skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading it, I'm not sure the original article deserved a response.

It's like an attempt at a comedy shock-jock blog for libertarian nerds about halfway down the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline. And apparently people pay money for this?

> From Statista, mortality rates per energy source (per terawatt hour): hydro, 1.3; natural gas, 2.82; biomass, 4.63; oil, 18.43; coal, 24.62; and finally brown coal, 32.72.

I was going to say that their stats must be out of date if it doesn't have renewables but no, they just didn't quote the figures for wind and solar from their own source as it makes a mockery of their entire argument.
> But it's not just like humans. For one thing it's built differently

I'm referring to the behaviour, not the inner nature.

> in fact extant AIs are notorious for doubling down instead of accepting correction.

My experience suggests ChatGPT is better than, say, humans on Twitter.

I've had the misfortune of several IRL humans who were also much, much worse; but the problem was much rarer outside social media.

> Even more importantly, the AI doesn't have real-world context, which is often helpful to notice when "correct" (to the spec) behavior is not useful, acceptable, or even safe in practice.

Absolutely a problem. Not only for AI, though.

When I was a kid, my mum had a kneeling stool she couldn't use, because the woodworker she'd asked to reinforce it didn't understand it and put a rod where your legs should go.

I've made the mistake of trying to use RegEx for what I thought was a limited-by-the-server subset of HTML, despite the infamous StackOverflow post, because I incorrectly thought it didn't apply to the situation.

There's an ongoing two-way "real-world context" miss-match between those who want the state to be able to pierce encryption and those who consider that to be an existential threat to all digital services.

> a human who knows about physical properties like mass or velocity or rigidity will intuitively honor requirements related to those

Yeah, kinda, but also no.

We can intuit within the range of our experience, but we had to invent counter-intuitive maths to make most of our modern technological wonders.

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All that said, with this:

> It doesn't learn from its mistakes until it gets the equivalent of a brain transplant

You've boosted my optimism that an ASI probably won't succeed if it decided it preferred our atoms to be rearranged to our detriments.
Think about this solution for a second. You want a process that spies on other processes to build a database of what files they touch so you can remember where you put that file last year.

This is a problem that can be solved simply by better organizing your files. No security nightmare Rube Goldberg contraption needed. Ive been in that boat before and it just boils down to organizing your stuff better.
> queue does not mean async model

“Message queues implement an asynchronous communication pattern between two or more processes/threads whereby the sending and receiving party do not need to interact with the message queue at the same time.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_queue
They need to ask some deep questions of themselves
of what they want Windows to be.

They did - and the answer was "an advertising puke-funnel"
> This article is well written but it’s really more about sales tax being a regressive tax that hits lower income people worse than high income people

No, while it mentions that issue, its mostly about the race-to-the-bottom opportunity for large corporations created by the ability of corporations to choose to assign the location of sale unrelated to where it actually occurred in any meaningful sense, and to leverage that to get kickbacks from local government

> and is using the Apple example for name dropping clickbait since they sell within California and the tax code is very skewed for such large cases and their resident municipalities.

No, its using the Apple deal as an example because it is by far the largest example of the issue it is highlighting.
I think you've got a branding issue which many here have pointed out. Perception is reality, as they say. If you're going to take a dig at OpenAI for "having lost their ways", it might pay to come up with alternative naming that doesn't cause a distraction (noise in this thread and the attempt to explain it) because it can't be fun to feel the need to defend your choice, especially when you're unlikely to convince people who cannot unsee wordplay on GPT4. I checked out OpenGPT, but unfortunately that's already taken.

Another thing that could help make clear is to not mimic the UI style of ChatGPT.
If we don't kill ourselves in the next 100 years, I think the future will be pretty amazing. We're passing through the end stages of the Great Filter currently. This is the part where we're sufficiently advanced to create technologies that can destroy the planet (like nuclear weapons) but not advanced enough to shed our ancient animal instincts of war, conquest and power. I personally do not think we will make it through unless there is a greater power (civilization) looking out for us. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
I feel like parks in most of the U.S. are dominated by activities. Sports, jungle gyms, etc. Often times there’s not a great place to just sit down and socialize.
AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services
This was a great read. Very raw.
Show HN: Implemented Vimium-like feature to an extension (search tool)
I grew up in a 50k "small city", and I hated it personally. It was big enough to have "everything you wanted", but small enough to feel like there was no escape, no anonymity, no privacy. Everyone knew everyone, and everyone knew everyone's business. The larger city with a smaller neighbourhood (which is a good description of most european cities that I've spent time in) are a great compromise I think.
Can ChatGPT predict all future world events and all the overall reactions to them? I'd easily pay $5 a month for that service.
Brand safety.
It might just be but the conclusion paragraphs read like they were written by LLM. Extremely long/verbose. They're even structured like ChatGPT output if I understand correctly (lots of filler around this key part: "Our findings indicate that ChatGPT outperforms traditional sentiment analysis methods from leading vendors like RavenPack.")

