skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with many serialization formats (XDR, SOAP XML w/ XML schema, CORBA IDL and IIOP, JSON with and without schema, pickle, and many more). Protocol buffers remind me of XDR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Data_Representation). Which was a great technology in the day; NFS and NIS were implemented using it.

I do agree with some of the schema modelling criticisms in this article, but the ultimate thing to understand is: protocol buffers were invented to allow google to upgrade servers of different services (ads and search) asychronously and still be able to pass messages between them that can be (at least partly) decoded. They were then adopted for wide-range data modelling and gained a number of needed features, but also evolved fairly poorly.

IIRC you still can't make a 4GB protocol buffer because the Java implementation required signed integers (experts correct me if I'm wrong) and wouldn't change. This is a problem when working with large serialized DL models.

I was talking to Rob Pike over coffee one morning and he said everythign could be built with just nested sequences key/value pairs and no schema (IE, placing all the burden for decoding a message semantically on the client) and I don't think he's completely wrong.
Uh the structure of the neural network matters just as much as the weights. Everyone has a different structure to their neurological arrangement.
Ford sold 96,000 electric cars in 2022 and made $5.3 billion in revenue. They had a net loss of about $2 billion.

As an aside, the amount of pop-ups and advertising makes this website almost unusable
Why is converting U-238 to KCALs nonsensical? It's just different units of energy. I've wondered before how much energy a power plant creates in terms of how much a person uses per day, seems like an interesting thought to me.
Everything privately held that has value is backed by the threat of violence.
> What's unfortunate is how it's impossible to escape asterisks in normal text around here.

You can escape an asterisk in normal text by putting a backslash in front of it: int (*cmp)(char *, char *);

Described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (which is linked from the HN FAQ)
… like JavaScript? Bash? C? PHP?

Certainly none of those are widely used and have a reputation for making it easy to keep the gun aimed squarely at the foot.
<<“I have cops in my family, therefore there are good cops”

I apologize. This is not what I intended to convey.

That line was intended more as disclaimer ("hey. i am not completely objective here").

My actual argument follows beneath ("cops are just humans").
This pretty much demonstrates that they are - at this point the upfront costs just haven't been outweighed yet because it's early in the sales process.
Maybe this was true 200 years ago, but US state sovereignty has declined steadily
>By giving money to people without producing more stuff - or even making it harder to produce the same - you MUST have inflation, rationing, or empty shelves - and often all three.

Says who? Why can't the people producing stuff simply take lower profit margins instead?
chatGPT can do Leetcode hards, so not a very good litmus test fwiw
So the point is that actually adopting data privacy laws is politically difficult but shouting about tiktok is cheap. But why can we not make the data privacy issues less contentious politically?

I feel like it should be possible to have a cop-out, like "Online services doing business in the USA must offer US-based users data and privacy rights which are at least as strict as those of any other national jurisdiction in which the service does business." The tag line for press appearances would be "Americans using online services should have just as much control over their data as Europeans." The line for industry lobbyists is that by effectively adopting GDPR, multinationals don't actually have a meaningfully increased compliance cost.
Tech companies want it both ways. 1. They own the rights to any user content they store and transmit. 2. They are shielded by Section 230, and immune to liability for its misuse.
I used to work there, and I saw some information that the cost of a hybrid powertrain was about $10k higher than the cost of the equivalent ICE vehicle. Not the cost to consumer, the cost to build. That, much like the article linked here, is only possible because of the absurd size of the federal CAFE subsidy for each "zero emission" vehicle. They lose 10 or 22 or whatever thousand dollars on each of these, but each one allows them to sell 10 more Lincoln Navigators at 11mpg for way more in profit each.

It's also worth noting that Ford and Ford dealers did more marking up during the recent round of car price increases than other OEMs/dealers, so they're likely to be getting squeezed pretty hard pretty soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1eoQz9g14
Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus by Andre LaMothe[0] blew my mind as a young kid who liked video and computer games. It took all this amazing stuff I was seeing and from more-or-less first principles[1] showed me how it all came together from applying a little logic and math.

I still have a copy to this day, missing both front and rear cover and with with significant wear throughout. Unfortunately I don't appear to have the disc that came with it[2].

[0] https://archive.org/details/tricksofgameprog0000unse

[1] Chapter 2 is called "Assembly Language Basics".

[2] https://archive.org/details/Tricks_of_the_Game_Programming_G...
Allowing mass surveillance at Olympics undermines EU efforts to regulate AI
That’s because you cannot lay the result of the 2016 election at Facebook’s doorstep.

Functionally they were used for five things:

1. Political advertising, which is what all campaigns engage in.

2. Discussions of the election by our own citizens, sometimes critical, more often an echo chamber or virtual throat stabbing contest.

