skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you set it up with some ground rules and rules around it's behavior (or more like guidelines), you can make it be more creative.

Something like: "We're gonna start a text RPG game. Every animal we meet should be a made-up animal composed of joining two existing ones, with creative names being made for them. Don't use any usual fantasy tropes. Make encounters have surprising but logical outcomes" and so on.
I agree, the protections is meaningful for small/medium vendors of physical goods. The problem is the balance of power shifts when you have oligopolistic "platform" vendors where the stake of the user is not just that one transaction but the sum of all previous transactions, and that is something that is really only possible in digital transactions. Wal-Mart cannot come into my house and take back the lamps off my table and the food off my shelves. Effectively, Steam and Amazon and Apple can do that - because, as others note, it's not a purchase, it's a revocable license and the ToS includes a "whenever we want" clause.

Requiring that all licenses be refunded at the face value in the event of cancellation would be one relatively equitable outcome. Or you can simply prohibit revocation - refuse to allow companies to ever invoke those terms except after a legal proceeding or similar oddball circumstances.

There is a similar effect around provision of services really. Once you reach the oligopolistic level of market consolidation (and there are services like Steam or Google where that's practically inevitable) then different rules really ought to apply. Which is a problem in a lot of areas, not just revocable licenses.
Damnit.. I even searched for it =)
By inserting the words "the eff" between "back" and "off".

He won't advocate for you anymore, but you'll have peace.
Well after _years_ of getting pissed on most people move their leg instead of complaining about it. :)
What software do people envision themselves creating with these AI slaves?

More shitty CRUD apps? Which get easier and easier to pump out everyday with the growing numbers of frameworks, libraries, copying and pasting snippets from stack overflow?

Or will AI really write all the code for all our critical systems, operating systems, financial markets, planes, factories, vehicles, spacecraft? And will they do it so confidently and accurately that humans can safely just forget how to code?

Sure, perhaps. But by then AI will also be so advanced and independent in its problem solving that it will have no need to listen to human prompts.

I don’t really see the point in that.
Are you talking about this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152388

That doesn't read like anyone is actually confused over the meaning of "billion" , it seems like people are just speculating on whether this error is long/short scale confusion between languages. Personally, I think it was just a typo - there is no conceivable way that a billion CHF could ever be a million USD regardless of the scales used...

Apologies if you're referring to a different comment.
How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]
Off topic : I love this font. Looks so good, especially for code.

Font is Inconsolata (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata)
> inconsistent nanny-state stuff

Your phone isn't the state.
Credit Suisse CDS
I have a seen proper prompt translate commands into API calls. I imagine it’s doable even just with self hosted solutions like Home Assistant or homebridge.
You can schedule jobs without a wall clock time if the admin didn’t disable it, but it’s awkward. That will make scheduling MPI jobs hard/impossible.
The number of developers making $300k-$500k/yr is a rounding error.

The rest of us plebes, who make more or less the same kind of white-collar salaries as non-programmers, are certainly underpaid.
An insider told me google is behind
I actually enjoyed its loose enforcement of rules. It made it feel a bit more TTRPG-like, where you could lean into your character to attempt to influence results one way or another.
What makes it a copout? I've had friends choose the resign option. I've been fortunate enough that my resignations didn't involve ultimatums.
> The technology was great

Nah, you just didn't look carefully enough. Docker the technology has been recurring amateur hour of screwups. For example, they hashed the downloaded data but forgot to compare the hash to expected value.

The only thing "great" about Docker was the rough idea of easy-to-transport filesystem images that could run just about anywhere, and the fact that they managed to make that kind of thinking mainstream.
Okay, I'm clueless. Can you condescend to explain why this is the case, and/or provide something informative to read about the subjective?

BTW I really am clueless, because I've avoided owning any kind of smartphone until now.
It's pedantic to say, but, based on what they said, their original was not incorrect, simply less exhaustive than it could have been. It could (and, seems to) be that the fellow's work on anaesthetics was seen as more important than his work on cholera. Given the (often overlooked) importance of modern anaesthetics, I can easily believe this.
mediocre is acceptable for most things. i'd rather have 1000 free photos from my wedding than 32 perfect ones. i still ended up with more than 32 perfect ones.
Success! Meanwhile, all 7500 nodes are, computationally, replaced by a 96 core, $10k server, in a dude's basement.

