skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, trained on a large corpora of correct math statements, they produce responses that are more often right than wrong (I am taking this for true- it might not be)- which simply raises more questions about the nature of math.
It's silly to flag this submission. Back in April researchers at Stanford reported that less than half of the results from AI-powered search corresponded to verifiable facts. What do we call the remaining portion. "BS" seems reasaonable.

https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

"As internet pioneer and Google researcher Vint Cerf said Monday, AI is "like a salad shooter," scattering facts all over the kitchen but not truly knowing what it's producing. "We are a long way away from the self-awareness we want," he said in a talk at the TechSurge Summit."

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/bing-ai-bungles-search-r...
I think Frequentis will actually be paid more to “add feature to make the system more robust” and a bump in support schedules.
This is currently happening with people googling their way onto pseudo-science webpages/ blogs and interpreting that that content as “fact”.
Then you must have a very interesting definition of reggae.

This piece has no skank. It actually arpeggiates on the 4 beat, and is played by a percussion instrument, instead of the usual Fender Jazz electric guitar.

Also, none of the,drumbeats are present (rub-a-dub, steppers, one drop, rockers).

Listen to how your clip sounds compared to the below - Drop into a Walk by Yuzo Koshiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKhseX_wWqU
Or bringing back functionally integrated hardware and ports. I just got a Bambu X1C, and all I need to do is print eDP display mounts to finish* my OTG "cyberdeck" mITX build. Once I scale it down, I'll have something I could only have gotten if I'd bought a 96GB M2 Max with no battery for just 90% of the price!

* (Yeah, right.)
+1. Before I could understand benefits of Rist, I was sold on cargo.
Maybe its your use case. I can definitely feel the difference between my 2018 and 2023 lenovo.
yup, this comment is epitome hacker, as well as the decision on a Framework laptop by the TFA.
probably it's flagged because it's so obviously true
> The model itself is stateless, and it doesn't seem right to me to ascribe "intent" to a stateless function.

Statefulness can be modelled statelessly so "statelessness" is not a sufficient reason to dismiss intentionality. The only question is whether the relationship between the inputs of the function and its outputs correspond to what we might call "intent", which the cited definition attempts to outline. Obviously it's only a high-level view that leaves many details unanswered.

> Otherwise, we are in the somewhat absurd position of needing to argue that all mathematical functions "intend" to yield their result.

Not all mathematical functions have a continuity of internal identity and self-reference as seems to be the case with LLMs.
My guess is that their dubious disposability works against them. You can get self-heated coffee and ramen in a lot of Japanese vending machines, which makes sense because Japan is the capital of non-biodegradable disposables.
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Buying a new computer every couple years seems pretty wasteful from an environmental standpoint. One of Framework's goals is to reduce electronic waste.
I want to love Framework badly but I'm not sure if the additional thickness and worse battery life is really worth it compared to a Macbook or linux-compatible high quality laptops like the Malibal Aon S1. The latter also lets you upgrade the storage.

I own a Thinkpad X1 Carbon from 2018 and to be honest I've never had to upgrade it so maybe modularity and upgradeability isn't as important to me personally...
X Premium is a service, not an app. That doesn't apply to apps, does it? It doesn't even apply to all services:

https://developer.apple.com/support/reader-apps/

They exempted media companies because media companies have a bullhorn to rail against their monopoly rents if it affects them. It kind of implies that even X isn't blessed by Apple to do this, but X has its own kind of bullhorn and may or may not find satisfaction for that reason.

But what are you proving with the exception that proves the rule?
> Upgrading GPUs out of cycle seems like it might make sense but you probably should just use a desktop PC for anything using a GPU.

I've found myself moving back to desktops lately. The price:performance is astoundingly good compared to laptops. And I've found that my computer just doesn't really leave my desk much. As you mention, the ability to upgrade is also pretty great.

I think the big thing, though is that most laptops are "good enough" for most things. So I don't really mind taking an older laptop the few times I do travel.
I absolutely agree, 100%. I was responding in the context of things life is too busy for. I didn’t want to imply that it could “just” be done, only that it takes no time or resources.

It certainly takes willpower and it sucks for several weeks while the body adjusts, and when a treat sounds really good (come on, you earned it!). It takes breaking snacking habits and requires social trade offs. It’s completely unmotivating to weigh more when the previous day was hard to stick with the plan. Plain popcorn can’t compare to movie theater butter flavored topping.
They are built-in on some Caterpillar phones.

https://www.catphones.com/en-au/features/integrated-thermal-...
OP is asking us for OUR ideas of vanished tech, not a critique on his imperfect examples.

