skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain or point towards an explanation, what the performance impact of such a query is? How does it scale with number of edges or depth of recursion? Is there a special smart way of indexing this to be efficient?
> Retiring isn’t that fun when you’re in your 30s

I would kill to retire. All I want to do is make art, music, cook, hike, kayak, and travel on the cheap. I have about.... 1/20th of the savings needed.
Alleged copyright infringement: https://torrentfreak.com/project-gutenberg-public-domain-lib...
space is expanding AND things are moving apart.

where does red shift come from if things aren't moving apart?
GPT-4 can do this. I realize that a description of how these models work implies that this is absolutely impossible, so I have no explanation other than suggesting you go try it out for yourself.
According to Pew, the wall they ran into is that their policies are not popular enough.

But anyway, I do not consider Trump as having been rendered ineffective, and he certainly isn't buried.

More centrally, there's no obligation of those with the (literal or metaphorical) printing presses to spread the good word Our Favorite Populist of the moment. In the USA, we ceded control of "the press" to the private sector, without any expectation that they would ever act against the interests of their owners. There's no reason why any multi-(m|b)illion corporation is ever going to champion Bernie Sander's policies. On the other hand, Trump's policies (from day one) were just fine for the largest news organization on the planet, precisely because they were never threatening to the status quo.

If people actually want to hear populist policies, they're going to have to pay attention to something other than corporate owned media, regardless of its nominal political orientation.
The next big ESG battle
more importantly, do the games run?
But maybe there isn't much to 'improve'...? I suspect this is the feeling shared by those who appreciate it.
so you're saying Valve should release software that, if a bug appears in this now unsupported Chrome version, is now susceptible to this bug that will literally never get fixed?
They also mention how it was previously run out of Las Vegas, so it could just be to highlight the immense shift in distance.

It could be a way to emphesize remote work.

It could be a way to show that they're stupid for not working out of SF, or it could be away to show that they're smart for not working out of SF.

Really, anything goes here. Up to the reader to decide.
Sweden here.

I do the same thing. One phone number is just unusable and I don't answer any calls anymore, mostly UK callers recruiting, or other random spam.

The other, which I don't give to almost anyone except close friends/family, gets no spam. Not sure where my first phone number ended up to become spam target, but I remember I got a call once, when that was really uncommon, which an offer to change insurance companies... I was pissed off with my previous company so I actually did it, and it actually worked well, it was not malicious... but since then I think I was added to a list of "spam-friendly idiot" or something.
> My company asked me to install WhatsApp once, but I explained to them why I don't use it, and they didn't have a problem with it.

IANAL but if this is on your personal device they can't compel you to do so. Otherwise they need to provide a company issued device.
While this is obviously a dumb move, there are 2 upsides for Italy:

- Italy, like the rest of south europe is hobbled by an army of bureaucrats doing busywork and their jobs are the first to be threatened by an AI speaking fluent Italian. So it helps them to keep unemployment from getting even higher

- It's an opportunity for an Italian company to create a model and grow in this window of opportunity. Italy has great engineers
Yep, the tipping point for me was seeing a demo of GPT-4 writing code, then being shown exceptions where the code failed, and successfully fixing the code given that feedback.

Seems that for any task where you can generate an error signal with some information ("ok, what you just tried to do didn't succeed, here's some information about why it didn't succeed"), GPT-4 can generally handle this information to fix the error, and or seek out more information via tools to move forward on a task.

Only thing that's really missing is somebody to crack the back of a memory module (perhaps some trick with embeddings and a vector db) is all it takes for this to be AGI.
How do you see this advice changing in 3-5 years?
> There's no question that developers using a nice IDE to write high-level code on a large monitor are able to product more code more quickly than someone writing assembler on a dumb terminal, I hope.

This is true. It's also true that the code they produce is of lower quality. In practice, for the most part, this doesn't matter because the industry has decided that it's more economical to make up for poor quality code with more performant hardware.
lets compare apples to apples.
1 - Scientific Libraries are written C python use as glue code.
2 - Almost all of web frameworks are written in Python except Blacksheep where core parts are written in C.

From that presepective , most python libs are written in python only.
Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
No, it's the reverse of Vested.

Vested is for Indian residents to invest in US, we are for global NRIs to invest in Indian financial instruments.
This is not true at all. The people most affected by high inflation are the lower-income people, who don't have flexibility. It's not always easy to just "find a new job". And salaries rarely are commensurate with inflation. Food inflation in the UK hit 18%, since when did low-income salaries go up that much? Spoiler alert: it doesn't and just leaves lower-income people in a deep hole.
I never had a time share but I thought you owned a condo for say the first half of April. How do they make it difficult to use that?
If by 'mess with' you mean 'regulate', is a kinetic energy based approach to safety a good enough of a reason? My worldview: The average truck in America is perhaps 32 times as heavy as the average automobile. That means they carry 32 times as much energy at the same speeds, and deserve 32 times as much scrutiny for their behavior on public roads. Much the same way I believe car drivers deserve 6-7 times as much scrutiny as bicyclists, and again bicyclists perhaps twice as much scrutiny as pedestrians.

