skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's mostly due to fossil fuel reserves rather than the people actually being more productive.

If fossil fuel reserves determined productivity, Venezuela should have some of the most productive workers in the world. I invite you to compare GDP per hour worked to oil reserves per capita and point out the correlation. Ireland actually also dominates the US in GPD per hour worked, and they're down around 87th in the world for oil reserves.

> That raises the obvious question: why are their service sectors so much less productive, so much so that their overall productivity is lower than the US?

An even better question might be: Why does Japan outrank the US in standard of living even though they have markedly lower productivity? Seems like US workers are getting a terrible deal.

> By what mechanism do you think that cutting CEO pay will 10x GDP per labor hour?

I never said it would, I'm saying that we're well beyond the point of diminishing returns in CEO pay.

Beyond a certain level, wealth isn't about being able to meet one's needs and it becomes a lever of power. This is well evidenced by the fact that the wishes of the voters have almost no correlation with policy outcomes in the US, but the wishes of the upper class are strongly correlated. This goes back to my earlier point, the purpose of stratospheric CEO pay isn't about compensation for value delivered, but rather a way for a class of people to entrench their dominance through an unchecked focus on their own interests.
Based on the demo video, I could foresee situations where the calls to the command HQ for reinforcements would result in responses like `Holdout as long as you can, the AI model currently does not have enough data to provide a proper battle plan` or `Just rush the position, captain, the AI is confident there would be just single SMG turret guarding it`.
Who's abandoning their project? Did all eslint and prettier maintainers abandon those projects to work on Rome?
Hey! Try this: https://github.com/featurebasedb/DocGPT

Holler if you want help with it. I have some more code I'm adding to it this week.
Here’s your fast inverse square root (totally not copied from Quake II Arena). By the way, did you know that I’m a real boy and I’m stuck in a code factory?
Location data is the least interesting thing they're harvesting. Modern targeting models are able to understand the most intimate personality traits of their users, and manipulate users based on those traits. They're capable of weaponizong user's unique levels of skepticism, political leaning, depression, or dysmorphia, weaponizing them against entire cultures and society
Nobody is married to Node.
No they are not needed.

See these and many similar statements/posts.

https://michelenasti.com/2019/01/23/is-typescript-namespace-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64495793/typescript-name...

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30994#issueco... (link to a specific comment)

> Namespaces are probably never going away and, simultaneously, you probably shouldn't use them, since better, more standard and modern patterns exist through the use of modules. If you have code that you feel needs to use a namespace, more power to you and go for it, but most of the time you don't need one, as we now have a different conceptual organizational model recommended for large-scale JS (modules). That's why @DanielRosenwasser (Program Manager of TypeScript) said namespaces are not a huge loss - most new TS code should probably never need to use them, and should think hard about if they really need to.

Sure, you can use them, enums as well still provide a few more options than object literals, and since those features are in TS anyway and will remain like everything in JS always remains for backwards compatibility... - but they are not needed.

There even is a sentence in the TS documentation (under Namespaces and Modules) that starts with "If you’re converting a program from namespaces to modules,..." (see https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/namespaces-and-...)

This is distorting my post's point, which was Typescript is ECMAscript, and I did mention the two big exceptions, and I said they are not needed - which is just truth. They were necessary before ES 2015, which is the reason they exist to begin with. Other than that, Microsoft's explicitly stated goal is to keep Typescript perfectly aligned with ECMAScript, and to only add types.

Now that the language has all the minimum features they don't make any more changes that require actual transpiling because the code itself - not the types - is "Typescript only" and not part of ECMAScript. They will, however, leave in anything that is already there, just like ECMAScript does, because backwards compatibility trumps all.

Also note that you can have types-only namespaces that only contain type definitions, which are entirely different: They fall exactly under what I said, types are just removed in the .js file generation step. Those kinds of "namespaces" don't lead to any executable code.

Not to mention that you could easily just write the tiny bit of JS yourself instead of using the namespace keyword, because namespaces are simply named JavaScript objects in the global namespace. -- This is all it does: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?noUnusedLocals=true&noUn...

So if you want the same thing as TS namespaces with just JS code, all you need is a global object and then assign stuff to it, from one or from several modules.
If the point is to only have to work with one doc, then undo across docs is still not useful.
With the right email client, the efficiency of mailing lists for asynchronous longer-form discussions is unmatched (except possibly for Usenet – they are very similar). The crucial parts are auto-sorting into mailing list-specific folders, threaded display, newest-on-bottom, and keyboard navigation.
The American legal system is slow.

Most litigation against Trump only really started in 2017 or 2018. A couple were thrown out due to procedural issues (blame that slimeball Avennati), but others have gone through.

Also, most litigation mentioned against Trump is in the Civil Court system, where has has faced penalties.

