skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I getcha. I wonder how much repair-ability limited the design. Chunkier components is probably much easier for the common person to repair. I wouldn't want to open up my iPhone or Switch as an example, but feel like I'd be super comfortable taking apart the Deck.
> I still find different approaches and other peoples' experience interesting

...except this is the literal opposite of that, this is presented as an introductory resource. The literal opposite of "other peoples' experience", it's an intro into the topic.

> You don't have to be an expert to make assumptions of the content, learning is incremental.

My entire argument is that you must make evaluations about the source of the content, so I think it's clear you completely missed what I actually said for what you wanted to believe I said.

> As for why I care? I'm trying to help you broaden your perspective, if possible, maybe it brings me good (real life) karma.

No, I didn't ask why you cared about talking to me, I asked why you cared about Internet Argument Points. You brought them up, then got pissy about me caring about them.

> Still waiting for your reputable institutions, or anything resembling a useful response.

I don't owe you shit and this is manipulative. You don't get to tell me what to do or how I engage in a conversation.

> I've asked what gripes you have with the repository, but crickets.

"This is from an anonymous source who has no incentive to be accurate, so it is of unknown quality." is my "gripe". It's the gripe you replied to originally, so stop gaslighting.

> If you aren't even going to try to be constructive why are you wasting your precious time? What are you gaining from this?

I presume you wrote this to yourself.
Blog: https://www.jskherman.com

RSS: https://www.jskherman.com/feed.xml

Personal site for sharing thoughts and projects. It's not particularly active because of studies and school, but maybe more frequent posting down the line.
> It's important to recognize that the model is fully capable of operating in open world environment

How so? If they cannot drive a car?
It's really surprising and also a real shame. I have played around with my friend's Windows Surface laptop and it was quite good, but that has been the only PC laptop I have seen come close.

I actually have Asahi installed as a second OS on my MBP and considered going with Asahi and something like an ROG Ally for work/play... but of course Asahi isn't cleared for work use by our security team.

With that in mind, I tried it anyway and had a lot of issues with dependencies missing arm64 binaries which unfortunately makes it difficult (if not impossible) to compile the giant projects with stale dependencies we have at the place I work.
bit weird. I think some people hate short form writing, like my "btw" could've come across bad to them. Like redditors and raging against emoji
These look great. I went to order a pair of the tumblers, but the hacker discount code didn't work:

> HACKER discount code isn’t valid for the items in your cart
I want them to get ads right. That’s the only way this gets a fighting chance. Hopping around mastodon and bluesky isn’t as fun as twitter used to be.
There must be a way to run something without needing a temp file...
Yes to this.
That one always gives me existential dread.
>There are huge barriers to entry between "know how to design/build/deploy a nuke/bioweapon" and "can actually do it".

>public models don't provide them with a tool more or less powerful than the internet

> I'm saying that AI doesn't meaningfully change that landscape because the barrier to operationalizing is high enough that by the time you can operationalize it's unclear why you need to model -- that you couldn't have made the a similar discovery with a bit of extra time or even just used something off the shelf to the same effect.

Your expertise is in AI, but the issues here aren't just AI, they involve (for example) chemistry and biology, and I suggest speaking with chemists and biologists on the difference AI makes to their work. You may discover the huge barrier isn't that huge, and that AI can make discoveries easier in ways that 'a little extra time' is strongly underselling (most humans would take a very long time searching throughout possibility-space, such a search may well be detectable since it will require repeated synthesis and experiment...). Also, to borrow an old Marxist chestnut: A sufficient difference in quantity is a qualitative difference*. Make creating weapons easy enough and you get an entirely different world.

I get your issues with the 'LessWrong cult', I have quite a few of my own. However, that doesn't make the risks nonexistent, even if we were to discount AGI completely. Given what I see from current industry leaders (often easily bypassed blacklisting) I'm not so impressed with the current safety record. I fear it will crack on the first serious test with disastrous consequences.

* There's a smarter phrasing which I can't find or remember.
I have zero alternative to cars where I live. I do everything possible to minimize my sons exposure to chemicals, which run rampant in our society.

Every single purchase I make, I try to be as informed as possible.

Does this offend you?
The best way to think about LLMs since even before ChatGPT has always been the simulators essay https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/
That's what uuencode / uudecode were once used for.
Happy to hear that!

Heh, definitely depends on the software itself but I generally find the contents /schema of tables used to save the data very illuminating: you can see the UX, whatever form it takes -- and then what is saved to the backend so it makes things slightly more understandable for me.
They founded a company around the simulator called http://antithesis.ai/
>Concurrency is not "single core parallelism"

Of course it is. Concurrency gives the impression to the user that parallel processing is being done, even when it's not. That's why my parents old 386 could render a moving mouse cursor and a progress bar at the same time (usually).

