skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote that code originally, back at MCC. There was an Interlisp-D code base (Doug had been at PARC — we even overlapped) but the hardware you could buy was just way too slow. Plus the Symbolics machines were just better.

So I started from scratch and had the core system running in a long week end. Instead of “just growing” it had a layered architecture that people could build upon.

It was possible to integrate the new types so deeply into the system that they were indistinguishable from “system” types, which kept people from making mistakes or trying to be cute.

Hacking lispms may have been the most productive development environment I’ve used in my nature life.

Note: I had two fully decked out machines (8 MW of RAM — 40 whole MB), one with a color display. Probably $100K of hardware for one developer. They got their money’s worth, but honestly how many institutions could afford that?
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Please don't post like this here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I re-read this every 5 years or so. It certainly covers a lot of ground on which literary tastes have changed, so it might not hold up for everyone, but what keeps me coming back is how much goddamn fun it is. Even if I thought it hadn't aged well, it'd be easy to forgive because of how utterly hilarious it is. I might have to find myself a hardcover copy. I hope you enjoy the re-read. RIP Martin.
You win chess by "applying the rules intelligently" the same way you launch rockets to space by applying the laws of physics intelligently. True, yes, but not as simple as it sounds.
Can you please not use HN for political or national or ideological flamewar? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so we're trying to avoid it here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
What misinformation exactly? That everyone will die one day, and that they can't choose how no matter how hard they try?
I get your point, but it is not just for Polish speakers. I am not Polish speaker and can understand it because it is more related to my native language than English.
Yes, it's a premium self-hosted product. You can probably get a discount if you get it for personal usage and contact support.
> In my experience, people are far more capable and competent when they feel comfortable and are interested in the task.

That's definitely true, but in my experience people have limits: simple biological ones. Repetitive tasks make practically all humans bored, for example.

The fact that AIs never get sleepy, distracted, or bored already makes them super-human in at least that one aspect. That they have essentially perfect English comprehension, and hence aren't phased by the use of jargon or technical language, puts them head-and-shoulders above most humans.

The frustrations I'm venting aren't some rare thing. I'm working on a technical team where the project manager doesn't understand what the team members are saying. This is not just a matter of syntax, or jargon. They just don't understand the concepts. This is so common in the wider industry that I'm pleasantly surprised, shocked even, when I come across a PM that can ask useful questions instead of needing endless corrections along the lines of: "It's spelled SQL, not Sequel." I've never met a PM that could do simple arithmetic, like "10 TB at 100 MB/s will take over a day to copy, we should plan for that!". Never.

I've tested Chat GPT 4 on both language and concepts that I've seen trip up PMs, and it understood "well enough" every time.

For example, GPT 4: The sentence "We deployed sequel server successfully last night" seems incorrect due to the incorrect naming of a product. "Sequel server" should actually be "SQL Server", a popular relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Therefore, the corrected sentence should be: "We deployed SQL Server successfully last night."

PS: If you tell GPT 4 to pretend it is a technical project manager and instruct it to ask followup questions, it is noticeably better at this than any PM I have worked with in the last few years.
There is a lot of material the lectures do not go anywhere near, they're for first years in modern terms at least.
I remember people touting this distro. Thanks for the memory.
The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
https://archive.ph/CNFx3
Grafana Loki is great for that.
Yes, remote access to test units (if practical, I.e. more than one instance of system exists) or the real one, simulated h/w for higher level software (i.e. a GUI that connects to simulated device instead of real one).

Obviously there will always be some physical component to embedded development, but in many cases it is possible to do a lot remotely.
Right and don’t you understand that Redis has the availability guarantees, scaling constraints, and memory architecture for all use cases?! Why would you ever need a different KV store when you have Redis!
There's not much online about this, but this from Handwiki [1]

>> WinLinux is a Linux distribution with an installer that runs from inside the Windows operating system. It also has a configuration tool that can be run inside of Windows to set up the hardware options of the Linux OS. It is installed to a directory on an existing FAT32 partition, which means it has the ability to share the Windows partition and disk space.

The latest version is WinLinux 2003. It can be launched like a Windows application from a shortcut, which causes the PC to reboot into WinLinux. Exiting out of WinLinux will allow the PC to go back into Windows on the next bootup. It is able to run Linux applications, and ships with KDE as the default desktop.

