time in very different environments. When the context of the promise changes significantly, it tries the resolve behind the promise, and it's natural, almost expected, that people break it. Capitalism is almost orthogonal to this phenomenon. Of course, in a capitalist society, you'll see a lot of examples of capitalist entities making the bad stuff. But if we organized things in a different way, then different entities would be doing very similar things.
Pdf of the book is available at : https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1213/PrincComm/mfcn.pdf

The author has another book An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network which is also excellent and worth studying.

Author's web page for more resources : https://svr-sk818-web.cl.cam.ac.uk/keshav/wiki/index.php/Mai...
It's worth noting that this is a comparatively small model (1.6B params from memory).

It'll be interesting what capabilities emerge as they grow that model capacity.
> And it happens to be the case that 7 × 9 = 63, which is almost 64, a power of 2

While the article goes down a different rabbit hole, this also happens to be a neat example of (n-1)(n+1) = n² - 1, where n = 8.

Which is one of those things I haven't managed to find an actual use for but feels like it should have since you can use it with 0xFF (15 × 17), 0xFFFF (255 × 257), and so on.
> Not sure why Github caved - doesn't seem reasonably needed on the face of it...

Because the US DMCA gives them little choice otherwise. If they receive a DMCA request that looks real [1], the DMCA leaves little room for the site to do anything other than take down the content. The content owner would need to file a DMCA counter claim (which is part of the DMCA process) after-which Github can legally restore the content without also taking on possible copyright liability.

[1] and a DMCA from the MPA will likely look very real and properly correct on its face.
open'tai
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."
Wouldn't a hyperintelligent AGI work this out and begin with the 2100 behaviour from the start?
He edited the comment and linked relevant tweets.

I would add this one:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1630640058507116553

I had no idea about this drama either, so I didn't understand what Elon was talking about, now it seems clear.

But "Based"? Is it the name of his new AI company? Where does that come from?
Wild areas in the USA have been growing for a century. Same with Canada and Britain.

I only have influence over my local area. New York has seen an incredible environmental rebound. There are dolphins here again.

Globalism is designed to make me feel responsible for poor decision making worldwide, and I reject that.
The 20-Somethings Fueling a Stick-Shift Renaissance
GitHub Packages Is Down
If your comment is not intended as a joke:

Just look into a some nearly arbitrary industry/department where Excel is used extensively. Replacing some "cobbled together" Excel workbooks with properly implemented applications very often yields a lot of low-hanging fruits where you can "add value with code".
I think Chrome uses a Google service by default. FWIW I have found Google Search's spell checker fantastic. (At least for English) It seems to have a better concept of sound similarity or something that means it almost always guesses the word I mean (extra impressive because on Google Search it only shows you one suggestion). I frequently find myself in a situation where Firefox's (local) checker can't figure out what word I meant so I put it into Google Search and it nearly always knows what I meant.
What about Electron sucks? Is Tauri's sole advantage that it crashes less?
If that is the case the new crowds old location dents are getting lower.
Its sort of intentional. Imho, the gap between reality (what trully happens on the ground and why) and the language used (how things are labelled and communicated) is reaching incredible levels of obfuscation and misinformation. A true "virtual reality"
Bear in mind I don't think it was actually accessing the Internet, at least not the Internet of 2023. It may have checked the page as of 2021 though.

When I asked it to retrieve the first news story on yahoo.com, it brought up one related to vaccinations and the COVID-19 pandemic still going strong.
AI Could Transform Email
It's both! :-)

That's a perfect example of graceful degradation / progressive enhancement.

A JS event on the html element cancels clicks on those links and handles them in JS with AJAX so the page is not reloaded.
Why would they make the show about zombies if the game wasn't really about zombies?
Meta is experimenting with AI-powered chat on WhatsApp and Messenger. Let's take a moment to think! What are the benefits of this technology for your business as well? Get in touch with RowthTech to learn more!
and then that’s going to be met with MS making it “impossible” for bots to automate clicking on ads which will have the unintended consequence of making it harder to use for power users.
the longer I observe the VC market the stronger I believe what you said is true. The goal for VCs is to get to the IPO to sell hyped shares to retail investors.
https://archive.is/Q981O
No because the default for all of human existence is that I wear my normal street clothing to walk from my home to my neighbors house, or the market.

