skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's something I kinda disagree on because I think this has much more to do with personal preference than with either tech being outdated.

There's basically zero reason for me to use a phone at home for anything longer than 5 minutes. The screen is tiny (and I can read small stuff perfectly fine), it doesn't stand on its own, I could be interrupted by notifications (yes, you can fiddle that you hear the sound you want and not the notifications, but I liberally mute and unmute everything because I don't use it to consume). I also hate to type even longer texts to people.

I'm also not going for new laptops, but I disagree in spirit because my T460p has negligible differences in computing power to a "modern" modern one, unless I'm compiling something it works as if it was from 2023. There's just nothing outdated about a laptop running a modern OS.
There are methods of doing it, but it is complex.

Basically you either have hot backups you can delete from (this is bad for obvious reasons), or your backups expire in a given time (this is most common), or you have each record encrypted with an encryption key that is saved in other ways so you only have to destroy those to make the data irretrievable.

Of course, that system has to be backed up, etc, etc.
Reminds me of one of my all time favourite onion articles: https://www.theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-pro...
Cryptocurrencies have a sort of value as a kind of collectable like art. Similarly to how people may like to buy paintings, have them appreciate in value and maybe trade them to other art collectors, other people may like to collect bitcoins or similar to likewise have them appreciate and maybe trade to other bitcoiners. You could say it's illusory but if it makes people happy does it matter? There's a lot of theoretical value there. I mean we'll all be gone in the end so if it helps you enjoy the journey.
It occasionally kills people. It can be lethal in enclosed spaces.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-07-mn-3546-s...

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/asphyxia...
Amazon had one of these Rivian delivery vehicles at AWS re:Invent last year. You could walk thru one and even sit in the drivers seat. I was impressed with all of the cameras and technology features that were added just for Amazon. They let you play around with the console for the truck. Drivers can add notes about each customers/address such as them having a violent dog. I hope they'll bring one again this year.
I tried eclipse again last year and, while I cannot say it has bette for worse refactoring, I don’t understand how it could possibly be better given that its detection of available symbols seems to be little more than an RNG.
It turns out this was actually a documentary.
Compassion and solidarity should not be imposed without compassion, though. You don’t fight hate and oppression with more hate and oppression. When most people are annoyed with in-your-face militant attitudes it’s not because they don’t want to be nice. It’s because they don’t want to be bullied into following the dogma of the day. Of course you also have plain old racists, but putting them in the same bag as the big chunk of the population who just wants to get on with their day is bound to alienate quite a few people. Hence the blowback.

When someone explains that I cannot not be racist because I have pale skin (which does happen), well it just makes me want to punch them in the face. If we are supposed to all belong and accept each other regardless of our external appearance, then people making assumption about me based on it is just prejudice.
No, if they do need the money before maturity they'll loan it from the Fed's Bank Term Funding Program, which accepts government securities as collateral at par value.
I don't like bear. If you want to update the compilation database with it, you have to do a clean build. Most build systems can generate the database without a clean build, and most compilers can generate it, so I don't see much use in bear, personally.
I re-watched Frasier recently. As with most 90s and adjacent sitcoms, the stuff that holds up least is around changing gender norms. Frasier often comes across as a sex crazed narcissist, who we are supposed to be rooting for. That was the joke at the time too, but sometimes it doesn't age well.

Still worth rewatching, however.

Another interesting example of 90s sitcoms and evolving gender roles would be Ross from Friends. A modern expectation of how a man should act in a long-term relationship would probably consider him to be emotionally abusive. But I didn't find his conduct all that bad in the 90s. I think a few years ago it was a fad for gen-z to watch Friends, so I think I'm not the only person to note this.
They are steadily reducing their spending per vehicle each quarter, they published a production plan and cost reduction plan, they are exceeding it a little bit. They were the 5th biggest ev producer, ahead of multiple german companies.

They have to continue improving cost efficiency, increase production, and design and produce a cheaper "2" model line, and they seem to be succeeding in all of those things. The R2 line will be announced in a year or so with details.
There were a whole bunch of these 'structured' basic dialects in the mid/late-80s that fused Pascal-ish syntax elements with BASIC and made line numbers optional. QuickBasic was a predecessor to VB, of course... but GFA Basic was one I used on the Atari ST, there was MacBASIC on the Mac, AMOS/STOS on the Amiga & Atari ST, etc. etc.
In my experience, you can always beat that through some variant on "no wait, I have genuinely changed my mind, do this instead"

Or you can use a trick where you convince the model that it has achieved the original goal that it was set, then feed it new instructions. I have an example of that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/11/delimiters-wont-save-y...
It calls to mind a memorable exchange in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man". In that episode, Picard asks another character to prove that he, Picard, is sentient[0].

