skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone not very familiar with the field, what is wrong with this comment? Is the scale off?

Kickstarter is into the tens of millions these days [1]. I would assume some number of millions might be possible, if the right names were behind it.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
I expect to continue working as I continue making money, though.

It's not like I put out a thing and expect it to support me forever with some magical recurring stream of milking whomever.
Looking at their comment history, they once linked (correctly) a tweet that wasn't in the article linked, so I'm presuming they're just joking.
Nice to hear, congratulations and thanks for your hard work. Now time for gtk4 :(

There was a time, when I was young, backwards compatibility was a big part of our job. To me, it seems every other day QT and GTK makes a point of ignoring backwards compatibility with their releases, making Application Development hard.

I admit, I do *not* understand GTK/QT development model at all. But I think having that compatibility is one of the reasons of Linux's success, the rule of "Do not break user space".
I know many of my friends who used to race cars and needed one in the car for certification/regulation continue to do so in their civilian cars to this day. Once you've done it because you have to, you realize that it might be a good reason to do it when you simply can.
Incorrect implementations give GDPR a bad reputation, though there are worse ones.
In real terms, I make enough money. The only reason I want to make "more and more" is to cover inflation.

If you asked me to choose between that while remaining customer focused, vs 3x what I make while screwing over my customers, the choice is easy. Other than providing for me and my family, I like creating things that make other people's lives easier over buying fancy cars and vacation homes.
... or Blue Book exams? We did tons of those, way before ChatGPT was a twinkle in anyone's eye. Do they not do those anymore? Or is this just for remote learning or to supplement grading things like term papers?
My understanding is that the policy of the project is that the base system must not be cross compiled. My understanding of why is that they want to be able to fully bootstrap from base itself.
I miss those days.

When a phone was a phone and not just an rebranded Android. It made me feel whole to me.
Interesting to note that GTK3 was launched in 2011
What are the chances Nigerian scammers or some such are already automating calling old folks to scam them out of money? Won't even need an Indian call center soon. That was my first thought reading the headline.
Why I like Clojure as a solo developer
Not a fair test, a lot of humans, myself included, would respond too.
> Swift avoided getting dragged in FTX’s collapse because the singer did her due diligence, and asked one important question: “Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?”, according to South Florida attorney Adam Moskowitz. Moskowitz, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit

I do not for a second believe that Taylor Swift herself asked this literal question. It is a summarization of the due diligence her team performed, as paraphrased by the attorney charging everyone else.

Take it with a grain of salt - this whole guy's legal case rides on the implication that all of the defendants knowingly had a duty to perform due diligence. And so proving that some celebrities like Taylor Swift backed out - not because of money or scheduling but because they understood that they were trading securities illegally - is important to his case.

Personally, I come down on the side of the defendants on this one. When Larry David was hired to do a superbowl commercial for FTX, how much was he really expected understand about securities law? Could we really argue he was in on the fraud? If he did a superbowl commercial for Chipotle we wouldn't expect him to perform his own health inspections.
Hmmh. You seem to be restating what was said above.

A nominal type system still is superseded by a structural type system.

The difference is in how a type is defined. Or what kind of constraints are in entailment said otherwise.

An interface enforces constraints. The difference here is merely that the current implementations only have either one of these type of interfaces. So for the structural type system, all methods are in the global namespace, somehow.

That's all. Because our current languages are this way doesn't mean that the two concepts cannot be reconciliated or that one is just better than the other.
Gtk 3.0 was released in 2011, the last 3.x release was supposed to be in 2016, but later 3.24 came along. 3.24 is now up to the 29th point release with 3.24.29. Kind of an OpenSSL 0.9esque version number...

Meanwhile Gtk 2.0 from 2002 was apparently the first GTK+ version with the GObject system. I'm not sure if distros can stop shipping Gtk 2 any time soon, as it's quite commonly used in commercial software and not always vendored (since vendoring Gtk can be tricky).
>>> but we went all in as if there were no alternatives and those of us who don't require mobility and would prefer that we can choose when to "upgrade" and what data to "share" were left behind

> You realize I was speaking for myself, right?

So "us" is just you? Your "us" is a very small minority, which is the point of the people who are responding to you.
Alternatively, we're approaching the limits of what can be done with current approaches, and get mostly stuck there for 20 years like happened to AI in the 80's.