3. News about the election which is free name recognition for all of the candidates the media considers worth talking about.

4. Market research by the campaigns.

5. A platform for foreign propaganda including psy-ops, which is bad and should be addressed, but not even close to bad enough to effect the outcome of an election as much as many might want to think that it did.

You can’t really pin the 2016 election on Facebook specifically since any information on there competes with any information not from there and there was a lot more not-Facebook information involved in that election, but Facebook by that point made for a nice scapegoat that nobody has any real sympathy for. Remember too that it was real Americans that actually filled in their ballots that decided the election for every single candidate on the list.
GPT-3 had been out for almost a year before ChatGPT and no one cared
It doesnt matter what you think. Poor people that loose money without possibility to do anything about it = angry people. That is a big problem. We know from history the consequence of terrible inflation in 30's in Germany.
Magically she left out some important events and blamed everyone but private industry:

> In 1979, a new sheriff came to town—Long Tall Paul Volcker. Interest rates were raised to 17% in May 1980 and to 19% by January 1981

No mention of the 2nd oil shock, where prices rose extremely fast, to me that is the # 1 cause of economic woes at this time. And the US was still feeling the effects of the 1973/74 Oil Embargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

No mention of the Iraq War that enriched many very large companies in the early 2000s, turning what could have been an elimination of the Federal Deficit. 2 trillion+ was added to the Nation Debt for that war.

> Volcker’s grand monetarist experiment—letting go of interest rates and targeting the money supply to try to bring down inflation

Saving and loan crisis was caused by the Banks themselves to make a quick buck. One of the Bush Brothers almost ended up in jail. I think his daddy saved him from that. From the link "In the early 1980s Congress passed two laws intended to deregulate the Savings and Loans industry, the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary". That gave the S&L Banks free rein start speculating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

I am sure there are a lot more she missed, but getting tired of fact checking :)
> The equivalent isn't a couple of cycling teams collaborating in a multi-team race because they believe the peloton/echelon at a particular stage of the race will ultimately improve one their members' chances of success later in the race,

It sounds an awful lot like a couple of football teams collaborating at a particular stage of a tournament because it will ultimately improve their members' chances of success later in the tournament.

Although, this particular case is different in that both teams were incentivized to win, just that one team needed to win by two, so with the game near the end of time, and a weird two points for ovetime goal rule, it made sense for both teams to deliberately score in their own nets at different points.
What's your role within the team? Sounds like this is less of a technical challenge, and more of a people challenge.

I was going to post about a recent experience doing an 'Oncall war-game'. Troubleshooting a prod issue -- the original person was a "dungeon master" that set the scene. Then the rest of the team tried to figure out what was going with the prompts from the DM. It was kinda fun and educational.
> they asked if I wanted Readlang back > and how much I’d pay. > Of course I said yes!

So how much did you pay?:-)
Nintendo's openly stated position, since like the 80s, is that current american law is wrong and you don't have a right to a backup copy of games you buy. If Nintendo could suck memories of super mario out of the brains of people who didn't pay a yearly licensing fee, none of us would remember the 90s and Nintendo fans would STILL preorder everything they touch.
Tesla was losing money when they were selling <100,000 cars per year, and now they've got a profit margin better than Porsche. A million per year seems to be the magic number, and Ford should hit that this year or next.
It is said that inflation (caused by money printing at least) is a hidden tax on everyone, which definitely hits the poor more than a progressive tax scheme would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf-dbS9CcRU
Definitely. We have a dedicated member of the CX team focused on Linux support, along with a support agent who is also dedicated to it. Most of our lead engineers also use/dogfood Linux on their Framework Laptops daily. Mostly Ubuntu, but I believe one of our team members does use NixOS as their default.
The headline seems to imply they're selling them at a loss, but aren't they really selling them at a profit and just haven't sold enough yet to cover their fixed costs like tooling?
Open AppleM1 Drivers Expands Game Support
"But does it run Crysis?"
Yup. I was working on a migration to CentOS ~8.2 before we got rugpulled. Took the opportunity to move to Ubuntu/Debian. If we have to do all this work, might as well change distro's.
This is just a straight clickbait version of the article* posted yesterday.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276024
Wow, thanks so much for sharing your pain points!

It's really too bad Mendeley butchered public groups feature, it could've helped solve the "are there any more readings about this topic that I'm missing" problem. You're preaching to the choir re: latex.

If you had a choose 1 issue that really grinds your gears, which one would it be?

a side-note - Have you tried a solution like Evernote to organize your thoughts?
Why so convoluted.

Just tax the rich (companies) properly. The resources and money is available. The current government chooses not to allocate it properly.

What is happening in the UK is to me 100% the result of the current Conservative Party and their policies.
Wolfram alpha first told it converting the energy content of U-238 to food calories was undefined.

So chatgpt decided to get wolfram alpha to tell it the energy content of U-238 if it were to be completely nuclear fissioned. It then states that was the food equivalent. There's so many logical failures.

Sure, the prompter was probably hoping for that response, but it's insane.
That is difference between dumping and investment.

All tech companies invest.

Nobody is surprised when fresh technology (EV) requires upfront investment.

Title is misleading.
> The cynic in me wants to believe that it's a way of deflecting blame somehow

That's how it reads to me as well.

Of course, it doesn't deflect blame at all. Any time you include code in your project, no matter where the code came from, you are responsible for the behavior of that code.
> People have to eat

People in west vastly overestimate how much they have to eat.

We wouldn't have health epidemic if people can just stop eating all the time.
> although you could say it is unsportsmanlike.

I don’t think anyone rational would agree that it was unsportsmanlike.

The situation was very clear, if they won by a single goal their season was over. The goal to make it 2-1 occurred in the 83rd minute and they didn’t adopt this strategy until the 87th minute. In those intervening 4 minutes they attempted to score and restore their 2-goal lead.

There are other examples of locally detrimental behavior that aims for strategic advantage, such as the intentional walk in baseball.

Or that sometimes in football/soccer a team will intentionally kick the ball out of bounds to stop play because of an injury to a player, and the other team responds afterward by throwing the ball in to the other team or kicking it out themselves.
How is the ease of use Though?

If I can set up a flash cart and send it to him that’s much better than walking him through jailbreaks

I would rather spend money than time and the limited patience of a young man who is struggling :)
Violence is almost never a rational choice because it is the last choice. It is a final choice. There are thousands of possible branches still remaining to individuals even if GPTs were to accelerate to GPT-5 and beyond within some months from now.

Even if the majority of work as we know it now becomes automated, that will unlock a universal basic income that elevates all people to the status of being a diligent researcher, scientist, engineer, or college student in training towards one of these directions as everyone gets massively boosted because of ChatGPT and other tools and friends like that coming online. The end result of this boosting is a generous universal basic income that makes ancient the concept of needing to work for a "living."

Instead people will work to continue the next wave of innovation in products and services across all industries, and in commodity extraction and acquisition even from celestial bodies. Mining operations are already being spun up. 3d printed rockets are being tested in flight.

What this means is that momentarily human beings will have entirely new classes of work opportunity that are more badass and interesting than anything before it.

Expect astronaut openings by the millons.
This is covered by

> acting like your credit card is a debit card.
What is consistently lost in the M2 supply talking point is the demand aspect of currency.

One of the reasons why the M2 supply increasing wouldn't directly correlate to inflation has to do with global demand to hold the asset in reserve.

So the argument I don't think is bad, just misguided in the sense that once the global demand for currency reserve is saturated the party is over for increase in supply with out a very direct affect on inflation.
I grew up lower middle-class and for a long time my tech salary kept my mind off such things, which was nice. I wanted to forget about that whole situation.

But I recently stopped buying in corner shops because their prices are usually close to 50% higher than in large supermarkets and with food inflation it makes a difference in my budget.
I believe that my kids will be materially OK but I think that the world will be a worse place for them than the one that I grew up in. Geopolitics, sociopolitics, loneliness, dating, fertility, etc...
> Are hacker news folks creating an AI constitution?

Nonsense, just have the AI generate it.

We, the unpeople, in order to form a more perfect union…
This isn’t the time to politicize this tragedy. And it’s certainly not time to talk about the identical tragedy that earlier this year, or the identical one that happened last year, or the identical one that happened a decade ago, or the identical one that happened…
> It seems these days we're ambivalent toward the production of stuff, or even antagonistic to it in many cases.

I cannot emphasize this enough. Wealthy Western nations have been wealthy for so long that people know how to cut up the pie in different sizes more so than they know how to bake more.
> have assets that improve

The opposite is happening:

Asset values are declining.

Stocks, bonds, property, etc. -- all declining in value.

That's the reality.
Yeah and 90% of startups fail. Again, for a good reason.
We have alignment pins and notches for stability in addition to magnets for holding force on the top row. The bottom row actually latches into place on rails.
Not a ton of new material for me to think over, but did catch this random mention, which is super cool & I didn't know:

> OpenAI made the extraordinary and IMO under-discussed decision to use an open API specification format, where every API provider hosts a text file on their website saying how to use their API. This means even this plugin ecosystem isn’t a walled garden that only the first mover controls. I don’t fully understand why they went this way, but I’m grateful they did.
Yes but maybe shouting about tiktok allows the next conversation to happen. 'TikTok was very bad, but we should be asking ourselves if even american companies should have this much insight into our citizens'.
These companies are saying they are committed to safeguarding user data by spending $X dollars on a privacy project. In reality this is just companies policing themselves. They can always circumvent this in the future and just claim there is a bug with the privacy code. Without any form of legislation or regulatory body from the government there are literally no consequences. Getting grilled on capitol hill is just optics, looks good for the camera. Congress would literally need to spin out something like the SEC but for online privacy, but I dont see that happening.
Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now?
We rebooted the computer of an employee here and somehow the machine automatically flashed a bios update on there. When did this start? Seems like a good way to brick a computer to me. What if the power goes out?
That's mostly replaced by Alma with the CERN repository: https://linux.web.cern.ch/which/
> the unavailability of affordable, healthy ingredients (fruits, vegetables)

That's a complete lie. It's way cheaper to purchase healthy ingredients and cook than to get fast food. It's completely cultural.
Inflation means price increases across all actors in an economy. Large corporations also have to pay higher production costs now. So all these „profits“ are eaten up by the price increases those corporations see, too. I don’t think you have a valid understanding of what a „profit“ really is…
We've developed a new interface and released it publicly on GitHub: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay
Its not average for Europe. Aside from Germany, rest of Europe is at around ~10%.

The UK is being singled out because its not able to import the groceries it used to do before Brexit now - there has been a low yield crop season in most parts of Europe and the domestic demand for groceries has literally exhausted the supply that can be exported. Since the UK is out of the Eu, its not possible to access the Eu domestic supply anymore and it has to wait for what remains for export.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/british-supermarkets-are-rat...

There isnt such a situation like rationing vegetables anywhere else in Europe.
What about by fine-tuning using LoRA? That would introduce new layers and re-arrange the data for additional uses.
Personally I find completions as equally useful as the chat interface and I'm waiting for OpenAI to prioritize economizing and adding plug-ins for gpt3/4 for completions like they have for chat and gpt-3.5-turbo. Being able to rely on Wolfram for accurate completions (through the API) rather than just through chat/chat api would be very cool
> it really wasn't their fault -- it was a quite-bad bug in a very fundamental library.

It's still their fault. When you ship code, you are responsible for how that code behaves regardless of where the code came from.
After tax profit margins for grocery retailers in the US range from 1-3%, some places like Whole Foods approach 5%. Gross margins are higher, but net margins are what determine whether or not you go out of business.
> Where are those people today? Why are they not more vocal?

When you hear talk about the establishment versus populist wings of the GOP, this is what's being referred to.
This is one of the reasons we migrated away. It's pretty easy to go from 20.04 --> 22.04 without having to reinstall your OS.

I have taken long lived machines from 18.04 --> 20.04 --> 22.04. The idea that EL charges money with no in-place upgrade path is madness.
The nasty move is when they reduce the weight of the package but keep the price the same. Meanwhile everyone on PPP loan cash out built their own custom made mansion. And we’re more concerned with paying out millions in reparations. The country deserves to fail if this is how we prioritize our concerns
Any serious production ruby codebase will have either no monkeypatching, or do it in isolated ways using things like refinements - https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.1.0/Refinement.html

The most I've seen it used is for backporting fixes from future Rails versions or other gems that are hard to update - and again it's easy to do this in an organized and clean way

Just because ruby gives you the tools to do stupid things (and every language lets you do stupid things) doesn't mean that you should do them in a real business app
This doesn't come across this way to me at all. They just described what happened. Do you expect them to jump in front of a bus for the library they're using, and beg for forgiveness for not ensuring the widely used libraries they're leveraging are bug free?

There are very few companies that couldn't get caught by this type of bug.
What are you talking about? I hear people criticizing OpenAI for being so closed all the time.
Where should the line be drawn? As a parent of kids in elementary and middle school, I don't want them reading about anything sexually explicit. Maybe in high school but I feel something should be done to evaluate what reading materials are seen by children. We didn't do it with social media, we didn't do it with pornography, and we bear the results of that nonintervention.

What is the best argument for allowing elementary school children to read about sexaul intercourse?
If it was as simple as you say, why didn't we see double-digit inflation in 2021 and 2022 when the money in questions was actually being handed out? There are multiple factors at play here with "money machine goes brrr" being only one of the causes of inflation.
The word you are looking for is neurodivergent. And yes, I absolutely agree. There are things that I would just never say/do as a tech worker.
Why Consumerism Is Good
WeChat is almost entirely used by Chinese people. It doesn't have broad penetration in the US unlike TikTok.