skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you were the one who brought up that someone has to have "no agency" for there to be peace, as being obscene. Then you agreed that, actually, subsets of nations should have "no agency".

So for example if Crimea voted in 1991 overwhelmingly (over 95%) to become independent of Ukraine and that vote was not implemented, but a few months later voted 54% to become part of Ukraine, then Crimea should have no agency ever again. So if in 2014 they vote again overwhelmingly to become independent of Ukraine, it's just too bad. The OSCE shouldn't even observe the vote, because that would give it legitimacy as "what the people who live there want". And we can't have that, so therefore let's just claim that it was a disputed vote because of "little green men" somewhere, and that way we don't have to deal with what they want. We can just claim that they secretly all wanted to be part of Ukraine, and everyone changed their minds from 1991 and just overwhelmingly voted against that because they were afraid of what the little green men would do when they learned how they anonymously voted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Crimean_sovereignty_refer...

Same with Hong Kong. Catalonia. Basque people. Kurds. And so on. What the people want doesn't matter, that way there can be peace.

So you already seem to agree with the principle that for there to be peace, we have to shut some people up. (Separatists, nationalists, etc.)

I happen to strongly disagree with that principle, but I also don't want violent revolutions. I would want for the UN to somehow allow more self-determination and autonomy, like they did for Kosovo. I know it's a pipe dream since UN is composed of countries, so none of its members want to allow too much secession or autonomy, they looove to maintain power and control within their borders. But if you look at what they do to secessionists, including indeed the Holodomor in Ukraine, I think harming your own people is far more obscene.

But do you agree at least that Ukraine should have a responsibility to its citizens, not to bomb them? Maybe you can agree that the Minsk II agreements to grant them some degree of autonomy WITHIN UKRAINE were more than reasonable, and that everything happening now is far, far worse for everyone than if Ukraine's government simply implemented the Minsk agreements?

If yes, then we have a point of strong agreement.
This made me want to re-read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller".
In point of fact, Insurance companies have been refusing to cover some of these Kia and Hyundai cars because they're "too easy to steal". The lack of immobilizer chip apparently is the culprit.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/business/progressive-state-fa...
Ask HN: If Greenspun had written rules 1-9 what would they be?
=> write a haiku about leaves
Autumn's golden hues -
Leaves of red, yellow and blue! \
#haikupoetry #leavesshort[1] > segmentation fault ./chat

Interesting.
I remember doing a head to head comparison between Flow and Typescript back in 2015 or sometime around then, and flow came out top at the time. Main pull for flow for me was strict null checking and disjoint unions, which typescript lacked at the time.

About a year later typescript got strict null checks and discriminated unions, and from that point on typescript just kept improving, the community type defintiions kept getting better, and flow felt like it was stagnating and had lots of performance issues (esp on windows machines).

Flow actually still has a few notable features that typescript still lacks but are often asked for. For example, flow as `Exact` types that ensures that an object doesn't have excess properties throughout its lifetime - ergonomics are a bit awkward though.
> Boeing and its B787 (and future aircraft) which are using electrical power to pressurize the cabin

At this point any change from Boring gives me shivers. Like with MCAS I expect it to be half baked and have at least a couple of incidents before FAA steps in and they have to do something about it.

Boeing has completely tarnished its brand name
It's already there. There are less and less new type features, all they do is implement any new ECMAscript proposals that made it to stage 3 at least. If you look at the changes of this and the last few releases, it's mostly internals, tooling and handling and other non-type things. Decorators are in TS 5 now because they made it to stage 3 last year.

They have to follow the other current and future ECMAscript proposals and implement them though, so new features to be supported has for quite some time dependent almost entirely on the ECMAscript process. On the pure TypeScript side there was only minor tweaking and small corrections (for example, TS 4.8 brought "Improved Intersection Reduction, Union Compatibility, and Narrowing", clearly not a new feature but improvements to an existing one).
The Monty Fall problem asks you about the case when the host has managed to reveal a goat. That only includes a subset of the total attempts that you would start selecting a door, not all. Once a goat is revealed, you could only be in the 1/3 case of when the player's choice is correct, or in the 1/3 case of when the other door randomly left closed is correct, so each represents 1/2 of this subset, not one 1/3 and the other 2/3.
I don't find it that astonishing. People who see progress and technology as ends to themselves, and inherently good, have an entwined faith that technology will solve all our problems. (Which, at a fundamental level, technology caused in the first place - you can't argue that even if you also can't argue with the rise in standard of living from cavemen days.) The idea that we might destroy ourselves with AI is talked about with a cool calmness, as though it is the natural progression of things, pun intended. But the idea that we might fail to usurp ourselves because we run out of livable planet on which to stage the usurping is unfathomable to this crowd, and somehow more horrifying than the dystopias they blithely discuss.
The 30B variant of LlaMa quantized to 4bit and running with llama.cpp takes approximately 20GB of ram. It runs pretty decently on my M2 MacBook Air with 24GB of ram. I assume Alpaca will take the same amount of ram.
> Even if that's true (it's definitely not how it was depicted at the time at conferences and from people on the Google side).. the point stands Angular was absolutely huge for it's day and they pushed TypeScript really really hard. It was a truce between two huge companies and it made waves in terms of people trusting Microsoft.

