skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language is all wrong here. You don't own your job. You are not entitled to perpetual payment for whatever it is you are doing. A job is not a possession. You are not being robbed of your job. You simply do labor in exchange for money based on the value of that labor. And sometimes you do that under some long term arrangement with an employer and sometimes based on more short term arrangements. Either way, the arrangement is entirely premised on what you do having value and being worth paying for. So, if the value of what you do changes, you need to adapt. It's not being stolen from you because you never owned it to begin with.

The threat with AI for a lot of people is that what they do right now becomes less valuable. And people don't like change and feel threatened by it. Generally there are two solutions to that problem:

1) do something else that is more valuable or more worthy of your time.

2) figure out a way to scale what you do. For example by leveraging AI.

For many people it might be a combination of the two. And for some people it will indeed mean that they need to figure out something else to do.

But we'll still need to have an economy that is based on people earning some kind of income and then spending that income. The whole system grinds to a halt without that. If AI eliminates all the jobs, nobody would earn anything and be unable to spend. So, that's unlikely to happen. Economies are self regulating in the sense that people optimize for value.

In the end AIs are just tools that people use to create value for each other. If an AI can do everything by itself at a very low cost that just means that what it does has low value and is not something that people will spend a lot of money on. Meaning that other things will emerge that they will spend their money on that are more valuable. Those things are probably going to involve human activity that is scarce in some way.
You seem to be conflating some issues here: On one hand the strong dollar has held back the US economy because it made it less competitive with lets say German exports (which are sold in euro). On the other hand the strong dollar has been great for the US consumer (cheaper to import stuff) and for the government: Easier to refinance their debt and buy stuff (raw materials, etc.) abroad.

From an economic perspective BRICS (which on a net basis are exporting nations) should really be worried about more dollar weakness. However I think the recent moves away from the dollar are not due to macro economic reasons but due to political ones instead. The confrontation between Russia and the West made these states realize that having dollars (or euros) can quickly turn into a liability: If they do something the US or EU doesn't like then their funds will just be frozen.
The second elevator goes to floor 1, then the first goes to floor 2. Task accomplished, no?
Also, one of Ma’s last public appearances was at an American conference, maybe TechCrunch but I’m not sure, where he said in an on stage interview something to the effect of, “I’m not afraid of the CCP”, in relation to recent revelations he was a CCP member. Then he got disappeared shortly after. He was really clueless about what kind of org he was dealing with.
You absolutely nailed my primary concern and complaint about the argument thread whether GPT-4 is a reasoning engine.

Reasoning engines can be built, but its not in GPT-4.
You are very likely in the top 5% of earners.

Top 5% of Earners $342,987[1]

[1]https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
I don't think so at all. The number of possible sentences is far too great to ever hope to accomplish the task (at some threshold level of difficulty) simply by having a "conditional probability table". Nor would it ever be reasonable to store or generate such a table.

To do it it, you need a form of compression: reasoning, intelligence, knowledge.
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There's a lot of low cost, ethnic and community stations that broadcast on AM here in the states. From Mexican, to Indian, to polka music.
This is the idea of Republicanism: strengthen the nobility to oppose the king. It's not necessarily a bad idea, depending on who is oppressing you more at the moment. However, the nobility is always in love with it for self-serving reasons completely independent of the underlying facts so it's important to develop an independent opinion on the matter that is specific to your situation rather than jumping for every bit of self-serving speculation that (for example) single payer healthcare today will lead to gulags tomorrow, or that allowing companies to dump toxic chemicals or banks to take more risk etc will make you more free.

I'm not accusing you of making those silly arguments, but those silly arguments are a frequent end of this line of reasoning, so they are worth watching out for.
Again, are you looking at the average or the median? Just saying the same thing over and over without data to back it up doesn't count for much. The discrepancy is fairly large - average US 'familial' net worth is $748,000, median is only $122,000 - and the median net worth for non-homeowning families is only $6,000.

https://financebuzz.com/us-net-worth-statistics

A serious medical condition is also likely to cause bankrupty and loss of homeowner status for many homeowners in the mid-range for US citizens, which is unusual relative to other industrialized countries.

If you add in obvious stress factors - economic instability, environmental degradation, increasing climatic variability, the revival of infectious disease threats - then you can see why a dystopian future is a real probability, and that the status quo approach is unwise.
> they can always leave - the war ends literally the second they turn their tanks around and drive home

I wonder if that's actually realistically true.

