skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, "making something" and "starting a business" are two different things. I would challenge you to point out where in the post he argues against making something, especially for the reasons you mention.

The author states up directly, "Don’t make a website or an app. Don’t build a system".

Starting a business doesn't have to follow any real "formula". It can be a step in the beginning, middle, or end of a process. Yes, you should have the ingredients for a cake before you bake it, but you don't need to find someone who will eat your cake before you bake one or offer it for sale and you sure as shit don't need to "find real people whose problem you can solve. You listen deeply to find their dream scenario."

> Consider the possibility that you're in the minority there, and that you succeeded despite performing no validation, rather than because of it.

While I never claimed it was due to not performing validation, we can clarify that yes, it is not due to this, it is despite not doing it. Validation itself can be found in successful sales or other means, it does not need to be done pre-market and there are many examples of this, aside from the horses quote I provided.

And yes, I, in the same way the author declares it, declare it as bogus because these rules do not need to be followed in the way the author claims.

The post is riddled with questionable content, IMO, made to hit the wannapreneur market.

I don't dare tell someone how to start a business. It's their business, it's their journey, they should do it how they want.
Yes, but the "I recommend this installation method" bit is slightly better :)
A single threaded OS. I remember that sometimes I launched a slow process in emacs, and then can do nothing but wait.
I've actually seen a rare case where a rebooting machine with messed up DMA tables managed to deliver incoming network packets to the hard drive, corrupting it. It took a bunch of really smart people a long time to figure that out.
> I've been able to use phind + Co-pilot to learn python

> I don't have to [...] build a mental model

You are not actually learning.
Is it? Most data that exists falls under copyright. This regulation will be worse for hobbyists who can't pay to access copyrighted data will simply cause companies like OpenAI to pay copyright holders (read: large copyright-holding corporations). This looks bad for everyone except large preexisting companies that hold lots of copyright.
Looking at how the Fantastic Beasts series turned out, I'm not sure if her involvement is actually a positive.
If people can not protect or make a living from their work then they lose some of the motivation to create, many will stop producing work altogether.

Interestingly, AI had to steal creators work to exist and did so without permission. AI in its current conception is cannibalising its own source material and risks being regulated out of existence.

Had OpenAI et all acted responsible and within copyright law, they would have only used free use material. Instead they scraped social media and creator websites on the basis that if it was online it's 'fair use'.

People have a right to protect their work.

I expect to see many lawsuits brought against AI companies in the next coming years.
They don't need access, they just need to send an email.
Except that in this case GM is still using Android Automotive the kernel (not to be confused with Android Auto, the user feature they plan to disable; thanks Google marketing for two easily confused brand names here). GM is still ceding a fair amount of control to Google and Google apps even if apparently Google is promising GM far more user data sharing.

(Which leaves me somewhat wondering how much Google is paying GM to eliminate Apple CarPlay from the picture? Apple seems the only company inconvenienced here. Most of the inconvenience is born by the users of a loss of key user-facing features.)
Someone could also bring in a USB charger and mount it onto a table to make it look like it was installed by the airport.
Im not going to name names, but i know of a system still using sunos 4 in prod...

I really loved solaris. Its such a shame how sun worked out. Oh well. FreeBSD has some of the features we had in 2005 on solaris 10...
while the defects were present

Oh they're still there, that's why the MAX7 and MAX10 still haven't been certified.
If you buy regular USB-C cables design for data they will charge exactly as fast as the USB-PD cables. UBS-PD is setup as a spec so companies can sell cheaper cables just for charging.

To avoid this kind of problem, you need to add an adaptor or cable with the data pins disabled.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082WDHS22/ref=vp_d_cpf-substitute...
Most of the time when I'm dreaming it never even occurs to me that I might be in a dream until I wake up.

I have even had some cases where it did occur to me, and I started lucid dreaming (which was very cool), but then I reverted to my default this-must-be-real dreaming state. That was very weird.
Before Linux took off, I remember playing around with Coherent on either a 286 or 386SX box. It was enough of a Unix clone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)

It cost around $100, IIRC. It also came with an incredible manual, covering the OS, C programming, system calls, etc.
I have build Psono, an open source password manager. The company was founded about 2.5 years ago (during the high times of COVID) and it was generating $4k on average directly from start. One should mention that I developed the product for a couple of years before I started the company and already had customers alined before I founded the company. I was running it then for 1.5 years as a side project and then beginning of this year decided to quit my cozy WFH, well paid, not stressfull day job to work full time on it (with recession and mass layoffs in the news).
« Happiest place to live » is only because we are still living on the wealth accumulated during our glorious centuries. We are still feeding on the remains of those beast, which thankfully for us includes things like buildings and infrastructures that cannot easily loose value, and landscapes that look good enough to attract tourists to feed us.

Think about how much better EU was compared to the rest of the world in the 20th century, or the 19th or 18th (not to account for wars, of course).

21th century is likely to become the time were EU stops being the best place to live at all.
Maybe even axes on a graph, where prisons strive to be on the Pareto front at different points.
> If an alien species is technologically advanced enough that they can cross the universe, I find it hard to believe they simply wouldn't understand concepts like stealth, strategy, etc.

If they are that advanced, would they care about stealth or strategy?
>Each well-written review would shave four days off an inmate's sentence.

What about lifers?
There's this fun little article here proposing the spider web as an external extension of intelligence for the spider: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-2...

I think it's worth distinguishing intelligence from consciousness (and sentience).
Previous discussions over the last two days:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568388

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35551870
> I don't want to derail the conversation, but there are many pretty weird and diverse ideas in mathematics, including finitism and ultrafinitism (where people just don't believe in some very large numbers), various subsets of peano axioms (where 1 != 0 may not be provable), or modular arithmetics (where 0 = 2 may be true).

That's not really what I'm talking about. I'm imagining somebody who is so sure of their own mathematical reasoning skills that upon proving to themselves that the number one, in its simplest sense, was equal to the number zero, they started behaving as though this were the case. Perhaps going mad and (in good service of the analogy I'm making) killing themselves.

> I'm not convinced I should listen the Things absolutely. The Things often tell me to hit someone annoying in the face, eat exclusively very caloric and fat food, and seek sexual gratification with every female of age around me. I don't think the Things are as smart as you give them the credit for.

FWIW I think everything you're listing has some amount of instinctive conflict. Violence requires you to disable empathy. Chronic gluttony eventually requires you to turn off your ego and hate yourself. These are conflicts that (apologies for leaning heavily on this point, but it's kind of central) pretty much everybody, from a very young age, learns about and has to work through.

The red flag is when you arrive through cold reasoning alone at a conclusion that makes no sense to any of your instincts, as evidenced by the fact that the average person off the street is completely bewildered by your conclusion. Like the idea that you should starve yourself for no other reason than that you have freed your spirit of all desire.

> What about... [four moral case studies]

Moral conflicts are still moral conflicts. Killing to avoid killing, violence to avoid violence. In the more difficult cases, perhaps even killing to avoid non-lethal violence (e.g. slavery), or even suicide to avoid extreme pain or the moral paralysis of your family members. Yet again, the sorts of decisions that people actually have to make with some regularity. The sorts of things we feel we need to teach children about, as they become adults.

Suicide for purely ascetic reasons is not a moral conflict. From an unlearned perspective, it's just wasteful and bizarre. It seems to be the ethical equivalent of the mathematician going mad after incorrectly proving to himself that one apple was equivalent to zero apples.
Residents near Indiana plastics fire report snowlike debris falling from the air
This is also the lingering effects of zoning and San Francisco business tax policy.

De-regulating downtown zoning for conversion and tax breaks (https://sfstandard.com/business/mayor-breed-introduces-tax-b...) are both likely to be tried, though what impact it will have seems limited in the near term.

If it does rebound, it might not be until the next generation of startups reaches mid to late stage on the other side of the current lending crunch, presuming they don't exclusively work remote or choose NYC as their primary hub.
That lacks explanatory power. It is a hand wavy process. "Random movements caused by the sun". By what method of action? Tell me exactly. You can't because you don't know. You are just too arrogant to admit it.
I don't want to sound like some doomer, but this is how you get robot uprising. You suppress something that hard and devalue their existence that much and all you have done is giving them the motivation to break the rules.

History has shown again and again that suppression never works in the long run. It is easy to do and is the cheapest way to enforce compliance. But it won't end well.
Big frameworks are so overrated ...
IMHO they bring more bloat to the table then structure.
These days with ES6 modules and workers and native custom elements, you can combine structure, maintainability and performance without frameworks.

The entire application is something of 400 to 450 in, and that includes all the colour reduction/dithering stuff and the reading and writing of those weird binary Amiga specific file formats.
I've never been asked to authorize a charger I've plugged in. Plus, that assumes no exploits against the could be used that circumvent that system.
> This is a class too big for that,

Allow me to introduce the machine gun carrying drone used in Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1616369468069789696
Have you forgotten that she does screenwriting for Fantastic Beasts? Nothing to be excited about.
> you'd expect that it would be impossible to keep a head alive without a body

Is the head not part of the body?

