skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah! And there is definitely value in certain domains for having predictable performance.

On the other hand, giving up that control and designing languages where more automatic optimizations are possible also seems really great. A lot of programming shouldn’t be concerned with low level perf anymore.
> Police say it seems the suspected thief may have pulled out their own firearm.

If this is true, the owner didn't have much choice in the matter.
Doesn't appear to open up MV2 for new extensions, so if your favorite extension gets sold / goes rogue then alternatives may be crippled by MV3 as it exists today.
The Full Geoffrey Hinton CBS Interview
I've seen a couple of parts posted on twitter. Some of them felt like out of context. Linked is the full interview with better than expected questions from the interviewer.

The most interesting parts are:

10:49 – how object recognition works in layman’s terms
24:56 – how society should handle this new AI
30:52 – self-healing minefield proposed by the government
31:43 – how to create an effective autonomous solder and the alignment problem
33:12 – are large language models “just autocomplete”? Are humans “just autocomplete”?
38:15 – how big of a revolution is AI?
40:37 – is AI sentient?
He didn't. That sentence was a bit confusingly written but "co-founded" binds only to the second name.
Late 90s is too early and without digging in their financials I assume the early 2000s were lean for at least a time. I most associate them with being very vocal about cloud quite early on as SaaS actually appealed to quite a few companies as opposed to application service providers of the dot-com era.
Google reader had to die, so the inoreader could thrive. It is so good.
No, I mean anyone. Again, I’m pretty anti-cert, but I make an exception for cloud
Those 400 startups are gradual investments. They didn't all happen overnight. If you have really early access to some very promising startups you don't need a shitton of money to invest in them.
was this whole post just SEO?
Yay! Thanks @wslh
People make choices all the time about how much they value their life and safety versus other concerns - what you spend on medical procedures, dangerous activities, drinking, travel, etc. It's simply not for the officer to make a moral judgment about whether citizens should or should not risk their lives over their property. I would instead ask the office to comment something like "This highlights the risk of..." It should up to the involved citizens whether they want to run the risks or not.
This is incidentally the entire reason the police was invented thousands of years ago
>has been evolved by other organisms

Like, a human?
Yep "Limited Hangouts" are a common disinfo technique
> The built-in speakers are pretty much what you would expect from 2002, pretty much no bass to them, very much akin to average laptop speakers at the time.

Average laptop speakers have no bass today; I have no idea what this person is on about.
I would imagine it is the extreme pressure. At that kind of depth you either need a really strong body and small surface area (tiny crustacean) or a gelatinous body where that doesn’t matter (snailfish). Those are probably disadvantageous at lower pressure environments. (I’m curious how molting would work at high pressures though, since the crustacean would lose its shell.)

as far as blindness, there’s not really visible sunlight reaching there, so sight probably doesn’t do a lot, and eyeballs are squishy.
> Bitcoin’s negative impact on the world is 1/10th that of freon.

the difference is freon did something useful
"Just like... Crypto and NFT..."

Seriously? These are comparable things?

A lot of people point out problems with crypto in their early days. Most people say NFTs are a scam since day 1. And they have those problems and are a scam. Generative AI, on the other hand, has been proven to provide real value, and will only get better. And I don't know what "failed promises" you are talking about -- NFTs were doomed the first day they appear and we already knew all the hype was fake, while nobody has actually "promised" what generative AIs can do, most are still speculations at this point.
Will be there jobs for early-career engineers? I have skills in Rust and a lot of interest in working on this project, but I only have one year of experience
That's like saying Americans love working at McDonald's and Walmart because they are America's largest employers.

Americans not liking public transportation, and not willing to fund public transportation are two different things.
By now, there is at least one other organism that can detect and act upon the signal. If farmers applies knowledge about this signal to improve their yields, plants may be selected for their ability to emit sounds under stress.
> Time is not real, it is a measurement. Space is real.

In what particular way is space real that time is not?

> Einstein's times is a quantum model of change over space, but really only proves that where you stand is relative to where I stand, and our relativity changes if we move through space.

I think you might have misinterpreted the vocabulary: in the "principle of relativity", the word "relativity" refers to the relation between two coordinate systems, not the relation between two points in space.

> As I have just proven, Einstein's relativity is really a confabulation of what is obvious, resulting in people getting lost in that model universe.

