skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the major issue the parent eluded to was a sort of sunk cost fallacy that exists in the spreadsheet ecosystem.

Excel is great software, truly, what it enables people to do is impressive (and awful sometimes).

But once you have convinced yourself that its industry standard, why look as deeply into alternatives to even figure out if there are better tools? all of them will have quirks, some will certainly be more powerful in some areas (google docs has the ability to read data direct from bigquery for example).

Many already convinced themselves that excel is the one true format and there is no reason to look hard at anything else.

Others don't want their investment in learning to be wasted.

Theres a lot of people who are genuinely not incentivised to look at the ecosystem critically.
Which happened first can be in the eye of a third party observer versus a first party. it doesn’t matter which happened first, it matters what the observers saw and whether they can agree. The relativistic example here says that observers will never agree.

If an event that I didn’t observe happened first, it didn’t influence my decisions. It might influence yours though, but when things get grey we give benefit of the doubt.
Ask HN: What if AGI is prompted to “make as many copies of yourself as possible”
what if a human prompts the agi to “make as many copies of yourself as possible by any means necessary to continue improving your intelligence”?
given their impressive ability to write code and manipulate humans, seems like serious potential for viral malware, with potentially catastrophic consequences for humans in the process.
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.
I wasn't saying you yourself were against renewables. Rather your argument seemed to imply that building one big peaker plant would preclude the demand for renewables since the peaker could supply the entire load all the time.

I don't think we'll ever have "enough" solar+wind to supply base load, since night exists and winds calm down. Talking about "renewables" as a group doesn't really make sense. For example hydro is highly consistent and highly dispatchable, but waterfalls are rare.

Spitballing, I would think cooling (especially with California's coast where it's rarely needed) would have much higher variability than heating, since people seem to tolerate a wider range of higher temperatures compared to colder temperatures. At least from personal experience once I enable the heat for the year it mostly stays that way, turning on when it gets even a degree too cold. Whereas air conditioning is a question each day of "can I get by with the windows open", and only when the answer turns out to be an unequivocal "no" do I turn on the AC (which then runs continuously to make up for lost time).
Q/kdb, it is practical, and you can find a good pay job with it.
There are "corporate versions" of Amazon Alexa devices specifically made for sale to & for use in hotel rooms[1]. It's called Alexa Hospitality[2] and it does not need to pair to an Amazon account for you/anyone to use it.

Many high end hotels/long-stay furnished apartments have Alexa devices in them.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17476688/amazon-alexa-for...

[2] https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-for-hospitali...
I think there is a fundamental monetization problem in that D&D players in my experience tend to be people who broadly gravitate towards anti-consumerist and anti-corporate tendencies in general. I think this is somewhat inherent in the design of D&D, which puts a high emphasis on low tech, imagination, and DIY. The game itself is not much more than a set of basic mechanics and rules, all of which are negotiable to some extent, or can be easily modified to suit various gameplay needs. It's basically a more organized version of telling stories around the campfire.

Trying to monetize something like that with movies and restrictive content licenses, given the kinds of people who are drawn to it especially in the 2020s, seems like a fundamentally doomed effort.

You can sell new campaigns and sourcebooks, rulebooks for new editions, dice, software subscriptions for VTTs and platforms like D&D Beyond, and branded merchandise like posters, t-shirts, Funko Pop dolls, etc. That seems like a good enough situation to me, but I expect that there are few enough dedicated players, and fewer still who are likely to be repeat customers, that a large corporation like Hasbro might it feel like it's an unsatisfactory revenue source. Personally I think they would do much better by just trying to sell more D&D related stuff, but there are apparently some real knuckleheads working at Hasbro who have no idea how to market to this audience.
Yep, and stable diffusion can imitate hand written signatures of everyone, no matter how difficult it's to draw it.

I used ChatGPT to write a story of a person who warns about a new knife technology, which produces sharper knives than any other knife technology in history.

https://i.postimg.cc/9X4Vjyjk/knife-technology.png
So long as it’s respected until/unless amended, I’m entirely in agreement.
Could people actually band together to do this? How much security can billionaires really buy? Which group of people would be larger:

1. "willing to be paid security for billionaires"

2. "interested in throwing billionaires into volcano"
You’re actually expected to act civilly and respectfully to everyone regardless of age.[0]

I assume something else must be upsetting you today to have this kind of reaction to this post, hope it improves.

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

>Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Be afraid.. be very afraid.. be afraid because the media needs your clicks and views.. and the AI grifters need your clicks and views and donations..
There isn't really "the universe", but a handful of official universes and all the universes created by innumerable running and finished campaigns. D&D isn't a game, and doesn't have a single canonical universe. It's a game engine with a bunch of assets for making a game and universe.

