skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing my main point which is that it didn't happen. The project was successful and chugging along.

It was only when a drive-by principal engineer got wind of it that there were problems. "We don't use Haskell here" was literally the only argument for rewriting it. Nobody left before then. We were hiring people fine. The problems you are FUDing around didn't exist.

In fact, the rewrite was so slow and off-target that I had to maintain the Haskell project through a peak season with a skeleton crew of two other people who didn't leave. And we didn't even have an outage - I didn't even get paged! The project got to make the company millions of dollars yet again.

When the rewrite finally started to form, it actually had significantly less functionality than the Haskell implementation. The internal users complained so much about that. And it took just as long to create. What a failure that rewrite was.

In the end, it was the attitude you are espousing that killed the project, not anything technical or hiring-/team-building-wise. It was literally just an opinion not to use Haskell by a guy who couldn't be bothered for the life of him to try to understand it.
Streaming services for who? With everyone out of work
When i say ‘see something once why see it again?’ people look at me like i’m a psycho killer. The paradigm of doom scrolling and reload-scan-reload-scan-reload-scan are entrenched in western social media to the extent that foreign social media that ‘thinks different’ is considered dangerous, subversive, and both political parties are falling over each other to ban it.

i think people do like watching the same video more than once sometimes though.
I know, I know, it’s LTT, but I really loved the case in this NAS build they did recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc
The reminds me of the time a friend of mine told me her polo club was being sued by Ralph Lauren for using the word polo. I wish I was kidding.

* I believe there's something in trademark* law about being required to show some amount of effort defending your trademark. Maybe a lawyer can clarify. Is that getting translated by these corporate lawyers into harassing innocent people?
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What you could do is just continue speaking to GPT4 and have it output prompts compatible with GPT5. Pretty simple.
I certainly advocated for action in Iraq in the early 2000s. I have a naive world view, informed I guess by a lot of 90s American media output, about America saving the world, Iraq was one of those opportunities.
Oh thats funny, I'm having a hard time reading that interpretation, my point more specifically is that it is all a purely physical system - I put scare quotes around that phrase because I believed it implied some metaphysical mind.
Not to mention the massive taskbar taking up a huge chunk of your monitor without a way to resize it. Why is it so big?
I looked a bit at how AMD is doing vs. Apple. These current chips are all 65W TDP and up:

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/ryzen-for-creators#

(vs. the Byte Mini's 45W), but they mostly have base frequencies above 4.4GHz. One of the slower chips in the current lineup beats the M2 on absolute performance (with a higher TDP):

https://versus.com/en/amd-ryzen-7-7700-vs-apple-m2

It's per core speed is comparable, but it has twice as many cores.

This old (2018) chip is 45W, but it's boost is only 4GHz:

https://versus.com/en/amd-ryzen-7-2700e-vs-apple-m2

so that's a lower bound on the AMD side. It's about the same speed as the M2 when using all cores (half as fast per core).

Assuming they're targeting something AMD just released, and not something 5 years old, and the "up to 4.4GHz" is talking about base frequency, not turbo, then I'd expect this to be extremely competitive with the M2 Mac Mini. (As it better be, since it seems to be more expensive than the Mac!)

I wish they'd say what processors they are targeting.
Sounds very much like the Vipps system we have in Scandinavia, particularly Norway, with the addition of something like the Android Voice Notify app which reads Android notification. My mobile phone has been doing this for years. Whenever I receive a payment it reads it out to me. No need for any new devices.
I spent ~six months of the pandemic in my family's mountain cabin, very rural. Nearest major grocery store about 20mi, closest convince store 5mi. I did most of the trips to both on an e-bike that I borrowed from a neighbor, which spurred me to buy my own when i returned to seattle.

The two lane highway with it's shoulder painted bike lane that was the only way to traverse either trip was a bit sketchy and nerve wracking, especially on the weekends. The speed limit is 40mph, but when it's not ski season it's not ever that busy and so people speed on it constantly. But even given the longer 20mi trip I'd often look forward to it even though it was about an hour each way.
question is who is going to consume this product?

If i know for sure it is 100% GPT-X generated bs, do you think I'll read it?
Hmm that's a good point, that you can use the ultrasonic bandwidth of the LP, which is useless for analog audio, to increase the bitrate. I'd say it's a bit generous to give an LP a bandwidth of 50 kHz, especially in the inner tracks though. I think what I was getting at would apply where the bandwidth of the analog signal you want to encode is as wide as the bandwidth of your media though. Take compact cassettes, let's say they have a bandwidth of 18 kHz and a dynamic range of 60 dB. If you want to encode an arbitrary audio signal with a bandwidth of 18 kHz and with 60 dB dynamic range, you could only do that in the usual analog way. But if you wanted to encode a digital telephone signal (say at 8 kHz bandwidth, 30 dB dynamic range) maybe you could use the 18 kHz cassette bandwidth to encode that signal digitally.
In America, people believe there are only two ways to live: Manhattan high-rise or suburban McMansion.

My pet social theory is that an unbelievable amount of our societal woes stem from this false dichotomy in the American mind, and the cities we end up designing because of it.
Just searched the App Store… lots of “Monster” games out there. Many have scary “monster” like logos.
I'm not super impressed yet either, but I do think there's a lot of value. I tried a few times to get it to write some simple python scripts, and usually it'd get some things wrong. But it did help to get the basics of the script started.

If you haven't already, look into trying out Copilot (I don't think there's a free version anymore?) or Codeium (free and has extensions for a lot of editors, just be careful with what code you're okay sending to a third party). Using AI prompts as a fancy auto complete is what has been giving me the most benefit. Something simple like a comment "# Test the empty_bank_account method" in an existing file using pytest, I go to the next line and then hit tab to auto-complete a 10-15 line unit test. It's not always right, but it definitely helps speed things up compared to either typing it all out or copy/pasting.

My biggest annoyance so far, at least with Codeium, is that sometimes it guesses wrong. With LSP-based auto-complete, it only gives me options for real existing functions/variables/etc. But Codeium/copilot like to "guess" what exists and can get it wrong.

> Like a buddy who sits nearby with a beer, sees what you do and is seasoned enough to drop a comment or a story about what’s on your screen any time.

I agree with you, this is probably where it would be most useful (to me). I don't need someone to write the code for me, but I'd love an automated pair-programming buddy that doesn't require human interaction.
Would you mind providing any links for what you’re saying?
This is a wonderful interactive engineer's notebook, many thanks to the author.
(Sometimes LTspice is redundant, and this is sometimes often the case)
>My dad is 4 years younger than his age on paper

What a coincidence, me too!!

Going forward, this is now my official excuse...
They're my enemy because they already declared me theirs.
The audio quality is better on YouTube with auto generated captions for the hard of hearing like me who has trouble with English accents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5tXWmCJ_wo
Worth adding that the "self-replication" test was on an early version of GPT-4, well before release.
You can believe that phone bills are a purely imaginary human construct that has no physical meaning and your phone will still stop working when you stop paying them.

At some point these things we conjure up out of our collective imagination are every bit as real as the ground hitting you if you jump off a building.
> I don't use assembly daily, how well does this work across different instruction sets?

This particular macroassembler is for .NET CIL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language), normal CPU assembly seems to be out of the scope for this project.
the only time I'd appreciate windmills from an aesthetic point of view is when they are very very far away. Nearby, they are horrible to all senses.
Hey, congrats on summoning the courage to ask for help! It's really hard to admit that your life is becoming unpleasant.

First, I highly recommend finding a professional to chat with regularly. I've had great experiences with therapy!

If you're too far into debt to take care of your mental health, email me at hello@taylor.town and I'll pay for it (I'm currently unemployed, but I'll dip into my savings haha).

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Beyond that, it sounds like you've already identified weed and gaming as problems.

I beat my alcohol addiction last year, and holy sh*t life is so much better here on the other side. I never figured out how to moderate my drug use, so I just stopped everything cold-turkey. Sobriety sucks, but addiction is hell.

I don't recommend moderation. Donate your games to a local goodwill and trash all your weed.

If your friends don't support your new lifestyle, find new friends. When I quit booze, my friends made sure that I never felt left out when I needed them most. That's what good friends do.

Realize that if you don't change today, you will waste the rest of your life feeling like this. Things will not magically get better unless YOU start the process.

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And even using a columnar format but without all the complexity of Parquet would be comparatively easy (when writing using buffers)
In (I think) the first edition of Zumdahl's chemistry textbook, there was a great summary of some of the things they had to do to preserve the statue, and it went beyond just repairing the skin.

The wiki article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-restoration_of_th...) has a lot of it, but IIRC after they installed stainless steel, at some point they passed electricity through it, which had the effect of making it susceptible to corrosion, and then had to do something else to restore its resistance.

