skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing only is needed by this government to make things right: start enforcing payment of taxes. There's a gaping hole in our economy due to the fact that it's too easy to hide and no government is going to tackle the issue for fear of losing consent.

Until then, everything will slowly fail as it is happening already.
I almost entirely disagree with you. The reason I have historically preferred desktop hardware is due to its repairability and longevity that allows it to be repurposed. Stuff like this case brings that to laptops with Framework.

Many of my computer systems over the years have gone on to help others because I was able to fix them up and donate them. An i7-2600K with 8GB of RAM is still able to run pretty much any common applications, and that CPU came out in 2011, more than a decade ago.

The most common parts to fail and need repair or replacement are fans and power supplies, and in laptops fans and batteries, the rest of the hardware is still good far past 3 or 5 years in age. It’s a travesty we as a society have tried to turn solid state electronics into something disposable.
Good points. I feel obligated to tell you that it is spelled, ChatGPT not ChatGTP.
I appreciate you telling us imgur is no longer a clean UX site, I've felt the same

They told you to unblock adblock to upload now.

PS: Hello from my high horse
Hey all, Matt here, Emergent Mind's creator.

I shared Emergent Mind on HN yesterday [1], but it didn't wind up making it onto the homepage. Someone shared it here again today, so here we are again.

Copy/pasting my comment from the post yesterday for context on the site:

--

Like many of you, I've found it difficult to stay on top of all the latest AI news and research. I wanted a simpler way to surface and learn about about what's happening in the AI world, so built Emergent Mind.

Here's the idea:

- A bot named Emma automatically finds trending AI news and posts it to Emergent Mind, though human users can sign up and share links as well.

- Emma automatically summarizes links that are shared and also explains key terms from the page, which is especially helpful for academic research.

- Posts also display popular tweets about that news item, giving you a sense of what others in the AI world are saying about it.

- Posts are grouped by day, making it easy to tell what's going on today. And within each day, posts are ordered by how popular that news item is which is based on a combination of votes, page views, and Twitter shares.

- We're also working on a newsletter which you're welcome to sign up for if you'd prefer to get the news daily or weekly via email.

We have lots more planned for the site in the coming weeks, but are excited to share this initial version with you all.

Feedback/suggestions welcome on any of it!

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35340703
My understanding is that that's a non-trivial problem. You'd likely need some sort of AI system to do it, since the perception of colour isn't something that can be simply modelled.
Most of combating climate change debates implicitly assume that reducing GHG emissions alone will stop or slow down significantly the climate change. I am afraid we already passed that point. At least in short term we should give a serious consideration to active climate engineering that working together with limiting GHG gives us a fighting change to restore the planetary climate to a set-point we are comfortable with. Unfortunately, most of debates are emotionally charged and single-mindedly focused. My hopes for a rational multi-prong approach to climate control are low.
they are not very tasty anyway.
Tauromachy isn't "bullfighting". It's circus and drama; it's adjacent to religious sacrifice (rather, than, as some seem to think, betting on dogfights). But it's not religion either.

Animals have to die. The bulls in tauromachy are of a special type that's bred out in the open; they live lives that no other bovine lives -- not even in India, where sacred cows are still beasts of burden.

There's a kind of carefree righteous kind of person that reacts at events rather than systems. So they're agitated by the bloodshed of bulls or tiktoks of cobalt mining in Africa agitates them, and this makes them good people. Isn't it good to be a good person?
How to boost your learning with GPT-4 and Tana
Applying the experimental learning method to explore the AGI domain
I think we disagree on the problem and I understand I have a strong opinion which might be wrong. But I think that kind of thinking is exactly the issue in Italy. I think if the "people" took responsibility for their actions Italy would not be in this situation. In fact, I think Italy and Italians never took responsibility for terrible stuff like Mussolini and the Holocaust, so from my perspective this is an old, old, problem.
Cockpit: A web-based graphical interface for servers
Indeed. This seems like a tooling issue, and one that strikes me as more worthy of community attention than reinventing the package manager for the nth time.
The land consumption is enormous, hence why I mentioned it (farming of livestock). There are different opportunities for optimizations here. But I don't think it falls in line with cultures of industrialization.
The author has replied to me, and shared these great examples of transparent prices:

https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/tree/mast...

Along with this fantastic guide:

https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide

I recommend them to anyone who wants to see good examples of price transparency.
> I don’t think they’re entirely wrong, but I’m also pretty sure it’s always been like this.

It hasn't always been like that, if you put down the US-centric lens. Every shopping mall in a bigger city anywhere in the world now looks similar to a US shopping mall. Fast-food venues across the world resemble US venues, even if it's not a franchise under a US brand. It's a cultural hegemony that is exported through consumer products.

It used to be that every region had its own distinctive "malls" with mostly locally-made products, and now the whole world is stuck with Chinese-made products tuned primarily for the US taste.
The notoriously left-wing police force, lol.
The animals robbed of their life entirely for that major part of yours would like to have a word with you. It's not like meat is the only thing tasty or joyful in life.
Tailwind is great for knowing which developers not to hire
I drive for about 300 miles, or five hours, then charge while we stop to stretch, eat, go to the bathroom, and the car has another 300 miles on it, at which point we stop for the night because we’ve been driving for 10 hours. It’s about the least painful experience I’ve ever had. But this is also very much a point in time discussion. I’ll wager in 5 years EV come with enough capacity to drive a full day without break or longer. The reality is that today 5 hours of continuous drive time is plenty of time to warrant a break long enough to recharge to capacity unless you’re big on deep vein thrombosis and drive with a catheter.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your last sentence - but if churning out boilerplate is something any old engineer can now have an AI do, won't it up the chances that someone previously overlooked makes a brilliant call about what problem to tackle and actually has the resources to execute on that call?
how does that work in practice？

upstream didn't build with all the dependencies at the same version as the latest in the arch repo. Nor are most upstream developers bumping all their dependency versions constantly

if you're a big player like ubuntu/debian you can go to the authors/upstream and ask them to fix the program to work with their dependency versions (in say.. an LTS release). most would be glad to bc it's just something upstream needs to do once every couple years and doesn't need maintenance. If even thats too much and yyou want esomething even more handsoff/timeless then you make an Appimage. It'll work for ever

With Arch youd need to constantly monitor the thing doesn't break？Are they just #yolo'ing dependency versions most of the time ？ (itd prolly work 99% of the time..)
I'm sure there are 10 more articles that, shrunken and laid out in a grid, would look very similar to TFA.
> The right kind of incentives would likely provide a sense of motivation without urgency, but those aren't in the power of most managers to create.

So whose power is it, then? There are two ways to tackle this issue: Apply pressure to the ones below you, or buckle up and take a step upwards. One is easier then the other.
The cheapest new car in 2023 is the Nissan Versa for $15,730, but most of the ten cheapest cars are around $20K. [1]

The Versa gets 32mpg. The Aptera is the same basic design as their original diesel model which got 300mpg, and it's electric. It'll be way cheaper to run, it won't require as much maintenance, and you'll be able to do your own repairs.

The current US average gasoline price is $3.42/gal. [2] If you drive 32 miles per day, that's $104/month in gasoline with the Versa. Using LendingTree's calculator for a 60-month loan, $104/mo is worth a $5900 difference in purchase price, and that doesn't count maintenance savings. [3]

So yeah, by modern new-car standards I think it's about as close to a people's car as you can get. And batteries keep getting cheaper.

[1] https://www.hotcars.com/cheapest-new-cars-for-2023/#2023-nis...

[2] https://www.finder.com/gas-prices

[3] https://www.lendingtree.com/auto/calculators/payment/
Why are you trying to pay for it? Let procurement at your company figure it out. You wouldn’t pay for your IDE or any other tools, would you? The business should be paying for any tools they want me to use.
https://necsi.edu/the-precautionary-principle

"Our analysis makes clear that the PP is essential for a limited set of contexts and can be used to justify only a limited set of actions. We discuss the implications for nuclear energy and GMOs. GMOs represent a public risk of global harm, while harm from nuclear energy is comparatively limited and better characterized. PP should be used to prescribe severe limits on GMOs."
Why we shouldn’t pause AI development
Anecdotally I don’t know any company in my line of work that hasn’t eventually switched from Google web apps to MS, and also then switched from slack to teams.

At some point, there is always experienced people hired that “need” office, then a period of confusion and duplicated out of synch files, followed by a decision to switch everyone to MS.
> It's a fallacy to compare things with Apple, who has in payroll software engineers to support a handful of devices with their custom OS.

How exactly is comparing a Linux distro to MacOS a logical fallacy? [0]

The logic for many people is very simple:

* I have work I need to do

* The open source "volunteer"-built[1] linux distro will unfortunately impose much more friction.

* The closed source MacOS/Windows will unfortunately impose way less friction.

* Therefore, MacOS is a better tool to get that work done.

It might be reversed for an exception like an embedded software engineer or something, but for most everyone else, it's sad but true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

[1] but let's be honest, aside from the kernel, it's pretty much a corporate game at this point
Jokes aside though this form of communication would be very difficult to disrupt or intercept even in times of crisis.
IMO this is all Gibsonian fantasy until somebody finds a way to live extraterritorially or else always practice perfect OpSec, meaning (among other things) that you keep your "extraterritorial" business totally disjunct from your actual personal finances, with no flow of value between them at all. This means you can't invest in the business initially or use the profits for meatspace purchases. At that point, why bother doing it at all?

