skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily agree with your prediction, but I agree that we're still in a demo-ish phase for this new round of AI and it's likely that this hype cycle might fizzle out. However I think there are a few key differences this hype cycle around:

1. The generality of this current crop of models is much higher than before which makes it really easy for non-experts to get started. 2016 deep learning still required lots of data cleaning, training, hyperparameter tuning, retraining, etc. This can lead to a lot more experimentation with lower barrier to entry.

2. The cost of using these models has become cheap enough where a lot of tasks that 2016 AI would have worked well on but were too expensive (due to labor required to build the models or compute required to train the model) are now within reach for a lot of businesses.

3. The internet of 2023 is a lot more varied than the internet of 2016. Using ML models to generate content wouldn't have made sense in 2016 where traditional media still captured a lot of people's interests but now with the rise of influencers and medium-sized fandoms, there's large markets to generate content associated with medium-sized brands.
"They have all these useless little coins!!"

Said the swedes back then apparently completely forgetting about the 50 öre coins and the gigantic 5sek coins.
This comment is a rare case of an actually interesting and not so irrelevant spam link.
I put it on a couple devices in my home, namely a couple pikvms.

It was useful for sure when I left home for 3 weeks. During that time we lost power. My modem somehow dropped out of bridge mode and went into some type of routed mode, double batting me. My main vpn access was offline as a result. It gave me a secondary option to remote in and fix the double NaT issue as well as the pikvm allowing me to make sure a few ancillaries came up cleanly (mostly Pi-hole and dhcp).

I’m still a bit shaky about keeping it. But I had the forethought to set it up ahead of time and was glad I did. So much so I’m bringing a pi with tailscale down to my parents (I support their big house wifi setup and subsequently my mothers out of the home consulting business)
Use brave.
NASA should release a Kerbel Space Program mod with this engine.
Who said anything about making a profit? If Google could make Bard work as well as GPT-4 they would do it, even if it had to operate at a significant loss to start.
There's nothing special about the buildings - the same kind exist all over the country in large numbers.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn modern HTML/CSS?
I'm an experienced backend dev, but with minimal frontend chops. What are the best resources for learning serious modern css/html, ideally with lots of practice problems?

Tried googling this, but it's been SEO/content marketed into oblivion so I don't even know where to ask this question.
You are basicallt demanding that parents obtain prior permission from their offspring for them being born before conception. That isn't just unreasonable but impossible. When has it ever worked that way with any technology? That they would just get every last interest to agree on what technology would do and its applications?

Besides, a world where prior permission must be asked before doing anything which may cause a change is better known as a tyranny.
The $10 billion had a 7x cap right? I'm pretty sure the 100x cap was only for the initial investments.
Again, it’s simple. You can’t get scammed by an open source project. It’s akin to running a script off of github that gives you a dollar for every two you give it, and then playing victim when lose money. You had the choice to read through the code, you consented to the operation. The results of something you did to yourself are completely irrelevant, regardless of whether or not it worked in your favour.

If you actually get scammed by a proprietary and centralized entity like FTX, then go after FTX and not me. Stop defending the redistribution of consequences, my money is not your basic human right.
Personally, I think it seems like they were only able to achieve what they have due to transparently published research, and are now pulling up the ladder behind them by refusing to publish in the same fashion. I don't think that deserves immense respect.
Behringer has frequently cloned both out of production and in production music instruments and equipment. They are very controversial, some which is not helped by the company's CEO, who is the namesake of the company.

In the synth world, they have released out of production, extremely rare, and extremely expensive synthesizers. I think in most cases, they aren't necessarily copying so much as re-releasing because they are often products that the original manufacturer either refuses to or can't (in terms of lacking the engineering capability) re-release. And sometimes, the original company is not even around anymore. Behringer has its own chip manufacturing, which helps it achieve low costs. But they do also directly copy active and on the market products. These are much less justifiable.
There is no situation in America where you need to pay tax on a general invoice within two weeks of receiving payment.
Consumers maybe... Business pay for these things all the time.

Webex, Zoom, Teams, GoToMeeting, etc etc etc

Then if you add in other communications tools you can include many many other things businesses pay for
I don't want to hobble it at all. To the contrary, I hope the competition pulls their heads out of their asses.
That's even more disappointing to hear.
That only fixes things in a perverse "work to rule strike" sort of way.
This comment has the same energy as the infamous Dropbox comment on HN. Do you think no-coders and others in general are really going to build out their own implementation?

That said, companies like Intercom, Zendesk and other customer service companies are already starting to do this.
Hopefully with wasm, and combined with a new DOM at some point, we can have the situation on the web as we do with native code where we’re free to use any language we want. With fair competition I expect JS would slowly fade.
> SF isn't a hippy city anymore.