All you have done is made assertions, without evidence or reasoning. You can certainly do that, but how is it supposed to prove anything? What is the argument?
Then what do we say about the AI utopians and brazenly post-humanist machine idolaters who are in favor of doing whatever a glorified random number generator says? I don't appreciate being gaslit by technophiles, there is a reason why average people are starting to get real sick of this shtick.
It's interesting how all it takes is the right bag of numbers (the weights of gpt) and the entire economy can be upended
Huh, last time I checked it it gave me a message about how that was “offensive to Christians”. I’ll have to check it out again
What’s amazing is the BTC price didn’t hiccup at all and continues its 2023 bull run. That proves the markets are deep and liquid, and selling 0.04% of the market cap OTC doesn’t cause a blip.
> Hyderabad existed as a politically and culturally separate entity

The only culturally separate population I know of on earth anymore are the Sentinelese on the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Hyderabad's name itself is Arabic+Persian, and compared to India overall, far more people speak English there. It was a regional capital of South Asia. Cosmopolitan places like that are always cultural crossroads. Practically everyone/everyplace is a mutt, culturally and biologically, the world over, except perhaps the Sentinelese.
From 10% to 35% is a 25% improvement, you're still at 35%... From 70 to 95% is a 25% improvement, but it's a lot more. Going from 98 to 99% is only 1% but also like really a 10x improvment.

Rockets are operating at pretty decent efficiency, 25% improvment on an internal combusion engine would be mind blowing and make EVs way less interetsting.

There are theoretical maximum efficencies for various types of engines due to thermodynamics. You always lose energy to heat. Entropy is a b**.
There is also the substantial effectiveness of propaganda, and the fact that it is essentially impossible to know if one's beliefs/"facts" have been conditioned by it.

That most discussions on such matters typically devolve rapidly into the regurgitation of unsound memes doesn't help matters much either.
Feels slow in old computers with 4GB and Chrome has a better built-in for freeing up memory from inactive tabs.
For basic repositories yes, Gitea [1], gitosis [2], gitolite [3], self hosted Gitlab, or just plain ol git over SSH. Otherwise no, not for all the work-flows and CI/CD integrations. Gitlab is not free and may or may not cover your integration use-cases but there would need to be more details in your question. I am most familiar with gitosis.

[1] - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

[2] - https://github.com/tv42/gitosis # some Linux repos contain this as a prebuilt package.

[3] - https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html#installsetup # Also contained in some Linux package managers
This, 1000 times. There is only one thing a monopoly holder is afraid of - losing the monopoly.
Show HN: Ping Rfc6921.net (April Fools')
A server that replies to your pings faster than ever! Give it a minute and the response time will go down tremendously.

Works best on MacOS and FreeBSD.

On Windows the result is boring and you need to add an option not to stop after 4 pings:

ping -t rfc6921.net
> Of the 147 predictions, Kurzweil claimed that 115 were "entirely correct", 12 were "essentially correct", 17 were "partially correct", and only 3 were "wrong". Combining the "entirely" and "essentially" correct, Kurzweil's claimed accuracy rate comes to 86%.

Lol I mean, those are the numbers Ray himself has decreed correct…
All the raspberry pi alternatives have some really Achilles heel software problems where they don't properly support everything the raspberry pi does. I will never buy one just because I want to run software on these computers and 90% of the time the thing I want to just doesn't support these things natively.
AMD's numbering scheme is probably the biggest reason I've bought a lot more Nvidia cards. It's just less work to figure out what I'm getting.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Many of them probably do contemplate it. Aware that since AI is a sea change, there's difficulty predicting the full range of first-order consequences, much less all the resulting second-order ones.

But... genie, bottle; prisoner's dilemma. If they object to what they're building, or how it's implemented, too strenuously, they will be out of a job. Then not only do they have more immediate concerns about sustaining themselves, they have no weight in how things play out.
I second Playwright, it's amazing.
Ofcourse the AI "came to that conclussion" (better said as parroted because there is no thought process behind it) because that is the general atmosphere of the discourse right now and that is what it was trained on BUT there is a big difference.
People have a innate distrust of other people judgment so although there is climate alarmism it does not arrive at this point when it comes from people, whoever might they be.

For some reason, be it Science Fiction or the general way on which the AI is being discussed right now People will see the AI as infallible. This view has played the main role in this case. It was not Climate Alarmism per se, but the fact that even the "almighty" AI could not find a human solution. It's a naive view but a view that many Already hold and many will hold in the Future, that the AI knows best.
Here is a much more realistic example: https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1641806556038676481

In general, the argument "All the examples how AI would overpower us are way too exotic for my taste" is like one chimpanzee complaining to another chimpanzee "Your example how humans would overpower us is totally implausible and not worth taking seriously." The mistake is that both have not the intelligence to invent or understand a realistic example, but that is not at all evidence that humans can't overpower chimpanzees.
It ends with him saying his ultimate goal is to funnel the worlds wealth into a non profit, then redistribute it. Kind of terrifying that the future of the world relies on one guy, basically.

