skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The long-term rate appears to be level. This rate is not divorces per year, but divorces per person (or married couple). A level long-term rate with an increased short-term rate means, as said in the paper, that divorces-already-in-planning are just sped up.
Are you implying that the much higher home cost/average income ratio, CEO/worker pay ratio and necessity for households to be dual income to raise families nowadays vs the 50s are due to a lack of racism, sexism, and homophobia from lenders and brokers?

The point of the original post was the general lower severe economic disparity in the United States in the 50s vs today. Since the 1980s the Gini coefficient in the United States has raised rapidly across all racial groups. Just because things are better for all deprivileged groups doesn't mean the American people, as a whole, aren't getting screwed over more via the increase in income inequality.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/07/12/income-...
Neuralink’s goals aren’t sufficient justification here, the question is about whether the actual research done by Neuralink can plausibly produce outcomes that benefit us, and whether the subjects are suffering needlessly.

If you try to rush research, you don’t necessarily get the same research but faster, you might just get bad research instead.
I tried it on DallE and it says "It looks like this request may not follow our content policy."
Do you have a better definition?
The "construction dudes" would be developers, not "compute".
>> “the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”

How about "the ability for people to be free and have free systems and society is more important than the money we hope to get from doing business in China".

But here we are in Silicon Valley where business and money rise above all else including national sovereignty.
I think gitlab just gave up on trying to compete with github.
They don't care about anything other than enterprise use cases, which are mostly on private instances.
That's why the word "engineer" is in the title and it isn't "prompt writer" or "ChatGPT user".

It's highly unlikely that anyone taking this effort seriously is copying and pasting from ChatGPT, rather than using the API and building pipelines as part of a broader system.

Instruction-fine-tuned LLMs like ChatGPT require creating, validating, and maintaining prompts. Finding ways to use them safely is also not easy - prompt injection and hallucination are just 2 potential pitfalls - there are many more.

Denigrating this effort as "AI monkey" is myopic at best, but really just comes across as a signal that someone is terrified of being replaced by this new tech. With that attitude, they will be.
"Uh," maybe we can both be right. Allow me to quote directly:

"I want him to be able to dig deeper. To explore. To try things out, misconfigure, crash, fix, and re-install. To get a feeling for how things work below the surface and how they do not work. To learn how to type fast and efficiently. To create things. Maybe, one day, even to learn how to code if he's interested."
They aren't novel features, it is still the PC world catching up with mainframes and micro-computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
Ha! I've actually been facing this same problem on a t440s.

thanks for posting the fix!
It is a very nice feature. As far as I know, it is a common pattern in Scala and I also do it in Julia (although there might be some small performance penalty).

It just makes complex code much more readable without polluting the module's scope.

So I am not sure how common it is, but there are at least some languages that allow this.
GPT Is a Simulator
> Yes, I'm talking explicitly about feelings. I know my feelings don't impact the legalities of a license.

They don't impact the current legality of a licence, but it will affect future ones.

GPL/BSD/Apache/proprietary, they are all picked for ideological concerns which all stem from feelings.
It is good to discuss these things, and it is good to recognise that these are emotionally driven.
You are talking as an adult with a job, not a 10-year old who likes computers.
Germany here. The only time I listened to AM was when I built my first fuzz pedal and amplified radio instead of the guitar.
Speaking of which, presumably ChatGPT with its close association with China is also deferential to the chilling effects of Chinese demands, preferences, requests and requirements?
He, in Sweden you only call the police for grand larceny, because the insurance company will ask for a police report number.

(Edit: crime in action, they might come.)
At least there aren't any mental gymnastics here, his reasoning is pretty clear and understandable from a CEO point of view.
All of freedom of speech promoters like Elon Musk would only talk about positive things about China when it comes to sensitive topic. Xi is probably the most powerful person on earth when you think about it.
That's different, because all that money is going into a huge, publicly-traded, rent-seeking corporation, so it's OK.
Curious, I posted the link to the short story here on HN just the other day. It had come to my mind while thinking about our race to train more and more powerful LLMs. As a software developer, intelligence is the ultimate problem to solve: the problem of all problems, the triumph of computer science over any other discipline. At the same time, it's the ultimate discovery: once it is achieved, we might as well wrap our stuff up and leave.

So I hope you see the parallel with the monks putting the fastest supercomputer at work to find the names of God and fulfill the ultimate purpose of the Universe.
Depends on the position of the capsule in the wall. Also, this was in a 5-storey building, where load bearing walls are between 12 and 20cm.

If there was enough beta radiation to cause leukemia, there was enough for the Geiger counter.
I have no problem with Copilot being trained on AGPL code and the getting released with a AGPL compatible license. Free to do whatever they want with it.

