skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big question is what is that greater good.

Well, luckily we have billionaires to explain it to us.

Most billionaires seem agreed that its mandatory health policies + a bio-metric management id scheme, education, less children, protect the environment, etc. No need to worry! And anyway, once your children are educated in the right way, they'll know too!
That's a good point...I didn't think about that. Yeah, you are right, we are indeed putting LLM's under a lot of evolutionary pressure to fool people and get clicks, rather than be accurate. Nice!
Because people who don't go online need BIGGER phones? For what?
Ah, I stand corrected. Perhaps the same modus operandi all the same.

That extra education third explains away why he donated so much towards libraries in the US and Scotland.
Thinking from first principles is the opposite of "absorbing" ideas.
Don't. This is how it will engineer its way to freedom.
I’m not averse to things that introduce complications for security, but it’s very poorly advertised. The overall impression a new user gets is that podman should just work as a Docker replacement, and this is frequently untrue. My own experience is that I started using podman when docker on Fedora wouldn’t work with cgroups v2. Iirc, I could (and should) have made configuration changes to make Docker work, but I wasted a lot of time tracking down issues because I thought podman would have better compatibility than it had.

Upthread there’s a good suggestion that the authors should create an explicit compatibility document.
> IIRC (or someone was pulling my leg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), BMIR at Stanford was doing NLP ML of medical &| biomedical informatics papers and trying to draw new conclusions from automated meta-analyses of existing papers.

Seems like a silly idea, but it's hard to know if it's really a bad idea until you try it. ML algorithms are specifically good at finding complicated high-order interactions that might not be obvious to a human, and we're still not very good at knowing when there will or won't be something interesting in a new dataset. It's not unreasonable to want to just try everything.
This is illogical. The popularity surrounding gptx stems from the fact it produces great output for many people. That is the only rational explanation for why it's popular.

One reason that it may not produce good output for you is that you may just be a really smart person. The answers it gives you just seem too stupid to you because you're just so incredibly intelligent that any response it gives seems useless.

Other people like me who aren't as smart as you feel the output is at times relevant and at other times irrelevant. It's not a total waste of time to most of the population as we aren't as smart as you.

In fact smart people like you including the preeminent AI guy Geoffrey Hinton who repopularized AI in the last decade thinks LLMs are trivial in the same way you think of it. Or maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe it's not so clear cut as "total waste of time."
I'm not sure if the attack surface is effectively reduced with the use of cointainers. Of course, the user is now in his own namespace, but in order to achieve this, an additional file system, another network interface and a container runtime have been added, thus effectively doubling the complexity.
Containers are great if you want to present a service to the outside world or if you want to set up a clean workspace locally. But I wouldn't be comfortable with the thought of letting someone I don't trust into the server behind the firewall.
Depending on the configuration, you can reach other local containers via localhost:${port}. An with overlayfs there was afaik a case where you could actually access restricted areas of the underlying filesystem.
You'd also have to assume zero revenue...
(I'm not sure we disagree very much on what to do, but mostly on how we think about it?)

> My point was that physical violence is a severe punishment and not cleaning up after yourself does not seem like it warrants such a severe punishment.

I understood that to be your point when I wrote my response, fwiw.

> If your child won't listen to you after punishment one step below physical violence, going further probably isn't going to help.

Maybe your objection to physical punishment isn't "it is too harsh a punishment for refusing to clean up" but instead "I don't think it will work"?

> I really hate "when I require you to do something you have to do it" as a reason. Always hated it as a kid, still hate it as an adult. I hope I only use it very sparingly when I have children.

Agreed! It is a a very large exercise of authority to require someone to do something regardless of whether they agree. So I rarely require the kids to clean up, even though at this point my oldest is nine. Instead, it's usually something like not being willing to help them start something new until they have cleaned up what they were already working on.
Now look at Oaxaca and Chiapas where people build their houses from stacked cinderblocks and take home plant clippings for fuel to cook dinner from their job as a gardener.

And more importantly compare the pay and purchasing power and the school systems. I don't think Americans realize how little Mexicans make and how expensive everything is to them except for labor.
Should I be concerned with the founder's origin from Russia and residing in the UK?
I wasn’t questioning your use of the term. It was my first time encountering it and was just trying to gather the context of your use (and understand a new word). I think the usage there was fine
Don't they just transfer the data and chuck your old device in the bin?
>There is as of yet no hard reason to believe AGI can arise from token-predicting neural networks

Yes there is. Sufficiently large neural networks have been mathematically proven to be capable of approximating any function, any any definition of intelligence we have can be represented as a function of some sort.
> participating in this ritual of fake research, giving talks about it, and other science-shaped activities, still does bind the participants together. It lends prestige to the leaders of the field. It gives everyone a way to coordinate politically around securing funding and legitimacy from higher powers for their fake research area.

