skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many other worlds gp got tremendous karma for their post. That's how quantum mental abilities work.
I agree. There are a handful of red flag phrases that can reliably predict whether or not you're being sold a bill of goods. "Delight customers" is one of them. As soon as a company says anything like that, I know to avoid them like they're radioactive.
I like the map picking a lot better than naming the country in WhereTaken[1]. The US version is even easier because you only need to guess the state.

[1] https://wheretaken.teuteuf.fr/
In practice it only takes a weekend or two to pick up the syntax changes, and the benefits easily outweigh that investment.

Heck, the simple fact that type signatures can be read literally from left to right (instead of using the spiral rule) is enough for me to switch. https://zig.news/toxi/typepointer-cheatsheet-3ne2
Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1980. His books are among the most important ever written about the meaning and structure of AI. He's had four decades where he could have milked that reputation for money or influence and he's chosen hard academic research at every branch point.

He sold millions of copies of a densely-written 777 page book about semantic encoding (GEBEGB).

It is insane and/or ignorant to imagine he's jonesing for clout or trying to ride the ML wave.
The catch is, does it have to be functional at every step? It may be hard to find checkpoints inside a PR where the changes still produce a useful (testable) product without breaking anything.

If it doesn't have to be testable in three pieces, then why break it down? For clarity when reviewing the changes perhaps.
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Elroy and the Aliens
I suppose this is a 'dancing bear' situation, since the CPU designed was only 300 mhz. It's less about how good the processor is and more about the fact that it could do it at all never mind the amount of time it took.

I look forward to seeing what can happen when an AI of this sort can plot out a complete product for geeks to use. I'd love a good clone of the Ben NanoNote but maybe with a slightly bigger screen. My eyes are not what they once were. Since the market apparently doesn't exist for this sort of thing, something that can be assembled easily combined with 3D printing may be my only hope for such a thing.
There's a fundamental question as to whether or not it's exponentially difficult to add additional qubits. If each marginal qubit is 5% more difficult to add as the previous one the task would be essentially impossible - and even if it wasn't impossible it would turn out to basically be cheating (in that you would be doing exponential work via either the quantum computing route or the conventional route).
Pretty much a matter of optimization isn't it? Try disabling them. But I take it that this was never the point anyway. I think the point is that the representation of language objects and the runtime are rather straightforward compared to many other languages.
> crypto.. failed

You realize it’s still here, adoption is increasing, utility is increasing, etc

Just because it’s not a hype cycle does not mean it’s dead or even close to dead.
I agree with the above commenter that the problem is that SaaSification is a use case of software, rather than properly/entirely a distribution model. Trying to prevent SaaSification falls outside of the available scope of copyright law and thus free/open source licenses entirely. It's the job of an End User License Agreement or a "Mutually Assured Destruction" Patent "Grant" or a Trademark Embargo, not a copyright license/open source license.

The fact that all of those options (EULAs, explosive patent grants, strict trademark enforcement) additionally sound so antithetical to free/open source licenses does seem to directly reflect that "Software Freedom 0" paradox that preventing SaaSification tells users how they can't use the software, which is the very opposite of a modern software freedom. (The FSF probably made a massive mistake in accepting the AGPL as anything more than GPL fan fiction, because it does seem to reflect that they don't trust their own software freedoms and will accept some unfortunate compromises on them.)

I don't know if there is an easy answer for how you build free/open source software and prevent SaaSification without also terribly compromising some of the core virtues of what free/open source software was meant to uphold in the first place.
// We play this game because we want this to be callable even from places that
// don't have access to CallFrame\* or the VM, and we only allocate so little
// memory here that it's not necessary to trigger a GC - just accounting what
// we have done is good enough. The sort of bizarre exception to the "allocating
// little memory" is when we transfer a backing buffer into the C heap; this
// will temporarily get counted towards heap footprint (incorrectly, in the case
// of adopting an oversize typed array) but we don't GC here anyway. That's
// almost certainly fine. The worst case is if you created a ton of fast typed
// arrays, and did nothing but caused all of them to slow down and waste memory.
// In that case, your memory footprint will double before the GC realizes what's
// up. But if you do *anything* to trigger a GC watermark check, it will know
// that you *had* done those allocations and it will GC appropriately.

Kind of interesting, really. The method is clearly somewhat sarcastically named but usefully so: they know what they're doing is not optimal but still do it anyway for the reasons outlined. It's not like this is laziness or nefariousness.
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My thoughts too. With VC-funded freemium models, I think it’s hard to make a clear case for who the paying customer is and what they want.
So everyone got the same pictures? Seems kind of non-random in terms of where the locations were, too. Nothing from the west coast in 5 photos?
> Their fear is that people will start trusting these artificial systems too much and delegating too many important decisions to systems that have no understanding of what it means to be human

In the interview, Hofstadter says what he's afraid of in explicit terms:

> It's not clear whether that will mean the end of humanity in the sense of the systems we've created destroying us. It's not clear if that's the case, but it's certainly conceivable. If not, it also just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches.

It's not about whether we'll become dependent on AI. It's that AI will become independent of us. Completely different problem. Not saying I agree with that viewpoint per se, but I don't think you're accurately representing what his fears are.
> Even more than that, it should provide us with the freedom to discuss among ourselves and reflect on ourselves, humans and humanity, about the future of society.

I usually hear this "freedom of speech" stance until somebody hears something they don't like, then it's out the door and censorship gets a foot in the door.

As long as there is no consensus in society what speech is ok and what's not, we won't get anywhere. Currently, we are mainly leaving this to platforms to decide, and they cater to their customers (which are ad clients), not to what is best for society. Obviously there needs to be some moderation and banned contents. But a line needs to be drawn and anything beyond that needs to be free. No matter if some individual gets hurt by it or not.
Zig and Python/Java are completely different beasts. One is a low-level systems language on the order of Rust or C. The other two are much higher level, easier to work with languages more attuned to desktop, mobile applications and enterprise work.

I don't think anyone is seriously "jumping ship" from Zig to those.
This isn't an issue. At some point there will be "safe driving subsidies" paid by the government to car manufacturers who opt-in to uploading all footage into NSA-approved databases. I know what you're thinking..."oh, the old slippery slope blah blah" but PRISM is alive and well (and nobody gives a shit that it's alive and well) so things like this are entirely within the range of "could easily happen with very little effort."
Well, generate reality for one. It's not a trivial detail, but it tends to be dismissed or taken for granted (or downvoted lol).

Someone may venture into this territory some day, and perhaps that someone will find some travelling companions to make the journey more exciting and productive....time will tell!
> People want buzzwords, not working software.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't generalize that well. I would say that people who don't use every day the product they are buying prefer buzzwords, but it's less true for people who actually use it.
Ah thanks for the info! Yes that would likely substantially narrow it down, I didn’t recognize him but there was at least a clue.
This is super interesting for the historical medical context and portrayal of anatomy. It's certainly more than a bit gruesome - the "neoclassical nude" is interesting as well - particularly the extreme musculature but modest size of reproductive organ.
The depiction of scale is par for the course but made me think of "pectoral size" in body builders throughout the years. Modern body builders focus on the chest but maybe 100 years ago less so - I've read these were just aesthetics of the times.
Was moving a piece of furniture a couple months ago and got an awkward wood sliver that I ended up leaving in since it was near impossible to remove - couldn't imagine needing to deal with broken shaft arrows jeez... how far we've come as a species for better or worse
>you could input all your previous writings and the instruct gpt to mimic your style—even down to the grammar mistakes.

This requires having a massive amount of previous writings to input, otherwise gpt struggles actually differentiating styles enough to generate it consistently in the same way a human would. Most students do not have enough personal writing data to train from.

This also excludes other strategies, such as getting every student to write on paper in a supervised environment and using this to guide your pattern assessments of submitted electronic works. It's very difficult for people to remain consistent and implement their own style in gpt generation. You can ask the many creative writers who are trying to use gpt for stories, and how many of them have to treat generation as an extreme rough draft of plot points at best.
But self driving cars have a much lower accident rate than humans. How did you lose the bet?
Ask HN: Why does Zoom leave a tab behind?
I love Zoom. Super efficient, no nonsense online meeting.

However, after every meeting it leaves an open tab behind.

I'm genuinely curious why does this happen? Figma does not leave a tab open, nor does any other app that has web link to installed app transition.

What makes Zoom do this? Why can't this be solved? Why do I have to manually clean-up all the open tabs?
The working list probably requires paying someone to keep it up to date. So the company is saving money by not needing that person with something customers may not notice is a degradation, at least not enough to switch companies.
Could the FizzBuzz logic be computed "in-memory"?
I don’t think GoodReads has any real alternative. Amazon knew that. That’s why they bought it.
So I get that this is clearly laid out in the privacy policy, so it feels a little more personal.

But wasn’t this already happening? Art posted online has been used for ML training for a while now. This doesn’t seem functionally different.
Stacking shelves in a supermarket is a perfect example. 1000s of products means that a bit of experience is required to know where everything goes in order to quickly stack. With a HUD, workers become productive much faster (and are more inter-changeable) - which is something large enterprises love.
> because they couldn't get the HR, hiring manager, and engineer at the same time.

I think you dodged a bullet. If a company doesn't have their act together enough to actually gather the people they need for a meeting that they themselves set up, it hints that there are deep management-level problems there.
In C, unlike pretty much every other language, you can't even know how big an integer is.
> Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time?

If you never curated your reddit experience, I could see how you might have this attitude.

I won't deny that /r/popular and /r/all are rage inducing dumpster fires. But if you create an account and join subreddits, just going to https://www.reddit.com/ takes you to a selection just from those subreddits. And there are a large number of wholesome, nurturing, even useful subreddits.

In some respects, it is like Usenet used to be.

> never all that beneficial.

