skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USB trick isn't electrical, it's just that the shape of USB-A has a nice fit that lets you turn the lock on a key-started Hyundai because it has no immobilizer chip (something other brands have routinely had since the 90s). The push-button cars did not suffer from this vulnerability, and the Ioniq 6 doesn't have a key so it presumably doesn't have that issue either.
I'm seeing a lot of AI doomerism. I'm incredibly optimistic about AI, recently ChatGTP helped me debug a Neovim/Microsoft Language Server bug related to symlinks - I couldn't have done it on my own but asking the right questions helped me tease out a production bug related with gopls.
Pros:

- Makes it hard for advertisers to target you with ads

Cons:

- Funded by the State Department via Tor Project
If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have said hell no - you could fairly comfortably live in Russia, especially in big cities, and have more or less normal life, unless you are gay or oppose local or state institutions.

But now? They don't have any regard for human life. Not just the lives of Ukrainians, but their own. Putin is knowingly sacrificing tens of thousands for his sick ambition. There is nothing Russia gained from this war. Utter tragedy for everyone.
> outside of the margin of error

Margins of error for binomials only really work in the center of the distribution, of which 0.02 is pretty far away from. Also the survey size was 30000 people, which means the error bars should be well under 2%.
Generally right here, just has a physical operating component to the business which makes COGS high. Think of it like e-commerce business where you are buying goods and shipping to customers. We can cut deeper, but new investors don't want to do that at he cost of revenue. In other words, I cannot materially cut costs without sacrificing revenue bc I have a fundamental GP problem that will take time to improve over several quarters.
Funny how it happens to be the cheapest in the US, huh
I have another theory about all those quotes. Regarding that Darth Vader quote, if quoted exactly, i.e. "I am you father", it isn't immediately obvious the quote is from Star Wars. "Luke" gives you a context. Sherlock and Kirk quotes are synthesized from what the characters actually said, and arguably the precise wording doesn't matter, because the point of the quote is to bring up images of the characters and situations, not of those specific words.
It's not about speed. There are many websites where your identity is linked in some fashion (e.g Your bank). I don't want my bank to block my account because I was in one continent in the morning and another in afternoon. The same goes for other critical accounts. I know I know, this is all unlikely, but why bother with it if it can cause a lot of headache. e.g. I know of people whose facebook accounts got blocked and were asked to provide some id since the accounts were opened from two different geographies.

Basically sending all traffic via VPN seems a big headache to me.e.g. Using gmail from a VPN doesn't help me at all.
Income isn't wealth though. It can lead to future wealth, but not if your source of income will go way which is exactly the topic of discussion with automation.
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It's a function of how much stimulus a task involves, how much disambiguation you have to do during the task, and how much context you need to load to perform the task (and how different it is from previous tasks).

e.g. video meetings are more stimulating than audio meetings because you have more sources of input, and you have to stay alert in real-time. A single email is less stimulating because you can process those in your own time and space out if needed. But a morning full of answering emails is worse than a single video meeting because each email involves loading new context into your brain.

A sibling comment addressed disambiguation already. It's just a lot of work to take input, process it, be aware of context and goals, and get to sensible output. These days, I tend to allocate time just for planning. Executing plans is easy and I can do that when I'm tired, but planning takes a lot out of me.

I'm sure the cognitive impact of exact tasks is different for everyone depending on what your brain is used to. e.g. I'm very introverted; maybe meetings are less work for others.
New pop movies and music ARE shit though compared to the 80s/90s.

You can’t tell the difference between songs from the 2010s and today.

Most popular movies are rehashed boring superhero/avenger movies that blend into each other.

Yes, I’m living up to the stereotype by saying this, but I think it’s true this time.
A few recent themes in the news and here on HN:

The economy is ricocheting from giant boom to bust.

Inflation is causing a cost of living crisis all over the world.

We are risking a large banking crisis.

We are experiencing massive layoffs in our own industry.

Cities are being hollowed out.

We have an epidemic of loneliness.

Is anyone who supported the Covid response now willing to put their hand up yet and agree that the cure was worse than the disease now that the costs predictably become clearer?

Considering Covid wasn’t a risk to most of us, I haven’t wavered in my belief that it was never worth shutting down the economy and terrifying everyone into compliance.
We can assess this using verbal, logical and arithmetic reasoning tests.

