skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that nearly every big EU funded investment program seems to have all the funds slurped up by companies that specialize in grant applications and doing as little as possible to get the government funding, while doing not much of any use to anyone.

Yes! You don't have to look angry further than canada for how government funding completely corrupts incentives and destroys any possibility of innovation.

A great VC quote about a big Canadian startup in it's death throes:

.the failure ... is indicative of Canada’s “nascent venture ecosystem,” which is racked by “incestuous” relationships stemming from extensive Crown institution involvement in the sector.
“Canada needs to figure out how to get the politics out of its capital. It does feel cautious and political. You don’t want cautious and political in a crisis.
Decisions around the table felt like they were coloured by: ‘How we’re connected to this and who will think this and I don’t want blame for this.’ It caused people to sit on their hands.”

https://archive.md/Iyr6v

And that doesn't even get into the tax credit and granting regimes (superusters) that have completely corrupted how any corporate R&D gets done.
The old internet was full of hobbyists and passionate people who wanted to share their knowledge. There’s nothing wrong with paying for a real news outlet with real journalists, I pay for PBS.

Everyone is trying to make a buck and it’s harder to find passionate blogs that aren’t gaming Google’s SEO to show 100 ads. Even with woodworking or gardening I found everyone wants you to buy their videos, plans, or swag.
> The cost is poisoning a large swath of land for centuries to come.

No it's not. For example, the vast majority of the soil "cleanup" in Fukushima is completely unnecessary, as was most of the evacuation. Another example: the fishermen of the Fukushima prefecture are suffering. But not because there's anything wrong with the fish, it's that people are afraid.

Fear of nuclear kills far more people than nuclear does.

Even the Chernobyl "red zone" has been shown to be net beneficial to the wildlife there. Hardly a sign of "poisoning".

Again, you are speaking from emotion, not fact.

> It's not just politics and emotion

Not just, but mostly.

> How can you not be a afraid when the potential damage is so large?

Because the potential damage is not actually "so large", as has been amply demonstrated by now, see in particularly Fukushima, but even Chernobyl. Never mind non-events like Three Mile Island.

And fear is never a good reaction, because it leads exactly to the distortions of perception that you are demonstrating.
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I think unless there's a reward system for contributing to LLMs, the internet will mostly be devoid of new content. People will move to walled gardens. All you need is a short demo showing how something like GPT-4 with the internet access plugin can make a profile of you based on your publically available comments.
Benchmarks are good. You may be a less experienced software engineer than others (or maybe more experienced?), then you will tell me “ChatGPT x is insane bro", but that's only a matter of perspective. A benchmark gives us facts, outside of our own experience, not opinions.

I'm sure ChatGPT4 would likely agree :)
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There was also some kind of Foxcon mega factory as well. But is totally different for sure.
There is still required setup for things like PHP, like what reads from the webroot and serves the requests. Other things, like binaries, can be almost completely self-contained and do everything, and then you just move the binary to the server and run it, and you get the full environment needed, no Apache with mod_php required (or what the kids use nowadays)
It's definitely not "dead". As commented above me, there have been massive improvements.

20 years ago laptops had two hours of battery life. Today a MacBook has 20+ hours of battery life. Obviously many components have become more efficient, but battery improvements have also contributed to that large increase in battery capacity.
This claim of grid overload is false.

See [0] for the UK grid operator's view on this, also includes a few numbers relevant to the US grid.

[0] https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele...
Of course, in general, employers are making way more from the work the employee does than they pay, otherwise why bother?
It's true that donations to Mozilla Foundation don't fund Firefox.

> Mozilla Corporation, who are the developers

Mozilla Corporation is a corporation. If you want to send money to developers who work on Firefox, you can. Better if you do it for the ones who are not Mozilla Corporation employees—although this is more difficult than it would have been in the past, owing to Mozilla Corporation's successful play to accumulate most development and decisionmaking power while alienating volunteers.
Unless this is the end of innovation, I'm sure there will be something else to do.
I guess working on your empathy skills and trying to understand emotions of others (instead of solely focusing on your own) might make your life easier.

I have met many engineers who thought along the same lines of “technology is the end and sales and product managers are the means to have me do whatever I want to code" and agree that these people struggled in environment focusing on "the customer".

I doubt, that "customer and product centric" companies will become less "customer and product centric".

A reason for the changes we are observing is less access to cheap capital which - as far as I can tell - will shift attention more towards "money, customers and products" and away from "engineering pet projects".

But, perhaps this is a good thing.
China sees the US as a competitor, not a partner. Why would the USA not respond in kind?

