skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've asked a very deep question. What is the information density of language? Of general knowledge? How many bits, in theory, are required to describe the vocabulary and grammar of a language like English in a way, such that software can manipulate a variety of natural language tasks? How many bits are required, in theory, to contain a database of general knowledge?

ChatGPT has been compared to a "blurry JPEG of the web" by Ted Chiang [1] and I think that is a very appropriate analogy. There's a relationship between deep learning and compression. In a sense, a generative model like ChatGPT is a lossy compression algorithm that re-synthesizes outputs, approximately like its inputs. (Unsurprisingly, deep learning based methods blow traditional compression algorithms out of the water on compression ratio.)

I suspect the question is essentially the same as "How small could the complete text of Wikipedia be compressed?" or "How few bits does it take to lossily compress a human voice recording yet the individual still be recognizable?"

It's an unsolved philosophical problem. I don't know of any attempts to determine the lower bound. Intuitively, something like hundreds of kilobytes does seem inadequate. And hundreds of gigabytes is adequate. So, it's somewhere in between.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
Physicians are definitely not scientists, at least the majority of MDs. MD is not a research degree, it's a memorization degree
Useful non standard ways.

I think trying to make a context free intelligent system is making it excessively hard for the AGI folks. Our brain definitely figures out what to do for pre-sentient reasons, or using pre-sentient hardware.
Exactly. Quite the chain of speculation built from a single image.
Yeah for a sec I wasn't sure those were the actual product. I thought those were support pylons that would connect the sails, turns out those are the sails. I'm guessing they're just like high aspect ratio wings, long and skinny to minimize drags.
Are there any lithium battery alternatives?
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The Tor design spec literally says it is not meant to defeat a global passive surveillance panopticon like a world government. Know its limitations and it's a fine tool. By the way, the entire Internet was built for the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet
Was this another Joshua Topolsky project?
> It takes a lot to be able to appreciate that sort of film

to each their own but why bother? I get a break from work and entertainment from films, I simply can't understand what you're getting out of it.
I love my M1 Mac but it has some personal stuff, development stuff, light steam games etc.

I’m really tempted to buy a used thinkpad and put a Linux distro on it as a pure dev environment that’s easy to wipe and start over quickly.
The original DALL-E straight up from the OpenAI website still gives the best results, in my opinion.
Somehow we managed to get power and POTS lines to pretty much everybody. Hell, the 2700 foot mountain peak behind my house has power run to it. This bullshit that we can't run fiber or some other networking to every house.

It's not that it's economically infeasible. It's that it's just not as profitable for the ISPs as running a smaller, closer network in a populated area. So they won't do it. Why would they care about covering a huge area that doesn't make as much money? All they care about is money over all else.
That could be a lot of mid-to-high end cars. Matrix headlight makes me think of Audi, but none of these features are especially cutting edge nowadays.
multi monitors, two mice/trackball.
This sounds like sending a message to internal culture/HR or to Wall Street.
how did your friend feel it when they had a good quarter?
That's great, and we have a lot in common, but the audience isn't like us
why do we need to plaster every available surface with ads when their purpose is mostly to increase consum even more?
You need a link, lots of railways are hiring.
An army of one
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I remember hearing about bad OPSEC at Volkel. Something about how there was sensitive national security secrets indirectly being leaked bc soldiers didn’t set their Quizlet flashcards to private when studying for their exams.
> There's not a lot of interesting conversation to ask about color theory or composition. The interesting stuff is asking what is an artist trying to convey or explore within the nuances of the medium they are working with

For some, this is an important aspect of art appreciation, and I would expect those people to continue to gravitate toward human produced art. For other people who don't have that background, and don't think about those things, the difference won't be relevant to them, and they'll judge the end product based on their own personal and arbitrary criteria. What's interesting about an artwork to one person makes it banal to another, and no amount of academic study or criticism will change peoples' tastes.

Let's not forget that often creators themselves aren't always actively thinking about composition, texture, color, etc, and part of the work for them can be as black box out of their subconscious as the creation of a neural network.

Similar to people being fooled by white wine dyed red, I think we'll also have critics who remark on how absolutely human a work of art has to be due to X/Y/Z, only for it to be revealed to be an AI work. That I think encapsulates a lot of what I look forward to in terms of the debate over what exactly about art is human-specific and what it means for something, human or not, to have artistic capabilities.
Context:

Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

Source:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/elon-musk-seeks-end-258-billio...
I thought I'd miss CarPlay, but the charger/dock is right under the screen and perfectly visible; so if I need to run an app on my phone it's right there anyways - easy to see and control. Hey Siri works fine for me as well.

CarPlay just seems like a bandaid on bad car software, which still isn't well tied into the car's climate controls or other settings anyway so you have this weird half and half experience.
how does it work in practice? Are you expecting to offset the potential value of your donation(billable consulting hours) against your actual income ?

If true, this has so much potential for fraud and abuse that I doubt this is allowed.

Imagine a motivational speaker billing businesses for one week and "donating" time for another week to charities effectively nullifying their income.