Google would disagree, after the recent blackouts. There's a lot of useful information going on in various subreddits - to the point that some posts on specific topics compete for stack answers in search rankings! Hell, I've found more useful Common Lisp resources in the Lisp subreddits than I ever found on HN, and better solutions to (some) problems than on stack.
One version of that even got its own jargon: acquihire.

One incredible journey later and the product is already on the sunset.
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> On Goodreads, the Buy button allows you to buy from:

Interestingly, 3/6 of the places you list are owned by Amazon.

And all those options are hidden behind a menu. I checked a few books on that site, the button itself is always either "Buy on Kindle" or "Buy on Amazon" (if Kindle isn't available).
I suppose I can google/chatGPT this, but since both are unreliable I'll ask here:

Which software?
They are definitely feed-forward. Self-attention looks at all pairs of tokens from the context window, but they do not look backwards in time at its own output. The flow of data is layer by layer, each layer gets one shot at influencing the output. That's feed-forward.
A review of a book that hasn't been published that explains why I don't think the subject is appropriate for a book, how I don't like the author, and what I think about the author's previous opinions about the subject isn't "fake" or "fraud," it's discussion that virtually all intelligent people can handle.

"Fake" and "fraud" are words that you're adding to the article.

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edit:

I feel like it's important to mention that the only reason this "review bombing" is painted as bad is because it convinces people. This is yet another case of (calling for) censoring speech because it is convincing. It convinced the Eat, Pray, Love author not to publish at all.
I read that as

> The Free shit they make for us must be trivial to use and for free and i wont give them any money to develop it to solve the problem. I'd rather get exploited by megacorps for free and complain that they treat me like cattle

hope they like to grass they get fed
A remotely activated killswitch that I install on my car is completely different from a remotely activated killswitch that the government installs on my car.
It records stuff and automatically streams it to NSA-backdoored third-party services?
In my view it is a criterion for "useful", but you're right, it's not as relevant to the idea of socializing itself.
This is a political problem manifesting as a legal one.

Call your US Senators and Representative. Explain the problem.

Call your State Senators and Representative. Explain the problem.

Contact the FTC and file a complaint.
What issues do you have with plumbed rooms that you don't with portal rooms, besides the initial plumbing?
Banned (UK) car number plate combinations
> but from a dollars point of view this seems to be what customers want.

What percentage of software (in dollars) is purchased by people who are not going to be the ones using it?

I suspect the answer is the overwhelming majority. It is how software monstrosities like Concur can exist and be ubiquitous.
Excellent! We need more articles like this that demonstrate the subtleties of the relational model to primarily app-level developers. The explanations and explorations in terms of functional programming are both concise and compelling.
While it was a mistake, should it be an amazing price?

Sure, if you want 10x the memory bandwidth of a smaller card, that should be expensive.

But 80GB of GDDR6 would currently cost something like... $300. Or if you looked 1-3 years ago it would have been $1000.

GDDR6 is already designed so that you can attach 8 data lines per chip. A high end GPU with a 384-bit memory bus could attach 48 chips that way and have 96GB. Or exactly 80GB on a 320-bit bus.

$1000-1500 retail baseline for the GPU, $250-800 for extra RAM, $1000+ for the extra design hassle... I think you'd be able to buy that for $3500 if we had better competition.

For a lot of use cases, you want a balance between compute and memory. For big AI models outside of a datacenter, memory is far more important. It's worth putting half the budget into RAM chips if that means your model can fit, even if you "only" get 100 teraflops at FP16.
If you are using Apple products since decades of course you are used to it - except some complaints between major releases. If you just come from any other corner, oh well...
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Bitcoins user experience has taken time to evolve for the better. The real draw is that it’s immutable decentralized money with a predictable print schedule. When it reaches user experience parity with the dollar then it comes down to the true fundamentals of the currency and I suspect that bitcoin wins out.
Shhhh...don't need any more people here.
Here’s one: a warehouse worker with HUD that guides picking and/or packing visually.

The HUD could overlay SKU, product description, weight, volume, etc — directly onto the actual item in the storage rack.
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This assumes there will still be centralized social media sites to deploy to which seems less likely based on how Twitter, Reddit, etc are rapidly changing. The effect of propaganda on say FB will be diminished as less and less young users join the platform.
A lower accident rate in the extremely controlled conditions where they're currently allowed to operate.

I'd be interested to see if anyone has done a comparison of human drivers vs autonomous cars that controls for driving conditions.
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Very neat link, thank you. It is an educational video to explain how CPUs work using 30 million Qin soldiers.
Well of course the simulation is a simulation. They are speaking of the ideal case. A real simulation is an application of a model, the physics of the molecules and structures interacting. They are saying that in the ideal case, once the simulation is complete you have complete knowledge of the entire system at every moment in time. Of course there's a resolution to all this. The time steps are comparatively large to the planck time and the wave functions are approximations, everything is an approximation, that's what makes it a simulation.

But the principle is that within your model, once the simulation is complete you know _everything_. You have measured every aspect of reality possible from your simplified version. If your model was arbitrarily close to reality you really would know everything