skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Never ever buy a printer

Change that to "Only buy a laser printer" or "Never ever buy an inkjet printer" and you're closer to the truth. Better still, "Only buy an older - but no too old - office-type laser printer at the thrift store" or something along those lines and you're golden. Cheap toner which lasts for years, the machine has a network connection so you can just wire it to a switch or router somewhere where it is convenient. The "not too old" is mostly because really old laser printers are power hogs, get one with a power-saving mode. It might take a few more seconds before the first page comes out when it as to heat the fuser first but who cares?

I have a HP Laserjet 2200dtn and a Canon MF9220Cdn in different locations, both of them switched off but ready for use after being switched on. Toner does not dry out like ink does, nozzles do not get clogged, the things tend to just work when needed. With enough toner for at least 3 years (and more to be had for cheap on eBay et al) we're set and we do not need to go to any library - which would be a long cycle ride seeing how as we're living on a farm in the Swedish countryside - to print out those stupid forms, schematic diagrams and presentations.
I think it is doing something a bit sophisticated in choosing what to pass in the context when the conversation grows beyond the token limit
Yep, he shares those unmistakingly Russian takes once is while and they should come from somewhere. Wild guess would be some Russians hired to work in Space-X or another instance of gazprom money funneled through a son living in London investor types.
I wonder how these calculations changed with the rise of production using computers, especially for electronic music, where even a studio is likely not a hard requirement anymore?

I am sure also a lot changed with the rise of various streaming platforms and services allowing to distribute your music to these easily.
you could imagine governments charging a yearly tax for having solar panels installed, analogous to the property tax many charge on real estate
i think the average customer buys an ender 3 / ender 3 clone. which you can make the case is derivative of a prusa if you go back far enough, but not to the point where the openness status of prusa matters to that argument.
One major difference between the USA and Sweden is that if you have a bank loan and can't pay it back they will take all your assets, not only those you used for security! So you will be in dept for life!

Another major difference is that education is free! And healthcare is almost free.

In the last 15 years the Swedish population has increased nearly 20% mostly by immigration. Most of the immigrants are Muslims, and are not allowed to pay interest by their religion! Thus the weird housing market.

In the last 10-15 years interest rates has dropped below zero. And property prices has gone up 5x.

Those who didn't want to spend their money in the last 15 years (the baby boomers) now want to spend their money!
In a narrowly pedantic way, sure. But that doesn't make this take useful or right
I’m reading through the comments carefully because this is something I think about literally every day (and I mean literally, not figuratively). For my health and performance, yes, but even more so for the health of people around me (employees, family, friends, etc.).

I remind myself that I have no idea what other people are thinking - only what I think of their actions, the signals from my senses. That may be a weird way to work, but for whatever reason it helps me slow down and reason more carefully about the nature of situations.

As for my own habits, I find concentration and focus addictive. I don’t burn out from thinking deeply and working on intricate solutions. The more I do the better it feels and around the spiral I go. Unfortunately the further I go the less “room” is available for other, often more important, things. So I’m also constantly reminding myself that my brain is a machine that adapts so I need to be careful how I use it. If I train my brain to resist certain tasks by rewarding it for avoiding them, it will become harder over time to perform those tasks. And vice versa.

Brains are fun. :)
Still there are many complains about Starlink in Ukraine, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64579267.amp
>> One claimed to have worked closely with Elon, but after seeing him lie about so many other things I don’t trust anything he told us.

Lol. Sounds like he indeed worked very closely with Mr. Musk.
Internet Linguistics
"What is this in-ter-net?" asked Piglet. "I have no clue." said Pooh. "But I heard they have honeypots, so we better take a look."
Yes, ChatGPT is monocultural but the author seems to belong to the same culture. The article is about how it doesn't go hard enough.

Will "Open"AI let the model be tuned for other countries? Their tastes and biases? I doubt it. I expect countries to make their own LLMs (if only for bragging rights).

The entire world first got stamped flat by Finance, and now this is promising more of the same.

Aside: Someone needs to make a isopenaiopenyet.com and make-gpt-opensource.com
The date on the article is actually important here. Music recording is MUCH different then it is today, 20 years later.

The best you could do for a home recording was a (comparative to today) shitty 4 track cassette recorder. You really needed some training on the equipment to know what you're doing. The resources just wern't there otherwise.

The analogy for the worst cases here is more 'I've turned a computer on, so, Mr Torvalds, heres how a kernel is written'.

Of course there were a few brilliant producers. There mostly mediocre producers who just got the job done, that you'll never hear about. Only the outliers, the best and worst get remembered.
You can make up for this by living for them.
I do understand sound engineering. I think their gripe is people claiming they understand how to make something sound good with no actual knowledge of how to do it then making up words along the way. Imagine you have a manager tell you to make the site more “zazzy” with a straight face. Imagine all managers start doing this.
Go outside and touch grass.
As someone who has been working from home since the pandemic and preferring it these articles still bug me: the new normal for who? Not for retail workers, agricultural workers, manufacturing, first responders, those who work in trades etc etc etc.

