skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "The United Nations has said India’s population is projected to surpass China’s sometime this year. Many demographers estimate it could happen this month, if it hasn’t already. India’s population is expected to reach 1.429 billion by the end of the year, according to the U.N. China will fall to second place, with 1.426 billion people. Both dwarf the U.S. at a projected 340 million."

So anytime this month (April 2023), though I guess since we are in the middle of the month, they are ready to call it.
I don't see any discussion of manufacturing costs, anything here that might be more expensive than current LED lighting?
What taught me the most about this was managing my parents' home internet from a distance. If it went out, they could hardly even communicate with me to fix it. I quickly learned just how many things can go wrong with Ubiquiti wifi APs or other more advanced tools sitting there.

The final working setup: Basic ISP-provided modem/router/wifi combo, cheap near-zero-config wifi APs to reach distant rooms, entire setup on a lamp timer to cut power for 30min a day at 4AM. The thing is, that solution is decent even if you understand the more advanced stuff.

Now at work I see how many SWEs are, in a way, too smart for their own good. I keep telling them, make your solutions less galaxy-brained. No you are not making another custom DBMS-type thing just to serve a few kinds of requests from adjacent systems. If random other people can't understand it, it'll get rewritten in 2 years tops.
QEMU-System-Ia64
This is not only not relevant, it isn't AI either. Optical flow and motion interpolation have been around for over 25 years, but now people are mistakenly calling them "AI".
Everyone in my country has skin in the game in case of a nuclear attack on my country, which is the possibility I was commenting on.
I played "mumbletypeg" as a child, but until this very moment it never occurred to me that was a corruption of "mumble-the-peg".

Fun to see "Bloody Knuckles" referenced on that wikipedia page, too. Ahh, the good old days.
it's nice that it highlights less popular and obvious - i've discovered a lot linking potato to the Millenium Falcon :) https://www.wikibinge.com/#Potato/Millennium_Falcon
Juice mission blasts off to Jupiter to look for signs of life
I love it, but I fear this is temporary.

Like the early days of the internet when you could open up port 80 on your home machine and connect via unencrypted http. In other words getting unbiased information from LLMs will be a challenge and LLM biases will become political, but right now, for a minute, we can have nice things.
What is actually the obvious reason to ban nuclear detonation in space (Not planetside) other than proliferation & security concerns?
They are probably trying to save GPU power on already hooked users. This is a common trick in Recommendation Systems. You want to spend the most resources / run your most expensive model on users that are just checking out your platform.

A bit like how Poker sites give you better cards in the beginning.
I wonder what chess would be like if it incorporated a fog of war mechanic where you could only see some tiles around each piece, and perhaps rooks could see a straight line all the way down the board.
That is certainly the cynical take.

I get notifications that I want from apps that don't abuse my trust.
Everyone who's thinking about the ramifications of prompt injection attacks now, please consider: This is really just a specific instance of the AI alignment problem. What about when the AI gets really smart, and tries to achieve certain goals in the world that are not what we want? How do make sure that these soon-to-be omnipresent models don't go off the rails when they have the power to make really big changes in the world?

It's the same problem. We have no way to make an AI that's 100% resistant to prompt attacks, OR 100% guaranteed to not try to act in a way that will result in harm to humans. With our current approaches, can only try and train it by bonking it on the nose when it doesn't do what we want, but we don't have control over what it learns, or know whether it has correctly internalized what we want. Like the article says, if you've solved this, that's a huge discovery. With the current intelligence level of GPT it's just a security hole. Once AI's become smarter, it's really dangerous.

If you weren't worried about prompt attacks before and are now, I would say that it makes sense to also reconsider whether you should worry more about the danger of misaligned AI. That 1% or 0.01% situation is guaranteed to come up sometime.
I think (and am maybe imagining?) that there is some kind of tax deduction for empty warehouse space and that technically a floor in an office building with absolutely no employees there qualifies as a warehouse. Not my area of expertise though.

But nevertheless I’ve heard there are some cost optimizations to be had when the office is fully empty too.
Unfortunately it always has been.
Unlike a skimmer on an ATM.
https://archive.md/qzbbb

I'm interested to see what he does. From his public comments, he doesn't understand AI at all, but that's often helpful as a businessman, because you are not constrained by what the technology actually does.
Behemoths are tiny compared to this :)
obviously what I said is not an actual court case and is meant to be a facetious condensation of what would happen.

so after the several days when Disney shows how this LLM was obviously trained on the dataset of available Disney content, and then the defendant responded that they trained on a corpus of pseudo-Disney but then could not produce this corpus it would be reasonable to conclude they were lying.

