skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are prompting it wrong. I guarantee you that if you gave it the shape of your inputs, your desired output, and good documentation on what you use / how you have solved similar problems, maybe some info on the legacy system or examples it will extrapolate remarkably well. It is important to use it well.
I was not aware until recently that most air conditionings can produce heat really efficiently. For hot water, efficiency is quite low, so using a simple air conditioning for room heating combined with an electric boiler for shower water would achieve a lot at quite reasonable price.
And as for OSX vs linux... apples and oranges. Just depends on what apps I want to run.

Personally I love the ease of machine learning stuff in linux, but thats now a strong suit of Apple hardware too. If you are buying a GPU/NPU-less laptop, I would probably go with Apple, if only so you can run LLMs and stuff locally.
I do indeed. And a sense of meaning is important to help in my quest for survival.

It doesn't matter to me if something is ultimately meaningless (such as the fact that in the end, this universe will cease to exist).

What matters to me is to have meaning in my own life. To feel as if my existence changed something. Hopefully, that "something" I've impacted is other people, and hopefully that impact is a positive one. To have people be better off for having known me.

That, for me, is real meaning.
He didn’t have an insane mandate of Congress, which decidedly was going to impeach him.

It took some time and solid investigation but his party wholesale rejected him and made it clear he had no political future. Nixon was could either resign or be humiliatingly fired.

We no longer have a Congress which values country over party. There’s a good chance Trump could have murdered someone on 5th Avenue and he still would not have been impeached.
I haven't tried it out yet but screenshots are available here: https://gitlab.com/blobfish/cadseer/-/wikis/screenshots

Looks pretty advanced already! It would be great to have more screenshots of the sketch mode though

Did you write your own geometric modeling kernel or are you using an existing one?

Edit: The git history goes back at least seven years! That's a lot of dedication
I dunno, he's the face of the Feds. He sets the tone --this is his purview. He needed to go over there, check it out, figure out the magnitude on the ground and call in the cavalry (EPA, FEMA, etc.) as he saw necessary. But no, it took him two weeks to show his face.
I was more referring to the technical side. Being a doctor will always be lucrative of course, but there's a tremendous amount of tech and technical debt in most medical systems, so there will likely always be demand for people who can manage it. $NewApp might go under, but there will always be demand for medicine (and the tech it runs on).
Ubuntu works pretty good on laptop and desktop. I don’t recall any problems for years. The hardware support is excellent, but if occasionally something is not supported, there can be inconveniences. You should check if your distribution works on that laptop.

I won’t switch because I don’t trust a closed source black box with my life. I can understand what Linux does, and suitably lock it down and customize it.

I support FOSS, and Linux in particular. Freedom is amazing!
Could you please stop posting sensational political/culturewar stories? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, could you please not change titles like this? HN's title rule says "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You should revise your perspective there: we learn from the (bigger and smaller) "giants" in the past, and learning is very different from plain imitation

Ah, I see. So when an AI imitates the things it was trained off of it's simply parroting the material. But when we imitate things we've trained off of, we're synthesizing new information that we've learned from. /s

This ambiguity is exactly what OP sounds like they're talking about in regards to intelligence. Who's to say what parroting is and what synthesizing new information from old ideas is? Where is the line? Can we score how "parroty" an idea is? Can we quantify how much intelligence is imbued in a written statement? There is no firm science (that I know of) that quantifies intelligence, but it sounds like we'll be needing to determine hard metrics to find out if AI is truly intelligent or not. Otherwise, we'll have these circular arguments forever that basically dismiss an AI as being intelligent simply because it's an AI.
You've lost focus. FCEVs are electric vehicles. Admit to that and be happy.
Snap, flatpack and the like are not really sorted out yet and possibly never will be. Best to avoid them and if you cant install from your distro's repo than compile it yourself.

The issue with your friend and their M1 was probably because he was running linux on it and not OSX? he surely could have watched a movie with the native OSX apps if that was not the case.
Statistically speaking, suicide is the #1 cause of gun death in the US, gang activity is #2.

School shootings are far down the list. They get a lot of attention but don't account for a large proportion of deaths.

Of course, that any of these deaths occur is tragic, which is why the most sensible solution is repeal of the Second Amendment and implementation of a nationwide, federal license requirement to purchase or own a firearm. 120-day grace period. License each gun, turn them in, or go to jail.

