skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These articles always miss the most important point. People are buying EVs because they're better. That's the whole point of Tesla making attractive vehicles, aesthetically and functionally. That market pull allows for an S-curve in the technology, since it reduces market risk for investing in each increase in scale.

This is a completely different scenario than what the article suggests, which is that EVs are some kind of medicine for climate change that society is trying to have discipline about. Not so. It's a life or death situation for the auto industry, they don't have a choice. They either join the race or die. This makes most concerns about the transition irrelevant. For example, laws banning gasoline cars by 2035 are as useful as laws banning flip phones by 2015 would have been.
Do you feel Mac is better? The article is about windows suggesting OneDrive, but Mac also suggests iCloud if you haven't connected it.
Yes I understand how registrars work. Just happened to be quite the coincidence since I have no way to prove this.
Can't wait. I'll be there showing off my frontend for exploring locally running LLMs (toolkit for managing prompts, branching conversations, and pre/post prompt programmatic mangling) gonna be a fun time.

(must say it's funny that with the advent of all these crazy tools i've been spending most of my time writing regex to marshall/interpret the somewhat irregular text streams into more useful formats, feels like i'm doing nothing at all interesting yet the output often feels magical)
It could be like dismissing the iPhone 1. It could also be like dismissing the Nokia Lumia.

Either way an unconvincing audio file is an unconvincing audio file regardless of what other files may become possible in the future through any number of various platforms and software implementations.

In the same vein, it is prudent not to mix up the factual current state of things with possible futures.

I don’t see the purpose of panicking right now. Are you using this anxiety as motivation to design better audio fingerprinting solutions? Identifying bad actors and vulnerable groups? Educating people on how to avoid being manipulated by fake audio?

What does posting “I am scared of the future” online accomplish?
The pee is in the pool. The black swan has left the barn.

And yeah, I had a laugh at the signatories. Of course my heart goes out to the non-billionaires that might be out of a job. Or maybe us lucky duckies are going to travel the world on our new basic income trust funds?
Truthing as in theory quakery, not backed by evidence?
Ban fentanyl first.
Akib/Emacs-eat: Emulate A Terminal, in a region, in a buffer and in Eshell
> AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale. Food, clothing and shelter will be plentiful.

How is this going to work? "AI" can't make any of these things. "AI" is not the magic machine PG describes. It's not even close.
Right it's a form of harm reduction. Transit and eBikes are undoubtedly the more energy efficient alternative. But the infrastructure improvements American cities need to make them safe and useful options are expensive and most American cities have incredible amounts of bureaucracy replete with veto opportunities for any changes to the built environment. If EVs can affect the built environment first while the harder work of changing urban land-use and building new infrastructure begin in earnest, we can drive down fossil fuel dependency. Or we can accept the American status quo of driving gasoline cars everywhere even in urban 3 mi. radii.

Closing CAFE Standard loopholes would also be a great form of harm reduction.
Search <insert model name> context window size.

For LLaMA it's 2048 tokens
Also, there was the bundling and OEM backroom deals.
A site to get a job at $place was set up by $place? What an elaborate honeypot!
Of course, though perhaps with slightly lower accuracy. Either way, my point was that it's far from an unsolvable problem; it can be trivially solved with existing tools.
I prefer HN to reddit overall. But what I like about reddit is that you can select the subreddit(s) of your choice and get rid of all that other extraneous stuff. That doesn't appear to be available in HN.

Having said that, I use my browser bookmarks to select those subreddits, rather than actually subscribing to them.
This is the answer. Normalization cannot and should not be guessed at by the filesystem. It's the wrong place to do it. If normalization is generally (but not universally) desirable, then the standard library (libc, etc.) should provide options to make it more convenient with sane defaults. Second-guessing users and developers with assumptions outside of its domain is a recipe for failure and endless workarounds.
> pre-industrial societies usually enjoyed a very efficient type of political system.

