skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is even less realistic than asking for a moratorium on nuclear weapons research in 1945.

It's increasingly easy and cheap to train GPTs and similar models. Pretty soon anyone who can pay for GPU compute will be able to do it, if that's not the case already. Even if every country in the world agreed to ban it, it still couldn't be stopped.
I dunno. I was listening to a twitter space with a bunch of feds and they brought up an interesting topic. foreign nations are running _very real_ psychological operations on groups and individuals in the USA using modern internet communication and media technologies. Real evil stuff. People have died. People killed themselves, or are now homeless.

not everyone you talk to on the internet is "just like me!" Some of them are weird foreign nationals and they want to extract useful info from you then wreck your life.
This article and comment section is bizarre to me. It's like travelling back in time to the 2000s.

We've only used LEDs in my country for, what, 15 years now? They are perfectly fine, no issues really, much cheaper than incandescent bulbs of course. We just buy the ones in IKEA and they haven't really failed us so far.
> But, that single option was at least "good enough".

Was it? Or was it what we were all used to, good or not, so we accepted it as good/correct.
>How are they growing?

Increasingly more tools aimed at that are produced, and they are increasingly adopted. From CoPilot to specialized tools for end users to do what programmers (and other jobs like graphic designers) did for them.

>And a short term business cycle is not very relevant either. By the time practical tools are read the cycle may have inverted.

Who said it's short term?
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/led-thermal-produ...

A whole fixture with nice components like this is not cheap.
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> My bank account works in the Browser

Sounds like pure hell on mobile.
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Check out https://www.occhio.com/en-lv/about-light/light-quality/outst... for some high end lights...
Make it awful for long enough so that when you make it better, you're a genius who saved Twitter.
I've been happy with my Cree leds. I can't seem to find them online, only Home Depot.
I'm no expert with LEDs' technical bits, but I purchased LIFX bulbs which were pretty expensive and they've lasted for almost a decade now.
Other platforms similar to Scratch actually teach Python!

They start off with drag and drop coding and then Python. The Python is actually pretty fun, you write code to make animals move around and get stars.
I was messing with GPT-4 and pasted the HN front page with a prompt. In the response, it mentioned "a creative visual explanation of bicycles". Based on just the text "Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)". It really had me going for a minute until I checked the archives at the site and saw similar articles from before it's training cutoff.

I asked it (with no context), 'What is "Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)" referring to?':

Response: "Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)" is referring to a blog post by Bartosz Ciechanowski, a software engineer and blogger. In this particular post, titled "Bicycle", he provides an interactive, in-depth explanation and visualization of the physics and mechanics behind the bicycle, covering topics such as steering, gyroscopic effects, trail, and more. The post aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of why bicycles are stable and how they function.

In a different response it volunteered the correct URL.
> I understand that the LLM models are advancing quickly and aren't easily explainable or transparent. The models feel like magic at times.

This is exactly why LLMs aren't useful or trustworthy for anything serious other than the niche of summarization of existing text. Even with that, you have to keep checking that it isn't hallucinating or bullshitting.

> These folks should take the time to understand how an LLM works before taking this action.

Anyone who knows about deep neural networks already knows that fundamentally they are black-boxes and are extremely poor at explainability and reasoning. This also applies to LLMs and it is not 'FUD'.
Probably means doxxing against the state. You do something sketchy, like spreading hate speech on a social network via your smartphone, and the got you. And hate speech can mean, posting something really awful, or just something harmless, like calling a politician a penis (which was a real case actually, though I don't think they got him through his smartphone).
I believe the original wording was "land of the free for the first 6 months, no credit card required"
There is a marvelous app designed to solve exactly this problem called Pytch: https://www.pytch.org/app/
There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.
Green account . A mod? Admin? Either way reported.
The article isn't some authoritative source. It's the Strategist, which can best be summed up as just some people with opinions.
I know we've got this great discussion going, but does anyone actually watch these kinds of "news" sites? It looks like a TYT knockoff and some pretty poor presentation. Who is Breaking Point, and are they reputable?

The use of some filler language and "corporate media corporate media" and adverbs used like sugar in McD's sweet tea is setting off my BS alarms.
As long as we are economically dependent on China to produce tons of plastic/disposable/etc consumer products, everything the US/west does it "combat climate change" is more or less in vain. We're just throwing our trash over the wall.
Nothing, hopefully
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”

This is what drives your "warm" lamps. No deep red at all, man.
You're certainly right about the need to move the observer, but I suspect you're wrong about how hard it is relative to building a 150m optical telescope (the largest to-date is ~10m).