It’s a very notable shift for office workers. It just so happens that every newspaper opinion writer is in the exact socio-economic group most affected and way too often it’s talked about as if it’s universal.

It also leads to under coverage of important side effects: for example, here in NYC the economics of the subway system have been messed up since the start of the pandemic. If every office worker works from home the system suddenly loses a ton of revenue. But if they cut back on service it’ll disproportionately affect the (typically lower income) workers that still depend on it. Not unsolvable but rarely talked about.
A friend of mine also bought a monochrome laser Brother. It was about half of what you paid; but it came with one toner, and it was only half-capacity. Already a bad start.

The stock toner only lasted for a year or about 200 pages. A replacement toner costs 50€, more than a single black ink cartridge would cost, and the toner is rated for 1k pages only while the 44€ ink cartridge is rated for 2.2k. (!)
In fact, for even one of the most expensive inkjet printers I can find, replacing all _4_ color cartridges costs in the vicinity of 100€. There are single color toners that are more expensive than that.

It is true that for an inkjet cartridge you will never be able to print the rated 2.2k pages, specially if you don't print frequently or in long-spaced batches. A single nozzle cleanup probably wastes around 200 pages equivalent of ink, and you definitely need one after about one week of not using the printer.

The math in these cases favors the lasers, albeit not by several orders of magnitude as is often claimed. Also, the same amount of ink is wasted if you don't use the printer for a week than whenever you don't use it for half a year.
Let's be honest nobody gave a damn about Ukraine or any of any of occupied territories before 24th February 2022. Though we can't know if it was added in 2022 before of after Elon actually took control over company.
To be clear: I agree with the general anti-war attitude and I've never supported any decision the US has made to go to war in my lifetime. I think the US alliance with Saudi Arabia is disgraceful and I am an anti-Zionist.

But the comments on that video paint Israel not as a shameful alliance or a settler-colonial state but as an entity conspiratorially pulling the strings whenever the US is involved in a war elsewhere. It's not a substantive or veridical critique, and it would be alarming if that were in fact the predominant critique of US involvement in wars overseas as GP insinuates.
Regrettable that academia didnt learn from industry how to deploy, only how to spin. When everything is framed as an "investment", researchers aren't incentivized to discover but to squeeze out "returns" even when there arent much
From what I can see, Firefox deprecated the old add-on structure in August 2015, and the statistics then were ~15% usage for Firefox -- well into its decline from its heyday.
Wonder how those stats compare in other places? It feels to me at least like the numbers should be similar in places like the UK, mainland Europe, Canada, Australia, etc, but that's just based on my own personal acquaintances/bubble. Also kinda surprised it's that low, but hey, maybe it's just that the percentage of the population that's constantly online is louder than the rest of them, especially when it comes to social media.
It would be easier to show you.
I would've accepted that train of thought if it wasn't for their earlier posts about how HTTP/3 is making their lives more difficult. I don't know what's happening to their firewall, but these people seem to run into HTTP/3 problems all the time. There's a difference between "I'm not switching to electric cars yet" and "I'm not switching to electric cars yet after I've burned down my house three times installing electric chargers".

Their network is somehow horribly broken and that leads them to pain a picture as if the protocol is somehow inherently stable or problematic to turn on. They're projecting their own misconfiguration onto the wider internet as a whole, and this is exactly the kind of behaviour that has led to the protocol ossification we see today.
It’s kind of pointless for me to comment. But that comment in no way assumes it all gets passed down. They are just putting the number in perspective.
Condescension doesn't make your argument more compelling. Your "friends in the restaurant industry" would be better served by curbing income inequality rather than kowtowing to billionaires.
I’ve felt similarly in the past.

Ironically, what helped me was to focus on Twitter. Specifically producing quality tweets. I was able to build an audience at my own pace, and it led to quite a lot of opportunities.

So in the same way one particular place isn’t always good to be, one solution is to spend time in a variety of spaces. I like irc/twitter/HN/tiktok, though I still lurk Reddit occasionally.
New York Times loses Twitter ‘verified’ tick as Musk’s changes take effect
Sure it does. I owe my daughter more than anybody else in the world. The legal system would seem to agree.
>or some of the extremely violent war footage

"Where is the war footage?!" is one of the main talking points among far-right disinfo accounts to dowplay the severity of Russia's invasion.

Selectively down-ranking war footage from Ukraine is suspicious when they don't do the same for war footage from other parts of the world.

I actually think it's a good thing that twitter doesn't censor or down-rank war footage from the Middle East showing the results of American and Israeli bombings.