Likewise, I might ask how to prove that humans are intelligent (subtext: in ways that LLMs are not). The most obvious delta here, to me, is generalization. Humans appear to be able to reason over questions that are less similar to what they have seen before, compared to current LLMs.

E.g. making ChatGPT play chess was a bit of a joke meme for a while, since it routinely makes illegal moves. Your average human can be quickly taught to play chess well enough to mostly avoid that. ChatGPT can recite the rules of chess very accurately, but it seems unable to apply them to actual games. We've seen other projects that can learn the rules and strategy of games like chess, but those projects are (despite using neural nets under the hood) structurally pretty different from LLMs. They also generally have no capacity to describe the rules in human language.

Note that this is not a complete argument. There exist humans (in possession of intelligence) who cannot meaningfully learn to play chess either. E.g. my friend's 1-year-old child is obviously intelligent in a very literal sense, but does not have the patience to learn chess. I can't evaluate whether she is intelligent enough for that, because there is this other constraint preventing it. This is only a framework to think about this. If you think LLMs are capable of intelligence -- you should not be convinced by it in isolation.

[0]- It makes sense in context. He's trying to establish a satisfactory test for sentience.
(raises hand)
Another case in point is OneBusAway for iOS and Android: https://seattletransitblog.com/2023/10/17/onebusaway-needs-h...

(n.b. I am the maintainer of OBA for iOS, and also a board member of its volunteer run parent organization.)
The response to spicy food is not all psychological. It's due to activation of heat receptors by capsaicin. Note: many factors affect the subjective experience of taste sensation.
I certainly is, those numbers would be much higher without that filter.
Not Sun … but I’ve always thought that SGI/Irix could have become what Mac/macOS is today.
I believe FDIC guarantees private deposits up to $250k. And FDIC itself is guaranteed by the US government so it's basically backed by a dollar printing machine.

Excluding deposits over 250k and non-personal deposits but I believe these are a minority for a bank like BoA, which is mostly retail.
For what it's worth there are many areas of the US where you never see pickups and there aren't a ton of Odyssey's anywhere in the country.

Chicago straight up banned parking pickups overnight on the street until pretty recently so you just never see them for personal use.
There's an ST:TNG episode I remember too where they have an image and they get the computer to back-trace all the reflections in the image to produce what isn't easily seen.
I honestly miss VB, there was just something about it.
He addresses the reason for this in the video. I makes some sense but there might be better way to achieve these goals.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33540293 (11 months ago, 239 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20683735 (4 years ago, 176 comments)
You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed
> the cheaper (louder) option will always be chosen first.

Not if the quieter versions are cheaper. Electric leaf blowers are already mostly cheaper than gas powered ones, it is just that for large scale commercial purposes, gas powered ones still have an edge in cost and more importantly in terms of "how long can I work without swapping/refueling." I suspect the line will continue to drift toward electrics given that there is a lot of yearly advances in battery tech and not much development in gas powered engines.
Don't be afraid -- personally I am still totally amazed by new stuff coming out. Freespin/Reflex [1] for example instantly gave me the 1995 [2] chills.

The demoscene virus stuck, and I can really enjoy people doing unimaginable stuff with old and new hardware.

The way you describe the competition feeling also makes me remember similar fun at ICPC contests :)

The demoscene feeling that I have is probably a mix of nostalgia, and a sense of privilege of being part of a really weird subculture. But I also remember feeling out of touch even back then.

[1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362

[2] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=25783
Flipnic came out, and what could ever truly top it?
Eh, for some people the sky is falling. For instance, the original hacker was specifically offering profiles of Ashkenazi Jew, which included full name and location information. I understand how that could be scary in the hands of the wrong people.
We'd have to maintain and run electric lines to every neighborhood in a city to make these kinds of vehicles work. That would be really expensive. Batteries are cheap and getting cheaper all the time, we just don't need this.
People try to say that it's hard to fire teachers because of unions, but they never mention the massive teacher shortage we have. It's really hard to fire someone in an essential job when you know that no one wants to take their place.
Finally, llm space is littered with closed standards.
I think that this is a hard problem and you're right that spamming KeyError everywhere is against the exceptionality of exceptions. But the current completely unchecked model is also misleading. I don't have such a great solution in mind but I think mypy should be able to verify each exception type is handled at some point in the stack. I know that it sounds vague, but these are my current unorganized thoughts.
Why would machine generated porn be different from, say, machine generated minecraft worlds? Both seem useful as a form of distraction and for entertainment to whomever wants to enjoy it.
> landscapers will pass the slight capex cost increase in contract terms

Not slight. I hate the noise but but realistically, you’re talking at least triple costs, and probably more, to go from gas to electric. You need a shit ton of batteries to last each day if you’re a professional landscaper, and that means serious infrastructure to handle all the battery charging.
In that case it seems like all of the criticism in this thread is moot.
You can have the character description more front and center, if that makes any sense.

