skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We already have the NSF and DARPA. They should just back up a truck or money at CMU, give the professors immunity for working the students to death, and you’d have an equal system in a week.

A lot of dead CMU students, but you have to be willing to sacrifice.
That was a lot of fun, thanks! Great job too. Love the typography and illustrations.
Early WinCE/WinMo devices were just taking the desktop UI concepts and transferring them to mobile with minimal tweaks to optimize it for pen (not even touch) input. But it doesn't mean that it has to be that way - if you've seen Windows Phone, and the later Win10 Mobile, those were actually designed from grounds up for small screens, and didn't have the problems you describe.

The problem that still remained, and ultimately killed the platform, is the lack of third party apps also optimized for small screen and touch. These days, it doesn't matter how good the base UX is if the OS doesn't have a good YouTube app, for example.
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> I really think block chain has been utterly unable to show it's value

It's just an append-only distributed database. If you need that for some application, then you find it valuable.

These discussions are often so hyperbolic-- Imagine saying that columnar databases have not lived up to their expectations (or have been unable to show their value) because postgres and mysql are still quite popular... it sounds about the same to me.
WEF Board of Trustees includes Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Company size is hard to define and market share would require lengthy court battles to determine as markets are always changing and market share would have to be relitigated with every product release.

Market cap could be interesting, but wouldn't it just end up generating a bunch of subsidiaries with byzantine IP/trademark leaseback arrangements?
Very cool!

I'm curious about the effect this has had on your fitness. 60 W output on a bike is pretty low intensity exercise for most people, but 15-20 hours a week is a lot of volume.

Did you have to work up to that? Where did you start and what did the journey to where you are now look like?

Do you have a sense of how this has affected your capacity for higher intensity exercise? (If it helps to have a more concrete idea of what I mean by this, were I designing an experiment I would probably track max power output and power output at VT1 and VT2. But any kind of fitness metric would be interesting, as would be what you think the effect has been, even if it's not based on hard data.)
I am sure he would be thrilled about Google censoring his track titles.
This is the canary in the coal mine of a downhill spiral.
Do you think the same about the various abandonware websites filled with old DOS games and software?
Same on FreeBSD. It comes with the basics. Some apps like Krita or Kdenlive are pretty heavy but also incredibly powerful. So I have opted to install them but they are not in the base package.

I think some small apps like Konsole, Kate, Dolphin and KWallet come in the default install but you can't really do without them.
AI/ML is a disruptive tech with huge financial benefits. History has shown us that government regulation of disruptive technologies can often have unintended consequences and push those technologies into the shadows, where they are harder to monitor and control. For example, during the manufacturing revolution in the 19th century, many governments attempted to regulate the new factories and their working conditions, but these regulations often resulted in factories moving to countries with fewer regulations and lower costs.

Similarly, during the Prohibition era in the United States, the ban on alcohol only fueled a thriving dark market and increased criminal activity. In the case of AI, any government regulation could limit the positive financial benefits of AI technology, so there will be actors who will take advantage of that. Furthermore, regulation is unlikely to prevent malicious actors from using AI in harmful ways. Regulation could drive the development and use of AI underground, making it even harder to monitor and control. As we have seen with other emerging technologies, such as biological cloning, government regulation often lags behind the technology itself, and by the time regulations are in place, the technology has already advanced beyond their reach. The same is likely to be true for AI.

Instead of relying on government regulation, the development and use of AI should be guided by ethical principles and best practices established by the AI industry itself. This approach has been successful in other industries, such as engineering, architecture, finance and medicine, and can help ensure that AI is developed and used responsibly while still allowing for innovation and progress.

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
Historically, this kind of legislation gets extended internationally as a condition for trade agreements, as was the case for copyright.
Eat unmentionables Altman! What a pathetic excuse of an investor turned entrepreneur
I could write this thread in an afternoon.
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I have the right to use my camera to film adult content. I do not have the right to open a theater which shows porn to any minor who pays for a ticket. It's perfectly legal for me to buy a gallon of gasoline, and bunch of finely powdered lead, and put them into the same container, creating gasoline with lead content. It is _not_ fine for me to run a filling station which sells leaded gasoline to motorists. You want to drink unpasteurized milk fresh from your cow? Cool. You want to sell unpasteurized milk to the public? Shakier ground.

I think you should continue to have the right to use whatever program to generate whatever video clip you like on your computer. That is a distinct matter from whether a commercially available video generative AI service has some obligations to guard against abusive uses. Personal freedoms are not the same as corporate freedom from regulatory burdens, no matter how hard some people will work to conflate them.
You meant Titan, didn't you? - Triton is Neptune's moon ;)
> Almost no American in the tech industry thinks that, given how many of our co-workers aren't (or at least weren't born as) American.

