skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often hear the idea of digital is faster then biology. This seems mostly derived from small math computations.

Yet it seems the current form of large language computations is much much slower then our biology. Making it even larger will be necessary to come closer to human levels but the speed?

If this is the path to GI, the computational levels need to be very High and very centralized.

Are there ways to improve this in its current implementation other the cache & more hardware?
Hey, WashU 2016 here. I felt very similarly to you many times during my 4.5 years there. If you are in B School then you may not have met Chris Ramsay, one of the engineering deans. He is an incredibly kind and helpful person to talk to about your classes and career.

The other thing is, the engineering school will let you do a co-op semester or even a year where you don’t take classes but maintain enrollment. You should definitely find out about that. It’s a much better option than completely dropping out for a year. I did that and it was super helpful for my future career and self confidence.
It is suprising what you can do with hundreds of lawyers and several congressmen.
"The experts wrote in their letter to Mr. Rush that they had “unanimous concern” about the way the Titan had been developed,"

"Mr. Kohnen said that Mr. Rush called him after reading the letter and told him that industry standards were stifling innovation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-miss...
The urgency tickles our savior complex. The situation makes us feel that we might be able to save those souls if only we could figure out the correct bash one-liner to solve it, and that grabs our collective attention.
Missed a great opportunity to call it AItocomplete
The Jury Duty (2023) TV series is like a real life Truman show. If they really did what they said (Jury Service, but everyone, including the Judge and clerks is an actor except the main "star") then I feel really bad for him. The reveal episode is cringe. I just hope he is really an actor too.
Sure, you can obfuscate all you want.
But my point still stands valid.

Earning a living from ads for these types of people.is not sustainable. They will have adblocker installed, so you are also wasting respurces with no income.

RSS or newsletter or whatever scrapper, it's there today already.
Go ask your parents if they're not pissed off that the laptop they bought for cheap is now struggling to run Peggle Deluxe and they don't understand why, while there's 7 Electron apps running in the background eating all that memory.

People don't care about 600MB. They care about how using their PC feels, and Electron is a massive contributor to it feeling like shit.
I don't want to authenticate using something I have, because I won't be able to authenticate if I lose that thing. Phone number is something I legally own and this ownership can be enforced because I can get a new SIM card with the same number using my government ID - something I am rather than I (temporarily) have
The .so is shared. All those uncompressed cat gifs, no.

I'm not familiar with internal browser architecture, but do they make at least a token effort to not render/run attached javascript for elements that are not currently in view?

I haven't measured, but my gut feeling is Electron apps go extremely crappy when you have like 30 memes in a row in a chat channel and make the mistake of switching to it.

Edit: hey, what happens when you open a 500 M log file in vscode?
Pretty sure they managed to clone Model D really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYxc8R_Qys0
Show HN: My Console,a Simple Web-Based Command Line Interface for Cool Utilities
With this Command Line Interface, you can effortlessly look up word meanings, fetch song lyrics, get random quotes, play chess, perform Google searches, and even generate QR codes for URLs. It also offers additional features like displaying the current time, battery status, and sharing the site with your friends.
I would argue the best indicator is that, after all this time, productivity has not dropped, businesses are not failing, unemployment has not sharply risen, etc. Everyone is making record profits.

(but it would be a hard case to prove, at macro-level, given all the other recent factors which would also impact those metrics.)

... I guess I've not heard of any businesses failing specifically because of WFH.
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JavaFX/OpenFX is surprisingly decent these days, but it got suckerpunched by Oracle licensing for a long time and had a bunch of compatibility issues between releases that made upgrading painful.

I probably would consider it now for a new project, but not 5-10 years ago, when dev cycles for now-popular apps would've started realistically.
doubtful. there are a bunch of security features that apply to various important mails (paypal, airline tickets, etc.)
I can agree with that. But still, an experienced user will skip the ads posts and will smell them from far away.
Tim Cook won’t rest until the apple fruit gets renamed to “trademark infringement”
Why is the capsule considered the only critical safety component?

If everything else fails wouldn't it just fall to the bottom of the ocean? Even if it can survive that depth that only sounds good on paper. Nobody could get to you.
This is deliberate. It's probably for the same reasons why comments are arbitrarily sorted and why live chat always sorts by "Top" rather than "Newest" (whatever "Top" even means to YouTube, idk)
Two factor authetication is dumb. It invites poor disipline with reusing passwords and with 500 pound gorilla corps, losing your second factor is losing your account permanently.
My personal user style for old.reddit.com extends the comment width to the whole screen and moves the horizontal action list for each comment to align with the username and the right side of the screen, while changing the font to one I find easier to read as well as bumping the font size and line-spacing, as well as generally adding some small amounts of space and colour here and there to help separate elements.