So instead of diluting attention across three separate character descriptions, your model will see just the chat log and the single description of the persona it should respond from. This may or may not make a difference.
> In my experience, the GIL, faster start-up times are so much higher on the totem pole, why this now?

Are you aware that more than one change can be worked on at a time?
You sound a bit too passionate about this.

I'm beginning to believe the other comment which accused you of being the unethical broker.
I can’t speak for them, but it’s possible they have more data outside of that specific instance. I don’t know the context of that previous email statement.

E.g., It could have been a statement based on a single study, meaning they can’t make that claim based on that single study. But there may be less uncertainty (meaning stronger claims is more reasonable) when you look at it in the totality of data.
Isn't the Dyson hairdryer already related to the Dyson vacuum, I assume they are sharing lots of tech already, although one runs on battery and the other has to be plugged in (would love a Dyson wireless hairdryer, but we aren't there yet).
The most common use case for spoofing is trunk-to-trunk call forwarding while preserving the original caller's caller id.
True, some feminist movements became very anti-porn. It’s a fringe of the overall population, though, and they are very far from having the influence conservative and religious fundamentalists have.

It’s also a mistake in the long run if you ask me, because this can only lead to more oppression, injustice, and shame. People won’t stop fucking because someone told them to; witness the number of high-profile conservatives having (sometimes homosexual) affairs.
Why no simply add more battery. I own a cast aluminum gas mower that weights about 80lbs.
If these plastic owners 70lbs of batteries I bet they would last the day.

That gas owner is 28 years old. I would if a battery operated plastic one would have lasted me that long?
This such a great, generous and humble take on producing a huge, nationally beneficial product.

I was just reading about Andreesen's bizarro screed. I wish more people were reading this than that. This gives me hope for the future.
> Starting to notice a huge influx of OS projects not being funded and maintainers drop off of something that's valuable and their passionate about. It's unfortunate.

Why is it unfortunate? Mother nature is not kind.

If an open source maintainer can’t pay their bills, maybe they should spend their time on something that does pay the bills.
You forgot to compare them :)

Supabase’s real-time stuff lets various parts of your system send messages about changes to each other. But when it comes to realtime editing, that’s the easy part!

Reflect is a much higher level abstraction that handles the hard parts:

- maintaining a cache on the device (this alone is annoying hard to get right)

- queuing updates to send to the server reliably

- handling conflicts between different users while preserving the intent of each user, by rebasing histories locally, and choosing the winner on the server
One of my favorite A500 demos of the old times is Technological Death by Mad Elks. It's 5 minutes of mad and unhinged fun. It was a strong inspiration for me to try hard on my PC work, and while I got to work on pretty decent and even popular PC demos in 93-96, I never came remotely close to doing something like it.

The overall best classic A500 demo for me is probably Arte by Sanity.
Ejabberd 23.10 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP Server – Communication
Please keep this attitude on the track, and away from where people live.

Ripping your engine in loud cities, no matter how great you think it sounds, is like urinating on the toilet seat or throwing your trash out the window. Might make your life a little easier or better, but it's just flagrantly inconsiderate.
> for vacuums?

Oh, yesYesYES - why didn't I think of that? Neither age nor male pattern follicular deficiency can ever free you from that noisy chore.
Thanks! Banks/bank sponsors don't specialize in credit, which gives us an edge because it's our core competency. Credit programs are complex, require compliance with a lot of regulations, and can vary greatly from program to program, so we can support a larger surface area of use cases and program configurations.

We currently use sameday, nextday and standard-ACH for fund flows. We're keeping a close eye on new payments rails like FedNow to speed up loan funding for borrowers and are looking to add more funding/payment methods soon!
This dude spent his career trying to create AI and then, after not creating AI, has now decided that AI is bad and that we need some kind of far-fetched global treaty to prevent other people from creating AI.

It's incredibly silly. Even if the risk is real, a "humanity defense organization" is not going to happen. Even with nuclear weapons, it was necessary to use them before we agreed not to. If AI is a danger it's going to be the same situation.
Talent being exploited is an industry agnostic concept.

The core argument should be how it messes up your dopamine system real good, addicts don't even realise it. AI isn't fixing that one anytime soon.
Just install NoScript. Works great.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
Squiggle Golf is fun! Would be great if users could opt-in to get emailed with the new level once it's ready. You can bcc all of them in a single email to avoid costs (I'm not sure if this would work).
Well, the way you describe it, it sounds like waiting makes the most sense. If Rivian's price is in the dumps, and there's a chance they go out of business... why not wait? Buy a distressed Rivian later on, or buy their assets in a bankruptcy proceeding.
No minds will be changed here, but -

I use the termal and I make binaries for my use.
I'm not going to try to pipe input through several stages of "java -jar myUtil.jar", even if I bother to clear the hurdles of trying to find and configure the right maven plugin to build a "fat" jar.

