skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly everything about that article depressed me. I want just offline applications and if I need it in the very limited times I do, opt-in to cloud. All this "everything" is online is bullshit.
This may look cute, but you should know that buildings only do this when they are extremely distressed. If you see a building rotating, no matter how slowly, do not approach it!
I think the mystery is not that some infinities can be larger than others, but that there are infinite sets of equal ‘size’ that conflict with intuition.

Some examples that ‘prove’ some infinities are larger than others to laymen:

- there are twice as many integers as odd integers

- there are more points on a plane then on a line

- there are more points on a line than on a circle

- there are more points on a plane then on a semiplane

- there are more rationals than integers

- there are more reals than rationals

It’s only in the intermediate state of a mathematician’s education, where they have just accepted that, for infinite sets, ‘more’ isn’t the best way to determine size equivalence that it becomes a surprise that for the last one, “the size of the set of reals is larger than that of the rationals” is true, and can be proven to be.
I do wonder what the tea was that Beard tried making.
I don't believe in free will. I haven't really for about 20 years or so. However, I act as if I do, as I've always done. It's a habit I choose not to break. Changing to act as I believe would be too much for me to handle. I would need to rethink pretty much everything I do. It's a completely different set of axioms in every domain of human knowledge, ethics, behaviour and interaction.

I don't think I'm raving mad, but perhaps because I don't act on my beliefs, I don't fit your conditions?

However, I do believe the justice system would be better run with this in mind.
> If you go messing with the internals of third party classes, seems like any consequences should be obvious.

The point made in the article is that it's often third-party libraries that do this, breaking invariants in your code. And, with older JVMs, it won't be immediately obvious to you as a user of that library that this is happening.
Yes it does. I follow several Substack newsletters via RSS.

https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038239391-...
I have been a long time Apple user and have never owned an Android but the last week or so I’ve been considering it. I’m going travelling soon and considering buying a pair of nreal air glasses to code with on the road. If I make the switch, it’s two less adapters to worry about (androids have usb c port so the glasses can plug in directly - to use with iPhone I need the Apple Display adapter and the nreal adapter for the apple adapter) but I can also run Samsung Dex and have a quasi-desktop experience using just my phone. I just wouldn’t be able to achieve the same thing with an iPhone which would be locked into the iPhone screen aspect ratio except for video playing apps - useless if I wanted to use VSCode in the browser. I’m also considering replacing my MacBook with a steam deck and using that when I need to do proper dev tasks as it would be nice to have a gaming console for downtime.

Looking at the Samsung products on offer, they are starting to look quite appealing; at first I thought the galaxy fold was a useless gimmick but now I’m looking at it and thinking it would be useful as a small notebook for scribbling notes as well as providing a better experience for reading and video. Plus Samsung seem marginally ahead on the camera side of things. If Apple release this headset and it costs around $1500 as rumoured it’s really going to have to justify it somehow considering the nReal air is £399. I feel they need to do something big because it’s all starting to feel a bit lacklustre compared to what’s happening over in Android and Linux land.
Some caveats as someone who games on Linux (Wayland, so YMMV):

- lack of HDR support

- anecdotal micro-stuttering in games like CS:GO ...

- .. and 4:3 aspect ratio does not work

- many games require command line tweaks to start or work properly, including but not limited to; overriding binary paths to skip launchers designed for Windows, changing your GPU driver (RADV vs AMDVK), enabling features like DXVK_ASYNC (might make an unplayable game playable)

- you need a nightly mesa-git to play new games

- anticheats in most games are broken

- Steam requires a kernel with 32-bit emulation support to run, and has a lot of dependencies on such software

- you most likely need a GPU from AMD

Other than that, it's quite good! Software like gamescope is a real highlight, allowing me to toggle FSR even in titles which do not support it. This evens the playing field between Windows and Linux, and might even make it even! I removed Windows and beyond occasional FOMO on Tarkov and Call of Duty, I'm happy.
Who buys luxury electric cars? The same liberal elite that he regularly mocks and who he has alienated on the platform he bought to un-woke. I don't think his new climate change denier fans are all that into electric cars.
These pictures strongly remind me of "Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) 1899-1904"

https://www.zum.de/stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html

(unfortunately only the low resolution images (Bildschirmauflösung) are still available on the page)
I do compose and make arrangements — and am firmly a mediocrity. In fact, lots of the great composers were violists: Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Britten, Dvorak, and others. Most of them also played a keyboard instrument, which is a useful tool for a composer, but a violist is perfectly placed to understand the orchestra as a whole, and is usually not saddled with too difficult a part, so they can spare some attention.