Not only that but China is committing mass espionage in US universities through their Thousand Currents program and National Front Work Programming.

They are using 5th generation war tactics to attack and debase the US society through cultural weapons such as tiktok, as well as Facebook and twitter.

They are attempting to install backdoors in US infrastructure such as the power grid (Biden signed executive order reversing a ban on such equipment) and the communications backbones (huawei, zte, etc).

They have police stations in countries all over the world to ensure they can rendition misbehaving expats.

Its likely covid was leaked by improper handling of virus research in the BSL2 parts of the WIV. So they likely are to blame for poor practice's.

The WHO was demonstrably favourable to China giving them a two week headstart and refusing to acknowledge or talk about Taiwan as a country. It doesn't matter what trump said we have video from the source.

They frustrate freedom of movement operations in international water they claim sovereignty over.

And overall they operate in bad faith, using hypocritical unequal double standards, pushing for conditions in the USA and elsewhere that they disallow in China.

So it is no wonder US politicians believe them to be an enemy, when they act like one.
This is a blessing, not a curse.
Because they wanted hydrogen, not electric.
So you can learn stuff from book, but suddently AI can't. AI learn that usually people use 'is' after 'he', but this is not a discovery or a noval idea in the perspective of the AI, and is not real learning?

Then what is 'real' learning?
He never advocated injecting hydrochloric acid.
ChatGPT itself has a sensible answer:

There may be a few reasons for this apparent contradiction. Firstly, some people may not fully understand how artificial intelligence (AI) works and how it learns. While AI can certainly learn from large amounts of text data, it is still limited in its ability to comprehend and apply that knowledge in the same way that humans can.

Secondly, there may be a misunderstanding about what is meant by "intelligence". While reading philosophy books can certainly enhance one's knowledge and critical thinking skills, intelligence is a complex trait that encompasses many different abilities, including problem-solving, creativity, emotional intelligence, and more. AI may excel in certain areas, such as data processing and pattern recognition, but it still falls short in many other areas that are critical to human intelligence.

Finally, there may be a cultural bias against the idea of machines possessing intelligence or knowledge. For many people, the concept of intelligence is closely tied to human consciousness and subjective experience, and they may find it difficult to accept that a machine could ever truly possess these qualities.

Overall, the apparent contradiction between the value of reading philosophy books and the limitations of AI may stem from a combination of misunderstanding, narrow definitions of intelligence, and cultural biases. It is important to approach these issues with an open mind and a willingness to explore the possibilities of both human and machine intelligence.
It's not all batteries, the electronics got less power hungry.
Thanks Leobg!

For anyone else: you pass it directly in metadata see https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite/blob/main/test/test_col...

https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hnsqlite/blob/main/test/test_col...
I wasn't involved in SVG, but knew quite a few of the people involved around the working group. Seeing socket support mentioned certainly raised a smile: one of the team was quite keen on writing a pure-svg IRC client, I think.

It wasn't an explicit goal of SVG 1.2 to replace Flash. You should be able to dig out the working group charter to check that. However the way these groups worked was that there were various communities ('stakeholders' if you must) who contributed thoughts and ideas. At least one of the companies implementing SVG certainly did want a Flash competitor, and so was keen on sockets.

I think they all knew it wouldn't fly, but they get excited. You see the same with Chrome and stuff like USB and Bluetooth access.
So then they're able to stockpile and hoard it and then what? they get this stash and then are able to exist in a land of plenty when previously there was famine. it's like money. if you don't have any, things are really rough. but if you have enough that you're swimming in it? well then you're able to step aside from earthly concerns like making rent, and can choose to invest it in causes you choose. For a junkie who's drug life is feast or famine, having default access to what they need and feeling safe allows them to move on with their lives and get past their addiction and into jobs and return to regular life and be contributing members of society.
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I agree, but that's a long time away, maybe five or six years. Until then (and even after) we'll need people that can interface with lower-level systems and also have prior experience. This also doesn't take into account countries that will effectively ban usage of companies like "Open"AI (which "Open"AI will be more than willing to enforce), and on top of a possible thin-client revolution, we'll see demand for human coders in the new tech-ghetto parts of the world.
I see a lot of comments where they prefer telegram over WhatsApp. Surprising part is whatsapp is end to end encrypted by default for all conversations but telegram is not.
> However this knowledge does very little to improve road safety

I think this would depend on the environment. If you live in a dry, relatively flat area and you mostly drive there, you're probably right, marginal difference in road safety.