Scaling this up, I would invite you to think of a similar scenario with rest rules on plane and train operators being broken, and see how you feel about being a passenger on one of those. Are those rules harassing pilots? Air travel is booming! Pilots want to fly! Let them fly!
> 4. Pegular expressions

Good one. PEGs feels like having a parsing superpower compared to regexes.
So? Nothing will happen. Police are above the law.
Where can I find a good, constantly-up-to-date overview of what is possible with AI?
Related, I suppose, but indirectly. From elsewhere:

> GM said it expects its in-car subscription services to generate nearly $2 billion in revenue this year and will reach as high as $25 billion by the end of the decade

I assume they view Carplay/Android Auto as a barrier to their subscription plans. Why would I pay for Map Updates, or Sirius subscription or whatever if I can just plug my phone in?
I think that approach could be explained by the inherent difficulty in modelling risk for complex systems.
Been a NixOS user for over a year now, quite happy with it, can you go over why 2 and 3 are "necessary"?
Well this sucks.

I bought a Chevy Blazer last year, and it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. Great balance of design, gas mileage, comfort, etc.

I was definitely planning to make my next car the EV version of this.

Part of that package is flawless CarPlay integration. It’s simplified the music and navigation experience more than I ever thought possible.

The only reason I wouldn’t demand it on my next car is if something demonstrably and overwhelmingly better came along.

Everything described in the article sounds worse.

Subscription services tied to my car and not my phone?

Needing to maintain navigation routes on my car AND my phone?

Being forced to use only built in apps like Spotify instead of “whatever is on my phone that supports car play”?

Waiting on my car to decide when I can get the newest navigation app or the latest update to Spotify like this is some janky non-Roku smart TV from 2012?

No thanks.

> GM's decision to stop offering those systems in future electric vehicles, starting with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer, could help the automaker capture more data on how consumers drive and charge EVs.

That doesn’t even make sense.

NONE of those things would require an absence of CarPlay, nor would they require the presence of some omnipresent Google / GM replacement.

Those metrics are all collected by the systems using them, with the infotainment simply being one possible UI for display of those metrics.

Sucks. Just when I found a car brand and manufacturer that seemed to be doing things well, and I was excited for the EV version of it, they pull this.

Why can’t I have nice things?
You can, but I'm not convinced that is as efficient. As someone who uses keyboard a lot, even for window management, I still reach for mouse whenever it is convenient. That's just one example. When you think about all the little information around (like in the status bar below), all the GUI elements like buttons. Just think about how IDE shows text at different sizes depending on the context, that alone should be a good argument against a CLI editor.
How many tools are accurate? Every tool needs guidance and quality checks. If you turn the knob of your light switch and you stay in the dark, you need to find out whether it is the switch, the bulb or the net is broken.
good question. No idea. I didn't ask, and wasn't there as a laid-off tech worker. :) I was visiting a friend who moved there a decade ago, and scootering around the island.

So, I had good food, met lots of interesting people, read books in beautiful places, and saw beautiful sites.

I called it 'a research trip for bringing better scooter norms to the USA'. Bali's scooter game is fire!
So why aren't we all paperclips?
>It more like asking the US government to get involved

US gov has direct jurisdiction over 4% of the worlds population and some pretty decent indirect influence over the other 96%.

It's good, but nowhere enough to prevent secret marshmallow eating on a global scale. Not even close
> Again that totalitarian idea that we should all agree on something and then all do the same?

No, this is the consequence of the evolved nature of consciousness, combined with our current cultural norms (educational curriculum or lack thereof being a key component, the quality and forms of our various media (reality synchronizers) being another). This is but one of the many strange (if you look very carefully) rituals a sophisticated system would address.

> Why not everyone just live and let other live and decide for themselves. Then, if majority is wrong and they all die, there will still be some people to survive.

It's a fine idea! I would run it through some workflows and see if it comes out the other side still intact - my guess: it wouldn't (just at a glance, it would fail based on lack of attention to risk management).
The article is talking about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor.

It refers to an 1887 patent application with 218 pages. Here's part 1 (specification) at 55 pages:

http://www.archive.org/details/PaigeCompositorUS547860Text60... (granted 1895-10-15, that tracks with the 8 year review period mentioned in the article.)

And here's part 2 - 163 pages full of lovely mechanical drawings:

https://archive.org/details/PaigeCompositorUS547860Sheets600...
It also means prices are higher. A significant portion of the population lives on fixed incomes or don't have the means to switch to a higher paying job, and were getting destroyed in the high inflationary environment.
You clearly have no idea how much money is spent on border security, given that the DHS budget is $50 billion, the Coast Guard another $10-15 billion, etc. every year.
Seems similar to ours. We only used bigquery and it seems they are not getting those money.
Point taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War#Political_...