Also, violinists who composed were very common, but their works tend to display skill rather than profundity. Paganini is a good example: delightful melody, amazing technical displays, but not a lot to sink your teeth into.
Fascinating how a Canadian was convicted of breaking a USA law. I assume the criminal was probably selling the device to Americans but it's bizarre to me. As an American, I would never face judgment for some of the anti-speech laws of China or Saudi Arabia, for example.

I know the Kim Dotcom story is the best example of USA law being global law, but every instance is genuinely fascinating.
> many services you'd think would be better just aren't

Perhaps you could enlighten us about which services are lacking and how they are so much better in those countries that just spent the North Sea oil revenue internally?
The A380 decision was two decades ago now. The A350 was a result of Boeing wiping out the A340 and the first iteration of the A350. Airbus is in a good potion now that they did in fact go back to what made them successful. Mid range single deck two engine airframes.
I think most users of both would disagree with you.
Disclosure, I'm a Norwegian.
Saudi Arabia of the north. Well. Actually I think Sweden might be a top contender for that name.
yes, things have definitely changed for video games in the past few years.

Loot boxes and the concept of being peer-pressured into paying money for trendy skins is not something that existed when I grew up. TBH, I think many concepts that are popular in AAA games today should require robust 18+ (or even 21+) ID verification to be allowed to use them. I generally never like the idea to banning things for everyone, but we can at least make it a bit harder for kids to access them.

Minecraft is one of the extremely few addictive games I wouldn't be too worried about if I was raising kids but I would verify what type of server/maps they are using. They get to build things and interacts with other people and last time I checked they had relatively few dark patterns (no gambling, loot boxes, paying for trendy skins, pay-to-win, etc.). I hope it is still the same today.
I actually wonder if you're an engineer at Meta because this isn't my experience at all. My whole team (in London) is working hard doing useful engineering work. The evaluation process is such that employees are pressured to deliver. I haven't seen anyone "relaxing".

To me, the problem with Meta is the constant focus on impact. There's little incentive to write robust software. Many tools are half-finished, fragile, poorly documented.
Important info buried at the end

>It’s worth noting that Alaska is obviously aware that not everybody will be able to check in online. Agents will remain available for assistance, and Jain emphasized that travelers will continue to have this option.
Over the long run, effort is quite often rewarded more than lack of effort. Not perfectly. But often enough that it's the way to bet.
You can tell demand is high because ticket prices are very high.

Airlines have opted and are opting to fly fewer planes with higher ticket prices. It's a price over volume optimisation that seems to be in fashion in many industry segments. [0]

I will note that some airlines have been affected very badly by issues with rebuilding staffing in ancillary services like luggage and airport security. That uncertainty I think leads to them being less ambitious with growth.

0 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/transcrip...
LLMs like GPT-4 'natively' speak certain syntaxes very well - e.g. Python, JSON. I'd suggest you want to take advantage of that, if at all possible, rather than embark on training or fine tuning your own LLM.

If you have a particular data structure you want to have the LLM generate or manipulate, which there aren't large quantities of in the training set, you might want to consider writing a translator that will translate it into a format the LLM natively 'speaks', using the LLM on that, and then translating back into your DSL.

Going this direction and also adding examples in some sort of vector store, as others have suggested, could be a good direction.
IIUC the two similar incidents were in the exact same plane (but did not cause a crash) not in a plane with a similar modification.

[edit]

> According to other pilots who were familiar with the airplane and/or had flown it, to change the fuel selector a pilot had to: 1) Remove his hand from the right side control stick if he was hand flying the aircraft; 2) Release the shoulder harness; 3) Turn his upper body 90 degrees to the left to reach the handle; and 4) Turn the handle to another position. Two pilots shared their experiences of having inadvertently run a fuel tank dry with nearly catastrophic consequences because of the selector and sight gauge locations[1].

Note "familiarity with the airplane" not "a similar Long EZ" which they use later to talk about investigators inadvertently depressing the rudder pedal when trying to use the valve.

1: https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/close-up-the-john-denver...
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You can do that from EEG. You usually get an API which exposes a number of wave "channels". Depending on the person, if you for example make your hand into a fist, you might get an isolated spike on one of the channels. When developing custom controls based on these signals it's difficult to find actions that will make a channel or combination of channels spike consistently, but you may end up with like, "press tongue to top of mouth" for yes, "make right hand into a fist" for no kinds of things.

This is from some minor diy experimentation a few years ago, might be out of date.
737 MAX MCAS issue pale in comparison to 737 classic rudder issues (two crashes confirmed because of the issue, three crashes suspected, and a few more cases where pilots were able to overcome the plane). Yet it happened in the era without social networks and Internet news, so few people remember about it.
Why the bodies of people in Herculaneum were not well preserved
It's not a strong argument to say "what could it be other than X? therefore, X"

> What could it be?