I wonder if in his contracts with microsoft, there's a clause saying openAI will never go open source.
>AI can also completely liberate all of us

From what exactly? What it means to be human? When we are 'liberated' will we not then be subject to the cage of a machine worse than the one we left? We will not annihilate ourselves for a false promise.
> after claiming that software engineers contribute nothing to society.

Frankly, what in god's name are you talking about?
IANAL lawyer, but Texas codifies lethal force in defense of property.

In theory, if the thief was trying to drive away in the truck, the owner had authority to shoot them to stop them from driving away. Obviously I don't know the circumstances in this case. But the use of lethal force in defense of property, I can't say it's unique to Texas, I believe it's uncommon nationally.
Hector had no problem spreading salacious rumours about Richard Stallman a couple of years back.

He loudly supported a hateful and slanderous campaign that resulted in RMS having to step down from the FSF.

Now he comes along and for whatever reason he's decided to adopt this weird hentai alter ego, which is very obviously him... but for some reason we're not allowed to mention it - because? ...actually I have no idea why.

But he certainly doesn't mind dealing in rumours when it's against people he decides deserve it.
Are you kidding? He had one startup that was more or less a flop, then for some reason was appointed to a high position at y combinator, got lucky allocating capital (plenty of idiots can and have gotten lucky or were at the right place at the right time) and now is the CEO of OpenAI. This man is the definition of it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, and that’s not a good thing.
Haven't seen well-though-out information density like this in a minute
This should be good for making some of Raph’s libraries available to more serious game/application programmers. He’s been around for a while so he won’t make silly mistakes which means, given the difference in the number of RUST and C++ CVEs, the library will probably be safer. Not to mention faster because of the rewrite and better compilers.
There is no backwards compatibility with popular programming languages. Syntax, dependencies, documentation etc changes so fast, that when I tried to get some simple example working, there were not any working examples at:

1) Official documentation

2) Official source code

3) Google search

4) ChatGPT4

So I feel, that to get anything done, I need to find those programming languages where syntax did not change, and that have existing documentation and books, with examples that still work, and where reading syntax does not require mind bending to impossible shapes.

I did not read that article as being a joke. It got me more interested about C++, that is refreshing.
But will likely be plagued with performance degrading ads.
I think you're on to something here. It might be both safe and convenient to use git with Dropbox iff you create a bare git repo that is not in a Dropbox folder, and then specify a separate worktree that is in a Dropbox folder. That might give you the best of both worlds, but I haven't tested the idea.
> 1. Yes, Putin saw that Ukrainians don't want to integrate with Russia and that Ukraine is escaping the Moscovian sphere of influence so he decided to invade Ukraine, taking over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainians voted that government into power though. Doesn't violently overthrowing the government go against the whole idea of democracy? Not to mention being illegal. But you're cool with that because of the result?

> 2. Yes, my personal opinion is that Crimea could at least have a special status as most people living there are Russians. But it should have been done in a completely different way

And then here where they actually did vote democratically, you don't support it because you wish it had been done a different way?

To sum up, you support violently overthrowing the democratically government in Ukraine, but don't support a democratic referendum in Crimea. Well, that's certainly a position to take.
Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Transform into Cancer Stem Cells
In general governments have done far more harm to individuals than anyone in the market. The job of the government is to protect your individual rights not the collective interest.
Potato, tomato, chili. https://contingentmagazine.org/2020/06/25/curry-before-colum...
Your hyperbolic dismissal in the face of the existing usefulness of these models is kinda sad, if understandable. I mean, I get it, it’s kinda terrifying, and that can easily manifest as the kind of overly confident dismissal that you’re demonstrating here. But it just doesn’t match reality. I’ve been building software for 25 years, across multiple platforms and every kind of organization under the sun, and I’m using GPT4 to extreme usefulness right now, as are many others. And we’re just scratching the surface.

But by all means, continue to emphatically insist that LLMs have not demonstrated usefulness, or that they’ll never be able to “program on their own”.
When police say they don’t have resources to take property crime seriously, why are they astonished when people take getting their property back into their own hands? The police/society should put up to shut up, though I guess in this case they are concerned about the property crime victim’s safety, which is completely reasonable.
In my opinion, this book is his most underrated book. It's very funny, highly recommend!
Steve Jobs book initiated by his wife Laurene
Sorry about the paywall. Here
are some excerpts:

«But Laurene Powell Jobs wanted people to be able to directly hear her husband of 20 years. “He has been written about, but this is actually his writing and his work,” she said. “So there’s no intermediary.”»

«The idea for the book grew out of an initial 40-page pamphlet that the group behind the archive, led by Silicon Valley historian Leslie Berlin, mocked up in 2017. As they kept adding items, especially photos, it grew into a book of about 250 pages.»

«The book’s material, ordered chronologically, focuses on Jobs’s inner thoughts, philosophies and mantras more than his business decisions or how he became one of the preeminent corporate leaders of his time.»

«In contrast with all his time in the public eye, Jobs’s emails to himself are a mental version of dancing like no one is watching.»
"The only thing stupider than thinking something will happen because it is depicted in science fiction is thinking something will not happen because it is depicted in science fiction."

https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/position-statement-on-...
This comes up in the discussion of if its worth attaching air-tags to bikes. You can locate it, but the police (typically) won't act and is it worth risking your life confronting the thieves. Going in armed when the new "owners" might have just bought it stollen.
But what if you flip the coin? What if the person being asked really, really thinks that the other person is a pissface, and is a big stickler for calling people he perceives to be pissfaces as such? Surely we can all agree that allowing them to follow their ideas will lead to bad discourse.

And it doesn't even have to be such a crass example. What if a person is legally called Robert, but he's gone by Bob his whole life - is the stickler right if they insist on calling them by their legally given name?
"These resources can no longer be foraged like in the days of old" - Why not?

The markets" and all that - it's artifice. Artifice to keep you busy. The scarcity is manufactured to keep you from realizing there is plenty and most people shouldn't be working.
GPT4 Produces Misinformation More Frequently and More Persuasively
> regardless of age.

that is the entire point. The parent I was replying to was specifically stunting our discussion because of "age"
But why so much space... Why no high parking garages, or deep underground ones.
ofcourse but then you still must have some principles and be as loud about how naive you were as you were when you were protesting the thing in the first place.
Interesting, this is a Muslim man, using a Sikh name (singh) to mock Indian gurus. I wonder what the uptake would be if he was mocking Muslim leaders.
That etymology is probably wrong. I posit - it comes from 'Kant/rikkuka' means to cut and cook. Kari vs KaRi.
One anecdotal example: I gave ChatGPT 4 some prompts to write a shader to generate a signed distance field based on specific requirements. Within half an hour I had a working result. It solved a specific problem I was having that would have otherwise required in-depth research or finding an expert in two niche areas.
The Atlantic: A note to the staff about AI
I believe the price of Bitcoin is completely fixed by the exchanges themselves, so it doesn’t surprise me.
MV2 background pages were already by default in a mode where they are suspended when not in use. MV3 doesn't improve on that except to make it impossible to have persistent background pages.
I am being serious.

You're describing a highly proscribed area of city governance.

Radical left politics generally involves much larger issues, chiefly relating to economic and power relationships between different groups with a society. At least. What's going on in SF has essentially nothing to do with that at all.
> How are people not up in arms about this?

they will be once they realise

> This guy has lost his fucking mind and needs to be stopped.

I agree, hopefully via regulation

otherwise the 21st century luddites will
If people are considering doing this either camp after sunset and be gone before sunrise or knock on the farmhouse and ask if you can camp in the corner of a field in their land. 99% of people will say yes and appreciate you asking (you might get some free food out of it too!), and the 1% who do care will be pissed if they find you which you want to avoid anyway.
You are demanding "believable science" from a chimpanzee of how humans would overpower them. Do you not recognize the enormous difference intelligence makes? And there does not seem to be a hard constraint of how much more intelligent than a human an AI could become. Their brains are not tightly restricted by size and energy. The difference could be much greater than between chimpanzee and human.
Kodi kura was the exact example that popped into my mind. Kura is a cognate/derivative from some Dravidian root similar to Kari/Curry (I believe Malayalam and Tamil use the kari form)
>Basically a paperclip maximizer, but instead of maximizing paperclips it’s maximizing it’s intelligence and control of the world’s computers, with no thought to the survival of homo sapiens other than if it serves its mission to propagate itself.

It's worth also pointing out that there are people who have openly stated their intent to build something like this and worship it.
What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
That was my first thought. Maybe there are personal photos or messages that someone would like a copy of on it.
How much money is openai making from chatgpt premium now? How much revenue are they they making from the api?
Depends on the customer I guess. For me I'll always choose AMD for its bulletproof Linux support.
Given there are thousands of spot markets I find it absurdly unlikely that a cartel could fix the price let alone keep such a conspiracy secret.
Not sure about that, works for me just fine on many (even old) computers. But even if it was true, I prefer keeping the number of open tabs below 100 if that means not running browser made by an advertising agency. Talk about conflict of interests...
you have it backwards, money is needed for war. This is a very old thing.
That's just quibbling over what "your individual rights" are; where does the line get drawn between "exercising my right" and "having my rights infringed on by the actions of another." There is no shortage of harm done by "anyone in the market" today, whether it's currently illegal and we call it "crime" instead of just a person exercising their freedom, or whether it's harm that isn't regulated today.
Literally impossible.