skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The factory worker bemoans his station as the new automated smelter they're going to install may run him out of a job. Before he goes upstairs to commiserate with his spouse, he throws his dirty clothes in the washer, nary a care paid to the previous generation's neighbor children who used to make all their money washing other family's clothes for them.

(Probably not too much thought should be paid to the fact that when that economic system collapsed, we instituted allowances for children).
The M chips make for real bad developer experience when trying to support interoperability.

Lots of docker images and other virtualized software just can’t be emulated like it used to on them. We’re how many years in on this issue?

When most of your customers won’t be on a high priced Mac that’s a real issue and it forces businesses off the platform.
This is about those rental ones.

Are they replacing cars or are they replacing a walk or bike ride?
Yes. See the song "Happy Birthday" for an example: it only entered public domain a few years ago.
You can rent but not own one in London which is bizarre.
Random person on scooter they don’t own is safer to TFL.
As a non-chemist academic, it is fully beyond me how anyone churns out papers at a rate of one every three days. That is the rate he says he has even without relying on ChatGPT.

Is there a lot of overlap in the contribution that each of his individual papers make? Or are a lot of these replication studies, carried out by different teams in parallel, with him being a co-author on each of them? I'd be curious to read an academic chemist about how this is possible.
Answers from AI might not always be right and a human has to learn to judge them or refine their prompts accordingly. In either case there's a tool that a human must use and become savvy with.
Just wanted to give kudos to the community and Valve for just how great the gaming experience is on Linux right now.

Over the weekend I tried a game that had a native Linux build. Loads of bugs.

Switched to the windows one running under proton, no bugs.
> implications of designing / selling devices that people cannot afford.

luxury items tend to be the first to suffer drops in sales in the face of a recession. I dont think it's there's any implication other than that apple's sales are going to drop.

The point of the GP comment was to imply that the price is too high, and that it shouldn't have been, and the drop in sales was the fault of said high price. I'm countering it with the idea that as a luxury good, the drop in sales is totally expected in a recession.
What's wrong with your regular old bicycle? what problem these e-scooters solve than the more ecological bicycles don't?
There are three types of lies, as the saying goes: lies, damned lies, and statistics. But why are statistics considered lies?

Because of how they're used.

If you think of AI as a source of truth, obviously you're going to run into trouble: it "lies"! But if instead of thinking of it in isolation, you think of the person+AI producing results, then you should trust that person exactly as much as you would whether or not they use AI.
iPhones are close to 40% of the market in the Eu

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe

And Mac sales increased

https://appleworld.today/archives/101858?noamp=available
You're failing to account for the trajectory of this technology where AI easily produces content indistinguishable and superior to human content.

When such A I content becomes cheap and pervasive then AI will suddenly turn into a mirror to humanity. It will show us that "hand crafted" content is itself part of a bland and mechanical content generation algorithm.
The tech is also 2.5 years older, which should be taken j to account.
@ajross, money printing leads to inflation, not salary growth.
Shane McMahon did a similarly-nuts fall from a cage a few Wrestlemanias ago.
> be an ordering of "less wrong" on model-based knowledge.

I'm of the _opinion_ that this is the only way of knowledge itself: less wrong as time spent on understanding approaches infinity. Math and models are between language and tools, the fundamental essence is the same though.

Also, any predictive ability should ever be a side-effect, the core of inquiry is explanation. This is why a good-enough explanation of seasons on Earth is perfectly applicable to any other planet (in any solar system). And this is why ML models like AlphaGo are not helpful (you can't learn anything from them, including "how to be a better Go player").

