skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would have been cheaper to just seize their assets under financial evasion and terrorism laws, apologize, and post them up to be claimed by anyone who shows up in person with the key. No need to collapse the system and spend $20b USD just to tempt people into making a taxable claim upon assets!
> Discharge our own duties and responsibilities regardless of others' conduct;

Looks like they nailed that one.
It's pretty easy to game the system in terms of an EV. Get the credit for the EV, install a fossil fuel charger/range extender in the back and you have a hybrid that can do range and charges on fossil fuels. It's not as green but it is isn't as disruptive to the system.
Why won’t a drop-in replacement battery be a better deal than a new car after 10 or more years?
Software Engineering definitely plays a big part. It can be seen as the ways to build the tools to augment the actions, automate processes, and help in building tools to remove CO2e (Carbon Dioxide equivalent).

However, thinking in terms of what IDE settings, configs, etc. and the act of software engineering with regards to Climate Change is too minuscule an impact that it may not have the desired effect.

For instance, in 2018, I help build a functioning aeroponics farm right in the middle of the city and supplied produce to some local eateries to test/experiment on our hypothesis. The entire operation ran on a single Raspberry Pi and the nutrient feed timing and feeding was automated. That is software engineering helping as a tool.

Yes, we can use Software Engineering as one of the key means to our end goal and do have big role to play which can have an outsized return in fighting climate change.
Better to have their stomach pumped at a hospital and get IV NAC - it's too dangerous to treat at home, this is a serious condition and you can not treat it yourself.
You probably didn't blind it correctly, eg if you converted 24-bit to 16-bit then it has two levels of dithering and would naturally sound different.

This guy seems to be doing an unblinded comparison between 16-bit, 24-bit, and DSD which is 2.8 MHz 1-bit. IIRC DSD converts to PCM at around 96KHz/20-bit, so comparing it to 192/24 is kind of funny.

But you can just look up dynamic range - 16-bit dithered audio is enough to record someone whispering in your ear while using a jackhammer without protection. That should be enough for music.
Are you sure?

This is for inference, not training, and I’d do it on blocks of code with less than 4096 tokens. That’s what I have to do with gpt 3.5 turbo via api.

I can do what I want with the API and it is around 1-2 cents per batch of code I run through it, typically 400 lines of average code is around 4k tokens.
Ghidra is genuinely an awesome software, you don’t need to be a reverse engineering expert to use it.

And with LLMs like GPT it will be able to do insane stuff like automatically analysing very complex malware.

On the other hand I’m sure malware will evolve too, with LLMs you can actually directly edit the binary and add hooks to them. Cost of building firmware malware for NICs and UEFI will lower to zero dollars.

Anyway I’m getting out of topic but this was something I really wanted to mention somewhere, it is likely there will be a massive amount of complex malware coming via LLMs that will potentially impact the entire economy.
:D

Somewhere in my NAS lives Mac classic OS, system ROM images, and hgx and sit files.

I'd love it if there were an abandonware place for all of the good stuff, with serial numbers, well organized similar to winworldpc.

Archival is important. It's not stealing, it's preservation. Without preservation and history, cool things and knowledge dies in unknowable, unseen distant obscurity.
wow, so this is setting a precedent?
Holy crap, that’s some income barrier
Exploring the dataset is very interesting: https://atlas.nomic.ai/map/gpt4all_data_clean_without_p3

Some topics, like the Battle of Hastings, seem vastly over represented. Others seem absent.
The problem is the .NET ecosystem. Most of the truly useful frameworks and libraries are either commercial or freemium, and Microsoft is happy to play along and support this cottage industry instead of releasing free in-house versions and crushing the overpriced third party ecosystem.

Another issue is that Microsoft 's first party libraries are now increasingly designed to funnel you into Azure services. The language is great, but the ecosystem is rotten.
If you don't need the extended range of a brand new battery, I think you'll be able to pick up a used one for cheap soon enough.

