skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth checking out the talk page. Looks like this whole article is out of date and that much of the problem is resolved.
Actually I’ve often felt that the main problem with ChatGPT is that I can’t hit it
'Our World Is More Steely Dan Than It’s Ever Been'
Yes it is. But so is every TV station and commercial internet platform.

TikTok can at least show you videos of dogs and educational content. Cable news can only sell you fear and reinforce your biases to optimize their earnings. Adult children who have parents who have been consumed by cable news know this all too well.
How did you arrive at that conclusion? Comparing the M2 Max vs 13650HX it's very obvious the M2 Max uses a LOT less power. It's not even close, it's less then HALF the power. The M2 max has a little worse performance. But it manages to beat the Intel in some benchmarks.
I love it, I hadn't realized how much time I waste formatting my code until I turned on prettier autoformat in my repo.
> Have you heard of information theory?

> Your argument against deriving meaning from statistics completely ignores that the brain also works this way.

The brain is not predicting it's compressing.
I feel the same.

For example some stats from Whisper [0] (audio transcoding, 30 seconds) show the following for the medium model (see other models in the link):

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GPU medium fp32 Linear 1.7s

CPU medium fp32 nn.Linear 60.7s

CPU medium qint8 (quant) nn.Linear 23.1s

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So the same model runs 35.7 times faster on GPU, and compared to an "optimized" model still 13.6.

I was expecting around an order or magnitude of improvement.

Then again, I do not know if in the case of this article the entire model was in the GPU, or just a fraction of it (22 layers) and the remainder on CPU, which might explain the result. Apparently that's the case, but I don't know much about this stuff.

[0] https://github.com/MiscellaneousStuff/openai-whisper-cpu
Those tools do a lot more: encryption, deduplication, compression. Even then, they have been faster in my experience, due to caching.
> Otherwise, we’re saying that encryption is somehow magic in a way that LLMs cannot possibly be.

I don't see why that's an unreasonable claim. I mean, encryption isn't magic, but it is a drastically different process.
They can't be that good if they produced the UK left, which is one of the world's worst and least successful left movements and is currently promoting "intentionally making the country poorer". Since the UK is already becoming poorer, of course, nobody even needs them for that.
“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” 2023 edition. The people who care about those concerns are in a VERY specific bubble, similar to people who argue about differences between the BSDs.

I have an 9 year old pair of Bose QC35s and my primary interest is if the noise cancelling dulls the noise on a plane; the exact amount is frankly unimportant. I also care to see if I can replace external parts if they get damaged (flipped my bicycle when a homeless person stepped in front of me; this did a number on my QC35s that I had in my bag. Thankfully all the damage was surface-level and I'm not vain.).

I'll only buy fixable electronics going forward.
Only 1 mention of ads, and it's quickly brushed aside.

Not as if using an adblocker immediately speeds up your web browsing or anything.
why do you find that contradictory?
“This is your backup pilot speaking. Our captain has gone into cardiac arrest, but we will dive to 10,000 feet and give him a bit of the old spicy bra and have him right back up and you back on schedule in no time!”
The problem started when multi-ton SUVs became the norm. It's not an EV problem, it's a "heavy car problem".

A heavy EV doesn't spew the other crap in the air, so the total is still less than an SUV :)
It's not exponential; it's not even quadratic (it is superlinear), if you put any thought into the design. I worked on an x86 part with 15 decoders/fetch unit. The area was annoying, but unimportant. (We didn't commit 15 ops/cycle; just pc-boundary determination.)

I've also worked on ARM/custom GPU ISAs. The limiting rate is the total complexity of the ISA, not the encoding density.

In fact, from an I$ point-of-view, the tighter x86 encodings are a pretty good win — at least a few % on very long fetch sequences.
And even then that could be part of the simulated experience
Glad to see it didn't involve LLMs.
> Learn how brains organize ideas. Readers comprehend “the boy hit the ball” quicker than “the ball was hit by the boy.” Both sentences mean the same, but it’s easier to imagine the object (the boy) before the action (the hitting). All brains work that way.

My understanding was that that words are typically ordered differently in other languages, is that true? That would seem to disprove the idea that "all brains work this way" (although it may be how the brains of native english speakers work).
Agreed. Sorry for piggybacking off your post, but I'm trying to build a search engine, and one thing I want to surface are interactive websites. Does anyone have suggestions for Javascript features I could extract that might indicate a site is doing something cool/interactive? I'm not a frontend developer--keywords I have now are .wasm, webhooks, WebGL, canvas.
There are flaws in both my writing and the comment that critiques it.

There are various flavors of moral relativism. My comment criticizes one flavor of moral relativism without specifically identifying that I was criticizing meta-ethical relativism. I rewrote it in a sub-comment.