Right, and that's my point: the old timers resent the new wave. The hippies didn't give us the city, we took it from them.

The argument that sways me (as an oldtimer who misses the way it was) is that this is the way of it here: The Ohlone were savagely fucked over by the Spanish, who in turn were run out by the Americans, then the Gold Rush folk gave way eventually to the Beatniks, who then yielded to the Hippies, who have now been displaced by tech bros. Seen from that perspective, we're actually making fantastic progress, in the sense that each wave is less violent than the last, eh?
> the rich get richer (...) and the poor get poorer

It's always the same story. Can't we just make the economy more fair by saying that the wealth gap must at least be smaller than some value or else the rich will pay (taxes) to make it so?
It seems like the real breakthrough happened at google with “All you need is attention”
ARM purchase of arm2risv.com leaks pivot to RISC-V
It redirects to arm.com and they share a registrar [1, 2].

[1]: https://who.is/whois/arm2riscv.com

[2]: https://who.is/whois/arm.com
These AI chatbots on websites are beyond useless, and LLMs won't make them any better. When you go to the chat-based support interface on a website, it's usually because you've read the entire contents of the website and didn't find what you are looking for. Now you will just get a hallucinated answer, with no indication as to whether it's a human or AI you're talking to.
I said GPT, not ChatGPT. But you could give ChatGPT the article, and ask it how it’s manipulative. For example, ask it whether or not the article states that there was an agreement between the buyer and the woman to sell the goat back (something that several people here have said with confidence).

I suspect GPT could write a longer, more comprehensive article (given all of the same information the journalist had access to)… and it would lead to completely different conclusions.
35 minutes have passed, and I have received no DMs nor message requests. The result is inconclusive (since nobody seems to have interacted with this post). I will go to sleep for now, but will check back in 8h in case anyone sends me something.
If it doesn’t make a profit there’s no incentive to do it.
It seems like it's the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. We have the same problem here in Germany.

I am currently living in Munich to finish my CS Master's at TUM and build a startup, and it is absolutely impossible to find anything remotely affordable. I am supported by two startup scholarships and make enough to get by, but no landlord even gives me the chance in the first place after they see my income and plans. Right now I am paying 940€ for ~20sqm, and only because my mom co-signed my contract - which is incredibly humiliating as a 24 year old guy.

And even with high-paying jobs it's impossible to get anything remotely affordable. My girlfriend just finished her degree and makes 75k straight out of college and still gets rejected either for her financial situation or because the rental contract is already set to increase 8% each year - which we simply cannot afford. And it's not just Munich. Every city in Germany has this problem.

How the hell are we ever supposed to build up some savings, settle down and have a comfortable life? It really feels like being born 15 years too late for this.

Germany paid a lot for our education but offers us little reason to stay. We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of categories.

Sorry for the rant.
Right now is also a harder time to start a startup because of the interest rate hikes reducing available capital. It already impacted SVB's deposits (and caused the ensuing bank run)
If William Shatner can do it in his 80s, I'm pretty sure that a substantial fraction of the population can do it.

Don't get me wrong, Shatner has worked hard to keep himself in shape. And he didn't get to orbit. But if you keep in shape (and are rich or famous) it may be an option.
More like activists start the gaslight machine when people point out that a lot of the problem in SF is imported.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Honduran-Migrants-and-San-Francisco-D...

Here is the mayor apologizing for saying it. Not because it isn't true, but because you aren't supposed to say it out loud.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-20/san-fran...
“Becoming Steve Jobs” is a much better book than Isaacson’s lazy effort.

I wish someone would write more about Univacy, CDC, and Cray big iron. “A Few Good Men From Univac” and “Supermen” are fine books, but not exactly comprehensive the way the IBM 360/370 books are.
looks very neat, your effort shows. Look forward to feed it with some of my urls.
I'll pay attention to these things when they are open source instead of a service.
Billions seems weird for normal customers. Duplicity appears to put its chunks into 25MB files, I know for sure that restic puts them into 4MB or more recently 16MB files, and Borg looks like it puts them into 500MB files.
I mean they’ve literally said they are using a much smaller parameter model at first to while testing. you can not believe it if you want but that’s the very obvious answer.
check your email, let me know what you can find - thx!
Quoting a Reddit post from 6 years ago isn't super great: Behringer got A LOT better in the last 5 years to the point where they're now just a "you get what you pay for" cheaper alternatives to otherwise unaffordable gear.
Lots of people say this but very few have a concrete idea of what is needed to accomplish this. What taxes are the rich going to pay? Who among the rich? How does one define "rich?" Et cetera.
'Most U.S. banks are near insolvency, and hundreds insolvent,' Roubini says
You're right, I am.
There is more than just one issue. A voter doesn’t necessarily agree on everything with the person they voted for.
> Time measures change over space, a thing you witness firsthand when your yodel returns in echo from the mountain. If space did not change from point A to point B, there would be no distance, no coordinate system, and our yodel would not echo from anywhere.