However that just makes it more suspicious that they are down-ranking footage that show the results of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Not fully true. There are incredibly competent manufacturing engineers living there. By a factor of at least 5 over the US
Just lower the amount of means testing for programs like SSDI. I’m not even advocating for getting rid of means testing, just make it less onerous. It’s incredibly difficult to navigate and, ironically, puts a lot of pressure on people who are disabled.
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> In exchange for essentially worthless assets, no?

Clearly not, considering they were able to sell it for a profit later.

>Turning $426B in 2009 into $445B in 2014 comes out to an 0.76% ROI, so not exactly a good deal for anyone but the shareholders who didn't lose their shirts.

I'm not claiming that it's a $0 bailout either. I'm only pointing out that $1 spent on anti‐poverty programs isn't comparable to $1 of TARP spending, so trying to directly compare the two like the parent poster was doing is misleading.
Companies don’t owe anyone anything unfortunately, it’s about funding one that prioritizes the things you do
The Cloud has been with us since the birth of computing. What is happening is, the computing industry goes through waves of attrition, whereby the schools push everyone up the Brand New Stack, while industry, frustrated with generations of programmers who can't program, just Builds Another Stack.

Repeat, ad infinitum. In the cracks you'll find people re-learning things they should've known, if only they weren't slagging off the grey beards .. or, even worse .. as grey beards not paying attention to the discoveries of youth.

>Most people don't know about it. The ones who do, are reluctant to use it.

Not so sure about this. The reluctance is emotional, its not technical. Nobody is killing POSIX under all of this - it is deployed. Therefore, learn it.

>so any thought devs may have had previously about using mmap() would have certainly triggered fears w.r.t. WIN32

Does not compute. Own up, you're an AI.
I'm not sure I'm following you here.

Http/1 Keep-Alive was one the earliest protocol performance improvement. It meant the TCP connection could be reused for the next resource, avoiding the overhead if closing and reopening a new connection for every request to the same server.

You can see http/2 multiplexing as a natural evolution to the keep alive. Instead of doing every request sequentially, just send everything you need at once and let the server figure out in which order to process everything.

Concurrent TCP connections do have an impact on all stateful firewalls in your path, stateful load balancers and of course the server itself. A client that opens dozens of simultaneous TCP to request all the resources on a page all at once would be frowned upon, and quickly hit rate-limits and anti-abuse protections. You can call it ossification of protocols but that is the situation even google could not workaround when specifying http/2 and then quic.
An interesting selection of replies you got. Here's one that I'm sure Americans can appreciate:

If the panels are in a field somewhere, an energy company gets the money.

If the panels are on my roof, I get the money.
> Yeah I don't understand what am I supposed to do the rest of my time.

That’s a question you have to answer for yourself, but on its face it sounds like a good one to ask.
Nope, if I'm hanging out with friends/family and they are glued to their phone, I shame them ... if some idiot bumps into me while walking or almost walks into moving traffic cause of their screen, you shame them. It's anti social behavior
amusing units

√(kilowatt hour / 480 g) = 2700 m/s

√(kilowatt hour / 800 g) = 2100 m/s

480 g is 60% of 800 g so i guess my vaguely remembered percentage was about right

wrt co₂ reduction i think carbon capture is probably going to be necessary
Ah, seems like you are ignorant of the process of gentrification.
Same. I'm a big fan. I caught their performance once in Hong Kong many years ago. Very captivating. Good reminder to celebrate a life well lived by rediscovering his beautiful artwork.
The Problem with Everything-Bagel Liberalism: Getting Things Done
Free speech doesn't mean equity in voice amplitude. Saying that modulating the amount of Ukraine chatter could lead to lives lost, oppressive regimes is hyperbole at best, and plain reactionary.

Ukraine tweets are negative about Ukraine as much as they are positive, and I for one am tired of seeing the absolute clusterfuck that is armchair war mongers going at it 24/7.
> The problem I have is that our jobs rob us of the energy we need for active leisure, so we just end up doing passive leisure 100% of the time which I think is way out of balance.

I don't know what the ratio is between active and passive leisure. Nor do I know for sure that people generally have more leisure time now than ever before, but I do suspect that is the case.

But I do know that there are many companies that one might consider to be in the "active leisure industry" and that are profitable.
That’s a nice sentiment, but it’s not very actionable.
> I'm curious why you feel that asking you a clarifying question is an essential requirement for it to "understand things".

It isn't a requirement, it's an example I used. You can come up with others, I'm sure! Like ask it to replace a word with another word. It kind of works! But also does random other things. Why? Because that's how these models function! But I asked GPT why these models often don't ask clarifying questions (try it yourself, new prompt! GPT-4!):

> I have found often that GPT models will just reply with answers, rather than ask clarifying questions about the text we're giving them. Why do these models do this?

