skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as an example of something that's hard, but not because of lack of technology, real economical surplus, or engineering challenges, yet real things which are still killing millions of people each year: malnutrition, access to clean water, and treatable communicable diseases, like TBC or even HIV or COVID.

Solving those are simple tasks of manufacturing power plants, water treatment plants, fertilizer plants, agricultural machines, logistics of deploying them and keeping them fueled, and persuading people to take the fucking vaccine, use PrEP and use condoms. Money solves these. There's enough people and resources to do this.

The AGI foom argument basically says that the AGI will commandeer the economy of the size of a developed country, well, let's say Germany. (Let's pick Germany, because we already saw what that country was able to do when run by a dictator.)

Insisting that AGI can organize enough people to replace enough broken hardware while manufacturing new hardware doesn't seem that far fetched. (Again, Germany was able to increase its industrial production during WWII while the Allies bombed it constantly for months.)
Parsec is now part of Unity
Why Omada over Unifi? Aren’t they mostly the same? Both need a controller running somewhere, and not sure why one would be better/worse than the other.
Fair point, but inferring from a comment or two that someone must use the wrong brand of paper towels at home and then constructing an ad hominem around that is the true soul of HN discourse.
If a picture is worth a thousand words.... a well done animation is gotta be at least 10K words.
Thanks for making an old topic fun to read about again!
> I've never made any friends at a "gathering place". I think most people show up to bars, restaurants, or anything like that with people they already know.

It's probably my prior military force-learned charisma but I almost exclusively go to bars alone and almost always make a friend or two when I'm out. I don't like going to bars with other people often, they can meet me there but if I'm expected to only interact with one person I feel like I'm babysitting and have to keep them entertained whereas I'm a social butterfly and bounce around to a number of different people at bars alone.

But I will say I'm probably more uncommon than people who come in groups, especially in my new city that has less transplants- it's hard to break into friend groups when they've known one another for 5-10-20+ years.

Problem with bar friends is you might not have any shared interests aside from going out and drinking, movies, simple stuff vs your other options. And so you might not ever become closer friends than bar-buds.
> He's using a generic application example in here: one thing to be wary of when interacting with ChatGPT and the like is that we should never put anything that may be confidential into the prompt, as that would be a security risk. Business rules, any code from a real project - all these must not enter the interaction with ChatGPT.

Remember, when storing your business code on Github servers hosted by Microsoft, it is important to not place real code from a project into OpenAI servers hosted by Microsoft. That would be a security risk.
They provide rentable office space for companies that need office space. What alternative are you suggesting? Companies build their own offices? Builders retain ownership and become landlords? The banks become landlords? Companies just don't have offices?
I feel Star Trek is based on an engineering environment found most commonly on places like submarines. There certain elements of this environment may be needed, because lives depend on it. A different kind of environment is needed for a company making apps for instance. If there is one thing I notied from bad tech directors is that sometimes their delusions of grandure really do seem like they think they're running a submarine or a large ship.
There is also https://metalbear.co/blog/writing-a-kubernetes-operator/
>In fact I think a lot of people my age (late 20s) are starting to feel like this as a reaction to the idea that anyone who isn't driving a nice car or going abroad several times a year is a failure.

Most of the people around me and I always saw that lifestyle as an strong indication of and reaction to no sense of purpose.
My thesis advisor said it always takes π times longer to do something than you expect.
An introverts nightmare is to meet random folks along with other and without a purpose.Call a spade a spade, its a group event and that itself is even harder than 1-1 hang.
I started keeping a list btw, there are about 20 completely open (Apache 2.0, BSD, MIT, CC-BY) 1B+ parameter foundational LLMs at the moment: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kT4or6b0Fedd-W_jMwYp...
Useful for form of learning and experimentation. Not applicable, in my view, at all due to lack of ownership of the generated code. There is no ability to copyright and protect the intellectual output from generative AI processes.

Even when your prompts are clearly the pseudocode which creates the scope of the generated response. Until this situation is legally cleared, I will be very cautious to include LLM's outside rapid prototyping and conceptual phase. Not to mention the madness of AutoGPT or more realistic approach of LangChain.

It is early in the game and the Hype train is riding more rapidly than crypto and web3 combined.