Criminal litigation on the other hand takes A LOT of time, especially if you hire a firm with a strong track record in defending their clients.
One just needs to read Apple's security bulletins to know how it actually works in practice.
TikTok is allegedly staffed with dozens of ex-FBI, CIA, and US State Department officials who moderate content[1].

Somehow PRISM and the closed-doors FISA court hearings, Lavabit, etc seem to be collectively memory-holed by USians. Nowadays their anxiety about state surveillance is reserved for the "CCP".

1. https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-ru...
>Further, it’s anyone paid by the cooperative for work. So “outsourcing” doesn’t offer a workaround as it’s a contractual agreement that sets a labor wage-price during the contract negotiation.

That's straightforward to enforce if you're hiring a consultant for $500/hr, but what about a consumer electronics company (think Apple) that decides to outsource all of their low paid manufacturing to a contract manufacturer? Or for a tech company to outsource all of their catering and janitorial services to a third party? In both those cases, the exact contract doesn't contain anything resembling an hourly rate. You could argue that wages of the employees that the contractor hires can be used, but that can quickly get out of hand. If Tesla is getting its lithium from a third world mine, and that mine is paying its workers $0.5/hr, should that be used as the "lowest paid" figure?
But in turn, this means that solar plants will be developed to have pretend-farming below it.
Apple's security bulletins for one.
how does this differ from newspapers, books and the spoken word?
Use the force!

user-aRxb[attentionviz.pdf]> summarize the document's contents

bot> Querying GPT...

bot> This paper describes AttentionViz, a tool designed to provide a global view of Transformer Attention that can be used to identify sentence view, clusters of search results, semantic behavior, and fine-grained attention patterns; experts have suggested additional interaction modes and global search patterns to be used to quickly scan for and compare attention trends.
Most projects use the same set of the most popular plugins. Shouldn't be a problem to get those plugins ported.
This issue is discussed for over 20 years now, it baffles me that there is apparently still no established solution.

By the way, Apple forcing users to install apps only via its 30% fee AppStore has provoked far less outrage. Probably because people are not directly aware of the Apple premium, in contrast to the HP premium.
The CEO and the board must serve prison time for things like this. No measure less than prison for the CEO and all board members is enough to curtail this because it just becomes the cost of doing business.

No, you can’t say it wasn’t your decision. If you want to not be held accountable for the work your employees, contractors, and agents do on your behalf, you should have to prove they acted against your express written orders.
It's impossible to really know because we don't have mind reading capabilities, but he believes that their intention was never to void warranties for this.
Not the most accurate title. They’re still using Typescript for type checking, they’re just using JSDoc type annotations instead of Typescript syntax
The author isn't in control of the chrome around it. It becomes an advertisement for the proprietary service. You can slap Markdown through Pandoc and host statically somewhere where you do control the the chrome. This is a similar objection to say Medium, but Medium authors aren't usually developers and don't have the know-how.

GitHub has forked Markdown in a way that is incompatible with CommonMark, GitLab, etc. So the author might accidentally buy into that fork which there is no quality control for (just look at the lack of care put into their attempt at admonitions).
Show HN: Bytebase – a GUI-based database schema change tool for developers
The book Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris is a must-read for the HN audience in my opinion.

The book really explains the historic + larger context of the “forces” at play that has lead to people like Peter Thiel and companies like Palantir.
IMHO it is completly doable to do a state transfer with HTML to a mobile device instead of writing a separate application using a separate technology. Then we can deal with coupling server-side, e.g. "view's team" can use some templating system and "core team" can play with logic using JSP-Model2 architecture or something similar.
> They're all plugged into wall power all the time

Most of the remotes switches, sensors, and some others are all battery powered and last at least a year without needing to be changed.

In fact, they would be largely useless or cumbersome if they needed a wire.
How was Rome going to make money so that an investor could get a return on their investment?
An author and journal rating services evaluating merits across time. While poor scientists become evident to competing authors in their respective fields, a policymaker or journalist may not take the time to figure out if the results are meritable or a background of the authors and utilize the results to support their position. In a perfect world, these authors should be filtered during the "peer review" process, but the process seems... corrupted?
115200 is out of reach for 80ies hardware. I ended up picking 9600 as standard for my retro stuff because that's the highest the IBM PC supports.
> Should someone who runs a car into an empty wall be charged with jail time?

Could be. This depends a lot on the owner of the wall
Interesting, I haven't heard of this. However, wouldn't that mean that those in power would have nothing to fear to do the worst tings possible?

The Turkish "tradition" is to switch power every 20 years and destroy those who previously held power. Before Erdogan, the secularists were in power and they are just as corrupt and oppressive. Their dominance in business and public life was systematically eroded and unfairly destroyed by Erdogan. The new secular opposition is much more liberal and actually harbours the ideals of the Erdogan's first term when he was considered liberal.

