skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From https://semut.io/making-open-source-truly-open.html

> Consider an example of a company with 10,000 employees. If the company uses Slack for $10 per user per month, the company would be shelling out $1.2 Million annually. In theory, the company can use Mattermost (An open source alternative for Slack) and save $1.2 Million annually.

> However, to deploy Mattermost and ensure 24/7 availability, the company will need at least a small team of devops engineers available on call round the clock. The overall cost including the cost of recruiting, replacing and managing combined with various other ancillary costs makes self hosting Mattermost as expensive as a commercial SAAS offering.

I agree, but is your service going to cost less than $10 per user per month? How much do you get? How is the rest split between the contributors of the project?
I am a T1 diabetic, and worked for UnitedHealth Group. During that time they decided to stop paying for my insulin with no substitute for it, in spite of several cheaper substitutes existing. Thank god for Canada mail pharmacies.

No amount of oversight of health insurance is too much. Health insurance companies should be forbidden from owning or otherwise influencing any health care provider (sounds like a RICO thing now that I type it out). Mandatory prison time for CEO's and any other corporate officers if they knew about the offense and failed to notify authorities. Also fines base on gross revenues, at least 10%. Make shareholders pay as well. Also mandatory incarceration of corporate officers while investigations take place.
I suppose Lynx would be something similar. It is a console based web site browser, and as such, no pictures whatsoever are visible.
Exactly! It often does solve those problems when combined with other necessary resources like mental health care and help finding community and meaningful ways to occupy time, like getting a job or going back to school.

Housing first is evidence based too. And cheaper than emergency services. And when done right much more dignified.

Yet here we have this society full of punitive know it all skeptics who don't actually seem care about the evidence quite as much as they care about dominating social structures that help them feel better about their insecurities.
Please try to imagine you are a begginner again.
What does it mean to "know" something, and why does GPT not fit the criteria?
This already happens and its called LeadsOnline. When someone reports something stolen the serial number gets added to it. Pawn shops in most states are required to use it or something similar before they buy an item. eCommerce marketplaces do not have that requirement in most places. LeadsOnline does partner with eBay however.
Use something suffering from acropalypse and claim plausible deniability.
It’s shocking to see so many famous intellectuals like Stallman and Chomsky get this so wrong. It seems like they have preconceptions so strongly held that no amount of hard evidence could convince them otherwise.

GPT-4 deeply understands what it is talking about. I was able to pose it difficult classical physics problems that would be hard for a physics undergrad to solve and it could give correct answers consistently. These are things I made up that are nothing like existing examples. When asked to explain it’s work, or modify it for unusual scenarios, it could do so. I could also get it to invent new terms and concepts to describe the work, and then use those correctly. It even could reason out appropriate simplifying approximations when demands exceeded its calculating abilities. If gpt-4 isn’t really understanding what it is saying, or not intelligent than neither are any humans.
I'd say RMS is right with the implication to not use the term "artificial intelligence" - it groups many different types of systems under one heading, and seems better suited for use as a marketing term rather than in technical discussions.

But I also think it's critically wrong to casually dismiss LLM's as being "not intelligent". This feels like religious-woo thinking that insists there must be something special going on with our minds that exists outside the physical world [0]. While this is possibly true, it's an unscientific null hypothesis - similar to insisting that only you yourself are conscious while everyone else is an NPC.

Rather LLMs and other ML models are just different, on many dimensions. Current ones write better than a high school sophomore. They're often confidently wrong, but so are high school sophomores. The breadth of the topics they know seemingly exceeds any human (so did web search engines a decade ago).

Is it possible to use a current LLM to perform the jobs of many paper-pushing office workers? Probably. Is it possible to take a given LLM instance, as configured for having dialog, and teach it for another "10 years" to get it from HS sophomore to graduate student or skilled tradesperson? Seemingly not.

Ultimately, instead of coarse assertions like "not intelligent" due to not meeting our bar in some aspects, or due to how little working memory it's using answer queries, we need to be be making specific quantitative comparisons to human intelligence rather than trying to pigeonhole the technology with discrete judgements about what "it is" or isn't.

[0] IMO the proper conclusion from the Chinese Room thought experiment is that the understanding exists within the system of rules.
They already worked as nurses elsewhere so they know the subject matter.
You've seen those words in that order in the past? Then pick an example you haven't seen (orange ideas etc)
1. You don't have to know about the existence of such repos

2. You don't have to find a good blog article that works for your specific purpose

3. You can ask for changes to the code like "translate this code to python" "I want to use Azure instead of AWS" "add a database so I can save player scores" etc. and it will both write the code and explain what it did.

4. You can ask for elaboration if you don't understand something, it can describe code or it can further explain written text.

