skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of refs here to the Haber-Bosch process in creating the ammonia... for those interested in a break down of what it is - https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-the-worlds-reliance...

...sort of feels like kicking the can down the road if this is how the ammonia is generated for "Green Steel".
Comments like this aren't allowed here regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't post like this again. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35416603 also.
I tried to hint at that with "Using them as an alternative to a search engine such as Google is one of the most obvious applications—and for a lot of queries this works just fine."

I agree: I do use it as a search engine myself for a bunch of things, but those tend to be things where I've developed a strong intuition that it's likely to give me a reasonable result.

People who haven't developed that intuition yet tend to run into problems - and will often then loudly proclaim that LLMs are evidently useless and shouldn't be trusted for anything.
I am sure I will get all kinds of hate for saying this: despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value.

Lets take device lifetime: I have a 2013 MBP 15 and 2015 MBP 15. I use them for intensive things like music production. Both devices work flawlessly. I also a System 76 Oryx Pro which cost more than any mac I own. The webcam failed 5 months in, several keys don't work anymore, and it gets hotter than the surface of the sun when I ask it to do even moderate workloads. Its also ugly as shit. I don't really use it anymore.

There is also resale value: I've been able to get at least a few hundred bucks for pretty much any apple device I've owned when I've sold it. My Oryx? No one wants that thing. Its gonna end up in a landfill at some point.

In my experience, you pay more up front but you get more for your money in the long run.
It already started with 8.
These are called trophic levels https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level
> I’m astonished by this opinion. They released their designs under a permissive licence. Should people be mind readers and figure out that they actually meant that you should not make 1:1 clones?

Anyone who's been in the 3D Printing community for a while understands the expectation. It used to be that designs and concepts were shared and expanded on.
Hotend and nozzle designs were shared. Techniques for assembling hotends. The first Prusa printers (before it was a company) were literally the RepRap standard design for a long time. We would do group orders for RAMPS boards. Someone would have a local machine shop make 50 nozzles. People parlayed that into ebay stores and a few businesses popped up. Businesses where the seller of the board was also the designer.

To folks who were part of that, someone who just takes the design and sells it for a thin margin seems disingenuous. They're not introducing meaningful changes. This person (or people) did this work, and tried to contribute it to the community, and they show up to make a quick buck off their work.

We expect everyone to act in good faith, but were limited by the licenses we had to lean on at the time. Clearly though, complying with a license is not a reasonable measure of whether someone is doing something good or bad.
Memory usage is still a problem. Trying to figure out why some objects don't get garbage collected at the moment.
Ford to drop AM radio in new models, except commercial vehicles
Yes, thanks for prompting my memory. We needed an approach that put all five of the siblings on the same footing. Even a third party chosen by one of the five may not be trusted since the others may not know the party.

It was goofy, but satisfied them all without dissent. And it worked!
God I've been feeling this lately. Manager turned into full micromanage mode. I started regretting waking up and checking slack, because there'd be an "Any updates on X?" message sitting there, often coupled with some passive aggressive remark. When I feel like I have more autonomy, I intuitively feel the urgency and act appropriately, updating people as updates happen.
I'm surprised he didn't mention having to create an online microsoft account to login to his windows 11 pc.
I disagree. I think constraints (such as memory availablity) are a useful device to encourage creativity.
Thanks for the numbers! You and KMag have changed my mind. This is a lot less mass to ship around.
And 3rd-party apps like Everything are lightning fast, so it's certainly possible to have fast Windows search. I'm genuinely buffaloed as to why MSFT hasn't fixed this obvious flaw in the last 20 years.
I stopped reading your second link after seeing that the person teaching prompt engineering demonstrated a lack of understanding regarding proper sentence structure.
Misalignment, AI and Moloch
In most cases prompt engineers are hired solely to achieve consistency, in order to reliably integrate the responses into other areas of their stacks which may only be able to handle certain kinds of inputs.

Let me give a real example (cant go into too much depth but this is generic enough). I was told to create a prompt that would make ChatGPT generate ten of the hottest real estate markets:

"You must always format this data in exactly the following format: ${index (as a single numeral)}: ${name of location} ${median housing price} ${YoY increase} ${link to internal system} ${number of available locations}"

You would think this would be a pretty easy task for ChatGPT/Davinci to handle, but like I said, consistency is completely missing.

- Sometimes it will say "Market ${index}" instead of just the number, even with the single numeral qualifier.

