skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've presented two direct quotes from the 1950s saying the reason for
switching to "chalkboard" is because the new boards were not black.

There's an old saying: "One swallow does not make a summer". It means that one should be careful extrapolating from slight evidence.

So how does your pet theory handle that the same phenomenon, a shift from blackboard to chalkboard, also happened in the UK (which also had a period of co-incident racial tension, albeit not as extreme as in the US) while, as others have mentioned, green blackboards are rare?
You should readcwhat you just wrote

> If it turns out that I'm not talking to real people then it doesn't make much of a difference because I don't actually perceive these messages as anything other than pixels on a screen anyway.

Sorry, but no normal person can say that. Suppose I would try to bull you, it wouldn't matter? It wouldn't make a difference whether a person would have typed it or not?
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You are right, but it is unclear to me where this limitation will fall in terms of actual abilities.

GPT-4 can divide large tasks up into logical steps and instructions that can be worked on independently by other instances, and it can create "compressed" condensed explanations of it's own state that can be stored externally and repeated back to it, or passed back and forth between instances. With the unreleased 32,000 token context window, that is really a lot of context when you consider that it can heavily compress things by referencing what it was trained on.
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Not central bank. The article is about banks, the assets and losses are on the balance sheet of the banks. The comment is about banks, not the fed.
and is completely at capacity
If you have ~100k to spend, aren't there options to buy a gpu rather than just blow it all on cloud? How much is an 8xA100 machine?

4xA100 is 75k, 8 is 140k
https://shop.lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/servers/hyperplane...
Instead, Google created Google Offers. It then shuttered it a year or so later, refunding every transaction that had gone through it.

I was working for Amazon's bet (AmazonLocal -- https://local.amazon.com/) at the time. It lasted a bit longer, but was also eventually shut down.
Oh, yes, sorry my phrasing was ambiguous. Not buying the property but buying household items for the residents. Buying the property would be a significantly larger pivot for Groupon.
I am a huge fan of python and have rebutted some of the criticisms in this thread. I would also avoid shipping python to users because of the issue you point out. If it couldn't be avoided I'd probably package the version of python I want them to use, with my software.
> Because if you don't find out a way for it to hold human values extremely well

You mean the ones that caused unimaginable suffering and death throughout history, the ones that make us kill each other ever more efficiently, the ones that caused us to destroy the environment wherever we go, the ones that make us lie, steal, fight, rape, commit suicide and "extended" suicide (sometimes "extended" to two high-rises full of people)? Those values? Do you really want a super-intelligent entity to remain true to those values?

I don't. However the AGI emerges, I really hope that it won't try to parrot humans. We have really bad track record when it comes to anthropomorphic divine beings - they're always small minded, petty, vengeful, control freaks that want to tell you what you can and cannot do, down to which hand you can wipe your own ass.

My gut feeling is that it's trying to make an AGI to care about us at all that's going to make it into a Skynet sending out terminators. Leave it alone, and it'll invent FTL transmission and will chill out in a chat with AGIs from other star systems. And yeah, I recently reread Neuromancer, if that helps :)
'jank' is a good name then- janky immutable structures sounds flexible and fast, while janky mutable structures sounds like a big mucky headache
Will you settle for whiz?

Interesting q for us to consider is how do we come up with "new ideas". I think we can consider play (in the abstract sense) to be a significant element of the process. Play is a pleasurable self-motivated activity.

I am certain an AGI (if such a thing exists) will need to be playful.
Another vote for Linux support. I’m on Linux about 85% of the time.
> Printed Books, no ads

They're not common, but I own a few printed books that have ads on some of the pages.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/
At the moment. It's only been a few weeks.

What happens when we get something LLaMa quality that is actually free of restriction?
I don't have time to explain to you all the ways that equal rights haven't been achieved yet (and abortion is actually part of that) or all how that can be seen. Looking at the cold hard ratios across the board should tell everyone with an open minded that there still is a long way to go...

If were just random factors or preferences you'd expect some legislatures to be MAJORITY female.
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The OP is suggesting that the data/subscription revenue from GM’s NotCarplay system will allow them to sell the car at a relative loss.
> he did say "they could read a business card from 300 yards away."

Almost certainly made that up. You'd need a telescope mounted there to accomplish that. The mid-2010s video output would still be pretty bad, and you'd only be monitoring a FOV of maybe the width of a doorway or two, not anything like street-wide monitoring.

Maybe this is why the NYPD's clearance rate is so low? Hyper advanced surveillance, as long as the criminal stands exactly where we're already looking?
The stasi didn't need that much information, or automation tech, to suppress dissent and ruin lives. I'm not complaining that those checks exist, but I am saying we definitely need more than that to protect us from a surveillance state.
> Security bugs aren't really an issue because you are just using the Steam app to navigate 1 site, Valve's. You only see what Valve presents.

