skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I followed some steps to prevent firefox from being installed through snap... it worked (after WAY too long troubleshooting).... and sometime between then and now it re-enabled itself and I'm back to square one. It's so maddening.
Motherfuckers_need_package_management (2015)
Harmonic is my main way to interact with HN.(writing this on Harmonic) Love the ux of just pushing articles down for the articles and was curious how it was implemented and why other applications don't do it. Thanks for creating and open sourcing Harmonic.
> Overexpansion of productive capacity (OXPC) [...]

> Gold rush competition sets in motion future contractive collapses.

Are you implying that entrepreneurs are idiots who can't anticipate the future that any goldbug and Internet-Austrian obviously can see?
I would say that we are really saying the same thing. I did intend to imply “short term predictions”.

However I feel that these LLMs are not like the internet or the release of the iPhone. We’ve gone in a very short time from LLMs in the lab to ChatGPT to passing the bar exam.

Considering the rate of research that’s being published and the fact that what we see today is generally at least many months behind the state of the art, I don’t feel that we can even have any certainty about the next 6 months.
> When his VR Goggles fertilize his beta testers eyes with cat sperm due to a buffer overflow

Ahh, classic undefined behavior.
> But I am able to train my own LLM on the output of their LLM, right?

Sure. And, there's an argument that the license only applies to the code because model weights aren’t subject to copyright anyway. And available-under-any-license is a lot better than OpenAI’s current stance as far as enabling anyone else, since they’ve gone completely closed to the point where even their papers on their models are more PR than reproducible science. There's a continuum from secret sauce to “do what thou wilt”, and I am not a zealot arguing anything not Open Source must be rejected as not a positive step.
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Your source, over your selected timescale, also shows both production and consumption, and over that time period France's electricity imports took it from 29mg to 30mg which means the high speed trains retain their two order of magnitude climate advantage over plane travel.
> Except the economic fluid is far more complex, full of lags and hysteresis.

You mean it is learning? Hysteresis is "local learning".
1950's US automobile industry lobbying
Broad use helps uncover bugs and make the software more resilient and reliable. They don’t fix all the bugs, and they don’t build features the community wants for the sake of it, but having users of your tools is a benefit.
It's gotta be a low-effort joke.
Just that the adaptation process might be too slow. I don't think the speed of evolution can keep up with us throwing new kinds of garbage into the ocean.

It's the same with mono-cultural farmlands. By reducing the habitation areas of animals, the population becomes so small that thinking "they just have to adapt" becomes a ridiculous statement.
Is this therapy named after Brave New World?
I don’t disagree, but in person people do I think tend to avoid discussing in detail money-associated things with people who can’t afford the same. Like they’re not going to avoid it entirely, but a lot of points might be glossed over, the conversation may be changed quickly, etc. Whereas on social media there is more detail out in the open regardless of social context. That context ignoring part is kind of new.
Sounds like standard behavioral questions to me.
A.I. Photoshopping Is About to Get Easy. Maybe Too Easy
The truth is, journalism has cratered. However, most are not ready to accept the truth, since they still believe the media are an essential part of democracy.
And why exactly should pypi implement it?

Pypi should just be the organized repository of packages, with only some limited assurance over their authenticity. That is, pypi should just let authors upload signatures and metadata.

Something else, something to plug into pip (taking into account also the bootstrap problem), should be responsible for validating the signatures and providing assurance over identities.

People that just want TOFU will use that one plugin. People that trust Microsoft will use the github plugin. People that trust pypi also for identity, will use maybe what you will write when you have time for it. Maybe a popular plugin will allow people to choose many IdPs. Over time, the community will converge and that may be adopted as de facto standard.

But your choice of removing PGP signatures (as on type of signature) is now making that impossible, and you intend to decide in the future for others what the only blessed verification mechanism is (also, with no indication of when that will happen).
MS-DOS 4 thousand? WTF.
Where-as across the rest of the planet, survelliance is normalized. This is a weirdly upside down situation.

Of course the state has those powers aplenty. But by limiting commercial ability to collect the data, the state may actually have a survelliance deficit, comparatively.
> I get firmware updates when I do an apt-get no other os does this...

Be so very careful about this.

Ubu did that for me behind my back on my dell laptop and bricked the thing by silently making it so that if you closed the lid and put it in your bag it would fry. Expensive way to find out about that bios feature, uh, change. I was spending a lot of time by a hospital bed when it happened and needed my laptop to be a goddamn laptop, close the lid, in the bag 10 seconds notice because this is important.

Sure that's 99% dell's fault and you can't even contact them to ask if this is really what they consider acceptable in any way, sure.