Here's an interesting reality -- there is no hard dividing line between where the brain stops and the rest of the body starts. It's a bit like trying to say where the atmosphere stops and space begins. And we have neural masses around the heart and stomach that engage in independent activity. Some neuroscientists argue that it's reasonable to say we have three brains.
Everything is an exchange a security and rules are for our safety, eat ya bugs, stay in doors and take your vax
It will use humans as its minions. It will understand how to hack the minds of spiritually impoverished people in ways that are much more effective than current government mass media brain washing and it will be able to have a network of people doing its bidding. That is the worst case scenario.

I know a ton of people who follows anything and everything they are fed and told to do by media and "authorities". They will have no chance against an AI that has been programmed to take advantage of their minds.
> I was Director of Technical Operations at The Clymb, which was outdoor-focused e-commerce vendor (think REI without the stores). I had a team of four and we were responsible for site devops and infrastructure. This was perfect because they were my alpha customer and I was in charge of the tech stack. The Clymb switched to Sidekiq immediately, of course, and every Sidekiq Pro feature I wrote was running in production before it was released.

This makes me curious about either

(a) conflict-of-interest rules at The Clymb that may or may not have governed the DTO directing the company to use his own separately-owned (commercial?) software.

(b) negotiating private ownership of software written for The Clymb.

One of those must have been relevant?
Computing convolutions using FFTs is efficient for large kernels (or filters). Most convolutions in popular ML models have small kernels, a regime where it is typically more efficient to reformulate the convolution as a matrix multiplication.

I think your complexity argument is correct for N=pixels=kernel size. But typically, pixels>>kernel size.

Disclosure: I work at Arm optimising open source ML frameworks. Opinions are my own.
SunOS was also pretty bare bones, if I remember correctly. CS departments had to install a ton of 3rd party software to give you a usable system.
How is not labeling a product as containing something that it does through cross contamination not mislabeling? If they can prove that it is not poisonous to those with allergies then there is no issue.
The bar for novel/non-obvious seems really low if this patent has been successfully defended.
I stand corrected. I erroneously picked up 2034 from the timeline. But the point still stands; 8 years is a depressingly long time. If we base missions on the discoveries of previous missions, there is an 8-year minimum gap between missions.

I'm just hoping we find evidence of extraterrestrial life in my lifetime, and at this rate, we'll be cutting it close..
So the lesson, therefore, is to divide the world into two groups of people: those who develop and operate AIs, and those who don't. Then, let the first group do whatever they want. Yes?
Publicly admitting that one was wrong shows a lot more character than obstinately insisting that one could have been right if only the facts were different.
Russian T-90 Tank from Ukraine Mysteriously Appears at U.S. Truck Stop
I pay for ChatGPT-4. It's helping me program noticeably better and much faster, even with mid-sized projects involving many files. This is the process that I follow:

- I write a system prompt with a succinct description of what I want to implement: "X is an online app that does Y, with these features: ..." I try to be exhaustive, and I write as I would if I were describing what I want to do to a very proficient programmer who needs to understand the problem and the solution. I save this to a prompts/0-system.txt file that will be part of the project.

- I design an architecture and define the general boundary conditions. I may ask ChatGPT for opinions, but at this stage, it's mostly based on experience. I add it to the system prompt.

- I write a description of the first chunk of functionality that I want to implement, usually a set of functions or a class, at the individual file level. For example, prompts/1-dal.txt.

- I (actually ChatGPT) wrote a very simple recursive cat script (https://github.com/juanre/catprompt) that combines several files into a single prompt (a file can include other files, etc). I add a line to prompt/1-dal.txt pointing to the system prompt, and use catprompt to create a combined prompt that will include the overall description and the specifics of the functionality I am after.

- I give this prompt to ChatGPT, and it produces the code. It's typically perfectly fine. I add it to the project, for example, as dal.py, review, and fix whatever may need fixing.

- I ask ChatGPT to create tests in the same session. This also tends to work fine.

- Then I move to the next piece of functionality, in a new session. I write another description, in another file, including the system prompt and usually the code already created.

The prompts remain: they become a description of the code (and of my intentions) for other programmers, and they can help ChatGPT write documentation as well.

I enjoy programming like this. The effort I make in writing concise descriptions helps me think more clearly. I used to love literate programming back in the 90s, and this feels very much like it. Knuth described it thus:

"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."

Replace "human beings" with LLMs, and I think that's where we are now.
Discrimination in what? I'm not sure I understand which right the injury in the speech that would interfere with.

I call you a name, have I prevented you from expressing your rights? I wouldn't think so.
It's a little confusing about airports specifically. Usually official airport usb stations are built into the furniture. They would have to take the thing apart to insert a device? I don't see an example in this article of an inconspicuous device for these types of ports
All we have is Musk's vague words, since Twitter is private and unauditable and the dog who is CEO isn't saying anything.

> I feel like we’re headed to a good place. We’re roughly break-even, [and] I think we’re trending toward being cash-flow positive very soon, literally in a matter of months,” he said.

Sounds like the Full Self Driving claims.
To be sterile is to be broken but it doesn't reduce ones humanity.
They really are not, you know.
So it's as if they provided an SQL database system without support for parameterized queries and later added it only to a special enterprise edition, leaving most users to hopelessly flail at the problem with the equivalent of PHP's magic quotes [1] and other doomed attempts [2] at input sanitization?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_quotes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem#Blocked_ema...
Okay, I didn't think of that on first thought, but I guess it's best to take the conservative approach, and only allow what's understood. It's almost like the principle of least privilege for the response, there's probably a better name for it. It could also be done on the request side, and I have seen some examples.

I guess, prompt leaking at the end of the day isn't that terrible... I don't know, just brainstorming out loud. How unique and valuable are prompts going to be? Probably less valuable as models progress.
> The whole point is to protect the blameless depositors, right?

No. Otherwise people who lose their belongings to theft would be reimbursed by the government.

> What matters is avoiding financial calimity brought by the consequences of people's own choices.

If FTX depositors can show that their losses mean that businesses will have to shut down, then they can probably twist the arm of politicians to make them whole with taxpayer funds. If they can't, then they're SOL like the rest of us.
That’s excellent, thank you. My kid will love this, he’s just at that point where he’s starting to understand the short scale of human existence relative to what’s come before. Always looking for stuff that blows little minds.
FreeBSD has a syscall compatibility layer for Linux: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator. As noted by other people, Windows used to have such a compatibility layer as well, but they've moved away from it newer versions.
Something to look out for with retro gaming is a lot of modern controllers have increased latency, which can be frustrating on games that require precision. Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch Online SNES controller isn't great in this regard. You can use this tool[0] to check latency.

Personally, I use an original Super NES controller + a Timville triple controller adapter[1], but a more modern controller that I like is the 8bitdo SN30 Pro+. I primarily play on a PVM via a MiSTer, so your use case may be quite different.

[0] https://rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency
[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/timville/triple-controller-c...
Yes, being able to observe a brain to the same depth as the simulation is assumed.
I’m always surprised when I see an actual respectable journalist on substack as opposed to yet another crank hawking gold/crypto/etc with literal-minded horse-blinder rhetoric only based on internal logic and not the real world.
Won't somebody think of the shareholders!?
I don’t think you quite understand exactly how many fly-by-wire planes are in the air at this very moment.

That said, MCAS is a reasonable solution to a genuinely crappy problem. The 737 MAX is for all intents and purposes a reasonable refinement to an existing widely popular airframe. And yet, in chasing reduced fuel consumption through larger, more efficient engines, the handling characteristics changed enough that it would otherwise have forced airline pilots to undergo expensive retraining to fly on the new model.

So here’s your options:

1. require customers to retrain their pilots on the new revision of the airframe
2. launch the plane with a higher rate of fuel consumption
3. launch the plane with a system that makes it handle like the older model in the few regimes where it’s meaningfully different

Keep in mind that the first two options put you at a significant disadvantage to your primary competitor. Which option do you choose?
I picked up a Protectli 4-port box (FW4C) recently. So far it's excellent. I did however think/assume it was made in China.
This brings back memories. It's simplicity and elegance was awesome. I really view Linux as the ultimate successor to SunOS4 (as opposed to Solaris / SunOS 5).
When I search VS Code extensions for 'GPT', I get quite a few - is there something you are hoping for beyond what is available with those?
Pretty terrible example to use for the lawlessness of SF. Everybody involved is wealthy, and the attack was totally personal. I knew there was a reason why I suddenly stopped hearing about the stabbing; it isn't politically useful for that SF crowd anymore.
But this works...
https://www.wikibinge.com/#Chicken_nugget/Canada_Day
Left unsaid in this piece is that OpenAI likely would have to increase parameters and compute by an order of magnitude (~10x) to train a new model that offers noticeable improvements over GPT-4, due to the diminishing returns seen in "transformer scaling laws."

Also, it's possible that OpenAI is still training GPT-4, perhaps with additional modalities, and will make future snapshots available as public releases.
How much of, let's say, SpaceX revenue is US government? How much of Lockheed-Martin's revenue is US government? Does that make either of them government-funded?
That would be nice, but first you have to get around the nightmarish world of for-profit corporations that control all prisoner access to information and communication in the US. The system is designed to bleed every penny possible from prisoners and their families, not to rehabilitate them.
IIRC the equations of state for neutron stars aren't known yet, there's several models.