Concurrency lets you do things "in parallel" even if you can't actually do them in parallel.
How will you price it relative to a dr dish?
It's Hucksterism 101.
I've been using Mastodon recently, and I've really enjoyed my experience. I guess some big instances may have difficulty with scale, but I've really enjoyed my experience on a smaller instance.

It's interesting to me how dismissive people are of Mastodon, when it's basically been perfect for me.

I enjoyed Jeff Atwood's post on the matter [1].

> People say "decentralization doesn't work as good as the centralized facebooks and twitters", but then I post here on highly decentralized Mastodon a silly little joke about the commando character in the old video game Command & Conquer from 1995 and get a response from someone who worked on the original game! .. uh, maybe it is working already?

Mastodon doesn't need perfect scalability and uptime to be better than Threads. Instead, it succeeds by aligning the platform's values with the user's, by not treating the user as a product to monetize.

[1] https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110656567413673113
About those COVID hospitals https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/china-st...
Given that some of us have been on waiting lists for what seems like months, it isn't surprising that Bluesky is short on content.
I feel like a ton of people still just write code for themselves.

It's such a big problem that a common piece of advice for founders is "build something people actually want".

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As a counterpoint to myself, perhaps founders are constantly building things for a hypothetical third party, which may support the point OP is trying to make.
The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey [2:11:42] [video]
Thank you so much for this response.
Totally agree. I've been developing with React for a couple years and before that I was an Android developer for about a decade. React is such a breeze to use compared to the complexity that goes into developing with other frontend frameworks.
I don't owe you any links, I am not here to do your research for you. You already found one company that pays similarly, levels.fyi will give you dozens of others, you even named a few who do pay in a similar ballpark as FAANG.

Besides, it's not actually at all clear if you care about this topic genuinely or are just being a jackass online, so you can forgive me if I don't take your demand for my effort more seriously.
Thanks!

Just for posterity: Steve Irwin’s death was really very unusual. Stingrays can be scary, but deaths directly due to stingray stings are pretty rare. Contaminated wounds are more common and can lead to serious issues, but even that is not normal. We’ve met multiple people who’ve gotten 10+ stings, but I only know one person who had serious issues due to contamination.
Sounds like the initial hooks launch. A lot of goodwill was used up with that. It might look fine behind the desk at Meta on the React team, but on the ground on real world 2nd and 3rd rate dev teams the damage has been immense. You have entire teams of devs that can't understand useEffect for 2-3 years.. can't say that about pre-hook React.
https://dangerous.link/virus.exe
It increasingly has plastic and other crap in it.
Heat pump dryer system is state of the art for efficiency. I saw some complains by American that it takes too long time for drying, but I don't know why they need to dry things so frequently.
Cost more energy
If I believed "super intelligence" was possible, and this was all OpenAI had to offer, I'd be very worried indeed.

Luckily it isn't possible.
I am going to sound like broken record throwing in shameless plugs. But for people who might want to look for alternate options, Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot) is another option that can let you both replicate, and backup your database. I have recently embedded NATS into Marmot and based on community feedback introduced example script that gets you up and running with example DB within seconds.
So they are going to use 20% of their computational budget to make an alignment AI that presumably can monitor and provide feedback for the other AIs they plan to develop which will use 80% of their budget. I'm not great at math but 80 > 20 so wouldn't it make sense to build the superaligner with 80% of their budget and allow it to control the 20% AI? Again, I'm not an expert but the numbers don't add up.
> When you follow a user on another server for the first time, your server subscribes to that user specifically. That means even if there is a server with millions of people in the network, unless you follow millions of people, you will not be receiving updates for millions of people. This keeps traffic and storage manageable across the network. As such, small servers will not be affected, and may not even notice the presence of Threads, except when they decide to follow specific users.

Ok, but what happens when millions of people on threads.net follow people on Mastodon servers, interact with their posts via reply/favorite/boost, send them private messages, etc.?

And how are Mastodon instances going to deal with spam coming from Threads? I know a lot of Mastodon instance administrators were already annoyed by spam coming from mastodon.social, but Threads could be orders of magnitude worse, and will Meta even care about that? As a Mastodon user, you can't really report spam directly to Meta.
> I expect that by 1975, say, the number of high-end hardware installations was a lot more than 80.

Yes, part of the problem was that, for all of its goals of portability, Multics only ever ran on two kinds of computer, and depended on their hardware features quite intimately. Compared to Unix, it was not effectively portable.

> Yes. Multics had the wrong design goals. Arguably, it hit them, but that didn't matter, because they were the wrong goals (though not obviously wrong at the time). That's why Multics is given short shrift - it successfully implemented what turned out in retrospect to be the wrong thing.

[snip]

> And of course, as always happens in this business, the lower-end machines became more and more powerful. The result of that (plus easier portability) was that Unix ate the world, and Multics became a footnote.

Yes: The computing utility concept came to pass on a smaller scale than the Multics people anticipated, and so could get by with smaller, cheaper, and less reliable hardware and software, which eventually grew up to be more Multics-level in capacity and reliability without becoming as expensive.

My point with my original post was to push back on the notion that Multics was a complete failure, that it stagnated and died after Bell Labs left the project. It didn't, it produced an OS that found a tiny commercial niche, and it executed on its vision to the extent the world as a whole allowed it to. The fact the world moved in a different direction doesn't take away from the technical accomplishment of the Multics development team.
What phrase, if you had to choose one, would you describe the group of people who do this work? The work, as you clearly explain here, is how bias gets introduced?

Maybe, perhaps, news media?
I’m confused how one parses the required statement to mean fair use is prohibited.

It states “a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of ‘fair use’” (emphasis mine) generates liability, and that the library “reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order,” not that it must.

The entire article is premised on a red herring.
> that's victim blaming

No, it's not. Victim blaming refers to the victims of crime being accused of being at fault for what someone did to them, often but not always because they are part of a societal outgroup.

> The whole sales pitch of GPT-4 is a do-what-I-mean interface, and it clearly did not do what they meant, or what any reasonable hacker would expect them to mean.

It's clearly marked as experimental, people are repeatedly told not to rely on it (ie when they login each time, and often by the ai itself), and there have now been a year+ of very public examples of various AIs getting things hilariously wrong.

From the login warning:

> While we have safeguards in place, the system may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and produce offensive or biased content. It is not intended to give advice.

Any "reasonable hacker" would extrapolate from that, that giving it access to an API could lead it to do unexpected things.

Any "reasonable hacker" would contain it within a sandboxed project.

Etc etc.
It takes some discipline to take the extra steps to use it at first but google drawings is great. Make it is in drawings, then embed it in google docs and google slides that stay up to date.
Ask HN: What was the longest you stuck with a project that failed?
Everything comes to him who waits... or does it?

A lot of people on this forum start startups (or something less than a startup) only to give up after a few months (guilty here, so guilty).

What about the others - those patient founders. What was the longest project you stuck with, pivoted, and still ultimately gave up on, and what was the final dagger?
I love the trackpad and keyboard on my Asus G14.

Its also fast as stink... They even sell a variant with a mobile 4090 (which is an underclocked desktop 4080) now.
We can then check the evil bit to determine whether the AI is acting maliciously.
LongChat: Train and evaluate long-context LLM-based chat bots
There are aqueducts between the CV and coastal areas. The water goes the other direction.

If desalination becomes widespread, I imagine the water not shipped to the coast could remain in the Central Valley. I don’t know one way or another if this would make political or economic sense.

EDIT: Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California
4th swimmer bit in Long Island waters has officials on shark watch
The thing is a library usually advertises how they address a painful experience in other projects.
That is the hello world fallacy, there is a blog about it.

Basically you see how elegant or easy to do X in a new library but you don’t see how complicated it is to do Y. Y is complex in the new library and simple in your existing library
Thanks for making this! It is great to see what people are writing about.
I thought 3.x was the bumpy one (first SMP, IIRC).
My life is a big failure, lol
Ah, should have been more clear. The code is just for the stems.

The new tumblers are 33% off (automatically) though since they're on a pre-order special right now!
Your numbers are off. Thermal power plants typically do have a thermal-to-electric efficiency of around 30% (40% max), so with your heatpump having an electric-to-thermal efficiency of an assumed 300%, you end up with basically no difference in CO₂ emissions.

Note that there are some misleading efficiency claims for gas plants around 60%, but those are not for thermal-to-electric efficiency but for generating electricity plus district heating from waste heat.
It is concerning to me to center science on what are "the problems of our time". Take "infectious diseases", I doubt that topic would have been included in 2019. Of course COVID changed what is a problem of our time. But what is next? If there is a nuclear incident, does nuclear physics become the problem of our time? If a startup clones humans, does genetic research become the problem of our time?

Teach the fundamentals, give students the tools to asses for themselves what the problems are, and how to best approach understanding them.
With the amount of bs I had to go through when they dropped Hooks, I'll never use shiny new tech from the React Team again. I'm sure there are thousands of devs who feel the same.

I think the React Team will soon be faced with an Angular 2.0 style situation where they are forced to break class components, hooks, etc to get people to use new patterns. The number of people who will do it out of goodwill has had to have been diminished to a minority percentage of React enthusiasts.