With power to spare.
Astronomers on Mastodon (Grid View)
It’s an interesting Q why it took so long for Bitcoin to come around and part of it is that if you submitted a paper to a distributed systems conference about some system that couldn’t do more work with N+1 nodes than it could with N nodes they’d laugh at you.
The math doesn’t work. If I sign up for a server and host a node and charge $1 more than I’m paying, it would just make more sense to do that yourself and save yourself the dollar.
Understanding OAuth2 (2020)
> You want to make it illegal because you think it can replace your job?

It’s hard to believe this is what you got from my post.

> No matter if AI can draw better pictures, there will still be people drawing pictures because they just enjoy drawing pictures.

I’m really not so sure. Maybe some will, but the overwhelming majority of people will not want to dedicate time and energy to learning a craft that is completely futile in the end.

> I enjoy programming, even when I know there are better programmers out there than me.

Yes, but at least programming now has a point. I’m sure you have experienced the joy of making something that didn’t exist before, that took effort to create, and that helped you or someone else, even if another person could have done it faster. Would you get the same joy simply re-creating something that an AI can do in seconds? I doubt it.
> the account (which is a privilege, not a right) is a dependency of using what you paid for

The moment you made the account a pre-requisite to use something I have already paid for - whether it's software, music, or an internet connected lightbult, is the moment the account stopped being a privilidge.

Do you see where it is headed next? We have internet connected cars and door locks. There are subscribtions for a butt-heater in a car.

Withing the next 5 years someone will freeze to death because a company has pulled or made a mess of their account.

There is no other line of business where you can unilaterally revoke a service that the customer has already paid for. Where continous service requires some conditions or behaviour, this is spelled out in a contract - these companies change their terms on a whim.
You might be interested in Devbox (http://jetpack.io/devbox)! We built Devbox because we were frustrated with our Docker based dev environments, and our goal is to provide the power of Nix with a more accessible interface (similar to yarn or other package managers).

We're open source and rapidly adding features, you can check us out on Github at https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
> Without copyleft, for profit companies can simply take the hard work, add a little on top, make it proprietary, and sell it.

That's it. Pushover licenses are not helping at all.
That's awesome merch. Kudos to that person.
Wow! I was about to comment: when there are so many unheeded “noise” warnings, it can be easy to miss rare ones and new ones.

I remember a codebase with thousands of warnings, and hiding among them were a few with the word “intend”, like:

“if (condition); statement;”

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/compile...

“variable == value;”

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/compile...
Sorry to ask a somewhat unrelated question: How did the author create those flow charts? That style is Just. So. Cool.
One can't be friends with a PAC. Thiel has donated 10+ million dollars to people who would treat those like himself as second class citizens as documented in the GOP political platforms.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/peter-thiel-senate-...
This is way better than async/await. This is Go/Erlang levels of green thread ease of use.
`rm -r` is a great starter. Real conniseurs go for `wipe -fcrsQ1 /dev`.
If someone wants to serve traffic from a peer in Germany, then they will pay you. What they are paying for with a global CDN is ultimately location.
‘Plasticosis’: Characterising macro- & microplastic-associated fibrosis
yep. He has donated 10+ million to various anti-gay politicians. He appears to think, most likely correctly, that his money will protect him.
I am fairly certain that low-effort AI-generated creative works will become part of a new mainstream wave that will be quickly filtered out into mediocrity. Creative people will still be able to carve out their place by using AI as a powerful assistant tool because they have deeper domain knowledge than your average person trying the same.

At the end of the day you are basically typing prompts and reading answers by the AI, you do not know for 100% certain that they are correct so you would try to somewhat double-check their facts. Maybe you don't, regardless you are in essence tricking yourself into reading an interactive book guided by your prompts. You sure as hell won't become a professional at some domain by just reading this one interactive book. Try asking how to create some sort of vaccine and unless you specialize in that you will be quickly overwhelmed by the seemingly random terms the AI will spit out.

In my view these latest AIs will probably replace how we search for things in internet or heavily improve existing methods. It can already do that for you, simply ask the right questions, you can even set how it should roleplay as (e.g. Socratic style would be great for learning new things).
Ask HN: Anyone know what took Reddit down for ~5h?
I haven't seen an RFO anywhere or hinted at
Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models
For anyone interested in replay attacks and ways in which manufacturers protect against them this is an excellent video on the topic,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsD8I396wo
There are many private, proprietary systems that exceed those scales. They are usually bespoke to the applications that they run. I work with two such systems and know of others in finance, energy and scientific computing. Not to mention Borg at Google.

In the commercial proprietary world, clustered mainframes and supercomputers have addressed this niche for decades.

In the open source world, HashiCorp Nomad is the most analogous alternative to Kubernetes on commodity hardware, while SLURM is very successful for supercomputing.

I've also scale tested k8s to 15k nodes (in a limited configuration for a single application). At that point we ran out of underlying hardware budgeted for the test.
Stripe likely would have gone direct listing which would have no lock up.
Docker either came up or popularized the idea that completely dominates how almost all services work today. That is something imo. It is obvious in hindsight maybe but not in 2012.
I just read a page on meteors that said they tend to blow up starting around 300,000 to 200,000 feet or so.

If I make a wild-ass guess that the fireball was visible over a trajectory of about 100,000 feet, that's about 30 km.

At 11 km/s, then, it should appear for around 3 seconds.

I rewatched the video, which is 5 seconds in all, and it looks to me like the light is pretty close to three seconds long.

Aside from that, sure, it could've been slowed down, and could be at an angle, so it may all be a coincidence.
Musk Vents About His '$100M' OpenAI Donation Gone Wrong
My first question was, where does “inventory.GetOil()” come from. Is this just a package that wasn’t mentioned? Not being a Go expert, are packages typically global like this? Would that be a good way to implement this function/method (in a package that then becomes available everywhere in main() as opposed to passing it)?

Ah, well, maybe I missed the point entirely.
It's just 4+1 (emergency) seater. I wish every car manufacturer keep making < 1.8m cars. Nowadays every cars become wider.
https://twitter.com/amsmeteors/status/1466787370477535239?s=...
I wouldn't call it dystopian, but merely the next level in inefficiency, somewhat like Super Mario as an Electron App and other similar amusements that have made it here on HN.
> Most importantly, nix is incredibly invasive in development process, adopting it requires heavy time investments.

Typically yes, but Nix actually allows you to be less pure to save time and pick your most economic point on the reproducibility continuum.

I'm fairly sure there was an article about this... ah here it is:

https://www.haskellforall.com/2022/08/incrementally-package-...
My Q is “what does Dan want to do with such a score?” I think of the time when my Klout score was good enough to get a year’s subscription to the Red Bulletin and they said I was an expert on “white people” (cringe!) because I cracked a joke about our bad taste in music.

What does it really take to move on to the next level?
Airlines struggle to repatriate dollars from crisis-hit Pakistan
What is the point, GM has only made 2500 of then in over a year.
This is a terrible plan. If you want to subsidize another country's power, far better to price dump solar from $13/MWh to $0 than make synthetic coal from $200/MWh nuclear energy at 50% efficiency with an added overhead of $20/MWh for creating it and another $10/MWh to transport it. Merely matching the price of coal will cost you enough that you could just offer to replace all their gas and coal generation for free with no strings.

It has the added bonus of only needing to subsidize enough solar to send their fossil fuels into a death spiral of lower load factors and higher costs to compensate. After which supplimenting with wind and storage will be far cheaper for them.
Phones are the perfect storm of distraction: eyes, hands, and attention.
No one has to sell. That part is optional. This allows employees and former employees to receive shares and to pay the taxes due on receipt. Paying taxes at low valuation is a win.
I am guessing in the future they would just run simulations to generate the untainted training data pre 2022.

...oh wait.
Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds
I guess I should say to be fair, getting the user input and model output onto a single set of hardware with even semi-reasonable guarantees that it won't be examined in an unencrypted state is a heck of a lot better than what OpenAI is doing, so I don't necessarily want to say it's a bad business model -- there are lots of services I rely on that make privacy promises to me that aren't based on complete E2EE setups. What you're describing is absolutely an improvement over OpenAI's privacy.

I think my quibble is that (to me) the privacy terms on the homepage feel like they're suggesting something stronger than a secure enclave. My first thought when I saw it was "huh, somebody figured out homomorphic encrypted models." I'm not sure I'd have the same objections if I hadn't gotten that impression to start with.

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My suspicion with local models is less that they'll run on a cell phone or a low-end laptop, and more that at the point they can run on high-end consumer hardware, they'll also be cheap enough to run that hosting an LLM might become a commodity service. In the same way that a hospital might not want to host its own website or data records, I'm still wondering how the companies involved in that stuff don't eventually just turn into generic hosting companies. And again, to be fair here, if the security model you're talking about holds up, maybe that's a model that can be applied to multiple products or hosting offerings. It does sort of feel like the main thing you're advertising here is the generic enclave, not the AI specifically.

And who knows, maybe I'm just completely wrong about all of it, I'm not an expert. But I sort of suspect that it's going to get progressively easier to host these kinds of models in the future.
Thanks for letting me know. So I guess the situation is similar to what it's like on Windows.
Boomerific headline
Or they dodged a bullet by not having their valuation artificially inflated by money printing?
And HashiCorp has a lot of success stories and experience making it work well. They can help you set up a continent-spanning cluster with 100k+ nodes.
In case anyone is curious, I asked ChatGPT (the old one, not on GPT-4) to rebut my comment, and it produced this:

> A rebuttal to this comment would be that AI technology is not intended to replace humans, but rather to augment and enhance human capabilities. Machines and AI are tools that can help humans accomplish tasks that are difficult, dangerous, or time-consuming. The rise of AI has already created new jobs and industries, such as AI developers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers. Additionally, the development of AGI is still in its infancy, and there are many ethical and technical challenges that need to be addressed before it can become a reality. Finally, the human creativity and imagination cannot be replicated by machines entirely, and AI-generated art and literature can be seen as a unique form of creative expression that can coexist alongside human-made art.
I never did math past linear algebra/real analysis, so the only concept of sizes I have are countable/uncountable infinities.

Apparently the crux of this proof was showing that "the space of all modular forms with bounded denominators" and "the space of all congruence modular forms" were the same size.

I wonder what kind of expression "size" is here. Presumably not some finite integer, nor one of the simple infinities, since their first step was showing one is "a bit bigger" than the other. I wish this article went into more detail on that.

I definitely remember nerding out about modular forms via Andrew Wiles as a younger self.
So you think South Korea should just surrender and let themselves be ruled by a dictatorship? Any time someone complains about "western chauvanism", their answer to things is always to dismantle democracy and allow dictators to rule everything. Fuck that.
The Wrong Way to Think About Moral Hazard (SVB Bailout)
You didn't mention it explicitly but I think the morale factor is also huge. Once you know it's possible, it does away with all those fears of wasted nights/weekends/resources/etc for something that might not actually be possible.
discovery isn't that hard a problem that you should cede your agency to a external party like Hashicorp

I used consul for a clustered service once, it was worth it for bringup. but I when I had problems I just wrote one in a couple days since I'd done so several times before. and it didn't fail for all the years that product was running.
Thanks for the link.

"Strange space object 2020 SO was discovered on September 17, 2020, on approach to Earth. On November 8, it slowly drifted into Earth’s sphere of gravitational dominance, to become a new mini-moon. It’ll escape back into a new orbit around the sun in March 2021. During that time, it’ll make 2 large loops around our planet."

Why would it leave orbit if it already does 2 circles?
Work: An Introduction, what we think is wrong with it, what we can do about it
Don’t be scared, tech skills are still in high demand. It doesn’t hurt to look.
"They do the same thing you and I do; read the literature and come to a conclusion."

I'm sorry for you if you can't do better than an LLM.
I think he's arguing for going beyond zeroing out the shareholders.
>>>

- Opening Google Calendar on my personal phone with my personal calendar took about 6s to interactivity

- Opening Google Calendar on my MacBook (2017, dual core) took about 5s

- Opening Google Calendar on my MacBook with an "Empty Cache and Hard Reload" took about 10s

...

Your inability to read the conversation is hilarious

I just showed you that native mobile apps have the exact same startup time.

>>>

You referenced "Opening Google Calendar" on several devices where a web browser is the only option. I had assumed you were talking about "Opening Google Calendar" in a mobile browser, since we've been talking about websites and browsers the entire time. If you wanted to add native mobile apps into the discussion, you ought to communicate that clearly.

> Go away, that's not a compromise.

Opinions vary, Basecamp/Hey is well thought of regarding their UI/UX and they use HTML over the wire, so I'm content. It sounds like you are content as well, so to each their own.
I support a piece of software that uses these components and we've told our customers to upgrade to a newer version of this software for years, and yet some will sit on their hands forever. Fed.gov is exceptionally problematic between poor quality of contractors they use, and them wanting upgrades to go perfect (on especially old software), and not being able to handle deviation from plans when things don't work.
You're referring to elemental chlorine.

Your food almost certainly has a compound which contains chlorine too, and makes it taste better.
> "Yes, we threw our hands in the air and stopped trying to make a decent installation system."

I mean what do you expect, it goes along so nicely with "Yes, we threw our hands in the air and stopped trying to architect coherent software systems."
You're right; skeevy it is. Need to check my fake hip-sounding lingo.
How the CFO can guess this wasn’t closed?
Latitude Financial hit by cyber attack, more than 300k identity documents stolen
> [...]spend their time on hobbies and creative passions, but what’s the point when an AI can do them better than any human can?

I generally enjoy my hobbies even when there are billions of people that can do them "better". Whether AI can "beat" me at them too doesn't matter much to me (apart from finding it an interesting development).