skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends of your country, there's a lot of countries with interoperability exceptions to copyright, a lot of EU countries will fall in this category and it's totally legal in those countries to publish DRM hacks and publish software which circumvent such protections automatically.
He's taking the Kissinger approach with spheres of influence and allowing smaller nations to be held by "world powers" like poker chips to avoid M. A. D. situations, "you have your satellites and I have mine".
Personally I think that mode of thinking and the context that birthed it are long dead but some people still subscribe to it 30 years after the Soviet Union imploded for... some reason I'm sure.
It was zeeo interest rates policys by central banks who helped inflate this real eastate boom.

Sweden has also had fixed prices on rental prices. This means that you need to queue very very long to get a rental contract.

Combine price control on rental, "zero" interest rate policy by the central bank driving up home prices.
Depends on where they were. For example #15: Clarksville, Tennessee: Median home value: $172,700, Median household income: $58,853 https://www.businessinsider.com/best-places-to-buy-a-home-un...
Boot-up KolibriOS from a Twitter image
I disagree.

Constraint does nothing (or just harms) if the reasons - what’s bad and what’s to avoid - are not understood.

But if one understands the reasons, they no longer need the constraint itself. It becomes a primitive crude limitation, missing any nuances. Like training wheels - needed for the first time(s) but after one learns how to balance they’re only making things worse.

Unless the constraint is for a tech demo (“watch how I can fit this into 64KiB”/“watch how I can shoot this without any filters” - cool but totally irrelevant to a consumer who doesn’t care about the making process itself) or if one doesn’t trust themselves and their environment.
> Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me.

Mostly because I think the main value is captured by embedding these things into existing programs and workflows. “AI-powered” won’t really attract anyone to a new app when it’s so easy to add AI to existing ones. Also basing an idea around an OpenAI API seems fragile.

But it could totally just be that I lack innovative ideas.
Anecdotal from reliable sources, but it sounds like a holistic evaluation. If you’re a strong candidate otherwise, they will overlook drug experiments but not drug addictions.
XHTML 1.1 had a chance, and there were many (and there are still quite some) sites containing "approved W3C XHTML" badges and served as xhtml. XHTML is just HTML restricted to the XML syntax - that is, using just the XML subset of SGML features as opposed to regular HTML using full SGML with tag inference/omission and attribute shortforms.

W3C dropped the ball with XHTML 2.0 though, which, rather than just simplifying syntax, attempted to innovate using wildly unproven features such as XForms.

HTML 5 eliminated vendors big (MS) and small (Opera). I guess unless we want to assume Opera were digging their own grave by actively engaging in HTML5 and WHATWG, we have to conclude HTML parsing wasn't the hard part next to the complexity of CSS layout (with the boom of responsive layout in the smartphone era) and competitive JS performance vs Chrome's v8 engine.
> Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why would it though? When people are annoyed by a bug they crush it, they don't spend their life setting it up in a torture chamber. There's the movie psychopath that tortures insects and animals and eventually humans, but I don't think it's their intellect that drives their sadism.

At worst, I imagine we'd be lab rats, quite literally the way we treat lab rats today. But with a superintelligence far beyond our abilities that does not care about us besides as a potential threat, why would it need us for testing?
They're not wrong though. Marx is so influential even the people who abhor him have adopted his terminology (where do you think the word "capitalism" comes from?). Meanwhile, Keynes' ideas are pretty much forgotten, only coming up in fringe conversations about CBDCs.
How is this a big deal? It'll be fixed and they'll be back on the road in a couple weeks. I figure you regularly get these sorts of recalls with a new platform.
Calling an inedible handheld microcomputer "Apple" is weird too, no? Ever tried biting one?
Nvidia Modulus – build, train, and fine-tune Physics-ML models
Business success often only requires that you be less bad than your competition.
Well, we like food that tastes of food, and not just salt, sugar, and fat.

Americans are scared of flavour.
Or brought that know how into OpenAI in the first place?
If it's really a fair lottery, seems a better way to distribute a public resource (land) than rich people buying all the land and getting even richer from it.
You think you get the same type of immigrant to New Zealand as Sweden? Please..
We are a long, long way from the end of work.

Work is simply what we do for others.

All we need is a just transition and an end to involuntary unemployment which is best achieved through a federal job guarantee:

http://www.jobguarantee.org
Also great: These people never explain how exactly the profits made from automation will be redistributed. This is a political problem, not an economical or technological one.

Already, profits from productivity increases go mostly to capital owners. This is why most of us have so little money, compared with what people used to have 50 years ago. This is why you can't afford a house.

