skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure imbreds in dogs end into retardations and dangerous genetic illnesses. There's no 100% pure dog... with a good physical fit. Deal with it.
The same with humans. Read about the "sleep illness".
I’d be careful cherry picking, similar factoids about X country could just as easily be found.
definitely a factor.

e.g. the C-level one-liner email that consists of "lets have a chat about this"

doesn't even have to be anything malicious, such as not wanting to socialize an idea until it's fully-baked or hiring for a new VP role
While AI companies are buying high end GPUs by the truckload to run on their Linux fleets this is unlikely to be a problem
I hate these things. This is at least from an outsider perspective, but when what I really want to know is WHY they do each step and what makes them work better.

Most companies have no reason to believe their process is better than taking a random resume (which selects for people who want to work for you enough to send a resume) and making an offer. Sure they have elaborate processes around interviews, tests, and the like. However are they helpful or just processes for the sake of process.

I know there is research on how to interview people. However I don't know where to find it, and most processes seem to have been created without looking at it.
> You can always implement tagged unions in any language with untagged unions, so in a broad sense you can emulate sum types in situations where they make sense but use simpler code elsewhere

I'm a bit confused now, since I don't see how this is related to the point I was making. You are right - with the exception that sumtypes are still more powerful since you cannot e.g. emulate GADTs with tagged unions, but for most cases in practice, I agree. Still, what's the point?

I also think we have a general misunderstanding, since you are saying:

> That works in Lisp where you can elegantly add language features with proper macros

But Lisp is dynamically typed, so talking about union types is meaningless in a dynamically typed language. That doesn't make any sense to me in this context.

And about C (which is statically typed): C does not have union types (and hence also no tagged union types). What C does have are (untagged) enums, but that's not the same thing. The crucial difference is that union types are ad-hoc whereas enums are statically defined. I think it is a bit confusing since C calls them unions - but in the context of this discussion it's important that they are very different things.

E.g., with union types you can do:

type union1 = string | int
type union2 = string | boolean
type union3 = union1 | union2 | float
// same as type union3 = string | int | boolean | float

The compiler must be able to resolve those things automatically. I'm hope I'm not completely mistaken here, But I believe there is no way to combine unions like this in C at the type-level. You would have to write those out by hand or generate the code. But if there is, please correct me.

> This is compatible with old callers, even, who treat any nonzero result as failure and any zero result as complete success (the normal pattern in C).

The idea or moviation was though that in a language with sumtypes (or tagged unions) the old callers would not be compatible. Trying to compile code against `function2` should fail. But it should not fail in an arbitrary way - it should fail by the compiler saying "hey, look, you handled the error case and the success case, but you also have to handle the partial-success case; and here is how the data you need to handle looks if it is partial-success: ...". That is what sumtypes give you, and I find that this enormously useful in practice. In a language without sumtypes you will not get this level of support by the compiler - that is the point I was trying to make.
No drama, we've all written poorly phrased comments and|or read one too fast and gone for that [reply] like HN was a prize fight :)
What’s Happening with AMOC? – Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Mortgages are not business banking. Mortgages are fine, because if you don't pay the bank takes your house - possibly the most valuable asset category in the country.
No thanks. I am absolutely unwilling to pay higher taxes to provide UBI for people who are capable of working but choose not to. There's nothing moralistic about expecting healthy adults to pull their own weight.
What I find so odd about all this stuff is the target is very rarely OpenAI/ChatGPT. I understand it can be a useful tool, but if your concern is that AI has scanned your books without your consent and can generate new content in your writing style, then OpenAI is who you should be complaining about.

Somehow the project with tens of billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft gets a free pass, but a two person passion project that makes no money gets viciously attacked and killed. The same thing happened with generative art. The open source tools and smaller projects got served with lawsuits, but somehow DALL-E was not included in those.

Open AI is who people should be targeting since they are the ones who have all the money and the politicians in their pockets to basically stomp out any competition. My real fear is not that people find creative uses for AI on a small scale, but that Microsoft/Open AI builds a centralized system that works on their terms where you are forced to play by their rules and they decide what is fact and fiction.

I haven’t read Zach Rosenberg before, but I put this prompt into ChatGPT, and sure enough, it generated what I presume to be writing in his style:

> Could you write two paragraphs in the style of Zach Rosenberg arguing in favor of shutting down a tool that uses AI to analyze the text of his books?

Did the author consent to Open AI scanning the text of his books to generate new text emulating his writing style? Where is the outrage over that?
This might actually be a good thing. For the longest time, very few people cared about privacy issues, which is why we live in a privacy hellscape today. If AI fears can motivate people to start taking privacy issues seriously, then we might actually see some strong privacy legislation, or more privacy-focused businesses to meet new demand.

(or maybe I'm just being overly optimistic)
JPEG XL has 10 8x8 transforms and 9 larger transforms (IIRC).

