skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, it doesn't have skills. It computes output responses based on input (i.e. text input it has been fed over time), a history of threaded inputs by a human and possibly different personas which are just different styles of output.

I see a skill as learning how to do something where that learning translates to many similar activities. For example, learning how to integrate two systems using a REST API into your application is a skill - dealing with errors, paging of responses, parsing of JSON, etc. If you come along another API that isn't REST, maybe its some message queue with JSON, you've learned the skill of how to integrate and that translates pretty well. If a LLM/GPT is fed text input on the code needed for a client side REST API in language X, that's it - it won't be able to output the code needed for the client side of consuming a message queue unless it is fed that particular input. If its never heard of a message queue you're going to get paragraphs of text that equate to a blank stare. I think you're right that it doesn't learn skills because it doesn't have skills much like any computer doesn't have skills.

I think the trap for humanity is the potential fraudulent things we'll see come to light that happen during a hype cycle. Some investors are likely to trap their money into projects/companies that don't pan out or are completely useless.
Yeah, but you usually don't count them as the same thing, but more like "more contacts > more work > more bank", but that's just doing normal client work for money.
Doesn't make them less annoying though.
Right. I can count on less than the fingers of one hand the number of useful conferences I've been to (and by useful, I mean there was one little thing in the entire conference which was not a total waste of time).
Will it be built out of LEGOs?
Never had it happen, I blocked him and I've never seen a single post from him.
Is this because we have a tech background and some understanding of how the algorithm works? I like to think I have curated my results to a degree by exercising this knowledge. ie: I noticed all of my news results were leaning starboard and things started to sound like an echo chamber. So I started seeking news content from the port side as well. Now I receive a mixture of both. I know my grandfather is not able to grasp this concept and I have seen his landing page.. I still have nightmares about what he is being fed in his echo chamber.
You are wrong on all accounts, but I am glad you added the edit, at least. You are starting to understand. Before jumping to conclusions on a holier-than-thou high horse as if you already know everything coming in, please answer point by point:

1) Pray tell, how did the forums grow from zero discussion to being a vibrant place, without some team of people “astroturfing” discussion?

2) Did they disclose in every message that they were working for money or out of friendship with the owner, rather than because of their genuine interest in 30 topics monthly?

3) If they disclosed their role in their profile, would you consider that ethical enough? Because that is exactly what is going on here.

4) Many people are too lazy to even check the profile, which is how they respond in full earnestness and outrage to Parody accounts on Twitter. Should Parody accounts keep saying “<sarcasm> blah blah </sarcasm>” in every message because people are lazy?

5) If you don’t like this level of deceit, you’re going to hate nearly all applications of Generative AI because they do far worse and on a far larger scale. Think those photographs are from a real scene? Think that heartfelt letter was written just to you? Think that is your family member begging to send money to a certain crypto address? Think again. This is one of the least bad things that can be done with Generative AI. Of course you won’t come out and attack most other uses of generative AI because they won’t disclose it to you, and because like many people in society, you Ready Fire Aim, you attack before even thinking through the issues.

I have spent more years thinking about ethics and living them (to personal detriment and voluntary sacrifice) while you and many others cheered Big Tech and Web3 projects which are destructive to humanity, because it was the thing du jour at the time.

So please take your lazy approach to outrage somewhere else or get a little humility.
Why are they not using caching? Does a component have to be rendered differently for each and every visitor? Is there anything that makes caching impossible? In the end it is just a bunch of HTML, CSS and JS being delivered to a browser somewhere. Why is it hard to cache properly?
If you have a bad lock on your door, is it still criminal if I bypass it with lockpicking tools and distribute them, telling everyone how to exploit your specific lock? FWIW I disagree with anti-circumvention laws as they exist in the DMCA, but it seems like a straightforward passage to interpret.

The devil’s advocate argument that I can come up with for it is that it allows developers incapable of adding sufficient protection to have their work have protection of the law, rather than code.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v...
I don't see anything like that using this feature.
I've definitely played without an account. Last time I played accounts weren't even a thing for multiplayer servers
As someone who will probably purchase a CPAP device soon, this is deeply troubling.
Goodbye create-react-app: A New Approach
Aside from purely capitalistic motivations, there is such a thing as environmental warfare. Unless you want to naively assume that any foreign nation might always have the best interests of another in mind when exploiting their resources.
Bellingcat hiring actual spooks -> nothing to see, move along

MintPress hiring ex-RT -> it's propaganda arm

On a serious note, I fail to see how RT is considered state-propaganda, but BBC is not
It will 100% go up over time. An important (perhaps the most important) part of law is signaling social norms. We don’t make it illegal to steal because we think we can enforce every little instance of shoplifting. We do it so we can clearly signal that it’s “bad.” Those signals keep the normal people on the moral path. When you remove that signal, you’ll normalize it and usage will go up.
>Though it was always incorrect to lambast AWS for “strip-mining” open source

It really wasn't. That was their whole approach to Elastic.

