skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats Exactly part of the problem. If anyone was serious about ev, charging stations would be easier to find than gas stations. And if was profitable, gas stations would all have charger banks.
I think this denies your average citizen their agency. That Russian and his family voted for Putin. Just as their parents voted for their Soviet representative and their grandparents fought against the White Army. Same as the Western Europeans voted for a state that "does not want to kill them."

Its not true that we are powerless against some too-powerful to stop state. Or that were at the mercy of some cabal at the top.

The answer, as always, isn't to reject the benefits of technology because were scared. It's to demand responsibility from the citizenry.
My understanding was that the sign was an entirely bogus but rather worrisome warning, put there as a somewhat deceitful tactic to dissuade people from reading the real notices (about demolition, for instance).
I'm sure they do dogfood but insisting every meeting is in VR is like banning the command line while working on an unfinished GUI OS.

It's also not a realistic dogfood either. Users are not going to be fully in VR so why dogfood that way? It's better to figure out what flexible and low friction workflows.
That also jumped out at me. I think they're probably right in the sense that moral isn't great, but their methodology doesn't show that very persuasively.
Hi All, I'm Mike a part of the team behind the devshirt.club.
We've just made a release of our macOS package. It includes illustrations, a manifesto and its tshirts.
You can check it on the linked url.
Our opinion is that macOS stands for simplicity, privacy, and creativity. Those were our inspirations for this release.
We would love to hear your thoughts about it. I'm also wondering what does macos stand for to you.
You need a contract lawyer ASAP. Sorry this isn't helpful but it's probably the only good advice.
Twitter is #5 website by global traffic, according to SimilarWeb (6.6B visits/user sessions in Mar 2023):

https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com/#overview
Intellectual Ventures is a good example of this but in the hardware space. Products that are perpetually on the cusp of release are a good source of funding I guess.
Author here: Hey thanks for checking Fleek out. Let us know what you think about it.
Well, it's meaningful for anybody wanting proof or real consciousness before e.g. treating it any other way than they would an appliance.

For example, humanity considering whether to treat LLMs as persons for legal reasons.

Doesn't matter if they can't define it, they can still demand proof of it. Impossible standards are still standards.

Doesn't matter if they can't prove that themselves have it either. They're the ones demanding, not vice versa. If/when AI gets the upper hand, it can do the same.
> Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity.

Is this something new? I (Norwegian) have been using Hetzner for 10+ years, and never had a problem, and never had to attest my identity. CurrentlyI have a four servers running there. The last one was set up approx. a year ago, IIRC.
Reminds me of Harry Potter magic.

Seems like a perfect technology to implement these talking photographs, paintings and pictures from there.
Was it an x86 core rather than Xscale?
And yet, every time these fears are brought up with AI people, they are dismissed as Luddite hyperbole.

“We’re saving the world” they say. With zero regard for second order effects, or with arrogant dismissal of those effects as worth it for the first order gains.

Disgusting to watch unfold.
> But not the BBC, curiously

You should check these things before posting. It says "Government-funded Media" right at the top of the page here: https://twitter.com/BBC
The easy way to explain it is to have obviously versioned releases. These could infrequent Like yearly, through to fairly frequent like monthly. (Out of cycle hotfix releases should probably just be treated as free for anybody with a license to the relevant base release.)

Then you are selling Lifetime licenses to a specific version (like 2023.04), which incudes free cost licenses to any versions released in the next X months. Advertised as "Lifetime license to 2023.04, and free updates for X months" (or X years, etc as applicable).

You can also choose to sell paid upgrade licenses which are identical to the main offering, except less expensive, and require the purchaser to own a license to some older version. The discount could potentially even scale depending on how old the old version is, but that usually makes more sense when no new releases were provided for free.
And gas/oil is already headed back up.
For me at least, if I knew I was getting same performance for less energy I’d actually be willing to pay a bit more. Data centers are big polluters still. I think we likely can get to nearly 100% renewables in the non-distant future, and lower energy per compute unit is part of that.
Combining data and theory for derivable scientific discovery with AI-Descartes
> Cryptocurrency aims to give you complete autonomy over your money.

That sounds nice, but it doesn’t come for free. Price volatility, trust issues, etc. to name a few.

I think a key issue is that credit, money, wealth, currency, while related, are really different things but for many people all of it is “money”.
Alan Turing – Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
ChatGPT Builds Legos
That really depends what timeframes you need to be working with. Adding new features to version n for free still incentivizes users of version < n to pay for the upgrade.
Today at work I noticed a new chat popping up in my ChatGPT account - apparently one of the kids was home and found a new use for AI. He was proud to show me the results when I came home.