Two of the 8x8 transforms are extremely local. One is called IDENTITY and the other DCT2x2. It is very difficult to produce ringing artefacts when using these transforms.

When going to higher quality settings in libjxl, it tends to favor the DCT2x2 quite a bit.

This is in VarDCT -- not modular coding.
Same exact thing happened to me. I'm not writing an essay about my high school life, that's ridiculous.

I don't do asymmetrical interviews. I'll consider a take in coding test in lieu of something else (or a very trivial one), but a written essay means I'm spending time and they are not. A phone or face to face interview requires an actual investment in their time, and doesn't treat my time as completely disposable.
I'd be surprised if it was actually raw training data as that would make for an incredibly inefficient/overfitted model. It's probably still just predicting the next token even as it goes off the rails; the context has just changed from a sensible topic to something...broken.
As populations from different regions have different levels of admixture from Neanderthals and Denisovans, the multi-regional origin hypothesis is validated.
Human have no species. It's the same species all over the world.
Right. But this is Google. Surely they could have figured this out in so many years.
One can use Photoshop to create heinous things which would be highly illegal to sell, or even show. Should we ban Photoshop? I think we agree, that no, that would be silly.

Let's assume I train a model on public domain texts only, zero copyrighted material has gone into it. Yet, technically and also practically, the model would have the ability to create illegal, copyright infringing content, given the right input. Should distribution of such a model be illegal? I think not.

Also, let's keep in mind that these models are not archives, that contain the original data verbatim. They are effectively lossy compression algorithms, that capture the essence. Some models are a few tens of GB in size, yet have been trained on TB worth of data, so clearly a significant data loss has occurred, so it's a bad analogy to your "keep a bunch of books as in a library" example.
I think gaslighting will soon be redefined as being slightly dishonest or unhelpful in any situation.
Job searches take your location into account and sometimes won’t show remote-only positions if you do something like scoping your search to your area. Posting remote listings in specific locations allows those to show up in search results more frequently. And it works - it’s kind of gaming job search boards but it did result in Canonical getting an absolute deluge of applications for each position.

Canonical also re posts every month or so to also benefit from higher placement for more recent listings.
Randomness in interviews is underrated because it offsets these over-selection effects.

I'd love to see the results for a company where every applicant that passed basic screening tests was given a 1% chance of an offer; with additional probability weight awarded for performance in interviews.
one that can be pushed on to customers, too.

can't push jail on customers...
https://archive.is/8G4U3
Just anecdote experience here.

I lived in China for 10+ years. Most recently a few years ago. Lived in the US for 20+ years.

In China, I never met a single person who was anti-science. None.* Everyone knew that to get ahead in life, they had to get educated. Part of that education requires learning sciences.

Meanwhile, in the US, anti-Science is part of the culture. It even starts early in school. In the US, if you liked science as a kid, you were labeled as a nerd or uncool. In China, being good at science in school gave you more social status, not less. In the US, religion is also a huge blocker for many towards sciences. In China, people aren't religious at all or that their religion does not contradict with the sciences.

I think people here see how far behind China was in the 19th century and conclude that people there must be anti-science. China had different reasons for being far behind in science in the 19th century. Being anti-science is not one of them.

* I should clarify that of course there are people in China who are anti-science. I’m mostly referring to “normal” people. IE. people who contribute to society, have jobs, went to college, etc.
> We hate you when the bug reports roll in

Nothing has changed since the times of Plutarch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger
Looking at qalculate in Arch repos, libqalculate comes in at 14.94 MiB, and qalculate-qt at 3.37MiB, so 18.3 MiB total. If you're looking at the Appimage, the rest of the size would be from the libraries it depends on, like Qt/GTK+
UK Carbon Intensity API
Or AI-generated Soylent.
But it's still 5 euros a month, right? I thought OP was saying there was some sort pay by the minute/hour/day pricing.
Not near enough details to answer this question.

What OS?

What version of chrome were you on when it asked you to install manually? (What version was the latest?)

Do you have your PC locked down in any interesting way that may cause problems with the installer?

Do you have the exact wording of the error message? (If you know th is exact wording, you could likely search the code base to find the message)

I've seen Firefox say it will wipe my profile because it was too long since I used it. But never had update issues.
They don't block tracker. They block legitimate website with landing page, pricing, terms and conditions and more importantly, Privacy Policy.
>> But we don't actually know that we're not "just" stochastic parrots.

Sorry to barge in, but we have a fairly good reason to believe we are at the very least not _just_ stochastic parrots: all of mathematics, which is clearly not the result of simply taking statisics over previously seen results. In fact, when people ask "what is reasoning?" (as they often do to dismiss opinions that LLMs can't reason), "mathematics is reasoning" is a pretty damn good answer.