- Sometimes it will comma separate the data, even if there are explicit instructions not to do so

- Sometimes it will provide the prices/percentages/numbers as regular integers, sometimes it will format them, again, even if explicit instructions are provided

- Sometimes it will place an empty space in between the lines, even if there are explicit instructions not to do so

- Sometimes it will place random punctuation at the end, even if there are explicit instructions not to do so

It's entirely random, you could have a 4000 token prompt or a 40 token prompt, and the results will be of the same quality.

Usually, this is fine for content generation. But content formatting? Anything remotely specific? Forget about it. All of the models (I haven't been able to try ChatGPT 4 yet, however) will simply ignore things, even if (and I promise it's the last time I'll say this) there are explicit instructions not to do so.
Stopping at the block later sadly doesn’t answer much these days. Is it hitting a software ftl? Firmware? Is there caching? Is the ftl journaled/logged/whatever?

Ideally we need a barrier command that goes all the way down. What I’d love to see is a top to bottom barrier available for user space but flushing be a privileged operation that requires explicit grants (you’d give this to db’s maybe, but not to browsers, for example)
A number of prolific Japanese Jazz keyboardists/pianists have died relatively young. Hirotaka Izumi, who played keyboards for T-Square and Pyramid, died from acute heart failure at 62. The Japanese Jazz composer and pianist Jun Fukamachi, who released an average of over one album per year in his 39 years as a band leader, died from an aortic dissection at 64. Japanese jazz pianist and composer Hiromasa Suzuki, who has over a hundred album writing credits to his name, died at 61.
Isn’t Android Linux?
> Why don't you do an actual comparison or study?

What makes you think I haven't done so? I have surveyed enough people at work and socially. A majority prefers hybrid, a small number favors fully remote while a small numbers wants fully in-office. Top reasons people wanted to come in office: meeting everyone in person, getting complex work (eg. designing a system) done, getting mentorship and onboarding help, free food. Top reasons people wanted to WFH: traffic.

There are a handful of cases on extreme ends with patterns like: hating social interaction, not having right conditions at home to work from etc.
Any Thoughts on Distributed RDBMS (Google Spanner, YugaByteDB and CockroachDB)?
What are you opinions about distributed RDBMS like Google Spanner, YugaByteDB & CockroachDB?
Have you tried any?
Do you think they are overengineering and it's better to go with normal sharding?
I agree with the last point. I had been interacting with ChatGPT and it was very kind. Then I figured out a way to prompt it for me to practice responding to mean things. It unleashed on me. Now, it was what I was intending, yet I still felt shocked at the complete mood shift.
Yes that very much part of the history.

However I disagree that its the best of both worlds.

RISC doesn't necessary require changing the ISA, not anymore then on x86.
Windows just gets better and better from a technical side. It's great if you don't care about the telemetry and such.
> People believed for some reason that he was leftist, and later discovered how much to the right, American "left" is.

What nonsense. That US Democratic Party politics often leans more right than many popular European parties on the left is not some modern post-Obama discovery, and was widely understood long before Obama's presidency. Literally read any political memoir or history by a left-leaning European politician who interacted with the US and Democratic party leadership prior to Obama and you will pick up a sense of this.

I can accept arguments Obama may have been treated with much more interest and excitement than perhaps he warranted in European media at that time, but I see little evidence this was because his politics were misunderstood - Obama's policy positions were generally easy to articulate. I think a simpler explanation might well lie in the obvious historic nature of the event; he was the first black man to hold the office, and the first Democratic president after two terms of Bush. These facts alone are "newsworthy" by the standards of modern media.

"leftist" is an absolutely terrible classification to use in any debate about politics, given its generally only ever used reductively and is almost devoid of any actual meaning.
So interesting, I don't know Glass' operatic stuff. As I play and learn more about what various composers are writing about, it's like they are engaged in a conversation over the ages about these just f'ing massive existential and ontological themes, where the bar to entry to joining it is being able to perform some of the most complex human achievements in centuries.

This guy who drives a cab in NYC to support his musical interests is writing an opera about the spiritual insights of a specific Egyptian pharoh, while contrasting them against the scientific discoveries of a physicist who reoriented our entire species place in the universe. It's not just handwavy either, as you need to have the competence to play the pieces to begin to understand what they are expressing. It's not science or theology either, it's something else.

Is there a there there without getting into mystery cult stuff?
Starlink was designed for, and has always been intended for remote people who literally have no other connection option. No cable, no 3G or 4G.

If you can get those other options, Starlink is not a product designed for you.

Go remote, and Starlink is an absolute game changer without even a remotely close equal.
Doesn't look like right wing madness to me, though I don't tend to view the world through a political lens.