Future prediction is always dodgy.
Interesting product, thanks for sharing.

Can it hold gpg keys and interface with gpg-agent? I couldn't find that information.
> more than 72,000 instances of “swastika,” one of the banned terms from the list.

Isn't swastika being a common sacred symbol in Eastern and specially Dharmic religions common knowledge? This, alongwith most of the religious websites being Christian, Islamic and so on is quite concerning.
> you can be told not to reveal that you've told them the password

This is a good reason to use numbered, pre-made, one-time-passwords and require a reason when using them. "AdminX lost fob - using override to reset creds." Requiring you to lie is one step past requiring you to remain silent.

If the 'next PW to be used' number increased on everyone's override-PWs it couldn't be hidden. Co-admins could know to check an audit log of changes.
If you're interested in improved chunking, I mentioned a few strategies in my talk here (timestamp linked, <1min): https://youtu.be/elNrRU12xRc?t=536 that I used when building https://findsight.ai
New report warns of health risks from PVC pipes in drinking water systems
I'm from the US. I was in Amsterdam on a business trip, and I felt the same thing, but a lot faster than in 2.5 weeks. Fortunately, I found a Uruguayan steak house. I went there for dinners. The waiters were speaking Spanish, and I thought, "Yes! This feels like home!"
If the hypothesis is revised to "increasing automation does not automatically reduce employment in the short term" that is feasible from the 1970-1990 dataset as you've noted. I suggest that the ATM comparison is inadequate for this proof. Looking at a nominally favorable article from AEI (https://www.aei.org/economics/what-atms-bank-tellers-rise-ro...) we see the case of "teller employment is going up AND ATMs are going up, ergo ATM adoption does not steal teller jobs". Except we don't know that, all we know is that both are going up. There is no way of knowing what the teller growth rate would have been absent ATM technology.

Looking at the graphs shown, it is fairly clear that tellers were increasing from 1970-1980 at a strong rate and then it more or less levelled off. ATMs grew at a very similar rate from 1990-2000. It seems reasonable that if ATMs were not as successful as they were, the teller growth would have been higher and therefore ATMs have "stolen" at least some teller jobs growth potential. Absent a technological efficiency increase, the base demand of US population growth would have created more need for human provided services.

In the long term the truth is laid bare: in the AEI article (2016) it says "employment of tellers is projected to decline 8% over the next decade". That would have left us with ~543k tellers -- instead we have 378k, a drop of 35%. When the tailwind stops, we will often see capital choose technology over humans and often at higher rates than projected.

A parting concern: the rate of technological change and capability of industries to swap inputs was impressive in 1970-2000 but I hope you will agree it is nothing compared to the pace of change now. There is every reason to believe the trends, short and long term, we saw with ATM:tellers is going to repeat faster in the future.
GPT4 supposedly cost USD 100M to train and seems much smarter than anything else released. is there any chance to get this much money for open source training? rea
lly big EU grants or some philanthropist or?
Money is also useful for other measures, such as access to food & housing. I'd prefer a person with no economic value still be able to access commodities that do have economic value.
I wasn't really aware that GIMP wasn't ported to the latest GTK+ version yet. This is a bit funny given that GTK originally stood for "GIMP Toolkit".
I think craic from Irish would fit into this. Not sure if there's a broader category there.
As far as I know, surface EEG is almost useful in terms of controlling anything. It can even be quite hard not to make the software cheat and work with the much stronger and easier to control signals from muscles.

Stuff like that is useful for neurofeedback, however. I haven't tried the newer models of the Mindwave headset, but the older ones were easy to interface with over bluetooth. That's a place I might start rather than building a custom electronics board.
I mean Larry's literally said Naaaaaah to FTX in that ad.

You should have really heard the man I guess
Yes absolutely, but I found interesting that Kaspersky is now selling this service, from the “software antivirus” to the “hardware antidrone”.
Interesting idea. I'll play around with when I get home.