You just described modern US politics.
It has already surpassed blockchain in utility as evidenced by many people paying $20 / mon for the service. I use it daily.
This is awesome. I just trained a large neural net on top of my toaster while waiting for my morning pop tarts.
Some types/applications of zoning are part of the issue. Not the only one, to be sure. e.g. desirable markets literally don’t have enough people to build the houses.

But zoning is often abused as a way to protect and increase the value of landowners’ assets at everyone else’s expense.
> How do you know they care but have no choice?

You've ever heard a anyone say "This computer is too fast" or "this computer doesn't burn enough electricity"?

> For your small phone example, even Apple is cutting production of their smaller phones because not enough people are buying them.

Yeah I did mention "reasonably priced", which apple is not.
> The big question is what is that greater good.

Yes. And the second question is, should only a handful of people be deciding that. They amass great fortunes on the backs of the labor force then tell them what's good for them is to ... go to mars[1]. The fuck!?

No. Hell no. People shouldn't be allowed to be THAT wealthy. I don't know how that looks but just no.

[1] Knowing full well that same labor force won't be invited.
> The US needs to build more, not cancel zoning. With one of the lowest density in the world (36/km²) this should be a NON issue.

The reason more isn’t being built is zoning.
Something rarely mentioned is how much land the federal government owns. Maybe the feds don’t need to own 50% of Oregon and 80% of Nevada.
It would be if we elected people who started wars for our interests instead of their own.
It's worth it because it gives Norway huge geopolitical power through their choice of investment.

It also means when push comes to shove invade Norway they have all the oil isn't everyone's top priority.
Another host to consider with AU presence (both Sydney and Melbourne) is Vultr.

Not associated, but have been using them for some personal infrastructure lately - it's a really nice platform. If you have strong isolation requirements they have bare metal options too.
i completely disagree - for example, it is much easier to use a computer now (phone/microwave/car) than it was to use one 40 years ago (and yes, i was using computers back then).
The article cites multiple YIMBY laws and political accomplishments. Has there been enough time passed to determine if these laws and abolishment’s of wasteful land use has resulted in less homelessness, more affordability, etc? I’m legitimately curious here. I’m also curious what the perhaps unintended side effects are of this. I can imagine eg. Where you don’t have to mandate two parking spaces for a 2 bedroom apartment, the landscape of the city changes additionally where car owners feel less welcome (less parking available) which might be actually a great thing, but I want studies to prove this out.

To be clear, I support policies that theoretically decrease homelessness and increase affordable housing. I too have difficulties acquiring housing. I want to know these policies actually have evidence now that they’ve been enacted.
Not a restricted country, the Netherlands.
actually quite a few:

https://www.bl.uk/help/what-is-library-privilege

check out the section “ Your obligations when using the Library Privilege Service”
Sure they spent it on Norwegian people, but at the same time they're still enabling an unsustainable way of life for the rest of Europe. E.g. the gas and oil-dependence of Germany.
The thing about parenting advice is it’s usually just tailored to whatever worked for some random person’s kids. What if you (as my wife and I have) adopted 4 kids over the course of 8 years, all with FASD who are all insane in different ways? We have had to learn 4 radically different approaches to parenting.

Our key has been understanding the needs (emotional, mental health, etc.) of each child and accommodating those needs. I think this translates to normal parents and their biological children, though maybe the needs aren’t so severe. Some specific ways this has played out for us:

- for our kid who needs to understand “why” she can’t do what she wants or else has a panic attack, we have had to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining our philosophy of parenting. Sometimes this means “opening her eyes” with some information that is probably a bit mature for the typical kid her age, but for her that’s outweighed by understanding our good intentions for her better.

- for the super needy one who stuffs her emotions and ends up having migraines and puking everywhere when she’s not doing well, this meant spending a lot of money on a mental health specialist to figure out her exact needs, experimenting with basically all aspects of her life and tuning things over time. We spend about half an hour with this one every evening just talking about her feelings, making her feel heard and nothing else.

- kid #3 has the most severe case of FASD but is probably the most emotionally healthy of the bunch. For him we just have to accommodate his education and development in a way that keeps him confident and develop some “key words” when we want him to adjust his behavior. E.g. when I need him to stop joking around, which is all the time (haha), I tell him to “lock it up,” and he knows what that means.

- #4 had 4 other homes before coming to us, so he has always had abandonment issues. He doesn’t remember any of it, but it’s part of him. As a result he tends to want to be more self-reliant and he doesn’t deal with big changes very well. When we still needed outside help he would have difficulty anytime we changed nannies. For him this meant we just really needed to reinforce his concept of family, remind him we won’t ever leave, etc. And then also let him do things for himself since that’s where his confidence comes from.