But if you live in a country that has long winters or lots of mountains, having control over the engine is a integral part of staying safe on the roads.
Well H2 is a hedge. It's a green-ish fuel and has potential as a replacement to lng for japan.

but more power to toyota. can't wait to get an electric hilux. hopefully it's cheap.
Actually you can, most of the evacuations were unnecessary and killed significantly more people than the radiation.
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> For example, the vast majority of the soil "cleanup" in Fukushima is completely unnecessary, as was most of the evacuation.

Can you provide sources for this claim?

> Even the Chernobyl "red zone" has been shown to be net beneficial to the wildlife there. Hardly a sign of "poisoning".

There's still no scientific consensus about the effects of radiation on fauna in the CEZ [0]. You have an opinion but we still haven't figured out how damaging the radiation there is for animals or not. I'd rather not have humans living around a potentially dangerous poisoned area until the effects are understood.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X1...
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If you look at GDP graphs, it's pretty clear that most national economic policy, including taxation has extremely little effect on growth in and of itself. Regional and global economic trends (which, to be sure, national economic policy might nudge a bit) coupled with the level of stability seems to be a far stronger predictor of GDP. That is, companies adapt to higher or lower taxes because there are significant markets they want to access and worst case it's a question of finding ways of funnelling profits out. What is far harder to adapt to is war, revolutions, or indeed rapid changes in the tax regime.
Compare a power tool battery from any of the major brands from 20 years ago to the ones today. It's still lithium, but real performance is night and day.
You are asking people who, as a rule, do not understand what they do, how they do it, or why they do it, to explain how they are different from something else they don't understand.

You are asking people who are not smart enough to recognize that they are not informed enough, nor in most cases smart enough, to understand anything about the subject of your question, and they will be quite happy to answer. With endless rationalizations that seem plausible enough to them based on their prior associative model of the world. Just like an LLM.

It is difficult to identify the practical difference in output between LLMs and the "left brain interpreter", which is the source of almost the entirety of most people's subjective experience and their "comments on HN" output.

There is a difference between the spewing forth of gibberish, which is the normal human experience, and "intelligence" or "thought". If you haven't yet experienced that difference yourself, within your own lived experience, it would be probably impossible to convey to you in writing...but there is.

On a functional level, as well, it's simply unlikely that the models constructed to date have the capacity to develop what we would call "intelligence" via training. We'll almost certainly get there, but just feeding "books" into what we have today is not likely to produce "intelligence".
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Taking the consequences works fine if you're not responsible for anyone but yourself.

"Sorry kids, you aren't going to your friends parties or playing sports with them because my ideals conflict with your reality" is not a tenable position.
Maybe. Or maybe some lower layers learn to recognise language, some later layers learn to recognise concepts, some layers above learn to do some sort of reasoning. Perhaps. We have seen behaviour like that in CNNs where basic features were built up on the lower layers.

The fact that a single word is output does not imply that the system is only working on that single word. Yes, that's the task and a good way - as a human - to do that task is to think about what you want to say. So the network may do something like that in between.
Yes I am aware of that. I have read confessions of an economic hitman many times, great book.

Still it has not much of an effect on the here and now. I'd still rather not be ruled by a communist totalitarian dictatorship.
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Sorry that you had to shut down, but your real take and honesty makes me think you'll do well in the future.
Start writing a blog detailing your experiments demonstrating effective, unusual or otherwise interesting prompts and/or your progress learning how to code AIs. Use blog as evidence of your skills when applying for jobs. Probably start at local companies looking to get in on the AI wave rather than targeting big companies who may require you to have either serious academic qualifications (not uncommon to have a PhD from what people say on here) or previous experience.
Just because one thing is bad doesnt mean another thing is suddenly rendered not bad. Come on.
The biggest contradiction is between "some", "they" and "the majority of people". These are often not the same people. Talking about a nebulous group of people, or common sense, common advice, common knowledge is never concrete enough to build a good idea/theory about how some things work or do not.

But, here are some of my views on the topic.

- ChatGPT tends to please the prompter. If you ask it for philosophical content and start correcting it... it will yield to your views and make it so you are happy with what it tells you. Most philosophers I've read (few) would die on a hill with their idea and make their writing defend it from as many attacks as possible. What chat does is closer to what a salesman would do - tell you what to hear. If a human would do that to me I'd rarely consider it proof of learning/knowledge ability.

- ChatGPT tends to write good sounding philosophy. Maybe philosophers are taking us for fools and they're also just writing word salad half the time that sounds smart for the rest of us.

- ChatGPT tends to write good sounding philosophy/stories/sometimes code. Maybe it's just hard to differentiate knowledge from just semi-random-output.
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Do you imply that human do not learn from studying the pattern?

For instance, Paragraph A and paragraph B put together, you would say that makes no sense because the logic is broken. How can you know that the logic is broken solely by those words?

The only reason for meanings can never be extracted from a text is that the text contains no meanings.

So now words do not contains meanings?
I recently had to implement some Bessel functions numerically. It's fantastic to see that someone at Sun Microsystems implemented all this procedures in the early 90's (I'm sure even long before that). You will find this implementations in R, Julia, musl, you name it!

I like it specially the use the "GET_HIGH_WORD" and friends:

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/math/j0.c

It's a lot of fun to figure out what they meant by things like:

> if (ix >= 0x7ff00000) return 1/(x*x);
I've had the unfortunate luck of working with a couple of people with "senior" in their title that once faced with an error message from a open source library, starts their troubleshooting with searching for the error message and if nothing comes up, opens a issue on the issue tracker and then wait. They didn't even consider digging into the source code of the library to figure things out themselves.

I haven't worked with a lot of people like that, but enough to guess that there is quite a bit of people who work that way.
> It's about him paying money to a porn star not to talk about their affair?

No. It isn't.

> That's not a crime

Also not what he did.

> Now I can see how they can find some stuff in there to make SOMETHING stick

So you called it a weak case. Despite not seeing the 34 charges and severely misunderstanding the basic facts of the situation?

Maybe its not a weak case and you just do not know about it?

Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen paid 130,000 dollars to a pornstar to hush about sex she had with Trump in 2006 while Melania was pregnant. He did this weeks before the election. This can be considered campaign financing violation, similar to what Clinton did with the Steele Dossier. Despite this, he lied about it, and a number of other charges were discovered. So he pleaded guilty and got a 6 year ruling.

During this trial he admitted Trump told him to pay that money, this opened the investigation into Trump's involvement. The first discovery was that Trump had paid Cohen with money from his business to give him back the 130,000$. That is misclassification of business files to commit a crime, which is a felony, the investigation fo said felony opened up a ton of documentation into Trump's finances and business. The DA got access to Trumps taxes in 2020, and after over 2 years of investigation are now presenting 34 charges, all of which the jury found substancial evidence to indict.

What started it, a misdemeanor of paying off someone to not make you look bad right before an election, opened up the investigation into the entire trove of potentially illegal business fillings. Some of which appear to be felonies.

Lets see when the case is unsealead if it's so weak, but it is not looking good.
Yes. I don't understand, current AI doesn't learn. Why would you think it is? That is fundamentally not how this works.
I can see how many people think these pictures are cool.

Unfortunately, all i can think of looking at them is how they are literally scars of the earth.

We are obliterating everything that was there before and converting it into barren wasteland, thousands of square kilometers at a time.

And i mean, i'm a Software Engineer so my job is technology all the way down.. There is exactly 0 nature in what I do around me.

But sometimes, it's only when looking at these (literal) bird's eye view that you are reminded how sad it is..
A fingerprint taker told me once that he would never be a street cop because he didn't have family. That exact word, family.
I did this with a DIY themed blog a few years ago, not out of any principal but because I had another income stream. Fast forward to today and several similar sites have popped up with content that is the same as mine but re-written to look unique. They are all, of course, heavily monetized.

The moral of this story is that if you don't monetize your content someone else certainly will.
Maybe they do, but they ask each visit, so these tracking companies at least maintain the illusion that they don't know who I am. Each time I say no.
It may be significantly better than a random stackoverflow answer, but I haven’t seen it as being better than the top-voted stackoverflow answer (at least not without significant curation/prompting).
I wish Helix has vim-motions as an option. I don't want to break my muscle memory and le-learn everything just to use it in one editor (I use vim motions everywhere I can via plugins).
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Virgin Orbit is a spin off from Virgin Galactic, they are two separate companies.

IMO Virgin Orbit was the only one of the pair that had a faint hope of becoming viable.

Virgin Galactic needs to fly 100 times per year to break even. Their product is a death trap that needs months of maintenance between flights. Their competition, Blue Origin, has a safe product.

The reason why Virgin Orbit died first is because they're in an established market so it is relatively easy to do valuations.

Virgin Galactic is in a virgin[1] market, where valuation has a substantial component of BS and hand waving. And Branson is good at BS.

1: sorry.
Yes that is also bad. You want a cookie?
I keep being approached for jobs in UK gov agencies, and sometimes when I tell them they can't afford me, they ask if I mind telling them by how much. Usually their range is off by a factor of 2 to 3. I get that some people want to work in government, but I can't imagine taking a pay cut like that for any employer.
Only thing that matters: what is said under oath.

The rest is marketing/BS.