If productivity increases had been redistributed such that people could work considerably less while maintaining an acceptable standard of living, we all would work 3-4 days per week. Instead, those gains went to the capital owning class. AI will worsen the situation.
I think Vimperator was the same. I don't recall blank and loading pages, but it definitely didn't have the "page is not focused" issue all the current ones have (where you have to click on the page and then it starts responding to keys).
My comment did not address that part of the conversation so it's unclear why you directed this attitude to me.
Also not to forget globalization moving populations inside countries. Which might be key effect. Globalization caused many industries to die off and basically those communities now have housing stock that is worth very little or is worthless. As the jobs stopped being there and new jobs have been created in other places which do not have the supply of new housing.
Related tangent: The book "Chip War" is a good read.

https://www.christophermiller.net/semiconductors-1
> Real estate prices are not being artificially elevated

Alas, they are. Supply and demand for housing is measured in units of currency, not people. Ask yourself, how many multiples of income can you borrow, with what kind of deposit? The ratio has shrunk over time, allowing roughly the same people to borrow steadily increasing amounts of money.

What's worse is that (in some countries at least) common measures of inflation don't measure house prices. The UK is an example of this. I'm unqualified to tell for sure, but I suspect some central banks have seen house prices as a way of keeping down measured inflation.

The solution (IMO) is a policy of relative decline - look to make house prices rise more slowly than wages for a generation.
I don't know what you mean by "work ethic" (why does that have anything to do with UBI?), but regarding UBI, I think you're either exaggerating or misunderstanding some things, and I say these without any regard to my position on the topic (which is complicated).

When you think UBI, don't think "everyone gets $300k/year for free so nobody needs to worry about working anymore". Think more like "everyone gets $30k/year for free so nobody's life is paycheck-to-paycheck". There are lots of people who literally don't have the opportunity to do anything (even better jobs!) other than their current jobs, which they need to put food on the table and have a roof over their heads. One of the envisioned benefits of UBI is that it would actually give them some opportunity & breathing room in their schedules to do something else - whether it's raising a kid, learning new skills, applying for other jobs, or anything else. Most people would still have quite a bit of an incentive to work for a more comfortable standard of living - it's just that they won't feel like they have a gun to their heads as the alternative.

Does this mean UBI is obviously practical and we should start it tomorrow? No, there are lots of challenges, most notably including the funding itself - not many economies today are able to hand out that much money in a sustainable way, so there's some very hard rethinking necessary to figure out how this could ever work. Does this mean everybody will give a 10x ROI on it in the long term? No, some people would probably not do anything useful with the money. Does this mean UBI solves all problems? No, even if you do your best you can still have bad luck (get hit by a bus, medical bills, etc.). Does this mean UBI would work well everywhere? No, results might vary across different societies.

But we're rapidly heading into a world where more and more people are being put out of work, and can't pick up new skills fast enough (if at all) to make ends meet. Expecting everyone to just adapt is incredibly unrealistic. UBI is one envisioned plausible way to address this problem and others systematically. Nobody knows for sure how it would play out in the long term, but to my knowledge nobody has obviously better solutions either.
It uses at most 10 cars worth of batteries. They make 400k cars a quarter.

Making 4k semis a quarter would demand 10% extra batteries for them, which is very feasible, and I'm not taking into account all the batteries they use for Megapacks.

Finally, there's no way they'll be able to make or sell 4k semis any time soon, even if they had infinite batteries. So I wouldn't worry about battery bottlenecks.
The cost of the next instance size on AWS is often 1/20th the cost of the developer time to make similar efficiency improvements.
Wholeheartedly agree that Festen a.k.a. "The Celebration" is the best thing to come out of Dogme 95. But even Festen doesn't fully adhere to the rules laid out in the Dogme 95 manifesto!

The closest cultural descendants to Dogme 95 now are certain methods of filming and editing YouTube vlogs. Emma Chamberlain and Casey Neistat now activate similar neurons in my mind to the idea of Dogme 95, perhaps aside from their use of music.
I don't think they would be writing this blog post if their "go ahead: clone us" strategy was working as well you imply it should. Mass market products live and die by the average customer, and the average person in need of a 3D printer will see a Prusa clone for half the price, and buy that instead of the original. Most people can't afford to spend double just on principle, even if they wanted to. And not everyone even cares for such principles in the first place.

I don't claim to know anything about Prusa's financials or technology, but if they are not technologically ahead of the curve as you say – could it be because they're starved for resources to do R&D, because they're losing too many customers to rip-offs?
You might be interested by git-bug and https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/blob/master/doc/model..., which seems to be exactly what you describe. (Disclaimer: author).
Just a heads up, Sam will likely be running all these comments through “the machine” and learning how to influence his next blog post. Stay tuned.
ZSA configurator so much better than QMK configuration, it's not even a remote comparison.