The tantrum they threw at Elastic when they relicensed was particularly cringeworthy.
Regulatory red tape is the go-to excuse nuclear stans use for why their energy waifu is in such desperate shape.

That particular link you presented is misrepresented. New nuclear wasn't approved for decades because nuclear's economic case was shown to be nonexistent after the first nuclear buildout. The thing that killed nuclear in the US wasn't the NRC, it was the slowdown in electricity demand growth, and especially the passage of PURPA in 1978. Nuclear now had to compete with non-utility power sources, and it had no hope of doing that. The market for new NPPs dried up; without that market, there was no pressure to get new reactor designs (which also couldn't compete) through the NRC.
I am skeptical because most applications don't really benefit from being server rendered. Say what you will about performance but if you keep your bundle sizes within reason and apply a small dose of lazy-loading for big dependencies web apps are just fast enough for the majority of the code being written today.

And unlike client-rendered SPAs, server-rendered don't fundamentally change how you write your code. Going from template-engine + form-redirects for mutations to an SPA is like unlocking super-powers in the user flows possible and developer capabilities. Going from SPA to server-rendered SPA brings very little new user-flow capabilities or developer-experience benefits, while bringing many downsides.

Crazy good performance and SEO is only required for websites that need to grab attention within 200ms before the user closes it down. The fact is, most code being written today is not for this kind of application and smartphones got massively better as well.

This is eerie similar to the old days of unix shared-terminals (one mainframe serving a lot of independent terminals) vs micro-computers
What are your thoughts on Create react App
I'd love a watch like this, but none of them seem to work with iOS. I don't know if sideloading iOS apps would help with that. Apple seems to keep the messaging and notification API's pretty locked down.
China Says Chatbots Must Toe the Party Line
Private property rights and an independent judiciary. Recourse, essentially.
There will be self verifiable truths like provable theorems in axiomatic mathematics. There will be enforceable contracts like Elon musk’s purchase of twitter. There will be quarterly investor reports and earnings calls from public companies that avoid lying at risk of shareholder and sec lawsuits. There will be documents time stamped with hashes and bitcoin. the bots will need karma points as well.
Cycling keys means replacing all of your API keys. So if you go into stripe and generate new keys and then update those in your app (it sounds like you need to make sure to replace all of the stripe related ones), you’ll have “cycled” them (then once your new keys are running, you should invalidate the old keys if they aren’t in use).
What you stated is false. Labor camps ("sharashki") and science towns are two different things from different "soviet epochs".

However it's true that soviets failed "consumer IT".
> No it does not: if you google this and restrict the time to before 2021 (the learning cutoff date) you will find the same answer.

Not entirely sure what you mean, but ...show me? Why not just share a link instead of making empty assertions?
Again the URL is false: :(

http://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/sys/openbsd/nut/

Why HN transform it after submission?!
There have to be easier ways to share costs of running the same model, no?
I think my comment was misunderstood. I didn’t mean the output text would contain some identifying information. Rather, OpenAI could generate a fingerprint from the text, similar to Apple’s neural has for images, and store that so they can filter out generated text later.
Organoid Intelligence: Computing on the Brain
And you think a company scales to this size without any internal (or visible) innovation?
Sentience is usually defined as the ability to perceive/feel things.

One way to see this is that sentience and language processing are just two aspects available to us in consciousness.

We are also not identical to our thoughts or feelings, but most people never pause to contemplate this.

I suspect the autopilot you describe is really closer to our default state, but it’s easier to notice when in a calm state and the “me-ness” of actions/thoughts doesn’t feel so strong.
I wonder what the battery life would be on this. But I am too lazy to do the math.
Determinism in the LSB is often a prerequisite for epsilon-determinism in the result. Algorithms with many possible solutions and any step that bifurcates on a floating point value should be treated with suspicion.

Classic examples include most under-constrained randomized algorithms, like training a neural network. Rejection sampling is required to accurately produce some sorts of randomness, and that yields bifurcations in the initialization if you don't have LSB determinism. The complicated loss landscape then virtually guarantees you'll converge to a different minima. Even with a deterministic seed, algorithms guaranteed to converge, a principled way to ensure that concurrent computations yield bitwise identical results no matter the execution order, and most of your operations being bitwise identical, a few stray LSB issues in your inverse square roots or transcendentals will still nearly ensure that the final result isn't even approximately the same.