Let the gangs resort to cutting each other like Japanese gangs.
Some say certain agencies wanted it this way.
Kottke, as an often self-reflective writer, is likely to know much more about his internal mental state than you do. That's my point. So it's not so much that I am assuming he has perfect self-reflection as it is that your wild speculation is much more likely to be off the mark than accurate. That's all I meant.
They said that they use it for metrics, so clearly there must be an "elon impression" metric.
Why don't they just e̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶k̶e̶ learn to code?
This is a great idea - there probably is a way to do this - we'll explore this further. Thank you.
> Of course they are. Nothing in the history of humanity has ever been more clearly tied to "this number means how much worth you have as a human being" as income in the United States does today

We're talking about different things here. Worth as in 'how much value you add to the company/industry ie are you worth paying this much' (which is what we're talking about here) != worth as in 'how American society sees you based on your income and what privileges you have because you're making money'. I agree with your assessment of worth wrt to American society. That is my perception as well.

> I'm not sad to see arrogant FAANG developers get cut down to size a little and learn they're not actually God's gifts to the discipline. For over a decade, it's been automatically assumed that everyone else was a failure who just "couldn't cut it" at a FAANG.

Everyone is responsible for their own assumptions; I don't share the same thoughts as you. Not everyone who got laid off is an arrogant FAANG developer and not everyone working at FAANG thinks they're God's gift to the craft (honestly, anecdotally, I have never seen more instances of imposter syndrome than in FAANG). Do you by any chance frequent the Blind forums?

In the end, I would remind everyone that wage workers hating each other because of how much they make is a God send for the people who actually own the economy. It's non-productive and mistargeted. You need to hate your boss/company if you're not happy with how much you make.
I think you need a special bank account that is only available to Indians living outside and it's a nightmare to keep it active/open.
Does that only happen with the quantized model or also with the float16 / float32 model? Is there any reason to use float models at all?
Everybody remembers January 6 except those who want to pretend it didn't happen.

How many remember the floods of Twitter incitement to hit the gas in their F-150 trucks to run over protesters, and then how many people actually perpetrated vehicle attacks?
I don't think you understand the comment.

If the life expectancy drops, there are fewer elderly to care for.

If people don't make it to 70, you don't have to care for 70+ year Olds. It is a fair thought experiment to explore.

Depending on what your priorities are, it could be optimal for everyone to die before retirement age.
Smaller cars are more dangerous in a multi-car accident.

Most accidents only involve a single car.

There is less control in larger vehicles.

Everyone thinks they are a better driver than they are and the only way they'll end up in an accident is if someone else hits them.

Add all this up and many want to drive larger cars.
Well, technically they are looking for relative changes, not equal total exposures.
The article doesn't really support this claim. It argues SSDs sacrifice speed and durability for capacity and cost and then posits an unanswered question about absolute durability with an ongoing test to find out.

I do wish the test had more than $13 TLC drives though.
Mastodon is way too flawed to be anything but a niche tool for tech people and activists. I highly highly doubt such a system can cross the chasm. That doesn’t mean that’s a bad thing though.
Reading this thread, I thought this press release was going to be interesting. Instead it seems totally anodyne and reasonable. Imagine being so angry that twitter is going to put its recommendation code on github.
I think it's honestly quite fair. He was a presidential candidate and looks likely to run again in the next election - as a consolation prize he was appointed to the department that handles these things and absolutely failed to step up when a disaster directly in his domain happened.

I think it's fair that he's held to a higher standard than Ellen Chao who was pretty much just a nepotism appointment and, as far as I've seen at least, has no real desire to get into serious election competitions.
ImmortalDB: A resilient key-value store for the browser
Amazing! Does it export vanilla bootstrap?
I'm over halfway through it, and it seems to me that Lex just can't wrap his mind around the warning that Eliezer is trying to give him. He's so in love with AI that he just can't fathom how things could go wrong.

I'm convinced the threat is real, but have no idea what the timeline is. I hope, like most things, we'll skate by, and just stop calling it AI once it happens, and treat it like any other tool. I strongly doubt that is true.

I suspect what will actually happen is that peak oil will catch us off guard, and we won't have the spare power available to train GPT7, and that will avert the singularity.
The law binds the people who vote for it. Some individuals may not like the law, but that’s true of any law. You would say “the people voted to impose an income tax on themselves,” even if some people opposed that tax.
Not yet. GPT-4 helped answer some questions I had about the WIN32 API but that's the most use I've gotten out of it so far. I'd love for it to be able to help me more, and GPT-4 is absolutely 10x better than GPT 3.5. But it's just not strong enough at the kinds of coding I do that it can give me something that I won't want to change completely. They should just train a ChatJustine on my code.
> the uptick in driving fatalities [...] An entire generation has to be that much more reckless

Smartphones.
This sounds like CDC workers will have a big lawsuit against the CDC. Their employment contract can't possibly be so bullet proof as to fully waive their right to this?