The parent suggested "No one will be able to prove the source of the data" and that is the kind of thing that programmers for some reason often think is some fantastic gotcha so one can really get away with anything, but it is these kinds of things that the law is generally pretty good in handling.
The so-called Stochastic Parrot paper mentions some specific harms that the "done-and-finished" aspect. in Section 4.2, "Static Data/Changing Social Views", saying,

> A central aspect of social movement formation involves using language strategically to destabilize dominant narratives and call attention to underrepresented social perspectives. Social movements produce new norms, language, and ways of communicating. This adds challenges to the deployment of LMs, as methodologies reliant on LMs run the risk of ‘value-lock’, where the LM-reliant technology reifies older, less-inclusive understandings.
It's not a redefinition when you add "-like" at the end. If I say a particular airplane flies like a rock, nobody needs to clarify that airplanes are not rocks.

But please refer back to the original comment. rektide said it was "un-monolithic", which it is. A virtual machine is less monolithic than baked-in code.

Softirq is the one who brought up microkernels specifically. Softirq is the one that repeatedly steered the conversation back to monokernel versus microkernel.

If you put words in someone's mouth repeatedly until they start using them, you lose the right to complain that they're using the wrong words!

"Why do you want to use the term microkernel?" is the exact opposite of what happened.
My personal mortality rate is 0% so far. Not sure what the fuss is about.
Aside from using Rust as a Python developer with extensive outdated C/C++ experience, I'm really tempted to dive into Zig for all what it's praised for, but nim's hot code reloading [0] feature is so very tempting to me, that I'm not sure if choosing Zig would be a mistake. I do this constantly in Python and would love Rust to have this included in some easy to handle way.

In any case, I'm totally happy with Rust, and apart from the missing hot code reloading, it's so enjoyable to code in.

[0] https://nim-lang.org/docs/hcr.html
Sigh. I'm tired.
Can you please not post flamewar comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
My experience with DJI drones is that once you put anything on them, the tuning of their flight controllers leads to substantially worse flight times, stability, and overall safety.

I know the Mini 3 can carry a naked GoPro without struggling too much, so a mavic might be able to carry a couple hundred grams with decent performance. But the flight characteristics go out the window pretty quickly, so I suspect you couldn’t carry much explosives on these things.

I have no idea how much is needed. Maybe a small amount is fine.
Ask HN: Help me with this chain of thought about AI impact on economy
I have no economics background. But very broadly here's what I'm trying to understand.

1. Companies pay people to build products or provide services

2. People pay corporations to buy these products or services

3. Companies stop paying people and leverage AI or big AI orgs APIs to provide the same services or products (assume AI replaces all workers by this point)

4. People have no money to buy these things

5. How will companies or big AI orgs earn money when no one has money to buy what they are selling?
> the only reason we talk about Apple today at all is because of Jobs and the small group he supported himself with

It's fair to say that success can be attributed to the Apple II, which without Woz wouldn't exist. Yes, he did not make the iPod - but he bolstered Steve when his technical council was empty and was content doing so for next-to-nothing. There's no need to belittle his actions, obviously nothing he did competed with the work Jobs was doing. The two operated in their own lanes.

> Trying to decide which one of them is more intelligent is pointless.

I mean, I agree. Suffice to say that Steve Jobs could have never turned in his first Atari contract if Woz didn't do the work for him, though.
Harry pocketed it.
There's a lot to disagree with there, and I do. I'm very frequently interested in what makes a person or event important to others in the past, and I'm not able to sustain your confidence that 2023 has it all figured out, where every year prior did not.
What I Won’t Eat
TSA is not known to be great at finding weapons, either.
Even with modern technologies and the surfeit of information, it's still not a perfect-information situation. If the cosmos is a computational engine, only the cosmos has the possibility of perfect-information. Everything else is a representational model.

Messing with that information is one of the ways one side can gain an unfair advantage, and why such concepts like OODA was developed.
Thank you, such a nice inspirational and personal writeup! Keep it up!
Using Sumerian cuneiform to compress code for inputting to ChatGPT
I wrote a small POC of getting this model working on my box (I felt inspired after reading this). If anybody else is wanting to try this out, give it a shot here!

https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/dolly-v2-12b-8bit-example

(It's garbage code and this should really just be used as a starting POC. I hope it helps!)
My comment was a criticism of the San Francisco subreddit on Reddit, not of Hacker News. The rules are much more freeform over there and the site as a whole is constantly trying to find its balance between mob rule and moderator authoritarianism.

