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Not meant to be silent, there's just no notifications on HN.

Ironic you're bothered Eich's name was "ran through the mud", but had no problem going out of your way to dig up and use my full name.

Everyone at Mozilla knew about his donation before he was promoted to CEO. Lots of people had opinions (and shouldn't they be allowed to?), but Mozilla officially supported him (this was his boss: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2014/03/26/building-a-global...). He was not fired, he stepped down.

Donating money to prevent people from getting married feels more in line with "malice" to me than people reacting to his donation, but hey, that's just my opinion and I haven't worked at Mozilla for over a decade.

Most importantly, though, Eich just proves that a single person left the company. I'm not sure how that indicates web standards were hurt or Mozilla's mission of a free and open web was compromised – like I said before, you can both care about the people around you and also care about an open web.
thanks, could not remember it and my google fu was poor trying to look for it :-)
I hate how correct this is. LOL
You're thinking of plastic bag bans.

Bags blow in the wind and wind up all sorts of places.

Straws mostly wind up in proper trash streams.
I would like to see the app reverse engineered alongside Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook etc.

Not sure why tiktok is so much worse besides the political aspect of the debate.
$29/mo is more than my ChatGPT Plus subscription, which does include GPT-4 :)
If war starts because the US and Taiwan made some agreement, that would be China starting a war. They look quite trigger happy, in fact. Launching missiles in a tantrum and damaging foreign aircraft through stupid antics.

You're also defining "economic win" as "able to exist independently of the West" but in practice it would be returning to a Cold War like status: no winners or losers because the game isn't over yet.
I don't know. I think a lockbox would be a cheaper and easier solution for that use case.
Or even bet in local casinos. Not every state is Texas, requiring you find a reservation to 'enjoy' slot machines.

GP above has completely been missing 'opportunity' if they think we jumped exclusively from Vegas/travel destination to couch gambling

Not to imply that I'm okay with the trend, just - it's been here, and reads alarmist.
Yeah the phase thing is quite a pain, I always thought it was just for really low stuff, but a band I was helping out had a master rejected by the pressing plant for excessive out-of-phase audio even when the passages in question weren't particularly 'heavy'.

Since then I've been quite paranoid about it before sending masters off, and it's surprising how many mixes have a load of out-of-phase stereo. It can usually be tamed with some M/S EQ but then you miss the spaciousness in headphones...
The thing is, it's not "higher level syntax" unless you make it higher level. It's the semantics that matters, and as stated in that case it was entirely deterministic which assembly instructions would get emitted.

But of course that puts pretty hard limits on the compiler (e.g. no optimizations), and you end up doing low level programming just with a different syntax.

That's to say, it looks convenient, and it was nice as a way of bootstrapping a simple compiler, but you're right to question whether the convenience is worth it.
I assume you mean actual binary encoding into the vinyl?

Now that's a hacker idea if I ever heard one. I assume the way to do it would be to use a modem the same way the internet operated over dial-up. Listening to the vinyl would sound the same as when you accidentally picked up a phone on the same line, a static-y kind of squeal.

It does make me wonder what the maximum practical bitrate would be -- more than phone lines with their severely limited frequency range, that's for sure. Could it handle CD-quality FLAC audio?

It also makes me wonder how you'd manage records wearing out. What type of distortion occurs, and how might that affect how you'd spread bits over the spectrum, or would it affect which error correction code you'd use?
1. It was way more than fake e-mails.

2. It's perfectly reasonable to ask someone to create a 'test' dataset for you. Just don't tell them that you're going full fraud with it.

3. People working for software firms get paid to create test datasets all the time. 18k for an outside one-time consultancy is not an insane number.
So you're advocating for a base load of natural gas power plants, with wind and solar supplementing them, which was my original point- that they only work as a supplement, rather than a replacement, for nuclear and fossil fuels.

Maybe nuclear isn't a great alternative to natural gas. I'm down with that. I'm not going to ignore the fact that wind and solar are at best complimentary, and that we can talk about pricing them without also talking about pricing in the base load that they're supplementing.
I've been using Type for a month now and it has really helped me. Its nice to just have a fully feature rich editor that is modernized with AI /ChatGPT too. Nice work to the team!
The importance of alignment in companies (2021)
Yes but not on purpose. It's just the natural way of living when I don't buy snacks and my fridge is usually empty.