The problem is Copilot training on source code and then discarding any restrictions of the licenses. Maybe it is legal right now but I'm sure this case will find it's way into open source licenses pretty soon.
I actually agree with the author. Using GitLab is unpleasant. I’ve also tried cgit, Rhodecode, Gitea, Bitbucket, &c. GitLab just feels cludgey, personally.

I find comments on “professionalism” about a personal blog to be rather snooty and gatekeepy in tone. Reminds me of the unpleasant atmosphere of Lobste.rs.
A further anecdote, I am also (slightly, not absolutely) red-green colour blind. Although I can distinguish between bright reds and greens, darker shades or in lower lights, I am unable to discern between reds and greens.

I'm not always aware that there is a colour I have not correctly perceived, and may simply think that a colour is 'brown', where others clearly perceive it as red or green. However, it's very rare that this causes me problems. I suppose electrical work in low light might be risky, but then I would be taking extra steps to ensure I did not screw up (increasing lighting, asking someone to double check before I touch anything, etc.).
2022 I spent several days trying to get Ubuntu to run stably without tearing on an AMD Ryzen APU.
Not in the US, based on a few basic queries I just ran
Every single time he talked about something I understand, it was good sounding bs. He is good at pop science talk and at impressing people. But he is neither engineer nor scientist. Not even close.

> He takes questions at Tesla earnings calls that other CEOs would delegate to lower level executives

He can lie better and he is controlling micromanager.
Germany had that, too:

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/man-spreche-deutsch-der-ka...

some good ones:

"Viertopfknallzertreibling" - 4-cylinder motor
"Angströhre" - top hat
> English is full of homophones that are pronounced identically but have different spellings and meanings, such as the words way and weigh.

English the same word can be pronounced differently based on tense:

"Did you read the same book I read?"

Besides confusing I don't know what to even call a thing like that.
> I do almost everything in WSL.

You can run Linux in a virtual machine on any OS.
Thanks! This is super helpful
That's fair, but it is a negative take that disregards all emergent properties. If you strip all emergent properties from it, there is nothing left. The same thing is true of all biological systems.

Why bother being "human". We are all just a bunch of cells exchanging chemicals and electrical signals. That's all there is to it. There is no reasoning, just a bunch of signals going back and forth.
Blast From The Future 20XX Headline Retrospective

> MacUser 2023: How to Rig Up the Fastest Image Generation Machine (archive.org)
"the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire."

The implication here being that the ability to generate a million waifu anime selfie blended pictures is somehow a crucial technology.
So you're suggesting that developers shut up and let the artists talk first? I'm not sure what the "you're suffering less than these other people" thing is actually intended to translate into? What do we do with that?

All software licences are based on copyright, same as writing, art, music, etc. Some software licences are permissive. Some writing is permissive (e.g. Cory Doctorow). Some music is permissive (e.g. Amanda Palmer). It entirely depends on what the author wants. The fact that more software is permissive is a good thing, right?

I entirely agree that there are ethical problems with training AI on copyrighted training data. But please let's not start gatekeeping this. We need to have a serious discussion as a culture about it, and saying "you're way down the list of victims" isn't helping.
I am not an expert in Hegel or Ibn Khaldun, but I'm not sure that they're making the same point. I don't think Ibn Khaldun means that this process leads to progress; it's just a description of changes over time. The new civilization isn't necessarily superior or somehow more developed than the previous one.

Hegel, on the other hand, is very much wrapped up in the "progress" concept:

Hegel’s dialectical method leads to concepts or forms that are increasingly comprehensive and universal. As Hegel puts it, the result of the dialectical process, "is a new concept but one higher and richer than the preceding—richer because it negates or opposes the preceding and therefore contains it, and it contains even more than that, for it is the unity of itself and its opposite."

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

Here's a (PDF) paper comparing the two thinkers: https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2196
This is true, but a ToS should not be able to override an important law such as copyright, which provides you with several inalienable rights that you can only contract out of with your explicit consent. Doubly so if the ToS are changed after you post your code there without your explicit approval. I could put text in the ToS of my website that you owe me your firstborn, but that wouldn't make it legal or enforceable.
> With 7.45% turnout, it's more of an elderly's bad joke. Elderly and wealthy people who have been brainwashed by television and want to continue using their murderous and polluting cars and taxis.

I don't know about Paris, but the from other cities I've seen it's probably the general poor behaviour of rental scooter hirers that's the problem. Ignoring any dangerous riding the scooters are just so poorly parked - cluttering sidewalks, falling into roads etc. I'm an occasional e-scooter hirer when a tourist and sometimes after a night out in my home town, but I'm 50/50 if they should be banned in my city.