I also don't see where the long-short criteria is defined for Figure 1: Cumulative Returns of Investing 1$ (Without Transaction Costs). How do you know when to flip between long and short? Moving average crossover?
From your data, median and mean among OECD with state paid tertiary education is 42% and 43%. US is 51.2%.

So the mean and median is around 20% less people with tertiary educations.

When you say no significant difference, what is your threshold? 50% less people educated? 20% is a huge difference.
Definitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.
Agreed. The text parsing for feeding prompts into an LLM and parsing a response is about as simple and straightforward as it gets in programming. It is nice to have some control over that process and know what your code is doing every step along the way. It doesn’t need to do much anyway, the LLM is doing the hard work mostly. It makes no sense to me and I’m trying to understand it, but I just can’t see the value in a black box library to interface with an LLM when it’s so easy to DIY.
Tried it out with a couple of ROMs. Seemed to work fine with Pokemon Red, but Tetris failed with stutters, garbled audio, and no inputs (maybe it's my ROM? works fine on other emulators). Also, clicking on on the buttons didn't work in either case but keyboard controls work.

Super interesting to see it working in a browser though! Nice work.
Farther comments in that thread indicate they are referring to PHF (password hashing function) not KDF (key derivation function). LUKS uses a KDF.
This is the only valid answer. Unfortunately, the EU will use the "think of the climate", "think of the children" and "think of the terrorists" excuses for everything.
>> Meanwhile, an enterprise running hundreds or even thousands of mac OS devices is something I've never heard of.

Your experience doesn't match with reality. There are multiple sources available describing the growth in macOS usage. One that's quoted in news reports, but hidden behind a paywall, is an IDC report from 2021[1].

It describes macOS penetration at ~23% in 2020 up 6% from 2019. The is supported by descriptions of the impact on enterprise end-user computing management teams that historically have only supported Windows. You can even look at the growth of Intune, and the breadth of acquisitions by Microsoft, to see that Microsoft is very likely supporting 1000s of mac devices.

An important element of how we got here is mobile. Windows had made huge investments in configuration management while OS X was an oddball. Managing it required a different set of tools. iOS and Android adoption in many enterprises caused an end run around the end-user computing gatekeepers from 2007-2012 with a proliferation in MDM solutions.

This eventually led to standardization of so-called "modern" configuration management API/interfaces/tools. The door was opened to more Mac adoption through Apple Business Manager while admins had already adopted modern management tools that covered Windows and mobile.

This doesn't discount the challenge with some users needing to use legacy Windows software. Once upon a time this was a strong moat. For years, IT have been under pressure to make this work on mobile (where feasible) which has cut down the blockers on macOS or Linux usage.

[1] https://www.idc.com/research/viewtoc.jsp?containerId=US46965...
No it’s missing the best part. The outdoors and having a huge backyard. You can’t have any hobbies like woodworking, metalworking, gardening/farming, animal husbandry etc. in that setup.
> don't know if this is true for SSDs

It is, but it is handled in firmware now, just like in newer HDDs.
I simply meant a key that is intended to refer to another entity, but as you said its common for RDBMSs to enforce that referential integrity, but you can also have a DB like mongo or dynamo which store an ID , but when you de-refer it (look up the other entity by ID, perhaps by an API call to a peer microservice) the item is no longer there.

It gets even weirder with denormalization of some of the data where maybe you can get the title or preview of an item, but going (clicking) into it is broken.
I think I may have been trying to appeal to the masses - would agree, seems to be a lot more straightforward installing linux. The installer "Just works" (try pointing windows setup at a disk with something it doesn't understand on it...), and the driver support is generally fantastic. When you do need proprietary drivers, its generally taken care of too (thinking of NVidia etc)
Thanks for sharing this interesting history of the ampersand! It's always fascinating to learn about the origins of common symbols and phrases. I had heard that the ampersand was derived from the Latin word for "and", but I didn't know about its former status as a letter of the alphabet or the story behind its name.
We have very sophisticated technical forecasting algorithms. I doubt ChatGPT could improve there. Where it may be excellent though is in “sentiment analysis” which plays a role in forecasting.
First: It's not a Unix system. It's a whole different tradition. For practical reasons it got "invaded" by the unix userland, though.

But you already answered it yourself. Legacy stuff. And because it is NOT a unix system porting the legacy stuff running on it would be even more difficult.
I feel the same. His narrative seem very calculated. It doesn't help that OpenAI is very much the most closed Saas thing to be released in recent years. I am a paying customer for sometime, have ChatGPT Plus as well. I am still in waiting list for GPT-4 API.

