skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My whole premise is that it doesn’t have better than human intelligence. Everyone glosses over how we go from ChatGPT 4 failing its own unit tests to geometrically self-improving hyper-intelligence.

Obviously if it can't improve its code then it can't improve its code. But you seem to think there's some barrier that means that even if it was a better-than-human programmer (implicitly for general-intelligence reasons), it wouldn't be able to geometrically self-improve. And it's not at all obvious (at least to me) what that barrier is. We can already throw ChatGPT or equivalent at a codebase, ask it to suggest improvements to the code, and it does; the hit rate isn't great, but it's already good enough that people are incorporating it into their workflows.

As far as I can see, that's enough. Yes, people who are worried about this don't spend a lot of time going through the details, just as people who are worried about the military staging a coup don't spend a lot of time going into how they will get weapons or coordinate their movements or what have you. Those things are pretty complex, but they're ultimately routine; we are right to gloss over them, and if someone thinks that those things make a coup impossible, the burden would be on them to explain why (maybe there's some specific protocol that means they can't get access to weapons without authorisation from the legitimate authorities - but you'd need to explain what that protocol actually is and justify why you expect it to be wartertight).

Your argument seemed to be that babysitting the kind of complex code that we use for AI is not merely complex, but so complex that it requires some unique human ability that we would not expect a ChatGPT-like AI to possess (implicitly, that it requires something a lot more difficult than making improvements to code). And I just don't see that. Put it this way: we would never expect a human worker at these companies who was smart enough to make improvements to the core AI code to get stuck when it comes to actually running it. So why would it be an issue for the AI? I do think the burden is on you here given that the whole premise is that the AI is smart enough to improve its own code (you're welcome to argue that it's impossible for an AI to ever get smart enough to improve its own code - but in that case all this talk about operational complexity is beside the point).
Having the militia be well-regulated would also help here.
Setting aside whether this is even feasible, did anyone else notice that the map being used here is at least 12 years out of date?

South Sudan is a full UN member, recognized as an independent country since 2011.

The map shows lines running through their territory, but as if it's still part of Sudan.
Most of yt and tiktok are a regression against both books and websites.
What Generative AI Means for Product Strategy and How to Evaluate It
The counter view is a case of resulting, where people evaluate Musk’s skill based on the results of one or two of his companies. This is also a poor way to evaluate if he is a good decision maker.

I do think his recent decisions have been quite poorly thought through, independent of the results. I suspect X/Twitter are going to get hammered by regulatory bodies worldwide because they are not meeting requirements set by eg FTC consent orders.
Not "multiple times a day". Once per day. (That is, one departure per day in each direction. There are multiple trains en route. But if you want to leave Chicago for LA today, there's only one train you can use to do it.)
Ask HN: What do FP languages have that JavaScript doesn't?
Whenever I read a functional programming tutorial or course, it always sings the praises of how there's an amazing REPL you can use to experiment with your code, or it will teach how to map and reduce over sequences, or first-class functions, or currying.

The problem for me is, all of these awesome features already exist in popular languages like JS and Python.

Then there's the "purity" side of things. For e.g. tutorials for Haskell and Clojure say that "mutation and side effects are not allowed" which makes for a more predictable program. But in my experience, I can totally just re-define variables in the REPL and no one stops me. I don't even get a warning. So I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but so far it doesn't feel so different from writing fancy ES6 syntax.

The last thing is "macros". This one seems to be actually unique to FP languages like Clojure, etc. But is this the only unique feature of FP languages?

Genuinely curious, please help me clear up my understanding. I have so far been following some fun Clojure and Haskell tutorials and these languages are very fun/sleek/logical to write in.

I am just wondering if I could accomplish the same in JS easily without learning whole new languages and ecosystems.
dont worry, he wont be able to do this to anybody else. A simple background search will have him labeled as a felon and a forger.
I have no insight into Seattle. This is a genuine honest question.
Why is Seattle growing? The news appears to illustrate it as a drug infested homeless encampment. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone and the related killings did not help that narrative. So honest question, what's really going on there?
The Mississippi River Is in Danger: What That Means for Wisconsin
My local dealer refuses to let anyone test drive them. I wasn’t even allowed to sit in one when I visited. They said they’re a terrible car and I should buy something way more pricy.
Sick I've put it in my queue
It has been a very long time since I even thought of this site, and the related CareWare license. I am happy to have the opportunity to bring it back into my mind! For further good feelings please see the author's Acracnophilia license.
https://arachnoid.com/careware/index.html
4 years is pretty serious.