In this particular case the SF subreddit moderators want it to reflect an aspirational view of how they want SF as a city to be, and the users tend to want to discuss the city as it is.
Few profitable, public, venture-backed US startups in past 15 years
Data blocker dongles are very cheap and effective.
You are correct, but as I mentioned in my post, transactions happen within a matter of minutes on decentralized exchanges.
Here are the TFRs. Two on the 17th and 18th from 6am to 9am MDT. The yellow section. About 15 miles long and averages 7 miles wide.

https://ibb.co/H41P6Md
I've had dreams where I found myself traveling and was presented with maps (in one my car had a HUD where I saw the map on the windshield as I was driving) that seemed to be quite accurate when I recalled them after waking. Even freeway signs with names of towns, roads and freeway numbers that matched reality.
I wasn't aware of this website! It's great, I'm following Apollo 11 right now.
You can try this on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/terms/fog-of-war-chess
I certainly wasn't and appreciate you posting it, great site! A little intimidating initially, but after a minute curiosity has you flicking between the different controller channels and stages in the mission.
And they also have previous painful experience of destroying a Falcon 9 pad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ Really can't afford to repeat that if they are to make the timeline for using Starship as NASA's next lunar lander.
The topic of information disparity is highly interesting to me. Knowledge workers in general have very interesting challenge relating to other workers at different expertise levels, & to others in the org. Each person is somewhat rather isolated in their own knowledge domain & that is the highest loss transmission medium I can think of.

I think there's a lot good points for consideration in this article. It mainly favors a KISS approach. Reciprocally, I hate to say it, but I also feel like there's an overly compulsive YAGNI behavior (you ain't gonna need it). Developers are drawn like hawks to a possible whiff of over complexity, & will descend for the kill. Ambition is talked down & avoided by many voices in most orgs, even when the plans can be quite sound.

What can be really sad is that some devs will convince themselves of doing all kinds of absurd highly compromised labor that they know is a better choice than a slightly more adventurous route that requires some discovery & exploration of known unknowns. The last principle engineer we had kept demanding to make Api calls for a migration because they didnt feel very comfortable with sql, but my heavens the work we went through to do the job thousands of times slower to bend to that was staggering. People will tool away doing things poorly, slowly, repetitively, glued to the safe path, and not advancing.

Becoming a really great developer is hanging in the balance, between letting yourself spiral & lose traction/understanding/focus/being-overwhelmed, and between being relentlessly curious & hungry to learn all the options, how each option works. Finding stuff out is the job, at least as much as doing the work, but training ourselves towards initiative is the hardest practice of all.

There's plenty of other ways to be a very fine developer too. Not everyone has to sign up to contort themselves, to a predisposition of being always staying slightly uncomfortable. But those that can start to lean in & appreciate the endless possible quest-opportunities about us, & who can latch on & dive deep on an option, courageously go find out and see: those folks tend to do very very well. (If placed in an environment where this let's say "ideal" behavior isnt resisted by the org.) It's an amazing life.
For some missions I think there's an exact copy left on earth for easier debugging/testing
Generating plausibly looking bullshit by LLMs will be (already is) super cheap, while LLMs will not significantly help debunking them.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. You've done this before, unfortunately (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35148734). We need that to stop.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Ask HN: What Does LLM Stand For?
Some sources say logic learning machine, and others say large language model.

Does it vary based on the context? Strictly speaking, is a large language model also a logic learning machine?
Why?

Isn't most ethical behavior driven by self-interest? We want to follow general principles that promote respecting those who are similar to us in the hope that others follow the same principles when interacting with us.

AI is too dissimilar for us to worry about whether its "mistreatment" would make it more likely for others to start mistreating ourselves.
That’s every country.
You mean like Strategos?

I experimented with building in something like that into RPG mechanic. It's not so simple as modelling "fog of war" as uncovering terrain like in real-time strategy games, but rather, perception roll checks and modeling morale, discipline, and simulating things like tunnel-vision.
Hmm, maybe give it another try if it's been a while.

It's anecdotes, sure, but I do not experience these issues with the App or the Website.

You can Up/Down Vote on your "Radio" stations - but not your custom playlists (which makes sense).

Pandora offers custom playlists, offline listing, unlimited skips of radio, no ads on radio, "hit" playlits (curated by Pandora and other users) and more. It's radio/discovery algorithm is what kept me with Pandora, but all these features make it on-par with Spotify.
> Closed hashing (aka open addressing, yes it's confusing) hashtables take hash(input) and just do it again to get a second location, and put it there. Repeat N times for N hash(hash(hash(...))) collisions. Dense, but needs more complex logic to figure out when to stop looking / what to do when deleting because anything could be at location X due to a collision with something else.

That's not really the common way to do open addressing [1].
Normally you either use (1) linear probing, where you look at `h(input)`, then `h(input)+1`, ... and so on. This is nice because of data locality. Though you need a good hash function for it to work well. Or (2) Double hashing, where you first look at `h_1(input)` then `h_1(input) + h_2(input)` then `h_1(input) + 2*h_2(input)` and so on. I'm not saying repeatedly hashing `hash(hash(hash(...)))` doesn't work, but it's more expensive to call the hash function so many times.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_addressing
I've only ever lucid dreamed under conditions of extreme stress, nightmares where am being chased by murders etc.

