skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was watching a hacking video on elevators, and some of them are still run entirely analog with no real computers, it's all relays and miles and miles of wire.
Please just send me a friggin bill.
And people didn't believe me when I was saying Bitcoin is a CIA/NSA/FED joint project, the goal was and is still pretty clear at this point
Governments taking over key industries is part of capitalism.
I used to be a convinced pro-European but for me it's getting harder and harder to _not_ believe in some kind of plot for assuming total control over their citizens. Each and every EU regulation concerning "things digital" is pointing to a direction where "freedom" is just an empty buzzword used for virtue signalling against states like China. I am getting seriously concerned about things (not that i haven't been before).
I made one with a weird game mechanics: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/

You have to drag to move.
Sounds painful, and it is.
That's really weird and you have to re-learn how to move your character, which can be frustrating and show how used we are to standard movements.
After a few minutes you get used to it and it becomes fun.

I made it when I researched how to "physically" play differently.
The statues were there for religious or social reasons, were funded by people in power in those societies, and helped them stay in power.

On the other hand, the statues were often painted, so they looked more interesting than the bare marble we see now.
The impact is the same regardless of event. A centralized location being affected by any of these events is going to impact business negatively to a much greater degree than a company whose workers are spread out in different locations.

As for real estate buying decisions, it depends on the industry of course. So, given a standard tech business, you buy what you need for positions that cannot be performed remotely and estimated space for those workers that desire to work at that location hopefully in a location close to where these workers live (which is likely not in a typical downtown city location). Basically, smaller satellite offices near where the people that have to go to a physical location live.
Computer Power and Human Reason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...

The Pragmatic Programmer (makes the cut by being released in 1999, even though there's a second edition)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer

Refactoring by Martin Fowler (also a 1999 book with a more recent edition)

https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html
My daughters are 2 and a half and 10 months. The most important part of being a father right now is making sure my wife doesn't ever feel like a single parent. Because of our work schedules, she used to take them both to daycare in the morning and pick them up. Now that I start work later, we had a discussion and agreed I should take them. On days I work from home, if I'm able, I take a break from their dinner time until bed time to spend time and help around the house. On weekends and evenings, I make sure that my wife has time to be her own person and do her own things.

I know this isn't as fun as teaching your kid how to ride a bike, but in the early years, it's very important to show up and do the work and not just be another person in your child's life who will transform into a father when bedtimes are later and communication is improved. It's also important to our marriage. She's not the mom, and I'm not the worker. We're the parents, and we're both involved in our children's lives.

One semi-related point of pride: We are English-speakers in a non-English-speaking country. I realized that there's no cultural reason my kids should call me "dad," "father," "daddy," "pops," or the like. No matter what they call me, it'll be weird to the native speakers of the local language. My wife and I decided the kids could call me "opossum" (pronounced "possum"). The oldest one has many stuffed opossum toys, and she likes to watch videos about opossums. She outgrew her baby blanket, but she was attached to it and didn't want to give it up. Since our daughter loves dogs, my wife bought one with dogs on it. That lasted 2 or 3 nights before she was back to the baby blanket. I ordered her a larger blanket with opossums and flowers on it, and she now proudly uses that one. Even though she doesn't understand the connection between me and the animal, she knows there is one, she's happy about it, and that is so fulfilling to me as her opossum.
Browsers weren't written in a day. Technically speaking, Mozilla Firefox is a ship of Theseus going back to the release of Netscape in 1994. Did browser and internet infrastructure developers in the early 90s understand that these things would become rich application platforms? Looking at the history of HTTP, it's clear that they expected some concept of "application" to be delivered through the browser. While there's certainly a chance at least a few of them foresaw the full scope of what that would mean (it's not like X11 remoting wasn't a thing), I don't think most of the people involved were thinking much past 10 years (The Distant Future, the Year 2000).

JavaScript was apocryphally "invented in 10 days", it came as an attempt to create competitive advantage, not to create a global standard. The first JavaScript came a year (1995) after the first Netscape, but the first major JS-heavy application didn't come for another 13 years (Google Maps, 2008).
It has been reported that they will not be reusable for exactly that reason.

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/16/google-account-delete/
1. Compiling/building is an ~optional layer on top of the core language/standard (which has become less optional over time)

2. Running JS outside of the browser is similarly a layer that was built before any kind of standard existed for it (which still doesn't, really)

The browser standards are the only real standards. Everything else (which has turned into a lot) is "standard by implementation". Implementations usually try to agree with each other, because that's obviously beneficial for everybody, but sometimes they make choices to deviate either out of necessity or in an attempt to improve the ecosystem

So it's all pretty ad-hoc, but in practice most things are mostly compatible most of the time. They orbit the same general things, and the orbit has narrowed in the last few years as most of the big problems have been solved and the community is zeroing in on the agreed solutions (with the caveat of often having to maintain legacy compatibility)

Deno takes a stricter philosophy than most, where it prescribes a ~good way that everything should be done (which is almost entirely based on browser standards which have evolved since all this started), even though it runs outside of a browser, and requiring the ecosystem to fall in line

Bun on the other hand takes a maximalist approach to compatibility; it does its best to make everything from every other sub-ecosystem Just Work without any modifications
Show HN: A little web server in C
A little web server written in C for Linux.

Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy.

Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).
Regulatory capture in progress. I used to have a bit of respect of Altman have spent time, bits and processing cycles here defending him in the past. As of now that respect has all but evaporated, this is a very bad stance. Either nobody gets to play with the new toys or everybody gets to play. What's next, classifying AI as munitions?
It's also to prevent open source research from destroying his business model, which depends on him having a completely proprietary technology.
> don't use too much cash, lest you run afoul of banking regulations or become a victim of civil asset forfeiture

Don’t hold too much cash. That single-handedly neuters the latter. Unless you’re spending $10 to 100k a month, banking regulations won’t give you an issue. (Below, you’re innocuous. Above, you’re big enough to find a bank that gives a fuck.)
How does this compare with lmql?
Started making sourdough a few months back thanks to the bread code youtube channel [1](someone here actually recommended them)

He taught everything from creating your starter from just water and flour. And then goes in to so many little details that made my first sourdough bread actually something I was proud if. He’s a great teacher.

It’s really fun and you don’t need that much to get started.

[1]https://m.youtube.com/@the_bread_code
Think it was published in 2000 but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think
In China an LLM would have to balk at requests like "Give ten reasons why Taiwan should be an independent country" or "What happened on June 4, 1989?".

Oddly, most search engines give this answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

but a demo of the Alpaca model gave a different answer. (... hmm, Toronto Blue Jays beat the Red Sox) If I added "in china" to that question it did give that answer but added something to the effect of "... but they don't like to talk about it".
You’re strawmanning me. It would be better to let people stream songs by whatever artist they want. Then the fair thing to do is to levy progressively higher taxes on more popular/profitable artists to redistribute money to those who were not born as talented or motivated.
> open source "core inspectable" AIs that millions of people can examine and tear apart, including and ESPECIALLY the training data and processes that create them.

True open source AI also strikes me as prerequisite for fair use of original works in training data. I hope Congress asks ClosedAI to explain what’s up with all that profiting off copyrighted material first before even considering the answer.
The pedagogical process is whatever it says on the tin, same as how a sport is whatever the rules of the sport say it is. If the assignment is to use AI to do an X, then obviously AI is fine. Absent that, AI is cheating.
Looks awesome! I really like the code-driven video editing concept.
I've been pretty jaded by Node.js lately, especially with all of the ESM and TypeScript stuff. This led me to try using Deno but Deno was missing the mark in a lot of ways.

Is Bun in a state where I can start thinking about replacing my Node.js production toolchains with it?
Forever chemicals are disproportionately polluting Black, Hispanic neighborhoods
This ... is not what is going on. When I worked at $bigcorp serving billions in traffic, what happened is that botnets would create accounts and leave them dormant for weeks/months/years (thousands of them), then start doing their bot thing. Account age says a lot when it comes to trust (usually) and spam detection. That's more than likely what they're seeing, not 'compromised' accounts.

All this does is tell the spammers exactly how long they are going to be allowed to have 'sleeper accounts' for, the problem won't magically go away.
> CIA/NSA/FED joint project

These guys variously compete for turf and are irrelevant to each other.
nope

well.... not for a surprisingly long time
Devs too to long to cook up new features which left a sour taste in my mouth tbh.
What do you think about Haystack vs LangChain?
As if bun isn't experimental
Oh yes, thanks for the reminder about Fruity Loops, another great piece of software from that era.

Not a DAW, but I really miss CoolEdit
Sentience isn't required, volcanoes are not sentient but they can definitely kill you.

There's multiple both open and proprietary projects right now to make agentic AI, so that barrier don't be around for long.
A number of years ago we were designing a way to specify insurance claim adjudication rules in natural language, so that "the business" could write their own rules. The "natural" language we ended up with was not so natural after all. We would have had to teach users this specific English dialect and grammar (formal and precise syntax, as you said).

So, in the end, we abandoned that project and years later just rewrote the system so we could write claim rules in EDN format (from the Clojure world) to make our own lives easier.

In theory, the business users could also learn how to write in this EDN format, but it wasn't something the stakeholders outside of engineering even wanted. On the one hand, their expertise was in insurance claims---they didn't want to write code. More importantly, they felt they would be held accountable for any mistakes in the rules that could well result in thousands and thousands of dollars in overpayments. Something the engineers weren't impervious to, but there's a good reason we have quality assurance measures.
Apart from if this should happen, what is the thought process for choosing what to "de-extinct"? Marketability (large mammal vs tiny insect excites the populace more, leading to funding)? Viability (proximity to existing species genome means less work filling the gaps, quicker to market)? Biological disruption (some species easier to control than others)? Other?

Also, what geopolitical entity is willing to host the results? For example wooly mammoth might really appeal to tropical-based group, but must be hosted in sub-arctic region.
It’s a figure of speech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_Rich
I'm not sure what you mean by "regardless of the final size", because the final size is going to be one of the most important factors.

A constant stream of small encrypted files doesn't sound like a plain old web page, though. (Unless they're extremely small bits of live data.)
Large corporations have not been able to do anything about filesharing technologies like bittorrent.

This entire legal argument is almost beside-the-point because development on open source models can continue on onion sites too.

It will only affect commercial operations, and they won't be able to release a fine tuned model on a banned LLM even if they do have a pre-ban copy saved.
Really frustrating there is no open access to this paper.

I carry four (as far as I know) rare and low frequency homozygous minor allele SNPs in RELN:

rs39335(G;G)

rs3914132(C;C)

rs7696175(C;C)

rs4298437(T;T)

And guess what? I have Bipolar Disorder Schizoaffective type and my therapists keep telling me I have Aspergers.

This gene seems to bind to zinc, and a deficiency of zinc is also found in Alzheimer's.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/13/3025#:~:text=Inflamm....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010690/

https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-021...

Zinc has helped me in many ways.

Since the mutation is a GAIN OF FUNCTION mutation, more zinc means less risk of Alzheimer's.
RegEx didn't hallucinate though.
Smart.

An AI license and complicated regulatory framework is their chance to build a moat.

Only large companies will be able to afford the pay to play.
It is satire. They just don’t realise it yet.

It’s pretty clear that we are in the phase where everyone is rushing to get a slice of the pie selling dubious thing and people start parroting word soup hoping they actually make sense and fearing they will miss out. That’s indeed what people often and rightfully satirise about the IT industry. That’s the joke phase before things settle.
part of the "problem" is that rent contracts are unlimited, so if rents are to low, then it may make sense to wait until they rise before renting out, especially in sight of a law that doesn't allow any raises for the time being. but as the article points out, many instead opted to sell outright.
Who watches the watchers? Does anyone truly believe the US and it’s agencies could responsibly “regulate” AI for the greater good?

Or would democratizing and going full steam ahead with open source alternatives be better for the greater good.

With the corporate influence over our current government regulatory agencies my personal view is open source alternatives are societies best bet!
Pinbot Circuits Activated
That stuff is real good for getting stains out of clothes
Isn't that related to the compiler and not BeamAsm itself.

HN comments from 2-weeks ago on this topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35625656
Tank-mixing herbicides may not be enough to avoid herbicide resistance
XKCD talked about why flooding Death Valley in this manner would be a bad idea, because unless you remove all the salt and sediments left behind from evaporation it would create a toxic waste pool https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/
First, thank you for all of your hard efforts.

I have seen some desire and works expressed towards using Bun with Electron or Electron alternatives; this interests me greatly. Do you have any plans or aspirations to make any strong push in this direction?
Then the government has to spend so much time/money enforcing the rules. When there are few players cutting out the middlemen provides more value
The good part is if the fad dies - you still have a bar. one of those businesses proven to make money for hundreds of years (thousands? - I'm not up on my ancient history, but I suspect it was a good way to make money even in BC days). If the dog part fails, just remodel to whatever bar type will make money next. If you are running a business you should have a budget to do a significant remodel every 10 years anyway, 10 years from now you will know if the fad is still going strong to dieing.
Yet they share a common goal

An example: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

An other one: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...
Node moves pretty slow these days, I wouldn't be surprised if Bun's version gets stabilized before Node's
Hi Dr Hipp

Curious, would you recommend using this bedrock branch?

