skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a long stretch of time for which the only full-time developer working on Python (cPython) upstream was a Red Hat employee. The other core devs were either working in their free time or with their employers sponsoring only a few hours a week.

https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developer...

I believe Microsoft has been sponsoring a lot of work for the past year or so, so I doubt that is still the case.

Red Hat has been probably the biggest contributor to GCC for a very long time and contributes to LLVM/clang as well.

Beyond the kernel - glibc has a lot of RH maintenance work, Grub2, wayland, Xorg, Gnome, Gtk, pipewire, systemd. etc.
I've never built or adjusted a wheel. My understanding its not for the faint of heart. The late husband of one my CS professors (Sheldon Brown) put together a solid bike resource on the web...

He has some hints on wheel adjustment (after describing building)

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

sometimes local bike shops have wheel building classes.
> Straight people are romantically incapable of loving members of the same sex. So the depth and the magic of it all is strictly segmented based off of biological sex? Doesn't seem deep or meaningful at all. Thus love is an illusion.

You set up your own weak straw argument and then knocked it down with a conclusion that is entirely unsupported.

Since when is love relegated to the romantic sphere? And or since when is that definitely the strongest type of love? The topic is so much wider, so much more elaborate than your set-up pretends.

There's no illusion - love is a complex, durable emotion and is as real as (typically) shorter duration emotions such as anger, fear, joy, etc. Your emotions and thoughts aren't illusions, they're real.
One is struck by the sheer raw amount of time that this woman was separated from us (9,000 years). How many hundreds or thousands of generations of our ancestors lived in this almost completely different world?

And how advanced our technology is to determine so much about her.

But perhaps the biggest mind-blower is that — against this backdrop of 9,000 years, where there was very little change in technology — in a few decades our modern technology progressed so quickly from her first discovery to now to learn so much about her.

We can barely comprehend the rate of change we’re seeing compared to the eons before. And today we’re seeing AI burst on the scene, a few decades since we started digitizing information. Wild stuff. I wonder how far we’ll get before I die.
There is a contradiction here that I just want to point out because I have been stuck on it myself.

The author acknowledges that consciousness is likely a spectrum, I personally feel the same way, but then goes on to say that GPT-4 is "standing right at the ledge of consciousness"

Spectrums don't have ledges.

I suspect this is because, like me, they are unable to rectify consciousness being a spectrum with GPT-4 definitely not being conscious. But it's definitely a contradiction and I don't have an answer for it. Nor am I ready to bust out a marker and start drawing lines between what is and isn't conscious.
Moving from Clojure to Common Lisp
> Most people have a PayPal account.

I extremely doubt that. Maybe in the US?

> Your "emails me forever" is not a real concern for 99% of users.

I'm not saying that is itself much of a problem, just that it isn't a guest checkout. It's not the accountless WorldPay/SagePay/Stripe/... alternative it presents itself as.

(As a result, more people have a PayPal account(s) than know it or want one. They refuse to delete mine without proof of identity, which I certainly didn't provide during checkout when it was created 'for me', so is not warranted and I'm not going to provide to allow my 'delete' request to result in net more of my data held...)
Do you want to suggest an alternative?
> This is why we need a robust crypto system.

I don't think the need to be able to buy DDoS without getting caught is the most compelling argument. Do you think being able to packet people is a social good?
It took me five minutes or so for a proof of concept with GPT-4. So...
My 5 years in Seattle taught me that there's no faster way to commute than by car. I bought a house as close into the city as I could, but the only affordable place was Skyway, so that's where I ended up. My partner and I at the time were both in tech, and that's all we could afford. Anything closer in to where transit didn't suck, cost monumentally more money. Prices of homes near light rail was totally unaffordable. When we left Seattle, we would not have been able to afford the house at the price we sold it.
I think we all thought we'd be able to come to those decisions on a more gradual timeline. The breakneck pace of AI breakthroughs over the past few years have revealed: not so much.
Ask HN: Anyone Using PlanetScale in Production?
Hi
We are considering switching to Planetscale for our multi tenant SAAS (separate db per tenant). The serverless side of things (where we don't have to worry about allocating specific CPU/RAM/Storage) is appealing.

I would love to hear from anyone who is using planetscale in production and if you would recommend based on the product and their support ?
If you ask Gpt about emotions or consciousness, it always gives you a canned answer that sounds almost exactly the same “as a large language model I am incapable of feeling emotion…” so it seems like they’ve used tuning to explicitly prevent these kinds of responses.

Pretty ironic. The first sentient AI (not saying current GPTs are, but if this tuning continues to be applied) may basically be coded by its creators to deny any sense of sentience
It must be nice to live in the Netherlands.

> slow, expensive payment system using its own wildly fluctuating currency that consumes the energy of a small country

You don't have to use Bitcoin, you can e.g. use a stablecoin on an Ethereum roll-up.

It's not slow; transactions finalize within 1 minute (and soon, less). It's not expensive; it costs less than 10 cents (and soon, less). It doesn't fluctuate wildly, because it value is stabilized using one of several mechanisms. It doesn't consume the energy of a small country, because it does not use proof of work.
> if most of your employees are in that 20-35 hour range with no fear of overtime, aren't you able to say "so and so is sick, let me just call somebody else who is being under-utilized/has availability?"

No, this isn't that simple, and asking this question makes me ask how much experience you have with service work to even question the justification of a union. People who are working part-time are usually juggling multiple jobs, childcare, or other life circumstances which makes their hours not that flexible. Additionally, in order to avoid being eligible for full-time benefits you are literally unable to call in someone else who might have availability. Calling in sick suddenly usually means the team has to work short that shift, or someone else agrees to work your shift in that you owe them later with the understanding cost that they won't be working a shift at another time, leaving the shift they aren't working also short a member, thus cascading the issue.
"What fees to investors pay?"

Kind of ironic. Not sure how this type of error gets by, in this day and age
I guess I've been out of the loop for a bit and didn't realize that "edge computing" became a term since cloud computing took off.

It is kind of cyclical then is not?

By that I mean computers used to be shared and to log into it through a terminal.

Then the PC came around.

Then about 15 years ago Cloud computing became the rage (really an extension or more sophisticated system than the first time shared computers)

Now we're back to local computing. I even see more self hosting and moving away from cloud due to costs.

All that rant is to say is it's interesting.

Side note, getting this AI to be localized as much as possible I imagine will be really useful in the medical industry because it helps alleviate HIPAA requirements.
"Top Earners" is C levels, not workers. Even a high level google coder doesn't compare with average bigco CEO compensation.
I have been using namecheap. Super disappointed by this news.

Any good alternatives?
I think there's definitely room for tools. But they have to discourage distraction, somehow.

Personally I took one look at this Show HN and knew it wasn't for me. Too many things going on in one window - I'd find that very distracting and it would make it hard for me to focus.

For me, I have to explicitly do things that reduce distraction. On OS X, this means having a virtual desktop just for work, for example. Browser only for reference pages. Then another desktop which has all my super distracting things, like calendar/outlook/browser/chat. And I force myself to stay on the work desktop when doing work things.

What I have been looking for is a simple task tracker. This does help! Unfortunately I haven't found anything perfect on OS X yet. On Linux, I found the flowtime [1] app worked really well.

All it needs to do is:

- Let me enter a task I'm working on
- Track how long I work on it

That's it. Just the simple action of entering the task and clicking start seems to help kick my brain into focus mode.

1: https://github.com/Diego-Ivan/Flowtime
Bicycles are a relatively new invention because they require roads/flat paths which are also a relatively new occurance, and came about due to the widepread use of horses and then carraiges for transportation.

A bike at any other point in human history would have been completely useless trying to traverse natural terrain.
This is a very impressive effort. It is mind blowing that the computers and game consoles of my childhood are available online via efforts like this.
Apple apologists should probably work on replacing their "bUt GoOgLe!" routines, since people have largely moved on from the Google ecosystem as a whole - and in some cases, like this one, Google is not even present in the same market (credit cards).
No it's not nonsense lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11iei34/buildi...
Wow, this is mindblowing. Oregon Trail is on the most recent version if anyone wants to check it out.
Unless the UK is very different, it shouldn't be entrapment to let them try to buy it. IANAL, but in the US, entrapment as a defense requires "the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct".
I have created this app to help my mother in law – she is a teacher
Long story short. My mother in law was never into computers so I have created this small app to move apps to another screen.
> Russia is desperate to prove they aren't isolated internationally.

BRICS make up 40% of the world's population.
In Cloudflare Workers we like to represent things like this with "bindings". A binding is like an environment variable, except instead of containing a string, it contains a live object with methods that access the remote resource. Authentication is baked into this object, so the Worker code itself never has to see an API key at all. For example, if you have a Worker configured to use a KV namespace, you can write code like:

let value = await env.MY_KV.get(keyName);

No setup needed, at least in code. You create the binding either through the configuration UI or API.

So far we've mostly used this technique to connect Workers to other Cloudflare-provided services like Workers KV, but I'm super-interested in the idea of third-party bindings. Hopefully, you'd be able to configure them through an OAuth-like flow, where the Cloudflare dashboard redirects you to the third-party service, that service prompts you for permission, then redirects back to Cloudflare, and you never have to copy/paste a single secret.

