skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>If you have lived in a more extreme country that does not have proper democratic protections and has had an authoritarian socialist government then I'm sorry you've had to experience that.

I have and I kind of see where you coming from now. Because I would never use the word socialist for what you have in the UK, the word I would use is social. You make it sound socialist invented healthcare, transportation and education when all those things existed long before the first socialist was born. And yes ideology does matter a lot. There is a good reason why there wasn't a single successful socialist country in the world and there also a good reason why a lot of ex-socialist countries still have so many problems even after they nominally became capitalist. Value set and the ideology behind it really do matter.
I think the idea of EV making additional noise is flawed. The important thing is that people should be looking when using roads and not just relying on hearing. Deaf people are allowed to drive and they can certainly cycle safely as well as long as they just look around a bit more to keep aware of what's around them.

Having fake noise just encourages pedestrians to keep looking at their phones and not use their eyes when crossing roads or cycle lanes and they can injure themselves or others by doing that.

Also, there's far too much noise in busy areas as it is, so it seems unhelpful to deliberately add extra noise to the environment.
Treat AI Like a Biological Weapon, Not a Nuclear One
For the problem statements, there is official github repo (see link in the next comment). As for my zip archives, you basically unzip them all somewhere, point the webserver to it and you are all set (+optionally basic Apache+mod_php setup or equivalent to serve user profiles and solutions).
The whole point of commit hashes is that you can't do that, so no, being able to change history undetected would not be nice at all.
There is more or less the same issue in academia. Once (hyper)-specialized on some micro-topic, it becomes quite hard (due to workload and pressure to publish) to switch to something else.
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That's not a useful counter example.

You asked for the incentives for AI; the equivalent isn't the same as for humans.

The nature of the AI doesn't include a concept of prison or licensing, so it can't be threatened with it, for the same reason I can't threaten a human driver with Af'nek-leigh D'Och entRah'negh.

I can however 'punish' (air-quotes necessary because it might not feel like anything) an AI by altering the weights and biases of its network — once done, it then thinks differently.

Don't anthropomorphise it, that's a category error.

Also, the field of "how does it even?" is tiny, which is itself a reason to not grant them control of vehicles, but that's a separate issue.
We started from thin clients connecting to room-sized mainframes made by giant corporations, and we ended at small cellphone-size devices mostly acting as thin clients connecting to datacenter-building-sized services run by giant corporations, even though the small devices could theoretically do much more than the original thin clients.

Being able to run locally won't change much, if the local LLMs are owned by Microsoft, Google and Apple. Or if the 'local' LLM is actually an API call to a web service because the programmer/company decided to delegate the issue and not deal with all the software deployment issues. Or because Microsoft decided to hoover up all the data, and programmers decided it's so much easier to just call the OS API and not care whether it's running locally or remotely.

Yeah, you'll have a local LLM that is pretty good. There'll always be a bit better LLM running remotely, because most people won't run giant servers and don't care to update often. How much does any of that matter, when the AI is completely controlled by GiantCorp?
It's well known reddit has been eyeing up an IPO, and as a result it's pretty unsurprising they're searching for ways to juice their metrics in the build up. Tells a nice growth story so you can dump stock on retail and it's not really important if you do long term damage to the business - because it'll no longer be your business. Can't imagine that would be a great place to work unless they very strongly align your compensation with the IPO (commonly employees get the oppsite, a lock-up period after IPO to make sure all the juice is squeezed by the time they get to sell).
But funny enough is that there is a commit where it pretends to be Linus https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/commit/e...
Large Lie Models
Red Hat will almost definitely work with upstream to "fix the problem". Red Hat engineerings mantra is "Upstream first", the financial cost of maintaining a difference from upstream is a detractor to encourage users from using upstream builds.
Making a Simple package with Modern Tools in R
Letting GPT-4 Control My Terminal (TermGPT) [video]
Hi, why is this feature interesting/important? (Coming from [uneducated] webdeveloper with interest for systems/embedded programming)
Did this with a uugear mega4 ppps usb switch between two pi zero ws. One can be permanently on, drawing just 0.6watt. It can turn on the second pi zero and connect to it.
That isnt boilerplate. It's isolated, repeated code.
And the cert is expired.
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Many clones have two usb ports, with one being OTG capable. For example the mango pi mq.
It will honestly depend on just how much better the cloud versions are relative to the local versions.