The idea that innovations demand normal folks to change their way of life is absurd on the face. Very simple measures, like major consequences for all vehicle-pedestrian collisions would solve this better.
Yeah, but I didn't expect perfection. Simply getting this close is very interesting imo, even if it does not know the exact value. More parameters might have an even better effect.
At the point of bringing animals into this we'll probably have to clarify whether we're actually interested in sentience or sapience at some point.

A worm responds to external stimulus. It can also act without external prompting. It reproduces and tries to keep itself alive. Sentient, yeah I'd say so. Does it ponder, have wisdom, goals and dreams, etc? Sapience is probably a nah.

Does the earth respond to external stimulus? It can be affected by it for sure. If you changed the strength of the sun's gravity the earth would do something different. But that's physics of the situation rather than planet itself responding or reacting to the change. Things on earth respond to stimulus, ecosystems can change due to disasters or changes in predator/prey populations, but does the planet itself respond to things - nah. If you could move the entire living population to another planet the ecosystems would work under the same rules. Earth (the physical ball of rock, not the "there's no place like home" personification) wouldn't be changed, damaged, or killed.

Does an AI respond to external stimulus? Yes! Does an AI act without external prompting? It does not at this time. Not sentient. Not sapient.

There are other definitions of course, don't get caught on this one example. There's no reason to check any other definitions as this one fails. Same thing as ordering your if statements.

Maybe "sentient" just means "has and acts based on a dopamine or equivalent motivation system"
Crypto and layoffs are out boys! AI chatbots are back in!!

Edit: also since history is repeating itself, can anyone remind me what the hot investor craze was after AOLs Instant Messaging became a thing? Second life or something? Should I be buying shares of Roblox?
> Really? You can't think of any examples yourself?

"Unverifiable!", he wrote from within a web browser.
https://archive.is/EXjfw
I have no problem working hard. I can grind for hours on a problem when I’m engaged with it.

My problem is constant distraction. It’s really bad. And blocking out everything else doesn’t help. I even get distracted by the thing I’m working on. I’ll see something new and go off and research that.

From everything I gather, we’re living in a pandemic of distraction. I think people had a lot easier time focusing on their tasks before the internet came along.
We do analog quantum computing
What is Tauri's advantages over Cordova?

Cordova failed the competition against React Native and Flutter.
This kind of housing is still common in NYC, mostly in Queens. It’s all under the table and obviously illegal, but it’s the most affordable option in a prohibitively expensive city. I would say most are run by slum lords who are not dealing with tenants fairly in someway, for example price gouging or prejudicial application processes (no Muslims, must be Japanese, must speak Spanish, etc.).

The city has tried to squash these because they’re dangerous. During the last major floods hundreds were injured and many died due to these basement boarding units flooding.

I agree with sibling posters when I say making these more prevalent would be a step backwards. Source: I used to live in one!
To people missing the joke, this is a quote from ChatGPT that was asked to comment on Tauri in "Dev Mode", taken from comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972791
It’s not difficult. I suspect it’s not as much as turning a non-profit into a for-profit, as it is about starting a new company and somehow transferring/licensing the IP from the old into the new.
Amazon doesn't have control of all of the devices which support Amazon Video.

The revenue gained from those devices is likely greater than the revenue lost from people pirating content who would actually pay for it.
I'm using entertainment in the sense of amusement or diversion not consideration.
Declarative Setup, Imperative Update: High-Performance UI Components in React
Yuuup. And just like with Facebook, real power ( information ) in the form of ingested data and prompts will be available to people like Altman, Thiel and Musk, while everyone is gushing over being able to build a simple website automatically ( which is arguably cool ).

I wish I could trust FB to deliver on their promises, but this community's only hope is to ensure an open source version of gpt exists.

edit: To the best of my knowledge, banks seem to shy away from those tools so far, but I am sure there are analysts out there just waiting for an ok.
The walking dead is everything but about zombies. I'd actually prefer it to be about zombies and the outbreak etc, not who's pregnant and who's with whom etc.
Well, the tissue grows, but the big question (not answered in the summary) still is: does it work?
Pioneering Black African American Women Chemists and Pharmacists
Following on from the main question, it would be neat to know what the current state of play with HN's architecture and hardware is as of 2023. We've heard lots of bits and pieces from over the years but, well, curiosity always has the better of me.
Tracking Canadian Housing Market Affordability (1999 to 2023)