Not only that, but their business model is completely unclear, which is the scariest part for me, as an individual developer.

Let's go one step forward, they use our texts online including this very comment perhaps. They have a software that can analyse all our texts at scale. But we don't get even the API access to this thing.

It is the most self-serving software ever released, consuming the human creativity both the content and the future relevance of it.
How big is GPT-4?
what I appreciate about it is that he offers a solution that sounds plausible, while Sam Altman hasn't offered any strategy.

If one is able to create the first super intelligent AI that has human interests at heart, then it seems plausible that it would be able to stop other AIs that are trying to reach the apex and who might not care about us. The irony is that we are then relying on super intelligent AI to protect us from other AIs trying to reach super intelligence.
I fail to see how cars are the problem since cities like Tokyo function with similar road layouts and hardly any pedestrian-only roads. (Source: I'm temporarily living in Tokyo right now)

Tokyo is extremely overcrowded, but its services and zoning are somewhat able to handle it, if you're okay with living in a 100sqm box and being squeezed into the train like a sardine and shove through the sidewalks / crossings during rush hour.

There's a reason why the Japanese government is always trying to incentivize people to move out to it's rural areas.

That being said, American cities cannot even handle a fraction of those population levels. It's not the cars that are the problem, it's the mismanagement of public resources and city planning that leads to lack of GOOD public transportation and zoning.

So until those US city leaders can figure out their shit, I'd suggest living in a small town, it has the wishlist everyone is always wanting here. Walkable end-to-end, bikeable, co-ops, fresh air, etc. Luckily we already did the hard work to connect these towns together and we have a LOT of land.
I'm not sure I count "Have you tried sfc /scannow?" as support!
Iptables currently runs on top of nftables, so it's probably not missing much.
I mean, we've gone from stuck squarely on this rock to being able to escape our gravity well in a geological blink of an eye, so yeah, it's quite marvelous.
No worries, going to check out some of the commits when I get a bit more free time as well. The concept is intriguing!

The usefulness of LLMs for engineering things is very hard to gauge, and your project is going to be quite interesting as you progress. No doubt they help with writing new things, but I spend maybe ~15% of my time working on something new, vs maintenance and extensions. The more common activities are very infrequently demonstrated, either the usefulness diminishes as the context required grows, or they simply make for less exciting examples. Though someone in my org has brought up an LLM tool that tries to remedy bugs on the fly (at runtime), which sounds absolutely horrific to me...

It sounds similar to my experience with Copilot then. In small, self-contained bits of code -- much more common in new projects or microservices for example -- it can save a lot of cookie cutter work. Sometimes it will get me 80% of the way there, and I have to manually tweak it. Quite often it produces complete garbage that I ignore.
All that to say, if I wasn't an SE, Copilot brings me no closer to tackling anything beyond hello world.

One big benefit though is with the simpler test cases. If I start them with a "GIVEN ... WHEN ... THEN ..." comment, the autocompletes for those can be terrific, requiring maybe some alterations to suite my taste. I get positive feedback in PRs and from people debugging the test cases too, because the intention behind them is clear without needing to guess the rationale for the test. Win win!
That's not all that much fuel. There's always some margin in the tanks to make sure that the turbopump won't ingest a bubble, and probably a little more so that if the rocket underperforms slightly on ascent they won't lose the mission because they skimped on 50kg of fuel.
Old Saxon alphabet: despite being on an alphabet page, it’s very clearly separated from the letters.

I’m not at all convinced that it was ever what you might call a letter of the alphabet. Although it seems to not have been rare to group it with the letters in some way, I have received the impression it wasn’t particularly common, and that it wasn’t how people generally thought of it. Nowadays we would draw a clear distinction between letters, numbers and symbols (maybe we have more symbols? though certainly fewer ligatures/abbreviations like Ƿᵉ), and call the alphabet just the letters, but I get the vibe that maybe “alphabet” wasn’t so strictly just the letters. But I handwave liberally and provide no sources in this mostly-uneducated suspicion of mine.
> I think it's certainly possibly to establish such relationships with neighbours today, though it's hugely luck of the draw

It's something that is often critized as ghettoization, but that's why I think it's important to pick a neighborhood where you will find like minded-people.

Usually it comes naturally as you're guided by your budget, and will naturally like the same neighborhood as your peers, but it can be tempting to get a bigger house for the same budget in a "less fancy" neighborhood that you would match better for you.

Also, it depends on the country but it's important to pick a neighborhood where you'll be confident to send your kids to the local public school instead of having them go to a school further away. This way you ensure your kids live close to their friends.
My biggest concern with a cheap laptop is reliability.

My experience has been horrible --- hinges break, the battery won't hold a charge, the keyboard becomes glitchy. Nothing more irritating than when some keys require more force to register then others.