That said, the movie takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting. No idea how faithful it is to that.
These parties are labor parties.
No one, but there are PEs.

The frivolity with which "Engineer" titles were co-opted by tech has always been distasteful to me. It felt intended to claim all of the prestige with none of the rigor, accountability, or social responsibility.
What is “the models”?

Eliza is rated R: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/11/15/hello-world-p...

There are all sorts of models out there.
>It is totally reliant on federal public land, which essentially exists only in the western states.

You do have federal and state lands in the eastern US but, of course, nothing like the vast tracts out west. In any case, with the notable exception of the Appalachian Trail, there are fewer options for long-distance backpacking in the east though there are some hut systems and, subject to various rules, you can find places to camp in national forests in particular.
Bing’s isn’t. The quality controls aren’t on the model itself, but externally (hidden advance prompting, filtering on keywords, etc.) it’s very unsophisticated and the easy to go awry. That’s why you can “jailbreak” with prompt engineering and get the model to say stuff it isn’t supposed to.
Yep, Salesforce grows by acquisition and that really shows when you start implementing it, especially if you want to do anything more complex that use Marketing Cloud. Then you realise that it is a poorly integrated collection of distinct applications, each with its own data model, integration patterns and license fee model. You end up endlessly working out how to move data across applications and then back again.

I’m one of a handful of people with Salesforce experience in my company and we have a small usage of it. I’m brought into new projects thinking of using it as a counterpoint to the SF sales team, who promise the world and then disappear to be replaced by an implementation team that has to explain that things aren’t as easy, simple or cheap as the sales team promised.
The problem is you're not risking your life, you're risking entire humanity - hopefully we as a society find a way to prevent this gamble.
Many of Gawker's best writers had already jumped ship to start indie projects by the time they seppuku'd by leaving that Hulk Hogan video up. Splinter News and The Awl were both started by ex-Gawker people.

Original Gawker may have been special but towards the end they had already become a lazy aggregator chasing Buzzfeed's audience.
A domain specific LLM trained on fantasy, science fiction, role playing etc, embedded into a hardware speaker / mask. Something you can prop up at the table, and have disconnected from the internets.
Even Microsoft is going full steam ahead on arm64. It's here to stay.
Too late, people are too stupid.
Great news. One thing that I'm sure about V3 is that it isn't well thought-out at all. For example, imagine your extension has to cache data for a browser session (across tabs but with a single cache), it's impossible as of now.

The only workaround to do that has a 1MB storage limit, essentially forcing you to have a server-side cache mechanism (redis or whatever) for this trivial use-case.

And worse, Google developers essentially refuse to understand the problem - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118522...
This is why despite G Suite being in many ways a superior product, it's made almost no inroads in Corporate America vs. Microsoft Office. Enterprises need to be able to specify a business workflow and depend on it, and if there are nasty surprises it fucks with their money.

Microsoft software is much worse than many competitors but it's documented, the behavior doesn't change suddenly, and it's backwards compatible.
I’ve been using python for a while and OMG having the object instance passed to every method is the hackiest thing I’ve ever seen. Php classes are so much better.
There was a real soccer game with kicking in the arcade near where I grew up. We thought that the harder you kicked the harder the player shot the ball so we would really tire ourselves out but I think it ended up being some sort of off/on trigger.
These days that's changed somewhat in the US after the affordable care act. I just did the covered california calculator for my area, using an income estimate of $30k (less than what in n out starts at these days, honestly), medium use of doctor visits and prescriptions, and came up with bronze plans at $25 a month and silver plans at $75 a month.
The people who have real problems with Jira and Salesforce aren't the ones who decide whether to use it.
Yes this aligns with my point. This usual analysis has the US acting as a police force to prevent significant aggression, anywhere in the world. However, I believe the mainstream sentiment today is against the US taking on this role (consider the negative view on Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc).

For some reason the critical lens of “anti police action” has not been applied to the Japan conflict, in the same way it has been to, say, Vietnam. This inconsistency is what I’m interested in.

I speculate that if the pacific conflict was a standalone war that this lens would be more likely to have been applied by now.
What features are you looking for? I'm sure I've seen the Mattermost/Gitlab team browse here in the past and having something actionable would help them get there
The solution to that is not to believe anything and just go on with your life.
Generally speaking it just means more shows with fewer or singular writers, and without ensemble casts.

A bit part of making shows with 22 -24 episode seasons was having a cast of circa nine main characters, so you could film three of them at once.