[1] https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:WinLinux
Call it what you want, if a developer knowingly writes software that causes people to pee in bottles at work then that person is garbage, period.
That was from the lock-down sea that lifted all the boats , pretty much every tech company on the planet thrived during that period.
There is a great book bottle of lies, which goes into how messed up the Indian pharma industry is
You think the only reason not to do so is if the existing inhabitants don't like it and are powerful enough to be a threat? I guess it worked for the British Empire...
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here it is for anyone curious:

https://archive.is/oGXNt

(edit, archive link)
Fundamental physics has an extremely neat set of concepts and ideas at its core,, forming a kind of funnel, whereas chemistry and biology would be more like a plate.

Also the Feynman lectures are really a tour of basic undergraduate physics rather than literally all of physics so potentially it could be that no one bothered to make one. Physicists seem to enjoy the Shakespearean side of pedagogy a bit more than chemists.
from a linguistic standpoint a text is a whole lot more than language: it is an externalisation of thought that is fixed onto a medium using writing utensils and most of all, cultural norms in the form of a wild variety of different genres and forms of text, ranging from something like a stream of consciousness to something like a speech act. furthermore, text can be conceptually written or spoken and with the internet we got an explosion of text that is conceptually spoken. those are the things OP might be refering to in regards to the "entropy" that encodes much more than just the tokens themselves.
If you don’t want more privacy than what the browser gives by default, you don’t need content sanitizers.
The point of the question is that you can easily come up with combinations of objects that are unlikely, or statistically impossible, to be in their training samples. How about this one? "Tell me how to safely stack the following objects on top of each other without any additional support: A Nikon DSLR, A small succulent, 4 lightbulbs, a pack of gummy worms, and a hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince."

Hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Start with the largest, heaviest, and most stable object. This will serve as your base. Make sure to place it on a flat, secure surface.

Pack of gummy worms: This item is fairly light and flexible. It should sit nicely on the book without risking damage to either. You can place it right in the center to maintain balance.

Nikon DSLR: This is a heavy object with a fairly stable shape. Put this on top of the pack of gummy worms, as it's sturdy enough to handle the weight and won't be harmed by the soft package. Make sure to place it so that the lens is pointing upward and it sits flat and stable. Don't use any protruding lenses or parts to balance it, as they could easily be damaged.

Four Lightbulbs: Since light bulbs are round and fragile, you will need to stack them with care. If the bulbs are in a box, you can place the box on top of the DSLR, making sure it's centered and stable. If the bulbs are loose, it's a bit more tricky. You might want to nestle them into the lens of the DSLR (if the lens is large enough), which should provide some natural containment for them. If not, it might be safer not to include the lightbulbs in your stack.

A small succulent: Finally, the succulent can be placed on top. It's likely the lightest object and it is usually quite stable due to its pot. If the lightbulbs were in a box, place the succulent on top of that. If you ended up not including the lightbulbs, place the succulent directly on top of the DSLR.
Isn't the issue for those cleared is that there is no country who will accept them
RIP Martin. Just to make this more HN-relevant: even though his book "Money" is popular and regarded as a masterpiece, it is not available on Kindle, or in any ebook format, in the US. It is, however, available on Kindle in the UK. I've always wondered why. Perhaps that'll change now that he's gone.
Got close to a bunch of special cases glued together?
GPT4 can play chess, but not especially well. For example: https://lichess.org/@/oopsallbots-gpt-4
Yeah, just follow the Gmail API Python quickstart tutorial. You'll authorize your app to your account and then it can re-use the token without 2FA.
It seems 32 bit programs would continue to work, it's only 32 bit OS that wouldn't.

I feel like most retro games work fine in a 64 bit OS, but maybe you can chime in if that's true or not?
A fine read and a reminder on how easy and alluring it is to see ourselves in the past though better explanations are available.
Alltheweb was good
First let's sanction FDA and China for lab leak of coronavirus
Redis was not a distributed system a decade ago.
Identity verification is the only reliable option for popular public package registries that want to avoid becoming a cesspool of malware.

The problem with identity verification is that it can be expensive for you, the registry (reliable implementations require things up to video call verification in case of doubt), and risky for your users (who will have to trust your or your verification partner’s infosec practices with their PII).

Ideally either of those, but if you screw up—both.

It’s also crucial to remember that identity verification is never a guarantee: you cannot dispense with any pre-existing measures, like manual package review and user reports, to recoup the costs.

All in all, it is inevitably an expensive undertaking and a sad example of the tragedy of the commons.
Yes. You might say that even if they are just sitting around, their presence doing so is considered to be a valuable part of their job, and it is being wasted.
compression :)
I was in disbelief for a few days when I heard it. My condolences.
I'd be willing to bet that his native language played a role in how he thought about naming things.
People claim this every day on HN but I never see any proof.

I have never seen or spoken to a person who fully understands the implications of privacy violations and still doesn't care. I meet some people who do care and understand, but don't know how to fight it so they give up. I meet tons of people who think they're trading off privacy for convenience, but when I question them they're completely unaware of the extent to which it's happening. When I explain it to them they always enter the first group.

Sorry, I'm just not buying it. To the extent that people "want" this, it's mostly that they've had the wool pulled over their eyes, not because they've made a well educated decision.

This is nothing but a lie we in the tech industry tell ourselves to feel a little better about the horrible things we're doing.
I would not be surprised if these questions become some form of canonical test for future language models.

Obviously, being the work of Knuth, they are extraordinarily insightful in peeling back the first layer of the answer and providing insight to the underlying properties of both the model itself, and the dataset on which it was trained. It also tests the ability to compute (not recite) very specific facts (e.g. when the sun will be directly above Japan), so checks if subroutines and ephemerides specific to this type of data exist.

But beyond the obvious technical merit - there is an alluding property to base our tests on those whom we respect. I used a similar - but far less sophisticated - set of questions when first exploring ChatGPT. But nobody will be drawn to Dotan Cohen's language model benchmarks - rightfully so. The name Knuth has such reverence in the field that I forsee this test, and variations on it to prevent rigging, becoming a canonical test of language models.
On the contrary, the "hallucinations" are often very hard to spot without expert knowledge. The output is often plausible but wrong, as shown by Knuth's questions.
It isn’t “resilient”, it’s just supported by whoever controls the populace. Crypto was/is a threat to the traditional banking, but it’s actively attacked directly -like banning monero- or indirectly by losing the consumer trust with all the Ponzi schemes around.
> how to navigate the world without fully understanding or having a complete model of it

GPT-4 does not have ANY understanding or model of the world - it just has a model of what tokens (words) are likely to appear in a certain context. If it could build any usable model of the world, and reason about it, I'd be much more impressed.

When it quacks like a duck, only the most simplistic view takes it as being a duck.
Knuth even mentioned GPT-4 and lamented not having access to it for the test.
This is where another project from Google seems like a shaky foundation to build upon - Flutter.

It might be abandoned in next few years because of "strategic change in direction" and it is complex enough that just open source enthusiasts can't keep it afloat without some heavyweight funding.
I'm reading a Japanese crime novel in which this is a theme. (Though not the aspect of being an arrested foreigner.)

The author is a criminal lawyer (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/朔立木), so I'm assuming it's stark accurate.
https://archive.ph/jab98
So what would be the path for GPT5 or 6 creating an improved model of itself? It's not enough to generate working code. It has to come up with a better architecture or training data.
I think this is important to read but for the opposite reasons.

The first cars were looked upon with skepticism in 1893 to 1895. But the article makes it clear that the American public was accepting of the idea by the 1900s.

We're looking at a period of 5 to 8 years to go from skeptical of an idea to accepting. This lines up with my experience with smartphones, internet, and other inventions of my lifetime.

There are other... inventions... which have had more than 10+ years to prove themselves. Maybe they'll prove themselves soon, but I have my doubts.
I'd qualify as one (not one of the "break into places types") but I hack around software and hardware.
I'd engage with the world more if I knew where my next meal was coming from - and if having that meal would still allow some freedom to "hack". I think one of the reasons a lot of the "hackers" existed mostly in the past is these people never had to worry about where their next meal was coming from, even if they had other fears and worries (cough cold war cough).

Power and privilege would be important keywords here.
Cars have been a blessing and disaster for humanity and the planet.
Cloud under their previous accounting policy is still losing money. (I.e. the change in depreciation rates to lower how much is expensed each year)
The sad truth is that we are all NPCs without free will. "Thoughts" are a non-physical phenomenon that, seemingly, arise from physical activity in the brain. The thoughts (our "experience") come after the electrochemical reaction that manifests them. How could these non-physical phenomena then turn around and influence the physical chemistry? They can't. By the time we experience a thought, the physical state for it has been represented, and that state causes the next one after it. Like a stone bouncing down a hill - chaotic but still deterministic. We're just along for the ride.
Just because there are sales, doesn’t make it good business.

And I guess you’re right; the simplest argument with my taste is: VR/AR are technologies looking for solutions

* meaningful solutions. And maybe SOL and others are right that hands free readers are the most meaningful solution for these head worn devices.

