skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was platos and the Greeks unironic take. It's telling that we now realize how dumb it is. Just as our children will laugh at how dumb it is to try to ban this AI technology.
Almost everyone here will be fine in a world in which only certain non-renewable scarce resources have any value, combined with impending massive currency deflation. Even a rank and file tier 2/3 engineer will manage to live a princely life in that new reality assuming (s)he saved up enough.

Hardly anyone in the tech community is capable of truly empathizing with the vast majority of people, who are born with none of the advantages that they had (genetic, parental, cultural, geographic, etc).
Don't forget sheer number of people.
Why can't the US throw it's weight around and get "developing nation" status as well. It certainly seems beneficial.
While I don't personally mind banning Tik Toc since I think that it is a drain on our culture and is likely addictive, I do have serious concerns:

Why nothing about US media companies pushing advertising based on data that really should be protected by privacy laws?

Why nothing about the material released from Twitter by Matt Taibi, et. al.? Very concerning stuff for a country talking the talk about democracy.

Why not enforce limits on what kids can watch and for how long, as China does? While I am all for free speech and liberty for adults, I think it is necessary for parents to put some guardrails on their kids.

There is a lot more at stake here: the USA (my country) is struggling to maintain the dollar hegemony, has some severe looming economic problems, and has the same general problems shared by all countries. The USA has been very successful by carrying a big stick and hitting other countries with it. But, what was once a successful strategy is, I think, now a very poor strategy. An Empire like ours should sometimes orchestrate a graceful exit, on terms best for our country. Now when I say best for our country, I mean best for people, and not what is best for Wall Street, Our Military Industrial Complex, etc.
This is the premise of "Two Phones" by Kevin Gates. The lyrics are more or less just paraphrasing this comment.
I caught PoI for the first time during a trip in 2015, when I watched "If-Then-Else", an utterly gripping masterpiece of an episode. That probably spoiled me on the series as I still haven't made it through the first season. But I do know that the Samaritan plot awaits, so I'll get to it eventually.
The apple magic mouse also works just fine with nix and windows machines. It's just a fancy bluetooth mouse. Basically any bluetooth mouse will work, assuming your nix machine has bluetooth hardware that it can connect to.
You were tourists with lots of money.
Soyuz “Globus” analog guidance computer restoration
China also has strict economic requirements for foreign companies too. Foreign companies of specific “strategic industries” are prohibited from operating independently in China and must open up as a joint venture with Chinese domestic companies and have party members on their board.
Agree. Babylon Squared and Chrysalis are two of my top five favorite episodes overall.

It’s hard to put yourself back in an era before pervasive web culture hooking into every fandom. At the time it was very much, “Hey, a darker, grittier Trek on a space station, cool!” And then an episode like B^2 airs: “Holy shit, this show is not what I thought at all.”
>If everything you get paid for goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble.

So… almost everyone who posts here?

Not sure why everyone here is so excited to be out of a job. I guess they all think that UBI will fall out of the sky. I think they’ll be in for a rude awakening.
Okay, I have to ask -- what is a "T shaped person"? I've never heard that phrase and am genuinely curious.
> is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge

It is. But I'm going to go against the grain here and say that timewise it's not worth it (I'm biased as I already knew most of the things I saw in the article while skimming it). I would just watch the Veritasium video and move on with my life. Or go down a wikipedia rabbit hole starting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr.... I appreciate the author's work, but this type of content is not for me. I suspect it's also not for the other self-proclaimed 'nerds' in the comment section, I think people just appreciate the work put into it and the fact that it's not following the style of shallow short SEO driven content you frequently find online. I'm skeptical that even 50% of the people in this comment section actually read all of it.
It's weird when people call the city "SFO". My first thought was, why is it in an airport?
> Imagine a world where

Yes, and let's also imagine all of the existing single-payer systems (de facto or otherwise) work as advertised and didn't have elites-with-means flee to other nations for quality care.

Let's also imagine these systems provide stellar quality care and more importantly, timely care.

We can daydream all we want - but the reality isn't so obvious or absolute.

For those who are really in the know... the US already is a socialized medicine nation. Look at how much of the US annual budget is blown on medical care. Hint... it's larger than the military budget.
It wasn't released on April 1st, close enough though.
I was a bit baffled my Elon Musk's (apparent) signature on this letter, as I thought he still had a connection to Open.ai. Then I did some basic research and realized that this is likely just jealously and frustration from his failed takeover of Open.ai.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654701/openai-elon-musk...
Can't wait to see how long this lasts before Alexa suddenly stops recognizing the launch phrase. For this reason, it may be worthwhile to add a few variants.
What if the bios, drivers, and blobs were source-available? Obviously a true free license is preferable but I can see why commercial vendors are hesitant to allow anybody to make whatever changes they want. From what I understand the GNU project would still reject that on ideological grounds even if it addressed a lot of the theoretical problems (running code where you have no way of knowing what it’s doing)
Repo linked in the second tweet: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
A lot of people are already benefiting from ChatGPT. I know I am, and I am only paying $20 a month for a digital assistant that is expert in everything.
I'm not sure the definition of lockdown, but it appeared effective in Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan.
For the application of search/retrieval, it would be great if you can surface logs and insights into what people are searching for, and even what areas of your data is missing based on searches
I like this. Simply store your data as the filename in 64 byte chunkers. Free unlimited drive space.
You often see these two concepts (target fixation and counter-steer) discussed in threads on steering.

Not denying that target fixation is real and operative in some circumstances ... but counter-steer is even more "basic" in that it is solely a function of two-wheel dynamics, not rider psychology. You really do need to steer slightly right in order to initiate a turn to go left.

See the video linked up-thread.

Here's a page from a motorcycle POV which has a "truck pulls alongside" anecdote similar to your "riding parallel to curb" example: https://www.insurance.harley-davidson.com/the-open-road/tips...
Recently I’ve been having trouble with a few batches of cheap LED lights that were “Amazon’s choice” and advertised as having 23 year lifespan (3 hours per day) that died within 6-12 months.

Amazon tells me I’m outside of the normal 30 day return window, but I’ve just complained and said “If I bought a bulb at Costco advertised as 23 year lifespan that died after only a year I’d return it and they’d refund me, no questions asked.” This usually gets a store credit from the customer service person.

I think Amazon is going to have a huge problem with this because they’ve clearly been selling a lot of low quality merchandise from China (it’s actually marketplace sellers listing the products so quality is a race to the bottom). Because they don’t have any quality checks in their sourcing like other big box retailers do (such as Costco and Target) they just aren’t equipped to handle the inevitable returns and class action lawsuits that are coming their way when the 23 year lifespan LEDs and other product categories fail just outside the return window.
This is an important concept when riding motorcycles at higher speeds. This was taught in the class I took to get my motorcycle license.
What challenges did the restoration process of the Soyuz "Globus" analog guidance computer face, and what can we learn from this project about preserving historical technology?
And it seems you also need to learn how to open links because I am pretty sure those does not lead to "opinions."

EDIT: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html#su...
Right he’s just closing down one of the “public squares” then saying “of course you can talk on these other less popular public squares!”

This is mind boggling that every single person on HN isn’t terrified of this.

Surely most of us were around in the 2000s when the Bush Administration demonized people who spoke against the war? Aren’t we the same people who were railing against censorship then? What HAPPENED to that community I grew up with that wouldn’t put up with censorship, who held free speech as the backbone of democracy? Where are all of those people now?

I have a few hunches, and I’m not sure I’d like to know the answer.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34911811
If TikTok gets banned, we'll finally have a generation that knows how to use a VPN.
Hello, if you are willing to move within the state, take a look at the Northwest Indiana region. For your wife, many of the school systems offer gold-plated health insurance and much higher teacher salaries than the rural systems. For you, there is a commuter train and bus service into Chicago for a tech job. Both IU and Purdue have regional campuses and you should be able to transfer credits.
I don't see how string literals end up in the same category as custom allocators. Maybe you write some very special code which rarely uses strings for anything but needs a lot of custom allocators, the vast majority of programmers, even C++ programmers are very much the opposite.
Aligning ML systems with human intent
My dating life could use that 1 line change too.
Towns? You mean Buenos Aires. Conveniently, real estate transactions are done in USD.
Apple could have had ZFS, which is better than AFS, and also had SPARC which is more promising than Wintel or even ARM for high performance applications.
I've asked the author for a copy of a correct csv or xlsx file, I'll share it if the author responds.

https://imgur.com/a/bTmfDEU
I think this is a function of shows knowing what they want to do early on, but also knowing that there's a really good chance that they'll be unceremoniously axed, so they don't invest up front in longer-term arcs. They get picked up for subsequent seasons, go soap opera, and then just rest-n-vest.
What features does this dashboard provide to help analyze and understand the banking crisis?
That is my point. A barter system works just fine with you only have a few people on a small island producing a small number of good and services.

When you have a large number of goods and services available you need a medium of exchange that has good liquidity.
Yep, the first four seasons were on a little network called PTEN that had four shows. The fifth was on TNT
Well, I guess they're taking privacy to a whole new level – it's so private, even the policy itself is hidden!
The sheer size and population of China?
Stack Overflow is headed for oblivion? What's the downside?
Having worked with developers in both India and Argentina, given the choice I would choose the guys from Buenos Aires every time. It's not just the time zone, the cultural gap is so much smaller.
The signatories will be on the basilisk’s death list for sure.
Rust Is a Scalable Language
This is true today, but will it be true in the future where language models are a common interface between human language (probably voice) and software actions?

When I go to my bank's website, it's easy for me to find my tax forms. They're usually one or two clicks away in some prominent top-level navigation component. But I would rather converse: "Download tax forms"/"Which ones: A, B, or C"/"The first two"/"Here ya go".

And in the future I'd rather say "Hey computer, download my tax forms from my bank and attach them in a draft email to <tax preparer>".

And in the later future that I'd rather say "Hey computer, do my taxes", and it will know what sources to gather info from and how to make sense of the numbers and how to file on my behalf. Or better yet, the machine will anticipate I need my taxes done and will kick off that process and solicit approvals and information from me. (Maybe by then the government will just tell me how much I owe ;))

Power users will likely sometimes find utility in dropping down "close to the metal" -- i.e., pointing and clicking and typing. But power users will mostly be composing workflows of models working together to achieve tasks (the term "scripts" will fit nicely). Yes this will be buggy and error-prone, but there will be glue models papering over the errors and trying different things and waiting for outages until the human user's intent is done.

Language models are giving us another layer of abstraction over software. Perhaps the final layer, as this one can interact directly with language (which is reified thought). This layer has the ability to cope with the inherent ambiguity of thought by being conversational -- it can ask you to clarify what you mean and gain confidence that it understands your intent.
What are the key features and benefits of using MacGPT in macOS? How does it compare to other ChatGPT implementations on different platforms?
I would recommend looking into the work of Professor George Saliba.

He has a bunch of talks on YouTube that I came across recently that I highly recommend, one being: https://youtu.be/JEAfHGBQlkc

For those who understand Arabic, this interview is excellent: https://youtu.be/Sl24jUcidN8

His book on astronomy might be well worth reading as well (I've ordered a copy as well): https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-arabic-astronomy-...
Unless those are also honeypots..
The forced updates are truly outrageous. It particularly irks me since I always chose them over apple for respecting that after a purchase transaction ends, the product is mine, and I need no longer deal with them if I don't care to. And bending over backwards to maintain backwards compatibility. It was an enterprise focus. They have gotten some bad press for the auto updates, so I'm sure they have made a calculated decision to stick with them. And it's hard to blame them looking at how much money they've raked in since this pivot early/mid 2010s.
Citi’s card has a 3% foreign transaction fee though, making it completely unusable abroad. Fidelity also charges 1%.

I’m actually not aware of any 2% card without any catches (Apple’s being that 2% is only for Apple Pay transactions, which is anything but ubiquitous when shopping online.)
QuadPay, Affirm, Apple now, there are SO many schemes going on to entice people who can't actually afford things to buy them with credit and destroy themselves financially. It's very common and your request for data strikes me the same as if you had asked if there's data on whether the Sun shines. It's just so obvious it's mind-boggling to question it.
That may be true but the last three of four women I went on dates with were about my height (5’10) and it’s not something I ever consciously sought out. I do think that’s an outlier considering last time I was single all my dates were shorter than me, but I’d have had much fewer options lately if I had imposed that restriction on myself.

If you are doing it for dating app “elo” purposes that’s more understandable though.
This is such an important topic in the world of AI and ML. Ensuring that our systems align with human intent is crucial for ethical and effective development. Thanks for sharing this resource from Berkeley – it's a great way to keep the conversation going and inspire more research in this area!
Puget Systems is a high-end workstation-focused computer builder.

Its probably not representative of everybody (they don't make any cheap systems), but they are likely a good representation of the $5000+ computers crowd that represents artists / 3d modelers / video editors / sound designers / etc. etc.
Logitech packs those because of endless problems w/ Bluetooth on Windows laptops.

I have two Dell laptops, one of which struggles to work with a Bluetooth headset in the same room, another which can communicate with the same headset throughout a 2200 sq ft house or through 10 walls in an office building.

Never mind problems with drivers on top of that.

If you are selling a premium product with a premium experience you’d best supply some kind of receiver because there is no premium experience with a computer that has subprime Bluetooth.

Those receivers usually look like a USB keyboard, mouse, or audio device and should do fine on Linux or Mac for that matter.
Nice try, Google
AGI is a break-capitalism lottery ticket I'm willing to entertain. If the marginal cost of labor collapses to zero then either we'll get robot police or finally be free to pursue lives of leisure.
If you want to like Windows again try the last verison of Windows 10 LTSC. Its pretty damn amazing. All of the crapware is stripped out and yet it still has the insane backwards compatiblity and ability to be installed on a huge range of devices (very underrated features of Windows). The battery life after installing on my laptop is insane. It boots up insanely fast.

I have to imagine there a bunch of software engineers at Microsoft who have worked their asses off and are proud of what the core of Windows has become but are also super frustrated at all of the BS that is loaded on top in 99% of installs.....
Yes, but again, if you care about accuracy, it's not as easy as "time = fmod(time, 1e6)" or something: take look at any "accurately rounding" implementation of sin(x) (e.g. in gcc) to see weird floating-math tricks used in the range reduction.

Also, it is not always about time, sometimes it is about position in space! Generating an (almost) infinite world is usually done in the "animation" style (using a noise generator or some such) and with rounding/overflow errors you get e.g. Minecraft's so called "Far Lands" [0] — game physics used to break there as well.

[0] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Far_Lands
What are the key features of Open Flamingo, and how does it compare to other frameworks for training multimodal LLMs?
So what is the best general-purpose cashback card according to ChatGPT?
HN is popular with many people adjacent to or interested in, but not practitioners of, tech disciplines. This aside, yes, I know and have known many devout Christians who work in tech. Fewer perhaps than in the general population, but still a good number.
Some of our customers use Jsonnet to generate JSON-based configurations, including Terraform and even Postman collections.

They choose to use it because:

- it allows them to keep things DRY when replicating a configuration artifact across environments

- it is accessible for folks who are not as comfortable with program control flow and other programming constructs. They can start by copying and pasting JSON.

- it provides more advanced control flow and logic features for those who need them

- it provides features for template parameter validation

- it is not that hard to learn

Some things could be improved for sure. Better IDE support, error messages which are not the best. Maybe also a more confident community.

Overall, Jsonnet does seem to hit a pragmatic sweet spot for a bunch of use cases, regardless of the merits of other approaches mentioned in this great discussion!
> Legacy products need to fund themselves

> Windows Server still brings in revenue for licenses, so whatever development on Server that makes its way over to Consumer is probably a subsidy

Windows for desktop brought in almost $25 billion in revenues in 2022, which was more than SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio put together.

https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/
It's literally already here: https://twitter.com/thiteanish/status/1635678053853536256
Incompetent deserves further classification. Are they dragging other people down, or just not meeting the expectations set by their company. But I'd say that in a functional company, this person will be fired eventually. The evaluation process should be designed as to avoid biases and employees assessed based on their contribution and output. In that sense, a jerk could be seen as problematic for the well-being of the team, but being nice isn't going to save you.
From the article:

“They released an early spreadsheet tool called Multiple [sic] in 1982. But Lotus 1-2-3 was the first killer application for the PC.”
> Because of productivity gains humans will work very little, and yet live comfortably.

Wouldn't this imply humans should already be working very little compared to pre industrial revolution? Instead it seems we work more [1]. And with less fulfilling work.
I agree however that we have may have more stuff (or wealth).

So going by this projection, in the future we'll have even more stuff, and work even more in even less fulfilling work.
That is, assuming the people who control the AI/robots are willing to share the wealth generated.

[1]: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
I appreciate the perspective presented in the article, but I respectfully disagree with the notion that outsourcing jobs to functional containers is an entirely positive development.

While it's true that this approach can provide significant benefits in terms of cost savings and scalability, there are potential downsides that need to be considered. For example, the reliance on external infrastructure could lead to vendor lock-in, making it difficult to switch providers or move back to an in-house solution if needed. Additionally, there might be concerns about data privacy and security when dealing with sensitive information in a cloud-based environment.

Moreover, this shift towards functional containers could also impact the job market, potentially leading to job losses for those who specialize in traditional infrastructure management. It's important to consider the broader implications of this trend and strive for a balanced approach that takes into account both the advantages and potential drawbacks.

Would you agree that there are certain risks associated with relying heavily on functional containers? And if so, how do you think companies can mitigate these risks while still reaping the benefits of this technology?
"HuggingFace" might be the worst name I've ever heard of for an organization.
If you were to eliminate 10% of jobs with no replacements available, in the span of say a year, that would likely be a civilization ending development. People unable to feed their families tend to take drastic actions.
i have a new junior on my team who might fall into this.

he’s also fresh out of undergrad, so i think he’ll get the mentorship and runway approach.
Perhaps the calculation is how much they anticipate you contributing to the local economy. They’re not doing this for altruistic reasons.
The Future of Payments is... Red?
I really do hate is MSFT's naming conventions AND their propensity for calling two different products by the same name for marketing reasons.

I mean Microsoft Word, the word processing tool that runs as a native app on one's computer. The degree to which the online or Teams versions do not play nice with the "real" one is a HUGE own-goal by MSFT and reason enough to avoid them if you can. If you're going to have an online tool called Word, it damn well needs to work EXACTLY LIKE THE REAL VERSION.