skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really wild. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting seeing a bunch of huge Chinese Bug Tech companies starting to "standardize".

Right now this feels more like an idea than a full built out spec. It's quite a grab bag of concerns. It feels like there's a ton of relevant specs they could have drawn from like Web Bundles, rather than loosely declaring vague intent to build yet another packaging system as a part of this mega-multi-spec. At least we some logical extensions: they use the existing Web App Manifest work as a basis, and throw a ton in top, which could be worse.

Overall I'm still really confused what this really represents. There's such a weird new UI paradigm, married to new bundling, with new linking, and a new life cycle... And more. It doesn't feel web. It looks like a native app toolkit that loosely references the web.

I don't think it will have any of the charitable rfc8890 "the Internet is for end user" benefits of the current web. It feels like it takes & I can't see advantages over what we have. Distribute some Custom Elements on your proprietary platform, if that's what you want, which seems to be the case. Don't build an entirely parallel non-web system, gross.

Split it up! I'd love to have a new widget spec! Widgets rocked! But this macro framework feels bad. It feels so native-platform like, such a large unit, which isn't how the web won.
Many Rust users are on platforms that apt does not support.
Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Running
Is this Twitter where janitors get fired because they don't add "business value" and we have to all bring our own toilet paper?

Maybe there's something wrong with this concept of business value then. There's more to it than just a feature = $x. Can you add a new window to your house just by adding $x?
Permanent standard time is different than permanent savings time. But both are better than switching.
Is there an equivalent to Nvidia-Docker for ROCm to make it brain dead easy? Where does the complexity come in for AMD GPUs?
Home warranties were fairly common when purchasing. They are meant to cover things you don't find right away during the inspection. Unfortunately market forces, especially lately, have made these less available for purchasers as competition for houses is too high.
In a word: yes! That I know of, Guix, Nix, and Luet are the only ones with whole, bootable Linux distros built on top of them so that the 'package manager' also does configuration management in some form. (IIRC, Luet is more traditional here, it manages config files only state fully and partially, using hooks and triggers.) The operating systems built on them are GuixSD, NixOS, and MoccacinoOS, respectively. I'm not sure what the status of MoccacinoOS is, but GuixSD and NixOS are very usable and very worth checking out.

Distri is a system-wide package manager, but its distro is a PoC. It has a small package collection and no users, last I checked. But it has some cool innovations and it's very fast, so if you want to play with building a distro on a next-gen package manager, it seems great!

I think Denxi could be used to build an OS in a similar way as Nix, but I'm not aware of any such effort currently. The same is true of Spack.

Haiku and RedoxOS have some fancy Nix-like package management features as well, in terms of rollbacks and multiple versions of transitive dependencies playing nice together on the same system, and maybe in some other ways, too.
> The hidden agenda does seem to be keeping Mormon youth from encountering materials critical of LDS church truth claims.

This is a common claim of online commenters that seem to have no first hand experience with the LDS faith. There is no effort within the church to keep members from reading things critical of it. It's not anything anyone ever brings up.

In recent years there have been efforts related to the slight increase in membership withdrawal, but those efforts have been publishing books (Saints) and articles (Gospel Topics Essays) that directly confront some of these topics that those leaving the faith feel were kept from them.

This was a somewhat defensible opinion a couple decades ago, but it's pretty laughable today.
Completely wrong, I enjoy turning wood on a lathe, this has been automated before a million times over, I still think it’s super fun. Logically it’s pretty easy to see that automating something is mostly about convenience and money.

Anyway if it gets boring you can use whatever supernatural, powers your describing to create you something interesting to do.

Children who do finger paintings are doing it for fun and for fun only. There are much more experienced artists then them, but it has nothing to with that. It’s to experience life that is what makes it worth living.

I like building a fire in the woods, sitting around it and drinking tea. That’s been done a few times before, it’s still something I hope to do into the future.

I actually think we’ve all gone a little mad ?
The question is simple. Would it be beautiful for you to see people banning US athletes? At this point, I think it would, for many people. Why don't we see it anywhere? That's the question.

I think for the same reason this happens:

https://www.france24.com/en/20180910-usa-trump-threatens-arr...

I think that speaks for itself. What is the year when it became "not ok to invade, occupy and bomb other countries that present no threat to you and are not even within 1000 miles of you"? Because that's kind of the thing that matters, right? You mentioned 1930. Since then, USA has been involved in 80% of the wars, and has 800 bases around the world while the rest of the world combined has 30. Who needs "conquest" when you can intimidate everyone into doing what you want?

Do you not see the issue here? It's simple ... if we all suddenly grew a conscience, great! So will you join people in calling for sanctions on USA and ostracism of US athletes? Can you link us to a post about that? Here is Mehdi Hassan doing it -- will you?