> Descriptive moral relativism holds only that people do, in fact, disagree fundamentally about what is moral, with no judgment being expressed on the desirability of this.

> Meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong.

> Normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, everyone ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when large disagreements about morality exist.

> Said concepts of the different intellectual movements involve considerable nuance and aren't absolute descriptions.

Quotes from Wikipedia [1], even though I prefer the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2] for more detailed explanations.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/#ForArg
Hard disagree. Some people are hyper-sensitive due to extreme trauma, which can trigger into
all kinds of things that can't be fathomed by the unaffected.

It's also something particular to this site. The crossover of visually-sensitive with those who choose to hang out on one of the few text-only sites on the internet is probably high.

The link is bare and with no clue as to the content other than it goes to "wikipedia", somewhat of click that could be considered to be safe. To me this justifies a warning.
And yet that doesn't mean that all extra associations and cognitions that occur on psychedelics are apophenic.
There was a persistent rumor that the NSA archived all of Usenet, too.
Moving the seat whilst something is stuck can cause it to puncture the battery - bad!

Also, a seat that can’t get out of recline can ground the whole airliner, too.
Not too differently. East Germany was a goner at that point in history.
Quantum effects do not make something non-computable. They may just allow for more efficient computation (though even that is very limited). Similarly, having a digit-based number system makes it much faster to add two numbers, but you can still do it even if you use unary.
Why at all? If you want to record the lecture, use photo, video, audio recording.
In the spirit of CCRU, me and a few dozen other people have been having ongoing discussions on related topics under the banner of effective extropianism. I think it’s important to figure out how the landscape of rapidly evolving tech fits into our lives and vice versa. We’re working on a repository of adjacent texts.

If you’re interested, my Twitter handle is in my hn bio.
Nice quote, thanks for posting.... but, did Epicurus have a family, or care about anyone else? Makes me wonder...

Anyone can pursue their passions, and realize their dreams, but you have to at least consider the affect on your wife or children.

Now this is not saying don't get married, lol.

It's just about choices. Realize that all we think and do, is so subjective.

You could be the smartest guy in the world, or the most caring guy in the world.

Which would you say matters more?

Intellect fades. Youth fades. Life gives way to death.

These are not bad things, but they are natural, as we come to understand.

But in all of this, you have to be you, and not your parents.

Never forget, your parents were children, and probably are in some ways, as the are with you, for your entire life.

Forgive them, and yourself, but never forget, you can always love and help others.

If this life had no point, and was "meaningless", then taking care of others is really more important than anyone.

Every careful thought - it is special, and a beautiful exception.
The executives have to work harder as well.

Nowhere near as much as the front-line workers, by all accounts.
Intelligence is obviously computable since the universe is computing it all the time.
I think there are a lot of huge misconceptions about modern web dev in posts like these. The part of the internet that’s trash is pretty much anything related to ad tech (and therefore tracking). But this is also what funds basically the entire web. Probably the best thing about the web is how accessible it is — you can use it for free if you can find an internet connection. Plus, its inherit flexibility makes it a very powerful platform. These together make it incredibly popular, but also make it ripe for abuse, and make advertisements a requirement as long as people don’t want to pay.

But the takeaway from these posts seems to be “JavaScript is bad.” This completely misses the point — anyone with, say, a recipe site strewn with ads and newsletter popups is doing so for the money. If people were willing to pay for recipes online, maybe things would be different. But the core economic model of most websites is to use ads to let it be free. You can’t change the UX around these types of sites without changing the economics. (Though some, like Brave, have tried.)

Media companies can and do build minimal feeds (lite.cnn.com), but they’d never allow that to be the default since it doesn’t make any money.

IMO, these conversations need to talk less about the tech (which isn’t super relevant — you can make plain HTML shitty too with enough ads), and more about the economics of the internet.

And if we’re talking about niche hobby and personal sites, people just use whatever tool they want because they’re experimenting and having fun. Being fast and efficient isn’t always the goal for someone playing around in their free time.
The current prevailing theory in neuroscience is in fact the brain is a prediction engine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
My thoughts exactly. What is striking is how the content created by CCRU is seeing a considerable resurgence in public consciousness, twenty years later.
No gasoline engine has 35% or better efficiency. I think the Toyota Hybrids hover around 30%.
These folks that design and run these experiments must have nerves of steel.

You know that feeling when you have a file server that is half way around the world and all the sudden it's gone unresponsive? Then you have to start a recovery process with on-site people, etc? The dread? The uncertainty?

Now think of a principle scientist that quite possibly has devoted their entire life's academic work to one of these experiments, and something like this happens. From concept to funding to launch to all the billions of dollars to all the math and luck and other stuff that must go right. I don't know if I could do it.