My parents bought a Tesla a few months ago because their Leaf's battery life fell below the point where they could get to work and back reliably on a single charge and they spent months waiting for a battery replacement (they're still waiting). If their supply problems continue, people are going to start dumping more and more used electrical cars and going back to gas or to companies that can actually keep up battery supply like Tesla.
Lovely page layout.
Feels like an overly long game though :)

I was scared by "50 custom hooks": why is that a good thing? (honest question).
It seems daunting to have to learn when and why you'd use them.
> ...you couldn't really rely that everyone had seen all the episodes; who can always be at home at a given date and time? People got lives to lead.

I'm gonna take a guess that you are younger than 35-40 years old? Back in the days without any time-shifting technology, many, many people planned their schedule around what time a TV (or even older, a radio) program aired. Lots of shows in those days had multi episode arcs. My personal shows that were scheduled in my weekly life were Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and The Dukes of Hazard. My mom never missed The Barbara Mandrell show (although there was no story line there) and my grandma never missed her daytime soap operas (obviously lots of multi-episode stories there.)
What will the role of AGIs be in wars?
Will countries/armies have their own AGIs and have them ‘fight’ each other? Will ‘good’ states flounder because they will input ‘ethics’ on their AGIs whereas ‘rogue’ states won’t be limited by anything?
> People are buying EVs because they're better.

And absurdly subsidised[1]. And I suspect this figure doesn't include the indirect subsidies, such as exemptions from certain taxes.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332156/average-ev-finan...
> We don't have a bunch of coolant and pumps sloshing around

I thought all mainstream EVs were liquid-cooled? I'm sure the motor and battery still need cooling, though perhaps less than exploding dino juice engines. If this weren't true, Tesla wouldn't sell branded jugs of coolant ;-)
That's maybe a bad comparison because blockchain was practically useful to no one whereas chatgpt, copilot, et al are legitimately starting to become useful tools.
Thanks! I was interpreting the comment to mean code that wasn’t in the standard library repository, which surprised me.
The undercover cop is asking people for controlled prescription drugs. The cop claims they have a medical need and a prescription. The cop says the only reason they can't get the meds legally is one of the standard system errors that delay getting drugs in this country.

Let's call the person giving the drugs Sally. If Sally has a previous conviction for drug-related crimes this isn't entrapment. If Sally has no criminal record it is entrapment and she walks free. I think she should walk free regardless, i.e. it's always entrapment.
With motorcycles, you gotta learn “push right to go left” or you’re gonna end up in a bad sitch! But the physics of it are pretty mind boggling.
Does any of that exist? Sure you could put a generator in your trunk but without making structural changes to the car that wouldn't really work.
Hey I didn't invent Chinchilla, blame google for that.
One idea about Excel: Keep it running all the time, with a new, empty doc. Then, you never pay the start-up cost. Laughably, that is my strategy these days. Same for Adobe Acrobat.
It more complicated than that unfortunately.

New Zealand has an accident compensation system which pays for accidents (though there may be a small surcharge) but not most medical events. They split the hair finer that is sane. Swallow a foreign body? Medical problem. Swallow a foreign body as say ‘it feels scratched’? Accident. Insect bite? Medical. Mosquito bite? Accident (it’s a distant memory from when I billed these things but I’m fairly confident I’m right).

It’s all to do with cause and effect, and each must be identified.

The accident compensation scheme covers a portion of wages too. Medical problems cost, not US style but not free.
So once again, humans are the dangerous part, clearly, if we didn't have destructive tendencies in our psyche that we're using to train these models, we wouldn't build things that would be interested in destruction.

Interesting.

I don't think we're as intelligent as we believe we are which I doubt we will ever actually build a super intelligence, we're too stupid. Even something 10x smarter than us may actually be quite "stupid".
I can report the same experience. It was a paid for copy of Windows 10 Pro that I upgraded for to Windows 11
That’s not what I was suggesting.

Plan of action:

1. Schedule date #1 (e.g., at 5pm at a coffeehouse).

2. Schedule anything else at 5:30pm or 6pm. This can be date #2, something with friends, or even just a phone call to someone (like a friend from high school or a dear relative). No need to lie.