Personally, I just rock jQuery for my personal projects. I get the same dollar coming over the wire with a way faster time to live and reduced complexity.
Presumably at some point one of them will achieve singularity and have a self-sufficient superintelligence that will recursively self-improve. I recommend contributing your inputs to the team which you believe is most likely to reach this milestone first because once that happens it is game over for any other AI company.

Ted Chiang has an excellent short story about this situation called "Understand".
Oh god that's a depressing statement and implication.
"Lone Wolf": merge 1000 of your own PRs

"Deadbeat": open at least 100 PRs in other people's repositories, without taking any action on comments or reviews
Word of warning: After activating you account you cannot delete your Threads account without also deleting Instagram's. Also "deactivating" seems not to be working right now. It loads then does nothing.

My experience: The algoritm is terrible for me because it higly bias you towards the language of the country you are residing and not the system language. As a Brazilian the only posts I see are from "blue checkmarks" ex-reality TV show people who think they are funny. In every thread blue ticks all over the top, in a cronological order of replies, which means famous people who put the lowest effort will show first.

I don't get it, if my system language is in English why show only (Portuguese) Brazilian language? So if I travel or live abroad how would that work?
Easily the worst of the twitter alternatives so far. The feed is endless garbage recommended posts with no way to turn them off. At least twitter gives me a tab of only the people I follow.
I’ve been recently using a notes app for gathering information that is somewhat structured, but I realized sometimes I need something for temporary messy stuff, and it does help a lot.

Now I’m thinking maybe the ideal is to have at least two types of notes:

* The messy more ephemeral stuff you’ll probably delete later.

* The more structured and summarized stuff you’ll review from time to time and adapt to your latest understanding of it.
I don't think that points to companies colluding with the Fed, that's just companies adjusting to market forces the Fed created (the difference being coordination).

I don't even know if an anticipated recession is in play here. The simple explanation is that safe investments are now pulling 4% returns (pre-inflation), so now riskier investments like stocks have to return more than 4% to account for the risk. Nobody wants stocks where the best outcome is matching inflation (unless safe investments are returning less than inflation).

If companies were involved in the discussion, I suspect they'd be most interested in getting interest rates back down to 0 because it pushes money into the stock market and raises their share price.
Interesting, I’ve never heard of that interpretation. Heat pumps have always been a technology to me. The same tech that is in everyone’s refrigerator.
One semi-common thread to these is how much of the invisible groundwork had already been laid, in order to execute so quickly. I wonder how much is "fast" and how much is "right time, right place" and/or "right preparation."

I'm reminded of Alexander the Great, and his massive conquests within a short lifetime. But my understanding is that his father Philip II paved the way for him, building a lot of the political and military structure that he would leverage. But people don't remember the accomplishments of Philip II nearly as much as Alexander.
I generally agree with your overall philosophy. But I have one disagreement. String interpolation is subject to XSS, when used to generate HTML. Yes, it's possible to sanitize and escape, but you have to remember to do it every time.
I did wonder whether his point was that he'd followed all the precepts of his training to the letter, and the dodgy beaker was the unsuspected weak foundation. But then, later in the thread...

> I did a lot of small things wrong, including working at 4am while I was dead tired.

Hmm. Well. Maybe not then?

(As a betting man, I will also bet that this was not the first time that he had done this.)
The number of us that run vscode is very high. Vscode is exceedingly performant & efficient. I doubt I lose 20 minutes of my 8+ hour runtime on those days I switch from Neovim to Vscode fulltime. It's just not a factor, and hemming & hawing is a waste of emotion. Being a fidgety worry-wort here is a waste of my vital life energy, would make my life worse.

Like any application, enough bad code can ruin a good thing. If you install a couple dozen extensions in vscode, there's some odds one or two will have a real impact on resource usage. And I think all codebases are like this: performance is fragile. It has to be cared for, ongoingly. Projects tend to become slower over time. It doesn't matter your stack, your technology: vigilance is required. Caring is required.

When people think of Electron, they think of Slack. (Or maybe Discord, but honestly it's way down on my list of cpu used versus other things, and it's <200MB RSS across dozens of servers & hundreds of rooms is tiny.) These form very strong preconceptions. I wont tell you you're wrong, but you need to think very clearly about what could possibly change your mind. There's a lot of people not open to the possibility that they're wrong, that Electron has no problem and is fine, or even worse of a locking-yourself-in tragedy, could ever possibly become fine. And that's a problem.

(I do wish we had a shared-library alternative to Electron, which would lower effective memory use heavily. Alas, alternatives like the well known Tauri use a woefully inferior Webkit2 engine, which is a cure far worse than the disease.)
It’s quite a big change, depending on how many routes are in play. Migrating to App Router is non-trivial.

Thankfully, the pages directory model is still just fine, so there’s no immense pressure for existing apps to migrate, and it can be done somewhat incrementally.