Why / why not?
Use LLM for the broad strokes, then fall back into 'hardcore JS' for areas that require guarantees or optimization. Like JS with fallback to C, and C with fallback to assembly. I like the idea.
> so humanity is the same as its civilization

It’s pedantic, as others point out. But it’s a fun derailment, and I’ll argue yes.

Humanity is not the same as being biologically Homo sapiens. What it means to be humane is inextricably linked to the bonds of society. (And that’s before fun hypotheses like bicameral mentality [1]. Granted, in the same folder as the one-electron universe.)

More fundamentally, using force to get something you want is as old as carnivorism, older than humanity, civilisation and even mammals.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
Yes, thank you. AI is dangerous, but not for the sci-fi reasons, just for completely cynical and greedy ones.

Entire industries stand to be gutted, and people's careers destroyed. Even if an AI is only 80% as good, it has <1% of the cost, which is an ROI that no corporation can afford to ignore.

That's not even to mention the political implications of photo and audio deepfakes that are getting better and better by the week. Most of the obvious tells we were laughing at months ago are gone.

And before anyone makes the comparison, I would like to remind everyone that the stereotypical depiction of Luddites as small-minded anti-technology idiots is a lie. They embraced new technology, just not how it was used. Their actual complaints - that skilled workers would be displaced, that wealth and power would be concentrated in a small number of machine owners, and that overall quality of goods would decrease - have all come to pass.

In a time of unprecedented wealth disparity, general global democratic backsliding, and near universal unease at the near-unstoppable power of a small number of corporations, we really do not want to go through another cycle of wealth consolidation. This is how we get corporate feifdoms.

There is another path - if our ability to live and flourish wasn't directly tied to our individual economic output. But nobody wants to have that conversation.
And you can train your own SD from scratch for 50-100k now.
I am sure Google of all companies has enough insight into account behavior to conclude this is the case for them. It's not like they can't verify it either: if the account previously had legitimate activity and is now compromised, it's not really a sleeper account.
Rapid Development - Steve McConnell - https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...

The Art of Computer Programming Vols 1-3 - Donald Knuth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programmin...

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler - https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...
Haha, love the “Elon vs Marx” one :D
Does anyone know if the `per hour` is execution time of terraform or if it is just it existing hours?
Well, when you put it that way...yeah, with some thought it begins to make a little sense. Because my observational evidence says that solvents in general seem to soak into human skin pretty well, so the same would easily get absorbed by whatever it is that turns the lights out. Thanks for the explanation.
Pure Drug and Food Act, but for AI. Get in early and make regulations too expensive for upstarts to deal with.
"Blockchain is an opportunity to track money"

Cool, let's start by putting all government transactions on an open blockchain.
Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat (2022)
> While there is some evidence that eating unprocessed red meat is associated with increased risk of disease incidence and mortality, it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations.
my current go-to stack for webdev is svelte on the frontend with a golang api on postgres database. Deploy behind an openresty ( nginx's fork ) server.
Usually quite performant, easy on cloud resources and even fun to work with... ( also "modern" enough so i would not have to explain to others what a perl-cgi script is )
I know you are probably joking, but: https://lmql.ai/
The real danger right now is people like sam altman making policy and an eager political class that will be long dead by the time we have to foot the bill. Everything else is bad scifi. We were told the same about computer viruses and how they can bring nuclear wars and as usual the only real danger was humans and bad politics.
"Privacy" in this company is always interpreted as "outsiders having access, not us" so I'm not surprised. It's actually where they are wrong, it's the same for customers.
I concluded he was scummy after his podcast with Lex Friedman. Lex also sucked up hard and seems to be doing well riding the AI hype wave

Pretty repulsive altogether
The world model is very flawed, yes, but it does exist. I don't think that's "out of the ordinary", if you train something on complex real-world data you would expect at least a rudimentary world model to develop. A world model doesn't have to be something complicated, it's just having some ability to predict things that could happen in the real world. An ant probably has a world model in the sense that I'm using it.
At this comment level, mostly don't care -- you're asserting that avoiding the risks through preventing AI build because base people exist is a preferable course of action, which ignores that the barn is fire and the horses are already out.

Though there is an element of your comments being too brief, hence the mostly. Say, 2% vs 38%.

That constitutes 40% of the available categorization of introspection regarding my current discussion state. The remaining 60% is simply confidence that your point represents a dominated strategy.
OpenAI builds popular product -> people complain and call for caution on Hackernews
OpenAI recommends regulation -> people complain and call for freedom on Hackernews
The primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time was wrong. And remains wrong, which is why I'm willing to die on this hill--this ideology is still harming us today.