In other words I stand with Deutsch, Popper and Everett on the interpretation of reality.
>if this was some kind of stunt pulled by the FCC, SpaceX can sue. but in reality, this was exactly by the book and SpaceX accepted it

Again wrong. SpaceX in fact has already appealed the decision to the full Commission. But the chairwoman can legally just sit on that petition for a very long time. And SpaceX can’t sue in court until the FCC makes a decision on that, since you have to exhaust administrative remedies before going to court.
Why should we listen to someone who cannot even spell "ChatGPT" right for opinions on AI?
Well it isn't happening today. Just spent 20 minutes of my life chasing a GPT hallucination. No doubt that it will be more accurate sometime in the future but right now I'm faster without it.
> No need to generate art assets or have anything resembling a game engine, just pure interactive "imagination".

In a way it's the death of imagination because the search space is limited to what has come before. Granted, large portions of the game industry have already given up on making anything really new.
Jimmy Kimmel's 117 nicknames for Trump:
https://youtu.be/lnvSKEdtbxA
https://youtu.be/m-UFsiy-dtM
https://youtu.be/WfYrJC-qaxI
I don't live in Paris but we have them in our small city in the US and they are a nuisance.

We're only a rather small < 60k population city with a ~200k population metro area, but we have a university and these scooters are everywhere. They're left on sidewalks, in parks, in the road. College kids fly by you going far faster than is appropriate. Life altering injuries from crashes have been reported.

There are numerous problems and it's not just the scooters, obviously, and I know I'm a curmudgeon. But I find these companies to be abusing the commons. The scooters are left everywhere because these companies have no parking or maintenance infrastructure and actively rely on users leaving them on sidewalks.
what i have been wondering is, no matter how fast the computer prints the names, how long does it take to read them?

if they can parallelize the task, assuming an average reading speed of 300 words per minute and the names having average english word length (5 characters per word), each monk reading for 16 hours per day, they would need 300 monks in order to read all names within 100 days.

so it seems manageable, even if we add some slack or assume longer names, but a faster computer would not help much.

more concerning is the printing speed. a dot-matrix printer in 1957 could print maybe 1500 characters per minute, and with the average word length of 5, that means one human could read everything as fast as the printer can print it. two or three people taking shifts around the clock would be enough to keep up.

so the limit is not people but printers, and in order to complete the task in 100 days a few hundred printers would be needed, because a single printer at that speed would still need 100 years to print all the names. computer displays would not help much, because you still need one display per person.
I'll have to check out the lite version, thanks for mentioning that. rpilocator.com is a helpful tool for finding Pis for sale, but unless you're willing to settle for the Zero 2W it can be a long wait to see a 4b or 3b on there.
You can rob banks too... doesn't make it legal.
This turned me vegetarian
Accounting firms don't use calculators that often. They mostly use "What number do you need from us to give you fantasized credit ratings to fool the taxpayers". Accounting firms would benefit greatly from biased AI.
The point was that the combined value of all these features are rarely matched in any other laptop in this price range. Superior speakers were just one of the things.
The pace is a key element of Tarkovskys style
Lots of people believe that not using physical discipline is ultimately harmful to kids. Their brains aren’t fully developed until age 25, so it can’t be assumed that children can learn proper behaviors entirely through reasoning.

The empirical evidence is mixed. The best behaved kids in the world are in east Asia, where physical discipline is still quite common. Physical discipline was widespread in the west during the very timeframe that contemporary civilizations developed. America as you know it today, with all its prosperity, was created by people who were spanked as children.
You can already fit something like 800,000 books on a 256 GB USB stick.

An LLM isn't going to be more effective.
keep in mind that at the time the FCC allowed them past the first round of RDOF, they did not know the price of the terminal since StarLink wasn't live. part of their complaint was that the user had to buy a $600 terminal with no subsidies.

this excludes a lot of the population outright since they don't have a payment plan for lower income users to afford it.

the FCC's letter says that they determined they could not deploy a system of the size they promised in the timeframe they promised. whether you agree with it or not, that assertion has been correct so far.
Yeah and it can actually reflect on itself and its mistakes when prompted, so I can see a fix like this coming soon. Sometimes just asking, Are you sure? is enough for it to apologize and say a part of its answer wasn't based in known fact.

