skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you realize hyperinflation is generally defined to be 50% per month?

February US inflation is 6% year over year. This is orders of magnitude below "hyper".
Here’s a specific example that I can’t exactly link:

Shortly after Trump won the election they had a round table of journalists (including some of their own) on and they basically said “we need to fight him.” So, during Trump’s presidency I specifically listened for any positive coverage of literally anything he did.

None. Zip. Nada. I probably heard hundreds of negative stories.

Guess what? About a month or so after Trump lost his re-election bid I finally heard a tempered positive sentence on All Things Considered.

I consider that propaganda. I also remember a specific moment on All Things Considered back in the earlier days of COVID where they stated the lab leak theory was debunked because - get this - China said it didn’t happen.

Anything to hurt Trump, until it didn’t matter.
There is absolutely something you can do about it...Stop using this shit service.

It cost a crazy amount in most cases, you accommodations are hit or miss and you have little recourse, let's not forget the insane cleaning requirements and fees.

I just can not at this point see the advantage in staying at a hotel/motel.
Good, this plan was corporate stupidity. "let's alienate the community that is the very basis of the success of our company". Madness. They should do the exact opposite and ensure the world relies on their infrastructure rather than finding creative ways to cut all their dependencies on any Docker provided technology. Which is of course what a lot of people have been doing in the last few years. The whole rename of docker to moby and walking that back. All the antics around Docker for desktop. The whole mess with docker swarm. And now this. It's stupid.

The faster people walk away from Docker provided stuff, the less relevant Docker as a company becomes. In light of that, telling most of your users to please bugger off is an epic level of stupidity. A classic throwing away the baby with the bathwater situation. Docker needs to take a very critical look at its leadership and what just happened. Any of the yes-men that thought this was a great idea, should probably be nudged out of the door. Fix that and promote the people that intervened and rolled this decision back.

Yes, keeping infrastructure for a low value commodity like docker hub costs money. But it creates opportunities to make money via more valuable add on services. Which is a lot easier when people recognize you as the world's leading authority on anything docker related. Docker's main issue is that it has not been very good at doing that. A good start would be acknowledging the things that are actually valuable assets. Like having world + dog relying on docker hub for distributing software and developers installing their software on laptops because it is so good. You don't throw that away. That's not a problem that needs solving.

They should look at how Microsoft manages Github. Many people and companies use that for free. That's a feature not a bug. Github actually used to charge for private repositories. And then they changed their mind and gave people unlimited access to free private repositories. That move ensured that it solidified itself as the undisputed #1 choice for people and companies to host their software.

And of course many corporate users end up converting to becoming paying customers because Github has plenty of non free features that are worth paying for. But hosting the entirety (well close to it) of essentially all OSS projects on this planet and a community of users that is essentially anyone active professionally as a developer means that all of their potential future customers already have free accounts. That must be really convenient for their sales team. All they need to do is figure out what users and companies do, where they struggle, what they need, etc. And then pitch solutions to those issues.

Genius. Github is a highly successful business. MS bought them for that reason. Maybe they can buy Docker too. It would be a great fit for them.
Assuming such an organization existed, what would stop someone from using their name, logo, etc. to also promote enhancing IP law and undermine they’re entire message? Presumably they wouldn’t be so hypocritical as to sue you for that, would they?
Is there not enough labour? Or is there not enough of a will or acceptance that we must train labour?

I'm talking about more advanced AI robots of the future. Ones were we start questioning if they have agency or not.
Crypto never fails to impress me with how many problems it creates for itself.
I wonder if a plugin to let it query API docs would solve this problem.
I think all of our stories will look the same, we all ask about small problems, to get an answer as accurate as possible. It did help me in something else. If someone has a weight problem, you can ask ChatGTP to plan you an eating schedule. I've lost 6kg in 2 months now by eating healthy food. If someone is interested what questions I've asked, I've asked ChatGTP to create me a weekly meal schedule, where for my current weight, activity, height, I will be able to lose 0.5kg per week.
I wondered if there were any CADR emulators to run this on. So I web searched and found this:
https://lisp-machine.org/hacking-usim-a-mit-cadr-lisp-machin...
I noticed my productivity with GPT was closely tied to how quickly I could access it. For example, Copilot is so useful to me because it's directly integrated into the browser. So I decided to build a Spotlight Search-esque interface to GPT that I could access anywhere [1]. It's been useful in answering quick questions or drafting documents.

[1] https://github.com/JinayJain/gpt-anywhere
I miss Topcoder. Funny story I went back through all my old SRMs and found one where I was placed in the same room with none other than mzuckerberg. He even unsuccessfully challenged my code and I in turn challenged his with a test he hadn’t considered, and he lost all his points!