3. If date doesn’t work out, just announce your scheduled plan and dip. You might not get out at 5 minutes, but you can get out at 15-30 minutes easily.

4. If date does work out, you can reschedule your plan from point 2 (at 5:30 or 6) and extend date #1. Or you can end date #1 as scheduled and just give positive vibes about round two with that person.

Dating, especially online dating, is a numbers game. You have to figure out how to meet (potentially) a lot of people, ideally in a short period of time.

When I was doing online dating, I typically scheduled 3-4 first dates a day on weekends, or 2-3 first dates on weekdays (again, these were just “get to know you” dates). Most second dates were the only date that day, and third dates were almost always designed for intimate outcomes (in my dating area, you run a serious risk of getting ghosted if the romance isn’t happening by then).

I do have to ask, are you male or female? I’m a male, and I’m not sure how this might be different for females — possibly a very different dynamic.
This is great, I've loved Karpathy's videos. Perhaps this is out of scope, but have you considered an "Applied LLM" section?

I know prompt engineering is a lesser art, but I think some of the literature on in-context, self-consistency, self ask, CoT, etc might be useful. Here's my favorite lit review on the subject (no affiliation): https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...
Here in Europe, we will have to buy them because the alternatives will be banned.
Namecheap is hardly small fry in terms of domain registration. It's no Amazon no but they just have a much smaller portfolio of services.
indian developers are extraordinarily talented. it's just more convenient to give up on them in one go. good luck to github for hiring in india again in the future. very short-sighted
I agree. I am currently stuck in a rut where everything seems meaningless, and I can’t find the motivation to do much of anything.

I desperately yearn for a meaning/purpose to serve as a source of internal motivation…

Up until now, the only thing that has been a “motivation” for me is a fear of failure, so that’s what I rely on to get anything done.
There are two, mostly disjoint groups warning about AI. There are the people worried about comparatively mundane effects from comparatively mundane systems: job loss, spam, disinformation, maybe an occasional unfair loan-application rejection. These concerns don't have nothing going for them, but in all but the worst-case-scenario versions, these just aren't bad enough to make AI not be worth it.

Then there's the people looking ahead, foreseeing a future where superintelligent AIs are more powerful than humanity, and worried that most possible variations of those superintelligences are incentivized to destroy us.

I think this open letter puts much too much emphasis on the petty stuff, I think because they're trying to appeal to people who are allergic to anything that requires extrapolating more than a little bit into the future. But buying more time for alignment research, before we tackle superintelligence, does meaningfully improve humanity's odds of survival, so I hope this happens anyways.
Presumably, there were a lot of lifers at MSFT during the Windows 7 years, yet I would consider the software being delivered during that period as being pretty good.

The decline happened after they fired off their SDETs and turned their customers into testers. The hyperfocus on cloud didn't help. Neither did the move towards clunky Electron apps, instead of first-class Windows applications.
> Just pick any news article about any large projects migrating from C/C++ to Go/Rust.

Judging usefulness of a language based on news article doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

> Sure, all FAANGs have been writing most of their core software in these languages, but they've also invested a lot of resources in building alternative languages that were simpler but equally performant/expressive.

Sure they invested in new languages but don't forget they also invest much more in existing ones.
It's a busy franchise. They're doing a lot of reboot, but also a lot of new stuff. Lower Decks is actually excellent Star Trek. Prodigy and Discovery are also new directions for the franchise.

They all get a boost from explicitly connecting to the existing characters, but some of the new characters have staying power. The animated format is really good for the Trek vision of a diverse galaxy.
It was trained on the internet. Shithead AI is already lurking beneath the veneer.
And their patch was indeed merged: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/027ac58e3c757277dd6...
It's $0.590/hr to rent an A6000 48GB gpu on jarvislabs.ai, which you can do right now, and run the 30b (or 65b with some hard work) model and get incredible results. No confidentiality agreement required :)
Python is just a scripting layer coordinating high performance libraries written in C, C++, assembly, and GPU instructions.
>Buying a "high end GPU" isn't buying a 4090 or even two, it's 250k on a DGX unit and putting it in a datacentre. You will probably be able to find a service that would sign a confidentiality agreement and provide you with this service for less than 250k.

I haven't started to play with LLMs locally in anger yet, but I was under the impression that you could use a 4090 in combination with FlexGen to achieve this rather than having to buy special hardware?
That's literally what they did in the video, I recommend you watch it. The issue is: you think you can just lean on the side you want, but you can't without counter-steering, so they devised a bike that literally does not allow counter-steering: you can't take a turn at all.
They're not a scientific organization. They're the professional association for two specific types of engineer, electrical and electronic.
Agree. I'll be sad if all we do is simply electrify our shitty 5-ton asphalt tanks.

With the price of modern automobiles you would think the industry was absolutely ripe for disruption. If IKEA came out with an electric tuk-tuk for $4K I suspect the Big Three would lose their shit.

Hey, but I'm a dreamer.
Can I get a single license for Windows 10 LTSC?
I was under the impression that you need to buy multiple lisences.
Yeah, I'm not touching EVs until Mazda makes a dumb and cute one with physical buttons and dials.
The colors don't look like they used to because modern displays are much brighter and higher contrast. (and are 2.2 gamma not 1.8)
Facebook also blocks private chat messages with links to some cannabis-related websites (and presumably other things; it doesn't really explain what happens, you just suddenly get an error message).
american have accents too to the rest of the world, but very less
My advice: have someone curate it for you, or use a curated list of episodes. Many series start off rocky and this one more than most.
OpenAI vs. Government/defense agencies. Who’s further along the AGI race?
I'm not sure this is true. They're a lot heavier and on most cars the brakes should be powerful enough to lock the wheels which is the max braking power you're going to get.
> EDIT: People don’t like to hear the truth.

Do you have a source to back up your claim that that's the truth?
Rust is SCALAble :) #dadjoke
If this was a "Show HN" it would be disqualified, it's a landing page collecting emails.

Best of luck to the creators, I'm sure they'll do well because React is job security for its adherents - the "IBM" of front end development.
Honestly, they only issue I run into is that they tend to speak English extremely fast.
Because computer freedom should be a universal right.
Second IC (2021)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg
the issues is these top talent often get offers in the us so they leave. so the churn is horrible
You know, I think we have to decide whether we're going to be curious and educated people who think and analyze or do we want to devolve to forever teenagery. Automation + AI may afford us to forgo the rigors and the work of learning -but at what cost to self? One could ask, what is the cost of a dog or a monkey not attaining human intelligence --to them it means nothing. To a human not being leaned but instead a base individual, basically illiterate and innumerate but full or emotions not understood seems to be a wrong turn.
Once you start using React for some time, the benefits of these hooks becomes obvious. Think of them as small utilities, like lodash, or standard lib. Reusable snippets of code that you occasionally need.
> EVs are gradually working their way into the used market.

What does a new battery run?
For the Dumbledore demo I asked, "What are the 3 unforgivable curses?" and it was unable to provide an answer.

https://ibb.co/bL61nDk

Would your tool work in gated knowledge bases for example training courses behind logins?
Assuming that everyone in the world got an EV with a 100 ft^3 battery pack, and every 5 years that battery pack was replaced with a new battery pack and the old one was sent to a landfill, and that peak population will be 10 billion people, 72 battery landfills that are 20 miles x 20 miles x 50 feet deep would be enough to last 200 years.

We will need to eventually figured out something better than disposing of batteries in landfills, but we have a long long time to figure that out.
There aren't as many East Europeans.
The behaviors you are describing (and tacitly defending) - continually getting impatient with, and browbeating (not just criticizing) others - are those of overgrown kidults, basically. Not highly skilled professionals.
india has a thriving tech start up scene so they are much better off serving local entrepreneurs
We shouldn't adopt 'general censorship' positions, but if China censors US media, then the US should center Chinese media.