For example I had this dream where I was the guy who got killed in the last bit of The Ring (they think things are OK but Sadako comes for him anyway) and then I was able to lucid dream, control it and beat her up.

https://medium.com/luminasticity/beating-up-sadako-82c5fb3f0...
NBC Bay Area posted the court documents: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23777761/momeni-charg...
I have a bundle because it's cheaper than buying the Internet service by itself. My bundle includes phone but I don't have the house phone connected to it. I also have a cable sports package to watch F1. It's also very annoying to have to search 4 or more streaming apps to find the movie or show I want to watch when Comcast has 90% of it. Cable still provides the biggest variety and there's 3 of us in the family. When Comcast works like it's supposed to, it's impressive.
Light switches and steering wheels never work properly in my dreams. I have to concentrate really hard to get things to follow the rules. Then I wake up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525
Why do we even bother making indie games?
Flatpak is still alive and well: it's commercially supported by Red Hat and has quite a following, especially in the GNOME world. It's last release was last month. Usually a user of Debian packages, I must admit that for desktop use Flatpak is a very slick solution.
Be honest in your statements here: it happens on both sides of the aisle.
Possibly related:

I have a pet theory that holds that primarily attentive ADHD (ADHD-PI) is actually a facet of the type of autism that used to be called Asperger's.

And that ADHD, generally, is an extension just outside of the autism spectrum: possibly bridging into it with ADHD-PI if not the other ADHD classifications.

One of ADHD-PI's most noticeable traits is virtually uncontrollable daydreaming. When auditory / cognitive fatigue or fast-arriving boredom sets in, for example.

Asperger's theory is plagued by glut. Which makes the condition challenging to accurately comprehend, but at the same time doesn't necessarily imply that a lot of the theory is incorrect. Instead, it may imply complexity. Which makes sense given that this condition isn't acquired but instead is characterized by divergent brain architecture and talent / cognitive resource re-parsing from "normal". Similar in concept to an RPG game.

One facet of this glut of Asperger's theory is the school of thought that hypothesizes that Asperger's is some kind of evolutionary forward expression of a type of intelligence. Which is both generous and an unusually positive take within the glut of theory, ignoring for a moment any negatives.

My hypothesis adjusts this a bit, and proposes that Asperger's may be a type of genetically de-selected (low reproduction chance) contribution of a specific intelligence type. Which may have existed in human populations from the beginning. Implying that Aspergian intelligence, which may be associated with an increase rate in daydreaming, isn't so much a forward evolution but a population mainstay that may serve some type of function in the sense of low-rate genetic contribution.

Say having to do with visual processing that implies advanced talent in pattern processing specifically.

Some human intelligence academics, who are not involved in Asperger's research, place emphasis on pattern processing as the possible heart of it.

I can think of obvious reasons as to why whatever group genetic "intelligence" governs genetic evolution, as well as the roughly equal reproduction ratio of men and women as another example, would "want" to bias human evolution as much as possible away from a high rate of human-specific-intelligence gain. Possibly smoothing it out away from purely Aspergian expression and blending it, over time, with our other natures and talents.
That budget number was dramatically overstated. Like, "the company was sued into bankruptcy for fraud because the budget numbers quoted to investors was 2x what they spent" overstated.

Okay, it's closer to 175% of what the budget was. It was around 42M. And it was the North American box-office that was just under 30M. I don't know if they released elsewhere.
The free version acts exactly like Resque, the previous market leader in Ruby background jobs. If it was good enough reliability for GitHub and Shopify to use for years, it was good enough for Sidekiq OSS too.

Here's Resque literally using `lpop` which is destructive and will lose jobs.

https://github.com/resque/resque/blob/7623b8dfbdd0a07eb04b19...
I know well what it is like living in the city. I've done it for 18 years :)

It is too bad people aren't cordial anymore.
It's making up lies.
yea, I should probably use the "you just take the value and push it over there (idx+1)!" as an intro, it's a simpler concept too. thanks!
Power negotiation happens over the CC pins, which are separate bidirectional data pins used only for the simple power negotiation.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573856.
This seems similar to HIR technology, widely available on car headlamps:

“The HIR1 (9011) and HIR2 (9012) Halogen Infrared Reflective bulbs have micro-thin layers of electro-deposited coating on a specially-designed bulb. The coating reflects the filament's infrared (heat) back onto the filament, which results in a hotter filament that produces more light without increased power consumption, shorter bulb life, or extra heat production.“
Really appreciate your feedback. I think customizing the auth0 login page is out of our reach at the moment... but we addressed the other parts of your feedback :) you should be able to use the customize page without having to log in.

(we did change the background color of the login page, you're right that the black background didn't fit in with the rest of our website)

We'd love to hear more from you - don't hesitate to reach out directly, my email is in my bio.