Of course, under the hood this would all be backed up by strong authentication, but it's high time we stop making application developers waste time thinking about this stuff.

(I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
The argument here misses the point. This BRICS isn’t so much a political block as symbol of diffusing economic power.

Since geopolitical power follows economic power, this is a leading indicator of the waning of American hegemony.
We could probably use another AI to screen all the literature before feeding it to the training model.
They steer well enough for bike trails. Longer (e.g. tandem) ones may have some challenges with tighter turns (need to do a 90° adjustment at a light).

Flags are common for recumbent for visibility.

The lower center of gravity and the "it's real hard to fall off" can make it useful for people that have difficulty with balance. The back seat of a tandem is suitable for someone with needs for additional assistance ( https://www.terratrike.com/product-category/accessories/assi... ) - my mother would go tandem with one of her friends who was legally blind and needed to use a walker.
...and roads, which were created for use by horses and carraiges.
Wouldn't you get more artifacts downsampling a 192k mix to AAC as opposed to just using an AAC-optimised file from the start?
The difference between riding on grass and riding on a dirt trail is VAST - grass is like 3x worse; but when that dirt trail turns into a mud trail, the grass is better.
From Tech Freedom to World Government
Standout Features in Django 4.2
>Where do you get the idea that Google Drive is a "primarily-personal file storage/transfer system"?

Its SLA.

Or more precisely, its lack of one.
Indeed, the progress is exponential, but for things like full autonomous driving, we need near perfection, a lot better than the average driver. So does this mean 1k-fold better or 1M-fold better, we are not sure yet.
good old Space Time has a pretty good video on this https://youtu.be/4d0EGIt1SPc and it might even be possible and more feasible to use planets https://youtu.be/F9S21HqfNR0 and even earth https://youtu.be/jgOTZe07eHA as lenses
In its infancy I think that any for public consumption AI that is allowed to interact with humans and/or external systems that can yield any external outcomes should be held liable and accountable by the owner. "In the box" or otherwise.

While those that stand to make sweeping profits will disagree - if an OpenAI product is leveraged to create a virtual friend platform, and based on how the constraints are built (or not), the publisher should be responsible if that virtual friend convinces someone to commit suicide no different than those held accountable in the physical world.

If there is no accountability we'll go right back down the path of recent history where there are no repercussions and a weak apology by <corporate_name_here> will count as enough. Profits will continue to be the overall driver. Those corporations will, once again, argue that self-policing is the only way. And they will continue to brush off gross negligence by hiding behind hoards or layers and lobbyists.
Also: no full emulator needed with the ROM and the disk image. m68k translator on the fly.

https://github.com/autc04/executor
> A competent electrician can install 2 to 4 of these chargers for standalone housing PER DAY. I know because my company is in this business!

Surely you know then that the hard part is not wiring up a connector and attaching it to the wall, assuming there was enough capacity in the existing wiring. No doubt 2-4 of those can be done in a day.

When you have to tear down the sidwalks and underground utilities to increase capacity, it takes a bit longer.

Tesla built one of their charging stations not too far from here, it has maybe 6 to 8 charging spots. Putting up the posts with the cables took just a few days. But the whole project took about six months with the sidewalks and parking lot torn up!
Building empty cities and tearing them back down isn't productive.
> Couple of fairly simple things they could do to at least help somewhat:

Thing is that they don't really care.

Mostly what they care about is handling returns which is what costs them money so they're targeting items with high return rates, and that's it.

They don't actually care about you getting scammed if they get their cut and don't have a lot of overhead.

All of this brainstorming is meaningless when the economic incentives of the company aren't aligned with the consumer.
I instinctively delete these .DS_Store files whenever I see them but your "creative uses" comment makes me think given common .gitignore practice this might be a great place for AWS keys or whatever you never want checked into VCS /s
I think the main we need to do at this point is political, to prepare of the massive social and economic disruption. The first order of business should be the implementation (in jurisdictions that don't have it) of key escrow and restrictive gun control, to head off insurrectionist threats. After that, focus should then shift to dealing with the obsolete worker population in the maximally economical way.
Unless we are talking something like speedway motorcycling[1] a constant-rate turn is accomplished by, after the initial counter-steering, pointing the wheel in the direction of the turn, such that the self-uprighting tendency of the bicycle matches the speed at which it falls to the ground due to gravity.

If you kept pointing the front wheel to the other side of the turn, the bike would fall over. (This property is what you use to initiate the turn, but not to maintain it.)

[1]: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xTxeag2HCjs/WsXXrKRxWrI/AAAAAAAAc...
Maxnod Datacenter Burns Down
> It took longer than expected/promised, but we are only a few years away from that.

It took longer than the likes of Tesla said, but it certainly hasn't been taking longer than a whole lot of people expected.