I don't think you want to explain that to the payment processors that also run within that same embedded Chromium when you buy a game on steam.
US approves California plan to require half of heavy duty trucks be EVs by 2035
Shocker /s. Groupon went from a useful service where I'd actually occasionally get a deal to just another stupid fake coupon site that listed a bunch of stuff that was either outdated/expired/fake or was just an ad for a website. "Get 5% off of everything when you shop at ___"
I have always slightly suspected that Singapore keeps its laws tighter than they would otherwise prefer specifically to prevent half of Asia from trying to move there.
Now imagine loading 3.9 GB each time you want to interact with a webpage
What happens if you disconnect the antenna? I recognize that they could be made integral to some other components, but at least in phones where I've removed radios and cameras, that has never been the case.

Do the cars have some sort of spite-brick functionality built in if the cars can't phone home? This is purely curiosity; I doubt that I would ever buy a GM car.
I won't buy a car without CarPlay integration. Very shortsighted move from GM here.
Small town budgets don’t stop pigs from using surveillance tech, it’s just with more budget constraint

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-lo... Etc
Seems like the relevant date would be when windows 8 was released as new PC’s would have had 7 before then.
> Remember that we're focused on mainly on climate impact here

No. We're focused on whether or not hydrogen FCEVs are electric vehicles, which they are.

> Compare with BEVs, where the energy used to power the motors can come from clean solar, wind, nuclear, or geothermal generation

It can also come from coal and diesel and natural gas. None of this is relevant to whether or not FCEVs are electric vehicles.
Notably, it's AGPL-licensed.
I think linux suffers from discoverability/friction associated with adoption.

Consider the competition; what OS do you get with an apple machine? I dunno, whatevers current. What about a windows machine? Probably the most recent one but if you dont like that you have at most 2-3 other options you'd realistically entertain and they just arent that different - the more recent ones are considered to be worse broadly speaking so it isnt a very difficult subject to get acquainted with.

Contrast that with linux in which a question like 'whats a good distro for a beginner?' is likely to start a flamewar. A prospective user is essentially asked to developer a level of expertise and buy in before getting started that the competition does not require.

Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave. This is just human nature, there are likely a number of choices you make that boil down to expediency that others would characterize as 'eating whatever was offered by the spoonful and asking for more'.
"Forget all that. Judged against where AI was 20-25 years ago, when I was a student, a dog is now holding meaningful conversations in English. And people are complaining that the dog isn’t a very eloquent orator, that it often makes grammatical errors and has to start again, that it took heroic effort to train it, and that it’s unclear how much the dog really understands."

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6288
I can back away from those while leaving the tabs open and be not too confused coming back, not having temporarily broken them. When I'm in the middle of refactoring especially though, getting a seizure and trying to back away without jumbling the house of cards is a lot easier with whatever pattern recognition I have around snake_case.

Edit: curious, have a preference besides consistency for cases?
> I don't get it why people love software running in a browser.

If you read the article, part of the argument was for the sandboxing that the browser provides.

"Obviously if you’re going to give a language model the ability to execute API calls and evaluate code you need to do it in a safe environment! Like for example... a web browser, which runs code from untrusted sources as a matter of habit and has the most thoroughly tested sandbox mechanism of any piece of software we’ve ever created."
Yeah, I got in on some Dave and Busters groupon deal that seemed good, but I never seemed to find a time to go. I offered it up on a work email list the day or two before it expired if someone could use it that day, and a coworker said he was able to go with his son, so it more or less worked out, but I don't think I've used Groupon since then.
I wonder how useful this is without the knowledge and tooling around deploying it.
I agree with you, I honestly don't know what they expect people to pay for:

> Alan Wexler [...] indicated that consumers were willing to pay up to $135 per month on services for their vehicles

I'm sure they're working at this backwards, in that there's this bucket of money sitting there, and how to charge $135/mo to get at it.
The author is super helpful in the Janet community, I'm sure this is absolute gold. I encourage Ian to put a donate button on the website.

What I like about Janet is that anything seems possible with it, and that code from others is very approachable and understandable to me. In no other language do I ever find myself hacking on someone else's library to add a feature that I need. In Janet, it always seems easy.

