skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that's missing from the list are the tools and inventions which people had to be conviced of the usefulness of and ended up being useless.

"This happened for X so it will happen for Y" isn't an argument on its own - you either need to make a connection between X and Y, or say something fundamental about Y which makes the statement true.
yes it is in my local repo. but it is not done yet.
Early electric service was less reliable than gas. My house had mixed gas lighting and electric, and there were even fixtures that were both. Not sure how long this transitional period lasted.

Adoption of phone service was even slower. First and second generation systems were pretty crappy by today’s expectations.
It's the user's choice.
For our generation the Pi is sluggish. For Thompson's generation, it is a beast!
> If your managers could specify what they need in a manner that no-code tools, or now AI, can generate the code they want, they will have to be extremely exact in their language. So exact in fact that they will need to specify a program in a click and drag interface, or in human language.

This is also one of the main reasons why all programming jobs were not outsourced to India.
I understand the distinction you’re making, but I think the “radicalization” characterization is appropriate: my experience is that Facebook-exposed relatives place both more and more extreme value on policies that they might otherwise have.

Were they primed by other sources of media and culture exposure? Absolutely; what distinguishes Facebook is its place in the timeline, and the abundance of evidence that radicalization broadly tracks with social media engagement.
I don't know; has the sdcard storage interface, the driver, or sdcards themselves, been revolutionised in the past 7 years?
> SG tubes are basically disposable once opened, since they'll be useless when they glue themselves shut or crust up.

You can greatly extend their lifetime by storing them in the freezer. The metal ones then die by leaking once you have used them a few times, but the plastic ones can be used for years if needed.
It's poor design
What "moonshot"? He announced he was funding an XPRIZE for such technology, but I haven't seen anything develop from that.

If Musk ever said anything about carbon sequestration, it was as an uncited reference to others' ideas. He is the human incarnation of clickbait blogspam.

It occurred to me though while attempting to research this that such grandiose and incredulous statements about Musk drive "organic" viral search patterns (as it drove me to do) which could reinforce his standing as knower of things despite him not actually knowing a lot of things.
Yes, but how I coveted QuickBASIC as a kid - it could compile to an executable!
> anti-patterns

I agree with all that, but patternic is not a word.
There are a lot of tools that have made developers far more productive than that and it has never resulted in reduction of demand.
Referring to VAT as a less visible tax is ... a take, consumption taxes are around 20% of total tax income in the OECD, you'd have to tax income a lot more to make up for that, it's not really viable. (Income and profit taxes currently make up 33% for comparison)

And the effects on lower incomes gets mitigated by transfers and support programs and that tends to be good enough for left leaning legislatures
And the Quote of the Year Award Goes to Grady Booch
When asked about Web3, in an Infoworld interview[0], Booch Sayeth:

> Web3 is a flaming pile of feces orbiting a giant dripping hairball.

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3689914/the-philosopher-a-conversation-with-grady-booch.html
All that tractor DRM has to phone home somehow!
lol, corrected.
Bing has an inner monologue by default
What do you mean by “acting”?

That it pretends to be a Scientist? Or that it can perform actions (like sending an email or searching the web)?

If the latter, do you have more info/docs about it? Didn’t see it on the roadmap.
Not the least because on paper at least it looks healthy. It has capital and liquidity ratios in line with other major banks. It has a profitability problems but had started laying off thousand of staff already, so that was more a share price problem than credit risk problem. But bank runs don't look at financials.
Yep. I would avoid this library.
Using a TPM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
Cities/local authorities, etc should be proactive in searching listing sites for obvious breaches, they shouldn't be reliant on private companies/individuals to hand-over information they are incentivised not to hand-over.
In Europe we used to have a dual system with a capitalist and a socialist part. Companies are capitalist and try to grow. The socialist governement tries to put limits to what is allowed. But now we have more neoliberal governments and the market can often do what it wants. People voted for more liberal politic parties. Governments loosened the rules and the trimmed down on inspectors. And now shareholders and the CEO can just earn money almost without limits.
By whatever mechanism the OS has to verify that you have the privilege. E.g. sudo. Not by raising a plethora of hurdles.
I have around 8mbps (1 mbyte/sec) and downloading everything big is painful. Nvidia driver - 10min. Vbox update - 3min. Linux netinst - feels like forever. Big npm/docker/etc updates - few minutes of waiting. Witcher 3… ohh.