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1520952450286755841?l...

And if not -- the real question is why not and why do you feel strongly in one case but not the other?
If it slows the American descent into a low trust society without functional goods and spaces not destroyed by anti social freaks, then great
https://web.archive.org/web/20230327021634/https://www.bloom...
What you see is the pyramid becoming even more obtuse.
Uber Eats' Swapped Order Problem
Reason is simple. Back in the day the founders – armed with majority voting power and "fuck you" money in the bank – were in charge at these companies. Now it is the standard board-approved bean counting Harvard MBA CEO who has no choice but to buckle under investor pressure or risk getting fired.
So, really, all we need then is a language sufficiently precise enough to specify what a program needs to do and we can then feed it into a program which can write software that implements that specification, possibly adopting safe transformations of it into equivalent forms.

Now, that safely describes a modern, optimizing C compiler.....
Fast and fun but dangerous and unforgiving if we don't anticipate potential dangers? :)
Well the sdk is written in Python so the rust option has a bit of an advantage there
You cannot prove anything either way so that's also a moot point. If someone can prove you wrong on it they should do the estimate and if they can't then anything works.

We're all in the world of microservices in large orgs that don't talk to each other. Who knows what will be impacted...
What's a "cope"? It's an intransitive verb, not a noun last I checked.

I don't understand how the universe of all possible ideas other than learned helplessness are somehow rationalizations.

Perhaps there was sanity in thought of diagnosis, but murderous insanity in the prescription of the Ted the Unabomber.

I don't see how the ultra rich, monopolizing technology and the means of production, will ever willingly part with coin except to throw some crumbs to stave off imminent overthrow. If every billionaire is a policy failure, then, in the system of government and commerce controlled as such by billionaires, there can be no lasting or meaningful reform from the ballot or from within.

This means massive, nonviolent revolution to reset the political and economic operating systems is the necessary path forward. It is not the only possible path because people may choose to be meek, apathetic, cowardly, or blame themselves.

It's something we must do if we don't want to careen off a cliff like Will E Coyote before looking down that the Earth's fragile ecosystem is permanently destroyed and the vast majority of humanity except a lucky few are destined to live in favellas.
I agree there is a connection between ChatGPT, god and atheists but I don't think it's the one you point out. The commonality "general intelligence" and "god" share is there is no agreed definition of either.

Science has forced a steady retreat in the number of things that can be attributed to god. But that shouldn't worry theists, because Godel's incomplete theorem means there are some things we will can never understand in a finite series of steps, so there will always be room for god. God explains the "rest". I suspect the "rest" is infinite, so that leaves a lot of room for god.

Whether LLM's are intelligent or sentient falls into the same category. As intelligent and sentient don't have a formal definition you can always change their definitions, and that's exactly what seems to be happening. A task is put up as "only humans can do this" (like the Turing test, or a captcha) then it's solved, then the goal posts are moved. Again, because of Godel's theorem I can say with certainty this is a game we can continue to play forever.

I debated on the atheists "team" in forums for a decade or two before it dawned I was effectively arguing about how many angles will fit onto the head of a pin. It's a peculiar game. Godel's theorem effectively says there is a no finitely sized rule that can describe a system of infinite states. As we are finite it's possible (in theory) we could one day find a rule that can predict every situation we could see, which means in the "atheists vs theists" game we win every battle because we've explained (or predict even) everything we experience. But the universe is infinite, so while we can explain everything we've experienced we can't explain everything there is. So we can win every battle - but still never disprove god because we can never experience everything. Thus we lose the war.

In other words I lost the "there is no god" debate. But it wasn't because I now think there is no god. It's because I realised I could never prove it, which to me is the same as losing it. The situation is exactly the same with "AI's are intelligent" debate, which makes it's just as pointless.
Tumbler is a giant mental health issue enabling echo chamber.

Some doctors could probably make an entire career out of trying to fix that place.
This is probably to the wrong crowd, but Why are orthodox religious people adamant on doing God's way? I mean if you believe everything is part of God's plan why can't you just accept the change of lifestyle over decades of human development. Humans built religion, religions didn't make humans.
What's so weird about that (not surprising because lawmakers/politics) is that A100s are actually terrible at inference. Assuming the model can fit in RAM my 3090 handily beats them across the board at everything I've tried. My 4090 blows them away. So by the most commonly accepted definition of "performance" the GPUs banned in China are actually /lower/ performance. The only thing this ban does is slow down from scratch training of very large models.

There's a lot of effort on finetuning these large models on < 80GB VRAM hardware but significantly more effort on "running" them on < 24GB VRAM hardware (3090/4090 and lower).