Also another point while I'm here: Many many humans I've met are often confident when incorrect as well and can and will bullshit an answer when it suits their comfort.
It sounds like it could have worked with a little more Dev, a shame the source will never be opened it would be interesting to see it work.
In a weird way there's something more "human" about admitting the inhumanity, almost.
That's not what I said the Stochastic Parrot is arguing, I said people use the Stochastic Parrot argument to justify not doing it.
They are a trillion dollar company. I think they have their pricing and profit margins well in hand.
Adjust for inflation and exchange rate.
Very boxy, the lines and curves all just feel "off" somehow. It just lacks elegance. The previous Intel Mac was thinner and just felt more refined. Having a machine that works better is a fair trade, but it's unfortunate to have a negative emotional reaction to seeing/touching it.
I can't remember the blog but I read somewhere (IIRC) a e-scooter needs about 45 days to break even. So if 1 scooter can survive 2 months on the street it's a net profit.

Also, these things are ubiquitous enough that there is no demand and the internal parts are customized so that you can't break it down for resale. Early rideshare models were rebadged Ninebot and Xiaomi scooters. And you could replace the motherboard. They learned their lesson and almost everything is bespoke.
How I wished they just changed the .apply for adding progress and parallelization by default instead of resorting to tqdm & swifter/dask or what have you
Does it lie? Or just get things wrong sometimes?

Lying requires knowledge that what you are saying is not the truth, and usually there's a motive for doing so.

I don't think ChatGPT is there yet... or is it?
The 16/512 M2 model lists in the US website for $1300, not sure about the previous model but doesn't look the prices are that different
Safari is the new Internet Explorer. We need to face it.
I mean you are just throwing everything that the US does into one bucket called "US dollar hegemony" without discrimination. I'm not saying they don't leverage their dollar power I disagree that it "significantly abused their position" via the alphabet soup of complaints above.
@harishmaiyags, topic of interest, you can reach me
This is the longest I’ve ever gone without purchasing a Mac like 20 years... something like 7 years now. Their offerings aren’t compelling for the price. Apple should have a massive competitive advantage in price, but instead of passing that down in anyway they’ve been keeping it to themselves.

Additionally, while they kill it in perf per watt, sometimes I just want performance. Ex. their current GPUs don’t compare well to NVidia but the machines are priced like they do.

Machines used to get more base RAM over time but they don’t anymore. I’m shocked 16GB isn’t the standard on every machine they sell. It should be cheap to get to 32GB. The base SSD is absolutely shameful, Apple at the price should have a TB minimum. It’s fucking 2023 for godsakes, it’s been like 10+ years of fucking people for a useful amount of storage. Isn’t that enough?
> Also a big deal if you consider that most of them are the wealthier, smarter, more mobile parts of the population, which will exacerbate the brain-drain and impact the economy.

This a post-Covid era. Everything that is "smart and mobile" is also remote. Which means that physical relocation doesn't exactly imply brain drain, especially given that wealthier destinations such as the US or some parts of Europe are harder to reach then ever.
That's a disingenuous comment and you probably already know that.
> McDonald's profit grows as inflation-weary customers flock to its restaurants[1]

Yet another company with growing profits laying people off.

1 - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/31/mcdonalds-mcd-q4-2022-ea...
> mac air is a luxury item

8GB of Ram is luxury?

Rolls Royce is luxury. Luxury means status. A gold plated car is luxury ( for some). It's a whole different league.

Macbooks used to be premium - better performance, better experience. Limited storage is not premium.

If Porshe releases a car with 30 horsepower, and asks for £100,000, we have a word for that.

A joke.
> That's the spirit here and trying to argue around that with technicalities is disingenuous.

