skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. It's going to absolutely shred the trademark and copyright systems, if they even apply (or are extended to apply) which is a murky area right now. And even then, the sheer volume of material created by a geometric improvement and subsequent cost destruction of virtually every intellectual and artistic endeavor or product means that even if you hold the copyright or trademark, good luck paying for enforcement on the vast ocean of violations intrinsic in the shift.

What people also fail to understand is that AI is largely seen by the military industrial complex as a weapon to control culture and influence. The most obvious risk of AI — the risk of manipulating human behavior towards favored ends — has been shown to be quite effective right out the gate. So, the back channel conversation has to be to put it under regulation because of it's weaponization potential, especially considering the difficulty in identifying anyone (which of course is exactly what Elon is doing with X 2.0 — it's a KYC id platform to deal with this exact issue with a 220M user 40B head start).

I mean, the dead internet theory is turning true, and half the traffic on the Web is already bot driven. Imagine when it's 99%, as proliferation of this technology will inevitably generate simply for the economics.

Starting with open source is the only way to get enough people looking at the products to create any meaningful oversight, but I fear the weaponization fears will mean that everything is locked away in license clouds with politically influential regulatory boards simply on the proliferation arguments. Think of all the AI technologists who won't be versed in this technology unless they work at a "licensed company" as well — this is going to make the smaller population of the West much less influential in the AI arms race, which is already underway.

To me, it's clear that nobody in Silicon Valley or the Hill has learned a damn thing from the prosecution of hackers and the subsequent bloodbath of cybersecurity as a result of the exact same kinds of behavior back in the early to mid-2000s. We ended up driving out best and brightest into the grey and black areas of infosec and security, instead of out in the open running companies where they belong. This move would do almost the exact same thing to AI, though I think you have to be a tad of an Asimov or Bradbury fan to see it right now.

I don't know, that's just how I see it, but I'm still forming my opinions. LOVE LOVE LOVE your comment though. Spot on.

Relevant articles:

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-bots-web-traffic...

https://theconversation.com/ai-can-now-learn-to-manipulate-h....
I already download any video I find valuable with yt-dlp. So many videos just randomly disappear or are difficult to find again because Google keeps mixing more and more irrelevant suggestions and shorts into search results.

Disk space is cheap, and it can be nice to scroll through the folder now and then and rediscover some great content.
It just feels like two widely different scenarios we're talking about here.

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/4/24/why-apache-kafka-... talks about the case of a single failure and it shows how (a) Raft without fsync() loses ACK-ed messages and (b) Kafka without fsync() handles it fine.

This post on the other hand talks about a case where we have (a) one node being network partitioned, (b) the leader crashing, losing data, and combing back up again, all while (c) ZooKeeper doesn't catch that the leader crashed and elects another leader.

I think definitely the title/blurb should be updated to clarify that this is only in the "exceptional" case of >f failures.

I mean, the following paragraph seems completely misleading:

> Even the loss of power on a single node, resulting in local data loss of unsynchronized data, can lead to silent global data loss in a replicated system that does not use fsync, regardless of the replication protocol in use.

The next section (and the Kafka example) is talking about loss of power on a single node combined with another node being isolated. That's very different from just "loss of power on a single node".
Is this like a phar file?
Those are interesting reads, thanks. But I'm noticing social media runners keep making the same mistake again, and again, and again, and again. We don't need to tag moderated behaviors. We don't need algorithms for feed generation. We need social media which doesn't decide for us, or tries to model itself after our supposed "engagement" and needs and wants. We need social media that allows ourselves to be the algorithm. AI has a bright future, but the human brain remains the best evaluator of what a human wants or needs.

AI is optimizing for criteria which doesn't match what a person wants. Reacting to posts doesn't mean the person wanted to see them at all. All those algorithms are laughable at close inspection, at best they optimize for profit through dopamine traps & creating friction of controversy and echo chambers, under the guise of having to select for the user as the user can't select for themselves.
agreed, and this

> the business was run by a set of sociopaths supervised by a board of geriatrics with no experience in the industry

...is far too often the case, so if one is gifted and fortunate enough to choose who one works for, one lesson might be: put serious effort and consideration into the decision
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> I wonder if that’d go differently today? I hope so.

Well, it would put said executive out of a job, so probably not.
Seems like an opportunity (sadly) for a service to manage these things.

Google isn't the only provider that would need regular logins. Twitter, Twitch, etc. have account inactivity policies.
Hell, the local police will probably happily login to your email whilst you're in jail, just sign away your 4th and 5th while you're at it ...

It's one more thing you have to know to think about - though if the system counts automated logins as logins, then maybe fetchmail has a purpose again.
People usually mentions sea rise as the worst outcome of global warming, but extreme weather may be more pervasive, and that may be experienced far earlier than the sea level rise.