Null drives a big hole through whatever you try to achieve with the type system. Need a Key for this Lock? Open the Lock anyway, just find out at runtime that the Key was null, rather than at compile time.

Bizarre omissions from the standard library. What do you do with Sets: Union? Intersect? Nope, write them yourself. Wait for a multiple futures? Write a for-loop. Cancel a future? Forget about it. Wait - better than forgetting about it: include cancel() on the class but make it a no-op.

Non-extensible. Let's say the language designers for some reason didn't put takeWhile into Stream. Can you add it?

No way to avoid mutation in order to avoid non-local reasoning about state. If I submit a list as a parameter or accept a list as a parameter, who else has mutated or will mutate that list.

No transactions. Synchronised blocks don't compose: synchronised get() and synchronised set() do not become synchronised getThenSet();

I'm sick of the 'backward compatibility' at all costs. The 'legacy code' that you're thinking of that you don't want to break was written after any of these problems could have been fixed.
> a supreme court case about if the fed has the power to do this without a law

The Durbin Amendment specifically instructed the Fed to "limit fees charged to retailers for debit card processing" [1]. SCOTUS declined to review in 2015 [2]. I don't see anything on the docket challenging this precedent [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-debitcards-idUS...

[3] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/terms/ot2023/
Red Dwarf was a documentary sent back in time.

What's funny here is the use of the word "uncrop"! I had never heard that word used before DALLE*2 was released. And I've been working in computer graphics for 30 years lol. Also I watched a lot of Red Dwarf.

Was that word known before Red Dwarf?
we are 1 step away from "it doesn't smell like jdam"
Mixture of experts: Make each model world-class within a single domain.
If adding one more common-sense QnA makes the calculus-bot even slightly worse at caculus, don't do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_of_experts
There was a beautiful game like the ones you mention that I found once on /r/webgames . However, I am unable to find it again. It was about roaming around a forest, and it was changing with the seasons.
Just call this a specialised browser
Copying variables has only superficial values nowadays - the compiler will track variable lifetimes and allocate registers or spill them to stack as appropriate.

For C# specifically, if you want to scratch the itch, there is a way :)
If you are using VS, you can install Disasmo extension and disassemble arbitrary methods with SHIFT+ALT+D (keep in mind it's ready-to-run-like codegen which does not have all optimizations).

You can also go further, and use `DOTNET_JitDisasm='methodName'` env variable - in this case you will see how method transitions through all compilation tiers (if it gets promoted past Tier 0). And last but not least, if you build your .NET binary with NativeAOT, you can just use standard disassembler, debugger or profiler you would use for C++ binaries.
Years later, I'm still registering new scents that I haven't smelled since before my first COVID infection. For a hearing analogy, it's not like the volume is turned down, it's like some frequencies are missing entirely. And then one day, suddenly, it's back. Freshly ground coffee is an especially rich source of new odors. It turns out coffee isn't just one smell, it must be dozens.
Interesting. I like your idea in one of your posts of separating out system prompts and user inputs. Seems promising.
On the contrary.

Twitter's survival is entirely dependent on becoming profitable. Entirely. Revenue (and eventually, profits), is and should be, the primary goal.

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Without a doubt, this is "supposed to increase revenue".

From my perspective: you are seemingly arguing that this will increase revenue by somehow improving the Twitter experience and growing the userbase. Unless... you somehow don't think revenue is an important question at all?
We have a bunch of those. A local grocery store used them for deliveries a long time ago and I guess they didn't want them back because we probably accumulated a dozen or so. They are surprisingly well built and held up well to being in the sun for 15 years.
Okay, but why is it valueable or useful for us to boost up a financial system whose entire purpose is to bypass any form of non-violent geopolitics. Do you know what happens when you make things like sanctions less effective? You remove one of the only tools for countries to work through the serious disputes that doesn't involve literally shooting each other.
> Congress doesn't work that many days a year. Around 100 I think, lots of half days.

You want elected leaders who are given zero days to spend time with their constituents?
I will buy one of these for my neighbor at my own expense as soon as they are available.

Dude loves his yard, I get it, but he is out there for at least 30 minutes every single day with his gas blower. Usually over dinner time when we are eating outside on nice days.

Wonder if getting neighbors to subsidize quieter tech is a viable approach. Nobody cares about their own noise but everyone cares a lot about the neighbor.