I happily pay money to companies who provide a lot of additional value on top of open source offering. I have moonlander, zsa platform, ergodox ez. When ZSA (inevitably, as for me) will release concave moonlander, I'm going to buy it too...
OpenAI expects GPT-5 to achieve AGI
Thank you. I don’t know what I expected to hear, but it wasn’t that
I'd be interested to hear why. From using it and testing plugins, GPT-4 is a significant advantage right now, with no additional developments.
This is just the just world fallacy in a post. If you lived in Germany you would understand that statements like this that you wrote:

> doesn't make you a special snowflake worthy of the German society to turn itself upside down for you and roll the red carpet and make life super easy for you

are utterly, utterly ridiculous. There is absolutely no risk whatsoever of Germany "rolling the red carpet" for immigrants. It's a fairly hostile place to be if you're not German even if you're white. It can also be hostile even if you're German but not white. Among "expat" destinations (so plausible expat destinations, so excluding, e.g. DRC), it regularly tops the rankings as the worst place to live (harder to live in than Japan or China, and no disrespect to those two countries, but they are traditionally considered benchmark definitions of exclusive countries).

> Best learn it if you move there out of respect for the host country and to integrate and become part of society

Let me tell you as someone who lives in Germany right now: the vast majority of 1M Syrian refugees will never, ever, ever integrate into German society. I had no opinion on this before I moved here, now it's obvious. Your idea that integration is purely a one way street is nonsense and only leads to broken societies. Even if you change your name to Winfried and got C2 German, you'll still never be accepted here. Maybe your children will be, but maybe not if they're not white. But the fact is that if countries want immigrants to pay for their boomers' pensions, they need to actually be a generally more welcoming and friendly society. "Fuck you, learn German, and go and live in Chemnitz" don't really pass muster these days. I mean for example this is nonsense:

> make you a special snowflake worthy of the German society to turn itself upside down for you and roll the red carpet

As if Germany is doing everyone a favour by letting people move there. If there was no demographic crisis then immigration would be practically impossible. I am doing Germany a favour by moving here at least as much as they are doing me a favour by letting me.

> there not because you've got some super rare skills nobody there had

I'm an academic in a fairly obscure branch of physics so in this case I can categorically say that I do have those rare skills. Everything you said about the country is wrong. Their advice: "don't move here unless you speak German" is absolutely on point, and what I myself tell people. Living in Germany mostly makes no sense if you're not German or not a refugee.
They considered using L.S.D. as an aerosol on enemy troops, but IIRC there were problems with using it, don't remember exactly what. It would also incapacitate friendly troops or some agreement was signed forbidding its usage. Long time ago since I went down this rabbit hole last time...
A broader, tangential question: Can you give me feedback on this table I generated (with AI) for thinking about computing history? For context, I am a fullstack software dev of the younger variety and 3 years of experience. The table has long lines and looks a bit unwieldy due to lack of scrolling, I looks nicer in an editor :)

- Am I correct in that the Personal Computer Era is the most foundational period when it comes to stuff that I use today? I feel that if a fairy would appear and grant one the possibility of knowing two periods by heart instantly, it would be the Personal Computer Era and the Internet Era.

- How do you think about computing? What lessons are there to learn from the past?

- Other thoughts?

Much appreciated!

| Period | Years | Description | Technological Advancements | Impact on Society | Computing Paradigms | Software & Programming |
|--------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------|
| Mechanical Computing | 17th century - 19th century | Early mechanical devices | Pascaline, Stepped Reckoner, Analytical Engine | Pioneering era | Mechanical computing | Pre-programming era |
| Electromechanical Computing | 1930s - 1940s | Relay-based machines | Complex Number Calculator, Harvard Mark I, Z3 | | Analog computing | |
| Electronic Computing | 1940s - 1950s | Early electronic computers | ENIAC, Manchester Mark 1, EDSAC, EDVAC | Mainframe era | Digital computing | Assembly & early programming languages |
| Transistor Era | 1950s - 1960s | Transistor-based computers | IBM 700 series, DEC PDP series | Minicomputer era | Digital computing (2nd generation) | High-level programming languages |
| Integrated Circuit Era | 1960s - 1970s | Microprocessors, integrated circuits | Intel 4004, 8008, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC | Personal computer era | Digital computing (3rd generation) | Object-oriented programming |
| Personal Computer Era | 1970s - 1990s | Personal computers, GUIs | Apple I & II, IBM PC, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Windows | Networked computing era | Digital computing (4th generation) | Web & scripting languages |
| Internet Era | 1990s - present | World Wide Web, internet-based technologies | Web browsers, search engines, e-commerce, social media | Mobile & ubiquitous computing era | | Mobile & platform-specific languages |
| Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Era | 2000s - present | Smartphones, tablets, IoT devices | iPhone, Android, IoT devices | Cloud computing & AI era | Quantum computing | Domain-specific languages & frameworks |
I don't know of any empirical data supporting your assertions, they all seem rather speculative.
I have to think that especially the China/Taiwan issue has quite a bit of historical baggage, because it can be read as the slow-motion failure to finish the prosecution of a very "internal" political process.