As an alternative, I've switched to using a tablet with a cheap, foldable Bluetooth keyboard. Low cost, no moving parts except the external keyboard which is easily replaced if needed.
I drove to work for 10 years, although I did skip winter season, riving on ice is NOT fun

> Fwiw it would take me 1h of walking to go to work or about 1h20 if I take a couple buses. Or I can take the car and be done in less than 10 minutes.

That's kinda the problem. Even here with pretty good infrastructure car is 50 minutes in peak traffic, metro + walk to metro station + few stops of tram is 1h. If I go like 2h after peak it's 35 minutes...
Most valuable HN name today lol, please tell me you're from OpenAI.
The Github Copilot Labs extension has "codebrushes" that can transform and explain existing code instead of generating new code, but none of it only gives "hints". Maybe one of the codebrushes can take a custom prompt.
Nuclear is probably the most expensive energy source for powering a grid at present, and nuclear advocates have tried to get around this by calling for deregulation, but that's just not plausible. Given the catastrophic failure mode of nuclear power, the plants have to be over-engineered relative to all other power systems, and that greatly increases costs.

Let's take Fukushima as an example. If they'd just put the emergency diesel generators (very heavy) on the roof of the plant rather in the basement, there'd have been no hydrogen explosions and meltdowns, as the seawater would not have destroyed them. However, this would increase the plant's cost due to the need for greater structural stability for such a configuration.

Not only that, uranium fuel rods are expensive to manufacture and expensive to handle, and storing them after retirement is another long-term cost. Granted the ~21 tons of uranium fuel consumed per year in 1 GW output nuclear complex is much less that the equivalent ~4.2 million tons of coal in a 1 GW output coal plant, but the preferable option is a solar/wind/storage system that consumes no material at all (not counting battery maintenance and turnover, I suppose, but there are recycling options). On top of that, if demand is high uranium prices can fluctuate wildly as the pre-Fukushima years demonstrated.

So, let's agree there's no reasonable argument for cutting costs on nuclear due to the various scenarios (terrorism, accident, sabotage, cybersecurity, etc) that could lead to catastrophic failure. If the goal is to maintain a reliable electricity grid in a fossil-fuel free world (and even grow it as electricity replaces crude oil and natural gas for transportation and industry), it's hard to argue that nuclear is a better option than wind/solar/storage deployed at scale.

Of course, you need a lot of wind/solar/storage to equal the output of a 1 GW nuclear complex, and at present costs for reliable 24/7 year-round output from the two systems are roughly comparable. In the long run, however, the former is the far better option.
So soon?
Where Is Juice Now?
A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics
I guess this is what makes the world go 'round, because I say the same thing about the left panel on Windows. From versions 7 through 10, that thing was a freaking nightmare. They seem to have cleaned it up a lot, but there's still a dedicated folder for "3D Models." Seriously?
Either way, you’re sending your companys biggest asset to another company, aren’t you? I’ll try these tools when they start being able to run locally
Frankly, this is spoken like somebody without a history education.

Not only would "narratives matter" be an uncontroversial statement among historians, they'd tell you that all historical writing is narrative construction. And they'd hand you a book on historiography and teach you about the methods that historians use to understand an honestly present narratives in their writing.

Note that this does not mean that historical writing is bullshit. A lot of engineers seem to come up against these observations in the humanities and then just assume that nothing can be done and that entire fields must be discarded while the people working in those fields have been living with this stuff for their entire careers.
A website like this brings me back to my teen years of exploring fansites for X-files and other shows.

It's like visiting a homestead property. Platforms like Wikia and Fandom turned that culture into an industrialized, ad-ridden hellscape.
> My point is that Starship is theoretically able to do this today.

Well, no, its theoretically capable of doing it in 6 months from an optimal launch window, which eats up at least 10% (I don’t have a calendar of launch windows for the 6 month to Mars mission profile handy) of the high end of the 3-5 year window for landing off the bat.

But theory and practice are only the same in theory, not in practice.
I think you are mistaking historical memory for history here.
In my Portuguese apartment block I have 2 restaurants, a cafe, a hairdresser, a phone shop and some other commercial I haven't quite identified.

From the front door I can throw rocks at 2 more cafes, another restaurant, a launderette, a playground and a car dealer. There is a basket ball court out the back.

Nothing special about my 7 storey block, but when a certain density is reached things start to work really well
The GPL code release also only happened because of GPL enforcement, some of the history is written about here:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...
Have you actually been to Tokyo? It's insanely crowded everywhere. Just walking across intersections and navigating train stations is insane. Hotels are the size of your closet and apartments are the size of your closet. Japan has one of the higher depression rates. If anything this proves high density cities are unhealthy.
Not even redneck. Basically anywhere without public transit/uber people will get fairly drunk and drive.
Hitler's birthday?

At least that is what most Europeans think of when you say April 20th.