This was, of course, a couple of years before Facebook was even thought of.
> If I have a physical object, you can't also have that physical object

Depending on the definition of having, which goes begs the question.
I was just talking about this the other day:

> it's more hacking than crareful and well specified engineering, and that could lead down a path of instability in the product where some features get better while others get worse, without understanding exactly why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pffft8888&next=35269...
my biggest problem with it is that it doesn't seem to understand its own knowledge. If you talk to it for a while and you go back and forth on a coding problem it will often suddenly start using wrong syntax that doesn't exist. Even though at this point it should already know and have looked up for sure that this syntax can't possibly exist because many times it responded correctly. So in human terms it has read the documentation and must know that this syntax can't possibly exist and yet it doesn't know that 10 sec later. That's currently what makes it seem like a not real intelligence to me.
> but it's not likely to make a good salad, play a killer live concert, or set a broken arm

Why not? I see no reason to assume that AI can't do those things better than any human.
compatible cadr emulator is available at https://tumbleweed.nu/r/usim/doc/trunk/README.md and generally https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/ is the starting point. not for the faint of heart.
https://abstrusegoose.com/432
He now can use gpt to generate code, comments, comments in code reviews, and work on 3 jobs simultaneously.
> If I build an app on React, there's not much chance I'm ever going to swap it out for anything else, thus it's a framework.

Preact exists though? And literally emulates React's API. It even has a guide for aliasing the Preact module as React with your bundler so your app wouldn't need any code changes. Can a framework do that?
We’ve heard about it plenty. There are also plenty of other things to talk about.

NPR might as well stand for No Politics but Race at this point.
Flurry of Eye Drop Recalls
Can’t say the same for their documentation, which contains more broken links than actual content.
Products and services that infringe intellectual property rights can just ran be through LLM first I think, so there goes that restriction.
On one hand, why let government define a bedroom? On the other, how many cages fit in a bedroom?
“it was made up to support and safeguard author’s living”. That’s not really true. It least in the US, its stated purpose is to promote the useful arts and sciences. Incentivizing authors is a means to that end. If incentivizing corporations achieves those ends as well, it would seem to be consistent with the original purpose. Of course, there are probably valid arguments that corporate ownership of IP doesn’t always promote the useful arts and sciences (for example patent trolls).
Just because the act "giving your phone to a person" is the same, it doesn't mean it's the same thing.

Trust and incentives are a thing. Just like depositing money in your bank is different to telling a stranger on the street to keep your money safe even if the act of handing over valuables is the same. It's not in the interest of the bank to lose trust, just like the founders of that app are not in the business of cracking the phones of fellow founders.
Have it write windows bat files to automate my computer use. Some, would have taken hours to write but chatgpt delivers in a few seconds. I ask and it delivers. It's not always right but it does not hurt to ask.

I'm now looking into other areas where it can help me automate easy but tedious tasks.

Some people still doubt its usefulness. I don't.
Orange Pi (Xunlong) has a record about not caring at all about up streaming their products. Mentioning the OPI 5 as an alternative to RPI4 is very abstruse.
> iPhone vulnerabilities are a dime a dozen

Does "dime a dozen" mean "6-7 figures USD per each on the global exploit market, with a dozen well-known regular buyers"?
Heh, or maybe:

the orange zero
orange pi plus 2e
orange pi 3 lts
orange pi 4 lts
orange pi 5

In any case the rk3588 is available with 4x the PCIe, 2x the ram, 2-8x the performance, and ethernet and storage are over PCIe (not USB). Seems like a decent generational upgrade.
This person clearly has severe trauma that's leading to suicidality. I don't think giving up carbs will help.
This is very similar to my usage. I'm awful about wiping from my memory every implementation detail unless I work in something every day.

awk and sed are great examples, I find them critically important just infrequently enough I barely have any idea how to use them.

or the once in 2 years I need to do something complex in a spreadsheet, a natural language description of the problem is easier for me to remember than some sequence of vlookup
Gordon built something amazing, and I was lucky to have started my career at his creation.

I was fortunate to be able to meet Gordon at his house in Hawaii a few years back, which was an amazing experience for an engineer that grew up learning from his wisdoms and accomplishments.

Rest in peace
For me the main benefit is what I would describe as 'rubber ducking discovery', using it as a learning tool I am able to try out different problem domains that are completely out of my area, things like:

- Web scrapping

- Web crawler

- Trying out Rust

- Trying out pytorch and training models for computer vision problems

This is all stuff that would have taken me several weekends of reading docs and geting familiar with libraries.

Now it suddenly becomes a few hours because the discovery of the right tool is semi-instant and although the code it provides is often wrong it generally puts you in the right direction.