I feel way better living like this than when I'm home for the holidays binging on cheezits and having three meals a day. I like the hunger pangs; it feels like my body is doing useful work, and it makes the eventual meal all the more satisfying.
If I read the command `gat myfile` I would definitely assume you were trying to delete it with prejudice.

I would be surprised to see it print to my terminal.

Edit: why downvotes? You can’t use words as commands that invoke a completely different set of connotations than the commands execution does
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We didn't seem to have a debate on the potential downside of social media when it was new. Maybe speculation is a good thing in case there are big downsides to AI.
95% of TSA screening difficulty is entirely dependent on how white you are.
They said:
>"We also only included players in our analyses that had a rating above 2,000 on the platform Lichess. Total novices could randomly play any opening games, which would skew our analyses," explains Vito D.P. Servedio of the Complexity Science Hub.
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So what is your rating?
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any descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778

You have to have blood of races that were on the islands before 1778. In practice a commission decides if you're the right race.

Other groups oppressed by plantation owners like the Filipinos and Samoans just get the boot and even less land available to them due to racist policies. Samoan descendants are now even worse off than native Hawiians and have to contend with racially/segregation projected rarefication of land.
It still boggles my mind that processors in the 1970s already had microcode— obviously it was vastly simpler and not doing the crazy branch prediction, speculative execution, and operation reordering that modern processors do, but it's still amazing to me that this architecture was there at all.
not comparable from a climate change perspective, but helps put perspective into just how much CO2 that is. I disagree with you that it's unhelpful, context is always helpful.
as someone that was a vinyl DJ in a former life that saw the transition from vinyl to CDs to where it is now, vinyl is absolutely my favorite precisely because of the physicality of it. it was the closest to feeling of playing an instrument. learning the touch and feel of picking up the stylus cartridge without the infamous screeching/scratch sound, how light/heavy to touch the platter/spindle/label to push/pull/drag to speed up or slow down the record to keep line up the beats were all things that reminded of playing an instrument (I played woodwinds) with how much air to use, how hard to hit the reeds, and the various other physical things to play. there was also the fact that it had to be played and not programmed that i appreciate from playing vinyl.

as a medium for just sitting back and enjoying some tunes at home, it's gotta be the worst! LPs might give you 3,4,5 songs per side, but you still would have to get up and flip it or find another LP. singles like 45s or 12"s were even worse as it was one song at a time. a 12" at 45rpm only has somewhere around 10mins of recording. an LP at 33rpm might have 20-ish minutes. so that's a lot of interruptions in the music flow. if you really enjoy that manual switching out, then i'd suggest just taking the next step and being a DJ constantly mixing track to track.
I think your 90% number is significantly over-estimating. Most creative people are actually quite creative and not just recycling.
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I think it's styled "XIX" and not "19" to make it look archaic.
> we might hope that superhumanly-intelligent AIs will agree.

this kind of fear of misalignment bamboozles me - is there any proposed AI architecture that is not merely call and response? in what world can we simply not call a function again if we don't like the answer?
This isn't true, many open source companies make money in ways that don't diminish the core open source product, Kafka/ElasticSearch/MongoDB/Supabase/Vercel/Grafana/Red Hat/etc
majority of funding for the organisation*
take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7AGkcSMiaI for a demo of what copilot is capable of, did you try copilot and copilot labs?, they have the best DX, look the interviews of nat fridman on the tool.

The code is a prompt, a foreach file execute prompt and return whatever, it can be used as a template build something useful and not redundant, but definitely not code. Don't reinvent the wheel.
It highlights our preposterous assumption that in order to live everyone must have a "job". Why? If people become destitute then some others will gain even more wealth than they need. Is that a great way for humanity to behave?
LangChain is especially slapped together. Not something I would use in production (especially with the eval bug that was left unpatched for weeks despite an open PR)

It feels at some point being too slapped together isn’t correlated with success

Wishing the LangChain team well! But there are already alternatives cropping up that are far more polished (Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel being one)
Also, I believe that, like official job postings, a lot of "Who's Hiring" posts are just kinda-serious fishing expeditions. A lot of companies say they're hiring but in reality it's because they always have their bait in the water, waiting for some outlier good deal on a top talent, but otherwise not really hiring.