Which all means that, while we may well have a "stochastic parrot" module somewhere in our mind, that is far from all we got. But the question is not _our_ mind, is LLMs and their capabilities. And we know that LLMs are statistical language models, because that's what they are made to be.

And if someone thinks that LLMs, also, like humans, are something else beyond statistical language models as they're made to be, then that someone must explain why. "It looks that way" is a very poor explanation, but so far that's all we got. Literally, people just look at LLMs' output and say "they're not just stochastic parrots!".
I don't think Intel needs telemetry to know their customers use Youtube and Twitch.
Your answer is incomplete, assuming the usual Wason selection problem where the phrasing is "if a card has a number divisible by 4 [which could be face down]…" rather than "if a card is showing [face up] a number divisible by 4". If I were trying to hide a bad card (i.e. a card that didn't satisfy the requirements) in there, and you were following that stratey, I could successfully hide a bad card from you.
I feel that there are too many moving pieces here especially for prototyping. There was a much more simpler app recently I took a look at on a recent hackernews post : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894142

They still have work to do with different connectors (e.g. PDF etc) but the realtime simple document pipeline is what helps a lot.
https://archive.is/JXEkx
Xi Jinping has been on a quest to strengthen the ethnic identity of China, specifically the Han Chinese ethnic group, and this is probably part of it. If you look at the immigration policies of China, you'll find that they are some of the most restrictive in the world[1]. It is almost impossible for a Non-Chinese person to become a Chinese citizen. From what I've heard from people who know people in the Xi Jinping administration, they are embracing ethno-nationalism with incredible zeal. There's also a lot of ethnonationalist propaganda in China right now and western commentators have taken notice[2]. From what I've heard through sources, they're preparing for a future where it's eventually a zero sum game between China and the rest of the world, especially with regards to dwindling energy and other natural resources. For example China built six times as many coal plants as the rest of the world combined last year [3]. There is a huge denial of this in the west as westerners believe that racism and communism are incompatible, and at least China says it's communist.

[1]https://www.crownrelo.com/intl/en/article/four-toughest-plac...

[2]https://thediplomat.com/2023/06/riding-the-tiger-ethno-natio...

[3]https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2023/03/02/1160441919...
If ARM wasn't more efficient for Amazon then they wouldn't be aggressively moving their entire internal AWS infrastructure to gravitons. I've heard from folks in the know there that every single new service big or small internally has to work on graviton and by default is expected to launch on it unless the product goes through hoops to justify x86 and its expense.
we need ML GPU workload standardization, and more options to chose from. Sucks being held hostage by Nvidia. No ML GPUs available in my country, and waitlist goes in years.
They will presume the before traffic was bots? Unless they also see a drop in sales or ads they won't notice.
Speechless tbh ...
She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead
This is not the worst process I’ve seen, but likely the funniest stats bleeder scam I've seen in years.

“How would you change the company?”

Replace the bureaucracy with a 1 page web-form, fire most process management/agents, and hire more developers on a small per-project basis at first. If managers have to try this hard to remain mission relevant, there is likely a deeper issue with the business side.

Also, Canonical is still not Evil enough for the tech industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcGLveebwjo
A big part of what makes Windows so free and powerful is that it was architected during a time when security simply wasn't a concern. This is good because it enpowers users to use their computers as they see fit, but also bad because with great powers come great responsibilities that are often thrown to the wind.

So to answer your question of why, the answer is simply that Windows doesn't care.
This isn't what "unreasonable effectiveness" is. Why worry about AI beliefs being disconnected from source meaning. Humans already abuse language.
iPhone 15 Pro USB-C port might support external displays
Well it is and it isn't.

The serotonin imbalance hypothesis of depression, widespread as it is in popular culture, has actually been pretty thoroughly debunked at this point[1]. We know that SSRIs do have a therapeutic effect, but it seems their effect is oddly enough unrelated to serotonin levels.

What they seem to do is mask the depressive symptoms to the point where you're given a sporting chance to "behave" less depressed, which is what seems to be the most effective treatment. It's fairly analogous to how painkillers can cure back pain by permitting you to move around more.

Not acting like you're depressed is the real cure, which is of course very cruel, because as anyone who has had a depressive episode will attest to, just getting out of bed may be a struggle.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
At the end of the day it's limited by the PCIE lanes it is attached to, no different from a 2nd GPU.

Just saw one yesterday, 128GB PCIE 5.0 x8 which is a maximum of 32 GB/s in and out, where the 4090 has 1 TB/s memory bandwidth.

IMO for inference, dual socket EPYC (24 channel DDR5) is the way to go and CXL can theoretically allow you to bump up the bandwidth in that situation (assuming that you can optimize the software properly). Already in llama.cpp there seems to be some issues using 2P servers regarding numa.
I nearly bricked a machine trying to set up an A770 for deep learning. Many of the same issues the author reports.
The weird defaults are partly down to the different requirements of scripting vs interactive terminal use.

