skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you keep basing your product on GPLed code of course. You can always write everything yourself, take software with a more permissive license, or don't provide updates to anybody.
Rather than viewing generative AI as a form of artificial intelligence, I posit that it should be seen as an automated tool for tapping into human cultural, linguistic, and empirical knowledge.

Data and computation are two sides of the same coin. The 'intelligence' in AI is embedded within the data, with the computational model serving as a tool to access and express this inherent intelligence.

I would argue for a change in perspective towards AI, one that recognizes LLMs as powerful tools for accessing the vast wealth of human cultural knowledge rather than viewing them as a separate form of intelligence. We must carefully consider critical ethical considerations about control, access, and trust that will become increasingly relevant as these tools become more integrated into our everyday lives.

This paradigm shift carries some implications:

LLMs will not achieve superintelligence: Although these models can process information quickly and access a wide range of knowledge, they lack the superior reasoning or inference abilities that would classify them as superintelligence.

LLMs as an extension of human thought: These models can automate and amplify human capabilities but do not introduce new abilities beyond what is already present in human thought processes.

LLMs as mirrors of human culture and knowledge: These models reflect the recorded artifacts of human language, art, and culture. They can make the inherent intelligence within these artifacts accessible, providing a vast information resource.
Implications for the future: Access to this "memetic matrix" of human knowledge will become a fundamental part of being human as these tools become more integrated into our lives, bringing up issues of ownership, access, and the potential for misuse.

Thought consolidation and control of inference engines: There's a potential risk that control of inference engines by a small number of companies could lead to a consolidation of thought that threatens democratic governance. I propose a diversity of federated or self-hosted inference tools as solutions to mitigate this risk.

The necessity for trust and individuality: As these tools become more influential in our lives, maintaining trust in our individual thoughts and avoiding the uncritical acceptance of synthesized ideas from sources with opaque motives will become increasingly important.

Synthetic Inference relies on a vast cultural commons: We cannot allow these commons to be closed off and owned by a few big companies. This resource is the totality of all human knowledge, language, and culture. It belongs to all of humanity. Training data must be open, free, and available for examination.
This is silly.

I love it.
I wished they would keep it on Twitter and elsewhere and not bring that crap to HN.
Analogies are treacherous. There is absolutely no guarantee that just because all these technologies shaped humans, this new one will shape them in similar ways and scope.
By tech forward , they mean the town famous for tech where tech people’s personal interest seem poorly influenced. Sfo is the only city I know that banned the scooters when they came out. Bricks thrown at busses. Constant harassment . Ancient city infrastructure. I’d say this title is just wrong and they should consider a retraction
Basically another rant about the Google WEI nonsense, but given the author well worth the read. It's worth the read for the summary of how we got here if no other reason.
I see no indication that it was filmed in a kitchen or living room.
So can we build things like this anymore?
Of course we can.

I am lucky if my cell phone lasts more than a year.
That's definitely you, not the phone. Most people's phones last longer. Partially evidenced by folks complaining about updates stopping after a few years.

I have a feeling that even if today's hardware manages to last 50 years, all knowledge of how to talk to it will be long lost. I am sure some of the code/firmware will be proprietary and then contractor will go out of business and that is that.
Most of today's hardware isn't expected to last that long - and it wouldn't matter if much of it did. No one wants 50-year-old medical equipment unless it hasn't improved in 50 years. A 25-year-old computer isn't worth much to the average consumer. And some stuff will just be outdated: Do you really want to use one of the digital typewriters that combine a small-screen simple word processor with a typewriter?

Things that we build for longer-term science generally is built to a different standard than the stuff we use at home and has different constraints and different sorts of moving parts. Especially when considering extreme environments. And most of these are made by governments, universities, and other institutions that tend to have a long lifespan when compared to corporations. And when they aren't, we can make sure to make laws so others can use science research things even if the company closes.

Additionally: I think everyone expected Voyager to die long ago. It is akin to a fridge that happens to still be running 50 years later. A lucky accident.
Humans that are just as skilled as the average ones with AI will continue to be in demand. AI levels the playing field for a lot of people but the stars will still shine
> Is it possible to purchase a cheap (but also somewhat decent) laptop running a modern/LTS Windows version for under ~$250 USD?

Oh yeah, for $250 it shouldn't be a problem
Can anyone explain if the specimen was found through rigorous research or just sheer luck?

Because it is starting to seem like it's the latter.
If many different "states" are used for one big architecture, how are the boundaries between them managed?