They should have sufficient protective equipment when investigating these types of disasters.
Couple problems:

1. Actively supplying negative feedback is sometimes hidden behind secondary menus, making it much higher friction compared to just...scrolling past. So most users don't spend the effort. Even with a dislike button, it's unclear what the system is learning. It can't know that I don't like this particular video because it's a conspiracy theory, and to stop showing me those. These platforms often don't even support explicit categories, so how would they know?

2. It's extremely high friction to teach the algorithm you're interested in something that it doesn't suggest to you! There's the whole unknown unknowns problem: how do you teach the algorithm you're interested in something that you've never seen before?

I still think Reddit has handled this the best. No system is perfect, but Reddit's challenges are much more manageable than the quagmire that TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube have gotten themselves into. I can just unsubscribe from r/conspiracy, and I'm out. Basically impossible to teach that to YouTube without weeks of careful curation. They think they're smart enough to know what I like, but they're not and never will be.
Uganda’s first wildlife vet on her revolutionary gorilla conservation
> "Many humans are parrots"

This is becoming common belief among people in the AI field. I'm convinced it is a case of a metaphor overtaking reality. With the LLM model in mind, we can see how Humans are "kind of like" LLMs, therefore we start to believe humans are just LLMs.

Of course this forgets the enormous ways that humans are nothing like LLMs. For example: Humans don't have to read the entire internet to learn how to write complete sentences.
Why would you not switch it into a kiosk mode? Is it even possible to be done on iPad?
You'll read about those but not suicides and that is a greater problem.
100 percent correct.

Ideally you will also partition the data, so your queries can use partitions. Athena charges $5 per terabyte of data scanned, so it's important to get this right.
If you AI partner data can't be stored in an Azure or similar data centre you are a serious small niche person!

Even Jennifer Lawrence stored her nudes on iCloud.
The desktop environment is quite configurable and can adapt to a few different styles of doing things. For example, I like asceticism so I hide the menu bar (clock, etc, on top), hide the dock (list of opened applications and quick-launch icons), and have an empty desktop with just a wallpaper. I use "Spotlight Search" (which you get by pressing meta-spacebar) to launch everything. The search is very integrated with the system so you are able to start applications, search your email inbox, browse bookmarks and web history, open notes and contacts, etc, all with the same search.

But of course there are also feature for people who do things differently. One good example is Stage Manager [1]. There are also things like "Mission Control" and multiple desktops, but I am not the right person to talk about these.

Oh one more thing - seems like Apple likes to reverse things on purpose. So the "x" for closing windows is on the left, and not on the right. The desktop icons appear on the right, not on the left. If you use trackpad to scroll it's also reversed - when your fingers slide down the page slides down as well. Takes some time getting used to this.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7t_BCmY-lg
could you describe a bit what you do that takes days to sort out nvidia driver?
You are the resource. Capitalism is the exploitation of resources to pull in a profit.
That's fine, I respect you ending the discussion if you don't feel headway can be reached.

I will say I feel you are missing my point, and that you are claiming things like COPPA are equivalent because you are at a higher level of abstraction. When you get more specific, you will see that I am correct.

Cheers.
Twitter needs the LeBrons of the world far more than they need Twitter.
Damn, I missed it. Thanks for sharing though, sounded cool!
We are not energy limited. Building new energy production is cheaper and more sustainable than ever.
We are talking groups, not individuals. I think it is quite possible for couple of hundreds of people to cooperate and train something at least as big as LLaMa 7B in a week or two.
This is a strawman argument, the parent comment suggests that chatgpt is useful, not that it's intelligent.
This is spot on. Though, in Memgraph’s context, there is a combination of lock free techniques and raw pointer representation that can work exceptionally well for a large variety of use cases, and even better so compared to others on streaming / event driven / large volume of writes. Using raw pointers, there are also optimization opportunities when storing or rebalancing the graph to maximize the number of adjacent nodes in a cache line so benefiting from sequential representation too.
Dropbox shockingly axed Vault access in the latest macOS update
Stuff like this always has consequences, it doesn’t mean it’s a net negative for society. It means you need to adapt and actually fix the problems, while also benefiting more from the accountability.
Numbers that seem to show lots of deaths to "kids" pretty much always include age ranges old enough to include gang members.

So what if they were? It's pretty damn sad for a person young enough to be considered a child to die from gun violence regardless of who they were! A sad societal failure on top of our failure to set them up with life circumstances that made them unlikely to fall in with a gang.
> It seems to be more like a human who has read large parts of the internet, but doesn't remember anything word by word. Learning from reading stuff was never considered a copyright violation.

This is one of the most common talking points I see brought up, especially when defending things like ai "learning" from the style of artists and then being able to replicate that style. On the surface we can say, oh it's similar to a human learning from an art style and replicating it. But that implies that the program is functioning like a human mind (as far as I know the jury is still out on that and I doubt we know exactly how a human mind actually "learns" (I'm not a neuroscientist)).