As to why that latter thing matters, it varies, but at a minimum reproducibility makes lots of federated processes cheaper (and not just federated in the "folding at home" sense, but generally when some people are performing computations and other people are making actions based on them -- being able to explain credit scores or parole denials or whatever, or validating that several people you trust yield the same compiled binary). Bitwise reproducibility would be better, but even being approximately right would probably be good enough and isn't tenable without bitwise identical building blocks.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

whatever has been said in Latin seems deep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(Q)
Cutting wood thinner than paper
The zip file available in the github releases of the project contains the final binary release (0.6):

https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi/releases/tag/v0.6

Note that this Inferno port only works on the original Raspberry Pi 1 (probably also the 1B and the Pi Zero).
It does make sense, as the upgrade may break the system because of the tampering. Probably say upfront that there's a problem and let the user do a full reinstall when they can rather than attempt to upgrade and break everything. They could have a "force upgrade" button, but many people would just click that without thinking twice then blame MS when it breaks everything.
The ARVO conference is going on in New Orleans this week. I wonder how widely known this is there.
> Isn’t it sad that the first $500b+ company from Europe is a peddler of vanity and overpriced luxury items?

French top 4 are:

- lvmh $496b

- Loreal $256b

- Hermes $232b

- Dior $172b

https://companiesmarketcap.com/france/largest-companies-in-f...

#9 is EssilorLuxottica (sunglasses), and #11 is a clothing brand.

If this sort of Fashion ever goes out of style does that whole country go bankrupt? I fear what the unstoppable and inevitable ascendance of Balenciaga might do to the French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE39q-IKOzA
SK Hynix Unveils First-Ever 12-Layer HBM3 Chips to Feed Memory-Hungry GPUs
Your view on the content of the Twitter files is false. There were clear communications demonstrated by the investigation including the hiring of an FBI lawyer as a top legal employee of Twitter.

Further, Taibbi and Musk are currently feuding over Musk trying to strongarm Taibbi into using Twitter instead of Substack. Taibbi has openly criticized Musk for this and is no longer associated with new dumps from Twitter. Taibbi is a credible journalist and is one of the few willing to expose major corruption within the government and corporate realms. We need more like him.
No politician ever wrote or proposed legislation for IP versions.
I frequently MC for a conference in my sector. For the last 3 years it's been remote for obvious reasons - then in Nov 22 I was asked to do it again as the conference returned to f2f mode.

The organiser and I are good friends and we've talked about his virtual offerings over the past few years. The f2f conference is way, way harder to put together, more expensive, more inconvenient for everyone concerned, expense and time for travel, etc. His profit margins are much reduced, too.

And yet - it was absolutely and obviously a better conference when he did it again in "the real world". Seeing old friends, being dedicated to actually turning up and listening to talks rather than being 80% distracted and only sort-of listening while juggling other work, going to the pub for a pint, meeting new people.

As ever - it's not (just) the talks that make for a great conference, it's the bits in-between the talks.

Long live (real world) conferences!
At one point that was just quaint, now it's getting ridiculous.
Wait, they released the windows 11 LTSC?! or was that a typo? Because I actually really like windows 11 as an OS, I just hate the stuff that comes with the pro version (ads, weird update patterns, driver updates that override your manually installed drivers...). Windows 11 LTSC would be awesome, but from what I read on the Windows blogs, Microsoft doesn't seem to like the whole concept of an LTSC release anymore.
Many suburban parts of the country see more black bear than trails/rural areas
I signed up for a replacement in September 2021 and it was just delivered in April 2023.
So, uh... other humans live and move about, too. Behold, a meal!
They did stop using Roman numerals for Super Bowl 50 but only for that game and then reverted back to to Roman numberals for LI 51 and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_50
UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption
Thanks. You’re right. Will correct.
When you look back on the history of what you hosted, was the overall price you paid for automatic scaling worth it?

In my experience, running a web application on a VM which can handle 10x the normal load is pretty cheap. And occurences where a traffic spike is more than 10x the normal load are so rare (once every couple of years) that I can deal with it manually.
very little attempt to steel man actual concerns, centered around one untenable solution to a smaller problem (data dignity). But, I did enjoy it.

I think this is actually a valid time to sit around brainstorming disaster scenarios because in doing that I try to come to grips with what the real pillars of this new ecosystem are - what will the uncensored LLM market look like, what will state of the art chaosGPT capable of, etc.
D. Lack of a proper safety net means most Americans are desperate for money no matter how much they have. This helps fuel all of the aforementioned trends.
It is a normal human thing to make categories when nature is like "nah we got a continuous spectrum here y'all" and then humans argue about the categories forever.

Mammals, animals that give birth to live young, have fur. Monotremes say wat!!?
All of the major ISPs and mobile networks do.

The UK government threatened to make it a legal requirement that all internet connections have filters for adult content on by default.