I gave ChatGPT 5 questions from a verbal reasoning test on sequence of words and it got 2/5 right.

Here is sample question:

Arrange the words given below in a meaningful sequence.

1. Poverty 2. Population 3. Death
4. Unemployment 5. Disease

A) 2, 3, 4, 5, 1

B) 3, 4, 2, 5, 1

C) 2, 4, 1, 5, 3

D) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

ChatGPT> B) 3, 4, 2, 5, 1

Unemployment can lead to poverty, which can lead to disease. Disease can lead to death. The population of an area is affected by all of these factors. Therefore, the correct order is 3, 4, 2, 5, 1.

Correct answer was C

I would expect if it was effective at reasoning it should be strongest on verbal associations. And while it is possible that enhancements to future language models might provided them with better reasoning ability I don't believe you can simply push the existing design to that limit. The poor results from the verbal reasoning tests demonstrate that reasoning is more complicated than what a transformer based language model is capable of.

Overall, the argument is moot because the statement made in the article was it was a reasoning engine which is not equivalent to being capable of reasoning.
If you're into interviewers who go the extra mile to give the interviewee and the viewer a good experience, I also recommend a Canadian named John Ruskin, who also goes by the name Nardwuar the Human Serviette. He's a music geek (in the best way) who interviews musicians and gives them gifts as a way to disarm them and spark discussion, and they're often blown away by the research he does into the gifts he gives and the questions he asks.

Here's an example he did with Pharrell Williams from the group NERD [1]. Quote from Pharrell: "This is one of the most impressive interviews I've ever experienced in my life... your research is second-to-none."

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q&ab_channel=Nardw...
These do have those flush door handles. They sit flush when the car is locked.
You can get inflation with zero "money printing" if the real economy shrinks. So how do you know you started with the optimal money supply?

(The answer is that only MV is real, not M.)
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Communism was a political and economic system. When stalin and hitler dipping their toes in faith/religion/belief it all went wrong and collapsed-in on itself.

Ancient Rome had government and politics before religion.

The last two thousand years had state religions at some points and the churches have their beliefs on governance, which they do internally and influence the world externally to some degree.

They are separate concepts and communism never reached the level of an effective religion. It's not easy to wash away the distinction between concepts.
In fact the 8520 CIA chips used to control the joystick ports on the Amiga were compatible enough you could put them in a C64 in place of one or both 6526's... (You'd lose the realtime clock, as the 8520 had timers instead, but "nobody" used the realtime clock on the C64).

I tested that at one point when one of the 6526's on my C64 broke. I don't think the reverse would work, as I think AmigaOS used the timers, but never tested.

(My parents were not amused that I opened the machines and swap chips around...)
And Mom decides not to buy an M2, which makes perfect sense (to me) - most people's income eventually somewhat maybe adjusts for inflation at some time, but prices on milk and stuff adjust much faster.

One of the best ways to look at the effects of inflation is how long between "upgrades" of various things like cars, computers, phones, TVs, etc.

Also, everyone and their mother wanted to buy the M1 when it came out, because it was just so much better than what came before; but there's no real pressing reason to upgrade to the M2 from the M1, so most of the new purchases will be the last few Intel hold-outs upgrading, or new customers.

At $999 and a major performance increase, a new laptop might be a no-brainer (especially compared to replacing batteries, etc).

But at $1199 and a minor increase, why bother?
Ever thought about changing continents? There are large Japanese communities here in Germany (and other places in Europe), perhaps you would get a more positive outlook on life there.
We can and do choose to regulate addictive drugs, and we can similarly choose to regulate AI if necessary, right?
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426378
Its actually a sweet deal. But yes. Spot on.
I’ve heard that those folks will typically stand in areas of a particular city where day labor is sought after - and most can get day labor through this process at meager wages. Lots of hotels with low daily rates that attract the “evaporated” people there to work daily and be done with work daily. Watched an interview with an older gentleman who was well-spoken, had been “evaporated” for like his whole life, such a beautiful spirit laden with regret. The whole “evaporation” movement has this weird reset ideology baked in too - so I’d imagine some folks come to this place to start-over, not realizing what a trap it can be societally. My understanding is few people if any go from “evaporated persons” back into structured society.
Even at 1.8, it's higher than the rest of the developed world.

