skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. On average US households spend 30% or less of their income on housing according to both the census data and mortgage lenders.

According to the census data, only 20% of US households spend 40% or more of their income on housing. That goes down to 13% for home owners.

https://usafacts.org/data-projects/housing-costs

My stats (the property price index) are for property prices. It would be unsurprising if Nigerian home ownership rates are lower than US rates.
It’s not too bad on modern machines from established players. But those are $10k. The pins at auctions are much more affordable but quite likely have multiple issues — a troubleshooting nightmare.
Claude Shannon's master's thesis in 1937 is the one that proved the usefulness of Boolean algebra and binary for digital circuits.

https://harrymoreno.com/assets/greatPapersInCompSci/3.2_-_A_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
Oh wow, I never heard of this before! A quick experiment searching for a few things and I'm impressed.
Campus libraries (I’m not a student anymore so that’s indeed a third place)
Just my own experience, but I have a 1TB SanDisk Extreme V2 which was made several years ago. It routinely gets so hot that it nearly burns my skin to the touch, and when it does get that hot, it randomly unmounts from my computer. Last week, my SuperDuper backup to the drive failed due to underlying corruption, which strangely passed Disk Utility's health checks. I'm so done with this product.
I sort of thought he was just a puppet though?
You’re overthinking (overquestioning) it. When a user hits “next”, they want to see next N posts from where they at, in order they chosen before, that’s it.

Since there’s no evidence of a mess still, I believe you’re projecting it from an overthought side that isn’t real.
There are assumptions here that are intimately related to the meta questions mentioned.

> Prompt injection or prompt attacks are well known and likely impossible to guard against.

They are impossible to guard against under the assumption that the current LLM paradigm is all there is and all there could possibly be. There could be other realizations of AI. The latest impressive achievements are yielding an ongoing identification of the current computational approaches with human intelligence itself, with how we humans model reality by using natural language, and with how we could ever imagine that a computer can model reality via natural language. These are all strong assumptions and are very common even amongst researchers.

> Can you really get a human to be invulnerable to manipulation?

Most definitely not, but we are specifically not talking about humans, but about:

> AI, which relies upon computers, algorithms, and numbers written on memory

I am not making a case for machines being completely invulnerable to manipulation, which requires an analysis of the entailment structures of reality that would yield that complete invulnerability is impossible, but for better direct control on the internals, rather then relying on external instructions that easily undergo jailbreaks with simple prompt attacks.

> Why would we expect the machines to be any better?

One argument is: because they can be programmed and the memory they rely upon for its algorithms can be edited directly, with both accuracy and precision. The missing piece is how to model reality via natural language in a computer, in a way that we would know what to edit in order to affect the model with accuracy and precision.

LLMs, currently, are non-editable. When interacting with ChatGPT, its answers A will be generated from chat history H, which includes prompts and guidelines, by an immutable function, or program, f: A = f(H). It is remarkable that, in LLMs, f cannot be edited and is never entailed by the individual chat H. Since we can have multiple exchanges in the same history, H will itself contain information (entailment) from f, but never the other way around: f is not entailed by A or H, it is fixed, and only entailed externally by the design and training steps. f can be fine-tuned, yet it will retain remnants of past training, hence it cannot be truly be edited at will unless we retrain the whole model. Even then, control on f is neither accurate nor precise.

It seems that non-editable LLMs remove some of the agency that is inherent in programming: editing the internals of a program to shape the entailment structures that we want to realize, with accuracy and precision.

I am by no means indicating that editable AI models that can be steered are easy to achieve, rather that the very possibility thereof is rarely mentioned, and often implicitly assumed not to exist in absolute statements that in fact only strictly apply to the current mainstream approaches.
Again: namespacing isn't the problem (or a totalizing solution) here.

I admire Maven's approach on a conceptual level, but it leaves a lot to be desired on a technical level: it effectively gatekeeps the entire packaging ecosystem on the ability to purchase and maintain a domain name, which (1) is unnecessarily exclusionary, and (2) assumes trust in a namespace (DNS) that was never really designed to be authenticated or a source of stable, permanent identifiers (domains change hands all the times, including for hostile reasons).

A modern version of Maven's scheme would bootstrap on well-known URIs over HTTPS instead, but even this would still represent a significant imposition on PyPI uploaders.
I built something very similar ages ago with a short php script and a line in the .htaccess It’s cool to see these ideas coming back around.
Oh, I hadn't looked at the page since then. That is great to hear. Thank you!
Part of doubling down on AI seems to be halving on humans.