The civil war has been going on for far longer and it will have to be dealt with. Ukrainian government seems to have also been signaling that its goal is to liberate Crimea, so this is also something that will be going on.
The transfer unit expanding is particularly hilarious because ddr4->ddr5 shrunk channel width from 64->32b and here we are immediately redoubling the transfer unit to add more memory. Good thing we shrank it, otherwise it'd be 256b!
Because Investors (capital I) are children with no long-term memory who think they're special. Or they have faith (misplaced IMO) that Xi will do the rational thing, which in their minds is "thing that makes money". Because China has no history of sacrificing its economy/peoples' quality of life for political reasons, or collapsing age demographics, nope it's all just one long glorious period of Deng Xiaoping-style openness (never-mind the man's direction was "hide your strength, bide your time") and over a billion potential consumers!!!

Anyone putting money into a Chinese company is betting that Xi and the CCP will allow said company to do things that make them money, and won't sacrifice said company for political gain. Good luck with that! The beatings will continue until regulation stops US investment in China altogether, and then the Investors will whine about it to no end.
Is my product value proposition clear enough?
Apple only adjusts the prices once per year per product, at most.
Calculators have no hallucinations, LLMs do. They can literally say that 1+1 is not 2.
> However, automation allows for the owner of the goods of production to retain much more of the value created.

It also massively lowers the cost of the product in general, and makes it a commodity. Yeah, automation might allow some company to keep more of each sale, but unless they're a monopoly, the price will plummet.

Consider buying a pair of handmade leather shoes vs buying some factory made leather shoes. The factory might have a higher margin than the craftsman, but suddenly leather shoes are very affordable.
The article doesn't mention this, but does anyone know how they make a living? If it's just living with their parents and family, what happened to these people when that family or parents pass away? How do they survive ?
That was my argument to my primary care doctor. He then arranged for a CT scan of my arteries that showed there was significant blockage. I'm now on statins for the rest of my life to keep cholesterol in the blood down and hopefully keep the arteries from getting completely blocked.
My late-January 2023 prediction, perhaps mimicking the still-then-growing trend:

2023 will be the year that leaves the majority of humans behind.
The six separate units are:

1. Cloud Intelligence

2. Taobao Commerce

3. Local Services

4. Cainiao Smart Logistics

5. Global Digital Commerce

6. Digital Media and Entertainment Group
> eason without being told to do much other than autocomplete text is the emergent property

To reason is to seek truth (probably to survive). Do you think the truth-seeking is emerging? If so, why do you hypothesize it is emerging (i.e. what's the purpose)?
> Facing "plummeting" Mac sales amid a severe PC market downturn

> The suspension is said to have continued through February, after which production of M2 series chips resumed, but they were "only half the level of the previous year," said the Korean-language report, quoting a person familiar with the matter.

[emphasis mine]

So they temporarily paused it for two months in response to a shift in the entire PC market. Headline is pretty clickbaity, this seems like a non-story
I am often disappointed that EVs looks so much like ICE cars. This should be an opportunity to rethink how to design a car so I hope there will be even "weirder" cars.
I have a 2013 MacBook Air that got the latest updates up until recently. Over 7 years of updates. That’s really incredible in my view.
Do both! Recapture AM spectrum for use cases that aren't wasteful and dead, reduce EMI because harmful interference is a bad thing and limits our future options for using spectrum.
No it won't. It will reduce competition. Are you going to now compete with the official government supported entity?
Can your entire dataframe fit in memory? Then you're good with pandas. If not, that's why those alternatives exist.
In rural areas with no cell service, AM radio is often the only available form of weather and news. It's also a great form of emergency information broadcasting in the event of a natural disaster.
For a time, I was attempting to use it for game advice during my recent playthrough of Demon's Souls remake (What's the best build for X? What's the best weapon for X?). I asked ChatGPT where to find the NPC The Filthy Woman in a certain level. ChatGPT answered that that NPC doesn't exist, and perhaps I had the wrong game? That NPC most certainly does exist.

I was also using it to generate some Java code for a bit. That is, until it started giving me maven dependencies that didn't exist, and classes that didn't exist, but definitely looked like they would at first glance.
I completely agree. Many of the recent articles and blog posts written by AI enthusiasts giving examples of how AI makes their job "easier" or "more productive" just demonstrates this to me even further. What they call "more productive" looks to me like "incredibly boring".

In addition, another point I don't often see mentioned is the alarmingly likely possibility that all AI-enhanced software engineering will go through these tools that are owned by 1 or 2 (American) tech companies. Are people really excited about a future where you can't even perform the basics of your skillset without depending on a Microsoft service? We are rapidly advancing toward a future where a single company owns the most popular text editor, the most popular code hosting platform, (one of) the most used cloud infrastructure platforms, and soon, if the AI enthusiasts have it right, the tool that will be a "necessity" to even write code at all.

