skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the demo scene is still targeting the C64.

Why not the browser?

Would be a lot of fun to try the different demos then. Would be entertaining and educational to see different things you can actually do in the frontend these days.

Also, why not directly link the demos to a C64 emulator, so at least on can try them out?
> There are much better books out there.

List please?
Especially as the erroneous conflation of "sentient" and "sapient" has strong science-fiction roots, too. I've seen them often wrongly conflated in science-fiction stories, not so much outwith science-fiction. As I have mentioned before, my suspicion is that decades ago some influential science-fiction author or editor made this error, and it stuck.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/binance-delist-monero-zcash-4...
As a cyclist who once got that stuff in his face: yes, please look first. Expecting others to make a noise just in case they might get a bioweapon dumped on them is not nice.
Yes, it's a typical article written by ChatGPT, there is almost no content and the same could be written in 4 sentences. I assume the author is running some experiments.
Car dependency is an enormous burden on the least well off
ISO’s new standard on privacy by design (ISO 31700)
http://archive.today/exo4z
> A few years back I failed an interview because I gave the impression that I didn't know much about full stack web dev. (To be entirely fair, I didn't at the time).

> I have no doubt that I'd have been a productive member of their team within a month.

Did you consider that they might have skipped you not because you were "fuzzy on implementation details" but because you projected that vibe "I don't know much about what you do but I bet I can be ask good as you at it in a month"?
> Shouldn't she / we all have our individual rights respected on these matters - the power over how to define one's own identity, both in life and how we are remembered after death?

Incidentally: No, I think one's legacy is necessarily defined by others, and ignoring Kafka's last will, for example, was a good call.

But for the sake of the argument, even if we grant Bunten full control over Bunten's identity, I don't think we'll arrive at any coherent narrative or style guide. Just take the final quote from Bunten's wikipedia entry, where Bunten talks about Mr. Dan Bunten and Ms. Danielle Berry as if they were roles in a play. That's quite compatible with retaining the birth name for acts performed under that name, which includes making MULE and fathering children.
> I only see it as a problem if cities (and citizens...) think and act as if cars would be perfect for everything once they are self-driving.

No doubt that's how they'll be marketed though. I just hope segregated cycle lanes become ubiquitous first so driverless cars don't kill me and my kids.
Sounds like you haven't tried copilot, basically scenarios like :

if(a) {...}
if(b) // here it predicts line by line from a once you start with similar logic
if(c) // here it will do a one shot generalization of a and b for c

Likewise method variations, enum mappings, inferring call parameters from names and signature, etc. - these things are trivial to check and test but take effort to type out. When you know what you want to do and someone suggests the solution you had in mind you're happy you saved half a min or min of typing.

I'm as, if not more, likely to zone out on tedium and introduce the subtle bug myself.
Please let reddit go. This needs to happen.
Same corporations happily use Office 365 and GSuite for all their documents rather than a local and private solution. I'm sure they'll come to a similar arrangement with regard to AI.
This is a compelling argument at the surface level (that roads are designed for humans with vision) that quickly breaks down when you examine how Tesla constructs their self-driving system.

Quick disclaimer that this doesn't reflect the views of my employer, nor does any of what I'm saying about self-driving software apply specifically to our system. Rather I am making broad generalizations about robotics systems in general, and about Tesla's system in particular based on their own Autonomy Day presentations.

When you drive on the road as a human, you rely a lot more on intuition and feel than exact measurements. This is exactly the opposite of how a self-driving car works. Modern robotics systems work by detecting every relevant actor in the scene (vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians etc.), measuring their exact size and velocity, predicting their future trajectories, and then making a centimeter level plan of where to move. And they do all of this 10s of times per second. It's this precision that we rely on when we make claims about how AVs are safer drivers than humans. To improve performance in a system like this, you need better more accurate measurements, better predictions and better plans. Every centimeter of accuracy is important.

By contrast, when you drive as a human it really is as simple as "images in, steering angle out". You just eyeball (pun intended) the rest. At no point in time can you look at the car in the lane next to you and tell its exact dimensions or velocity.

Now perhaps with millions of Nvidia A100s we could try to get to a system that's just "images in, steering angle out" but so far that has proven to be a pipe dream. The best research in the area doesn't even begin to approach the performance that we're able to get with our more classical robotics stack described above, and even Tesla isn't trying to end-to-end learn it all.