I use Kernel a lot, which allows you to write first-class operatives which can influence the bindings of their caller, but they don't allow modifying the body of the calling function.
Possible Open Source alternatives are Nitrokey (https://www.nitrokey.com/) and Solokeys (https://solokeys.com/).
You forgot:

- Looking for the perfect domain name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Long-EZ is the aircraft in question
Yeah, that sounds great, but the article completely fails to offer a solution to the reason universities have largely dropped oral exams in the first place, which is that they're expensive. Oral exams need much more time from competent evaluators than written exams do, and those evaluators need to be paid for their time. The vast majority of universities these days are going to prioritize cost-reduction over quality of education if they can get away with it, and they probably can.
Have you looked at https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything ?
Here's the thing, kiddo. For most of the time, I'm quite content with disabling Javascript and cookies altogether since it also disables subscription popups and other inconveniences when all I want to do is read an article. When you click "Reject All", you aren't rejecting literally every cookie, otherwise how would it remember that you've rejected all? Instead, "Reject All" is shorthand for "Reject all cookies that aren't strictly necessary." You are simply being obtuse. Do you also froth at the mouth whenever someone says "Universal healthcare is free"?
> Drag shows involve violating social norms as a form of voluntary self expression

This argument is brought to you by the same crowd of incels and other neo-reactionaries who lament the public reaction to their continued efforts to be shockingly edgy

> Such rejection of social norms should not be granted state sanction by hosting such events in public libraries.

Why? What social norms should the state care about? All social norms? What about the social norms of say, redlining communities? Should the state sanction that social norm, because it's a social norm?
People have been misusing libraries since libraries.

Same for information in general.

This is not new. Just convenient.
A team of 3 star engineers can take on the world. It's a killer setup.
It's a response to "The firm's responsibility is to its shareholders," a mentality that when taken to its logical conclusion implies that I'm of no worth to a company other than my money making ability. Some people are perfectly fine with this arrangement, while others see themselves as used as a means to an end.

Under that framing, who wants to be seen as a means to an end? The Kantians in the room find the arrangement morally impermissible. Besides, when the pandemic revealed that most of the work we do isn't even under the guise of a common good to the betterment of society, the moral plausible deniability vanishes and leaves us exposed to the harsh reality of being used as a means to an end.

To any critiques, especially those who says, "but that's how things are," I respond in kind with the categorical imperative - that we should act as if they aren't because not doing so only perpetuates the using of people as a means to an end.
The person was just using the term "hacker" to mean "any kind of engineer".
Either we have regulation and call people out when they don't follow it and hopefully eventually fine them, or we can just skip it all together.
Well I assume it was solidly in the plus for a while? If yes, then the assumption was right at least for a while — which might be just another instance of market timing working out or not working out.
Sure. Here's the key sentence:

> Most tax experts considered the removal a budget gimmick so that the 2017 December republican majority could quickly pass a new budget using the budget reconciliation process, which can't be used to increase the deficit after a 10-year period so they had to add a time limit to a bunch of benefits "on paper" to use the reconciliation process.

In 2017, the Republican majorities in Congress passed a budget that would have increased the federal debt significantly over a ten-year period (i.e., it was a long-term deficit increase). Such an increase is not allowed under the rules of the Senate's budget reconciliation process, so they added sunset provisions that would have brought the deficit back down by making some of the deficit-increasing provisions (in this case, mostly tax cuts) expire early.

The next sentence clarifies:

> There appeared to be broad support for fixing it later, but the bipartisan spending bill expected to include it fell apart because they couldn't get agreement on other parts of it.

These changes were made "on paper" to meet the reconciliation rules in time to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown, but they were not intended to be permanent -- they were just a quick hack to work around procedural limitations. The intent was to fix this later, but the fixes were never implemented due to disagreement about how to handle other parts of the bill.

The advantage of this kind of description is that it gives you a piece of a larger story and leads to some obvious follow-up questions. Why did it take until the last minute for Republicans to pass a budget when they had full control of Congress and the White House? Why couldn't they pass a budget that didn't increase the deficit? Why does the Senate have such weird procedural issues and why haven't they been fixed? You can find some of the answers by looking into the bill itself[1]. But even if you don't you can pick up other pieces later by hearing other bits of news. The factions and political processes that produce bad legislation can be understood, and with that understanding the power to alter them, even if only by voting.