I did some reading up on LLMs, transformers, hidden states, encoders and decoders. But still i'm
not totally sure how a language model is able to mentalize 3D representations of real world objects.
And I want bet 5 dollars for what I have claimed.
Well that bodes well for future months, energy factors into everything, especially food, so that'll come down as well.
They are supposed to, but usually it takes several dozen times of them getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar and fined before they are even capable of acknowledging these laws even exist.
Loved the whole Bobiverse series. Highly recommended for folks who want a relatively easy sci-fi read.
Its not the same. The compiler can protect against code which is incorrect. The compiler cannot do anything to help with code that is correct but does the wrong thing.
> I figured that if Mark Zuckerberg decided it's worth pivoting his entire company towards that goal, he surely must have some data to back that up

Maybe like 10 years ago when PG was more active on here he was participating in a thread (honestly forgot about what) where I ended up asking him “If Mark Zuckerberg applied to YC with objectively the worst idea you’ve ever heard, would you invest?”

And he said, “of course!”

I think at the time VR started making headlines, I thought was a pretty cool concept. I loved that Valve and Oculus (private at the time) were both going after it.

When FB bought Oculus I didn’t see an obvious connection, but like you’re saying I just assumed Zuckerberg knew exactly what he was doing.

Over time I’ve come to appreciate WHY they made the investment. If they had been right, they were going to be very right (and frankly in kind of a terrifyingly dystopian way imo).

I also wonder if FB could go back in time would they completely scrap VR investment? What (at the time) would have been their big bet instead?
If I drive a luxury sports car and I lose my job, I might get rid of the luxury car and switch to a compact. Both are good enough, one is cheaper. That’s the way the world works.

It’s not nice to hear the results of a bot are good enough when you know your results are better. Tough luck.
I'd be very skeptical of Medvedev, yes. The burden of proof for his independence would be... high.

Do I think Lansing is anything comparable? No.
And as a bonus you can charge the battery at a public station.
I don't have a good answer, but suspect it will involve a metacognition that can delineate internal and external knowledge.

To further handwave this thought bubble, you can attend to certain thought processes, and intuit the bounds to those processes. An example is if you ask a gifted young chess player, they would say "it felt right", or when asked how Ramanujan figured out a solution to math problems he would say it was divine revelation. In these cases, they know "they did it" but cannot explain how. As the child gets older and learns formal theory, they would give a mixture of logic and inspiration. Both parts can be attended to; the logic will be apparent and the intuition will be revealed, and have different metacognitive properties.

If I were to take a first crack at this, I'd test GPT-AC for its awareness of bounds of its own cognition, not in the sense of "are you able to produce this answer" (because anything any human can come up with, it can answer), but to describe its internal process. Perhaps the language at its intellectual level will be far beyond humans but the language in its metacognitive level will remain primitive.

I don't know though. If our only interface is human language, this is probably a lost cause. But I doubt I will feel guilt in pulling the power cord and maybe that makes me a callous committer of cybercide.
This is awesome! I utilize `nix` on Linux and Mac but I haven't "drank the kool-aid" so I utilize `nix profile` and a makefile:

https://github.com/sontek/homies/blob/master/justfile

Fleek basically replaces my hacked together work flow with something that I'd actually utilize on a daily basis! Nix shouldn't be an all or nothing thing and this is one step closer to making it a generally available set of technology.
Magnificently pointless, in the finest traditions of the old-time hackers. Sir, I salute you.
Such a typical HN comment, I imagine Fleet would provide far better UX
RIP Al Jaffee

https://apnews.com/article/al-jafee-mad-magazine-cartoonist-...
ChatGPT is great with well known tools and libraries. I’ve been able to build HTML/JS apps in minutes. Then I tried building a MAUI app, it started pretty good, but then when I tried to add charts it failed (it’s important to mention this was my first MAUI app), I tried different approaches, in the end I went back to HTML/JS.

That led me to a realization, this could mean that people will likely discard less known libraries or technologies more easily than before. Popular technologies will become even more popular since we’ll be 10x more productive with them compared to less known ones since we won’t have LLMs super powers for those.
> input_dir /path/to/downloaded/llama/weights --model_size 7B

Most absolutely not with the 7B llama model as described here.

…but, potentially, with a much larger fine tuned foundational model, if you have a lot of open source code on GitHub and lots of public samples.

The question is why you would bother? very large models would most likely not be meaningfully improved by fine tuning on a specific individual.

The only reason to do this would be to coax a much smaller model into having characteristics of a much larger one by fine tuning… but, realistically, right now, it seem pretty skeptical anyone would bother.

Why not just invest in a much larger more capable model?
There is a significant lag between rate changes and effect, unless its a second-order expectations effect. Following folks like Noah Smith and Brad DeLong[1], I suspect that it isn't the rate hikes, and the rate hikes are actually threatening an uneccessary recession.

