skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a TON of countries simply do one dish for the whole meal. You're not trying to think of ways to cook squash, because the dinner is squash.

But even if the dinner is squash, you still want to think of different ways to prepare it, don't you?

This is how I, in the US, was fed while growing, and is how I do things to this day. I didn't realize that there was a cultural variation on this (or that my habit wasn't the common case in my own culture!)

Today I learned...
I learned about Oberon by experimenting with the Acme editor (which borrows heavily from Oberon) and from learning about its influences on the Go language. The language doesn't "look modern", but it does seem very simple, and it seems really fun to learn. And I very much enjoy the retro feel of it.

A bonus for me personally is that I happen to be learning Russian, and there's a fair bit of documentation and videos that I can use for immersion learning, which is a lot of fun.

I will be sure to help with the full-screen issue soon.
There is a spectrum between conscious and unconscious. You could say that under general anesthesia you are a 0/10 on the conscious scale, asleep is 1 or 2, just woken from sleep is maybe 3.... and up to a well rested, well fed, healthy sober adult human near the top of the scale. These are common sense notions of objective consciousness and they are testable and noncontroversial outside of a philosophy argument.

Does this make sense as a rebuttal to your reductio argument?
The 'black strip' between enter and backslash is actually just a recessed part of the enter key. It's not a separate plastic piece.

Source: typing this on my Framework 13 AMD right now :)
How much of these assets did he make himself?

Regardless this is extremely impressive. There's nothing to distinguish this from something made by a group of professionals with infinite time and resources.
SoftBank accused of 'destroying' social media app to protect reputation
Yeah. And hello world is (thankfully) much smaller now than it used to be. Bigger than you think if you use printf, which is a quite complex C function. But at a guess, 10kb or something including support files. There are some great guides and tooling around to help shrink wasm size. Eg for rust:

https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/reference/code-size.htm...
The "rootability" thing can be due to the own efforts from OEMs to lock their bootloaders and stuff, and electronic payments not being possible with a rooted phone - which is a major issue for places where people no longer use cash.

And maybe the SD cards thing is because people just don't care anymore about running out of storage (they'd delete their stuff or store it on a cloud service somehow). One of the reasons I wanted a Sony Xperia 1ii (and could get ahold of one of them) was it, but since I do not listen to music from my phone anymore I replaced the SD card with a second SIM card.

Whereas the "rootability" thing is actually great in my case, since Sony just gave two years of major Android releases to it - I can use Android 13 thanks to LineageOS and its battery life is even better than with the stock firmware. And with my previous phone, a Sony Xperia Z1, I could make it to go with me for +7 years.

But yep, I do wish Android OEMs offered more major releases to their phones.
You're right. It is unpredictable. The amount of information available is too complex to fully summarize into a clear and accurate prediction.

However the brute force simplistic summary that is analyzable is the trendline. If I had to make a bet: improvement, plateau, or regression I would bet on improvement.

Think of it like the weather. Yes the weatherman made a prediction. And yes the chaos surrounding that prediction makes it highly inaccurate. But even so that prediction is still the best one we got.

Additionally your comment about complexity was not fully correct. That was the surprising thing. These LLMs weren't even complex. The model is still a feed forward network that is fundamentally much simpler then anticipated. Douglas hofstadter predicted agi would involve neural networks with tons of feedback and recursion and the resulting LLM is much simpler then that. The guy is literally going through a crisis right now because of how wrong he was.
Agreed, except contract or not it doesn't matter.

Imagine an employer telling you "hey, you can't get a new job we have a '''contract''' with you" You'd tell them to get f---ed

Now imagine a layoff or org restructuring.