Also you can’t watch 1080p without stutters while waiting. You can’t watch 1440p60 or 4k in any case.

Why do we need 25 MBit on all the farms and rural lands? (quoted from another subthread)

Because otherwise these areas will get stuck with <25mbps forever, and there’s already no reserve in 8-10mbps.
What’s the Real Cost of Mezcal?
>Before Oracle (mid-80s) every company did write their own database code.

Not really. There were a ton of ISVs competing with Oracle and pretty much every mainframe and minicomputer maker also had their own database products, many of them non-SQL.
You would think that with all those scandals they would at least be profitable.
Mnist Digit Classification
Someone should tell them!

https://github.com/bitwarden/jslib/issues/52
Windows Hello doesn't require 2.0, it works on 1.2.

There is something interesting regarding the 7700k though on windows (especially 11), users have been claiming windows reports it as supporting TPM 2.0 but they still can't upgrade to windows 11 due to failing requirements. So I wonder if something else is happening there that also seems to be affecting windows hello for you, because on paper at least for windows 10 you should be able to use Hello no problem.
A great job! But I found the docs too formal and techincal, which is more like a lang spec. It would be more appealing if some tutorials added.
I’d love to chat with you in private regarding your work with Ok Cupid.
How can I reach you?
Downloading 50GB Steam games in minutes so you can join your friends without having everyone wait around. And, most importantly, flexing on people with speed test results :D
I am using my Microsoft account to login to my windows 11 systems. And they do seem to cache for offline access. Because I am still able to login without internet access.
How many people doing this job do we need compared to the tens of millions of people building programs by hand we have today?
Capitalism is successful. What are you trying to say here?
it was one of those random, oh, this is how i learned about XYZ moment for me as well. yes, as he states in the video, i could also have read the wikipedia page (and at some point i probably still will), but his explanation went into so much new information for me that it was filled with so many "hmm, never really thought about that to even consider how it worked", but here's the info in a youtube video so now i just have answers to questions i didn't know i had
They also have their tendrils into so many things, it’s likely ‘too big to fail’ for Switzerland. Potentially other countries too.

It’s an effective, albeit evil play I guess. A bit like a tumor metastasizing into an organ that is too dangerous to operate on, so it can’t be removed.
I agree re: Chinchilla’s main point, what I was trying to point out is that I’m not sure that it’s clear that simply adding “more compute”, which over the past 2 years has meant “increasing model sizes”, is going to keep scaling as was stated.

It is still unclear whether we even have enough training tokens to adequately train some of these models (as GPT4 is unknown, thinking of PaLM here)? Galactica gets around that by repeating high quality tokens. Anthropic’s work conversely shows repeated tokens can significantly degrade performance.

I expect there will be higher yield/more focus on refining datasets or training objectives (e.g. GNN work by Leskovec and Liang) in the near future rather than just throwing more compute at CommonCrawl.

OpenAI claims significantly improved hallucination yet still by their own metric scores up to 80% on factual accuracy tests and scores 60% on TruthfulQA, so it’s still far too frequent to be reliable despite the presumably large effort into RLHF and incorporation of ChatGPT data.

The problem space of potentially inaccurate seems too large for RLHF to be a good solution.

> Aren't we all just symbol manipulation machines? Isn't truth just created by assigning symbols? Is there more value in experiencing an apple falling on your head than reading on an apple falling onto Newton's head?

Yeah there is actually, having experienced gravity grounds Newton’s law in reality and provides a sanity check. What’s the evidence to suggest that we are purely symbol manipulation machines?

