skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, mustard + olive-oil + vinegar & salt is really quite tasty actually and it's very fast to make and spread on bread/salad. But I am talking basics that take me under 2 minutes to make.

For example pasta: boil, add olive-oil + salt & pepper. Or soup: boil onions, carrots & potatoes + oil. I like these basics.
extensibility not thought of during design is a flaw. which can be patched over if the actual internals are reachable.
Half of all comments are now about chatbots.

I'm a little afraid of the implications.
DataComp, a new benchmark for multimodal datasets
That does depend on the hardware though -- I don't think any of the phones in my household support USB C DP or HDMI alt modes, and none of the displays are DisplayLink, so while they might manage to transfer power and possibly even connect peripherals there's no common ground for transferring video.
This depends on your language of choice a lot but even still I don’t know how much I agree with it.

It’s not at all obviously wrong on the surface, there is some setup involved in the sense you’re bringing at a minimum one new tool into your build process but you are picking up a LOT in exchange for that trade off from prebuilt client libraries down to an extremely efficient wire format.

RPC using JSON sounds like the worst of both worlds to me. You ended up trading away a huge amounts of the benefits for things like code generation and general efficiency for a pretty reasonably one time setup cost.

Maybe that’s different for the language of your choice I don’t know…
Accurate. This is a result of the heady combination of relying on the profession to enforce ethical codes, and letting corruption become standard practice, and therefore common and safe. That medicine is NOT a free market is easy to prove, because as soon as you posit a provider that keeps their appointment times, charges a reasonable fee for a short consult, actually looks at you and performs tests himself, relates to your whole being as a human on this planet, and charges something like $100/hour, cash - imagine how that poor schmuck is going to fare in this hard, harsh world of ours. As soon as they need to interface with literally any other part of the system, the other providers, pharmacies, etc will not be able to handle them - and won't want to. Won't need to. Many of their colleagues will sneer at them or even refuse to refer. Some patients, the sociopaths, will sense weakness, the lack blood-thirsty corpo apparatus backup that deals with 10 frivolous lawsuits a day, and say "what the hell" and sue you for malpractice simply because they think you're unprepared and they can win.
People like you said the same thing when we built roads, bridges, steam ships, aircraft, and now spacecraft.

Instead of bothering those who are building the future, you’re welcome to run off in the woods and LARP as ted kaczynski. It’s certainly preferable to moaning on the internet about how others are “denatured”.
I wonder if they considered an edition like system for Deno versions. I would say that it’s likely too much upkeep for a commercial project, yet I somehow doubt that the Rust project has more capacity, whether that’s funding or engineering resources.
> Being taxed on something illiquid that can’t generate cash flow is the pinnacle of dumb taxation

My house isn't very liquid, can't generate revenue very effectively, and I'm taxed every year on its current value. Guess us regular folks are already subject to a wealth tax.
What happened to the people who protested against Charles III?
The Scientific Vision of Richard Feynman
There is more to life than a paycheck. Historically professors made unimpressive salaries but enough to live at a quality middle class level. When you consider the prestige, respect and job security that was afforded to professors it makes sense that the non-remunerative aspects are sufficient to our weight the money. Of course these days the pay cut is perhaps too deep to justify these days, but not unambiguously so. An adjunct might have a chance to publish a big result and land a tenured position. The odds are slim but it’s important to pursue your dreams even if it is a gamble. The cost of not doing so is higher than you might thing.
Someone at Bluesky should ask Dave Chappelle what skeeting means. I don’t think they want people skeeting on each others “skylines”.
I remember when they introduce Windows 8 UI, many of my friends were looking at the Mac.
> Look at every tech startup that has VC money poured into it. Their headcount explodes in response to the huge budget they suddenly have.

This is not quite correct. The "headcount explosion" is not simply a reaction to the investment - rather, it is the whole goal of the investment. It's not like the founders say "oh great, we have the money now, let's hire people"; in fact, it is mandated by the VC investors: "we have invested to you to hire people, now go and do it".

The whole point of VC investment is to grow the company value (evaluation) as much as possible in as short the time as possible, and then find someone who will pay that new value. to buy the company from them. There are nuances of course, but that is the bottom line.
You obviously didn't read the article.

The author argues that with current tech we'll eventually hit a bottle neck providing additional training data, which will limit any rapid self improvement.

It's equally as speculative to assume we'll magically manage to overcome this challenge.
> Would it have killed them to do any research at all on this article instead of just rephrasing a tiktok?

This is the latest in low-effort content milling. Whenever I open a new Chrome tab on my phone, I see an endless stream of these paraphrased Reddit and TikTok posts. Right now I see Cheezburger, YourTango, The Daily Dot, Pleated Jeans, Upworthy, and Newsweek. Most point to outrage porn like r/AITA and r/pettyrevenge.

It's really quite funny to read some 22-year-old intern's attempt to take a Reddit post about someone feeling slighted at a family dinner and dress it up as serious breaking news. I guess this is how one pays one's dues as a young journalist these days.
As a Genymobile employee, I'm happy to see this on HN! We use scrcpy internally also, it's really handy sometimes when we need to debug display issues with our Android emulator (Genymotion).

Romain is truly a talented developer, and deserves the success of scrcpy. If I remember correctly, scrcpy was also bundled with Genydeploy (an Android device provisioning solution) at the time.

Kudos Romain for your work!
half of the internet is now just chatbots taking to chatbots. it's why the internet has been slow lately
You're conflating several distinct things here:

- The nominal quantity of money ("print trillions of dollars")

- Aggregate demand ("buy everything in the world")

- The velocity of money ("give each resident a million dollars a month")

Increases in the quantity * velocity of money drive inflation in the long run: prices do not equilibrate immediately but have to be dragged up (or not, as the case may be) by supply and demand.
> Mike Puchol's at https://starlink.sx/

With an 8 core cpu, 2060rtx graphic card, 32gb of ram, this thing runs at like 2.5 fps (if even) on chrome and firefox

What we did with web tech is truly amazing
I've got 10 year old code still running because the SaaS product I built back in 2013 is still running. I don't think it will be in 5 years, and that feels about right in terms of lifetime of code. If you write a successful product, the need for it should keep the code alive until tech advances so far past your original stack that what was once new and innovative is old and legacy... and then the product is either sunset or re-platformed. So if your code lives anywhere in the 10-20 year range, that is not too shabby.
hmm.. my tablet is unlimited data 5g... I get txts on it all the time as its SIM inherited some random number that the previous person was on quite a few group txts.

Although, I confirmed that I can install anything or any OS updates I would like and the service "should work"

Its a great little device that costs me $15/month for unlimited data - so I downgraded my phone plan to the $30/month plan (I pay my cell plans a year in advance so I never have to worry about a monthly phone bill...) but now for $45/month I have both my phone and this tablet which is cheaper than the $50/month they wanted for 10 gigs of data on my phone plan...

now I just need to make the most of this Alcatel Tablet. (the battery life on this tablet is quite good!) but now I need to hot-spot with it over USB, but have to look at how to do so.
Bun, deno, now supabase, they’re all trying to build custom runtimes with everything included from database to SSR react island based frameworks.

I think it’s a cool idea generally, but let’s not mistake deno for replacing a generalized runtime. Deno, bun, etc. are proprietary infrastructure in a box that are being designed to integrate tightly with the rest of their deployment platforms
So I am confused, if I claim some one hacked me, I basically can forum shop, and state outlandish accusations, because "I got hacked"?
> Clearly there isn't a lot of precedent for "closed-source, free-to-use" licenses.

Freeware has been a thing for mere four decades now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
Does palm rejection not work on that hardware?
In general it's certainly true that private internet companies are not bound by the USA first ammendment in that way, and routinely "censor" speech, I agree. Including for things that they think will be bad PR for them, or will be legally risky for them. But.

> GitHub makes it clear that they won’t refrain from deleting repos for whatever reason.

What actions or speech do you think Github has taken that makes that clear?

In general, I have seen Github stick to only taking things down according to the actual DMCA law, more than most companies that take things down pretty much whenever anyone asks them to.

Github has a DMCA Takedown Policy [1], that is better than most companies. Most companies policies -- if they even transparently publish them at all, which they often don't -- go well beyond what the DMCA requires in what they will take down. Compare to eg YouTube [2], which isn't really using a DMCA process at all, doesn't really have a transparent policy at all, and does not allow you to counter-notice. Github's policy is way better than most; but maybe there are occasions where they have been known not to follow their own policy, is that what you're saying?

From what I've seen, github has actually made it much more clear than most companies that they won't just randomly take things down for arbitrary reasons, but have a clear and transparent policy based on the DMCA. But maybe there are things I don't know.

In this particular case, though, someone else pointed out to me in another part of this thread -- it's not totally clear Github is even involved. From the text on the repo, it seems possible that OpenAI contacted the repo owner directly, and the repo owner decided to change the text of the repo README to say that, and that may all that has happened? If Github had actually done a "takedown" according to their usual procedures, I think the repo wouldn't be there anymore? But it's not really clear what's going on, or even what the repo owner _claims_ is going on, unless we have more info than appears in the linked repo README. It's not currently clear that Github is involved at all.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-yo...
True. Since most current LLMs have no memory/state, do not update the model when inferring, and don't have any goals (beyond find the next token) the basic architecture is truly incapable of iteration, sequential reasoning, or "feeding ideas back on themselves". They're probably essential to creativity. Real creativity, anyway.

One can imagine many layers of deep learning systems that are controlling other deep learning systems, in some self-modifying feedback arrangement, in some architecture that hasn't been invented yet. There's some talk about "internal narratives" lately with language models, for example. Generate a prompt at the end, with memories, notes to self, to guide the next invocation of the model. Anyone who has played around with a language model even a bit likely appreciates how quickly something like that is going to just wander off into, in effect, a terminal thought loop, or total incoherence.
I’ve only asked GPT4 a few niche questions on subjects of interest to me, so I can’t really judge it yet. But so far its answers can’t compete with Wikipedia. However, it seems good at drilling down and doing followup questions that build on the prior questions, which is interesting. I can see that natural language give-and-take back-and-forth being useful for things like early education, diagnosing non-emergency patients, troubleshooting home PC problems with non-computerphiles, etc.
Not really. They are the top 10% of reddit users larping as doctors, and then again only when scored on being empathic. The things sure make convincing sounding spam machines, though. Great benefit to society.
> we don't know how to make a self-improving AI.

We know how to improve an AI
That's not actually true.

The Mercury and Gemini programs, sure - both of them used ICBM as their boosters. So did the Vostok, Vokshod, and Soyuz programs.

Apollo was very different. The Saturn booster is so much larger and more complicated than any reasonable ICBM would be, it would be gloriously inefficient at that role.

The Apollo program was a cold war thing. But it wasn't a military thing, it was a different kind of competition.

If you take a look at the vintage Rockets of the World poster (https://venngage-wordpress-gallery.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/...) you can see how much bigger the N1 and Saturn V (spanning the last two rows), compared to the earlier boosters on the third and fourth rows.
The RLHF data has to come from somewhere.
This is very good news …
I have no idea what the point of this article is. It just seemed like rambling. Are you trying to get us to switch to Windows? To shame macOS into a better dev experience? To justify your own decisions to yourself?
Indeed, I came here to say exactly this. In very conservative settings like FR and IT "ordinary" professors are the only one that are receiving the full credit and considered to fully teaching or fully research positions.
I do a lot of work where I'm exporting data from SQL Server (often needing to rely on scripting semantics and transforming, not just a static dump), and really enjoy using PowerShell for this purpose (though in most cases, I run it from a Linux server or my own Mac)
Ideally you wouldn't use it as an excuse to seize millions of USD worth of assets you don't own, but that's the gist of it yes.
I could spend 20,000 hours trying to learn to draw and I would still be far worse than what I could generate with Stable Diffusion + Control Net + etc.
You Don’t Need 10k Daily Steps to Stay Healthy
I love the direction deno is going with a batteries included standard library for server side JS. It makes so much sense to me to consider it for simple stuff so I could have backend and frontend code all in modern JS or typescript. Things like internal tools, dev tools, etc. that just need to pop some HTML, rendered markdown, collect a few forms, run some business processes, etc. No need to wrestle the node ecosystem, no need to context switch between backend and frontend code with other languages like python.

I really think this has a strong future in enterprise as dedicated frontend, backend and devops roles all merge into one. Everyone just learns and uses typescript for everything. Everyone is a 'full stack' engineer now. I hate to say it but it's almost like the dream of java all over, except the language and tooling isn't painful.
Is there anything stopping it from migrating down to the southern coast of Australia?
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...

Tyranny of the rocket equation
Forest of Illusion: End of Our Journey
And God knows if those claiming to be doctors there are actually that...

It's apparent, at least in the US, that a lot of GPs can be unhelpful but believing that accurate diagnosis via text without providing evidence, or going through some type, of physical examination is feasible by Reddit expert docs, only demonstrates lack of critical thought.
I've tried to have a good sound system. I've been to friends' houses that have nice ones.

I got an array of Sonos speakers and ask an Echo to play things on them. It's a wonderful, maintenance-free experience and, combined with Spotify's access to most things I'd want, makes intentional listening a zero-friction experience.
Pioneering Nuclear-Fusion Lab Is Gearing Up to Break More Records
Many phone providers actually offer what they call “Selective Call Forwarding”, which allow you to set up a limited number of basic routing rules to forward calls coming from specific numbers.
Ask HN: Share your favorite lesser-known productivity tools for remote work
GP was being pedantic, and probably knew what OP meant.
I'm not aiming at Central planning any more than anyone else here. My question isn't a moral based one, either. I don't like credit cards for reasons, but I am not saying they should be outlawed, either. Same for mortgages.

My question is specifically what use do you want banks making of deposits? That is better than having active participation in investments?
I'm talking about L7 middleboxes like HTTP load balancers, API gateways, caches/CDNs, etc.
Not on my mobile Safari via the Hack app web view browser. :-/
>Nobody knows how even the current generation of LLMs work

we know exactly how they work. all they do is use statistical probabilities with limited randomization to synthesize new outputs from massive samples of inputs.

essentially a machine for plagiarizing spam.

gpt, and its general approach, will never have much value other than a few limited fields, because it can never produce anything that wasn't in its original input set and it is incapable of reasoning and analysis.

the world is already drowning is junk information. gpt has very limited commercial applicability because it is the opposite of what people actually want and need, which is a way to filter and analyze the massive pile of information they already have. gpt does the opposite and creates more junk information based on an analysis free synthesis of existing junk.
Why do you express the budget as a percentage of GDP instead of inflation adjusted dollars?
It quite literally writes whatever sounds about right. Which is certainly very impressive if you happen to assess by exactly the same metric... It's more artificial overconfidence than artificial intelligence
Not all of them. Depends on the remote that comes with it though. Some remotes don’t have a screen to save money and you need a phone for that style.
It isn’t a crazy hypothesis to say products will require AI to perform specific tasks repeatedly. How many products that can be improved by AI today need a generalist chatbot trained on the entire internet.

Almost none, they all have a specific task that a specifically trained bot could do way cheaper.

The counter to this is AI is so cheap and easy people lazily use it for everything even though it is using .1% of its training data.
Oh man, thanks for reminding me. I've been on Air M2 for a year or so and am getting nostalgic about having a Linux laptop.