And then it comes down to one damn tiny pin or something and all could be lost.

It would be like spending 20 years configuring a server just right in a specific manner, deploying it, and it's taken out for ever because of a typo in code somewhere - and it's all gone. Poof.

Nightmare fuel.
More like 5 pin DIN connectors (MIDI) but different. If you take a lot at old electronics you will see things for the first time.
Isn't just about any actuator of the "non-explosive" kind? I mean, the motor in my DVD drive tray is a non-explosive actuator I suppose.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
It feels like an LLM classifying the prompts without cumulative context as well as the prompt output from the LLM would be pretty effective. Like in the human mind, with its varying levels of judgement and thought, it may be a case of multiple LLMs watching the overall process.
Not really any different than eating chicken. At least the sparrow got to live a nice life in the meantime.
I believe external battery would be a pro.

It’s easy to add power banks to a belt or backpack while generally every added ounce on the head makes it less comfortable. Especially for longer times. The Quest Pro really bombed on that point.

Actually I’d go further and say the compute unit should also be external as it’d allow more compute. It should still be attachable to the person to allow freedom of movement.

The other big thing for me would be opening up SDKs for peripheral developers. The lack of 3rd party peripherals for Oculus has hindered people experimenting on ways to solve the last piece of full immersion. I wanted to make my own treadmill for walking in games, but theirs no real APIs for it on the Oculus. I’m unsure how Apple will do. They love dongles but also love control.
I remember being insanely impressed by GPT-2 in 2019. It's remarkable how something just a few years behind the state-of-the-art completely fails to impress anymore.
Not sure, but it will provide a lot of sticks/stones for WWIV
At the very least - there should be some explicit accounting of where the money went. And some provision for ensuring that front-line workers are adequately protected and compensated.
"Paywalled, but don't worry. To read this article, please look into your web cam to confirm your iris scanned identity."
After two prompts I was astounded by the innacuracies present in the answers. An they were pretty easy questions.
I think he was in jest there, /s perhaps needed.
Ask HN: Best stack to make a 2D game in 2023
I first got into programming in high school, mainly by making games using Java and the 2D graphics/UI libraries in the standard library (Java2D, Swing, awt, etc.)

10 years and a CS degree later, I'm employed in industry but would really like to get back into making games as a creative outlet. But I'm always stuck on deciding what language, framework, engine, and environment to use.

So I'm wondering, what's the most straightforward stack and programming environment that gets me a window, event loop, canvas, etc. so that I can make whatever kind of 2D games I'm interested in? C++ with SDL? Javascript and canvas? Plain old Java again? Would like to hear what people here have a good experiences with.
It depends on the commuting time though. I used to live 15 mins away from my office and I feel the same way as you. But now, having to commute an hour each way is detrimental to me so working from home is far better.
I think the "shake box" mechanic has been used twice by Nintendo, once on the DS with sound, and once on the switch with haptic vibration.

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-DS/Make-10-A-journ...

Make 10: The Nut Tapper subgame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8v_WJ3Xek

1-2-Switch: Ball Count
> This is probably one of the main reasons mortality was evolutionarily selected for: easier adaptation to changing environments.

I don't think mortality was selected for - but rather, that it's longevity that never was.

The default state of any organism - or any temporarily self-sustaining / self-perpetuating chemical reaction or temporarily-stable dynamical system - is that something will eventually kick it out of the stable region, and the reaction breaks down, the system muffles itself or shakes itself apart, the organism decays and dies. The way the evolutionary process works, natural selection will strongly promote organisms that survive to the point of reproduction. Past that point, the influence weakens significantly. It's more work that affects reproduction weakly, if at all.

Humans are one of those few special cases, where it's strongly beneficial to keep the older individuals around, due to the positive impact of accumulated experience and thinking on survival rates of the group. I think in our case natural selection would actually favor longevity, or at least extending the part of the lifespan where we are capable of thinking clearly. Alas, from evolution's point of view, the entire history of humanity - from first tales and invention of writing, all the way to spaceflight and the Internet and GPT-4 - happened faster than in a blink of an eye. We're iterating and improving couple orders of magnitude faster than natural selection - we've decoupled ourselves from natural evolution, and we're stuck with the shitty hardware we have, that's optimized for barely above reproductive age.

IMO, the right answer isn't to throw up our hands and say "oh, science/politics advances one funeral at a time" or "evolution clearly thought longevity sucks" - but rather recognizing that we're on our own with this, evolution doesn't matter to us, and maybe we should come up with a better solution.
That $50K/yr salary nurse is probably costing the hospital $75K/yr or more all-in. (That's what GP meant when they said "fully loaded".)
Wow, this is super interesting, I have not heard of this at all before.

