skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m just not a big believer in doing things that don’t work. Even large scale protests rarely achieve meaningful results. Labor walkouts, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, COVID protesters and the truckers, Just Stop Oil, PETA theatrics, the weekly marches on Washington for this cause and that cause: have any of them actually changed anything?

When it comes to how companies operate, only shareholders get to vote. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. Convince shareholders, and they’ll motivate management/leadership. When it comes to government policy changes, convince voters and they will elect people who might implement that change.

Protesting and picketing is “doing nothing, loudly.”
These people indirectly killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and impacted millions more, creating a drug epidemic. Our elected representatives, especially the GOP want to let them run free. It's sick thinking they still breathe free air after poisoning a generation for profit.

No lessons were learned.
It's so much easier to find an occupation that consumes your mental energy if you don't have to think about earning money for some time!
How much ya benchmark, Bro? ;-)
> The brain is analog and chemical, AI will be digital and silicon.

Says who?

Sure, if you assume that “AGI is just scaling up GPT”, it will be digital and silicon. But that’s a big assumption.

For all we know, AGI will only ever, if it exists, be analog and chemical.

> We have no idea how the map from one to the other.

Plus, even if we had an easy one-to-one mapping function between them, we don’t understand the source well enough to do the mapping.
For many applications there is no need to fully model the human brain. An approximation of a particular aspect would be sufficient in most cases. We didn’t build aeroplanes by fully modeling a bird, we just need aerodynamics.
>from any point on a surface at any angle

Yes, obviously what I mean. They don't just pop into existence - at least not for these purposes. But those surfaces can be at any point in 3d space.
I feel bad for the people that have to the Jira updates where I work - every time it happens it seems to take forever because it needs to "reindex", and they try and start it in the early evening but it still seems to bleed into business hours the next day.
An analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter is less than a cup of coffee in some places [1].

[1] https://protosupplies.com/product/pcf8591-a-d-and-d-a-conver...
Grokking in ML has been around for quite a while. First heard the term being used at a conference in 2017.
Mono, Xamarin, Project Rotor,...
> should be all happening on the endpoints

Right - but Fastmail never had the opportunity to do that, which is what I read GP as asking for.
Even though it is no longer sold, a used item purchased in the EU must have a warranty offered by the seller.

https://www.evz.de/en/shopping-internet/guarantees-and-warra...

> The legal warranty is mandatory and applies EU-wide for two years beginning from the date consumers receive the product. In the case of used goods, the period can be shortened (1 year). In addition, a commercial guarantee is often agreed between the contracting parties.

And so, the person goes to a camera repair (note that parts will be difficult to get) for a warranty repair within the year. They sue Nikon or Ebay about the warranty and then that goes back to the original seller.

> ... for international buyers through eBay international shipping one of the benefits of eBay international shipping is that we may resolve Vero import issues on your behalf the Vero program is designed to protect you and protect rights owners intellectual property ...

Ebay is saying that they won't be able to protect you (the seller) from this or resolve the import issues if they occur.

Is this settled law? Likely.

---

That's the warranty part... the other part is that items with a trademark may be restricted by the mark holder. This is often done when there's a licensed importer for those goods. (I've also bought and sold board games to and from Europe - some of them are "nope, can't do that" others are perfectly fine - depends on the publisher and if they have a licensed seller of the game)

Note also the legal standing that Nikon has within the EJC: https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/1998/10/the-ecj-has-delive...

> The ECJ has delivered a landmark ruling which effectively allows trade mark owners to block the sale of goods bearing their trademarks within the EU, where the goods have been obtained on the so-called 'grey market' from suppliers outside the EU. The ruling means that the holder of a trade mark in the UK, or other EU country, can prevent the sale of parallel-imported goods from outside the EU even though such goods have been legitimately sold abroad in the first place.

If Nikon wants to block grey market sales in Europe they are completely within their rights to do so within Europe. Ebay knows that Nikon will do this and someone is going to be on the hook for it (this has been around for two decades).

Is this settled law? Absolutely. That was settled in '98 and every page about grey market for EU points out that the mark holder may ban it.

Recently: Court of Justice allows destroying genuine grey-market goods when rights aren’t exhausted - https://trademarkblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/10/21/court-of-ju...
I get the appeal of a “garden leave” where you make your salary but don’t work. It’s a nice break after hard work before your next thing… but can you “quit” and voluntarily leave early?