Let's say for the sake of experiment I ask you to cut out every word of pride and prejudice, and keep them all sorted. Then when asked to write a story in the style of jane austen you pull from that pile of snipped out words and arranged them in a pattern that most resembles her writing, did you transform it? Sure maybe, if a human did that I bet they could even copyright it, but I think that as a machine, it took those words, phrases, and applied an algorithm to generating output, even with stochastic elements the direct backwards traceability albeit a 65B convolution of it means that the essence of the copyrighted materials has been directly translated.

From what I can see we can't prove the human mind is strictly deterministic. But an ai very well might be in many senses. So the transference of non-deterministic material (the original) through a deterministic transform has to root back to the non-deterministic model (the human mind and therefore the original copyright holder).
Show HN: Simply explain 20k concepts using GPT
Hi HN!

I made a tool that autogenerates simple, high-level explanations of concepts and organizes them in a somewhat university course-like structure so that it's easier to see how things are structured. Currently it has about 20,000 concepts on a range of topics but that's just what I generated so far, it should work with more obscure topics in the future.

I love learning about random topics where I don't have a good background in like history or linguistics, but it's hard to figure out what topics there (you don't know what you don't know) are in certain fields and what they are even about, so this was a way to get the high level idea about random things that I wanted to know about.

It also only uses the information in the GPT model at the moment, so obviously information can't be trusted completely and you should definitely double check any information you read here by Googling. I'm thinking of doing the Bing Chat approach for the next version and adding references, but don't have that yet

Hopefully someone else finds this useful even if it's not perfect!
I have! IMHO any answer is going to be personal, so I'm going to give my personal take.

Advantages:

- Biggest one without a doubt is battery life. This is both a hardware and software issue, but it's such a deal breaker for me who used to work remotely and was always frustrated with Linux because of this.

- High quality hardware. When I used linux I basically chose the closest laptop possible to mac anyway, since they ARE the highest quality in hardware (body case, touchpad, keyboard, etc.). Still nothing comes close by a mile in PC-land. I used to use the Zenbook line.

- The programming transition is super-smooth. As a front-end dev, I did not notice at all the transition from the coding point of view. As you probably know, the new Apple Silicon also is great for dev.

- Better UI consistency. In Linux you have different distros, each with it's own style that in 2023 are pretty great TBH. But then each program will use a different style, so it's a bit of a mess. With Mac you have a consistent UI across all apps.

- As you said, everything (even with the Apple Silicon) basically works out of the box smoothly.

Problems:

- Pushing for Apple services. In the end, it's a platform and they push for their own services. Be it Safari, or having to go through XCode, or the Apple Store, yeah I am not too happy with that.

- In Linux-land there's usually mid-range programs that do the job well, while with mac you have either the super-specialized ones or the not-enough ones. Example: light editing a pic with GIMP, light video editing with KDEnlive, etc.

- Filesystem compatibility, I have my external backup drives encrypted with EXT3/4, and of course that doesn't work with Mac.

- When you do manage to break something (I did in the past by installing python 3 and renaming `python` to point to `python3`) it's a lot harder to fix, in Linux it's easy to just burn a USB and reinstall it all.

- Bunch of punctual problems that were fixed eventually; but point to the flaw that Apple is a single system and you are at their mercy. Couple of generations of all their laptops had terrible keyboards, the Apple Silicon was a lot smoother than I expected but still ofc it was a transition so was a bit painful, etc.
Some ZIP-file handling apps go straight to the end of the ZIP file and work backwards looking for the central directory.

I believe others will start from the beginning of the file and parse each local directory header and 1) build up their own central directory truth, or 2) stop once they've reached the start of the central directory.

I recall that the footer-only format was to enable streaming out a ZIP file esp. when rewinding to the front of the file/stream was not possible, like sending over a network - at least that's one of the use cases I recall.
Why do companies even bother to put source up on github? To put up a front that their open source? What a joke.
Stuff like this always has consequences, it doesn’t mean it’s a net negative for society. It means you need to adapt and actually fix the problems, while also benefiting more from the accountability.

That’s always been a risk of open source and not being hyper-centralized.
I would not call is fascism, but totalitarianism is not far off the mark. Luckily the liberal democrats (a party in Germany) finally grew some balls and stopped at least the most extreme demands of the greens.
You're right, I used the wrong term. I'd say Singapore is still authoritarian in a vacuum though, western democracies aside.
It can be hard to understand complex legal issues. Let me explain.

He was convicted of US Code 18 Section 241 which describes 2 or more people conspiring to deprive victims of their constitutional rights.

Simply tweeting something that is false wouldn't count, and it seems that even intentionally tweeting misinformation wouldn't break this law unless you were conspiring with others to do it.