But yes I'm angry and bitter about it still. Why are ubu pushing an update like that at me implictly saying "this is fine" when it's not remotely close to fine?

eh bitter.
I sense that discussion is headed towards "it doesn't count if a computer can't do it", in which case, the premises begs the question. Good day, sir.
Yeah, the only form I actively take Ubuntu in anymore is Neon, 100% because of the lack of snaps.
If a couple (particularly in a city) doesn't commute, they are way way more likely to consider owning one car vs. two.
yes. calling it "a application" is imho a lot worse than using "a software"
Wow, I guess Brexit doomsayers may have greatly exaggerated the impending demise of the UK that they predicted.
From that same section, though:

> On the other hand, as more speculators participate in a market, underlying real demand and supply can diminish compared to trading volume, and prices may become distorted.[8]
They dont have to be mounted by cops, do they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtBMkg8G5tQ
We should be reporting them all regardless. Let's just JFDI it.
That's nonsense, have you read the specs? It's nothing more than current just/css popovers. I think you are mistaken with popups.
My initial reaction was 'Not even pine? That's hardcore.' Then realised it probably meant the programming language
This dependency hell, it never got me because I'm using LTS versions or I never realized that I am deep into it? I've been using Ubuntu 2008 to 2020, then Debian.
Probably the same reason Google, and Facebook spy on you. Behavioral surplus to exploit, and profit from your perceived persona to advertisers.

In short, profiling, and assuming they know all about you to promote, deny, or manipulate various product price points.

Products from the physical, to services, to bank and mortgage costs.
> Is Google truly so far up their own ass that they make it harder to pull in a third party library than write the code in-house?

From the descriptions in this thread, pulling in a third-party library is still far easier than writing the code in-house for them.

At least, it sounds to me like for adding the kind of example you gave, their process for adding the dependency is on the order of person weeks or in the worst case months, while writing the code themselves would be on the order of person years or decades.
On my Samsung the main gesture for back is right edge to left swipe.
Uninstall Firefox snap to end the pain, then d/l Firefox from mozilla.org, unpack to your home directory and launch it from there. It will work just fine and even auto-update itself.

You can use `alacarte` or manually create a .desktop file to add a menu item for your new Firefox instance if you need it.
Lol yeah the insightful questions. I don't remember that much from high school anymore to make it relevant. Like I have been working for 25 years in IT maybe that is a bit more relevant? Another one was the GPA. First of all after a how many years in your career is that number still relevant? Also in my country there is no GPA. You pass your degree or you don't.

You call it long written essays. I felt I needed to write the magnum opus about my life.

It was a hard nope from me too. Must be hard to be a recruiter for them. Everyone dropping out of the funnel at step 1 :)
I appreciate the suggestion, but I tend to stay with my choices for decades, so I need something that has been around and will stay around. As best I can tell my options are (in random order): openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. There are a few that are runners-up, like Arch and Pop_OS! (hate the name).

Switching distribution is a lot of overhead (I have a too-large and quite diverse collection of iron, with x86 being minority).
Futures contracts are not free
That reminds me of how unnaturally “Baby Yoda” spread. They show it one time and suddenly it was all over Reddit (which didn’t shock me, they’re the textbook example of consumer), Giphy, Imgur, etc. Including scenes that hadn’t been revealed yet.

I can only imagine that Disney put some big bucks into advertising to help pivot the SW IP away from the sequel trilogy before additionally pushing hard on their streaming service.

I also imagine Disney made far, far, far more money from any deals with Giphy than Giphy got from Disney. Hence why they’re being thrown around like a stuffed toy.
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There's been some interesting comments here, but I have a hard time imagining every single person taking a turn in most of these systems. Scrum forcing everyone to make a commitment & report back in on it still seems fairly unique.
> I understand that Snap is meant to release us from dependency hell and I know why you’ve put each one in its own little sandbox, but honestly, even ChromeOS running a Linux application in its virtual machine is faster than this, and it doesn’t require everything to come from one distribution hub

This mess is why I'll probably never leave NixOS. It ain't heaven, but it's at least not packaging hell.
Why? Does WhatsApp even turn a profit for Metaverse?
he uses r word as a pejorative and i can't support that
I.e. only to be used in exceptional cases.
> callous layoffs, unemployment, and misery for the workforce

US unemployment is hovering around 50 years lows. Probably better to look at the actual stats rather than listen to the constant doom-peddling that comes from the media.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
Or plateauing unsustainably.
Fedora does that.
Metaverse acquired Giphy for $400M.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/firefox