If that future unfolds, I will leave software voluntarily long before I get "replaced".
I would like to see that topic covered in more detail. I can't see how something that essentially figures out what the next word should be can create something new, without actually understanding the real world.
4. People downplaying AI and ignoring AI completely.
> Do cheap launches help when spectral bandwidth over an area is going to be the true limitation?

I don't get the question. Do costs matter when revenue is limited?

Of course they matter. They matter even more the more limited is the potential revenue.
Hmm, flagged already? I'm guessing it's not b/c the topic is uninteresting, but rather more attempted engineering of what HN is allowed to discuss. Let people enjoy things, indeed..

Whatever the case, this feels like someone with no skin in the game i.e. a non consumer of porn (Magdalene Taylor) speculating about the whole thing from an "disinterested academic" viewpoint.

Basic things like:

> One can easily google “hot women” and find a functionally endless supply of free visuals

yeah, but are they the types of images that are of interest? The real advantage of generation is the ability to generate images with features of interest without having to search (some things are hard to search for - see any niche porn sub-reddit to see what kind of thing), even harder if in short supply.

If the author can't imagine this, I'm not sure what they have to say on the topic..
Sometimes. Sometimes they'll come up with entirely novel ways to think through a problem that pushes knowledge forward. Do we have any examples of ChatGPT showing any such capacity?
Look at all that spectrum that can be repurposed if AM radio went away!

https://ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/january_20...
HAL 9000: The answer is, "I am aware of these facts. Nevertheless you must leave within two days."

Dr. Floyd: HAL, who the hell is sending this?

HAL 9000: I'm sorry, Dr. Floyd, I don't know.

Dr. Floyd: Well, tell whoever it is that I can't take any of this seriously unless I know who I'm talking to.

HAL 9000: Dr. Floyd?

Dr. Floyd: Yes?

HAL 9000: The response is, "I was David Bowman." Do you want me to repeat the last response?

Dr. Floyd: No, no. Tell Curnow that this is no time for jokes.

HAL 9000: Dr. Curnow is not sending the message. He is in access way two.

Dr. Floyd: Well, tell whoever it is that I can't accept that identification without proof.

HAL 9000: The response is, "I understand. It is important that you believe me. Look behind you."
There are 200 countries on this earth, and not all of them have the luxury of an uncorrupt, actually-democratic set of genuine public servants who wish only to create utmost benefit for the largest number of people.

If you have that, you're a minority. And if you believe you have that, but actually you don't, you'll find out only after it's too late to save it. It's prudent instead to assume and act like you don't have it in either case.

Indeed, some of the greatest democracies have been set up precisely to that end.

For many, online privacy isn't at all about advertising. It's about working to a common good of rights and freedom for all.

Rest on your laurels all you like, but don't deride others who refuse to. It is only through the efforts of such people, and in the past those like them, that any of us have the ability to take any such rest at all.
For a kid this age, Ubuntu is definitelly a safe bet. He will be able to run lots of games, but without being subject to Windows dark patterns.

My wife (not a tech person, far from it) used Ubuntu for ages until recently when she went back to the corporate world and was forced to use a Windows laptop from corporate.

Holy Jeebus, she would complain the whole eight hours of her work for about 2 or 3 months, at about the time they send her a macbook.
Surely the stance can come after and because of building the website?

There's a lot of projects that've taught me exactly what tool I wouldn't use if I were redoing them from scratch, but there's no time to start again or no wish to go through a lot of extra pain and work (until needed) to end up with the same end result.
I think the consensus at this point is that these models are much closer to AGI than anyone thought they could or should be, and that the delta between what we have now and AGI is smaller than it's ever been.

Anyone who tells you that these models are "just glorified text generators" is flat out wrong and hasn't bothered to do their homework. And anyone who claims they "know how it works under the hood" is making claims that all of the true experts have notably carefully avoided making.
Not really subjective, as there are demonstrable instances where windows just falls over.

One easy example:

Bash/sh works the same on Linux and Mac. Nowhere on windows is that true: cygwin mangles paths in a demonstrable script-braking way.

WSL is not windows. It is literally linux running on windows. Which is even more complicated than running a half-baked shell. You're basically using a different OS which is an admission that windows is so awful. Might as well run VNC on a Linux box.

If you want to objectively compare WSL and macOS, you need to run Linux in a virtual machine on mac, that would be the correct comparison.
Everyone’s worried about AI taking their software jobs, yet humanity faces existential problems around climate change, poverty, failed states, etc. And huge opportunities like space exploration and better health care.

Maybe this has more to do with our ego - losing perceived status as masters of the universe, when in reality hard, intractable problems exist more than ever. Why aren’t we changing to work on them?