In reality, human decision making is very “multimodal” when you move away from low hanging fruit.

> If we assume that GPT-4 is maybe..

I assume you’re offering a simplistic explanation of how LLMs work but continuing this hypothetical I don’t really follow the logic behind that math. If LLMs truly encode knowledge and contain a “model” of reality the whole point is that it is reasoning as it plays chess and not necessarily regurgitating.

It “plays” chess (except makes illegal moves and appears to be playing in very predictable ways as better discussed in the other HN chess post) in a way suggesting that it’s still “fill in the blank” rather than innately understanding/modelling the game which is the claim being made of LLMs.
I think you mean nostalgic gamers, not developers. They're not getting that much money just from other developers.

But why not? There are quite a few businesses that basically run off of Kickstarter. Like 30% of the board game industry nowadays fund most or all of their prints runs off Kickstarter, including some of the largest board game publishers, like CMON, Awaken Realms, AEG, Eagle-Gryphon, Garphill, Greater Than Games, Renegade, Portal and Queen Games (lots more publishers than this too).

https://www.dicebreaker.com/companies/kickstarter/news/table...
Show HN: The Shapes of Stories with ChatGPT
Having lived in Asia (low drug problems) and Latin America (drug-dominated hellhole) I much prefer the way drugs (and dealers) are dealt with in Asia than in Latam. The idea that waging war on drugs is a bad one sounds like a nut idea from out-of-touch people who have never been to a narco-state like Brazil, Mexico, or Colombia.
Not just that, societal acceptance of drugs is very low in Asia. Even if a country will not put you to death for importing drugs, people will reject you from the society if you use them. That can be a strong deterrent to people even trying them.
As per the talk, he is running scores of them - probably as multiple purpose-specific clusters.
Some might fall into the category you've described, but I'd hazard a guess that a lot more are afraid of the rise of AI due to its owners. The cost to develop and operate these machines is high, and you can be sure whoever is using them to replace work done by people today will capture and hold every possible penny.

People are afraid that AI will not serve the common good, and will instead serve a very rich few. Why? Because that's how it's always been with new advances, and more than ever how it is today. The vast gaps in wealth inequality will grow much larger with AI - it needs to be addressed first.
Or consider what the Clintons did to the many women who truthfully (we now know) accused Bill of sexual harassment.

There is no way to publish damaging information about the Clintons without being attacked for it.
I mean you can apply it under water and it works just fine. I use it all of the time in my aquarium.
It's extremely uncommon that everything changes suddenly and forever.

Most technological progress is a continuum, with little step functions of "this is it."

The AI/ML progress in the last ten years is a big local maximum, though, and that's enough to drastically change things for a lot of people.
The Bulwark is a neocon publication by Bill Kristol. He still refuses to apologize for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is part of the war machine that is perfectly happy to see perpetual war.

He was a solid republican, but he was all too happy to ditch everything he said he believed in to embrace the cultural issues of the left. The only thing he kept the same was his hawkish views on foreign policy. That shows a lot about him right there. He is an untrustworthy source for anything.
They’ll just close their eyes of course. They pinky swear!
kWh per time is a terrible unit and we should stop using it. Also kilowatts hours isn't great either, although I guess its convenient.
I imagine step one is to launch from the coast heading out over the ocean. If Starship is fully operational by then it would be the obvious choice and depending on the reactor design there might be enough weight capacity to build in some extra shielding. I also wonder if the fuel can be shipped separate from the reactor.
“I think scripting languages will make programmers obsolete”

What I heard every day in the 90s
yes this is how corals are propagated
> things that AI can't do at all

Like what?
Well, because people live on those lands. I grew up in a rural area, and my limited access to internet almost failed me in multiple classes that required online testing. My bare-minimum Hughesnet setup would only give you 50kbps after you depleted the "Full Speed" 50 gigabytes a month of 25MBit speeds. No worries though, only $10/gigabyte to get back online so you could take your Biology quiz without getting kicked off halfway through.