And yet nearly every American is vehemently against the H1B visa which is the only way for 99% of non American tech workers to work in the U.S. and not do the same work outside the US.
So the LLM demagogue is going to get people to create gray goo or make a lot of paper clips?
You know Go has had generics for the last 15 months, right?
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I dont know, but companies need to keep hiring because of both staff turn over and switch of priorities. Presumably, the people getting hired are for positions that are perceived more valuable by management than the work people being let go are doing.

And of course, companies also have practical right to make mistakes, from overstaffing to understaffing, or to place bets that do well or do not.

The point is that these things would happen even if things were being run perfectly, so they are not indicative of nefarious practices or abuses.
There was an attempt to create a taxonomy, basically, of board game mechanics. It was collected into the book "Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms".

The book "Characteristics of Games" exists as well, that might have a good list in it. It's for all types of games, though, including sports. Richard Garfield (creator of Magic The Gathering) is one of the authors of that book.

There's also Unpub: The Unpublished Card Game, which is a deck of cards that each has a theme, a core mechanism, and game component listed on each card, and you combine cards to pitch a board game design based on it. It's not still in print but you can get a copy cheap (I think I have one somewhere).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175848/unpub-unpublished...

Also BoardGameGeek has a list of common board game mechanics here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgamemechanic

Dice Tower did a live show on Youtube where they made a tournament bracket of 64 board game mechanisms and let the audience vote in real time for each match-up. So you can see what the most popular game mechanics are for board gamers from that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNE1BQ_PRe0
Unshortened link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078ZM3F8G
The price is completely irrelevant, what matters is the perceived/expected rate of change in prices.

A deflationary currency disincentivizes spending, which reduces velocity, which aggravates deflation – a death sentence for two of the three properties of money (it's not a medium of exchange if nobody is exchanging it; it's not a unit of accounting if prices fluctuate strongly – and that includes falling prices).

I was also fascinated by Bitcoin in its very early days, from both a technical and an economical/monetary angle – the former fascination remains, but I'm pretty disillusioned on the latter after learning more about the nature of money and inflation (and especially how Bitcoin maximalists use a fringe economical model and definition of inflation to justify the design).
Interesting, so you are saying you have an easier time generating JSON using the single prompt models like text-davinci and text-bison, rather than the chat versions?
Indian developers are far superior to Australian and UK developers.

It’s just that you’re hiring a million Indian developers for every 1000 UK developers, so is it surprising that the average Indian developer doesn’t seem as good?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must go to prison while she appeals sentence
When people call something a dumb idea, the large majority of the time they’re right.

If your getting criticism, the most likely scenario is it’s because your idea won’t work, not that it’s world-changing.
all the kids I know want or have a nintendo switch. Basically all the steam deck owners are 30+ year old men with disposable income.
So considering Asian developers far outnumber American ones, maybe the real bottleneck is the insistence on including American developers.

Especially since American developers are unlikely to speak any other language, while their Asian counterparts can communicate extremely well in their primary language and do a more than decent job in communicating in English as well.
It doesn't even matter if "his heart is pure" ... Companies are not run that way.

We have lawyers.
Wood Shaving Machine for Animal Bedding
The Wood Shaving Machine is a new type of wood processing equipment. The shaving machine can process logs such as sticks, branches, boards into thin shavings. There is no difference between machine-made shavings and hand-made shavings.
I specced the smallest SSD. I use netwomr homes. The mini is a stop gap waiting for the pro. Drive size Indont really consider a performance item anymore.

I spent just over $2,000.

Mac mini
With the following configuration:
Apple M2 Pro with 12‑core CPU, 19-core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
32GB unified memory
512GB SSD storage
Four Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI port, two USB‑A ports, headphone jack
10 Gigabit Ethernet

Im satauisfied.
Yes, and writing .d.ts files plus .js files sucks compared to just writing a single .ts file.

A better comparison might be ML module signatures. (Though to be fair, IIRC they enable higher-order modules instead of just helping the compiler.)
Fits all my requirements for currency: isn’t “censored” (?) and can fit on a napkin
Why even include Alpine? Distroless is the way to go.
I agree with the cargo-culting, but the person I originally replied to seemed to think there was never any point, and that's what I was replying to - there was a reason it started.
There’s too much cartel money at stake
It's more about calling it Government, when we mean something else.

The something else is one and the same, or at least B is bought and paid for by A.
When will Bun open up communications to something open source/decentralized instead of relying on users to give up their online security to Discord?
Personally I’d be fine with someone doing this for me. It was hard and scary to land my first job out of school
The same is true for SBCL[1], unsurprisingly since it came out of CMUCL.

[1]: https://www.sbcl.org/history.html
does the time required for the 1500hr rule have to be done in the US?

would it make sense to grind out those hours someplace without the rule?
> LLMs ... can often reproduce that copyright data. It's an open question how we regulate this.

why isn't existing copyright protection sufficient to regulate this? Photoshop can be used today to reproduce copyrighted data just as well.

This has nothing to do with "license to train". I do not believe existing copyright holders have this right granted to them by law - it is a right that is given to society for all works.

An artist learning a style, and producing another piece in the same style, is allowed today. This should be allowed, regardless of whether it is done via using an AI, or via years of training.
I have just verified this exact behavior with Bard.

GPT3.5-turbo/GPT4 is way ahead in instruct tuning and does not require such verbal gymnastics.
Having trouble understanding how this low value content puff piece made it up so high on HN.
The behavior is true, though. I just tested it with Bard.
Ask HN: Are there any AI/ML conferences or hackathons happening this year?
I think so. It is stunningly fast. It may be the biggest boost I have seen. The last big boost I saw was the move to SSD.
Is this a definition that people who identify as "woke" would use?

If not, then it seems like just another straw man and set up for talking past one another.
We need someone like him today to take old Fidel DeSantis down a notch or two.
Oh, I dunno, literally any human being near the bus as it came to a stop?
I remember using a program to find a function maximum using parabolic approximation on my programmable calculator in the 80s. Everything new is well forgotten old.
> they are not being told if they carry the mutation.

I would want to know.
thanks for the spam?
Deflation has a bad rap because its insidious form is caused by economic contraction. But other causes of deflation are neutral / positive and there isn't anything inherently wrong with it.

Go look up how much a 400 MHz processor (e.g. Pentium II) cost in 1997 vs. today. Processors get cheaper all the time, but it doesn't seem to harm demand.
Trolls!
> Where does this quote come from?

As I hope is clear from how it begins "They can easily make some regulations ..." that entire paragraph is a hypothetical counterfactual that explores what those hypothetical regulations might look like and how they might hypothetically be enforced. It uses hypothetical employees being paid hypothetical amounts of money to hypothetically blow the whistle on hypothetical corporations that are hypothetically breaking hypothetical regulations involving hypothetical characterizations of hypothetical AI systems.
Nothing orbiting within the Roche limit would be a moon, I would think.
What qualifies in your view as a "real model"? Do we need to empirically observe the human race going extinct first?
That's the aquifer that serves where I live, San Antonio, among other parts of the region. It's neat seeing the Edwards Aquifer mentioned here along with that site!

I remember local news reporting on the aquifer level quite a bit throughout my life. Curious if other regions near major aquifers do the same thing. It really raises awareness about water management. The news publishes the "worst offending addresses" for water overuse occasionally, too. We had the worst drought in recent memory for the region last year, although this year seems to be starting to make up for that.

The city's also diversified its water supply outside the aquifer in recent years, such as establishing the Vista Ridge Pipeline from less populated areas of Texas into San Antonio: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/05/08/a-project-10-year...

I imagine water infrastructure projects like this are only going to become more common as the climate changes in coming years. The massive aquifer recharge projects mentioned in the original article about California aquifers make me wonder if there's some way one could engineer a very large scale desalination project using natural resources. A project using geothermal resources for evaporative desalination could be interesting.
In the Unites States, it's a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
> We were promised a decentralized peer to peer currency with a fixed supply that couldn’t be inflated at the whims of a central bank.

And instead we got a fixed-supply currency, completely incapable of adapting to supply and demand for money (which would be a precondition for price stability).

> Then of course we have an endless supply of sophisticated financial instruments which you probably wouldn’t be able to access otherwise.

This very much depends on where you're located, but personally, I really can't complain about a lack of access to powerful financial instruments, including a multitude of footguns. Crypto hasn't meaningfully (and especially not qualitatively) improved things for me. Do you have any specific examples?
Should've spent more vacation time in the sunny US Virgin Islands :)
So windows will delete files over an SMB share? That is borderline malware isn't it? wow... Thanks for sharing.
Start it on the side and slowly grow it until you reach your family’s minimum income requirements, then go FT. That’s how I did it. It's a long journey.
You were saying that mass extinction was no big deal, not “allowing a plant to spread,” and the reasoning you apparently embrace would in fact lead to that exact absurd result, so it is not a non sequitur.
Investment capitalism will likely be viewed by a future human civilization as being little different in character from plantation slavery, and they'll put both Elon Musk and George Soros in the same category as Henry Ford and JD Rockefeller.

Here's a fun one to ask ChatGPT: > "Please compare and contrast the economic systems of investment capitalism and plantation slavery, from the perspective of an active participant in each system."

The chatbot does provide a fairly convincing arguement that investment capitalism provides more opportunities for economic advancement than plantation slavery did, though the response to this is worth reading:

> "Would you agree that there is a rising economic disparity between the rich and the poor in the United States today, primarily due to the behavior of investment capitalists?"

Elon Musk says we should slow down AI development, but why does he say that? Loss of market advantage or fear of the chatbot's output?
https://archive.ph/qn7gf
I think it's a pure win. Writing your program in 1 language instead of 2 is worth one simple misunderstanding of vDSO.
Enjoy! Yaay!
When I look at jobs in my stack now, it seems to be mostly consulting firms with bizarre names that sound like they belong in Office Space and the most spammy listings by equally bizarre sounding recruiting agencies .
C generated from Sail booting RISC-V Linux: 35 minutes

RPython generated from Sail booting RISC-V Linux: 2 minutes

Javascript TinyEmu booting RISC-V Linux in my browser (Safari, M1 Mac): 1.25 seconds

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv64&url=buildroo...

(2nd or 3rd time once files are cached from the internet)

Any questions?
Is Twitter dangerous? Is a steam powered engine dangerous? Is a printing press dangerous?
In retrospect they aren't. In history they were hated, vilified, regulated and banned.

I think the discussion has a thick veil of anxiety and sci-fi movies. It's very strong on hypotheticals and very light on actual evidence of harm committed by AI and actors. "We need to act before there is evidence" is hard to argue with, thankfully human imagination is not regulated yet.
How do we define a general intelligence?
The Steam Deck also emulates those same consoles easily (anecdotally, my Deck runs Tears of the Kingdom just as well as or better than an actual Switch), so I'd be surprised if the superior-spec'd Ally didn't.
Yes it was. It was in fact the reason I initially tried Gnome and didn't even consider KDE when I moved away from Mac.

After spending ages finding extensions to make everything work the way I wanted to an upgrade appeared and some of them broke. I then tried KDE Neon as a live image and I was like wow, this is nice right away. And what's better, I can really make it my own, configure it the way I want to. Without having to install any extensions. That feels so welcoming after using Mac for more than a decade.

However yes in the early '00s it was an inconsistent mess I'm terms of UX. Very similar to early Android in fact. It was why I moved to Mac back then.
> licensed in a way that allows modification and redistribution?

why does this need to be done? The training is not modification and redistribution.

If somebody coerced an AI to output something verbatim (or close enough to be called a modification/derivative), they are infringing copyright as it currently exists.

But the AI model itself does not constitute redistribution.
Both (too much) inflation and deflation are ultimately very bad for money:

Too much inflation ruins the "store of value" aspect; deflation disincentivizes trading it for goods and services, cutting into the "medium of exchange" aspect. Any drastic change of value/purchasing power, i.e. both inflation and deflation, make it useless as a unit of account.

> Processors get cheaper all the time, but it doesn't seem to harm demand.

Processors aren't purported to be money, though.
Oh no, consequences for the coastal elites, the horror.
regulate books and internet while you are at it, they both spread chaotic thoughts.
I'm curious how much of this is speculative vs from use?

We are doing code generation for our users (analysts & data scientists), and I found going by method names & type signatures failed pretty hard, while contextual code snippets (example docs, usages, etc you get from a vector DB) worked quite well

An old program synthesis labmate did quite well pre-genAI by using type signatures, but my takeaway is neurosymbolic for more context + option pruning, not being terse for supporting denser summarization & composition. That'd be better... But maybe training would need to change for that to work, or something deeper?

Separately, I do agree it's interesting to think about what IDEs and langs and dev will look like 5 years from now.. smarter LLMs, bigger context windows, and supporting ecosystems change a lot...
> But the pedestrian clearly slowed nearly to a stop (and shot the Tesla a disparaging look).

Unless we’re looking at different videos I don’t see either of those things happening. They don’t appear to change their pace at all after entering the crosswalk and they don’t seem disturbed in the slightest.
Gmail should just be nationalized at run by the post office
Show HN: Zig Without Unused Variable Errors
I hacked the flag --allow-unused into the Zig compiler to turn off the unused variable error.