Under one state, Terraform will spot issues here during `plan`, but with many states issues will only appear after `apply`.
I wonder if there are any pad/cpad servers still around anywhere? Probably not, I don't think much of the X.25 JANET remains at this point.
Costco has incredible leverage over their suppliers. I worked for a supplier previously and they forced changes to our packaging including labels, cases, and pallets to make things easier for them. I have no doubt that Costco could give HP or Sony an ultimatum like this to dictate functionality or just not carry their brand.
I've always found code review checklists more distracting than helpful. Whatever their length, if you narrow your mind to them, you might miss a lot of issues, in particular very contextual ones that would be hard to generalize in a checklist. Also, when their points are not too trivial to have to be reminded, they often boil down to "check that X is good", without telling you what "good" means.

When I do a code (or text) review, I just look for... anything - as when I'm the one writing. And it's much quicker that scanning the whole code for each point. I read, I (try to) understand, and anything wrong that I'm able to catch will pop up in my head either immediately (for things that don't require much context) or over time (as I get more familiar with what the dev did and tried to do).

If code review is so close to code writing, the code review checklist should just be the coding standards, and experienced devs should have assimilated them already.

What to look for in a code review is mostly having good and multiple reviewers, typically by requiring approval by a number of official reviewers before commits can get merged (ex: OpenJDK).
That's one think the UK does almost right. Getting money back for a trip is relatively easy. You can do it online.

I say almost though because a) every operator has their own web page to submit refund requests through (why??) and b) a train has to be 30 minutes late before you get anything. What a joke.
A co-op is owned collectively. Therefore collective ownership is not a unique feature of a municipal service.

Additionally a municipal service can certainly be contracted out to a private company (for-profit or otherwise). So there may still be middlemen.

I don't know where you read me claiming this article or anything like it would be a victory for capitalism.

If I count, I say twice that I am in full support of this endeavor and others like it. So I am not sure why you are arguing as if I am opposed.

But if you do want to argue, I have lived in mid-sized cities in the US and observed abysmal municipal services in the form of public transit and also community wifi. I have also been in municipalities where these services are wonderful.

I would argue that public transit, even more than internet, can spur economic activity and improve the lives of residents. Nevertheless, despite the potential value of the service, there is no guarantee that a municipality does even a halfway decent job of it. Why should I necessarily expect different in the case of this particular service, internet access?

Before this conversation devolves I will remind you that I voiced my full throated support for this initiative twice in my original post and have noted that twice in this post. My response here is specifically addressing the points that you raised that municipal service is unique in its ownership structure and more likely to be good because of its incentive structure.
It's wild to me how you people are like "I don't mind if private business fucks me up the ass a bit but gash dang if that gubmint so much as kisses me on the cheek I'm gonna lose my shit".
EasyRide is quite buggy and at the end you still have to double check if what they charged is right.
In that vision we never can’t do anything because leaders needs to be leaded by others.

People do change their habits, donate, volunteer, make concessions and work hard for the good of society in its whole.
From my own experience, trains only make sense if you're traveling less than around 1000 km. Beyond that, it's a long, boring journey, and often more expensive than a plane to the same destination.
Ensure: A simple testing framework for Go
> With LLMs it's very similar but rather than a meaningful shift in technological development underpinning it it's something more like a parlor trick with a few practical applications.

What makes you think this, I'm assuming you've tried gpt-4? I've personally gotten a lot of productivity out of it. Assuming it gets a lot better, I don't see how it's not going to minimally become an indispensable tool, and at maximum completely transform the future of humanity.
> We came from a history of mostly starving, struggling for survival, dying of infections, dying during childbirth, being illiterate, and having little shelter or comfort. I think this nostalgia for the past is a golden age fallacy that needs to die. Technology has vastly improved human life and taking it away is essentially a call for reducing the standard of living for everybody.

The past wasn't sunbeams and frolicking in meadows, but your take on it is totally off base. The fact is that in every period of (Western) history, the wealthy have always lived incredibly comfortable and enjoyable lives. Modern technology isn't the determinant variable. They did it by harnessing their respective civilizations--it was absolutely not equitable. They rested atop a pyramid of other people. And so do you and I! We do not live in equitable times globally. To the extent that we've made any strides morally, it's only that we've substituted technology and industrialization for slavery and oppression. But under no configuration is modern life sustainable for 8 billion people, energy, living space, and raw materials wise, so this situation is going to keep drawing down the reservoir until there is a brutal correction.

I also think your characterization of all of history being "mostly starving, struggling for survival, dying of infections, dying during childbirth, being illiterate, and having little shelter or comfort" is frankly tripe. As if native peoples lives (over hundreds of thousands of years, indeed) are such utter trash that they need to be rescued from it by technology. "Oh, the poor brown people living such primitive lives, how sad. Let's do a mission to convert them to consumerism and fill their lives with junk, get them some jobs and atomize their tribes." I invite you to visit basically any place on Earth that is not Europe or North America. It's frankly a white/western superiority complex and technology is just a fig leaf over it, a fundamental belief that today's way of life is the only one worth living and is so obviously superior that it cannot be questioned. I mean, those stupid native Americans and their huts. Good thing we fixed that, right?
Is it a regional thing? I have a very "standard" middle-class home counties English accent and I use the intrusive r.
Policemen literally have computers in their patrol vehicles and a lot of police work is computer work.