I'm still not following what you mean. What is "space"? You claim it is real, in the same sense that a physical clock is real. Is it some kind of physical thing in the world? Is it the general idea that two objects can occupy different positions?

What does it even mean for "space" to "change"? Does it refer to the existence of different positions? Does it refer to the idea that a physical object can change which position it occupies? Why does the concept of distance depend on the existence of "change over space"? We can make the obvious observation of transmitting a sound to a distant object and receiving an echo back. But I don't see how to derive your concept of "change over space" from such an observation.

Further, why is "change over space" in particular the quantity that "time" measures? Normally, I'd think that "time" refers only to the intrinsic relationship between different events that allows us to place them in an ordered sequence. What does this necessarily have to do with "change over space"?
> They can totally do it and there is nothing people can do about it, so they don't even have to hide that much.

All the "theories" I've seen conveniently forget about China & India - the world's largest population by a long shot. How does these conspiracy of WEF impact them?

Until I see something that doesn't have a "me" complex as the main reasoning I'm going to dismiss it.
Gross. This isn't about whether the majority of underclass people in San Francisco are native Californians, but rather a case that crime in the US is the fault of Hondurans and El Salvadorans. More Hondurans end up in Texas than in California, but nobody is posting memes about how order has broken down in Houston.
How can you know about them if you'll never buy one, and I presume you don't have any?
I have all RPis minus the CMs, the Zeros and the 400, then I also have a bunch of Orange Pis and NanoPis, one old Hackberry A10, one Odroid C2 and a couple Beaglebones I just bought used and still have to find the use for (possibly network services because of eMMC better reliability compared to sdcard). I loved playing with all of them, including the RPis.
I however stopped buying Raspberries (except maybe the Pico which I find a lot more interesting than the bigger ones) because of both their insane pricing and that "alternative"[0] boards can do whatever I need, and if something doesn't work, which happens rarely, I'm pretty sure it can be sorted out by searching and trial+error.

[0] Industrial boards aside (PC104 et al.) which predate those boards by a decade at least, for people who were playing with stuff like the Foxboard LX832 [1] as soon as it was released (2006), the Raspberry Pi became later the alternative, not the other way around. Granted, the Etrax 100lx was slow as a dead sloth compared to the RPi1 BCM, RAM and storage were constrained, and no WiFi, but hey, it ran Linux! I sold them on Ebay long ago, but kept their super cool Tux shaped plastic case [2].

[1] https://www.acmesystems.it/FOXLX

[2] https://www.acmesystems.it/oldtux
I mean, Russia has a fairly large space program, is that surprising?
What Killed Signature Bank?
From the NASA Deep Space Communications Educator guide [1]:

> Deep space begins at approximately 42,000 km (26,098 mi) from Earth

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/ps-0343...
Just to add more details on TNs if anyone read this, the visa is locked to the sponsoring company but it's possible to hold multiple TNs at the same time. Took me a while to figure that out. It can raise an eyebrow when crossing the border as it isn't regular to have more than one visa.
No they didn’t. They predicted them, but there is very little reason to think that these things would not have existed but for these sci fi stories.

Anyone can have a take. The fact that they write a fun story about their take does not make their take any more valid than it originally was.
As a software developer who found myself elected to state level public office and had to spin-up my education around the legislative process and all of politics, I concur.

Their are only a couple of things I'd add.

As much knowledge as I brought in about technology and the idea of being aware of system thinking, I also brought in a great amount of ignorance about all the other areas that are legislated (healthcare, interplay between local, state, and fedearl issues, budgetary concerns, tax policy, banking, etc.). Good legislation is truly collaborative.

Sadly, for the second part, good legislation is rarer than it should be as much of legislation is about politics and perception of the voters. And voter perceptions are not necessarily logical or reasoned.

This makes it all the more important, IMHO, that everyone who is reasonable, logical, and educated spend their precious, valuable time involving themselves to advocate for elected officials who behave similar in what is essentially a zero-sum game.

p.s. Have faith. I saw enough during my time that gave me reason for that faith. (But that faith requires time and effort -- we don't get good government or democracy for free.) I'm glad to hear you're getting better.
By a trait being "beneficial" you mean that it prolongs the existence of some gene specifically, right? My understanding of evolution is that traits aren't necessarily beneficial to those who posses it in the colloquial sense. For example, animals that perish due to reproduction.