If you can quit the extended severance period, it would force employers to pay the market rate of their anti-competitiveness. If someone’s salary is X and they find a new job at 1.25X, then some would take X to do fully paid vacation for a few months after quitting, but surely some would force the old employer to pay up.
> the idea that Silicon Valley succeeded due to a lack of noncompetes

When people say "Silicon Valley succeeded," they're talking about Silicon Valley, the mythologized founding of the semiconductor industry in the 50's and 60's, beginning with the so-called Traitorous Eight. I think Apple's origins are also believed to have been enabled by the non-compete-less environment. It doesn't as much play into the success from the Dotcom era onwards.
Thanks! I appreciate the perspective.

> "can a reasonable person who knows how chargpt works look at a prompt, output and conclude part of the output at least was a mere processing of, as opposed to original content that was inspired by the copy righted content?"

It would be funny if the "workaround" was to disallow very low "temperature" output, for some sort of "no, it's random, not just statistical!".
I replace brush when I feel it's the time. Every time after I replaced it, the difference is bigger than expected. I should replace it earlier. Maybe I should buy this Philips.
My main thing is that I can't find a simple explanation of what the exctinction risk actually is from "agi".

It's all very vague and "handwavy". How is it going to kill us all? Why do we subsidize it if it is so dangerous?

Almost all risks they mention would be better mitigated by making governemental use of any AI related system stop immediately as the risks are too high there (misapplication of the force of governement is much more dangerous than people playing around with chat gpt and being misled) and put on hold until dangers and benefits are better understood. Maybe keeping liscences for developpment and nationalising the labs doing it? Fines for anyone caught working on one?
I hadn't heard of Sidewalk so I had to do some research. It sounds like a better Helium network. I mean you're right, getting a Helium hotspot is difficult and you can't just use any old LoRa radio, it needs to be one whitelisted by the Helium network. The whole think smelled like a scam back in ~2019 when I saw ads for it. Pay ~$300, give away your Internet to these IoT devices, but in exchange get some fake Internet money.

I think it's impressive that Amazon managed to deploy what at a glance looks like an identical network with superior coverage without all the blockchain/crypto bullshit... AND it's free for non-Amazon devices to use. I'm pretty sure Helium costs some fake token money to consume data from.

One concern I had was if someone were to use an IoT device to use my Internet connection to download CP. I don't think it's pragmatic, but there are lots of dumb people on this Earth and I can pretty much guarantee someone, somewhere is going to try it, and the poor guy hosting that Helium hotspot is going to have to lawyer up and probably have his computers seized until law enforcement figures out what happened. Same applies to other illegal activities. Imagine if the ransomware attack on that US company that resulted in them paying some amount of Bitcoin... that transaction was made on a random IoT device connected to someone's Helium hotspot. How would the FBI track that one down?

Perhaps, then, that is a/the benefit of Helium over Sidewalk, because presumably Amazon will comply with any/all requests from government/law enforcement for data on which devices connected to what and when. With Helium, I'm not sure the FBI would have been able to figure out anything beyond the county and state the ransomware host collected his Bitcoin ransom at.
CLR didn't need to be shoved into the browser, it was there already via ActiveX first and Silverlight second.

As for the others since 1950's, plenty of stuff to study there.
I make do with SumatraPDF. https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
AprilTools: A marker-based camera tracker
How to talk about AI – even if you don’t know much about AI
For the numerically challenged like me: 100TB is 100 trillion bytes, giving you 1 byte per parameter at 100T params.

LLaMA can apparently run quantized to 4 bits per param (not sure if worth it though), which would allow you to run a 200TB model on one of these cards if I'm understanding right.
Telecom workers with privileged access are instructed not to report crimes they overhear.

The training materials are approved by the federal government.

It’s technically a crime for them to repeat what they hear, including to law enforcement.

Some narrow exceptions apply, such as when the telecom company is committing a crime.

But technicians who have to listen in on calls (I don’t know if this is a thing anymore), are instructed to never report crimes they overhear.
Yes! I kept wondering why but allisdust's compute reason makes the most sense.
Incorrect, in a practical sense: If you would win after fully litigating the non-compete, but doing so would cost millions of dollars, whether or not the state is considered to be enforcing it is a distinction without a difference.
Perfectly legitimate question - and I don't think you should have been downvoted for asking.

We're entirely funded by our customers, and fully self-bootstrapped. We have no debts to outside parties.

We have 8 owners, 7 of which work in the business and the 8th is the brother of one of the founders (and only owns a couple of percent).

Source: I'm CEO. Have worked here since 2004, through the Opera acquisition (I moved to Norway for nearly 2 years) and back. We've controlled our growth such that we keep our spending under our income - I know, what a shocking idea in current day!
> Distributed apps. No central server involved. Peer to peer is one. Or each app is a server too and the information propagates in ripple like style. You connect to me, we sync, then another connects to me and this way the info that only you had now he has it too (and me of course). That's the original serverless idea.

