skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so weird to me that anyone would prefer their project's dependencies be at some arbitrary location on disk rather than simply inside the current directory. But sure, whatever, do what you like. What's even weirder to me is that people would advocate stopping anyone else from doing this. There are comments on that thread even denigrating users who don't prefer this as "not understanding directories." Are you kidding me?!

The devs in this thread are all arguing from the perspective of "not making things more confusing," but it's like they haven't even considered that things are so confusing at this point, that people are just abandoning Python altogether. And how can anyone in good conscience recommend it as a first programming language to some poor noob who's going to spend hours dealing with the packaging mess every time they try to code a new project or return to their last one?

I have a bunch of small python projects that I come back to once every six months, and every time, it's a nightmare to remember how to activate the venv for them, and then also to remember which venv it's actually using. Not to mention I need to search the internet to remember the difference between venv, pyenv, virtualenv, pyenv-virtualenv, and at one point even "virtualenv-burrito." Then it's a constant struggle with ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc to figure out why the activate script isn't working. Do I need to activate it? Do I need to exec it in subshell? Once I finally figure it out, should I put this in my .bash_profile or is it a waste of time to check whether to activate a venv on every command I type? Two hours later, if I'm lucky, I can actually start coding on the project where I left it six months ago.

It's a total nightmare and ultimately the main contributor to what turned me off of Python. TypeScript has its problems, but at least I've got a yarn workflow with immutable lockfiles that pretty much guarantees I can jump back into a project how I left it, and I don't need to also worry about some state in my home directory, or environment variables missing in my shell, or activating some opaque venv in every new tmux pane. I can see the dependencies in node_modules. They're right there. Nothing outside of my current directory is relevant to the project at all.

This same criticism applies to go and their $GOPATH. Rust is slightly better. I've started keeping a note in Obsidian for each of these languages, called e.g. "cold jumping back into Rust," which lessens the pain each time, but I haven't made these notes for Python yet and I'm not exactly thrilled every time I need to jump back into a Python project.
GM’s CEO is delusional.

With dealer lots full of new vehicle inventory, she is choosing to lay off employees and shut down production instead of make reasonable price cuts.

And to double down on that delusion, she said that GM was “…poised to capture any upside in the market in 2023.”
Who would want Google in their car? This is a privacy nightmare.
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Not quite the same. All does 0 user customized ordering. It is based on some "algorithm" but it's the same for all users.
I don't know why you question this. I've used it for meaningful stuff, but I am not convinced that ChatGPT is more than a very sophisticated variety of Eliza.

Just because one person is convinced by an experience doesn't mean people who aren't convinced by it haven't had the experience.
I tend to agree with the "bullshitting" part. But that gives us a very useful tool to estimate future applications of LLMS.

Will a LLM ever program on its own? Certainly not. It gets semantics wrong so often, it's not even funny. Syntax on the other hand is surprisingly correct. So it could help with refactorings (but be aware of subtle conflicts). Of course, code search will be a killer application.

In other cases it helps to ask "will someone really notice if the LLM puts out bullshit?" What will happen if your manager and your client both believe what the model generates? Will people die? Or will the negative effects be untraceable? In the latter case, why object?
Ask HN: Share your favorite examples of shell script abuse
I have a real soft spot for shell scripts with no sense of reality, exercises in a beginners enthusiasm. Like many, shell scripting was my introduction into programming and after learning bash and making those few simple scripts I learned it for I wanted to use it for everything to exploit my new knowledge. All these years later seeing the overly ambitious shell script never fails to bring back the excitement of those early successes and return a sense of scope to my own projects when bogged down in the details with nothing yet to show for it all. So share your favorite abuses or just any that come to mind.

I just came across bed, the bash editor [0], I was really expecting a complete nightmare and a massive script that barely functioned but was pleasantly surprised by how short and clean it is. Despite being essentially useless (beyond as an exercise) you could use it as an editor, I even learned/relearned a few things from it and used it for awhile on my own project.

0: https://github.com/comfies/bed/blob/master/bed
I have a LEAF and generally very much like it. The massive Achilles heel of my car is the 24kWh battery, which is slightly annoying about once a month and seriously annoying about 4x per year.

Any Bolt is a better car hands-down on battery capacity alone.

On the infotainment topic: I have the top-spec LEAF for my year and the (upgraded) infotainment unit is hot garbage, easily bested by the $175 Android touchscreen I put in my wife's car.
I sort of like it, but I would bet it was supposed to be "suspiciously".
> would just replace the gas-powered boiler with an electric one

With resistive heat? That would be a horrible idea.

And creating steam with a heat pump would be less efficient than gas.

