skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ChatGPT integration is absolutely huge

Probably not. Bing Chat (which uses GPT-4 internally) already has integration of Bing Image Creator (which uses Dall-E ~2.5 internally), and it isn't good. It just writes image prompts for you, when you could simply write them yourself. It's a useless game of telephone.
> Girls mature faster

They act more mature because they're pressured to by society. I won't bombard you with articles but I urge you to look into the causes behind that saying.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

"The median household wealth in 2021 was $166,900. The 10th percentile of household wealth was zero dollars, meaning 1 in 10 households had wealth of
zero dollars or less. The 90th percentile of household wealth was $1,623,000, meaning 1 in 10 households had wealth exceeding $1.6 million."
That is something I don't understand: how is experimental treatment on terminal patiens not allowed, but something like this is: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/musks-neuralink-seeks...
To be clear, you want to begin a transaction at the start of each http request and submit the transaction just before sending the response. (And error or retry if the transaction fails, depending on how your database works).

But generally I agree. This pattern should generally be built into everything.

Whenever I’m setting up an application server I usually whip up some middleware which takes care of this for me. The code is database specific - the semantics can differ slightly depending on what database you’re using. And it only matters for requests which issue multiple commands to the database before returning. (But this happens all the time in many applications. Especially if you’re using an ORM.)
Was my first gut reaction as well. Especially when i saw `$state(0)`.

But watch the introduction video. It isn't at all like the functional reactivity that entered other frameworks. It's still the svelte way. Read and assign is plain javascript. Only the initialization syntax changed.

They even promise backwards compatibility, so you don't have to migrate or migrate file by file if you want to. Which is also not how other frameworks handled this in the past.
To a large degree this happens because logistic regression is not a sexy approach that one can add to their CV. Everyone wants to solve problems with big, complicated and buzzwordy models, because that sells (and is perhaps more interesting as well).

It's really a tragedy, because so many classic models would work fine for real world applications.
Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants–who’s in?
I've seen people hang themselves with (or should I say on?) hooks.

Performance was the main issue because one incorrect usage of a hook can make a huge difference.
It will take TCGPlayer and BinderPOS export formats, and you can email me at andrew@manapool.com if you want something else.
Because it’s not listed in the list of affected devices. Also if that’s a concern then don’t expose the NVR. Use something like tailscale or a VPN to access it remotely (or don’t access it remotely).
America broke free from tyrannical corrupt British over 200 years ago and it shows in our attitudes... of course today's corrupt WEF nutters wish they can dupe us all over again ... not happening and this digital currency initiative is dead in the water
How about a bunch of iPhones in a medical facility being disabled because of some amount of helium being leaked when they were charging the MRI machine?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
It's fine to figure out how to pull the damn sim card on vehicles.

There is 0 reason my car needs a cloud connection. It's job is to convey person from A -> B. That is it.
You can argue, but Google is the most ethical giant out there.
Just FYI - you can replace your head unit even on newer cars. There's a bustling aftermarket industry for this kind of stuff:

https://www.belsee.com/android-car-radio/hyundai-radio.html

This way - your data gets abused by the Chinese government instead of Hyundai!

(I kid, sort of, but these head units let you exert more control over your car, as they often ship rooted, or can be rooted)

If you DIY install the head unit, you can often completely pay for the head unit and have cash left over by selling your old head unit to someone who needs one. (Lots of people need a stock head unit, because theirs got stolen, or they bought a salvage title without a head unit, or whatever).
One of the most common web frameworks used is Spring Boot - here is their quickstart: https://spring.io/quickstart

Newer alternatives are: https://micronaut.io/ and https://quarkus.io/

If you want to have something really simple look at Javalin: https://javalin.io/
When they sent out the directive to remove "Don't Be Evil" someone was too lazy and just removed "Don't", so ever since then it's been "Be Evil".

That explains a lot, doesn't it?
But zero cartographers.
> I would give my left arm to be using internet forums again. Online communities adopting Discord and Slack was such a terrible move in hindsight.

Was also a terrible move in foresight. :)
Working with two 16-bit floats you'd have 4 bytes in one FLOP?
Both, actually.

I'm well aware that the GOP sucks, but the corporate wing of the Democratic party has put their foot down and voted with the GOP for way too long...especially on issues that are popular across the country even among different political demographics. Drug reform, immigration, education, healthcare, gun control, etc... Corporations donate lavishly to both parties because it's just too easy and cheap to do so, plus the promise of having whatever party is in power completely subservient to your interests is quite appealing if you're a CEO.

I'd love a president who actively goes out of their way to fuck Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Healthcare, Bio Oil, etc... but the last politician to attempt to do that on the national level was Bernie, and he got shafted.
If I had to guess, we’re less than 5 years away from seeing real-life C-3PO.
Nope, you've got it right. We're selling at a loss up until roughly the ~1,000th unit shipped.

