skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Dropbox has not disabled your downloads, can't you host it yourself?
Biggest release of MRSK since its premiere
I used the original vMac! I had a Mac SE that I tried to pull the rom from. I ended up having to find a rom from "the internet". It was the holy grail at that point in my life. I had the demo version of Excecutor (from ARDI - a clean room reimplementation of the Mac ROM/OS). A year or so later, I had Shapeshifter running INSIDE WinUAE (the Amiga Emulator) I was able to procure a ROM from a Macintosh Quadra. Man.... such good old days!
Not sure what you mean, current macOS uses light gray for UX backgrounds, no stark white at all.

Except for content areas like your document or the Finder content, but those have always been 100% white.

Or are you talking about a different OS?
> how our brain sometimes tricks us into thinking we know something even though we don’t

The way I try to avoid this is to remind myself that knowing the name of something is not knowing about something, only about the existence of that something.

There are lots of things I know the names of, but relatively few things I actually know about.

The classic example is asking people to describe the process that causes the phases of the moon. Most (myself included the first time) describe an eclipse, which is wrong.
How does it compare to github copilot ?
> pasting code snippets is not transferring business data.

It literally is exactly that. You don't think the code a business creates is "business data"?
> I highly recommend that everyone evaluates
Agreed I think the vast majority of people want to be in their weird niches on Twitter. I follow space news, but I sadly get sucked into whatever clickbait bull I end up glancing at.
I'm pretty sure the US Navy will park on the far side of Taiwan and attack stuff outside line of sight. Missiles and air force attacks I can see. Those Patrol boats will be barely different than land-based missile launch platforms.

> supported by the largest Airforce in the world (China has a lot of airplanes)

The US Navy has more aircraft than the Chinese Air Force does. The US Air Force has like 4 times as many, and can stage a good chunk of them over the Straight as well.

South Korea and Japan combined have about as many planes as China, and I have no idea if they (or India) get involved.

But yeah, I have no idea what happens if it stays conventional, and I have no idea how likely it is that it stays conventional (and obviously WMDs mean no one knows what happens). Given the number of fast options (e.g. missiles) to sink ships, I imagine we'll know who will win the fight quickly, but it might take months to actually slog it out.
Here is the Regulation in question:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2022...

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

Its full name is the: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse
I see where you are coming from, but the new ui is more appealing to the typical user.

That being said, the "old school" reddit users (probably includes you, me, and many people on hacker news) would still prefer the old ui.

This stuff has been A/B tested - these changes do not tend to be arbitrary.
I don’t follow your reply. Are you suggesting LGBT individuals are safe in the US?

There are many places where they are not safe. The US isn’t some capitalist utopia. We are barely hanging on as a society.
Solar’s Future Is Insanely Cheap (2020) – Ramez Naam
> It’s just they are outnumbered 1000:1 by some of the worst engineers I’ve encountered.

That's because a lot of the Indian consulting firms will take pretty much anyone off the street, put them through a 1-week "boot camp", and throw them at a project with the title of Senior Engineer*. As you said, there are plenty of talented engineers, but they're obscured by the sea of warm bodies whose only function is to put billable hours on an invoice.

* I haven't seen this firsthand, but it's what I've been told by Americans who have done management stints out there. It certainly seems consistent with the quality of work from some of the cheap job shops.
Sorry, always think of India & Pakistan as different because they were occupied territories as opposed to colonies populated by British & European immigrants.
The Fidelity card really is a great general purpose low maintenance card. Plus, if your default cash position is SPAXX, it's currently earning 4.4% interest which isn't too shabby.
When something is going to make billions and billions of money, all problems become solvable in absence of a theoretical constraint. They could always train only on cutoff date data with bigger models or better algorithms. I don't think a decline in quality is going to happen. Worst case we will just see low improvements.
the EU is a political organization so , yes? having an opinion is allowed , but like i said there is no way to express it somehow. In fact i usually learn about EU regulations affecting my business from hacker news
Looks like Dropbox has rate-limited your download link
> right after upgrading my Mac Plus to 4MB of RAM

Sure, lord it over the rest of us plebs
Planetscale[1] is MySQL that is automatically sharded and proxied with a system called Vitess to scale horizontally. Because it's real MySQL, most functionality still works without the operations overhead.

Neon[2] is Postgres that has a surgically enhanced data layer that reads from a distributed set of nodes and object storage, but is still a single Postgres instance that's started and stopped on-demand and not automatically sharded. Because it's real Postgres, all functionality works including extensions without dealing with issues from sharded datasets, but also without the horizontally scalability and instant start (so far). However because the data layer is improved, the actual compute node is much more efficient in both startup and processing so it works well in many scenarios.