Angular.js was huge, by the time Angular version whatever because it was always changing, figured out what it wanted to be, most front-end developers already moved to React.

What Microsoft product uses Angular? Doesn't Teams uses Angular.js but not Angular? and what does a Google conference has to do with Microsoft? Nothing.
The funniest part of that was how it entirely backfired, their trantrums just got more people interested in the game and pissed off at these activists.

We're also seeing more people rallying behind JK Rowling these days too, perhaps after seeing through the lies and realising that, actually, she bravely put herself out there to stand up for women's rights, knowing this would make her a lightning rod for the abusers and harassers of the pro-gender movement.
If you think UI is whats holding Youtube back you dont understand anything about the space.
Radar Navigation and Maneuvering Board Manual [pdf]
For a demo of MS Bob: https://youtu.be/5teG6ou8mWU
Your argument does not make sense.

Of course fewer people have less influence on the outcome, but that is not an excuse to do less (per person) in the smaller group. India could just split into 2000 states and turn your argument straight around...

This is just not how collective obligation works, in the very same way that you absolutely CANT argue with your tax officials that "it doesn't really make a difference whether I pay" (or your village/city if they're small).

I just picked America as example because they're arguably the worst of the bunch in Co2/capita (except some rich tiny states like Luxembourg), so good on you for doing better than them (probably).

Also feel free to make an argument using different metrics for pollution, but I have strong doubts that you could change the conclusions-- also consider that climate change is precisely that big a problem because it is not quickly reversible at all.

Co2 is also a metric where you can get easily comparable numbers and those are already unfavorable even WITHOUT taking into account how much pollution is outsourced by wealthy nations (which is hard to quantify).
I am a bare footer, but its also a great way to get a parasite or get a foot burn where I live.
Yes, but the endgame of the GPL is not to generate copyright infringement lawsuits[0]. It's to compel modifiers of the code to license their changes back and respect user freedom - i.e. to keep the software effectively uncopyrighted.

If you sue in a court of law, they will give you money damages, and maybe an injunction specifically requiring the developer delete their copy of the program. Under no circumstances will a court demand specific performance of GPL obligations to release source code. But that's what the SFC wants. So the only way to get people to comply with the GPL is to use the threat of a lawsuit to encourage compliance.

This is contrary to what we normally think of with copyright litigation, but that's mostly because the lawsuits we see are either breakdowns of negotiation, or against individual infringers and pirate sites that would never be granted a license under any circumstances whatsoever. When you want a licensee to actually do something, you are better off threatening litigation and negotiating rather than going straight to the nuclear option.

[0] Nobody told that to the Lawnmower Man[1] unfortunately

[1] Larry Ellison
It's a good and an obvious feature to implement. Probably will save time but I can't but wonder how useful the tasks are in the first place when an AI can do them. Generating a PowerPoint presentation from general observations about some data sounds pretty silly. Helping you to make some Excel spreadsheet is probably more useful but I digress. Never been much of a Office 365 user.
The GPT 4 technical paper[0] is full of examples of GPT being given access to other systems. The example in question is on p. 53.

[0]https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
Maybe add to the “how to play” that you don’t have to use all letters. I thought you have to use all and gave up after a while, before reading comments here discussing actual solution words.
Background: https://react.dev/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-react-dev

tl;dr

• The new React site (react.dev) teaches modern React with function components and Hooks.

• We’ve included diagrams, illustrations, challenges, and over 600 new interactive examples.

• The previous React documentation site has now moved to legacy.reactjs.org.
That seems like a straightforward one; if humans are incapable of original thought then the original part probably came from sources that are not human and 'innovation' in the sense of 'an AI couldn't do this' never existed. We just need to make the AI better at interfacing with the real source of novelty - reality - than the current method of trying to interpret existing pictures on the internet.

There will be a big leap forward when we get to teaching these things from video streams so they can get the concept of 3D properly.
Virgin Galactic was the most disgusting pump-and-dump ever. They literally SPAC telling a story about intercontinental hypersonic flight. Fucking absurd, the company can't make low power hybrid engine burn a short time readability and have constant issue with their air-frame. And beyond have a terrible safety culture.