Removing perks, no more Google Code Jam, no more open source, all while talking repeatedly about AI.
I wasn't clear on how was using "better". Your example is better in that it fulfills the requirement, but I don't think it's as impressive as ChatGPT's answer. How long would it take to make a sentence that is at least 7 words (and also making sense, and ideally sounding good)?
Ok how come I’ve literally never heard of them? Would gladly kick Google to curb
Lurk on r/trackers . They usually have up-to-date information on trackers who are doing interviews. From there you go to invite forums once you contribute enough.
This is a bit off-topic, but sadly, I have to agree. I AM a paying Kagi user, but the new limits have hit me extremely hard. I'm now paying twice as much per month and still almost hitting my monthly limit. I really don't want Kagi to go away but I think they have to adjust their prices if they want to keep thier customers around, me included
Can someone tell me what is the appeal of *arr apps? I'm not a hoarder or professional movie/show watcher, why should I set up what is basically a glorified "periodic metadata downloader with a tiles UI"?

I tested radarr and readarr recently. Didn't find out why people use them. Like libgen was better than readarr and I couldn't even select the encoding/file size of a movie title in radarr (there are some predefined profiles and you can define yours too but I expected something waay too simpler to do this. Like if you select fhd, it may download a very large file. You have to manually set the bitrate slider for all profiles, but then you may risk losing some available item if the release is very new and not encoded. I mean the UX was confusing)

And I see people host yet another tiles UI (Plex/Jellyfin) on top of that just to show a folder structure with pretty thumbnails? Each one of these apps is usually written in C#, taking ~300MB of RAM mind you...

What would help me is simply a search box that crawls all available torrents and presents rows with filtering based on size and encoding. I tested prowlarr for this but the UX was poor.

I must be missing something very obvious here.
> Mentally calculating the day-of-the-week for any date in history sounds like an impossible task for a normal person ...

$ cal <month> <year>

And look :-)
IIRC he gets into his work arrangement to try to finish TAOCP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8&ab_channel=LexFr...

I don't really like Lex Fridman, but this interview is excellent.
I have connected my esp32s to chat (telegram) and openai. With the correct prompt and an interpreter they can now execute requests in human language: https://medium.com/p/3242af6f2988
The concept is nothing new, it's just not something manufacturers picked on. Hobbyist are doing it all the time, usually in form of most devices either communicating directly or being bridged into queue. So technically via that every device can call every other device directly so for simple things you don't even need programming

The idea is just to keep that within your own LAN.

IoT world mostly wants to create closed gardens so you buy other products around that garden.

Easiest way to make it easy for consumer is to connect your devices to cloud and so most decide to go that way, no need for end user to buy a hub.

And even if you need to (say devices use zigbee and you need a bridge), putting that in cloud means user's phone can always access it, regardless of whether they are connected to the home's wifi, without much fuss (as home internet will most likely be behind NAT/firewall so it can be hard to access directly
It’s mostly you use the VPN when doing certain activities so that the copyright notices can go to effectively /dev/null, and otherwise don’t need to use it.
I think an idea of mine is related: index clips from various sources to put together an entire movie. Or index quotes posted to various forums or quote websites to reassemble the original book. No one hosts the full content, all is fair use, and the index is also meaningless by itself. Though I suppose you'd get a similar conviction as The Pirate bay which also hosts no copyright infringing content.

Your idea would be a bit more 'direct' in that the parts are hosted by people actively contributing to have a copyrighted work in full rather than linking to random third parties. A lot more reliable, at least until it catches on and contributors start receiving desist notices.
I believe this was more for storing content, and not streaming, but this was presented at defcon a few years ago.

Project: https://github.com/seantmalone/HiveMind

Presentation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAq86wfeC9E
I also counted 4 errors in the sentence, not 3. "no help" should be "any help". This might just be conventionally wrong, not technically wrong I suppose.
How bad are we talking about? We're a long way from the 1980's when the Soviet arsenal was some 45,000 warheads and the USAs was similar magnitude. There was a paper in Nature late last year * that noted that a nuclear exchange between the Russia and the USA, even with the far reduced arsenals under New START (1,550 warheads each), would still lead to global famine that would kill some 5 billion people.

But what if only Russia fired their missiles, 90% of them failed, and the remaining 10% exploded in their launcher? Most of those launch tubes are deep underground to protect them from first-strike by the USA, and would not release the same kind of soot as if they exploded in the air.

Even an exchange between India and Pakistan would result in almost 30 million of dead **, but again, that's using math where nuclear weapons (one-hundred 15Kt warheads) are detonated on or above ground.

I'm not remotely suggesting we try out and find out, I like not starving to death, tymv. The math, however, is interesting in a morbid curiosity sort of way.

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
** https://thebulletin.org/2022/10/nowhere-to-hide-how-a-nuclea...
Storage has been always a crapshoot. Deathstars, intel 8mb bug, failing barracudas, sandforce bugs, the list is endless.
I handled this with AT&T by calling customer service, letting them know that the email was wrong, and then when customer service wouldn't do anything, threatened to login, change the password, then cancel all the services used by the person who used my email address. Suddenly they could do something. Never received another mail from that person's account.
>"There are 4X as many Chinese than Americans"

Does that mean that there are also 4X scientists in China? Ratios of total population and particular segments can be very much different.

>"Per capita is more meaningful."

Also questionable as science is totally different product than say how many parts employee produces per month.
The so called Alli-oops.
Thank you - what is your reco for best info on that law?c
I feel like the people still using TPB also use uTorrent. Both are good examples of the lasting power brand recognition can have.
That’s not the point. For all intents and purposes English is an international language, and I’ve always had a strong doubt that UNIX, for example, or C, could become as wide-spread if they were based on some other language.
Looks cool! Minor nit: "slack" should be capitalized.
So he is against specific vaccines but not all vaccines.
What do people typically use these days?
"Mistyped". "Typographical error" ("typo") isn't a verb.
Those sound like views you have arrived at by your own consideration, and not things that would cause you to discuss the topic dogmatically.
You've never heard of quantum bogosort, then. It's stable and linear time in the right universe, and much more elegant than sleeping.
I don't understand why so many people are dunking on Neumann.

Yes, he is the male Gwyneth Paltrow, and that is annoying.

But IMO WeWork is an awesome product that was executed really well, and Neumann's tech-bro spin to it was a big driver behind that (and Softbank sinking billions into them).

Every office was (and still is) in really cool locations and tastefully designed top to bottom. The community teams were usually hip and super friendly, and the offices themselves were really well thought out, both in appearances and in function.

Many say "but Regus did it first." Sure. Have you _actually been_ in a Regus property? More often than not, they look like doctor's office waiting rooms from the 80s! Also, did they even have an all-access pass system like WeWork did? Being able to hotdesk in another city anywhere in the world was super awesome.

Sure, WeWork was seeped in debt. But as far as I understand it, that's pretty much every real estate company!

If WeWork wasn't managed like a fucking coke-addled rave, I think they wouldn't be where they are. I had friends who worked there, and the incompetence they described was off the charts crazy.
Rara avis: latin for "rare bird"
They are free to do whatever though. A lot of them eat or talk to family on the phone or exercise or read or whatever while waiting in staging lots.

Cities like NYC require meeting certain utilization numbers which result in partially paying for time waiting for trips. The result of that has been that drivers are forced offline and to leave the airport when there’s an oversupply of drivers.
> I would rate a person who provides no sentence at all as performing significantly better

Why?

> I suspect most people could pretty quickly come up with something

It only takes 60 seconds to test that on yourself. It's not that easy to come up with something of similar length to ChatGPT's answer that also sounds somewhat natural/sensible.
> As things currently are, it's a smart move geopolitically to not be the country that takes that step back, or that opens that can of worms.

That's sounds a bit too rational, not MAD enough, you know? Putin clearly wasn't thinking rationally, otherwise there wouldn't be a war to begin with.

If you're going to threaten with nuclear weapons, then saying that you gonna do it and then repeating it a few times isn't it.
x86-S External Architectural Specification – legacy-reduced ISA [pdf]
PyPI could integrate with Google/Microsoft/Apple as an authentication system (OAuth?).

Almost everyone has one of these IDs and it's hard enough to register new ones.
I mean, this was the case for Japanese CEOs too and you can see how Toshiba and Fujitsu are doing as a result.

Shadow emperors don't make for good governments.
I'd read through this thread before purchasing an SK Hynix SSD: https://twitter.com/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056?s=20
How does JunoDB compare to Redis?
Seems large corporations have forgotten the rule of "don't shit where you eat" and are now competing for who can shit where they eat the most and still not catch cholera, while calling it "efficiency". And of course anyone telling them to not shit where they eat is some lazy socialist. Human nature I suppose, it's on those of us of working age to start cleaning up the shit just like our grandparents and great-grandparents did in their day. Getting the 40 hour work week and Social Security took decades of blood, why should our problems require any less?
> it is very clear that American research is top notch, but other countries have basically caught up.

I agree. The last time we've seen a similar parity in R&D capacity was probably the 1950s-1960s.

That said, a lot of discourse around geopolitical rivalries is kind of stuck in a pre-1990s mindset. Even at its worst, countries with actual military disputes continue to be closely economically connected and (excluding Russia over the past year) we haven't seen the kind of economic decoupling that we saw in the 1970s-90s globally.

So long as nations globally maintain diplomatic contact and continue to be connected via diasporas and economic relations, there is always an off-ramp for political disputes.

