skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You have no moral basis from which to criticize me, you only have personal preferences, and there is no god of liberal humanism that will punish me in a way that I cannot escape if I fail to comply. "

What does this have to do with your argument?
This all assumes the model would give them good advice, which is sort of based on the assumption you would give them good advice, right?
This will always be a problem with federated vs unfederated services. It's hard to get a network effect when things are so spread out without a central place.
Can GPT4 convert Python2 code to Python3?
I know there is a set of open source projects written in Python2 that never got converted to Python3. And a large subset of that for which there are no plans to ever convert.

If you make a prompt to convert a few dozen of such projects to Python3, what comes out? Is it significantly closer to the finish line than nothing at all? Or are there so many dragons in the output that one might as well have started from scratch?
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It would be interesting to train an LLM on all my work chats and then see how well it does answering questions when I’m on PTO. I could set a status of “ooo but ask my bot” haha.
This jumped out at me too. Yes, it would be shockingly immoral to stop giving children antibiotics. Which I mention because penicillin was developed at around the same time as synthetic estrogen and testosterone. And penicillin could kill me due to an anaphylactic allergy, and it's largely considered safe by medical standards.
Reminds me a little of (fiction, for now) Google People: https://qntm.org/person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadUSB
Anecdotally, I have had a previous iphone infected by using a public charging station at SFO a few years ago.
Definitely. I think an AI for my friends would be relatively straightforward. It would just never reply.
But the makers of the CPUs are still server focused. Then again it's a lot easier to become one with ARM.
Anker batteries come in a zillion sizes, are cheap and are safe to plug into public chargers. With how hungry phones are these days, I don't know how people live without portable batteries.
Just imagine this as a subscription service. Lovely! When a loved one dies, you donate their cellphone and provide delegated access to their messages to their social media, and allow a LLM to train.

Now, it's a subscription service to talk to an AI, and not an actual human, so some settings can be tweaked. Lets turn up the honesty, so we can all reach some closure.

Oh... turns out... Johnny sure like to talk smack behind your back. Edna was SUPER gay but had to hide it...

So, so, so many ethical roadblocks. I truly hope this never happens, but, I think we all know that if it looks profitable, it's coming soon.
I'm walking through my last 30 years on thus planet and that thought hasn't ever entered my mind. What were you doing in your life that prompted that desire to express itself?
I touch (swear an oath and break it to) a rock (a god) and I receive luck (anger).

Both are superstitions. The rock example is actually less superstitious because rocks actually exist. There is zero evidence gods exist.
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So after 20 years of 'ethics of AI' mumbling, what we are doing is diving off the deep end. I am not surprised in the least.
> PalmOS was killed by its design mistakes and technical weaknesses.

You're not wrong, but this skips over an even bigger mistake. Arguably 2 in fact.

The kernel of the original 68K PalmOS was, I believe, bought in, just as Apple bought in a Pixo OS for the iPod:

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Pixo

PalmOS ran on top of the AMX 68000 RTOS kernel from Kadak:

http://www.kadak.com/rtos/rtos.htm

When Palm moved to ARM chips, it chose not to licence the Arm version of AMX from Kadak. It considered adopting the Symbian kernel:

https://www.theregister.com/1999/10/13/ms_out_in_cold_as/

... but in the end the deal didn't happen.

This was a huge mistake. Symbian was already the smartphone leader and supported multiprocessors, multimedia, and all sorts of fancy features, while being smaller and far less resource-hungry than contemporary rivals such as WinCE or the then-huge Linux. Symbian originally shipped on a circa 8MHz Arm device with 8MB of RAM and no swap: full GUI, full multitasking, Internet stack, etc. No Linux could run usefully on that level of kit.

Symbian already supported GSM phone stacks, Bluetooth, Wifi, all that stuff. It also supported pluggable UI layers, and had about 3 or 4 on sale at its peak: UIQ, a stylus- or touchscreen-driven UI from Japan for keyboardless phones; Series 60, for keypad-driven phones; Series 80, for landscape-orientation touchscreen phones; Series 90, for QWERTY-keyboard-driven PDAs. Adding another for Palm, with a Palm UI and Graffiti, would not have been a stretch.

It would have been a great fit.

Palm decided to write its own instead. Probably it was cheaper. Probably as Palm was mainly American it didn't appreciate that there were tens of millions of happy European and Japanese users with Symbian smartphones that they loved. I was using 32-bit Arm-powered smart devices with the Symbian kernel a decade before the iPhone, and ones running the direct ancestor of Symbian in the early 1990s.

This was commercial suicide #1.

Palm had no multitasking, little media support, and a single-tasking 68000 OS ported to Arm. It was very uncompetitive, but it's all Palm owners knew so they thought it was fine and liked it.

But it did have a comeback attempt.

Palm ended up under the same ownership as Be and the core BeOS team, and it eventually came up with an in-house multitasking media-enabled networked PalmOS, based on BeOS tech, called Cobalt:

https://www.palmsource.com/palmos/cobalt.html

This was commercial suicide #2.

Cobalt looked good but it was too little too late and as far as I know it never shipped on a single retail device.
I mean, the stuff with the edging looks quite striking in its own way, pretty awful to my eyes but it certainly creates an effect.

When you get to the 'pixellated' denim, I'm not seeing anything particularly special there, and there seems to be prior art (from 2011 - https://piximus.net/fun/8bit-clothes )
Yes and no.

Technically they’d be in violation of the existing trademark if they were using the Rust name for financial gain. The new proposed rules don’t change much in this regard.

https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-me...

If they’re not commercial and aren’t trying to appear official, then they can most likely get away with just having a disclaimer saying they’re not endorsed or affiliated.

Intent and the effects of use are very important.
The word "meritocracy" was coined in 1958 by Michael Young to lampoon the idea of it. He hadn't changed his mind since. He wrote this in 2001:

So assured have the elite become that there is almost no block on the rewards they arrogate to themselves. The old restraints of the business world have been lifted and, as the book also predicted, all manner of new ways for people to feather their own nests have been invented and exploited.

Salaries and fees have shot up. Generous share option schemes have proliferated. Top bonuses and golden handshakes have multiplied.

As a result, general inequality has been becoming more grievous with every year that passes, and without a bleat from the leaders of the party who once spoke up so trenchantly and characteristically for greater equality

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment
Al pastor + Secret Aardvark is the holiest of hot sauce/food combinations, IMO.

Edit: Tripa is also a "must" at a taco stand for me. Extra crispy is the way to go.
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>Do you have any concerns about causing suffering to other conscious entities?

Nope, if they are AI I'm fine with it.

>Should they have concerns about causing you to suffer?

If they are not causing me to suffer, then I couldn't care less whether they have concerns about causing me to suffer or not.

And it would matter even less whether they have concerns about it or not, if they do cause me to suffer.

I'd be more concerned about billions of humans suffering from lots of BS reasons (political opression, war, hunger, etc) than I'd even start considering being concerned about AI.
Devil's probably afraid of him
If you wore a voice recorder and recorded all your physical interactions with your family for a year then transcribed it then trained an LLM I wonder if you could get close.
What I take out of this, is rather that the news are (at this point) more the ruminating, focusing on the bad/worst of humanity, rather than the uplifting/inspiring.

In that, it's addictive, and/but not useful nor efficient nor representative of humanity state and progress (of which you get a broader perspective when you get to meet different people everyday).

In that perspective, skipping the news is not so much burying the head in the sand, rather the opposite.
"whats good for me, is not good for thee" or some version should be tattooed on Musk's forehead.
nobody is sponsoring clearances for uncleared talent right now. dod/ic work is always a career dead-end unless it’s all you want to do until you retire.
is this possible with type-c?
It’s probably not long before the HN comment section can be fully automated.
> a lot of things have a terrible UI with unorganized data. that's why this tool is so amazing - because it doesn't matter anymore.

Do you imagine a future where machines output data that can be barely read by humans, but can only managed through the help of AI? Honest question.
You can answer this with reductio ad absurdum. Imagine they could do it by the second. Should they? That actually may not be self evident to many. The reason you would not want to is that as you start minimizing time frames, you start measuring more noise (variance) than signal.

Inflation is measured by looking at how the price of a standardized "basket of goods" changes. And this can go up and down quite quickly over short periods of time, for reasons that have nothing to do with generalized inflation. A yearly rate is long enough to make sure you're getting mostly signal, not so long that it loses meaning, and you also get to automatically normalize for various seasonal trends without relying on magic numbers.
This is typical hacker movie nonsense. In real life, if they want something from said executive they just kidnap him, threaten violence, and he gives them what they want instantly. Or just knock him out cold from behind, take his shit, and crack into it themselves.
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Are we dropping the "in" from "to usher in" now?

Or is this just an incorrect headline?
There’s another aspect you have to consider: the power dynamic. If MSNBC hired Jen Psaki or Fox News hired Hope Hicks because she got sick of working in government, they might have a bias towards their former colleagues but it would be voluntary and clearly a job either would be qualified for. That’s pretty different from, say, Russian government going to RT and giving them a list of qualified candidates or even, say, the Tories appointing their loyalists to the BBC because the decision isn’t being made by the government and there isn’t a threat explicit or implicit that there would be consequences for not hiring them.
In the USA our public schools have the same issue. They receive federal funding based in part on the graduation rate. So they have significant motivation to make that as high as they can get away with.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2020/...
I wonder if it makes sense to work these formulas by region. When people discuss that roofs need to be white I would think that only applies when cooling dominates energy use. It seems where heating is dominate should have black roofs.
It might actually be helpful in that process. Many people report talking to a loved one in a dream and getting to say something to them and that helped move on for example.
JVM itself would do async I/O as needed using whatever API the underlying OS provides. Your own I/O code would be straightforward and synchronous. Nothing will run out of threads.
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He certainly figured it out, which is why he worked so hard to back out of the deal.

Though he never really expected it to earn its price back. As a large-fraction-of-a-trillion-aire, he may well have found that having trolls, clowns, and morons to enjoy his adolescent antics is worth $44B in pure enjoyment. He was buying a chance to put a significant thumb on the finger of world culture.

Musk has so much money that he doesn't really care if there's a net positive return to his purchases. He spends money to enjoy it. Which I actually find bizarrely refreshing, compared to the ones who want to use it for the purpose of acquiring more money, plus the occasional conspicuous consumption that seems more like a performance than actual enjoyment (e.g. megayachts).

Too bad he's such an asshole, though.
A little bit more in-depth on the hyper-reality fashion trend: https://shrehyagarwal.medium.com/what-is-hyper-real-digital-... (and micro-trends more generally https://www.instagram.com/p/CplXeGpLK7K/) for those interested in this kind of thing.

Overall we're seeing with pixelation and MSCHF's Big Red Boot a reclaiming of video game and cartoon aesthetics where the clothes you purchase feel more like Fortnite "skins", and an attempt to make the real world feel more like the simulation.
Legally, whoever created it. If you created it, it's part of your estate along with whatever other IP you have.

Realistically, nobody cares and it will just get thrown away.
Interest rates are a second order impact on the money supply, high enough interest rates may stop monetary expansion - if they reign in lending. This works fairly well in the states where the fixed rate long term loans provide a huge disincentive to new lending (say moving to a bigger house), but not so much elsewhere (it is actually possible to have both high inflation/monetary expansion, and high interest rates - it depends a lot on details of the local financial system and its regulation.)

So its probably correct to say that the monetary contraction the US is currently experiencing is due to high interest rates, but that doesn't stop the inflation that has already been caused by initial money printing.
I sent them a photo of my passport encrypted with their pgp key. This was a long time ago, so the process might have changed, but it seemed entirely manual.
Anyone from the UK interested in long walks should check out the new George Ezra doc on Prime video.
I don't understand the hype around ARM64 in the server space. Is this just due to all the marketing from Apple around their proprietary M processors leaking into the enterprise market?

The latest Xeon and EPYC offerings are very performance competitive, I doubt we need to overhaul and entire processor ISA paradigm for continued improvements.
> Sprinkle some "bugs happen to anyone" and "you can't have 100% security anyway" on top and your shit burger is finished.

I mean, yeah. both of these statements are unconditionally true.
I believe Rust uses hashbrown as the underlying implementation now. This just calculates the number of buckets based on the number of items requested:

https://github.com/rust-lang/hashbrown/blob/009969a860290849...

In the worst case all the items you insert will go in one bucket, and you'll have to rehash, which requires allocation. I'm not sure this is any different from Go in that respect.

I suspect that the inherently probabilistic nature of a hashtable makes it impossible to guarantee capacity without allocating way more space than would be required in typical cases. If there is a clever way to avoid this it would certainly be interesting to read about it.

Edit: Also, Go's hashtable implementation does not use linked lists (though it is a chaining implementation).
I think the declaration of independence was the spirit and the constitution was the implementation. Some nuance must be paid here to the divine.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"

I think the free exercise clause is the greatest and most important freedom we have.
ew gatekeeping.
That’s exactly the elitist mindset I’m talking about.
And here’s an exchange about how he validated the data was correct - which to me seems like the most important part:

> Out of curiosity, are you sure that GPT did it correctly? If yes, is it because you were able to "spot check" it in a few places? Or have you used GPT enough that you trust it with a task like this? Or is this for some kind of internal use where a few small errors is unimportant, and you only need the broad strokes to be correct?

> Yes, yes, and yes. (There were some obvious checksums, for instance by computing the total number of speakers several different ways.)

Still cool, but the circumstances above aren’t always true. In fact, in a lot of meaningful work, none of them probably are.

If GPT is like an assistant whose work you always have to double check in order to be sure of the validity of the results, that seems to be a pretty big caveat to me. In that case it’s probably better to just write a script whose output you know to be deterministic, even if it takes slightly longer (and the bigger your dataset to verify, the more likely it is that it’ll take less time to write a script than to validate results one by one).

The scary part is if/when companies/bureaucracies/governments/etc start using GPT for all sorts of Important Tasks and skip the validation part because they assume the machine will always get it right.
I'm afraid I'm not mistaken (source: I design integrated RF transceivers) ;)

Yes, you can subsample if you have a suitably bandpass-limited signal. But that's not the general case, nor is it what the nyquist-shannon theorem proves, which is where "nyquist frequency" comes from.

Nyquist frequency by the original definition is 2X highest frequency, though some papers textbooks evidently have started using it to mean 2X bandwidth, enough so that wikipedia[1] actually mentions it.

In integrated circuits, IQ mixing isn't problematic as we can fairly easily do gain and phase calibration to correct for the mismatch.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency#Other_mean...
Looks like the ARM one has twice the memory bandwidth, which would help with a lot of workloads.
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> And as part of their agreement, they can do pretty much whatever they like with those, can't they?

No, they definitely can't. Parts of HN love to hate on GDPR, but laws like that prevent companies from doing the things you proposed.
qntm is a wonderfully weird and terrifying author and I highly recommend all of their writing.
This Wikipedia entry is pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness
Love the look. The pixelation appears to only be applied in a plane.

It needs to be voxelized otherwise it's somewhat a Mario-effect than Minecraft.
This is dril's first interview under his real name and not "in character."
I've done a bit of minecraft benchmarking on my Oracle instance. It generates the same number of chunks per second as my 3600x CPU - although minecraft is always a weird benchmark in that benefits from low memory latency and large caches as it is ineffective at using caches well but is memory bound.
To be fair I also didn't know for a long time that HDMI is not a trustworthy port and can be used to spread malware [0]. And I'm usually not thinking about that when plugging my laptop to a projector.

Maybe with USB you could get away by using a cable without data pins, but I'm not sure whether that may influence charging speed given USB-C is pretty flexible.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828193
> It’s similar to an early push at my org for “return to office” that involved everyone coming in and zooming all day with people in mostly different spots. Some people like this, but for many it seemed like a waste.

Would have made sense in the early 2000's. Back in the days, corporate HQs had fast networking. Even lugging a machine home, doing anything over 56k would have been a pain. Now folks have dedicated fiber going straight to their router.
> AI, though amazing, isn't really the solution. Better UX and data quality is.

In this case, AI was the tool used to have a better UX. People build something with use-case X in mind, and use the best tool for that job. Piping that into use-case Y requires some duct tape and plumbing. It turns out that AI is great at that sort of repurposing.

It's great if someone using the best tool for their job is nearly the best tool for the flexible infinity of other use cases, which is what flexible enough duct-tape gets us.
> If there's not a supernatural enforcer then there are no consequences to lying/breaking your oath. Interestingly, it looks to me that even atheists are endorsing this false idea here!

> many folks swear on the Bible out of convention or lack of critical thought, rather than belief, but will rationalize if pressed

You have contradicted yourself here. When someone asks why you swore on the Bible, you tell them the surrounding context, which is a story. You don't need to believe a story to appreciate it, or to continue its tradition. That's what symbolism is all about.

> Amusingly, some really Bible-believing folks will not swear, on a Bible or on anything else, due to Matthew 5:34-37. This intellectual consistency is lost of course when we reduce swearing on the Bible to either convention or magic.

The Bible is infamous for being logically inconsistent. It contradicts itself at every turn.

The result is not that humans are unable to use it to back their opinions! Quite the opposite: nearly any arbitrary opinion can be found to have biblical support.

Of course, religious belief is based on the circular conclusion that arbitrary morals come from The Bible itself, and not from the people reading it. That belief doesn't break the system. Instead, humans simply live with the conflicted ambiguity: it's called "cognitive dissonance".

This is the power of natural language at work: ambiguity. It allows us to hear, express, and manipulate ideas that are not logically sound. Symbols can be explicit and literal, or implicit and symbolic.

Just like GPT is claimed to have "features" and "limitations", the ambiguity of language is a double edged sword. The good news <insert bible joke here> is that we know about it. We are able to objectively recognize the difference between explicit definition and inference. We are able to recognize logical fallacies and their implications. We are able to use science and reason to literally reach new horizons.

And that is why I can see someone "swear on" this book, and feel that I would do the same. It's a beautiful symbol, and a thought-provoking response to a tradition that I, like you, am generally quick to criticize.
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Reminds me of the bit in Silicon Valley where Gilfoyle makes a bot of himself to respond to slack messages. Actually the whole final season is pretty relevant to current events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gFSENorEY
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A permissioned blockchain might be good for that scenario.

If each DMV office had its own read/write copy of the database and it replicated to all the others, that would be a workable answer. Each police department and maybe even every police car, could update itself asynchronously, so if a police car went out of network range it would still have a complete copy of the database. If there were 100 million registered cars and 10 kb of data per car that’s a very comfortable 1 TB of data and if each car got updated once a year that is about 10 GB a day which is a lot for a mobile plan but no trouble to update when you get back to the station.