5. It can explain why you're getting an error message after you change something and suggest a way to fix it.

7. If you have a feature you want to add but don't know how you can just ask it and it will show you how to implement the feature and how to integrate it into the existing code.

There's a lot more, too much to list but every one of these is far more useful than just cloning a repo and following an article.
Chat GPT Mac Shortcut
A mac shortcut that allows you to use chat gpt from anywhere using a keyboard shortcut.
But you already have permission to modify the sources? The GPLv2 gives you that permission?

I just don't understand this position -- how dare you modify the sources we expressly gave you permission to modify?
I've found that copying the result of one session to the next can work pretty well (like when you hit token* limits), especially if you have the bot include comments.
I actually think it's probably less academic than Haskell or Racket. It's intended to be a practical language that people build things with. It just has an advanced type system and a small community.
Fit them with transponders and broadcast schedules well in advance of flights. The destination can veto a flight at any time before launch, and have inspectors at the point of launch. In this way, Moscow (etc) could keep arrivals down to a limit that their antiballistic defenses can handle, and ensure that only people-carriers are being put into their airspace. An attacker would be limited to a single kinetic suicide attack before their target goes on high alert.

But I was more curious about the fuel efficiency...
That is indeed the goal, they explicitly want to break compatibility. Their responses on the mailing list even say that. GPL or GTFO.

It's a definitely annoying as a user. OpenZFS is much nicer than BTRFS, but you have to accept that breakage of the kernel devs may cause you issues.
Do you mean tried and failed?
Same reason with ended up with 15 different standards elsewhere: diversity.

We're in uncharted waters and we have no idea which format will be optimal for one LLM let alone all of them. Given how much prompt engineer has become a thing, finding optimal formats is important.
I still feel miles away from trusting AI with my most ad-friendly queries. Things like: where should I eat? Who is a good plumber, etc.

Maybe someone can explain to me how an AI would revolutionize that, it either requires I trust it’s opinions or it does something similar to google: give me a list with stars and reviews and let me make my own choice.

Or maybe people are lazy and in two years our phones will be telling us: “the best movie for you to watch right now is Creed 4, press here to buy a ticket”
nixos-generate-config usually produces a working config out of the box. And if you need to change some obscure config options, everything is well documented with "man configuration.nix"
Fair. Could an auth solution for proxmox not exist? Or Sandstorm/Yunohost run within proxmox?

I remember seeing a Github repo where someone had baked all the proxmox install and maintenance scripts using rockylinux including auth. Much cleaner than I would organically end up at without reinstalling :)
IMO, this is so different from the three previous UNOs that they should have made up a new name for it instead of calling it an UNO.
> Google is held hostage by their current revenue model (ads, ads, ads) and their belief that it can't carry over to AI-based products.

What tells you that Google thinks that ad-based monetization can't carry over to AI-based product?
more explanation how such need or situation arose ?
Decreasing marginal returns though.

We were a bit blown away with 'Siri' - I mean, it could understand what you said, and 'get the weather'.

I think we're going to start feeling the limits of this soon.

It will be pervasive though.
Reminds me always of Mark Twain’s hilarious Plan for improvement of English spelling. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html
> Gamers aren’t going to want to buy this thing unless you can plug it into a PC and have it function as a regular VR headset and the Meta Quest crowd isn’t going to shell out 3 grand.

Maybe Apple has just worked out that they can't build a good VR headset at a level of quality that they are proud of for a sales price of less than £3k with today's technology?

Apple probably isn't going to compete with the Meta Quest, but if their initial goal is just focussed on building the best VR headset on the market (never mind the cost!) rather than to make something price-competitive with Meta, they might achieve that.
Great video indeed. It's very illuminating how gpt works.
Funny "enough", that quote inspired me to write a book called "Enough." as a double meaning for being fed up with the world and also being satisfied with what you have.

I read this story in Jack Bogle's book called "Enough". I had no idea where I came across these other words until now, but I did use them as a intro page in my book because they were so fitting at the time:

Enough — What an eloquent word.

Enough — What a potent word.

Enough — An underused word, maybe.

Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the correction on the expression (I always forget the "love" part)!

As for the rest... Pretty sure I'm following but it's a bit more philosophical than what I'm capable of.

With that said, if you follow the crypto space it's a symptom rather than problem. Just like the lottery many people will outright (essentially) say "crypto is my only chance to get out of my disadvantaged economic position".

It's really quite sad and as much as I bash crypto I have a tremendous amount of empathy for people who feel trapped in their economic situation and desperately play crypto/lottery. I cringe when I see people in the crypto hate/skeptic community cheer when average crypto "users" end up in financial ruin. It's disgusting.