EDIT: The same is probably true for job seekers, too, now that I think about it. As another commenter noted, a lot of people are being frog-marched back to physical offices at gunpoint, and are probably low-key fishing for a sweet remote-only gig.
My caloric demands make it hard. I just stop eating 3-hours prior to bed to get higher quality sleep. But I don't start eating in the morning until about 30-minutes into my exercise, so that my body knows how to prioritize.
The first laws regulating nuclear energy were signed about a year after the atomic bombings, no? As far as I know, the first nuclear fission experiments were completely unregulated.
That looks terrific. Another unusual but equally beautiful event, also hard to see and record are the so called: "gigantic jets". It was previously discussed in HN in this thread: https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/10/25/close-encounter-w...
Ok my bad. But still, why is it a good analogy again ? How does it compare to where we are. Walk me through it.
Doesn't sound that much in global terms compared to the global population. And does it account for all the new jobs that will be created along the way? When I started out there was nothing like a DevOps engineer, social media influencer or Deliveroo driver...

The point being that this happens all the time and is a natural consequence of progress and evolution.
Most of them have the core features put behind an enterprise license.
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Once they have given you a reason something needs to be confiscated, there is 0 chance of you changing their mind with any logic, because they would rather look like an idiot than be wrong, because the TSA is a playground for low intelligence authoritarian types.
> So what is your rating?

Chess.com 1450-ish. I honestly probably shouldn't even be studying openings at this level, lol.
By that rationale, the effort you put into getting the joke should have precluded you from responding.
On top of that, C came about specifically because Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie wanted a better language for implementing Unix utilities and, later, Unix itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#Histo...
Feature proposal: it should display the comparison between the cost of licensing the software, and the cost of hiring a hitman.
I think GPT4All's inferior quality dataset would make a worse combined model than strict Vicuna. Vicuna-30B will likely be better than GPT-3.5 level and approaching GPT-4 level when it's done training, but run slow on CPU.
Re-reading I see you were just suggesting a possibility.
Are you actually joking? I think you should go have a look at Midjourney v5 and have a read through some Reddits in the art community where people are already losing their jobs.
I think you're thinking of Benford's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

It's pretty strange, basically if you have a document with a bunch of numbers (say, some company's quarterly report), look at the leading digit of all the numbers. For some reason, numbers with a leading digit of 1 show up more often than those with a leading digit of 9 (i.e. 1,234,567 is more likely that 987,123).

You'd think there wouldn't be any particular pattern in the leading digit, I mean why should there be? But observational data seem to suggest a pattern.

So Benford's law can be used as a leading indicator of fraud. If you apply it to a quarterly report and there's an unusually high distribution of 8's, for example, then while you can't be certain that it's fraud, it might be flag to an inspector/regulator to take a closer look.
The factories that make solar panels and wind turbines for us today will make solar panels and wind turbines for the rest of the world tomorrow, and also more factories in between now and then.

> make even a proverbial "drop in the bucket"

These drops in a bucket are exponential. What did your mother teach you about exponentials?

> the way things are done in China not changing

China is making solar panels and nuclear reactors like the future depends on it. They are part of the problem, yes, but they are definitely part of the solution too.

> climate change cult

Wanting clean air and tame climate is "cult" behavior?
Could use more competition
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The phrase "in principle" is eliding quite a lot here since we don't understand what process gives rise to qualia in ourselves or whether qualia even exists in the same way as other categories of things. Certainly our naive intuitions suggests that things like conditional/able probability distributions don't have qualia, and so it is unclear how adding multiple modes to a model like ChatGPT (which is just a giant conditional probability distribution) could produce quale or (conversely) why, if conditional probability distributions _can_ have qualia why ChatGPT as it stands now wouldn't have such. When I run my eyes over text the words produce meanings which manifest in my mind and that sensation is a kind of quale, so why not so for ChatGPT?