I wish I could find it now, as it was a fascinating read, but I can't see anything easily online.
DTS is a lossy codec that can encode multiple audio channels into normal stereo audio. The encoded waveform sounds exactly like a dialup modem.
Sure, but there was no discussion on it in the thread you linked.
This is a common fiction trope that’s never been demonstrated in reality as far as I know. Everyone uses the bank tellers example and ignores multiple reports showing the leading cause of de industrialisation in the US was automation, followed by “free trade”.

It’s all nonsense unless you show evidence, and the evidence points to the contrary. What we have is a move of society towards “service” jobs, but service jobs exist in two different spheres - high wage (IT) and low wage (Starbucks). Having lived in the UK under a so called post industrial society, de industrialisation did exactly what people like Vaclav Smil say it does - it creates a society with no middle class.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...

The US is hampering its own businesses so that Chinese businesses can belch even more CO2 into the air. Simple as that.
Maybe? I'd find it hard to believe, after talking to folks here, that the legal conferral of rights to an LLM would change their mind on its sentience.

To those who feel strongly about AI, if you currently believe that AIs(present and future) are ontologically incapable of sentience, would the legal conferral of personhood change your mind?
A well-designed technical solution removes the possibility of human error during execution. Given that computers are better at following instructions than humans, I don't see why you wouldn't try to automate as much as possible so that humans have a smaller set of processes to follow and keep track of.
Interesting, but this should be easy to control for in a statistical study. E.g. suppose 20% of people generally have strange looking official birth dates, but 50% of supercentenarians do.
Ah, I appreciate it - I mentioned Texas because it seems oddly verboten... I have yet to find those.

I wanted to celebrate a few years ago and asking around, everyone said reservations!
Who will consume all this stuff?
It must be nostalgia over the fight of getting a Windows license refund.
This is what I was told as an artist here when Stable Diffusion showed up.

Same reaction, to the incredulity of the HN crowd. “Why would you quit” etc
I don't have direct knowledge but I know that many people re-watch Youtube videos. I know I've watched the Rickroll video many times (don't hate me; I actually like it).

Here is an old, deleted, reddit thread about people who re-watch the same Youtube video over and over: https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/h7fqv9/is_i...
Alpaca dataset license has been updated to a restrictive cc-by-nc
The pessimist in me thinks, the longer one lives (in their 90s and 100s), the more this database analysis could discriminate using this algorithm, and flag healthy, retired centenarians from getting benefits, hopefully not putting a freeze to their accounts or causing any stir to their peaceful retirement.
I don't see the logic, I just want the consequences to be proportional to control/censure of the platform, so we aren't in the same situation as with platforms where they are immune to legislation as if content neutral but also able to determine content.
The Expensive, Seductive Nostalgia of Field of Dreams
Any good cards on Rupay? Last time I checked, all the good rewards were on Visa/Mastercard
I'll give you one simple reason why slowing down AI dev is not wise.

You'll slow down. America will slow down. The rest of the world won't.

You think North Korea, or China, or Russia, is going to be like "oh yeah, USA has regulations, so I'm not spend millions or billions to develop my own custom AI for my own needs." because that kid in his basement with a good idea, is not going to do the development?
That sounds like a fun route to pull a trailer with my 2 kids in to go grocery shopping. Add in that I wouldn't be able to load up as much and I'd probably need to make that trip more often. I'd rather drive and spend that time playing with my kids in the back yard.
Most people I knew who were on them weren't taking the dosage they were being prescribed. The side effects were too much taking it daily, so they would just use it if they were spending a lot of time in the library that day, and would end the month with half the bottle still by the time they reupped. Just because you have ADHD and benefit sometimes from these meds doesn't mean you feel great being on them 100% of the time nor need to be taking them if you are not doing anything mentally demanding that day. It's basically meth lite, after all.
Few people could probably predict the amount of spending from governments all over the world. What would've happened if they just shut everyone down? Their prediction doesn't sound far fetched. Now the government's went on a spending spree and we got massive inflation instead.
I like V-Mode BoomPro which is boom mic that connects to any headphones.
> I'm surprised Web3 hasn't taken off here

Well, people on HN tend to have more than 2 brain cells.
Elizabeth Warren on weaponized budget models
You can buy a smartphone good enough for the job for less than 60 GBP even in the UK, I'm sure they can be had for considerably less in India. And it doesn't need to be lying around, the user can have it on them.
Honestly surprised that this site was able to function undisputed, entirely on the public internet for this long despite it's entirely illegal nature.
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>AMD-only 3DNow

Modern AMD CPUs don't support it either, so it's entirely dead
A quick search of Steam reveals a long list of games that use the name Monster in their title even more prominently than Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals does.
thats the thing about trademarks you have to defend them afaik otherwise they are worthless. I would venture these stupid suits are there in case some drink company will make a monster drink the defence would be better.
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I have been using SQLite DBs to that end with some amount of success. If I remember well a lot of software of yore used BDB to the same effect.
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Can anyone here provide evidence of automation moving jobs to equal quality or higher quality employment?

Because what I’ve seen and read does not confirm this, in fact it disproves it. I can find multiple reports showing de industrialisation of the US economy happened mostly due to automation.
Microscopic view of vintage CPU: Intel i486
The Intel i486 might be over 30 years old, but it's still incredible when viewed up close with a scanning electron microscope.
there was a similarly ridiculous set of trademark cases with a common usage word with the online retailer backcountry.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backcountry.com#Lawsuits

glad this dev is fighting and hope they win. i get the deal with trademark protection but seriously, this kind of shit is beyond inane.
A pre-war suburb is an entirely different thing than a burb built in the 80s. Generally, urbanists love the prewar burb in America, their criticisms are of the postwar burbs.
I am surprised noone has brought up Andrej Karpathy's role in all of this. He was the one who proposed vision-only self-driving, but his rep seems to have survived unscathed.
Well, fraud has been happening for the entirety of recorded history, so that seems like a tough lesson to learn.
Build your own agents which are controlled by LLMs
Yeah but just hope that the AI winter is coming pretty soon
there's a lot of situations where a trademark owner has to go through the motions of challenging a similar trade identity, because the failure to do so could have negative implications in future litigation, allowing infringers to claim that the lack of defense amounted to constructive abandonment.

https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/235
Wow! What a rabbit hole finding a proton is not just 3 quarks!.

Suggesting these 2 articles:

1] Experimental results of proton collision as of 2013 (3 quarks is an observation, but for low energies) :

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/81190/whats-insi...

2] Another article from the same author (Matt Strassler). Suggesting to read his answers for the comments of: Harry Bostock, Bob Anderson, and the 2 top comments of "aa. sh." (for more history and Neutron decay)

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadron...
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Asana.

[EDIT] Though to be fair—and why I hesitated to name them—I haven't used their product in four or five years, and it may be much better now. Looks like the framework they created is called Luna.
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The article under discussion here disagrees with you, see the "Nuclear Accident Management" section.
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What's the exact goal?
there's always a bigger fish ~ Qui-Gon Jinn
Is the company more valuable ?
Yeah it’s complex. Texas doesn’t have big casinos — your impression was correct about that. But lots of small poker houses and slot machines and lottery ticket billboards.
Small nitpick: the REP STOSB isn't left in the prefetch queue while it's being executed by the microcode engine. The queue always contains the next instructions to execute (obviously it's not as simple for out-of-order architectures).

The following should load AL with 0 on an 8088, 1 on an 8086:

mov bx,test_instr+1
mov byte [bx],1 ;make sure immediate operand is set to one
mov cl,255 ;max shift count to give time for prefetch
cli ;no interrupts allowed

align 2
shl byte [bx],cl ;clears byte at [bx] after wasting lots of time
nop ;first byte in queue
nop ;2nd
nop ;3rd
sti ;4th (intr. recognized after next instruction)
test_instr:
mov al,0ffh ;opcode is 5th, operand is 6th

The 255x left shift is done in an internal register, during which the 8086 has more than enough time to fetch all six following bytes. I didn't test this code but am 99% certain it works.
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Books are not VAT free. On a €15 book I ended up getting charged €9 for customs:
€1 for the reduced VAT for books
€6.50 for the customs handling fee
€1.50 for VAT on the customs handling fee

So it’s the customs handling fee being added that’s contributed to the price increase. Seems like the Netherlands started to enforce it for even small value orders from the UK.
These computer scientists were trying to create privacy-preserving smart sensors. But then they were accused of violating their colleagues’ privacy. Interesting take.
> The Twitter press email, meanwhile, returned a poop emoji when Engadget sent a comment request.

wild.

Though audacious, it completely lacks style and wit and thus is just rude and abrasive.