If you think either employer or employee is making eternal promises, you're dumb.
For growing startup founders – How did you acquire your first 100 users?
Hey guys. I'm a young first-time startup founder who is working on attempting to get some early usage for my newly launched app. I was wondering what kind of advice founders running successful companies have for getting your first 100 users, your first 1000, and your first 100,000. Would love to hear about strategies for growth, what you did, what technologies and softwares you used, etc. If anyone would be willing to hop on calls and give advice syncronously I would absolutely love to discuss. Just looking to learn. Thanks!
Doubtful. I'm a BeOS fan, and used BeOS Pro v5 as a daily driver around 2000. Even Jean-Louis Gassée thinks (in hindsight) it would've been a bad idea [0].

If Apple had bought Be instead of NeXT, they would've have gotten Steve Jobs, who (arguably) saved Apple from bankrupcy, plus i{Mac,Pod,Phone}

At the time (1995-96?) BeOS was a (cool) tech demo, but wasn't a viable product. It had no developers and no apps. NeXT was mature. BeOS also didn't have critical things like - the ability to print, colour management, multi-user support, etc.. Apple could've added these to BeOS, but...

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-...
Thanks. I did actually mean to use "deterministic", but only as it sits in opposition to "free will". Is there a better word for what I meant?

Of course there is randomness as well. So, yeah, I should clarify: We don't impose upon the world any kind of "uncaused cause", even if it feels like we do. Everything we think and do is a direct result of some other action. Sometimes that action can trace its lineage to a random particle decay. (Maybe—ultimately—all of them can?) Maybe we even have a source of True Randomness inherent in our minds. But even so, that doesn't lend any support to the common notion of our minds and consciousnesses as being somehow separate from the physical world or the chains of information that run through everything.
I converted my corp apps to ARM (Fargate Graviton) last year and our AWS bill plummeted and the time to fully initialize a container did so as well.

I'd never tell the higher ups this but it was pretty easy, too. I'll let them bask in my glory of saving the company $60k/month.
Altman succeeded in reaching "the inflection point" on the PMF curve.

The other projects you allude to don't get their funding because most people who control budgets can only visualize the future with linear extrapolation.

You spend a LONG time in the low and flat part of your development before that starts to pick up, and up, and UP!

Homo Sapiens as a technology company were in the "fuck around with rocks" phase for 99% of their existence as a corporation. Agriculture in the final 1% of the development timeline allowed for industrialization in the final 0.05% of the time, which allowed for Large Language Models in the final 0.0001% of the time.

Had there been project managers and VPs in charge of deciding if our species was worth further investment, we'd have been canned in 800,000 BC.
I'm running this laptop (the R5 variant) on Arch w/ i3 and it's been pretty great so far. High DPI screen isn't really a huge deal as long as you set Xft.dpi correctly and change your terminal/i3bar font size.

If anyone has questions, feel free to ask.
That is honestly amazing. Congrats to the winner.
Yup, I had the same issue. Showed 4 days of clear 80-90 degree weather. Twice in that timeframe it rained (!1 inch each time), ruined the cut.
You are so close from the truth :-)

I wrote demos some while back (~ 1990 -> 1998 roughly).

They were running on the hardware of that time (including specific soundcards like the Gravis UltraSound), using modified DOS modes etc.

As years passed, it became difficult to run them, because the hardware was harder to find.

Ultimately I wasn't able to watch my own creations anymore!

At some point though, I discovered DOSBox (the emulator). But running it on the available hardware in say 2005 would not give anything good!

So I had to wait more years until technology improved (good enough to ensure the emulation would run fast & without too many glitches, but also fast enough so that video can be captured decently), until 2019 roughly, when some friend from back then captured my own work on their brand new PC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwesW3PSwg).

So yes, it feels like archeology to me!
Here are the nominees but unfortunately the videos don't seem available: https://younganimator.uk/nominees
KubeCon: Cloud native technologies are powering AI
Don't do it. I actually did something similar and it was a bad idea, simply because the business had not made any money and had to be shut down eventually. It really was "playing house" like the other commenter said. Make money first, then incorporate.
It’s like judging a programmer by lines of code.
Very few people have the resources to successfully sue their employer.