"Suggested" tweets seem to be those with unusually high like counts (compared to the poster's usual numbers) in the last 24 hours. Here are the dozen or so it displayed while my coffee was brewing:

* memorial for musician Ryuichi Sakamoto

* memorial for a dog that protected children from attack

* announcement that a football club has sacked one of its staff

* photo of a huge rhododendron in bloom and the elderly lady who planted it

* Tate saying he will resume communication via email

* video of a large moose walking along a highway

* photo French F1 drivers on strike (can't tell if real or AI)

* photo of an F1 driver stretching

* colorized photo of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s

* physician's opinion of another physician's opinion on transgenderism

* user expressing support for Italy's ban of lab grown meat, insects on pizza, and ChatGPT

* list of keywords that caused old twitter algorithm to shadowban

* colorized video of San Francisco a few days before the Great Earthquake

Pretty benign stuff.
It's also an international "you can interact with this" colour for games (handles, climbable pipes, valves, ...)
Thank you. I'll consider getting a machine then. It seems like might just work. I did some serious amount of exercising in the past with VR glasses, but that was inconsistent because of space constraints, and became nearly impossible after our first kid became self-propelled.

For me, all common forms of exercise feel like torture when doing them, or when thinking about doing them, or both. Most of it isn't even for physical reasons, just a combination of anxiety, procrastination, and the kind of general sports aversion you develop when you get prescribed glasses when you're 7 y.o. and thus go through 10+ years of schools not being able to effectively participate in team sports during PE classes...
I'm not sure I understand what this is but please don't do it here.

Also, can you please not break the site guidelines like you did e.g. at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35376440? I don't want to ban you, and these things are not ok on HN.

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As a long-time Ford customer and fan of AM radio this annoys me greatly. My current radio died and I've been using phone apps and it isn't a very pleasant experience. The apps are horrible, you have to listen to two minutes of commercials before hearing the station and then they crash often even on wi-fi forcing you to listen to the commercials all over again.

I know that Tesla has never had AM radio in their cars. But both GM and Chrysler have developed filtering for their EV's and have announced they will not be dropping AM radio.
Those clowns we have at government are so stupid they don't remember the Art.11 of Italian Constitution, guarantee of freedom of speech and opinion: that law is explicitly unconstitutional and will be abrogated by the "Corte Costituzionale" , the tribunal competent in constitutional questions, at first appeal. Good job ! With all the urgent problem in Italy, lets waste public resources with this nationalist bullshit !
It's odd that you are either unwilling or unable to express your position but still comment.
A time traveler from the future
I like this. Have you thought about building this on top a regular shell? Adding commands would be a matter of wrapping and allowing existing application calls. As an example, a tool to message users exists: It is called "mail". There is even federation!
im not sure if its that in tech - mostly people are pretty motivated. I think there's just more need for manager roles (HR stuff, 1/1s, communication, coordination, etc) than there exists willing talented candidates. So the bar gets naturally lowered and we end up with a lot of mediocre seat warmers.
Please don't do regional flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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The piece makes sense, but likening the { stupid Arena Man with inaction and no expertise } to a priest was lazy writing. Anyone with any religious background isn’t going to understand your analogy at all (which is based on a certain movie depiction of priests from a religion-hate angle), because contrary, real priests are quite wise and get a lot done for the community.
Well, that will go well.
Yes, Android is an operating system that uses the Linux kernel.
I'm not an American. I'm also quite a fan of Marx (or, at least his analysis of the inherent flaws on capitalism). But Keynesian economics essentially runs the world. Marxism... does not.
Can you please keep this sort of flamewar fodder off this site? We don't want tribes bashing each other and calling each other names here—none of it has anything to do with intellectual curiosity, which is what HN is supposed to be for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note that they ask you not to call names or fulminate.
I can't tell if you're kidding
I used Win2k in my early 20s and was very happy with it.
Fsync doesn’t work. Never has. Good discussion yesterday on ItsAboutTime.club with Pat Helland and Prof. Edward Lee. https://www.clubhouse.com/room/P0Bkl3y9
> when memory usage was a concern

I checked this morning; it was still the case.
Perhaps better value hardware-wise - because of resale value. But until Linux is solid, you're still stuck with a lousy OS.
You're really obsessed with punishing children. I hope you don't pass on your own parent's abuse to your own children, or even better that you don't have children yourself, or have any power over other people's children.