More specifically: if we ship 125 units, we lose roughly ~$5K per headset. If we ship 250 units, we lose roughly ~$2K per headset. If we ship 1,250 units, we're operating at a slight profit with a couple of years of runway. If we ship 10,000 units, our margins approach 45% (at least on our pure hardware offering; we'd like to layer in some software offerings as well).

Unfortunately, the most costly part of the project is the very beginning. But we think these sales targets are doable if we're able to get our operation off the ground (with customers able to see shipped units being used to replace laptops in the wild).
I'll have to take a look. If Kapacitor is back, then I'm in.
I'm not 100% sure if I really want this or only think I do. My big issue with all the bespoke AI-generated media ideas is the loss of being able to fully discuss them with humans who didn't watch the same thing. It feels like we'll just end up with 8 billion different media bubbles.

I guess it could be like "Nothing, Forever" where there's one main feed everyone shares, or they could have AI-powered chatrooms/forums "watching" alongside you, but both feel like missing the potential/point to me.
But the diagnosis of what causes those ills will be some variant of "men just suck and bring it on themselves, how can we help them be more like women?"

What people mean here is talking about problems imposed on men by society and how to fix that, not discussion that merely boils down to repeating feminist talking points. For example, one issue affecting men is the way they are vulnerable to immediate and vicious punishment if any woman anywhere makes allegations regardless of whether they are substantiated or even eventually proven false. Try bringing that up with your friends and see what happens.
I like the idea that plug-in hybrids are the best choice. Battery supply is the limiting factor, so 100 plug-in hybrids that can do 50 miles of electric driving are overall better than 10 electrics that can do 500 miles.

Especially since basically 99% of drives are under 50 miles.
Lots of people aren’t considered insiders when trading on non public information obtained during their official duties. Congress people aren’t held to a different standard here.

If you want to argue that they should be held to a higher standard that’s reasonable but the way the comment was worded suggested there is some extra immunity for Congress. Which there isn’t.
> I tend to think of "warning" as - "something unexpected happened, but it was handled safely"

It was handled safely at the level where it occurred, but because it was unusual/unexpected, the underlying cause may cause issues later on or higher up.

If one were sure it would 100% not indicate any issue, one wouldn’t need to warn about it.
When `brew install postgresql` is too hard.
No it doesn’t. The guy is a douchebag who pedals conspiracy theories. He should be glad he can still post on the platform at all.
And frankly it probably never will.

Generative AI is not a platform unto itself. In order to effectively leverage fine-tuned models, you need your data to be somewhat organized in the first place. The average enterprise struggles enormously with this and always will.

In short, I would bet on endemic platform providers (Google, MS, Adobe, SAP, etc) rather than standalone AI providers (OpenAI, startups). Who owns the data? That is where the value lies.
Plenty relative to a small absolute number overall - right? I don’t know RPI sales but the difficulty buying them doesn’t signal that loads of average folks want to bother.

I have both RPI local cam set up and Wyze. Despite concerns, hard to argue with pure convenience of Wyze (and similar products)
Reminds me of that bug where people couldn't print on tuesdays....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
But what if AI was able to make a perfect copy of Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan decided to generate all his podcasts with AI without telling anyone? You could go forever without knowing this :O
This actually makes a lot of sense...how many video titles do you remember off the top off your head, versus some background imagery or color that predominates the video?
It's not much different than computers.

Lots of programmers that would struggle to diagnose basic stuff when their laptop when it goes wrong.
MBA = Master's of Business Administration.
How Wheel balancing was done in the 1960´s [video]
From OpenAI's own statements:

> OpenAI claims it focused a lot of work on DALL-E 3 in creating robust safety measures to prevent the creation of lewd or potentially hateful images.

The safety measures in OpenAI is pretty much cliche progressive hyper-moderation in 2023. You see them same approach on Reddit and elsewhere, and the left-leaning communities are consistently the most locked down to a particular overton window. This is not a very controversial take.

It goes well beyond just pornography and explicitly violent stuff.
Yes. Inpainting lets you erase part of an image and have the AI model fill it in based on your prompt.
CAL Timesharing System: Before computers were personal
That's a stretch to say linked to terrorism, unless the Belgian supreme court is as well.

Source on PKK targeting non-paramilitary/police/military civilians in the last 20 years?

e: I can find this from 1987 (a time when the Turkish state was also actively involved in massacring civilians) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%B1narc%C4%B1k_massacre
It's amazing how far back all the research and experimentation goes on reactive Web/JS tech, e.g. Brown PLT's work on Flapjax starting back in 2006, even before the JS renaissance kicked off by googl's V8!

https://github.com/brownplt/flapjax

https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/mgbcg...

http://static.cs.brown.edu/research/pubs/theses/ugrad/2007/l...