The other kind of description, which I see far too often, treats bad legislation the same way we treat bad weather. It can be predicted a few days in advance, but we have no control over it. It's just something that happens, and all we can do is let it wash over us. The clouds bring the rain and Congress brings bad legislation; thus has it ever been. It's an ahistorical form of learned helplessness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017
https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM#stablelm-alpha shows that the 3b and 7B had 800b training tokens.
Here is a recent more-detailed article on NRK where they show some of the ships they were tracking that were messing with their monitoring systems

https://www.nrk.no/nordland/xl/russiske-tralere-krysset-kabl...

(article is in Norwegian)
Sirtuins and Longevity
That's been my initial take. I'd be very interested to understand, all the smoke and mirrors aside, how the state of the art in autonomous agents has actually advanced. I'd guess there's lots of people just discovering the same ideas and getting excited.

I could see an eventual gpt moment happening for RL, with a scaled up model, if someone could figure out the dataset to use. But that's not what these agents are.
Interesting, it seems quite similar to "rico" in Spanish.
Theming should be more consistent.
That would be an amazing legal defense if it worked.

"I was in the ad but I was telling people not to buy it!"
Sometimes you can tell that you’re offline. Sometimes you can tell that you’re online. The real trouble is when you have an unreliable connection. That’s the worst of all available worlds, when systems fall apart in a wide variety of troublesome ways.
I've had good success teaching GPT4 a language interactively: provide documentation, examples then asked it to generate examples of increasing complexity and correct it if it's wrong.

See previous comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447368
I wonder if all the doom and gloom with everything is because people don't really understand statistics nor history. Sure, living through the climate catastrophe won't be comfortable, but given most of human history, living in that future is still a far better hand than all of your ancestors. Say you were born cesarean, are diabetic, broke your arm, had your wisdom teeth removed, got your colorectal cancer cleared up with the immune checkpoint inhibitor, got a covid vaccine then caught it and shrugged it off. Any other point of history you'd be dead 6x over at least with that medical history. That's something to celebrate.

Plus I think there is a bias over maintaining the status quo of the earth. Sure, pollution isn't great, but that's from a squandered opportunity of destroying natural resources before coming up with a sustainable way to use them indefinitely. Species go extinct, but for better or worse, that's how previously occupied niches are now exposed for rapid adaptive evolution of what is left over, and how we evolved to be who we are today. We are adding energy into the atmosphere, so if anything the life system will work even faster than before. Will we adjust? Who knows, but if you are on team planet earth it really doesn't matter. Life will find a way. Whether humans make it or not should be irrelevant, considering you have distant relatives who weren't human and only became human due to selective pressures from the environment at the time. We should expect to change when the environment does, dramatically even, as fighting that change amounts to fighting a march to a thermodynamic equilibrium. Consider we also have the head and shoulders advantage of any other species driving a climate change on earth previously (there were many, great oxygenation event, azolla event, and others), of actually being globally aware of climate change.
Yeah I rewatched it a couple times after getting laid off. It’s always uncanny how “real” many of Mike Judge’s characters are.
That's true, though iirc your screen size and fonts are more identifiable than having Do Not Track set.
So videogame piracy should be allowed? This might act as a slight disincentive to making new games.
I know this, have friends who've tried it. Doesn't make the website any less vaporware-y looking.
Ai isn't an alien. It doesn't have autonomy, will or desires. It's a set of numbers arranged in a particular way such that someone can use it to produce different numbers that can be interpreted as meaningful. That's all it is.

How do you get from that to aliens controlling our climate?

Give me one reasonable path. Will the numbers start changing themselves and pop out of the computer and float around and start moving things?

This AGI doomsday nonsense is becoming more of a religion every day.
More like Stability will turn out to be an unstable company. Last we heard they were struggling to raise more funding and might lose their CEO due to unclear business models:

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/07/2023/stability-ai-is-o...
Show HN: Allainews.com shows all AI news in one place
It's basically similar to to "hyggelig" in Norwegian/Danish?
As a non-native English speaker, I often have troubles with clearly transforming abstract ideas from my head into a text representation adding grammar on top. ChatGPT can definitely help with that and increase supply of clever ideas that can be now wrapped into well written text.
Just record it and upload it to our AI grader, because no TA has time for that.
> you start to wonder why you're destroying your eyesight trying to match parentheses

Manually matching parentheses is a non-issue since tools like Parinfer were created: https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer