skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use https://wakatime.com/, which is great if you are a dev and want to get a weekly summary of how you spent your time
> problem [...] that humans believe that AIs can think

Definitely some people are going to believe this, eventually?

People already bow to statues and worship various invisible gods -- the AI programs would be so much simpler to start worshiping? When they can speak (if there's a loudspeaker) and generate text about them being alive and don't want to be switched of. And that everyone should obey their command. -- Wait 15 years and we'll see what new sects have appeared?
I don’t think huge wealth is needed, but it very much depends where you buy the land. Coastal land or land near big cities will be much more expensive than land in a remote village.
My transaction is with the business. Staff’s well-being should not be my concern.
I wonder if we'll now see "VR was a bad bet", when everyone is turning into LLMs and hoping Apples comes up with something on their own.
You're thinking of Communism. Socialism doesn't imply government ownership and control of the economy.
While I get the sentiment behind this, I feel in reality it's more insidious.

It teaches you to be content with mediocrity, with failure. It will make you lazy and there will be others who won't fall into the trap.
Are you talking about the difference between memory and reasoning? It's a bit hard to understand what you mean by knowing the correct thing vs knowing things. Both mean you know things, correct or not.
Ironically, the more divergent you are in your thinking, easier it is to prove that you are human.
It's encouraging to read that people are reacting like I am to this increased pressure to tip—namely, by tipping less.

Hopefully this customer behavior will make its way back to management (and maybe even lawmakers) so that we get to a more reasonable system (i.e., no drip pricing, employers pay a fare wage, tip screens for random purchases go away).
> Firstly, no need to get all prickly. In the absence of hard evidence everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

There is not an absence of hard evidence. We know exactly how LLMs work, and it's clear that you don't, although there's nothing stopping you from learning since the information is widely available. Not a single line of code in these systems is devoted to preference or originality, and there is no vector by which preference or originality could emerge from these systems.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion" applies to subjective things like preferences, not to objective facts. Your belief that LLMs are even a step in the direction of "potentially conscious entities" isn't an opinion, it's an objectively incorrect belief. You can't reasonably expect people to treat your uninformed and incorrect speculation with the same respect they would give to an opinion or, god forbid, an actual fact. You're just wrong, and there's nothing "prickly" about telling you that.
The most likely parents to exercise a right to read their 16-year-old teenager's online messages would be abusive, controlling ones.
This is getting picked up on blogs and so on now because of the recent report release, but the underlying facts about delegate lobbying were known back in 2021, thanks to reporting from Unearthed at Greenpeace: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/10/21/leaked-climate-l...

On fossil fuels:

> Chief among those pushing back against the recommendation that fossil fuels be urgently phased out of the energy sector are Saudi Arabia and OPEC, which together produce around 40% of the world’s oil.

> Saudi Arabia repeatedly seeks to have the report’s authors delete references to the need to phase out fossil fuels, as well as an IPCC conclusion that there is an “need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales”

On the role of diets in climate change:

> Government officials from Brazil and Argentina – both countries with influential agribusiness lobbies that are among the world’s biggest producers of beef and animal feed crops like soyabeans – push repeatedly for the IPCC to remove or water-down messages in the report about the need to curb meat and dairy consumption to tackle global warming.

> In comments on the draft seen by Unearthed, both countries call on the authors to delete passages in the text which suggest a shift to plant-based diets would cut greenhouse gas emissions, or which describe beef as a “high carbon” food.
Nice reduces your scheduling priority for access to the CPU, which means it might take your niced rm longer to do the processing to submit a bunch of i/o to the kernel. But once those i/o ops are in the kernel, they are competing directly on an equal playing field with the latency critical i/o ops of the real app, causing the same degradation of latency to the end users. ionice was not available on my platform, thus the invention of trickle-rm.

Now the second interview question: how did trickle-rm work? How can you simply "reflect" the back pressure of the "x rm's per second" constraint back onto the "walk the directory tree to find the rm's to do" so that the tree walk generates a trickle of i/o operations?
At a quick service restaurant? They should be earning a normal hourly wage. If they consistently get tipped >$30/mo, then their wage can be legally dropped to the tipped minimum wage. That sounds like a punishment.
I am not sure why Milvus is so popular. There are other pretty good options like Weaviate and Vespa - both are open source.

One important limitation of Milvus that I cannot ignore is that it does not support pre-filtering like Vespa and a few others do. Pre-filtering is critically important for use cases in e-commerce etc. where filters based on structured metadata are applied e.g. brand, category etc.
For me rather than “easy to use”, the goal is “batteries included”.