Maybe like Space elevator, or wireless electric transmission...
Linux is fine; all the hardware (including the fingerprint sensor) is supported. Battery life isn't super great (4-5 hours max), and the thermal design leaves much to be desired, but it's tolerable for my use (YMMV).
I dumped Ubuntu for TW a couple of months back. Not that I'm stress testing it, but it's been very painless.
It is not documented on a per method basis. You can see by looking at the name of the method that it does return an auto released instance… this convention is well documented and made ARC possible.
I think the usefulness is pretty domain-specific. Every time I've given it a citation for a not-super-famous court opinion, it very confidently told me about a plausible-sounding case that never happened between people and companies that never existed.
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And also worse thermals.

If you look inside a gaming laptop like a Asus G series, the entire back of the laptop is heatpipe and heatsink, shared between cpu/gpu and stretching side to side. The modularity sacrifices this by necessity.
People have already accepted they can't do anything to stop the bullshitting.

It's not only in America, not only in government or large corporate. It's everywhere.
I got into hacking/pen testing by hex editing the Flash games and disabling hit colliders.
I have always found concepts such as "commoditize the complement" very interesting. For some reason, they seem like pseudo explanations of behaviours we see from companies.

I am not entirely convinced that this was Meta's reasoning for releasing Llama. Like, I think Zuck is not thinking along these lines while open srcing LLMs.

How is Llama a complement of Meta's products? Meta wants more social interaction. It's a big stretch to assume LLMs will lead to more shareable social content (unless meta wants AI bots, in which case they don't need LLMs; they can just relax their moderation policies).

I honestly still don't have any good explanations for releasing Llama. Even the explanation of Meta gaining value from public improvements to Llama seems too vague and a stretch. Meta has enough engineers to make the most useful improvements themselves. The cost and effort of open srcing Llama is >> the value Meta gains from public improvements of Llama.

So, yeah this is still an open ques for me...
I noticed he mentioned asking Bing, so I directly asked ChatGPT “who is Ryan McGreal?” and it wrote, “ Ryan McGreal is a writer, urbanist, and the editor of Raise the Hammer, an online publication that focuses on urban issues, transportation, and sustainability. He has been actively involved in advocating for better urban planning and transportation policies in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Please note that my knowledge is based on information available up to September 2021, so there may have been developments or changes in his work or activities since then.”

That appears more or less correct

So to give chatgpt an opportunity to hallucinate similarly to the article, I followed up with, “Did he write for the nyt?” and it replied, “ I do not have any information indicating that Ryan McGreal has written for The New York Times (NYT). His work primarily focuses on urban issues and transportation, as mentioned earlier, and he is associated with Raise the Hammer, a local publication in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It’s possible that he may have contributed to other publications, but I do not have specific information regarding his contributions to The New York Times.”

While I have seen ChatGPT make stuff up I do think it’s useful to compare specific results across LLMs before using particular examples to make holistic statements.
My current workplace mandates no comments. It’s very annoying.
That show was great. A successful Australian export of a non-primary kind, woohoo!

Trivia, it's predecessor was called "Towards 2000"
> How can Europe call itself the bastion of liberty

They are very much a nanny state/set of states. Not sure how anyone could take them saying that seriously.
There is no one correct answer for personal computers.

Most people are probably (mostly) fine with nearly any available laptop you can buy today. Someone that needs battery-driven power might be vastly better off on Apple Silicon. Laptop gamers on a budget are probably better off with something from Acer or MSI. If you need maximum GPU power, then a desktop GPU is probably your best bet. If you need "a lot" of GPU power, a laptop GPU might be enough for you.

And if you enjoy buying some technology and assembling it, a Framework DIY laptop is probably a pretty cool purchase.
So those are the subjects, not co-authors.
I dropped my Thinkpad whilst open onto a table full of drinks the other week. It was a small disaster. I'm really thrilled I just just take it apart and replace everything I broke. Keyboard and Touch pad. the ROI on this current laptop is like having a B52.
definitely use case. i can bang code on pretty much any computer since it's just text. compiling or anything like that is a different story. so as long as you're not building on your older box, the coding can use the older just fine.

swap hats, and go into video/photo editing, and the old box feels like a boat anchor to the process.

swap hats again, and start browsing the web, now it's a mixed bag depending on how bloated the devs made the site. my 2019 MBP still handles any and all video streams. it plays back my 4k edits just fine too.
Research "gustl mollath" of you wanna know what scary things can happen in bavaria.
That seems fair to me as long as people who live in the city don't get to visit suburbs or rural areas either.
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I’m curious what you find so disagreeable. What arguments do you think are the strongest against AI in this context and why do you disagree?
Good, but you are still at the mercy of the CPU/GPU vendors.
That said, it's worth keeping in mind that there are significant differences in SSD power consumption and heat output which should be factored in to SSD shopping. Even if battery life isn't a concern, if the SSD runs hot it's likely to throttle frequently in an undercooled laptop chassis which can steeply curb performance.
Does HN have a way to "unflag" a submission?