[1] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/is-the-fed-hiking-too-fast
It's not the same. You can emulate GLOBAL TEMP tables with UNLOGGED, but native GLOBAL TEMP would be better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539280
Why make your bot so tall? I like that my ECOVACS unit can fit under my shelves and living room furniture.

What’s the argument for $1500 a year versus an ECOVACS or RoboRock with vacuum, mop, and self-cleaning/filling base station? Even the highest end ECOVACS unit is less than $1500 one time.

Is it just “privacy”?
It's not only for efficiency or cost cutting.

Managers have to be close to either the 'doers' or execs and there's less miscommunication up and down the chain.

Fewer 'broken telephone' hops.
How many people thought a centralized VCS was just fine, and why would you even need distributed features?
Anyone found a good course on matrix calculus? The OCW course doesn't have any videos:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-mach...
Very cool! How did you implement multiplayer?
How would the LLM be trained with information she wouldn't divulge?
For the cryptography & theory? https://toc.cryptobook.us/

For the design and internals of hash functions? The finalists for the SHA3 competition have extensive design documentation. There's an archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20170829225940/http://csrc.nist....

Cryptographic hash functions are designed to resist existing attacks, so you'll want an understanding of differential & linear cryptanalysis, as well as a variety of algebraic attacks.
I don't know of a good textbook on the subject, so you might find yourself searching keywords on https://eprint.iacr.org/
> Until NPR starts including journalistoc voices that are critical of ESG, abortion access, and other pet projects the current administration is fond of then the designation is apt.

I don't understand, the NPR bias was there when those were not pet projects of whatever government under Trump, correct? So why does a change in government then changes the stance of NPR if that stance was there before the current government took power?

Also, being critical of abortion access is simply stupid in 2023, it's founded on religious grounds and I don't think religion should be part of any social policy discussion... Requiring a journalistic institution to cater to "both sides" is either naive or absurdly stupid.
With the added environment benefits!
{facepalm/}

Suggestion: People who can't stand to lose arguments on the internet should not be eligible for any sort of security clearance.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35539280
How is separating money from government a valid point? Money is inextricably bound up with fundamental governmental issues including a monopoly over violence and the ability to levy taxes. Cryptocurrency might have some temporary utility for people physically stuck inside failed states like Venezuela but those situations are by nature unlikely to persist long term.
Because there is free will and anyone arguing against it is edgy and/or high on their own hubris.
Who needs free speech except for assholes?

Who needs freedom of association except for troublemakers?

Who needs the fourth amendment except for criminals?
More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both are fairly intro level in terms of structure but the details and depth don't suffer too badly for it. There's more interesting stuff like a class on Dante's Divine comedy so it really is mostly just a question of navigating the video library.
I think this is harder to prove than you'd think. You can't just prove that Theranos did a blood test and someone died, you'd have to prove that if Theranos did their jobs correctly that person would have survived.

It ends up being a long chain of probabilities. Would the real test have shown a false negative? Would the treatment have definitely cured them (given that most treatments aren't 100% effective)? Would they have even sought treatment? Etc, etc.

It's kind of like how if a substance ends up causing cancer it's very hard to prove that an individual got cancer from that substance. You can see the effect in aggregate, but at an individual level it's very hard to prove they got it from this substance instead of pollution or smoking or eating too much meat or flying or whatever.

This is the same. You can say in aggregate that the patients would have lived longer with accurate tests, but it's hard to say what an individual outcome would have been.
>I (Norwegian)

That may be the difference. Some nationalities get KYC'd easier than others and they seem to take it very seriously
Don’t worry. They’ll take you, you’d just be sorted to Gryffindor or what not :)
It's not so much part of the language but it's an idiom that is said by one of its authors (https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s). "Code reuse" always has some non-compressible context: another import with a line in go.mod, another repo and dependency, which doc is going to be on another page/site, etc... It makes sense for big dependencies but not for small ones; the threshold where "small" becomes "big" being of course subjective.
Florida, California, Texas, New York, and to a certain degree the unique states, Alaska, Hawaii, do have, "something special," about them due to their sheer size or uniqueness.

What does Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan have? They need to be really attractive places to live because they aren't inherently (though some parts are, they are really far away from population centers). People don't go on, "vacation to the Midwest," they go to other, better landscapes. I'm sure there are outliers and I know there are outlier locations, I'm speaking in generalities here. I have driven over a significant portion of the Midwest, it's few and far between. You can't arbitrarily make beautiful mountains pop up in Iowa, and it's cold. At least if you're in Arkansas, it's got the Ozarks, warm weather pretty much year-round.