Now that stuff like Starlink exists, it's easier to give the finger to Hughesnet and exploitative WISPs. Even still, the years I spent growing up with bare-minimum internet at cable-package prices has made me spiteful. It should have been addressed long before the private sector got around to fixing it.
1 Megabyte per second seems like extremely slow. You need 6/7x more to stream 4k properly and downloading modern games would take forever. If you have a couple of people using it simultaneously even HD might not be great..
I think a few screenshots and examples would go a long way. Having to sign up just to see what the product is.. isn’t a great experience. Also, wasn’t able to use the site on mobile.
mathematicians survived the calculator. coders will survive AI tools.
Only in the context of OPs comment.

If we withhold help purely based on evidence of shady dealings then JPM, HSBC, DB, Well Fargo, Goldman and a whole butch of others should be liquidated by Monday lunch time in solidarity.

Personally i hate the barter system so i suggest we find a different judgement metric.
Zero-sized types really is an elegant concept.
> they were either getting played by or explicitly choosing to aid the trump campaign via the Russian state

The article addresses this belief and fairly well debunks it's origins.

Outraged the Clinton campaign swiftly ascribed the leaks to Vladimir Putin's intelligence apparatus as part of an operation to secure Trump's victory. The accusation was fueled by forensic analysis from the DNC's cybersecurity consultants, from CrowdStrike, detailing the potential links between the leaks and the Russian government.

Testifying under oath in a closed-door session before the committee in 2017, CrowdStrike’s chief security officer Shawn Henry admitted that he had no “concrete evidence” that the Russians had stolen the emails, or indeed that anyone had hacked the DNC’s system.

This crucial interview remained locked away until 2020. The press did little to acknowledge it; the testimony failed to attract even a passing mention in the New York Times, the Guardian, or any other mainstream outlet that had previously charted the Russian hacking story.

Something I personally observed (after 2006 and before 2020) is that we had 4 cybersecurity companies that frequently served as mouthpieces for US NatSec agencies - Mandiant, Fireeye, Crowdstrike and Cylance. They'd be called in to assist in some cybersecurity event and would unfailing parrot that agency's FUD, without ever providing any meaningful evidence. During these same events, non-gov cybersecurity experts were commonly casting doubts on US Gov's official narrative.

The above event seems like Crowdstrike acting is it's usual capacity as a Gov-adjacent mouthpiece - that is until the House committee compelled the CSO to supply evidence of Crowdstrike's parroted claim.
Better Resumes: Results and Context
If it’s n or convenient then users won’t use a password manager at all:
There's nothing to negotiate at this point. Either Russia moves its guns and tanks and soldiers out of the whole Ukraine like they retreated from around Kharkiv, or Russia gets defeated on the battlefield. Anything else would leave Ukrainians in occupied territories to be wiped out by Russians. Russian hopes of a favorable peace deal is nothing but a coping mechanism, just like top Nazis hoped to reach a peace deal in 1945. Better prepare your cyanide pill.
To be fair to WikiLeaks there is very little evidence that Russia had anything to do with the DNC hacks. The FBI never had access to the servers and the the whole Russia hacking narrative relies on the DNC's claim of "trust us when we said this is what happened".

Similarly the recent Twitter revelations on Hamilton68 showed that the Russian bots on manipulating social media was more or less BS.

Who know what really happened, but what may have happened was that the hacking was blamed on Russia instead of say China, or [insert foreign adversary] because the FBI panicked when trump was elected after using the Steele dossier to spy on his campaign and needed a narrative to justify their actions.
It forms a skin almost immediately but if you squish the bubble between two objects it will pop and you can do full underwater gluing.
Of course Russia has vital interests all around it: everyone does. But it doesn't follow that "therefore Russia should be allowed to annex everything around it".