I think write-offs are generally on cash basis and on expenses incurred.
> Somehow, it seems like some folks (I am by no means the first!) 'see the future' but for reasons I don't fully understand, The Future seems to take longer to get here than necessary.

Microsoft tried to sell the world on Smart TVs back when most Americans had dial up.

Smart car infotainment back in I think it was 2008 or 2009, complete with voice control.

Sometimes being early can be worse than being late.

(Look at all the early attempts at ebooks!)
Yup, then you plug in an iPhone with CarPlay gen 2 for the infotainment and you're good to go.
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Since we're trading anecdotes. I have a 2013 Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro which refuses to die. I've always used it when I travel so I definitely haven't coddled it. I've kind of been hoping it would die so I could justify replacing it because it's been good enough to get the job done. And the best part is that since it's running Windows I've been able to upgrade the OS and still get security updates.

As other posters have demonstrated, having a laptop last this long is part good design and part good luck.
That's right. Indeed, if the optimization is implemented properly it should have no observable behavioral difference except for performance (better in some cases, worse in others) which is not really something POSIX concerns itself with. So POSIX doesn't forbid it.

I can think of one edge case not mentioned by others, though.

One of the main benefits of mmap is that the data can be paged out while not used. But when you try to page the data back in, the attempt may fail, or it may return different data than was originally there. This is particularly likely with network filesystems or external storage. With mmap, these situations result in, respectively, the process receiving SIGBUS, or the contents of memory changing out from under it. The former is usually a crash (unless the program installs a signal handler), and the latter can be worse than a crash, if either program logic or compiler optimizations make assumptions about memory staying consistent when not written to. A program using mmap is opting in to that risk. A program using malloc and read is not.

That said, it may be reasonable to trust that the system’s main disk(s) (however you define that) won’t misbehave this way, and limit the optimization to files mapped from them. After all, if swap is enabled, the same potential risks exist for any memory that’s swapped out. Even without swap, if the root partition starts failing, the system is not going to stay up for long.

Or, the optimization could be enabled for other disks, but with the caveat that the pages would be swapped to the swap file/partition rather than paged out normally.
> Unless ya'll have some truly high end cars I don't see how anyone can confidently back up with just a camera and not fear hitting objects/children etc.

If I look backward I wouldn't see a small child right behind my vehicle. The parking sensors and backup camera would, though. That's why I feel like it's weird to look backward instead of looking at the video feed from the wide-angle camera.
The author of the article you linked is about a decade out of date. "The state of the art in observing your JVM-based applications is a combination of using thread dumps, gc logs, thread activity visualizations." -- that has been untrue for quite some years now. The basic observability offered by the JDK is now the Flight Recorder, a low-overhead in-production tracing and profiling engine that BEAM is many years away from being able to achieve.

The JVM supports all the same runtime observation and manipulation as BEAM. If you want to use them via a shell -- you may. If you want to use the actor model "all the way down" you can do it. The JVM is simply a virtual machine at a lower level than BEAM, but it does provide all the primitives the Erlang model needs.

The reason I'm telling you this is that I think that targeting the JVM would allow Erlang/Elixir to evolve faster -- enjoying the low-level work done by the large OpenJDK team -- as well as reach a wider audience. At the same time, the wider Java platform community will be exposed to all the great ideas that have come out of Erlang. All the necessary foundational work is now, finally (as of JDK 19), in place.
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It's not about cost savings, it's about psychological manipulation of employees as servants to the corporation. Why would they be any exception to its users?
While looking for the successor to Raspberry Pi's, my interest revolves around how open source the drivers are and whether they're upstreamed or not. I have no interesting in a board, no matter how cheap, that will be stuck on some ancient, unmaintained kernel version.

It looks like they're off to a good start but appearances can be deceiving. Kernel is a fork and who knows if it's missing anything. It's all pretty new so I wouldn't expect it in mainline. GPU (Imagination BXE4-32) also seems to have a pipeline towards upstreaming.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64

It's nice to see that it has onboard wifi. Barrel jack for power, rather than USB-C, is a little disappointing.
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For CPU developers it's permissionless. To develop a new Arm chip you need to negotiate a license up front from that company. To develop a new x86 chip, well, forget about that. Intel won't license x86 for any amount of money. For RISC-V, download a BSD-licensed core from github, or grab the BSD-licensed specs and write your own. No need to ask anyone's permission, and no fees to pay.
I work as a part-time gardener/teacher with children. We do a lot of measurements for our pre-projects and I got tired of using traditional pen and paper in the outdoors. I find normal note-taking apps inconvenient due to the extra amount of text you have to type.

So I decided to make an app specifically for noting down measurements.

I would have preferred to release the app as open source or at least free, but - as you know - we all need bread on the table.

I have made a short video on the website demonstrating the app, plus detailed screenshots on both Google Play and Apple Store.
Citroen seems to be the closest to making these a reality. The Ami and Oli are wild, weird, but absurdly practical starter cars marketed to a slightly-more-sophisticated-than-starter-car demographics.