The major ISPs and mobile networks voluntarily put filtering in place by default to avoid the regulation.

The filters can usually be removed quite easily.

While there are some smaller ISPs that don't put filtering in place, they account for something like < 10% of the market.
Unless the parent was explicitly referring to the nutrients that they get from us, at the top.
Someone should add gpt4chan to it if it's not there already.
Like many security policies, it merely has to be harder, not impossible.

There is an interesting decoding aspect where a "M" can never follow a "V" in a roman numeral representation. So its technically very easy to turn a written capital V into a written capital M but its not actually useful in practice.

Also there are word/letter spacing issues where technically one could remove "III" from the end of a numeral but it would probably result in typographically or graphic arts weird looking spacing.
Is it odd? The "tech paper" is a blog post on a personal website of someone at Mozilla.
And just like that, the CCP ensured they would lose the AI race.

I guess they figure they can always steal the relevant tech later.
Because it still shovels massive amount of advertisements, for products like LVMH makes to a huge amount of eyeballs.
I think there are no people who get addicted to psychedelics in the classic sence of addiction.
They could get addicted like when you are addicted to a book or a movie. Because the experience was so impactful. But most psychedelics have a quick saturation cycle, you get really high levels of tolerance in a really short time.
For example, using acid multiple times during a festival will just degrade the experience exponentially until you really dont notice even high doses (not on a physiological level either). So its really hard to structurally abuse it.
Having said that, drugs are a bit like extreme sports: they are definetly dangerous when handled without care and never really become safe.
Doesnt mean you should or shouldnt use them. Its just a choice. Some people want to take that risk, others dont. Some people want to risk their money on entrepreneurship and other dont. Doesnt mean entrepreneurship is something bad.
You can solve this problem with branding. Have a "Windows OS Bleeding Edge" brand that changes regularly. Have "Windows OS LTS" brand that changes less often.
> I bet most internet users have never tried VR, crypto currencies or ChatGPT yet.

I’ve tried none of those things and I’ve been on the internet since the last century.

Don’t feel like I’m missing out just like I don’t miss trying to figure out how to do anything useful with gopher over some crazy convoluted connection that required a 20 page pamphlet to set up.
Usually whoever gets to go to a conference has to do a summary session to the rest of the team, pointing out the key takeways and what should be further looked into as the upcoming internal roadmaps in technology adoption.

It is this session that can be pivoted into what one has done to help the team skill up during the current year.
You can already use ChatGPT for free.
VLAs have been deprecated, alloca was never part of a C standard AFAIK.

I was not suggesting that any of both is a good idea - but they are tools
'for programs where the amount of items you must store is only known at run time.' (Assuming that not having to free is considered "automatic memory management").
Strictly speaking the update process isn't able to update to the new version without the existing file (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200213-00/?p=10...).

As noted on the blog post, the solution is to run the system file checker (sfc) to repair it before running the update
TIL:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme
I think they actually did that in the past. Apparently it didn't work as well.
>I imagine there's a lot of people who need help in getting these tech setups going with a bunch of trial and error and then after that they can independently operate. Are there any volunteer groups that help with that?

I'm pretty out-of-touch with the accessibility/advocacy world, but should such a group exist I think that it'd be a blast to work for/with them. Giving someone back an ability is something that may be minor for some, but life-changing for others. I would imagine that it would be immensely gratifying work.

I know of groups like AbleGamers that have helped with gaming accessibility as well as providing equipment for people on a limited-basis. I think they were also one of the forces behind the XBox Adaptive Controller, which was a boon for some.
This could be applied to (some of ?) the tech companies as well.

Meta valuation is strongly associated with the network effect of its apps.
The value of the actual assets (technologies, data-centers ...) is far lower than the market cap.

Creating a FB and Instagram 1:1 clone would significantly cost less than the current $500B market value.
Conferences are places where people with overlapping interests meet for fun and profit. I know a married couple who met at a Drupal conference, and one of my closest friends now is a dev I met at a PHP meetup in 2006. I’ve been hired by a company I met at a conference, and used a tool I saw advertised there. Oh, and I also got excited about Symfony when I saw someone give a talk on it in 2011.

Guildhalls and mason lodges have been meeting for 100s of years for essentially the same reasons.

Ask not what the conference can do for you, but what you can do for the conference.
Ask HN: What is your checking before buying a new domain?
For me what does it is going to talks I barely understand then asking questions to some colleague that attended with me and seeing they are struggling as much as I.
To add to the comments already made - IMO it's because the customer base is generally left leaning environmentally aware types, and Musk's public behaviour recently is not well aligned with that. Electric cars are still not fully mainstream, but there are many more options from other manufacturers now. He's basically alienated a lot of the consumers that were "brand champions".