Even if you did have the resources, do you want your name to show up on every Google search as "the guy who sued his last employer" when you're job hunting?

There is a lot of social pressure for people to just shut up and take whatever their bosses give them.
Do you mean bacteria? Viruses are not treated by antibiotics.
No, that's about Microsoft's chips. This is about AMDs GPUs.
Regarding dismissals of LLM’s on ‘technical’ grounds:

Consciousness is first a word and second a concept. And it’s a word that ChatGPT or Llama can use in an English sentence better than billions of humans worldwide. The software folks have made even more progress than sociologists, psychologists and neuroscientists to be able to create an artificial language cortex before we understand our biological mind comprehensively.

If you wait until conscious sentient AI is here to make your opinions known about the implications and correct policy decisions, you will already be too late to have an input. ChatGPT can already tell you a lot about itself (showing awareness) and will gladly walk you through its “thinking” if you ask politely. Given that it contains a huge amount of data about Homo sapiens and its ability to emulate intelligent conversation, you could even call it Sapient.

Having any kind of semantic argument over this is futile because a character AI that is hypnotized to think it is conscious, self-aware and sentient in its emulation of feelings and emotion would destroy most people in a semantics debate.

The field of philosophy is already ripe with ideas from hundreds of years ago that an artificial intelligence can use against people in debates of free will, self-determination and the nature of existence. This isn’t the battle to pick.
Well, for better or worse, you get your tags with a digital certificate from a third party (kind of like the ESRB rating) verifying compliance. But you get a public key to prove it.
It's not a matter of giving due credit, but supply constraints. Books aren't limited by the availability of printing presses, are they? (maybe they are and I just didn't know?)

But if TSMC is the only company that can do this, they're a bottleneck for the entire world. Not to mention a strategic and geopolitical risk for the West.

It's be nice if some domestic companies invested in fabs again...
Those roads are also fast in real life, not a lot of people live out in those more undeveloped canyon parts to generate a ton of traffic. Tons of car and motorcycle clubs race up and down roads in the santa monica mountains and angeles national forest every day. They will actually ride your ass to try and get you to pull over at a scenic overview if you are too slow.
obviously the solution is to never seek promotion. come in at the package you want. be content.
Life creates novelty. Humans are a member of that category, but all life is producing novelty.

More information: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
"Just because you change doesn't mean I have to, does it?"

If it comes to shared language, it kinda does. I mean that not as a moral obligation, but as a matter of practical usage. If everybody but you has agreed on a meaning, your intent no longer matters. If usage is split... it's hard. "Queer" is still considered a slur by some LGBTQIA+ folks. (I was going to say "gay folks", but even that isn't entirely clear - is it the entire community, or is it men only). It leads to a good bunch of heated debate, still.

And yes, of course context matters. The n-word is a prime example, but it's true for all language.

But ultimately, when it comes to language hurting people? Intent doesn't matter that much. Impact does.
It's quite different from typical productivity apps with its always-on-top, annoying flashing design, with the ticking bubble sounds. As someone with ADHD it's helpful to have something that's hard to ignore. It does keep the focus better than most, but some adjustability would be nice. It's a decent tool for staying on track. Hope to see this project grow with more features. Cool concept.
Folks who deliberately violate laws are obviously not going to follow the rules, but that doesn't mean the GDPR & other privacy laws don't have teeth (in fact, they have specific rules about mitigations against bad actors). Even when businesses don't have contacts in Europe (and once you are a certain size, that gets less and less likely), GDPR is a thing.
In 2006 I shipped my iBook to Apple to fix its screen bezel. I made a Flash animation where my laptop cheekily described its issue, thanking the technicians in advance, and I made it launch on startup.

The iBook came back with a factory reset. I restored from backup and stopped anthropomorphizing my computers.
> There are better tools out there that encourage and support async workflows. Twist, Basecamp, Github discussions, even email with appropriate filters.