I believe in reciprocity. If someone treating you poorly, there's no reason you need to keep allowing them to walk over you.
But that's way beyond someone coming from JS or Python, just being excited that there are types on the parameters and the compiler tells you when basic things are wrong.
POTS is such a underserved health issue. Really awesome to see someone working on a solution.
This is an Americanism. In many parts is Europe copyright claims over copyright from the US are honoured, but yet, violation of TOS by itself does not put you in risk of criminal lawsuit.
America tends to show its problems out in the open unlike other powers. Other powers have much worse problems, such as a shrinking/aging population, lack of economic prospects or resources.
Wealthier people will have more AI compute power available to them to continuously take care of their interests, and "defend" against attacking AIs that will try to work against their interests.
> A Hyundai Kona is 26.5k after tax credit

Since the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Kona is no longer eligible for the tax credit, since its final assembly is not in the US. So it's more like $34k.
Only concern is this violates terms of use of the proprietary LLM API, at least that is true for the current OpenAI API
They were both more efficient than walking. Humans will put up with death traps if it means more efficiency in transportation (just look at car fatalities). The only reason they didn't took off faster was the lack of roads. And by the time we had tarmac roads bikes already evolved to have chains and read drive.

Watch a kid on a balance bike and tell me how it's not practical, lol. A 4 year old can bike around a whole park in seconds.
> React is job security for its adherents

It is true, but React isn't that bad. I think it's overused but being real, it has a lot of value.
Malleable software in the age of LLMs
You are comparing apples to oranges. Many banks offer custody services which are off balance sheet for them. That is they don’t count as assets or liabilities because there is no use of the custodial securities by the bank.

The big difference is that you pay for the privilege of using a banks custody services. That’s why most people don’t use them for cash, it’s equivalent to putting cash in a safe deposit box, it depreciates even in deflationary times.

Signatures crypto clients were not doing that. They were loaning money to the bank in order to achieve yield. No matter who it is you loan money to, you have counterparty risk, banks just happen to be one of the most regulated debtors in the world and depositors have unprecedented creditor rights.

No crypto firms have that same level of security.
I think after about a year in tech consulting I developed a pretty robust ability to understand accents that most Americans have trouble with. Chinese, Russian, Indian, Nigerian, you name it. I guess if someone wants to practice they could listen to Kitboga or something.
Right? His posts are an equivalent of new GTA releases when I was a kid.
I went on holiday and was not able to access the account. But I was getting email alerts, at least they were set-up. So, on an alert I would've tasked someone to deal with that for me. I don't travel with my Yubykeys, see...
Preventing the development of nukes entirely was obviously not going to happen. But delaying the first detonations by a few years, and moving the Partial Nuclear Test Ban treaty up a few years, was quite achievable.

Whether delaying AI development a little matters depends on whether you think the success of AI alignment, applied to future superintelligence, is overdetermined to succeed, overdetermined to fail, or close to borderline. Personally I think it looks borderline, so I'm glad to see things like this.
It would be nice if they'd offer something FCC compliant rather than unshielded eye candy.
Oh no! Let me manuially add the 3 unforgivable curses to the library. The way I did the dumbledore demo was upload a PDF for each of the 7 books and there ~might~ not be an explicit section in harry potter that states all of them at once?
Just the laziest conspiracy theory too. Signature had nearly 90% uninsured deposits and 20% of their deposit base was from crypto or other "digital asset" companies. It was set up for a bank run.

They lost 20% of their deposits in a matter of hours on the Friday of the SVB collapse which left them with a negative balance at the Fed. When the Fed and FDIC asked them how many withdrawals were queued up for Monday morning and how much money they needed to borrow from the Fed window to stay solvent, the bank couldn't tell them because their systems weren't capable of doing so. Absolute clown show.
Why though? HR is right to be leery of allowing people to work overseas when the legal status of that is doubtful, but Iceland apparently went out of their way to clarify that situation.