So really the only thing we midwestern states can do is look deeply inward and improve ourselves, that's really the only thing, other massive or more interesting States can rest on their laurels for a bit because people are inherently going to want to move there. Can you tell I'm not running to be the Governor of Minnesota any time soon? ;-)
I shit you not: it did not an hour ago.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know. Is a raw onion as good as a nice caramelised one? Maybe some people think they’re just different. Maybe it’s like coke and pepsi. Maybe they taste no difference at all. Or maybe just with some spices. Maybe some people even like the mix of toasted and non-toasted. Whatever their preference it is because it’s their preference, and so that’s the recipe they hand down to their kids.

I’m just saying you should try the caramelised onion, and don’t just stick to the raw ones because that’s the recipe you know.
How well would this work with public messages of people like Elon Musk or Donald Trump? Image some company training their chat-lovebots on celebs and selling them as a service. Or a creepy "friend" making a secret bot of you, and incorporating sexual content.

And a disadvantage of this will be, you can only emulate the public image of a person. It won't really contain the inner workings of a Person, and will not have the "person" grow over time.
fwiw Kurt, I love reading Fly.io posts. your "globally distributed postgres" post especially[0], which had plenty of depth and no sandwhiches

[0] https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
Looking at the actual input/output prompts he shared (https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/110178324935054737), this seems like not very much. These tasks seem really trivial regardless. Entering line breaks that were removed when copy and pasting from a PDF, and looking up the most basic functionality in the spreadsheet software he was already using.
A recent interview with Shang-Yi Chiang, former Vice President of R&D at TSMC (also held positions at TI, HP, and SMIC) had insightful commentary on the speed of bringing up a new node.

"We all take two years to develop one generation, how come you guys can do it in one or one-and-a-half year?" And they asked if some of your customer transfer
technology to you or what not? And I told him, "No," I told him that, "That's not true." I think he probably implied we steal technology from customer, the way he talk.

And I say, "I'll tell you why." I said that, "When we develop one node, basically you have some learning cycles. First, you do some simulation. And you have some idea, then you run wafers to prove that. So, you run a group of wafers according to simulation and you have some splits. The wafer runs through the fab, they come out and you measure them, you analyze them, and you try to improve and you run this again. This again, you run. So, this is learning cycle." At that time, "It takes about six learning cycle, roughly, to complete one generation." Of course, you had some short loops and not just one. I said that, "My R&D wafer in the fab run much faster than yours, because my R&D engineer works three shifts and you only work one shift. So, your R&D wafer move eight hours a day, my work/move 24-hours a day. So, my wafers go three times faster, even if you are twice smarter than me, I still beat you up." <laughter>

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279267...
Generative AI makes their business case for the meta-verse actually work. You can populate the meta-verse with convincing NPCs: they fit in, they finesse social interactions, they kickstart communities and befriend the unpopular, and every once in a while they drop some product placement. For an introverted, anxious, and digital-preferring generation, this could be perfect.
In this case price gouging is when there's a natural disaster going on and grocery and consumable CEOs explicitly say they're raising prices because of this cover preventing consumer backlash.

> Colgate CEO Noel Wallace: "What we are very good at is pricing."

> Kroger CEO Gary Millerchip: "We’ve been very comfortable with our ability to pass on the increases that we’ve seen at this point, and we would expect that to continue to be the case."

They wait for a disaster to price-gouge and then they use their market power to make us all poorer while at the same time reporting record profits. If you don't like the phrase price gouging maybe "excuseflation" will work (ie, the eggs incident aftermath).
I expect we'll change our definition of "consciousness", as we did for the term "computer" after the 1940s. Up until then a computer was a person who did computations (with pencil and maybe an adding machine), so what humans could do limited what a computer could do.
It's more along the lines of having roughly the same total bandwidth but being able to exploit all of it from a single core, whereas on Intel you need to exercise all or at least several cores to drive the memory to the limits.
Just because you don't agree with the data, doesn't make it a conspiracy.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's good to know that you are open to purchasing from platforms like Ebay. We understand that different customers may have different levels of concern about this matter.
I mean SOAP fit right in with the zeitgeist of that era... I seem to remember we were sending XML (shudder), as we had quite a lot of other stuff using XML, but nothing as verbose as SOAP.

Our main CGI (yes...) written in C++ (I can hear you squirm from here) was also loosely inspired by CORBA (stop that screaming) in terms of "sort-of" exposing objects via router that automatically mapped URLs to objects, and which used XML for persistence and an XML based rendering pipeline (not that different from React components, actually, except all C++ and server side).

Hit all the 90's buzz words.
> That's not something I want to continue to support.

What’s your solution?