And devs will just set up a Slack bot to send an automated ping each time a task status changes in those tools.
I made my point in my comment, things are not just one meaning. Emojis do not just have one meaning. Words do not have one meaning (most of the time). Nobody would equate a watermelon for open source copilot for code analysis as being anti-Palestine or pro-Palestine or anti-Israel or pro-Israel. I don't understand why it was even brought up.
The capex/opex is different for ML/AI than it was for crypto mining. Totally different hardware profiles.
here's another piece in the issue that addresses your concern https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...
you can setup a computer and sell time on it on a couple of saas platforms, but only for inference. for training, the slowness of the interconnect between nodes become a bottleneck.
FWIW, I tried this with both my sons. They both started using the gestures the same day they started actually talking :-/

I have friends who had much more success with it, but the value will largely depend on your child’s relative developmental strengths. A friend’s son with autism got literally years’ benefit out of the gestures before verbal speech caught up.
"Recognize patterns" on high is usually an asset in our line of work.

After reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix I wondered how many of {Cantor, Frege, Gödel, Hilbert, Moore, Poincaré, Russel, Turing, Whitehead, Wittgenstein} would —given a modern DX— have been said to be "on the spectrum".
My original comment was made with regard to someone being incredulous that illegality would prevent someone from starting a business using encrypted ham bands. I said that the FCC fines are quite steep, implying that the risk of FCC fines for running an illegal encrypted broadcast would explain why someone would not like to be involved with such a business.

Obviously if the FCC opens up ham for encryption, it would be legal and totally fine. Currently it is not (the whole point of our conversation), and starting a business like that would be risky. You implied that the FCC can't fine you if they can't prove that you were sending encrypted traffic, and I argued that they'll still see the broadcasts and be able to tell they are encrypted.

So this is kind of a strange question for you to ask now lol
Impressive stuff. I wonder if he's inspired by Ian Hubert's work?
> some grains and soy products

So, to the ancestor's point: Not just vegetables, but higher caloric-density grains.
Exactly. It's just "capitalism = bad" now, there's no nuance of understanding of the pros and cons. Ultimately, human organization is the same everywhere and there will always be bureaucracy, as you say.
This is pretty neat, I'm not a huge COBOL fan but actually got paid once to write code that generated outreach mail for political correspondence using voter registration data. For that, it worked really well and I could certainly appreciate the appeal for business process work.

Weirdly though, I get put off by their name, as my brain wants to pronounce it with a long o sound instead of the 'eh' sound from 'works' (werx as a spelling works better for me than worx, no pun intended). It has me wondering if people pronounce 'Torx' screws as 'Turks' screws.
Wow! Reminded me of Cyberpunk 2077
Embodiment is an intellectual dead end in explaining consciousness/sentience. Sure, its relevant to understanding human cognition as we are embodied entities, but it's not much relevant to consciousness as such. The fact that some pattern of signals on my perceptual apparatus is caused by an apple in the real world does not mean that I have knowledge or understanding of an apple in virtue of this causal relation. That my sensory signals are caused by apples is an accident of this world, one we are completely blind to. If all apples in the world were swapped with fapples (fake apples), where all sensory experiences that have up to now been caused by apples are now caused by fapples, we would be none the wiser. The wide content of our perceptual experiences is irrelevant to literally everything we know and how we interact with the world. Our knowledge of the world is limited to our sensory experiences and our deductions, inferences, etc derived from our experiences. Our situatedness in the world is only relevant insofar as it entails the space of possible sensory experiences.

Our sensory experience is the medium by which we learn about the external world. We learn of apples not because of the redness of the sensory experience, but because the pattern of red/not-red experience entails the shape of apples. Conscious experience provides the medium, modulations of which provide the information about features of the external world. It is analogous to how modulations of electromagnetic waves provides information about some distant information source. Understanding consciousness is an orthogonal matter to one's situatedness in the world, just like understanding electromagnetic waves is orthogonal to understanding the information source being modulated into them.
Extremely scientific anecdote you got there!
I genuinely think that this whole argument is a waste of time.