The Oli is especially impressive in that they've learned that you can sacrifice battery capacity, and if you just keep the car lightweight and aerodynamic enough, you can still get decent range. They're claiming a (pretty phenomenal) 6.2 miles per kWh, and for a car targeting a price point starting at $20k that offers the utility of a small city car, SUV, and pickup truck in a single vehicle, I find it compelling, even as the sort of person for whom this is the least viable car.

And if $20k sounds like too much, the Ami is less impressive, but I think starts at closer to $10k.
> FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time.

There is no Apple-bias. Apple hardware is not really any better than other brands, but they are chic and you pay for it. That's almost always been the case, speaking as a Mac guy before it became cool (pre-iPod). Stories of longevity for any brand are generally from people who take care of their stuff, but you can find exceptions even here.

I bought a refurbished Lenovo laptop 10 years ago for $300, it's still going strong after updating to an SSD a couple of years ago. The comparable Apple hardware would have cost 3x that. I also don't have to worry about losing security updates because my hardware doesn't go EOL like you just described.
No people that I know have a gas can. They had, like 30 years ago, but nowadays, not a single person.

I think it would be easier to find a battery storage in one of the houses that have solar panels (like 50% of them in my neighborhood) than a gas can.
Except that it gives you a PNG, not a usable vector font. And, in reality, how many of these filled letterform designs are we going to need? I can see some utility in blog post header or something once in a while. But it's not a design style that would be commonly used and the output isn't great for anyone who already uses Adobe tools. Not modifiable later, etc.
Everyone has limited time, and if AI assistance can increase the speed you can develop & iterate the product to better match user needs that is how it can result in a better product.

Equally if it can help devs launch a month earlier, that’s a huge advantage in terms of working out early product/market fit.

All things being equal, I would rather have a company with better product/market fit than one with great code (even though both are important!).
I didn't look at it thoroughly, but it looks really cool and I'll probably give it a proper try at some point. Judging by your comment only...

> watches your repository for new commits and continuously builds the environment

That feels wrong to me. For example, what happens if I want to check out a 1 year old commit and edit it? Will the dev environment that was used at the time be available or will it be rebuilt? If it gets rebuilt, there's no way I get any guarantees it's going to work.

IMHO most of the industry is getting it wrong when it comes to dev environments and build systems. I've always called it butterfly effect builds. You make a commit and it triggers a ton of non-repeatable builds. There's not much value in doing that for every commit IMO. What happens when something like an APT mirror fails and the whole system grinds to a halt? What happens when a runtime or dependency gets updated and breaks at exactly the worst time during the week?

I'd rather see something on a (calendar) schedule with the potential to trigger a manual build if needed. For example, skim this [1] article. That's always made sense to me and, in the context of a dev environment, why not build the base dev environment once a week (or day) and only layer in the resources / code on-demand? IE: Build the things I don't control on a calendar schedule and only build on-demand for changes that are part of my project (using the base env).

The way I've always envisioned it is to have a stable env build once per month or per week. It's fast enough to keep everything rolling in terms of being current, yet slow enough that I'm not spending time wondering if a problem I'm debugging is caused by a change in my dev environment. I try to do the same thing as dedicated build containers for projects, but it's hard because everything is tunnel visioned on per-commit re-builds these days.

1. https://phauer.com/2019/no-fat-jar-in-docker-image/
Ben Franklin had a meetup club he called a junto [0] that he claimed was really helpful to him.

I tried it with some of my work colleagues and it was super helpful but it was hard to keep together. It was good to be able to work through ideas and share good approaches.

However, it’s more of a mutual benefit society and don’t think it would work for pay as the incentives would be off. With the junto, each member is trying to learn and teach. For pay, the incentive shifts to some are trying to learn and some are trying to sell memberships.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
At risk of sounding like one of those people who do nothing but complain about Elon Musk, I can see a scenario in which Elon wanted a bit of extra wiggle room, wanted to sell his DOGE, but inflate the price a bit beforehand.

I just don't see the "for the lulz" approach, but then again, I don't understand a lot of what he does.
Here, I have this short program; can you please tell me if it will terminate or loop forever?
..... ? A small backup generator is all that's required for the gas pumps to work. The state of Florida now mandates gas stations have back up power on evacuation routes, a law enacted from painful lessons learned from all of the problems caused by Hurricanes Wilma and Katrina. The state of Louisiana I believe also has a similar requirement but I haven't checked.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
Yes agreed. It reminds me of the change a few years ago to remove radar (or was it ultrasonic?) from the FSD hardware to go vision only. Which they seem to be reversing again? https://www.extremetech.com/cars/341409-tesla-may-bring-back...
That's an anecdote. The GP comment indicated that they have seen this across an org, meaning more than a single sample.
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Well, many libertarians will state the rules of the free market as if they were physics law, but they are not. I think they're just post-fact invented laws to justify the ideology, but that's besides the point.

The law that "in a free market, the best product wins" has been beaten by profit-driven companies with billions at their disposal. Sure, you can have a better product. But maybe it's more profitable to have better marketing, or secondary sources of profit.

It's quite telling that VPN providers sponsor so many YouTube videos... Which require login to the biggest ad-driven company... Which will identify users by their login, no matter if they have a VPN or not!