skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Wigand had the FDA. What is the equivalent federal agency tasked with regulating Big Tech. It does not exist. Yet.

https://www.jeffreywigand.com/pascagoula.php

According to the Washington Post, Wigand was making $300,000 at the time he leaked. In today's dollars, that's $594,784.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-most-famous-whistleb...

Honestly, 60 Minutes today feels nothing it was in the days of Mike Wallace or even Andy Rooney. It mostly treats Big Tech with a sort of "awe". Sometimes the show feels like an agent of the US military-industrial complex. In retrospect Mike Wallace looks like a journalist one could only wish for today. 60 Minutes is soft.
From personal experience, the gender disparity can feel daunting but it gets easier once you start building your network in the industry and getting more experience. In my days as an intern, some of my first mentors were women software engineers with exceptional technical abilities who were indispensable to their teams. Lots of colleges have clubs for women in tech where you can meet and be mentored by other women, and many tech companies have placed a heavy focus on hiring and retaining strong talent from underrepresented groups including women.

As for women to look up to, I don't have an exhaustive list but here are a few that come to mind:

- Sandi Metz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE

- Melanie Perkins, co-founder of Canva

- Ella Ehrlich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P974enLU6XE

Also, YC keeps a list of all of their women-founded companies (there are a lot more than you might expect): https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/women-founders
>Historically, a zoonitic origin is extremely likely.

Historically, there have been far, far more documented lab leaks of SARS-CoV than there have been animal-human jumps.

People that wish to shutdown lab leak conversation are quick to mix in engineering. Lots of less educated people can't tell the difference.

It is very possible that the virus was both zoonotic in origin, and leaked from the lab.
normally I'm very suspicious of shilling and astroturfing, and you definitely do get it here on HN - especially wrt China and FAANG - but I don't think it's even remotely out of place that a highly anticipated feministic Barbie film is having columns written about it, or that ... there's a popular youtube video about the subject of the new Christopher Nolan film?

Barbenheimer is vaguely suspicious though, especially this article, describing what is pretty much standard procedure wikipedia fare as if it's a split between the Obamas
Pretty soon, you're living in rural Canada.
Tobacco is not purely negative. Ask the native peoples.
I wouldn't use "ethics" to describe any of the rules in place to ensure the quality of the designs or deliverables in civil/mechanical/electrical engineering.

I'm glad that there are building inspectors, and safety standards for consumer electronics. I'm also glad that those rules are written clearly in terms of lbs and amp*hours and volts, and not philosophical terms.

If you want rules, say you want rules, but don't try to hide the fact that some of your rules will have not objective justification, and will be based on the personal philosophies of those in charge.
No it doesn't; it just says that professional ethics aren't your opinon, not that they aren't opinion.
And he uses a Linux laptop!

> Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop.

Ben, you've thought about the impact your proposal would have on Linux laptop users, right? Surely you sometimes use your laptop for banking, right?
Speaking from experience, babies and toddlers will attempt to do absolutely everything, including flying (which will fail) and using smartphones (where they succeed remarkably).

Learned helplessness can by definition manifest only after you have tried something and failed. Hence you cannot have learned helplessness after being born, because you had no opportunity to try anything yet.
Objecting to a notion that black is white is hardly a "well actually" pedantry. We're talking about the whole essence of the meaning of the term, not about some minor details in its definition.

I'd rather say: everyone who actually checked the license knows that it's obviously not open source in any way.
>has been bad for people for millennia

I don't know, it's not like we have some successful high ground as a society...
I remember being so excited when the 56k modems came out. My roommate and I were huge Mac evangelists back in the day (still are!) and I at the time I had a Hotline Server on my old 6100/66. I used to wake up to such loving messages as "your server sucks" and "slow piece of shit." Good times.

It remained online as long as I could thanks to a Viacom Internet Gateway, featuring Darko the Setup Wizard. We called it Drunko the wizard just for fun.

No nasty emails because I worked at the ISP. :)
Sounds cool. Any links to a blog, etc?
It’s a political problem first. You can’t engineer your way out of a problem when most of the people holding power or the resources needed decide to not spend the time or money because they think it’ll affect others and not them
We use the little vinegar traps but sometimes you just have to go in there with the vacuum cleaner hose set to high power and suck up as many as possible. That will give you a few hours respite to use your kitchen until the next day when theyll be back at full power.
> > Just pay them more

> [...] Not only are you suggesting

Please don't do false quotes[1]. I'm the one who said, "Just pay them more"—and I'm not sure that anyone did, it seems like it's something that you just... made up (and decided to attribute to me...?). And I didn't suggest anything other than that your choice to phrase it as "the law forces people to work only 40 hours" was untrue—that you were exaggerating—a sort of motte and bailey.