And America always has the option of simply opening the gates a little and fill up the gap with practically any immigrant group it wants.
My dad bought an 11" MacBook Air in 2011 - I think it was the cheapest possible Mac you could get at the time (maybe $900-$1000?) But I really wanted him to be on MacOS.

He basically never used it as a laptop, and it's been plugged in to an external monitor and keyboard for many years. He used to stack paper on top of it until I told him to stop it so it could vent better. I would update the software, but I think it's been a while since there's been a new security update. I picked it up recently while visiting and noticed it wouldn't close all the way - uh oh.

So I told him his battery was going bad and could explode. He took it to an independent repair shop the next day. They replaced it with a new battery and cleaned out over a decade of dust in the chassis for $120.

I tried to impress upon him that having the same computer for over 10 years without ever having to take it in (or really do any kind of maintenance besides software updates) is extraordinary - he understands now that computers are a little more like cars. They need to be serviced sometimes. Not nearly as frequently as cars. And those laptops were not known for having good thermals.

I'm on the verge of buying him a new MacBook just so he will be on the latest software - but for what he does (email, web browsing) the Air works just as well as it did in 2011.

I think I might end up getting him a gently used M1 Mac Mini though since it never moves from his desk and it would be under $500.

Anyways, I'm on an M1 MacBook Pro and it's hard to see myself buying a new Macbook Pro in the next 5 years minimum. I just don't need to. They fixed pretty much all of the problems their laptops had.
There is no way of amassing a huge amount of money in Capitalism without exploiting people brutally or at the very least vowing to do so.
Same issue in the US FYI. I can't login despite being a paying customer

I can't try out the API right now so maybe that's working but the chat.openai.com app isn't
I have the base m1 air and iMac and agree completely.

Most of the people who are saying that that 8gb is not enough haven’t actually used one.

A lot of them extrapolate that because their Mac with 16/24/32gb uses more than 8gb doing basic tasks, 8gb is not enough.

They don’t consider that modern OS’s and browsers are happy to use RAM that they don’t need because it is just sitting there otherwise.

The rest have memory heavy workflows (docker or VMs, usually).
Not true for retirees because Social Security gets inflation adjustments.

Probably not true in general either except in stagflation.
This is a good point. The civil war like the drug war though are choices made after an inevitable plunge onto the predictable path. Both choices had a high cost and were incredibly hard to make.

It was also predictably a delayed response with varying levels of limited effectiveness.
what? it has nothing to do with zoom or discord or whatever social darling you want to talk about next that has nothing to do with the price of tea in china.
I think the difference there is that you can model a cargo ship to show that it will float, how it will do it, what configurations float and which don’t, etc. With LLMs like GPT we know how they work, but it’s hard to know that when it’s actually running and doing things, making it hard to predict what the outcome will be or perfectly understand how it came to the result it did (disclaimer: I am not an AI/ML engineer and this is just my personal understanding which could be wrong).

I think a lot of the annoyance felt around here is the tendency to apply human attributes to LLMs. It’s not to say that Chat GPT isn’t fulfilling the definition of “reasoning” on some level, even if it was found to fully meeting definition. I think it’s more the leap to the conclusion and that a lot of Hacker News readers are rankled by the leap lacking research and facts to back it up.

Anyway, it’s all really a philosophical discussion anyway since the definition of “intelligence” and “reason” are soft terms even when applied to human beings. We can usually hand wave it away as “intelligence is when humans do it the way humans do it”. Now that we’re on the cusp of creating actual artificial intelligence, I think we’re all finding those soft definitions cumbersome and are struggling to refine them as a society, which I think is a good thing. I also sometimes get rankled at someone asserting that some AI example has some human attribute, but mostly I think it’s an important part of that larger discourse about how we define these things, and that is a good thing in my mind.
Maybe we can time AI killing us all with nanomachines in line with these 4 being on the moon so our species can survive?
Their software has certainly taken a bit of a downturn but this is hyperbolic. Its not THAT much worse.
I have an M1 Max (work) and M1 Pro (private), but I seriously considered getting an Air M2. Why? It is much more compact and lighter than the MacBook Pro, which is really nice for travel. But yeah, the M1 Pro with discounts was to enticing, because I could get one with 32 GB RAM.
The problem is that if there is zero push-back, then game companies will just expand to meet the limits. Modern Warfare hit 256GB[0], literally larger than most SSDs at the time. The reason it was huge was supposedly because it shipped uncompressed audio to support a fraction of the user-base who couldn't support decompression fast enough.