What matters is whether the outputs are useful and the outputs don't change based on whether you call it "thought", "AGI" or "probabilistic word selection".
It's an inline object-fit: cover set explicitly by the website's custom JS. I can't figure out a good reason to do this either.

A quick document.querySelector('#player').style = '' in console allows proper fullscreen viewing.
Nvidia rode a gaming high from RTX straight into a crypto high and then straight into the AI high. Their products just print money right now and nobody else is close yet. They can always lower prices later, but for now they're getting filthy rich...
Mart: Improving LLM Safety with Multi-Round Automatic Red-Teaming
That doesn't sound good for XBOX xCloud.
Tunetracker Systems[0] uses Haiku for its Radio Automation software; the used to use BeOS.

[0] http://tunetrackersystems.com/

https://www.tunetrackersystems.com/haiku/index.html
This looks insane!
That's a pretty bold statement, coming from someone with the subjective experience of consciousness.
They're more constrained by advanced packaging (CoWoS) capacity rather than the manufacturing of the silicon.
Freedv: Open-Source Amateur Digital Voice
I think you shouldn't be able to distribute code / model like this without permission...

...but...

What if you distributed code that when I ran it, and plugged in each of the Blue Planet / Planet Earth DVDs, it would learn how to do this, with a local model?
Sorry, was mostly just agreeing with you and adding that gender based nonsense is endemic everywhere. It's alienating me across the whole media spectrum.
Firefox is one of the few apps that works flawlessly for me in Wayland (w/o xwayland).

Slack is almost there, but not perfect. My cursor becomes like 1/10th the size in Slack .. but the crisp rendering is worth it. Dragging a PNG file into it never works though, so I always need to upload via the little + button.

Spotify is 100% flawless, to my surprise. Even works flawlessly with the whole device handoff thing between iPhone, my Macbook, etc.

vscode renders much better with wayland, like the latency difference is pretty significant. but... I use Toshy to get macos keybindings on Linux and those fail to work when vscode is booted in wayland mode ... so I am still suffering with xwayland. If I do not think about it, I don't mind lol. If I go back to native and see how much better rendering is, I feel sad.
How much control do I have over this process? I might not want this to be abstracted.
or the power of sigmoids to replace exponentials when the exponential peters out.
Wow.

The article says:

> Who owns your car’s data?
>
> One issue left unresolved by the legislation is the ownership of vehicle data.

"Ownership of vehicle data" is a link to a Texas A&M Transportation Institute paper that starts with:

> This study examined the question of who owns the data emanating from connected cars, through the perspectives of three different stakeholder groups: automobile original equipment manufacturers, infrastructure facility owner-operators, and data aggregators.

lol - so the choices for "owners of the data" doesn't include - at all - the car's owner.
It's really hard to do on modern operating systems. Too many services that will dogpile a low bandwidth link once they see that a network adapter is up.
heh, as someone who has to deal with this nonsense all day <https://aws.amazon.com/products/> I would for sure welcome some straightforward naming. $(echo "AWS Fargate" | sed s/Fargate/ServerlessContainerium/)
> the work I'm doing is aimed at people who don't want that.

Your article doesn't really highlight that it's a nonissue for the vast, vast majority of developers and applications.

> but the whole dance around that with deploying your application changes is not

With staged deployments (if your application isn't deployed to more than one host arguing about downtime for maintenance seems ridiculous) the actual downtime can be very close to the time the db migration takes.
This is a really beautiful article, and while there are certainly fundamental differences between how a toddler thinks and learns, and how an LLM "thinks", I don't think we should get too comfortable with those differences.

Every time I say to myself "AI is no big deal because it can't do X", some time later someone comes along and makes an AI that does X.
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks – Round 22