Sense of community is gone. Trust is at an all-time low. Traditional social institutions and scaffolding that held society together are gone. Families are more broken apart than ever. It's an entire regime change, and we're still operating with our old instincts/hardware, which expects to be raised in a village by a largely familiar and empathetic community. The farther we get from that model, the more we'll be stressed out (until and unless we upgrade our hardware somehow, or, more likely, die trying).

Social media is small potatoes in comparison to the changes that have happened already, and especially to those that are coming.
And sometimes the days are short, too.

Nice list, though. Happy birthday and good luck on your journey, Sam.
Pinecone is an expensive online vector database that can easily be replaced with any number of free, local versions of the same thing (e.g. Faiss). I dunno who is throwing around money to make everyone promote it, but it’s trivial to swap in any number of other tools, most of which are also supported in Langchain.
Show HN: Emoji Compose – Export Slack Emojis from Workspace
> Some people on Twitter say it didn't happen.

Come on. The existence of gravity is debatable if that's your standard.

> The current Ukrainian government asserts that the Russians invaded Crimea.

If you think this is debatable, I don't know what to tell you.
Tesla deployed 3.9 GWh of energy storage, an increase of 360% YoY [pdf]
What's stopping the agents/LLM to "compile" some "traditional" code to extract that for you?

That's the next step, is teach these massive generalized models to compile lightweight models (which doesn't have to be ML based) for narrowly defined tasks, validate the narrow model using the large one generating test data and boom, efficient code.
Shouldn't the memory needed scale quadratically with sequence length rather than the linear scaling they have in their equations?
You said, in one communication,

> "when human life begins" is easy. Biology, the science, makes it clear that such cells are alive.

There was no "this and then that and then you confused me with big words and then I never said that". And now you've degenerated into a rant about how everyone who can actually read what you wrote must be evil and should die out? Yea, please be banned.
> - many games require command line tweaks to start or work properly, including but not limited to; overriding binary paths to skip launchers designed for Windows, changing your GPU driver (RADV vs AMDVK), enabling features like DXVK_ASYNC (might make an unplayable game playable)

Not if you're using Lutris.

> - you most likely need a GPU from AMD

I've been playing on Nvidia for years and it's pretty good.
“Getting stuck” is my basic theory of why the AGI apocalypse is not going to be an issue during my lifetime.

I’ve jokingly been calling it the non-halting problem.
Those are all good points.
Except Ghost isn't free, and I doubt most of Substack newsletters (I mean those from amateurs writers, not the pros that make a living off them) would be willing to pay. That's where the destructions will happen.
My rss reader (inoreader) supports newsletters. It creates a custom email address for me to feed to substack and I get all emails just like any rss feed.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Ruby templates and for the links.

> I don't think the power/danger tradeoff is worth it.

The power/danger tradeoff might not be worth it for the overwhelming majority of programs. For some kinds of programs I don't see how this power can be got with anything less powerful than macros.
Nearly everything I remember as a cultural artifact from the 80s and 90s is gone, except for movies and video games, both of which have been preserved only due to illegal copyright infringement. Nearly every aspect of my online presence and the people who influenced my formative years, things like the local dial-in BBS, some of the Usenet groups, and the many MUDs are all gone, poof, vanished.

I imagine more of human culture has been lost than preserved at nearly every point in history, but as with other commenters, I expect online culture in particular will be lost to memory due to the folly of US copyright law, the US global hegemony (primarily focused on enforcing said laws), and the US being a lynchpin to the early Internet.
You say that but it's a bit tough to care if you don't see it happen. It's possible for everyone here to be the subject of a meme somewhere of a picture taken without consent. However, it just feels tough to care unless you actually see the meme and the reactions of people to it.
I sure would have liked to see the Liberal party follow through on their promise to engage in electoral reform though. It seemed to have completely slipped their minds once they found a majority.

Perhaps related, but I find minority governments to be the most aligned to how I think things should work. It's not that they can't get anything done, but rather they have to actually engage with the other parties to find common ground. Crazy idea, I know...
On https://flowchart.fun I found that I got better overall results by asking GPT for an intermediate syntax that it was less likely to mess up (and easier for me to parse), and then parsing and transforming that syntax to my DSL. The relevant code: https://github.com/tone-row/flowchart-fun/blob/main/api/prom...
The solution is code generation, which is more performant and less brittle than maintaining runtime reflection machinery to break encapsulation. Moshi is a good example of a library that does this.
The Year of Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD on Desktops May Never Come
> Similarly, AGI is much smarter for a set of tasks, but it still requires humans to generate value. LLMs are astounding/fascinating in what they are able to do, but they don’t replace employees end-to-end (except for a few niche industries).

What you're describing sounds like an early iteration of AGI. But unless we stop the research, progress will continue and the limited AGI you describe is not where things will stop.