It might be interesting to do a compare/contrast with v5's Runes and Flapjax's implementations.
That's fair but Rober does the standard "Youtube voice" and persona popular in many demographics. I don't think its fair to say this is something unique to 5th grader audience YT's. This is practiced persona that leads to social media success in many venues.

Also HN isnt a 5th grader's venue, so its interesting how normalized it is posting children's media in adult spaces, probably because he doesn't come off as much more childish than most YT personalities.
If you stack logistic regression in layers, you get a neural network.
“Won’t someone think of the rapists?!” is basically what these people are saying. It’s insane.
It won't replace people, it will displace them.
This is getting pretty close to how I think we get to the general purpose humanoid robot. This is how I see it playing out:

- You have your Boston Dynamics style humanoid robot at the job site, lets say it's a bricklayer for the purposes of this example.

- You have a human somewhere offsite in an open room with an omnidirectional treadmill floor, and cameras and depth sensors positioned all around the room. They're wearing a Hollywood style motion capture suit and have a VR headset on so they can see what the humanoid robot sees through their cameras.

- The human then acts as they would on site, walking up to the pile of bricks, picking them up, placing them etc. The robot moves in real time on the job site, mimicking whatever action the human performs. I don't know if you'll need props to do this properly or if the muscle memory from years on the job will be enough for the humans to get the motions right.

- You log all the data. You then have someone watch through the video stream, labelling each action that is being performed.

- You run it all through a machine learning algorithm, until you get to the point where you can just send the architectural plan to the robot and essentially say "Build this wall for me".
But what if AI was able to make a perfect copy of Joe Rogan and anyone else and Joe Rogan decided to generate all his podcasts with AI without telling anyone? You could go forever without knowing this :O
I think it absolutely has. Certainly in developer tools, but you can see it in other tools like Hubspot, Gong, etc. Not to mention the enterprise organizations who are building their own features that use LLMs. Yes, we'll see some "enterprises" adopt their first LLM in 10 years because some move as slow as molasses. That's fine; there's companies who are tasting Cloud for the first time right now, but nobody is saying that Cloud adoption is still in its first phase. I think Sequoia sees this and decided the train is already starting to roll, so it's time to look towards what's next.
> But can any random lawyer really remand access to every facet of someone’s digital life with no criminal investigation?

Yes.

That's why you get a lawyer to fight it.
As you said, it’s a lot of speculation and postulation.

It could be easily tested and proven by content creators.

Many content creators have mastered a style or format (BuzzFeed, Mr Beast), and maybe that style or format is at a point where it is a formula that AI can help with parts of, or completely with.
Decision making: going with your guts?
I am old(er) but I am not done yet.

I have had a somewhat successful career as both an executive and entrepreneur, always making pragmatic decisions based on data, logic, and reasoning. Growing up poor had something to do with that.

As an executive in tech startups I have often witnessed entrepreneurs making what seemed like emotional decisions, good or bad, just because they felt that way, without any regards to data, or factual evidences. And I am taking about hiring, firing, layoffs, M&A, financing, re-financing, breaking leases, moving locations, closing down branches...

I do read a lot of business and personal development books, and recently I am reading, again, "Start with Why" by Simon Sinek.

Generally speaking I like the book, but there's an entire chapter where Simon praises making decision by listening to one's gut feelings; especially within the context of being an entrepreneur.

I am aware of Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink". I love that book, and the way I interpreted it is that people who have both deep expertise and vast experience in a field, can often, but not always, sense end results with incomplete data. I get that, I have witnessed and experienced that. But to me it's not gut feelings, it's expertise.

I am a good executive but a terrible entrepreneur. I am trying to change that.

Should I go more with my gut feelings AND at the same time take more actions/risks? Without pondering too much about data, and analysis and trying to take calculating risks?

HN: do you have any insightful comments or resources for me?

Thanks in advance.
There's no reason to expect that such advances will get us closer to a true AGI. I mean it's not impossible, but there's no coherent theory or technical roadmap. Just a lot of hope and hand waving.

I do think that this is an impressive accomplishment and will lead to valuable commercial products regardless of the AGI issues.
One of the reasons for them being sold out is a lot of the demand for Raspberry comes from industrial customers. For example, back in 2020, they made up 44% of total Raspberry Pi sales.