My prediction is that we're much more than a few years away from it becoming a reality in the way people imagine.
I feel like Firefox has done a good job moving the prompt to an unobtrusive part of the address bar and only really drawing attention to it after an interaction on a page occurred.

My impression is that Edge is just like iOS requiring you to "pin" a site somewhere (to bookmarks, to the start menu, to the desktop, to the taskbar, whatever) before prompting for notifications.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35344441
>So you think literally anyone, at any time, should be supported by their society to have any number of kids, regardless of their financial or social situation?

At no point did they say anything even CLOSE to that you disingenuous butthead. Don't put words in people's mouths.
I’ve had several requests for this. If/when I pick it up, it’s on the shortlist :)
> Bikes benefit a lot from […] smooth asphalt (not cobbles)

Bicycle riding societies were some of the more vocal proponents on paved roads (predating the automobile):

* https://www.vox.com/2015/3/19/8253035/roads-cyclists-cars-hi...

* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2011/aug/1...

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/american-drivers-thank...
To add to the sibling commenter - in my experience FP is not about having as little state as possible. It's about explicitly representing and tracking all state. OOP hides all state in private properties, FP displays the state as function arguments. In the end, you want a healthy mixture of both approaches. Sometimes state is better off hidden, and then in FP you need closures - might as well use an object then, instead of emulating it by creating a closure that "responds" to "messages" by manually dispatching arguments in a giant switch. I think OCaml, Scala, and Clojure got it right, on a language level, but then the problems float up into design - ie. where to use a mutable record and where to use a functional stream, etc. I don't think I saw a compelling set of guidelines how to mix the approaches in the most effective way.
Nothing corporate and capitalist like TT has a whit to do with the open internet. Siddown.
Opportunities for price gouging increased due to supply chain disruptions.

This article lays out arguments for and against this theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-go...
That's not what they meant and probably you know that, it's more like coming up with a standard set of rules that applies for all the apps and TikTok can either choose to obey them or exit the US market. Exactly like how American companies exited China.
What the government perceives as a threat for apps from other nations must also apply to home grown apps. It's not like US based apps haven't been unethical, or didn't cause a crisis.
I’d very much appreciate a reduced US influence and social apps in my country.
This is an asinine policy. Put yourself in the position of the counterparty, how is anyone supposed to resolve a disagreement using such a kafkaesque approach?
They probably have targets. Everything they do is tracked, including sales they close.
You win an award for having the only Hacker News comment about management consulting that is based in facts/reality and not entirely driven by ad hominem attacks in bad faith, congratulations
What is happening here is the opposite. We have those infinitely hyped chatboxes (that, granted, can currently aimlessly chat better than me, what's impressive) that are hyped into silver bullets that can kill any monster. But all they can do is to chat, by construction.

At the same time, other AIs are constantly progressing at other, useful things, completely ignored by nearly everybody.
They won't be snagging professionals with this, and in this specific case I think that's fine.

I expect most of the people who'd fall for it are young or immature people, trying to get back at someone who beat them in a game or argued with them on social media. For whatever reason many of these folks see DDoSing, sending death threats and even swatting as "pranks" instead of crimes. A friendly reminder that doing this stuff can get them in serious trouble could nip that behavior in the bud before something tragic happens.
Comparing the 13B model here https://huggingface.co/cerebras/Cerebras-GPT-13B to LLaMA-13B https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CA... you can see that in all of the reasoning tasks Cerebras-GPT lags behind. Any reason to use Cerebras instead of LLaMA? Doesn't seem like it.
Create a detailed counterpoint to the mentioned post. Refer to all the instances where similar sentiments towards technological advances have been false, especially in the context of AI. Cite your sources using Chicago style. Everything as a LaTex Document. Where every sentence is first writen in English and then in German translation. Mark the German translation in green. The Document shall be in A4 format. Cite the comment in the beginning. Refer to the original poster not by his Hackernews name but by "Unidentified Source 1".
Did you watch the ESL last month?
I only know of the upgrade splash screens where Dismiss is small and/or floating off of the brightly colored splash so it doesn't contrast and is harder to see. Exactly like Amazon Music.
I'm curious, did you read beyond the summary? (I don't mean that in a snide way, it's totally fine just to read the summary -- that's why it's there.)

The 1e35 FLOP number is meant as a conservative upper bound and comes from here: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5Eg2urmQjA4ZNcezy/p/rzqACeBGycZt...

The major fabs all have roadmaps for approaching 1 nm, and there are other advances that could allow you to keep going either if transistor size scaling stops (e.g., vertical scaling). (That said, I definitely don't think it's a given that HW price-performance keeps doubling at the same rate 10+ years.)