skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dave says he hopes that they don't tip over the mainframes that often. I hope they do frequently subject them to such testing. In a world with hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters it can be really important that the mainframe just keeps on trucking. The sysadmins might not be around to babysit them all the time, such as during flooding.
There's two things in this take that IMHO are a bit off.

People are skeptical that introducing the regulatory threshold has anything to do with the increasing public safety or accountability, and instead lifts the ladder up to stop others (or open-source models) catching up. This is a pointless, self-destructive endeavour in either case, as no other country is going to comply with these regulations and if anything will view them as an opportunity to help companies local to their jurisdiction (or their national government) to catch up.

The other problem is that asking why software should be different if it can affect someone's life or livelihood is quite a broad ask. Do you mean self-driving cars? Medical scanners? Diagnostic tests? I would imagine most people agree with you that this should be regulated. If you mean "it threatens my job and therefore must be stopped" then: welcome to software, automating away other people's jobs is our bread and butter.
It would be foolish to think the Gallic Wars happened precisely as Caesar wrote because his book was overt self-aggrandizing propaganda intended to boost his standing with the Roman public.

But as to the Gallic Wars happening at all? There is corroborating evidence. Other Romans wrote about it, often to damn it, and they treated the existence of the war as a fact. He brought tons of Gallic slaves back to Rome which would corroborate the most basic facts of the claim (e.g. that there had been wars with Gallic people) to other Romans who weren't there to personally witness it. Furthermore there is modern archeological evidence of battles and massacres which roughly line up with some of what Caesar claimed to have done.
Funny, everything you describe as a positive I see as a negative.

The 11th, 12th, and 13th editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica were from 1911, 1922, and 1926.

So if, as a researcher, you were interested in the state of knowledge in 1916, you're out of luck (if you're limiting yourself to a particular encyclopedia, for example).

I don't know what value you see in "stability", when the world's knowledge changes on a second-to-second basis. It's equally arbitrary whether you freeze knowledge at 1911 or in any given point in time since Wikipedia began.

When you say "A Wikipedia snapshot proves nothing", I have no idea what that means. If you're worried about vandalism or quick edits, it's trivial enough to compare with earlier and later versions of the page to ensure you're looking at relatively stable text. Heck, most of that could even be automated if you wanted.

And while Wikipedia articles are full of errors, so too were the articles in every edition of Britannica. The difference is that Wikipedia errors tend to get fixed a lot quicker, while the Britannica errors just remained on the paper they were printed on.

I genuinely don't see what difference there is between the "stability" of the Britannica 1911 edition, and the "stability" of Wikipedia at some arbitrary timestamp. Both capture a similarly arbitrary moment in time -- Wikipedia just gives you so many more to choose from.
So if someone becomes part of the bonnet, they are denied all access to the internet
our team of 300 - we _can't_ enforce the clear abstractions. New dev gets hired, team feels pressured to deliver despite leadership saying to prioritize quality, they are not aware of all the access controls, they push a PR, it gets merged.

We have an org wide push to get more linting and more checks in place. The damage is done and now we have a multi-quarter effort to re-organize all our code.

This _can_ be enforced via well designed modules. I've just not seen that succeed. Anywhere. Microservices are a pain for smaller teams and you have to have CI and observability and your pains shift and are different. But for stepping on eachother? I've found microservices to be a super power for velocity in these cases. Can microservices be a shitshow? Absolutely, esp. when they share data stores or have circular dependencies. They also allow teams to be uncoupled assuming they don't break their API.
> You don't need anyone's approval to make money online these days. You just need time, the willingness to learn and a computer.

Sure maybe you’ll bootstrap an amazing product with some secret sauce that’s magically hard to copy, but more likely you’ll need a bunch of people (we’ll call them “investors”) to give you their approval (we’ll call it “money” or “capital”). If your great idea with no investors is competing against someone else’s pretty-similar-but-not-quite-as-good-idea-except-they-have-a-hundred-million-dollars, you’re probably going to lose.

If the group of people who can access that capital is very homogeneous (and it is in real life), we’re probably missing out on designs and ideas and innovations that would otherwise make everything better.

Also worth noting that this isn’t just about gender and race/ethnicity, disability is a great practical example: disabled folks are more likely to create things that are accessible for disabled folks, but non-disabled folks very often benefit from that accessibility (i.e. stuff is easier to use). We’d be shooting ourselves in the collective foot to have only non-disabled folks making stuff.
The making of a war epic: Call of Duty at 20
opi5 16gb is about 130 usd, rpi5 is about 80 usd I think? You get twice the cores and RAM so I think they're comparable value. But it's sort of academic for me because rpi5 8GB is not in stock in Australia.
>> Why export/import?