Thanks for sharing!
Most well-educated people won't. A well trained AI can behave pretty close to a well-educated person in common sense.
JavaScript state machines and statecharts
There is no "reality" for you either. Everything you perceive is a pleasant model based fabrication of data the brain receives. This is why you see a second tick by faster when you suddenly look at the clock. This is why it seems you see something when you shift your eyes quickly instead of the completely black you should be seeing. This is why most will not see what they should be seeing here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

Every memory you store is part-fabrication too. Only what the brain perceives as "key" is stored, scaffolded by made up events. Every memory you retrieve is even more fabrication because the brain rewrites memories every time they're recalled. This is why implanting false memories is extremely easy and why leading questions work so well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique

The vast majority of what you know and perceive was not derived from first principles.

Make no mistake here, you are working off a model of reality too.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that C&B is overrated, but it was published in 1997, and XP was only being fleshed out at the C3 program in 1996. The Agile manifesto -- in 2001 -- was what gave it its major visibility bump.

Release early and often was in the air in the late nineties, but C&B was legitimately the first time many people got to hear about it.
Most BASIC dialects do have loops and control structures as well, but GOTO is the original control flow mechanism, it is conceptually very easy to grasp, and it is available across pretty much all BASICs. Even C has a GOTO statement, despite a certain famous computer scientist considering it to be "harmful," so Kernighan and Ritchie must have seen some value in their language having it available.
You can buy “burn cabinets” designed for this but I wonder if a fire safe would work.

If it can keep fire out, can it keep fire in?
Arthropods are a very species rich and very diverse group of animals, but using this system we can safely classify them into several big categories by the type, class and position of its appendix in the list.

In the real life this translates to:

'( antenna leg leg leg)

This is an hexapod, for example an ant, but:

'( fake-antenna leg leg leg)

This is Myrmarachne a spider mimicking an ant. It moves its first pair of legs to simulate an antenna and trick its preys, but we know that the structure is different. If you are an ant, you would be dead by now.

'( antenna antenna antenna leg leg)

This animal does not exist. Not in this planet. Is an alien.

If we have a partial fossil with one leg and a couple of wings, we can say that this was a modern insect. Wings developed only in the modern insects.

The appendix and its location are so different among the main groups of arthropods and so fixed inside the groups that we can safely say that trilobytes didn't fall in any known category of alive arthropod. Those were not crustaceans and all went extinct.

We also know that spiders are not just crustaceans that lose a couple of legs and a couple of antennas. Its legs are placed in different segments, and the auxiliar structures in its head are totally different.
That has already happened with buses. There is much less range loss compared to battery buses: https://www.sustainable-bus.com/news/the-effect-of-cold-weat...
I view it as virtue signaling. None of the really funny accounts, Dril, Everett Byram, that Italian Elon Musk guy, ever had checks anyway.
I read this last week - it started off interesting but soon became hard to follow and seemingly rambling. Maybe I just don't get it. Is there a concise answer to what he says chatgpt is really good for?
You don't have to let the Intel chips scale up the power like that. You can lock them to whatever power level suits you. An i7-1370P configured at 20W has broadly similar performance to an M2.
How Tokyo became an anti-car paradise
If Fedora fails, Red Hat has nothing. If Red Hat fails, Linux is dead.
I’d say it’s not the same thing, because most humans don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of past scams, and are not primed to watch out for them 24/7. LLMs don’t have either of these problems.

An interesting question is whether GPT-4 would fall for a phishing scam or try to buy a timeshare if you gave it an explicit instruction to avoid being scammed.
Is Extreme Programming a closed source commercial software development methodology? What makes it so?

I went through a period of my career where I dived head long into it, read Kent Beck's book, liked what I read. Tried pair programming, TDD etc, loved it. Found team that felt the same and had a great couple of years.

Given the book, the many conference talks etc and comparing it to other flavours
of agile that went full corporate (Scrum, SAFE). I'm surprised to hear it described as closed source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243 Ended with one fatality.

Stay with the plane.
Wouldn't that be too big? A typical failure point of all my wired headphones/buds has been the connector or whatever the connector plugs into. A bigger connector creates more leverage, which in turn creates more force, which has been a problem. So for mobile usage, wireless audio seems to just eliminate a whole range of problems and failure points, so it's not all good to use physical connectors?
The eyes have a similar barrier. I think the current belief is that your body wants to make sure that your T-Cells cannot accidentally nuke your brain and eyes. Those don't grow back and are vitally important, so they have to be protected from the "Nuke it from space" approach of the immune system.
I imagine some of the remaining gap might be places where inline ASM or things like SIMD, AVX, etc, exist. Where there's been more years and a larger set of people optimizing that ASM for x86/64 servers.