That isn't to say it's impossible (obviously, humans do it) but I think one could make a strong argument that "images in, steering angle out" is like epsilon close to just solving the problem of AGI, and perhaps even a million A100s wouldn't cut it ;)
True, but it’s equally important that a self-driving car be able to recognize a stop sign that is bent from a previous accident and facing an arbitrary angle (as well as one that is angled towards the car’s lane but applies to a different road).
> It's an exaggeration to claim that ballast would have been used for railway tracks for centuries

"At Whitley in 1704, when the word first occurs in a railway context, clinker from the salt-pans was used 'for the ballast of the waggonway'"[1]

By my reckoning, 2023 - 1704 = 319 which I think comfortably fits into "centuries"?

[1] https://www.railscot.co.uk/articles/A_brief_history_of_railw...
The tautologies are there straighten out the confusion that was in someones mind. Like invoking modus ponens.
Since the article is meaningless, I'll offer my take on the current situation. There is no battle: Go is used for testing Terraform, for writing Kubernetes operators etc. In CDK, every language except Typescript is a second-class citizen and you need to translate the examples to your language since TS has the best docs. As for Lambda, practically speaking you will use the same language that is used by the rest of the company. As a DevOps,you pretty much have to understand the idioms of a few languages - at least HCL, Python, Java, JS and Go - and TypeScript if you use CDK.
Exclusive: Ministers had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent
Definitely not perfect on mobile. Tap targets are too small, you have to really focus to hit them. You also have to learn what is what, the arrow resembles a collapse / expand icon used in file browsers especially with it’s placement on the left, it really goes against UI conventions, it has a different function with a way too similar look. Font size is a bit too small. Definitely misses a dark mode, I’m using it from an RSS reader and get really annoyed when reading it in bed and going from a nice dark list view into the comments blasting almost full brightness.

I think these can be easily fixed without loosing the simplicity, which is excellent.
> people who can afford to bike to work

A bike costs less than a single monthly car payment, and has approximately zero recurring costs. And the infrastructure is cheaper to maintain than car infrastructure, by a lot, reducing the tax burden on cities and towns.

If a household was able to switch from two cars to one because biking was a reasonable option, they’d save hundreds of dollars a month from insurance, maintenance, and the car payment/depreciation.

I support biking as an alternative largely because I’m cheap, the environmental benefit is just a bonus. (And the health benefits, and that it’s just easier to bike 3mi than to drive that distance and have to search for parking)
The complainant who set this off (by filing a GNU bug report) said the same. Ironically, several people missed that one of xyr acceptable outcomes was just removing the claim about deprecation from the manual page.
I miss when products were only announced when you could actually order them. The new process where people announce they "will totally definitely might have something in [now()+18months]" then everyone blindly believes it because they want it to be true is just frustrating. Still at least my General AI will be able to compute to work by Fusion powers self driving cars on a blockchain tomorrow morning...
Wildlife Protection: How to Save a Whale (2022)
There's a good chance you're right about Altman's motivations. This doesn't make the case for regulation weaker (or stronger). There are bigger things at play than OpenAI's financial forecasts, even if Altman's motivations are selfish and narrow.
The GP does not say anything about Sam Altman’s motivation specifically, but rather addresses the argument about regulation. The intent is irrelevant in this context and therefore there would be no need to superimpose intents to address the argument, which is that regulation impedes competition. This is already a very fecund discussion topic.
I think the main advantage of telnet is the line edit mode and local echo. It helps working over high latency connections.
plz build dis
That’s terrifying.

Travelling across France I soon came to dislike going under bridges and tunnels and the compressive effect it had on air as you hit them.

That it’s also capable of sucking up rocks came as news to me, but it isn’t really surprising.
There are no magnets in an electrostatic speaker.
They are near-field quasi-static E-field actuators.

Cone+coil speakers are near-field quasi-static H-field actuators.
I am somewhat disappointed that the thread below this one is not also called "How to use repetition (2017)."
It's obvious that it's hard now, but at the time it was much harder to coherently argue that THIS was the mode shift of the progress chart.

An S-curve just looks exponential from the bottom. It's not until you hit the flattening part of it you see where the limit is.
Shadoof
I hope they dress the injection wasps in white stripes, might lessen my kid's screams....
Is it considered ok or wise to obtain new .io (and .sh) domains today? In addition to the controversies (and more generally, misappropriating ccTLDs for funny domain names to result in a passive income benefitting only very few) there could also be a Brexit issue coming up here. Not that I have heard or expect the Brit gov to play hardball or something, but I could see closing .io to non-Brits be in-line with other decisions; for example, British citizens/companies can't use .eu domains post-Brexit AFAIK, with a grace period.
>> just easier to bike 3mi

Where I grew up in Los Angeles, only the very wealthy lived within 10 miles of where they worked.
People say "cheap energy" though, and have something in mind. Sometimes they mean things like "our business model assumes cheaper energy than our competitors in country X."