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/chromium-browser

Both now depend on snapd. Doing apt install gets you the snap version. It didn't use to, and now it does. I'd call that pretty forceful, you're one apt install away from having it if you're not paying close attention to every dependency.
I'm aware it's a different product and that the price is not the same, as was stated. An example of a price was given elsewhere of roughly NZD $8000, which isn't too far off the price of a pair of high-end in ear hearing aids.
you made the game for Steve Jobs kid?
This might be true but it's irrelevant to the claim "LLMs are already better than humans".
I had a funny experience like this. I got a lenovo bios update via ubuntu. I didn't really notice until I rebooted. Which took a bit of time. So I did what every impatient programmer does. I disconnected the power, took out the battery, did a hard reboot. I did everything you shouldn't do during a bios update. Not my smartest moment.
Though, the update worked and everything's been fine since.
> if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training, you quickly run into a brick wall

Btw, PALM2 has far fewer parameters than V1.

> The largest model in the PaLM 2 family, PaLM 2-L, is significantly smaller than the largest PaLM model but uses
more training compute. Our evaluation results show that PaLM 2 models significantly outperform PaLM on a variety
of tasks, including natural language generation, translation, and reasoning. These results suggest that model scaling
is not the only way to improve performance.

From the leak we know that the large version is 340B parameters, compared to the original 540B parameters. From Table 2 in the document we see that the small version (unknown size) is on par with version 1.

ML typically follows a cycle. Improve, distill, repeat. It is unfortunate that the big labs lead these efforts because many smaller labs try to work on the distill part in parallel (out of necessity) but works get rejected (due to lack of SOTA) or ignored. Like all research, we need to be careful and nuanced in our evaluations. There's a lot of hype and many trying to take advantage of the confusion and sell snake oil. I think AI/ML is and will continue to change our world, but we have to be careful to not let the salesmen dictate the conversations.

PaLM https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10403

PaLM 2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311
Lmao, that's the worst of it? A guy had to brake sharply once? And people were polite to him afterwards? The utter tragedy.

I'll trade you streets and you can deal with the 3 dead kids from traffic incidents over the last 5 years
Sure. I got seamlessly migrated from X as well, when I upgraded my Debian major release. I am not "that kind of hacker" anymore (hence running GNOME), so I was OK with this. Didn't even notice the change for a while.
These things are called pollution bugs in Japan. The first time I came across one I had no idea what it was. The way they move flapping their wing head is fascinating.
The point is that around you and Strunk, the language keeps evolving.
> What're the reasons for NOT including AM? The only thing I found is mention that including it will "hinder progress". What progress?

It's always about manufacturing cost.

Automakers will trim a BOM to save 60 cents on a car.

If they have the data that AM is not a 'requested'/desired feature when purchasing a car then of course they would want to trim it.

Also AM radio imposes quite a few extra design constraints in terms of EMI, in a vehicle that by definition is extremely electrically noisy.
Pretty cool. For the next step the sprayers don't work like a normal spray gun, instead of pressure they use a spinning contraption to mist the paint and static electricity as a kind of terminal guidance to get over 90% of the paint onto the object being painted.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvFX-Y5tyk
general purpose GPU programming, specifically ML.
Maybe "these users" are not as braindead as you think? nginx still defaults to settings that made sense in 2005. I usually go for caddy now not because I am not familiar with nginx, but because it doesn't require me to drop hundreds of lines of config across a dozen of includes to get a properly configured HTTP server. Automation doesn't make much sense in our use case, and it gets tiring maintaining a separate ansible playbook just for nginx setup.

Caddy has sane defaults for many settings and I only need to add a couple of response headers, drop the domain name, and where to proxy the requests to. It takes care of maintaining things like the list of TLSv1.2 ciphersuites.

Adding more domains takes two lines of config thanks to parameterized includes — another important thing nginx misses that has to be implemented manually via scripts using something like envsubst (or again, full-on automation which is problematic if many of your servers are just a little bit different from each other — for good reasons).

Apache httpd has it by the way: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_macro.html
>How do you think a human with below average intelligence (or even with average intelligence) would fare?

I don't understand what rote memorization to pass a test has to do with intelligence. For the record Kim Kardashian passed the bar; I imagine anyone given the proper motivation and time to study could do it, it's not a hard test.

If AGI is a computer passing a test, then AGI was achieved a long time ago. I don't think a human with below average intelligence could multiple 2 very large primes but I don't mistake my calculator for intelligence. A below average intelligence human can drive a car with a couple hours of training, an LLM can't do that (with a far lower power budget as well).