It's evolved over a few years now and the combination of changes means that I don't generally lose much in the way of content density in the general case of a post with mostly small to medium comments where the increased body text size is balanced with the removal of the space for the action bar. And it was even better before I got a bit older and decided that I should bump the font size up another pixel to make things easier on my eyes :)
As a 2nd reason not to use 2FA is the "privatization of authentication".

Previously you had only the login and the password. Now, you need a phone and likely probably an app on the phone.

This whole push for 2FA is actually a push against individual password managers where users generate long cryptographically secure passwords.
Thanks for that little informative tour. I've (very) casually looked into sound proofing before, and didn't come across cork.

Will remember when my project eventually gets funding approval...
I'm pretty sure the parent was sarcastic about clicking the ads.
Not sure you legally own a phone number... isn't more of you legally have the right to use it whilst the telco allows it/and you pay your bill?
Sundar Pichai, destroyer of investor value.

It really is incredible no one has ever questioned his responsibility for the complete destruction of developer trust in Google.

And without developer trust, nothing with an API can ever succeed.
Yeah, October 2020 is the time they started adding CCS compatible ECU. Surprised it's not a software update, it's just a new protocol. Is there a voltage difference? Or is the ECU 3rd party?

At least with Tesla's exponential sales the number of people it affects will be smaller. 1 million out of 4 million I think
I don’t see any new idea in this article. It’s more of a plot summary to begin with.
Gell-Mann Amnesia and Michio Kaku
can you provide a few examples? this is something I dont see at all
It's probably not, but it isn't on Twitter or so either.
Just to warn, social engineering attacks can get sims transfered without your involvement. There were some stories about it here somewhere a very long time ago.
It’s more that their moat got obliterated on image gen.

If stable diffusion didn’t launch Dall-e 2 would have been still valuable.
I’d also recommend reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t... and the 2 stickied posts on that subreddit.
This is correct.

Bad customer service was in googles DNA from day one.
chromium is also an abomination, its pretty much the single biggest thing one could possibly build. the sheer level of insanity in that codebase boggles the mind, >1GB highly compressed source is just not legitimate
One of my favorite games is Space Channel 5. On the surface it seems rather cutesy, inspired by 1960s space-age aesthetics like from The Jetsons and Barbarella. But narratively it's considerably darker. See, (spoiler warning) it turns out that the orchestrator of the alien invasion main character Ulala is documenting is the head of her own network, who staged the invasion in order to boost ratings for his network. It was actually a biting commentary on popular Japanese television of the period, as well as news and media in general; the turn of the millennium is when shows like Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (which famously locked a man naked in an apartment and forced him to acquire everything he needed including food and clothing as prizes in magazine sweepstakes, ultimately awarding him nothing for his trials) were on the air, and incredibly popular.

So the future of The Truman Show was playing out in Japan, in real time, at right around the same time.
I'm not saying you should hack a sub from a scrap metal and just use it as is (which seems to have happened here). But you can rapidly iterate on your project to first make it functional and then gradually improve its reliability.

What matters is not the process, but the result. For example, SpaceX are using iterative approach in their design and they now have the most reliable rocket in history.
I have written an article on Non-Functional Requirements in System Design. I have condensed a decade of an experience and explained each quality attribute with an example. Let me know your thoughts on this.
We have so much to learn and optimize. I wonder how far we might get. But it was evident from the start to me that e.g. harvesting Reddit and other sources and just crossing your fingers, hoping for the best may not be the most optimal method.

Quality is everything and part of quality is also having it be structured and geared towards an AI which may not be identical to being geared for human reading.
It's sad how some people think companies should have perpetual monopolies on things that were patented 50+ years ago.
Aka "disaster porn".
The password manager being 'your brain' implies that you have only a hand-full of passwords... my brain has no way of remembering 1000+ passwords and logins, while I prefer to use random usernames and passwords. Sure, I don't need 2fa for a knitting forum, but I still need something to remember my login and password... try to never re-use either.
Care to explain? How does something like procfs map better to hardware than an explicit API?
Not contradicting you, but simple concepts are often the most groundbreaking. Finding the way to simplify something complex clearly is the hallmark of clear thinking (and Maths is laser-focused thinking).

IMO most people think of statistics in a bayesian way, even if they don't know the notation or science behind. It is so intuitive. It is the frequentist approach, taught first in school, that feels alien and forced.
Not just video games, video games that intentionally mimic the job they're performing. The only real difference is that you don't get achievement pop-ups or announcements. And, of course, that you kill or maim human beings in the process, but that is intentional.
AI Hype-Driven Development – Parallels in History
I don't really pay attention to social media much but apparently there are families in my country that put their entire lives on YouTube and have a million subscribers.