Or, what does a flag in HN actually do?
The battery wears out. The Framework laptops make it easy to replace the battery yourself.

The ports and their positions are configurable. The Framework laptops enable you to have the ports you want in the positions you want. It's essentially dongles but integrated with the chassis and better than PCMCIA cards were.
And (python) notebooks?
This is why we started doing it too. It allows grouping of related messages, even if the parameters and formatted string change.
Indeed. "You should just run Arch" is giving "just rewrite everything in Rust" a run for it's money, especially since the "Mill will solve all of those pesky CS problems" folks have gone quiet.
I don’t agree with that characterization about availability, this is exactly what Spanner is designed for since replication can be cross-region for very good reasons (to improve latency, save on bandwidth, improve e2e availability) and you actually do want to maintain availability in the case of a network paritition between regions (which is a thing that actually happens)
And where would you meaningfully deploy a VB form other than your personal computer? Likewise, you don't need to deploy react at all if you are running it locally, just npm start. You can even print to PDF from the browser. You can use LocalStorage for persistence. Feature for feature, it approaches a local VB and Access project for about the same effort. I've taught many beginner students with this technique.

My point was not that modern deployment is easy. Nor that modern react with all the trimmings is easy. My point was that the nostalgic view of VB is reductive and skips all the things we now consider essentials. And for the effort involved, we get much more done now than ever before, albeit at a much greater complexity cost and steeper learning curve.
If you prefer a more research-based take on burnout, check out [1]. It cites actual burnout researchers (crazy idea..).

[1] https://commoncog.com/g/burnout/
The most apt comparison here is Stripe or PayPal, but their gross margin is the aforementioned ~3%.

Because it's processing payments for a third party, to compare it to something like AWS you would have to use the revenue of the service being provided to the customer as the base. So Facebook uses AWS, what percentage of Facebook's revenue does Amazon get? (Looks like ~0.2%, and that would be the equivalent of their gross margin.)

Now, that number is going to vary all over the place because the proportion of value that a generic service represents for a given business is going to depend more on the business than the service. But that's kind of the point -- that's why AWS charges based on usage rather than a percent of their customer's revenue. Because nobody for whom that is a terrible deal would choose them if they used that pricing model in a competitive market.
Flagging this is clearly wrong.
Not necessarily technical writings but more like emails to ask for something, emails to decline something or even a birthday card.

It's also great for writing a professional sounding complaint letter to your utility company.
Anyone is allowed to pull the red cord and stop the proverbial production line at any time when something is wrong and needs to be fixed.
As an example, I had a utility (since no longer necessary) that removes files from Trash after a while: https://gist.github.com/kccqzy/8dbead563afdcd6a491a

I couldn't write it as a shell script because I wanted to get the "date added" rather than the "date modified" or "date created" but this is available in Cocoa APIs.
That's the hard truth, espcially with M1 chips, it is hard to beat Mac book Air 15" or Mac book Pro 16".
for starters waste. Electronics aren't degradable and throwing hardware away prematurely does contribute a fair amount to the poisoning of the environment.[1] Not to mention that cheap is relative. Not everyone's on a software engineering salary. The last winter quite a few people in rich countries had to choose between food, rent and heating. Being able to replace a battery rather than buying a new laptop makes a lot of financial sense.

[1]https://www.who.int/news/item/15-06-2021-soaring-e-waste-aff...
I suppose this is a matter of philosophy. For the sake of your own frugal wallet, your suggestion is smart! For the sake of a future that includes Framework and possibly even competitors, perhaps the blood of early adopters will be fuel.

Of course, whatever you or I do, the market will sort it out, and I worry that it won't be kind to ideas like these. (Like, as cool as this is, I probably won't be getting a Framework any time in the next 2 years. I hope they are around and there are even more options for me to pick from when I'm in the market for a laptop replacement!)
Does anyone know why Meta is open srcing Llama? The 2 explanations I have heard are "commoditize the complement" and "take advantage of public improvements of Llama".

I have always found concepts such as "commoditize the complement" very interesting. For some reason, they seem like pseudo explanations of behaviours we see from companies.
I am not entirely convinced that this was Meta's reasoning for releasing Llama. Like, I think Zuck is not thinking along these lines while open srcing LLMs.

How is Llama a complement of Meta's products? Meta wants more social interaction. It's a big stretch to assume LLMs will lead to more shareable social content (unless meta wants AI bots, in which case they don't need LLMs; they can just relax their moderation policies).

I honestly still don't have any good explanations for releasing Llama. Even the explanation of Meta gaining value from public improvements to Llama seems too vague and a stretch. Meta has enough engineers to make the most useful improvements themselves. The cost and effort of open srcing Llama is >> the value Meta gains from public improvements of Llama.