Source: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supporting-raspberry-pis-in...
Nobody was worried about national debt when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The fact that we cannot solve the climate crisis by dropping bombs on bad guys doesn't make it any less of an existential threat.
Well, I was trying to avoid pointing out the wide gulf between "the left" and "feminism" which are being equated here, but your anecdote does a great job of that.
and exactly what firewall hardware is being used so that you feel assured that it is also not prone to the same issue?
Pesticide free
> 3) Switch out log4j for Kafka, which will handle the persistence & multiplexing for you.

I don't think this is a reasonable statement. There are already a few logging agents that support structured logging without dragging in heavyweight dependencies such as Kafka. Bringing up Kafka sounds like a case of a solution looking for a problem.
> You could boil all of this down to the fact that our current best effort at feeding 9 billion people has a lot of unfortunate externalities.

Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471

A global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets, halving food loss and waste, and improving farming practices and technologies are required to feed 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, a new study finds.

> If your proposal is to revert back to high land and labor input methods, then maybe it would make a difference insofar as a few billion people would probably starve.

Not necessarily. The crop lands we already have would be sufficient to feed the whole population.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Sustainable and regenerative agriculture is entirely possible. You may want to explore practices such as natural, syntropic, permaculture, and agroforestry farming, to name just a few. While it may require more knowledge and labor, advancements in technology and automation could potentially mean only a slight increase in the workforce, from around 2% to maybe upto 4%.

The benefits would be enormous. And with 40-70% of jobs being bullshit jobs I'm not even afraid we would fill those positions. It's just a matter of regulation and preferences.

> For my part, I'd prefer we try innovating our way through it.

Plant-based diets are an innovation. Restorative agriculture would require new machinery, agroforestry, smaller fields instead of vast monocultures, the incorporation of companion/nitrogen-fixing plants and compost instead of artificial fertilizers, among other changes. Many things would need to change.

> I'm responding primarily to the overall land use picture here. Agriculture even as efficiently as we're doing it now takes a lot of space, even removing most meat from the equation.

This is a very illustrative picture.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...

Animal ag. brings just 18% of calories and 36% of proteins, while destroying and polluting so much. We should dedicate the land to forests (carbon sequestration) and to the restoration of biodiversity.
Nextjs is not comparable. I'm not sure if it's required to get some web pages out, I don't think frontend is that important in the startup space any way if u are able to fulfill the requirments

For app server nowadays u have many choices. But 15 years rails was really the only better choice for a few men's startup shops. C# was on windows shop, that's a no for many
We’re doing straight up urban legends now? Flagged.
Learn yes, if its legally shared. Copy and earn from it without acknowledging original author and sharing earnings, in most cases, definitely not. As we know, things that often move so fast have law catching up easily after a decade if not more (I am still waiting for a proper slap to FB), and entrepreneurs are well aware of that.
yes, good point, I shouldnt have evoked react itself, its everything else thats been built on top of it. But yes, Vue is exactly what I mean. Its so difficult to reason about how things work unless you live in it all day every day.
There are trains still running on the German rail with their displays running Windows 95/98.

The embedded world in general is nuts. Unless absolutely necessary, nothing gets upgraded once a system works.
I used to work for General Motors as a field engineer. Basically, I was the "mechanic of last resort" for some issues. The most certain method of getting something fixed was to write a letter to someone at the top, or very close to the top. When the request rolled downhill to "fix this", no one knew if this was a whim or something serious (like it was the CEO's neighbor). So those service requests got absolute priority.

I remember one incident where that "fix it" letter came from high enough that I drove out to the customer's house and swapped out their radio in their driveway. At night.

When GM bought EDS, Ross Perot ended up on the board. He'd do all sorts of silly things. Like when something went wrong with his car, he'd take it to a dealership. And report back to the board how that went. The first few times, they just told him to hand the keys to the valet at the executive garage and tell them what needs fixing. The plant I worked out of made radios. Other branches of the division that I worked for made engine computers and instrument clusters. If someone at the executive garage had a radio problem, one of my tasks was to go out to the assembly line, grab a radio, test it, then get it to the Kokomo airport for the GM jet to pick up. FedEx (tagline: when it positively has to be there the next day) wasn't fast enough. That fleet of jets would carry parts from plant to plant. And the executive garage was the best equipped and best staffed GM dealership on Earth.
I would be interested to hear how they would view the situation if someone was creating deepfakes of their mutilated corpses. Or their family's mutilated corpses. You know, because since it's all synthetic no harm could have possibly been done.
OpenAI did the grand heist that no one else dared to do. It doesn’t look like they will get punished for it either. I am to this day baffled how they got away with it and are now practically shielded from any kind of repercussions.

Things have changed so much already and I am not seeing any kind of real regulation being put in place that will at least rein in this stupid idea that AGI is around the corner. It’s not.

It’s another 20 billion dollars waiting to be scooped up and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The quieter it is, the more it can actually be happening.
As long as you don't mind the extension cord.