Why not have key export and import?

Are they my keys or not?

>> Just create new passkeys on whatever device or service you want, and register those as well.

I would rather not have different keys for each device for each account. It is an unnecessary combinatorial explosion of keys that requires more effort than is really needed.

When you get a new device, you need to generate and add new keys for every account. Why can't you just import existing keys?
While I did not downvote you, the votes may be due to the fact that this is a concept car. Toyota is unlikely to produce the truck without a few tweaks towards normal production priorities, including normal steering wheels.

Your "hard pass" means you're unwilling to buy a concept car that isn't available for you to purchase.
That's their MO. Repeat a lie over and over. Like the indidual above who claims this is from 2019, when it isn't. There's a date on top and bottom, And the things mentioned in the article are much more recent than 2019.
Just cuz they don't show ads doesn't means inferences and analysis isn't done on all your data and used as fodder for other bullshit that doesn't care about your interests or welfare.

The notion of not seeing ads actually does kinda worry me because at least when you see an ad, you get a visual confirmation you are being monitored and parsed. I don't know that's a conversation anyone has or is prepared to address.
A much better-written essay on a similar thesis: https://scholars-stage.org/public-intellectuals-have-short-s...
> It means that there is no guarantee that, given a non-continuous function function f(x), there exists an NN that approximates it over its entire domain withing some precision p.

And why is this important?

> Do you know of a universal algorithm that can take a continuous function and a target precision, and return an NN architecture (number of layers, number of neurons per layer) and a starting set of weights for an NN, and a training set, such that training the NN will reach the final state?

> All I'm claiming is that there is no known algorithm of this kind, and also that the existence of such an algorithm is not guaranteed by any known theorem.

I think so: the construction proof of the claim that they are universal function approximators seems to meet those requirements.

Even better: it just goes direct to giving you the weights and biases.

> My point was relevant because we are discussing whether an NN might be equivalent to the human brain, and using the Universal Approximation Theorem to try to decide this. So what I'm saying is that even if "knowning English" were a continuous function and "knowing French" were a continuous function, so by the theorem we know there are NNs that can approximate either one, there is no guarantee that there exists a single NN which can approximate both. There might or might not be one, but the theorem doesn't promise one must exist.

I still don't understand your point. It still doesn't seem to matter?

If any organic brain can't do $thing, surely it makes no difference either way whether or not that $thing can or can't be done by whatever function is used by an ANN?

> It is built up of them, but there doesn't exist a single function that represents all of physics. You have different functions for different parts of physics. I'm not saying it's not possible a single function could be defined, but I also don't think it's proven that all of physics could be represented by a single function.

I could point you to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiyQID7SBs

But that would be unfair, given the QM/GR incompatibility.

That said, ultimately I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that it can't be done when all the (known) parts not only already exist separately in such a form, but also, AFAICT, we don't even have a way to describe any possible alternative that wouldn't be made of functions.
The article mentions Development Experience, but doesn't mention what I think is an overlooked huge cost.

Bad Development Experience results in unhappy and/or frustrated developer. Unhappy and/or frustrated developer is usually performing considerably worse than his happier self would.
makes my PC go from 40W to 50W.

not that bad. Facebook is way worse.
another reason why you provide data only over API - don't reach into my tables and lock me into an implementation.
Not really relevant?
Yeah they are really long.
I would say that the flavor of it seems very fact based. So to me not a bad contributor.

Ok I see the point. Thank you.
It depends on the subject. Here in the UK calculators are absolutely expected in most STEM exams for high school and university.

For a trig exam for example if you don't allow calculators you are very limited in terms of what you can do. You could do a lot of trig identities etc but all the problems with a concrete answer would have to boil down to some sort of 30/60/90 or 45/45/90 right triangle. It's not reasonable to expect people to be able to calculate exponents and logarithms in their heads either beyond very simple integer bases and small powers. Forget about natural logs for instance. Likewise anything which depends on trig, exponents, logs etc eg converting rectangular complex coordinates to polar, adding vectors fitting any kind of exponential model, etc.

For a stats exam calculating things like standard deviation etc are almost unbearably tedious with a calculator let alone without, but you do need to be able to demonstrate you can do it.
The worry here is not about controlling militaries. There are different processes for that.

