skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of the relatively early adopters in 2015 when the BQ Aquaris E4.5 came out.

I gave Ubuntu Touch a chance, particularly as I was longing for something comparable to Maemo on the Nokia N900. At first it was great. OpenSSH, bash, etc. I had some fun hacking on it. However, I quickly realized they threw a beta product at the people.

I missed phone calls because of race conditions. I couldn't connect to my wifi because my password was too long.... It overall really seemed the team at Canonical didn't have enough man power.

Eventually, these things got fixed, but too late for me. In some ways it's cool that the community hasn't given up on Ubuntu touch, unlike Canonical. I don't know how much has changed under the hood, but one can only hope the software stack is more reliable now.
> We build and support Scratch to provide creative tools for anyone to explore computation in a from that is relatable and has a low floor for understanding/entry.

I love this philosophy. Computing is so much more than application development. It's a creative tool, and exploration tool, a tool for finding insight and exploring spaces. Giving people access to those tools without gatekeeping or accidental complexity is fantastic.

The popularity "you need to start with SICP" and "BASIC mutilates programmers" lines of thinking have done so much damage to the way we, as an engineering community, think about the role of computation in society.
Not in my experience. It's always a crapshoot.
Some interesting trivia:

The SR-71 began as the YF-12, and was originally supposed to be RS-71 (Reconnaissance/Surveillance), but somebody thought SR sounded better.

The YF prefix on the original aircraft is often referred to as "Yankee Fire", a caveat that is still in use.
> Setup matters a lot, eg if you have a separate room to go to or a standalone unit in the back yard.

We built a garage with an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) that I use for my office. My kids are aged 5-12, and It's great to have some separation. Though now two of the kids have their own computers in the room next to my office, so I've had to teach them that a Minecraft "emergency" doesn't mean they can interrupt me working.
Making Airports Air Traffic More Efficient
Definitely not "most" of the internet. The internet is many exabytes at this point, while Common Crawl is only low petabytes.
That sound is very unpleasant.
Given everything he has said and done about Twitter, I think it's pretty clear he has no idea how contracts work and is very bitter about ever having to follow them.
Thats the thinking that lead to the development of the nuclear bomb.
Reddit's /r/buyitforlife 's 1.4 million subscribers and probably 10x as many people that visit without joining reddit and the subsequent similar population of people scraping that data and consuming the scraped data... I think they would disagree with you.

That said, even if that's generously 100 million people that's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the population of consumers that couldn't care less.
For example (continuing my sibling comment), if you unroll it properly, you do get TypeScript complaints.

parseInt("10", 0, ["10", "10", "10"])
parseInt("10", 1, ["10", "10", "10"])
parseInt("10", 2, ["10", "10", "10"])

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/ATAOEMCcGcFMEkB2AX...

So TypeScript intentionally suppresses this kind of complaint when matching up function types even though it issues them when calling functions directly. The reason for that has a justification, but in contexts like this, I think it is a WAT-worthy interaction.

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/FAQ#why-are-fun...
Where are any LLMs going to get data from as they become
more ubiquitous and humans produce less publicly accessible original and thoughtful content?

The whole thing is a plateaued feedback loop.
>There is a tight sweet spot where all the variables are just right, and you get amazing coffee.

In double blind trials or audiophile I can hear the gold plating sort of way?
A very large portion of lamps purchased at home goods stores have dimmer switches (a knob that you turn instead of flipping a switch), and dimmers have been widely available at home improvement stores for decades. This idea is not some niche thing limited only to smart home tech people. It doesn’t have to be automated—one can just get up and set the brightness to their liking.

I think the big surprise for most people would be that many LED bulbs are not dimmable, as that hasn’t been something they had to worry about with older bulbs (it was also an issue with CFLs, but people avoided them because of the harsh color)
Can someone please make an “archive.is” clone that just does GPT summaries for us HN folk?
> Even though LED bulbs have no such limitations, a color temperature of only 2700K is often chosen.