So, yeah this is still an open ques for me...
Whither SVE? Will trying to use 256 bit vectors still result in the sad trombone condition register getting set?
I’d be amazed if one or more of the large EMR vendors wasn’t already developing some sort of diagnostic co-pilot. They along with insurers have unique access to critical data for such applications and both have motivations… having worked for a major insurer, however, I don’t believe they have the technical competence or willingness to see longer-term value from true improvements in diagnostics vs. short-run thinking. (But I really hope I’m wrong there).
> If my manager asks me to code an app, is he programming or am I?

In the right context, I would say that it possible that the boss is programming you and that you are, ultimately, both programmers. But even if we only want to think of programming in terms of computers, that is not a concern when it comes to a ChatGPT-like thing. It will almost certainly be of a computer.

> By "replace" I mean replace someones job. Similar to how the elevator made elevator operators unemployed.

The job is still there, but with an effectively infinite supply of workers having joined the market, that pushed the price for the work to zero. That left anyone wanting to be paid more out of the market.

In the same vein, if your employer found someone willing to do your work for a lower wage, fired you, and hired them instead, it seems fair to say that you were replaced, but was the profession replaced?

Anyway, fun analysis aside, understood.
It's really incredible how plausible sounding ChatGPT's legal BS is. Completely hallucinated cases, arguments, citations (properly formatted for real reporters!), people, ideas... but if you just skim it, there wouldn't be any immediate way for a layman to tell it was total bullshit, and I'll bet an overworked attorney could be taken off guard, too. Obviously won't get you too far in actual litigation, and I really feel for the clients of any attorney that pulls such shit.
Welcome to why those of us who build PCBs NEVER use a parts library other than our own.

Nobody will ever take the care to maintain a parts library unless there is money involved.

The KiCAD libraries are about as good as it gets as long as you stick with common parts.
The best they can do is similar to a surgeons general warning. I don't see an outright ban.
Desktops used to be no brainers for GPU power, but the discrete GPUs have gotten so outrageously expensive, especially new, that laptops sometimes make more sense for static use. AMD/Nvidia are just raking it in.

I was hoping Intel would disrupt the status quo, but they can't do it if their GPUs are late... or the bigger dies are canceled.
> It does make me wonder about log append only stores. Why is it a linear log at all? That is one of the problems OP is talking about when the partition heals and you need to merge two disparate logs.

> But why? Why not use an order independent data structure like a set? Adding facts to two independent sets and then union the two sets results in the same set. I suspect the reason is, we haven’t found a good way to store sets. We only figured out how to store things linearly

No, the reason is the opposite. Storing sets is easy, but encoding everything we might want to store as a set is difficult. E.g. it's very common to want to store a list and want to be able to append items to the list and retrieve it in order. Doing that on top of a linear log store is trivial; doing it on top of a set store is hard if not impossible.
Try it in other way:
Ask something big (with lots of text, in this case: NYT) first .

Ask in this order:

1) what is NYT (New York times)?

2) Who is Ryan McGreal?

3) Did he wrote for NYT?

This build up more context for hallucinating
systemc is a c++ derivative often used to model chip designs. Before chip tapeout most of the chip design has been fully simulated and emulated many many times, be it functional wise, or cycle by cycle(e.g. cycle accurate simulation).
This is because Intel/Amd barely had performance improvements on Low Voltage chips since 2015. The Apple brought the M1 in 2020 and it was a huge jump
On my past laptops, I've replaced batteries, keyboards, ssd, memory, and wish I could've swapped out a port I'm not going to use for something better. This ranged from "annoying but ok" in some, to "replace half the laptop because your keycap broke" in Mac, to impossible (port swap). Framework can handle them all and then some.
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Is there an equivalent to uBlock-Origin for Safari?
I just built SFF RTX 3090 desktop for Llama inference and finetuning (among other things), and I am super stoked about that. More stoked than any PC in a long time.

Its not productive, but it's fun. The whole generative AI field is like a big sandbox full of magic, janky crystal balls.
So, that kills a small part of me to hear - but also, I think it reflects this larger pattern of the UI/UX world’s seeming need to not just reinvent the wheel but large chunks of the history of the discipline of design rather than building off of thinking about systems and systems of systems by people like Jay Doblin and others.
Lmao ok mate, whatever you reckon. Keep in mind you'll need to do this without the internet to help and people not being super cooperative as they do whatever they can to get food.
The solution seems simple. Do not have any sorts of trends or suggestions. Secondly, show all posts in chronological order. This would prevent issues with promoting/demoting content and prevent pushing any topic onto people. If somebody doesn't like the content of a user they can stop following that person.