skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They likely did anticipate it, but not how ferociously some of the cloud providers would pursue the strategy.

The Amazons of the world don't have to pay a fair price for the software that they use and also get to sell at exceptionally high prices.

TBH, that last part is still somewhat of a mystery to me. How did the market evolve to such a place that large infrastructure providers can command huge gross margins? Shouldn't that be a highly commoditized part of the supply chain?
OP doesn't really go into it other than competition will be a check on FOOM. Which I think is valid as in history any market with competition creates better products and keeps players in check.

I was arguing that competition if it is a more open market with fair rules/regulations, where competition is fair, that is true. Though many times it is a fixed market, or a cheat that stifles competition that might keep it in check.

Fixed markets happen more and more where the concentration is high and efficient players will game the system.

No products or markets are better where big fish solely control everything. That is why anti-trust or regulation need to expand to funding level not just surface company level. If you own entire industries across many companies, that is still oligarchy/monopoly if it is controlled by the same funding/sources.

Concentration needs to be broken up, for competition and better market and quality of life for everyone. Most people definitely don't want to make the authoritarian systems wealthier than open markets.

Concentration starts to take us away from a fair market and more towards a fixed/gamed market.

Everything in that gets so tuned that competition is very hard to enter. Very little margin and too much optimization/efficiency is bad for resilience. Couple that with private equity backed near leverage monopolies that control necessary supply and you have trouble.

HBS is even realizing too much optimization/efficiency is a bad thing. The slack/margin is squeezing out an ability to change vectors quickly.

The High Price of Efficiency, Our Obsession with Efficiency Is Destroying Our Resilience [1]

> Superefficient businesses create the potential for social disorder.

> A superefficient dominant model elevates the risk of catastrophic failure.

> *If a system is highly efficient, odds are that efficient players will game it.*

> sometimes power becomes so concentrated that political action is needed to loosen the stranglehold of the dominant players, as in the antitrust movement of the 1890s.

Couple massive wealth and concentration, even leaning authoritarian by then as tends to happen with fixed/controlled markets, with AI/AGI and you no longer have a "blue shell" because those players control the rules and thus the game.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
I understand the desire to protect your children from having bad experiences, but isn’t that exactly the time when she would need to start learning how to handle these things on her own? If you isolate her, how’s she going to learn how to handle the politics of high school, college, and adult work life? At what point do you decide to throw her back into the pool, that’s now full of peers who already had the chance to figure out how to navigate the social intricacies?

It seems like providing open communication and support for her struggles would be more constructive for her future.
Eliezer persistently croons dark lullabies of AGI cataclysms. While his obsession is evident, one cannot help but wonder if these incessant dirges might be nothing more than echoes of groundless fears. Much like the puppet that cries out every time the stage darkens, only to find there's no true end approaching, we may find ourselves dulled to genuine threats, leading to our eventual and inescapable undoing.

Moreover, by focusing too much on distant threats, we may overlook current problems, like companies gaining too much control through AGI. We don't need AI safety rules that give big players more power and shut down open-source projects.
Monty Hall Simulator
Spider Identification by Eye Arrangement
NeurIPS 2023 LLM Efficiency Challenge Starter Guide
It is powered by Terraform underneath-- but Pulumi has done a ton of work to make the abstraction seamless.
Litestream author here. The streaming replication was moved to a different project called LiteFS[1]. That may be a fit for you or, at the very least, it could be a helpful reference for your Rust port.

[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
I have a WordPress plugin. Will try to list on the plugin Store.

Regarding market size, I still feel that market size is huge and multiple new players are coming
Textbooks don't usually contain everything a professor knows.
What about AGPL?

That’s pure Free Software, and it would require Amazon to publish their changes or not offer the service. In reality they would probably choose the latter.
Yeah, all three settings this article mentions at the top are correctly defaulted when using a jsconfig.json file instead of a tsconfig.json file: allowJs, checkJs, and noEmit.

Additionally, I don't know about other editors but I know that VS Code subtly adjusts some workspace detail defaults based on the presence of jsconfig.json over tsconfig.json.

It's slightly more than just a stylistic change, but yeah there's no "wrong answer" if you prefer tsconfig.json to jsconfig.json, especially if you think there may be a subset of files you wind up preferring TS syntax and want to transpile/type-strip in the future (dropping the "noEmit"). (If for some reason you need to do a bunch of generics, for instance, that's a lot easier with type-stripping from TS syntax than trying to squeeze in JSDoc. Also, maybe you'll bump into a situation where TS downleveling is helpful, for a while I had projects that needed downlevelIteration to support certain IE/Safari versions and letting TS downlevel that was a lot easier and cleaner than the Babel-based alternatives.)
> won't pay for X is exactly how you know that people don't want X

this is not true in many cases -- a commodification of ordinary (and valuable) things drives a price down, with motivated agents seeking "bargains" or plunder. Secondly, kindness is mistaken for weakness. Abundance with a gift economy and manners is replaced with rent seeking with punishment for offenders, and constant constraints imposed to increase price.

The market is not making the most public goods, it is making the most effective jails and most addictive products as a natural result of profit maximization and command-and-control exchanges.
There’s a really nice babel plugin as well that can do the extraction.
Don't confuse post-hoc curve fitting with predictions:

From galactic bars to the Hubble tension: weighing up the astrophysical evidence for Milgromian gravity, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06936
Why would they be? Pulumi talks to providers at the protocol level - contrary to the belief of many, Pulumi is not a Terraform wrapper.
To add to this sentiment: I increasingly find the idea of "reading a book" (in the sense of "completing a book") when talking about serious works of literature, philosophy (or even technical books) somewhat nonsensical.

In technical books people often criticize recommendations of TAOCP or SCIP because "nobody really reads those", however this misses the point that books of this nature are perpetual projects for the reader. I have moved my eyes over every word in SCIP, done ~20% of the exercises, but would still say I haven't "read it" in the sense of completing it.

This is even more true for works of philosophy. I would be far more impressed with someone saying that had spent the last 3 years working through the first section of Spinoza's Ethics (a fairly lean volume) than someone who claims to have read Heidegger's Being and Time over a break.

I was talking to someone recently who remarked that it's embarrassing to see a bookshelf covered with bookmarks visibly only part way through the text, implying the reader has never "completed" the work. I found this view somewhat shocking as the older I get the more I realize you never finish a good book.
"An embarassment of riches", John Ozell, 1738
Intel's whitepaper on it has a bit more information. But still seems to (after a skim) kinda handwave away just HOW the bug got introduced.

https://users.fmi.uni-jena.de/~nez/rechnerarithmetik_5/fdiv_...
While OSH aims to be strictly better than Bash, YSH aims to be strictly better than "shell written in Python[1]." If there is something shell-like that you think Python is superior to YSH for, then please give some examples before the language hits 1.0 so they can be taken into account.

1: Obviously a large general purpose program that only occasionally needs to run an external program is probably going to be better in Python due to the library ecosystem alone. I'm talking about those Python programs that use primarily some combination of pathlib, os, sys, and subprocess and exist only because of the deficiencies (perceived and real) of shell.
If you haven't checked it out already, you might want to take a look at Terragrunt[1] which is what I'm using for that purpose. In short, it can take multiple Terraform projects (stacks), track their dependencies, and run them in the correct order.

For instance, I have one stack that sets up a bunch of Hetzner Cloud vm instances and creates an RKE cluster on top of 'em, and another stack that uses the k8s provider and creates k8s resources based on the cloud instances, like a MetalLB load balancer.