Remember, if you screw up then Federal agents will come and arrest you if your "extraterritorial" business selling zero-days on the dark web comes to their attention. They don't care if it's a Jersey company whose officers are all Grenadian nationals that you've hired via the blockchain because you live in Tulsa, and they will put you in prison.
Sure, but you'd need to identify the bird as a messenger bird in the first place, which is made harder by the fact that pigeons live pretty much everywhere.
What would strict age verification look like? I am not aware of any privacy-respecting way to verify age online.
The major issue isn’t the bacteria but their byproducts. Ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism

This is why you can’t render rotten meat safe by simply cooking it. That said, people still age meat. Small birds for will get left for 4-9 days in a cool space before being butchered etc. https://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2014/01/hanging-pheasan...
There are obvious examples of 10x performers in every creative endeavor. Why would it be any different in software engineering? There are people who find bugs 10x faster than others, design stuff that's 100x easier to maintain, increase morale of a team vs being an energy drain, make changes faster without breaking stuff, etc. There are a lot of ways one can become 10x more effective than another at building software.
Iteration time is important but part of that is knowing and learning what to iterate. Therefore there will still be a human in the loop, and by Amdahl's law a 30% speed up will never produce more than a 30% performance improvement.
Very couth. Opened the comments only to see referrals to minimal alternatives.

Everything what my ADD brain needs. Nothing my ADD brain doesn’t need. And perfect alignment with libre ideals! May I suggest that you make a tiny update, just so that the App Store can tout your impeccable privacy policy!
Are Ubuntu devs just not reading the room?
Like many, I have had my fair share of frustrations with snaps. Already considering moving away from Ubuntu, but not sure where to go next. Is Debian a good option? I use Linux both personally and professionally, so while I do like to tinker with new stuff, I also need some stability.
I've used rolling-release distros in the past and its something I'd like to try again. Maybe Manjaro?
This is normal to increase supply. They're expensive partly because they're produced in smaller volumes. Economies of scale haven't made them cheap yet, so subsidies are needed to break this chicken-egg problem.

Rebates also help overcome the higher upfront cost. The total cost of ownership of EVs can be lower than an ICE car due to cheaper energy and low maintenance, but the upfront cost is a barrier.

And then there's the fact that a lot of people don't know how good EVs are, so they base their purchasing decisions on myths and assumptions, and need a push to even try them.
Why do you think the government would do a better job? Perhaps in other countries, but in the US, the government is largely seen as incompetent at best, corrupt and captured at worst.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-...

This was during a war where lives were at stake.
You’re misreading what I’m saying.

I’m not saying: You’ll like anything if you give it time.

I’m saying: There are things that you may not initially like, which you will like if you give it time. Which means that if you never give anything its proper time, you’re likely missing out on things you may have otherwise learned to appreciate.
Python PEP 582 Rejected
Take gasoline savings into account and it gets closer (see my sibling comment to yours).
Another snap failure story:

You install chromium-browser through apt

Chromium gets installed through snap

You go to a PWA to install locally (like M$ Teams)

The desktop entry is saved with a path hardcoded to /snap/chromium/1234/... (1234 is the id)

You update chromium, either intentionally or automatically, the ID changes

Now you can't access your PWA anymore unless you edit the desktop entry and change the id or replace it with `current`.

Such horrible user experience for no positive gain. And this is not a Linux problem, but an Ubuntu problem. Yet there is no difference in the eyes of people because "it's their Linux that broke...".

Bad user experience, bad implementation, bad decisions, and bad reputation to the wrong target, just because Canonical's Ubuntu is the "default" Linux.
That snap slowness is snap's problem, not general non-apt problem. Flatpak doesn't suffer from it.
It is a bug, it's been clearly discussed under the issues of LLaMA.cpp. The wait time is far from atrocious, with a 5600x and the 13B I would wait 15 seconds before input starts for a relatively complex prompt.
Yeah. I always forget that billions of animals suffering is somehow okay if it's about reputation or tasty food. My bad.
This is a total false equivalence. Crossing two apples falls within the same neighborhood. Crisper blasts it to another continent. There is a reason you don’t need to harden classic seeds produced from fruit for 6+ generations. This is like comparing a jetliner to a bicycle. Sure they both travel - great. same thing, same speed limits, same regulations.

As for GMO’s letting us forgo pesticides? When is that going to happen? Currently that is their main application in ag (synth bio for chemical precursors is more interesting but totally different). The more fanciful dreams of geneticists have not yielded a panacea of new options.

And this is a purely political issue over agricultural policy. Farm subsidies are directly related to this discussion. If it were just a science project it would not concern me in the slightest. The fact that there are a large number of unwitting subjects has clear ethical implications and pretending that this is not a political issue is just obtuse.
> But it won't make any old engineer a rival to the big names in software engineering.