In any case, this is at best a mitigation, not a solution. It sounds like a simple enough idea, and may not have as a disruptive impact as other geoengineering proposals that may end having unexpected consequences. Some of the proposed flooded areas could have unique ecosystems that may be negatively impacted, but anyway all ecosystems are being negatively impacted right now, so a delay in the very bad trends we might be in could be positive overall.
people who complain about gentrification.
My friend, you were truly ahead of your time. If I had known about this back in 2020 I probably would have bugged you to restart working on it instead of building Notado! Would love to chat with you sometime if you want to reach out on Mastodon/Twitter etc.
The link in the article is to Notion. https://www.notion.so/324f561a7fd1484a952e0a59ca482013 specifically. Did the author forget to replace their link when they posted it to Medium?
"FSD doesn't have to be perfect, it only has to be better than humans." That's what I hear from the pro-AI guys all the time.

So you can have that, or "well humans do that too", but not both.
I read Demiurge right after I played the original Deus Ex for that reason. It was a masterpiece.

Haven't had the chance to read anything by Chris Todd yet (the writer/curator of all the snippets you come across within the game, as opposed to the plot itself), but I remember enjoying his in-game style a lot too at the time.
I think we all will be happier if we stop treating the vast majority of our life as a monetary transaction. If you accept being a disposable cog, you become a disposable cog.

"Family" is an exaggeration, but work as a meaningful, socially and emotionally enriching activity is not a luxury. Its what most people would be more comfortable with.

There is nothing inevitable in the current shape of businesses. They are, ahem, ephemeral optimizations, based on very specific contractual arrangements.
> I'm using chatgpt regularly.

Wrong, you are not using chatgpt. You are training chatgpt. You are paying a fee simply because they cant scale yet - there are only that many gpus available - and they had to slow things down a bit but openai gains value in you improving its little bot.

Millions of people training a model and an ever increasing computing power means than in 10-20 years ai will be where computer games are today vs 20-30 years ago.

Hence my analogy to transistors. Ai is not going away but what needs to go away is companies such as openai and bad scifi believing mob.
By "work" I assume you mean "convince people of their value"?
I don't think nationalizing AI corporations is feasible (doubt its legal as well) or in the best interests of the united states. It will handicap development of AI, we will lose our head start, and other countries like China will be able to take the lead.

What value do you see nationalization providing? Generally its done by countries that are having their natural resources extracted by foreign companies and taking all the profits for themselves. Nationalizing lets them take the profits for their country. I'm not sure how it would work for knowledge based companies like OpenAI.
Ask HN: Has langchain ever been helpful for your project?
This is super fascinating, thanks. Especially threads like the tankless water heater cleaning guy.
> This ... is not what is going on.

I wouldn't discredit it so quickly. I have seen lots of old accounts being taken over on eBay lately for scam auctions. It seems to become more and more common. So this could very well happen with Google accounts as well. It makes them more credible for whatever scammy thing they are being used for.
Open source doesn't mean outside the reach of regulation, which I would guess is your real desire. You downplay AI's potential danger while well knowing that we are at a historic inflection point. I believe in democracy as the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried. We the people must be in control of our destiny.
The HBO show is great, but his Vimeo is better IMO. I particularly like 'The Road To Magnasanti' and 'How To Remain Single.'
Isn't it too late? Isn't the cat out of the bag?
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

Meaning anyone could eventually reproduce a Chat GPT4 and beyond. And eventually it can run outside of a large data center.

So... how will you tell its an AI vs a human doing you wrong?

Seems to me if the AI breaks the law, find out who's driving it and prosecute them.
Congrats on the launch!!

Any plans on adding "in-memory" / "virtual" file support to Bun.build? I'd be interested in using it for notebook-style use cases

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Also, ways to do "on-the-fly" "mixed client/server" components (ala hyperfiddle/electric) + sandboxing (ala Deno) would be extremely exciting

Some projects in this vein - https://github.com/jhmaster2000/bun-repl and https://www.val.town/

Also, bun macros are very cool -- they let you write code that writes over itself with GPT-4. Just mentioning as a thing to keep on your radar as you keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible in javascript :) making it more lispy and preserving eval-ability is great
Looks great! Still eagerly waiting for Windows support: I have a specific use case where I need both a bundler and a package manager to run on the user's desktop cross-platform, and right now that's yarn + esbuild. I'd love to roll this into a single, performant solution. It's already being worked on as far as I know [1], excited to upgrade to Bun when that's available.

[1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/43
Omg! I must do this now with my grandma
It's funny the US paid it debt to GDP down from WWII until the 80s then it started going up again. I wonder what happened in the 80s to make it change?
I know about ITAR. Cannons were in common use during the 1790s as well. Export ban does not equal possession ban.
What’s the best practice to let an existing Ruby on Rails application use this python framework?
It comes and goes for me. I’ll do it every day for a month and then Forget to do it for a month.