In the end your point stands - between any efforts by those impacted by sanctions or just the hobbyist/low-mid range commercial applications research into cramming these huge models into "consumer" hardware are accelerating dramatically.
> I enjoy turning would on a lathe, this has been automated before a million times over, I still think it’s super fun.

Because it's what you enjoy doing. What if I don't enjoy turning wood on a lathe and just want the end product? I ultimately get someone else to do it for me, because I don't want to, and would rather just have the part immediately. I see people talking lately about the possibilities of generating TV shows or similar. When a never-ending stream of truly novel content is available, will the majority of people really trend towards doing other things themselves instead? Will they even discover those things in the first place? Look at how people talk about their kids and their interactions with YouTube, TikTok, ...
I've always thought of SSH host certificates as somewhat of an abomination and maybe I am in the minority because the better solution was always about making SSH speak x509 properly

https://roumenpetrov.info/secsh/index.html

Roumen has been regularly updating this for a pretty long time now.
I think it is time to move from intelligent systems to conscious systems. Based on [1] in order to have more intelligent systems we do need sensory as the slides state but we also need other things like attention, memory, etc. So we can have intelligent systems that can have a model of the world and make plans and more complex actions (see [2,3]). Maybe not so big models as today's Language Models. I know the slides show some of the ideas, but we cannot add some things without adding other things first. For example we need some kind of memory (long and short term) in order to do planning, adding a prediction function for measuring the cost of an action is a way of doing planning but it have a lot of drawbacks (as loops because the agent does not remember past steps, or what happened just before). Also a self representation is needed to know how the agent takes part in the plan, or a representation of other entity if it is that one who executes the plan.

[1] https://www.conscious-robots.com/papers/Arrabales_ALAMAS_ALA...

[2] https://www.conscious-robots.com/consscale/level_tables.html...

[3] https://www.conscious-robots.com/papers/Arrabales_PhD_web.pd...
> So if sitting justices decided

What I am saying is that on speech stuff specifically, the courts have done a great job, and that this speech stuff has been discussed for centuries, in the court system.

So, it is not because a judge says something, that makes it ok.

Instead, the causation is reversed.

People have been doing this 1st amendment thing for centuries, addressing all the crazy hypotheticals that you bring up.

And because of that, they've mostly gotten to a good place.
Eventually you make robots that can maintain other robots who can maintain the maintaining robots.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. The only way to stop a bad 6-year-old with a gun is to have another good 6-year-old with a gun. ALL NONSENSE!
The physical labour jobs will be solved “soon” after AGI, as robotics is mostly a software/ai/perception problem. Yes, currently robotics hardware kind of sucks, but it sucks because of a lack of investment due to a lack of software. If there were suddenly ~$100B going into robotics like there is going into AI, then many of those hardware issues would be solved very quickly. Especially if you have an AGI hive mind to throw at the problem.
SDET, SWE and QA are completely different roles so of course they have different comp. Twitch's comp seems very similar to Amazon's for SWEs though: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Twitch&track=Software....

> Sites like what you share are often going to be representative of the upper band of the salary range since that's who self-reports

Many people have corroborated that levels.fyi is accurate for large tech companies like Amazon and Google. It's accurate for my company as well.

If FAANG comp is middle class, at what point does it become upper middle/upper class? I believe ~$500k is 1% income in the US. Some SWEs who are "workers" break that. Is someone who has top 1% income really middle class?

A lot of SWEs also receive equity compensation (I.e. ownership), which is very much not a middle class phenomenon.
>Chess is fundamentally a different kind of problem.

irrelevant.

my whole world view changed when I read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

now pair that with a larger memory, backtracking/revising and on-the-fly weight adjustment (aka, real-time "learning") and I think it might be game over.

add goals and motivations and maybe a vision system? game over for meat bags.

These advances are not only possible, they're inevitable. It's just too tantalising to leave alone.
> if training data has bias

I think most, if not all, training data has bias. Removing bias from training data is a challenge in and of itself that I don't think we've solved yet. I worry that there isn't enough incentive there for us to solve it and some minorities will be left behind.
Ha! I love that one of the bottom photos shows a trash can literally placed on top of the desk itself.

Which makes me suddenly realize, how did it never occur to me before that the trash icon does not belong on the desktop?

I think, at least on my first Mac, I must have been too busy being even more confused about why the trash icon was also where you dragged a floppy to eject it.
> Laws can't and shouldn't substitute good parenting.

Right. Why did we make smoking illegal for kids? Should have just let the parents stop them.

Why did we make child labor illegal? That was just bad parenting allowing the kids to work the mines.
Have you read The Singularity is Near?
Are these tools all contemporaneous of each other and sold at the same price point? China will sell you anything you want. What most companies want today is planned obsolescence.
Dude. Stop giving away our secrets. Some of us want to have a reasonable WLB!
Building a Modern Document Website for React Native Library
We’re excited to announce that the official website for React Native Echarts has launched!

In addition to the website launch information, I will also describe how to build a modern documentation website. If you’re interested in building a documentation website for your open-source project, this guide can be a great reference.
They used to ask "should designers learn to code" — now they should be asking "should coders learn to design"?
Who cares if people want to plug themselves it to the matrix (endless Netflix) and not turn wood anymore ? I think that’s there decision ?

We’re all having some sort of existential crisis in tech because we are addicted to work, we identify with it. Personally I just look out the window and dream of being outside with no shoes on walking through the forest or along a beautiful non-polluted beach.

My home is here on Earth with other biological creatures and it’s where I’d like to spend my time, it’s all that makes me happy.

Honestly if money wasn’t involved I’d love to just do wood work, build my own house, learn to sail, grow my own food and I’d be happy with that.
Tangentially, something that I see come up in all these threads is the notion that knowledge workers unemployed by AI will retrain into some physical labor job. My question is, at that point, who's buying all that labor? Will the workforce just consist of executives and the manual laborers who work for them?
I _strongly_ doubt that physical labor jobs like plumbing will be replaced within a few years. I spent a year working in welding automation and folks wildly underestimate the difficulty of automating real physical tasks like this. And that's in a weld cell with calibrated physical relationships between every component, laser scanning, stereo cameras, and CAD-modeled parts with reasonable tolerances.

The idea that a robotic solution to "crawling around in a basement and bodging pipes together" is anywhere near happening is frankly laughable. Further, with the current hot AI paradigm being LLMs, it's not even clear how these (very impressive) advancements would get us closer to robotic replacement of the trades.
Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
As a side note, it's really sad to see the Herald being revived to, once again (as it had already happened during the 2007-2017 era), be a para-statal fascist propaganda outlet.
There is no point to evolution in the technical sense of the word. Evolution is just a dynamic. Dynamics don't seek purpose.

The thing that makes evolution a special dynamic is that everything that exists and you get to perceive is either the result of evolution, or compatible with it.

Will to life is effectively an artifact of evolution. Things with ways to express some form of persistence and reproduction have an implicit will to live.

Leaving aside whatever goals AIs may be programmed for, if at some point a dynamic for persistence and reproduction appears it will dominate any competing systems that don't have it on that basis alone. Systems that incorporate and propagate useful features for their survival will have capabilities to adapt and persist that are very limited in known lifeforms.
Looking at their corporate filings, it looks like between Dec 31 2021 and Dec 31 2022 Amazon sold off about half of their "marketable securities". I don't know exactly what those were, but that sort of change makes me think "company is facing a cash flow crunch" -- just like when SVB started liquidating their marketable securities.
I don't know.

Hand-written SQL means a bunch of work and you have to know SQL. But it is simple and transparent.

ORMs automate a lot of simple and repetitive SQL, but to use them effectively you really have to know SQL extremely well and understand the ORM deeply as well.

So I guess it depends on what you are doing. ORMs can be useful but they require a lot more knowledge to use effectively than hand-coded SQL does.
There are autohotkey-style scripts for every OS that emulate a keyboard for paste, which can be mapped to a variation of the keyboard shortcut for paste. Very fast to install and you never have to edit html again for this purpose.
It's just a position:fixed sidebar and header. The root element is still the scroll container so you can drag anywhere.
If stock buybacks were against the law, corporate taxes were higher, capital gains taxes were higher, and loopholes were closed, we wouldn't see this. The only way to earn more money in the environment I described would be to actively focus on growing your business, which means only letting people go you don't absolutely need.

In my area, Amazon has tripped up so bad I can't even have the basic necessities delivered to my house due to a staff shortage (they throw an error at checkout claiming multiple items can't be delivered to my address...items I've ordered for at least 4 years straight on a monthly basis without issue) so I am going to go from spending tens of thousands per year with Amazon to zero. I am in a city in the United States. Amazon will happily sell, ship, and deliver some no-name brand item from a third party seller within 2 hours of ordering, but they can't be bothered to do the same with the stuff I ordered.

If they weren't making money off me (which I doubt, I spent $23,967 on Amazon last year, and their products are only slightly cheaper than local stores...like CENTS), why were they willing to sell to me to begin with? I've switched to a combination of Costco/Walmart for most of my stuff, and will soon be independent from Amazon completely, all because they refuse to deliver my core products that they've delivered for years on a monthly basis without issue (toilet paper, a 12 pack of my favorite energy drink, my favorite brand of protein shakes, etc)

Really Amazon? (note the error I receive says that the item cannot be delivered to my address, and to select another. It is a residential address tied to a house and I've ordered the exact same item month after month. they also blocked subscribe and save.)

Sorry, this is a rant, please carry on.