I think there's a reason for this, which is that sunlight supplements indoor lighting during the day. People rely on indoor lighting more at night when those warmer tones are most desirable.
just because somebody decides to geek out about LED bulbs, does't mean all those stats that are theoretically measurable actually make a difference.

the 4-for-$10 A19 LED bulbs from amazon or ikea are flicker free to my eyes. i've bought some fancy bulbs with big metal heatsink bases, supposed "high CRI" ratings, equivalently high price tags. to my eyes, i can't see the difference. the super-cheap bulbs from one of those amazon marketplace sellers with a randomly generated name are flickery, but just going up to anything other than the absolute bare minimum of quality is good enough. "what the peasants get to use" is because that's actually probably good enough for what us peasants need. if you want to geek out about super high-end LEDs, you're not going to find that in consumer-grade products and that's probably fine.
Use of Chatbots in Writing Scientific Manuscripts, Commentary from AAS Journals
Primarily it is the E27 bulbs that are the problem. Designed to ease people into simple replacement into the old light sockets 10+ years ago. Now in 2023 the new LED products with the well designed power supplies work much better and efficiency. The author mentions renovations, but still using ancient fixtures, wiring and switches. A new house, or partial renovation, should now be wired with 24v for all wall and ceiling lights.
Yes it is and you're sounding like a condescending asshole by denying it.
Other similar projects are https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless and https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.
> That article doesn't mention a service that was open to users

So? Most AI isn't. It's not all consumer products.

> not to mention the point of the article is that AI had fewer false positives and false negatives than doctors, which would invalidate the premise of this argument

I can say that about Tesla FSD.

Press release overconfidence works both ways.
But... There is an entire world of "third wave" specialty roasters selling quality light roasts...
> none of the people I know have stopped using the site, despite most being fiercely anti-Musk

To offer another data point, some of the people I know have actually stopped using Twitter and started using other platforms more. Then again, none of them said the site’s uptime was the reason.
I find these two concepts [1, 2] at odds with each other. Not a critique on the author - on the contrary, empathy: I felt the same when applying to YC (did not make a batch).

On one hand, the general impression you get when preparing for your application (via FAQs, Startup School, YC videos, etc) is very much in line with [1] - YC is looking for _very_ early stage.

But once you go through the actual application you feel focus shift towards [2] - metrics and $. That is to say (with admittedly some not-having-been-selected bias), I feel [2] is a significant factor in deciding on applications. So as I weigh in on whether to apply for the next batch, I'm not sure whether a product I've just finished building makes sense for YC and whether I should gamble on attempt #3.

I think it would help both YC and founders if they take some steps to make this clear(er) for potential applicants.

[1] > In general, there is an evident focus on the very early stage without a product. The main theory and advice are about how to figure out what to do, how to build an MVP, how to launch, how to talk to customers, where to find the first 10 customers, how to raise the first money, and so on. Needless to say, for companies with tens or even hundreds of thousands in revenue it won’t be very valuable.

[2] > [...] present dry facts—how much money customers already paid you, what the size of the market, if you count all the units you can sell, what you have actually built and what is working today. And this will always sound bad for anyone, it just can't sound good in the early days.
That article was feverish. I think the author is making it a bit too complicated. Also, there's much talk about the Met and their art collection. Even with the challenges of LED bulbs, they wouldn't go back. Damaging UV is no longer a problem with LEDs.
That's not fundamental. They could flicker the individual LEDs at different phases. A typical bulb contains many LEDs. This would cost money, of course.
> This is not true. A monopoly can also be held accountable by the shareholders. A monopoly can also be held accountable by the market. Ask any cable company, for example.

The monopolies in question are utility monopolies, none of these apply except the shareholder control, the holding accountable of which is equivalent to holding the company itself accountable.

> A monopoly can also be held accountable by new entrants to the market, ask any ISP that refuses to run lines to rural areas.

Considering the state of rural internet access in the US, that doesn't seem to be supporting your argument at all. And when ISPs have local monopolies their service is measurably much more expensive and worse than when there is competition, and also measurably worse that municipally run connectivity, which they fight tooth and nail.

> From a strictly academic sense, this is true, but requires an election to achieve, and I've already gone over how those are captured by the very corporations governments are supposed to hold accountable.

As I said, even given this the situation with the government alone running things is only as bad as it is with the monopoly middleman while remaining potentially easier to change.
All prediction and knowing prognostication flooding poplar media and public discourse on the topic of the risks and likely impact of AI, from the inane letter to the Goldman-Sachs prognostication,

is wrong.

It is consistently hubristic, and variously disingenuous or bad faith, naive, or millenarian.

Why is it wrong?

Because no one, not Altman nor Yudkowsky nor Musk nor Gates nor Bostrom nor anyone else, knows what the impacts are going to be.

We have not since the advent of the internet experienced the emergent introduction of a new technological force-multiplier and agency-augmenter like this; and this one by virtue of where we are courtesy Moore's Law etc. fully exploits and realizes the potential of the preceding ones. We built a highly-networked highly-computational open society resting on surveillance, big data, logistics, and the rapid flow, processing, and transformation, of inordinate amounts of data.

And now we are cranking things up one more notch.