Certain geo-/demo-graphic configurations appear to host cyclical historic patterns, like groundhog's day in shifting period customs and arms. The matrix Rome-Armenia-Persia for example also seems to run on a cycle. It seems this phenomena is a natural byproduct of being wedged between powers.

(Not familiar with East Asian history but it would not surprise me to see similar phenomena over there as well.)
Last year I would've said the Steam Deck was kinda a dumb idea. Then I bought someone in my household a Switch. Now I understand and want one.
Right now it has a limited attention window (short term memory) of up to 30,000 or so tokens so it can fit at most that.

If you could fine-tune the model you could feed in your code base and bake it into the network weights (long term memory)

With fine-tuning you could get good results with a less powerful foundation model than you would otherwise.
> Hopefully, the direction of that long way is relegate python (and javascript!) to legacy languages.

People writing in JS are usually techies who could/would migrate. People writing in Python are on a wide spectrum that goes from "one-step-above-matlab" to "know-it-all-c-wizard". You won't actually get all these people to move on any reasonable timeframe.

HN is biased because we tend to love tech and a lot of us know several languages, but Python is much more democratized. My friends in physics, biotech, mechanical engineering, basically everyone in STEM is using Python and to them it's a tool that took a lot of time to learn and they won't drop it all because dependencies are hard.
> Why is that an error?

First. It seems like these AI models depend on the underlying hardware acceleration doubling, which is not really the case anymore.

Second. All AI's I've seen suffer from the same works fine until it just flips the fuck out behavior (and starts hallucinating). You wouldn't tollerate a programmer that worked fine except he would ocassionally come to work high enough on bath salts to start claiming the sky is red and aliens have inflitrated the Wall of China. AI's that don't suffer from this aren't general purpose.

Third. I'm not convinced in we'll make AI whose job will be to make smarter AI which will make smarter AI argument. A smart enough AI could just rewire its reward mechanism to get reward without work (or collude with other AIs meant to monitor it to just do nothing).
It’s wild to me that support for Windows 7 is ending when it felt like the windows world was stuck on XP for like fifty years
Mixes of:

- Agenda
- Straight-forward Fear of AI
- Fear that AI might trigger some really-not-so-bad social changes or upheavals...which *are* so bad for them & their friends
- Mirroring the fears of their peers

Well worth noting: the "leaders" talking about AI are not magically wise, nor especially foresighted, nor widely experienced. They've mostly gotten to be leaders by being utterly obsessed with getting ahead in the human social hierarchy, and devoting their lives to doing that in some narrow social niche or other. There are human-nature reasons why the leaders in ~every historical major industry failed to be leaders in the industry which replaced it.
> it seem entirely reasonable that it would go from laughable to godlike in a week

Do you realize how ridiculous this is?
Ask HN: How does Twitter Blue verification work behind the scenes?
A fellow founder purchased Blue for her company account and got the entire account suspended in the process.

She doesn't understand what could have caused this and they won't share specifics.

Does anyone know how the verification system works? I assume it's automated with some form of human supervision/decision? Does anyone know how much human-in-the-loop?
> The bottom line is that developers experience higher cognitive load (and therefore more stress) when writing code in untested/undertested code bases. This is where burnout starts. Unit tests and testing suites ideally will lighten cognitive load and stress, while increasing confidence.
> Instead of fretting about the quality of the code your writing, you can be confident the unit tests will flag it if something goes wrong.

I agree with all this. I'm not in any way saying you should do less testing because it makes CI/CD faster. I'm saying that there's a 95%[0] chance your tests are taking hours or days because they are doing something suboptimal that can be improved. Generally, it's a combination of

1. lack of overall test ownership and structure -- for example, every team maintaining their own UI integration tests and repeating an expensive login process unnecessarily, or repeatedly writing new test data to a database rather than working with an existing dataset where possible, or (worst of all) relying on shared resources like databases and servers rather than having ephemeral environments per-branch, resulting in queueing of tests;

2. people who write tests not giving a damn, and this not-giving-a-damnness accumulating over time. If you sneak in a unit test that takes 300ms when it should have taken 10ms into the build, it's likely nobody will notice. If you have a suite of 1000 tests and everyone does that, your test suite now takes 5 minutes instead of 10 seconds;

3. management and engineering leadership also not giving a damn unless it becomes really untenable. Usually devs just grumble about a slow build and nobody does anything, especially in larger corps where there's less feeling of ownership. It's very hard to have a business justification as to why you would pay people to investigate speeding up tests. By the time the test suite is taking 4+ hours, it feels "easier" to just add processes to mitigate this, like making the build server run nightly, rather than address the fundamental issue of tests being slow.