I personally don't think ChatGPT has any experience at all for what it is worth.
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I don't know if it's as much slapped together as it is just "simple". I feel super arrogant and very HN-esque saying it but I did a deep dive into the code and it isn't anything to write home about engineering wise.

What it does offer is standardization of composing LLM prompts - something that a team within a company can spend a week max to write an SOP doc/implementation for.
In Poland there is a whole ecosystem of resellers who sell various books on Allegro (which is basically polish equivalent of Ebay + Amazon).
I am not sure exactly how do they get the book info, but it is quite clear that they get the inventory off Amazon, who ships the books to the resellers first, who repack them and send them to direct customers.
Of course you can ask, "why not buy at Amazon (or Ebay) directly"? Well, for many years Amazon was simply not available in Poland, it also required a full credit card (not only a debit card), while Allegro allows many more payment systems.

I tried buying some really obscure books on Amazon - and the interface is pure garbage. When I looked for random items, those often looked like cheap knock-offs?

Generally once per year I try to look at various "best books of 2022" lists [did hacker news have one?] and then try to get the obscure books. Often it feels easier (but not cheaper) to get them through those third party sellers than search on Amazon that offers 10 options of used books, semi-used books, PDFs - I genuinely dont know how to exclude the things that I dont want.

This reminds me how EBAY tried to enter the Polish market and their launch was so damn bad and the website so damn poor, that after 2 years they licked their wounds and simply exited the market.

I wish more people know Allegro, which has its own share of problems, but is so much better (I think most problems came when venture capital came, bought it and now tries to squeeze money out of it).

In Poland you buy something on Allegro and usually in 1-2 days you get it to a parcel locker machine. Which is like a machine that stores the packages for you in a safe way. I never understood why those dont exist in USA. As I understand the delivery drivers throw the packages on your garden, where they can be stolen, damaged by rain or so on.

I think Germany also has parcel lockers + the concept was introduced to UK due to all the Polish diaspora ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcel_locker ), but when it comes to number of machines per capita Poland probably wins.
You didn't answer the question. We promised to give a billion dollars, then threatened to withhold it if they didn't do what we wanted. That is not a gift or a donation, that makes it a bribe. That was also a clear example of coercion - and it was done by our current President who was VP at the time.

I'm sure you were well aware of this and many other examples and yet you are on here pretending we don't use those tactics in Ukraine. Why?
This post stirred up some memories from long ago, when I was trying to understand assembly. I had written a program to test my knowledge, not very long, a couple of pages, and when I thought I was finished, I ran it to see how it worked.

It didn't. It was crashing and I didn't know how to use a debugger with assembly programs back then.

I combed frantically for the bug. Some hours later, it turned out I was missing a 'ret' in some function..

The assembler didn't complain, of course, and the program happily continued executing whatever was there after reaching the end of the said function.
Aha, ISWYM now.

I can't. I just remember noticing it a few years back, and being surprised, and then checking occasionally and it stayed there for a while.

Why not contact them and ask, if you're curious? If I'm wrong, you'll have the pleasure of refuting me. ;-)
Couldn’t have timed your question better: It’s Ramadan, so a huge chunk of the world is currently fasting from 5am to 8pm (or thereabouts, depending on latitude).
You're 100% correct, I just didn't want to sound _too_ doom-and-gloom about AI, it feels like that's a quick way to get massively downvoted.
Yes, I am American.

I also believe that the Waffle House shouldn't have to serve pancakes because some of its customers really want pancakes. Waffle House can choose to serve pancakes (or not) based on customer feedback, but I believe there's nothing about "operating with public society's best interests" in forcing Waffle House to serve pancakes.
Physical explanation: “One bolt was so strong, it generated an intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The red ring marks the spot where the EMP hit Earth’s ionosphere. Normal lightning bolts carry 10 to 30 kilo-ampères of current; this bolt was about 10 times stronger than normal.”
Cynicism that keeps you out of the game is maladaptive...if you want to be playing that game.

Nobody is arguing for unbridled optimism.
This is so true. Sad to see a promising open source project being sold out. I doubt now if langchain can truly ever reach its potential of supporting additional models beside OpenAIs and would be able to support user contributed tools or agents.