skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast, vast majority of EVs sold today are not forcing subscriptions of any kind on their customers.

It's funny that you mention GM, because guess what GM wants to do with EVs starting next model year?

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43488135/gm-apple-carplay...

(Last line of the article if you want to jump to the spoiler.)
No, it will lead to a saturation level (or S-curve).

There are biological limits to potency - probably about the level of where we are now, in fact.
GDPR holds if you sell in the EU, irrespective of whether you are in the EU. Also it’s really quite a decent law, barring a few obvious quirks. It can only be a serious hindrance to success for the scummiest kinds of startups.

We can’t fire people on the spot but close enough (here in NL). It’s true ish that we can’t motivate people with fear though, we have to actually make them like their jobs, and carefully consider at the right moment whether to extend contracts. Again, not really a hindrance.

The % of tech workers in both the EU and the US that are near any country’s retirement age is so small that I think either you’re kidding or you’re not really trying to make an actual argument at all.
3-6 sounds like a good rule of thumb.

Research that I have seen hints that people who were in I shaped teams (i.e. single person reporting to a manager) and V shaped teams (2 people reporting to a manager) were much unhappier than larger teams.

Similarly, somewhere close to 10 is when the there is just not enough 'managing' or mentorship happening. I have seen that work only in cases where most of the ICs are senior/staff level and are effectively self-managing.
yeah, the api times out pretty regularly which is unfortunate. i use vercel which has a 10second limit
You missed wisdom (as does "AI"). Or the ability to adjust the algorithm based upon new information and the ability to reason.
https://archive.vn/MUgu4
The kernel isn't the OS/environment. Distiling iOS to BSD is just not useful in the context of this discussion.
That's more than anything because of: corporate taxation and bureaucracy. It's out of control here in Europe. Business don't have a fair chance against US businesses.
> ...this project is a nice showcase how versatile C# and .NET is

C# and .NET are highly underrated/underappreciated because of some early flops and the Microsoft branding.

It's converging with TypeScript in the best way possible[0] and has some really great language features that even TS is lacking (really powerful switch expressions, for example).

It seems like the natural option for teams that want to move from TypeScript to a compiled, multi-threaded, statically typed language but it seems that there's a lot of teams that would rather use Go or Rust; neither of which are as easy to step up to from TypeScript, IMO.

I think if Microsoft were to make a T# -- which removes some of the legacy cruft from C# -- it would blow minds.

[0] https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp
2.5% in Europe when 6m German bills yield 3% is actually comparable to 4.5% in the US with 6m Treasury bills yielding 5%.
Oh that's interesting. I thought the linked review study was what they were referencing. Why would they reference a study as the basis for the entire article without linking to it? .-.

This really seems like bad journalism for the sake of clickbait.
Novels, in particular long ones with extensive casts of well developed characters, have really shaped and enabled my empathy. They do this partly through allowing you to occupy multiple and usually quite different POVs, and by elaborating on the reasons which are often adopted by people. Characters are often 'types', but it's the exposure to novel types that is what allows you to come away from a novel with a new outlook on a particular occupation, position, personality, politics, or relationship.

The disdain for novels by some people (Sam Bankman-Fried as a particularly egregious example) is really rather pathetic. Fiction, and more broadly storytelling, plays a vital role in shaping who we are, how we present ourselves to others, and how one can learn to do those things as well, in the midst of a community. Besides, their are more great books than one can read in a lifetime. It's a resource that can't be spent.

Some excellent examples:

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Brothers Karamazov, or Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky

Madame Bovary by Flaubert, or Bel-Ami by Maupassant

The Book of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Corrections by Franzen

Recognitions by Gaddis

Foster by Claire Keegan (short but incredible)

(That's a personal list, and by no means exhaustive, just some recommendations.)
I expect as much! this simply uses OpenAI with a system prompt
> It is perhaps also a factor that both states are relatively multicultural compared to other US states in the region (this applies to AZ and TX as well to some extent, so clearly there are multiple things going on).

Arizona is basically New Mexico, except it became a retirement destination (like a western version of Florida), which shifted its demographics older and whiter (and therefore more conservative). Texas is probably a little more unique since it is both massive and at the crossroads of several geographical and cultural regions.
really? any senior swe can get a global talent visa?
Motion / timers / "presence" are where it's at. Smart should be smart, not a different looking light switch.
I really wish people would stop analogizing a statistical system with the brain, especially in arguments for why a billion dollar company should be allowed to ignore data privacy laws.