I've told multiple people in the space something to the effect of "If you spent as much time, energy, and resources as you do pumping crypto bullshit on education - learning to code, trades, professional certifications, etc you'd be much better off". Hell - many of the shills pumping crypto could walk into any organization and get a great sales/marketing position. Crypto is truly "MLM for men" and the stats back that up.

The statistics are horrendous and people desperately hoping for another "moon coin" to get that lambo (or whatever) is remarkably similar to playing the lottery or thinking your six year child getting to the NBA/NFL/etc is your ticket out.
This is a bunch of fluff. I am sold on the groundbreaking possibilities of AI but not impressed by this.
are there any books to learn about advanced cpu design with dispatch queues, microop schedulers, etc. the most I could find would cover basics of CPU design, not advanced stuff.
>there probably a ton of services you could build with the right team and right amount of people that could make an even greater impact than Docker on productivity and they would never be built because it would be way too difficult to monetize

There's a big difference between creating value and capturing value. Probably thr biggest single issue with capitalism in general.
I prefer American profits to Russian rockets. Are you seriously trying to equate the two?

Not to mention that the markets are not a zero sum game (unlike war). Both sides can get richer in the process.
This week I created a Microsoft account just to check how they are integrating GPT into Bing, and while they made me believe that I was using a Chat-enabled Bing, it was worthless for me.

I basically wanted to know how I can do raycasting in Three.js, but after a lot of using ChatGPT for trying to solve my issue, I learned that I can't do what I want by using the normal raycaster integrated Three.js: Intersect a geometry which has a displacement map on it.

ChatGPT failed to understand that the raycaster works on the CPU, but the displacement map of the material is applied on the GPU side, so the displaced geometry won't be used, only the original one. It managed to explain this to me, that this was not possible, but each sample code repeatedly did as if it was possible, until I gave up.

Then I created the Microsoft account and started to ask for solutions, and it was the most useless garbage, despite of the web claiming that it is using GPT-4.

In my eyes MS has failed at integrating a chatbot; maybe it's ok for cooking or having fun, I haven't tried that. And OpenAI has nothing else but a chatbot and other nice AI. Let someone better come and OpenAI will be a remarkable entry in the history books (first popular AI application) with a final entry that OpenAI got acquired by Microsoft.

Let's see what Google makes out of it.
Yes, it happens, but for Ukraine, I think you’re concentrating on small media-friendly stories and deemphasizing a larger amount of consensus reality. For example, there’s little argument over where the front lines are and how they’ve changed. There are maps. Sometimes there is temporary confusion when things are changing quickly.
FWIW, this is exactly the sort of 400 IQ chess play Mark Zuckerberg has been playing for the past half-decade, and the one this website has kicked the piss out of him for time immemorial.

So which is it? Is VR a dehumanizing medium with no redeeming qualities, or is it a horizon of content and potential yet to be unlocked? It feels like HN's opinion on it changes every 15 minutes.

Personally, I think VR is a bust. That being said, there is not an ice cube's chance in hell of Apple out-maneuvering Meta here. Zuck will happily pour billions into this spite machine, he already has. On top of that, he has the leverage of a more "open" platform (will Apple give you Root?) and larger install-base. All Zuckerberg needs to 'win' is a cross-platform killer app. If Apple's hardest spin on this is "FaceTime with 3D characters", their product is toast. A cross-platform protocol/experience will become the dominant player, and everyone will gravitate towards the cheapest option.
.. and indeed, that's the real reason I never went to a defense company: it's the stifling culture inside it.
Windows has a Compatibility Mode with is unmatched by any Operating System maker. I've got Windows 10 running Visual FoxPro 3.0 from 1995 and Visual Basic 5. Try that on macOS or any linux system with any application with a GUI from source or binaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_mode
I can Google a cloudformation stack for a lambda and get an answer [0] in about as long as it takes an LLM to generate one. That said, as a programmer I'm not paid to copy from Google or stack overflow, I'm paid to figure out if it's working or not. As an example, ask chatgpt to generate a lambda template with 16GB of memory as Nd see what it does.

Until we see chatgpt figuring out how to fix issues like that, I'm not worried.

[0] https://iamondemand.com/blog/how-to-deploy-your-lambda-funct...
DOS?
Trying to understand your statement. What do HEW and ICE stand for? Google isn’t helping.
The LEDs on these little development boards are typically big sources of current draw too. Like the main CPU can go into deep sleep sipping microamps of power, but the power and other LEDs sit there with a resistor pulling tens of milliamps all the time.
If China manages to reduce its dependency of US based tech like CPUs, I wonder how this will affect the two economies.

Would it be a viable idea to buy shares in China based tech companies now? The thinking is that if CCP pushes something real hard by investing large amounts of resources in it, the chances are higher that they will succeed. Not tomorrow but in 10 or 20 years. Conversely, if US based tech companies will have competition, it is likely that their value will go down a bit at one point.