No idea why anyone would watch that but I'm sure I'm the weirdo.
I would like to know it, too.

MS seems to be using electron in the worst possible way.

I mean it's basically running an outdated version of the web version bundled into a even more absurdly outdated version of electron.

Given how bad the decision is it really looks like it's just for ticking of some checkbox and avoiding claims that MS is intentionally hurting other desktop system... but honestly the way they did it makes it look even more like that.

Through there are technical reasons AFIK:

- it seems to be that they have some custom native "call/video/screen-capture" code, which doesn't seem to provide any sustainable benefits but is less reliable in my experience.

- (speculative) for some time in the not that distant past (Chrome <v110) on Wayland desktops for screen sharing Chrome did only support an older experimental version of the protocol, locked behind an experimental flag. Through most distros set up pipewire in a way where the old protocol was still supported (on the fly converted) and even through the chrome flag was experimental it did work very reliable. So re-implementing pipewire support by hand would have been quite of an bad decision I hope Teams didn't do.
I'm not sure if Switzerland is under the EUIPO but I suspect European courts (not limited to the EU) are usually not very sympathetic to foreign companies trying to claim trademark on traditional brands https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49254551
I want to echo this because you had other replies agreeing and I feel that my anecdotal experience of this might actually have meaning. I was extremely lazy through school and college and was usually at or near the top of every class until I hit some point where lazy could no longer cut it. But that just narrowed subjects down until I was able to be very lazy at uni and still do well. If I hadn't had a couple of incidents (bike accident and unrelated health issue) I probably would have scored a higher degree and been motivated to stay in academia. In work I feel like I've drifted into roles that are fantastic compared to my friends at school + uni who worked really hard, and I expected the opposite to happen.

The moment that comes back to me particularly is when I visited a friend who was doing an astrophysics degree at another uni in their 2nd year. I attended the lectures with her and my casual knowledge from reading on the subject had covered what they were learning. I thought it was interesting and followed along just fine. Talking with her and her group of friends afterwards, they were really struggling. Thing is, although she was a really hard worker, she didn't have much interest in the subject. She just chose it because she did well in physics at school. She only did OK, so a middling degree in astrophysics setting up well for a career in admin.
I maintain an open-source app built with Electron. It serves tens of thousands of users every months and nobody complained in 5 years that it is being built with Electron. Not saying that Electron is perfect, and that it couldn't be a bit more performant, but as a solo maintainer (and entrepreneur) it helps me ship something that save people time. The burden of maintaining an application is already huge. Having to juggle with multiple environments would be a hassle and I definitely wouldn't do it.

That being said, if a "drop-in" alternative would be available I would probably try to switch at one point. But the alternative would have to be on par with the ecosystem (including packaging, binaries signing, etc.), the community, the ease of use... I don't think there is such a thing yet.

The app, if you are interested: https://mockoon.com
I think Douglas Self's (yes, that Douglas Self!) museum websites probably are of interest too:

http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

and

http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm
I have a pile of accounts that I really don't care about. I joined a harmonica group about 10 years ago. My password is something like asdf1234, because really if someone pretends to be FAKE_NAME_123 on a harmonica site, I'm cool with it.

Twitter is about there for me. If someone took over my account, Meh. I'd just create a new one. It's not tied to a real email anyway. I actually think I'm on my 3rd one now. Because I forgot which email I used to sign up.
What's a known exception?
I suppose that depends on what type of AI you are trying to build. One that is used to help design airplanes can mostly get by with pure scientific knowledge, although it still needs to know about softer phenomena like claustrophobia and personal space to understand that packing in humans as close as physically possible is not desired.

On the other end of the AI spectrum, an AI being trained to be a childrens toy, old people companion, nursing robot or even psychologist would be incredibly deficient if it didn't understand emotions. I don't think using purely content that follows the scientific method would be sufficient for such an AI.
You're using as an example of bad behavior one of the best examples of something good that Behringer has done. Those chips should be cloned, and now there are, I believe, at least three manufacturers of 3340 oscillator chips: CEM, Coolaudio, and Alfa. It's a very popular VCO chip in a number of eurorack modules, and has better tracking of volt-per-octave than any other analog VCO type I've used by far.

Also, not very long ago those chips had been out of production. I believe CEM re-released their 3340 in 2016. I'm not sure if Coolaudio beat them to it, but anyways there was a long period where the only way to get new batches of the chip would have been to clone it.

