skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movie.

The novel has more detail, but the film is overall a better story.
The African philosophy of Ubuntu [video]
Yes, you definitely can just auto-forward (which I know as that is how I have any of mine set up).
TLDR is no, strategic companies with massive state industrial funding have little autonomy. Even TW (and US) semi workers don't have autonomy to work in PRC semi industry for greater pay. Why is it unseemly to offer a person better pay and locations - TW workers sure liked getting 3-5x salary while being an hour flight from home, until TW gov said no. Ditto with US but on pay. Because it undermines strategic position of incumbant / host.
Did you read the part where he said they’re not always a net negative?
Force restart is easy to disable on any version of windows (except home). Probably a 2 minutes configuration.

I almost think the home version of windows is actually a reduced version of windows. You need at least the pro version to get the normal experience you expect to get from a paid software (while apple don't do that to mac users)
ChatGPT itself tells me it has no explicit world model.
IRS Weighs Creating a Government-Run Tax-Prep Option
> Yep I agree, and doing any maintenance on modern cars requires a super expensive (or sketchy pirated/ebay purchased) diagnostic computer from the manufacturer.

Unless things have drastically changed in the last 3-4 years, this has not been my experience. I haven’t had any trouble tracking down issues with a standard, cheap code scanner. The biggest issue with doing anything more than routine maintenance on modern cars is how tightly everything is packed together. Often times it just makes a job more difficult, but still doable. Sometimes a job will require too much investment in tools to be practical.

> For example power steering in older cars was a simple hydraulic mechanical system that could fail gracefully and be troubleshooted with minimal tools. Nowadays steering is electronic drive-by-wire and has many more components like actuators, sensors, etc. that can all fail and stop the entire system.

Do you have anything to suggest that this increased complexity has actually led to an increased rate of failure in the steering system of modern cars? Because I believe in practice it’s been quite the opposite.
Autonomous systems should be regulated.

But we should start on the data side and not the compute/action side.

The current worst excesses stem from a lack of transparency and access into data backing a given system.

Meaningful data privacy & ownership reform would curtail these and still permit innovation.
hug of death :)
Or we could opt for a bet that this public is selected enough to possibly avoid the «flame war» and allow some "normal" liberty and maybe instead risk some constructive exchange, even productive.
You mean by saying "we do data-driven decision making", and then the procurement manager agreeing to a multi-million dollar CRM investment because the head of sales says so.
Age of consent != Age where one can legally prostitute themselves

Simple as

And real crimes? Like trafficking teenaged women around the world to be used as sex slaves to please one's powerful male associates?
The proper way to regulate is to disallow certain functions in an AI. Doing it that way wouldn't kneecap the competition to OpenAI, though, where requiring a license does.
He's a successful CEO of a large non profit but maybe for profit open source but not really open source ai lab that may be a company instead. So yes.
This comment helped me realize that part of what I instinctively dislike about golang comes from ColdFusion PTSD. I just realized that golang reads to me like ColdFusion in the worst ways, including and especially its terrible approach to error handling.
> when the objectives are agreed upon and well known,

The above is inherently not a feature of the problems that political systems are intended to solve.
US Secret Service: “blockchain is an opportunity to track money”
Insider trading...nothing to see here. When you got that B to your name, everything is legal + and you have friends in the government.
somehow still in 1/3rd of drinking water tho
That thread is such a great microcosm of modern programming culture.

Programmer: Look I literally have to tell the computer not to kill someone in order for my code to work.

Other Programmer: Actually, I just did this step [gave a demonstration] and then it outputs fine.
lol took me a bit a to realize what you were talking about
> Part of Go's popularity is due to how easy it is to produce self-contained executables.

Rust too... :D
It is funny. Lots of criticisms amount to “this AI sucks because it’s making mistakes and bullshitting like a person would instead of acting like a piece of software that always returns the right answer.”

Well, duh. We’re trying to build a human like mind, not a calculator.
Well I didn't intend it as a "petty jibe," but in general I disagree. Evocative language and solid arguments can and do coexist.
You've been able to do this with Deno for a long time (and Node too, as of recently). The downside is it bundles all of V8 so a "hello world" binary ends up being at least 70mb.
Chlorinated hydrocarbons are generally the ones you want to really watch out for.
As I just said ChatGPT is not self aware, so it can’t answer questions about it’s own workings like that. (this is somewhat true of humans too though, there is a lot going on in our subconscious, but we are aware of our own conscious thoughts to some extent at least)

It just hallucinated an answer

If it didn’t have a model of human behaviour, then it wouldn’t work, because the whole idea is it’s simulating what someone acting as a helpful assistant would do.
I really hate to talk about software based on the language they're written in and I don't mean to imply one language is better or worse but the upper bound of performance on Zig is likely easier to reach and likely higher than the upper bound of performance in Go. Though it may depend on the workload. (esbuild being written in Go.)
> Drop a ball on sand, it goes thud; the force involved is the weight of the ball. Drop a bouncy ball on concrete, the force is ~2x (stopping the downward motion, then enough for the upward motion).

The force in both scenarios is exactly the same. In the first the force goes into displacing the sand while in the second - since the concrete is a rigid lattice - the force goes into deforming the ball, which causes it to bounce back due to its elasticity. Objects with no elasticity (like another piece of concrete) will not bounce.

Beware of physical metaphors.
A descriptive type system is a big part of what makes Taxi work.

We took a lot of inspiration from GraphQL (because it's awesome), but I actually think we go further in the type system than GraphQL.
It's worth asking who counts as an artist for the purpose of this argument. Is an artist someone primarily concerned with creating art for art's sake, and their value is in expanding the public consciousness and deepening the discourse? Or, are they an entertainer, primarily concerned with popularity and commercial success? Are these different roles judged by the same standards?

For instance, we could very well say that, if you are primarily making art as a product, you are like a vendor in a marketplace. And, as a vendor in a marketplace, we consumers don't need to nurture you, or be patient with your failures. If you make a bad batch, we just move on to the next vendor selling a similar product.

The definitions of art and artists have changed a lot since 1969. We used to have this concept of selling out, and if you engaged in it, you weren't a serious artist to a lot of people. We don't really have that concept today, at least not in the same way. You also might not have been considered a serious artist if you worked in a popular medium: popular music, television, comic books, etc., all of which I think most people consider valid art forms today.

I'm not saying this was the right way to think about art. I'm saying that's how it was. And while I don't know a lot about David Sylvester, I see that he was a fine art critic and curator, so I am assuming he might have been talking about a particular kind of artist when he said this.
...and as an inhaled surgical anesthetic for children

As one who went under inhaled anesthesia a dozen times or more as a child in the 70s, I can only say, "WTF?" It makes a great solvent, so let's put in anesthesia?
The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence
What, exactly, is dystopian about an on-device generated voice?

This is about as non-dystopian of an implementation as you can get.
Not the OP, but it's something I've found myself needing a lot. I'd like to be connected to Mullvad VPN most of the time, but I also want to use my tailnet - when connected to Tailscale I can't connect to Mullvad and vice versa.
We have plans to add a calculator in the coming days to make it easier for you to estimate costs. Currently, the console deploy page is the only place where you can see the hourly pricing.

As for finding a GPU equivalent to the RTX 4080, it's challenging as it is a new release and we don't have benchmarks for it yet. However, we can provide pricing estimates for the RTX 5000 and RTX 4000 GPUs.

For the RTX 4000, the approximate cost would be around $24, while for the RTX 5000, it would be around $45. Please keep in mind that these are estimates and the actual pricing may vary. Additionally, the optimization we are planning to implement for IP addresses in the near future will further improve the overall pricing.
> Video games have had a format like that, intended specifically for bars and restaurants, since pretty close to the beginning. They're called "cocktail cabinets".

I referenced them above (but gave them a different name, "old desktop/seated machines"). They're still archaic and don't fit well with modern bar seating nor gaming.

Playing on one screen split in half was sort of a necessity at the time but it never really worked that well.
You should make friends with Steve Gibson (https://www.grc.com/). He writes all his code is assembly. :-)
> The point of elected representatives is to represent the views of their constituents, not to obtain special advantages for their constituents.

That is painfully naive, a history of pork projects speaks otherwise.
> you're getting paid a lot less at Microsoft than you would be elsewhere

The one year (2016) I worked at Microsoft after an acquisition was more than any startup has paid me, even if you factor in "(stock options exit / years worked at start) + startup salary"

I was blown away and felt stupid for all the years I've been chasing startup lottery tickets.

Any of the big tech companies, including Microsoft, pay WAY more than your average programming gig. OH and they don't have career ceilings for individual contributors.

I'd happily work there again someday, and really wish someone would have told me how high the pay is at these big tech companies 20 years ago. Would have skipped the startup route.
Modular Software for Generating and Modeling Diverse Polymer Databases [pdf]
I'm getting valid JSON out of gpt-3.5-turbo without trouble. I supply an example via the assistant context, and tell it to output JSON with specific fields I name.

It does fail roughly 1/10th of the time, but it does work.
I still haven't seen evidence the _government_ demanded censorship. Maybe it exists, but nobody seems to cite any sources for it.

What I have seen is government-adjacent entities that people confuse for the government like the Biden campaign request that Twitter apply their own Terms of Service policies to remove things that are not supposed to be allowed (like the nudes of Hunter, which is technically revenge porn)
I've been down on myself about this. I've been at it for coming up on 30 years. I've written scores of programs and applications. There are only a couple still in use. Rather than be upset about it, I find that it's more helpful to think of coding as tooling. As in, actual tooling that machine shops make: dies, jigs, gauges, etc. You know, the stuff that's used to make the actual stuff. Tools go out of date. Tools get upgraded. Product lines change. Tools get scrapped. It's all ephemeral. It's just the nature of it. And this applies to "the bigs" as well, like Facebook or Google. The individual components and services are just tooling in service of the overall product, and rollover and change as time goes on. The only coding that ossifies into archeological strata is COBOL on mainframes.
I like this step towards greater rigor when working with LLM's. But part of me can't help but feel like this is essentially reinventing the concept of programming languages: formal and precise syntax to perform specific tasks with guarantees.

I wonder where the final balance will end up between the ease and flexibility of everyday language, and the precision / guarantees of a formally specified language.
That's why I gave it as an example. It feels unfair but that doesn't mean it's evidence of collusion/conspiracy.
> The binaries are pretty huge, hoping they can bring that down in time.

I'm surprised the numbers are as high as they are and hope they can reduce them... but they'll never get down to the kind of numbers Go and Rust get to because Bun depends on JavaScriptCore, which isn't small, and unless they're doing some truly insane optimizations they're not going to be able to reduce its size.

FWIW QuickJS is a tiny JS runtime by Fabrice Ballard... that also supports creation of standalone executables: https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#Executable-generati... though its runtime speed is considerably worse than JSC or V8.
Counter-argument: an hypothetical manager simply won't (and very often can't) get involved to a point where they can fix this situation.

Worker A: Pushed the feature in 2 hours.

Worker B: Pushed the feature in 4 hours says he read the documentation.

This can be be a signal that Worker B is more mature/senior and takes the time to do it well, but it can also just be that Worker A is better (and also read the documentation), was familiar with framework X already or another reason that has nothing to do with "not reading documentation".

In that context the optimal manager behaviour is to do nothing, if Worker A was doing lower quality work it might show up at some point or Worker B might get more accustomed to framework X and do the tasks in 2 hours too.

Which is all to say, you can't as a manager have that level of insight without personally looking at the work output and being familiar with framework X, which I'd argue might be within reach of a team lead for a somewhat reasonably scoped product, but will rarely be the case in practice.
Many of the practices proposed to reduce the impact on the environment are nonstarters because of low land yields (and indeed might actually be worse on the environment because you need to convert more land to farmland).

If this method has equal land yields and less environmental impact but is highly labor intensive, perhaps there is scope for mechanization to make it competitive.
“ they claim to be saving money for the Second Coming” - care to back up this statement?
It's obviously an n-dimensional space. I know a lot of the people that Sasha knows, so I can guess some of the people he was talking about here, and it's more like Jared Leto and his handful of weird groupies who are in a deeply unhealthy social and intellectual dynamic. So not really suicide cults, but uncomfortably close, not successful or mainstream enough to be Jobs, not really growth oriented or external facing enough to be Scientology. But a dubious social bubble around certain personality types.
Not quite sure what the spirit of your comment is. But, yes, they are real technologies. Very confused as to why you would even find that dubious.
If you want a Star Wars machine that is reliable and cheaper, the best bet is the Home Pin edition from Stern Pinball. You can get these brand new, and they use modern technology that is much more reliable than older machines. MSRP is $4,999 and you may be able to find one for slightly less.

https://shop.sternpinball.com/collections/home-edition-colle...
Richard Stallman is a classic example of this. Brilliant man who produced many valuable things while having a strong philosophical basis underpinning them. As a person he has also engaged in concerning behavior that was hard to separate from his contributions to the Open Source community.
What I was thinking in my head (although I don't think I articulated this well) is that I hope that smaller businesses who build their own AIs will be able to create some jobs, even if AI as a whole will negatively impact employment (and I think that's going to happen even if just big businesses can play at the AI game).
Is it 2019? They link to a 2020 paper.

The earliest copy in the Wayback Machine is from 2020-01-07. That's also when it was first submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21979333 (354 comments)
I love my work, I have to be reminded to eat because I'm so into what I'm doing, consistently, every day. I don't understand people who say things like "thank gods it's Friday" (why are you spending most of your life doing something you want to get away from?!).

However, it is still just work! It's not my company, it's not my identity, and it gives me no value as a human being. You are not your success. My colleagues are not my friends, though we can hang out and have fun. My accomplishments at work are not my value as a person, though they give me satisfaction.