I see a lot of AI startups introducing the same capabilities through OpenAI API and prompts, without consideration of prompt injection risk. So we will see who will survive.
Why is it important to start this ~200 years into the industrial revolution? What is actually different now? If anything we're (well) into diminishing returns.
Much like the car rental agency is a pointless middleman between you and the car manufacturer.
Progressive corporate income tax for extremely large enterprises could achieve a similar outcome.
But it's not just like humans. For one thing it's built differently, with a different relationship between training and execution. It doesn't learn from its mistakes until it gets the equivalent of a brain transplant, and in fact extant AIs are notorious for doubling down instead of accepting correction. 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. This is why the idea of an AI controlling a physical system is so terrifying. Whatever requirement the prompter forgot to include will not be recognized by the AI either, whereas a human who knows about physical properties like mass or velocity or rigidity will intuitively honor requirements related to those. Adding layers is as likely to magnify errors as to correct them.
On the memory limitation: Yeah, lack of an infinite tape is a real bummer. On some level I think we're some kind of bounded-tape automaton, which still makes the current limitations of Transformers pretty severe. (Yes, yes, prompting, CoT, and all that)
I have a simple alternative method in mind for SAAS (software as a service) apps.

Manual/statistical load balancing --- assign users to a specific server based on their login credentials. A statistical model of server utilization can be maintained and users assigned or re-assigned as needed. Latency can be reduced to zero by simply forwarding the connection to the proper server once the login is complete.

The obvious downside is a custom load balancer implementation is required.

Does anyone have any experience using NodeJS as a load balancer for something like this?
What about FreeVMS?

https://github.com/rroart/freevms
Yea this seems pretty bizarre, I mean I guess I'd expect it from this site, but the solution seems like it's advocating placing the blame on the engineer(s) (bad at estimations, too technical, not good at explaining repeatedly and in childspeak, write better code).

Not to mention the amazing advice of having telepathy so that you can explain things in line with the (models in her(CEOs) head).
Property is acquired through the trade of one's resources, which are acquired through a time tradeoff in almost all cases.

The property vs. body isn't about valuing "things" more than people. It's about recognizing that the decision to destroy someone else's property is illegal, and that activity should be interrupted by the government. It is one of the few responsibilities a government should have. Underlying the property, real damage is being done to real humans by destroying their past and future bodies through the proxy of property and the tradeoff they would need to make to reacquire it.
VMS goes back to the 70's, now across 4 architectures: VAX, Alpha, Itanium, and now x86. I'm sure it has accumulated a ton of cruft for backwards compatibility.

I worked at a VMS shop for a bit during college and shortly thereafter! It's fun to play around with, but nothing I'd want to deal with full time.
VMS Software's intention in porting VMS to x86 was certainly to capture commercial sales. It was an expensive undertaking; there would be no other reason to spend the money besides expecting to recoup it in sales. The whole company's existence is because of the existing commercial customer base. They acquired the rights to VMS from HPE with the expectation that they'd make money with it. They have a press release talking about all the support contracts they inherited from HPE.

The real question is: what do they get out of offering a hobbyist license? I honestly don't think they get anything and it's just a nice gesture of goodwill. Nobody is going to pick up the hobbyist VMS license and then decide to adopt VMS at work. I bet it doesn't lead to a single extra commercial sale. It's nice that they're offering it despite that.
I think it might be dangerous to elevate people in this way. Probably djb is a human, who doesn’t represent a dowsing rod for your evaluation of the world.
I think if you’re talking about social change that happens at scale, people are not necessarily following a specific coherent philosophy. But hedonistic values were widely adopted in various contexts in the mid-20th century. For example the sexual revolution and free love movement of the 1960s: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19053382. These attitudes are also prevalent in terms of messages given to young people regarding vocation (“follow your bliss,” etc.)
I've read that the challenge with a lot of these conversion projects is plumbing. They only have pipes going up certain areas, and apparently that makes it pretty expensive to get a kitchen and bathroom in every unit when you convert it to apartments.
One thing that really bothers me is that I want it to use best practices and it doesn't really know which ones I'm talking about, and then I realize they are _my_ set of best practices, made from others' nameless best practices.

So I have to decide if it's just a matter of manually converting the 5-10 little things like using `env bash` in the header, etc. Or do I ask it to remember that and proceed to the next layer of the project, and feel like Katamari Coder, which is quite a feeling of what-is-this-fresh-encumbrance at times.

There is a nascent sense that the interface is not even close to where it needs to be to efficiently support that kind of recall for working memory on the coder's end.

I can definitely see a new LLM relativistic-symbolic instruction code & IDE-equivalent (with yet-unseen presentational and let's even say modal editing factors) being extremely useful, which is a bit funny but also that's what those things are good for... Right now I can scroll up through my prompts to supplement my working memory, but that's another place where the whole activity starts to seem very tedious.

(Is the LLM coming for the coders, or are coders coming for the LLM?)
I will never have full trust in an assertion unless (a) it's included in a contract that binds all parties, (b) the same contract includes a penalty for breaking the assertion that's severe enough to discourage it, and (c) I know the financial and other costs of litigation won't be severe for me.

In short, unless my large employer will likely win in punishing OpenAI should they break a promise, that promise is just aspirational marketing speak.