The reason why GPT models may not ask clarifying questions about the text given to them is that they are trained to generate text based on the patterns and relationships they observe in large amounts of data. This means that they do not have a deep understanding of the content they are processing and are unable to determine whether or not they need additional information to better understand a particular text.

Additionally, GPT models are trained to optimize for the likelihood of generating coherent and grammatically correct text. In most cases, generating a response that directly answers the question or prompt given to them is a more effective way to achieve this goal than asking clarifying questions that may require additional context or information.

However, there are some techniques that can be used to encourage GPT models to ask clarifying questions. One approach is to include explicit cues or markers in the input text that signal to the model that additional information is needed. Another approach is to use training data that includes examples of the model asking clarifying questions, which can help the model learn to do so more consistently.

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It's very convenient for all of us to think that GPT is like a human, but somehow not like a human enough to cause any moral issues!

It's like winning, but you don't even have to play!
Some offices have a separate room for meditation or stretching or a short nap or whatever.
I truly believe there is a spark of intelligence in the current crops of LLMs. Probably because I wholeheartedly believe we are nothing but a bunch of neurons pieced together and there is nothing special about human.

But man, even I can't take this GPT5 will be AGI seriously. If they still use the LLM with transformer, then it will never be AGI. The transformer can't continuously learn and absorb new information during use. And it sure as hell won't stop hallucinating, imo until it can interact with the actual meatspace using some sorts of sensors and ground itself in our reality somehow.

The LLMs can at best be a very knowledgeable man with severe mental issues, probably isolated in a sensory deprivation room for too long. He still can be useful, but don't expect too much from a madman.
Cyber-abad, not cyber-bad. Abad means place, a somewhat common suffix. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abad
I am super confused by these responses. Stop assuming what I'm thinking! What is with this? I haven't seen this type of conversation on HN except for crypto and GPT models. Seems like a lot of emotional responses!

Stop saying I am doing XYZ. That's rude! Ask me what I think.

My criticism is not any of those things. I'm not even criticizing the model! I'm criticizing people who are making overly-broad claims about the model!
Can we stop with these responses, please? They are very much in bad faith.

I never claimed that the answer was wrong. I even said in my post it was a sensible answer!

My claim is that this thing isn't grokking the stuff you send it. If you sent that type of question to something that was a general problem-solver, it would reply with "wtf" or help you, you know, solve the problem you're trying to solve.
> From now on in this conversation, please ask at least one clarifying question for anything I ask to help provide more efficient and relevant answers.

This is certainly cheating, and not really what I claimed.

It would be like me saying "the model can't complete this formula!" and you replying with a prompt that says "when you are prompted to complete this formula, respond with this answer"

That isn't teaching it anything! It doesn't mean it understands anything! You're telling it what to do!

And it isn't my criticism of the model, either. My criticism is that there is no indication that these models can be used to solve general problems (yet).

People are claiming there are obvious indications they can! With no proof! Then when I say "there's no proof of that!" people are responding with prompts like yours, that mean nothing!
Nope. Many places will still require a physical signature on a scanned document. Why?

Because on their end, they print it back out and keep a physical copy. That is their workflow. Many offices are still paper based.

Even at my work, we use docusign for some stuff, but will require physical signatures for others.

Printing and rescanning is absurd, but also very easy for anyone. Especially now, it’s less “print and rescan” and more “print and send me a photo with your phone”.
I wouldn't call those network protocols as "terrible 80s designs" rather quite opposite, great design that lasted decades.
All of earth's atmosphere weighs about as much as the first thirty/forty feet of the ocean. Of that atmosphere, only a tiny percent is water gas. The amount of water in the atmosphere is perhaps 0.01% of Earth's total water.
I never said that the model needs to understand how it works! I only said that these models haven't indicated that they can understand what you're saying to them.
Like many, I tie the defense mechanism's arms behind its back with music.
More people work in offices than all those industries put together.
Paul Berg has died
> Free speech for my folks and downranking for the wokes.

Twitter files show it was simply the reverse before Elon. If you think that a private company like Twitter is going to be unbiased you have more faith in humanity than I do. Whatever the CEO they are going to have opinions about who to promote and who to bury.
> That’s why few self-respecting engineers will allow themselves to be called “producers.”

btw, HN'ers, I'm preparing a new Substack post about "music movies you haven't seen" and one of the ones I saw when it came out was about a recording engineer! Imagine that. I think Tom Dowd is the only engineer anyone would make a movie about.

It's Tom Dowd and the Language of Music and now I can't find it anywhere. Can you?
Where? I'm British and old and, apart from in reference books much older than me, I've never seen the long scale used in any context.
Three days of Kagi had me never wanting to see a google page again.

Put your money where your mouth is!
The subtitle of the article is literally, "Fabs using older process nodes are the key."