I don't remember those ever being called "serverless". Certainly "peer to peer" or "distributed" have a lot more traction.
What about it is "functional-like"? Does functional simply mean not using classes?
Interlisp-D for one would be nice, I guess.

And it isn't from the 1950's, it is since then.
The biggest issue it will solve is not even technical, it is management

https://blog.pwkf.org/2022/09/18/always-optimize-for-dummies...
I mean, with murderers that's a real risk. But old Lizzie Holmes can't run a company any more (not allowed to).
Systems Engineering is a bit discipline and industry specific; a nuclear systems engineer is a bit different from a candy factory systems engineer. But the basics are about the same.

You don't need to understand the product management or biz management side, but it helps. A Senior needs to understand the basic phases of an engineering product's lifecycle from birth to death, and how to design for and complete each one. But a more standard systems engineer just needs to understand how systems work, how they are designed, implemented, and kept running. The rest comes over time.

You don't have to be an expert in every part of the product. Like, you don't have to be an Operations Manager to engineer a product for production. The "boring" engineering work is all that's required. But it really helps to know a bit about everything else: how to find requirements, draft designs, liaise with stakeholders, make a POC, test it, implement components, tie them together into a system, test it, run it. Having a sunset plan is also great but not required.

It definitely helps to have some experience in the industry you want to work in. If you wanna build a candy factory, having interned on the factory floor helps. Having built similar machines before helps.
I mean, I'm not making it up...

Cost:

Canadian Cell Phone Providers: Generally, Canadian cell phone plans tend to be more expensive compared to their US counterparts. This is often attributed to factors such as the smaller population, vast geography, and limited competition in the Canadian market. However, the exact cost can vary depending on the plan, provider, and region.

US Cell Phone Providers: The cost of cell phone plans in the US can vary widely depending on the provider and the specific plan you choose. Generally, there is more competition among US providers, leading to a wider range of plan options and potentially more affordable prices compared to Canada.

Quality of Service:

Canadian Cell Phone Providers: Canada has a vast geographical area, which poses challenges for cell phone coverage, especially in rural and remote areas. The quality of service can vary based on the provider and location. Some major Canadian providers include Rogers, Bell, and Telus, which offer extensive coverage in urban areas but may have limitations in more remote regions.

US Cell Phone Providers: Due to the larger population and market size, US cell phone providers generally offer better coverage across the country. Major US providers such as Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint (now merged with T-Mobile) have extensive networks and often provide better coverage in rural areas compared to Canadian providers.

Overall, US cell phone providers tend to offer more competitive pricing and better coverage due to the larger market size and increased competition.
See https://medium.com/@mckoder/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed...
There won't be a desktop mode any more, that is the point.
17 people are in Earth orbit at the same time right now
The world has never been better. This is an incredible time to be alive.
It looks like just another one of those statements. It will have no meaningful impact whatsoever. The fact that openai and microsoft executives have signed it makes it even more bs
Using a static language to manipulate complex types, particularly those sourced from a different type system (say complex nested Avro, SQL, or even complex JSON) is much more awkward when the types cannot be normalized into the language automatically as can be done with dynamic languages. Static languages require more a priori knowledge of data types, and are very awkward at handling collections with diverse type membership. Data has many forms in reality -- dynamic languages are much more effective at manipulating data on its own terms.
I've come from the C++ realm back during the Bad Old Days before C++11, so I know exactly what you feel. My answer was to turn to Clojure and Clojurescript.

> I have considered Java and Go since I have experienced with both languages.

You might as well jump in with either of those. At the end of the day you will be fixing bugs and adding little new features. You can pick up most of the necessary things along the way, likely by fixing those pesky bugs! Probably the biggest takeaway I got from web development is security. Most non-web people never have to worry about that in a significant way. However most the web security problems are mature and well understood; everybody needs user auth, we're all sanitizing inputs, prevent SQL injection, etc.

In short, I think you will naturally come to grok the backend based on what you already understand.

> Write a web app? I've run away many times... it all feels so daunting.

I have rewritten this part three times, and all I can be is Sebastian from The Little Mermaid; The Frontend World is a mess. Life in the Backend is better than anything they got up there!

My advice is to mostly avoid a dynamic frontend if possible. Server-side rendered HTML still works and will work until the Internet falls into the sun. CSS can be a load of complexity, so I recommend you find a nice little CSS framework you like. Personally I reach for Bulma [0] as one of the less complex out there. If you need a little dynamism, note that every HTML element has a bunch of callbacks you can optionally attach JavaScript functions. The Mozilla Developer Network [1] is a godsend of documentation, and comparable to Javadocs in detail. It is huge but very exhaustive, so use search liberally.