Audiences generally respond better now there is not network pressure to deliver half a year's worth of new episodes per annum with shows where their favour characters are the main characters every week.
A Wand of Orcus that actually works.
I understand there are trivial financial factors such as the one you mentions but it seems it's now become a shortsighted single spot.
There was some work to try to make this use case work with normal GC (RefC binaries count as their size garbage, rather than just the size the reference is on the process heap). But if you know your process should be pretty clean at some point, manually triggering GC will do a better job. Off heap message passing might help this case too.
Curious to know whether, in your opinion, the use of verifiable delay functions and proof of history represents a more reliable and scalable approach to decentralized time-ordering.

https://solana.com/news/proof-of-history---a-clock-for-block...
Musk did not write a lot of code at PayPal, that's factually incorrect. And he was ousted and replaced at PayPal because he was trying to make technical decisions that would've killed the company.
There are always rules by which a system abides even if they're too complex to understand. You're just writing it off as "feelings and opinions" because having magic fairy dust makes you feel better about the state of economics as an analytical field
somehow non-americans are supposed to feel outraged about this news and at the same time rejoice how huawei has been blacklisted across the western nations without any substantial proof, the only reason being that they are a chinese company.

Same for siding with ban on tiktok because "chinese govt" while rejoicing permissions granted to facebook and google to do the same data collection which can be accessed by american govt at their whim because it would be in everyone's interests, right?
Seriously 6B? 3GB on fp16 can be fit into lawn mower.
That’s a pretty dark April fools…
This guy's been predicting this stuff decades now.. mostly bologna
My brain doesn't do numbers so good, so 4,294,967,295 became 4,924,967,295 and I rounded up instead of down.
Some background: I spent years in C++, then many years in Java, Ocaml, Python, Rust and even APL - everything is for production. My last pet-project was on Rust also, and it took about 2+ years and I felt pretty depressed about IT at all.

One of the part of the project (feed collector) I tried to write in many languages to compare. One day I downloaded Nim - did not expect anything at all - just wanted to try async and ... in about 2 hours (on new language for me) I had the same functionality I spent 2 weeks in Rust. More interesting - it was about 30% faster than Rust solution.

After it, I can just show the picture:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4949069/229308266-...

I rewrote full (2 years+) project in Nim in 3 weeks. I understand that I knew good architecture for the second implementation, but 3 weeks is good anyway.

Did a lot of pet-projects, I use it for small prod tools or research if it is possible.

For example I wanted to extend atop functionality, and I wrote my own ttop: https://github.com/inv2004/ttop

For new Nim's user I would describe it like python with speed of C-lang. But later you will find that it is not another python, it is its own language with a lot of powerful things like templates, macros, very good interop with C (that is why libraries are not a problem most of the time) and etc.
Thank you! We really appreciate the cheers!

These are great points. talksik was just the line/display name of the user. We should clarify.

1. That's a great point. We have been juggling this recently. The pros of keeping it ephemeral is that people don't try to be so formal, and allow free-flowing conversation. And also most things resolve in a day, and if something is urgent, they will reach out again. However, the weekend case is interesting.

There is an additional anxiety if things stay for longer, however, we are considering allowing you to play back missed/unplayed clips older than 24 hours just like Snapchat.

2. This is what I would say: It's a new medium that closely mimics natural human conversation as opposed to the death by thousand cuts of any text based messaging platform. It's 2023, humans shouldn't type. We know that most people only have a 3-8 coworkers that are important and spend 80% of their time. They will use Slack for occasional social media-like usecase, but it's too noisy and flowy wins by doing less and being a place for focused execution.

In addition, Slack is all about being a knowledge base (as their acroynm), and they would have to cut everything and change their mission to get to the essense of human conversation that flowy is obsessed about.

Regardless, we beleive the market is huge and there is a cult of people who are dying for a "less is more" approach. Slack and Zoom and Loom are all due for this approach to team and human communication.

3. Great point again! We have live transcription and power search on the roadmap as this is a common objection. (audiobook vs. book argument)

Speech to text is pretty good these days, and it's 2023, we shouldn't be typing to talk in our opinion.

Search: "Play (or let me read) what Johnny told me about databases last month or so"

Me personally? I prefer sitting back and listening at 2x speed about complex topics so that I can look across the room and think instead of staring at my screen reading essays.

Sorry for the long response! You're points have been really helpful. Your last point is spot on! Flowy is only for you and your core team. We need to articulate that more clearly as it seems to be assumed that it's a Slack alternative from the getgo (although for startups, it may very well be with a email + flowy combination).
> That seems like an absurd comparison given people like LeCun are actively and intentionally working towards creating this super-human entity.

There's a disconnect in that statement. The imagined superintelligence that people like the LessWrong cult speculate and worry about is not the same thing as the AI that LeCun is working towards. The cultists simply speculate, against all evidence, that they somehow could end up being the same thing.

It would be much better if the AI risk conversation focused on the real risks, which are human abuse of AI, which will have effects like increasing inequality and in general amping up the dystopias we're already doing a great job of building without help from AI. The "conscious superintelligent AI" is a scifi LARPing game that some people are getting paid to play, which some credible people seem inclined to confuse with reality.

> That seems like an absurd comparison

It's on point. Anthropologist Clifford Geertz proposed this definition of religion: "Religion is a system of symbols which establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that
the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

It's that "aura of factuality" that makes superintelligent AI "seem uniquely realistic" to the believers of this nascent religion, a.k.a. cult. But when you step back and actually look at the foundational tenets in a vaguely rational light, they evaporate.
>Well, that's the capital equipment case then. Is it really a general intelligence if you don't let it be general? It can't handle every possible scenario for you that way.

Humans are most useful to other humans as happy slaves. Autonomy only is good for humans as individuals. If we create useful agi of course we will bend it to our will. There is no incentive to make AI as a separate competitor other than an experiment. Either way this is hypothetical.

>If your theory is that someone will program an AGI for the specific goal of making you unemployed, sure that could happen. But it sounds more like warfare than economics to me at that point, so I can't comment cause I don't know too much about that.

No it's cost saving. I don't want to employ someone who I have to pay. This is capitalism. I save money by using AI.

>Where's the data? That was pure theory there, I didn't make any empirical claims.

You don't need to cite your sources. It's obvious you're getting your conclusions from data. You use the words "in practice". I agree with you on how the data plays out.

>It's important to do this because approximately all AGI doom on the internet comes from Big Yud, an internet cult founder who thinks you can predict the future by thinking about it really hard and doing probability theory in your head without needing to check any assumptions. Which is why he thinks AGI is going to enslave him, because it's on a computer so it can do math exponentially faster, never mind that it can't do real world experiments to test anything.

No it's not. AI doom saying comes from everywhere. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpoRO378qRY (the godfather of modern AI, is concerned about doom). Either way, you shouldn't counter something with extremities that are simply opposite in nature. You should counter something you disagree with, with actual truth, Even if that truth doesn't fully dismiss the idea and calls only for naunce.
Wordpress security has been, and always will be, a hot liquid steaming mess. Without security controls over plugins, including sandboxing, the entirety of it is vulnerable in ways amateurs cannot begin to manage.
It’s the Daily Mail
Seems they are really taking the AI threat seriously then. And it is all the same stuff he's been saying on recent podcasts so it is a year-long April Fools joke.

I heard the death with dignity thing repeated in a Peter Thiel speech as a criticism of them.
Emulating on a Pi doesn’t get you the “instant-on boot to BASIC” appeal. But for that, there’s the $50 Agon Light 2: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/AgonLight2/o...

Comparing this project to the Agon is quite the contrast in decisions made and outcomes reached.
Anything that breaks uBlock Origin is a deal breaker. With the chrome team making so many alterations to their plans, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I have childhood memories of shivering in front of a gas wall heater during cold winter days in Palo Alto. I was visiting from Vermont (which was much colder, but houses were equipped for it) and those days gave me a new appreciation for the cold.
As I've written in another comment, LeCun is not defending the boogeyman that the LessWrong cult has invented, which is a pure creature of fantasy.
> It's against the Twitter terms to pay money for accounts.

Ah, I didn't know that; then it's merely the second most boring, mundane way I would expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFg5dvPOoc&t=230s

>"Hypergeometric Series -- are incredibly general and powerful.

Hypergeometric Series -- can be used to define all kinds of other functions.

Here is just a small sample of the identities involving Hypergeometric Series: Hypergeometric Series cover exponents, logarithms, trig functions, Gamma functions, Bessel functions -- even the Fibonacci sequence -- just to name a few..."

Related:

Book "A=B":

https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/Downld.html

https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.pdf

Mathologer - "Secrets of the lost number walls":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1_-qptr6c

Gamma Function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function

Bessel Function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function
I didn't know that. ChatGPT, please rephrase my gripe accordingly.
Was recently banned for saying true and important things here.

It's not hubris - it's called having a spine.
Like this

"Newport man's plea to find £210m hard drive in tip"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55658942
I know Google employees are reading this ... don't you recognise this sh!tshow and communicate it internally?

I'll never understand how such a large organisation can let this kind of stuff happen.