If the cloud versions are significantly better (like they are now) than local LLMs, then cloud will continue to be the way. If local LLMs reach 95% of what cloud versions can do, then I think local ones might win out because the cost will be smaller, it will be faster (in latency), and it will have more privacy.

In 3-4 years? I'm willing to bet that local LLMs will have a sizable market.

I basically expect the neural engine inside an Apple Silicon M7 to be 80% of the SoC - instead of 10% like it is today. We're going to be buying NPUs (Neural Processor Unit) with a CPU and GPU attached to it. Right now, we're buying a CPU with a GPU and NPU attached to it.

I don't expect giant corporations to control LLMs. I expect smaller companies to be able to compete and that techniques for training and deploying LLMs will eventually look similar to how software is built today - where anyone can train and deploy LLMs.
> I'm starting to think this may be the Great Filter.

Oooh, nice ! I wish Baxter had added this idea in Manifold (hard scifi novels about "why are we alone in the universe ?" and other things.

For those who wonder what's an uncontrolled paper-clip maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence it's a thought experiment that illustrates instrumental convergence:

> Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent beings (human and non-human) to pursue similar sub-goals, even if their ultimate goals are quite different.[1] More precisely, agents (beings with agency) may pursue instrumental goals—goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end, but are not the end goals themselves—without ceasing, provided that their ultimate (intrinsic) goals may never be fully satisfied.

> Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with unbounded but apparently harmless goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a computer with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a difficult mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the entire Earth into one giant computer in an effort to increase its computational power so that it can succeed in its calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

> Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

Though I disagree: the AI in this analogy is mindless, it's up to the controlling entity with agency to stop it or program it to stop at some point. Just like we humans have agency and could decide to stop exploiting our planet's resources until we can do it without destroying it. How that decision is made and implemented is another debate.
> XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs
The author suggests that the term "LLM" (Last Minute Meeting) is misleading and proposes a new term, "XB" (eXtreme Bullshitting), to more accurately describe the pointless and time-wasting nature of these meetings. The tweet has sparked some controversy, with some arguing that not all LLMs are useless and that the new term is disrespectful to colleagues and the meeting process. However, others have praised the author for bringing attention to a common workplace issue.

Kind of ironic that this is the ChatGPT summary of this post (I'm following a HN Telegram summary bot) and it hallucinated the meaning of LLM and thereby completely ruined the point the author was trying to make.
Ok, so that fits with what I'm noticing among my peers. The lower and middle salary range of developers is continuing to increase, but not a lot ($86k in 2016 is equivalent to $110k now), whereas the high end is not increasing very much or is losing to inflation slightly (people who were already earning $150-200k or more base salary in 2016, the start of the reference range you mentioned).
If the tracks are rigidly set in concrete, how do they deal with thermal expansion then? Roads made from concrete usually have gaps every couple of meters, but you can't have that many gaps in railroad tracks I suppose.
Of course it always depends what borders you draw.

I started with steam railways. Of course horse driven railways existed before, but they were of a completely different load class.

I don't know what clinker from salt mines looks like. But I guess it's significantly different from sharp, crushed rocks the NZ article describes. Also the Scottish article says that just some sentences later that ballast had completely different properties those days.

Some ballast has been used for centuries. But not the kind consisting of sharp, crushed relatively coarse rock pieces we know today.
That was my reaction as well. It really doesn't say much of value, just regurgitates some facts about both languages.
This is lazy, learn what communism is; it's not hard.
In Russian, you do hear people say «что будет, то будет» — literally ”what will be will be”.

The formal rules of the language discourage tautology though. It's considered ineloquent, so it's not very common.
If you fancy playing along on a PCB, there's a mini backplane and SBC version here:

https://github.com/tebl/RC6502-Apple-1-Replica
That's a wagonway, the wagons would have been pulled by horses.

Steam powered railways were only widely deployed from the 1830's
Privacy but only when it suits us. This validates the use case.
I really agree that they should have an integrated browser-based C64 emulator to view all those demos.

The browser itself is not very a interesting target for this kind of demo, since it doesn't have much limitations and changes over time too.
It may come to you as a surprise, but if my colleague is taking 20 sick days a year whilst I'm taking 2, I'm not jealous of them 'working less' because they are instead sick at home.
You don't seem to understand the concept of externalities at all.

>If we taxed based on negative externalities and rewarded based on positive ones oil companies would own literally everything.

Negative externalities are costs that you inflict onto other people without compensating them. Positive externalities are benefits third parties receive without paying for them.