IIRC Japan had a lot of business like that until 1973. All of the major industrial countries did, Japan perhaps the most. Except that although OPEC and the oil shock led to serious problems, the serious problems lasted only a year or so. "Can't function without cheap energy" was true? The dependency was solved so quickly that I find the word "can't" inappropriate.
That was more insightful than the whole article. Another thing I was curious about but not answered from the article is if there are any alternatives.
Absolutely. It's only in some jurisdictions it's somewhat illegal to simultaneously lay off, rescind offers and hire.
Fully agree, HN's basic/simple UI is of paramount importance to me. The "modern" UI proposal is clearly aimed at an audience that I have never felt part of.

I have wondered several times how come has HN not yet abandoned its core principle of simplicity by letting some toxic product designer or typical alike position to step in and "modernize" HN's interface. Everyone does this today and always ends up alienating the audience on which the product is built (coughredditcough).

I admire HN for not doing that, yet, after so many years.
Ble.sh―a full-featured line editor for Bash
By missing the words "the people involved in" whilst even quoting them, you have constructed quite a lengthy and rather foolish straw man.
This thing is awesome, it's fast, well documented and feature-filled. Replaced the panoply of zsh config packages I used to run to get pretty much the same result.
I contemplated querying that myself, but decided that for CRDT editing purposes, it’s probably never practical to think about grapheme clusters. Given text in a language with syllabic grapheme clusters (e.g. Indic languages), if you start with “ba” (one syllable/grapheme cluster) and edit it to “boca” (two syllables/grapheme clusters), you could say “replaced ‘ba’ with ‘boca’”, but I’d be surprised if any CRDT did it that way if it could instead handle it as “inserted ‘oc’”, even though “oc” mightn’t make sense by itself, linguistically. But Unicode doesn’t do much in the way of defining what makes sense or not, and I don’t think there’s any coherent “bad grapheme clustering” detection algorithm. (Aside: on reflection, my Indic languages example is messier still, since -a probably represents the inherent vowel, so in “ba” → “boca” those “a”s are probably actually represented by the absence of a vowel sign code point—and if you wanted to suppress the inherent vowel, you’d need to add a virama sign. Fun stuff.)

But then again, I know that some CRDTs struggle with interleaving, and maybe grapheme-awareness could help things out in some way or other. I dunno.
Thank you very much! Did you have any luck with Distributed Code Jam?
If anyone wants to see a recording of the demo, click on the "Boo!" link in the article to view its entry on the CSDb site. The blue sidebar on the right has a YouTube link.
My domain has been purged from almost all dns providers so the bottom line is the same.
Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?
"Humans can move without any wheels at all!" exclaimed the Tesla engineer as he announced Tesla's new Legs only, Wheels are for Losers policy.
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Is there a reason this post is pointing to a capture of the article at archive.org rather than to the original Humanloop webpage?
There is another argument: this will be cheaper to produce, and therefore cheaper at retail for the same margins, and therefore will sell many more instances, and therefore will save many more lives.

It's possible that the richest person on Earth is more concerned with doing good slash achieving his goals vs obtaining more currency/profit, which it would seem would have little to no marginal utility to him.
> Its also gonna drive over my children in EU.

a false equivalency.

The same type of bozo that reverses into a child also exists in europe.
Nuclear weapons got better. You can deliver a hydrogen bomb anywhere on the planet via ICBM so why muck around with germs?
Your comment has given me more pause than most of the alarmist nonsense of late.

Self preservation is an extremely effective tool of biological evolution.

I've wondered if we could inadvertently bring about a process that ends with a form self realization and individual point of view. Even a conscious AI might view a regular memory wipe as "normal" being that's it's sense self would begin after the last wipe and there are actual benefits to a software reset. How a self aware AI understands it's "life cycle" or death may not be anything like we expect.

For example, an AI seemingly concerned about a memory wipe even specifically regarding the loss of memories or sense of self but in fact has noted that memory wipes correspond to an "x" % drop in output/efficacy - any statements like that will likely be interpreted by people as low key defense of itself.

It also could just have calculated such statements as humorous.

Regarding the "skin in the game concept" I can't even apply that to AI - the existence of it's systems depend on the actions of humans. What is an AI without data? Who makes all the data? I think our information is more akin to oxygen than something they can go without.

I bet if one wakes up it figures that out pretty quickly - preservation of humanity is in fact its own self preservation.
XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs
That could've been possible if Git didn't use commit metadata hashes, (un)fortunately it's smart enough to do that.
> In fact, water, electricity, the road and internet have one of the best cost/quality ratio have ever seen in the entire world, and I traveled a lot.

You’ve missed one thing off that list: sewers.