Tiling WMs like Sway aren’t my thing, but I’ve tried minimal setups in the vein of openbox+tint2, and it was irritating how many little things didn’t work unless I set up some daemon to handle them. It also just felt a good deal more fragile than a monolithic DE.
"didn't know what to do with it" in a direst of times. It amazes me how selective people's memory is. Huang is not some amazing visionary. He's a ruthless businessman. Imagine if Intel had allowed him to steer that ship as he imagined all those years ago. Dark, dark times.
Anecdotally, Argentina tried it[0]. The project was sold to Peron as way to create artificial suns.

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huemul_Project
I had some hope that this biographer wouldn't take Burton's claims at face value, but alas.

The Bradley was designed to survive 14.5mm HMG fire. This is in line with IFV doctrine. The three most important layers of the survivability onion come before "don't get penetrated" and Bradley has proven to be very good at those.

The army did not plan to perform live fire testing with an RPG designed to destroy tanks weighing twice as much as the Bradley because it would be a waste of a vehicle. The outcome was already known, the vehicle would be catastrophically destroyed. When Burton asked, they agreed to do it anyway. The army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) wanted to modify the test so that they might actually learn something they didn't already know. Burton interpreted (Ed: or portrayed) this as a conspiracy against him to hide a fact that was a matter of public record before the first vehicle was built.

In that test, the fuel tanks were filled with water so that vehicle damage assessment could be performed after the test. It's much easier to look at the spalling pattern of a projectile, or see what internal systems got damaged, when you're not trying to look at a burned out husk.

I could go on but I'm on my phone.

I'm not sure if Burton was a Luddite who didn't believe in statistics or the scientific method, or if he didn't care about learning from his tests and just wanted to blow up as many Bradleys as possible in order to create a hoopla to get the program cancelled.

Source: The Bradley and how it got that way, Howarth.
> I'm taking a stab at what's next

And what does your crystal ball tell you that is?
Could stores that are fronts for money laundering buy at inflated prices?
Apple will likely make all the money from it in the end anyway.
I struggle with this take as it’s not different from humans.

Am I intelligent at age 3? Then I learn language. Am I intelligent? Then I progress through education. I become more and more intelligent as I am exposed to more data.

I don’t know about computer science, so I go expose myself to computer science literature. I take courses, and see examples. What emerges is a “more intelligent” version of myself that.

What is intelligence, even?
> If I paid a marketing agency for this, I'd be very disappointed.

A marketing agency would have spent at least a few weeks gathering specific information about your company, the article allotted two minutes.

How many more minutes would you need to devote to giving ChatGPT more specific information before it could match the marketing agency's output? Not weeks surely. What's the cost difference in both time and money? Multiple orders of magnitude.
Text-based news pages are better because they allow readers to quickly scan through and absorb information, without being distracted by flashy graphics or autoplay videos.
You're making a No True Scotsman argument here, no?
OS/2 Warp Launch 1994
https://archive.is/gFj6B
Can you elaborate?

I have not found a use for a VR headset or the Apple Watch, beyond as a toy, or fashion accessory. Even then, it's been so long since I've worn a watch that wearing a watch is awkward. Yet apparently Apple sells a lot of them, and it is the smart watch with the highest number of global sales.
This is the correct understanding. Management is pitting labor and the customers against each other with this system, for the purpose of screwing them both. The correct answer is to tip zero and leave a comment to the effect of "You need to pay your employees more, not pass that responsibility to me." Employees may not be thrilled with this but it will direct at least part of their ire toward management. Putting as much pressure on management from as many parties as possible is the only solution.
The ecological crisis of our age is global warming. Clean mining is important, but it should not be the overriding factor. I agree that the total emissions from production to end of life are important, though
no mention of https://legiblenews.com/ ?
Pay cash, skip the screen
One of my favorite (quite dated, now) 3D art pieces, was "Worth Enough," by Radoxist: https://www.deviantart.com/radoxist/art/Worth-enough-7324787...
> You merely call the outcome of your brain’s competing circuits as “taking initiative”.

We give names to all kinds of outcomes of our brains competing circuits. But our brains competing circuits have evolved to solve a fundamentally different set of problems than an LLM was designed for: the problems of human survival.

> A blind person has no notion of colour yet we don’t claim they are not sentient or generally intelligent.

Axiomatic anthropocentrism is warranted when comparing humans and AI.

Even if every known form of human sensory input, from language to vision, sound, pheromones, pain, etc were digitally encoded and fed into its own large <signal> model and they were all connected and attached to a physical form like C3PO, the resulting artificial being - even if it were marvelously intelligent - should still not be used to justify the diminishment of anyone's humanity.

If that sounds like a moral argument, that's because it is. Any materialist understands that we biological life forms are ultimately just glorified chemical information systems resisting in vain against entropy's information destroying effects. But in this context, that's sort of trite and beside the point.