First, I am not a lawyer, but don't licenses exist precisely for their technicalities? This is not like a law on the books in which case we can consider the "Letter and Spirit of the law" because we know in what context in which it was written in/for. With a written license however, someone chooses to adopt a license and accepts those terms from an authorship point-of-view.
> it literally never lags no matter what or is ever unresponsive regardless of what i'm doing

That's more the OS scheduling and userspace software than actual hardware. I don't experience any lag even on my father's 10yr old laptop.
They are, but at the time there was so little content overall, that when I was done reading all the articles, I read all the ads, too.

Plus the signal value was much more real back then. If you could afford an ad (however small) in a real magazine with large distribution, you were legit.

Today if I see an ad it just means my filter bubble was shifted by some random youtube video I clicked on.
We shouldn't stop at that. If you actually try to apply your knowledge of “real shape of the Earth” to your regular activities (say, checking the ground level correction before making each step), you become thrice wrong. Confusing models of reality with reality is a sure way to get to the madhouse (I am sure there are stories about people thrilled to the core by the reality of being placed on a giant rotating ball instead of just the concept of the same). At the same time, it's something we all do each moment.
Making styles copyrightable would be insane.
That Time Terence Tao Won $500 From Paul Erdős (2015)
Yes, it is just a status symbol. It couldn’t have anything to do with its speed, 16 hour battery life, or it not sounding like a 747 the minute you open too many Chrome tabs.
ITT: angry people saying fellow brilliant hackers jart and ggerganov are actually not that smart. I'm surprised jart even keeps posting here when we're so hostile and toxic.
They could have used the cash to fix it !
FWIW, with only Chrome (several windows, multiple tabs, rebooted a few weeks ago) open I'm at:

Physical Memory: 32,00 GB

Memory Used: 21 GB

Cached Files: 10,45 GB

Swap Used: 0 GB
Pro wrestling is ballet. Simplest way to think about it.
> The companies that could implement scooter pens would lose marketshare to the ones that don't since a scooter on any corner is more convenient than a scooter stored more than a block away.

Make it a condition for operating in the city, just like being capped to 20 or 25kmh is an obligation.

Take a car parking space every x00m and make it a e-scooter parking space. That would solve a lot of the nuisance
I understand - but to use that as an example of a pattern of the US government significantly abusing their US dollar hegemony doesn't equate.
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> Regardless of the lawsuit, this seems like a quite spurious, self-serving argument in and of itself. If the “coordinates” of the image were not equivalent to the image, how would it be possible to fine tune the model on a set of images and recreate their style? This is setting aside the myriad examples where SD regurgitates fairly close copies of individual works.

This argument confuses an image and the style. The former is copyrightable, the latter is not.
My point is that copyright does not care about the means by which a work is generated. It is merely whether the output is substantially similar.

If a printing press randomly produces Hamlet, you cannot sell it. That does not mean you cannot generate something that is sellable without violating copyright by printing random words.

There is a small amount of attention paid to whether an artist knew of a work that someone claims was copied. Especially in the literary world with hacks who try to steal from successful authors with pathetic claims.

But they tend not to hold a lot of weight. It just makes it easier to dismiss trolls.

AI is a tool. It is not sentient. It is paint.
Yup, I skipped the previous gen. My last laptop was the Intel MBP. This one works so much better, so it's a fair trade, but unfortunate to have to trade so much form for function.
That was a lot of information compressed into a single sentence, but I think you hit the nail on its head. Most things I read about ChatGPT makes me think that most people don't understand what an LLM really is though and make assumptions on what it can do and what it 'understands'.
If I think in terms of rewarding open source contributors for the work they do, anything more than 10% (with that including credit card fees) feels extremely unfair, but if you think of it instead as providing effectively contractors for commercial projects that just happen to be open source, then higher percentages might be reasonable. I think it depends a lot on how you feel about what is happening.

Fairness is important. I've refused to use platforms because the cut seemed unfair before - it's one of the reasons I've had to stop buying kobo books through the android app- and I'm sure that's a common sentiment.
At the risk of getting downvotes...