Your approach of responding to this with another (albeit this time less forgivable) instance of exaggeration is in a word unkind.

I don't know what you hoped this would result in, but I'm not going to respond to you further here.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947>
Mine are "Harder Drives"[1], "ELO World"[2], and "Printable x86"[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
It's a completely fake progress bar. If you load the page with all javascript disabled, it loads image and text instantly.

This kind of nonsense is common because web designers don't get bullied enough. I browse with all javascript disabled by default because this fixes more websites than it breaks.
> A more advanced feature not commonly used is to also enable back-tracking if the AI gets stuck and can’t produce a valid output.

Technically that part is mandatory if you don't just want it to produce an output but to make it produce an output that correctly matches the temperature (i.e. one that you could have gotten by randomly sampling the LLM until you got a correct one). Randomly picking the next tokens that isn't grammatically incorrect works but oversamples paths where most of the options are invalid. The ultimate example of this is that it can get stuck at a branch with probability 0.

From a probabilistic standpoint what you'd need to do is not just make it backtrack but make it keep generating until it generates a grammatically correct output in one go.

Maybe there is something clever that can be done to avoid regenerating from the start? What you'd need to achieve is that a token that has a x% probability of leading to an incorrect output also has x% probability to be erased.
Note that there are actual Japanese llama finetunes that would be much more coherent with these grammar constraints
Adobe doesn't hold copyright on images produced using Photoshop. Assuming prompt guidance can be used to claim copyright (unclear, see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co... ), that copyright would presumably be held by the person doing the guidance and not the company that trained the AI.
Well, I think this is the philosophy that is making the number of safe and enjoyable places to live approach zero!
You are casually suggesting people sacrifice themselves for what exactly?
> Is it created locally and sustainably

Ocean shipping is cheap in carbon. Local means lots of redundant last-mile delivery. (You still need the other transport infrastructure.) The carbon impact of local/organic is largely in its excess transportion.

I eat a lot of local produce. But I don’t kid myself—it’s for the taste and nutrition, and comes at the expense of the planet. That it’s expensive limits that environmental impact.
Barbenheimer was almost certainly a pre-constructed meme, or at least one that was given a boost by the marketing team once they identified it from some early candidates of organic memes. But its subsequent popularity is (at least partially) organic, even if it was originally astroturfed.

However, if Kotaku is writing about <dramatic event> regarding "the Internet's reaction" to <recent well-funded theatrical release>, it's not unreasonable to assume they were paid by a marketing agency to write the article.
Thanks for clarifying, I hadn't heard of that license before. It's interesting to see it is classified as "extreme copyleft" (on wikipedia) and is apparently so extreme in what it asks you to share that it doesn't qualify as open source, nor is it recognized as free software.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
BFI IMAX in London still has a real, physical Palm Pilot running their reel unit as of 2023. You can see it clearly in this video, around 1:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkOZrgueLQ

"PALM PILOT MUST BE ON ALL THE TIME"
We don't have hard numbers for them, but we do have everyone who tried the demo units being basically unanimous on those points, including people already familiar with existing VR devices.
I was with it right up until this statement:

> Centrally updatable: Sometimes best practice or corporate policy changes over time. You can update what LowCost or SecurityPolicy means later on, in one place, and that change will reapply to all resources that used it.

It sounds great but it's not. This is essentially the Fragile Base Class problem. You may _think_ that updating one of these traits in a single place will be safe and do what you want, but it may be disastrous for whoever is using it. And you're not going to find out until you deploy it.
> Could maybe be just a mistake when doing the UK registration ? It's an easy fix if wanted.

Changes! lol
Carter outlawed the Plutonium economy, Reagan permitted it. Democrats campaigned to shut down the FFTF. Ralph Nader led opposition to new plants like Seabrook and Diablo Canyon. Business interests, then represented by Republicans, complained that nuclear power was regulated too much.

There have always been exceptions. Atomic Rod operated nuclear reactors in the land of submarines and was so impressed by the experience that he's become an evangelist for small modular reactors. He's a Democrat, even if he sees everything as nuke vs anti-nuke.
Breaking orbit and sailing off on a tangent: I miss the Palm Pilot's Graffiti text-input system — I'd much rather have that than any of the various keyboards and swiping systems on the iPhone / iPad.
> Also, it's (highly) likely that state-based food security is needed, but the US just does it wrong.

I don't know about that the US is one of the few food independent nations out there.
> Dr. Gabor Mate insists that ADHD is not a hereditary condition

I don’t think this is accurate. I believe he talks about genes being like a loaded gun - they can make you more susceptible but it is the environment that pulls the trigger. There is also a lot of discussion about intergenerational trauma.
Lazy loading UI is the worst thing to happen in UI design in the last decade.

Even Google's front page search does it. I have to wait 3 seconds before clicking anything because it might move from under me
Fruit fly epidemic here. They're aggressive and impossible to get rid of.