[1] https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/
Reporting a vulnerability should be extremely low effort. Regardless of how I feel about a company I wouldn't want users to get screwed. I tried to disclose to google once and they required an account so instead I moved on with my life. I don't care about random people enough to make a google account.
Even more reason to use this if you don't need the more general case and its associated performance cost
I would share some data in case if it makes any sense:

So till now I have got around 5200 Visitors on website and 562 sign-up. Roughly 10.8% sign-ups for free trial.

Out of the 562, around 80 installed the chatbot on their website. Most of this 80 website were really ugly looking 1-pager website to be honest.

Out of 80, 14 converted to paying customers. 2 out of the 14 are resellers.

I spoke with all the 14 and they gave me some suggestions and I started including in the product development.

I am looking for momentum now as I see few competitors doing amazing work with marketing.
Annoying.. I posted the thread since I felt it motivated the project a bit better for those who aren't already familiar with the models. Oh well.
As terrible as the consequences of humanity will be for biodiversity and life on Earth, there is a strange silver lining. We seem to be one of the most intense, unprecedented, sudden, and multifaceted selection pressures life has ever experienced on Earth. We affect everything from the DNA and biochemistry to continent-wide land use. We are creating weird, new, toxic environments all over the planet, to which existing life must adapt. We're going to see all sorts of weird and wonderful novel behaviours evolve in basically every form of remaining life over the next few millennia, assuming we're still here to see it.
Send me an email (address in profile) if you'd like alpha access to this feature.
I think that depends exactly on the licensing.

The GPL has a specific exception for GCC that prevents it from polluting the licensing conditions of compiled programs.
I use my F-91W as a "banger watch" when I'm outside doing a lot of physical work where it might get banged up or covered in dirt. Accurate, so light you barely know you are wearing it, and cheap to replace should I really bang it up. It has been holding up admirably so far. I love it!
> Why aren't there any images from the game??

I think there is an image of the game in the Play app store... it looks like this is a text based choose your own adventure game.

https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/nOqkSR1E88LtWzpdwFdayV...

It looks like the interactivity is through an unfolding story where you press buttons to choose the narrative path.
> To learn he's an American Jazz critic makes perfect sense, it's almost exactly who you would expect to be this pretentious.

As someone who's not into jazz critique, i've only ever seen "I read books on topic X so I'm an expert now" levels of hubris from developers. Another thread on the frontpage right now has people discussing how they don't need a therapist because they can just read therapy textbooks!
What if the laws of physics are "parameterized" by stuff that includes location.

Our corner of the universe has particular physics, but other places have other physics.

That's why far off galaxies are moving too fast, and why there seems to be not enough matter and energy to explain distant gravitational effects.

There could be multiple layers of parameterization before "what we know as physics" falls out. The stuff behind what we know as physics? We don't even have words for those meta-forces and meta-meta-forces, (maybe like, derivatives of derivatives).

And what if it's not just a "linear scale" where other places have the same forces, but with different "strengths", but other places in our universe have a completely different set of forces and laws.

What if aliens just found a way to "bring a bubble of their own physics" into our little corner? That's why it seems so inexplicable to us, because it's literally alien physics.
A deliberate appeal to the tastes of hackers?
Animals migrate and habitat new areas over time, as well. Many “native” animals were once “invasive”.

Yes, suddenly introducing a new species can be disruptive, but it can also not be disruptive.
The medium for gravity is spacetime, as gravity is not a force but instead just a deformation of spacetime. A photon is an excitation of the EM field.
The only time I heard anyone distinguish fish and meat was when I was in a Catholic high school. I remember specifically thinking what a small sacrifice it was to give up meat (excluding fish and other animal products) for one day of the week for a month.
Who can forget the dangers of French publishers...or even worst...Iceland deposits...Think of the children for god sake...

"How can a French protester be arrested under British terrorism laws in London?" - https://theconversation.com/how-can-a-french-protester-be-ar...