Really? What system is that?
I did modify it and blur https://i.imgur.com/D04xIia.png

No error on empty string either
What do you think happens when AI compresses the economy and leaves us almost exclusively with manual labor jobs, most of which are already low-paying? And you may not be aware of this having never done such a job, but physical labor is often brutally taxing on the body, putting people at risk of a wide array of potential health complications.

I've seen this abjectly atrocious argument about manual labor made by a number of people on HN and it's astounding how poorly thought through it is.
> Sites that adhere to WCAG

According to this survey, 97.4% of websites don't comply with WCAG, which isn't surprising at all to me as someone who has been in the industry since 2004.

https://webaim.org/projects/million/
I live with private healthcare. The last few trips to the ER have been 8 hour waits, too. This is an under capacity thing. I live in a place that has boomed, and the mismanaged hospital hasn’t remotely kept up. They fired a bunch of folks during COVID, then shocked pikachu found themselves understaffed.

The point is, the entire thing is broken nearly everywhere you look. I don’t know what a better alternative is, but we sure need one.
S.686 – Restrict Act – Internet Censorship and Surveillance Bill
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686

What is everyone's thoughts on this bill? I am wracking my brain on how this fits constitutionally.

From what I gather:

• Authority is appointed by the President not voted on.

• What is deemed a national security risk and banned is up to that authority.

• Using VPN to evade bans will be 20 year minimum prison term and 250k - 1M fine.

• Allows unlimited warrantless surveillance on all internet connected devices including local area networks.

This seems like a massive surveillance and censorship bill that will be controlled by whomever is in office.
MSFT seems to be a lost cause these days. Whenever I open up VS2022, it takes almost an entire minute to load. As I recompile things, it will fail to report errors, which means restarting the application (which seems to "fix" it).

If I open SSMS, it also takes upwards of a minute to load. Some things I used to take for granted, like being able to see the cursor when scrolling with the arrow keys, instead makes the cursor invisible, so now I have no idea where my cursor lands when I release the key. When a connection to a DB bonks out (which happens at least once a day), it takes another minute to close out my open windows, because each one had an open session and it needs to prompt me on close.

If I open Excel, another minute passes before it loads. If I stupidly decide to change the font for some cells, I expect to see the app lock up for another minute or two. If I want to save the document, I have to go through several layers of menus and garbage just to save to my computer and not the cloud. And then I will still get an alert in Excel that indicates it was unable to save to the cloud and that I need to take some action to resolve the files. The best part is now I can't simply scroll the rows in a spreadsheet in the background while I have another app in the foreground. I have to make another click to bring the spreadsheet into focus to scroll.

If I go into the Azure Portal, I can expect no sane or consistent interface. Components seem to be cargo-cult designed without regard to how they are used. I was looking at some app service logs today, and I'm stuck using their ugly UI, which truncates/hides important data, like the actual log message. The UI is so antithetical to what a logging user interface should look like (think Splunk or Sumo), you'd be better off just downloading the CSV file.

The same goes for build logs in Azure DevOps. It doesn't word-wrap, so now you need to scroll all the way across the screen, line-by-line, to figure out the message. If I click on the Raw Log link, I get the logs, but polluted with ANSI escape codes. If I try to copy the text as is, the UI may or may not select all of it.

And this is just the very start for the disaster that is Azure Portal/DevOps.

And Teams, lol.

When you have to deal with all these problems, all day long, it really starts to sink your productivity. MSFT badly needs a leadership shakeup, but I doubt that will happen as long as Azure is profitable. Until then, I expect to see more decline in the quality of their developer and productivity applications.
The important thing is that it's unambiguous. One function is being called with three arguments. If you don't know what that function does, you look it up. No drama.
Definitely true, but this means that you have to spend some time and effort on using the "right" card for any given type of purchase, and staying on top of any changes to your rewards as well, to say nothing of having to juggle multiple due dates and automatic or manual payments.