[Apple Watch was always going to be fitness (everything before it was fitness). HomePod is amazing but not communicated correctly for people to know it’s there. Siri is horrid to deal with as a developer, tho dictation is amazing as an interface. There’s too much to talk about - basically Apple achieved the center of the digital life for all the devices Jobs put up on the screen in the 90s and now they need the new devices / activities and nothings been as universal as the past]
The tone of the article is so condescending it makes me think of the Don't Look Up movie. The same point of view could have been developed with more respect to people's fear of what is actually happening.
So you want to use a hammer for cutting trees because an axe looks somewhat similar anyway and it just doesn't make sense to have both :-) don't blame you hammer for being a bad axe!

People have been looking for universal approach to parsing for so long... maybe there is one, maybe not, but treesitter was never meant to be one.

And it's great for what it does!
If you trust how the bbc tells the story, you also trust them when they say the image is true. Not a technical problem IMO.
Aleppo, Syria. To block people sending money to terrorists (not stating that they are).
Actually, at least one expert thinks that.
This is based on RocksDB which is "sorted key value" store like LevelDB (HBase, Hypertable etc.) and keep sorting and merging keys while flushing to disk at certain point.

Redis in comparison is a different thing if I'm not wrong.
Apparently not an issue with all the C dialects until 1989.

And it still isn't good enough to compile the Linux kernel.
You're still wrong.
Indeed; like all human systems it operates solely through the behaviors of the humans involved.
thanks a lot! I came across yours as well, great idea to publish.
It's fun to see the patterns of history repeat themselves. Two things stood out:

1. Open Source - auto inventors shared ideas because of their desire to prove skeptics wrong about their new industry, and in response to being sued by a patent troll.

> I believe I am entitled to say I have never collected a cent in royalties from them, nor will I. Lawyers have tried to argue me into bringing suits for infringements, but it so happened we pioneers always worked together. We loaned ideas. We loaned tools. We loaned patents. If we worked out a good idea, we loaned that.

2. Lots of Companies - most were either scams or too small to support their products.

> When you know that more than 500 automobile companies came in and went out in those first few years, you will better understand some of the forces working against those of us who were honestly trying to succeed.

AI is the new hotness now, and both of these patterns are in full force.

Worth contemplating are the unforeseen negative externalities of the automobile as they reached scale. The article, written 30 years later, didn't even mention any. Makes me think about what we won't be able to perceive and believe in our current tech. Just think of what we're still learning about the web's externalities some 30+ years into it!
Text is an instance of language. Think of it as the difference between the python language and a large collection of python programs. The language describes syntactic and semantic rules, the collection is a sampling of possible programs that encodes a significant amount of information about the world. You could learn a lot about the laws of nature, the internet, even human society and laws by examining all the python programs ever written.

An extreme version of the same idea is the difference between understanding DNA vs the genome of every individual organism that has lived on earth. The species record encodes a ton of information about the laws of nature, the composition and history of our planet. You could deduce physical laws and constants from looking at this information, wars and natural disasters, economic performance, historical natural boundaries, the industrial revolution and a lot more.
I’d assume quantum gravity stuff?
Syria is a nation under heavy sanctions; "Alep" is the old name for Aleppo, apparently still in use. Governments around the word demand financial institutions prevent fraud, funding to terrorist organisations, money laundering, etc. and can give heavy fines if they don't do enough, so you end up with this kind of stuff, for better or worse.

I had a friend that worked for ISIS: Innovative Solutions In Space. They had a lot of problems with all sorts of financial institutions once that other ISIS started becoming better known. They've since rebranded to ISISPACE for that reason.
A 5-day-old project doesn't support more than one operating system! One the developers would have to buy dedicated devices to develop and test it on no less. Outrageous.
You weren’t kidding. And there is another game/story embedded in the obvious one. Holy crap.
Yea, distribution > product (most of the time) is almost startup 101 these days. It's dismissive to think the team and its big-name VCs behind it don't know the importance of distribution
It has been my experience that people only scTHISWEBSITEUSESCOOKIES COOKIEPREFERENCESMOREABOUTOURPOLICIESALLOWx
Why not run two machines with 12gb RAM each? There's a total of 24gb available on the always free tier. I'm running 4x 6gb nodes in a k3s cluster.
According to this logic marvel superhero movies will soon be the only existing form of art.
That's really strange! I should probably add some logic to strip whitespaces for that validation, thank you!
well the clips and quotes can be fair use if they are gathered from around the world, but the service itself would be infringing in such a situation.
It's Open Container Initiative.

https://opencontainers.org/

There's a sibling post with this link but it's greyed out.