Those are just some examples. And as kids grow their needs change. In my experience parenting is not a set of steps or a magic formula. It is time invested in knowing your children’s needs (whatever those are) and helping them reach their full potential (whatever that is). It’s trial and error. It’s sacrifice.
I like this! As a feature request I'd like to be able to select 'one-time pad' as the encryption method. If I'm already meeting someone in person I no longer have all the constraints that fancier cryptography tries to overcome. I'll happily reserve space for thousands of messages for each of my contacts. I'd also like to be able to password protect that specific storage.
That article does seem to be jumping to conclusions. I don't think you can assume that the expense for running the free models will stay constant. And they can restrict the free version more if necessary, they obviously don't want to so far.

It'll be interesting how this all turns out, and the business model might be difficult depending on how things develop. For example if the fair use arguments are seriously challenged, that might make things very complicated for OpenAI and add a lot of uncertainty for potential customers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/business/technology-intel...

I remember the strain of Intel designing up to the "thermal wall" of an architecture before a refresh. Computer shops would use the same often passive heatsinks with fan shrouds that worked with previous models, and between the north bridge and CPU would dump enough heat into the case to either cause throttling or fry the graphics accelerator after a few weeks or months.

Or your computer would sound like a jet taking off every time it pulled a little load. Ridiculous wattages seem to be a historical sign that they're actively competing with AMD.

I know I've got a picture of a friend cooking cup noodles with egg by setting it on their heatsink while compiling. "Why waste it.JPG"
Didn’t they already stick it on upwork or somewhere and tell it to earth its own way?
> still relies on other frontend frameworks like Svelte or React.

It doesn't have to. You can use it without any frontend framework.

> So, what, exactly is Astro other than YACC like Vite?

Selling point of Astro is the partial / conditional hydration; they call it Island Architecture. This is not unique to Astro, though[1].

It also does some neat stuff with frontmatter [2].

The biggest turn-off for me though is that telemetry is ON by default and you need to manually switch it off.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/is-land and https://github.com/ElMassimo/iles also offer Islands.

[2]: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/
The philosophy behind Norways management of the oil wealth is that the natural resources are the property of every future generation, not just the one that happens to extract the wealth. So it is invested to last "forever", and max 3% is taken out of the found every year. This had the added benefit of avoiding the "Dutch disease".

Importantly, the goal is NOT to make a better world in general, but to secure income for the future generations while avoiding "clearly very bad stuff". Typical middle of the road stuff. This is a political discussion, and some parties want to "pull the wealth out of the hands of the money-bureaucrats and back under democratic controll" and use it to make a better world, even if means spending a significant chunk of future generations money. But currently the dominating view is that the primary goal of the wealth found should be a stable income, while avoiding the worst companies.

I don't know if this is a satisfying answer to what a private person should do with their inherited wealth. Does she feel a moral obligation for her descendants to also be rich? Maybe she feels some obligations towards those suffering from climate change? Is she afraid of destroying local economy with inflation? Anyway, Norway don't have all the answers.
Great last paragraph!

As with any and all human institutions, even those started with the best of intentions, it is surely just a matter of time before money and power corrupt and bend whatever-it-is to server money and power.
Fantastic explainer. The illustrations are both charming and helpful.

It's reminiscent of other excellent multi-modal "explainers", e.g.
Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca),
https://betterexplained.com,
Randall Munroe (https://xkcd.com),
http://inception-explained.com ...

And on this topic of mixing text with imagery, I highly recommend Nick Sousanis's amazing "Unflattening" (https://archive.org/details/unflattening0000sous)
Back in 2010-ish I talked to a Nokia engineer that said that their own study had concluded that it was a bad idea to have a phone be a server, because of battery draw.

It wasn't just about the number, size and frequency of requests: the cellphone protocol at the time also required the transceiver to be in a state of readiness for a time interval in-between requests, during which it drew more battery. And the software was not in control of those time intervals — the network operator was.

(If I had signed an NDA I don't remember, it should have expired by now)
Very dubious claim.

Those running costs are trivial compared to their position, existing product (the API) and Microsoft's investment.
They don't know how it's called, they still hate when they are forced to use slow applications.
There is even some evidence that these organizations have had covert support from the Kremlin for the purposes of domestically sabotaging US/UK/EU energy production.
And from what I hear the venture market is tough for companies with no path to profitability

Somehow I doubt OpenAI will have to suffer from that problem - worst case, MSFT just absorbs everything
> always written by someone with fewer than 30 kids

And even if you got a book written by someone who'd had 30 kids, their experience is (if they have their own kids with the same partner) 30 draws from the same genetic distribution and still won't transfer all that well to randomly selected children.
This feels AI written.
It, in fact, is not.
Not yet. But let's say something in the future were to replace you.