My intuition is that it's a lot better at outputting viable Python and JS code than other languages, perhaps there is bias in how much data of other languages it has access to.
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I would argue the perceived haphazardness is an advantage. The more centrally planned the economy, the more likely an incompetent government takes power and mucks it up. Part of America’s genius is the (fairly) restricted powers and decentralized nature of responsibility.
Or have one of those pager systems some restaurants use to let you know your burger is ready. You don't need one for every attendee; just the ones who are parents, doctors, etc., and specifically come up to request one (and register it in their name).
I'm not convinced that China has much of a stake in the outcome. Maybe the war itself serves their purposes because they want Russia to be weaker and have fewer trading partners to choose from, but whether Russia wins or loses in Ukraine, Russia will (short of a major internal political collapse) continue to sell gas to China. The risk that Ukraine or anyone would invade Russia and force a regime change is low.

Same with Iran and North Korea. They might supply weapons because Russia is paying them for it, but they don't have much to gain if Russia were to win.

It's possible that Putin's decision to invade was made under duress, but if so I think it's more likely that it was some faction inside Russia that was twisting his arm rather than an outside faction. (Xi /may/ have set up Russia for failure by requesting that the invasion not happen until the Olympics were finished and the rainy season had begun, but I think that's just idle speculation. I don't know if there's any real evidence of that.)
I always reject
> Also, not to be argumentative but the Kirkwood SheevaPlug line (I was early on that too) is the ARM equivalent of a truly embedded Intel Core something that no one dare touches if it's still running (it's USB 2).

But unlike everything else you've complained about, it has good upstream support & is reliable & all it's peripherals are quite un-flakey. I have upgraded my kernels numerous times. I do run Debian/testing. I haven't in a bit, but they would still run, and better than before.

You absolutely are correct about most of your complaints. There's a huge world of Ambian & other SBC that are off-tree semi-supported worlds to try to make shitty vendor crap keep going for a bit. And it's flakey, unreliable, & unmaintainable. But you are dead wrong about Kirkwood. Upstreaming means something & it has kept a lot of decade old devices running & stable & happy & it's just obvious. The negative experiences you cite are real, but they're a owed to a variety of over-aggressive under-budget hardware builds and more-so to never ever having actual real support, to never having had drivers good enough to get upstreamed, to being a bunch of shitty off-tree vendor code that is just poorly done. The network of enthusiasts trying to hack access to these sytems, to make off-tree Ambian or OpenWRT support at any cost is admirable, but ultimately, the actual cost of doing the right thing, like Free Electron does, is tiny, especially versus the pain incurred from not doing the right thing. I think you're missing that distinction, by lumping these all together.

USB2 is also really not that bad for many remote-storage applications. It's also a bit comedic to, in one sentance, blast it as bad, then go on to talk about ESP32 systems & other microcontrollers. Which can almost never saturate even USB2, & almost never have any kind of USB3 what-so-ever. Sure they may run TensorFlow Lite. But they are markedly smaller systems.

Just company community support seems arbitrary. Maybe Arduino has the best support community on the planet. It's still a vastly less capable platform with incredibly less software available to help you build systems/solutions out of. And showing up to Arduino will be a unique bespoke different experience, whereas running a Linux system will have a common frame of reference & transferable experience into the rest of computing, as well as having the world's best library of software & tools available for you to use (which Arduino/platformio have not even the faintest most shallow shadow of).
The deepest dive record claim is really interesting. I was curious if I could some more context around it. Lo and behold, the deepest dive records I can find by anyone, regardless of gender or whether or not it’s with scuba, and all of which are modern, aren’t that deep. I wonder what AOs source is.
That doesn't solve the problem.

Documentation of unknown quality is useless noise.

People don't understand the unfathomable amount of garbage that's going to be generated in light of all these models. Doesn't matter how accurate they are, the lack of understanding for that remainder percent of inaccuracy is going to cause false confidence and cause errors to compound like mad.
Incredibly, his eponymous law has held out long then him. RIP.
While I carry one, it's always in airplane mode, to save battery, and because my free time is mine: I am not available.

Yet, while I have the device, I seldom use it. It can be helpful occasionally, and I take pictures at times. I might take it out of pocket and use it once or twice a week. Battery lasts me over a week despite 5 years old device.

I would certainly not surrender it to strangers.
A simple metric on confidence interval could do the trick. As the model grows larger, it is getting more difficult to understand what is going on, but that doesn't mean that it needs to be a total black box. At least let it throw some proxy metrics. In due course, will learn to interpret those metrics and adjust our internal trust model.
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Wow, you downvoters are harsh. Okay I learned my lesson not to assume someone has a phone or PC next to them and can simply flip a switch in a matter of 30 seconds. Cool.
Wow, there's a surprising number of predictions he nailed here. One of the most impressive is the suggestion that "newly devised automation procedures could translate from logic diagram to technological realization without any special engineering" -- hinting at the possibility of logic synthesis, which wouldn't become viable until well into the 1980s (AFAIK?), but is now the standard methodology for complex digital ICs.
AGI is a zero-dimensional mythology like flying cars, more HAL 9000 or The Jetson's science fiction.

