skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. Looks like a terrific implementation.

Here are things I think and wonder having watched your video and browsed your website...

It makes a very big claim but offers little information. I suppose it's early days but I would need to know things about the interaction with my database.

You give it a connection string only. Is it your claim that it will figure out my database, as if an embedded training set? With no further guidance on my part?

Considering that most of the world uses SQL, your choice to use Mongo in the video demonstration makes me wonder. Is SQL query generation a future thing? That makes me wonder about the status of the project?

You show nice graphs in the demo. Are there limits to what kinds of graphs it can make? Is it some kind of AI generator tech that would allow me to ask it to make anything?

I think this is a really nice looking and potentially wonderful app. I wish you all the luck.
I’m all for capitalism. What Im tired of is tech workers, of which I am one, automating people’s jobs away.
Synthetic cannabinoids, cathinones, DMT, fentanyl, electronic music, smart phones, wireless internet
It's using pronunciation to infer regional/class origins, and it's widespread in most languages. See for example southern accents in American English, which can be associated with rednecks.
Elon talks about IP adresses like my wife, who is blissfully unaware of its intricacies. I mean, each person and company gets one IP address so we can track them, right? Right?
cannot rust functions do anything a c function can?
Huh, if you had hard links, won't the second file pointing to the data on the disk still exist somewhere else? I.e. the file would still be intact? And the disk space wouldn't be marked free/be in danger of being overwritten?
I think Substack Notes is the most viable alternative to Twitter and stands to capture a lot of the userbase as Twitter continues to go down the drain. I mean, adding the doge meme thing to the UI is so cringey that I just haven't been logging on to avoid the pangs of cringe.

But "Tweeting" sounds so natural now. What are we going to call posting on Substack Notes? "Noting"? "Subbing"? "Stacking"?
wgot? whad?
My family had a textile factory in Israel from the 1970s until the mid 90s - it used to be very, very profitable until the market opened up to imports from China/India in the 90s. Within a few short years my parents had to shut down the factory because they couldn't compete with countries where the prevailing wage was < 1/10th as much as Israeli minimum wage.
Looks like this one decides how many and what models to use, and models can generate images as well as text.
This particular blog entry reads like a very competently-executed, 5-paragraph high school writing assignment. Bravo!
If you write to cache, then depending on architecture that change has to be made visible to every other thread as well. Reading is not subject to such a constraint.
This is often given as an excuse, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are just showing something I already own and I never buy vía ads anyway.
Goroutines are the go-to of concurrent programming. A C# task without a handler or modern synchronisation mechanisms.
This actually would solve a lot of problems also. Rent-seeking isn't very productive compared to what removing it enables.
Because the retailers and the manufacturers aren't the same companies - the retailers are looking for the cheapest goods to buy and have a lot of other expenses as well (rent, wages for shop staff, capital for maintaining inventory, etc).
Put it like that: uneducated people will more easily disregard paying for content, and fighting structures that promote education will worsen that phenomenon.
Super interesting to me. I think a lot of developers like the Ikea aesthetic.

Definitely far more interesting than the deluge of crypto and AI articles.
And San Francisco boast 2.5x more violent crime per square mile than any other U.S cities. Kicker, that is, ... is per square mile.

Yep, the crime reporting has and will continue to go on a downward trend.
And why the struggle must always continue!

A society doesn't simply implement socialism (or any system) and call it a utopia. There will always be forces and counter-forces. Fascism will continue to find a way back into any system it can.
It’s hard to grasp how complex accounting can be for companies. EY is not auditing small businesses, these are large multinational companies and per audit guidelines they likely just audit random samples of accounts. It’s not as simple as let’s pull a listing of all bank accounts and make sure everything ties. The actual effectiveness of audits is a different conversation.
> Google for instance decided to just pull out of the market

Not out of any moral sense. They were pissed off that China kept hacking their data centers.

>In the end, though, it wasn’t censorship or competition that drove Google out of China. It was a far-­reaching hacking attack known as Operation Aurora that targeted everything from Google’s intellectual property to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The attack, which Google said came from within China, pushed company leadership over the edge.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-googl...

They went on to create a censored search engine, named after their founder's mega-yacht, to try to get back into China.