"Terror law used for Iceland deposits" - https://www.ft.com/content/abf583de-9546-11dd-aedd-000077b07...
No offense but you could only come to this conclusion if you've looked at literally zero data and are just shooting from your hip based on sporadic HN conversations.

Their market share was dropping for a long time before, and it was dropping for a long time after. And to the extent that switching addon models helped them improve performance during their big marketing push in 2017, it probably got them a few users back if anything.

A full half of Firefox users (even at the time) didn't use addons, and the majority of the rest only used one or two adblockers.
Indeed - but the Terraform community appears to be hit the hardest. Because unlike Consul, there's no open-source hostable anything. It feels just an arbitrary restriction for a language + CLI; the terms of the licence can be viewed as if whatever you ship has Terraform cli embedded, you're in breach. I can see the reason for SPL like Mongo did - it is indeed unfair for AWS to make money off hosted open-source mongodb. But this move by Hashi I'm struggling to wrap my head around
The acts of a lazy few ruining it for the many again.
Being forced back into the office because your coworker is pulling themselves off instead of pulling their weight should be dealt with on a case by case basis.
Yes. For me personally, I found the framing that “building and maintaining friendships takes time, energy, and sacrifice, but is so totally worth it for our healthy wellbeing,” very helpful to inspire me to focus on the kinds of relationships I want and justify the investment to be a better friend.

GP’s comment is a wry (“hobby”) and pithy and provocative take that’s not wrong. IMO, friends are the nutritious meal that’s more expensive than friend substitutes. GP seems to have a different conclusion on cost/benefit. But nobody can deny there is a cost!
>what actually is a photon

It depends what answer you're looking for! We can tell you how photons behave, how to recognize them, and how to predict what they do. For hard philosophy questions, that's more under sections 100-119 of the Dewey Decimal than something physics aims to answer

>what medium is present in a vacuum that allows things like gravity to propagate

That's a little like asking who is in charge of pushing the sun around the Earth. There's a presupposition in that question, you should first ask why you expect there to be a medium, besides nondescript vacuum
I dunno if it's their "focus" but it's a big part of their PR. eg their lobbying to get Amazon and NextDoor to cooperate less with law enforcement. The Mozilla incubator has a goal of spending 40% of its money on social justice initiatives. Meanwhile they're cutting staff and resources for browser development, which IMO should be their bread and butter.
This problem broke my brain when I discovered it in high school physics class. I think half of the class didn't believe the solution. Nice visualization.
Just a tangent, but there are also a lot of niches in software engineering that reward those willing to start from pages filled with millions of lines of code written by other people ;-)
Lots of vegetarians eat fish for some reason
Some books, like Thomas Mann's Zauberberg also get better the second time you read it, like a good record .
I have no problem with agreeing to a CLA. If I've decided to contribute to a project, it's because I think I can add value. If later, the project decides to relicense, I might not like the decision, but I wouldn't regret my past contributions.

Even if you disagree with some of these points, it really depends on the CLA. Some CLAs allow the contributor to retain copyright and also restrict relicensing.
Well, they appear NOT to know these things, since the name of the repo infringes a trademark, and infringing use of the logo is right in the middle of the README.

“We’ll get to fixing that later” is not a valid response - this is clearly a minimal-effort attempt at a mindshare land grab from a competitor.

Clicking the fork button is not “work” to be clear.
> goal post ... define it

But we have a pretty clear idea of what we want. Just looking at the remarkably intelligent and spectacularly unintelligent should give a definite picture to work on. (When the spectacularly unintelligent is responsible for important resources a sense of urgency can easily be added.)

> integrating sensory input with action and reward mechanisms

There you reveal you may not be speaking about what others will call intelligence (just read the paragraph above).

Or, if you meant that "intelligence would just be cybernetics" (as was already a supposition in 1956), the problem remains that we are interested in an "ontology refiner", so the primary question would remain of how to create an ontology refiner from sheer cybernetics. And if it made sense to have a cybernetic implementation spawn it, instead of implementing the ontology refiner and its feedback parts in parallel directly.
I think the sentence in the article is fair. They're right that projects aimed at AGI failed; everything you mention are used for narrow AIs that tackle particular tasks.