Goodness, have mercy. I do not understand the point of clinging to a language as if it were an essential part of life. Although Sanskrit is considered a god-given language by Hindus, it is barely used today. Similarly, many other languages are in decline. If even a god-given language cannot prevent its own disappearance, why waste time on such nonsense?

If a language, in whatever form it may take, can communicate your thoughts and ideas to the listener, that should be sufficient.

It is often said that history is taught in schools to help people avoid repeating past mistakes. However, while people may learn to avoid certain mistakes, they often do not learn about the natural decay of things.
All of Japanese MMA descends from 80s/90s Japanese 'hard-style' pro wrestling.
BloombergGPT is trained on financial information - it's almost certainly for that side of the business, not the reporting side.
I use all three - Windows, Linux and macOS for work (and macOS and Windows for personal use). Last I had these problems with Linux was 2022. We don't use the more user focused Ubuntu/Fedora distros. We use RHEL/CentOS which still look like ages old even with their latest versions, and suffer from the same problems. I'd love to personally use Linux because it's much faster than Windows, but at the same time I'm talking about the lack of integration like you delete the file in the Terminal, and the 'built-in' File explorer doesn't get that news (even in 2022), the display drivers have problems every time IT updates the OS kernel (hardware acceleration stops working), every software that works on it looks again from pre-historic times and for any serious development work it causes more problems than it solves which is reflected in all the third party libraries that we use which have something or the other 'not supported' on Linux.
> You can't put that aside, because it's the entire point!

Sorry I didn't mean to imply it wasn't relevant, merely that I wanted to address one small sub-point of your comment.

> is communication, but it's not the kind of communication needed for web developers.

That's fair, but it's relative: a quick response with a commitment of work (if not of timelines) & active dialogue on debugging efforts (due to the complete lack of effort on the part of the reporter) is a LOT better than no commitment or response, or a "please provide more info" / "WONTFIX" / CNR. Which is much more common.

Particularly given I think a "please provide more info" would've been a perfectly reasonable response to the first report.
I’m not a fan of escooters, but the main advantage i see is that once folded they can easily be carried up to the office and put under a desk. And similarly they take very little space in a small flat if you don’t have a garage. Not really the case for a bike, even folding ones
Considering I've got 64GB in their first model (13.5 inch, 11th gen) I think we can safely assume the 16" model will support at least 32GB. No idea what screen resolution it will support though.
See;

They fell in love with AI bots. A software update broke their hearts : https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/replika...

Posted by wallflower 1 hour ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35423164
>Europe, except for Poland and the Baltics, does not seem to be too enthusiastic for this war.

Why do blatantly false statements about Europe keep getting upvoted on HN?

The European public overwhelmingly supports Ukraine and military aid to Ukraine:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20221205IP...
I can believe that, but I also have to take those claims with a grain of salt.

Aside from Taleb, I don't recognize any of the people who claim Fridman blocked them, so for all I know, they tweeted obnoxious stuff at him and then complained about being blocked. Taleb is extremely abrasive, so I can't fault anyone for blocking him.

If it was like Yann LeCun and Andrej Karpathy complaining that Lex blocked them, then I'd question how aggressively Fridman blocks people, but if it's random Twitter accounts that seem to just shitpost all day, why do they have a right to communicate with Fridman?
A quick skim shows a lot of quality of life improvements. Unless I am misreading, it looks like it is still a numpy backed by default. I thought one of the drivers for the 2.0 was to make Arrow the default.
this is another great one for teaching tech skills, specifically at high schools in lower income areas: https://codenation.org/
"Guns don't kill people. People who use guns kill people"
You can use SD models to draw portraits of people (or anime characters, say) based on their description.
I understand the frustration with low RAM Macs. I really do. I primarily work on a 32gb M1 Max.

But I bought a M2 Mini with base everything (8gb/256gb) and it is still absolutely killer for 99% of things. I do a lot of dev, gaming, and casual stuff. It plays WoW at 100fps, Dota, streams all my GFN games, and the swap is fine when doing web dev.