CockroachDB[3] is a proprietary distributed database built to Postgres wire/data protocol with natively separated storage and compute. Their serverless plan also starts and stops instances as traffic comes in but with fast startup because of their specific architecture. Because it's not real Postgres though, there's a good bit of missing functionality.

There's also TiDB[4] from PingCap which is similar to a MySQL version of CockroachDB, and Yugabyte[5] which is somewhat like Neon but with both distributed compute and data layers also using real Postgres components - however neither has a serverless offering.

1. https://planetscale.com/ 2. https://neon.tech/ 3. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ 4. https://www.pingcap.com/tidb/ 5. https://www.yugabyte.com/
Violation of the Foreign corrupt practices act carries a prison sentence up to 5 years and $100k of fines. This is not Sam's year.
Found a 1998 Alias|Wavefront video showing an evolution of this concept (starting from a 1990 design according to the intro) - in 6DOF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8VbxyQ8Yc
Perhaps you’re in a different segment of an A/B test, but the only display-related options there are dark mode, or requesting the desktop site.
These scenarios get me thinking, how well could an AGI disguise itself as a corporation? Could they start out as a small business working fully remote running some kind of SaaS and scale over a believable timeline? Once they had secured their brand and income would it be possible for them to contract all of the physical work they needed done? One might expect the physical presence of a person in many cases to sign papers or inspect a job site but they could be employees hired by “management” that they never met in person.
A beautiful dream!

> I like to think
(right now please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
Sure, it is very easy and convenient to allow dissent only when it offers no risk. But if there were a chance for them to became popular, then FBI would restart the pogroms from McCarthyist era. There are still Black Panther members jailed and kept in solitary confinement because authorities are afraid that they could talk with other inmates and convince them of their ideology.
Anyone want to take bets at how long before Zuckerberg does the same with Facebook and Instagram? My money is by the end of the year Meta will be announcing something similar.
I'm assuming you're not talking about Global Youth Impact, so what does GYI mean here? Online dictionaries are not helping.
The most important is carbon wheels. Lowering the weight of the wheels makes it easier to turn them, especially uphill.
> Here's what it means to understand how something works. If you can accurately predict what _change_ you need to make to its workings in order to achieve a desired _change_ in the resulting behaviour, then you know how it works. The more reliably and precisely you can predict the impact of various changes, the better your understanding.

For example, one might decide that you don't want your chat engine to return pornography. So you train your model to reject inappropriate requests.

They did that.

I'm not sure why you think that what you're saying doesn't apply to LLMs.

> I don't think you can show me that kind of understanding of large language models.

See above.

> Which is to say, I don't think you can accurately predict what changes you need to make to the internal structure of an LLM to cause specific changes to the interesting high-level ("emergent") behaviours that people are seeing.

What emergent behaviors?

There's literally nothing I've seen any of these LLMs do that I would not expect from the inputs and design of the system. The behaviors aren't "emergent", they're exactly what we'd expect.
What do you mean by "options". Was there an active negotiating going on at this time (maybe?)
Good.

The "loss of common culture" that Hawley laments is everybody doing things his way. The things that have made America rich are always innovation, doing things in new ways. Not just in science and technology, but also in culture.

The "values" of living in the 1950s are not going to make us rich the way the 1950s did. Today we have a lot more people able to think in ways Hawley can't dream of, and doesn't want to dream of.
> China has limited interest or means to harm me.

Source? They are a totalitarian government that considers the US it's #1 enemy, and has its sights on a military invasion of a peaceful democratic nation and ally in a 2-5 year horizon.
So, how is that Russian economy doing now? From sources not controlled by the Kremlin?
This is more common than the opposite.

I’m reminded of that recent embarrassing display of US government where the TikTok CEO was peppered with the kinds of questions that betray the fact that the congresscritter doesn’t comprehend the topic.

If they wanted real answers they’d say, “I yield my time to this SME I brought in.” But they’re just there to look tough on whatever.
Is there even a way for an average knowledge worker to keep up?
Like you shouldn’t be able to change a products category from clothing to electronics for instance in my opinion. Same with similar changes.

Small changes should be fine in my opinion also it’s not like it’s impossible to also determine the edit distance between two pieces of text.

Amazon could be doing a lot more here.
Fiat is created through loans, in other words, people contractually obligate themselves to accept the currency as payment and they implicitly agree to a certain price level. This means that the price level ends up very stable because there is predictable demand for fiat and people can't just dump it like a hot potato immediately.

With cryptocurrencies there is hardly anyone that uses it for payments or loans. People mostly speculate with it. If people suddenly think it is worth much less then it will have a sudden change in its price level. Worst case, it can go to zero in a day.

Creating money without loans is a bad idea because it makes it much easier to have high inflation as there is no mechanism to take the money back.
>GPL...prevents meaningful academic and commercial use

WTF are you talking about?
Lucky? All of my computers can launch Firefox within seconds, not minutes. That includes one from more than a decade ago. Have you installed Firefox on a spinning hard drive instead of an SSD?
I'm sorry but I find this take to be absurd. Across every metric GPT3 was a massive update past GPT2 and GPT4 soundly beats GPT3 by similar margins. Beyond OpenAI, AlphaGo was a massive milestone, people thought it would take decades until AI go was at GM levels, AlphaZero blitzed AlphaGo and MuZero blitzes both of them. AlphaFold was also a massive breakthough in protein folding.

Idk what your "PhD" was in but everyone I know in the field is struggling to keep up with the pace of research so unless you are working on "Expert Systems" and trying to convince everyone that the past 10 years of DNN progress has been irrelevant I don't understand how you can have this point of view.
>I don't understand how this isn't a derivative work of the original code

The original code is Apache 2 licensed. Derivatives are fine and allowed. This retains the same Apache 2 license as Facebook's code.

It's only the model that isn't covered by that permissive Apache 2 license. A model produced by a derivative of the permissively licensed code, or even by the original code itself, is not a derivative or the original non-permissively licensed model produced by the original code and is non-infringing even if it is a bit-perfect replica.

> Doesn't the original FB license also apply to the weights?

Again, there are different licenses for the code and the model and neither license actually applies to the weights within the model only the actual exact model. If this project produced a bit-for-bit replica of Facebook's model it would still not infringe on that model's license.

But it doesn't produce a bit-for-bit replica. Even if Facebook were to re-run their same training code on their same hardware would they could not produce the exact same weights as before since massively parallel matrix multiplications are not deterministic. Benign environmental noise like microscopic fluctuations in temperature make a difference in the outcome.
I am delighted to hear China is not belicose. Spread the word. Seems like not many people know this.
“Directory” not “Directing”
Most people don’t though. In England it’s 68% of homes that either have or have potential for off street parking

https://www.racfoundation.org/research/mobility/still-standi...
I don’t see any facts coming from you, either.
I've had similar thoughts, this development is completely disenheartening to me. I love computer science, self studying and the programming-as-solving-a-puzzle kind of occupation.

It looks like the most interesting part of programming (for me) has been automated, while the parts I hate remain (at least for now?): gathering requirements, talking to people, understanding business, etc.

I hoped to earn enough money through commercial programming to live off it, and switch to programming languages/compilers and work in that area for small money but big fun.

It seems neither of these things are going to happen, and for technology/logic aligned people that are mediocre in their performance, and don't like working with people, the only place to go is trades. Maybe I'll still have a "programming" job, as an intermediary between AI and product people, but I feel the competition is not gonna be in my favor.

If AI truly replaces all creative work, maybe a good way to go would be acknowledging your inferiority towards a superior species, buy some land in the country and try living a quiet life off the farming?
This looks great but as someone who has been doing lots of Spark lately, I feel like this will further worsen the development process.

The problem with Spark is that there's a lot of magic that happens underneath and being able to debug and figure out issues is pretty hairy. If we put this on top then there are 2 levels of magic that we will have to go through to figure out what is going on.

I wish someone works on this aspect.
So much for a bright future for democracies. Sounds like the US version of the Great Firewall... horseshoe at work.

I'll add to this that the superior, enlightened HN attitude of "tech solves everything" naive optimism really pisses me off because of developments like this. Previous rebellions against tyranny were successful because there were gaps in information, to know where people were, who they were with, what they were discussing, and what resources they had at their command. Computing technology has been building to this complete asymmetry of power for decades, far outstripping the pace of our governance and morals, and only complete idiots and fools would have failed to see that this is the outcome. You thought you were safe from literal 1984 despite any memes about it because it had been written as a cautionary tale? I'd hazard that more people on this site than a site like reddit helped to bring it into existence.
I run a SaaS that makes between $1000-$2000/yr on a $5 VM. My operations are as follows:

On the VM:

- Nodejs + React SSR

- Nginx

- Certbot to manage my SSL cert

- Integrated with Grafana's cloud service (free tier)

Outside of the VM:

- Managed MongoDB cluster

- API health check's every 3 min with email alerts (I use multiple uptime services to check from different regions)
- DB backup cron jobs, backups are stored in 2 cloud providers

- Service desk for customer's to send queries/raise issues

- Alerts if CPU/RAM usage is too high (never got an alert for the past 2 years)

I also nuke the VM once a year and re-provision otherwise you have to maintain the OS, do cleanup etc.

Future work:

- Find way to backup my DNS records

- Probably need to monitor the SSL cert expiration in case certbot breaks

- CI/CD
Maybe they don't want to remote workers? They make hard to get visas and discourage working on a tourist visa?
How much money do we think Substack lost last year?
>What specific promise are you referring to?

>1st and 4th amendment rights

Read the RESTRICT Act and tell me you honestly believe it isn't vague enough to be abused.
> It’s a hard job and entirely thankless, and I always feel tremendous empathy and sympathy for folks in the recruiter role.

Every job has good and bad things about it, and I'd acknowledge that there's some really bad aspects to recruiting such as the following:

> Having to give people bad news frequently is emotionally draining to them sometimes.

> I'm sure it gets quite monotonous to round up a bunch of candidates for any role. You probably have to call a lot of people and have the same conversations over and over and over again, day in and out.

> Being among the first in line for layoffs in bad times sucks.

> I'm sure some client demands they get are unreasonable. There are companies that want to immediately find somebody who takes 50% of the average developer salary who has the technical experience of an entire IT department in 1 person.

That said, recruiters can get a pretty favorable overall path in life: for a small fraction of the mental effort of a developer, you can get a fairly large percentage of their salary without having any notable skills other than a few general skills such as being able to organize sending emails and maintaining appointments on a calendar.
I think implying that GPL is not "fully open source" is a hot take. It's specifically designed to ensure you and anyone you distribute your code gets the same freedoms. Maybe you don't agree that it's a good license but that is its intention. GPL vs BSD-type licenses I guess is decades long argument by now.

Maybe I'm a naive idealist but IMO the GPL-family of licenses are underrated. You can use them to make sure you don't work for free for someone who won't share their improvements.

I liked the choice of AGPL for AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion web UI. (https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui)

Commercial interests are very allergic to AGPL which ensures the project stays community-run and new features and fixes will prioritize the most ordinary user doing things for fun.
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

How is it possible that they can even propose this act that clearly violates the first amendment?
Certainly we can imagine all those different scenarios, but I don't find them as insightful as a personal anecdote.
Louisiana has a civil law system, subject to the Federal Constitution.
I really doubt you understand LLMs at all if you think all they are good for is summarization. You will be shouting at your wall while the world changes outside.
Langchain or just feed it what it generates manually. I particularly like the ai-as-ceo publicity stunts or attempts at hooking it up to a bug tracker to manage the work and then execute it… no links on mobile but should be easy to google
And it turns out that the really valuable part (the ability to converse) doesn't even need that much data. That has been the most surprising part to me.
Classicals are a bit like different bands playing covers for a song.
I feel like catching the dumb ones is like using antibiotics. The smarter survivors share information and procreate (forums etc.).
Hopefully it's not just on paper :) There are a lot of rough edges still, but we hope to iron them out as quickly as we can.

One of our core design principles for Cody is to make it "unmagic". Like, the AI is magic enough, but the rest of what we're doing in terms of orchestrating the LLMs in combination with various other data sources and backends should be clear and transparent to the user. This allows for greater understandability and steerability (e.g., if Cody infers the wrong context, maybe you can just tell it the file it should be reading and then regenerate the answer).

Copilot is a great tool, and Oege de Moor, Alex Graveley, and the whole GitHub Next team deserve huge credit for shipping it. That being said, I really want the standard AI coding assistant to be open, and there's been a ton of innovation in LLMs since Copilot's initial launch that doesn't seem to have been rolled in yet. I think this is a case where being open means we can accelerate the pace of innovation.
> the democratization and commodification of powerful technology accessible and affordable to the public

Empowering everyone equally, very low barrier of entry. The spread of AI will make some skills become less important and other skills more important. There will be painful social changes. Memorising stuff, being exact, being careful, diligent - all these things can be done by LLM. But also creative recombination of ideas. For now we still hold supremacy in long form content, complex software projects and detecting inconsistencies, but they could be emergent qualities in GPT-5.
I'd be happy if they understood what's written in their GDPR bill passed 7 years ago.
Money having intrinsic value is nonsense. Money is like a spread sheet. It's net worth is zero.
The value you derive from the spread sheet is that it lets you organize your business or economy.
That's what it seems like: Usenet built on Git instead of NNTP, which was, itself, a reinvention of Usenet built on UUCP.
As a general rule of thumb, if I've seen a URL shared on 4chan, I assume it's either a honeypot or a service people will judge me for associating with. I also avoid clicking such a URL because it's the kind of place I'd expect to find a zero day WebKit exploit.
Boring architectures already exist. Why reimplement what's already done?
This reads more like getting a language model to write a fanfiction about itself rather than jumpstarting any kind of self-preserving instinct, let alone self-perception.