Orbital mechanics is a pretty well understood thing, so figuring out how the earth will move over the next 20 hours isn't that tough.

The rest is just making sure you're able to position the 1m receiver very precisely and move it around in a very controlled way. I'm no expert, but I suspect we've demonstrated both in one or more NASA missions already.

Probably super-expensive, but less of a technical challenge than building a proper 150m optical telescope.
Focusing on reliability, quality and performance I've had nothing but an excellent run with LEDs, both retro and built into the home for 10 years. Never replaced anything on any of them. And not just me proud I've talked with as well.

The only issue I have with LED is the light isn't as nice as incandescent and although I'm not certain it may not be as good for your health.

Be interesting to know more about the context is the authors experience doesn't seem to be the same for everyone
My 7 year old watched it and it clicked quickly, but we also watched a couple example videos on their official YouTube channel. Maybe give that a try. Once it clicked we were able to make some cool stuff together, and she was able to add features on her own.
Low voltage DC lighting is a thing that has existed for a very, very long time. That most houses don't have it is more cultural than anything else, in my opinion.

That means it's totally fixable. You can install such a system in existing buildings right now, and it's not crazy expensive unless you want to run the wires inside the walls.

If we could shift cultural expectations around this, adding a LV system in new construction would not significantly increase the construction costs. It will start to be done if buyers start demanding it.
Human works are granted copyright so humans can profit from their creative endeavours (I’m not getting into whether this is good or not).

No-one cares about an algorithm in the same way.
This is so asinine. A superb example of how people fear what they do not understand. Technology often is no exception to that.
At the very least, it gives you an idea which receipt to look for in your box of receipts/warranties.

And no, I am not happy about having to think about storing receipts for mundane things like light bulbs either, but it is the only thing that calms down my nerves when yet another bulb with 5 year warranty fails in a year.
No mention of the big block GM V8s on a wagon that was used as a crank to start the engines. They went through a couple of units.
Does no one do Logos anymore?
Ask HN: What Is the Status of the YC UBI Experiment?
It's been more than 6 years since Sam announced the YC UBI initiative:

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/basic-income

What was the outcome?
What are the best alternatives to Python then?
I don't think there will be any demand for a self-hosted voice model with a SaaS LLM though. So that only works if they are going to train an LLM from scratch (or take the legal risk of using LLaMA).
I think it's a mistake to evaluate his success with it in purely financial terms like that.

He's proven himself thin skinned, egotistical, and capricious, and is easy to provoke into vindictive & retributive actions even if not in his best interests.

I think a big part of why he bought twitter was a sense of grievance, basically that the wrong people were getting positive attention, that people were being mean to and making fun of him and his friends & allies. He wanted to restructure the mechanics and incentives of the platform to better support the people and outcomes he values.

I'm not sure whether he succeeded by these terms either, it's still too early to tell I think. But I do think it's an important factor in evaluating whether he succeeded in what he set out to do when buying twitter.

And from that perspective "make it good or (let it) die trying" may be an acceptable compromise. He doesn't get the musk-adoration platform he wants, but at least there is no longer the musk-ridicule platform he perceived it to be.
Microsoft and Google are both US-based companies.
Hmm this lists SVB's total assets at 209B: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Okay, but being able to work with other people is a job qualification like being able to code in Python. Not all jobs are Python jobs, but if you need a Python developer, you should hire someone who knows (or can learn) Python.

As someone with ADHD, I'm a solid IC and thrive at mentorship, but do not put me in an organizational role. I'm not qualified, and never will be. I still need hacks and workarounds sometimes to get the right code written at the right time, but I can do it with a bit of understanding and accommodation. The same doesn't apply to jobs that expect order out of chaos. (I'm better at going the other way, by the state of my office.)

I'll agree in principle that we can and should make space in tech for people who for whatever reason really just want to be code factories with as little human interaction as possible, but most jobs are always going to have some degree of social interaction as a requirement.

That said, "sucks if ya don't have it" is indeed a callous way of addressing the problem.
TikTok isn't an idea, it's a platform atop which people speak, and the platform is owned by a country that recognizes no right to free speech and is actively hostile to the United States.
At least when you get to that page you can see download metrics, etc that are not available on GitHub.