Plumbers need to order stuff online, manage invoices, have an online presence to get and communicate with customers, have digital instruments that might feed into their field laptop.

Bakers use digitalized machines and have their recipes down to an almost exact science. They use computers all the time to calibrate stuff.
I'm not a hardware engineer, so take this with a grain of salt:

The 6502 doesn't have a cache, only external memory. So performance would probably be much worse than naively expected (except perhaps for workloads that fit in CPU registers, edit -not even those due to the lack of a code cache as well). Memory latencies haven't improved nearly as much as CPU speeds have, which is why modern CPUs have big caches.

The CPU would be idly waiting for memory to respond most of the time, which completely kills performance.
I would have thought most discussions around "UI vs CLI" are more about "GUI vs CLI".

Keyboard-driven git UI's which aren't GUI are relatively niche. (I can think of magit, tig, and lazygit).

Whereas, a git beginner may be more likely to start using git with a GUI, e.g. the git panel in VSCode, or something like GitKraken.
We do seem to be working hard on making sure Canada is nice and temperate, though.
Police definitely needs all the tech it has, beginning with auto detecting license plates to countless other tech they use.
The only important caveat here is that businesses and organizations tend to become inflexible over time. For example there are plenty of businesses that still use fax machines today. Obviously that is inefficient and that businesses should be at risk of competitors undercutting them.

But in reality you'll see that poorly run businesses can end up continuing for decades.

So we have entered into this weird situation where Hollywood actors and writers are demanding huge compensation for work that is becoming relatively cheap to produce with new technology. It is going to be interesting to see this play out.
I'm trying to be wowed by this, but... yes, modern tech be complex. A modern website has more source code than the first few versions of Windows put together.
Intel, Nvidia, AMD employee counts over time
> I lodged an appeal ASAP, throwing in every proof of identity I had. You'd think that'd be enough, right? Well, guess again.

It is enough

> It's been over 3 days now

3 days and you're already making a post? There's 11 days left, just relax.
This is what results from building train systems cheaply. You can afford to build a lot and thus get a large network.

The rest of the world (worst in English speaking areas, but even France or Japan are not great, they have been building for years so there are some results but they could do more) spend so much money building that they cannot afford to build a lot of rail and so their network suffers. The cheaper you can build the more you can build, and the smaller the city you can get to. This larger network means people can get more places and so they are more likely to use your train.

If you want this in your country you need to demand cost control. Politicians shouldn't be be choosing routes, opening large stations, or any of the other things they do or allow that increase costs.
The differences are accentuated when you get into rural areas. A lot of the stereotypes people have of Canadian English are based on the speech of people who in e.g rural or northern Ontario. The raising, the 'eh, etc. Though in fact all Canadians tend towards these things, they're strongest there.

One dialect marker that immediately sets someone from northern or rural Ontario apart: "I seen" (instead of "I saw" or "I've seen") I never heard this growing up in rural Alberta, but when I moved here to Ontario it immediately stuck out to me.

There also seems to be a particular accent (that I noticed more when I was younger) for people who grew up speaking English in the Ottawa valley.
Alternatively, follow the pre-Christian Ancient Roman approach and maintain unity by assimilating foreign religious practices. I think polytheism makes this method easier.
It's not monospaced though, is it?
It's not particularly "deep", but The Farthest [1] is a nicely constructed documentary of the Voyager program featuring interviews with many of the relevant people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farthest
I saw Andrew Hubermann talking on a podcast(pretty sure it was on Joe Rogan) about Melatonin; he said studies showed melatonin will significantly shrink your testicles. Since then I haven’t touched the stuff.
a parlor trick lol. Here we are seeing statistics applied on abstract terms as human knowledge, how this is something with few practical applications?
Nothing I said conflicts with this, though?

Yes, if you eschew determinism for the sake of raw performance then the result will be non-deterministic. But you don't have to do this, nor is it inherently untenable to solve these problems in a deterministic way.

Sure it may require some performance overhead, and increase development time, but it's no different than writing deterministic code elsewhere. It's disingenuous to hand-wave away the solution because of some opaque cost or overhead we're unwilling to entertain. None of the parent posts ever mention performance tradeoffs.