For data retention and usage, I'd also need a similar contractual agreement to tie the hands of any company that would acquire them in the future.
If AI automates away the workforce to the point that we have less annual tax receipts, then I'd also expect two other things to happen:

1) Everything becomes cheaper due to this automation, and

2) The cost of public services that these taxes pay for become cheaper due to this automation
See my other comment. There are no Zebrastreifen on my roundabout. It's tight, heavily frequented by cars (and all sizes of trucks, due to being next to an industrial zone).

Zebrastreifen would be a nice thing. However, around here it's either canonical rules for all roundabouts or even yield signs for non-car traffic. (I suppose they're only really valid for bikes which share the sidewalk, though? No idea, I just yield anyhow.)

Zebrastreifen would certainly be safer than nothing. My experience, though, is, that a sufficient number of drivers is already confused or overwhelmed by basic roundabout rules and don't even see them. A traffic light simplifies everything at the cost of a bit less efficiency for cars.
Ask HN: Building a url shortner, similar to bitly, can I make it profitable?
Trying to schedule things with people gets harder with each new element. So I usually schedule with my best friends (3 people) and just let the rest know about it: if they can join, cool, if they can't, there's always next time.

But I've disconnected from some people who are really bad at this, eg asking for lots of changes and rarely taking initiatives. I'm an introvert and reaching out to distant friends feels weird to me, even if it happens the conversation doesn't flow.

(but one thing that helps me is pushing myself to thinking out loud, instead of being insecure of what to talk about. Weird topics sometimes make the best chats)
I "registered" for an Alpha license last week (I own several systems), but all I got was an email with credentials to access VSI's SFTP server, using a shared 'ACOMMUNITY' username. I cannot access the portal with the email address I used for this, and attempting a 'Forgot password' just returns "Error 404: Email not found.". You can see 'ICOMMUNITY' and 'XCOMMUNITY' directories in the server, but I'm not able to access them.

Has anyone that has requested a license (Alpha/Itanium) in the last few weeks actually been able to log in to the portal?
I Created a Personalized Map with R, JavaScript, and More
Very cool. Reason I ask is at first glance the header "Search the Internet" to me, implies you are searching the entire internet. It sounds like a more appropriate header would be "Search the obsecure Internet"
Car rental provides a service. They provide a clean, working car at the airport at a daily rate.
Curious,where did you end up both physically and profesisonally.
I see a similar situation in the large corporation I work for and it's toxic. It all boils down to leader worship. There's a huge segment of managers that are completely unwilling to tell anyone higher in the chain of command "no" or push back on anything even when the request is unrealistic.

The lack of a backbone means that teams are continually in emergency mode, trying to push something through so that some manager can prove to some person above them that they can deliver things. The result is that whatever was asked for is usually delivered in a subpar way, but all the boxes were checked and everyone thinks it was done. it becomes another thing on the pile of technical debt that will be dealt with another day.
A tag system is actually a deterministic computational model

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_system
I haven't worked with AKS, but in Azure if you want to go back to the previous "parent" resource it's usually pretty simple, you just scroll to the left. It's a bit strange, but once you get use to it you learn to stop using the back button.
I mean, who wants to feel like they work at a bullshit job where nothing matters? If you can sell putting on a show of dramatic urgency at any level you'll find lots of buyers (at least until the disillusionment sets in)
Why do we tax human labor at all? We could just tax consumption, which would have obvious environmental benefits.
The older I get the less I find I need friends.

My old friends and I share a common history that goes way back. We were dumb teens in the 70's and 80's and so have a shared experience of those decades and that stupid shit we did.

We act as foils for one another — how one friend turned out differently than another while coming from the same background.

And also, and more importantly as we age, old friends remind us that we have more in common despite those ways in which we turned out differently. Money and status fall by the wayside when you get past 50.
I suspect the in practice effect of something like this would result in people getting a 10 dollar check once a month or something. Which would be something, but wouldn't actually mitigate any of the assumed harms of automation. Taxes at least could build infrastructure which might facilitate the growth of new forms of employment. But everyone getting a pittance once a month is unlikely have very much positive benefit to the impacted people.
The question isn't possible to answer, what one person expects to work another person might not consider it important. Likewise, what does "compatible" mean?

I have used Wayland exclusively for over a year and not found any software I could not run.

For example, JAVA doesn't have native Wayland support, so if you launched GUI JAVA software Wayland will run it in a sandboxed X11 server (XWayland) that behaves mostly like Wayland in the context of the rest of your system but is just X11 under the hood.

However, because that JAVA software is technically running in X11 and X11 doesn't have the level of support as Wayland does for HiDPI then that specific GUI program can't inherit your pixel config. This will probably just mean the default layout for that program will be too small or blurry.