> Google’s internal project to bring censored search back to China, Dragonfly, was kept secret until revealed by The Intercept. Internal dissent, objections from senators and the vice president, and worldwide protests followed.

https://theintercept.com/collections/google-dragonfly-china/
I think you're reading guilt where there is none. I just mentioned that it's a sound business decision, as well as a better decision for the employee who likes Elm, to not hire people who like using a tool your company no longer uses. There's no guilt on either side, it's just pragmatism.
Hey, he wrote C in the 90's, yo. Don't you dare question him!!!
Oh yes it very much is.
But as it often goes, free speech absolutists don't remain so when they get the power to censor.
I saw an interview a while back with a mineralogist discussing Afghanistans natural resources.

The summary: it doesn’t matter what Afghanistan has because the political situation is a mess.

It’s not about who controls Kabul. It’s the social structure of the entire country.
Similar things happened in New Zealand to another writer who was critical of China[0]. The government didn't even want to hear about it. I challenge the Dutch government to do better where it comes to protecting their own citizens.

[0] https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/108649435/professor-annemarie...
> The reason to come up new proofs these days is solely for the novelty, not because we have a need for a simpler proof.

On the contrary, every new way to prove a known theorem has the potential to be applicable in other areas of the same or related fields, extending the mathematicians' toolset with new instruments. These new methods often serve as a seed for new discoveries.
Help users port over their own social graphs, and assist recommendations.
Named after Edwin Jarvis, Tony Stark’s butler in the comics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Jarvis
In the context of tech it was a period of stagnation. I’ve been working in the industry since the early nineties. All of the nineties was a period of dizzying acceleration of compute with new possibilities opening up every year. Things slowed down quite a bit after 2001 and went pretty comatose for much of the 2010s. Of course there were constant streams of hype and excitement over not very much. The one transformative technology that emerged during this era is affordable and powerful mobile devices. The rest was pretty middling.

I have high hopes for this decade with the excitement building up around generative AI technologies. My only hope is that the tech can be democratized quickly enough to be accessible to players of all sizes, not just the tech molochs.
bookscan.us has a book scanning service for $1/300 pages.

There's a bit of friction though. It could be much simpler.
His actions and words also resemble those of a person dangerously sleep-deprived, but maybe it's just Elon being Elon.
Finally. Jeez.
So explain the logic that API abuse leads to inability to like or retweet a discussion of the company at fault on the service.
The full tweet is

> 1. Substack links were never blocked. Matt’s statement is false.

> 2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.

> 3. Turns out Matt is/was an employee of Substack.
Well I didn't know about Substack Notes, now I do. Streisand Effect strikes again.
> Why do you think that is a good source for the topic at hand?

The obvious downward line even as population and farm output increased prove your argument was completely false. That’s as much as I care to prove. Do some damn research.

> Am I understanding you correctly - you believe that temperature is like a pendulum, where after a period with increased greenhouse gases, it will somehow swing to be colder than it would have been without that period? Why do you think so, and how do you believe this to work from a thermodynamics perspective?

Hell no. I am saying if the level of greenhouse gasses drops there will be lag in the other direction. There’s nothing special about the direction of lag it’s simply a delay before equilibrium.

Clearly you haven’t understood what I said or the topic at hand and need to do some actual research before you keep spouting more nonsense.
Right, I'm not disputing that it can be an extremely useful tool. I often use it myself to bounce ideas or to ask an open-ended questions that search engines are failing to answer, with mixed results.

My belief is that there's a huge rift between GPT-n being an extremely useful tool (which it often is) and it being able to outright replace your job.
I’d reckon the simpler answer is more likely a jpeg or mp4.
Depends on the incentives. As long as they don’t try to monetize it via ads or some other method that rewards “engagement” they might do something interesting.
only when using `unsafe` which this forbids
I have a design bias- I pretty much refuse to build anything for the front end that is not easily testable without using a headless browser as part of my test suite. Headless browser driving adds so much more resource consumption and time to the test suite over time that it defeats the entire purpose of a test suite, which is to (as quickly as possible) assess if any logic in the app has begun violating expectations, so you can proceed with building the next thing quickly without backpedaling and without waiting.

I completely understand that individual browsers may have this or that problem or idiosyncrasy and that may need to be tested but I'd put that in QA, not your official standard app test suite. At the most I'd test whether endpoints actually spit out HTML, CSS etc. but not actually check the rendering step. I do have a JS suite as part of my full test that uses jsdom to check DOM manipulation but it is only because it is not resource-intensive and runs fast.
Well, they didn’t up until Elon took charge, so yes, Elon did this
Oh, good! Then the cheap, easy, greasy calories I get at McDonalds are just as good for me as fresh produce, good bread, and high-quality meat!