That's not to say you don't have a point. It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation with multiple underlying and partially conflicting causes (tyosquatting vs. SEO spam).

IMO, the best solution to the SEO spam is for npm to increase the burden of automated signup. Add more CAPTCHAs or even phone verification. And trigger alerts when there are suddenly thousands of new signups, or thousands of packages pushed from one account.

Also, they could add rel=nofollow to all links on the page. This would make it less of an attractive target for SEO spam (but not entirely, since the page itself might still rank highly and the spammer doesn't necessarily care about getting link juice out of it, so much as getting traffic to the npm page itself).
What's the legal status of such terms of service? Suppose you simply said "i didn't agree to these terms" - what's the consequence? It seems like the strongest thing they could legitimately do would be to kick you off of their platform. Simply writing "we can seek injunctive relief" doesn't make it so.
Show HN: First unified pricing, packaging and billing API for SaaS
vocode is using one of rime.ai's voices. Rime says they're launching this week
> "Somewhat" is such an inaccurate minimization of the impact that it borders on malicious.

The only maliciousness here is the extremely manipulative nature of your comment. "Somewhat clunky" is absolutely a valid way of describing the productivity impact of current voice transcription systems, and your incredible, emotionally-manipulative hyperbole is solely meant to push an agenda.

> Voice input, when it is the only means of interacting with the computer, fucking sucks.

Yes, because the current paradigm for computers (which involves either a touchscreen or keyboard and mouse, and certain ontological constructs best represented using text-adjacent symbols) is intrinsically better suited to use by people who can use their hands. You can't fix this for the current design of computers. Can it be made better? Sure. Will there ever be parity between users who can use hands and those constrained to voice? Not for computers as we know them - and Copilot won't change that.

> An extremely conservative estimate would be a 10 X productivity impact for anything that requires precision keyboard input, such as programming.

Most time spent programming is spent thinking, not typing. I do not believe your estimate.

> To put this into context, this entire comment took me about three or four minutes to dictate.

I read your comment in a normal conversational rate in under 45 seconds. If we add in another fifteen seconds to correct a few errors using a well-designed (but contemporary, non-Copilot, non-LLM) transcription tool, that's a full minute, far below your "three or four minutes" estimate - so, your complaints are about the clunkiness of current voice-transcription tools, and completely unrelated to the topic at hand, which is Copilot.

> At my preinjury typing speed, it would've been done in under one, likely in under half of one.

There are 128 words in your comment. If you typed that in one minute, you would have a rate of 128wpm, which is faster than anyone I know, and in the 99.9th percentile of typists. If you typed that in thirty seconds, that's 256 wpm. I literally do not believe you can type that fast.

You're intentionally skewing the above numbers to support your point - not that it matters anyway, because again, most time programming is not spent typing.
Indeed. And, as another commenter pointed out, LED bulbs often overdrive the LEDs in order to maximize light output -- but doing so significantly decreases the lifespan of the LEDs themselves.
I used to buy Cree bulbs. But they they sold the brand and were changed to be the same mass market schlock as the other bulbs, except with a name brand that implies quality.
> When I did a coding boot camp, one of our assignments was to push a package to RubyGems. It didn't matter if the package did anything; just make up a name and publish it. I'm pretty sure this kind of thing was a common practice with other boot camps, and applied to NPM as well. I always despised how this effectively trashes the repository and represents a complete waste of digital space, no matter how insignificant, as well as take up names that could go towards code that is actually useful. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of spam NPM packages were these boot camp assignments.

To me seeing these types of behaviors from an applicant would be a pretty big red flag. I'm just thinking of the disaster that was Hacktoberfest 2020 after a YouTuber popular among bootcampers and students in India taught his audience how to make a (spammy) PR in order to win a 5$ T-shirt. [0]

A pattern I've seen with bootcamps is that students will build a "portfolio" on GitHub and everyone from the same cohort will build the exact same project because most of the bootcamp is a "fill in the blanks" exercise from the same template. As in, there's a 95% match among the same cohort. This type of "GitHub gaming" was pushed to the extreme by someone who created one package for every ANSI escape code. All of his packages end up including one another and the author PR'd them into popular projects so using those give him downloads and boost his rank [1].

We pretty much stopped recruiting from bootcamps because the signal to noise ratio was just too low.

[0] https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

[1] https://github.com/jonschlinkert/ansi-black
This is true—and watch animated stories.

But the cool thing is that for any game or story on Scratch, the kid can click into the project to see how it was made, and even access the code and assets. They can copy, fork, alter, build.