But the noise. Nope to that.
That's already true. If you're found sending abusive traffic, you might get sued, get sent a C&D, and/or your ISP might cut off your internet.

But similar to somebody's leaky car, good luck finding them and enforcing they actually clean it up.
Wow, 2-3% of the GDP is massive. I didn’t realize it was such a well-funded effort.
I sometimes run org mode in emacs under termux on my phone. After getting fed up with crap in simple list apps, my grocery list is a file in termux.
You can rent out real estate. House hacking, Airbnb, boring rental, etc.
SoC 1 vs. SoC 2 vs. SoC 3
I have used Linux on multiple Dell Latitude laptops (6510, 6540, 7380) and it has always worked out of the box and completely flawlessly, including all integrated peripherals (even WWAN cards, smart card reader and dual GPU setups), EXCEPT for the fingerprint reader. Sleep and Hibernate both work fine, external monitors just work, docking station with its peripherals just works, ...

The missing fingerprint reader is no big deal for me since I didn't plan on using that anyway.

tl;dr: I can vouch for (at least these) older Latitude models being very fun to use with Linux. I'm using Manjaro exclusively though, other Linux (or BSD) variants may or may not work as well....
The question already granted "assume the testing and assessing is all done correctly" and only asks how they know something doesn't simply look misleading because some kids might just reach their final plateau earlier than others.

That is very simply answered by simple time and numbers, once enough time has passed to see a large number of entire human lives while under any sort of methodical recording. That has happened by now. We have data on a large number of entire human lives.

It's only an appeal to authority in so far as I do assume that the people whos job is to collect and reason about that data have done even the most cursory job of it.

Saying that a certain property doesn't change much for most people after a certain age is not something that is likely to be hidden or hidable in the data. It sounds quite basic to me, and sounds like something anyone would see and no one could probably argue with. It sounds like the kind of fundamental and obvious thing that I assume if anyone did try to misrepresent it, too many other people would speak up.

I am only trusting that there isn't some kind of massive conspiracy that every nurse and med student have somehow all agreed to keep this ond wierd thing a secret for some reason.
This was one of the first games that really opened my eyes to how computers worked in High School.

IIRC it compiled a collection of ancient text files, and so if you wanted to mod the game it was as simple as finding the right args in the right .txt and then modifying the flag or value. Like I recall the demo had "no blood" but all it did was replace the HEX for "red" with HEX for "green." Switching that turned on blood, which of course was a BIG improvement for 1997.

Anyway, this is super cool and I really wish it was simpler to mess with games like this now. Incidentally Noita is one of the few games that you can still kinda do this with, though you need to know lua :/
For the me the stark difference comes from the plentiful supply is extremely low quality food. At the better end of the food quality scale I think the US and EU are comparable.

But when you look towards the bottom end of the food quality scale, the bar for saleable food is just abysmally low compared to the EU. You simply can’t buy food of such poor quality here. As a consequence the average quality of food in EU is substantial better, not because the EU produces better food, but simply because it doesn’t accept the low quality stuff the US is happy to eat.
> Do vinyl and CDs of the exact same album have different mixes?

Certainly sometimes. In fact probably always - you can't just take analogue masters and dump them to digital - you have to do at least some mixing and filtering.

As a single datapoint, Frank Zappa's Hot Rats was remixed for CD; I hated the CD remix, which I thought was too harsh (I'm not the only person who felt that way). Also, there are differences in the actual music: the intro to Gumbo Variations, for example, is a couple of bars longer in the CD remix than the original vinyl.

I've got used to the CD remix now, and I appreciate the extended into to Gumbo Variations.

[Edit] Am I the only person that found the article impossible to read, because it was jiggling around so fast?
Is it fair to say that the adjuncts are on a pipeline to get administrative jobs if they want to stay in academia?
Ah now I understand. Sorry for my misunderstanding.