P.S. Do NOT quote Russia as a counter example to my final example. Russia has been under severe EU+USA sanctions since 2014. The only difference is that these sanctions did not extend to Belarus until 2022, which was used as a backdoor to maintain EU-Russia economic relations.
Trump Card Z8000 PC Coprocessor – Lost software has been found
Mazda rightly banned touchscreens awhile ago.
Do it! And tell us how it went.
We even seen Intel enterprise SSDs die like month after warranty, with 98% life left...
@dang repetition
I think your perspectives on things and your priorities can change as you get older in ways that are very difficult to imagine as a young person. I might once have agreed with this comment, but now I live a lot of that life and it’s fantastic and I’m happier than I’ve ever been.

Also parties that end at 9 are incredible. I fought this one hard for a _long_ time, but life is honestly just better when you go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. More daylight is a great thing.
Solid suggestions, thanks.
That's the one! As a kid back then, I had no idea who he was but later in life would always recognise his name from that book.
Oh my, he was my favorite professor in uni, and I was not aware he passed away until this comment. I am shocked. Such a loss to the university and the community.
Citation needed.

Is the FBI a necessary evil or merely a force for corruption?

I haven’t seen a good argument they’re necessary — and they’ve been involved in illicit political corruption since their founding, less than a century ago.
Fortunately, There are chatbots that will gladly tell you the best trackers to seed your Creative Commons content.
In the past, some people said that Microsoft had the "windows tax" for new projects. If a project maybe got in the way of Windows, it died quickly.

Does Google have the Google search tax?
> Opportunities are quite high in other countries for them to consider American immigration nonsense.

I find it utterly baffling that the US is in a position to easily absorb the best and brightest from other countries, and yet shoots itself in the foot with ridiculously restrictive immigration policies.
What emphasis on quarterly results does to an organization
But of course those no money in just giving away data in an easily parsable way.
ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)
The poster specifically mentioned spitting and said nothing about the other scenario.
thats a shitload of difference between its previous version!
Scale Kills Data Teams
I also got sick of the constant apologies and you cannot disable it!
I appreciate your writing this.

Unfortunately we (and more importantly the workers) are facing an entity which does not perceive compassion or dignity - similar to how we don’t see ultraviolet light.

What can be measured - is measured - is profit and efficiency. There’s no equivalent to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index.

The price of infinitely growing profits is the constant increase of agony for the workers and the enshittification of the service and product - because the profit needs to come from somewhere.

Someone said that every Amazon order starts an invisible Rube Goldberg machine of human suffering which delivers a thing to our doors.

Yes, what if we made that machine visible? What if we had a choice to alleviate some of the suffering, some of the time?

Would the explicit admission of the fact that we participate in sadistic treatment of human beings and the choice to diminish some strangers’ agony… help?

Don’t know but would be one hell of a social experiment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/?amp
I don’t want to download tv shows or movies when they come out. I don’t even know their schedules. Just add them in *arr and they appear in Plex automagically as they come out. For TV shows specifically this is a huge time saver.
Plus they let less technical family users add and manage media on their own.

Regarding not being able to select encoding, etc - you setup profiles and it automatically chooses the best release for based on the criteria you set. Again, it’s one less thing to think about.
Isn't AWS the same?
Oregon’s first psilocybin treatment center will start serving clients this month
Seems a lot less obnoxious than the ads they used to run (don't know what they run nowadays). Bit sad that JS is too limited to be a miner that can't be implemented more efficiently in something like X86 (randomX) or an ASIC (BTC), I imagine it would have caught on otherwise.
No, in a single prompt, you can instruct it to check its work and keep going until it’s right (or at least have it tell you which of the N answers were right or wrong). Essentially chain of thought reasoning.
We are being quite abstract here since we are lacking real-life examples here, but using a variabe assignment intead of an inline if/else assertion does not add any complexity at all. It adds more code, yes. More complexity? No. Is it good or bad to add more code? I would answer: the more easily readable and maintainable version of the code is the better version of the code. More times than not, more code is the better version (when it is dry, with correct abstractions and good names).
> IMHO in order for AI to be truly useful, we need to be able to trust it.

A common response to this by AI advocates is to point out that humans lie all the time, as long as the AI lies less than humans (debatable at this current point anyway) its an improvement.

I think what that forgets is the importance of context. We all know humans are perfectly capable of lying, but we don't generally expect that of software. If your compiler lied about your code being valid, I doubt the general response would be "meh, its only done that once, I've lied far more than that"
I legitimately don't understand why the board hasn't forced him out yet. Does he have any successes at all during his tenure?
Since it's made by people who are convinced they're always right when explaining things?

Fairly high.
This looks very interesting, and is yet another demonstration of how amazing os rocksdb
It would take me longer to write an interesting, longer sentence that complied with the rules. But I'd remind you that GPT failed.
> JunoDB is unmatched when it comes to meeting PayPal’s extreme scale, security, and availability needs.

It would be nice to see some benchmarks or just a mention of any kind of number. TiKV is a CNCF donated project with roughly the same architecture and has been deployed in larger clusters than 200 nodes.