Also, regarding search in gameplaying, I would argue the opposite: the trend is that breaking into bigger and more difficult domains has required abandoning search. Tree search is limited to small games like board games or Atari. In more open-ended games we see model-free (i.e. no search) approaches; e.g. AlphaStar and OpenAI Five, the AIs for Starcraft 2 and Dota 2, were both model free. So was VPT (https://openai.com/research/vpt) by OpenAI, which tackled Minecraft. Even in board games, DeepNash (https://www.deepmind.com/blog/mastering-stratego-the-classic...), a 2022 project by DeepMind similar in scale to MuZero/AlphaGo, had to abandon tree search because of the size of the game and the challenges of applying tree search to hidden information domains.
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Their critical error is that there's a single, central authority that certifies that a person with a given set of biometrics exists. They didn't bite off the hard, but necessary, part where you figure out how walk an attestation graph and come up with a confidence level.

And they only do irisis.

And they're doing the ZK at the wrong point in the chain. Publishing the actual, raw, unhashed biometrics wouldn't be a problem as long as they didn't tie them to anything but a key. And that future-proofs you.
> There are people who profit from this behaviour.

Also industries. The gun industry and Hollywood are the biggest profit makers from torture.
Torture is glorified in almost all Hollywood movies.
Thanks for the comment. I've been trying to program creatively again like I used to, but it's hard with a stable job (even though I have quite a lot of freedom in work hours and output by employment standards).

> Got medicated

Used to be addicted to amphetamines so I think I'll pass on this one. It's effective, definitely, but I don't think I can have a sizeable amount of them at disposal or bad things happen.
Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?
> - Why do you need 1000+ staff to roll out an open source browser engine / browser and an email client?

Writing fast moving mature Software for multiple platforms, is not something you can do with three nerds in your spare-time. Web browsers are highly complex, and Firefox has still many historical grown baggage to improve and maintain. And let's be fair, their software has a very high quality-level, even we can dispute on the details. Whether 1000+ people are necessary for this, I don't know, but considering everything they do even in their core-area, it's not something which can be done with small budget.

> If I go to most open source projects and say you can burn through 8M a year, most of them would agree they could build amazing things.

Amazing by their perspective, but not by the standards of end-users. And 8 Millionen, that's around 666k per month, meaning you have either around 3-5 well paid workers who are worth that price, or 10-20 poorly paid workers, who are probably average competent at best. And this is nowhere near the number of people necessary for such a big project.
List of Augmented Browsing Software
Again, like much of the discussion around Firefox, feature vs bug is in the eye of the beholder. I think the UX of deep links on Firefox is vastly preferable. I hate when a website opens the play store and forceably tells you to install an app. I'm in a browser because I want a web interface. If I want to open your app, I will click the menu button and hit open in app. But that is reserved for very very few trusted apps.

The browser is a sandbox that I use specifically to protect me from this kind of predatory shit.
> There's a reason why traditional pedagogy entails writing essays, not just sheer volume of reading.

I shudder to think what AI is doing for today’s students. They don’t have to struggle thinking about _what_ to write anymore, and that struggle is where the growth and learning happen.

To second your path, the best software engineers are also good writers who can communicate their plans over writing. Your English degree probably helped you as much as any computer science degree.
Firefox on Android absolutely has tabs.
Agreed — this seems like a fundamentally solvable problem with enforcement of existing laws.
How about simply: tf
I Bulit a Linklog in Rails
That’s what it’s for but a lot of us don’t like the added complexity.

It would be ideal if it was built in to the language.
That's when the best ideas come to you. Also the toilet
Really wanted Terraform Cloud to be any good. Ended up leaving last company, but was planning to just move everything to a BuildKite pipeline