I'm not saying AGI is impossible, but it's clear LLMs are not AGIs; it's not a matter of having a 100x more powerful LLM, just like making an Ape better at sign language won't make them better at abstract reasoning. An Ape's brain fundamentally lacks the mental machinery for higher level things that humans do. It's not a question of not being smart enough. LLMs are simply one component of the human mind.
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” —Carl Sagan

(Though I'd prefer Galileo in the top spot instead of Columbus; if anything Columbus could replace Bozo: the people that laughed at him were actually completely right, not failing to recognize his genius.)
How long would that take?!
The UN also thinks Taiwan is China.
Yes, it is. Being aware of how the immediate future is shaped by already made decisions helps to inform people who wouldn’t otherwise know what’s pending. The contrary journalistic standard would be, well, the first chapter of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
> This project was supported by Collateral Global, a UK registered Charity (No. 1195125), dedicated to researching, understanding and communicating the effectiveness and collateral impacts of the mandatory NPIs taken by governments worldwide in response to the Covid pandemic.

> Conflict of Interests: I have no competing interests to declare.

When the charity funding the research has the conclusion in their name, that's not a conflict of interest?

This comment brought to you by the "Astroturfed Research Sucks Experiment" a UK based charity dedicated to researching, understanding and communicating the quality and impacts of the motivated reasoning of astroturfed and/or crank science.

I have no competing interests to declare.

(edit: the charity seems to be an offshoot of the Great Barringotn Decleration folks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration)
Because there's not enough of a crisis to justify it, yet.
It really depends on the degree of granularity. ROS encourages the use of the actor model multiple times inside of the same machine. This is complete overkill, and actually reduces reliability and safety.

For example, how do you write unit tests for an actor-model system? Without unit tests, how do you properly characterize the code's behaviour? When I last did ROS work, I built the whole thing outside of ROS, tested and validated it worked with tests, and then put some small ROS wrappers on top, and it basically worked first time. But this isn't how ROS-native systems are developed, instead people use Gazebo/Rviz to tweak and add things, and you end up with a system that is grown organically, at the single algorithm level, with all the problems that entails.

As I posted cross-thread, in the actor model, with queues and threads, you inherently encode additional state via the temporal spacing of the messages. Trying to predict what all of these could be so that you can test for edge cases and make sure things are safe is basically impossible. The modularity of ROS lets you set up a giant system pretty quickly, but in order to iron out the edge cases takes about as much time as just rewriting the whole thing as a monolith, because you haven't actually been able to test the system properly and the long tail of hidden state and bugs is impossible to avoid, and also impossible to predict and test for.

From what I've seen of the ROS community, the concept of testing is severely lacking. It usually entails running simulations in lots of different scenarios, which in a testing hierarchy is only really your final integration tests. It doesn't tell you about degradations in various subsystems, eg. control or navigational ineffiencies. It doesn't tell you about regressions based on earlier behaviour. It isn't deterministic, so you get random failures, reducing trust in the testing infrastructure. It takes tons of compute, so your devs wait hours for something they should be able to know in seconds. And because it's slow, devs won't add tests to the same granularity they would otherwise.

In a high reliability environment deterministic code is really important. The actor model doesn't give you that, each and every time you cross its interface. It also makes abstractions for granular testing much more difficult. It isn't a silver bullet, and ROS leans so heavily on it that all of the downsides are effectively unmitigated and impossible to avoid.

It sounds like we're working in a similar space, for me it is drone obstacle avoidance and navigation systems, and I found ROS to be entirely unsuitable for anything more granular than inter-drone coordination.
It is a valid concern though. It's very common to see technically genius projects, that don't get enough attention because their project landing page looks horrible.
I kinda don't understand how people can be so skilled, and put so much effort to make a nice thing, and then completely skimp on the design.

E.g. here it wouldn't even take much. It's mostly just padding issues, and having sharp and rounded corners mixed, and maybe the color palette of the tasks could be improved.
You could not purchase land to build a home anymore.

You could maybe get land lent to you and pay a rent on it (to the community). But it wouldn’t be „your“ land.
TLDR their approach:

> In Garner’s view, the best course is to “follow idiom and usage” but “otherwise apply logic.” Such advice circumvents the descriptivism-prescriptivism binary often invoked in discussions of grammar. Garner is saying, essentially, be descriptivist when you can and prescriptivist when you can’t.
Uhh, that seems a bit different but reasonable enough. It seems like they just didn’t want to hire you.
Codium and Codeium are different products
Its not the responsibility, its an observation that they are more susceptible to peer pressure while having been largely overlooked as a contributor to housing price pressure
Not only that, but also increases the talent pool you can hire from that has familiarity with your internal tooling from the start.
Or plateauing disappointingly?
> The railroad was impressive

The utter boondoggle of corruption that went into that is pretty amazing, though.