Rental companies should take more of an effort to penalise users that park and drive poorly if they want to continue operating.
Which as an aside, makes writing and using C bindings so lovely.
US copyright office seems to say anything written by AI cannot be copyrighted. Also a work that does not disclose which parts are AI generated cannot be copyrighted. All open source licences and creative commons are based on copyright. If you do not own the copyright you cannot release code under MIT.

As far as I can tell no one is labeling which parts of code used AI. Most devs I know are using Chat GPT at least for inspiration in solving problems. Pretty sure soon almost every file will have snippets of AI code. Companies have little control to stop this. So to me it looks like every company is unknowingly making its codebase public domain.

Open AI caches its responses so can scan private codebases to know which use AI. Copilot also knows which codebases use AI. If they find a codebase that uses AI but does not disclose where it is used then that codebase can be used for further AI training. Major companies will need to use copilot x, vscode and github to remain competitive. So microsoft could end up sucking up all the proprietary knowledge of every industry.
> well 3 degrees wide means at best ~28 square degrees on the sky (pi * 3 * 3).

If you use a diameter for a circle area, you need to divide by 4, to get like ~7. I was just going to do 3*3 = 9.

> It looks like Starlink has 7 GHz total downlink bandwidth from satellite to customers. A cell may be ~300 sq km, but no way you can pipe all that bandwidth in adjacent cells due to interference

Both the downlink and the uplink are directional. Yes, there's some power lost in side lobes, but..

So, if you have multiple satellites overhead, you can have a mosaic pattern where satellite A illuminates a hex, and then other satellites illuminate its neighbors. And even though some energy spills over, it's strongly rejected by the receivers because it's coming from the completely wrong direction.

> How many people live in places with fewer than a few people/km^2?

In addition to the incorrect pessimism about downlink bandwidth (also, one should expect ~5bits/Hz)... You're not taking into account any reasonable capacity factor, and you're assuming each service is one person. You're also assuming that you sell through to 100% of the populace and there's no one in the cell served by other technologies. If 95% of a suburban area can get FTTH, cable, or reasonable LTE, that still leaves 5% as possible customers for Starlink to fill in.

> Only Alaska averages below that in the US.

OK, but people are concentrated into cities, leaving a whole lot of land area with concentrations below this even in states with much higher average population density.
Ammonia can indeed be used as a longish term energy storage. It's not as great as methane (that can be pumped into underground caverns), but it liquefies at room temperature at just around 9 atmospheres or at -33C at atmospheric pressure.

Though it's pretty poisonous if it leaks.
Nice, let's solve people's real problems </sarcasm>
Required reading for those who aren't already convinced that we very urgently need fully open source generative AI models.
I've always thought of them a bit like improv, since they tend to follow the "yes, and..." rule, by happily continuing whatever direction you want to go. Now that the base models have been fine-tuned to avoid some topics, that's less true than it used to be, but it still feels like the most natural mode of operation.
That was my thought too, but my understanding is that the usage of VPNs is pretty ubiquitous in China, and that the government for the most part looks the other way.
Fair enough. A cursory glance at a dictionary corroborates your point - there is clearly a colloquial usage too. I guess I'd never heard its use except in the much more narrow mathematical sense, until now.
The machine I am on is blocking the download - could be my adblock rule or could be an admin setting, haven't checked.

However, that is besides the point? I find your question in very poor taste and not conducive to discussing the article.
Fining within the EU is not a solved problem. In 2019, millions of international fines went uncollected because the infrastructure still was buggy. So, legally it is a solved problem, but practical enforcement is not (yet).

Border control does not (currently) detect fines and prevent people from leaving to non-EU locations.
Way less so than cars. They're just used by the young who don't vote.
When I was 10 years old, tinkering required going to the library, and if you couldn't find any Spectrum book there, the only tinkering left was LOAD "" or trying to understand what Timex 2068 manual was all about.

I also hardly tinkered until I got into programming classes later on the high school, and then it wasn't tinkering, my time spent with Timex, Amiga and MS-DOS was about coding, demoscene and games, not fixing the OS.
Personally I'm more interested in pictures of landmarks without people, and that's most of what I take pictures of (although I take some pictures of people as well).
That’s always the case with new hardware. If you want everything to work out of the box, buy a 2nd hand system.
That’s cheaper anyways.
It Works For Me!™

Seriously though, compatibility issues seem the exception to the rule nowadays. Getting wifi or display drivers working used to be...challenging, if not traumatizing. You could put that shit on your resume nowadays. "I set up X11 with native resolution and got WiFi working most of the time in 2003 without damaging hardware."
Not sure if I just got used to it or my hardware setups just work but Linux systems have been pretty good for me the last few years. Desktop environments like Cinnamon and Mate still have that basic interface without the clutter but it definetly isn't for everyone.