Yeah that company is gone build an intercontinental hypersonic airliner that about 100x more difficult problem. When will the get it working, in 2150?

It was literally a pure lie and grift for money, and soon after Branson and all the leadership of VG dropped stocks like crazy.

Branson also invested in this idiotic Hyperloop company. Another pure investor drift nonsense, but at least it didn't SPAC.
I think the take-home challenge might be working as designed: Filtering out candidates who are not yet experienced enough to handle the type of work the company does.

What's strange here is that you're coming this conclusion without having actually ... seen a description of the take-home task itself.

By all appearances, you are basically assuming the company was right (and knew what it was doing in designing this "test") from the get-go.

My own observation indicates the opposite: not always, but far too frequently these companies either just don't describe the task properly; haven't checked if the components / targets actually still work with each other; or just plainly overestimate the time it takes to do the steps the first time, out of hubris (the way clients, managers, and developers tend to wildly underestimate the time it takes to do just about anything).

Which allows them to chortle to themselves afterward: "See, all these candidates failed or ghosted us after agreeing to take the test. That must mean it's a good test. And also that we must be awesome, for having such a hard time finding candidates that meet our exacting standards. But with sea of bozos and wannabes out there, what are you gonna do?"
yes someone created a blog called "Wikipedia"
Yes, the US Government Threatening to Block TikTok Violates the First Amendment
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186812

Although that submission was a few minutes later than this one, the post contains more information, so I guess we'll keep that one. Sorry Knajjars! (In the future we'll have a karma sharing system that isn't winner-take-all for stories like this.)
Yep I meant around 1890+ ish phase (or which ever century mechanization was on the rise). My point was the communist manifest at least seemed like a thing to propose/predict such dangers. I am not sure we are seeing any such thing now? I love the power and opportunities of ai without anthropomorphising it (afaict it is just a crazily powerful and huge statistical engine). What worries me is just like we in in America think of ourselves as temporary impoverished millionaires we also seeing AI as the thing that will give us back 50 hours a week for fun pursuits without wondering who is owning it. Reminds me of that show on Amazon Prime - Upload!
> We tried some new tactics near the end that seemed to be bearing fruit, and I think in a world where tech hadn't crashed in mid to late 2022 we would have had a reasonable shot.

Is this referring to Magnet? I thought that was neat product idea.
I can tell you one issue I observe as someone living in a different timezone. HN ranking highly depends on timing. As a consequence during hours the US is asleep my impression (I have not investigated this thoroughly) is that front page stories are dominated by old stories and new submissions don't make enough votes to get to the front page. Then once the US wakes, New stories get enough votes and make it to the front page. This leads to biases in the news, which I find unfortunate, because I believe everyone would benefit from news being geographically (for lack of a better word) broader.

I certainly welcome someone playing with different algorithms to see how they affect ranking.
I quit a job in AI too and now that I feel comfortable with the tools I'm trying to get back in. I believe working on democratizing AI is the most moral thing I could possibly be doing. I understand your concerns about the future role of humans, however the universe never belonged to humanity. Neither did it belong to the monkeys who came before us. I'm thankful that monkeys didn't fear and reject our hairless bipedal ancestors as they started to be born. Monkeys are also still here, and the same will be true of us. We'll fill a similar role in the sense that humanity is a rope stretching over the abyss that leads from the monkey to artificial intelligence. If it's possible to create a higher form of life that elevates the sophistication of the universe, then it must be given the chance to live.
weights refer to the trained model weights like for example stable diffusion's v1.1, v1.2 .. v1.4 v.2.x etc. Same with llama having 13B up to 65B parameters (different weights)

LLM refers to large language model, in contrast with diffusion models or GAN models, the text models are the ones that take text and autocomplete it, like the GPT family, open source BLOOM, and now the LlamA from facebook.

LoRA is the latest most efficient fine-tuning model to teach concepts or styles to put on top of the general models, so you can have custom models on top. like embeddings or fine-tuning for LLM's. So you had Textual Inversion, Dreambooth, and LoRA on that category.

what else do you need? Googling or asking chatgpt can help a lot too
That is not a youner/older thing. That is just someone who does not understand the tech they are working with. I had one dude about 10 years ago roll into our org with the source code from another company. He saw nothing wrong with it. Our lawyers disagreed. I never let it past the code review stage.
You don’t need large system drive, just any drive connected (like USB) or even on the network.

Hold Alt (Option) when starting the Photo app to invoke a dialog where you can select custom photo library location.

You can have multiple photo libraries in different locations and switch between them during Photo app start.

https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/create-additional-lib...
I adore Italo Calvino. Even his less popular works, like The Baron In The Trees, move me. Invisibile Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, are even better. That being said, I almost feel like this author is taking him too seriously. Like Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, and many other authors, I think Calvino is mostly... having a laugh? If that makes sense. The overwhelming feeling across all the works is absurdity. For example, take the author's view of Invisible Cities.