When I can't avoid a dynamic frontend, I reach for Clojurescript and one of its React libraries. The simple reason is a backend developer like myself can make progress in something as messy as the Browser. Like actual JavaScript frameworks, Clojurescript structures how I approach and write frontend apps. Relatedly, Clojurescript makes it much easier to convince other backend Clojure developers to wade into the frontend waters and be productive. At the end of the day, its still a transpiler and so I work much like TypeScript and other dialects function.

Also as an anecdote, I bounced hard off frontend development several times before getting comfortable. This might be professional experience talking (see my second paragraph), but maybe it took getting real messy first before I became comfortable.

[0]: https://bulma.io/

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Hahaha thanks for the laugh
The trouble with all this is that people are forced to buy these insanely expensive systems merely for the benefit of fitting all that stuff in the vram even if they don't end up using the compute cores on these machines (which, let's be honest, aren't really all that better than the gaming gpus).

The needs are more in line with consumer server hardware with user-choice on cpu/ram etc. Sounds to me like there's a market for disruption. Pity that the deep-learning community is under the choke-hold of nvidia's software.
The point about Linux Desktop was that is the only place left for those that won't dance to the music of Apple, Microsoft and Google's operating systems.

How much it will grow beyond 1%? Not much, if at all.
First catch your boson.
> more than double (~1.7x) every 2 years

To clarify in case anyone else finds this confusing. The linked article suggests a 1.7x annual increase, which compounds to 2.89x every two years.
That's not your problem, unless you are coming up with those deadlines yourself.

In my experience almost everybody uses their vacation days in NL.
I find that the GPT-4 in the playground is as good as before - but have noticed the issues when using the chat gpt client
I don't think you use the word autistic in any meaningful way.
> "Reversed, the way the weight of the stick meets the head is just insanely loud. It makes your drum project so much more, if that’s what you want. That’s when you’ve really got to stretch your arms out, because the weight of the stick makes for a lot of wear and tear on your forearms."

https://drummagazine.com/roy-mayorga-the-soulfly-interview/

I'm not a drummer, so I shouldn't make blanket statements like that, I guess. I always thought they held the sticks loosely.

Look at Ginger Baker & Elvin Jones, from 0:56 on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFTvZl8G9Z4

Or Roy Haynes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBeBnnqpOcs
I wonder if that is because people who pick obscure languages are more interested in looking cool than getting the job done.

Like in an interview setting, even if they say you can choose any language, it is probably a safer bet to go with something the interviewer has probably seen before.
It’s very clear useEffect was created with a certain purpose and then the React folks realized that was a terrible use of it and changed the purpose of useEffect.

And this would have been fine if they had been upfront about how they were wrong about useEffect and how now this is the correct way to do it. But instead, they’ve at best kept silent about this transition, and a lot of people strongly attached to React have decided to gaslight everyone else about useEffect (I’m a huge React fan… it’s my default UI library but that doesn’t mean I’m ok with gaslighting over transparency).

And the easiest way to prove this is to compare the docs.

Original:
https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/hooks-effect.html

> The Effect Hook lets you perform side effects in function components:

New:

https://react.dev/reference/react/useEffect

> useEffect is a React Hook that lets you synchronize a component with an external system.

Synchronizing with an external system is completely different behavior from performing side effects. And we know the original intention was to perform side effects and not sync with external systems because the name of the hook is useEffect and not useSyncExternal.

Unless the React team always had the new intention but deliberately decided to mislead everyone through the original documentation and by misnaming the hook, but I don’t think even the biggest React hater thinks so poorly of them, and I’m a fan.
The Key to Managing Inflation? Higher Wages
That link is about the risks of AGI, which doesn't exist, and there's no reason to believe that it ever will exist.

(If I'm wrong about AGI then I'm open to being convinced, but that's a different conversation as the topic here is non-general AI, is it not?)
I kind hoped the conclusion would be that you could unlock hidden features in the brush head, increase the torque and reset the head so that you don't have to replace it.

But alternatively, since the head has an NFC tag, could you use it for stuff like a partnership with Marriott (open your hotel door with your toothbrush, so much convenience) or with transit companies to charge your monthly transit pass?

Possibilities of an NFC-enabled toothbrush head are infinite. The future truly is fascinating.
> GPT-4 Early which is supposedly to be more powerful than GPT-4 Launch (OpenAI paid a lot of alignment tax to make GPT-4 safer)

What does “safer” mean?

Does it mean censored?
Bad management demands bad tools.
I wonder if people were trolling it after their announcement that they were firing their human workers.
Glass is one of the things we've gotten pretty good at recycling though which should cut down on the need for raw materials.
I suppose "word" is the constraining factor there, I was thinking of > and # as sigils too, which--if you're willing to be a bit loose with what a "word" is--contradicts that they're unpopular.
Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks