skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fetch is fantastic! For a long time my partner would bring our dog there on weekday mornings—when it is less crowded—and grab a coffee and work. They have bark rangers or whatever they're called to make sure nobody gets in a fight so owners can actually get work done.

I hadn't ever considered whether the place was a fad or not, but they are definitely benefiting from the trend towards WFH.
just a billion dollar coincidence
> I sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May.

Wow. About $50/week. Vs. if he managed to find pizza-parlor job at $10/hour...
Yeah, it's an arms race, and OpenAI does stand to lose. But this is a prisoner's dilemma situation. OpenAI can shut themselves down, but that doesn't fix the problem of someone creating a dangerous situation, as everyone else will keep going.

The only way to actually stop it is to get everyone to stop at once, via regulation. Otherwise, stopping by yourself is just a unilaterally bad move.

That's the charitable explanation, at least. These days I don't trust anything Musk says at face value, but I do think that AI is driving society off a cliff and we need to find a way to pump the breaks.
By physical actions. I don't explain much to him, I do it / show it.

When he's upset, I put a hand on his back (bare skin) and hold it there, or I hold him on my chest while he breathes and I breathe with him.

Or if he falls over and is further away from me, I look at him, take a few big breaths and suggest that he takes some breaths.

By 18 mo he was often doing the deep breaths automatically.
But would you like your kids to learn that there are no fat people, only "differently weight abled"? That being overweight is not bad for you, it just makes you a victim of oppression and deserve, no actually require a sympathy? No smart people, only "mentally privileged" that deserve, no actually require a public condemnation? These are all examples of a 'wrongthink'. It's a long list, but you get the idea.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Which is to say this clickbaity article is about updating Windows 10 21H2 to Windows 10 22H2. Your rant might be relevant in a thread concerning upgrades to Windows 11.
Today’s best practice is tomorrow’s technical debt.

Paint that shed.
I don't really know. I only know that all post-historical "end of history" type narratives are complete BS and whenever I see one I can't take an argument seriously anymore.

And both the rationalists and the post-rationalists see themselves primarily as actors rather than those being acted upon. That kind of hyper-individualism is also a huge red flag for me.

I don't have a program. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm trying to parse out my feelings here.
> But it has downsides, too. People are human, not machines, and sometimes need to rest too. That's why we shouldn't leave everything up to the free market

People are competing against other humans, who need rest too. Hence, everybody rests, and things work out for everybody in the free market scenario.
I will give you two examples of stuff I have experienced:

1. It will tell you jokes about white people, but not jokes about latinos or black people.

2. It will tell you jokes about catholics, but not muslims.

If they were at least honest about their hatred of certain people/religions at least I would respect it. I wouldn't like it but I would respect their honesty. It's the doublespeak and the in-your-face lies that rub me the wrong way. I don't like it.

Why can't these people just be kind humans and follow the letter of the law and leave themselves out of it. They can't help themselves!
> It makes a great solvent, so let's put in anesthesia?

Literally, yes. The potency of an inhalation anesthetic is usually directly proportional to its lipid solubility. (Known as the Meyer-Overton correlation.) This is why solvents such as ether and chloroform were used as anesthetics and why N₂O is both an anesthetic and is dissolved in cream to form whipped cream.

The mechanism of inhalation anesthetics is not completely understood but it's thought that they interact with lipids in cell membranes and disrupt stuff. The better they dissolve in lipids, the lower the concentration that is needed for anesthesia.

There's a nice graph on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_general_anaestheti...
my understanding was an edge environment similar to CF workers
Ask HN: Best software books written before 2000
Seeking knowledge from before programming became pop culture mainstream.

Please share.

My list thus far.

Mythical Man Month
Soul of a new Machine

Thx
Which ones have you tried? My understanding is that the VPX physics engine is the closest to the real thing at this point in time.

I'm really tempted to build a virtual pinball machine. It would be awfully nice if the display of choice (42" LG C2 OLED) would come down in price a bit more first.
Yes, I always love checking out a new one! I'll also recommend pinballmap.com as a good resource for finding pinball machine collections both large and small. I've used it traveling to find little arcades in old malls and great machines in laundromats.
Joined a pinball league last year after moving cities. Not only did I fall in love with pinball(didn't grow up with any machines in my hometown) its just a phenomenal community of people who get together each week. I highly recommend anyone reading this to look for any pinball leagues in your area. Its a mixture of all sorts of people from my experience and just a wonderful social/gaming environment.
That got a little dark at the end. Surely some other remedies short of cannibalism would suffice.
It really depends on what you're doing. If 95% of your code is file or network I/O then it's really not going to make the slightest difference whether you're running JSC, V8 or QuickJS. If your code is enormously complex and benefits from JIT then yes, you're going to really feel that downgrade.
I had a couple of operations as a youngster, and from my memory (could be faulty) they would speak to you while you were still on the trolley then waft some gas in front of you as you needed to breathe in. Then, when you were sedated they would get on with the business. I guess they would be able to inject you with something a bit more serious without you squirming, and transfer you to the table etc..
There’s Math.random(), and then there’s Math.random() · V8
I wouldn’t do 61B projects to learn how to interview; they aren’t too relevant because they focus more on writing software rather than data structures (and aren’t of the greatest quality IMO).

The lectures on heaps, arrays, linked lists, and MST are worth reviewing. Also, I would try implementing each DS/A from scratch, and do Leetcode to brush up. If you want to learn algorithms super well, then do the first half of CS170 (stop after DP) from Berkeley, including the homeworks, which are challenging.

Credentials: did undergrad at Berkeley, also worked at FAANG.
Not sure if you ever had a Nextel phone, but they had a cellular walkie talkie feature for awhile. It was pretty popular in my high school circa 2003, but I remember kinda hating it.
That's interesting. Thanks for pointing that out! I see that anyone can opt out of the arbitration clause, and I wonder how it would play out in court if someone put a shelf or some tape in front of the camera and was charged for it. I wouldn't suggest anyone try it, but it would be interesting to know how effectively this could be enforced. The dystopian aspect of the telescreen isn't the fact that there's a camera on the TV but the enforcement mechanism behind it.
Good comment!

I am mentoring one who you mean. Left on the streets at 13.

That is the root cause of their trouble.

The baggage is incredibly difficult to get past. A lot of that is systemic.
The latter isn't a software book :)
A lot of managers suck, a lot are dead weight but the good ones, the very few good ones are invaluable.
Summary:

“Apple has announced new accessibility features for its devices, including Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier. These updates will be available later this year and will help people with cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities. Live Speech will read aloud text on the screen, while Personal Voice will allow users to create a custom voice for their device. Point and Speak in Magnifier will provide a spoken description of what is being pointed at. These new features are part of Apple's ongoing commitment to making its products accessible to everyone.”

By Bard in 100 words
Notice they don’t mention anonymity, just “privacy”. I’m kind of tempted to read it as privacy from third parties but not privacy from the government.
Pointers in Fortran can alias with each other and with valid pointer targets. What makes Fortran potentially easier to optimize are its rules against dummy argument aliasing in most (but not all) cases.

(See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/docs/Al... for the full story.)
I tend to think people referring to a "woke mind virus" are eponymous to their own afflictions. A few decades back, the same sort of attitude was present with calling everyone else "sheeple." These attitudinal cousins are reductive to complex things.
Oh wow, thank you! I just might be there on Saturday.
"Get your team jibbling fast"

Ew.
KDE is so great <3. It's everything Mac and Windows should have been. I also donate to it monthly because I feel it's software really worth paying for.

On the contrary, I despise Gnome 3. Gnome 2 wasn't bad but in 3 everything rubs me the wrong way. It's like they went out of their way to design something that wouldn't suit me :) The mimimalism, the thick "touch-style" window decorations, the "always an extra click" hamburger menus. The "You're holding it wrong" attitude. Basically all the issues that come with Apple-style opinionated design. And mentioned in the source article too. Nevertheless I'm glad other people do like it. That's the good thing about FOSS, there's something for everyone.

I had the same feeling about recent macOS versions so I'm really happy I moved to KDE (on FreeBSD). Having choice and configurability again is amazing.

This is really the power of FOSS and calls for a unified desktop would seriously undermine that. One size does not fit all.
You miss my point. Just because you want to turn it off doesn't mean the person who wants to acquire billions or rule the world or destroy humanity, does.

The people who profit from a killer AI will fight to defend it.
But surely the people writing the browser code thought about the ecosystem they were creating / trying to create?
Ah, the Bread Code guy! Engineer + chef, definitely my type of person.

I was recently following some of his YT videos, the invaluable tip that I got from him (and I haven't seen elsewhere) is to take a sample of the dough and observe its rise, to know when the main dough is ready for baking.

I just made a beautiful baguette yesterday using this tip!
It has much to do with culture though - which is transmitted via language.
Choosing to let millions die rather than saying a racial slur is not "empathy": https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457...
LangChain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422627

LQML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35956484

Haystack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501045 or more recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35430188
This is foxes going before Congress asking for regulation and licensing for purposes of raiding henhouses.
It will probably require restricting GPU sales among other things.
There is also https://github.com/vercel/pkg
After several thousands of years of human evolution we only became marginally more intelligent at best. The people who built piramids and roads, with limited written down knowledge prove that. After tens of years of evolution, AI became plentiful more intelligent. It is hard to extrapolate but I don't believe the trend is a slowing down one.
in the interest of pluralism and live/let-live though: I've found it more rewarding and interesting to learn and participate in some relatively ancient rituals than to track and attend sports games. I don't think these things need to be exclusive, and in fact it's kind of great that there's a diverse set of offerings that appeal to a diverse array of people. Of course, one hopes that we mostly recognize that we're mostly after the same or similar things, rather than talking derisively about "ball sports" or "candle ceremonies."
OpenAI have no moat.

The open source community will catch up in at most a year or two, they are scared and now want to use regulations to strangle competitions.

While their AI is going to advance as well, the leap will not be qualitative as the ChatGPT gen 1 was - so they will lose competitive advantage.
And here I thought Google purchased those TLDs to prevent spoofing and phishing attempts. Not to start selling domains under each.
I'd say the treshold is much lower, and depends on the area and wealth of the person. But I doubt even a billionaire would pay $200k for a piece of an unknown artists just because he loves it. Maybe he'd pay $50k. For regular people, it's more like $5k.
Hopefully it will be just like software piracy, there will be civil disobedience as well, and they will never truly be able to stamp it out.

And it raises First Amendment issues as well. I think it's morally wrong to prohibit the development of software, which is what AI models are, especially if it's done in a personal capacity.

How do they even know that the author is based in the US anyway. Just use a Russian or Chinese Git hosting provider, where these laws don't exist?

And by the way foreign developers won't even have to jump through these hoops in the first place, so this law will only put the US at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.

If these lobbyists get their way, by restricting AI development in both the US and the EU, it will be hilarious to see that out of all places, Russia might be one of the few large countries where it's development will remain unrestricted.

Even better, is that if Russia splits up we will have a new wild west for this kind of thing....
Agreed, seems like a very elegant method to create your own black budget.
You might be interested in Aritcle 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv...). It was recently used to declare the UK's mass surveillance unlawful (https://dpglaw.co.uk/european-court-of-human-rights-declares...)
Camp Lejeune Water Strongly Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Bitcoin's advantage is worked online for people who are banned from normal online payment mechanisms.

There are other privacy oriented coins that may do better than bitcoin for avoiding tracing (monero?) but the main reason criminals used it is it worked and nobody really cared about drugs, etc.
My entire life I believed that my childhood was pretty decent, and fairly privileged even. My parents provided a safe and stable home environment in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, sent me to some decent public schools, took me on nice vacations, and paid for my college in full.

After having kids of my own, a flood of disturbing realizations came to me about all the things they didn't do. For example, my parents never played with me. Ever. They never asked me about my day, asked what I was interested in, asked for my opinions on things, or tried to get to know me. We never hugged either. They were both completely incapable of comforting me when I was upset, and would get angry at me for expressing my emotions. They didn't teach me anything. Nothing. They didn't teach me how to cook, how to do laundry, how to manage money, how to fix stuff around the house, or how to manage my time. They gave me zero structure or rules, and simply did not care what I did or how late I stayed up. I was a latchkey kid starting at the age of 9. I spent the majority of my free time playing video games in my parents' basement.

My dad was also a "functioning" alcoholic. He was functioning in the sense that he could hold down a well-paying corporate job, but was otherwise totally checked out. He would get home from work at 6, pour a glass of scotch, plop down in front of the TV, and stay seated there for the rest of the night. Weekends weren't that different. Although he was physically present, he may as well have not been in my life at all. My mom wasn't much better. Although she didn't have a drinking problem, she enabled my dad's drinking and was obsessed with her own career, and was basically checked out as a parent as well.

It took my until the age of 34 to realize that my upbringing has had a disastrous impact on my mental health. Although from the outside my life looks pretty successful and prosperous, my inner world has been a jumbled mess of anxiety, fear, denial, and avoidance for my entire life. When I learned about the concept of "hypervigilance", it was like having my core personality trait summed up as a trauma symptom.

It's been a massive uphill battle for me to learn, essentially from scratch, how to be a good father. My number one goal is be emotionally present for my sons. My oldest isn't even two yet, but I try to: comfort him when he's upset, give him the vocabulary to express what he's feeling, play with him on the floor everyday, teach him the names of things we see on our walks together (birds, plants, trees, etc.), read to him, and give him choices that he can make on his own. As he gets older, I want to help him discover who he is and what he likes, rather than force him to like the things I like. Above all, I want to be present in his life, and for him to truly feel that he's loved and supported by me.
> Meanwhile on GNOME the situation is you can't control the keyboard brightness out of the box, because they decided all laptops with a keyboard backlight must surely have dedicated keys for that purpose and therefore there's no need for a slider nor configurable keybinds and...

I wrote then lost a gnome hotkey plugin to help with this, as the desktop display my parents were using had a menu system they hated/couldnt manage to use.

It's wild that Gnome has such a narrow lo-fi user as their only target persona, but they probably make a vast amount of their earned income selling to such users.
I think it's more the practical matter that California even when dry receives 5x the rain of Saudi Arabia.
Experimental, so probably at least 5 years before it's considered "stable"
Supposedly LLMs are already banned in China for being counterrevolutionary and don't make me laugh about Russia. Maybe we'll see an AI lab buy up FTX's offices though.
I posit that the typical human being has what we might call "rationalism fatigue". Everyone's threshold is different, but even those a few SDs away from the middle aren't fantastically untiring.

So you're trying to be rational, for a day or a week or a decade, and eventually it's just too exhausting. Despite doing everything rationally (at least according to your own limited and irrational faculty for introspection), has your life improved? You still have anxiety about global warming and this particular president's ability to go Fourth Reich on everything. Your wife's left you or you can't get a girlfriend. There's nothing good on tv to watch despite the fact that you've been a Netflix premium customer since they started offering streaming.

And a little switch flicks off in your brain. Soon, thoughts are haunting you like "what if I color in the numbers on my lottery ticket card in the pattern I saw those Starlings flying across the parking lot the other day?!?!". Or "hey, I bet if I just say a prayer to some trendy hipster deity/spirit I read about in a Salon article last February, maybe I won't have so much indigestion".

Eventually, these thoughts become more persuasive, intrusive, or both. And they give in.

It might be that rationalism doesn't pay off except in the ultra long term. And no one can make it to the finish line. Or it might be that rationalism is a game theory game, and it won't ever pay off unless all (or most) other people are playing it with you. Possibly even, no one who tries to be rational even comes close, they just mistakenly believe they do.
Full video of testimony on CSPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-...
Wouldn't the simulation program itself be the "divine plan"? Simulation theory implies that there is a programmer of the simulation. That programmer (or programmers) had the equivalent of a "divine plan" when they created the simulation. Whether or not they're interventionist in the simulation doesn't seem to all that important. There are creationist deists who believe that a god created everything, got it going and then lets it run on it's own without any intervention - how is that different?
Crimes are crimes the person commits. Planning an attack is a crime. Building a model to commit crimes is probably akin to planning an attack, and might itself be a crime. But the thought that researchers and the every man have to be kept away from AI so globo mega corps can protect us from the AI enabled Lex Luthor is absurd. The protections against criminal activity is already codified in law.
Seriously, I'm very concerned by the view being taken here. AI has the capacity to do a ton of harm very quickly. A couple of examples:

- Scamming via impersonation
- Misinformation
- Usage of AI in a way that could have serious legal ramifications for incorrect responses
- Severe economic displacement

Congress can and should examine these issues. Just because OP works at an AI doesnt' mean that company can't exist in a regulated industry.

I too work in the AI space and welcome thoughtful regulation.
Are you a bot, or did we just happen to say almost exactly the same thing within seconds of each other?
Nah, rust still depends on libc at runtime which is a pain. Go doesn't have this problem afaik as it has its own stdlib and runtime.
> The reality is all these machines are basically PCs now

You could make the opposite argument back in the day. Arcade hardware was what home PCs, and consoles, tried to emulate. The truth is, these still use specialized hardware even if they end up targeting embedded Linux or embedded Windows (or a combination of the two). They are also incredibly efficient with their use of hardware
Lets not focus on "the business" and instead focus on the safety.

Altman can an ulterior motive, but it doesn't mean that we should strive for having some sort of handle on AI safety.

It could be that Altman and OpenAI know exactly how this will look and the backlash that will ensue that we get ZERO oversight and we rush headlong into doom.

Short term we need to focus on the structural unemployment that is about to hit us. As the AI labs use AI to make better AI, it will eat all the jobs until we have a relative handful of AI whisperers.
From a security perspective, as someone who enjoys cooking as a hobby, I thought it would be interesting to use a tactic-by-technique perspective. You could visualize the tactics and techniques as a matrix of cooking techniques grouped by tactics moving from researching menus, procuring ingredients, preparing ingredients, to cutting/trimming techniques, to cooking/grilling/sauteing, to plating/presenting.
Sam Altman reconfirms that he has ZERO equity in OpenAI
If I could make a couple of suggestions for people who are trying to "get serious" with their hobbies as electronic music composers, I got a lot of value out of:

1. Berklee Online courses on music production. They're not cheap, but the instructors are stellar, including the guy who literally wrote the Ableton book on creative strategies.

2. https://www.producerdojo.com/ is incredible if you have the time for it. You get paired with a coach who is usually a seasoned electronic music veteran, possibly a regularly touring performer, and you get to work on becoming better at making electronic music at your pace, with their supervision. It's a lot of work, but the results are about as good as they can get.