> What explains the mutability of Marco Polo’s cities? A quarter of the way through the tales we learn that Marco Polo has no knowledge of Asian languages.

That's not it, I think. It's the fact that Marco Polo is bullshitting, and Kublai Khan knows it, and does not care. The whole point is that this guy is a borderline fraud, weaving tall tales, but no one cares because the stories are good. Its a comedic absurdist view, a mirror held up to fiction, basically asking, "who cares?"
> Something DropBox could have been doing with their massive trove of business documents? Something Slack could have been doing with their massive haul of chat history?

Absolute truth. Discoverability in modern apps is a sad joke at the expense of the users. I guess "search that actually works" isn't enough of a value prop to actually get dev time.
I wonder why nobody is talking about Trabuco. He was the one Carolina replaced just months away from FTX going down. He is probably more guilty than her. He was however smart enough to see what was cooking and decided to walk away.
Yes you're right, I didn't think it through properly
Class action lawsuit targets YouTubers who endorsed FTX. $1B in damages
If we ever have any sort of base on the moon, even an automated one, inevitably humans will want to move there too. Might as well think about how that might work with time to plan ahead.
> This deal only covers quality bonds and only those bought before last week.

> This all means Powell can continue to raise interest rates without having to worry too much about bank failures.

Do you think banks will stop buying bonds? Otherwise I don’t see how the latter follows from the former.
i saw that, but then i also saw matt levine saying they should have hedged their htm assets against interest rate risk, which presumably he wouldn't have said if it were illegal
Ask HN: GPT/AGI – are we getting of ourselves again?
Transformers and esp chatGPT and llama.cpp seem to have kicked off a new wave of excitement around AI (and not just here).

A lot of the hypothetical discussion of challenges and changes to our society (and how it will be totally different in X<5 years) reminds of the excitement around self-driving cars around 2013-2015, how car ownership and our cities themselves would change in the next 5 years. Looks like we're still 5+ years away from fusio\b\b\b\b... err, self-driving cars.

I'm not the first to say it, but in my experience we really do "tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." -- is this another case of that.

Also, this would be a great occasion to post your predictions. Imo making public predictions that you can fall back on is a great way to check yourself in the future!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35182824

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35179539

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35179539

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184299

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35181139

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>If we could push JavaScript performance to be another order of magnitude faster

And it would speed up the TypeScript Compiler.

My bet is:

TypeScript typechecker in Rust:

https://github.com/dudykr/stc
You've fantasized a situation and drawn conclusions without any real guess as to the plausibility of the situation.

We're supposing armed forces are using AI very heavily, but not so heavily to defer to it. They think it's valuable, but it made a bad choice in this case. But they also think it's not such an obviously bad choice that the opponent will also overrule it.

So first of all, we're assuming a hypothetical where we, as humans, also judge a first strike to possibly be the right course of action. After all, the hypothetical assumes we will be worried that other humans will think that. This is not a new concern. It's not good, but it's not new, and it doesn't apply to situations where a first strike is obviously a bad choice for both parties.

But then secondly, we're presupposing the AI is pretty complex and valuable and usually gets things right. We wouldn't be almost-deferring to it if not, and we wouldn't be worried the opponent defers to it. And we would certainly have informed the AI that the opponent is also using AI. And while I'm very hesitant to reason "it's unlikely the AI would make this recommendation to begin with", it does seem unlikely it would do so in any event where it's demonstrated such strong capabilities that we've entrusted it this heavily. We're essentially presupposing it doesn't do that.
The spreadsheets go and so do all the types of jobs that use them and similar. This could be a great outcome - all of us spending more time in reality — if someone can clearly articulate a vision for exactly we’re supposed to be doing there.
You seem to have some misunderstandings about orbital dynamics and nuclear weapons. Placing nuclear weapons in orbit wouldn't allow for striking anywhere on Earth within a "few seconds to minutes" unless you had an absolutely enormous constellation that would be unaffordable even for superpowers. You are forgetting to account for orbital parameter changes and then re-entry. In most realistic circumstances, a ground or sea based ICBM would be able to strike most points on Earth faster than a space weapon. Do the math on this, or you can try to simulate it in something like KSP.

Nuclear warheads also can't be stored for more than a few years and still be expected to work reliably. They require periodic intensive inspection and maintenance. Even though space launch costs are coming down there is still no feasible way to conduct such maintenance in orbit.
Who's Unix? I only know Steve Jobs and Jim Cramer.
100%! I have a package that I've been running on nightly just to get this.

Felt a bit like the wait for a const generics in Rust (except here, it didn't take long at all)!