Can we imagine such a scenario applied to a Western nation? Imagine if the US Civil War ended up with a "stub Confederacy"-- a few counties in Virginia still answering to Jefferson Davis. Or if one German state decided to carry on as the DDR after 1990. Now reinforce this by having major world powers declare an effectively limitless economic and military backstop to preserve this remnant-- pretty explicitly as a counter to the "victorious" nation's increasing power and importance.

It would be a festering political issue for decades if not longer, no matter how many political and economic favours were splashed to "make up" for it.
Chill out a little bit. The commenter made it clear that it's their opinion. In fact, they seem to have gone out of their way to suggest it's their opinion - despite the rules here requiring the assumption of good faith (a rule you're breaking, in my opinion).

That it happens to also be a popular opinion doesn't indicate that people are burning witches - it indicates that people are increasingly finding it easier to explain the world in terms of greed and cynicism; because, frankly, that is the world we live in (aghem, in my opinion).

That you find this to be "witch-burning" indicates to me that you must really relate with the ultra-wealthy which honestly just sounds tone deaf. Sam Altman nor Jeff Bezos will "go down" because of a comment on the internet. Do you know who _doesn't_ have that guarantee? Normal people.
Because nobody even understands what AGI is. Or more charitably, has their own version of what AGI means in their head and nobody realizes it that they are talking about different things.

Will we get very good software in the form of personal assistants that could answer questions in depth about a large number of topics? Most likely. Chat GPT is very good at a lot of things, and its only going to get better. Compute amount is going to be an issue though.

Will we get something that resembles a human sitting behind a keyboard, except an expert in every single subject on the internet with some markov chain process that determines objective subfunctions to minimize? Could be. Thing is though, there still has to be an overarching code to run that markov chain, which is not AGI. Definitely dangerous in the wrong hands, but not dangerous by itself - CTRL C could stop its execution at any time.

Will we get a AGI that is smart enough to circumvent that ctrl c signal, break containment, take over the world, and kill all humans, all in the spirit of turning the earth into a super computer? Nah. To even start to code that AGI, you need to get around the whole principle of computational irreducability which means first proving that P=NP. An AGI will essentially have to run simulations on the world internally to figure out how things could play out, at an information amount threshold that is less than the information in the world its trying to simulate, which (unless P=NP) is impossible.
You summed up all the problems pretty well and make them sound like justification for why it's right and without alternative, which is the biggest problem (:
Classic office politics.
No, the problem is that suburbs are the only thing we build anymore. Fresno has doubled it’s population since 1940 while 10x increasing it’s land usage.
This is amazing, I cried laughing. “This man nearly succeeded in felling a tree using only a spade”
I read an article a week ago where they paid people to move outside of Tokyo as it's overpopulated.
While the situation with realloc() is unfortunate, it is also not difficult to write a wrapper that does what the author wants. I’ve done that before, because it has long been known that not all realloc() implementations conform to the (prior) C standard. One can furthermore assume that existing implementations won’t change their behavior just because C23 made it UB.
This is a simplified version of the argument, but basically: right now, I am dependent on an employer for my survival. Keeping a roof over my head depends on my being competent at my job, AND my employer not deciding to fire me. One of those I can control - the other is completely outside of my control. If instead I was dependent on a democratic government for my survival and keeping a roof over my head, at the very least I and other citizens would have a say in the direction and decisions of that government every time an election happened.

Your point does stand in autocracies and dictatorships though.
> US wants to go back to the moon

... meanwhile there are people shitting on the streets of San Francisco (seen with my own eyes), and people OD-ing (as in dying from drugs) on the streets of San Francisco, and homeless people camped on the sidewalks by the 1000s in cities like San Francisco and LA.

And yet nobody bats an eye when America "wastes" money on going back to the moon.
Like jimsimmons said below, I believe it traditionally refers to 'hidden'. which was in vogue at the time for both feedforward nets and RNNs as well as any other other neural networks in the 90's or so and on. This trend actually continued for a while and I learned it in one of Hintons' main online classes which was made somewhere between 2012-2015 or so IIRC (though I opted to switch to reading and trying to implement raw papers instead as my brain works intuitively strangely, on the whole).

You can think of it as everything the RNN knows about what you're doing and a thing that evolves from place to place as you go. Because it is iterated on itself as a map, it abides by some very interesting properties that let it represent some very difficult functions, though actually attaining a representation of those functions is rather difficult indeed in my experience from what I've seen.

There are one or two rather successful projects trying to keep RNNs both alive and competitive with transformers. I think they do very well on the whole, though the transformers seem to have slightly improved parameter efficiency, generally speaking.

I hope this helps you with your question, please do let me know if you have any other follow up questions on this topic/matter. (: (: :) :)