Some forms of it will continue to arrive in stages, but it will be difficult to point to when exactly and what will be called "AGI".

PS: Waiter robots that are self-propelled drink carts have been done before. It's busboys, maids, and physical lift assistance that will be especially difficult to automate. By that time, we better have such amazing BCI that we've shuffled off the mortal coil and melded with tech. The days of carbon-based life are numbered not just by existential threats like climate change, but because it will likely be inferior to computational life. I'm curious how inorganic life will own physical property including itself, expand, reproduce, etc. Will it jump on the zetacoin mining rage to make money or refactor code made by other programs? Will inorganic life need entertainment?
Microsoft Threatens Data Restrictions in Rival AI Search
Yeah that is the problem with capitalism: they want low inherent value but disproportionally high profits.
I have a lot of experience in Operations / debugging of web apps, and the plumbing around them, and only a little bit when it comes to writing software. I'm finding chatGPT to be very useful to me as someone who basically knows what needs to be be done to make something but doesn't know the design patterns well.
And the definition of a recession was rescinded last year by the White House.

Is inflation for you better now than it was in 2019?
This is such an “ackchully” argument from the ruling. It’s not the spirit of the law and the principles behind the idea of free access to information. Instead it’s narrowing in on the specifics of physical lending of books, grasping for analogies to the 20th century, in a world which has transformed and moved on decades ago.

But even if all those things weren’t true, or important, it’s profound that there’s enough collective incentive to go after IA, instead of say corporations violating GPL, or the hedgies who created “temporary” artificial supply of stocks (which shares a similar “overprovisioning” aspect, except they’re fraudulent at massive scale).
This is not a news agency from what I understand
And just like any other sport it has virtually no usefulness in real life
1. Because in putting all their money into MBS, SVB essentially invested it with merrill lynch pierce fenner and smith circa september 2007, and per temporal waste management rules, when you send toxic waste back in time to destroy it, you can't call it a 'repeat' when it is still a problem in the present

2. Because chase wasn't writing listicles in 2008

fwiw chase's actual argument is 'bank stocks are in the shitter'. This is not what I would write if Chase hired me to write a listicle about Chase being a safe and good place to store things.
It could be fun to compare with Action!--it's been known to compile a reasonably good 6502 assembly (considerably better than other compiled languages for that platform), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action!_(programming_language),

It has been released as open-source together with the binaries, https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action

You should be able to run these using an Atari 8-bit (XL/XE model) emulator, like Atari800, https://github.com/atari800/atari800/releases or Altirra, https://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html
I use it a lot for Linux administration, troubleshooting, and scripting as well as some programming. I've only recently started using GPT4 and the API so I've only been using the chat interface so far. Examples of some stuff I've asked it just today:

- Asked which config files handled sleep mode when lid is closed and kept fixing it and asking for more possible locations until it fixed my issue (going into sleep during boot before user login if laptop is closed even with externals)

- Asked for a list of KDE config files I should track in git

- Copy pasted a list of ~/.config files and directories and asked ChatGpt for descriptions. Used those for commit messages to build up the initial dotfiles repo for KDE plasma and a whole bunch of other stuff that would have taken hours

- Asked it how to write a bunch of journalctl queries

- Queried it about some log lines I've been seeing in journalctl and had it guide me through troubleshooting using some terminal commands it came up with. Turned out to be a problem with nvidia-drm.modeset in kernel configs

- Asked it to guide me through a dozen awesomeWM customizations ranging from new code from text descriptions to edit suggestions to fix bugs in behavior I've described. Stuff like custom if/else trees handling setup specific scenarios (logic for clamshell open and closed with one or more externals connected by ID) are a breeze.

- Asked it for tips on how to use awesomeWM best and which keybindings to customize

- Code up the message passing from a firefox extension to a native Rust CLI (like the 1password extension) that uses remoc to pass through messages from all tabs to a single daemon over platform specific interprocess communication

AKA Google is fucked.
Have you considered finding a way to instead write a text editor plugin that allows me to talk to a GPT and ask questions about a codebase? This would be a serious technology that moves beyond the in-code documentation paradigm.
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"Predicted this in 2008" is a funny sentence. If I now predicted that what the Fed is doing will result in an amazing economy, would it really count if it happened in 15 years?

Peter Schiff is always predicting doom. It's not that he's talking complete nonsense, but objectively he is more wrong than right. His opinions corelate less to being correct and more to the fact that he invests a lot in gold, and his interest is that everyone else gets scared and does too.