One year for every day the victim was held in jail. A lifetime as an ex-con for the pain and suffering.
>How long should we expect vendors to support a device that may have retailed for $125-250?

For how long they can but at least not to kill it like blocking the internet on a device that’s only usable with one.. let the community take it from there, I’m sure some bright people will find a way to have a usable minimal linux distribution for such devices, and I’m sure a lot of less fortunate countries would be happy to buy it.
GitHub issues is the worst place to find answers. You have to read through walls of comments to figure something out. Maybe not on smaller projects but eg Kubernetes issues suffers from the same problem that we had internally at GitHub. Unless the team prioritized summary messages, you were left reading through hundreds of comments to figure out how a solution was found.
It's already started

https://apnews.com/article/china-debt-banking-loans-financia...
> This is nice to have but just like nuclear power it's a variation on stuff that we already have

By that logic a super conductor is just a variation of a conductor.

Nuclear power is more distinct from burning coal than any superconductor is distinct from copper wire.
> I doubt Tim Cook is a passionate believer in privacy as a human right

What makes you think this? Lots of tech people have this perspective, and lots of gay people understand this perspective at a very deep level (especially if older)

Just curious why you think what you think.
Agree. It’s just that the majority of Hacker News users will resist such a major change

Right now, it’s not that reliable, of course, but eventually it will be. As everything else, it will evolve

Don’t think it will be production-ready in the next 10 years or so, but eventually it will happen…

(I’ll save this reply to revisit in the future lol)
Internet speech: Supreme Court to weigh who is protected online
Walter Kirn on How America Lost the Plot
>the Fuchsia team’s approximately 400 members

...what? There were FOUR HUNDRED people working on this thing at G? Quite literally the opposite of the anecdote from the "Androids" book where the Sony (?) execs were confused when the Danger, Inc guys told them Brian Swetland wrote all the code for the T-mobile Sidekick by himself (whereas Sony (?) had teams and teams of people for the same stuff in their offerings).
I absolutely refuse to touch anything that requires an email link to even download.
US chip ambitions may face major staff shortages
Here have a pretty not so pretty picture: http://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/MAPS/NCEI/TREND/SST-NCEI-multi...

Let's see what happens in a month like the last record.
Lack of phone records was one of the things they finally got him on, allong with a lot of IP tracking.

The challenge this this kind of evidence analysis comes into play pretty late in the process when it comes to violating restraining orders.

These error (literally) on the side of caution.
1000-qubit QC can't break a RSA-2048 key

Neither any classical computer can. We don't even have enough harddrive to store all quantum information in a 100 qubit QC, let alone 1000qubit. QC is limited to solve a subset of problems do not automatically equals to QC is useless comparing to classical ones. Also not able to invalidate the powerfulness of QC beyond 100 qubits.
FreeWrap – build binary executable programs from Tcl/TK scripts
There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type.

LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem:
Use consistent code to process data and don't worry whether it is in a remote database or in a local array.

If you manage to do it in a way that

- integrates seamlessly with e.g. Python IDE and I don't have to pass and parse strings

- allows me to access graph, document and relational data

- allows me to pull and process the data from REST APIs, [O/J]DBC and straight from my RAM

- and maybe even includes deductive (PROLOG/DATALOG) features

I will be your most loyal client
Don't remember if the grammar has been merged in llama.cpp yet but it would be the first step to have Llama + Stable diffusion locally to output text + images and talk to each other. The only part I'm not sure is how Llama would interpret images back. At least it could use them though, to build e.g. a webpage.
Amazon is based in Seattle, Microsoft is based nearby. Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. all setup offices there as a result. There’s a concentration of wealth, talent, and offspring startups.
Those mid 80s high temperature superconductors are now mass produced for NMRs and fusion startups.

As alluded to those same pop science magazines promised a fusion future too. Here we are, magazines extinct, with fusion startups using LN2 superconductors. Also: no quantum computers, no space colonies, no flying cars (or even supersonic planes), and twitter/reddit/facebook are worse than Usenet.
yes, but you can analyze the traffic from the app if you cared too. the point is that you absolutely can verify their claims.
Not very convincing, copper does that anyway..
KPC that you?
Seems relevant:

For more context: we have historically required the crypto instructions because

1. We make heavy use of sha256 in blobfs, where such content-hashing is on the critical path of loading all binaries, and we believe that in the absence of hardware acceleration, product owners will likely find that their performance requirements are difficult to attain and may seek to resolve those issues by compromising core security invariants, which we do not wish to encourage

2. For protecting mutable storage, both reads and writes go through AES-XTS, either in zxcrypt or fxfs-crypt. For similar reasons, we want AES instructions to be accelerated, so that protection of user data is not something that we are motivated to compromise for performance reasons.