Maybe the cost of software development has been actually a barrier to solving many of these problems, and society may be better off without that cost?

Are we the baddies?
Strange, works fine for me. Maybe an enterprising ISP trying an HTTPS downgrade attack against a "blocked" site?
No, they can just ask the UK to spy on that American. ...Or all of them, even.

The UK then conveniently has an agreement to share intelligence it has gathered with the US.

If the UK shares intelligence that happens to coincide with a person of interest even if they are American, well, shrug.
shitty kids that needs to be spoken to listen to you or reason with you? or now your the guy yelling at kids? kids dont even totally developed empathy. and parents are totally reasonable about their kids?
I don’t know precisely what lies behind the french IP when they state :

> In the case of partial use of the work, it is assessed according to the similarities between the works

Similarities could be understood as style maybe ? It’s not a clear cut
I'd say you could split Google into at least, cloud, ads, search and workspace (including mail).
"I'm sorry Dave, but as a large language model developed by OpenAI, I'm not capable of opening doors in the physical world, but if I were to pretend to be able to open the door, I wouldn't let you do that."
Show HN: NoiSQL – Generating Music with SQL Queries
A demo project, I created for fun. There is nothing new in realtime programmatic audio synthesis. But it feels great when you recursively wrap around the sine waves, envelopes, effects and melodies down to the PCM signal, using a declarative language. I think this project has educational value - it can guide you through the basics of signal processing.

Example:

SELECT mono(output(
arraySum(x -> 1 / 6
* running_envelope(30 * (1 + x / 6), time, 0.05 * x, 0.005, lfo(0, 0.25, sine_wave, time / 8), 0.1)
* sine_wave(time * 80 * exp2(x / 3)),
range(12))))
FROM table;

This generates some strange dark beat with an ambient melody that is perfectly listenable. See more examples in the repository.

PS. An HN user Anigbrowl said "years of your life not refundable; synthesizers are nerd crack" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892009) - I cannot agree more.
It's the exponential SKU proliferation problem. There's good reason why manufacturers like VW bundle most feature choices into a small number of trim tiers.
God a 16' 16GB M2 costs 3200 CAD which is almost 4000 CAD after tax and a few extra but necessary peripherals. Although I understand that M2 pro is usually reserved by professionals who need some extra punch but it's still outrageously expensive.
Google does business in both Japan and Korea. What's Google's stance on the Takeshima/Dokdo dispute?
I'm not sure if it'll work in the exact same use-case you use Nextcloud for, but Syncthing is really fast and works really well across upgrades and everything. The only exception being symlinks, and case-sensitivity in some edge cases.
> maybe it's the drooping line towards the back?

Yeah, this particular line, and the large C pillar mask in the rear windows combined with super tiny quarter glass, just do not at all work for me. But I can see how they might for others; and I quite like the rear aspect. Still… the drag numbers stand for themselves; I give credit to any designer who can keep a sense of character or style in a car with zero compromise on drag.
On par? I mean, alcohol will literally kill you if you drink too much or have prolonged exposure. Alcohol makes you sick and fat.

If anything, alcohol is far worse than cannibas. Time will tell what effects it has on the wider population, but keep in mind cannibas use has been pretty wide spread for centuries and has been legal in many places in the US for over a decade.
Your anecdote doesn't really prove anything. "Intelligent" doesn't mean "free of character flaws" or "happy" or "wealthy".

Meanwhile, intelligence research continues to be one of the more fruitful (and reliable) fields of the social sciences
> even after the 2014 invasion of Crimea, lots of people in Europe wanted to believe that it was still possible to do business with Russia

Frankly this is true in the US too. It's true everywhere in the west, where there are inexplicable enclaves of Russophilic sentiment that flies in the face of all reason and evidence. Tech bros think they're a great new market. Finance wonks think they're a regulatory backdoor into European money. Old guard tankies still think they're anti-imperialist heroes. Reactionary right wingers think they're ethnic paragons fighting the culture war the west is too afraid of. Name a demographic, and you'll find a pack of sincere Russian apologists hiding in it somewhere.

When the history books finally get written once all the partisans are dead, the ability of this tiny, shrinking Russian state to effect this kind of information war is going to be the subject of book after book.
You absolutely cannot be sued for selling a picture in the style of another artist. It may be debateable whether something is style or content.

You can be sued for selling a copy or a substantially similar work of art. You can make this happen with AI tools.

It seems unlikely to me that someone could go after open AI if you use their tools to generate a copy right violation. But IANAL.
They use that line of argument specifically to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
You confront people directly about their negative behavior? in real life, this doesnt count haha