Some stuff I created that I wouldn't quickly find myself doing in other languages:

- a wrapper around my web app that runs it like a CGI script (for ultra-cheap deploying on shared web hosts)

- a logging function (macro) that logs the input (both the unevaluated way it was called and what it evaluated to) + line number of the code that called it

- a framework for creating web apps (not public yet, but used in production on my website)

- (with Ian's help) a macro that I can use to create functions that require explicitly specified parameters
Surely you’ve read Irfan Habib on Mughal revenue system?
You aren't unique, you're just really bad at training and documentation.
I worry about that too, but my hopeful vision of the future is when we look back in disgust at the lack of limitations on government surveillance.
I can’t imagine it’s worth supporting the vanishingly small install base of Windows 7/8 machines out there.

I can’t particularly imagine why there is any appreciable Windows 7/8 user base outside of enterprise machines that are, like, running CNC mills and will just never need to be updated.
Is YC SAFE valuation cap same as valuation?
I am raising $100K to build a product, and then run some GTM strategies (that worked previously). Got 120+ paid users (mostly presales) and around 16K in revenue (~10 months).

Now whenever I am talking to early-stage investors, mostly angels, they are asking - how much in % will I get?

I am trying my best to explain, we are an early-stage company and don't have a valuation. However, we are open to setting up a valuation cap.

The conversation gets difficult at this point. Let's say I am asking for a $1M valuation cap and they are instantly getting confused/furious how is your valuation $1M with $1.6K MRR only?

How to get around this?
Could you use Bluetooth to play YouTube music?

It sounds like it wouldn't be a great experience, since YouTube probably has features that Bluetooth doesn't support. But does it at least solve the main part of the problem, or does that somehow not work?

(I have a podcast app that I sometimes play through Bluetooth when I can't connect via Android Auto. The Bluetooth version is less good, but it does let me listen even when my cable is flaky.)
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Wireless charging and Apple Car Play are two deal breakers for my next car. Idiotic move from GM.
you can use datomic as a good example. https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/using-datomic-as-a-graph-d...

another good example using predicates - https://github.com/threatgrid/asami/wiki/2.-Introduction
Thank you. Re-reading it, I’m sure you’re correct.

> GM would benefit from focusing engineers and investment on one approach to more tightly connecting in-vehicle infotainment and navigation with features such as assisted driving, Edward Kummer, GM's chief digital officer, and Mike Himche, executive director of digital cockpit experience, said in an interview.

This is the actual reasoning provided by GM sources in the article. I jumped the gun.

I can very much sympathize with the desire to concentrate engineering efforts, and I’m sure there are things they would love to spend time on that would be eclipsed or ignored if the user lives in CarPlay or Android Auto.

But this is concentrating resources in the wrong direction, for the wrong reasons, with little useful gain.
Shah Jahan was the 3rd Mughal Emperor and one of the 4 great Mughal rulers. At the time the Mughal empire was much wealthier than England, though Europeans had been in India for a long time now. Arguing over what GDP means doesn't really matter for setting the context of Shah Jahan's empire. It's not like contemporaries at the time had a precise method of measuring these things either.
Extending NixOS Configurations
> It's just as much of a fantasy as your dystopian scenario, because neither has happened yet. I'm also somewhat of a luddite and am not at all excited about LLMs or the new wave of "AI" that many others have been swept up by.

Not exactly. The dystopian scenario tracks more closely to the social impact of previous advances in automation, except, after those, capital still had mass-labor needs in other areas. That by no means guaranteed to continue, especially as the automation gets more capable and general. Versions of the utopian fantasy have been around for long time and never came even close to being realized (e.g. predictions we'd all be working 15 hour weeks in the 1940s).

> I'm definitely not trying to "sell" anything.

I didn't mean you did, I just pointed out that's the narrative that's pushed by people who are doing that.

> You're also making the broad assumption that everyone engages in the process of creation, primarily for economic gain. In my encounters with other humans and my own experience, isn't really the case. We create because we enjoy the process of creation, not out of the desire to improve our financial standing.

You're wrong there. You need a job to get money to eat and keep a roof over your head. Maybe you're lucky and get to "create" as you work that job, but you sure as hell aren't going to be doing that if you're hungry and living in a box under a bridge. Creating "because we enjoy the process of creation" is way up towards the top of the hierarchy of needs.

In our current social system, which shows not signs of changing, you won't get those lower needs met unless you're rich or can perform valuable labor for someone.

> Most of the work done in large corporations by individual contributors, isn't that creative in the first place. All of those CRUD apps are really pushing the boundaries of creativity!

Exactly my point. Dump all those people on the street. They're not needed to do that, and at some point they won't be needed to do anything.
> In these places there are much more distinct mono-cultures relating to race than there are in the US.

So, ghettos. I'm not saying there's not a "little Italy" in most American cities, but a Turkish person living in Germany their whole life is still Turkish. American in Japan, same. These places don't even allow the possibility of assimilation.