3. In any product, we expect to do TLS for a variety of purposes (software updates, time sync, communications with servers, etc.), and don't want poor TLS performance to be a reason that people are later motivated to avoid TLS/use weak ciphersuites/etc.

Since we do not want product owners to be motivated to disable fairly fundamental security features of the system, we have endeavored to ensure that the hardware baseline is likely to adequately support performance requirements, including through the requirement of the ARM crypto instructions on such boards.

-- https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/c/fuchsia/+/808670?t... marking the relevant CPU as not supporting crypto instructions.
It’s called debt-trap diplomacy. China already forced Tajikistan to cede territory as part of a debt forgiveness deal. I believe they took over a port in Sri Lanka as well.
Stack Exchange has also had a lot of other problems around the same time. They have increasingly treated their creators poorly over the recent years.
Ask HN: What pay to target when joining a startup?
Can anyone recommend advice to a senior engineer at a big tech company who is looking to join a startup as employee no. 3?

Let's assume the company is just kicking off and has secured $600k - $1m of initial funding. How do you think about pay? What are good questions to ask before committing?

I'm only used to negotiating with a large corporation that is both public and willing to show actual money.
this reminded me of QnA maker from microsoft. Never really worked for me.

This feels much better.

will try it for our discord channel.
I'd use it for making my own SQUIDs[1], as a start. There are a number of experiments I want to do, and things I want to understand[2][3], and not having to have cryogenics keeping the detectors cold would be helpful.

I'd also like to use this for antennas, transmission lines, and tuned cavities.[4] There are a lot of things you could do at VLF frequencies[5] that require long, long wires... with lots of resistance, unless you have a defense budget, the resistance eats into efficiency. Superconductors could help deal with that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_wave#Electromagne...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_radio_frequenc...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_low_frequency#Amateur_use
This touches on how I've felt about this since the LLM craze started and people began exploring how to use it for programming. It's kind of amazing that we can define formal languages in which it's possible to specify provably correct behavior and now we want to....introduce randomness and greater possibility for unanticipated errors by generating code via LLMs?

I feel like those pursuing LLMs basically lack respect for the inherent complexities of the many spheres of life. Not everything is reducible to linguistic pattern matching.
They had three. The cops survived the perp over the course of 3 months so see where they kept the backup phones and got a warrant to get them.
> Right now, it’s not that reliable, of course, but eventually it will be. As everything else, it will evolve

What make you think that natural languages will ever become reliable/stable? It hasn't been for millennia
Wanted to follow up - what I meant to say is that it might be worth a couple days’ worth of pay to learn that you don’t need to worry about this, it will likely not impact your key metrics as much as putting that time and money elsewhere.
> Employers do not value tools because the employees say the cost-benefit is not worth it. The problem is that the employees do the cost-benefit calculations remembering their time as a poor student when their time was worthless.

> People in software do not internalize this because we can build our own tools.

I think there's another aspect. Those tools are doing things we can do anyway. Here's a story of something I did recently:

I wanted to download a series from viki.com. They have switched from just sending you the video file to sending you an encrypted video file along with the encryption key. This is "more secure".

So, there's a process involving detecting your own request for the encryption key so you can replay it and get the response, decrypting the video file, decrypting the audio file, and then muxing them together with the unencrypted subtitle file using ffmpeg. After figuring this all out (which took a significant chunk of time), I could manually run the process in 5 minutes for one video.

I wrote a powershell script to automate all the parts of it that weren't finding the URL of the three media streams, detecting the request for the encryption key or echoing the request and getting the key. Those stayed manual. But the script handled downloading, decryption, and assembly and it cut my time per video from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. That's a 60% decrease! But it's also easy to say "hey, 5 minutes was already pretty fast; what do I care about 3 minutes?". The payoff from automation only looks good if you're doing a lot of it.

(The automation also made it obviously worthwhile to go nuts on adding metadata to the final video file, where that would have been more annoying in the all-manual process.)
You're technically correct: OUSD does spend more than $10k/student/year.

It spends >$25k/student/year:
http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified

So $50/student is only 0.2% of the budget.