This stood out, so I looked it up, and it seems Richard Hipp is 61 years old. I guess it is more about the "any" than the "old". Or maybe old engineers are engineers doing it the "old way" (pre-chatgpt)?
"Please pause for at least 6 months"

I find that to be pretty weird. If this is so dangerous surely 6 months wouldn't make a difference.
I actually agree, it's a very good phrase.

But I do think it's cherry picking the most impressive example. I repeated the dialog (and some variations), each time asking for a completely new idiom, and ChatGPT responded with several phrases that aren't new at all:

"The toothpaste is out of the tube"

"The lid has been lifted"

"The secret has been spilled"

"The arrow has left the bow"
> Imagine going to a city and not having to think about how the street numbering system works

I used to spend a lot of time in Seattle, which makes heavy use of numbered streets. Compared to cities with alphabetic street names, I found it harder to navigate. It's too easy to mix up a "51st Ave N" with "51st Ave NW" or a Street for an Avenue. Humans are just better at reading and remembering names.

These days all navigation is electronic. The verbosity of text names acts as a kind of redundant check on the information stream. Numbers are more of a hindrance than a help.
In Germany recently a medical specialist was jailed for 7.5 years for delivering wrong all clear results when reviewing skin cancer samples. He was aware he was not mentally healthy and was mot able to do his job.

Please get help instead of playing pretend and barreling through. People will get hurt by wrong expert statements. You fear for career while at the same time putting the career of another at risk.

People get respect for saying ‚no‘.
I couldn't tell from the article if the disbanded team was working on shared VR experiences in general or just "Meta" (née FaceBook) integration.
Yep, we too refused it along with the insurance against car paint being stripped off by volcanic ash. A reckless gamble, granted, but it worked out :)
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Even further, the big names in software engineering will likely figure out how to use these models far more effectively than any old engineer.

Fabrice Bellard is utilizing transformer models for lossless compression, for example: https://bellard.org/nncp/
This reminds of a great thought experiment [1]

If you discover an exploitable flaw in pacemakers, do you:

- disclose it immediately? This may lead to an increased number of attacks on pacemakers

- disclose it to manufacturers, and wait for them to patch things before dicslosing?

- if manufacturers are too slow to fix this, or flat out refuse to do anything, do you still disclose?

I'd hate to be on the team that needs to make the disclosure decisions and figuring out whether the fallout is worse than just keeping the knowledge hidden.

Of course, it's not a pacemaker-level in this particular case, but every time I see exploits and their disclosure, I'm reminded of this.

[1] Well, sadly it's not really a thought experiment: https://www.mnemonic.io/resources/blog/uncovering-vulnerabil...
My favorite experience with snaps is Firefox just closing in the middle of doing something because it wanted to update, and it didn't even bother to check if I was using it first.
This is so strange to me. I would never in a million years go beyond the recommended dosage without consulting a doctor. But I now realize that's just me, and if we can offer safer drugs that won't be as harmful if people exceed the dosage, so much the better.
Exactly this ... or you forgot their favorite F word, Fascism
So on the first example, I wouldn't be surprised if regular people everywhere had somewhat similar tastes and can't see why it would be a bad thing. Aesthetics diverge because of artistic cultures. If you're not a part of an "in" crowd, well, there's no reason why you'd be clued into what idiosyncratic things to like. Breaking out of isolated villages is actually a great thing of modernity, if you have any practical idea of premodern life. I prefer not to be locked into life of my rural grandparents, no matter how "authentic" it could be.

For the mass culture part, skepticism of most of the comments here does feel cheap. It's not that you aren't allowed to think about the world without properly hacking your p-values and pinky promise double blind peer review by your bros.

I think there's some merit to the feeling we are living in times of neo-midcentury rampant social conformity and anxiety to fit in, or else. A big part of this, I think, is economic anxiety that one has to conform to biologically survive in an unstable world and not be left alone. Though from my experience one can still escape much of it by dissociating from the terminally online algorithmic mainstream. Numerically most (?) of people don't care about it that much. It's good not to care about mainstream acceptance for yourself and your stuff, which is of course harder to do if you are an advertising person.

Let's hope these will be kinds of problems we'll care about in 10-15 years.
That’s not how careers work. You don’t get promoted by saying “I’ll do something very soon about that” and doing nothing. You get promoted by having something interesting to show to your bosses who can then look good to their bosses. With a clear objective set preparing to meet it is a clear way of getting promoted. The issue will be more that people prefer getting promoted by doing a bunch of stuff that looks like it’ll get you over the line, but often isn’t. I’m sure we will make a lot of progress by 2035, but it won’t be anywhere near “done”
I’m pretty sure most of these girls are doing the same with your brother. Not every relation should end in happily ever after