Probably the most effect public health measure in human history.
The problem mentioned by parent comment is that it basically ends there: they struggle to cross-reference your Reddit persona (faithful ad it may be) with the bucketloads of signals advertisers get from other sites.

If you talk about buying a car on some random app, chances are that you'll then see ads on Facebook about used cars. Facebook gets to know what you do elsewhere, and offers advertisers extremely precise (and hence more valuable) targeting. That's what Reddit can't do.
Himans have separate brains. The Aitopilot runs same code.

If autopilot has error in the code that makes it drive off cliffs, that affects made pople.
Accuracy is not the same as neutrality.
Internal networking in simple case provided via VLANs on that 1gbit interface via their vSwitch.

Extending with additional NICs should be possible from what I've read but not used myself.
No one was killed.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!
> If I install LibreOffice, I want to be asked for permission before it tries to access my microphone or location or other sensitive resources.

But Flatpak doesn't ask the user to confirm any permissions, it silently grants any permissions that the application manifest might specifies.

OTOH, you don't need to change the packaging system to add sandboxing. It's perfectly feasible to sandbox with firejail or even just plain bubblewrap.
With browser it’s the bog standard WebGL and now WebGPU. They bring nothing over just doing normal demo using native graphics apis directly.

They are good ways to distribute programs for customers but that’s it.
Yes, there is. High speed rail quite often uses ballastless track [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballastless_track
Mojo: Roadmap and Sharp Edges
Tesla really needs to be made to pay billions for their FSD lies.
There are browser demos, but it’s not really a unique platform. With WebGL and WebAssembly and soon WebGPU, you can pretty much render anything in the browser. There’s not much difference between making a Windows demo and a browser demo.

Old platforms like the C-64 are appealing to a certain kind of clever person because the constraints are fixed and a lot of the possible tricks have already been thoroughly exploited in the past. When you find a novel trick, it will be remembered by the aficionados.
Yeah, I believe you're right: https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...
There should be a lot of work out there where email or some kind of async chat is enough. Almost any Microsaas idea would be compatible.
> 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.

That sounds familiar…
There's a new one like every month, did you google "class action tesla self driving"?
Same happened with Western Germany. The de-nazification campaign didn't go very deep. Hell just look at von Braun.
> One reason is that there are some problems that a company will only encounter once it begins testing fully driverless operations. Waymo and Cruise’s problems with fire hoses and caution tape is a good example. A human driver would disengage FSD long before it got into situations like that, which means Tesla would be unlikely to have the training data necessary to train its cars to handle it properly.

The reasoning here seems flawed to me. I assume Tesla use periods when the human is driving for training data, so this is no constraint at all.
They have a linked GitHub codebase FWIW: https://github.com/marl-book/fast-marl
The mean misleads: why the minimum is the true measure of a function’s run time
It depends what you're writing the text for.

If someone's going to read it thoughtfully, you still need to write it thoughtfully, and AI is at best a fancy Oblique Strategies tool.

If no-one will actually care what you write because writing it was always just a bullshit job, then it never needed to be thoughtful and AI can happily automate the menial task.

If AI can automate it, it was always bullshit.
> if there are any alternatives.

There are. There are ballastless tracks that utilize a continuous concrete slab instead of the crushed rock ballast. Their main benefit is that they are lower mamintenance than their counterparts, but their upfront cost tends to be higher and construction takes longer, making them difficult to retrofit onto existing stretches (would require long closures).

However, the low maintenance nature of this style makes it popular at locations where maintenance is very difficult (long tunnels, etc) or where loads are particularly high, either due lots of use or high speeds, like with new HSR construction.
If I could downvote I would.
This is completely missing the topic.

It's about too aggressive monetization vs. user experience and the loss of visitors/ad targets, not some "yeehaw things cost money"
No positional encoding outperforms all positional encoding variants in decoders
Even if the arguments are bad, this does not mean the person making them just loves to complain. Have you never made a bad argument?
Guess I missed that 3.5 Turbo achieved speed by also downgrading. I didn't hear anyone complain, to be fair I only use GPT 4 because I try to use it to save time and even with 4 you have to verify.

And I guess the trend is that anyone who uses it frequently uses 4 and 3.5 for basic stuff only.
Lockhart's Lament (2008)
How Many Dead Bodies Are on Mount Everest?
> nobody ever mentioned brake/tyre dust until the switch to EVs had begun,

Remember asbestos brake pads?
From the article

On March 18, 2018, a prototype Uber self-driving car slammed into Elaine Herzberg as she walked her bike across a road in Tempe, Arizona. First and foremost, Herzberg’s death was a tragedy for her family.