That said, there is nothing quiet like a new install of Windows XP/Windows 7. Nothing captures that feeling. It is merely an interface for running programs and managing data then it gets out of the way.
I have a hard time understanding what exactly pointers is used for.
Why should I use pointers? Because copying is often uneccessary?
That is a solution that could work.
? No mental gymnastics? Sure there are!

“Use this tech” implies the same tech as everyone else, including satire, no? What else could it mean? Oh, it could mean, “use this tech in only ways that are allowed by a totalitarian dictator, continuing to spread china’s government’s racism and hatred of certain minorities, and also normalize self-censorship globally”.

That’s really what it means-that it’s more important to the CEO that China should continue suppression of its people and also to exert the maximum influence it can socially on the world, than it is too stop specifically midjourney in China.

Plenty of mental gymnastics required there.
Wait, so on weekends you can drive a car around but you cannot get the bus or a train? if so that's crazy.
This is not so far off as one might think. You see, a lot of people believe in the simulation hypothesis. And sequential hash computation, aka proof of work, means that even from inside the simulation we can be assured by math, that the upper computer running the simulation has done the work.

One might argue that the universe is doing much more computation every instant, but it's not so evident because of compression (for example algorithm like Hashlife). There are numerical shortcuts as anyone that has written a numerical simulation knows. For example you can simulate a black hole that may one time have been entire galaxies by just a few numbers (its mass, momentum, and spin).

Proof of work, give us an upper bound on the computation available to us. The question is what is going to happen when we cross this bound. I like to call it Numerical Biological Instability : when you write big enough simulations you have to take into account for the emergence of unwanted sub-computations that may end-up stealing all your computation cycles.

And I like the idea of NBI being one possible solution to the Fermi Paradox : We are the first advanced civilization because there can't be multiple advanced civilizations because as soon as we suck-up all the available computation the simulation speed crawl to a stop. And given that we can see to the edges of the universe with telescopes, it's not easy to put computational limits on parts of the universe without leaving observable traces. And given that computational power tend to follow exponential growth. Only universes with a single advanced pre-singularity civilization tend to be simulated.
Just like chasing money will never bring true happiness, but the lack of money will definitely bring true misery.
Heya, I found this comment deeply insightful, thank you.

Could I ask you to please unpack this line a bit more:

> If sales is the thing that drives profit

What else could drive profit, if not sales?

> the company's value is tied to the intellectual property

In the case where unique IP is the core value proposition (the strategic "moat" if you will), isn't sales still what drives profit?

Put another way, I love what your comment implies, and so I'm trying to imagine a business that generates good profit that doesn't rely on sales as much, but I'm struggling.

Thanks! ^_^
Programming is a useful tool, but leaning on it in all situations is like a carpenter with only a hammer. There are many times when "more programming" is a possible but not the best solution to the situation at hand. Good and/or experienced programmers know when this is the case and reach for other tools as appropriate.

As a very simple example, perhaps integrating with the API provided by another team in the company is planned to take several weeks because it does not provide the "ideal" endpoint and you'd need to stitch together information from several responses. In some cases, simply going to the other team and asking if they can add another endpoint to expose the information you need will be a much quicker solution than doing all the work client-side. In my experience many junior devs would rather spend the weeks coding than the 20 minutes talking to another person.
Licenses in the R World
have seen this type of advertisement for Y product lot lately. You don't have to bash one product just to advertise another one. AI is not going away; you either embrace it now or after a few years. With its usage, it will evolve and get better with time, both as a product and the solutions they provide
Mid journey is already fairly heavy handed in terms of its onerous restrictions and puritanical censorship (blood, gore, etc), so this comes as no surprise.

I find myself having to turn more and more to stable diffusion models to finish a lot of my concept work.
I visited Paris last year and had a very cute midnight scooter ride with my girlfriend down the Seine. It was like out of a movie. But the ride costed like $17 each, it would have been cheaper to just get an Uber directly back to our hotel. And I no doubt caused some french drivers/pedestrians some grief because I had no idea where I was going most of the time. So frankly I get it.

But this makes me ask the question: who uses these? Looking at my own behavior I never touch them in the city I live in. They would be far too expensive to rely on for commuting or predictable use. And I'm not usually traveling alone in my own city, so the economics of splitting an Uber are way better. Plus I have my own bike here for shorter distances. Very limited use cases. Is the entire industry sustained on the usage of tourists riding for the sheer novelty of it in a new place? If that's the case it makes sense why they get such a bad reputation.
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Lets's not pretend that the majority of cost savings cones from producing in europe vs. producing in china.

You safe in lavour costs, safety standards, environmental protection, e.t.c.

This is one of the few cases where import tax should do it's job at protecting local economy. Tax it so that the chinese clone costs the same as the locally and ethically produced original.