Just because something is on the public internet, does not mean you have the right to do anything you want with it.
Yes I agree. But when people say California is the most heavily taxed state in the nation, its usually a weasel interpretation where they mean California's pay the the most taxes not related to a percentage of their higher incomes. The real killer in California is simply the rent is too high (even food costs are pretty reasonable compared to other states).
WOW! That's a change!
My congressman responded to my plea against EARN IT. What now?
As I hope many of you have already done, I spoke out to my local representatives against this anti-privacy bill and got the following response:

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Thank you for taking the time to contact me about S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2023, legislation I am proud to support. I appreciate hearing from you.

Keeping our children safe online must be a top priority. Children should not have to live in a society where horrors like abuse and neglect, or human and sex trafficking take place. Those who commit crimes against children should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Victims of these crimes should be supported by just and meaningful legislation to protect them from future abuse and violence.

On May 4, 2023, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a markup on the EARN IT Act and unanimously voted to pass the legislation out of committee. As a co-sponsor of the bill, I was proud to vote for it in committee, and I look forward to seeing the EARN IT Act brought before the full Senate for a final vote.

[...more self-promotion...]

---

How can we get these members of congress to understand what they are about to do to the internet?
My HOA (condo) banned Ring door bells thankfully. Not only does it track everyones movements without consent, it would stare directly into neighbors apartments depending on door locations in the hall way...
It of course doesn't need to be a game. VBA macros in Office and AutoLISP in AutoCAD are two examples of scripting environments on large compiled applications that allows users to customize and automate behavior, outside of gaming. Hell, you can point at Emacs and vim as examples too.
I think that's a very tempered response. debatable if Harry would have said that though.
That kind of defeats how secure boot works.
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It may be a token gesture to the company itself and at company scale, but still a meaningful act at the scale of the person whose job it is and the community they serve.

If you love making an open source thing, and you love its users, at some level it doesn't really matter why Meta pays your paycheck. They're still paying your paycheck while you get to do something you love.
This has been my speculation about the people pushing for regulation in this space: it’s an attempt at regulatory capture because there really is little moat with this tech.

I can already run GPT-3 comparable models on a MacBook Pro. GPT-4 level models that can run on at least higher end commodity hardware seem close.

Models trained on data scraped from the net may not be defensible via copyright and they certainly are not patentable. It also seems possible to “pirate” models by training a model on another model. Defending against this or even detecting it would be as hard as preventing web scraping.

Lastly the adaptive nature of the tech makes it hard to achieve lock in via API compatibility. Just tell the model to talk a different way. The rigidity of classical von Neumann computing that facilitates lock in just isn’t there.

So that leaves the old fashioned way: frighten and bribe the government into creating onerous regulations that you can comply with but upstarts cannot. Or worse make the tech require a permit that is expensive and difficult to obtain.
It should be noted that a lot of Linux/Unix programs still support the variables EDITOR and VISUAL.

export VISUAL=vim

Will make those program use com as the default editor. I believe for works that way for example.
True, but you have no insight into subscriptions that a minor has made on your credit card as part of family sharing. One might expect them to appear there but they don't.
Meh, you can experiment on it for personal use as much as you want and that's all what's needed in this short period of time before powerful, open base models start appearing like mushrooms at which point the whole thing is going to be moot.
Oh, very good then! Looking forward to giving it a spin. Your docs are fantastic.
MG in Europe are like this - cheap and cheerful and minimal software beyond android auto/car play etc
That you keep opening the discussion page and even participate might say more about you than HN :)
Wow, an open source gift economy beating the closed-source capitalistic model? You don't say.

Wikipedia handily beat Britannica (the most well-known and prestigious encyclopedia, sold door to door) and Encarta (supported by Microsoft)

The Web beat AOL, CompuServe, MSN, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, etc.

Linux beat closed source competitors on tons of environments

Apache and NGinX beat Microsoft Internet Information Server and whatever else proprietary servers.

About the only place it doesn't beat, is consumer-facing frontends. Because open-source does take skill to use and maintain. But that's why the second layer (sysadmins, etc.) have chosen it.
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> the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet’s worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products.

This
That's why the reject all button exists right?
Anything that gives artists the right to tell OpenAI to pound sand.
[Not him of course] — My understanding is that instead of generating a ton of (LLVM) IR, you generate a little (MLIR) IR, because MLIR lets you define operations at higher levels of abstraction, suited to particular tasks. For instance, if you're doing loop optimizations, instead of crawling through a sea of compare and branch and arithmetic operations, you'd just use a higher-level ‘for’ operation¹. Only after you've done everything you can at the high level do you move down to a more concrete representation, so you hope to end up with both less LLVM IR and less work to do on it.

¹ e.g. https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Dialects/Affine/#affinefor-mliraf...
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> they'd taken this text and asked GPT-4 to rewrite it in a compassionate tone they'd have got a better result

Today, we're making some substantial changes at Shopify, all with the aim of focusing more intently on our mission. We believe these adjustments will help us better serve our community and we're excited about the journey ahead.
Yeah, I asked why there're no Hashable & Equatable interfaces instead of putting things into Object which would make more sense to me. People responded that's just how things should be. Apparently not. IMO object identity is almost always not needed and a sign of bad design. You either should write proper hash code, or you should not use data structures which use hash code.
I don't think anyone will bite, but putting it out there to see if people are interested. More of an experiment website for me!
> Who is saying otherwise?

You are. You are pretending that one group of violent morons you like is not reactionary, and the other group of violent morons you dislike are reactionary. The definition of reactionary is at: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ...

> Are you equating me with Antifa

Yes.

> The appeal to authority fallacy is only valid if I’m asking someone to believe me because I have authority.

You write in pseudo-academic speak and mention your "studies"

> So like I was saying to my audience

This conversation is from two days ago. I'm your only audience.

> It sounds like I’m talking to a techbro of VC bro or petit bourgeoisie.

I'm not sure why you equate non-extremism with "techbro" or "VC bro".

> petit bourgeoisie

(emoji trash can icon)

> Also fallacies are a fallacy.

God. I fear for the future.

Anyway, apparently I'd uninstalled this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-blocklist/cgphk... but congrats on getting me to reconfigure it.
GPT feels like an upgrade from MapQuest to Garmin.

Garmin was absolutely a better user experience. Less mental load, dynamically updating next steps, etc, etc.

However, both MapQuest and Garmin still got things wrong. Interestingly, with Garmin, the lack of mental load meant people blindly followed directions. When it come something wrong, people would do really stupid stuff.
> Midjourney is easier, its not better

Does being easier not influence whether it's better? I mean this in that for many of the ways AI art would be used, MJ already seems to be "good enough" at a lot of it.

Secondarily: doesn't Midjourney's increased user base and increased ratings they get from users help it refine its model, thus meaning that "ease of use" creates a feedback loop with "quality of output" because more users are engaged?

I'm asking real questions, not making a statement I believe in and just adding a question mark.
No, it means that there is some input for which it will fail to properly balance brackets. The parameter count would have to be astronomical for this to fall outside the token window size.

ChatGPT Example:

> Add the correct number of closing parentheses to this string: (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

>> ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

>> The correct number of closing parentheses to balance the opening parentheses is 21.

which is not correct
Bitcoin is similar to stuffing money in a mattress. It doesn't pay an interest rate and you're funding the multibillion mining industry, so in many ways its worse than a mattress.
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> It's not the best-ever experience, but it's workable

It's pretty damn good, IMO. Been using it personally building some rather large projects.

The only time I miss Rider is when doing refactoring (Rider still much better for that) and code suggestions. Otherwise, VS Code is a great editor for C# IME.
It's not too late! At one point, git was the new kid on the block while everyone else was using something else (or copy-pasting directories/zip files for versioning).

All it takes is more people using it, and people here on HN are more suitable than others to start playing around and build their projects with it.
My local school district issues all students Chromebooks and all material is now electronic. By law the school district still has to select physical textbooks every few years which they do including going through a review process which involves making sample copies of the proposed textbooks physically available for review by the community, receiving comments from the community and several votes to accept the textbooks. They then don't purchase the physical or electronic versions of the textbooks. Electronic material from other sources is used instead.
I’m not sure I follow the last point but you are of course correct that the question itself is based on the premise that Meta is under scrutiny and the social “state” for lack of a better term (think state and transition) is “on public trial.”

So in that sense, yes it’s a loaded question, however I think it’s a valid contextual assumption given the context of the article and comments.
Barring exceptional circumstances, I don't have to fight that fight at the cloud provider though. Their business is more likely to be amenable to maintaining and expanding reasonable levels of capacity.

I have to deal with a grumpy finance guy that thinks my whole department is overpaid already, especially so if we might use the dreaded `CapEx` word.
Yeah, the OpenAI API regularly takes >10secs and I use a serverless backend. it's unfortunate!
Do you need additional detail that cannot be found here?

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Or are you looking for the cutting edge stuff like control net?

If you want to use colab instead, I used this a month or two ago.

https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-sta...

I hope other people can give you further reading.
size_t is for object sizes. It might not be 64 bits.
Open-LLaMA is already out. It's not the end-all-be-all either. Better, smaller, open source models will continue to be released.
Yeah sounds like a BS "Values" interview ... hard pass
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Couldn't find any stats online about it, but how often does the servers for the mailing daemons for the linux mailing list go down?
good insight! I use a lookback window of one response, because it gets pretty expensive to do more.
Pascal wasn't alone, almost all C alternatives are better in that regard.
The state of the art in facial recognition technology has been superhumanly accurate

That's SOA and in controlled circumstances you're talking about.

Not real-life FR using cheap cameras, with bad lighting, against shitty lookup databases (with built-in biases). Which is what's at issue, here.

Your apologetic does make for excellent ad copy & pitch deck material, however.
I was in the process of applying when AngelList/WellFound required I make an account. I closed the window after that.

The work sounds exciting, good luck on your candidate selection process.
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> You might not like it, but it's actually a better deal than before.

So if Apple would ask you for a nice $10/m to use their famous iPhone camera features you would be okay with that, because otherwise you would be fine with 8MP photos or pay additional $10 * 12m * 3y = $360 upfront? Of course, no changes in hardware at all. And the price of iPhone is the same, not $360 cheaper.
Would be happy to take it down if asked! this is an experiment for me, and don't expect it to be a product
Hence Modula-2 in 1978, which Brian ignored on this famous rant.
There are dozens on YouTube. My kids did it, and they don't even program and had never touched Python in their life.

Even trained their own models using a cloud GPU.

The SD ecosystem is wild.
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which ROM sites should I avoid because downloading a rom for switch would be unethical and illegal?
It's interesting how it takes reading someone else's writing to realize how little profanity adds to the substance of a comment. You never realize it when it's your own comment.
I'd just like to point out that Tesla's performance upgrade, (which is software only) unlocks screens to tune how the drivetrain works.

There is a non-trivial amount of engineering that goes into making those features. I suspect that the software that controls the drivetrain requires making non-trivial changes to operate at higher horsepower, too.

Is it worth it? I haven't paid the price for it in my Teslas, but it's certainly worth it for someone to pay for it.
hey, it's a livin. Mcconaughey agrees. I just keep on getting points.
A lot of people don't follow these developments, don't know how they're harmful, and don't really care. The car companies may be aware that there is growing resentment, but as long as it's legal and there are still enough people buying this for it to be worth continuing, they will do it.
Shorting Google is the best possible bet is my read.
Twenty years on, I've yet to see a shred of evidence. A lot of punters playing BMW employees, though, who never seem to be able to find that document they're saying would prove it.
It took me a little hunting, but thanks to Reddit I eventually found a cloud-gpu host that provides a working Stable Diffusion image. So you basically don't have to do anything that GP said. Everything is installed and you just rent the hardware.

https://www.runpod.io/console/templates

Look for "RunPod Stable Diffusion". I spent a whole $0.35/hr playing around with my own SD instance that I had running in minutes.
I think it might go beyond two intelligences. For instance, there are 500 million neurons that independently govern the gut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

For reference, a cat has ~200 million neurons in its brain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_intelligence

Perhaps we have dozens of intelligences, with varying degrees of cognition? What is actually happening when the amygdala takes over the nervous system to avoid a car accident before you are aware what is happening? What is really going on with Tourette syndrome?

Might the human gut have its own hopes and dreams?
> Meta’s leaked model isn’t open-source.

Meta’s leaked model has been a factor in spurring open source development, whether or not it is open source; the article also discusses the practical market of effect of leaked-but-not-open things like Meta’s model combined with the impracticality of prosecuting the vast hordes of individuals using it, and particularly notes that the open-except-for-the-base-model work on top of it is a major benefit for Meta (who can use the work directly) that locks out everyone else in the commercial market (who cannot), and leaning into open source base models is a counter to that.
Let’s play… Global Thermo Nuclear War.
I wasn't aware of a pt2, thanks for the link.
Par for the course for Ars Technica.

Also: it is curious that the FTC is acting this way now considering it just got a whole lot easier to take them to an Article III court under Axon vs FTC et al.
Once distributed training is solved, all those big LLMs will be left in the dust.
Sadly, people seem to push their entire development flows into GitHub Actions, so things like deployments happens on GitHub's servers, and then their servers go down and you suddenly can't deploy anymore... Or writing their documentation via GitHub issues/PR descriptions/comments and now you cannot access that either...
Which closes the loop to my point, that Simula 67 is much closer to the mainstream OO concepts we see in C++, Java, C# and Python than Smalltalk, and there is no reason to elevate Self (nor ST) as the "ur OO language".
Are single mom's a special class we should treat differently from others? You have single fathers.. childless couples, singles, parents with kids who have a disability, healthcare workers, transgendered singles, frail elders, mute single males..

Who should you protect?
Intelligence is becoming a commodity.