This means we already reward oil companies by letting them have free stuff and letting them monetize that free stuff. This is at the expense of all the people who weren't born into free stuff. We live in a world where "Oil companies already own literally everything" to a large extent.

If you have monopoly rights to a positive externality as a third party (e.g. extraction rights to oil), you get to charge for the full surplus, essentially making it so that it doesn't matter whether the positive externality exists or not for the rest of the economy. Privatizing a public externality as a third party is as simple as selling it.

Taxing CO2 cuts into the monopoly surplus and leaves less profits for oil companies. That is the defining feature of pigovian taxes. If we assume a reduction in income taxes, then the dead weight loss of income taxation shrinks and we get less income inequality.

>If we rewarded based on positive ones oil companies would own literally everything.

The producer of the positive externality of oil is a collaboration between plants accumulating carbon and the earth's crust compressing it into oil. You could also call the producer of this externality "the environment".

This means that if we wanted to reward the environment for its good positive externality producing behaviour, we should stop destroying it globally.

You appear to be under the misconception that the third party benefiting from the positive externality also produced the externality. E.g the oil company gets an income from oil, therefore it also produced the oil via photosynthesis and compression according to the neoclassical productivity hypothesis. This is not case by definition, rewarding the production of positive externalities would not reward oil companies, because they didn't produce the positive externality, they just extracted it.
Side to side motion is actually what I meant and what I do sometimes in poor weather driving or when I have branches up close and blocking my vision while trying to see beyond them.
I try it in the new bing.
Give me A or B option, I can choose it. And continue...
what is the name of the hidden capability?
Alternatively, could we consider treating the technology as a potentially dangerous technology without giving politicos all over the world additional ammunition and incorrect mental models with regards to the regulation thereof?

To be clear - I fully support treaties banning the use of AI for autonomous warfare. But modeling all applications of AI under the "weapon" label is a massive category error.
I live in the EU, and EVs are much quieter than ICE cars at low speeds in my day-to-day experience. The volume levels need to be raised significantly from my perspective; they're dangerously low here. There are quite a lot of kids on the roads here, and the difference in audibility between ICE and EV cars is concerning.

Are you saying the typical EVs you hear are _louder_ than ICE cars where you live?

As to the pleasantness of the noise - yeah, that seems to be a manufacturer's choice, or perhaps even driver choice? And let's hope just like annoying ring-tones of years past that the current selection dies out soon...
Domain names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

Yes, you have to have either some kind of network configuration, and enable the network interface that appears after you pluging in the USB device. It's no different from using USB-ethernet adapters.

The easiest is probably to rely on link local addresses and mDNS if all you need is local access from the computer you connected the device to. On a systemd based Linux distros, mDNS is enabled by default in systemd-resolved daemon. On my distro, there's no default configuration for usb network adapters, so I have to do that part by myself. Other systems may work differently and auto-enable USB interfaces and at least setup link local addresses on them. The device implementig the gadget has to do the same.
Part of the brain that controls metabolism? That sounds like a winner to me.
New material opens door to transitors that do not heat
Sarcasm or troll? It’s one or the other
Convert your chats with ChatGPT into a pdf
You did not needed a passport to travel anywhere. Really. You go to bus/train station, you buy yourself a ticket and then you can go.

The need for passport to travel was introduced well into 90-s because of speculants who bought out tickets of whole trains/planes of popular destinations. I travel by myself from 1988 or so, and did not need any passport until mid '90s.
1) Did you do the math? Makes no intuitive sense to me.

2) did you do a survey? Because I see no reason to just assume no one wants or needs on-prem.

3) you're extrapolating the current state of affairs into the future with no logical justification for doing so.

4) This just relies on 1-3 and is also only speculation. I can easily see scenarious where big tech fail to pivot into AI properly and go down.
The csdb.dk entry linked in the post has a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCisnpvvTU
We don't know what happened. No one would should say they "believe" what happened. It is not a matter of belief.

Auto downvoting things like this though at this stage is just absolutely pathetic.

Smart, educated people are the most susceptible to influence campaigns so it should not be shocking.
Just a question: would anyone be interested in a good blog post explaining my journey with OSDEV and Virtualization.framework ?
This is a cool and simple technique, it seems like the sort of thing that should have been discovered 50 years ago. Not only is it more cycle efficient, the lines are more stable in animation, which to me seems like the primary benefit. Amazing this stuff is still being improved.
> Tesla’s insistence on using vision alone is pretty dumb

If they can finally make it work well one day, that comment will be the one looking dumb in the end.

just saying that one should be careful about making this kind of assumptions...

> if given additional senses, wouldn’t humans use them for safer driving?

It's all a question of costs in the end. It would be safer to fly with 10 pilots in one airplane, but the economics make it work for 2-3 at most.
Countries subsidise food production for reasons of national security. This is not a new or controversial idea.
English version: https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/2023/5/951994/new-material-pa...
Sure, the collective internet programming community can always use good blog posts, especially on relatively obscure topics!
They would then cry that it's not their problem once outside SF jurisdiction. Thus perpetuating the same issue elsewhere.

CA should have taken the 17B and invested it the lowest-cost-of-living regions in the US to build out communities + housing with full wrap-around services for different purposes (homelessness, mental-health, vets, etc) and focus on therapy/recovery.

It seems spending 17B in CA would just get you a hotdog and bicycle these days.
Absolutely, that would be great!
If anyone wonders why it starts with a lot of character garbage on the screen: I can be wrong, but I think it is usually the decompression. The demo is only 4K in size, but gets expanded after loading so it fills the entirety of the available memory. Not to waste space for the decompression routine, it runs directly in the video RAM which is latter overwritten.

What you can see is literally program execution, with the fastest changing characters often being inner loop vars.
I like everything about it except the slightly depressing purple/brown-focused color palette :)
Right. I referred to Stockton - Darlington 1825.
Wow. Back in the 1970s, the US government was briefly spraying it on Mexican marijuana fields. I think that there may have been places one could take a sample of marijuana to have it tested. This would have been in 1977 or 1978.
Has there been a significant development? Been using it with https://mac.getutm.app/ for a while
Yea I only stick to small gaming and programming related subreddits. Been doing this for years now, so my reddit experience has been reasonably pleasant. Every now and then I end up in a default or several million user subreddit. They are all cesspools.
> Does anyone see this changing anytime soon? I just want to have one stack and master it.

No, this will never change. People in software need tech stacks because they are terrified to write original software and everybody has their own personal opinion about tech stacks. The most universal behavior in software is fear/insecurity because most developers are poorly prepared and lack trust in their leadership, so instead we turn to personal opinions of technology stacks to either mitigate away talking to people and/or making original decisions about architecture.
> Detroit’s world-beating automotive industry squandered its technological and manufacturing advantages in a rush, pushed by Wall Street and its own financial managers, to earn easy profits from inferior products.

Alternatively, they were pushed to such thin margins by competition that they stopped innovating because anything that didn't show RoI by quarter's end was not permitted. You can see the same thing happening with Airplanes (Boeing etc),
I remember back in the day, I had a free .tk domain. Good times. Apparently dot.TK was run by Freenom as well.

I had a look in Wayback machine to see if they had a copy of my old site. But the first snapshot of the domain in the Wayback machine archive seems to have been after some random Chinese website started using the domain instead of me.

Makes sense though that the Wayback machine does not have my pages in their archive, I was in upper secondary school at the time and the only people that visited my website was probably myself and a handful of my friends from school.

I also went to dot.TK to see if it was possible to re-register my old .tk domain, but the search didn’t work. Guess if Freenom is giving up it may already be impossible to use dot.TK anymore.
> You asked for the incentives for AI; the equivalent isn't the same as for humans. The nature of the AI doesn't include a concept of prison or licensing, so it can't be threatened with it [..]

There certainly should be incentives for the humans creating an AI, though.

> Don't anthropomorphise it, that's a category error.

Volkswagen [human!] engineers created the illegal defeat devices in Dieselgate, under the supervision of their [human!] managers. The device is illegal, we punish the humans in charge when laws are broken, not the devices themselves. It should be the same with AI.

If this means software engineering becomes a field where you need mandatory liability insurance to work on AI, is that a bad thing?

In the glorious words of Stelios Haji-Ioannou, "If you think safety is expensive, try [having] an accident"
No, an externality is when the transaction leaks costs/benefits into the wider society, outside of what's priced in.
Don't ask, do. This is a fascinating subject.

I'd be quite happy to see how a fat MacOS machine is being used as a build-server for multiple generations of MacOS versions, as well as how it could be used (via Linux VM's) to also build for Android, Linux, Windows, etc.

Essentially, this subject is all about the build server destination; there is an award for how many different targets you can get from the same code-base, and being able to load up a fat Mac that approaches the nexus, is certainly of interest to us developers.

VM's are key tools in modern build environments. Having a fat Mac running multiple VM's to solve the target/build infrastructure problem is fascinating on all fronts..