Work is work, don't buy what they're selling, and put down the cool-aid.
it's a compelling idea imo, if one considers the many ills wrought by organizations which outlive their usefulness and turn to parasitism

but we must also heavily penalize hollow businesses, which exist mainly to funnel preexisting wealth to founders/employees before evaporating

a similar concept could be fruitful in material technology as well, where ephemeral doesn't mean "obsolete in 2 years so we can sell you a new one", but rather "can be dis/reassembled into something else when one chooses, or, if disposed of, will biodegrade into ecologically benign constituents"
US on track for June 1 default without debt ceiling hike, Treasury says
Can you justify a few hundred for a big chest freezer and a cooler? Then you can use the cooler method described in this link or in one of the other comments from ir77 on this thread. But just put the cooler inside the big chest freezer.

https://www.alcademics.com/2010/08/a-homemade-giant-crystal-...
Definitely had friends play the "See who can hold your hand in a candle flame the longest"

Also, drywall bingo: there's a wall of drywall that is about to be demolished. Pick a spot near the middle of the wall and headbutt it. If you hit a stud, you lose.
How to Build an Effective Pitch Deck for Devtool Startups
wrote linked article, and it's truly been incredible to watch over the last few years. most times if a manufacturer can get a product to market (harder than you'd think), it sells pretty well.
the author seems to actually be upset by self centered ladder climbers, not actual cult leaders. post is lame
Anachronism LLM Benchmark
Yeah that is 100% a clickbait headline and it got me to click, but thankfully it got me to click to the comments instead of the article so I did not reward this behavior.

Forcing a security patch vs forcing an update to Windows 11 is massively different.

I agree on theregister links, it feels like every time I see an article from them its intentionally misleading.

Edit:

What really makes it seem like a clickbait headline is the "wether they like it or not" which heavily implies this will be a negative update to Windows 11 (or some other unwanted change) not a security fix.
Nb. Altman wants lenient regulations for companies that might leverage OpenAI's foundational models.
Stern Pinball still manufactures new pinball machines with new table designs.
use a different word then
(I used to own a LotR)

LotR has three different "main" multiball modes (one for each movie), as well as the Gollum multiball (just 2 balls, normally). The Fellowship multiball is the one that requires hitting essentially every shot on the table.

The particular thing about LotR is that the multiballs can be stacked with the "story" modes (from shooting the center ring). Depending on how flaily you are, this can make the story modes easier or harder, but generally I find that it makes them safer if you have enough ball control. When my overarching goal was to reach Valinor (which requires beating a certain number of story modes, as well as all the multiballs), the general strategy was to spam Two Towers multiball as much as possible on top of a story mode.
My tip is to find an arcade hall that is specialized in pinball and that have both new and old games.

I have been to some of the museums that people talked about in this thread and I would avoid that. Better to ask around which games you may like and then find a place where you can play a set of them. Pay to play also assures you that the games are ok.
Having done community support in the Cloudflare Community / Forum, there are a lot of consulting/hosting firms that provide "all in one" domain management, and that typically involves putting all of your customers on one Cloudflare account, with many users revealing thousands upon thousands of websites managed under their account.
> it says something vague piggybacking on the idea of freedom

This is where you are wrong.

It is not based on the idea of freedom. The point of the article, and the title, has nothing to do with whether someone is legally allowed to make bad art, or has some fundamental human rights, that are being infringed on, related to freedom.

Instead, the purpose of the article, and the title, is that because artists are more in the public eye these days, this extra scrutiny on every single piece of work that they do, has anti-creative effects on artists, and this is bad.

The only person who invented a fictional narrative about freedom, was you. The actual point of the title, and the article, was actually pretty obvious though, if you aren't looking for some gotcha.

> that I couldn't expect.

It was actually very easy to understand the article, if you start from the idea of "This article author isn't completely stupid, let me think for a second as to what such a person might be attempting to say, assuming they do not believe the obviously untrue statement that making bad art is illegal".
Let's imagine a situation. I live in the middle of nowhere in france. I have dependents, so cannot move easily. I do not fit the pattern expected by most company in term of expectations for my career and skillset. But i have all the qualities above.

Do you really think i will get a way to enough money and free time and people giving me a chance to achieve all this stuff? Do you think anyone would even realise i am worth anything?

No. We have solid evidence that no.
When I have to write "U" and "V" by hand in a math text, my "V" looks almost like a "Y".
Purescript has an erlang backend FYI
Is this a "language", or just a Python library?
Nope. Tried it more than a few times over my life. Maybe I never learned the "right" method. Always seemed like a waste of time compared to actively learning and internalizing useful intuitions about the world.
Yeah I did a CLI tool for talking to ChatGPT. I'm pretty sure they stop generating when you kill the SSE stream, based on my anecdotal experience of keeping ChatGPT4 costs down by killing it as soon as i get the answer I'm looking for. You're right that it's undocumented behavior though, on a whole the API docs they give you are as thin as the API itself.