In particular there is no indication that the problem being discussed couldn't be solved with determinism in an equivalent amount of time. You're making my point: GPUs are deterministic, software may decide not to be.
Unless things have improved recently, Intel‘s graphics drivers are not that great on Windows.

I really wish someone would give Nvidia some effective competition, but I just don’t see that being Intel.
50.

The 6502 was a famously simplistic and cheap processor, with about 2/3rds the transistors of an 8080 or 6800 (and like 20~25% the price at release), half that of a Z80.
What we need is widespread IPv6 support. Portforwarding isn't the problem. The terrible UX and the existence of CGNAT (carrier grade NAT) is.
So it's the same as the Bob Ross memes of "Ruined", then :)
The title immediately reminded of a David Hilbert quote. Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to become a poet, he is said to have remarked:

"Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician."
For reference, the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM with about 30 million devices sold
Author here.

I like text descriptions around my test so wrote this based a little bit on my experiences with XBehave in the .net space.

Looking for any and all feedback, comments, etc.

It serves me well for what I use it for and figured it may be useful for a handful of people who aren't me, so made it public.
Nvidia has produced arm cpus, eg for the Nintendo switch.
Even if those people aren't using computers at their job (and I even disagree with that), they still use computers. A baker with a computer and internet access has access to more recipes than a baker without a computer. A baker with a website and an online presence is finding more customers than a baker who only exists in the real world.

As a matter of fact, the new boiler my plumber (who has a webpage and I found online, mind you) recently installed has computer chips and circuits. My plumber seems very technically literate and knowledgeable about the tech as well.

Police offices are now using AI to catch people. Even before, they were using computers in criminology for DNA samples.

So all of the professions you listed use computers all the time for their job. Both directly and indirectly. A baker without internet, a plumber with no computer knowledge, a police office stuck using analog tools are all worse off than their tech savvy counterparts.
Most normal nights is definitely within 10 min for me. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was less than 5 min.
The problem with TF is that it lures people into trying to be smart and try to be beat the system after which things often become a personal challenge instead of a business requirement. A true nightmare for the next person in line.
Also ... every declaritive language dreams of becoming a programming language ...
One man's defeatist attitude is another mans realistic attitude. Does it help? No, it doesn't. But for the defeatist and the realist alike that may no longer matter. I'm 'long' on humanity, but I'm not convinced we will be able to avert the looming (and for some already very present) issues. My feelings are in part because of how we dealt with COVID-19, if a pandemic can't get us to pull the cart together then nothing can.
We don't just have AWS resources. Our CI pipelines are managed by terraform [0], they communicate with GitHub [1]. I like that it's declarative and limited, it stops people trying to do "clever shit" with our infra, which is complicated enough as it is.

[0] https://buildkite.com/blog/manage-your-ci-cd-resources-as-co...

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/...
It's not a problem that tourists arrive and depart by air as it still is very helpful if they can move within Italy by train.
Why is that bad? From searching, she is behind sci-hub?
It probably also has more bugs than the 6502 has transistors :)
Regional trains only need 4 things:

- to be on time

- to be clean and well kept

- to be spacious

- to be safe and simple

this is utterly lacking in Italy and in many countries
I'm surprised the blog advocates embedded modules instead of remote ones stored in seperate git repos. This allows you to tag and version them, and therefore progressively update modules.
Quite sad to hear that remark. I'm a big fan of Hilbert but that kind of pettiness is sad to see from him. I guess we're all just human.
Alternative video link here, but it's in chinese so no idea if it gives any more information about the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37010498
How many cars from the early 1970s are still on the road? I know of a few but they belong to collectors and are not daily drivers.
When I was regularly traveling to the Bay Area for work my typical accommodations were like $180. However, when I was paying for it from my own pocket and had less money, there were some spots on El Camino Real in Santa Clara that were $59 or $69, run down a bit, but clean. And pretty good donuts for breakfast.

So I think for the typical work traveler this will feel like a discount, but I agree it’s not a great deal. Of course, my experience is 5-10 years old, so…
Not conclusively, I guess, but it's there at any time the conditions are correct (ie, a fan moving air somewhere in the apartment, and otherwise silence).

It, however, sounds nothing like an acoustic leakage sounds, I'd describe it more as envelope-shaped white noise then filtered to a range of 'high' acoustic frequencies (maybe 8-14kHz, but I'm guessing); whereas structural leakage of audio has a different profile more in line with being low pass filtered.

I have heard leakage audio from the only neighbour that it COULD be from, of their TV and Radio audio, and that has the normal low-pass sounding profile as you'd expect.

So while I can't rule out that it could be leaked audio, it 'doesn't sound like it' to me.
Yes

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/blog.html

https://human-competitive.org/

There’s also a low volume GP mailing list
Same video as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37010539