I journal exclusively on a computer. I find I can get my thoughts out much faster on a keyboard and that helps the process be a lot lower friction for me.

In my journaling, I’ve found it really amazing how much I forget about situations and things I’ve done. It also helps me reflect on my day and my relationships. I am a strong proponent of journaling. When I write, I have 3 audiences in mind: myself, my descendants, and anthropologists. That is, partially just fun, but I also really appreciate there were people who wrote about themselves 6000 years ago such that we have that information.

I use Day One as a journaling app, though I don’t pay for it (I am frustrated by app subscriptions). I often try to include a picture with my entry. I’ve thought about getting my journal printed and bound so it’s not exclusively digital, but I haven’t made the effort yet.
Not a clone, but surely sharing the potential, and an attempt at a viable in-process OLAP alternative for ClickHouse fans and enthusiasts.
Ask HN: Computer Lab in Developing Nation
I've been asked to help with the construction and opening of a computer lab in Belize. The plan is to have it used by the remedial school that will host it[1], but also available for use by the public. The target audience/content is more literacy-oriented than tech-oriented (think GED, not SWE).

I'm sure this is not the first one of these in existence, so I'd love to hear any tips/tricks or recommendations/precautions (both for the "developing nation" side and general "public computer lab" side). My personal background is more EE/SWE than IT.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/740055676147398/
It is damaging. The Sonoran Desert is home to plants and animals not found anywhere else on earth. The desert is alive. It is not just some sand in between freeways and stucco houses. These plants spread rapidly and cause more frequent and hotter fires than any that the native plants have evolved with. Just because sometimes fire is good for some life forms does not mean all fire is good for all life forms. I can't believe I even have to explain this to someone. Damn. Some of you just want to argue to argue. Go ask chatgpt to argue with you, or ask google maps for directions and then drive somewhere else. leave the rest of us alone. damn.
The active orders on some brokers tell you how they got routed (i.e. via "Citadel"). I did some testing, with similar trades. Some of the difference is just from the commissions structure -- if it's not a percentage of contract price, smaller priced contracts benefit from lower commissions. I was buying and selling long and short strangles and straddles or iron condors. Sometimes strangles with farther out contract legs, at prices like 0.40-0.80, would use Robinhood (simply because I had an account with them, and not every other broker), while nearer contract legs at higher prices on the same underlying would use Fidelity or IBKR.

Generally I was entering and exiting, not holding to expiry, so I had 0.65x4+fees = 2.70 in commissions for a given contract pair on Fidelity. Nowadays it'd often be about 2.05 on Fidelity because they let you close contracts under .65 for free. I didn't think to negotiate commissions, but I was surely too much of a small fry for that.
For those who are wondering about lambdas and defer those were tabled to the next standard revision but not rejected.

Lambda: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2892.pdf
Defer: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2895.htm
Given that on a previous job I found one that about my then current employer (pretty obvious if you worked there), I can certainly attest to at least some of them being true, even if they sound absurd. (The real story with context was a little less ridiculous, but still seems objectively questionable.)
In 2021, 1,428 white-sided dolphins were killed in a single day, in the Faroe Islands. A sad record.

Dolphins are intelligent, sentient animals with strong and complex family bonds.

This absurd, bloody and brutal tradition has to end.

You can sign a petition to stop this:

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-hunt-of-dolphins-and-small...
You can statically link libc in Rust too; at least, if teh interwebz is correct (not a Rust expert); you just need some extra flags.

This is actually not that different from Go in practice; many Go binaries are linked to libc: it happens as soon as you or a dependency imports the very commonly used "net" package unless you specifically set CGO_ENABLED=0, -tags=netgo, or use -extldflags=-static.
you are right, this is a failure of both zookeeper and leader node, so two independent failures at the same time
The problem is the institutions that are okay with being ephemeral evaporate away when their job is done, leaving behind a salty brine of institutions that aren't. In any system where there is selective pressure, survival becomes incredibly selected for, often being prioritized over all else.
AI generated persuasion is pretty much what they're upset about
I have to say that it took until Valve adopted KDE for the Steam Deck for me to really take it seriously - I have just always used a GNOME distro.

KDE has pretty ugly default window theming IMO. Like, quite grotesque. But the GNOME project is overall quite preposterous. It's a main-stream-but-hipster GUI environment where their philosophy does not match how any user wants to use it, hence all the (basically) mandatory extensions. Yes, I want window controls and a dock!

KDE has way too much customization I think, but at least it has accepted a more sane philosophy. I was thinking of trying the Fedora KDE spin next. I feel that the other shoe has dropped recently - I could honestly see GNOME getting dropped. Cosmic did it and nearly every major distro has a KDE spin.
So, another Google Search frontend? How many has it been now?

Whoogle, SearX, LibreX, StartPage...
Really glad to hear you enjoyed the demo! Feel free to get in touch with us at any time if you have questions. Also, if you want to be among the first to use it, put your name on the beta list here: https://reflect.net/#get-started
Appreciate the references you provide in this comment.
> the water ... filtering process ... the water in the aquifer is clean

Clean(er) ... maybe ... nowadays nitrates, pesticides/herbicides, pfas/pfoas, industrial chemicals (solvents, heavy metals, volatile organic compounds), pharmaceuticals (prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications), lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium (through industrial activities, mining operations, and improper waste disposal), chlorinated solvents, such as trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), all were detected in the groundwater.

Nothing is "clean" anymore. Not the arctic, not the tops of the mountains in the natural reserves, not the remote islands, not the deep underground.
Are you confident enough in that assertion to launder a few million in drug money?
Its pretty crazy. I wonder how many things like that we do now...using a process without really understanding what is happening. Computers, cars, and technology are easy guesses but I am willing to bet there is a lot of "non-tech" stuff that we do like that. Doing something with a proven process, but never really understanding why that process works.
Hello,

We utilize the KVM hypervisor to ensure that all resources are dedicatedly allocated to the virtual machine.

They are among the vendors we collaborate with within the United States. To reiterate what I previously mentioned to another user, our on-demand stock comprises a diverse range of resources obtained from multiple vendors. In addition to our own infrastructure, we leverage resources from these vendors to effectively address the increasing demand for our services.
Trump spent a great deal of time during the 2016 campaign setting up projects to cash in on a loss (like a new tv station). This very little sign that he spent time preparing to actually win and serve as president. It wasn't really an outlandish idea either, most presidential candidates these days do it primarily to raise a profile they can cash in on via punditry, books, etc.
Connect project management closely with development: schedule, prioritize and complete all tasks of a project in a clear and structured way while keeping an eye on the developments.

Work on pull requests in GitHub and link them to features, tasks or bugs in your projects. See which development steps belong to a particular work package and track the status, even for GitHub Actions.
> If you are on w2 and owe big taxes, then you are intentionally under withholding.

No, many W2 people also have investments and capital gains, and it's very easy to owe big taxes without under-withholding.

Also, if your W2 income is, say, $500K, it's not out of the ordinary to owe another $10K or $15K even if you don't intentionally under-withhold. It's not within penalty territory but more than enough to get a sign-up bonus or two and get a couple thousand of it back in cashback, air tickets or hotel stays and things you'll use anyway.
If this were stackoverflow, I'd mark this as an answer.

Also answers my question up above a bit as well, just from a different approach.

Many thanks for clarifying here and elsewhere! :)

HN is a lovely, curious, and interesting place.
One side-effect of self driving cars is going to be finally having to deal with the reality of impossible laws. If every single vehicle followed traffic laws perfectly, it'd likely cause chaos and gridlock.

For example, in this case, even someone standing near a crosswalk might be enough for all vehicles to refuse to enter.
Roman Mars just released an excellent podcast looking at the state of play with pinball champions and designers at https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-amusement-only-fr...
Alas, we are outnumbered by servants of the machine ;)
4th wall breaking stuff is cool. A few other big games that break the fourth wall in boss fights: Arkham Asylum (Scarecrow), Undertale (Flowey), Pony Island (Asmodeus.exe). Nier does something similar.
Whenever I see articles like this, I think of Piled Higher and Deeper's "Science News Cycle" cartoon.

https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive_print.php?comicid=1174
Ice in a tray freezes from all sides since it's not insulated. And indeed, the ice from your tray is crystal clear on the sides, with the cloudy ice at the center of the cube.

In an insulated vessel, the sides and bottom remain liquid until the frozen portion grows down from the top, pushing the cloudy bit to the bottom, which you can then just lop off.
Zen Pencils covered this quote, it's remained one of my favorites:

https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/90-ira-glass-advice-for-beg...
Yes, let's profit from their misery and invest some of the proceeds to lobby for policies that secure and further grow this customer segment. /s
Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?528117-1/openai-ceo-testifies-...
> "In addition to Mr Altman, senators heard from two other witnesses — Professor Gary Marcus of New York University, and Christina Montgomery, chief privacy and trust officer for tech giant IBM."

Oh good they got Gary Marcus and the Trust Officer of IBM to set the record straight.
Feels like a "lot" of things help rats for whatever reason though
how about ubuntu chisel
It's curious that all of the incidents are database related.
Right? Aren't we constantly told that scientists smarter than us little people can't figure out what's going on inside of deep learning structures? How do we know they might not be more moral because they don't yet have a limbic system mucking up their logic with the three f's? Orthogonality says nothing about motivation, only that it is independent of intelligence. Maybe the paperclip collector bot will decide that it cannot complete its task without the requestor present to validate? We don't know.