Those of us who lived through the internet's arrival know something that those who grew up with it do not, which is the actual literal ordering of things—of most aspects of shared society—can and will be upended; and it is not just industries and methods of communicating and doing business that change. Our conception of self and presumptions of what it means to be ourselves and with one another and how that happens, all change.

Per the slow march to singularity the last revolutions have reliably transpired an order or more faster than those before them.

This one looks to be no different. The rate of change telegraphed by e.g. this forum and Reddit, viz. individual novel possibilities being exploited on a daily basis, makes that clear enough.

So the only thing any of us, no matter how silver-backed, grey-bearded, wealthy, or embedded in the AI industry itself,

is that none of us know what is going to happen.

The surface across which black-swan events and disruption may occur is simply too large, the number of actors too great, the consequent knock-on effects too numerous.

The only thing we can say is that none of us know where this is going.

Well, that—and that it's happening at a rate beyond institutional or governmental control.

The only things that could stop radical disequilibrium now are deux ex machina intervention by Other Powers, even more disruptive climatological tipping points, or, untracked large asteroids.

Beware anyone who claims to know what is happening, why. For one or another reason, they are speaking falsely.
This is like when all the devs at a company say that management has to stop all feature development for six months while they work on tech debt
As if the east doesn't have its own things it would like to impose on the west.

I think self-esteem transcends culture. You can call it colonialism, but I say you want people to suffer. Because culture!

Also, unrealistic beauty standards are fairly universal. These awful beauty apps are but one solution, and they are gaining ground here in the west. Is this a case of eastern colonialism? What about TikTok?

Empowering people to feel comfortable in their own skin, as they are. How could anyone not want that?
i agree, i think the grey area decriminalization is pointless, full legalization is the way to go with safe regulated drugs
S22 and W23 have been in-person, W22 was the last remote batch. In person has been a significantly better experience from what I can tell!
That is not really an AI specific risk, all that can happen totally without AI. AI might make it more cost efficient in a way, but that doesn't imply that power cannot be held in check etc.

East Germany had a gigantic internal spy apparatus with plenty of power for violence and control etc. but in the end that didn't stop the place from crumbling.
This is kinda like CloudFlare tunnel?
>They are, ρ5 is not the same as 2ρ5.

And +5 is not the same as 2+5. One is a sign and the other addition...
A recent Jeff Geerling video dug into this subject. [0]. Sharp NEC [1] makes and sells TVs without any "smart" junk (they're mainly aimed at being 24/7 monitors/displays in businesses). They're significantly more expensive than consumer TVs, but part of that is likely to accommodate 24/7 usage.

[0] https://youtu.be/-epPf7D8oMk

[1] https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/
Here's a YouTube video showing off the UI 3 months ago https://youtu.be/qmlabKbpTGM&t=5m44s it shouldn't be much different than Focal, but if someone has a video of the Focal UI, please post it. They should make it a lot easier to see the UI

Edit: this one is good too https://youtu.be/ltxj8YBoTMU
Human cloning isn't that difficult. The machines are well known and understood and easy to build. Tell me this: if you were producing genetically modified embryos or human clones, would you be broadcasting this to the entire world? There's actually low incentive to be very vocal about this kind of activity, especially for the sake of the child and its privacy going forward in life.
GPTweet: An AI assistant for improving your tweets
A friend of mine and I built this over the weekend, and thought it might be fun to share out. Please let us know what you think.
I think this falls apart in the details. LEDs want constant current power supplies, and their owners frequently want them to dim. So you will still need a power supply.

You can fudge it with resisters like in an LED strip, but you lose efficiency and dimming quality.

That being said, I expect that power supplies with 48VDC input or so would be cheaper.
Snow Crash is my second favorite Stephenson book (The Diamond Age is my favorite). I can see the validity of the literary criticisms of it -- but it still hits a sweet spot for me, and I have enjoyed it just as much every time I've read it again.
so your position is: who cares what financial advice we output as long as we do it quickly?
That's not a gotcha for libertarians because libertarianism has a whole philosophy around the use of violence, which abortion would fall under. That is libertarians do not consider there to be a right to violence except in cases of self defence. Thus it is consistent to be libertarian and not consider abortion rights to be legitimate.
i was looking to do yc but decided against it because of the remote aspect
One example is my living room. Sometimes I'm hosting people over, and I just want the whole room to be really bright as we're all gathering around, talking, maybe playing games, etc. I want that room practically as bright as I can get it during those times.

But other times I'm just wanting to cozy up to the fireplace with a book and some light music and a dram of whiskey late in the evening. I don't need the room to be super bright, so I might just have the lights over the fireplace on set very dimly.

Same goes with the kitchen. When I'm actively cooking a meal, I want it very bright. But I don't always need it that bright, sometimes I just want it a bit more ambient in its lighting.

Or the dining room. Sometimes I use that space for projects as it has the large table, and I'll want it as bright as possible. But other times, I could probably stand to have it at about 75% of its brightness as we're just sitting around together having a meal, and with my home layout its a bit of a central space so its nice having it at like 20% brightness to act as a bit of a night light as people go through the house.
If you are on salary - who cares? We aren't paid by the hour.
I was just staying in a hotel where it was obvious that the hallway lighting was all LED.

It had that harsh, strange white hue to it and I found it incredibly distracting and unattractive.

I'm no expert in the field, and I assume there are bulbs that put out a more natural spectrum, but clearly this hotel didn't buy those bulbs. It felt strange to walk down that hallway, just something "off" about it.
Commended. Yes. Stupid autocomplete on the phone.
Because, as I just indicated, it's not the interest rates directly. It's indirect. If you don't believe that high interest rates can have a suppressive effect on higher risk investments, then you're just arguing with clear verifiable macroeconomic fact.

If you do understand that higher interest rates suppress higher risk investments, then there's a direct line between that and slowing VC funding and depressed investor sentiment, which is ultimately what's feeding these layoffs.

The indirect link is not always true. Interest rates can be risen in a bull market. When done slowly, this effect is less pronounced. In this case, we massively shifted rates in a short amount of time during a period of high inflation.
How is the interface to the data and existing product better with large language models?
Of course, I don't get to decide it. That's exactly my point! You seem to be restating my point. Each company is free to decide for themselves how much they want to contribute.
> I’m sure introducing a fuzzy logic interface taking natural language input

Do LLMs use fuzzy logic at all? I know fuzzy + neural network was a big thing in the 1990s or so, but I thought that LLM NNs (and most current NNs in AI) use Bayesian logic.
I wasn't trying to be nice; I was trying to do the right thing. It had nothing to do with me caring about his opinion of me.

He was a career academic, this was his first job on the coalface. I really thought he'd improve. Of course, I didn't want to fire him, because I wouldn't want to be fired myself. So there was a strong element of wishful thinking, of which I was fully aware. Basically I took the "easy path", so I was lazy, although I didn't see it that way at the time.

Your remark about my ego is simply wrong, not justified by what little you know about me from my comment, and insulting.

FWIW, I had discussed this fellow with my own manager, who was on the other side of the Atlantic. His attitude was that it was entirely my decision; I think that was meant as some kind of management training - like, "toughening me up". This manager told me that he loved firing people.

I personally liked my manager, but I think he was a jerk, and not a good manager. He was very technically competent. One day he turned against me for reasons I never learned. There was a redundancy programme just starting, and I left with a nicer redundancy package than I'd have got if I'd waited (every cloud...).
Weak tea. If you're gonna sass at least put in some effort. Are you really trying to say "hypocrisy is okay because everyone does it"?

And hypocrisy is the good interpretation: that they know what they're doing and don't care, for whatever reason, about the irony of hosting their "Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet" on Google's very unpublic infrastructure. The worse interpretation is that they're completely clueless.
> So? Most AI isn't. It's not all consumer products.

You are moving the goal posts. Your argument was that non-Tesla AI has killed its users. There were no users of the service mentioned in the article, ergo none of them could have been killed by it.

> I can say that about Tesla FSD.

The difference is that Tesla FSD is actively used, and its false negatives and positives have actually killed people.

My argument was never that AI will not eventually kill people. It was that so far, Tesla AI has directly killed more people than any other AI.
How society is constructed, how our food supply has co-opted our satiety instincts, how advertising works and how social media and other dopamine inducing passive activities have co-opted our brains and willpower play no role in your Ayn Randian fantasy world where each person can just exercise willpower to combat these ills. You are wrong and the evidence is quite clear. Humans did not suddenly lose willpower in the last few decades. Most rich nations have seen a rise in obesity with Americans leading the way. Loneliness is on the rise and while you personally are immune to the aforementioned ills most people aren’t.

Dark patterns work because we aren’t always vigilant. For instance, Google knows we don’t always read the instructions perfectly and we are easily duped, statistically speaking, to do things that we didn’t mean to do. There are dark patterns so to speak in the way our society is constructed.
It's not a tragedy either
I think people leave Google to do a startup, or otherwise scratch some itch to work on different things.

I worked as a contractor at Google, stay in touch with a lot of Googlers, and I have never heard anyone say they wasted time there. You are asking if they left because Google can’t beat OpenAI. You might be correct, but OpenAI might not survive either, except to serve Microsoft.

All that said, as a user/developer I love what Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI (and Hugging Face, etc.) have to offer.