LLMs are not AGI, and their limits are unsurprising as such. But the limits of LLMs are not informative about the broader concerns of an eventual AGI.

In each of your descriptions you've limited the scope of what an AGI can accomplish, but those limitations need to be justified. If we continue to iterate, and especially if there's ever a moment where the computers surpass our own understanding, there is no reason to believe that those limits you imply are absolute.
No, it's used non ironically too.

Nice that you mention "lekker", that means something like "tasty" or "nice" but it can also ooze sarcasm and be used to turn just about anything into a sneer.
Taking a sharper look at the M87 black hole
Sort of funny that Elon found out it had a deal with MSFT for API access via some random tweet.

Other CEOs that buy companies will often ask the staff something like "give me a list of the top 50 accounts we have deals with" (measured by dollars or volume or company size.) You know... so they know who they have deals with.
The 737 Max has almost nothing to do with the 737. Don't conflate the two.
It seems like there needs to be some understanding of “benefitting from one’s own work” as part of this conversation.

If I make a thing, and am actively providing it for consumption, I have an interest in maintaining its integrity.

Contrarily, if I have made something, but it’s just sitting idling away as something I simply own as an IP, it will be allowed to languish, in every sense of the word.

There are similar concepts with trademarks; if you don’t actively defend trademark usages, you stand the risk of losing it to the public domain.

Likewise, if you don’t actually provide your creation to the public in a consumable way, you should lose the ability to claim it.
> I think a general purpose macro language is only as useful as the average code-gen/templating language. It's just string manipulation, which can be harder to reason about than true metaprogramming ...

I would like you to reconsider. Predicting a program output is hard. So in order to comprehend a macro programed as code, one need run the macro in their head to predict its output, then they need comprehend that output in order to understand the code. I think that is unreasonable expectation. That's why reasonable usage of meta-programming is close to templating where programmer can reason with the generated code directly from the template. For more higher-powered macros, I argue no one will be able to reason with two-layers at the same time. So what happens is for the programmer to put on his macro hat to comprehend the macro, then simply use a good "vacabulary" (macro name) to encode his comprehension. And when he put his application programming hat, he takes the macro by an ambiguous understanding, as a vocabulary, or some one may call it as a syntax extension. Because we need put on two hats at different time, we don't need homoiconicity to make the two hats to look the same.
There's definitely a lot lost from the era of personal home pages.
Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
"paper free" sounds un-fun. I have a brother laser, that replaced a 2 decade old HP laser that my youngest broke when he was 2 or 3. We go through about 3 reams a year, more when one of us is going for a degree. I print maybe 5 things a month on average, usually recipes. I wouldn't forego a printer for any reason.

you can use gimp to take images and make them into coloring book pages, you can print instructions, calendars, drawings, diagrams; prompts for writing, your own writing to make sure that the "screen" isn't tricking your brain making you miss editing/grammar errors. Coloring pages, maps of countries, and other educational things are more fun if you can hold them and put them on your wall, if my kids are any indication. Having a scanner and a copier and a networked printer in a single box for what they cost - that makes it difficult to see the aversion.

I have had fancy e-readers since the original kindle, and before that a Clie and two palm pilots with acrobat and an epub (or whatever) reader. and i still prefer dead wood. I read more books on paper than e-ink. I read more on a computer screen than books, though.
> The pressure for teenagers to fill their time with activities is very high. The parents feel to perform / get into whatever good college / do well in life, they need to have their time spoken for by a large number of activities. Helicopter parenting has really taken new heights in the last decade.

This is the big one, in conjunction with other comments about how there's "no tolerance for failure" anymore. You have to be on track to be a top tier performer by the time you're 10 or else you will never make it back up (or at least that's how a lot of people feel). Plus there's a sense that either you make it to the top, or you might as well be at the bottom, because the middle class is rapidly vanishing.

The pressure is higher, and starts younger, than ever before.
I can feel that glide too. You are flying along, then feel a slight gliding fall, then a wobble. You always feel any turbulence during the glides too.

Sorry for the highly technical terms but I agree it is unique to the A380.

Apart from this they comfortable to travel and sleep on.
Yeah, although looks like it currently has some issues with coqa: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/issues/2...

There's also the bigscience fork, but I ran into even more problems (although I didn't try too hard) https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/lm-evaluation-harness

And there's https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-eval2/ (not sure if it's just starting over w/ a new repo or what?) but it has limited tests available
> 15 year old German cars

That's a masochistic trait if I ever saw one.
but thats my point - its a much smaller group of usually highly invested people if your company is private (even with the quarterly reviews) - with a public company, there are a lot more investors with a lot lower stakes, which manipulates the goals and intentions of the company significantly.
I understand what it is. It’s a jab at how useless a lot of the wiki pages can be