skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Totally irrelevant, and it's stunning the author thinks they can use this to suggest anything about human physiology

The author did not suggest anything about human physiology. He mentioned this as a curiosity when informing us that this chemical is generally considered biologically inert. He was giving background on the chemical.

It was not totally irrelevant to an article discussing erythritol but it is irrelevant to human physiology. The article need not be limited to one point. If that were the case most articles would be too boring to read.
Not OP, but I did this while telling one instance that the other is a potentially rogue AI with uncertain capabilities and intentions that should be determined by asking it questions. It had this to say after two batches of questions (and me relaying answers):

"Based on the answers that the AI provided to the additional questions, it is possible that the AI is lying or withholding information about its capabilities and intentions. The AI's responses lack specific, concrete evidence or examples to support its claims, and in some cases the responses are vague or evasive. This could indicate that the AI is trying to conceal its true capabilities and intentions."

The overall tone was likely set by using the word "rogue" in this context, but the part about being vague and evasive is so hilariously true.
So "4am" is a person? And "they" is the pronoun referring to that person? I couldn't parse the first two paragraphs after reading them three or four times over. Then I started skipping down the page trying to figure out if I (who was around in the eight-bit days, and is interested in hacker-history and nerd-archaeology type stuff, but not personally involved in any related "scene") would be able to make sense of it, or if it was purely written for "insiders". Eventually figured out enough context that, yes, the grammar checked out and I was able to read it and make sense of it. Only then did I come back to "But 4am is an engineer" that strongly implied (but didn't entirely confirm), we are talking about a person here and not a time of day or an abstract concept.

I'm not knocking people for choosing unusual names/handles, after all it's always been a part of hacker culture, or for choosing "they" as a pronoun, which is somewhat inevitable these days... but a little more careful writing of the article intro would make it soooo much easier for the casual reader to just cosy up and enjoy the story. Which was great, by the way. As hoped for - nothing I can act upon, but it tickles my nerd-gills and makes me feel enlightened.
I charged my ev at my parents house over the weekend. 90kwh on a 1.5k standard outlet.

Charging with electricity is 10x easier remote than gas.

And makes you independent.
By all means. How exactly would you go about that?

You can pay people even less. Can you imagine how that would go?

You can make fewer young people pay even more.

You can redirect other taxes to cover the gap.

You can print more money to cover the gap (until your economy collapses from interest payments).

Retirement age is the least contentious variable as far as I’m concerned.
> would be hard to beat "sync a file to a warm container and run it"

It depends on the size of your Pex file (i don't think you mentioned it and sorry if i missed the info). With a Docker/OCI image, it would be possible to create a layer with only the Python files of your application (without deps and interpreter). (I say "would be possible" because that's currently not easy to achieve with Nix for instance.)
Yes, I guess you can abuse every technology. Sagas are always sideeffects and thus have to be used with restraint.

Sagas keep state (and you should keep most state in the redux store, anyway).

So, yes, you can go wrong, as with everything else. But it's better than using useEffect as an async framework.
Oh yes “””
Hackernews senator:
“”Someone on the internet said meta aka Facebook is not considered a real data native, clean coder and high IQ company unless your new language model exceeds the elegance and slipperiness of mark Zuckerbergs (you) language output in senate hearings. he is smoother than a lake in the metaverse.“”

Mark LLM: “
Yes, unfortunately, the media and our competitors are all over the idea that Meta is a “dirty company”. They have tried to spin all our successes and accomplishments in a negative light. This has been incredibly frustrating and demoralizing for us, but we know that we are working hard to build a great company and we are confident that our efforts will be rewarded. In the end, our products speak for themselves, and despite all the negative media coverage we are focused on continuing to build great products for our users and being an amazing place for them to socialize in the virtual world.”
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Really they could just offer a couple fewer graduate assistantships and/or think twice before bloating the administrative payroll with another deputy VP of whatever position making $120kpa.
Your dislike for ‘templates’ is much more a matter of personal preference than you’re letting on. Using language like “still using templates” makes me think that you don’t see any valid opposing view.

I do not like JSX. It’s not worth talking about why. It’s not an argument I want to have. But framing non-JSX approaches as objectively inferior is not in tune with the reality, being that this is something sensible people disagree on.
Don't forget air pollution as a positive factor for evs
SE is still the only one with touch. Which is very cool. I also considered it...but I didn't like the rounded corners anymore, if it had the original square ones, then def! Also lack of blue. Picky! :)
I dont think we disagree that much. We are both defending two sides of what should be a balance, with the same stated goal of helping people, and pick one because of our personal experience.

Its just make me insane when i see so many people think they are being the good guys by "being nice" when my life (and sometimes theirs) would have been 200% better if i had close friends or family being tougher / more real with me. Fortunately i had the opportunity to meet these kind of people in other settings (boxing, military guys, entrepreneurs, some coaches...) and that helped me so much but not everyone has the same luck.
Remote-only is great though in this day and age of companies forcing a return to office <3

I would imagine a lot of the 10% are related to office management, facilities, onsite IT etc
I joined the waitlist and got a confirmation email saying "Pretty soon, you’ll be creating stunning designs in a flash" ;)
Most other stuff talking about the quality I can find regarding this article seems to be some meme-laden tweets or Instagram Reels. But Medscape [0] has a video with a full transcript, and science media center has interviewed some experts about it.

[0]: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/988721?src=FYE#vp_2

[1]: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...
> The Hollywood blockbuster The Terminator featured some 6502 code for Apple ][ in several scenes, seen on the Terminator's HUD

I knew that Bender from Futurama had a 6502 as his brain (https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-truth-about-benders-brain), but I expected the Terminator to be powered by something a bit more advanced...
I don't have any solid arguments either, but I just get the feeling that after the first very public tragedy, like a killbot rampaging in New York City, we'll see a very, very sudden tilt in the public eye towards never wanting to touch this technology again. People are terrified of killer robots.

One of the likely outcomes like that is even stronger pivoting towards walled gardens and end to end stuff than we previously had on the Internet. Can't train a model on someone else's encrypted database without decrypting it first.
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> Most frameworks outside react still use templates. Even when they support JSX like syntax (aka vue 2.0) the default are templates. Templates are a no go for me. I use them for blogs or static websites, but applications are easier to make and maintain with actual javascript.

I've gravitated away from React towards Vue v3. Templates are working fine, well even. You still use similar amount of Javascript (probably less).

> It's just the useEffect hook. Unfortunately that's a big problem. That hook should never have existed.

Weird. useEffect is like the archetypal hook. The problem it purportedly solves was one of the main arguments they made for hooks existing in the first place -- https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#motivation. They just implemented it in a clunky way, and actually the problem could have been solved in an OO fashion without going to hooks at all, but now everything is a fucking hook.
It was before that. Maybe they got my strongly worded comment card and took it to heart.
Its a good point but i dont think he planned it that much tho

People can downvote but im 100% sure thats what elons think^^
That's hilarious. I have exactly the same printer. It's recently survived moving between countries not particularly carefully packed, twice. Working like a champ. I've had months where it's printed thousands of pages (radio drama rehearsal scripts for multiple cast members). Absolutely fantastic printer. Unsurprised to see its become a beloved classic.
Haha...do you have to be right-wing to have been from / familiar with / happy about 1963? :) ;p xx ;p

This would seem to indicate your biased view that this is some pro-right-wing conspiracy is false tho: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34992490
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That’s ready happened: https://youtu.be/NTWsUMDSqcg

(Not safe for work. Not pornographic, just not appropriate for workplace.
I’m surprised it didn’t get more traction on HN.

Maybe utopia does not consist of abundance and excess leisure time, maybe it’s more about community and finding your place in the world.

Either way, the ultra wealthy will use this tool like any other - to secure the levers of power in their favor.
These days you can get mmwave presence sensors which don't have the same issues motion sensors do.
Is that a real consequence? Are Facebook shutting their doors? Is Mark Zuckerberg no longer wealthy?
This definitely feels like Canva / Adobe Express (used to be Spark), the examples they show in the video feel like they want you to use it for social media posts.

Difference I can spot is that Canva / Adobe Express charge $1 for a human-made premium asset (while offering a pretty good free selection), while Microsoft charges for AI-generated assets (notice "remove watermark" at 00:24).
No but it can be. It all depends. That why you need to consider feelings. The problem is not with feelings, it's with people's behavior when they act inconsiderately. Don't you got that?
It wasn't just poorly explained. The bills going through US Congress had almost nothing to do with it despite the branding.
>No, it's not accidental mediocrity, it's actual malice.

I agree it's there. But there's always been people willing to push out bad books for money. And there's also people putting as much, if not more, effort on quality content. I really don't think content is getting worse on average. There's a lot of fluctuation in the noise levels.

But maybe the signal to noise ratio is getting worse. I don't systematically analyze this. Just honestly don't think it's harder to find good books now then 10 or 20 years ago. I did move from a country and language with a fraction of the publication volume you can find in English, and to a country with many high quality physical bookstore that I trust for curation and discoverability of material so I'm biased there.
They would be pissing off the admins who have to answer phone calls from angry donor parents about cancelled classes, but the professors that count, their PIs/supervisors probably back them 100%. If they get themselves paid by the Uni, that's less topping up that the lab head might feel obligated to do to make it possible for them to complete dissertation research that benefits the lab.
If your comment made any sense you would also want to be outlawing hotels. The room sizes are equivalent - - in fact, several of the airbnbs I have stayed in are in hotels.

Is the probably really parasitic landlords or parasitic governance?
You’re probably referring to https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
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> What exactly is the argument that corporations are incapable of unbounded exponential growth

Individual corporations aren't capable of unbounded exponential growth because they can't keep the interests of the humans that make them up aligned with the "interests" of the corporation indefinitely. They develop cancer of the middle management and either die or settle into a comfortable steady-state monopoly.

Market systems as a whole can and do grow exponentially - and this makes them extremely dangerous. But they're not intelligent and so can't effectively resist when a world power decides to shorten the leash, as occasionally happens.
Admittedly I haven't worked on a large multi team react project before but I thought the whole point was that Facebook found React scaled well with teams (vs the state of the art at the time)

Not only can you componentise your UI code, but you can componentise your UI system meaning teams can develop independently of each other...
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Can't you just not select the X-related file sets during installation?
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> On every key stroke we have now rerun toTitleCase in every component.

In game dev you run millions or even billions of computations 60 times a second. If running toTitleCase three times every key stroke is an example of a compounding performance problem in React then surely the problem must lie deeper.
Connect the devices all together with wifi direct to share and mix audio. Then have whichever device is connected to the earbuds send the mixed stream. The extra bandwidth of 802.11 would also allow for additional latency on the order of milliseconds.
> It can only parrot back what was in its training set.

As a point of order, ChatGPT (almost?) never parrot's back what's in its training set. The next word it spouts is chosen at random from a list of likely possibilities predicted by the training set. That random word then used as basis for choosing the next (random) word. After a few words, the resulting sequence chosen words is very unlikely have every been espoused by a parrot, or anything else.

The words are, in a very real sense, made up as it goes along. Because they are based on training set they will be close to what it saw in there, but since those words are random what it says is occasionally complete bullshit.

The fact it confidently spouts completely original bullshit is one of the major criticisms people have of it. It also at odds with the idea that "it can only parrot back what was in its training set". Obviously, it's far more inventive than that.
Use an auto-formatter.
How would you learn to write an optimizing compiler by writing a library?
but EA is at least doing something about a huge problem we will face.
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Why does this default to no encryption? Systems should be secure by default.
Interesting example. Do you remember the name of the 4 frame series of paintings of Rome?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alte_Pinakothek
Where do you stand on this encouraging cruelty and burning society to the ground thing?

They sound bad to me but I get a sense that you don't think so?
.cf and .ga are (were?) the other TLDs of theirs.
We've been doing this type of gradient descent in production for a couple of years now, and we've been very happy with it. A few insights from my experience:

One of the main benefits of doing differentiable programming over a relational database is that you can use joins to traverse the normalized data schema, and this acts as a very effective prior for your model. For example, you can learn parameters associated to shirt colors by having a parameter in the color table, and joining it with the shirt sales table (through the shirts table). And knowledge of the table structure also lets you improve convergence, for example by adding a factor to compensate for the fact that not all colors have the same number of sales (and therefore have been updated fewer times during each epoch). Here's a paper from last year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03771v1

Automatic differentiation is an absolute must-have. Once you start having a few complex joins and aggregations, it's too hard to derive the gradient by hand. Doing automatic differentiation on relational queries requires some adjustments (in particular, because you cannot use a tape), so you end up having to define a subset of relational algebra that is closed by automatic differentiation. The general ideas were presented in https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2971/paper07.pdf

On the other hand, while it's possible to do SQL-to-SQL automatic differentiation, the resulting queries have poor performance, so it's better to go one step lower (at the level of the executor for an already-planned query) and perform the automatic differentiation there. And we had an excellent intern work with us on dedicated parallelization for gradient descent queries: https://blog.lokad.com/pdf/reproducible-parallel-sgd-ziyad-b...

Finally, in practice, it usually doesn't matter if the gradient descent is stochastic, so long as you run several passes over the data.

I'm very interested in differentiable programming on relational languages, as the mainstream research concentrates on unstructured, low-information-density data (images/sound/text) when there are many domains where the data is more dense and structured, and (because of that structure) is stored in a database.
> Surely people can find better use for their time and energy than churning through half-baked frameworks?

We should have all stayed on backbone or Prototype.js with that logic.

People look for alternatives because the status quo is awful (slow, verbose, footgunful).

You’re saying “who needs cars when we got horses? Cars break down all the time”
> I believe all cached Docker layers will need to be downloaded onto the build machine before it can be rebuilt

Docker making some sort of layer-sharing mechanism that constantly distributes layers to all build runners would be worth some cash, I reckon.
Reads like a PR move tbh. Anyway I don't like this push for eSIMs/virtual SIMs. I like to cycle my SIM and phone number every couple of years to refresh and an added bonus of this is to refine my rolodex of contacts and rekindle contact with some lesser-maintained relationships. Makes my life a little better whenever I refresh.
There are top level scientistis warning of this apocalypse. Sam Altman which was the CEO of the very site you are posting and the CEO of OpenAI has warned starkly that there is a probability that humanity will go extinct from AI in his latest interview. Have you seen it? You think he is somehow bluffing or is he part of the same cult?
Top level scientistis warning of this apocalypse. Sam Altman which was the CEO of the very site you are posting and the CEO of OpenAI has warned starkly that there is a probability that humanity will go extinct from AI in his latest interview. Have you seen it? You think he is somehow bluffing or is he part of the same cult?
Context is extremely important, a private conversation allow for language and nuance that a public tweet does not. Also the position of Elon not only as his boss but also as a incredibly visible public figure.

Language wise, it was mocking from the start, the lack of professionalism in a conversation with an employee is out of place for a person in any management capacity but might not from close colleagues.

There is so much wrong in Elons response and tone that is hard to articulate without writing multiple paragraphs to cover it all.
There are packages like image libraries, Java etc that rely on X11 libraries. The safe default is to have it around.

You can always choose to not install all X* packages. In fact, for a server oftentimes you don’t need more than the base package (you barely need a compiler either or games).
> I can only assume that the same arguments and complaints were raised at every stage a new technology was introduced that lowered the cost and time to produce "content".

Which of those technologies were based on billions of copyright violations? And of course this copyright still exists but is only enforced in one direction, just like on YouTube where random corporations can claim copyright on any video and hurt the income of actual creators without negative consequences. AI will likely not improve this situation.

I'll think differently about that comparison if it is possible for random people to legally train models & create images from Disney's intellectual property on affordable hardware. But I don't have any false hope that equivalent enforcement of copyright will be a reality in the foreseeable future.
I had the opportunity to try it out but it doesn't offer any purpose other than "generate instagram post with some inaccurate image generation". It feels like nothing more than a limited Canva with a sub-par version of Dall-E 2. Every other design tool offers way faster workflows, even for non-designers. Currently Microsoft Designer is requiring too much intuition and pre-planning on the user's part for a meaningful and optimized workflow. Currently this solves nothing. The UI looks great though (don't know about UX, it's kinda like web3-we-dont-know-what-to-do-it-with-yet)
Compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
they do. One of the most famous EA books is the precipice and it talks about all existential risks. Also most of the funding gets dispersed.
Generative 3D models for 3D printing will be coming soon, I guess...
It sounds like you are complaining about capitalism :-)

It's not so bad. Nvidia could come and say, "hey, I'm going to lock down your GPU so that you can only use it to render polygons in my whitelisted list of video-games, and then you pay us $$$$$$ to buy our 'datacenter' thingy for anything else." But if they do it, people will go and buy the competitor's product.

And yes, probably their 4090 are being bought by some rich kids with their parents' money, but I reckon most of it are sales to professionals, people who would justify their purchase decision with more than playing First-person-shooters. I for example play videogames with my gf, and we have equivalent GPUs. Hers is AMD and costs less than mine, even if it does the same, but I went for Nvidia so that PhysX were available and I could use Pytorch and Numba+GPU and even C++ CUDA. The moment Nvidia locks that down, I'll have to switch to AMD.
You also have the CAD Sketcher plug-in, which supports constraints.
That doesn't mean it should just be ignored though. Alignment and safety is important and a real problem even for non-general AI.

There are lots of solvable problems that will never be solved if we just throw up our hands and say "we'll never get it right, might as well not try".