Man, that's such a relief.
The age of Social media.
But, he did. That's like saying "Hey, this company would have done this bad thing under any leadership, so let's not hold current leadership accountable." He bought it, all the shares, eliminated the board, eliminated leadership from many departments. He wanted it all, and now he has it, and so he's way more accountable for EVERY decision than the average CEO.
The pictures are beautiful. But I don't see the old geodesic dome. Is it safe? Is it alright?
App developers have to deal with this every day. And it's call a free market in that context, I don't see the difference between that and art in this context.

People straight up clone every good app that shows up on the app markets and you might as well make and sell templates for any good looking, well designed web site you own because someone is going to scrape it and do that for you if you don't.
That is what we have to deal with in the software world all the time and any complaints there simply get a shrug and a "welcome to capitalism" from the more experienced developers.

If it were stealing, the artists making the accusation could make their case in court or perhaps the companies could since they own the rights, but that also means the comic artists actually have no grounds for complaint, they sold their rights. You don't get to complain about the use of something you don't own anymore.

I can understand the shock some of the comic artists must have had when discovering later in life that Lichtenstein had done this; but, their anger should be directed at the companies who gave them a bad deal as well as at themselves for accepting that raw deal and never looking for something better.

For any actively working comic strip artists though, if you are aware someone is making 10x, 100x, 1000x off of very similar pieces based on your original work, you have no excuse to keep doing what you're doing.

That person has demonstrated that you are wasting your time and giving up the rights to your work for pennies on the dollar compared to what your work could be worth.
If you want to make millions too, the obvious thing to do is make a full sized image of anything you make for the comic strips and sell those in art galleries. If you can't do that under your current contracts, drop those contracts.

You can always out compete copycats. You're the original, so you always have an edge there.
And if you can't out compete Lichtenstein, then you must admit that he is doing something other than simply copying you. There's something he's got that people see as more valuable than just the image itself. Figure out what that is and do that too.

By the way, even if your full sized images don't sell well, the fact that you are selling in art galleries gives you grounds to sue the guy if he keeps trying to copy your work.

There were always ways to stop this guy or replicate his success, if any of those comic artists really wanted to. But they didn't start complaining until he was making a bunch more money than they were. That is just raw jealousy.
I’m very excited to see how technology impacts financial reporting in the future. We’re rapidly approaching a point where every single transaction could be audited in real time with software, and the details of each transaction automatically scrutinized.
Yeah, I wish cryptocurrencies haven't been invented so that human trafficking wouldn't exist at all.

I mean just think about it. A FULL 3%* of all cryptocurrency transactions are related to criminal activities! If we ban those 3% (and the other 97% because why not), we will stop all human trafficking or at least make a noticeable dent in it because most traffickers rely on cryptocurrency and absolutely don't use traditional currency as the main way to transact.

Perhaps if cryptocurrencies do finally get banned, it would at least help certain individuals to think more critically, or perhaps start thinking at all. One can only wish.

[*]: 3% because it's the most extreme reputable statistic out there. Most reputable studies place transactions related to illicit activities well bellow 1%.
Lots of work that steadily improved things. E.g. a lot of the research that Generative AI is built on happened in the 2010s.
2010's were definitely all about putting a phone in every humans hands.
IP exists to encourage the creation of ideas that are easy to copy.

Land is neither created nor easy to copy.
> There is a Latin American country (I forget which one) where the street addresses are essentially unusable and the mail carriers have to find the final location by using their own knowledge of the area.

This is definitely the case in India and I used to look for a postman when lost.
Don't know much either, but I found this Money Stuff story interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-04/privat...

Someone was CFO at two companies and the auditors only checked the year end balance against his falsified statements. So he transferred money from the other company temporarily to make them match.

"""To avoid detection, Morgenthau doctored African Gold’s monthly bank statements
by, for example, deleting his unauthorized transactions and overstating the available account balance in any given month by as much as $1.19 million. [...]

Morgenthau knew that African Gold’s auditor would confirm directly with the bank the actual account balance as of December 31, 2021, as a part of its year-end audit. [...]