0. https://screenrant.com/cod-modern-warfare-file-size-too-big-...
See https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ . It should have links to more.

Comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372471 .
after all these years in the industry, chatgpt has enabled me to be productive in gnu make. both are such wonderful tools.

really like gnu make now. i know it can solve the problems i have, and chatgpt helped me get there. when dependencies are setup properly, it's quite amazing to see it work.
> I find LLMs fascinating, and do not perceive them as an existential threat

What do you think of this? http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200
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Move. They'll become like the Sahara now - desolate wasteland that can't support life. Ironically, the Sahara itself is greening, and large parts of the taiga and permafrost may open up to human habitation.
Homework as in:

1. Actually hands on testing the AI to verify that it can't do the things you claim or believe it can't do.

2. Review of the current literature where these LLMs have actually been tested rigorously for various emergent capabilities.
When I gave a thumbs-down to the original incorrect answer about Dan Shipper, I was offered a choice between that answer and a new one:

> Dan Shipper is a technology entrepreneur and writer. He is known for co-founding the startup Firefly, which aimed to improve networking for college students, and for co-founding the startup Monkey Inferno, which incubates and launches consumer internet companies. Shipper has also written for various publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic.

Monkey Inferno? No, that was Michael & Xochi Birch.

I additionally asked it about its correct answer, using the same question wording as I did previously:

>>> Why did you say that Dan Shipper is a co-founder of Firefly?

> Dan Shipper is known for being one of the co-founders of Firefly, a startup that provides a platform for teachers and students to create and share course materials. Firefly is designed to help teachers and students work together more efficiently, by providing tools for creating assignments, sharing resources, and communicating with each other. Dan Shipper co-founded Firefly along with his friend and fellow entrepreneur, Brett Gibson, while they were both still students at the University of Pennsylvania.

This is also incorrect, as his co-founder at Firefly was named Justin Meltzer, not Brett Gibson.

I did some searching to track all this down, since I knew none of the people involved before this exercise.
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"Sure, robot assembly units have a much higher throughput with a much lower error rate and virtually zero risk for injury, but they lack a 'human touch'. That will be our differentiating factor."

Even if one manufacturer gets away with this argument, it fundamentally hinges on them being the minority. The question then becomes who will be the lucky few to get away with this argument? And what will the vast majority choose to do instead?
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Possibly frequencies are not available, or the cost of equipment is too high?
The terms of service explicitly say that GitHub is not allowed to use your code for commercial purposes.
It's trash. My MacBook has been an adversary for years now. My 2014 MacBook finally aged out and doesn't get updates. I have no idea why I would buy another Mac. There's zero value proposition. I'd rather replace the battery and install Linux.
Celebs in entertainment are usually doing a promo tour, if they're giving an interview, so those interviews are really just a form of advertising. Some manage to be entertaining anyway, but they're all just doing their job, which is mainly to sell whatever their latest thing is, and you can kinda feel that most of the time. And maybe it's my imagination but these sorts of interviews have gotten more and more stale-feeling over the years—could be me getting older, or could be studios and publishers and such demanding safer and more-focused behavior from folks on these kinds of tours.
That's because the US doesn't have VAT and lists prices without sales tax.
These 4 will not land on the moon.
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Thanks :) I actually did come up with it for this comment, but I’m definitely using it again in the future!
In a very rough sense, looking at Geekbench, the M2 MacBook Air has 5x the single core performance and 10x the multi core performance. Granted, if your workload is typing things into Vim, using the terminal and reading Hacker News, you might not notice. I suspect if you try to load CNN and its 100 ad trackers, you would most certainly notice.

A little off topic, but also illustrative: I found an old 3tb external NAS from 2011. I thought I would copy my backups onto it just to have some redundancy. I realized that the file 5MB/s transfer was going to take literally 7 days. I decided to hop on Amazon and get a 1000MB/s external SSD that could do the job in an hour. Tech really has changed a lot in the past decade+.