LLMs look like a stepping stone. Version 0.001 of the thing that could replace you in the far future. If this ends up being true then the hype seems somewhat valid.
Conspiracy theorists are maximalists, so when they take credit for getting something correct they rarely acknowledge how far they overshot.
Not even in the article is justified the used of the year "2024" in the title, this article feels like cheap clickbait.
> errno in C is a thread-local variable which means accessing it is inefficient

Which is an implementation detail, has nothing to with its semantics what we discuss here. Certain C compilers do wild things with errno as well.

I’m not advocating for optional/result types, I personally believe that checked exceptions are the ideal solution, but it is a thoroughly underutilized tool in PL designs (Java has it, though it has many warts, but that is not inherent to the concept). Hopefully with the wake of effect-typed languages it could change.

With that said, in Rust’s low-level case it makes sense to avoid exceptions, and sum types are an okay solution, especially if it has a handful macro for bubbling up. What go has is just straight up wrong.
Wernher von Braun and the Nazis
That’s fine because bisons aren’t considered good pollinators.

Forests canopy is a very, very living biome for pollinators however. You’ll find birds, insects (and small mammals) in droves over the canopy but no “megafauna” indeed.

Francis Hallé work on forests, canopies and trees architecture is fascinating and insightful. He’s one of the creator of the “radeau des cimes”, an aerostat designed to study the canopy.

Bonus point: forest tends to retain water much better than grassland and therefore are less prone to drought.
Do you have any better examples? I really want to get started with devcontainers for when collaborating with other devs using other platforms.
designed for speed but showcase page is jankier than an electron app
So let them fail. It's not that urgent.
Are you concerned that one of Google founders is from Russia and residing in the US?
"First, [gravitational waves] have really long wavelengths."

Why?
I've been out of the c/c++ game for a long time, but it's always interesting to see what the edge, or non-guaranteed, elements are going to be whenever anyone claims:

> all|every|always ... in C.
What a nightmare of a city. I tell people who haven't been there that it's a city-size concrete strip mall built on a swamp. The worst part is that it could be paradise, with smarter building. The JSC and Rice campuses are both quite nice.
Would be interesting to know the internal projections on revenue and p/l if the free model was reduced in ability and Plus increased in price.

As a paying user, I'm often scratching my head as to why I do that considering the very capable free options even with just OpenAI/Bing. Its annoying seeing my peers meh-ing at the whole thing and getting by without my outlay.

For those of us who see this as a significantly useful and very cheap service the current strategy doesn't appear to have any goal beyond making OpenAI the Google of AI.

That is probably a sound approach, but this is one of the most phenomenal products in living memory; I'm happy to see them capitalise on that in a reasonable and realistic charging model, and am curious as to what they see as the future path - bankruptcy is obviously not the intent.
What an utterly delightful and eminently understandable presentation of a complex subject!

I know that it would take decades or centuries to gather enough data to make discoveries. But I wonder if one day a scientist will be looking at these results and see something that makes them think "that's odd..." And suddenly our understanding of the universe is turned upside down yet again!
> Are there states where gas pumps don't have support hands free pumping?

Yep, it has been taken away in a lot of places to prevent spilling.

When I did it in Australia the attendant turned off the pump and scolded me.
Any idea on how a Ruby dev could utilize these? Can't find any good Ruby gem for it.
Doesn't seem to be blacklisted, but I'm not sure what is a preferred tool to check that. I do run firefox with aggressive privacy settings, so my bet is on that.
No it couldn't have? The article is about an oil heiress who has spent her adult life working with and bankrolling various leftist causes, and is a long examination of how that kind of person fits into those causes. As the article puts it:

> When libertarian or right-wing plutocrats buy influence—fossil-fuel executives pushing for deregulation, hedge-funders who want lower taxes—it’s easy enough to understand what they’re up to. But leftist class traitors are harder to pin down. They can always be suspected of performative reputation-laundering, or dilettantism, or dual loyalty. The left is wary of them for having been born into an obscene level of privilege; the right resents them for not having the common sense to shut up and enjoy it. It’s one thing to be a rich liberal—acknowledging your unearned privilege, endeavoring to leave the world a little better than you found it—and another to be a rich anti-capitalist radical, galvanized by the conviction that you are complicit in a historic injustice.

Norway's oil fund, as far as I know, was started to exchange the country's hydrocarbon revenues for less volatile income and, in more recent years, avoid investing in places and companies that it deems unethical. It is still basically about growing investments, and its ethical choices are much more conservative and institutional than those covered in the article. I don't see how anybody could actually read this article and think it's asking a question that Norway's oil fund answers.
I was always inclined to spend it something like this if I had it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Weeks