Morgenthau deposited more than half a million dollars of Strategic Metals’ funds into African Gold’s bank account on December 31, 2021, because he knew that African Gold’s auditor would confirm the account balance as of that date, in connection with African Gold’s year-end audit.
"""

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr2023-1...
> Then it is completely fair for me to not give you any wealth because the machines out perform you.

unless you're going to start your own nation state you are still subject to the whims of the electorate

and they are not going to like this, one bit
Your business? AI can destroy your whole country. Just wait for the next elections.
In the US I suspect cheap and low quality appliances are source of a lot of wasted energy, which are the default in most new construction. My refrigerator runs ~75% of the time these days, despite my attempts to clean its exterior components. Its a pretty cheap model my home builder put in. I suspect it was intended to simply fail years ago and get replaced with typical family of 3-4 usage. But since I live by myself, my usage of it was not quite hard enough to trigger that failure. So it keeps on churning away, burning up the juice.
Or it's purposefully bad to incentivize people to use their app which has more tracking. I've had React frontends that were performant and plain JS frontends that were laggy. It's not really a factor of the framework.
I have the impression that their advertising and cloud businesses are just not welcome in China, and if that's correct then it's all practicality and no ethics involved.

All the market analyst comments I've read about moving manufacturing of phones focused on cost and supply chain reliability with no mention of ethics either.
So it says nothing about using Flutter even though the entire purpose of Flutter is to write cross platform apps and Google is moving toward not writing cross platform apps and are using standard UIKit components.

They also aren’t using Dart and are using Objective C.

But that doesn’t mean they are moving away from Flutter for first party apps?
> Or can the numbers all add up but there's still fraud?

Yes, of course. Consider that you've set up a separate company and you intend to steal money from your employer. You've got a buddy in accounts payable that you're in cahoots with. You get set up as a vendor, you send invoices to the company, they pay them, and you never deliver anything. The company's numbers add up. They pay vendors for services all the time. Whether the vendors are real, the contracts are legitimate, and the expected services were provided isn't on the account statements.
It's long gone and buried under ice
Ok, I understand your point now, and I agree with it for the most part. AGI really is a singularity. We can't see past it, and nobody knows what a society with AGI would look like, or even if there is room for humans in it. I think not. AGI will likely be our last invention as a species and the next step in natural evolution of life will be intelligent design (initiated by us!) Oh the irony.

So you're right that running full speed towards AGI is incredibly dangerous, and while it might still mean progress for life, it might not be progress for humanity. AGI may be one of the few technologies that are not progress. I'd argue nuclear fission so far has not been progress either, but that story has not yet fully played out. You could also think of other hypothetical and current technologies where the risks far outweigh the rewards. Imagine we find a way to unlock an energy so vast that a small group could unlock it and unleash it and super-heat the entire atmosphere of the planet, killing nearly all life. There's no law of physics that says that's impossible - and once discovered, there's no way to defend against some suicidal nutjobs doing exactly that. That's one of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox.

But AGI also may be our destiny - there may be no way to avoid it. Even if we could agree in the US to stop advancing AI, other countries will not agree, and so it continues anyway and the US just loses control over it. You can replace the US above with any country with the same game theoretic outcome. So game theory involving competing groups may possibly be an unstable system that ends in self destruction. That's another solution to the Fermi Paradox.

Then there's the detail that current LLMs like ChatGPT are not AGI, and probably don't lead there. They're a fancy parlour trick, but not really intelligence. So progress on LLMs may or may not bring us closer to AGI, nobody really knows. Stopping work on it now would halt progress, but only for those groups foolish enough to do so.

I don't yet see a path to being cautious and intentional about its development and use of AI. The genie is out of the bag, and can't be put back in. The same way nuclear fission can't be undone - although that's a bad analogy since it's much easier to control. Maybe we figure out a way to do that in future, but AI development is just the development and spread of information, and that's impossible to control.

What I think we can do, as you mentioned, is modify our societal and economic systems to be more fair and to not leave so many people behind who's skills have been obsoleted.
The same way we would treat someone today who wants to build an engine powered by magnets, gravity or fueled by water. Someone who wants to map personality traits onto the position of the celestial bodies. Someone who wants to build a device to talk with people in the after life. Someone who wants to use remote viewing or channeling to discover useful things. etc etc

It is not that we don't know how to work on those things. We can build things, we can try different approaches. We could perfectly document what has been tried. In stead the proposed work will be shut down by angry emotional responses.

This while in many scientific efforts the useful application of the discovery is unknown. Some efforts look truly nonsensical! Say, what could appear more useless than to document the culture of some primitive unwashed jungle dwellers? That steam engine from Heron of Alexandria! It was completely useless at the time. A seemingly nonsensical effort.

Nothing but emotions is preventing us from spinning up a data center to do astrology. We would all line up to scream how IT MIGHT NOT WORK! which is hilarious if you think about it.
I was being polite. Trump was the symptom not the disease. The disease has always been present in all societies. It’s merely tolerated or shown more or less over time.