I just added some chardonnay to mine.

If there were an automatic 10W anti-fly laser air defense system, I'd buy it because they're too small to for manual fly zapping rackets.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia_purpurea), sarracenia purpurea are from Canada and the north-half of the east coast of the United States.
The GPL depends on copyright but it not itself copyright. The GPL is a license that gets its legal standing from copyright but if you don't have a copyright on something, slapping the GPL on top of it doesn't make it copyrighted to you.
Also using a similar method: https://github.com/automorphic-ai/trex

Playground: https://automorphic.ai/playground
I still find it very odd when someone takes an abnormal amount of pride in the accomplishments of other people that they just happen to share a geographic proximity with.

Did you go to the moon? Were you involved in anyway with the advancement of rocketry, the mercury missions, the Apollo missions, etc?
Interest rates were already increasing when Trump was elected. They jacked rates to cool the economy, as they should have done.

Rates were already decreasing when COVID hit, and they dropped rates to zero when the economy shut down, as they should have done.

Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, as I'm sure you know.

You could have simply looked up a long-term chart of the FED funds rate to verify your political belief, but you chose not to. Why?

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/effr
Not sure the article really makes a convincing case - it lacks a proper comparison. The EU (and national governments in the EU) spend considerable on farming with all sorts of weird incentives but healthy food is cheaper there from my experience.
Sounds like new construction is inadequate in other metros as well, probably for different reasons.
> The problem with ethics is that there is a vocal group that wants to turn their personal ethics into our professional ethics and impose on software a bunch of judgements that are super subjective (and thus outside the profession).

This is exactly right, and the word "ethics" pretty much encompasses all of this subjectivity masquerading as objectivity.

If you had a rule about testing aviation firmware a certain way, it would just be a regulation, there would be no need to call it an ethical principle. Anyone who understands the relevant technology could understand why it was in place. The same cannot be said about most statements under the umbrella "ethics".
Mind if I ask you if you've got experience in this regard? It's a horrible situation to deal with for family members so I'd love to know how to escape the pain we all feel.
Ironically, there’s some Indian tractor brands that sell well in the US (and are quite good bang for the buck).
PHP in 2023 is a great language, I always scoff when somebody tries to imply that Python or JS are "clearly superior" languages to PHP (which, to me, is a clear sign of illiteracy). But I am also kind of "the right tool for the job" proponent. Now is PHP the right tool to build Desktop Apps?

- It is cumbersome to distribute. Rarely people have PHP installed outside of a docker container, and given quite short development lifecycle chances are their version of PHP is already outdated.

- Concurrency support in PHP is still very poor. That seems quite a big deal for a desktop app.

- NativePHP is anything but native. It relies on Electron, which is somewhat questionable on its own (even though very common nowadays).

- …And, since it pretty much is just Electron, why do I need a Laravel app underneath anyway?! If there is a job for JS, it's exactly programming UIs (primarily because there are millions of UIs and thousands UI-targeted libraries written in JS by now)

So, I am very skeptical.
> only to get your eyebrows singed and a lungfull of half combusted propane

I dare say, something is wrong with your stove if any of this is even half true. Either that, or people need to learn to cook.

This article is about the particulate being released from the items inside the pan. Such as fats/oils burning... which will happen no matter what style pan or range top you use.
I live in aus, we have as far as I can tell, uncapped fibre, 1000/50 is about 100usd a month give or take, anything with more upstream is extremely expensive though. The fibre infra has really come into fruition, I’m looking forward to (and expect to see) 10gbps plans at affordable rates in the next 5-10 years,
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but it is a movie based on a doll (almost like the ultimate commercial). It’s been done before (transformers) but it feels a little wierd this time.
It's hard to fight a war if half your country is too fat to serve in the military.
This was my second computer, I had a Compaq Presario Pentium 75 mhz that ran Win 95 and later 98 SE. The laptop in question was a hand-me-down from the neighbor and it had a white-black screen so instead of it being a black screen with white text it was reverse. A very strange "little" computer that my mother sadly threw out when I moved out many years ago. This was in the 14.4kbit modem days and I think it was an actual copy of Slackware 3.1 on diskettes.

But as I said, my memory is very sketchy. I just remember the good times I had fiddling around with that thing.

Thank you as well for the good talk!
Many couch potatoes have been training all their lives to be exceptional drone or mech pilots.
What causes has he put energy into? Or is that just an americanism and the answer is none?
> Maybe there is something clever that can be done to avoid regenerating from the start? What you'd need to achieve is that a token that has a x% probability of leading to an incorrect output also has x% probability to be erased.

Like giving the llm a backspace token? There is a paper related to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425375
> Is that not a "model" because it is not necessarily graphical?