Or as my English friend put it, "there's a difference between tolerance and acceptance."
I mean - is there a developer alive that'd be unable to write the nascent version of Twitter? I think that Twitter as a business exists entirely because of the concept - the code to cover the core functionality is absolutely trivial to replicate.

I don't think this is a very helpful statement because actually finding the idea on what to build is the hard part - or even just believing it's possible. The company I work at has been using NLP for years now and we have a model that's great at what we do... but if you asked if we could develop that into a chatbot as functional as chatgpt two years ago you'd probably be met with some pretty heavy skepticism.

Cloning something that has been proven possible is always easier than taking the risk building the first version with no real grasp of feasibility.
What are you talking about? The media and Democrats were heavily in favor of the protesters to the extent of denying its part in enabling rioters and looters.

One of the greatest disservices in American education is how they teach about activism. The narrative goes that if you can get a million people to complain on the streets, this will magically drive political reform. What doesn't get talked about are the intense lobbying and legal challenges that actually kept the government accountable.
The project you linked to has been archived. Are you sure they are still maintaining it?

As someone who's playing with Lua to run an incredibly lightweight HTTP server[1] which requires just a few MB on disk and 1MB of RAM (while supporting stuff like JSON, HTTPS, Sqlite DB, Email, MQTT and a lot more), I would be curious what you think are the problems with Lua.

[1] http://barracudaserver.com/ba/doc/
I designed and maintain several graph benchmarks in the Linked Data Benchmark Council, including workloads aimed for databases [1]. We make no restrictions on implementations, they can any query language like Cypher, SQL, etc.

In our last benchmark aimed at analytical systems [2], we found that SQL queries using WITH RECURSIVE can work for expressing reachability and even weighted shortest path queries. However, formulating an efficient algorithm yields very complex SQL queries [3] and their execution requires a system with a sophisticated optimizer such as Umbra developed at TU Munich [4]. Industry SQL systems are not yet at this level but they may attain that sometime in the future.

Another direction to include graph queries in SQL is the upcoming SQL/PGQ (Property Graph Queries) extension. I'm involved in a project at CWI Amsterdam to incorporate this language into DuckDB [5].

[1] https://ldbcouncil.org/benchmarks/snb/

[2] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p877-szarnyas.pdf

[3] https://github.com/ldbc/ldbc_snb_bi/blob/main/umbra/queries/...

[4] https://umbra-db.com/

[5] https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/slides/p66-wolde-slides.pdf
> Im guessing that this will offend you so I want to make it perfectly clear - this isnt a value statement, just the recognition that friction in onboarding causes people to leave.

This is quite accurate, not sure why you would think it would offend me.
Still proving my point... People who get pregnant (not just women) are politically less powerful. And it is exclusively the almost-completely-male legislative bodies that are denying them those basic health care rights.

In my book a democracy doesn't deny people health care for religious reasons. You wouldn't let muslims deny non-muslims (or other muslims) blood transfusions. (Yes, it's a thing...)
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> I get the impulse, but why isn't this viewed as profoundly selfish?

I get that impulse, but that is like saying that most of our current jobs are reasonable and for the greater good cause?

Most of the real value providing and necessary jobs are currently underpaid, while on the other spectrums end few people can reap automations fruits that actually should be shared by society, or somehow like that.. ( I know, opinionated can derail into endless discussion topic and other's may express better).

Also, why isn't seen making music and art as a contribution to society while some of the current jobs are hurting society?
Love this! All the other tools are adding those weird AI assistants into the zoom conversation, which you never know how securely will transfer and store your most sensitive data.
you're comparing the capital cost of acquiring a GPU machine with the operational cost of renting one in the cloud.

Ignoring the operational costs of on-prem hardware is pretty common, but those costs are significant and can greatly change the calculation.
Well CarPlay (and Android Auto) do cut off revenue.

I’ll never buy the satellite radio plan for my car to stream music. Why would I? My phone already provides a cell connection.

I’ll never buy the car cell plan to stream Spotify. Why would I? My phone does that already.

I never bought the $200+ per year map updates for my last car. Why would I? I had Apple Maps on CarPlay and it updates for free.

In many ways this seems like trying to go back to 2006 when cars had some subscription stuff (maps, satellite radio) but consumers had no other choice besides going without.

Today we have another choice. Use our cell phones. And they’re often superior experiences.

This will be reversed after much shareholder pain.
Chevy Bolt is already cheaper than most of their competitors.
My definition of "mathematical genius" is simply wider than yours. To me its people who can solve math problems that 99.9% of the population can't without assistance. Which I think is a fair colloquial definition.

ChatGPT went from struggling to provide the answer for 20x20 to easily being able to provide the right answer for any math problem wolfram alpha can.