So like I said, they have not thought it through.
Training a ChatGPT-beating model for much less than $85,000is entirely feasible. At CentML, we're actively working on model training and inference optimization without affecting accuracy, which can help reduce costs and make such ambitious projects realistic. By maximizing (>90%) GPU and platform hardware utilization, we aim to bring down the expenses associated with large-scale models, making them more accessible for various applications. Additionally, our solutions also have a positive environmental impact, addressing the excess CO2 concerns. If you're interested in learning more about how we are doing it, please reach out via our website: https://centml.ai
Weird how the inability to gouge is now seen as a "cost".
> What would be the point of going on?

For me personally it's that the future is unknowable, at least with our current understanding of physics. So yes, everything may be pre-determined, including what will happen to me, but I can't predict it with any confidence. I will still get to experience it and I get to have qualia about it. I get to participate. The little pouch of structure in the universe that is tagged "me" is along for the ride, and also a factor in it all.

I've also known for many, many years that one day I will be dead. There's plenty of existential dread in death, yet I continue my existence building up to it. Even if I had free will: Still dead. Offspring and future generations of Earth? Well, ultimate heat death of the universe. There's many ways to call it all pointless. The only thing that we seem to have going for us is experience while it lasts. Maybe we still discover an escape hatch along the way.
> From a calculator you do not expect "«pretty»" reliable, but just reliable. From a human you expect faulty computation because of the economization of resources, but you know it can reason.

Just have it use Wolfram Alpha plugin. Not an issue.
FB open source algo looks much better, right?
/s
But having a furnace means you also have central air. So the question isn’t furnace or heat pump, it’s furnace and one directional heat pump or just a heat pump. Yes, on cold days the furnace will be cheaper, but on most days the heat pump is cheaper and requires less maintenance since you’re turning two appliances into one.
what is vits?

private val DarkRequestAnnotation = "clnt/has_dark_request"
private val Democrats = "democrats"
private val Republicans = "republicans"
private val Elon = "elon"
private val Vits = "vits"
Chesterton's Fence. In a sufficiently large system, you should be hesitant to remove things unless you're sure you know why it was added, and all the things that have come to depend on it since.

I've definitely been hesitant to remove things I was pretty confident weren't used anymore, just because I didn't want to deal with the repercussions if I was wrong.
I'm in the UK, and got an air-to-air heat pump (more commonly known as air conditioning). It made sense because of extremely high electricity prices, and I have an insulated house without gas, electric only. There's a lot of houses / flats similar to mine, that could switch from resistive to heat pump heating. Unfortunately, the government are focusing on very expensive retrofitting of air-to-water heat pumps in older uninsulated houses, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
FWIW, modern heat pumps can exceed 400% efficiency, so the math is starting to work out in their favor even for fossil fuels burned at a power plant.
The problem for twitter is it isn't the only game in town when it comes to social media, not by a long shot. They're not even in the top ten. They're a megaphone in a large pile of megaphones, and those other megaphones don't bite the hand that picks them up.
Yeah this confused me a lot while reading the comments here. I wonder what percentage of the comments are trolling vs. fell for it vs. think it's legit.

Perhaps this calls for an HN poll...
This is that problem of Google branding.

They’re dropping Android Auto, the CarPlay equivalent.

They’re switching to Android Auto, the infotainment OS. Or is that Android Automotive? Or Android for Autos? Or Android Auto(motive?) OS, which is AAOS. Or something based on Android Open Source for cars or maybe Android Auto Open Source?

Which is not AOSP. Or Android. But kind of is.

I’m not in the Android world but I’m never sure what to call the car Android thing as opposed to the phone Android thing for use in cars.

Using Android Auto with your Android based auto. Sigh.

I give up. I’m going to go watch Apple TV on my Apple TV through the Apple made TV app.
> when it's relatively clear that it's all just fancy statistics.
So just like human brain then.
Why not? Garbage in garbage out; there's a limit to what can be done with ambiguous information.

Though perhaps it would be better for the AI to just say it's a dumb question and not bother trying to make sense of it. Which it kinda politely did.
>You really don't need a Peloton bike and other conspicuous consumption signs.

It would be quite hard for frivolous spending to become a problem on levels.fyi money. What you really have to watch out for is things like buying a house or starting a family. Not only are they much larger in absolute terms, but you must sustain them at the same quantity every month for decades. Nothing is easy or pleasant to cut back on, but frivolous stuff is much easier.

This dynamic is an important reason for the "perpetual childhood" people complain about in the educated urban classes. Because real estate is so expensive, it is legitimately much easier to access "fun" stuff than to have the kind of security needed to pay a mortgage for 30 years. The two don't even trade off against each other that meaningfully. $9-12k/mo mortgage and property tax payments buy a lot of toys, travel, and fancy dinners!
> Not as much and to the depth of despair that it has been foretold

So what? What you say would be true even of all the predictions were right, but just 1% less in magnitude. It's setting an unreasonably high bar.