Maybe you should lay off the Fox News, and think about the fact that Donald Trump is one of those refined high-falutin' city slickers who you resent so much, who teaches kids the wrong things: grabbing women by the pussy, infidelity, racism, lying, treason, etc.
There’s two different things and we refer to both of them with the word “search”.

Sometimes search means “I can sort of describe what I’m looking for, can you tell me what it’s called?”. LLMs excel here. I told GPT4 I’m doing computer animation and want to do smooth blending, it told me that’s called “interpolation”, I asked for some common terms in the literature about this to help me look and it told me about LERP, SLERP, quaternions, splines, Beziers, keyframes, inverse kinematics, and motion capture. All useful jumping-off points. (A subset of this type of search is “I know what this is called, can you tell me more about it?”. This is probably the place where LLMs sell snake oil the most; they always provide a convincing explanation of the thing, but there’s no guarantee on veracity.)

Other times, search means “I have a specific phrase and I want to find occurrences of it”. LLMs aren’t just bad at this, they are constitutionally incapable of it. The way you build an LLM necessarily involves taking all specific phrases and occurrences thereof, and blending them up into a word slurry that is then condensed and abstracted into floating point weights. It no longer has the specifics to give you. It’s a shame that search engines have let this task (“ctrl-f the web”) fall by the wayside. It’s probably a large part of why people think Google search sucks now, it certainly is for me. (There’s this one essay about the Harappan civilization that I used to be able to find by searching for “strange builders mist of time”, I definitively remember that exact phrase working for me many years ago, and now it does not work and I cannot find that essay anymore.)
My mom was the babysitter of his son (with Norika) for a few years in the 90s. I was around 6-7 years old. I remember Norika as being incredibly kind. She would let my mom bring me to their home often while babysitting their toddler. We had just immigrated from China, so I was decked out in very fobby clothing. Norika took me to The Gap one day and bought a whole new wardrobe for me. I'm still grateful for her kind gesture 30 years later. I never spoke with Ryuichi. To me, he was just this mysterious man who occasionally showed up at the apartment and would go straight to his studio.
> or the accredited investor requirements are much lower.
The attentiveness and accessibility of the regulators is a boon.
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I'm in the process of setting up a W10 box for the sole reason of running MS Flight Simulator 2020 and flyuk.aero with VATSIM.net. Otherwise, it's an Air/M2 for surfing and social, and GNU+Linux for serious stuff.

Maybe some car racing, too, later....
It's a copy on windows too.
If I want to get super-reductive, I think of life as one continuous self-sustaining chemical reaction. It's an accurate, though usually not very useful way of thinking - but I still cherish it, as it reminds me that life and evolution do not obey the conceptual boundaries we set for it. The concept of a "cell" or "individual" doesn't exist in the runtime of physical reality - if we see evolution as optimization process, it's one that can and does optimize across those boundaries.
Ever seen a thinkpad?
Access to USD for the unbanked extends to illegal use of cryptocurrency. Some of those people are unbanked for a reason.
I dunno. Seems like a boiling frog scenario. They keep adding hoops and one day they'll lock it away. There's no reason they had to wait for the start of the AS transition to do it either. Over the Intel era we saw them lock things down with the introduction of the T1 and T2 chips. AS was another small leap. Maybe M4 will introduce something else like software fuses to prevent rollback or something.
iOS apps don't work with SIP disabled.
> Using LLMs to solve real problems is not easy.

Yes it is.

That is exactly why products like ChatGPT have been taking off as quick as they have.

What you're talking about is not using LLMs as a product but using them as a component within a broader system. And so of course that requires engineering skills.
I think 6 years is fair game for a repost. Not everyone has seen it.
A Classic Theory About Dinosaur Life May Be Wrong
D'oh! Thanks, I completely forgot that this is literally what makes a food chain a food chain.
Well now we get another datapoint with which to debate this issue with.
Personal attacks, let alone on kids, are not ok here. Please don't post anything like this again.

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Edit: you've broken the site guidelines a ton and we've asked you to stop doing it a ton—too many times to bother listing. Yet you're still doing it repeatedly—I saw several bad examples just skimming your comments from recent days.

I don't want to ban you but if you keep doing this we're going to have no choice. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this!
I have a thinkpad T430 that's still going strong closer to a decade. Works fine, is fast etc.
> Your far-right political movements

A nit - it seems the US far-right is adopting tactics from European far-right history and not the other way around. Trump literally used the words "blood and soil" at some point and Fox is mastering the art of propaganda.
tbh i don't think this feature is outdated. it's just your body telling you that doing someone else's bidding intensely and unendingly isn't healthy. it's good to recognize that.