A flat reward on everything definitely has its appeals. (The Apple Card isn't quite that, though – paying online without Apple Pay only gives you 1% rewards.)
What's the advantage of this over a design like Scuttlebutt / Farcaster? They have the same properties (signed messages, Merkel trees to ensure data isn't changed) but are engineered for social media.

Nostr is another one that is more lightweight without the Merkel tree but is seeing some traction.
> Wouldn't this imply humans should already be working very little compared to pre industrial revolution?

No, because human wants aren't fixed. When you give a human everything they want now, tomorrow they come back with a whole new set of wants. And so on ad infinitum...

Of course, as an individual it's your choice whether, and for how long, you stay on this merry-go-round. But there will always be a significant number of humans who will.
A better analogy is – is it a violation of the first amendment if the government intercepts and holds a shipment of newspapers sent from China at customs?
In my opinion it's not pretty ok. It's actually superior to many other languages.

I think for web stuff though the borrowing and move semantics is a bit of an overkill. Usually you don't need to thread or handle state in these areas (frameworks and databases handle it for you) so a GC works better here. But everything outside of that is superior to something like ruby, python or go when it comes to safety.
True, What i find hard is reading or figuring out the word, it's really easy to read the published book of a manuscript, but only people with experience can read the manuscript. For example these words: Fine, Fun and Fan are all written as Fn, we understand the 3 words but which one they mean depend on the context of speaking
Ask HN: Tier 1 software engineering employers in Toronto
Interested in learning what are the top employers in Toronto by engineering talent quality. In other words - where do best SWEs in Toronto go to work?
>GPT-4 can already write code from scratch with high accuracy
>GPT-4 has been shown to be able to solve complex problems

In GPT-4's own paper, which as always will reflect it in the best light possible, it passes a whopping 1/4th of leetcode "medium" problems still messes up a lot of the easy ones and basically fails all the hard ones.

Those are toy examples mostly aimed at students.

Why do so many of you just rampantly make shit up when talking about this?
I use this and love it too. I've been using both the Dragonfly DAC/headphone amp (works with iPhones and iPads) as well as RooPiee on several raspberry pis with HifiBerry Digi digital output devices. Installation was very simple, and these add 24bit/192khz roon endpoint capability to my home theater systems.
Not if you use modern python. And by modern python I mean typed python. Heavily typed.
Senior / elderly care can be enormously expensive. Especially towards end of life. I could agree with you if the population was all teen to 45 year olds but that is not realistic.

The same dynamics play out with pension schemes. Declining birth rates play havoc with proposals that rely on a large, young employed base who's work supports a small, retired set of pensioners.

My own perspective is that healthcare is extremely limited on the provider side. Professional organizations have been limiting the supply of doctors / doctor equivalents for decades. Not to minimize the work a family medicine or general practitioner puts in, but many important health services/early interventiona can be safely and reliably provided by a nurse practitioner or physicians assistant (what a horrible name) on a much larger and affordable scale then exists today.
And China, which went from an out-of-control virus that looked about to burn through the country in early 2020 to effectively zero COVID with just a few weeks of high-compliance lockdowns.
This right here. I personally know several examples; people who were not really incompetent, but were not up to the generally expected level of work of an IC. They became excellent managers.
I just googled when our ancestors started using tools. It’s 2,500,000 years ago. My god.
Just noting that HuggingFace has a Llama code implementation[1]. It's also under an Apache 2 license.

While this seems to be nice code I don't particularly see any reason to use that over HuggingFace transformers, where you can easily swap out alternative implementations.

Also, going to legal restrictions on the Facebook LLama code when there are much stronger restrictions on the use of the model seems an odd thing to do. It's true that in some - not all - jurisdictions it is possible the model might not be copyrightable - but you'd have a bold legal department to rely on those arguments. It's also moderately likely that an instruction-tuned Llama (like Alpaca) would be copyrightable even in those jurisdictions.

TL;DR: Use the HuggingFace transformers library. You can experiment with Llama and switch to truly free models like GPT-J or anything new that arrives very easily.