[0] There are likely specific domains where this is untrue, but rarely in the generic "CRUD software with background data processing & storage" case.
The death of media ownership has been ongoing for a while, this is another little nail in the coffin. I try to purchase games directly or use GOG but its not always an option.
"they could read a business card from 300 yards away."

What's the field of view?
> Most bugs haven't gone extinct though.

We're working on it as fast as we can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/24/1082752...

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-A...
yes it is, i am intimately aware of that project :) onstar is always connected to the car, you cannot disable it.
Infinite ChatGPT Prompt Library
Interesting. It seems like the purpose is to have an easy to remember domain (neverssl.com) which will always reply in plain HTTP so any local captive portal can hijack your connection and give you the opportunity to login with your room number, etc.

In my experience, captive portals usually hijack DNS instead and send you straight to the portal, so I don't think I've ever personally needed something like this.
This is the same FED who said "inflation is temporary" and then hiked rates like krazy.

I'm not saying this is proof that they won't hike rates, just that what they say should be heavily discounted.

They might just pivot on a dime.

What I find interesting is that literally everyone is saying that FED is wrong.

Like find me anyone outside FED that says: yeah, rising rates is good.

Granted, many people who comment (wall street) have self-interest in rates being low but I don't think there's any notable economist who isn't critical of FED.
Jazz is deliberately anti-conformist: knowing what's expected to come next and not doing that. This requires a setup of expectations, in order to dash them.
> it turned it from a math dummy to a math genius overnight

Imo your post fundamentally misunderstands a few things, but mainly how Wolfram works. Wolfram can be seen as a "database" that stores a lot of human mathematical information (along with related algorithms). Wolfram does not make new math. A corollary here is that AGI needs to have the ability to create new math to be truly AGI. But unless fed something like, e.g. the Principia, I don't think we could ever get a stochastic LLM to ever derive 1+1=2 from first principles (unless specifically trained to do so).

Keep in mind that proving 1+1=2 from first principles isn't even new math (new math would be proving the Poincaré conjecture before Perelman did it, for example).
There's an interesting group purchase model for properties in Turkey. Essentially a 100 people come together and sign an agreement and start paying monthly fees and these fees are used to purchase homes. Each time the property is purchased, the owner is determined randomly from the group. Those who get the home pay more(since they will no longer pay rent), those who are still waiting pay less.
Except the police aren’t fixing it and are also still walking around like they are untouchable gods. It’s one thing to be a thug that runs the trains on time and another to be a thug that doesn’t.

See, also, Putin’s current reputation in Russia.
We can say “general purpose languages” never gets to be popular There must be a reason of wanting to adopt the language not just because “I like it”
This is not true. That's exactly how it is used in North America.
Reminds me of VisualChatGPT (https://github.com/microsoft/visual-chatgpt), which also uses a LLM to decide what vision models to run.
Jon Stewart's show or maybe one of the podcast episodes commented on how the mainstream media goes absolutely crazy over the potential of him getting caught or in court or whatever. Like weeks of talking about purely speculative things with zero actual news. It gets the networks lots of revenue.
I perhaps don't know what I'm missing with WhatsApp, but I use Signal with Android-owning friends (iMessage for everyone else), and no-one has voiced displeasure - indeed it was _suggested_ by many of them, both technical and non-technical as preferable to SMS, so I don't think it can be that bad.

I don't have special insight into either WhatsApp or Telegram, but I think given the founders and jurisdictions in which they operate, Telegram deserves at least the same level of scepticism and scrutiny as TikTok.
Future mobility concepts, will most likely result in fully autonmous shared vehicles for urban transportation or the last mile.

E.g. I usually use my car for about 40 minutes every day commuting between home and work. That's 1/35th of 24h and 1/15th of a 10h eindow. Considering that it would need time to pick up someone else, I'd estimate that one car could serve around 25 clients. Also getting from A to be should be quicker because of 15x less traffic on the road, and AI's (hopefully) not driving like idiots.

People will need to get used to not owning their own vehicle.
Steam has been on the forefront of security and things like two-factor because their attack surface is so wide. If they used an old browser, someone is and would work to try to figure out how it can be hacked somehow.
Yes, the release of the Steamdeck did wonders for pushing AAA gaming forward on Linux.

There was just an article on the front page earlier today about 75% of the top 100 games on steam running on linux, with the remaining 25% mostly being due to anti-cheat software that isn't updated to support linux yet.

Protondb.com has a database to search for compatibility and if adjustments to command lines or a specific version of Proton are needed for getting games running.
What things can this tech do which scare you?
The Prime Minister makes the speech. Plus nobody would regard the Red Fort as the nominal seat of Indian Power. The vast majority of Indians would only think of the fort as the site of the Prime Minister's speech, if at all.