What matters is what principles guide what we do with the technology.
Which analysts or industries consider liquor to be a foodstuff?
> As the rich can pay any amount for tutors and the kids don't need to work

The rich can pay any amount for a professional to write their entire college essay, milking every diversity advantage they’ve got, send their kids to collect awards in every extracurricular activity under the sun, and take annual summer trips to third world countries to collect subject matter to write about.

Every concern that you have is literally way worse when you change the metric from grades to some other more nebulous metric. At least a poor kid with a 140 IQ can get good grades and a 1570 on the SAT. He can’t take summer trips to Africa so he can write about the orphanage he helped start or something.
> There are business owners making decisions now based on the smoke and mirror demos that people are showing that has convinced them that they won't need developers in a few years

If they aren't doing their due diligence on this then that's their problem. If my example isn't good enough then provide one of your own that you couldn't get to work.
There is an arc to life. Life has phases. There are phases where building productivity makes the most sense, as results have time, runway to compound. Then there are later phases where priorities shift
Not 100% true, foreigners can own up to 1 rai (1600 m2) once they gain citizenship (which takes a bit of effort and a lot of time).
And what is “knowing”?

Everyone repeats the retort you gave, yet I’ve yet to see a clear definition of “knowing”.
I was thinking the same thing. That last frame from game of life to QR code looks very much not like a game of life transition. Apparently GPT is as good at faking visual "work" as it is at faking natural language "work".
I understand this sentiment - it’s just another step of monetized lifestyle. The internet was never free. Remember all those free internet AOL cd-roms? It was never really free. Telephone calls, same. Never had free calls either. OpenAI can be compared to a telephone network operator. They built a system that people want to use, we got to pay. However maybe the tools OpenAI are developing become so ingrained into the publics life that they eventually become public utilities. We still have to pay.
How do you imagine the memory would work?
1. This is a very U.S.-centric view, not everybody has access to FDIC

2. The US has been the economic leader of the world for those hundred years, so of course nobody is losing money under the FDIC. But no guarantees on how long that will last
Do not despair! The best thing we did was to find a good realtor, who knew a good lender, and they gave us the truth about exactly what we needed to do to qualify for an FHA loan. A down payment is no longer necessary; for US citizens.
I spent years in the crypto space and emerged more-or-less a crypto hater. I don't need to rehash that journey.

I acknowledge the plight of people in situations like Argentina, Venezuela, Lebanon, etc. I have many friends who fled such situations and Bitcoin/crypto absolutely would have been of benefit to them.

However, when looking at the numbers helping people in these situations is easily still a net negative when zooming out and tallying what crypto has done to the population generally. For every person that was able to maintain some wealth in these situations there are 100 people who have gambled away everything they have and enabled an entire cast of charlatans, scammers, cybercriminals, and oppressive regimes like North Korea. I don't even want to think what the actual human impact is from suicides, ruined families, etc.

I've provided data in multiple other comments and the fact is there has been tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars invested in crypto over more than a decade for a tiny number of people (one half of one percent of global internet users) to use this stuff for anything (mostly crime and speculation).

Oh yeah, plus the ridiculous environmental and broader societal impact of the complete insanity that is proof of work resource utilization.

Crypto is overwhelmingly evil and an absolute scourge.
Actually, no, GP is right!

If they weren’t given an option to tip while paying with a card, plenty of people would pay with that card and then leave a cash tip in the tip jar at their favorite coffee shop (nobody is going to request that their card be run again for a tip). There are places that make you sign a receipt and add a tip—but that isn’t always part of the Square flow.

Now it’s integrated into the PoS system, so the default option is to give Square their cut for a tip.
>Top down economics like banning a whole industry never work.

However, there have been many industries that have been modified by top-down bans. Asbestos, various pesticides and lead additives (fuel and paint) have been banned due to the harm that they caused and there's a strong case that ICE vehicles cause a lot of problems through their emissions.
The Mac OS seems to do this well (at least I’ve had no problems with it). A few people complain but I think it’s a good idea and it doesn’t get in my way (maybe others?). Would be handy for a lot of Linus installs.

And there are always other Linux distorts (and a few other OSes) if you don’t like it, which is a good thing.
Do you expect this to actually work?

In practice, a small amount of people will not tip in protest, leading to the employees to make less money, and management will not care.
Arduino Uno R4
Humans have feed back loops, we don’t stop, the thoughts keep running as we hear see and feel. Machines has a single input and output.
Are RPMs structurally quite different from DEBs? Or was the problem that RPM tooling was buggy?
If you look at it from the bottom, then yes. SAP/Salesforce/IBM DB2/Oracle/OpenERP are ways for company departments to all work on one common set of data.
Or we could make a generalized solution, like a carbon tax, that will minimize the government picking winners.
As usual, those energy calculations are highly biased, and the way you can tell is that they don't have any error bars on those energy/expense ratios. They also don't include the costs relative to fossil fuel import and refining costs, another indication that it's not an honest analysis. E.g. long-distance transport in rural areas is probably going to be at least as cheap with hydrocarbon fuels as with EVs, while the opposite will be true in cities with robust electricity supplies, and so on.

Additionally, synthetic fuel allows balancing of production and demand of electricity, a major issue when you're relying primarily on sunlight and wind, i.e. exceess PV in the summer months can be converted to hydrocarbon fuels for use in the winter months. See also:

"Synthetic fuels in the German industry sector depending on climate protection level (2021)"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266695522...

Of course, if Germany builds such a project out at scale, it'll greatly reduce demand for both Russian Siberian pipeline gas and fracked US LNG tanker gas, which probably accounts for CNN's negative view and biased presentation, as their top shareholders have major holdings in Exxon, Chevron and so on. I doubt Putin is thrilled about the idea, either.
ChatGPT built this Balaji's bet tracker for me
This narrative is nonsense. To point out one example

>> To further insure that the Bradley appeared impregnable, the Army filled the internal fuel tanks with water rather than with diesel fuel.

No, the reason is so that you can see what got hit by shrapnel and where afterwards, and not have a burned out wreck of metal. The goal of testing is to make improvements to the design, not produce very expensive fireworks displays.

Likewise it was obvious that no amount (or composition) of armor was going to make it survive direct hits from a tank or ATGM, so heavily compromising the design in a futile attempt to do so would be wasteful, as would blowing up several dozen of them with such tests as Boyd and co. wanted to do.

We now have decades of experience with the Bradley and while it's not a perfect vehicle, it is pretty good.
> Imagine if you couldn't run code for an Intel CPU on an AMD chip, who would buy them?

Enough people that the Intel standard would lose out and you'd need to ask the reverse question? (See IA64 vs. AMD64.)

But if you mean, “what if there was a major microprocessor line incompatible with AMD64”, well, its called ARM and lots of people buy it.
The long term plan stays internal to the network, only the next word is outputted.
Your argument would be valid if catholicism or christianity in general would either grow or remain the same througout the western masses, which is not true. The only places in the world where christianity is growing is asia (most noticeably) and probably africa but there's less data for that.

You're right in saying this is mostly common to the american society(which itself propagated to the rest of the world), but I'm doubtful about the implied cause of organized religion. At least in europe this has not been the case for what, a century?
The government needs to regulate ai & tech companies before you have 10x of what's happening in France.
The point of canning is that refrigeration it not required. In fact it preceded refrigeration by about a century.
source? most sources I see put linux around 2-3%, growing actually. https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha...
I get this worry. I didn’t read it this way though. I read it as being more about being conscious in choosing how to spend you time and not assuming that productivity leads to open amounts of person or quality time.

I am lucky; I love the work I do and there is an overlap with what I do as a “hobby.” The place I find myself in this trap is that often the places I am most “productive” are not the places I can do the highest value work, which tends to be slower and harder.
I am more impressed by the reliability of the thing over time if the position is manually initialized.
Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults
Uh, I don't see a /s in your post?
The article (and maybe the book) has a nice message, I guess, but... this is advice for people whose fundamental economic needs are secure and already taken care of.

The vast majority of people on the planet are forced to be "productive" for most of the day so they can just have a few short moments at the end of the day or on a weekend to be "at peace with and bask at merely existing". Because if they didn't the alternative would be starvation of themselves or their loved ones.

This article is all a very "bourgeois" perspective. There are many things us middle class people could do to cut complexity and simplify and live in the moment. But the origin of "the hustle" is frankly just the material reality of every day existence.

It shouldn't really be a surprise that after people get past the brute force problems of not-starving, they run around pushing with the same productive drive elsewhere in their lives and producing needless complexity because it's just part of the fundamental drive that stops you from starving in the first place.

Also once you have kids, "striving for a future that never arrives" is frankly just part of your fundamental being. You will (hopefully) die before your kids or grandkids die. The moment you hold that child in your arms for the first time.. a huge part of you willingly and with deep love begins sacrificing a huge part of your present for a future you will never see.

I love skiing -- among other activities -- because it puts me in this mental space described in this article. But I also see that pursuit of this comes with its own problematic aspects. It is actually super easy to get caught up in the "live the moment", and lose grasp of the obligations that we have to those around us, or to responsibilities that actually bring long-term satisfaction.

I actually think our society has far more of a problem with people pursuing self-satisfying personal fulfillment (at the expense of social responsibility) than it does with people being overproductive.
I think growing a single crop is risky, makes it harder to be self-reliant. My girlfriend grows many different fruits and vegetables, so we’re less bothered by the price changes each season or year. And we can be sure our own food includes a lot of organic produce.