Also, it's possible that if China builds domestic silicon tech we will see a race to the bottom if they will want to aggressively price their products and try to undercut their competitors. Then it might be a bad idea to own any shares in tech companies, no matter where they are located.
I've had luck with telling it to just rewrite a certain part of the code. You can copy and paste the relevant part and ask it to just rewrite that or you can direct it using natural language, you just have to be specific. If the chat is getting too long you can also copy just the important parts or the code so far into a new chat and start from there.
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As an amateur EE I am looking at Arduino as an entry-level solution for people who want to learn a bit about electronics and have fun getting some results.

Arduino is supposed to be simple and it is a feature, not a bug.

If they start making it more and more complicated, it will just stop being simple and it will stop being what makes it so usable to complete noobs.

There is no shortage of options if you somehow find that Arduino is not powerful enough to you.
I'm guessing this is more about clickbait marketing to spur sales of books, and nothing to do with modern moral standards.

That said, it reminds me of a years ago controversy over some social conservative group selling "family friendly" edits of movies.

"Both sides" do this, hence, much like most headline controversy, why I believe its marketing ruse to sell more stuff
Microplastics and weird chemicals like phthalates?

I've been on a health kick lately and on paper tinned sardines seem excellent. Tons of protein, calcium, omega 3, etc... You can get them packed in water or mustard or tomato sauce or olive oil if you are worried about seed oils (which I am, and lots are packed in sunflower oil). Low mercury.

Too bad that 100 grams of sardines can contain up to 30 milligrams of microplastics! Turns out that the ocean is full of plastic, which plankton eat since microplastics are just the right size for them, then the sardines eat the plankton. And then if you eat sardines... Of course most people aren't getting cancer from eating sardines, but microplastics are absolutely ubiquitous. Sardines are just a great example of a huge concentration of microplastics where you might not expect it. (Oh and don't forget the BPA in the tin's plastic lining! Oh it's BPA free? I guess they used BPC as a plasticizer... there are very few studies about BPC so I guess it must be safe!)

There was a study recently that showed fast foods contained huge amounts of phthalates - the researchers linked it to the plastic gloves that the food workers wear. Which is disgusting - why are we afraid of human skin touching our food? Do you honestly think people replace gloves more readily than they wash their hands?
The article is about “mixed reality” headset, whatever that is.
Actually, LLMs are completely deterministic. Their output is a list of possible word, ordered by probability. If you always choose the highest-ranked word for the next iteration, they will always generate the same sequence for the same prompt.
In all current implementations, a small amount of randomness (called "temperature") is added. In practice, the higher the temperature, the more probable is that a word down the list is selected, rather than the top one.
> TBF, so long as we are arguing from authority, Linus isn't a lawyer either, and has produced heresay ("I talked to some lawyers..."), but no attorney's opinion on the matter.

Yes, that’s essentially a rephrasing of my comment that you replied to.
Presumably the ones up on Project Gutenberg are all untouched: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agatha+Christ...
I think that people aren't giving enough credence to the reason Utah gives for the restrictions: The teen mental health crisis.

Social media has radically changed the social lives of adolescents, and as a result anxiety, depression, self harm, and suicide have all skyrocketed. The data on this is not ambiguous [1].

And there's now a lot of evidence that social media and smartphones are the cause of the crisis: they screw up childhood in a way that has serious health consequences [2].

Time spent in person with friends by 15-24 year olds has dropped from an average of 155 minutes per day in 2003 to an average of 42 min per day in 2019, a drop of 3x [3, figure 4]. How could that not have huge effects on psychological health?

I think these restrictions are a good thing - it's a crude approach and will have some negative consequences, but the scale of the health crisis requires something to be done.

[1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness...

[2] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...

[3] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-new-cdc-report
1) Few worthwhile efforts are ever successful on the first attempt.

2) Failure is just another useful metric. It gives guidance for designing the next attempt.

The most glaring failure on your website is marketing. The landing page is excellent, but I didn't even see that there was additional information lower on the page until I returned later to see if I misjudged your site. The 5 options at the top of the landing page define the organization of the page. The rest of the information below does not relate to that established organization. "As seen in ..." does not be in so prominent a place.

I clicked on the first service you offered and saw absolutely nothing that I considered informative. I was looking for immediately useful information like what topics you covered. In addition, the drop-down banner across the top of the screen obscured the headline, and the incessant flicking of the banner as I tried to read the headline was extremely annoying. Wash and repeat my friend : ) Good luck.
This seems to be targeted specifically at people who are extrinsically motivated and do not prioritize family. In my humble opinion that's the worst quadrant of those two variables. But apparently, with how prescient this seems to most commenters, many people actually inhabit that quadrant. Could that really be so?