The problem is that this 0.2% doesn't benefit teachers' unions.
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That is exactly what I saw when I drove through.
It's a beautiful city with a temperate climate, nearby mountains and ocean, thriving arts and music scenes, good schools, sports, unique and walkable neighborhoods, and a bunch of other things that people look for when they decide where they want to put down roots. Yes, there is a drug problem, and parts of the city are quite bad, but if you walked around Capitol Hill today you'd probably enjoy yourself and feel quite safe!
Published 3 months ago? How are we just hearing about this now?
We're entering a wild world. Our information space is up for the slaughter.
T-Mobile says its ultrafast 5G capable of up to 3.3Gbps is rolling out now
When you find that your news sources don't match what's actually happening in the real world, it's time to check on the agenda of those news sources.

It's also a good idea to look at macro trends and not get distracted by anecdotes with high emotional or political payloads.

My experience:

A desirable place to live. Mild climate, beautiful scenery, a wide variety of cultural and recreational activities, top-ranked universities.

A growing job market. The job market in Seattle is growing rapidly, with a number of new businesses and industries opening up in the area. This has created a lot of new job opportunities, which has attracted people from all over the country and the world.

A strong transportation system. Seattle has a well-developed transportation system, which makes it easy for people to get around the city without a car. The city has a light rail system, a bus system, and an extensive network of bike paths and trails.

A vibrant arts and culture scene. Seattle has a vibrant arts and culture scene, with a number of museums, theaters, and concert halls. The city also hosts a number of festivals and events throughout the year.

Seattle culture is welcoming and accepting, attracting people from all over the world. This diversity creates a rich cultural tapestry that can be found in the city's restaurants, shops, and neighborhoods.
Why? Try and create quality content. No one cares about a generic vanity wall. True talent will look past the Linkedin hype chain. Write an article about new things you learn and teach others from your perspective or talk about things that interest you.
It's a graph whose scale doesn't start at 0 on the Y-axis. Weather patterns are cyclical. Yes this is a warm year. It doesn't mean the world is ending. I even agree that we should reduce carbon emissions, we just don't have to massively disrupt everyone's way of life to get there. We've got time to come up with better solutions.
My software hand trowels don't get randomly totally wrecked by some fresh grad UX guru who decided that they needed to rework everything to justify their employment or because they felt they urgently need to chase the latest design fads, because the old ones are so last year.

Most tools in those other professions don't have that problem. Once you buy them, they're generally static.

But yeah, your point about devs being hilariously stingy and not valuing their time is pretty spot on. I just don't think that's the main reason they don't want to buy commercial tooling.
Nigeria has 200 million people, which is an order of magnitude larger than Texas. I don’t think serving a slightly bigger population is going to help their situation.
I stop caffeine intake around noon, and was just disillusioned about it being out of my system by bed time nine hours later.
The news is wrong. Especially about the CHAZ. Source: live here.
To be specific look at how long it has taken cuprate superconductors to find practical applications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuprate_superconductor

This was something that people said would change the world when I was in high school and it really hasn't. (For that matter, the fundamental physics is still not very well understood)
Japanese websites often seem really busy to me. I'm not fan of narrow strips of content with excessive whitespace designed for cell phones but too much information/link/image density and it's overwhelming.
SREs being able to maintain these systems is existence proof that neural networks are able to maintain them — neural networks in the brains of human SREs. Or do you think humans evolved innate SRE skills?

The idea that people like Geof Hinton are wrong because they don't understand SRE is pretty arrogant. SRE skills are relatively straightforward vs AI theory.
Schools should move to cheap laptops, replacing the OS with ChromeOS Flex. It’ll take much longer for them to end up in the garbage
> the Kuroshio current

Everything I've read about the Kuroshio current only talks about its effect on Japan. Does it carry all the way to the North American west coast? Looking at this map[0], you can clearly see the effect of the AMOC on how warm the waters north of Europe are compared to similar latitudes elsewhere, but there doesn't seem to be the same relationship between the waters east of the West Coast vs. west of Japan. If anything, the Californian/Oregonian shores appear cooler than the same latitudes in Japan.

[0]: https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/contour/global.c.gif
Almost certainly romance scams.
This gave me a giggle to think about - mind expanding on what you’re thinking of using movement scenario for?
Based on my experience from grad school, I would bet plenty of the professors who fail students because ChatGPT said ChatGPT might have written something honestly don't care whether it's true or not, as long as it shifts liability away from themselves onto someone else
Xeriscaping
Ask to see all of their financials. If they have $1M, how much runway do they have? What are the other members getting paid? How close is the company to getting revenue? How much other fundraising have they done?