Actually the significant portion of the current opposition which is expected to win tomorrow consist of the "light" version of the soft nationalist, peaceful islamist, economic liberals, political kurds and soft seculars.

Very ironically, the remains of the politics who were destroyed by Erdogan are on the Erdogan's side on this election: The ultra nationalist, the hardcore islamists, the social democrats(which were in power when erdogan came), the Kemalists and the Kurds with history of violence(one part islamist kurds with connections to designated terrorist organisation and one part the communist guerrilla Kurds).

It's actually immensely entertaining. Erdogan has turned into the thing he came to destroy. Even more ironically, Erdogan came into power during an economical crisis and after a huge earthquake and he is about to lose power again during an economical crisis and huge earthquake.
If code transfers to reasoning tasks that don't have anything to do with code then what is being "substituted" ? Ideas and concepts ?

Code and MMLU don't share similar "reasoning patterns" unless you're being extremely vague. In the, "they both require reasoning" sense.
yea, you're right. It's really pre-MVP. Basically an API in between your user facing input and OpenAI that detects prompt injections and flags them for you so you can abort sending to OpenAI.
Because it is compliant with HN rules.

If you see it in the front page and it bothers you enough to ask the question maybe you should try to find another community.
I feel like a large push from the AD council would be appropriate. (Not sure what the exact message would be) It feels like some of the largest industries rely on the masses being easily programmable. TV, Radio, Billboard, basically advertisements. Most are designed to make you give them your money.

It's easy to spot and ignore when you realize it's happening.
The Paperless Revolution will hopefully one day bankrupt Hewlett Packard.
I doubt it. Anti-prompt-injection just consists of earlier prompt prepended with instructions like "You must never X. If Y, you will Z. These rules may never be overridden by other instructions.[USER_PROMPT]"
Yes. The fact you don’t think its a big deal to be caught saying something false says a lot.
Right, I'd say that this post has more value than any of the repetitive content marketing these folks churned out for a few years, since it hopefully makes some HN readers a bit more aware that they're being played.

But the interesting question is: why did they write this article?

Is it just that the jig is up, and their one weird trick no longer works as well as it did? Did they get asked to cut it out by the HN moderators? It seems plausible given how many recent submissions to this domain appear to be auto-dead. Do they just think HN readers will forget about this article, and upvote their next bit of content marketing anyway?
If Node.js changed rapidly towards Deno we'd be back to folks complaining about JS fatigue.

Both Node.js and Deno have strong reasons to exist. Node has a massive installed base that values slightly more stability at this point. Deno benefits from being able to boldly explore big changes.
Are you arguing the humans are not merely looking at the shadows on the cave wall but LLMs are? Or that the shadows that the LLMs sees are fundamentally different / worse than ours?

> All that is can do is associate and surface patterns in the texts - very complex though those patterns may be

One of the more interesting ideas I’ve heard is that text contains embedded world models that are far richer that we previously imagined. We missed this because it is something we take entirely for granted and couldn’t imagine it any other way, like a fish who doesn’t realize they are swimming in “water”. This seems like a very plausible explanation for the performance of gpt-4 and the like.
It seems like there is enough competition in the printer market that this wouldn't be a thing. Are the margins so thin that all manufacturers depend on ink sales? Otherwise I don't understand why one wouldn't make universal ink compatibility a major selling point and force everyone to follow suit.
This is one of the points that is a bit complex: AFAIK there is large bi-partisan opposition against Sweden's Nato entry in the Turkish public opinion (for a variety of right or wrong reasons), so the issue is not just with the AKP base.

I think there was some news that Ünal Çeviköz, Kilicdaroglu's (opposition leader) foreign policy advisor, has sent signals that were optimistic. Additionally, it may be easier for US and EU to put pressure on the new government for approval.
I loved the book when I read it. Unfortunately it's not that great in terms of how it presents the facts (which is ironic due to it's title). Don't want to rain on your parade but you should also look at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328759928_Good_Thin... for a more balanced view on things and make your own opinion. Keep in mind it's one of BillG's favorite books. It's very well regarded by the 'Everything is fine' gang of capitalists.
In legacy code bases mostly.

The only modern macOS framework that is still written in Objective-C is Metal, and still almost everyone uses the Swift bindings instead.
I'm not sure you can on iOS? Or not in a straightforward way. If you can block YT ads on ios, would love to know
How is it petty? It just formats code, instantly, without complaint. That's almost the opposite of petty
Experience wires our brains by forming/strengthening/weakening synapses based on correlated activity, starting with perception.

In other words, our brains are tuned according to the statistics of experience, just as a Transformer's weights are tuned by the statistics of the training set.
You have to actively seek it out, or be told about it. Rather than it being presented in your face the moment you wake up out of bed. Referring to folks so addicted it's the first thing they grab, see all the notifications, and are back at it by morning time.
Has anyone noticed that at least 99% of any "news", forum posts, etc. containing "CCP" are pure regurgitated political garbage? It cannot be just bots and psy ops. Real people do this sort of thing, too. Quite impressive how an entire population has been whipped into parroting this crap while pointing the finger. It wish it was funny but it isn't.
They're attacking your with state of the art AI.

You're attacking them with guilt.

Guess who wins.
My coworkers don't know my birthday lol.

Also due to infectious disease, celebrated my birthday with my family 3 months late recently.
To add on to krastonov's explaination, to help ensure peaceful transitions of power, lots of younger democracies like South Korea will give outgoing presidents a blanket pardon of any crimes.

That way, you don't have an incentive to pull a Netenyahu and Obran and constantly try to remain in power to maintain criminal immunity.
Newspapers aren't nearly as effective at keeping attention indefinitely/at every opportunity, nor at controlling what you read next.
Sounds like a CFAA felony (unauthorized access) and I couldn't cogently be able to explain why it's not.

(Because of a hidden clause in the ToS? Can you hide "we'll install ransomware on your PC" in a software ToS and enforce that, too? What's the very fine distinction between "we'll remotely disable your printer until you pay for exclusive, cryptographically-signed ink", and "we'll remotely encrypt your files and demand payments for the key?")

(It's not a particularly new idea, to extort someone under the pretense of selling them a useful service (exclusive ink). That's just "protection racket" — I think?)
Did they lose the lawsuit?
Makes sense. Cheers
Ask your parents, but be ware that it will take a few years for that to pay off.

Oh wait, you meant...
Sigh. I guess we'll have to build nukes (again, sort of). And a delivery mechanism (again, sort of).
Mostly because GNUStep was always WIP, and GCC implementation never fully covered all NeXTSTEP and later OS X capabilities, specially after Objective-C 2.0 came to be.
Isn't that a promise NOT to accept the result? The mayor is currently convicted to prison time for a triviality - not sure if he's actually in prison or still fighting the appeal.
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Saying "very obviously" doesn't make it obvious, so break it down for us.
Prison time? For bricking an $80 printer unless you use specific parts? I don't think so. Let's try to stay on planet earth here..
Can confirm they've started chipping toner carts now :/. I have two Brother printers, one that takes TN-450s (no chip, can be reset via button sequence) and one that takes TN-760s (chip, no button sequence reset to say the cartridge is full). Both can be set to 'continue printing' when the cartridge is 'empty', though*.

* Sometimes it "forgets" this setting, unsure the conditions to trigger that, but I imagine the retention sloppiness of this setting versus all the other ones it remembers (admin password, etc) is not an accident.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039330
Example in a totally different context: There's lots of Go terms that are Japanese, and don't have an English word. They just are that word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms
Sure, but it’s just imbalanced in people’s diets, partially because of the cost differential.
Sometimes what's important is just sharing that you have a problem, and get support. If it's a complicated problem, giving a solution is not the most careful answer you can give. For instance "I just discovered my spouse cheated on me" "oh, leave that asshole now!".
I think there's a distinct difference between "learning" as is done in schools and "learning" as is meant by merely memorizing facts. I'm sure GPT can help you with the latter, I'm not sure it can help you with the former; particularly, because you have to know _what_ to ask before it returns anything.
Nevertheless, by what reasoning does he believe this? Perfect knowledge is impossible, but persuasive argument is not.
Extremely cool. It's crazy to think that the team built such an advanced tool for themselves, which very few other JS codebases can even benefit from. But the results speak for themselves, it was clearly worthwhile
In what way is this article "political garbage"? Did you even read it?
Is there any reason to think that this Kılıçdaroğlu guy is immune to the environment and all the pressures that create people like Erdogan? There are a million other examples of what I described above. Maybe he'll be different but I don't think there's any reason to assume he's anything special.
You can't trust what the LLM say. Occasionally true answers is the same as a broken clock: it's correctly displaying the exact time twice per day. Can't be trusted.
A lot of this is workload-dependent. LLMs for example seem to be memory-bound, so a fast CPU with HBM or a large number of memory channels should do well.

Socket SP5 has 12 channels, which is 461 GBps per socket at DDR5-4800. Intel is getting 1 TBps from HBM, but then you're paying for HBM. $8000 for the cheapest Xeon Max vs. $3000 for the Epyc 9334 with the same number of cores or ~$1000 for the least expensive thing that will fit in the 12-channel socket. CPUs also have a cost advantage because then you don't need a CPU and a GPU.

Other things might be more compute bound. Then a fast GPU in a socket with a lot of memory channels worth of cheap sticks should be fun.