The defaults of bash make more sense for terminal use than scripting.

Powershell is a bit further towards the scripting end of the spectrum- part of why it annoys people coming from bash.

Compiled languages would be at the scripting end.
I know that Nvidia does extensive telemetry with GeForce Experience (the optional but heavily pushed companion software to the driver) but do they do it in the driver package also? The article makes no distinction and says there's no opt out. I thought choosing to not install GeForce Experience was the opt out (though that is not communicated to you at all during installation).
> python

There's a library for Node called Zx (https://github.com/google/zx) that provides a more shell-liked interface for Node.

I've been working on something in Python, inspired by Zx and Xonsh (https://xon.sh/), with syntax like this:

from pathlib import Path

from pyshell import Pipeline

args = ["123", "456"]
f = Path("out.txt")
with Pipeline() as p:
p.exec("a") | p.exec("b", *args) | p.exec("c", "x", "y") >> f

Personally, the above would be hugely useful to me in reducing my temptation to write shell scripts, and significantly reducing the annoyance of doing these things in Python.

Is this something you'd use? It's slow going for me because it basically involves writing a compiler and I have approximately zero idea of what I'm doing. Knowing that other people would find it useful helps me stay motivated to keep working on it! Or if someone who theoretically is the primary audience doesn't find it useful, it might mean that I should spend my energy on other things.
Bring Your Own Device i.e. laptop / dev machine
Tangentially related, and given some of the debates in the comments below, I'm sure I'll be burned at the stake for this, but here I go anyway:

I've given up on owning a real C64, just to remind me of my childhood. It's too convoluted, requires buying replacement parts, and I don't own any TV to plug it into. VICE emulation is good enough for me. But I really wanted the keyboard, which was a major part of the experience for me.

Out of the box -- no soldering, not buying extra cables or expansions or add-ons -- the most feasible option for me was buying the retroremake TheC64 ("max", the full version with the working keyboard).

Is it perfect? No.

Is it a C64? No. It looks like one, but inside there's an ARM chip running VICE.

Does it look like a convincing C64 "breadbin", and can I play every game, type BASIC programs, play with PETSCII art, even type assembly code, and generally relive my childhood?

YES!
it doesn't matter if I've experienced it or not. My comment it's not a praise to communism, perhaps just read it again (and read the context from which it started too)
Hi, I can't find your email, I am interested in the position.
> Do you visit Youtube and Twitch other streaming services often? Focus on video decoding.

> Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration.

This is almost cynical. Why not track your user's eyes and record the screen to see where or if visual fidelity at certain parts is necessary? You know, to optimize the architecture.
Why do you think market cap has non-tangential relevancy here?
C’mon, Pope clearly has the worst parse of πολύτροπος which I will remind you is “many paths”, Wilson takes this as a metaphor internal and external, many roads traveled, many roads within, not perfect, but it’s good. And Pope reads it like who he is, a Latinate schoolboy, and it’s beautiful but he carries so much of himself into that line.

In one reading, πολύτροπος is turn in the Odyssey away from past stories, Odysseus as psychological composite, the previous song in the cycle is about μῆνιν and its manifestation as the hero Achilles, the traditional, singular hero.

If you want to see this shift between the composite and the singular in poetics discussed, read Aristophanes’ Frogs.
If time could automatically fix issues, then yeah, Google would have been perfect. But every company (including Google) have long-running issues that haven't been addressed for decades at this point, and if no one is getting promoted for fixing the issue (in this particular case of Google's inaction), it's unlikely to be fixed.
Even worse this kind of critique is actively cancerous to new developers if they actually think that people outside of HN care about this.

Development productivity over everything. Features matter not app binary size.
We didn't just evolve from apes, we are apes. Just as we are animals. But obviously we also frequently use the words "animals" and "apes" with an implied "non-human" qualifier. And yes, almost certainly any common ancestor of both human and modern day non-human apes was likely to have been just as different genetically to us as it would be to our primate cousins, though obviously it's possible genetic change occurred more rapidly in one branch vs the other.
It's a really great calculator for all sorts of stuff.

I use many of the following almost daily:

- currency conversion: `x USD to EUR` or `BTC to USD`

- time calculations: `now - 27 hours`

- unix epoch conversion: `timestamp(now - 3 days)`, also `stamptodate()`

- unit conversion: `34 oC to oF`

and more.

Works really nicely with https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc
If you want to be a pitchfork mob against generative AI at least understand whether AI is generative or not? Seems like a reasonably low bar. This was non-generative AI, it didn't produce content it output metrics and labelled some existing content.
Can't you just use some filtering caps? (spoken as a non-EE)
Turning big data into better breeds and varieties: Can AI help feed the planet?