For some people model==graphical, usually mechanical/electrical engineers, not software-engineers. Engineers maintain the holy "model", and the translation to lowly code is a job for the lowest-bidding software person.

Maybe it wasn't clear, but I do not agree with that point of view, and tried to explain how I think people may have found their belief.

I assumed the parent^4 was labeling their code model in an attempt to elevate themself to the ranks of the code painters.
But in a few years Apple will have new devices too. They’ll be cheaper for the “low end” due to better economies of scale and not using brand new cutting edge tech like the screens are today. The high end will be even better.

And they’ll have a few years more experience and refinement.

By then Meta’s similar device may not be enough, or even if the hardware is up there the lack of experience on high-end AR may end up showing.
> An industrial tomato is healthier than a McMuffin.

But is it healthier than a home made McMuffin equivalent?
My argument is that if your kid has:

1. A lot of physical energy and is forced to sit on a chair 8 hrs a day, they would be miserable without a way to expend that energy. If they get to burn energy before or intermittently during the task, they will focus far more easily.

2. A mind as fast as a Porche and you make them drive behind a Tractor 8 hrs a day (listening to a slow talker describing things they already know), they would not be happy. I think ADHD is really underutilized mental and/or physical processing power.

Some of us think and move like elephants and others like hummingbirds and we have to operate together. The educational system is often designed for the former, not the latter.
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I started uni in 1990 and went from a kid in his basement banging away on a PC clone with Turbo Pascal 5.x to a place with this thing called "usenet" on a "VAX" running "BSD" off of tapes and the map of the "Internet" could just about fit on a whiteboard. I sponged off the sysadmins all I could learning about renoe, tahoe and all things in between. I had no cognizance at the time that the death of this amazing world was getting thought off just when i thought it was the greatest stuff in the universe. I read the demon book cover to cover when I had no idea what most of it meant. BSD, whether alive or "dead" will always hold a special place in my mind. It's only with the long road since those days that I can appreciate the tone of this article. Thanks OP for posting it here.
According to my understanding the blog post, FreeWilly2 performs near or above ChatGPT4 for most test-cases. Is this true?

Am I misunderstanding this? Is this not a big deal?
Yes, it was brutal in the UK in the mid-90s. That first £1000 phone bill almost had my parents divorce me.
That may be the best answer (it was a serious question). The explosion in the film is layered small-scale petrol explosions [1], but more visible detail may help sell it as bigger.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-christopher-nolan-oppenh...
I mean, you are completely right. Those are very valid points. But this still sounds sorta fun to me, I like crazy projects :)
Unless you are replacing the activated carbon filters every week or so, an air purifier won’t be capturing any meaningful amount of VOCs anyways. Manufacturers of filters seem to have decided it is OK to flat out LIE about how long activated carbon filtration is effective for before becoming saturated. Unless you have a massive filter budget, the only meaningful way to control indoor VOC levels is by venting in outdoor air (opening a window). If your automatic filter controller has a way to ignore VOC levels and only monitor particle counts, I would recommend you configure it that way.
It surprised me too, that's why i recommend it to people.
I got a Air quality monitor that does TVOC, Pm2.5, CO and CO2 recently and even with a hood extractor its amazing the amount of air quality reduction that cooking produces. Even using an electric oven the process of browning bread will increase particles, CO and CO2. Frying with gas produces a concerning amount of everything.
That makes the problem even simpler. Every charging spot I've been to has signage that says if a car is parked but not plugged in, it will be towed. Sometimes management has hesitation calling the tow truck if a car is plugged in because they might not know if charging is in progress. When the car is clearly unplugged, call the tow truck.
Seems like an oddly high risk process. Not only are you risking bad taste from major missing ingredients like salt, but also ruining things with the wrong temperature/ cooking times.

A reasonably comprehensive cookbook like The Joy Of Cooking or something specific to your preferences seems like less effort overall vs Google or a LLM.
>They're going to charge us twice. Once for emitting it, second time for sequestering it.

The local water utility charges you once for providing the water, and another time for treating it (ie. sewers). Are you similarly outraged?
The model returns probabilities across the full set of tokens. This restricts the tokens to those that conform to the grammar, and samples from those
Words have meaning. This is not war.
We are already facing numerous existential threats at the moment, even ones that are deliberately made to be an existential threat, take nuclear weapons.

“Hey fellow nation states, let’s not create nuclear bombs, but let’s pause developments and keep the current power dynamics fixed please” is completely unrealistic. Mind that creating nuclear weapons actually requires technical operations that are factors more complex than “large compute” in many aspects… like… enriching uranium and working with supercritical masses.

> you cant advance the state of the art inconspicuously.

What evidence has led you to believe this?
Another detailed description of how to do this: https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines/pull/131

That's one of the developers of the Outlines library, another cool LLM workflow library.