There are a lot of examples of legitimately bad behavior from Behringer as well.
Reading the article, it seems like they made React for Desktop (mobile coming soon). I wonder how the approach differs from React Native?
Passkeys solve exactly your complaints. They’re being pushed heavily by Apple and Google, so very soon you’ll be able to sign up for sites without having to set a password + MFA.
Having never built it myself, I wonder why the hell is it so slow to compile? I've built Firefox many times, including multi-stage builds with PGO, and it takes maybe 30 minutes tops on my 2015 era desktop. Is it because they use a lot of vendored code?
With React / TypeScript, even the setup of the test suite as I mentioned is painful, which one do you use? playwright? that one is going to be slow and cumbersome, LiveView's built in test suite does the same thing and is much more lightweight and fast. If not playwright which do you use? Jest? Vitest? this is the problem with JS community, too many choice on things that in the end don't matter to the end user.

Also the fact that you have to setup API endpoints for your data, with liveview, you have direct access to the data. You can load any state with a function call instead of having to develop a separate endpoint for your frontend, handle hydration etc... You need real-time updates? It's done out of the box, you don't have to think about it. With react, that stuff is just ALOT to do.

I ended up removing a lot of controllers from my codebase that was there just to service the react front-end. Having those controllers do not service as the "API" of the app. Specs for front-end apis and core APIs are usually quite different based on my experience.

The easiest way I can explain it is LiveView is the least friction between thought and output. React / TypeScript just gets in the way because of all the choice and abstractions you have to build for it.

Don't get me wrong, React still has it's place, there are things I would still use react for, like if I need to render something visually rich, like a flow diagram (reactflow.dev), or video component, or make something like Figma, or a calendar / gantt chart, but for most front-end UIs (95%) you just don't need React.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390600
It feels more than a little bit coincidental to call it Noria when https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria exists (and has been posted about here on HN)... especially with the whole bit about incrementally computing changes.
"Everything is a file" is not a good idea, because different objects have different interfaces. For example, a network socket is not a file because you cannot seek it. A process is not a file because you cannot send signals to a file.

This also caused appearance of syscalls like ioctl - very ugly solution. Ioctl is a large and undocumented API. Pseudo-filesystems like /proc or /sys are also examples of undocumented APIs.

Instead of "everything is a file", "everything implements well-documented object-oriented interfaces" would be much better idea.
I'm not sure what's your point, single threaded CPUs exist.
Saying that the determinant is useless to determine whether a matrix is incorrect, or misleading at best.

This is purely a matter of numerical stability. Of course [[1e-10, 0], [0, 1e-10]] is nonsingular, and its determinant is 1e-20, which does not equal zero.

Yes, when it comes to floating point issues we might want to use something else, and that's a valid complaint when it comes to NumPy code, but from a theoretical perspective the determinant is an excellent tool to determine singularity.
I don't think that is sufficient:

- Perhaps the model can be improved by adding sentences, but which ones? There is a potentially infinite amount of sentences to add and no good way to select them

- Your proposed method handwaves the method of acquiring "many problem challenges that it hasn't seen before", which just moves the problem. Constructing a problem set containing the full range of potential problems to solve is again a Very Hard Problem.

The second problem is not just theoretical either: see https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio... for example, where a facial recognition algorithm performed much worse on non-white women because the training set didn't contain enough pictures of them. AI software is notorious for finding this kind of loophole and for overfitting itself for the training set rather than for the real world.
You haven't seen Office...
I was really moved by this movie. Based on his previous movies, I didn’t think of Jim Carrey as a good actor. But this movie changed that.

Everyone watching this movie will relate to the movie’s plot as it speaks to the existential questions that arise in every human. We can imagine the reality tv boss as God. Our own experience of thrownness feels like God is playing with us just as the reality tv boss is playing with Truman.

In the ending sequence, I wept when the tiny boat reaches the end of horizon and hits the blue sky wall. The utter devastation Truman experiences when he realizes he has been played all his life.

I was deeply impacted by this movie.
Trademark, not copyright. The weird thing is the expectation that trademarking an apple could be done in a way that is broad enough to cover all apple-based logos across all industries. I'm not sure how accurate this portrayal is given that Apple does indeed not sell fruit and the logo in question is likely pre-existing and does not actually resemble anything Apple has likely tried to file.

Trade dress or so-called "design patents" are a different matter (see Apple suing over every smartphone copying its design of "a slate of glass with a camera cut-out and maybe a button" or German Telekom pretty much holding the exclusive rights to a specific shade of magenta in tech-adjacent products).