The scenario people purport to worry about is one where a future AI system can be asked by "anyone" to design infectious materials. Imagine a dissatisfied and emotionally unstable researcher who can just ask their computer for the DNA sequence of an airborne super Ebola. Then said researcher orders the DNA synthetized, does some lab work to multiply it and releases it in the general population.

I have no idea how realistic this danger is. But this is what people seem to be thinking about.
We had Encarta in the library at my school when I was 12. Having previously only used C64 and Amiga it was my first stint with PCs. If you needed to research something for homework say the solar system you would kindly ask the librarian for an Encarta CD-ROM and she would allocate a 45-minute slot at the library's PC.
How Framework Laptop Broke the Hacker Ceiling
Unfiltered Thoughts Around the Globe: Musing.live
They're high in fat even in otherwise lean animals so would have been a totally normal thing to eat in much of the world for most of history. In some places & seasons possibly the only ready source of saturated fats, so probably a delicacy for that reason.
Did you know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poop_emoji

Was introduced to be use in the "download our mobile app for a 'better' experience" popovers on sites like Reddit and Twitter.

Did you know?

"App" is a contraction of ...
The brain backprops??????
Um, they can regulate finance. Ask Bernie Madoff and that crypto guy lol
This is the private equity model:

1. Borrow a lot of money;

2. Buy some company that is somehow deemed "cheap";

3. Cut costs and raise prices;

4. Load up the company with arcane debt that will blow up some time after the PE investors have cashed out; and

5. Based on the surface-level financials from (3), re-list the company to exit before it blows up.

I'm not worried about PE because this isn't sustainable, for two reasons: if debt isn't cheap, it doesn't work and the debt burden only works so long as the SEC doesn't take a hard look at it.

Remember the investors have to be able to cash out and pay back those loans. If no one buys the junk they create then this business model falls apart.

I'm more concerned with the short to medium term effects of this such as the extortion of housing of our poorest and most vulnerable [1] (which people should absolutely go to prison for), buying up all your local vet clinics [2] and buying up medical practices [3], to name a few.

All of this is just rent-seeking. This is what capitalism is. This is what capitalism does. It's the only thing capitalism does: intermedidation and rent-seeking.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/what-happens-w...

[2]: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/private-equity-pet...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doc...
> I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified.

There's a few things in play IMO.

One is lack of definition -- what's a "microservice" anyhow? Netflix popularized the idea of microservices literally being a few hundred lines of code maintained by a single developer, and some people believe that's what a microservice is. Others are more lax and see microservices as being maintained by small (4-10 person) development teams.

Another is that most people have not worked at a place where microservices were done well, because they were implemented by CTOs and "software architects" with no experience at companies with 10 developers. There are a lot of problems that come from doing microservices poorly, particularly around building distributed monoliths and operational overhead. It's definitely preferable to have a poorly-built monolith than poorly-built microservice architectures.

I've been at 4 companies that did microservices (in my definition, which is essentially one service per dev team). Three were a great development experience and dev/deploy velocity was excellent. One was a total clusterfuck.
I will say my experience with Nvidia + Wayland has been better than most it seems. It may be because I typically use Fedora which sticks to pure GNOME while Ubuntu and Pop_OS bastardize GNOME.

Still, my main complaint is that moving windows around and so on is not smooth. I forget what the term for it is… the window gets jagged and it’s like parts of it are moving at different speeds.
Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)
Acculturating new developers is one of the main tasks of an organization. I don't think it's very difficult to communicate that some company uses language[s] X[, Y and Z] only.
First Amendment hasn't been fully destroyed yet, and we're talking about large 'language' models here, so most mandates might not even be enforceable (except for requirements on selling to the government, which can be bypassed by simply not selling to the government).

Edited to add:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

Except for the first bullet point (and arguably the second), everything else is a directive to another federal agency - they have NO POWER over general-purpose AI developers (as long as they're not government contractors)

The first point:
"Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government. In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests. These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public."

The second point:
"Develop standards, tools, and tests to help ensure that AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the rigorous standards for extensive red-team testing to ensure safety before public release. The Department of Homeland Security will apply those standards to critical infrastructure sectors and establish the AI Safety and Security Board. The Departments of Energy and Homeland Security will also address AI systems’ threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Together, these are the most significant actions ever taken by any government to advance the field of AI safety."