Also, isn't saying a trait exists so it must be beneficial a bit of an over simplification? Couldn't a relatively useless trait hypothetically exist due to genes that are also related to some other relatively useful trait? It seems like a stretch to say any lasting trait must be beneficial, unless you can isolate it from other traits on the genetic level or otherwise through analysis. Traits can also cease being beneficial as we can see from the countless species that have gone extinct.

Sorry if this seems like I'm ranting, but I just need more convincing that this rule of thumb makes sense, and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction if I'm off-base.
It not about the rate of immigration. If you immigrate a lot of high social economic status people then the amount of low social economic status citizen does not increase.

At the start of wars (or rather, the start of instability in a region) this actually occurs. The people who leave first is those with economical means to leave early, and those with higher education is generally those that tend to have an easier time to relocate successfully.

A other way to see this in economic terms is to look at the cities which took in a lot of immigrants. The first "wave" of immigrants did not increase the social costs that society had. It was only in the later waves that local budgets started to become strained from immigration and where the average tax revenue increase from immigration became significant less than the average increased costs per additional immigrant. An economic paper around 2017 tried and sadly failed to explain this in Swedish news, as it basically got labeled as being both anti and pro immigration.
The emergent behavior from this however is not that we get healthy competition, it's that the big guys have the money, connections, and understanding of the process to still do everything they want, while the little guys can't get off the ground and compete.

This is a necessary evil in the case of an industry like aviation where there's a massive and immediate risk to human life if you get it wrong.

If you see AGI as life threatening (in a physical sense) it's an understandable stance to take. However if AGI is threatening moreso in a social sense I don't think concentrating the power behind it is going to be a societal good.

I genuinely believe we as a society will get fucked by corporations for everything we can give if we don't either radically socially reform for incoming AGI, or have competitive open developments in the area not beholden to corporate interests.

For my money, the latter seems at least possible.
Interesting, must be the temperature settings and system prompt that ChatGPT provides.
Interesting. Thanks! Upon doing some searching it seems that the water at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is just 5% more dense. I didn't realize that water was that resistant to being compressed.
I didn't refer to morality. What I did do was point out that your reasoning was faulty given the facts.
The U.S. government defines deep space as anything beyond low-earth orbit. [1] Others vary. [2] The U.S. "Deep Space Network" was created because communications with low-earth orbit and beyond-LEO had very different requirements [3].

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space#Regions_near_the_E...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network#Deep_s...
Just don’t assume WiFi is a form of security.

My WiFi network is no different than a hotspot at a coffee shop, anything important lives in another VLAN and has tight access controls. Someone could get access to my network, and they’d have zero ability to do anything useful other than access the public Internet. This also protects against sketchy apps like TikTok and proprietary devices (like voice assistants).
I generally agree, but think there are some signals worth paying attention to.

I think the anti-AI crowd is concerned, because the very meaning of artwork and writing, two foundational elements of human creative expression and experiences, have been thrown into question and turmoil in just a matter of months.

Setting aside for a moment any hypothetical extinction-type concerns in the far future, I think there is a very understandable sentiment that is not borne of any doom mongering, but is based in the very real concerns, unknowns, and problems that have not yet been integrated or solved in the AI tech that is here right now.

I know that my personal feeling of unease stems from this deep concern that we've only barely started to grapple with the implications of generative AI, and it seems unwise to dive headfirst into net-new territory that is arguably far more treacherous.

It is Silicon Valley's default to move fast and break things. But when those things are the very foundations of culture and communication, the consequences of breaking things play out on a world-wide scale.

The geeks truly have inherited the earth, and hopefully we will not destroy it. If there was ever a moment to question our default intuitions about the importance of progress above all else, this would be that moment.

Yes, people need to bring their real-world concerns to the table, but it's also understandable that with the current pace of change, it's hard for anyone to get their arms around what those concerns are. In light of this, this needs to be an all-hands-on-deck kind of exploration. People should bring them, and practitioners should actively seek them out.
So what? If they own property that doesn't have anything to do with the country, it doesn't need maintaining roads and infrastructure (which is the tax is for in theory).

Real estate property based taxation has a long history of supporters as the most fair tax there is.
According to Reuters [1] in 2022 they projected $200 million revenue in 2023 and $1 billion revenue in 2024.

In 2019 they Planned to spend the then 1 bn funding within the next 5 years or so.

So I suppose they’re not far away from net zero at least.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/chatgpt-owner-openai-projec...
https://archive.is/jSe10
This is another article with more details: https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%...
There are just so many of these copycat services all doing the same thing.