Again, we know that playbook, it has played out before in Europe. Today it's Ukraine, tomorrow it's Poland, and your arguments will still be exactly the same: Russia has vital interests in Poland, Russia has occupied Poland before, Poland is outgunned, and why would we care about Poland, really?

And then it's Germany, at which point, again, nothing has changed. Britain and France might use their nuclear deterrence when it's their turn, but if they listened to you, they'd probably say "do we want to end humanity just because we don't like Russia to rule over us? Surely not, humanity is too important to be destroyed over Russia's vital interest to annex whatever is next to Russia" and roll over.

It would end only when Russia invades the US or China, because neither will allow it if their nuclear weapons are still available by then.
My oversimplified observation is that, Adobe products at the high-end notwithstanding, MS Office basically crystallized what was a mainstream office productivity suite now that companies weren't buying one-off products. Rather than buying a low-end/midrange desktop publishing program, they made it work with Word. Rather than using a low-end database (of which there were many), the made do with Excel.
No, no problem. Just an observation.
Dunno, seems like a great demonstration of a weakness: “This is marked as a testing release.” That used to be information the version number contained, now you have to find the small print that happens to mention it on the release notes.
I already know who Bill Kristol is, and the people (plural) behind The Bulwark are, thanks. It's not hidden, it's here https://www.thebulwark.com/about-us/

I'm not a fan of their political project, my point is that even they don't buy this "coup" nonsense.

I do not think either that he "ditched everything he said he believed in" when their political party changed and they did not, that's rather a specific framing from an extremist faction of that party.

No doubt you prefer noted thinker, Dan Crenshaw.
GTP playing chess through a visual (or visual-like) interface would be like us playing chess through notation. Same game, different view.

Of course, some humans can play chess quite well while blindfolded.
Considering our species used to send children into dark caves as a rite of passage and the way things are now, this is probably for the best.

"Parents can try to keep up with their young mountaineers as they ascend through the rope spiderweb, but they might get left behind in the tightly woven mesh."

Like Instagram and TikTok, but with real safety guarantees.
Not all people. There is a division of people here. People able to rationally see the consequences of a new technology.

And people who have to bend their perception of reality to protect a vested interest. For software engineers the skills and attributes we take pride in are our software craft and our intelligence. So it's normal to see that the attacks on AI are especially vicious on HN.

I'd say the division is about 50 50.

Gpt4 will not replace us. But it's a herald for something that will. That is reality.
> if they wanted to make the two values comparable

When was the last time you saw a journalism piece try to make units comparable?

That number can mean absolutely anything, there is no telling what the people could be thinking on the telephone game from transcribing the source all the way into a finished and edited design.
well that’s weirdly graphic
This falls within the guidelines of offtopic . Has been there since the days of old.
Once you're on the surface you can sink a fair bit of heat into the ground. The issue in space is that you can't do convection, and there's nothing to conduct to, so you're really just left with giant, inefficient radiators.
Real-world exponential curves aren't smooth when zoomed in.

It's likely that we're on an exponential curve, but the advent of AGI for instance will probably just moonshot the tech level overnight--it's the fulcrum for the "exponential" part of the graph (maybe--that's my prediction).

People are measuring this, of course, but the metrics are all very hotly debated right now in terms of measuring abilities.
The drug war didn't give us anything but more dangerous drugs.
Any evidence that high bidders do a better job?
Looking for past employees of Dating Apps
I'm near completion of a new dating app, hoping to release by June of 2023.
I’d love to connect with past employees of Tinder, OkCupid, Match, POF, Hinge, Bumble, etc , and get some feedback.
Basically, without saying too much, the app is all about the user, not revenue. More than a year of talking to users on all platforms of OLD and addressing their requests.
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8Mbps is just about enough to stream netflix in hd. If you have other household members doing anything else it's inadequate. It's also borderline inadequate for any online gaming whatsoever.

Hitting network speed limits doesn't just cap you in those scenarios, it degrades very badly very quickly.