Since the actual text of the executive order has not been released yet, I have no idea what even is meant by "safety tests" or "extensive red-team testing". But using them as a condition to prevent release of your AI model to the public would be blatantly unconstitutional as prior restraint is prohibited under the First Amendment. Prior restraint was confirmed by the Supreme Court to apply even when "national security" is involved in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) - the Pentagon Papers case. The Pentagon Papers were actually relevant to "national security", unlike LLMs or diffusion models.
More on prior restraint here: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/prior-restraint/

Basically, this EO is toothless - have a spine and everything will be all right :)
No it isn't, as 30 seconds of research would show.
Granted a book can contain much more context that might help the author save face but claiming that the "framing of the video is plainly and severely biased" is tenuous. Why? Because the clip was self contained, It contained 1 question "Please give your definition of racism" and 1 answer that was a definition of racism that was self referential.

You could claim he mis-spoke but c'mon, here's a guy who wrote a book about racism, his full time gig is lecturing primarly around the topic of racism in a University and appears all over the place speaking about it. If he cannot give a straight-up coherent definition of racism off the cuff then there is something seriously wrong. My guess is that this compeletely inadequate definition he gave truly reflects how he thinks and frames the topic of racism and articulating it so briefly it highlights how ridiculous it is.

You may disagree with this interpretation and that's fine but claiming the clip is biased is weak because the clip itself is complete, no editing/cutting and contains 1 very simple question and a complete albeit incoherent answer. Indeed the video contains added text but ignore that, just focus on what he (Kendi) says. That should suffice to support my previous comment.
> One sad adjacent fact about millennials and Gen Z is that the men who do decide to be emotional sometimes tend to be ignored (or despised) by women

I don't think that's as true as you're making it sound, but I don't spend much time in straight spaces so maybe it's cultural.
I got stuck solving a polynomial equation system for years

Perhaps I should try sending him a mail
I also saved Amazon a ton of money and saw nothing from it!
They are just an rsync clone on my NAS (so raw files), but restic uses encryption and compression when backing up to Backblaze.

There are other approaches, but I appreciate having the dedupe & snapshots, and I encrypt any potentially sensitive files that I send to the cloud.
Python Virtual Environments: A Primer
Look up Named Data Networking or Content-centric Networking. I think it's an extremely interesting space that is sadly sort of obscure.
> life was a confusing, terrifying existence without being medicated into further oblivion

I thought that was just life already. I feel like most people don't pay enough attention.
This comment doesn't seem relevant to the article or small, electric truck concept in it. Could you connect the dots?

I will still respond - this is a popular sentiment, and there is plenty of truth in it for many "fancy truck" buyers. Still, because of the area I live in, there's a much higher mix of people that insist on buying the base trim level with the biggest bed and whatever payload/towing capacity they actually need due to their jobs or serious work they get done. I know a ton of those people, and only a handful that have fancy overpriced trucks that they use for commuting (and status symbols, or at least, how it makes them feel to be in a big truck). But yeah - that doesn't seem to be relevant to this truck.
Can anyone understand how they can make all these regulations without an act of congress?
I’m in agreement that increase in tech availability and accessibility are a big and positive factor. My point is mainly that we need to augment tech with some social solutions to solve this problem rather than treating it as only a problem of technology + waiting for the problem to solve itself.

And the problem looks different from country to country—the way we get people from developing countries into high-paying jobs is different from how we get underrepresented people from developed countries into high-paying jobs. It’s a complicated and hard problem. I just get annoyed when people are super reductive about it and pretend that there is one magic bullet to solve it (especially when, surprise! that purported bullet requires doing no extra work).
_Services_ are obviously a good idea (nobody is arguing something like PostgreSQL or Redis or DNS or what have you should all run in the same process as the web server).

_Microservices_ attract the criticism. It seems to assume something about the optimal size of services ("micro") that probably isn't optimal for all kinds of service you can think of.
This argument doesn't hold water. Both Heroku and teams that run apps on Heroku have their own on-call teams. Yes, you can build stable interfaces and separation of responsibilities between infra and business services, but someone still has to be responsible for the business services stability.
I was wrong about the spherical display and the resolution of analog film. I'm sorry about that.

I still can't see how the digital fake could be transfered to analog film at that resolution or what other means of presenting the fake image in front of the camera might produce non-obvious-fake digital images.
I would contest the notion that a lack of religiosity must magnify discontent with death. Also it remains rather difficult to "opt out" of a protracted, likely intubated decline, at least in the US. Moreover there is no opting out of modernity writ large. This is the nature of multi-polar traps: choosing not to join an arms race is a local, temporary reprieve.

The optionality modernity seems determined to optimize for is narrow at best. At worst it threatens its own end