This is a good example because it's not unreasonable that in 2023 you may not be running any GUI JAVA software and you may never even realise this was an thing. Equally, GUI JAVA software may be the only software you run in which case this may be unacceptable.

There are other things Wayland does differently to X11 (because it's different software). For example, Wayland doesn't have a method for a program to register a global hotkey - if you want a global hotkey you have to register it in your WM or DE. This is because the tighter security model stops one program from capturing inputs to another AND because the developers can't come to a consensus on the API to enable this.

You may consider Wayland not supporting arbitrary global hotkeys to be incompatible with what you expect. I don't because I have no issue with the centralised global hotkeys in my WM.
To be clear, LSTMs and RNNs have no issue with the parity problem.

As for humans, I think you could run into boredom / fatigue if you just told someone to sit there and 'maintain state' for PARITY, but I'm sure most of us could do it: you just need to maintain ODD or EVEN at any point in time as the bits are being fed to you.

The fact that Transformers as they exist now require these additional mechanisms feel to me like there is a lot of room for improvement.
Check out the gzdoom map series Knee Deep in Gzdoom, or the original 'de-make' of it 'Knee Deep in Knee Deep in Zdoom'. It's a remake of episode one but using all new advanced features of zdoom, and hugely expanded maps. It's a ton of fun and you'll instantly recognize all the old areas and then explore new stuff added to them. It's a ton of fun.
This kind of appropriate skepticism is why I love the HN community. This may be a perfectly innocent project, in which case I hope the author notices these comments and adjusts. But this comment highlights the possibility that it might not be so innocent.
Chesterton's fence?

Have you considered the possibility that perhaps it makes sense to have certain businesses specialized in certain things?

Say there is a sale-leaseback agreement with a supermarket business. Clearly the supermarket wants to do it, right? It allows them to free up capital that would otherwise be allocated to owning the land, and they can use that capital to expand the business they are actually good at, operating supermarkets.

For the corporate that is now the landlord, the benefits are also clear, they get a steady stream of income.

Both businesses specialized in different things, so they have different costs of capital, time horizons and cashflow needs to it makes sense for them to both do business with each other and for both to exist.
Actually not true. Omada has the ability to be controlled from a controller, but it is not required. It has a built-in web administration panel. Beyond that TP-Link just puts out a solid product, at a solid price point, without all the constant issues you tend to get with how Ubiquiti keeps mucking with their firmware.
Kirk: Scotty, fix the warp drive.

Scotty: It'll take me two days.

Kirk: You have two hours.

Scotty: No, it will take two days since we need to do it in a clean and maintainable way and not cut corners and don't want to leave the ship in a worse shape. Our planning poker says it's two days and our engineer's show of hands confirm everyone's most confident in that timeline.

Kirk: ???

Klingons: (proceed to blast the Enterprise off the sky)

It takes common sense to distinguish between "life or death do it now and damn the consequences", and "steady as she goes" cases.

It takes some nerve to say Scotty is the one who made a mistake if he says "yes".

While it works (and is needed to keep the action moving) in a TV series, Kirk putting the ship constantly in the position where Scotty must perform miracles is a very bad way to run a ship.

IOW perpetual crunch is bad, mmkay?
Recruiters as in independent agents that contact you or help you find jobs? not that there's anything wrong with them, but I tend to apply directly to companies and search Linkedin, other (professional) social networks or ask friends about openings.

Some recruiters will cheat you into applying to positions you don't want, but you are responsible to ask your interviewers the right questions. Recruiters can sometimes help negotiating better terms or solve conflicts, so not all are worthless.
The UAT states that depth is fundamentally not important, at least theoretically. It only has immense practical uses. So adding an intermediate linear layer + some nonlinearity already gets you an error scaling like O(1/N) for width N (in theory), regardless of what you are actually mapping. At least as long as it's somewhat continuous.
Can anyone tell me if anything like this exists :

A program that runs in the background on your machine and watches processes and the file handles they open. Then, keeps a database of associations between files and programs. E.g. you open a pdf with adobe acrobat, and now it adds an entry with a relation between that specific file and acrobat, and between pdf file extensions and acrobat.

Then, this information is used to provide an intuitive interface into the file system. Searching for that .docx file you made last year and cant remember for the life of you where you put it? Just search for .docx, or files associated with "Word"

This to me is the holy grail of filesystem search, and it doesn't seem that hard to implement, but I've never found anything like it.
They did this to DALL-E Mini, that’s why they had to change their name to craiyon. This highly visible action did not seem to sway public opinion on OpenAI much. The whole “they aren’t actually open” thing is already priced in to people’s opinions. OpenAI’s models are so important that people have to put that to the side.