A lot of people don't want to think about the harm that their enthusiasms could cause, and are eager to discredit anything that isn't a rose-tinted assessment because it's a threat to their fun or ambition.

AI will be great for those who already have money, and they'll be the ones writing the history of its effects.
I remember watching one of the final episodes of Connections 3: With James Burke, and he casually said we'd have personal assistants that we could talk to (in our PDAs). That was 1997 and I knew enough about computers to think he was being overly optimistic about the speed of progress. Not in our lifetimes. Guess I was wrong!
People like Ben Shapiro, Glenn Greenwald, @catturd2
The author clearly possesses intelligence, which instills in him a confidence similar to that of ChatGPT when it comes to dismissing a tool that, for some reason, he has not yet learned to utilize effectively.
The actual science never supported mask mandates.

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6

When you don't know the proper course of action it's better to gather more data instead of taking swift but wrong actions.
In a few years my AI girlfriend will gift me amazing art and songs she created for me based on all my journal entries from the past 30 years.

I will send her love notes and poems that she will always remember.

And for a few extra bucks, I will insert her into The Elder Scrolls as my beautiful thane who knows me better than anyone in that strange land.
That's actually kind of a cool and fitting name.
Most corporations/governments would prefer to keep their AI conversations private. Definitely mainstream desire, not niche.
It’s not necessarily recklessness.

Cars in the US have gotten much larger and heavier in recent years.

A Ford F150 might be safe to drive, but it’s not safer for pedestrians and other road users than the smaller cars we used to have.
I'm intrigued by this viewpoint and want you to elaborate more! Why is getting smarter the worst goal to have? Do you think it's useful to get very smart at something specific, or does it amount to the same as not being smart at all?

Asking as someone perpetually soothing myself with advice about diet, alcohol, spirituality, etc.
For me it would be simply an AI bot, you can ask something like "Who mentioned about the logging bug in production 2 months ago?" and quickly get the answers you need. Fairly prosaic but would be useful.
Author here. For additional context, please read https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/638#discu... The loading time performance has been a huge win for usability, and folks have been having the most wonderful reactions after using this change. But we don't have a compelling enough theory yet to explain the RAM usage miracle. So please don't get too excited just yet! Yes things are getting more awesome, but like all things in science a small amount of healthy skepticism is warranted.
In defense of crypto, decentralized currency is the way to go IMO. BTC is super expensive but it does mirror Gold reserves.

Does this mean the US is no longer the "most powerful"? Maybe so, since countries are moving off the USD, however the US could have at any time started mining BTC. I actually don't understand why the US government didn't do this already. It was so fundamentally clear (since at least 2011) that we were moving towards digital currency. And, this would most likely be a global currency that was not USD. Even in 2017, there was undeniable proof that this was the necessary path. Since that time, the crypto community met with US government on numerous occasions to help develop a strategy. It's hard to fathom why there was no "just-in-case" plan implemented in this regard.

The push by banking institutions to use XRP is suspect IMO, as other forms of digital assets have proven quite valuable (e.g., Monero, ZCash, Dash), and they've held up YoY. Beyond money transfer, we see cryptocurrencies such as FileCoin that will transform the supply chain by providing immutable record and transfer of goods. This can help solve the issue of proliferation of fake goods. I recall Amazon even talking about product verification w/o barcodes. IMO, this is long overdue.

Is it that people just don't like change? Or is it the very real and irrevocable disruption to US economy that seems to be rapidly approaching?
Maybe it's weird, but for all the work I have ever done, I have never used CI/CD in the way that it was meant to be used, or never really leveraged it. Maybe all of my past jobs were unprofessional, but like, I see a lot of jobs using "CI/CD experience required" and I think... huh I wonder if they actually do it
This gives me a headache but I guess you’re not wrong.
TCJA of 2017 (the big Trump-era tax bill) reduced or eliminated a lot of deductions (personal exemption, mortgage interest, SALT, and a bunch of little ones like moving expenses) in exchange for doubling the standard deduction and child tax credit.
I tried it on Bing Chat and it answered:

The bear is white. The house must be at the North Pole, so the only place you can point to from all windows is south. Therefore, the house must be a North Pole research station and the bear is a polar bear which are white in color.
That’s not how it works. See the parent.
(
"has_toxicity_score_above_threshold",
_.getOrElse(EarlybirdFeature, None).exists(_.toxicityScore.exists(_ > 0.91))
)
Immediately checked the date - if you published this in March 2023 it's hilarious because the author can refute many of the claims here by simply paying $20 and adjusting a dropdown to "GPT-4"
I'm working on a model of charging the business for this service. A monthly fee, or project based fee.

This week is the beginning of my sales process, and I've talked to many people that are super interested, working my way to the people that sign checks.

I'm hoping to get a spend of a few grand per month per company I work with, and get them to commit to a few months of my efforts.

It costs $1500 to pave a new asphalt parking spot (and $25k for a parking spot in a parking garage) so a service that "adds 10 parking spots", roughly, is valuable, and, more importantly, adds capacity to the business when they're otherwise maxed out.

I'm talking to restaurants, breweries, and climbing gyms, at the moment. All of these institutions are sensitive to their customers and staff not being able to find parking.
Will this make it easier to game the algo or does it depend so heavily on individual user interaction that it’s close to impossible to game it? For example, by carefully crafting Tweets or by buying likes/retweets etc?
I have predicted that LLaMA will be available on mobile phones before the end of this year. We are very close.
Very Important Tweeters, a play on VIP perhaps?
This is a fine analogy for accidents. I am talking specifically about security.
Pointing out that we have the electoral college days absolutely nothing about what a majority of people believe which was the topic being discussed.
Heat pumps have always had a built-in resistive heating element as a backup option for when it gets too cold out. This is terribly energy inefficient, but if you're talking about a few days a year at most it is fine, no need to install a second heat source.

Besides, 0C is far too conservative an estimate for heat pumps. -10C was no problem even for 30 year old units.
Tesla is probably an edge-case. Tesla's navigation has excellent support for Superchargers and even pre-conditions your battery a few minutes before you arrive at the charger for more efficient charging.

There are ways to run CarPlay in the browser, and it works fine (plenty of videos about it), but it isn't enough of a value-add for people to want it.
model-depending, you can train on lesser (cheaper) GPUs but system-level optimizations are needed. Which is what we provide at centml.ai
The poster said "philosophy", not "quacky neo-theologian mysticism from a psychology professor drifting out of his lane while coming off of benzos".
I've found regurgitating cliches and mirroring others to be really helpful. Really helps knowing I'd be fine and fit in if everything around me cratered.

Eating like shit has also really impacted the way I look at the world and gave me a much deeper appreciation for everything good in my life. Nothing like deep burger regret to put into perspective what's important.

Oh yeah and I've become a pick-up artist. Not really intelligence, per se, but I did pay $9000 in seminars and it's been a wild ride of self-discovery. I love being humbled by how great some of my competitors are at it, and it relaxes me knowing that it's something I can improve on yet never really care about being exceptional at.

Finally, I spend a lot of time observing sociopaths. When you actually dig into the lives of the people so many of us look up to, there's a lot of things in their lives that are either undesirable, or not any more figured out than most of us have it. So it helps in a weird way to go to the apex predators of our species who engage without the burden of moral artifacts.
> This whole debacle really made it clear that there is no way to be an ethical success in capitalism at the highest levels (CEO, Board, C-Suite generally, SVP).

Relevant quote:

> Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic. Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual. Institutions, he warned, to extend their lives when confronted with collapse, will swiftly betray the stances that ostensibly define them. Only individual men and women have the strength to hold fast to virtue when faced with the threat of death.

Also:

> A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”
- https://nav.al/failure
Mature how? It seems like it's already more or less what they're going for.

I wasn't thinking of a toy HTML rendering engine to play around with but a browser - an Electron project could pretty quickly exceed what it can do.

Rendering engines are cool though - and it's nice one of has been invited to TC39: hover over linusg on https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/contributors

I'm pretty interested in Servo and hope its reboot after exiting Mozilla goes well. https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/
Rent control madness, and the apartments of 1133-44 Taylor Street
For the NYT to verify their official accounts plus those of their reporters (using the Twitter Blue Affiliations feature) would be $1m annually. This, for a budget line item that has heretofore been $0. In this economy, that's a reach.

I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach."
Hey, we can get even more cynical. Why should we trust that this code is even similar to what they run in production currently?
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Neuromancer, of course.
It’s a British Virgin Islands registered company run by a Russian billionaire who lives in Dubai.
I wonder why anyone would want to run it in a browser, other than to show it could be done? It's not like the extra latency would matter, since these things are slow.

Running it on a server you control makes more sense. You can pick appropriate hardware for running the AI. Then access it from any browser you like, including from your phone, and switch devices whenever you like. It won't use up all the CPU/GPU on a portable device and run down your battery.

If you want to run the server at home, maybe use something like Tailscale?
My favorite is ci/ci.sh

#!/bin/sh

exit 0
https://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-William-Hertling-audiob...

Singularity Series by William Hertling.

It's a few years old but I think it really nailed where AI could go - both in amazing positive ways but also in dark ways as well.

It starts essentially a plugin for gmail that makes email more effective and snowballs into.........no spoilers.