The technology is different obviously, but it feels like the early days of the Web, when you could “view source” and “save as” to easily explore and learn how any web page was put together.
Forget about premium, what the hell are impoverished people supposed to do?
> we don't have any good idea how this tech works.

Do you mean the specifics of GPT-4, or Transformers in general ?
At this point I’ve learned not to take anything Elon says about the future, especially the near future, at face value.

Could it happen? Certainly. Will it happen the way he says it will? Probably not.
I dont understand this argument. Vscode is very fast after you opened it. Startup is slow but who cares? I haven’t restarted my vscode for a week now.
Kind of reminiscent of the dot com bubble. Most will fail, but the ones that survive could become the biggest companies in the world.

One obvious difference is that in this case the established players are making a serious attempt to develop the technology themselves. They do not intend to go the way of Blockbuster.
How could I forget the beans! That would be so embarrassing on a real trip!

Yeah the Robot is definitely very stylish but the Flair seems a bit more rugged and practical looking, in a camping way. Excellent to hear that they designed it to pack small and assemble quickly!
As of 31 December 2022. The FDIC didn't bail out deposits that fled before receivership.
Lack of support is a big killer when it comes to Android. The OEM drops support after a few years, then it's pure luck whether some benevolent dev picks up maintenance of a FOSS ROM like LineageOS. My phone was that lucky for a good few years, but now support for it has been dropped.

I don't think I have the time or energy to work out how to bootstrap, port, and maintain an Android distro for my phone. Conversely, the rest of my systems run off mainline GNU/Linux, which I am able to set up and maintain. I'd be happy if I could get a phone with a similar experience.
I agree with GP here the thing to watch is not the hardware, it will be the software and xrOS UI look & feel where their design ethos can shine unbound by physics and manufacturing constraints other than how many polygons the M# Chip can throw at the displays every 11ms or so. Think the iPod wheel moment but reimagined as a novel 3D interaction between natural real world controls and a visual space made pleasing even to the eyes of the old Sir Jonny Ive types.
Chomsky postulates that all languages boil down to a universal set of rules, and he went as far as saying that this is biologically motivated, as if there was a "language device" in the brain.

Norvig was one of the pioneers in proposing that NLP could be solved by statistical machine learning on large quantities of data.

So the joke here is that we're using large-scale machine learning to infer the underlying universal structure of language.

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EDIT: After writing the comment above I asked ChatGPT-4 the same question, and it came up with the following answer, which I think is flawless.

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The last sentence in the paragraph is referencing two well-known figures in the field of linguistics and artificial intelligence: Noam Chomsky and Peter Norvig.

Noam Chomsky is a linguist who proposed the idea of a "universal grammar," suggesting that all human languages share a common underlying structure, and that humans have an innate ability to acquire language. This idea implies that even with limited exposure to a specific language, humans can still learn it thanks to this innate structure.

Peter Norvig is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher who is known for advocating a more data-driven, statistical approach to natural language processing. This approach emphasizes the importance of large datasets in teaching machines to understand and process language, rather than relying on pre-defined rules or structures.

The sentence "It's like Chomsky, but with the Norvig approach" suggests that the described language model incorporates elements of both Chomsky's universal grammar and Norvig's data-driven approach. The model benefits from an underlying structure (akin to Chomsky's universal grammar) while also leveraging a large corpus of various languages (as advocated by Norvig) to improve its performance in understanding and processing language.
Startup technologists have been acting like speed of actions doesn't matter for decades. If a person can do it, why shouldn't a computer do it 1000x faster? What could go wrong? It's always been a poor argument at best and a bad faith one at worst.
Is it possible that in the end humanity will decide that the internet just isn't worth it?
A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
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No, you just need to dig deeper.

The MobileMe Drive system was shut down in 2012, as your link says. However the new feature in iCloud wasn't introduced until Yosemite, which came out in 2014. There was a two year gap where the service did not exist.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud#iCloud_Drive
This is the best and quickest solution. It's not without its own problems but they pale in comparison to the situation we currently have.

Too bad more people don't know how or don't have access to darknet markets. They are a panacea for drug safety problems.
Take what action? Pretty sure that’s not illegal, especially since the training data is ai generated and therefore can’t be copyrighted.
I have an MBA. It’s not mine or any of my peer’s jobs to provide crap products to ends users - thats up to shareholders to decide.