[1] https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/llam...
In fine-tuned models, for example, you may only train a real subset of the weights. Who is the copyright owner now and what is the justification?

There might be other ways of transfer-learning where you can greatly benefit from the pretrained weights, some of which may have not yet been discovered.
> The case of 38sp -> 357mag is a working example.

That was intentional on the part of the people bringing tree-fiddy-seven to market. Backwards compatibility to something cheap and readily available is a great way to ensure more people buy guns chambered in your new and uncommon at the time caliber. They could have made it forward compatible too (i.e. chamber tree fiddy seven in your .38) but didn't because that would have been wildly unsafe.
Yeah, there's nothing about transport in the rural west that is worth solving.

The point is that we should be investing in places where GHG can be reduced the most, and passenger vehicles ain't it.
> Is it because compact flash cards are generally older and cheaper and (more likely) more of a size-match for the older hard-drives of the 1980s and 1990s?

Probably because CF uses the samw interface spec as older drives, original CF uses PATA, some later versions used SATA, both are probably simpler than USB (not sure what SD uses.)
Laughing at Elon is always helpful to me personally.

The civilization ending development is going to happen or not happen. It’s hubris to think any one person or one country has a say at this point.
I agree with you. It is a failure on multiple fronts.
> when AI compresses the economy

How? How will it do this?

Basically, people seem to assume that "AI" has some kind of magical power to do whatever bad thing they can imagine, and then they extrapolate from there. I don't see it.

> physical labor

If you think the jobs I described are purely "physical labor", or that the physical labor involved is so highly taxing that people can only do those jobs for a short time before they wear out, you definitely need to think again.

(You also definitely need to think again if you think those jobs are low paying. Plenty of people make quite a healthy living doing them.)
It goes even further than that to a certain extent.

In a past wikipedia rabbit hole I was surprised to recognize and understand some (transliterated) sumerian words! Suddenly being thrown 8000 years in the past is not the catastrophic scenario I was worrying about.

(native arabic speaker here)
Transportation accounts for a third of American CO2 generation and is the largest non-industrial source of American GHG emissions. We need to make dents here through every manner possible, including electrifying the existing modeshare, while promoting much more energy efficient modeshares like cycling and transit.
I don't understand the first three-arrowed diagram with the wall. Why two pushing arrows, at the front and the back of the crate but only one pushing from the wall to the crate, seemingly unbalanced?
Interesting, maybe I'll try some caffeine next time. I'm a little hesitant because my usual strategy is two Tylenol and a nap. 9 times out of 10 I manage to fall asleep and by the time I wake up it's either gone, or at least manageable.
https://archive.is/9InXI
Depends if we're talking manager or IC.

A competent jerk IC can be put in a corner and be productive. More or less.

That said, fire jerks and incompetent people.
It is a balancing act for sure.
Wow his predictions are even more scary than I thought.

The headline

"I predict that by the end of 2025 neural nets will:
- have human-level situational awareness (understand that they're NNs, how their actions interface with the world, etc)
- beat any human at writing down effective multi-step real-world plans
- do better than most peer reviewers"
I could use it to fill out timesheets in Zoho, find a list of Facebook events that I'm actually interested in, and download forms from my bank. These are tasks I do often that the UIs make far more difficult than they need to be.
> despite all the anti-US rhetoric, all the political nonsense, we are still the most welcoming place in the world for immigrants, and it isn't even close.

Haha, hardly. I've seen Indians genuinely discussing that if your life plan is to move permanently to the US the best way to do it is to first move to Canada and get citizenship there.

Yes, the US is more welcoming of immigrants than a small, wealthy, tight-knit island with extensive (and expensive) social services, at least on some measures (OTOH one could argue that Iceland not providing healthcare to immigrants shouldn't count against it when the US doesn't provide healthcare to immigrants either). But Iceland is hardly representative of non-US countries in general.